User talk:Wikipelli/Archive 10
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Vandals on this page are making me crazy. I can't keep up, there's too many of them FrostedΔ14 14:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Page Triage newsletterHey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :). The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs. I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 06 August 2012
User:67.174.73.7Earlier this month, you left final warning on this user's userpage as a consequence of vandalism. The vandalism has since continued, see Eucharist and Church of God (Holiness) for major blanking. I have not checked all the small edits but several consist of changing a word, at times in a link, which completely alters the sense while appearing to be a copy edit. Could you please take the necessary action? Thanks for all you do to keep Wikipedia clean! Jpacobb (talk) 15:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
New Pages newsletterHey all :) A couple of new things. First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p. On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:58, 10 August 2012 (UTC) Mata AmritanandamayiHello. I hope this finds you well. You helped remove some vandalism on the Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) page about a year ago, and we had a brief exchange after that. You mentioned coming to you if I needed help. My understanding of Wiki is limited, at best. I mainly try to make sure that Amma's page remain clean and tidy and adhere's to basic BLP guidelines. Unfortunately some people are trying to post various topics in the Controversy section that seem inappropriate to me. I have removed two that I feel are inappropriate, but expect they will be back soon. Amma's organization is an internationally respected, UN-member charitable organization. One wiki person is trying to put as a controversy something about a request for financial inquiry. Apparently this appeared as an editorial in a magazine by a writer. It seems to me that this is A) not a valid reference source and B) inappropriate because it would be a crime, no one has ever legally charged Amma or her ahsram with this. The other one I just deleted is due to a recent incident, wherein someone attacked Amma and was arrested. The person then died in prison due to beating. I also dont see how this has any connection with Amma. If you could help watch the page, and perhaps remove anything from the controvery section that seems in appropriate to you, I would appreciate it. LanceMurdock999 10:39, 8 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanceMurdock999 (talk • contribs) In fact, within two minutes, a bunch of IP-only people have put these back in. They really are just trying to attack Amma by posting this stuff. While it is true a person attacked Amma, the beating of that person in prison should not be relevant on Amma's page. Please help me deal with this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanceMurdock999 (talk • contribs) 11:19, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I agree discussions are better, but most of these are made by people with an axe to grind who come on via IP. My doubt is this: Other than the strike, do any of these "controversies" belong on a BLP according to Wiki guidelines? For example, the death of the attacker in prison has no connection with Amma or her organization. It is an issue of controversy for the Kerala Police and Kerala State Mental Hospital. It has been put on Amma's page to vaguely imply that somehow Amma's organization was behind the death in prison. Even the book against Amma is basically a self-published book that accuses Amma/MAM with a bunch of unfounded felonies. In 30 years no one has ever taken these accusations seriously and no one has ever placed charges against Amma/MAM for these. IN BLP guidelines it says: "A person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty and convicted by a court of law. For people who are relatively unknown, editors must give serious consideration to not including material in any article suggesting that the person has committed, or is accused of committing, a crime unless a conviction is secured.[5] If different judicial proceedings result in seemingly contradictory judgments that do not override each other,[6] refrain from using pithy descriptors or absolutes and instead use more explanatory information." Does that apply here? Again, thanks for all your help and suggestions, and I definitely appreciate your willingness to monitor the page. LanceMurdock999 01:22, 9 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanceMurdock999 (talk • contribs) Have you been able to monitor the page? I made what I believe to be some constructive changes, and also left a full explanation of why I believe all of the "controversies" should be removed from the section. Then someone--perhaps overzelous--deleted the entire section. It was immediately put back, including very ridiculous accusations of money fraud cited from an editorial in a small press anti-religious magazine. Were you able to look at my comments in the Talk Section on Amritanandamayi's page? Can you please offer some more guidance? I dont want to get into just a deletion war. LanceMurdock999 05:57, 14 August 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 13 August 2012
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Windows refund controversiesRegarding neutrality and controversies around the Windows refund article (and my last edit) I opened discussion on the corresponding talk page. -- Bahaltener (talk) 20:20, 21 August 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 27 August 2012
Re: UsernameHi, Thank you for your input and feedback. I would like to point out that that my username is in no way promotional as I have never made a change to the actual wiki page for Mount Auburn Cemetery- it purely reflects who I work for. Any other representation of who I am and where I am getting my information from, would in my mind, not be forthcoming. In regards to the username itself, I do not make changes to Wikipedia articles in my personal time and therefor will not make this a "personal" account, nor will I disclose who I am as that provides more information to the public than I am willing to share. I work in the Visitor Services department at the Cemetery, and while this account is not shared by others, it would be professionally inappropriate for me to link this account to one that appears to be "personal" as I am not adding citation on my "personal" time. The purpose of adding the information that I have, was purely to add more data to Wiki articles that lacked or contained inappropriate data that our archives have the ability to provide. If you find this to offend Wikipedia's policies, then so be it. Remove any changes that have been made under this account. Thank you again for your concern, Mount Auburn Cemetery 02:46, 1 September 2012 (UTC)Mount Auburn Cemetery — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mount Auburn Cemetery (talk • contribs) 02:43, 1 September 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 03 September 2012
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9/11.There were survivors. Zero is an unfair and incorrect designation. How many people didn't show up for work that day? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.168.69 (talk) 16:42, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Matthew O'ConnorThe reason why I edited Matthew O'Connor's page was because it was completely fictious with no links to subject. I will try and find links about the Soccer player. Thanks Ray30 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray30 (talk • contribs) 13:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hello...DIRECTED TO: Wikipelli Re Rego School Shanghai Whilst I was editing the article last night, I received a message that someone else was editing it at the same time. What I wrote was changed/deleted. There is a person previously employed by the school who is maliciously circulating rumours and potentially libelous information in the article. You also made a comment about advertising or reference to web sites: I did not include any websites in my changes. I am employed by Rego as their Marketing Manager and authorised by the owners to reflect the current situation. I would like to replace the article so that the information is correct. Please advise. Thanks for your help and often thankless work. Kind regards, Norm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aussie Rover (talk • contribs) 06:38, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Page Curation newsletterHey Wikipelli. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries. Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 24 September 2012
Jim'll Fix ItSorry - my friend started typing some rude stuff. Sorry :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheDataMonster (talk • contribs) 17:50, 1 October 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 01 October 2012
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Page Curation newsletter - closing up!Hey all :). We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before. However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here. Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC) HuntedHi, Here is the link for Hunted. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a432502/melissa-george-talks-hunted-series-two-plans-its-set-in-berlin.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.120.30.51 (talk) 16:55, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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This is not a newsletterAnyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here. In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:30, 10 November 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 12 November 2012
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Changing of pagesHello, I have recently been reading my Talk Page, and saw my messages that I have changed many pages. I don´t recall going on those pages in the past. I have no account, but I use the ip. If you could tell me what I changed that would be great. Its a school computer and its used by 5 people including me. Send a message on my talk page with the things that I changed on that page. Thanks! -Guest — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.219.49.158 (talk) 19:38, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Amir Abbas FakhravarDear Wikipelli you deleted some information from Amir Abbas Fakhravar wikipedia page information which was a mistake. These information was accurate and has many facts and was deleted as vandalism attack before. Can you help me to protect that page? Siavash777 (talk) 16:52, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Ambassador programI was looking at your user page and thought you'd be a good candidate for the Wikipedia:Ambassadors program. You might want to check it out if you don't know it already. -- kosboot (talk) 22:08, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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MessageHello, I refer to your message (14:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC)) stating an update was made, appearing to be by me, to do with the Royal Court Theater. I don't recognize this subject or page and have had messages from other editors before, asking me to rectify changes that I haven't made. Could there be an IP related issue here? I've looked at the updates you refer to and I can confirm that I did not make them. They are not on my contributions page either. Thank you Thedaveformula (talk) 14:23, 20 January 2013 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
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commons categoryI tried browsing to Media related to Association footballs at Wikimedia Commons as well as to Media related to Association football balls at Wikimedia Commons. For me the former link does not lead to a category on commons, whereas the latter link does lead to a category on commons. I hope that explains the edit made to the article. 12.208.10.7 (talk) 20:53, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
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WTF?I was merely correcting a typo at the reference desk by changing 'possiblt' to 'possible' and then went to the 'View History' page to check out my edit, which then prompted me to take a quick look at the IP address's edit history on Wikipedia and its own Talk Page, loaded with criticisms and bannings from earlier edits prior to Summer 2012. My second edit was the semi-deletion of the Talk Page, but apparently, someone found that or the other one 'unconstructive'. Actually, it seems to me that all mass deletions or deletions of whole paragraphs are perceived to be 'unconstructive' or suspect to 'unconstructive edits' on Wikipedia, based on my experience. 140.254.226.197 (talk) 14:47, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
IP address range vandalismHi Wikipelli! I've been seeing you patrolling for vandalism using Huggle. I would like to suggest that you take note of the IP range warnings given by Huggle. Some of your reversions could have been done better, as multiple edits were made by different IP addresses but on the same IP range, meaning they share for example, the first two sets of digits: 111.222.XXX.XXX. This could suggest that the edits were done on shared IPs by the same person. Huggle produces this warning whenever it detects edits over an IP address range as Huggle will only revert edits made on the same IP address, not edits over a range. If you need examples, do feel free to approach me. Happy patrolling! Optakeover(Talk) 14:49, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Light PaintingThank you so much Wikipelli. Of course that was right. I'm a international known light artist with clients like Canon, Mercedes Benz, Diesel, Nike, Coldplay and many more. I was very angry about this edit. Thank you very much for you help. JanLeonardo (talk) 17:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
UPS i did a again. sorry. please help me. sorry, sorry. JanLeonardo (talk) 17:38, 29 January 2013 (UTC) No problem you can post the information wikipelli. please edit and post it again. JanLeonardo (talk) 17:41, 29 January 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 28 January 2013
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IP user 203.153.12.80 - disruptive editingHi, I saw you gave the user of this IP address a very last warning (see User talk:203.153.12.80): was that based on his first attempt (around 1955 GMT) to vandalize the Dell page or his 2nd attempt at 2034, so some 40 minutes later. Based on timestamp it seems for the 2nd attempt - but imho such a dual attempt with 40 minutes between the two edits can't be excused and imho (again) this user should have been blocked already. If the IP address is actually a shared IP address (where the user does indeed vary) it is a good reason for real editors to use an account. Tonkie (talk) 00:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 18 February 2013
Just found this page, which is a redirect to Church Hill Road Covered Bridge. Still need it? If so, of course you don't need to reply; I just thought you might want to have it deleted if you don't care about it anymore. Nyttend (talk) 04:28, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
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SupremeHi there, As for Supreme; no problem; I knew my comment was not the sort of thing that should be on the page itself, but I didn't know how else to draw attention to the page's deficiency. I visited the Supreme page in order to find out which exact years that series was published. This is such basic info that I feel it should definitely be given at the top of the page, but it isn't there, and thus I did not get the (again, very basic) info I was looking for, which prompted me to react. I figured that maybe the author was monitoring the page and I could leave a message about it right there. But you are not the author of the page? The top paragraph of a Wikipedia page always seems to be locked, and I don't know what to do if I felt corrections were needed at that level. - Tue Sorensen, Denmark 82.143.208.65 (talk) 14:41, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
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be2I must begin by giving a thousand apologies for misusing the "wikipedia" system. I have never edited on it before, and only did so because I was absolutely bombarded by their messages (be2) on facebook and email when i went to investigate their claims. Having worked for a psychometric company and many, many psychologists i have some understanding of what those tests (they purport to give) involve. Compounded with that I am now studying Environmental Science and have undertaken several Statistics courses so have a basic understanding of that as well (so know their claims to be bullshit). I apologise for any inappropriate responses on the site. I should definitely have read through things more appropriately to find out the best way to respond. I will definitely not make the same mistake again, and I genuinely have the utmost understanding for the integrity the site wishes to have. I simply got a bit carried away with the preposterous claims the Be2 site maintained to any integrity. I certainly never lost any money to them, only took seconds for me to understand they were a complete shambles, I simply wanted to warn others, albeit not in the best way. Again, I apologise for causing any offence or disrespect to Wikipedia. I definitely would like to post again, but this time I will read the regulations and protocols a little bit more fully and temper my response with good sense rather than indignation. I would be grateful and appreciative of any advice that you could give. Kind regards, Catriona Lamberton — Preceding unsigned comment added by Catriona UTS (talk • contribs) 16:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
ThanksJust wanted to say a quick thanks for the revert to my talk page, much appreciated. Fraggle81 (talk) 03:20, 14 March 2013 (UTC) A cookie for you!
AdminshipHi Wikipelli! I have always been a fan of your new-page-patrol work, and I just noticed that you weren't an admin yet. Would you be interested in running? I see that someone asked you last year, but I hope enough time has passed since then for you to reconsider. :) For what it's worth, I don't think you would have any trouble at all passing RfA, judging from your articles, your anti-vandalism and NPP work, and your calm and helpful interaction style. What do you think? Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ♪ talk ♪ 05:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
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why my website is not usefulplease explain why have u rejected my posting our website is fully relevant as we have created in the message.
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hiyou seem really cool. can i have your email. mine i shadowsneak@aol.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.54.17.249 (talk) 17:54, 8 April 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 08 April 2013
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