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Reply to Image copyright problem with Image:JemtalentsearchVHS.JPG
Image:JemtalentsearchVHS.JPG
Hi,
I created this image of the Jem: Talent Search VHS the other day, by scanning my copy of the video tape. This image belongs to me, but I'd like for it to stay on Wikipedia on the Jem (TV series) listing on Wikipedia for the purpose of showing an old video tape release of the TV series from the 1980s from Family Home Entertianment, under the show's Home Video releases section. Is there anyway I can get this image to stay on, or what proper copyright terms would fit this category? I just don't know anything about posting images on Wikipedia without the situation over copyright infrngement, etc., or whatever it is.
I don't have an objection to this. Where do I go to say I support this speedy deletion? Your bot did not make that clear to me? Chris01:25, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
please be as kind as to enlighten me about the politics of this Wikipedia (i'm more frequent in the Portuguese version of it) concerning redirects ?
I mean Municipal wireless network is more frequently described as Municipal Wi-Fi, Muni Wi-Fi, Muni-Fi or even Mu-Fi. so, at least in Portuguese Wikipedia, these alternatives would have a redirect.
I uploaded the Box art Gauntlet (NES) Unlicensed version, with the information;
Gauntlet by Tengen, for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
I found most of the cover art images on Wikipedia use this, and I've done it before without it being caught by a bot, as stated on the Licencing summeray thing that is applied when selecting box art, it says. "This image is cover art for a video or computer game, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art to illustrate the packaging of the game in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information."
I added the following message "The words "The #1 Arcade Hit" can be read just barely in this low-resolution image." but wasn't sure if it was because of the images size that the bot caught it or if I've been putting the discription stuff in the wrong place and this is the only bot that has caught it so far.(Floppydog6619:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC))[reply]
I would like the source code for this bot, if you could. I would like to create a bot, and your bot is doing a lot of what my bot should do. Thanks in advance! Dreamy§20:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just change the username, add a second argument for the password (line 7), and run it. You'll also need the two modules in this directory for it to work. (If you don't understand that, I'd suggest that you not run the bot, and post at WP:BOTREQ or here for another user who is more capable of operating it.) --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs21:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy deletion notice sent to the wrong person
Regarding the speedy deletion of Greg Shaw Urologist, the bot sent the warning to the wrong person. I am the one who put the speedy deletion tag on this article. --Blanchardb02:25, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it was two hours ago, but this user edits pages on my watchlist while I'm at work and I get back to find he's still ignoring the warnings. It's not possible for me to report him from work. It's not like he's ever intending to stop until forced, as his previous IP, User:207.74.196.20 will testify. Any suggestions? Miremare17:29, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
PS: seeing as you're so thorough with images and their use, please do something about the non-free image used in this template; it consists of a collection of non-free images. It's apparantly acceptable use was what inspired me to create a similar image for Template:Politics of Canada.
Hello. I am the creater of this article Morshed Hossain. This is notable under the wikiproject cricket notablity criteria. To be notable you need to have played at least one first class or list A match which this player has acheived making him notable. I hope this explanation means that the article will now not be deleted. Thanks. 02blythed09:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm concerned as to your reference to "Wikiproject Cricket notability criteria" - surely arbitrary groups of editors aren't making rules that affect the whole community?
However, I didn't tag that article for deletion, I was just letting you know. If he does pass Wikipedia's notability criteria, WP:BIO, then I'm sure it will be kept. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs18:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I uploaded a few logos recently and before I had the chance to construct a fair use rationale the bot had tagged the image within 2 minutes and spammed my talk page at the same time as in here and here. Could we make it wait a few more minutes? (Or alternatively teach it to be slightly more patient?) Many thanks. Dr.K.01:05, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the unit of time just less than the minute is the second, not the millisecond. The bot is intended to tag recently uploaded images. Once someone uploads it, it leaves a bit of time for someone to modify it, then it processes the image. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs10:23, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply, but I was taking the limit of time as Dt->0 to emphasise the point. I was not following the next smaller order of magnitude. Aside for the math technicalities, one or two minutes is not enough to create a new rationale. If we can increase it to let's say five or six, it would be nice. Thanks. Dr.K.15:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There IS a box on Special:Upload for this sort of thing, that way the instant it is uploaded it becomes legal. You're asking for a distinction between "Hey, I stole this laptop" and "Hey, I stole this laptop, but I'll come back and pay for it once I get enough money", and there is no such distinction. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs17:58, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes there is an upload field that takes some details such as summary etc. But it looks small so I did not attempt to paste a fully functioning fair use template inside. But if you say it works I'll try it next time. Thanks for the suggestion. Dr.K.18:11, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Your tone
I consider this tone unnecessarily hostile and disruptive. Signature issue was not even in my mind. My concern was spam bots and you just had to talk down on me. -- Catchi? 02:44, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I put up a block request on the administator intervention page, and it seems like your bot treated my request as a comment on another request, which lead to my request being removed when the bot addressed the request above it. If you could look into this, I would appreciate it. – SJL20:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I see you've moved the arbcom message from MediaWiki:Watchdetails to MediaWiki:Watchlist-details. I have some css code in my skin css (classic skin) to switch off displaying these messages, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for the new message. I don't recall where I originally found the information about how to switch off the messages. Can you offer any advice please? – Tivedshambo(talk)07:42, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Ive recently rewrote an article for Tangler
which has been deleted a total of 4 times in the past. Could this article please be left on Wiki just for a week or so as I want to add more information to it and improove it before it is deleted again. Thanks.
HappyWanderer 14:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by HappyWanderer (talk • contribs) 13:20, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not the one who nominated it, however I agree with the nomination. You've added the hangon tag, but it may be easier to write it first, then post, rather than storing an incomplete article on the wiki. Also, if it is deleted, please use WP:DRV instead of recreating it. Thanks, --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs18:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
bot spam
While I appreciate the notice that an empty category I originally created is being deleted, I only need that info posted to my talk page once, not 3 times.
During August and September, you blocked hundreds of Tor network open proxies without any contributions, some for five years. However, searches on these IPs using this tool indicate many of these are not Tor proxies, and are reporting NAK. For example, user:211.69.195.34, with no contributions, was blocked for five years as a TOR proxy, but the tool reports it is not a Tor proxy. When you blocked the IP, you also subst'ed the TOR proxy block template onto the page, which at that time unfortunately contained a link to this sperm image, and now all the pages that were subst'ed contain that link (the template itself has since been fixed, but the subst'ed IP pages all have the link to the sperm image).
It looks as though you blocked quite a few non-Tor IPs with the 5 year Tor block. Did you use a script to block all of these? I undid a few the other day where there were complaints. Will you help me sort through this? Firsfron of Ronchester21:16, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, a script which took the IP and exit policy was used to assist in the banning. Unfortunately, many Tor nodes change IPs, which is why I started using shorter blocks. I haven't reviewed the early blocks, but I can do so in the coming week. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 21:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply. I'm going to go ahead and unblock a few of the IPs that aren't (now) Tor exit nodes that were blocked for five years, to try to prevent collateral damage. Do you have a script to fix the links to the sperm image? Firsfron of Ronchester21:31, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, he doesn't like you! I'd say you're right, it's an edit conflict, except the software just lets the bot go through, since it doesn't edit like a normal user. I'll look at the code later on to see if I can optimize the amount of time between loading and saving. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 19:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, I just benchmarked this, and it takes 1-2 wallclock seconds for the marking routine to run, timed from right before it loads the page to right after it saves it (thus, including server load time). Benchmarking from exactly after the load to exactly before the save, it takes 0.0006 wallclock seconds, give or take. Probably not a lot that can be shaved in there :) I think this was just a matter of bad luck for one user to be hit that way twice in the same day. I don't see much that can really be pared out in the code, but feel free to look and see if you find anything that I didn't! —Krellis (Talk) 16:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Further, I can understand why this edit from the bot happened - it's annoying that it didn't notice the warning above, but since the one above was manual, I can forgive the bot. But this edit, when it had already warned me? That should be coded for! :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs)05:41, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the first edit, it isn't supposed to do that, at least, I don't want it to do that - I'll review it and open a bug.
Hi, I've found a couple of bugs with two of your bots:
At [3], ImageBacklogBot did not remove the image correctly. It incorrectly assumed that the ]] at the end of 'India' was the end of the image tag (it wasn't) and also it left a space at the beginning of the line which messed up the formatting.
Looking at the code for AccReqBot, at lines 97 and 104, you've hard coded in the year 2007. You might want to change this so that the bot still works next year. Tra(Talk)18:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! The second is easy enough, I'll have to fix the regexes for the first - maybe I'll just make it throw a warning in that case, also pretty easy. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 19:01, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've made a small change to allow things like &assert=bot&nassert=exists to work. I'd agree it's ready for use; then we can look at whether more complex and/or are useful. -Steve Sanbeg21:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent - that's the big reason that my patch was incomplete. I'll ping TimStarling when I see him and point him here, and see if he caninstall it! Thanks for your help, --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 22:13, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You, or your bot, :o) - just advised me of a speedy deletion tag on the article I just created. The article was created in error instead of a category. :( - Please delete ASAP. Many Thanks. Richard Harvey14:20, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Images on commons are not protected through cascading, not automatically. I'll delete them because they're no longer on the main page, but you lot need to figure out what your policy is on main page images. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 11:32, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) They're indeed protected because, in the Wikimedia Commons, they're transcluded into commons:User:Zzyzx11/En main page which is protected with the "cascading" option enabled, not here. In the future, if you upload temporary copies of images from the Wikimedia Commons for the Main Page, use {{C-uploaded}} which is a correct tag for those images. {{Mprotected}} is only used for images that are on the English Wikipedia and on the Main Page. -- ADNghiem50123:32, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! CBM and I (mostly CBM) cleared through the list. Most of the pages were simply redirects left over from a pagemove and were quickly deleted. The remaining few were otherwise handled (moved, incoming links updated) and deleted. – Black Falcon(Talk)23:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You write: "Good afternoon. I'm advising you that due to continued edit warring at Free Zone (Scientology), you are being banned from editing any Scientology-related articles for another 30 days. This ban will expire on December 13, 2007, at 0:00 UTC. Note that if you violate this ban by editing these articles, you will be blocked. Thanks, --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 00:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)"
a) you did not give any warning.
b) I was not edit warring, but Fahrenheit451 was reverting me over and over again (he reverted my edits, not vice versa).
c) I am thus not following your logic. Nor do I follow why the provocateur here does not even get ticked. Makes me think you have a different agenda, you know. Also that you "thank" me, for what, the good feeling to beat somebody who tries to enforce Wikipedia police and "no commercial advertisement"? Hard to believe. So, can you be more clear about this? Shutterbug00:40, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As an afterthought, I might add that your action is effectively making any consensus impossible, will not improve the article. Why? Because what you say would exclude me from what you said on the article page. You froze it until a sortout is done and then you eradicate 50% of the debatants (which is me and Fahrenheit451). I just can't imagine that this is your purpose. Shutterbug00:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
With all due respect, you reverted his removal, did you not? The arbitration gave you plenty warning to get your act together, and in fact you just came off another ban not two weeks ago. Furthermore, Fahrenheit 451 has been advised that he should not continue edit-warring, but as that particular page is protected, sanctions against him are not necessary, unless you can show me that he has a history of edit warring on more than one article, in which case he will be warned, and if he attempts to edit-war again, he will be blocked. Finally, it's typically considered to be polite to sign off with some sort of nicety: good night, see you, or thanks all work just fine.
With regards to your afterthought, well, edit warring wasn't improving it either. The arbcom has placed these articles on probation. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 00:51, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and to clarify, I've eliminated 50% of the warriors, not the 'debatants'. As far as my ban goes, you're free to discuss this with him, which is what you should have done in the first place. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 00:53, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, this is not right. Fahrenheit451 is always part of any edit war with any Scientologist on Wikipedia. That's easy to prove. He just provokes and provokes and I have fallen for him earlier, that is true. The only action improving this article and any such article is a) to freeze it and b) to have all parties sort it out on the talk page. I welcomed you freezing the article (I would have asked for that on AN/I and have done so with other articles plenty of times). The sorting out part is what I am doing right now. Check it out, I think it'll work. Shutterbug01:03, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, he's been warned, and if I see him provoking or participating in edit wars again, he'll be placed under the same ban you are. I'm certainly glad to hear that you're pursuing a solution, and if a solution is found, then I'm willing to shorten your ban. I'll keep an eye on the article's talk page. Have a good night, --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 01:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I am going to work in a short while and might be back in a day or two. I am disagreeing with the ban. Before you go and leave this open unhandled, please cite some policy and why it is applied on me or what you expect me to do. There is no ban in the arbitration committee proceeding and I did my 30 days already, actually more than that. Double punishment should not exist at all, also not on Wikipedia. Aside that there is no point in that, taking the goal of better articles as something to reach. Shutterbug02:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm back. The discussion on the article talk page is done and resulted in a compromise article. I'm fine with it and don't intend to further work on it, except for eventually adding information (if I find some). Now, can you re-visit the subject and let me know? Thanks. Shutterbug (talk) 07:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's generally means something's wrong with the header of the page. I reverted back to a revision yesterday when the bots were working and had no problems[4] and luckily it started working again! If you see the diff, it was something to do with one of the functions of the bot being turned on. Ryan Postlethwaite14:41, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You mean those little parameters that have no meaning to me and I figure will send the bot spinning off into space? Great. Guess I'll let someone else fix them in the future too... —Wknight94 (talk) 14:44, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hehe, well I don't have a clue what the mean either - that's why I revert and hope for the best. If that fails to sort the problem, the best thing is to run away and hide! Ryan Postlethwaite14:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Aha, I think I know what happened. There was a spacing change in a place that shouldn't matter, but did to older versions of the helperbot. That combined with the fact that my hosting provider blew something up, so helperbot3 went down, and helperbot4 must be running a slightly older version of the code, so it couldn't handle the change in spacing. That explains why the "broken" revision worked when I tested it in my sandbox - if helperbot3 had actually been up at the time, it would have worked as well. ST47, you might want to make sure helperbot4 is on the latest source code when you get a chance. —Krellis (Talk) 15:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for letting me know. I've clarified the reasoning for the ban, as there seems to have been some confusion, and I will watch for further violations. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 11:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please see User talk:Newyorkbrad#ArbCom ban has been reinstated. The user is still not clear on the basis for your extension of the ban, which states that it was based on "edit-warring" and he or she appears to have made only one edit on the article in question. Perhaps you could offer a further clarification, on my talk or elsewhere, if I have correctly understood the basis on which you were acting. Thanks and regards, Newyorkbrad18:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sig
Heya...this might be a peculiar one, and it sure as heck is a selfish one...could you do something different with your signature? Just glancing at yours gives me eye-aches (precursors to migraine), and I don't want to have to avoid your postings! --jpgordon∇∆∇∆00:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
there is an obvious clear competition, if not a conflict going on between Arabs and Persions members in Wikipedia, and is taking the conflict to the next level, which is Wikipedia Credibility...
i have created a page called Al Ahwaz which is a region with Arab majority, seeking independance, while Iran on the other hand denies any problems in the area, then i was sent a speedy deletion notification request, but i was away for a time that period and didnt check my talk page..
so i would like to know why it was deleted and by whom... and how can ethnic and racial conflicts be seperated from Wikipedia...
as a user, i wish that the issue gets discussed by the Wikipedia Administrators...
and im not only talking about Iranians and Arabs, but between Turks, Greeks and Armenians, Chinese and Japanese, Indians and Pakistanis, French and English, Argentinians and British.... Arabs and Israelis, etc...
I noticed you tagged my images. I think I fixed them the images are mine to use, so I used the drop down tab to highlight that to that effect.
Also, how can I optimize the wiki entrys I did to show up at as a high listing on google. I see that when I type in certain words/search terms on google, the wiki article shows up as one of the first few results.
Does it take a while for google to do it automatically?
Is there anything I can do to speed up the process??
When do you lift the page protection? Neither User:Misou nor User:Shutterbug participate on talk page anymore. I think they won't since the page is protected in their version and both are topic banned for a month. User:Fahrenheit451 and me have reached consensus and even propose some changes in favour of Misou and Shutterbug(remove advertisement in idenics section). Could you take a look at talkpage and consider to unprotect the article ? --Stan talk21:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
could you please confirm the date of birth for Brent Wilson? I'm asking because your bot talked to me about both my pictures and so I'm assuming you are associated the with Panic! at the Disco project. So if you know could you please tell me?JazzlineB (talk) 04:59, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I got your name from the Abuse Reports/Volunteer page so, I hope it's ok if I leave you a message here and that my inquiry fits into the abuse category. Basically, the problem is with an editor named Dooyar. Long story short, me & another editor got into a bit of a tiff with him/her over the Karyn Kupcinet article. Needless to say, they were blocked twice for being rude. The last ban was for 48 hours on November 10. After that, I'm fairly certain they created sockpuppets (one with an actual name, two using anon which they have owned up to using in the past) to create some sort of illusion that someone is one their side and to make unsourced addition to articles which are usually reverted by anyone that can read (sorry, couldn't help myself!). I've already reported them for being a sockpuppet, but that process is incredibly slow. In the meantime, they have continued to be uncivil and have also attempted to delete the the Karyn Kupcinet archived talk page twice and have removed maintenance tags from a page (the latter two done under the anonymous IPs in which their usernames have been connected to in the past). I know the sockpuppet issue cannot be dealt with until proper research is done, but is there a way to stop them from repeatedly attempting to delete talk pages, reverting edits that anyone dares to dispute or remove, and removing tags when the issues haven't been addressed? As I stated before, they know the rules they're violating and they choose to ignore them. Thanks! Pinkadelica (talk) 07:46, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You want WP:SSP for this, but remember that they're allowed to remove stuff from their talk page, and if they do, it's assumed that they read it, and can be blocked if they continue.--uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 12:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm logged out!
Hi! Just letting you know that as of right now, BAGBot.pl is running logged-out from 24.0.64.193 (talk). Thanks, BAGBot.
Hi, I noticed that Anonimu(talk·contribs·deleted contribs·logs·filter log·block user·block log) regulary blanks his user talk page and I was under the impression that this was not acceptable. Since I only do some RC patrolling on WP and sometimes revert user talk pages that have been blanked I just don't want to do any mistake. You're the last admin that attempted to refrain him from doing so in July, why did you stop ? Thanks Mthibault (talk) 19:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just having a look at this page here. Am I free to remove images listed there as completed once I have checked it, or should I strike it, which do you prefer? :) — Save_Us_22906:31, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Whatever you please, I'd prefer that you removed them to make it cleaner - I'll be regenerating the whole thing every week, though, so if you only do a couple, it isn't a huge deal if you leave them in. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 11:25, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Is there any chance you can slow down your User:STBotI? :) The reason I asked is because I uploaded Image:Crossover (ST-DS9).jpg and then a minute later, you added the use rationale both to the image's page and my talk page. It would be nice to have at least 2 minutes or maybe even 5 before your bot takes affect. By the way, I do appreciate what your bot does. It reminds people to add the rationale so they don't forget. Thanks for reading this. Rockfang (talk) 16:14, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Is it possible to have this bot not add a csd warning template when there is one already in place? See this talk page where the bot added a warning when the user had been warned a while before. This would save the bot time, and not make the user feel like we are ganging up on them with all the templates. Thanks. KnightLago02:50, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If it's not a bother, could you please do a new database run for User:ST47/OCT? CBM and I cleared through all (or almost all) of the ones – including subpages – that should be deleted; however, recently there were a number mass renames and deletions of categories that had corresponding talk pages (I'm specifically thinking of the 120 or so Gaelic games-related categories). Thanks, Black Falcon(Talk)08:26, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's strange, but probably due to the changes made to the deletion interface - it looks like the js changed the tag, thought it deleted the revisions, but didn't actually do it. I'll go through and mass-revert the removals, then try it again, failing that, I'll just do it manually. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 17:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, can you please explain why my vote was annulled by you? I thought it said 150 main space edits were required but maybe I'm wrong about what a main space edit is. Can you please explain? Thanks! --LordPathogen (talk) 22:05, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Per this edit, I was wondering why you believe that suffrage is limited to people on earth? Is there anything in the rules which forbids voting from space? (I actually read it that way initially, since I was looking at diffs. Pretty funny.) Guettarda (talk) 23:48, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Could you please make your bot write an edit summary when welcoming new users? Something like "Welcome" would be better than this. Thanks. --Meno25 (talk) 04:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dear... STBotl... you are right, I'm not sure about the copyright issues with the picture. I have removed the picture from the page "The Dawning", but I'm not sure how to remove the whole image/image page... could you do that? thanks, Adair —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adaircairell (talk • contribs) 21:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I just posted an image a few minutes ago with my schools mascot. I do not think that the image is copyright, but I could be wrong. One of your bots gave me a warning (which is good). I do not know how to prove that this has no copyright or that I have permission to use it. Could you help me please. Thank you.
Nsh22 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nsh22 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
White Cat
Re:this - while I appreciate that you are passionate about your beliefs, please bear in mind that comments like that can be very hurtful. White Cat is no saint, but he's far from the worst user here. Raul654 (talk) 02:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Re deletion of Janine Fallon Mower at the Woodstock NY Page
Janine is a noted local author. The placement of information was patterned after the local author Ed Sanders.
It is my intention to add other local author names to the scroll over a period of time
google janine fallon mower and see what comes up under the books she has published.
contact me if you have any questions.
roscommon girl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roscommongirl (talk • contribs) 22:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting deletion
I will try to report this as well through your bug reporting, but, the first time through, I had an error message that "reporter" was required; either I missed that or there is a bug in the bug reporting.
This was a good-faith spinoff from an article that had grown too long; another spinoff was made with no problem. What's happening? hcb at netcases dot net if you prefer. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 00:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. "What is this?" is not a valid criterion for speedy deletion, last time I checked. I'd appreciate it if you could provide an explanation regarding the criterion under which you deleted this article; or, alternately, restore it. Kirill15:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It isn't a necessary article, it reads like an essay, it's OR, barely referenced, reads like advice rather than information, the 'case study' section has no reason to be in a Wikipedia article, and in fact the entire 'series' of articles doesn't belong here. There are limits on what information belongs on Wikipedia, expanding beyond that is why we use external links. We're here to tell people how stuff works, in the most basic sense, not to tell them how to be 'clandestine humint assets'. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 22:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's a pretty decent explanation of why you don't think the article should be here, but which one of those is, in your opinion, a CSD criterion? Kirill22:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Gold Medal "World Academy of Art and Science Benefactor of Humanity.jpg
I can not get to the page of the picture to write there that it is a picture made by myself, the medal belongs to my fatherinlaw and his name is on the medal.
I really don't know what is the problem?
He realy received it!
The pictures made about the Hansen Hospital in Jerusalem are mine too. I live in Jerusalem and i made the pictures.
So this picture are made by me:
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Hansen's Disease Hospital in Jerusalem.jpg
Image copyright problem with Image:Hansen's Disease Hospital in Jerusalem second picture.jpg
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Team at Hansen's Disease Hospital in Jerusalem 1 .jpg
Still wouldn't mind helping. See if I can't figure out why I was getting weird memory problems so I wont have to write it all from scratch again :) QTC13:07, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My article about San Base has been deleted. Why???
I got this massage from bot: "San base is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article."
Could you explain me where is a "blatant advertising" in this text:
San Base (born 1956)
San Base is a contemporaryCanadian artist, born in Russia. He has pioneered the Dynamic Painting technology - a revolutionary painting presentation method that breathes a life into previously static images. Using the latest in computer technology, a still picture is transformed into a never-ending show that adds a whole new dimension to traditional Art. Images replacing each other hour by hour, day by day, month by month. None of the images repeat previous ones and will never repeat again. The picture living its own life with objects moving and transforming but still following the original artist's concept.
As you can see - News.com, Toms Hardware, Globo.com and Der Spiegel published articles about this artist. Why it has been rejected by wikipewia? I do not see a logic.
I didn't delete it, I didn't tag it. The message my bot left you should have included a link to find out who did, but I see no messages on your talk page? --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 17:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The message is:
Spam in San base
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on San base, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because San base is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.
To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting San base, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
I'll put up the information about local Woodstock author once again and we can
discuss why she should be listed in an on line encyclopedia.
Her writing accomplishments are on par with the other author's who have been listed in the
wiki to date.
AfDBot appears to have run into some sort of issue. See here. The Deletions by date table lists no debates as closed. The Category table looks OK. Just thought I'd drop a note. thanks! ZZClaims~ Evidence23:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
One of your bots replaced an image of Ian Richardson that I was storing at my sandbox with an example image (I've restored it pending advice). I was keeping this as a template for part of a message I was going to send to another user's talk page. Is this an erroneous move by your bot or am I breaking a rule? Retarius | Talk05:30, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please can you explain why it is considered necessary to delete this page. We are a democratic, non political organisation campaigning to have a local town council. Please check legitimacy of this organistaion by doing searches on Google etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andoverian (talk • contribs) 17:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I dont usually work on delting user pages, so 'd like to find out where in WP:CSD 'temporary page; too old" is given as a reason fore deleting? You seem to have deleted several hundred user and user talk pages with this rationale. DGG (talk) 00:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I reverted your changes![11] Some of those editors look like they meet the threshold now, but did not meet the minimum edit threshold as of Nov. 1. Others came close but didn't meet it. You're watching those voters very carefully. Sorry for the clumsy move and the unwarranted bewilderment. I've been drinking again.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 01:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Heh - that's alright :) And it's not careful watching...I haven't checked all 3167 supports and 2139 opposes (that's the number of valid ones, anyways) - I have a bot that reports every vote, as it happens, checking if the user has enough edits, and another that runs on all voters on-demand. I didn't really even expect to see this many such votes, but we're keeping an eye on it :) --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 02:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well this may be due to the fact that in my case your bot doesn't know that I'm the user formerly known as MartinDK who has more than plenty of mainspace edits. I expect you to reinstate my votes (all of them as you indented all my votes in the election). If you want proof then see this. I'm entitled to abandon an old account due to real life stalking without losing suffrage. At least two crats and several admins are aware of my old account - you really shouldn't have a bot doing this on this scale. The bad faith assumption behind this is just another disappointment and reason I stay away from this place at the moment. EconomicsGuy (talk) 07:46, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have restored EconomicsGuy's votes. I hope you are checking the other bot red flags to see if the users are actually ineligible. Jeffpw (talk) 09:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As the bot is not capable of recognising users who have suffrage an a prior account, all its flags must be checked manually. It might be best for it to dump the names to a page rather than automatically indent them. A WP:AN/I thread has also mentioned this, see WP:AN/I#Arbcom bot?. I would imagine any further false positives may result in the bot being blocked until this is resolved. Neıl☎09:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I didn't notice you're running the bot on your main account. That would make blocking for problem behaviour impossible, so please discontinue running it in its current form. Neıl☎10:01, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not quite enough of an idiot to run this fully automatically. The bot isn't making any decisions. I plug in the user who appears to be bad, and it does my bidding. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 11:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the I hope you will be more careful when checking the bot's work. EconomicsGuy was not pleased at all about his votes being struck. Are you notifying others when you strike their votes? Jeffpw (talk) 11:46, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
dear ST47,
I placed a holdon and I wrote a statment of purpose relating to my wiki article: Asa Dodsworth. When I submitted the "talk statement" the article had already been deleted, an it appears therfore my statement additionally disapeared, Can you help me dig up that statement so I can post it on my talk questions page, and or someother appropriate place. Addittional I would value a copy of it my own records. I would additionally like a copy of the Permaculture Army post I made..
You all seem terribly busy, is there perhapse someone else I could correspond with.
I have other responsiblitites like Exams, Work, UCberkeley Treesit logistical support, Berkeley Garbage and Recycling Commissioner I am.
But I am very interested in exploring and supporting the power of the wiki system,
I need the advice and wisdom of a wiki sage, or seasoned adventurer.
I am currently getting doors slammed in my face, and I value my work.
ps.. When I extoll the virtues of wikipedia,my brother law loves to point out that the Conneticut State Page, has described conneticut a sandwich for a while, can you help me formulate my well intentioned edits.
Moped45 (talk) 05:52, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I apologize for the bot's repetitive edits. The bot is correct here, because images which are copyrighted may not be used in userspace, per WP:NFCC. If you think any particular image shouldn't have been removed, please let me know. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 19:25, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Do nice things, get nice stuff... :)
The Original Barnstar
For outstanding dedication to your fellow editors. You have repaired my monobook. You reflect great credit upon yourself, English Wikipedia, and Wikimedia. Mercury20:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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