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Re: Block Length

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While I thank you for restoring the original block length, the lies and falsehoods inherent in the original false accusations against me leave me little doubt that Wikipedia is no longer a place for the honest. Watching the drama that unfolded after and trying to track and read pages like (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:StillStanding-247&action=history) - which now has a ridiculous redirect placed on it as well as people apparently watching over it to whitewash off information of interest - leaves me little doubt that Wikipedia's NPOV policy has died a horrid death. I doubt I'll be editing again with any regularity, it's simply not worth the effort. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.196.232.109 (talk) 03:29, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change of username

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I want my username to be chetanvengurlekar. Hope you do the needful. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by OnlyHunkHere (talk • contribs) 11:03, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You'll need to go to WP:CHU to get that done. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:23, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

An enormous overdue thank you

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I just wanted to pop by and give you a huge and heartfelt "thank you" for all of the help you have been providing at UTRS. I was pretty much on my own there for a while, and your presence is certainly appreciated. Cheers, --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 01:19, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:23, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tobuscus

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You forgot to delete Tobuscus, after closing it's deletion review as "Decision endorsed". Armbrust The Homonculus 08:23, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The GAN Newsletter (November 2012)

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The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
Volume III, No. 2 – November 2012

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012

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J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Moscow State University

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Moscow State University crop.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Julia\talk 18:15, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Bon Scott memorial picture

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Dear King of Hearts

Having read the reasons for the removal of the photo (File:Bon Scott Memorial Kirriemuir.JPG), I find it hard to accept that it would be found to be in breach of UK copyright law.

Its removal seems somewhat pedantic, there must be thousands of such 2D plaques all over the country, some part of statues and some placed on buildings.

Are you suggesting that all photos of public buildings or statues with plaques on them (readable by the viewer) should also be removed?

JoBaMo — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoBaMo (talk • contribs) 21:04, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No. There is something known as de minimis. If the plaque takes up a large portion of the picture, then we say it is the main subject and therefore must be deleted. If it is only a small portion of the picture, we say that it is an incidental inclusion of the copyrighted material and it's OK. Think about it: If we had to delete pictures with any little bit of copyrighted material, then we'd have to delete pictures of anyone wearing anything but a solid-color shirt! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:58, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

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Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.

Deletion of TEOCO page

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Since the deletion of this page in December of 2009, TEOCO has acquired two companies based in Israel. One of which, TTI_Telecom, was a publicly traded company and has a Wikipedia page. TEOCO has also been ranked for 3 straight years in lists produced by both Deloitte and Inc.

Further strengthening its case for a Wikipedia page is a direct competitor's page. CVidya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Market1122 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored it. (Do note that, however, the existence of a competitor's page does not mean anything about whether a certain company gets a Wikipedia page. Maybe both of them should not exist.) But in this case I have determined that the company in question is notable enough for an article. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:25, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

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The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.

UndercuttingRushing

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Instead of aggressively stalking, undercutting and wasting my work and the work of others, start cutting at the top of the tree here, Wikipedia:Database_reports/Large_non-free_files, before I invest time bringing usable images into compliance. Thanks. Oh, and in case you didn't know, s Some of these should merely be remediated by relicensing, rather than deleted. --Lexein (talk) 06:39, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's not the issue here. The image is not acceptable at any resolution, because it is a non-free photo of an existing building, and someone can go there and take a picture of it and release it under a free license. And if you were wondering how I came across it, it was not by stalking anyone's edits (I did not even know you before), but just maintenance of the category Category:Non-free architectural works to ensure that all images in that category are depictions of buildings which have not been completed. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:28, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, then, if possible, excuse my grumpiness. I do still feel in some cases relicensing and moving to Commons is appropriate, rather than deletion, and that deletion need not be hurried while that work takes place (photo owner grants CC release, OTRS pending & all that). Sometimes there's no rush, and no legal danger posed by anyone to anyone. --Lexein (talk) 07:06, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That is a sentiment I share. However, in this particular case it said the photo was created by the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, not the uploader. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:19, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, (grits teeth), you're not wrong. --Lexein (talk) 20:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

31h to 36h

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Hi, as you invited anybody who disagrees with the change to revert it, I have done so and opened a discussion at MediaWiki talk:Ipboptions#31h to 36h to figure out the matter. I'm really confused by the legacy thing and I look forward to hearing what exactly you meant as it escapes me :) Snowolf How can I help? 01:33, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocking User:StarSabine‎

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Hi King of Hearts. I noticed you were considering unblocking this user - just wanted to let you know that I'm more than happy to trust your judgement in the matter, so don't feel you need to check with me first in the usual way. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 10:30, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Got that. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:34, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

segnalate edit war

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Hello, can you do for me? This user replaces all images with other images of German cars that he likes (it's German) and even though I have canceled and advised him sparked edit war. See here please [1] thank you --93.50.115.250 (talk) 11:17, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the record: The IP 93.50.115.250 belongs to the User:Pava who has a record of edit-warring, insulting, vandalism, sockpuppeteering etc.--FAEP (talk) 11:22, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
What are you saying? and what does it matter? you have to take responsibility for the actions do not move the conversation to something else putting a bad light on other users to believe they spend on the safe side, we're not stupid (@King of Hearts: excuse the invasion, I will not answer further, I entrust to your administrator authority, there is no need to add things you probably already know) --93.50.115.250 (talk) 11:35, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have warned the IP to stop his vandalism.--FAEP (talk) 11:42, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Both of you: You are not doing yourself any favors by taking a Commons issue here. Please keep it on Commons, and when your blocks expire, discuss the changes before edit warring. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 11:47, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

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On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.

Deletion Review

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Is there really a rush to close these? I don't see any logic to your decision to close Jill Kelley a day early. Spartaz Humbug! 16:35, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My bad, I miscalculated the time zone difference. But still it is only 3 hours early. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:52, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think you must be way ahead of my timezone (and I'm UTC+4) if you were only 3 hours out. ;-) Spartaz Humbug! 02:10, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

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I made an error. By the time I was here again to correct it you had already done so at User talk:216.52.185.73 Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:02, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Socks

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I already said that a checkuser would find more socks (one time use accounts used to revert vandalism or used to dump sources on a talk page), which i couldn't remember. But i promise that you will not find sockpuppet abuse such as block evasion or use of the accounts to edit war as different people, if there is abuse in any forgotten accounts i will eat my own hat and post a video of it online. i invite the checkuser to go ahead as i try to find the old socks.

Rajmaan (talk) 03:20, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And as i mentioned in the link, the checkuser will also find a proxy ip that i used to login from work this morning.Rajmaan (talk) 03:31, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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