User talk:MikeDogma

August 2009

Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Kuvempu University, as minor if (and only if) they genuinely are minor edits (see Help:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you. Hi Rock5410, I see you're evading your block under a new name again. As long as you're making constructive changes, I'm happy to see this new name as a way to start fresh and make good contributions. But please don't mark everything as minor--very few of your edits really qualify. If you could use edit summaries, that would also help others understand your changes. You really are improving in the contributions you're making, and I appreciate that you are trying to do better. Not marking as minor is another thing you can do to improve. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 11:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

CC licenses on Flickr images

I see that you uploaded several images from Flickr for NIIT. Unfortunately, it looks like every single one of those needs to be removed. Not all CC licenses are compatible with Wikipedia. For example, this image of NIIT Atlanta is licensed for non-commercial use only. Because Wikipedia content is reused by many commercial interests, that image isn't acceptable here. Some of the other images you uploaded, like this one is actually under full copyright and not under any CC license. See how it says "All Rights Reserved" and has the C in a circle? Just because it's on Flickr doesn't mean it's acceptable for Wikipedia. You have to be really careful about which license was used. The only ones that are compatible are CC-By (Attribution only) and CC-By-SA (Attribution Share Alike). You marked images as having those images as having those licenses, but that isn't true. For NIIT, try this search. In Flickr's Advanced Search settings, make sure you check all three boxes: "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content," "Find content to use commercially," and "Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon."

So how do you want to handle this? Will you take down these images yourself, or do I need to go through and formally submit them for deletion? I'd prefer that you remove them yourself so we can do this amicably. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 16:40, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Every single one of them is done improperly. You claimed a photo is a logo, when clearly that's false. You left the image of the expo in even though it's clearly copyrighted. Taking out two of them isn't enough; that tells me you just want to play the same games that have gotten you blocked in the past. Show me that you're trying to do it right by taking them all out. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 18:45, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

You're still playing games. This one has the exact same problems, and I specifically mentioned it on the article talk page. Yet you left it in the article. When I said "every single one of them," it wasn't a joke. Here's the deal: I've explained copyright to you numerous times. I've now run out of ways to explain it. If you can't understand it with all the explanations from me and Polly and Dougweller and everyone else, I don't think we can get past the language barrier. So you have a couple of choices. One option is that you could go back to your usual routine of making threats because things aren't going your way. You've seen how well that's worked out for you in the past, but you've done it three times and I expect you'll probably do it again. You've convinced admins that the appropriate response is to "to convince [you] to go away." (Note that I've also been asked to report you for signing up for another named account, something I haven't done yet because I really have been trying to assume good faith in spite of your blatantly bad faith threats in the past.)

Fortunately, you have some more productive options than more threats. What I recommend first is that you simply stop adding images to Wikipedia. Like I said, if you don't understand it now, I don't think we can explain it to you any other way that will really help you understand. There's a fundamental difference here in how you view copyright and licensing (i.e., pretending you have the rights is enough) and how things legally must work on Wikipedia (i.e., we actually should have the rights and not pretend). You've also made it clear that you don't think the laws should apply to you if it's content you really want to include, and that expressed belief that you're above the law is another part of the problem. I don't think we're going to get past that, so if you want to continue to contribute to Wikipedia, it's best that you stay away from image contributions.

Rather than images, why don't you work on cleaning up the reference format in some of the articles you've worked on? NIIT in particular needs the cleanup. You could also try joining the Education in India project to have another group of people to help mentor you and give you some better direction in where your contributions can be helpful. I have been trying to help you, I just don't think I can get past that language barrier enough. I'm tired of playing games where you respond like this when I try to help you. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 09:34, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I know I could have asked you to correct the licenses on those 5 images, but based on how this conversation has been going I decided it was easiest to list them all on possibly unfree files myself. They all need to be deleted from Wikipedia, not just from that article. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 09:55, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

The Hindu

Please do not remove merge tags from articles when there is a discussion on the talk page, like you did here. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 17:54, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

User Subpage

Did you know that you can create a private sandbox for yourself that isn't automatically deleted like the regular sandboxes? It's called a user subpage and it's fairly easy to create. I assume that some of the content you're putting on your user page is actually tests, like how to set up a gallery correctly. Obviously the claim that you took the images is false, since they were photographed by another editor. If you want to do that kind of testing without making it look like you're claiming that for yourself (or giving yourself barnstars, which is bad etiquette, or pretending you're a native speaker of English, which you clearly are not), you can set up a subpage for yourself and do all the testing you want. That's also a good place to work on drafts of article content over the course of multiple days. Let me know if you have any questions; I'll see it if you leave a message here. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 12:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah your are right i was experimenting on the user page please make it perfect. I mean it should look good for other user who wants to see my user page. And secondly how will i create a new page for experiment.--Sita manu (talk) 14:27, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

I actually can't change your user page (well, technically I can, but I'm not supposed to--it's not considered polite). You're only supposed to edit your own user page. Besides, I could delete the existing content and move it to a test page, but I don't know you well enough to pick userboxes for you. The directions for creating a page for experimentation are in the user subpage link above, but basically you just edit your user page and type [[/testing]]. If you want to call it something else, just replace "testing" with the name you want. You can create multiple pages that way for different projects you're working on. You can move all the tests you've been working on there. If you want to add a few userboxes, rather than copying from someone else's page and using their information, why don't you look through this gallery of userboxes. The directions for using those boxes are on the same page. Find some that are true for you and use this as a way to let people know more about you, not just to make the page look better. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 15:50, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Vandalizing

Please make my page semi-protected due to high risk of vandalizing i have noticed that some people some with anonymous have edited my user page and changed a little bit. Therefore please stop from vandalizing it.--Sita manu (talk) 04:48, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Your page has been edited ONCE by an IP address. You personally have made threats to vandalize more often than that. This edit wasn't even overt vandalism, just a revert to an earlier version. You could have undone the changes in one step if you'd chosen to. Here's the policy on semi-protection and the place to make such requests if you're interested in pursuing your request, but I doubt you'll convince an admin your page is at "high risk" warrants protection. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 07:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Your recent addition to Master of Science in Information Technology has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. You took multiple sentences from here and didn't even pretend to paraphrase them and not break the law. You're back to your old illegal ways again, which forces me to start taking a look at all your newspaper contributions too. I wish you had chosen not to start stealing content again. WeisheitSuchen (talk) 13:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Moving pages

Please do not move pages to grammatically incorrect titles like you did with List of newspapers in India. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 16:13, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

. Stop moving articles to incorrect titles, as you did with Print media in India. This is your last warning. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 16:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Vandalizing

Please block my account or i will be back to my old form. Block it, I'm not willing to contribute and help wikipedia any more.--Sita manu (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)