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Hello.
Your Plot Summary at the article you created entitled Love and Mary is a flagrant copyright violation of THIS COPYRIGHTED PIECE by Mark Deming in the New York Times. Such extremely close paraphrases must be avoided. I have blanked the entire section as a copyright violation, do not restore it. If you are aware of similar instances of close paraphrase that you have inserted at Wikipedia, please remove that material immediately. Thank you. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 04:13, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi again.
The 2007-08 bullet-point section of your article Sanam Singh is a direct copy-and-paste copyright violation inserting material from THIS PIECE FROM COLLEGE TENNIS ONLINE. I have blanked the subsection as a copyright violation and will be further examining this piece. Do not restore this material. Please get busy fixing your copyright issues, which I suspect might be numerous. I will be contacting an administrator seeking removal of your Auto-Confirmed rights. Thanks. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 04:27, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Bill.
I'm starting to pick through your new starts from the beginning. Your piece University School of Information Technology is probably a copyright violation from start to finish. Certainly the "Programs" section is a direct copy-and-paste from THIS. I have blanked this section as a copyright violation, do not restore it. Please take this one from the top, rewriting everything in a manner which does not violate copyright law. Thanks. —Tim //// Carrite ( talk) 05:11, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Dang, I'm getting to be a regular here.
Your article Education in Delhi opens with a massive copy-and-paste copyright violation from THIS. I did not look over the rest of the article, but I think it is highly likely that there is other offending material to be cleaned up. I have deleted the offending opening section as a copyright violation, do not restore this material. It is probably time for you to take a break from your other Wikipedia activities so that you may dedicate time to go through your entire contribution history, cleaning up copyright violations. Please drop me a line letting me know if you are aware of this problem. Thanks. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 05:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
There is a thread at WP:AN/I (Administrator's Noticeboard/Incidents) in which you are mentioned, relating to Love and Mary. Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 06:23, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
My edit summary associated with removal of your copyright violation in Love and Mary has drawn an unsolicited email from a certain Fred Bauder ((Redacted)), who did not identify his capacity at EnWP or WMF or specify his exact concerns in his message to me. He invited me to contact ArbCom by email ([email protected]) if I cared to comment, which I have done, and to make sure to notify you that I did that, which I am now doing. If that sounds mysterious, ambiguous, and befuddling, it is because that is the way Wikipedia's dysfunctional Cult of Anonymity would have it. Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 17:30, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's April Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog size by over 500 articles and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive awards for their contributions. If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks!
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We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate Miyagawa ( submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's Casliber ( submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.
Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr ( Hawkeye7 ( submissions)), on the European hare ( Cwmhiraeth ( submissions)), on the constellation Circinus ( Keilana ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John ( Cerebellum ( submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.
Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.
A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 22:52, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Because of the above noted copyright violations, I have for now revoked your "autopatrolled" and "reviewer" rights, so that your new articles appear in the unpatrolled section of the new papes patrol, and that you can't review them. Please try to help with identifying and correcting your copyright violations. Note that any new copyright violations may get this account blocked. Fram ( talk) 08:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I took a look at your articles from February 2011, and the first one I checked, [1] from 25 February, seems to be a copyright violation from [2] from 24 February 2011 (probably the original source is something else, but that's not really the point). So it looks as if the copyright problems continued at least for a month more. Fram ( talk) 08:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Another, smaller one here [3] from [4] and here [5]. It's just two sentences but both are copied verbatim. Volunteer Marek 19:07, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of 2009 Mediterranean Games medal table at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Miyagawa ( talk) 15:48, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
I decided to ask about this to you because I couldn't decide about to add the info or not. When I was watching 2010 Asian Games opening ceremony parade of nations, the song played during Indonesia parade is Garuda Pancasila (Indonesian patriotic song). Then, I started to think that the country's local famous song was played when each country paraded to the arena. Is this little info worth to add or not?
Here's the youtube link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h85zlL6y-a8 Griff88 ( talk) 08:30, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
On 18 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2009 Mediterranean Games medal table, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Italy ranked first in the 2009 Mediterranean Games medal table? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2009 Mediterranean Games medal table. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Panyd The muffin is not subtle 16:03, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
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We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with Sven Manguard ( submissions) claiming for the high-importance Portal:Sports and Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) claiming for a did you know of sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place Casliber ( submissions) and second place Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.
The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.
A rules clarification: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on 29/30 April, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 16:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, the original reviewer has made a couple comments on my talk page. Apparently s/he doesn't feel as though his/her original concern about controversies has been addressed and you had indicated that you would look into it. I have replied saying why I felt justified in passing the article to GA and also that I didn't feel as though it would be a good idea to reverse that decision. Would you be able to look at any controversies that may have arisen as a result of the Games and make any additions you feel would address that topic? Thanks. H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 16:24, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.
A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 10:26, 1 July 2013 (UTC)