Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 03:44, 21 November 2014

Archives

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

This page has archives. Sections older than 7 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 7 sections are present.

Hey. Welcome to my talk page. It's a place where you can leave me messages. Please do not leave templates unless it is absolutely necessary. See also the essay WP:TEMPLAR. I am a lady, so please do use female pronouns, but I won't fault you for not doing so accidentally. (I can be a bit masculine sometimes!) But anywho, don't hesitate to give me some critiques, invoke some discussion, or anything like it! Thanks.

second Afd for Shabbos App

Nomination of Shabbos App for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shabbos App is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Shabbos App (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Joseph W Walker changes

I work for Joseph Walker and was told to make some additions and amend a few items. The first he informed me of was that date change. My source is Mr Walker himself but I will make citation of my sources when I make the changes. If he informs me that the date was in fact correct I will change it back.

Please comment on Talk:Vietnam War

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Vietnam War. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:11, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Gamergate Arbcom

Please note the instruction for your statement in the Gamergate request for a case:

Without exception, statements (including responses to other statements) must be shorter than 500 words.

Your statement is at 654 words, so is over the limit. I realize it isn't far over, but several statements are over, and I am contacting anyone who is over 500. Please recall that this statement is not intended to be a full exposition of all evidence, which occurs at the next step, but simply a statement requesting a case. Please trim back your statement. For the arbitration committee --S Philbrick(Talk) 20:02, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Understood, thanks. I will be chopping it up and the like to reach under 500 words. I've been stressed and busy for the past couple of days, so sorry for that. Tutelary (talk) 23:09, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Cambodian genocide denial

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Cambodian genocide denial. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:09, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:House of Assembly of Jamaica

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:House of Assembly of Jamaica. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:12, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Tutelary. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Misplaced Pages to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

       Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Misplaced Pages talk:In the news

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Misplaced Pages talk:In the news. Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:07, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Link?

Hello Tutelary. I noticed this change you made to Draft:Gamergate controversy with the edit summary Undid revision 634569431 by Aquillion (talk) This was discussed a while back in the archives, this was the result of said compromise. I endorse it and I dissent against your revert of such.

Would you be so kind as to link to the discussion you were referring to as I could not find it in the archives. CIreland (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

A precursory look before I have to leave reveals this: https://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Gamergate_controversy/Archive_12#GG_Branding But I remember there being a bigger more heated discussion about it. I'll look more thoroughly when I get back home. Tutelary (talk) 22:18, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals)

You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals). Should you wish to respond, your contribution to this discussion will be appreciated. For tips, please see Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment § Suggestions for responding. If you wish to change the frequency or topics of these notices, or do not wish to receive them any longer, please adjust your entries at WP:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:15, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:General_sanctions/Gamergate/Requests_for_enforcement

You are invited to join the discussion at Misplaced Pages:General_sanctions/Gamergate/Requests_for_enforcement. about tarc edit war Thanks. Retartist (talk) 03:44, 21 November 2014 (UTC)Template:Z48