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John B. Magruder you nominated as a
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John B. Magruder you nominated as a
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"I edit here when I have nothing else to do, just for fun."
Thank you for quality articles such as John B. Magruder and Pizzagate conspiracy theory, for contributions at the help desk, for expanding and sourcing stubs, for fighting vandalism, for welcoming new users and missing, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 23:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
HOLY CRAP! I can’t believe I got one... Thank you very much, Greda! (Although it should be mentioned that TGS did most of the work on John Mugrader and I continued the nomination after they were banned because I didn’t want their work to go to waste) 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 23:55, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello mr. Money! yeet ( talk) 19:35, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Looks like that a little too excessive... 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 19:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Money emoji,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Semi
Hyper
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Money emoji,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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talk) 02:13, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
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Not too late, I hope ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:29, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case. Your edits appear to constitute
vandalism and have been
reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the
sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the
loss of editing privileges. Thank you.
The C of E God Save the Queen! (
talk) 18:16, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
The two companies are operating as different companies under different LLCs. Collaborative Fusion is now a separate entity.
Look at the picture of :Juvare" does that say Collaborative Fusion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasezhang2.0 ( talk • contribs) 14:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
@ Chasezhang2.0: See what I said on your talk page. 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 14:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
@money emoji - thank you, I did. Writing the reason now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasezhang2.0 ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Having to do a CU request on 10 or so yeet "socks" in UTRS was what taught me the word existed. Still have no earthy idea what it means. TonyBallioni ( talk) 21:24, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello Money emoji. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Industry in Syracuse, New York, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not an unambiguous copyright infringement, or there is other content to save. Thank you. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 23:53, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi! It'd be just great if you were able to make some headway with this monster CCI. I tried a bit, and found it unbelievably time-consuming – a huge number of small edits, and a lot of splitting/moving of content. What I'm now fully convinced of is that we can't trust one word of his running text to be copyvio-free. Speedy deletion isn't a good option for a page like the one above, with a long history and contributions from other editors too. In that particular case there is also a (probably) clean version (the very first) that could be reverted to, so speedy wouldn't apply. Unless you are able to revert to before his first edit, blanking and listing at WP:CP is probably the best move; unless it's been rewritten, any page listed there may be deleted after a week if that's appropriate. I'm happy to try to help/advise at any time. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 15:18, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
I'm looking at your RD1 request for salt potatoes. the earliest edit appears to be this one on 10 November 2010.
However the source was captured by the Internet archive in March 2012. How did you conclude that the source material was written prior to the Wikipedia article? (I do see the copyright notice at the bottom of the page has a range of dates 2004 – 2011, but I don't think I can use that to draw any conclusions about when this specific material was added to the site.)-- S Philbrick (Talk) 20:19, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Marvelhouse words ( talk) 08:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC) Hi Money emoji, and thank you for your message. I'm very new here so still working out te (rather opaque) system.
With regards the text I uploaded to the page Salomon's house, I see your point. I have two replies and one request.
1. Good work in spotting it (the Literary encyclopedia, I believe).
2. I wrote it, and I'm pretty sure Lit Enc entries belong to the writer. (correction. This appears to have changed).
3. Damn I hate rapacious publishers.
(I love being pulled up for copying myself, but then that's the modern world)
I'll rejigger it suitably. At some point when I have the time.
On this matter in general, ought I register somewhere here my interest (as in, my interest and knowledge on Bacon)? I can't for the life of me work out this sandbox businss, and lack patience with things that don't offer themselves immediately (when that's their job).
Thank you in advance,
(apologies if I sign out wrong, btw)
Marvelhouse words
@ Marvelhouse words: Thanks for coming here and explaining the situation. For your question about Sandboxes, here's a simple explanation: You can create a sandbox as a subpage of your user page, like User:Marvelhouse words/sandbox. Aside from material that would be considered advertising, disruptive, musings unrelated to wikipedia, or a copyright violation, you are allowed to write whatever you want whatever you want in it. Again, thanks for coming here, and feel free to ask questions. 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 11:55, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
This is not how copyright works. [1] If you've been adding this to other articles, please go back and make sure the copyright violations have been removed. Natureium ( talk) 19:52, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
I know you've been helping out with CCI's for which I thank you.
It's my opinion that of all the copyright tasks, the CCI's tend to be the toughest, mainly because they often are fairly dated and a lot of the material shows up in Wikipedia forks and mirrors, so watching out for false positives is important. In addition, sometimes the original source material is no longer directly available on the net so you have to resort to the Internet archive which you have where do use very well.
You mentioned recently that you do not have access to the Internet archive, so that may hamper your ability to work on CCI's.
Can I tempt you to help out at Copy Patrol?
That's a relatively new tool that identifies potential copyright violations in real time.
One advantage of working on these as opposed to CCI's, is that the edits typically happened within the last few hours, so access to the Internet archive is almost never an issue.
One important thing to be aware of is that the tool doesn't look for matches within Wikipedia itself, so there are often false positives when someone copies material from one Wikipedia article to another. The tool may pick up a match to a mirror and it may look like a copyright violation but in fact it might be a legitimate Wikipedia. (In theory, editors are supposed to note this in the edit summary but many do not know the rules.)
There are a small handful of us active in this area, but I have to cut back a bit because I need to do more work in OTRS so I'm going to have to cut back on the number I can handle each day.
I recently left a post with Diannaa, who handles more than anyone else, and she suggested reaching out to some people who have contributed in the past. I don't think you've been part of copy patrol but I thought of you as someone with copyright experience. S Philbrick (Talk) 19:19, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
@ Sphilbrick: (sorry it took a bit to get back to you) thanks a lot for the compliments and the offer, I'll gladly use the tool while I'm sorting out the issue with the Internet Archive 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 11:24, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
I'm not seeing the text at this site.
What am I missing?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 18:37, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
@ Sphilbrick: Yeah, I think I got the wrong url. The copy patrol report shows more than one URL, and they all looked similar, so I assumed that it wouldn't matter which one I choose, but I guess it did since two of them just seem to redirect to the websites mainpage, and only one of them (this one: https://www.tesla-pv.com/about-us/) shows the copied text. My bad, I should have clicked on all of them to make sure. 💵Money💵emoji💵 💸 18:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
I'm probably missing something simple with respect to your RD1 request at Bab Antakeya, But when I go to the identified site, I see a photo but not the relevant text. S Philbrick (Talk) 18:32, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I am RaquelSalanchez and I am a Spanish developer of the English Wikipedia. I am trying and learning how to contribute with Wikipedia and I am making some errors. I want to apologize for it. Best regards
Alright dear, thank you very much for the correction.
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Any user who makes significant progress towards clearing a task with a 9-year backlog (!) clearly deserves a barnstar. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:22, 22 June 2019 (UTC) |
I'd looked at that mess 5 years ago, when I first started to work on school articles, and just threw up my hands. It was like inheriting a house from a distant relative only to discover he was a chronic horder. The first thought is "burn it to the ground." Unfortunately, WP:OMGTHISISJUSTWAYTOOMUCH is not a valid reason for deletion. John from Idegon ( talk) 01:16, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
Where is the investigation for copyvio? I wrote much of the article, and I assure you it was not plagiarized or copypasted. BrineStans ( talk) 20:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)