Jump to content

User talk:Jac16888/Archive 22

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 15←Archive 20Archive 21Archive 22Archive 23Archive 24Archive 25

How to List my Images

Jac16888,

I find Wikipedia completely exasperating, I mean completely, and every time I create a new article and work with its content, the processes that I use seem to change. In the past I remember it being intuitively obvious how to view all the images I've uploaded in one place. Now I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out where the images are and where to go to edit them or rename them.

I know you're just passing thru, but maybe you can help me with just a simple command or menu sequence so I can find and list my GD IMAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bwisok (talk • contribs) 04:51, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

I'll be honest I know very little about images so I'm probably not the best person to ask, you could try looking at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial as a starting point--Jac16888 Talk 00:24, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Removing a suggestion

Hello. If you remove a suggestion from Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English, why don't you remove the {{Not English}} template from the article's talk page too? Arms Jones (talk) 00:02, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Because I didn't know it was on the talk page, that tag goes on the article and doesn't add talk pages to the relevant category--Jac16888 Talk 00:19, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 January 2014

  • Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
    In fact, the majority are relatively evenly split between three themes: people of interest, television, and websites.
  • Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year
    In 2013, the arbitration committee closed 10 cases, 9 amendment requests, and 26 clarification requests.
  • In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
    On New Year's Day, an article by Tim Sampson published in The Daily Dot and republished shortly after on Mashable covered the currently ongoing medical disclaimer RfC.
  • News and notes: The year in review
    This was the year in which one journalist described the flagship site, Wikipedia, as "wickedly seductive". It was the year Wikipedia's replacement value was estimated at $6.6bn, its market value at "tens of billions of dollars", and its consumer benefit "hundreds of billions of dollars". But it was also the year in which one commentator forecast the decline of Wikipedia—that the project is in trouble from its shrinking volunteer workforce, skewed coverage, "crushing bureaucracy" and 90 percent male community.
  • WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
    The year 2013 has come and gone, adding 50 new WikiProject Reports to our long list of projects we've had the privilege to meet. Last year saw the continuation of our Babel series, featuring WikiProjects from other languages of Wikipedia. We also expanded our selection of special reports, offering readers a growing collection of helpful tips and tools as they participate in WikiProjects.
  • Featured content: 2013—the trends
    Over the past year 1181 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured picture candidates (FPC), which promoted an average of 46 pictures a month. This was followed by featured article candidates (FAC; 32.5 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 18 a month).
  • Technology report: Looking back on 2013
    2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.

page ifeelradio

i am trying to create a page for the internet station ifeelradio and you keep deleting it can you explain to me where is the problem because i cannot understand what i do wrong.

Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ifeelradio (talk • contribs) 22:12, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTABILITY, WP:PROMO and WP:COI--Jac16888 Talk 22:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

I want to know what will happen to the admin

Hi, as the report I made was just ended by you, I want to know what will happen to the admin in question. Bye. Tibullus (talk) 17:54, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

We're going to bring him back to the centre for a little "re-education". Nothing is going to happen, because nothing needs to happen. Please drop it--Jac16888 Talk 18:01, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
So everything I done is lost? All the time I spent writing and checking if the sources were available down the drain? I don't get even apologies from someone who you did acknowledge wasn't acting in the right way? He gets away with it? Why did you end it saying "before it escalates"? Were you fearing something happened to GiantSnowman, such as having his admin status revoked? Were you fearing I'd taught him a moral lesson? Talk about bias... Tibullus (talk) 18:06, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
You are perfectly free to restore the content...provided you include references this time as you should have done immediately, and as you should have done as soon as you were reverted. I closed it because you are obviously overreacting to this incident and were likely to say something that would result in action being taken against you. As I have said, drop it.--Jac16888 Talk 18:09, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
I would have added the references if you didn't give admin status to every unworthy person out there. What do you mean actions taken against me? He used aggressive language against me and he has duties towards the users and nothing happens to him and I complain about him and I get risked of actions being taken against me? What actions would be taken? Should I see this as a threat? What on earth is this? Why would you assume I'd say something? Is this how you lot see regular users, even those who have been sticking around for ages? Tibullus (talk) 18:15, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Either add the references or don't, what you are doing right now is escalating a minor incident and devolving into attacks and baseless accusations. For the last time, drop it. Go take a break and calm down--Jac16888 Talk 18:23, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
I am perfectly calm. You are the ones making threats. How can you threaten me when I am merely complaining? You are only exposing yourselves even further. What do you whole lot have against me? Tibullus (talk) 18:30, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
When you go to another editors page to have a jab at them because you didn't get your way, that is escalating. It has already been explained to you repeatedly that you were in the wrong as much as GS, more so in fact since BLP & BDP are major policies which you were actually violating. Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass, you're only embarrassing yourself at this point--Jac16888 Talk 18:35, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
How can you say I want to get my way when I've acknowledged I was wrong even though I had good intentions? You never stop making assumptions about me, do you? I already backed away from your silly horse carcass because I won't simply edit that article anymore. If anyone was embarassing themselves it was you lots. It's good to know that users and admins are not on equal foot. Nothing happened to that so-called "admin" (quotations intended, truly) but I get threatened, bashed at, and disregarded. Tibullus (talk) 18:45, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
You have raised a tiny dispute about references into a massive deal, spanning multiple pages, and all for what? What exactly are you hoping to achieve by this? Would you like me to go and block GS for being a bit rude? Knowing that in doing so I would also block you since you are now being just as rude? Go and add your content to your article and stop wasting my time--Jac16888 Talk 18:50, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Tiny dispute? Is that how you whole lot see our complaints? I want an apologies from that "admin" (again quotations intended, truly) for interrupting me, for having me lost everything I was trying to work at for hours. Even you say he was wrong, and yet no one suggested that and you people are trying to make me look like the bad guy. But I'm not getting any, am I? You and your big egos will not accept or agree upon that, it would be too humiliating. He didn't even offer to help me restore things. I'm not editing it. Snobs, you think you're better than everyone else. Tibullus (talk) 19:05, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Grow up--Jac16888 Talk 19:09, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Exactly, you're giving me further reasons to believe you're just watching each other's backs. Disgusting people. Tibullus (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Follow up

You warned User:Tibullus about personal attacks - he continues to make them on his talkpage. I wouldn't want to have to login to my admin account to deal with it, when you're already up-to-speed ES&L 18:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Neutral?

Hi Jac,

Hope this gets to you as I ma not sure of directing answers to the right person here. There doesn't seem to be any way to actually reply to a message I get unless I am missing it. You removed my edit on Rosemary Beach. I had described the village as it is today, listing prices and stylus of housing now available there and added a list of current restaurants. Not sure what you thought was not neutral about this. Please let me know. I have not been doing this too long so do not want to violate any rules. I am in the process of changing wording on some articles I edited as I just found out I cannot use my own copyright work that was used on another site. So I am in here trying to straighten that out. (I'm still not sure why I can't use something I own the copyright to?)

KatyrwKatyrw (talk) 23:36, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Wikipedia is not a tourism guide, nor is it a place to promote a village and its housing. As such, none of that info belongs. If there's an article about a specific restaurant that already exists on Wikipedia, then it's appropriate to link to it in the village article. You cannot quote anything you own the copyright to without releasing it fully to the Foundation via a different process - and most people don't want to give up their rights to their material that way. It's also probable that you don't qualify as a reliable source at this point anyway. Hope that helps ES&L 18:07, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 January 2014

  • Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant
    Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
  • Traffic report: Tragedy and television
    The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.
  • News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"
    On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.

Recent Page Deletion

Greetings,
Recently you deleted the Wikipedia page for the applications and games company, Twyvel Apps, stating that there is no explanation of significance (real person/animal/organization/web content/organized event)). The page was in no way advertising the company, it in no way gave links to purchase the products - it was a fully functional, information fuelled article on a mid-lane iOS gaming platform company that attracts tens of thousands of users world-wide on it's applications. Wikipedia even states that it "has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference websites". An article referencing a large iOS based company (with the required referencing added) seems to fit this description and policy quite nicely, which for the record, Twyvel Apps's Wikipedia page was constructed alongside this iOS/Game development company's article (Backflip Studios) so the page was well in it's rights to be created, live and active.

Furthermore, Wikipedia is known for providing background information on companies and persons who form/run these companies, however having no research page available ceasing interested users/other companies from researching the Twyvel Apps company - which is what Wikipedia is all about - researching information on just about anything.

I ask that you please Rollback the deletion of the article. Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xsile (talk • contribs) 10:28, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See WP:NCORP and WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS ES&L 12:10, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Takis Fotopoulos

Thanks for the help. I saw the problem, but did not know where else to sign at "Authority Control". Can you tell me where to sign? John sargis (talk) 19:31, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

You don't sign articles anywhere, basically. An article history page is the record that you made an edit, imagine if every person who made a change to an article signed it?--Jac16888 Talk 23:36, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited The Mr. Men Show, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Michael Hill (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:08, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Turbinia

Hello you have made a change here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turbinia&oldid=prev&diff=591146894 . You have left a live link but it now goes nowhere. I wonder whether you intended this and if so why. Robertforsythe (talk) 11:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Links from the articlespace to the userspace are not allowed, as userpages are not subject to the rules and guidelines that articles are. I left the link for the possibility that the subject could be an article one day, if that is not the case please remove it--Jac16888 Talk 13:32, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2014

  • Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published
    The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
  • Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
    It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.
  • Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
    We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
    This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.

Deletion of M movie

Greetings, I notice that you deleted M movie under CSD criterion A1. When I reviewed it, it was neither short nor without context; can you please verify that this was not an error? VQuakr (talk) 00:20, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 January 2014

  • News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
    The Wikimedia Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy's application of pending changes level two on the article Conventional PCI—an action taken under its rarely used office actions policy—has escalated to the Arbitration Committee after an editor upgraded it to full protection.
  • Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume
    Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
  • Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
    On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.
  • Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki
    This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.
  • Traffic report: No show for the Globes
    While the 71st Golden Globe Awards, held on 12 January, had an impact on the top 25, their presence was largely absent from the Top 10. With the exception of Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the only Golden Globe entrants in the Top 10 are films that would have been there anyway.

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Suéter (band), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Keyboard (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:59, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Re:Translations

@Jac16888: I'd answer to you in my talk page. Ravave (talk) 18:45, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

@Jac16888: Answer --Ravave (talk) 19:06, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

Hi,

I want to establish a Wiki page for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, however, I found that the page had been deleted by you in 2008. Would you give me some background information, as I want to reestablish the page using proper protocols.

Below is the information that shows up about the deletion:

16:58, 14 December 2008 Jac16888 (talk | contribs) deleted page Hispanic Scholarship Fund (G12: Blatant copyright infringement)

Best, and thank you for your time, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Astilleros (talk • contribs) 01:20, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Pretty much what it says on the tin really, I deleted the page because it was copy and pasted from the HSF about page, which made it both a copyright violation and blatantly promotional. If you want to create it again I recommend you try the WP:AFC procedure--Jac16888 Talk 17:39, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

I can that there is a spammer who is continuously spamming wikipedia by adding spam link for soapboxing and advertising. Please check all contributions of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Vishal1811 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.202.64.220 (talk) 16:42, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Ciro Procuna

Thanks for translating Ciro Procuna back to English. As I read the article, it was completely Spanish and I thought weather Cprocuna translated every much. So again I want to personally thank you for your edit. Have a good day! Ashbeckjonathan (talk) 18:35, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


Baby K (artist) translation

Hey, thanks for that! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:11, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

  • Traffic report: Six strikes out
    There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.
  • WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
    Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.
  • News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
    Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

  • Traffic report: Six strikes out
    There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.
  • WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
    Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.
  • News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
    Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

RfD on redirect from Cyrillic/Russian with R from alternate language (Цари́ца)

Dear Jac,

at WP:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_February_3#Цари́ца there is a discussion on Russian/Cyrillic redirect ([[Цари́ца)) to Tsaritsa. I may be very much mistaken but I know at [[WP:PNT}} once a few months ago I suggested redirecting or creating an {{R from alternate language}} and was told that is kinda not what it is for. Personally I can't see why someone typing in Cyrillic – if they were using an external search tool etc – would want to end up at Tsaritsa in EN:WP instead of Царица in RU:WP. Also ru:Цари́ца appears to be a DAB page (I don't speak Russian) so those kind of Interwiki links seem rather broken.

If you could care to cast your eye at the RfD and give your opinion I would be very grateful: that does not mean of course you have to agree with me, but that I think your opinion would be noted there. Best wishes and thanks for all the hard work you do at PNT. Si Trew (talk) 02:16, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

why you delete my page

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wang_qingzhou&action=edit&redlink=1

check it .

I really reference the some source of the website which it is http://news.artron.net/20131007/n517074.html & http://wangqingzhou.artron.net/news_detail_290545.

And we can provide something we have the copyright.

tell me how can i provider the prove to you ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinwillchow (talk • contribs) 06:54, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Because it was copy and pasted from multiple locations. I'm sorry but we can't just accept your word that you own the copyright, and even if we could we still wouldn't want the content as it was, it was blatantly promotional and biased. If you want to write an article about the subject please do so in your own words, and in a neutral way--Jac16888 Talk 18:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

revert

Hi,

Last year the page "Andrisoft_WANGUARD" ( Userfication at User:Vborcan/Andrisoft_WANGUARD ) was deleted for notability concerns. That's no wonder since the Anti-DDoS software makers are few, but on this market segment and on dedicated mailing-lists Andrisoft is well represented. It was mentioned by Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2013/1H13-DDoS-Prevention-Appliances-Market-Highlights.asp University of Warsaw (Poland) held a conference on it: http://aegis.edu.pl/agenda/ Several other mentions exist on the web and about 200 companies are using Andrisoft WANGUARD. Few are listed on www.andrisoft.com Can I revert the page please ? Many people found out about the product from wikipedia.. they are network engineers not SEO specialists.. Thank you for you time!

February 2014

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Iron Man: Rise of Technovore may have broken the syntax by modifying 2 "{}"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • * {{

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 16:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Atlas ramachandran may have broken the syntax by modifying 2 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • //atlasera.com/ |title=ATLAS |publisher=Atlasera.com |date= |accessdate=2014-02-20}}</ref> is an [[Indian businessman, film producer, and actor, who is most known as the chairman of Jewellery chain

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 18:30, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

  • In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia
    As reported in various media outlets this week, including The Next Web and The Daily Dot, this past week, Wikimedia Commons and various language Wikipedias are working together to encourage subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second clip of their voice to be appended to their Wikipedia article.
  • Technology report: Left with no choice
    Software evolution does not always mean that features are being added. It also means that old fat is being trimmed. It is no different for MediaWiki.
  • News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups
    In a bold move, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees has announced a major change in policy concerning affiliated groups in the worldwide movement, and FDC funding levels to eligible chapters and thematic organizations over the next two years. Both decisions were published last Tuesday after considerable post-meeting consultation with the FDC and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom). The core of the first decision is
  • Featured content: Space selfie
    Thirteen articles, three lists, and twenty-five images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia from 19 January to 1 February.
  • Traffic report: Sports Day
    Two great sporting events, the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, collide in one week, transforming the top ten into a festival of flying feet, a carnival of colliding caraniums and a bacchanal of bouncing balls, combined to influence Wikipedia's most popular articles last week.
  • WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
    In celebration of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, we revisited the team at WikiProject Russia to learn how the project has changed since our first interview in 2011.

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

  • Technology report: ULS Comeback
    Runa Bhattacharjee has notified the community that the Foundation is ready to turn the Universal Language Selector back on.
  • WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
    WikiProject Countering System Bias aims to combat imbalanced coverage while encouraging neglected cultural perspectives and points of view, both in articles and in the larger Wikipedia community. As you'll see from the varied experiences and motivations of our nine respondents, the biases that the folks at WP CSB tackle run the full gamut of human characteristics and dispositions. The interview that follows unveils many of Wikipedia's greatest shortcomings.
  • Featured content: Holotype
    Five articles, seven lists, forty-three pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.
  • Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
    Valentines Day got a somewhat muted reception this week, overshadowed by continuing coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and the death of Shirley Temple.

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Atlas Ramachandran, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Indian (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:59, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Diego Armando Giraldo Castillo

Hi,

Why did you delete the Diego Armando Giraldo's Page? I understand that it was not in english but I was supposed to do it this week. It said that I have two weeks to do it, so I don't understand why did you say that the page is for advertising purposes when it's not to. Diego Armando Giraldo is an outstanding singer and composer born in Colombia, Latin Grammy winner and Anglo Grammy nominated.

Can you please tell me what happened? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Management86 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

The page was blatantly promotional, and as you say it was not in English. Try again, in english, in a unbiased tone, and using WP:AFC--Jac16888 Talk 17:31, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 February 2014

  • Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
    About a week ago, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' terms of use to specifically ban paid editing, by adding a new clause titled "Paid contributions without disclosure". We have asked two users, one in favor of the measure (Smallbones) and one opposed (Pete Forsyth), to contribute their opinions on the matter.
  • Featured content: Odin salutes you
    Eight articles, three lists, and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
    Ukraine has been gripped by widespread protests over the past three months. Due to a decision by former president Viktor Yanukovych—at Russia's urging—to abandon integration with the European Union, the country was (and in many ways still is) split between the Europe-favoring Ukrainian-speaking western half and the Russian-speaking east and south. Hundreds have died during the unrest, leaving thousands of family members and friends to bury their loved ones. This week our Wikimedian colleagues in Ukraine are facing that challenge after the death of one of their own.
  • News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy
    Following a trend started by Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Argentina has published an open letter challenging the recent deletion of hundreds of images from the Commons under its policy on URAA-restored copyrights, relating to the United States' 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
  • Traffic report: Snow big deal
    The 2014 Winter Olympics had more of an impact on the Top 25 than the Top 10, which had to shoulder old stalwarts like the death list, Reddit threads, TV shows and the eternal presence of Facebook; still, with four slots, it's the most searched topic on the list.

I really need your help!

There is an article named Thailand National Film Association Awards. But not many information is available in English, and most of the source are in Thai language. What should I do to avoid that article deleted? You have to help me. --MrFawwaz (talk) 14:40, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Why would you delete my page?

Why the heck would you delete a page about someone. If you think you are good then go write about yourself — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.19.167.39 (talk) 22:51, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

I wouldn't write about myself for the same reason I (I'm guessing, since you haven't told me what it was called) deleted your page - notability--Jac16888 Talk 23:16, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited (192642) 1999 RD32, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Michael Busch (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:59, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

(test) The Signpost: 05 March 2014

  • Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
    There's nothing like a good old bit of Cold War nostalgia, combined with a suitably scary international incident, to focus our attention on the real world. That said, nothing could stem our outpouring of affection for the beloved comedian Harold Ramis, whose death managed to top the week in the face of those international concerns.
  • News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
    This week, the Signpost caught up with the Wikipedia Library (TWL), which aims to connect reference resources with Wikipedia editors who can use them to improve articles. Funded through the Wikimedia Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program, TWL has a new "visiting scholars" initiative and a microgrants program in the works.
  • Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup
    The WikiCup competition is ongoing, while six articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status of the English Wikipedia this week.
  • WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
    This week, the Signpost delved into the English Wikipedia's Article Rescue Squadron.

Vandalism Help

Hi Jac, looking for some help with some persistent vandalism. Someone keeps blanking a user's talk page at this url, persistent harassment over the course of years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:114.76.153.199 How do I initiate proceedings to get them banned from wikipedia? Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.22.171 (talk) 01:54, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

You know it is me removing it and you know why, just like I know you are the same person who has spent the last 4-5 years repeatedly restoring it (which is pretty sad by the way). Please take your trolling elsewhere, not interested--Jac16888 Talk 17:14, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
You've spent the same amount of time removing it and locking the page, loser. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.183.7 (talk) 11:28, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Difference being that it takes me 10 seconds to do so and I get to enjoy the thought of your little tantrums every time I do--Jac16888 Talk 11:33, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
not sure how long you think it takes me to revert it, chump — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.183.7 (talk) 11:40, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Boohoo, the nasty admin keeps taking away my toy. Go cry about it to somebody who gives a shit--Jac16888 Talk 11:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

  • News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month
    Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.
  • Traffic report: War and awards
    An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.
  • Featured content: Ukraine burns
    Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

March 2014

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Ana Stojanoska may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s and 1 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • *''The birth of the character of the text-play relationship (with examples from the play "[[Closer_(play)|Closer]]" – [[Patrick Marber]], directed by [http://
  • *''Skills that transforms into art - Code of Macedonian tradition as a quote in the dramaturgy of [[Dejan Dukovski].'' (Foreword to the book: “''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/drami/oclc/652340857?

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 14:45, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

  • WikiProject report: We have history
    This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.
  • Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
    Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Traffic report: Into thin air
    The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.
  • Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
    The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

  • Comment: A foolish request
    April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.
  • Traffic report: Down to a simmer
    Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.
  • Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates
    Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
  • News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
    Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.
  • Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
    On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.
  • Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
    As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.
  • WikiProject report: From the peak
    This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.

Regarding the deletion of time table of trains from Kollam Junction Railway Station Page

I understood that Wikipedia is not a directory to keep all the info available in this world. That's why you deleted the time table. But What about the other railway station pages?? Almost all the pages in wiki regarding the railway stations in India are denoting the details of various trains passing through/having halts at the particular station. Why you deleted the info from this page only?? Almost all the major railway station pages like Trivandrum, Thrissur, Ernakulam Junction etc are displaying the details of trains in the page itself. But its removed by you from Kollam Railway Station page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.111.177.222 (talk) 11:29, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) No train station pages should ever have schedules. This isn't WikiTravel nor a how to catch a train guide ES&L 12:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
ESL said it exactly--Jac16888 Talk 16:37, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

  • Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
    The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.
  • Featured content: April Fools
    The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.
  • Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
    The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

deleted page

Hi, recently you deleted a page that I was trying to translate from English to Italian (bottle episode -> episodio bottiglia). Maybe I made some mistake (with 'save' I didn't mean to publish that page, but just to 'save' it to improve it later... I'm sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ser dark (talk • contribs) 08:34, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

You the Italian Wikipedia--Jac16888 Talk 11:31, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

  • News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
    Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
    This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.
  • Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
    "I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."
  • Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
    Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.
  • Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
    Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Non-admins closing discussions as delete

Hi Jac16888, I was hoping to talk to you about non-admin closures, specifically those where there's consensus to delete. It was brought to my attention that you discouraged a non-admin from doing so, though the specifics of that case aren't what I want to discuss. You're right to cite WP:BADNAC, of course, which is clear that such closures shouldn't be performed (for what it's worth, the guideline at WP:NACD uses weaker wording). But I wonder if this isn't outdated, or a barrier to good-faith editors that want to help out with backlog maintenance.

I'm not sure what your areas of admin expertise are. I work mostly at RFD, RM, and MFD, so I'm drawing on my experiences here. At RM, some non-admins (myself included, when I was one) will close discussions as move when they can't actually perform the move, using {{db-move}} to clear the way. That's against BADNAC too, but having seen RM from both sides, such practices haven't caused any harm—quite the contrary, they've helped a good deal in a forum that fairly regularly has a formidable backlog.

If a non-admin is making such closes in bad faith, is fumbling the technical aspects, or judging consensus poorly, by all means, they should be stopped. But I've encountered several competent non-admins who have made closes like this (or with {{db-xfd}}), and their involvement has been very helpful in tackling backlogs where admins are in short supply. I realize there needs to be some more centralized discussion if we're going to loosen these restrictions. But in the meantime, I think we could apply an "any reasonable admin" standard. If any reasonable admin would come to the same conclusion, and if the non-admin tags the page to be deleted appropriately, is it really in the project's best interests to discourage these closes? --BDD (talk) 19:12, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

NAC is very clear, (as is NACD: "Non-administrators should not close discussions in which they lack the technical ability to act upon the outcome") and it's just obvious from a technical viewpoint, if an editor is incapable of deleting a page then they should not be making a decision that said page should be deleted. All using templates such as the above does is remove an item from one backlog and add it to another, it does little to actually reduce the workload--Jac16888 Talk 19:19, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hm. In my experience, the CSD categories don't tend to be very backlogged. There are administrators who probably don't want to sit down and assess consensus in a discussion, but if it's already been decided, they're happy to push the button. --BDD (talk) 20:20, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
If as an admin I came across such a tag, I would as part of my due diligence check the xfd to determine that the consensus was judged correctly, just as I would closing an afd or deleting a prod or any other action, and I would expect any other admin to do the same. I feel like this tagging way also reduces culpability "It wasn't my fault I just closed I didn't delete it", "It wasn't my fault I just deleted it, I didn't close it"--Jac16888 Talk 21:03, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Incomprehensible Philippines pages

Hi Jac16888
Thanks for noting and PRODding these pages, created by Mayapa, Calamba (talk · contribs) which I noticed, about an hour ago, have had the PRODs and maintenance templates systematically removed without explanation by a Philippines IP, 112.207.52.18 (talk · contribs). I have re-tagged as required, though some now have a single ext. lk as a source.

One you didn't actually PROD, Sirang Lupa, Calamba was created by a now indeffed editor Jhaeyvan Clarin (talk · contribs) (abusing multiple accounts), and has now been edited by user 'Mayapa, Calamba', and the above IP. Funny that!

I have a strong feeling we have another sock of Ivan Clarin (talk · contribs). See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ivan Clarin/Archive. Hope this is some interest. Regards, --220 of Borg 05:29, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I have redirected all the remaining pages to Canlubang, Calamba, and blocked the two sock accounts I saw, if any more crop up I'll take care of them too--Jac16888 Talk 21:57, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
No problem! and Thanks --220 of Borg 00:58, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Recreations of Aas Mohammad

Hi, Just to let you know thatAas Mohammad has been recreated as Aas Mohammadd and Aas mohammad. Flat Out let's discuss it 09:06, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Please use proper edit summaries

Just stating "nope" like you did here [1], [2] is not constructive, thank you. Palosirkka (talk) 17:38, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Any experienced editor checking those edits would have seen the reasoning behind the summary right away, saying nope was quicker than writing out my full meaning: "not a chance in hell does this promotional bullshit belong here"--Jac16888 Talk 17:50, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Heads up

this was caused by an edit conflict that was quietly merged. didnt notice the close until later and never checked the timestamps. Werieth (talk) 19:42, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

11 December 2013 Euromaidan assault article problem

Hi Recently I've translated the article "11 December 2013 Euromaidan assault". It was my project at the university,as I study English-Ukrainian translation. Unfortunately, it was marked as one for deletion. I would like to mention that this is only a translation of the Ukrainian article. If this article is not good, it's main version in Ukrainian should be deleted. And also I'm sure that this article is not biased, as I witnessed the events described in it and may affirm that everything is true. thanks for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zshpodarunok (talk • contribs) 20:28, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Content on the English Wikipedia has no affect on the Ukrainian Wikipedia, and vice-versa, just because there is an article over there, does not mean there should be one here. The article itself comes across as very biased and one-sided, with virtually no sources at all to back up the statements it is making--Jac16888 Talk 21:32, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

re: X key and Template:Keyboard keys

Hello — in December you deleted the article “X key” which is referenced by Template:Keyboard keys. The template is now showing a red link, which should probably be removed. I've peeked at the template source, and removing the dead link seems simple enough, but having never edited a template, I'd like to confirm that it's really that straightforward, lest I do damage to the fifty articles which use this template. Any warnings, caveats, or subtle side effects I should be aware of, other than WP:DDMP? Thanks for any wisdom you wish to offer! 50.181.30.121 (talk) 07:45, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Yep, looks like it's as straightforward as it seems, go for it mate--Jac16888 Talk 17:05, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Hiya, Just wanted to say thanks for making me see sense yesterday at ANI!

It's just I've never had it blatantly copied but yeah in hindsight it was probably a stupid fuss over nothing,
Anyway Thanks :-)
Regards, -→Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 13:54, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

  • Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
    The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.
  • Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do
    Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!
  • News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
    Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as "Cindamuse" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.
  • Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
    After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.
  • Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
    If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.
  • Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
    Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

Bapatla page

You have reverted my edits, may i know the reason. I've just organised info and based on the tag i have edited. If anything mistake, I obey. My view is does the parliament, assembly constituency and MLA names and private school names are required on a town or village page. You can see hyderabad, vijayawada pages, where they only mention civic administration instead of politicians names. Also, they mention only important universities or colleges rather than private schools names ehich are in every street.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vin09 (talk • contribs) 19:37, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

I reverted your edit by mistake, and immediately reverted myself, then I removed this which I assume you added by mistake--Jac16888 Talk 18:41, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

  • News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
    Like hammering a square peg into a round hole, the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted a draft annual plan for 2014–15 to its own Funds Dissemination Committee. Unlike the WMF's submission to the FDC's inaugural round in October 2012, the "proposal" does not seek funding.
  • Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
    Not much to report this week. The same post-Easter celebrations (4/20, Earth Day) were popular again this year, except last year we were still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing.
  • Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
    The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.
  • WikiProject report: Genetics
    This week, we unraveled the mysteries of WikiProject Genetics.
  • Featured content: Browsing behaviours
    Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Talkback

Hello, Jac16888. You have new messages at Talk:List of Masha and the Bear episodes.
Message added 17:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:13, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Giannis Kolokas, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Pyrgos (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:51, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Meyer Vaisman

Hi! I'm consulting the article about Meyer Vaisman from Italy (I'm here for a trip), but I normally live in Spain and the page was created in the Spanish Wikipedia, I leave here the link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Vaisman. I din't copy it in the english one, but I wrote in the spanish one. Could you REDIRECT the page you deleted to the right one? (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Vaisman). I'm the autor. At the beginning there was two pages with the same name, because the title of the first one was wrong (smal letter of the surmame)

Please you can leave your message for me here: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario_discusi%C3%B3n:LiminalB — Preceding unsigned comment added by LiminalB (talk • contribs) 19:23, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

  • News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
    The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) introduced the first form of what are known as the "discretionary sanction" (DS) in 2009. A new DS regime, called Discretionary sanctions (2014), is the result of an elaborate review process involving both the community, since last September, and the committee, for more than a year.
  • Traffic report: TMZedia
    For all the claims of Wikipedia bringing the world's knowledge to all who want it, it seems the human race most wants is a tabloid newspaper; a quick source for TV listings, pop culture facts, celebrity gossip and, above all, scandal—with some nice juicy racism thrown in too.
  • In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
    In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.
  • In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
    Boston Children's Hospital postdoctoral fellow David McIver and a team have determined that using page view statistics from Wikipedia, they can track flu progression better than the Center for Disease Control can using Google searches.
  • WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
    Formed in 2003, the Eurovision WikiProject boasts four featured articles and 22 good articles. The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, so we went to the stage to talk with one of the project's members.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
    Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Sorry!

I am sincerely sorry, for the link on the article about Harry Potter. I read it need more sources, and that website had the right amount of spells used in the 7 books about Harry Potter. Please forgive me, I was trying to help articles. Cheers!-- Allied Rangoon‧talk 16:10, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

  • WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
    This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.
  • News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
    Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: "Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library." Just what is this?
  • Featured content: On the rocks
    Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupul_Carpatin_F%C4%83g%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%99an

To whom it may concern

The reason why I revert to the previous form of the page is because it is the mirror page of

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupul_Carpatin_F%C4%83g%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%99an

Your comment "this is a horrendous mess of an article" it is really "very objective".

On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_anti-communist_resistance_movement there are no details about this Group, just a short mention of Ogoranu.


Please free to email me on bogdan.bobolea@gmail.com

I have subtitled the movie that deals with this group:

http://youtu(dot)be/KzvWxPIekKQ

And also for your knowledge you can watch this clip, too.

http://youtu(dot)be/medQcDcgHwc

Regards,

Bogdan Bobolea

PS

What is your nationality ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bogdan.bobolea (talk • contribs) 21:48, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

I'll address your post-script first, my nationality is irrelevant, and yours should be too. I have reverted your restoration, in it's current state this article does not belong on Wikipedia, it is badly written and translated, overly biased and barely sourced, the fact that it relates to a Romanian Wikipedia page is irrelevant. If you feel there should be an article on this group please begin by expanding the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement page, or by creating a page from scratch using WP:AFC. Do not restore it again--Jac16888 Talk 21:57, 18 May 2014 (UTC)


0. Please bring proof that the page is bad translated !

1. Based on what principle there is no option to have a separate page regarding this Group ?

2.The page you decided to "delete" is the translation of the Romanian page. So your argument "the fact that it relates to a Romanian Wikipedia page is irrelevant". In this case you should delete that page, too.

3. The Romanian page has a lot of books in the Biography. The same books were listed in the page deleted by you.

4. You should have start this discussion regarding these allegations NOT to delete it !

5. How can you judge if the information was biased if you can't speak / read / understand Romanian.

6. I don't think that your last idea seems to sound as a threat. Is it or not ?

7. I would like to bring this discussion to a higher level - having a sort of umpire that would listen to our ideas and decide accordingly.

Have a nice day ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bogdan.bobolea (talk • contribs) 22:24, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Content on the Romanian Wikipedia has no bearing on the English Wikipedia and vice-versa, the two are entirely independent. The bias of the page is clear when it includes long and dramatic quotes from members of the group. I am not saying there should be no article on the group, rather I am saying you should start again without basing it on an obviously biased translation. Create a page at [[User:Bogdan.bobolea/Sandbox and begin again, include hard facts only, as many references as you can (i.e. more than just two documents of unclear origin, and take a look at articles on similar subjects for an idea of what you should be doing, such as American Indian Movement or Prague Spring, then submit the page to WP:AFC and allow it to be properly assessed by expert article writers--Jac16888 Talk 22:52, 18 May 2014 (UTC)


Hello Jac,

A.

You are saying:


“Content on the Romanian Wikipedia has no bearing on the English Wikipedia and vice-versa, the two are entirely independent.“

My reply:

“From Wikipedia’s “Terms of Use”:

“Part of our mission is to:

Empower and Engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content […].

Disseminate this content effectively and globally, free of charge.

You are free to:

Contribute To and Edit our various sites or Projects.


1. Our Services

The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free multilingual content, and to hosting the full content of these wiki-based Projects for the public free of charge. Our role is to host some of the largest collaboratively edited reference Projects in the world […]”

a) I couldn’t find any mention regarding the fact that it is forbidden to have a Wiki page mirrored in another language;

b) How on Earth does Wikipedia fulfill its mission (to disseminate effectively and globally) if you are denying the existence of twin pages in other languages?

c) If it is possible to have a version in English of a Romanian Wiki page, for what purpose the English version must have lesser words than the original one?

d) By deleting the page using very “objective remarks” (“this is a horrendous mess of an article”) have you or haven’t you broken the idea “Our role is to host some of the largest collaboratively edited reference Projects in the world”? From where I am standing the deleting action is not a sign of cooperation.

Why didn’t you put a warning as usual: “This page has some issues”? or “This page will be deleted in two weeks because of the following criteria a)… b)… etc ?” so I could had adjusted it accordingly.

Why did you leave the link valid so it would be a circular reference?

When you are on the page and you click on Grupul Carpatin Făgărăşan it goes back to the beginning of the same page.

You did a similar action before:

Turbinia Hello you have made a change here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turbinia&oldid=prev&diff=591146894 . You have left a live link but it now goes nowhere. I wonder whether you intended this and if so why. Robertforsythe (talk) 11:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC) Links from the articlespace to the userspace are not allowed, as userpages are not subject to the rules and guidelines that articles are. I left the link for the possibility that the subject could be an article one day, if that is not the case please remove it--Jac16888 Talk 13:32, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Should I be biased (as you are enjoying so much using this word) to presume that you had left in both situations a valid link so the persons who created those pages to think that everything is OK? A broken link (red) would have triggered the alarm, wouldn’t it?


B.

You are saying:

“The bias of the page is clear when it includes long and dramatic quotes from members of the group”.

I am saying:

Since have you advised me to study about the Indian movement look what I have found:


bestessayhelp(dot)com/examples/history/native-american-studies/history-research-methods-appropriate-bias-%E2%80%93-essay-sample

History Research Methods. Appropriate Bias? – Essay Sample McCullagh, C. Behan. “Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation.” History & Theory 39.1 (2000): 39.Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Aug. 2011.

History is made by those who write it, so it is unsurprising that bias is present in historical descriptions, interpretations, and explanations. However, few people realize the extent and severity of the bias commonly showed in historical texts, and avoiding cultural bias is often difficult to identify- much less correct.

McCullagh claims that personal bias is not as harmful as cultural bias […]

C.

You are saying:

“I am not saying there should be no article on the group, rather I am saying you should start again without basing it on an obviously biased translation.

Create a page at [[User:Bogdan.bobolea/Sandbox and begin again, include hard facts only, as many references as you can (i.e. more than just two documents of unclear origin, […]”


I am saying:

The references used in the page are written by

1.Ion Gavrila Ogoranu – the leader of that Carpathian Group Fagarasan

2.Florian Banu :

has a PhD in History, superior councilor at the National Council for studying the Securitate Archive;

is co-editor of ”Bande, bandiţi şi eroi”. Grupurile de rezistenţă din munţi şi Securitatea (1948-1968), Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2003, (co-editor); ("Gangs, bandits and heroes” Resistance groups from the mountains and Securitate;


author of “Securitatea. Structuri/cadre, obiective şi metode, vol. I (1948-1967), Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2006 (co-editor); (Securitate. Structures/ staffing, objectives and methods);

co-author of România. 1945-1989. Enciclopedia regimului comunist. Represiunea. A-E, Bucureşti, Institutul Naţional pentru Studiul Totalitarismului, 2011 (co-autor). (Romania. 1945 – 1989. The Communism Encyclopedia. Repression A-E)


The book written by professor Florian Banu used as reference is called “Mişcarea de rezistenţă armată anticomunistă din România - între negare şi hiperbolizare/ Publicat în Rezistenţa anticomunistă – cercetare ştiinţifică şi valorificare muzeală, vol.I “ (The armed anticommunism resistance movement from Romania – between denial and augmentation – published in Anticommunism Resistance – scientific research and museum capitalization, Vol. I)


I didn’t know that in order to publish a page on Wiki I need to perform a research similar to a Master's or a PhD Diploma and to read so many books. If you had left the page as it was, some readers (not you) would have had the chance to challenge the information provided by me and to write other ideas, different than those exposed by me.

“From Wikipedia’s “Terms of Use”:


a. We do not take an editorial role: Because the Wikimedia Projects are collaboratively edited, all of the content that we host is provided by users like yourself, and we do not take an editorial role. This means that we generally do not monitor or edit the content of the Project websites, and we do not take any responsibility for this content.

From my point of view, you have grossly breached this rule.

PS

And finally: I am proud to be Romanian. This is the reason why I am writing about my fellows who died in the mountains fighting against the Communism and I am disseminating information about their actions. Of course my English is bad, but nobody is perfect.

As McCullagh said “the personal bias is not as harmful as cultural bias”, I strongly suggest to take your time and watch those two YouTube video translated into English by me. If you don’t trust my English: I have a translator diploma (English – Romanian) and I worked two years in UK.


By the way, would you be so kind to tell me how can I contact directly the person who oversees/ who is monitoring your activity to inform him/ her about our misunderstandings?


Thank you!

You have missed virtually every point I tried to make, along with vastly misinterpreting both Wikipedias terms of use and meaning of bias. To answer A, I did not say we won't have an article that is on another Wikipedia, just that the fact they have one does not mean we have to. They have no creative control over us, and vice-versa. Your comment about my edit to Turbinia is as far as I can tell, completely irrelevant. B: Not even clear what you are saying here, the page as it was had an obvious bias and was therefore unacceptable by Wikipedia policy as I have already linked to. C: In other words you have a reference from an obviously biased party, and a single reference that may be of value. One reference is not anywhere near enough. Regarding the rule you claim I have breached, I have no connection with the Wikimedia Foundation, which is the one claiming no editorial role. I am an administrator and a editor, i.e. I do take an editorial role, and I have nobody who oversees me in doing so. In your postscript you make clear your fundamental misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia does not "disseminate information", it is an encyclopedia, the role of which is to summarise and report already disseminated information. In order for you to attempt to improve this page I have moved it to your userspace, User:Bogdan.bobolea/Grupul Carpatin Fagarasan. Here I suggest you make an effort to bring it in line with our policies, then submit it for approval through WP:AFC--Jac16888 Talk 20:41, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Waun Ki Hong

I edited the research section and added references. I then requested a move to rename the page Waun Ki Hong. Is it possible to delete from public view the editor's (your) previous comments about the article needing references, etc. as these issues have been addressed? I hope the revised version is sufficient to meet the criteria for published articles. Thanks for your assistance.Houston5December 19:22, 19 May 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Houston5December (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

  • News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
    Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.
  • Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
    It's a relief to see Google Doodles having an impact again; their wide coverage means that they inspire curiosity on many subjects which, for reasons of nationality, ethnicity or gender, might not be known in the English-speaking world. It's a shame then, that Wikipedia so often fails to keep up; articles on Google Doodles are almost invariably C-class, and seldom do justice to their subjects. Still, interest in Google Doodles has been waning in recent months—Audrey Hepburn last week was the first to top the list since December—so any rise in popularity is worth celebrating.

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

  • News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
    With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.
  • Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
    Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.
  • Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
    In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.
  • Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
    Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.

Re Astrantia carniolica

Thank you for deleting all those redundant pages - I forgot to add the / on my userpage when creating the new articles ! DavidAnstiss (talk) 09:13, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

  • Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap
    Individual engagement grants (IEGs) are announced twice yearly by a volunteer WMF committee, the most recent of which we covered last December. The scheme, launched at the start of last year, awards funds to individuals or teams of up to four to produce high-impact outcomes for the WMF's online projects. It favours innovative approaches to solving critical issues in the movement.
  • News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
    New trustee Frieda Briosch from Italy: we face "a couple of headaches", she says: "how to boost editors, which includes the development of the next strategic plan, and how to keep our project always 'glamorous'."
  • Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
    I never feel quite adequate trying to paraphrase Sumana's words: she is so articulate. I highly encourage every person who reads this article to directly watch her keynote—it directly speaks to a lot of Wikimedia's most significant issues, made with great eloquence. We have a serious issue with retaining editors, and parts of her speech could serve as a pretty good partial blueprint towards how we could begin to fix that problem.
  • Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
    David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.
  • Traffic report: Autumn in summer
    The northern summer is a time when one is meant to celebrate the exuberance of life; instead, commemoration of the dead was a significant theme this week.

Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz

Hi Jac,

Regarding the page of Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz that has been deleted, we have recreated it again under name of Mahfouz Bin Marei Bin Mahfouz to match Wikipedia's citing policy. However, the new page has been deleted too today. Could you please either retrieve the new page again or at least retrieve the old page and we will rectify it.

Kind regards, Ahmad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Midoahmad (talk • contribs) 15:59, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz for why the page was deleted, it cannot be restored unless you address the issues raised in that discussion--Jac16888 Talk 16:40, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Prod of Hronovka and Regnerka

You tagged Hronovka and Regnerka for deletion with the rationale: incomprehensible. I disagree: although written in terrible English, the basic facts of the article were easily understandable. I have rewritten the article in clear English, and removed the PROD, although I still doubt the notability of the topic. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:51, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Article moved, but now unreachable!

Hi! I wrote an article named Volsonis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis) that has been deleted because it was written in another language (croatian). The article now exists here https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis, but it's actually unreachable - when I type "Volsonis" in google, it shows the old article which has been deleted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis). How can I make the article in croatian (https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis) to appear in google results? Thanks!

Article moved, but now unreachable!

Hi! I wrote an article named Volsonis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis) that has been deleted because it was written in another language (croatian). The article now exists here https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis, but it's actually unreachable - when I type "Volsonis" in google, it shows the old article which has been deleted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis). How can I make the article in croatian (https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsonis) to appear in google results? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidestanic (talk • contribs) 14:40, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Be patient, it will show up eventually--Jac16888 Talk 16:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for cleaning up all those messes I made with the health care articles. I left awful redirects everywhere and you found them all and deleted them without me even asking. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

  • News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
    Eleven public relations agencies have declared their intention to follow "ethical engagement practices" in Wikipedia editing. The results were published last Tuesday: a joint statement from the participating PR agencies—representing five of the top ten global agencies and all but one of the top ten in the United States—clarifying their views and practices with regards to the Wikimedia projects.
  • Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
    It seems that, more than commemorating the great moments in our history, more than even anticipating great sporting events, what our audience wants is the weird.
  • Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
    William Beutler (WWB), author of the blog The Wikipedian, is a long-time editor and community-watcher. He is also a paid editor (WWB Too). Well—not anymore—because he gave up direct editing of articles in 2011. Instead, for the past three years he has followed Jimmy Wales' Bright Line rule in acting as a researcher and consultant for companies and clients that want to suggest changes to Wikipedia articles and engage on the Talk page.
  • Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
    Last week we reported the announcement of two new affiliate-selected WMF trustees. The board of trustees is the most powerful and influential body in the movement, and chapters have been permitted to select two of the 10 seats since 2008, for two-year terms that start in even-numbered years.
  • Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
    Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.


Can you explain me why you have reverted some changes on photo gallery software ? Silverpeas contains a web photo gallery software writen in Java that may interest some readers of this page ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebonnet38 (talk • contribs) 07:15, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

I reverted the edits to remove Silverpeas because I had deleted the article about it and every item on that list needs an article. I deleted the article because it showed no indication of notability--Jac16888 Talk 07:47, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
I am not agree with showed no indication of notability. I can add a lot of reference about Silverpeas (for example http://www.open-source-guide.com/en/Solutions/Applications/Portals/Silverpeas) Can you please add the last page version.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebonnet38 (talk • contribs) 10:22, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
That is not a valid reference. Please see WP:REFERENCE--Jac16888 Talk 10:17, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Your point of view is not objective. Please see WP:REFERENCE. Maybe we should ask other people about it. I have made a Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebonnet38 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
I don't see on what grounds you're making that claim, I would be willing to bet it is you who is not objective here. Your request has already been declined--Jac16888 Talk 11:53, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Murphy Betancourt

Hello there I'm sorry for the bother Murphy Betancourt page was delete the person that was trying to make Murphy Wiki page he didn't know how to get References but I do know how to so I will love to make Murphy Betancourt a new Wiki article, That's why I'm here today if you could please unblock his page.

Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhonlopze (talk • contribs) 13:13, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

There was nothing in any of the deleted versions which suggested any notability. If you want to try and create the page please create a draft at User:Jhonlopze/Murphy Betancourt and then submit it for approval through WP:AFC--Jac16888 Talk 13:46, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

  • Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
    Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
    The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.
  • Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
    To the surprise of absolutely no one, the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the main draw this week, taking four slots. People appeared desperate to bone up on their trivia; checking not only this year's World Cup, but the last one. Even so, they still couldn't push Game of Thrones from the top ten. It will be interesting to see what happens come next week's season finale.
  • WikiProject report: Visiting the city
    This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

  • News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
    The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have committed to engaging with Wikimedia projects in their newest Open Government Plan. The biannual effort is a roadmap for how the agency will accomplish its goals in the digital age.
  • Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
    Despite the interest generated by its season finale, Game of Thrones still couldn't top the World Cup, which still dominated interest, as evidenced by the fact that this top 10 is virtually identical to last week's, just with a different dead celebrity.
  • Featured content: Showing our Wörth
    Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
    This week, the Signpost visited the land of Disney, blockbusters, explosions, dream sequences, and cultural masterpieces: film.
  • Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
    In a recent paper, Jacob Solomon and Rick Wash investigate the question of sustainability in online communities by analysing trends in the growth of WikiProjects.

mohamadrezarezaei.com

hi why my page as mohamadrezarezaei dot com delete by you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maplay (talk • contribs) 14:32, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Because it had no useful content and it was not in English--Jac16888 Talk 16:34, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

  • In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
    The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.
  • Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
    With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.
  • News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
    Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.
  • Featured content: Ship-shape
    Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
    In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.

Hi jac... what is the reason behind deleted page Kunwer Sachdev and he is the well known person in India and MD and Co-founder of Su-kam power systems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiv.k.gupta (talk • contribs) 08:14, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

The Center for the Initiative on Belarus

I do not understand what it is the problem with this article. This is not advertising, just info about a non-profit. And there millions of ad pages in Wikipedia. Please explain. Kavaleuski (talk) 18:23, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

FYI, the article has been recreated (still in Belarusian)--I've reapplied the translate tag, but not a speedy tag. --Finngall talk 18:36, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
It is very promotional, shows little to no notability, other articles are of no relevance, and as Finngall says it is not in English, this being the English language Wikipedia--Jac16888 Talk 18:45, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma

Why would you delete the wiki for the oldest and largest state park in Oklahoma, Lake Murray State Park Please email response to Richard.Tipton@ardmoreite.com

Thank you Richard Tipton

Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma

Why would you delete the wiki for the oldest and largest state park in Oklahoma, Lake Murray State Park Please email response to Richard.Tipton@ardmoreite.com

Thank you Richard Tipton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.115.160 (talk) 15:21, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

  • Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
    Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?
  • Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
    The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
  • Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
    Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

July 13,2014

Hi Jack,It's me Saurav Lamshal..II have helped to delete unnecessary wiki articles...Now I know properly about it..Can U please give me some authoritative rights ?? Saurav Lamshal (talk) 18:18, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Take a look at WP:PERM, but please note that A) To get most additional rights you need much more experience than you currently do (a few thousand edits and a few months editing at least), and B)None of the different rights available are in any way "authoritative"--Jac16888 Talk 18:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

should I Apply for it or...when I edit and promote pages...then will Wikipedia automatically provide me some additional rights or I should Apply for it man ? Saurav Lamshal (talk) 18:34, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

You apply for the different rights on the page I linked above, but please understand, you will not get them right now, you need much more experience--Jac16888 Talk 19:22, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Article Headlines

Hi Jac16888,

I represent XPRIZE, and am wondering why all of our edits keep getting deleted. We are trying to establish our brand, and that is very difficult to do when Wikipedia has us and our competition incorrectly listed. XPRIZE is our official registered trademark, even though we are still known to the IRS as the X PRIZE Foundation. We only use the space in filings with the government, but all public facing media presents our brand as XPRIZE.


We can be listed as XPRIZE or XPRIZE Foundation for our main article page. There should not be a space between 'X' and 'PRIZE'. The same goes for all of our competitions: Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander XCHALLENGE (currently listed just as Lunar Lander Challenge), Ansari XPRIZE (currently listed as Ansari X Prize), XPRIZE Cup (currently listed as X Prize Cup), Progressive Insurance Automotive XPRIZE (currently listed as Automotive X Prize), Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XCHALLENGE (currently listed as Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge at Oil_Cleanup_XPrize), Google Lunar XPRIZE (currently listed as Google Lunar X Prize), Archon Genomics XPRIZE (currently listed as Archon X Prize), Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE (currently listed as Tricorder X Prize), Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE (not yet listed except in the article about the foundation), and Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE (not yet listed except in the article about the foundation).

If you could please help us with these edits and possibly even locking them, we would greatly appreciate it. It is a constant fight to control our brand as there are so many outlets that are misrepresenting us.

Thank you,

Zachary David zachary.david@xprize.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zach xprize (talk • contribs) 17:21, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Zachary, please read WP:COI first of all, as it is vitally important that you understand that Wikipedia is not the place for you to establish a brand. With regards to moving articles to the correct names, please make requests at WP:RFM--Jac16888 Talk 18:22, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

  • Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
    On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
  • Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
    Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
    The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

365 Days TV

A article have notable. See an interwik in Russian Wikipedia. ru:365 дней ТВ--Many baks (talk) 18:44, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

The fact is exists on the Russian Wikipedia is irrelevant, there are no sources and nothing to indicate this is in anyway notable--Jac16888 Talk 23:48, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Soliciting comment...

Hi! Would you care to review my FA nomination for the article Of Human Feelings? The article is about a jazz album by Ornette Coleman, and the criteria for FA articles is at WP:FACR. If not, feel free to ignore this message. Cheers! Dan56 (talk) 18:39, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Page Deleted by You "A famous Indian Industrial"

Hi Jack,

I know I am not expert in wiki page but when ever I found free time I spent on wikipedia to provide relevant and real information to the world. I have created a page of Su-kam Power Systems Founders "Kunwer Sachdev" but it was deleted by you (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) without knowing fact as of I have already placed news articles to support this page.

It would be great if you guide me where i have made mistake so i will fix and will give my time on wiki.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiv.k.gupta (talk • contribs) 11:17, 21 July 2014

It was overly promotional, please see WP:NEUTRAL--Jac16888 Talk 16:52, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Ashraf Ali Thanwi, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Ahmed Khan. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:56, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

I see that you concluded here that The Stronato (Paraguay) was (not a copyvio)

It looks a bit complicated to me. Here's what I observed:

  1. In this edit User:Calliopejen1 added a substantial amount of material, inclduing the Stronato material to History of Paraguay with the edit notice (+PD content from library of congress!) . However, I do not see any notice of attribution or identification of the source in that edit, the next few subsequent edits, or present in the article as it existed on 2 July 2014 just before removal.
  2. user:The Northaptonshire pins cut the material from the article and created a new article. I believe this violates our own rules for attribution.
  3. user:The Northaptonshire pins referenced the material to Mother Earth Travel which I doubt qualifies as a reliable source.

I think there's some work to do to make this right, but I want to start by figuring out whether my summary is accurate and complete.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:36, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

I'll be honest I just checked that it was moved from another article as the status says, but the does seem a bit more tricky. I think you're right on your first point, attribution of the source material should have been/be added. WP:SPLIT says that the only attribution needed is "the page receiving the split material must have an edit summary noting "split content from article name" in the new article which was done, although I suppose it should have been linked. Re point 3, the mother earth page appears to be copied from the Area Handbook of the US Library of Congress, which I'm guessing is where the original content came from, so perhaps that should be repointed to just the actual book rather than another page hosting--Jac16888 Talk 18:48, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Given your answer, I'll copy the above, and move my subsequent post to Talk:The_Stronato_(Paraguay)--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:10, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

English version "Adolfo Fernandez"

Jac15888; Im trying to create the english version of the article about Adolfo Fernandez Garcia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Garc%C3%ADa

but it was marked for deletion marked as (Advertising). Why ? this guy is one of the most recognized artists in cuba and its retired in US, how can it be advertising ? the purpose of the article is purely informative.

sorry for my english (My native lang. is spanish).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ideologic (talk • contribs) 21:45, 25 July 2014

I deleted it (twice now), because it was blatantly promotional. It was also an unsourced biography--Jac16888 Talk 22:00, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

  • Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
    Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
  • News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
    Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
  • Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
    The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
  • Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
    Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Why did you delete my page

Hello,

I had a page in draft called 'Hebburn Town Juniors FC'. can you tell me why it was deleted? I know there was conflict with copyright, but I thought as it was in 'draft' I could sort it later. As it happens it's not an issue as I administer the website the text was taken from anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngray jarrow (talk • contribs) 09:24, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Copyright is a legal issue, therefore it is an issue even as a draft. Even without the copyright information the page was still not suitable to be an article as it was overly biased and promotional--Jac16888 Talk 16:39, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello

I'd like to ask that an article your ran through PROD, The Detonators (band), be userfied to me. I'm working on histories of 1980s American punk bands and this one should clear GNG (article in Flipside #47, etc.). Thanks, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 22:23, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

User:Carrite/The Detonators (band), all done--Jac16888 Talk 22:34, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, nice to hear from you. However, I don't think my discussions with other editors are anything to do with u. Good day. Bewbslova (talk) 20:10, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

You thought wrong--Jac16888 Talk 20:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi

You deleted the page Permutationally Invariant Quantum Tomography due to an overlapping text with

https://sites.google.com/site/pitomography/pitomography

The site owner added on the top of the page

The text of this website is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creataive Commons and the GNU Free Documentation Licence (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

Please let me know whether this is sufficient, or whether you can undelete the page. (Or we have to make it again.)

Thanks! Quantum1956 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.22.204 (talk) 23:17, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

You're right, there was no copyright issue here. However, I am still hesitant to restore it, as it seems to be little more than a barely sourced original research essay. Can I suggest you create the page as a draft and perhaps take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Science/Guidelines for some guidance--Jac16888 Talk 15:51, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I think, it was a summary of two of the scalable tomographic methods. Please tell me how I make a draft. Could you please restore the page as draft? Is the draft visible only for the creator? Quantum1956 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.22.204 (talk) 10:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

IACES webpage

Hello,

I am President of IACES (International Association of Civil Engineering Students). At the moment I am rewriting the Wikipedia article regarding IACES, differently from the one in iaces.org In the next days I will try to update with the best amount of info I can.

So please, don't delete the page in the next days even if you find it incomplete or with few information. I will ask another member to fill up with more information, specially in history section.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbcalejo (talk • contribs) 23:28, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Please see notability and WP:COI, both of which directly apply to you and this article. Rather than deleting the article again I have moved it to your userspace (it can be found at User:Jbcalejo/IACES), please work on it there (particularly focusing on adding reliable 3rd party references to establish notability), then submit it to the the WP:AFC system--Jac16888 Talk 15:55, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

  • Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
    In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.
  • Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
    Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
  • News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
    Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?
  • Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
    We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.
  • Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
    Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited List of comets by type, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sandbox. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:10, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

IACES article

Hello

I have seen the article about IACES has been moved to my personal area. What do I need to do so that it is accepted in the following link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IACES?

It was not copied from the website, does it need anyway any kind of authorization?

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbcalejo (talk • contribs) 10:53, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

See my answer above--Jac16888 Talk 12:32, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

why did you delete my post

You said it was irrelevant it was about a rapper,just like Trinidad James is a rapper, Jay-Z, snoop dogg I don't get how it was irrelevant — Preceding unsigned comment added by Savagemitten (talk • contribs) 16:18, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTABILITY--Jac16888 Talk 17:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Article removed

hello,

Why you remove my article (Rancah Post)?

Look at the garbage you did not delete with same article with me, it worst than mine you know.

I have real company at Rancah Post, under Mitra Maya Media Inc.

Thanks,— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitrakerja (talk • contribs) 05:20, 5 August 2014‎

A) English Wikipedia = English content, not Indonesian. B), Please see WP:NOTE, WP:COI and WP:SPAM--Jac16888 Talk 16:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Women's wheelchair basketball team

Thanks for saving the wheelchair basketball article. I realized after I'd filed for A2 deletion that the translation had begun, though I didn't see it at first look since it was in the infobox. —Largo Plazo (talk) 16:59, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for saving the article. I thought it would not take long to translate (working from the bottom to the top) but there was some fiddling with layout and templates, and then I was interrupted by off-wiki drama. I have now finished the translation, and moved it back again, but since I don't have the tools, this leaves a redirect behind, which now needs to be speedily deleted. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:06, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Page deleted. What now?

Hi,

Some time ago, I created page of a composer Andy Harris, which has been deleted because of copyright's due. However a few days ago, Andy Harris sent and e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org with statement taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries . I don't exactly know what to do now. Is the statement enough? Page will be restored?

Regards Lukasz Widz — Preceding unsigned comment added by LukaszWidz (talk • contribs) 23:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

  • Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
    As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.
  • Traffic report: Ebola
    Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.

Prince Richardson

You closed this AFD listing the result as speedy delete. Would the result just be delete, as the discussion had pretty much run its course? WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 19:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

You're right, I didn't look at the date it was re-opened. I've changed it to non-speedy for future g4ing I'm sure will occur--Jac16888 Talk 19:19, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Checking to make sure we are reaching the same conclusion

I see that you concluded that Fantasia (franchise) is not a copyvio.

I looked briefly, but it appears to me that some of the phrasing that matches this site, does so because that site (without attribution) borrowed from an earlier Wikipedia article, such as Fantasia (1940 film). However, while copying within Wikipedia is permissible, it much be properly attributed. I see that the editor has been reminded of this recently.

Does this match your take? If so, would you be willing to inform the editor? If you would prefer that I do it, please inform me, but I'm out of town for a couple days starting soon, so cannot get to it until late in the week.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:52, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Yes that was my take on it, I've left them a note--Jac16888 Talk 19:03, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll close the copyvio issue.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:59, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

I am creating a page for Special:Mypage/Venkatesh S.

HI Sir,

I have prepared a page for Venkatesh S. (cinematographer of the movie Vadacurry), When i first prepared I did it with the name of Venkatesh.S which did not link with the article of the movie where the name is given as "Venkatesh S." Since i did not know how to change the heading i created a new one and mapped to the name in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadacurry

Please publish the deleted page or allow me to publish the new article with the same name as "Venkatesh S."

Thanks, Abu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urfriendabu (talk • contribs) 08:04, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Please read WP:NOTABILITY and WP:SOURCE, and then create a page which meets those policies using the WP:AFC procedure--Jac16888 Talk 18:06, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Jens Drolshammer

I'm not yet satisfied regarding the copyright status of Jens Drolshammer. If you based it on this edit, I don't think that is good enough. As a technical point, it asserts a release of some text but doesn't adequately specify the subject text. Presumably, it refers to this page but it doesn't say so. Second, it doesn't even assert ownership of the copyright of that page. I've looked through that site, and may well have missed something, but I found a reference to a CC license which is not compatible, so we need to find evidence that the particular page in question is subject to a different license. Plus there are other issues, but I'll just stop here and say I'm planning to blank it and submit it to WP:CP. If you have investigated and found some things I've missed, please bring them to my attention. If you can find evidence that this page is NOT governed by the Terms of service, please let me know.--S Philbrick(Talk) 02:09, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of Page

Sorry, but I could not understand why you deleted the page "JoyRaj Text File Encryption Program v2.17.7.14" from Wikipedia. If there is a valid reason then please let me know it and also let me know if I can create the page again.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neptune8907 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTABILITY, which that page did not demonstrate--Jac16888 Talk 22:35, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

  • Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
    Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.
  • Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
    It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
  • Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
    Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.
  • News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
    Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.
  • Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
    Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.
  • In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
    The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."

Difference between Prismatic compass and Surveyor Compass

You have recently deleted this page because of copying from youtube. Have you checked the page?? It was from surveying text books of S.S BHAVAKATTI and C.L Kochher page 132. This bot was in my opinion malfactuning. Now I would like you to revert your edit or I am going to challenge your deletion. If there was something copied from YouTube, prove it. Owais khursheed (talk)

So what you're saying is you copied from a text-book, not the youtube page? Still not allowed. Also this is encyclopedia, a bulleted list of details about two different compasses is not an article--Jac16888 Talk 17:34, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Okay, also copying is not prohibited in wikipedia but copy right voliations is forbidden. One can go to a public library and collect data from different books for an article to be written on wikipedia. Am I right ???

Copying content from anything anywhere into an article on Wikipedia is not allowed unless the original content is released under the license we use, Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Otherwise it is a copyright violation--Jac16888 Talk 18:29, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Please Reconsider the deletion of the content.

Hi Jac16888,

I am writing this with respect to the following page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Institute_of_Management

I have come to understand that our page is deleted and the reasons mentioned are 1. Copied content 2. Promotional content.

You can check the reasons as per the cache page from Google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Institute_of_Management&ion=1&espv=2

Also, please find attached the screenshot.

I would like to submit the following explanation for reconsideration request:

1. I would like to mention that the said page is a very old page and we have not copied any content. Instead the web links mentioned hereunder have copied pour content and is the reason behind CorenSearchBot searching the same.

2. Promotional Content: The content is written to explain about the institute, campuses and Programs offered with relevant references.

Its an old content and is there since last many years. You can check the web archive version of the same as under:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120426100056/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Institute_of_Management

We respect your authority and would like you to reconsider and let us know what changes should we make in the content to have the page up and running.

Thanks. Webmaster ajit (talk) 06:48, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

The content as it stood was clearly promotional, written with a blatant bias towards the institute. I suggest you create a new article from scratch using the WP:AFC system, and following Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines--Jac16888 Talk 17:11, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of Siam Society

Hi. Please reconsider your deletion of the Siam Society article under CSD G12. While the bot did identify some duplicate phrases, I don't think the whole article was "unambiguous copyright infringement". Even if there were close paraphrasing issues, the copied contents should have been small enough to have been fixable by copyediting. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

It was copied almost word for word, with a few minor changes here and there, it was certainly a copyright violation.--Jac16888 Talk 17:19, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!


Gaurav294 (talk) 10:46, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I deleted it because it was blatantly promotional. It was also not in English, this being the English language Wikipedia--Jac16888 Talk 10:47, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

  • Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
    Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."

Biography of Niloy Alamgir

Hey Jac I have created Niloy Alamgir biography ..but wikipedia not approving it though we have provided many important news link, Niloy is a popular model & hero in Bangladeshi cinema and TV media as well.. i am new here pls wish u help me to improve Niloy Alamgir .. for your information, first i created this biography from a another id Niloy.alamgir11 but as wiki don't consider it as proper way to create some article with similar to ID name so i made a new ID.

wishing ur early response

Isle of Wight Blue

I notice that you've deleted my page. Since you have a history of having deleted 28556 pages this is clesrly something which you feel strongly about. This is the first page I've created. Just thought I'd have a go and see what happened. I picked this page since I noticed a like to a non-existant page and this was it. Perhaps it was not sufficiently rewritten from the sources but I was surprised that it was deleted as "unsambiguous advertising or promotion". I though I'd be okay on the "noteable" criteria since there are pages for other types of cheese.

Could you give some guidance as to how the page failed this criteria since it seems to me that the information was factual.

Peter Larkins (talk) 09:25, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

It was deleted for multiple reasons. The first was that it was very promotional, in a tone that was attempting to sell the cheese. The second was that it appeared to have been copied and slightly changed from another page on the internet, making it a copyright violation. Finally, just being cheese does not make it notable. Your article would require multiple 3rd party references to demonstrate notability]]--Jac16888 Talk 16:59, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Ref desk hatting

Hello, just saw you hatted this post [3] as "trolling" -- can I ask why? Asking questions about movie plots happens a lot on the entertainment desk, and is not usually considered a problem... I was considering undoing the hat, but thought it would be polite to ask you about it first. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:45, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

That IP is a long (long long) term troll, who ask generally asks inane plot questions and refuses to accept the answers, rather re-asking them again and again--Jac16888 Talk 17:48, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Please unhat the thread. Your opinions do not trump those of other good-faith contributors who have responded to a question.In general, I think you do a fine job of deleting vanispamcruftisements. Regards. Edison (talk) 04:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Why would I unhat it? Long term trolls do not get fed--Jac16888 Talk 16:44, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Text was NOT copyrighted

Jac16888,

why did you delete "The Mugshots" article? I am Mickey of the band and I simply copied parts of our OFFICIAL biography, which is of public domain, on this Wikipedia article! You can fin our biography, written by our friend Mack Maloney on our website, facebook page, reverbnation page, we print it, use it in emails and so on! It is also on our MTV page, that does not mean we are infringing a copyright! It is NOT COPYRIGHTED at all! It is absolutely free! Please let our article be, we need it as we work hard to promote our music and removing The Mugshots from Wikipedia because we "copied" our own biography - completely free of copyright - is grotesque, to say the least!

Thanks for understanding,

Michele Savoldi (aka Mickey E.Vil) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coatlx (talk • contribs) 16:39, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Two things. One, as Coren has already told you just because content is widely available does not make it public domain. Two, you have vastly misunderstood what Wikipedia is for. It is not a platform for you to promote your music, we do not allow promotional content and we do not allow editors to write with a blatant conflict of interest as you have--Jac16888 Talk 18:06, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Justin Scoggins

I created a page for Justin Scoggins. You deleted the page on 4 November 2013 because the fighter failed WP:NMMA and thus no presumption of notability was provided or established. The fighter has continued to fight and now appears to meet WP:NMMA so I created the page. Since you previously deleted I wanted you to be aware. Also note that the page was twice created and deleted after you deleted it, but those were speedy deletes that appear to pertain to copyright issues. RonSigPi (talk) 22:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

History of Mosul

So why can't Mosul have a history page? The city is thousands of years old, and as it stands the article just sort of skims over the history. It could go into much greater detail. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

It can, and you're welcome to do so, however if you want to fork the content from the existing Mosul page, please do so properly following the instructions at WP:FORK--Jac16888 Talk 19:13, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Decline of prod

You declined my prod at Sulfuric acid (data page), but when the data page exist the template chembox (infobox) at Sulfuric acid makes a section named "Supplementary data page" and a link to the data page article. Christian75 (talk) 08:35, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

  • Traffic report: Viral
    "This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."

Request Restore

I would like to request the restore of the Draf Draf:FINkers United, as I am an OTRS team member verify, and I have confirmed that the copyright holder of the website from which the aritlce is based off of, under the licensing of CC-BY-SA-30, and GFDL. See ticket 2014090110006575. If needed I will help make sure that the content is from a more Neutral Point of View, as I have read the reasoning of the deletion that you gave. --Clarkcj12 (talk) 05:59, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I don't really want to do that. I saw that OTRS has been contacted re the page, however even with that permission, the page was so clearly written to promote the article that I had to delete it. The article needs to be written completely from scratch--Jac16888 Talk 15:55, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Draft:Charles Carleton Massey

Hi! I've often seen your "not a copyvio" summary, never before had any reason to question it. But I was surprised to see it on Draft:Charles Carleton Massey, as that appears to be substantially copied from this wiki (Dup det report), which (a) carries no no licence and (b) subject of course to the laws of karma and general muddle-headedness, appears to be licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence, which is not acceptable to us. I think that page should go as a G12. Or have I misread something? Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:45, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

You're correct, I suspect I must have skimmed that license page, seen the creative commons page and not spotted the non commercial part. I have deleted the page, apologies for my error--Jac16888 Talk 18:52, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, and thanks for all you do. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:21, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Re: Removal of reference to map methodology for Phalaenopsis_hieroglyphica

Hello. I think your removal of the reference to the map featured in the Phalaenopsis_hieroglyphica article is unwarranted. Your editorial summary seems without justification as other users have found the referenced information helpful. Please return the reference for this map to the article, thank you. ChristineBushMV (talk) 17:50, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Christine. Your reference is essentially a Self-published source, (and also original research) which is not considered to be reliable. --Jac16888 Talk 18:49, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

  • Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
    "On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
  • Traffic report: Holding Pattern
    "This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
  • WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
    "This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."

Hillhacks page removal

Hi

This is regarding the removal of the hillhacks page due to "A7: No explanation of significance (real person/animal/organization/web content/organized event"

The page is an informational page about an organised event. Any information on what would consitute an explanation of significance of the event would be most helpful to updating the page in an appropriate manner.


Thanks

Vanya (talk) 14:34, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello Vanya. An event simply existing is not enough to warrant an article. You need to demonstrate notability, through the use of multiple, reliable, 3rd party references--Jac16888 Talk 14:36, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Jill Lane

Hi Jac16888, I was reviewing the new page you just deleted on Jill Lane. I had gone to WorldCat to verify and add the books cited. I was in the process of trying to help out a bit when I saw the Jill Lane page was deleted by you. Do you think it possible to work with the new editor who might have copied the citation rather than speedy delete? We need more articles about women and Jill Lane appears to be quite accomplished. I was hoping to help the person. Maybe you can help me. Is there a way to assist before a speedy deletion? Suggestions appreciated.Kmccook (talk) 17:04, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

It was a copyright violation, I had no choice but to delete due to the legal issues involved. You're free to start a new one if you like, you just can't copy the content from somewhere else--Jac16888 Talk 17:12, 7 September 2014 (UTC)


hi jac12888,

You deleted several of my post regarding the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. I represent the institute, I have been working on building a profile on wikipedia. My apologies, for not doing this correctly. I've been learning how to post a wikipedia entry as I go. Please kindly allow me to create an entry regarding the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. The content are from our site and will be edited by our editors this week. The URL: HemisphericInstitute.org is the official URL for the institute. and the /hemi directory was created by our IT department, we do not have control over this file structure. I have also created entries for our academic journal, emisferica.org. again this is our official domain name, but again due to restrictions by the University we are affiliated with (NYU) we cannot make changes.

Thank you in advance, and i'm sorry for the mistakes in creating this entry.

Kind regards,

--Dxtr (talk) 17:27, 7 September 2014 (UTC)dxtr

Everything you created was copy and pasted from the Institute website, which clearly states it is copyrighted, and therefore the pages were copyright violations and had to be deleted. However even if you were to release those website pages to the public domain, your articles would still not acceptable. They were unsourced and they written with a clear promotional tone (as evidenced by your clear conflict of interest). Please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Your first article, then create an article using the Wikipedia:Articles for creation system so that it can be properly reviewed

The Experience Gospel Concert

hello. why did you delete my article without at least sending me a message on what was wrong with it, so I can correct that? Mokeji (talk) 21:37, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

I deleted it because a) it was entirely promotional and b) it was a copyright violation--Jac16888 Talk 21:40, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Responding to your first reason - I'm puzzled as to the classification of the article as promotional. I have read other articles on Wikipedia that provide information in similar lingua about other events/personalities. How is this article different? Mokeji (talk) 22:01, 9 Septemiber 2014 (UTC)
If I came across another article as promotional as your, I would delete that too. The fact that you may have seen similarly promotional articles does not justify keeping yours--Jac16888 Talk 22:06, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Aren't articles tagged when something is wrong with them to notify the creator that the post needs cleaning up before being deleted if need be? Isn't this supposed to be in keeping with Wikipedia's emphasis on mutual regard among users and proproductive collaboration? Mokeji (talk) 22:55, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
In some cases yes, however in this case the article was so blatantly promotional that it had no place on Wikipedia, as well being a copyright violation which is also justification for instant deletion. If you want to try again, please do so in your userspace, use WP:AFC and bear in mind WP:NEUTRAL, WP:NOTABILITY and WP:REFERENCES--Jac16888 Talk 23:01, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
The article was actually not finished, and the event is similar to the Woodstock music festival (available on Wikipedia). Can you help and be more specific as to what needs to be properly done to present a more acceptable article for this event on Wikipedia? Thank you. Mokeji (talk) 10:43, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
I read this under Wikipedia's NPOV policy - "As a general rule, do not remove sourced information from the encyclopedia solely on the grounds that it seems biased. Instead, try to rewrite the passage or section to achieve a more neutral tone. Biased information can usually be balanced with material cited to other sources to produce a more neutral perspective, so such problems should be fixed when possible through the normal editing process. Remove material only where you have a good reason to believe it misinforms or misleads readers in ways that cannot be addressed by rewriting the passage. The sections below offer specific guidance on common problems." So should this deleted article not have been treated as such? Mokeji (talk) 11:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
You missed the key word in that policy "sourced". Your content was not sourced, therefore it was of no value, and the above does not apply. In addition you are missing the much bigger issue in that the content was copyright protected, therefore keeping it would be breaking the law. Let me be clear, I will not be restoring your article. As I have already said, you are free to write a new one, in your own words, a neutral tone and sources--Jac16888 Talk 12:49, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Alright, thank you. I am not requesting for a restoration of the article. I am new here and the deletion raised some concerns for me. My enquiries are for more clarity. Please can you give any specific helpful pointers on what makes for a neutral tone to avoid any article I write again being interpreted as not being so? Mokeji (talk) 13:26, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Have a read of WP:NEUTRAL and WP:FIRST. The general idea is you can't write about how great and awesome the subject is, just clear facts and as many references as possible to back them up--Jac16888 Talk 15:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Page Deletion

Hello Why did you delete my article (The Experience Gospel Concert) without at least sending me a message to alert me to what was wrong with the content? Maybe I could have corrected what was wrong. Mokeji (talk) 21:49, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Please see the above section--Jac16888 Talk 21:55, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Paul Fitzgerald, S.J.

Not sure why this page was deleted. He is the new president of the University of San Francisco. His previous assignment was at Fairfield University, where his bio also appeared on its web site. It does not belong to Fairfield University, it belongs to him. We are his staff. Our student worker spent a couple of hours creating this page and now it is deleted. Please provide an explanation.````tippycanoeandtylertoo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tippycanoeandtylertoo (talk • contribs) 01:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:COPYVIO, the website the article was copied from is copyrighted, therefore we could not keep this article--Jac16888 Talk 09:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Dr Mabroor Bhatty

You have deleted the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Mabroor_Bhatty due to copyright infringement from the website, but I am a colleague of Mr Bhatty and therefore have full permission to use the copy as I in fact wrote it to begin with. How can I get the page back online? Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShazanIQ (talk • contribs) 17:26, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Well that content would have to be legally released, meaning anybody in the world could use it, are you sure you would want that? If so please submit a request to the WP:OTRS system--Jac16888 Talk 17:38, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

  • Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
    Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
  • Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
    Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
  • Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
    The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
  • WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
    This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...

My Deleted Page

hi today i crated the Page of Our Organisation "Erbil International Film Festival", but during the edit and complete the content i see the page is deleted. Please check again and mention why delete this page. our Film Festival is new International Film Festival since 2014 and happened continuously every year. and now we prepare the organisation to start the 2015 of our event. you can see all of text and data from the our official website: http://wwww.erbilfilmfestival.org Please restore the page for complete the Data

Regards Manoochehr Totonchi 2nd Festival (2015) Director of Public Relation Erbil International Film Festival — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mobtaker61 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

There are several issues here. The first is that, as you say, you have used the data from your website, your website which clearly states is copyrighted. Therefore we cannot use that content unless it is released to an open licence (meaning anybody in the world can use it). Even if you were to release the content, we still wouldn't want it, as the content you added was blatantly promotional, we need our articles to be neutral, and since you are writing with a clear conflict of interest it is unlikely you would be able to do so. Finally, your article showed little notability, particularly through the use of reliable 3rd party references. If you want to try again, please create the article in your userspace (at User:Mobtaker61/Erbil International Film Festival), in your own neutral, sourced words, then use the WP:AFC to submit it for approval, I will not be restoring the article as it stood.--Jac16888 Talk 22:49, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Fiya on da track

i own the right to that article. what do i need to show to verify i own the website and all content on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmbrown20 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

You could use WP:OTRS to release the content, although to do so would mean releasing it to the whole world. There is also the issue that even without the copyright the article would be deleted at it does not demonstrate notability, through the use of reliable 3rd party references--Jac16888 Talk 16:51, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Jsem Moravan

Hi, why you deleted lyrics of Jsem Moravan, I am aware of some mistakes in english grammar but it was accurately translated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThecentreCZ (talk • contribs) 17:41, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Louise Cook

Hi, I am not sure why the page was deleted. I own the copyright for cutecookie.co.uk? — Preceding unsigned comment added by StefanDavis37 (talk • contribs) 20:22, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

You would need to release that content through WP:OTRS, making it free (for the whole world to use by the way). Even if you did that the page would still get deleted as it was blatantly promotional--Jac16888 Talk 20:26, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Dr Mabroor Bhatty OTRS release

Hi Jac16888. OTRS has received permission from the copyright holder to use the content at mabroorbhatty.com/ (external link). It appears that you delete the article listed above as a copyright violation of mabroorbhatty.com. While I am on the fence regarding this subject's notability, if you feel the article meets our biography standards please undelete the article. Thank you, Tiptoety talk 21:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Meh, looks borderline to me, can't really bring myself to restore it--Jac16888 Talk 21:52, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

  • WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
    As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
  • Featured content: Which is not like the others?
    Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

reason for deleting page "helena ma"??

reason for deleting page "helena ma"??
please see "Cookies (group)" and republish article for "Helena Ma" Ai helena (talk) 09:08, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Reason for deleting "Helena Ma"???

Please look over article "cookies (group)" and republish article "Helena Ma" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ai helena (talk • contribs) 09:10, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTE--Jac16888 Talk 18:36, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Go Nawaz Go

Hello,

You created a page 'Go Nawaz Go'. Why they deleted it? Lets create it as a movement....

Please Reply... Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by RanaAnees (talk • contribs) 11:33, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

marathon electric motors

Hello,

Just for the reference of the word " marathon electric motors" i created this page. I guess you should not have any issue in this. as marathon brand if regal beloit corp.

Thanks Ravish — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ravish03 (talk • contribs) 13:03, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

I don't understand what you're asking, but I deleted your page because it was blatantly promotional and a copyright violation--Jac16888 Talk 13:07, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Canadian Office of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (BCTD) - Advice on how I can avoid this being deleted again.

Hello Jac,

I have been trying to add this wiki page "Canadian Office of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (BCTD)" It says it has been deleted due to unambiguous advertising. I have tried to write it in a style that matches the parent company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_and_Construction_Trades_Department,_AFL%E2%80%93CIO

Could you please give me some advice of how I can avoid it being deleted again?

Thank you, I look forward to your reply.

Dani Valois — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dani Valois (talk • contribs) 14:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) User:Dani Valois: The parent organization is barely notable enough to have an article - the Canadian Office has no chance to exist as a content fork (note: I'm Canadian, so one might think I'd have a different perspective) the panda ɛˢˡ” 15:43, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

DRAFT: Raoul Owens (Copyright)

RE: Raoul Owens (Draft)

Hi Jaci16888.

I recently produced a page on behalf of Raoul Owens which you have for now Deleted. Reason- Copyright infringement from : http://www.raoulowens.com/en-gb/introduction/

I have full approval to use this content because I work for Raoul Owens. Can you please let me know what documentation you need to allow the contents from the above webpage to be included on the Raoul Owens Wikipedia page that I would still like to be published.

Please advise. Thank you

Diid Osman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diid Osman (talk • contribs) 15:55, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

If you wish you can submit a request to WP:OTRS, please note that will mean releasing the content for the whole world to use as they see fit. Please also note that even without the copyright issue the page was very promotional, and unlikely to be accepted as an article--Jac16888 Talk 16:43, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Jack Van Zandt

You deleted my entry for "Jack Van Zandt" because of supposed copyright issues regarding the American Composers Forum webpage. However, I am Jack van Zandt, the owner of the copyright on that information (I created the page myself). Please restore the article. I have sent an email granting permissions as per the notice I received. Thanks, Jack Van Zandt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maryvernon (talk • contribs) 21:25, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

It is up to the OTRS team to confirm you have given permission and restore the article, however without sources to demonstrate notability it is likely to be deleted again, and since you have a clear conflict of interest you should not be writing about yourself here--Jac16888 Talk 21:28, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

OK, I see the error of my ways. I was misinformed re COI policy. Please delete and disregard my request for reinstatement. Jack Van Zandt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maryvernon (talk • contribs) 21:54, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

  • Featured content: Oil paintings galore
    Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
  • In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
    The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
  • Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
    This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.
  • WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
    A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
  • Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
    Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.

Continuously deleting page due to Copyright

Hi Jac, I have tried to make a Wikipedia page twice now for my boss, the President of USF, Paul Fitzgerald, S.J. The page has been deleted twice for copyright infringement. The page we linked to and that was claiming to be copyright infringement comes from Fairfield University, where Fr. Fitzgerald used to work. I have emailed Fairfield University and this is a direct quote from the email we received: All the content that has been uploaded on Fr. Fitzgerald’s behalf has been cleared with the publisher and we have their permission to include that full text content. In an attempt to alleviate the copyright concerns that Wikipedia appears to have, I have edited each of the entries to include a copyright statement that includes the statement, “Archived here with permission from the copyright holder.”

How can I get this page back up or at least prevent it from being deleted again? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmmcgovern (talk • contribs) 23:42, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

First of all, you should not be writing about your boss at all, since you have a clear conflict of interest. Your say so is not enough to clear copyright, the content needs to be legally released (to the whole world, not just Wikipedia) using our WP:OTRS system.--Jac16888 Talk 16:28, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Thomas Jakl

Okay that is odd-I don't know how I put a prod on that article that apparently did have refs unless if someone vandalized it before hand. I don't know what to say! Wgolf (talk) 17:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Apparently the talk page of the creator of Saugata Mitra redirects to Thomas Jakl which apparently messes us Twinkle. No idea why the redirect was there, but I've removed it--Jac16888 Talk 17:46, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
  • -Thanks-might want to look into that and maybe stop the page from being redirected to the userspace. When I saw that I was going "I don't even remember putting that there" Wgolf (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

  • Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
    This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.
  • WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
    This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
  • Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
    Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
  • Featured content: Brothers at War
    As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.

plato article: name

I fail to see why you abolished my changes to this part of the Plato article.

What I put in nuanced the discussion a bit without going beyond established knowns.

Tdw1203 (talk) 00:29, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Looking at it again, I can see why you made the change, however it is not an especially clear addition, and particularly you should not be signing articles--Jac16888 Talk 16:49, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Should keep or deleter the page Dao's theorem

Dear Mister Jac16888,

What do you think about Dao's theorem, should keep or delete the pages? please let me know about your idea at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dao%27s_theorem

Thank to You very much.

Best regards Sincerely --Eightcirclestheorem (talk) 09:39, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the help with Ivar Aasen

Thank you for the help confirming it was done (removing the template and section). I didn't know if I could or an administrator has to. --Kanashimi Hyoketsu 16:23, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for your work on it, and you're free to remove it if you want to--Jac16888 Talk 16:24, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

  • Traffic report: Panic and denial
    The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.

deleted page Age of Warriors

Hi Jac16888, could you let me know what does it mean "No explanation of significance (real person/animal/organization/web content/organized event". Age of Warriors is a iOS GAME, and it's notable. Because it's featured on the iTunes Home Page.Should I write some relevant staffs first, such as Funcell123 and GamEver? Any reply will be highly appreciated. Best regards lqrqw — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lqrqw (talk • contribs) 02:55, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

rv your template edit on General Theological Seminary

Hi Jac16888, I reverted your recent edit in General Theological Seminary removing a template param. The removed part is a valid template param, and was correctly formated. If the removal was a valid edit, please explain. Usage details at {{Failed verification}}; thanks! Mathglot (talk) 10:12, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello! I went through and added the suggested text to poetics.com.The website and its contents belong to Darick J. Simpson. He is also the person that contributed to the contents of my last page on him. Please let me know if there's anything else you need me to do or need me to add to his website in order to meet Wikipedia's specifications. Please find the suggested text that was added to poetics.com The text of this website is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Thank you for your assistance. (Lorenalexis (talk) 03:44, 12 October 2014 (UTC))

Page Deletion

Why was the wiki for Forrest Getemgump deleted. I have the rights to use any content on Forrestgetemgump.com because I am him and that is my website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calhounrecordshop (talk • contribs) 21:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Firstly, your say so is not enough to release the content, it needs to be done through WP:OTRS, where you release the content to the world, not just Wikipedia. Secondly, even if you do release the content I would still delete it, as it was blatant promotion. Please see WP:COI, you should not be using Wikipedia to promote yourself--Jac16888 Talk 21:38, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

  • Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
    The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.
  • Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
    We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.
  • WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
    Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.

Atrenta

Hi Jack, I have been adding an article on Atrenta. Atrenta is an important player in the EDA industry. See the list of companies here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EDA_companies - most of these companies have a page on wikipedia. I therefore request that you do not delete the page on Atrenta since many users are looking for this company for the value it adds to the EDA ecosystem. It is NOT an advertising. Atrenta and its product SpyGlass have already been mentioned on some of the pages as below.

Thanks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EDA_companies http://iitk.ac.in/dora/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=245:ajoy-kumar-bose&catid=238&Itemid=401 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpuri1 (talk • contribs) 11:21, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

The content you are attempting to add is blatant promotion and we do not allow that on Wikipedia. If you are not able to write about the company in a neutral and unbiased way, it will continue to be deleted--Jac16888 Talk 15:39, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

O Amor e a Sociedade

Do not redirect pages to themselves, it is not constructive. If the article is crap - and I agree it fits that description in my book, but I tend to be a harsher critic than most - nominate it for deletion. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

I have no idea how that happened, I intended to restore the previous redirect to Clodomir Santos de Morais, the author, would you mind that?--Jac16888 Talk 18:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
No objection. I have no strong feelings but it's been in disarray too long to stay that way for much longer. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:27, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Atrenta

hi, let us add atrenta to the eda list..atrenta is one of the large players in the eda world! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.176.78.103 (talk) 17:33, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

No, for the same reason I already told you above. Please see WP:PROMO, Wikipedia is not the place for you to promote your company--Jac16888 Talk 18:32, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Mario Maiolo, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Italian People's Party. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:59, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 October 2014

  • Featured content: Go West, young man
    By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article
  • Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
    Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload
  • Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
    Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.
  • Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
    In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.

Patty Ann Peterson

Good morning I received a note from you asking not to use Wikipedia as a means of promotion. Please rest assured, that is not my intent at all.

I am trying to create a page that documents Patty Peterson, radio broadcaster and singer. She is different than the Patty Peterson actress. Any suggestions I would be grateful.

Thank you Carrie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icarrem (talk • contribs) 17:26, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:PROMO, the content you were attempting to add was blatant advertising, clearly written with the purpose of promoting the subject. If you are not able to write about this subject in a neutral and unbiased manner, you will not be allowed to do so at all.--Jac16888 Talk 18:08, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

  • In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories
    "Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
  • Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
    "It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

Stuart Styron

Hello Sir,

you asked me why I`m deleting all the links....- All Links were not right, they all were not correct. Most of them also broken with old informations. I`m just doing all in a new form. I need almost 3-4 Hours and than I`ll be done and the page is fixed with the newest update.

So please let me go on with all. When I saw the page I had a shock. What happened with that all? I had never problems with the page. It looks like they wants to delete it. That would be very bad and I never let them do that. Thats not okay, when your page is going to be deledet after 18 Months. I have lots of people around me and they also liked the wikipedia Page on Facebook! There are almost about 140000 Fans on. If someone delete the page, I will lost all of them. So, let me know, if I can go n with the update, Sir.

Best Regards - (talk --Fasterthanyou123 (talk) 02:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

If you're going to delete a lot of content from a page like that, it is important that you use an edit summary to explain it, other wise it looks like vandalism. I also get the feeling I need to point out WP:COI, and mention that you do not own this page, if the community decides it does not meet our standards it will be deleted.--Jac16888 Talk 14:19, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Harris Isbell

When I searched for Harris Isbell and found that there wasn't a page, I decided I wanted to create one. It would primarily be an objective page focussed on a review of his research (I have a PhD in a related area, and have read and cited his articles before). However, I see you deleted a page, so I wanted to check on why that was. (BTW, this is my first interaction with Wikipedia other than as a user).

Finney1234 (talk) 15:58, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I can't find any record of that page, what was it created under?--Jac16888 Talk 17:49, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

This is the link that made me ask on your page. I see now that the deletion has something to do with an bad redirect, rather than content, so I guess I should go ahead and create and submit an initial page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harris_S._Isbell&action=edit&redlink=1

Finney1234 (talk) 21:10, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I see. It was moved into the userspace (See User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Harris S. Isbell) for another editor to work on as it was not ready to be an article. I recommend you talk to User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) to see if he is still working on it and how you can help make it into an article--Jac16888 Talk 22:34, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Feel free to use the "move" function to migrate it into Wikipedia space, it was never deleted from mainspace, just a redirect was. I started the biography after coming across the name while researching another scientist. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:06, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Restoring deleted page

Hello Jac,

I am not even sure if this is the right way to contact you. Please excuse me if I am not doing it right.

According to this page below, it seems you are the Wikipedia administrator that marked this page as deleted.

I am not sure what went wrong, so I would appreciate your help to undelete the page if possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PHPClasses_repository&action=edit&redlink=1

This page is about the PHP Classes repository site, one of the largest PHP community sites with about 1.3 million registered users, growing at over 200 new registered users a day, near 4000 contributors that have sent over 8000 PHP programming components. There a few more statistics in this page:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/statistics/statistics.html

This site is the only site that organizes a world wide contest for innovative PHP programming components. Since 2004 we organize this award that distinguished over 1100 innovative PHP components and their authors

http://www.phpclasses.org/winners/

http://www.phpclasses.org/award/innovation/

I am not sure what to do to restore the page. I had the problem of the page being deleted in the past and it was restored but I am afraid I did not understand what exactly was necessary to keep the page. This was was there before.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130706173318/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHPClasses_repository

I am not as experienced as yourself in editing proper Wikipedia pages. So I would appreciate if you could give me some guidance as I am sure this is a very relevant site for the PHP developers that have been using it since 1999 when it was created.

Thank you in advance for your time and patience.

Mlemos (talk) 01:53, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

The page was deleted due to the fact it did not demonstrate the "notability" of the subject. I've no doubt the page is important to you and many others but the same could be send for thousands if not millions of other websites that are only important to the people who use them. To demonstrate notability you need to have reliable, 3rd party references which discuss the subject, so for example you mention multiple facts you feel make the site notable, if you had news articles or something similar discussing that, then perhaps an article could stand. Take a look at the articles for some other websites for an idea of what I mean.--Jac16888 Talk 21:23, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I think I see what you mean. I agree it is a fair principle. I am sure there are external references that can be mentioned to justify notability, like for instance the following page in the Gamification base site. What do you think? Is this suitable? If so, what shall I do next? Is it possible to recover the deleted page so I can update it with more up to date references and notable facts?

http://www.gamification.co/gbase-entry/php-programming-innovation-awards/

Mlemos (talk) 01:40, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure if that link would constitute a reliable source or not to be honest. I have restored the page to your userspace, User:Mlemos/PHPClasses repository where you can work on it, then I recommend you submit it to our WP:AFC system where it can be reviewed and you can be advised on how to improve it--Jac16888 Talk 21:59, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

FinLit

Dear Jac16888,

I would like to understand the editing criteria. In the List of social networking websites there are too many websites that has a very weak wikipage, similar to the one that I created for Finlit. So I would like to learn more about your decision to delete a page that is very similar if not the same as other pages that I visited from that list.

Here are some of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANobii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FledgeWing

Let me know.

Thanks and regards, Gabe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Belforti (talk • contribs) 19:59, 15 November 2014

Both of those articles have multiple 3rd party references to demonstrate notability which yours did not, but even if they didn't that would not be a reason to allow yours to stay--Jac16888 Talk 20:04, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

  • In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
    "Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."
  • Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
    This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).
  • WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
    We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.

Copyvio

Hi! As a courtesy, I wanted to let you know that I've contradicted you somewhat by rewriting the stubs at Moxlie Creek and Indian Creek (Olympia) during the process of reviewing articles at WP:SCV. Both articles were copied nearly verbatim (especially the latter) from http://olympiawa.gov/city-utilities/storm-and-surface-water/streams-and-shorelines. I see Olympia Woodland Trail is in much the same condition. I mention this only because you removed the CSBot notices. Cheers, Basie (talk) 20:50, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

My understanding (hopefully correct) is that as the source is a US gov website, the content is free to use unless specifically stated otherwise, although there is nothing wrong with rewriting the content--Jac16888 Talk 20:59, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Aha! That would make it much easier. I'll enquire. Cheers, Basie (talk) 21:02, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Public domain#U.S. government works--Jac16888 Talk 21:04, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, the trouble is the distinction between state and federal government:
"U.S. Government Works
In the U.S., any work created by a federal government employee or officer is in the public domain, provided that the work was created in that person’s official capacity. ... Keep in mind that this rule applies only to works created by federal employees and not to works created by state or local government employees. However, state and local laws and court decisions are in the public domain."
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/#4. Pinging Moonriddengirl as I'm still very new to SCV and I'm sure she's forgotten more than I'll ever know about US copyrights! Cheers, Basie (talk) 21:19, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that Moonriddengirl has been under some time pressures, but has replied. Essentially, although the issue was a bit murky, she feels the correct approach is to respect the "all rights reserved" statement. Cheers, Basie (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Open Broadcaster Software

Hello Jac16888,

Last year you flagged the article on Open Broadcaster Software for deletion and ended up moving it to the creator's talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Voxletum/Open_Broadcaster_Software At the time the software was relatively new and unknown so that was fine, but it has continued to grow and gain popularity since then, and I believe at this point is is noteworthy enough to be reinstated as an article. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is commonly used to stream on Twitch, a website which is the 4th largest source of internet traffic in the US as of earlier this year.[1] If you visit Twitch's help section http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/topics/358640-broadcast-hardware-and-software/articles they have various articles (presumably sorted in order of popularity/importance) and the article on OBS in the 3rd one listed. If one of the largest websites in the US acknowledges OBS as a standard streaming application I feel that that is sufficient evidence of it's noteworthiness. Additionally, the official OBS twitter account has 22k followers. https://twitter.com/OBSProject

In light of that, do you think this article could be reinstated? I'm still a relatively new editor, so I don't know what the exact criteria for something to be noteworthy is, so if you feel additional evidence is needed I would be happy to go hunt for more evidence until you are satisfied that this program is noteworthy enough to have its own article.

Thanks! CurlyWi (talk) 02:54, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

  1. ^ "Wall Street Journal chart lists Twitch.tv fourth in U.S. peak traffic". Wall Street Journal via on Gamers. 5 Feb 2014. Retrieved 10 Feb 2014.

I'm sorry but neither of those are a sufficient reference to establish notability. However you're free to move it to your own userspace/work on it where it is, and then I suggest you use the WP:AFC system for review--Jac16888 Talk 18:03, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Cantemus is first of all a latin word

Hi, I wonder what people expect when they find an article on "Cantemus". Well, those that are friends of an association with that name, will be glad to see their association here. But all the others expect maybe a more general approach. Maybe starting with an explanation of the word itself. Then, my idea was to supply a list over all choirs with that name I could find via google. The current article version covers only one choir with intermediate international relevance, and that is not optimal. An Article about e.g. "Paris" that only covers Paris Hilton and is silent about the capitol of France should be called silly, shouldn't it? Brmf (talk) 05:35, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Firstly please see WP:NOTDIR, Wikipedia is not a directory, we don't list every single instance of a name. However that was not the reason I reverted you. To follow your example, if you actually look up Paris, you see that it is an article about the city, and only the city, we then have other pages about other subjects with the name Paris. We do not have one article called Paris which covers every single piece of information about every single entity named Paris--Jac16888 Talk 18:16, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

The situation with Paris is much easier. The vast majority agrees that the most important meaning of Paris is the capitol of France. When someone picks up "Paris" in a conversation and searches Wikipedia to learn more about it, it is likely he hits the right page at once. When someone picks up "Cantemus" it is likely that the Lihuanian choir is not that he was looking for. That's why I think, the Cantemus-page should be a kind of disambiguation page, and the article about the Lithuanian choir should be renamed to Cantemus(Vilnius) or Cantemus(Lithuania). I can agree if we list only the, say, 5 bigger choirs in the disambiguation page, and I write an article about Cantemus(Stockholm). Could this be okay with you? Brmf (talk) 00:40, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

  • In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
    Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".
  • WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
    It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.
  • Traffic report: Big in Japan
    Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

translate

What's up with this? – JBarta (talk) 21:43, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Someone added a big block of untranslated text, standard procedure is to restore the article back to its translated self--Jac16888 Talk 22:22, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Then why do we have translate tags? And where is this standard procedure documented? – JBarta (talk) 23:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
For that purpose, and for somebody at WP:PNT to see and deal with it as quickly as possible, sometimes that means translation and sometimes it is removal--Jac16888 Talk 23:36, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
At this point your choice to remove it seems arbitrary to me. Help me to understand. In what circumstance is text in an article translated and in what circumstance is it simply removed? If you can point to guidelines covering this and from which you made your choice, it would be appreciated. – JBarta (talk) 23:43, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
The purpose of PNT is to clear untranslated content as quickly and efficiently as possible, this content is problematic and PNT is not a translation service. Non-english content occurs in two ways. In the case of an entire new article it is either translated, deleted, or turned into a stub. In the case of content being added to an existing article, most of the time it is removed, particularly in cases such as this where the content has sat like that for 6 months. Wikpedia has a procedure for adding translated content (WP:TRANSLATION) using the Expand Language tags--Jac16888 Talk 00:18, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm still unclear (why I'm having a hard time understanding this I don't know). The closest I can come to an understanding of your actions and WP:Translation is that Wikipedia only wants to translate material that already exists on another language wiki. If someone contributes a block of non-English text directly into an article (either from some other location or their own prose) you would just prefer to delete it. If that's the case I'm not sure I entirely agree, but so be it. – JBarta (talk) 16:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
That is almost the case. PNT is not a translation system, like AIV/RFPP/UFAA/etc it exists to solve a specific problem in the most efficient and appropriate way possible. It that is to remove the content, that is what we do, the content is still in the history if an interested editor wishes to translate it, but it does not benefit the project to remain visible--Jac16888 Talk 17:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
You say that leaving foreign text in the article does the project no good. I would argue that removing it does even less good. You say the foreign text is still in the history, but for all practical purposes that doesn't matter because it's unlikely to be noticed there. If however it remains visible and a "Needs Translation" tag is put on it, especially if that tag is listed with other articles with such tags in some central location, then it stands a reasonable chance of not only being noticed, but actually getting translated at some point and becoming part of the article. Of course you might fall back on "I don't make guidelines, I just follow them", but being a person familiar with translation topics in Wikipedia, if you're ever in a discussion concerning those guidelines, maybe you'll consider forwarding these points I've made. – JBarta (talk) 18:40, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

Archive 15←Archive 20Archive 21Archive 22Archive 23Archive 24Archive 25
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jac16888/Archive_22&oldid=1136177861"