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I'm worried I am dependent on wikipedia and am supporter of free-of-cost knowledge and preservation work. But I don't have the knowledge of server related terms. Also I usually don't understand legal statements because they are complex, big, and uses difficult terminologies. So I Plea to create a section in brief, simple and plain language on:

• 1. How (by which mechanisms) the said controversial laws affect Wikipedia?

• 2. How (by which mechanisms) the said controversial laws affect so many organisations who develop genuine/original but free software/content?

• 3. How (by which mechanisms) the said laws affect free-of-cost knowledge and learning in-general?

Thanks and best wishes.

2405:205:6285:DCD9:8CB2:E7A1:700D:312B (talk) 07:14, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pichemist I saw that you've nominated this for GA. I'm not up to doing a full review, but let me suggest that a first pass on getting this up to GA quality would be to find all the citations to primary and/or non-reliable sources and replace those with better sources. I see a bunch of citations to reddit and twitter posts. None of those belong in a GA article. For example, in the "December 2011 boycott of GoDaddy" section, we cite a twitter post by Jimmy Wales for moving domains away from GoDaddy. Any of ^[1], ^[2] , or ^[3] would be better. Of those three, the Network World one is probably the best. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:33, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

-- RoySmith (talk) 21:33, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I do not think I will go trough the article as when I nominated it I was not aware that you needed to be a major contributor of the article at hand. This is my mistake and I take full responsibility for it. Thank you for your time. _Signed, Pichemist ^{( Contribs | Talk )} 08:38, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh snap, I started looking through this earlier. I was adding notes in a text editor did not check the talk page to read your comment. I've put a review in for the article already.

This is my first GA review, so I am not sure what steps I should take next. Do you need me to "fail" the article or is there a different "withdraw" process? Rjjiii (talk) 09:49, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:GAN/I#N3. If the nominator informs the reviewer that they're withdrawing the nomination (which I guess we can consider has happened), you should fail the review. It wasn't a waste of time, however; the review is still available for people to look at and may well serve as a starting point for somebody else to dive in and make improvements, so thank you for that. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:43, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks, I think I've taken care of it. The review no longer seems transcluded onto this page but is still here: Talk:Protests against_SOPA and PIPA/GA1 for future reference Rjjiii (talk) 06:05, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]