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If I am posting this in the wrong place, please help me direct my request appropriately.
I recently encountered a diff where a user (Ml4744) added material from the mathmaniac.com website. In retrospect, I should have asked the user for confirmation of identity first. Instead, I reverted the addition and placed a possible copyvio notice (using the template ((subst:uw-copyright|Ratio))) on the user's page. As it turns out (and I now have email confirmation of this), the username Ml4744 was registered by the owner of mathmaniac.com, who was willingly adding her own material to Wikipedia. However, she now asserts that I am making false accusations and trying to block her. I apologized and removed the possible copyvio notice, and in email she rejected my apologies, claiming that I am harassing her, trying to hide my "accusations", and trying to get her account blocked, and she asked how I got her email address (which is publicly available on the mathmaniac.com website). It seems that anything I do to try to cool the situation makes her angrier at me (I don't care about this) and angrier at Wikipedia (I care about this). She has asked that I cease contact with her, and I respect this request. However, I would like to know if there is anything that can be done to calm the situation besides what I am doing right now, that is, ceasing all contact.
Thanks in advance for any assistance. Michael Slone (talk) 21:51, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering what the proper style is for lists that begin with a keyword (a song title, for instance) followed by a description. Specifically, I'm asking about Star Wars: X-Wing - Space Combat Simulator. The article features several lists with titles of missions/expansions/editions followed by descriptions and separated by medium-length dashes. Is this proper style? Are definition lists called for in this case? SharkD (talk) 00:04, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I submitted my first article tonight. When I hit "save changes" my browser takes me right back to the "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" page.
Is there a review process, is this a malfunction, or am I doing something wrong? The article is "James F. Adams", by the way.
216.82.174.214 (talk) 07:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. I tried again after posting this question. I'm not sure why, but even though I had logged in the wiki server treated me as an anonymous user and I didn't realize it until I came back, looked at this talk page and saw an IP number where my signature should have been. I've been more careful and haven't had the problem since.
Happy New Year to all!
ChrisClukey (talk) 04:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Yo what's up fellow wikipedians, I like to welcome people into Wikipedia with that temple that says Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, and the Yada Yada<-that's a joke right there ->...is there a welcome group for that? Thanks Niyant (talk) 07:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I came across mention of copyvios in Talk:Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). I looked into it and there are some quite serious issues here. The copyvio material was added by User talk:Robert Alexander Inch over several edits here. As you can see a large amount of unwikified material was added. A reference was given to the site [1] where most of it originates but the site says the material is copyright 2001 and no where at all does it says it was licensed under GFDL. Looking through the users contribs I found at least two other articles where large amount of material was added which I suspect is copyvio. I have warned this user but the user seems to have disappeared anyway. Someone needs to take a look thru this users contribs and deleted all the copyvio of suspect material I would do it myself but I don't have the time. Sadly, since it was added in mid 2007 and it's been a while since then, a lot of editors hard work in improving this copyvio material is going to be completely wasted. Nil Einne (talk) 08:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey. This is sort of an odd request, but something I just noticed. Basically, I - and a few other users - have been dealing with an editor that's been rather disruptive, largely by injecting POV edits. For awhile, Elonka and I were working on the page where this SPA editor was active (Moneybomb), and she and I had a conversation on our talk pages. While randomly wandering around, I saw that the SPA editor has added our conversation to his talk page, claiming a conspiracy. Should this be removed? Should I take this to AN/I or something? — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 14:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to initiate a discussion about articles in the computer software category, and an attempt to introduce some common language across the articles. It will take a paragraph or two to pose my question/issue, so I don't want to post here unless it's the right place. Is it? thanks. Leotohill (talk) 18:49, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
I recently acquired a new computer (still XP, though) and have noticed Wikipedia has been displaying this strange font (here). I have copied + pasted it into Wordpad and MS Word, which both say it's Times New Roman, when it clearly is not. I'm using IE7. I don't use ClearType (I feel it looks ridiculously blurry), though I use the "Standard" font smoothing Windows has, as seen in the display control panel. I've checked, and IE is not using a user defined font - it is using the designated fonts of websites. I have heard Wikipedia defaults to Sans Serif fonts, I have MS Sans Serif and Microsoft Sans Serif, so I don't know why it is showing this strange font. Any idea what's wrong? Thanks. 70.111.15.167 (talk) 00:46, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
If anyone here can think straight (and isn't made to drool by magazine adverts) and has some spare time, the various articles on watch companies (etc.) would benefit from "help" (editorial machetes). I've been looking through several, and have found them to be quite grotesquely, indeed hilariously bad. Rolex (ugh!) took me to Rolex Cosmograph, which starts: The legendary Rolex Cosmograph "Daytona", known simply as the Daytona, is perhaps the single most iconic Rolex of them all. If I could use the word "iconic" with a straight face (I can't), I might call that the most iconically awful opening sentence I've ever seen in a Wikipedia article. ("Legendary", even.) The article continues: Interestingly, these original Daytona's were not in demand when produced, and were available for appallingly little money, but today are referred to as the "Holy Grail" of collectible watches and fetch astronomical prices at auction, purchased by avid collectors in the know and other cognoscenti. Which may be even more iconically legendary, or legendarily iconic.
Well, time to take off my ¥3000 Casio wonder and go to bed. -- Hoary (talk) 15:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
Strapping a gas mask tight over my face, I entered a similar flatus-chamber and hacked away. But I chose to leave in the Olympian the torch of the founders of the company continues to be carried by their successors in hot line. Funny how the article manages to avoid saying whether the company actually makes its own movements or instead (like the great majority of watch "makers") buys them in from one of a small number of suppliers and then does more or less (or no) fiddling to them.
Really, anyone else with a morbid sense of humor should try one or two of the other offerings in Category:Watchmakers. (I'd guess that Category:Luxury brands is similar.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:19, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I have devised what I believe to be a new card game, to which I have found nothing similar. I won't go into great detail here, suffice to say it is a mixture of Rummy and Cribbage, and as such I call it "Crib Rummy".
I am asking if this would be suitable article to post, as it is a game I have invented (or believe to have invented), and barring rules and information pertaining to the original games from which it is devised, I have no external or verifiable sources whatsoever.
Regards.
CarrotIronfoundersson (talk) 09:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
A long time ago I used to browse and enjoy an article, whose name I now have forgotten, that was a list of weird article topics. It wasn't BJAODN. The Antonov A-40 flying tank was one of the entries. Any pointers? Thanks - Tempshill (talk) 19:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes, does anyone know what it is called? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.108.200.172 (talk) 02:06, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm an administrator in Vietnamese Wikipedia (vi:User:Tmct). We've been suffering from repeatedly vandalism by someone in Vietnam using fake-IPs, who keeps replacing acticles' content with insulting words.
We've been dealing with this vandal by locking IPs, but I found that locking fake-IPs is quite useless since the vandal uses a different one for each series of attacks.
Have you got any experience of this sort of vandalism? Any advice on how to deal with it? Many thanks. Tmct (talk) 15:56, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately the vandal attacks any series of arbitrary articles. The pattern is not some particular articles but any series of articles, for example those in some category or newly-registered users' talk pages, or simply articles that happened to appear on the "Recent changes" page. So WP:semi-protection wouldn't help.
Is there any way to automatically block or delay edits performed by IPs that contain certain words like "F*", or edits that replace the whole article's content? Something similar to stopping edits containing URL included in spam black list. Tmct (talk) 10:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
We've been already using range blocking, which seems to help lengthening intervals between series of attacks from 2 minutes to about 7 minutes or more. Still, blocking one minute too late means a dozen more articles damaged. If only this watching and blocking could be done automatically.
So some of us are considering blocking all anonymous edits, which is quite bad even if it is for a short time only, since many people are contributing anonymously. Any suggestion to avoid such a harsh measure? Tmct (talk) 15:33, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Great! Thanks a lot for the information. Tmct (talk) 19:03, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
The map image in the infobox at the article Dunkirk appears incorrectly for me, both in Firefox and IE. Does it appear this way for others? I looked at potential sources of the problem, but couldn't see what was wrong when I examined the article, image and template. CIreland (talk) 06:58, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
A diagram in the article on incandescent light bulbs identifies insulation at the base of a lightbulb as "vitrit". What is this stuff? A Google search brings up nothing, other than a site that requires you to pay to access it, which identifies it as a mineral:
http://www.mindat.org/min-23479.html
These links seem to be associating it with coal:
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/102_1/03_class.html
http://www.oxygentimerelease.com/A/Therapies/Germanium/b7.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.232.126.158 (talk) 11:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
MinDat, the first link, identified vitrit as a German synonym for Anthracite —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lumarine (talk • contribs) 14:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
What do we do with an article like John G. Jensen which has no reliable sources, is a first person interview of the subject, has been tagged for cleanup for some days now, and yet is a totally unencyclopedic mess? Corvus cornixtalk 18:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I recently added a website to the list of mirrors and forks. Its entry is here; note that they make no mention of Wikipedia or the GFDL. However, I'm not sure how to contact them, as there was no information on their site giving their system administrator's email address or name. The only contact information I could find was an FAQ email address, which I listed under contact information on WP:MIRROR. What should I do next to try to request that they make their site GFDL-compliant? They are also a live mirror of Wikipedia. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 19:08, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I submitted a 3-RRR complaint but it was rejected because it was "malformed". Could you tell me what that means and and also how to submit one correctly? This is the malformed 3-RRR. [2]
Please help me understand this. Thanks! Mattisse 23:19, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I submitted a 3-RRR complaint today: ---User:Zeraeph reported by User:Mattisse (Result: no action, malformed report)---
Psychopathy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Zeraeph (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log): Time reported: 20:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
(I tried to understand DIFFTIME but I do not understand what I am supposed to be doing. Please help -- is time started: 17:27, 28 December 2007 - time of Zeraeph's first edit on Psychopathy today?
Your report will be ignored if it is not placed properly.
User:Zeraeph received a 28 day block which she served and it was lifted today, a few hours ago.
User:Zeraeph's 28 day block was for this same behavior on the same article Psychopathy, at least in part. Her answer to my article page post was in the same vein as before -- she is right, I am wrong and she does not have to discuss or compromise or come to consensus on changes. She is concentrating on my edits without consulting or trying to compromise or explain to me. She has moved and rearranged reference citations I put there, as well as misrepresented their meanings. Although she has rearranged and removed my citations and and changed or removed my wording, she will not discuss anything related to the content of the articlefwith me, other to state in edit summary that I was wrong, or other disparaging remarks about my edits in the edit summaries. I was warned the last time this happened by User:Viriditas not to contact Zeraeph on her talk page. Mattisse 20:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Declined Malformed request. No 3RR violation immediately apparent from history. Please see the other reports on this page as examples on how to provide a correct report. Sandstein (talk) 22:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! Mattisse 23:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I know I would have gotten a 3-RRR if I had interrupted the following list of reverts. How come some get away with it and never others? Mattisse 04:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I submitted a 3-RRR complaint today: ---User:Zeraeph reported by User:Mattisse (Result: no action, malformed report)---
Psychopathy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Zeraeph (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log): Time reported: 20:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
(I tried to understand DIFFTIME but I do not understand what I am supposed to be doing. Please help -- is time started: 17:27, 28 December 2007 - time of Zeraeph's first edit on Psychopathy today?
Your report will be ignored if it is not placed properly.
User:Zeraeph received a 28 day block which she served and it was lifted today, a few hours ago.
User:Zeraeph's 28 day block was for this same behavior on the same article Psychopathy, at least in part. Her answer to my article page post was in the same vein as before -- she is right, I am wrong and she does not have to discuss or compromise or come to consensus on changes. She is concentrating on my edits without consulting or trying to compromise or explain to me. She has moved and rearranged reference citations I put there, as well as misrepresented their meanings. Although she has rearranged and removed my citations and and changed or removed my wording, she will not discuss anything related to the content of the articlefwith me, other to state in edit summary that I was wrong, or other disparaging remarks about my edits in the edit summaries. I was warned the last time this happened by User:Viriditas not to contact Zeraeph on her talk page. Mattisse 20:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Declined Malformed request. No 3RR violation immediately apparent from history. Please see the other reports on this page as examples on how to provide a correct report. Sandstein (talk) 22:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! Mattisse 23:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for dedlining my request! Pretty hopeless, hun? Regards, Mattisse 04:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
If you guys could take a look at thisimage deleted at my request. Rjd0060 (talk) 04:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC), and tell me what you think may cause it. Recently when I come to the Village Pump/Proposals, specifically the section titled Destroy bots - at least those that deal with copyright issues, I get a weird grey box covering a lot of the text. It doesn't let me scroll for about 5-10 seconds and then the box disappears and everything is fine. It happens every time I go to this specific section (using a link to the section). Any ideas? - Rjd0060 (talk) 01:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Comments:
Anyone can kindly step up to check it out? Thanks a lot. — Yurei-eggtart 20:11, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I do not feel qualified to edit this article but this reference badly needs to be put in regarding deer ticks. This is not well known info but very important.
_Quote from Cornell University @ www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/DiagnosticLab/IDLFS/DeerTicks/DeerTicks.html#N10040 <http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/DiagnosticLab/IDLFS/DeerTicks/DeerTicks.html#N10040>_
“Adult females feed on a host for seven to ten days, swelling to the size of a small pea, and becoming blue-black.”
Mike Peter
I don't know if this is even possible, but as the January transfer window has just opened across European football (soccer), we are already seeing many players being added and removed from the squad lists. While a lot of this is in good faith - ie anon editors not knowing WP:RS, etc - it is taking a lot of time to revert, etc, and there is so much speculation about that it's going to happen all month. Also, if it would be possible to semi-protect every European club, could every player also be semi-protected? I doubt either are possible, but thought I would just check here Whitstable (talk) 15:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Where exactly is this info from? I use to go to wik for info but now realise its an ignorant space. Cant see Richard Saunders anywhere in your pathetic attempt at the death roll. Be responsible for claiming such an important space or just fuck off and get out of our space sicko computer nerds that have nothuing else to do but pretend you know everything when you dont —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.183.250.112 (talk) 14:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
This image is for a game that is licensed under the GPL, but the picture is of the Enterprise, which I assume to be copyrighted in some way. Which license should I use? SharkD (talk) 19:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm unsure whether this is the correct place to bring this up, but I've discovered that a substantial number of Christianity-oriented articles are using Biblical verses in articlespace to "prove the point" rather than using reliable secondary sources as per Wikipedia convention/policy. I first came across this at Lutheranism#Central_doctrines and after discussing the issue on the talk-page and filing an RfC, I discovered the same sort of editing on other pages (examples: Jesus, Harrowing of Hell, Ascension of Jesus Christ, etc). It seems like this is a Wiki-wide issue that needs to be addressed by a substantial number of editors to correct this.
As far as I am aware, Biblical citations are not to be used in this way since Wikipedia is not a soapbox or pulpit, and it is admitted by some other editors that this style of writing sounds more like a church pamphlet than an encyclopaedic article. As I said, I don't know if this is the correct place to draw attention to this issue. If not, please let me know if there is a more appropriate place? Thanks, Ekantik talk 18:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to find out if I should have a non break space in an address such as 23 Railway Cuttings. Should I do ((nowrap|23 Railway)) Cuttings for example? The MOS does not have an example of this type. Also, I cannot work out where the best place to ask this question. MortimerCat (talk) 12:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Another edit war is developing in the Sam article. At the suggestion of someone not in the current dispute, I implemented a compromise that satisfies (what I thought was) the problems that caused the previous edit war: That there are no references and that Sam can be used as a female name but is primarily a male name. This was done using a link that someone else provided, a link to the U.S. Census Bureau statistics page about first names. CorleoneSerpicoMontana has goofed up the formatting and is pushing the POV/original research/synthesis that "Although it is almost universally male, it has can also be a Female given name ...." I reverted this three times.
After checking, the third time was within twenty-four hours so I undid it. But in about an hour, it will have been twenty-four hours since the first so I'll be able to revert it again. However, I think that my change will be reverted by CorleoneSerpicoMontana again. This will probably be a WP:3RR violation by him, but that isn't what I'm really concerned about. My concern is the obvious (to me) POV/original research/synthesis when the statistics that are given on Sam can speak for themselves. I request administrative assistance, or this will continue. — Val42 (talk) 17:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I've been dealing with some high school vandals from Germany for several years. They've been very active in the past month and recently they've started creating accounts to impersonate me. For example:
They go to the point of copying my talk and user page to make their account look like mine. How do I go about having all these blocked?
(The whole vandalism thing with them is documented on the origininal account, Eduardo89:. Thanks. --Stéphane Charette (talk) 21:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I just want to request an article on Chinese "Milk Names" but I can't navigate my way to the place to request an article. I know it exists, but where? -Chwoka —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.59.130.254 (talk) 21:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm writing the Inelastic collision article and I need a little help on writing:
Vf=m1·v1,i+m2·v2,i [the following are under the fraction sign of the previous] m1+m2
in Latex. Thanks!-- penubag 00:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Is there a citation template suitable for citing a cdrom version of the Encyclopædia Britannica? DuncanHill (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Boykovladimir (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Hi, I don't know how to handle this, RFC & AN/I seem too severe. This user writes in an essay style and has added a link to an essay writing service - [47] which may explain it. I belatedly put up the welcome message so that they had the opportunity to view the WP guidelines and a couple of people have reversed edits and explained why on his talk page. He has created some articles Mature Products, Cyclical Products & Taiwan Language policy with vague cites (eg Johansson, 2001) which I have been unable to fully verify (some authors known, some not, paper titles ommitted) for existence, reliability and pov. His citation style continues throughout his edits. There may well be some good info. here so I'm reluctant to remove it. All 20 edits occured on 4 January, with nothing before or since. What do you make of it ? Thanks -- John (Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 17:16, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
I want to create some userboxes, but before creating I want to discuss if all the userboxes will be suitable with wikipedia guidelines or not. (I am here giving the texts which will be displayed on the userbox).
Please advice me out of the above-mentioned sentences, which will be suitable to be used in userbox according to wikipedia guidelines and which not.
This debate is moved into Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Issue with userbox. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 15:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)