User talk:SpacemanSpiff/Archives/2012/March

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The Signpost: 05 March 2012

• News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history

• In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing

• Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion

• WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

• Featured content: Best of the week

• Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open

• Technology report: With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 16:59, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Kongu Vellalar stuff, again

Could you apply your experience of Pondheepankar contributions to those of Aswinjerry at Kongu Vellalar please. - Sitush (talk) 21:10, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest

Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.

As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.

If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.

You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.

ssriram_mt (talk) & AshLin (talk) (Drive coordinators)

Delivered per request on Wikipedia:Bot requests. The Helpful Bot 01:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Kahaani

Want to take a look at Kahaani? I suspect this article will grow quite a bit and it could use some editing - I am still technically "on break" but I come by every once and awhile. Looks like a good film article to get people working on. -Classicfilms (talk) 23:49, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 March 2012

• Interview: Liaising with the Education Program

• Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

• Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators

• News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

• In the news: Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar

• Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History

• Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman

• Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case

• Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education

• Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 12:42, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2012

• News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

• Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again

• WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas

• Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!

• Arbitration report: Race and intelligence 'review' opened, Article titles at voting

• Technology report: Bugmeister to leave at end of May, but developers keen to "chart" a path ahead

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 14:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 March 2012

• News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music

• Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week

• Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed

• Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature

• Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.

• Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 01:05, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Core promoter

I was surprised to find that Wikipedia has no article on core promoters, a very important genetics topic, and noticed that the article had been deleted by you. The deletion log says:

2011-09-10T 20:53:34 SpacemanSpiff deleted page Core promoter (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement: Unattributed copy-paste from multiple articles, see ANI thread on Marshallsumter)

I absolutely agree that we cannot tolerate massive copyright infringement and that, if the accusation is correct, the deletion was perfectly justified. However, I found a copy of the article on a Wikipedia mirror site, and I noticed that it was quite extensive and well-written, cited many sources and linked to various other articles. I think Wikipedia should have an article on this very important topic, so I am going to rewrite it (without infringing, copyright, naturally).
Do you think something can be salvaged from the old article for this purpose? Was really every part of it a copyright infringement, or were the some paragraphs that might still be used? Also, do you know if the Wiki markup text of the article can still be accessed you I could at least copy the citation templates? This would save me a lot of work. Thanks. --Shinryuu (talk) 19:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)