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Sock Puppets

Could an admin tell me is these people are actual users or sock puppets?

Seth_Finkelstein Jasonmurphy

They posted keeps on an article I afd and I do not see a talk or a user page for them. They are listed in Search Engine Land articles for deletion as well as Search_engine_marketing

Please advise. I want to make sure Wiki is the best it can be!

Undelete Help

Administrators or other users can determine the editing pattern is sockpuppetry. However, you can perform a checkuser to see if the accounts are the same. Cheers. Miranda 16:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. Remains as a reference only Undelete Help Needed:

Could an admin please help me with the following: I edited an article "Dynamic Submission" its a company with a company stub.

I request this article be undeleted.

According to the wiki rules any article that was deleted because of PROD expiry can be restored by any admin by any restore request (even the author's) I have requested it to be restored and have not heard back yet. Please correct me if I am wrong -- and if I am wrong point me to a reference because I spent an hour reading about this process last night to understand it.

I restored this for you a little while ago. I'm guessing that you didn't see my response as I happened to put it below the line. HTH --After Midnight 00:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Everything below this line has already been resolved,

Thanks!

Done. Remains as a reference only

Upload Snapshots

1. Could you tell me the proper way to upload a snapshot so it can be viewed in an article? or point me to a reference? Its a jpg.

You can upload the Pic via here and if you took that snapshot yourself, then you can tag it as {{pd-self}} and add it to the article...--Cometstyles 17:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

2. I edited an article "Dynamic Software" its a company with a company stub, I added one article "Dynamic Submission" and came back to add more and both articles were deleted. No Admin contacted me prior to the deletion and I do not think the deletion procedure was followed. How do I get my articles undeleted ?

Note: John Reaves restored the Dynamic Submission article but I have not heard a word on the other Dynamic Software article.

According to the rules any article that was deleted because of PROD expiry can be restored by any admin by any restore request (even the author's) I have requested it to be restored and have not heard back yet. Please correct me if I am wrong and if I am wrong point me to a reference because I spent an hour reading about this process last night to understand it.

Thanks.

Al

Prod

Done. Remains as a reference only

Both articles were deleted because of expiry of prod. As for the deletion log, please see here and here. PeaceNT 01:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I restored it. -- John Reaves (talk) 03:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I've put a copy of the other article in User:Akc9000/sandbox. You might want to work on improving it a bit with some references, etc. and then it can be moved back to the main namespace. --After Midnight 21:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Help with a User Box

Wow, a lot of questions!

I'm glad you're interested in getting more involved! Let's see if I can't answer some questions.

1. The boxes on the side of my userpage under the "About Me" heading are called userboxes. You can find all kinds of ones people have created here. The box indicating I'm female is one I made myself, since I get mistaken for a gentleman pretty frequently. If you want to proclaim that you're a dude, you can use the one I'm putting at the bottom of this message. You can change the colors if you want; it's pretty easy, I think.
2. You can upload an image by going to Special:Upload. On that page you'll find links about our policies regarding images, copyright, and fair use.
3. You can suggest changes on the talk page of any article or category. If you're proposing a massive change, however, you may want to list it on Categories for discussion, where editors discuss the merging, renaming, or deleting of categories.
4. Yeah, that sure would be great! Unfortuantely, it's a limitation of the software.

I hope that helps! If you ever have another question, you can put {{helpme}} on your talk page along with your question, and an experienced editor will be by to help you out. Happy editing! -- Merope 23:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

This user is male.

Dynamic Software

Hi. I noticed that you copied the article to Dynamic Software, instead of using the move button as we had discussed. I am assuming that you just forgot, so I've deleted the copy and moved it from your sandbox instead. If you made any subsequent edits, you may need to re-do them. --After Midnight 21:24, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you copied it into the other article, but you should have moved it. Do you see a tab at the top of the screen that says "move"? You need to use that to move an article without losing the edit history in the future. Now it may look like it is in both places, but it really isn't. It is at Dynamic Software, but your sandbox is redirecting to that location, so when you click on the User:Akc9000/sandbox link, it will put you in Dynamic Software with a special note that says (Redirected from User:Akc9000/sandbox) click on the link for User:Akc9000/sandbox in that phrase and you will then see a page that says User:Akc9000/sandbox at the top and has a funny arrow symbol next to a link for Dynamic Software. When you get there, click edit this page at the top and you should see #REDIRECT ]. Just clear that out and you will have a new empty sandbox. HTH --After Midnight 02:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Afd

Please follow the afd instructions properly as you havent done so nor have you logged it. if you dont do so it will be removed but just follow the instructions on this page, SqueakBox 19:16, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

No, its a mess Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 June 7, I am not sure why though, but it hasnt formatted properly, SqueakBox 20:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

New Help Needed:

Not sure why the article I nominated for submission did not format properly on the page. Could an admin please fix this or tell me why it did not format properly.

Why don't we talk about some of these Internet marketing articles before you go AfD them? Jehochman 20:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The AFD is formatted properly. The AFD just shows where the article was nominated previously for deletion and reached no consensus. Next time, please place the helpme before the question so that helpers can read the question quicker. Miranda 20:54, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard

A discussion has started that you may wish to comment on here. Jehochman 06:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Little context in Template:Latest preview release/Dynamic Submission

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Spam in Image:Dynamicsubmission screenshot.gif

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June 2007

Please do not remove maintenance notices from articles, as you did to Server appliance, if the suggested changes are still needed. If you believe that the problems outlined in the maintenance template do not apply to the article, it may be best to discuss the issue on the talk page. Thank you. DearPrudence 22:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

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Server Appliance category

Hi Rich, yes I know it should be Server appliance but I have no idea how to rename it so I built a redirect for it. There are already 11 articles in it. I have been fixing things. Any ideas? I see you are an admin can you rename it? It does not work for me.

--Akc9000 07:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. You have to create a new cat and move the items, then delete the old one. WP:AWB helps. Rich Farmbrough, 10:54 15 June 2007 (GMT).

Conflict of interest

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Dynamic Submission, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
3. linking to the Misplaced Pages article or website of your organization in other articles (see Misplaced Pages:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

Accounts used solely for blatant self-promotion may be blocked indefinitely without further warning.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. Jehochman 22:36, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't remove maintenance tags

This has been reported on WP:COIN Please comment there, and don't remove the maintenance tags again, please. Jehochman 22:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with Dynamic Submission. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. :) Chetblong 22:44, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Dynamic Submission

Hey please do what you can in the next 2 hours with Dynamic Submission. I've asked on WP:COIN for Dynamic Submission not to be touched by anyone else for the next 2 hours so you can modify the article to meet up to Misplaced Pages's standards, and if it isn't modified that it should be deleted. So do what you can. :) Chetblong 23:15, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I've looked at the article since you've modified it and there's one more place I think could be improved, Section 2 still sounds a little like an ad in the way it's worded. Reword it to not sound like an ad and it should be fine. I'll check it out after you've modified it and I'll tell you what I think. :) Chetblong 01:30, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Admin input: If you were in communication with an admin, and were actively working on it, you (or the admin) should have actually put a valid hangon message on the talk page. Quite frankly, I don't believe the draft article you're working on is ready to go for the following reasons: There's a number of grammar and spelling errors Headers should not have caps except for first letter, and should not be wikilinks Bolding is for the first use of the subject in the lead paragraph only References shouldn't be generalized like you've put them. Individual facts in the article should be footnoted to the references (see WP:FN and WP:CITET if you don't know how to do this) The section on "Search engine submission software" should be omitted entirely, as it's covered in a separate article. Don't duplicate material, that's what wiki links are for Move the reasons why its notable (media coverage, awards) to the 1st or 2nd paragraph Please be aware that wikipedia is not a how-to guide, so instructional information about how to use the software is not appropriate. You can eliminate the "further reading", as the book is in the refs (and get rid of the dummies graphic - it's not relevant to the particular program...it looks like you're plugging the book). AKRadeckiSpeaketh 04:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Akradecki"

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Search engine submission

I partially reverted your edits because you removed properly sourced material. Don't do that again, please. Jehochman 13:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been indefintely blocked from editing Misplaced Pages, because of your repeated violations of the conflict of interest policy as detailed here, and also for your personal attacks against User:Jehochman in that thread. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. --Akhilleus (talk) 15:18, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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