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Hello. You moved TBO (company) to draft in February, and blocked its creator, on the reasonable grounds of likely covert advertising and the. There appears to have been some sockpuppetry at the draft, and now a new account has copied and pasted it back to main space as TBO Ltd, which I've moved to the correct title. Should I open an SPI? Thanks, Wikishovel (talk) 14:52, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The creator has been blocked as a spammer and the draft deleted under G11. That's good enough for me. MER-C14:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Salisbury Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. Built in early English Gothic style, it was constructed between 1220 and 1258. This photograph, taken in 2014, shows the interior of the cathedral, looking eastwards towards the high altar through the tall and narrow nave. It has three levels: a tall pointed arcade, an open gallery, and a small clerestory. In the foreground is an unconventional modern baptismal font, installed in September 2008. Designed by the water sculptor William Pye, it is the largest working font in any British cathedral. The font is cruciform in shape, and has a 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) vessel filled to its brim with water, designed so that the water overflows in filaments through each corner into bronze gratings embedded in the cathedral's stone floor.
Merci MER-C. Ever so helpful. I will file it under Bodiadub based on your hunch and ping you in case you have anything to add. It will likely be a day or so. Pinging @Bishonen: given her query to Adrian Chumachen so she is aware. S0091 (talk) 18:34, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi MER-C. While patrolling, I came across what I think is a UPE, has written a series of connected articles in quick succession. They were their first creations on WP and are: high quality construction/editing (full referencing etc), commercial/promo focused, and with photo/images attached, which for me is a strong indication of UPE for a new editor. They also reverted the UPE (and COI) tags from the articles.
Hi MER-C. Would you mind taking a look at Pentathlon (film) once again? You removed most of the plot summary back in May with this edit, but an IP just showed up and seems to have re-added most of what you removed. I could revert the IP but I'm not sure whether the old diffs need to be rev deleted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:27, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Another IP has showed up to bascially re-add all of the cruft. I'm not sure what the IP's motivation here is since it seems to be rather odd thing to edit war over. Do you think this kind of thing warrants WP:SILVER? -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:55, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your prompt action. I found another one, which was edited in the past, in 2018. However, the username and infobox matched with the blocked one. The username is @User:Angshuman12. Kindly check. Saurabh{Talk}18:53, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
He has many other accounts as well. Another one is user @User:Vrisle. After using the Interaction Timeline tool, I found many similarities between them. For example, @User:Vrisle created the user page for @User:Angshuman12. Both accounts were also used to edit the article titled "Mangaldai." see here, I would like to request verification of this. Saurabh{Talk}19:52, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser in Egypt. Until the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, the temple complex was located on Philae Island, near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. These rapids and the surrounding area have been variously flooded since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project, protecting this and other complexes before the 1970 completion of the Aswan High Dam. This 2022 photograph shows the temple of Isis from the Philae temple complex in its present location on Agilkia Island.
A juniper berry is the female seed cone produced by various species of junipers. It is used as a flavoring agent in northern European and Scandinavian cuisine for meat dishes. Juniper is used to flavor gin, a liquor developed in the 17th century in the Netherlands. Juniper berries are among the only spices derived from conifers, along with spruce buds. This photograph shows foliage and cones of Juniperus communis, the common juniper, in Keila, Estonia. This picture was focus-stacked from 55 separate images.
Hi, last year you protected many articles from block evasion from Dante8. Unfortunately this user has bypassed all the extended locks and has been editing all of those articles since April 2024 on a new account. I have filed an SPI you may be interested in here. I am not sure what further can be done because all of the articles you protected, they are just editing again. For some reason no admin is checking for WP:EVADE behaviour on those articles and they have sneaked through until now. They have managed to acquire over 5000 edits. Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:36, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did a bit of cleanup and listed them at CCI. I don't know what else can be done to stop them and other serial copyright violator sockpuppeteers. MER-C14:56, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 metres (36 feet) tall, in the estate of Villa Demidoff (originally Villa di Pratolino) in Vaglia in Tuscany, Italy. A personification of the Apennine Mountains, the colossal figure was created by Giambologna, a Flemish-born Italian sculptor, in the late 1580s. The statue has the appearance of an elderly man crouched at the shore of a lake, squeezing the head of a sea monster through whose open mouth water originally emanated into the pond in front of the statue. The colossus is depicted naked, with stalactites in the thick beard and long hair to show the metamorphosis of man and mountain, blending his body with the surrounding nature. It is made of stone and plaster and the interior houses a series of chambers and caves on three levels. Initially, the back of the statue was protected by a structure resembling a cave, which was demolished around 1690 by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini, who built a statue of a dragon to adorn the back of the colossus. The Italian sculptor Rinaldo Barbetti renovated the statue in 1876.
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Hello. You G5'd this article in October, and it's been recreated by an account with an edit history that fits the bill. Which account previously created it please? Should I file an SPI? Thanks. Wikishovel (talk) 13:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Leucojum vernum, commonly called the spring snowflake, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to central and southern Europe from Belgium to Ukraine. L. vernum is cultivated as an ornamental plant for its white flowers in spring. The plant multiplies in favourable conditions to form clumps. Each plant bears a single white flower with greenish marks near the tip of the tepal, on a stem about 10 to 20 centimetres (3.9 to 7.9 inches) tall, occasionally more. The Latin specific epithetvernum means 'relating to spring'; its close relative, L. aestivum, blooms in summer. This photograph of a L. vernum flower, taken in Bamberg, Germany, was focus-stacked from 32 separate images.
Voss is the seventeenth collection by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, made for the Spring/Summer 2001 season of his eponymous fashion house.
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