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Need help Sekkyfly (talk) 18:49, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sekkyfly, What kind of help are you looking for? — Amkgp 💬 02:53, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The source you shared rather copied the Wikipedia page John Atta Mills. I copied most of his policies from the John Atta Mills page and I attributed I copied. The text I wrote all have sources as well. Kwesi Yema (talk) 03:47, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kwesi Yema,  Done — Amkgp 💬 03:51, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please recheck Tejsingh Sendhav. I've added (a bit) more detail, including more sources. Do you think the "primary sources" tag can be removed now? MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:55, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MPGuy2824,  Done — Amkgp 💬 09:21, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I see you review draft basketball articles. If you have time, might you be able to take a look at Draft:Jordan Cohen? As I understand it, it was rejected (more than once) when it was an article about a different person, but now that he meets the basketball notability standard, i would think it should be a slam dunk (sorry). Thanks. --2604:2000:E010:1100:CD45:970:B175:7B13 (talk) 10:31, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone through it, and it passes WP:NBASKETBALL and WP:GNG. There is some kind of confusion. I can see the discussion here and some action here. — Amkgp 💬 10:47, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved from Draft:Jordan Cohen to Jordan Cohen (basketball) — Amkgp 💬 10:47, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Thanks. --2604:2000:E010:1100:5501:390B:E538:A4CB (talk) 20:54, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I know you're busy reviewing other articles but, may I request you to review Love the Way U Lie? Thanks! I appreciate your efforts and hard work.— ArriehM 💬 23:14, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ArriehM,  Done Please try to add Wikipedia:WikiProject for articles you create next time, — Amkgp 💬 11:02, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I just forgot to put it, btw, thanks, I appreciate your efforts and hard work. Keep it up! ArriehM (talk) 11:08, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I believe there's a misunderstanding here. The article was originally my draft, but a conflict of interest arose and it was deleted. The text you referenced was a copy-paste of what I wrote here - technically the true violator of copyright - and the editor behind the new iteration was given the words by me. I myself, however, can't contribute to the article. That's why the draft died in the first place. DÅRTHBØTTØ _(T•C) 05:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DarthBotto, I leave the decision to the deleting admin to decide. Thank you — Amkgp 💬 05:20, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa and CaptainEek: Can anyone of you help regarding the above? Thank you — Amkgp 💬 12:23, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The new article is the same as the deleted draft. We need a history merge - I have tagged it for specialist attention and someone should be along shortly to fix the page history.— Diannaa (talk) 14:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think the page now has enough links to demonstrate notability.AltruisticHomoSapien (talk) 14:33, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AltruisticHomoSapien, No, I am moving to WP:AFD. Its still not-notable. — Amkgp 💬 15:05, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I’m Robloxsupersuperhappyface. I am here to talk to you about the article Tropical Storm Merbok (2017). You reviewed the article just minutes after it was created and gave me very little time to continue my expansion on it. I would like to kindly ask you to reassess the article since it has had expansions. Thank you! Robloxsupersuperhappyface (talk) 01:43, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Robloxsupersuperhappyface,  Done — Amkgp 💬 03:57, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, you have two U.S. hooks side by side here, and also two mural hooks in the same set. Yoninah (talk) 16:30, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, swapped the mural from 4 with that of a hook in 5. Separated side by side US hooks in 4. — Amkgp 💬 18:51, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. But now you have 3 U.S.-based hooks leading off Prep 4.

BTW we have been running 3 rather than 4 bios per set, and 3 rather than 4 U.S. hooks per set. See queues above. Yoninah (talk) 18:52, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, Do we need to swap again with some other? — Amkgp 💬 18:55, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah I am promoting picture hook for prep 6 and signing off. Thanks again for rectifying things. — Amkgp 💬 18:59, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. I'll swap out one of the U.S. hooks from Prep 4. Yoninah (talk) 19:10, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, what did you do here? You're not allowed to edit my icon. You could put a new icon under it, with your comment and signature stamp. Do you really think ALT1 is hooky? Yoninah (talk) 18:45, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, I was going to notify you.....was thinking of ALT1, but I was little doubtful, as is like a fact.....restoring tick and notifying the nominator too. — Amkgp 💬 18:48, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, you did it already. — Amkgp 💬 18:50, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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• Vitvellorecampus (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Vellore Institute of Technology(VIT) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Since already existing page have conflicts in data, the author of the page give negative impression to the Institution's page and which misleads article readers, since we have given better data with many reference to change data in the "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_Institute_of_Technology" but the page author refuses and continuing the article with the same misleading information. We have given deletion of content too there is not any improvement and the author refuses to do that. Since lot of readers are misguided and makes a serious issue so we have created the new article for that. So kindly approve the new page so that the reader of the article will get correct information this is related to student education. Vitvellorecampus (talk) 11:57, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vitvellorecampus, That looks like WP:CONTENTDISPUTE and looks like a deliberate WP:REDUNDANTFORK. You are also subject to WP:PROMONAME and is more of WP:SPA. @331dot and Oshwah: See this — Amkgp 💬 12:21, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vitvellorecampus - We cannot approve drafts where an article already exists on the same subject in the mainspace. Wikipedia is not the place to "write your own version" of an article simply because you have a dispute with another editor on the current revision of the published version. You need to follow Wikipedia's dispute resolution protocol and work things out with the editor. If no agreement can be made, the dispute resolution guide has information and instructions on how to properly handle this. If you have questions or need advice, please let one of us know and we'll be happy to help. :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 12:32, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for placing her and her teacher on the Main page pictured, - look! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, FYI we have a lot of people images so we're trying to space them out every other set. I see you enjoy plugging in the lead image, so in Prep 1 we need a non-person image. (If you can build a whole prep set, even better!) Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 02:37, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Amkgp,

Thanks a lot for rewarding me the Jainist Barnstar. Regards - Pratyk321 (talk)

Hi, I promoted your hook. Please add a cite to this sentence: During the first comprehensive survey in the then Kingdom of Bavaria in the years 1808 to 1853, the oak was registered on the Bad Brückenau - NW CIV 56 original sheet from November 1848 with the field number 284 and the name Königseiche. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 13:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah,  Done — Amkgp 💬 17:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I really wanted to get that image on the main page, so I promoted it in the hopes that you'd add the cite. Best, Yoninah (talk) 20:41, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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On the DYK discussion, please check out Beethoven. I suggested to have several hooks concerning Beethoven around 17 December - his 250th anniversary of baptism. The first such prep is 5 where I hoped to see one of the two images, as many believe that he was born on 16 December, + it's already 17 some places in the world. The other pic could go to prep 7, because during most of prep 6, Europeans sleep. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FYI Amkgp, all this was sprung on us at WT:DYK very recently. There is no consensus for consecutive image hooks nor for filling up the prep sets with Beethoven hooks. I just came back online and saw this conversation, and have left a note at WT:DYK trying to ascertain what is going on and why we're celebrating Beethoven's birthday on the 16th when our article about him doesn't even mention the 16th.

Regarding set-building in general, please remember that we have a ton of U.S.-based hooks and need to spread them out. Try not to run one after another in a set, or one image after another in consecutive prep sets. I moved out 2 of the 5 U.S. hooks that you placed in Prep 4. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 16:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yoninah, I got all your points. Thank you. — Amkgp 💬 17:10, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I hope you're doing well. I was wondering if you can review my article Draft:Harry Fear and inform me if it needs any more editing? Thanks in advance.Engy Badawy (talk) 21:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Engy Badawy[reply]

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Hello Amkgp. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ramya Behara, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Sources provided this time (there weren't any before), are sufficient to pass CSD. Needs to go back to AfD if necessary. Thank you. GedUK  10:30, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

On 14 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article King Ludwig Oak, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that King Ludwig Oak (pictured) is a natural monument named after its admirer, Ludwig I of Bavaria? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/King Ludwig Oak. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, King Ludwig Oak), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article King Ludwig Oak you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cobalt03 -- Cobalt03 (talk) 23:41, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Amkgp Sorry, I can't review your article anymore due to problems occurred during this situation.--Cobalt03 (talk) 15:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cobalt03, OK Thank you — Amkgp 💬 15:55, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Amkgp Again sorry, I am sure someone else will do it! It is a great article!--Cobalt03 (talk) 15:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Amkgp, I hope you're doing well. I noticed that you may have been creating articles by (machine-)translating them from the German Wikipedia without attribution; the ones I discovered were this, this, this, this, this and this. However, this would constitute a copyright violation, since CC BY-SA requires attribution. I'm not sure whether this applies to other articles too (potentially ones translated from languages that I don't speak), but I want to ask you go through your creations and attribute properly where needed. Thanks. Blablubbs|talk 17:52, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blablubbs, I will add required ((Translated page)) details at the respective talk pages. — Amkgp 💬 17:57, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ferronickel platinum is an unattributed translation of de:Ferronickelplatin, Luis Leon Masson is an unattributed translation of es:Luis Leon Masson, and Anandalahari is an unattributed translation of ru:Анандалахари. Not only that but, here's some text copyright violations: [9], [10], [11], [12]. That's a lot of violations- I don't want to do this, but it looks like I don't have a choice. I'm going to block you for 1 month instead of indefinitely, hopefully this will be a wake up call. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 21:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Moneytrees oh my! Amkgp is actually working hard for the project it’s sad seeing them get blocked. Celestina007 (talk) 21:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have no doubt they have the project best at interest- and I was reluctant to carry out this block- but they need to follow our rules on copyright. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 22:15, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Moneytrees:, That my a fault. I have devoted too much time to the project. i have a series of creations to be creating in line. I can assure such things will never occur again. I have added ((Translated page)) details at the respective talk pages and wiling to rewrite text to be within 10% earwig report. I am willing to fix all the things. Please unblock me. Thank you — Amkgp 💬 03:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Amkgp (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

The block was due to unattributed translation and few copyvio concerns. That my fault. I have devoting much time and effort to the project. I have a series of creations to be creating in line including creation of COVID-19 vaccine pages. I can assure such things will never occur again. I have already added ((Translated page)) details at the respective talk pages and in the process of adding to others. Also, I will rewrite text that editors are finding objectionable. The pages that has been pointed detect a copyvio around 20% and I am willing to fix all the things immediately. Please unblock me. — Amkgp 💬 04:32, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Per below, this is convincing assurance- please don't go off of earwig percentage though, instead go off of what is highlighted. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 05:39, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, hold up. Moneytrees, has this user been warned before about copyright violations? I've worked with Amkgp, and this user has been an upstanding member of the community. Have we tried educating the user first before resorting to a block? I trust his words when he says that he will follow the guidelines. I'm just not sure that we did the right things first before resorting to blocking... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:01, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oshwah, No, because I've found warnings rarely do anything when it comes to copyright; I elaborate on why much harsher blocks are needed in this post at AN. Copyvios are like vandalism- albeit usually unintentional and done in good faith- and are much harder to clean up. And I have to clean them up. And there's 1000s upon 1000s of them. In this case I know Amkgp hadn't been warned before and is someone who can listen, so I decided to make the block just a month long. The above unblock request is good so I will unblock. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 05:35, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moneytrees - Warnings are supposed to be left and/or attempts to educate the user are supposed to be made before we proceed with blocking. Just because you feel that warnings rarely result in positive action and because you don't like cleaning up copyright violations doesn't mean that we don't try and help the user first before we block them. I mean, I get it... I don't like cleaning up copyvio stuff either. :-) I've spent a long time in a day just doing that... lol. But you have to understand is that we're blocking people, and I feel like we jumped the gun a bit too soon... Plus, running the copyvio tool, I only see about a 20% match. Can you help me find what I'm missing? :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:52, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moneytrees , but the AN post was a kind of request for participation and help. How it turned out to be a policy? Isn't this a kind of WP:ADMINABUSE ? — Amkgp 💬 05:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oshwah it's not the percent on earwig's, but what's highlighted. For instance, look at one of moneytrees links [13]. the matching text is The complaint was taken to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) after which a high court judge found the four teachers guilty of flouting IIT Kanpur's conduct code and the SC/ST Preventions Atrocities Act. which is almost an exact copy of the source The complaint was taken to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) after which a high court judge found the four teachers guilty of flouting IIT-K’s conduct code and the SC/ST Preventions Atrocities Act. regardless of the percent that earwig's throws up, that's still copyvio. I'm not familiar with the specific case here, just thought I'd point out what moneytrees was likely referring to by saying "please don't go off of earwig percentage though, instead go off of what is highlighted", Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:41, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Eddie891, But what about all the others. Do you think I am doing vandalism? Is it justifiable to go ahead and block him/her without doing a background check? Someone who had contributed more and has been here longer than the blocking editor. To me it was like an attempt of WP:TOOLMISUSE. — Amkgp 💬 15:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Eddie891 - Okay, thanks for letting me know. :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 15:55, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oshwah and Eddie891, But if that is the benchmark ...... then nearly 40% of active editors will get blocked. Its only 20% and a single sentence only. Not even a paragraph. It looks that I am being made a scapegoat to justify the block. — Amkgp 💬 16:01, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Anyways I will change some wordings. This block will definitely have an effect. Editors will now think of me a vandal here and deny requests and have a wrong judgement.— Amkgp 💬 16:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oshwah and Amkgp, In my experience giving warnings to users for copyright, they do nothing and Users end up getting blocked down the road which is especially problematic if they have 1000s of edits. Here's some examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25... Note that this is just stuff within the last year. Those users had received several previous warnings yet continued to violate copyright anyways, 1 warning per violation, usually totaling 3-5 warnings before a block. In this instance there had been 13 violations. There was a clear misunderstanding of our rules on copyright so a block was necessary to prevent further damage- I needed to know for sure that this user understands and will not violate copyright. I spend every day here working on our copyright backlogs, there are currently 115k+ articles that need review, the backlog has gotten worse recently so preventive blocks will need to be issued quicker.

Per Eddie891 above, the percentage on Earwig is really kind of irrelevant- it all comes down to what text is highlighted. It's ok if a few words or a difficult to reword sentence or two get caught, but when it can be reworded or it's a whole paragraph it's not ok. For example, a page could have a very high percentage... but the only thing highlighted is non-copyrightable stuff like a list of names. Since the violations weren't too big I decided to be lenient and give a month instead of a longer amount. Although I won't deny that there's other editors out there who follow their sources closer than they should, that still doesn't allow violations- and I think the number is a lot lower than 40%. As for the last point, bookmark this, where the blocking admin himself says bringing up the block in an unrelated dispute would be dumb and petty. For the record, I would much rather have the people I block be unblocked, since having someone who is aware of copyright rules while writing is better than no one at all. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 18:05, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moneytrees, Its a long answer that explains policy and editorial behavior of people who do not care about rules and regulations. I think the current backlog is a burden/problem of WP:CCI. FYI I am well experienced NPP patroller and AFC reviewer. Beside these, I also help in reporting copyright violations at commons. I am well aware of the copyright policy, donating material to Wikipedia, public domain stuff etc. It seems you caught me as the wrong person in the act that is not a violation. The pages you highlighted edited by me were indeed within limits and were merely long single sentences or citations/book name/patent names etc. The block was not justified for me. Forget 2-3 warnings you never ever warned once. I can understand it becomes quite a frustrating work but you must look left and right at least before blocking some one who understand things very well. Whatever may be I think lets draw the line here, but the block will have an effect. May be the current and future request from myself at WP:PERM be declined due to this. As they would never dig deep to know what actually happened.— Amkgp 💬 18:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think accusing Moneytrees of tool abuse is unfair, and I disagree with the statement that you're being scapegoated or unjustly blamed, since this doesn't appear to be an isolated issue. This, this, this and this are also unattributed translations, while this is a copyvio of this. These are only page creations, I don't know if there are other potentially problematic edits too. While I agree that none of those are huge infractions by themselves and that most of them should be easily fixable, it does present a threat to the project if they remain. Given that you've been unblocked, it's probably best to just fix them and move on. Blablubbs|talk 22:18, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Beethoven in 1803

Thank you so much for contribs to the birthday display! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gerda Arendt, You deserve more. Thanks — Amkgp 💬 16:02, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]