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Portal:Disasters
Hi, just wondering whether you were still interested in maintaining this portal, since the selected article/picture etc have been redlinks for well over a year... Regards,
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Barbaro hoaxer again
They showed up and got 14 more socks blocked. However, one of the socks, even though their talk page says they have been indefinitely blocked [1] is no longer blocked. [2] The admin who unblocked them did not realize they were under investigation as sock and says they have no problem with a reblock. [3] Edward321 (talk) 15:26, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
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Re: "Voynich Manuscript at FAR"
My real work has kept me away from Wikipedia for long periods of time, and only now I saw yor note on my talk page about the featured article review of
Sigh. It is sad to see such a wonderful idea like Wikipedia being slowly destroyed by creeping bureaucratization. I find myself spending an increasing amount of time reacting to the actions of a small army of self-appointed vigilantes whose "contributions" have been mainly to tag, classify, grade, downgrade, request, disparage, and ultimately delete other peoples careful and valuable contributions. As if that were not enough, many of those bureaucrats use robots to impose their views on thousands of articles. More often than not, a mindless click of the mouse by one of those people forces a plain editor to spend from several minutes to severa hours, just to restore the article to its original state.
I am not paid to help wikipedia; I do it because it feels good — or rather it felt good, now I am not so sure.
Please, if you run across an article that needs improvement, try to improve it, or at least explain in the article's talk page what you think is wrong, dubious, dangerous, etc.. If you can't do that, or don't have the time for it, just leave the article alone. Do not demand that someone else do work that you don't have the time to do yourself. Do not demand that authors defend their work immediately under pain of having it deleted. Do not force authors to read some central bulletin board, or tell them to read hundreds of pages of Wikipedia rules and discussions. They did their part of the work; they are under no obligation to do more, or even to defend it. Those who want more work should do it themselves, and be prepared to justify their actions, case by case, on the article's talk pages.
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Hi, Nishkid64, happy holidays. Since you've watched the cases on this persistent troll and ranged blocked their underlying IPs back to January, could you look into this new SPI case mainly against 青鬼よし (talk · contribs · count · logs · page moves · block log · edit summaries)? Their edit summaries/writing style|interests/disruptive patterns are all identical, and I think I've given too much opportunities to the sockpuppeter for a long time even though I've sensed that 青鬼よし is Azukimonaka ever since he registered his "new account". Moreover, according to the expose by 青鬼よし, himself, their email address is also identical, and they operated a blog dedicated to harass me, wikistalked my edits, and canvass other Japanese socks/editors to encourage to meatpuppet. If you're bored with the holiday weekends, would you care to look into the case? Also I'm wondering why this request is not automatically shown up yet. --Caspian blue 05:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
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IPBE needed for User talk:DaisyQueen?
You instituted this IP block: User talk:DaisyQueen. Could you look into this request, and decide how to handle it? Thanks! --Jayron32 03:26, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
The "WTC" article
I just wanted to leave a message to ask you why you disabled the Waking the Cadaver page (disabled for creation too:S)? Waking the Cadaver is a real band, no fakes or such, a Brutal Death Metal/Brutal Deathcore band. Please let me do one page, if you don't like it at all, delete it x)
User:Woohp978 Woohp978 —Preceding undated comment added 19:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC).
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Abu Kalam Azad
Good evening dear VirtualSteve,
I want to complain about some Users who vandalize many articles on Wikipedia and push their own POV´s on them. Some of them are Users like
For ca. 1 year ago, I was reading an article about Abul Kalam Azad, an Indian Muslim politician of Tajik origine. However, the article was using the term Afghan to tie him with Afghanistan, since his ancestors were from Herat, Afghanistan, a Persian/Tajik city. I was looking for sources on library and on the Net to exchange the term Afghan with Perian (Tajik). When I found them, I used a few of them. But some days later, the article was falsified by the User:119.73.4.199 and User:Ketabtoon from Persian to Pashtun, but not even back to Afghan (see on the state definition of Afghan, citizen), as you can see here. He claimed that the term Afghan mean Pashtuns and not Tajik. He did not want to understand the term was used to tie him with Afghanistan, as Britannica and other not scientific and reliable sources do, when it comes to regional heritage or origine of someone or something. For Abul Kalam Azad, I had the following sources where it was stated the person´s Persian origine:
http://www.bharatadesam.com/people/biographies/freedom_fighters/maulana_abul_kalam_azad.php
- India Wins Freedom; Orient Longman Book-Institute
- ^ Die politische Willensbildung in Indien 1900-1960; 1965, von Dietmar Rothermund
- ^ http://www.whereincity.com/india/great-indians/freedom-fighters/maulana-abul-kalam.php His mother was an Arab and the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Zaher Watri and his father, Maulana Khairuddin, was a Bengali Muslim of Afghan (Tajik) origine. Khairuddin left India during the Sepoy Mutiny, proceeded to Mecca and settled there. He came back to Calcutta
The last source give in addition to the term Afghan as someone who comes from modern-day Afghanistan, his national ethnicity. But it is even interesting to see that User:Ketabtoon uses the same sources that grip on his Tajik ancestory for his Pashtun origine click here. They just jump over the sources and the sourced terms and exchange them with no opponent sources. I want to ask you, if you can give me the permission to correct the falsified paragraph in the article. I appreciate every help from your side. I am going to create an account for myself on Wikipedia and I would thank you very much if I could stand near to you. With best regards, dear friend--94.219.218.209 (talk) 23:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Samuel Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Samuel_Adams
This article is being reviewed for FA. Can you help me find a few other references besides that book? Adding a few references to confirm some of the book's fact will probably solve most of the problems. JB50000 (talk) 04:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
- Nish, here's the FAR link: Wikipedia:Featured article review/Samuel Adams/archive1. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 04:14, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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DaisyQueen
The unblock request for DaisyQueen (talk · contribs) has been on hold for quite a while. Your comments would be appreciated on the request. Toddst1 (talk) 05:50, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
2007 Samjhauta Express bombings
Hi Nishkid64, the Samjhauta Express FA needs modest updating: [4][5] etc. I've added the latter source, and someone else has mentioned Qasmani, citing another source, but not having researched or followed this topic much, I would feel better if one of the original editors looked it over. --JN466 19:00, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
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Can you help?
I've been having some problems with this editor[6], who first changed referenced information[7], then stated on my talk page that he didn't changed referenced information[8], then when I added references, he removed the references[9]. Apparently this individual believes that simply stating something on a talk page gives him/her the freedom to remove referenced information and references. --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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Vandal user Toutvientapoint
User:Toutvientapoint has been vandalizing several articles in his/her short time on Wikipedia. They have been warned multiple times, but he/she just clears their talk page and ignores all comments. Here are all the warnings he/she have received (I undid all his/her blankings)[10]
South Asia [11] (after this edit, I told them on their talk page why their edit was wrong) then they repeat the vandalism [12] claiming the reversion was unexplained (even though I had told them why it was wrong)
Asia [13] [14] (They removed a huge chunk of cited content)
Can some actions be taken against this vandal, thanks Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC) (This has also been posted on YellowMonkey and EdJohnston's talk pages Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC))
These two users have helped each-other in edit-warring over Fereydoun Farrokhzad and their edit pattern seems similar. Are they related to eachother? What do you think about this personal attack? Alefbe (talk) 01:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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I see you have 58 pages
Add a "public interest" clause to Oversight
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Jian Li
I noticed that you provided the update on Jian li's transfer to Harvard. Are you a friend of his? I am a Chinese American who would like to offer support to his case against Princeton. Please let me know how to contact him. Thanks. Duduong (talk) 06:33, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
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I have just posted some suspected socks there. Edward321 (talk) 15:19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation
I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that your entry was commented out. I have moved it to the "Reconfirmation" section.
Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list and placed on the "retired" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)
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Another sockpuppet of User:Neda Reza Azad
Look at User:Tajiki0013 and its contributions. Alefbe (talk) 20:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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Look at User:Prdd and its contributions. Clearly a sock Bevinbell 22:09, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
- Blocked, thanks. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:17, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
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Personal attacks from previously banned IP
Hi, noticed you have banned 207.69.139.157 in the past, I now have received a third personal attack (I did not report the other two at Talk:Thornton expedition) from this user after his puppets have been banned. Any help, or anywhere I can report the abuse? Thanks for your time, Brutal Deluxe (talk) 10:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC).
- Hello Nishkid, I too have received abusive messages from this IP (it's actually banned User:Brunodam). See [15]. Many thanks, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 10:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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192.251.226.206
Please see 192.251.226.206 (talk · contribs), which you blocked before, and this diff for the IP's identity. I've reverted the edits since it is a banned user. Erik (talk) 12:01, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
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As the primary author of the article, I thought I would let you know of my addition of an image, File:Great presidential puzzle2.jpg. I believe it gives good media context of the convention, and is of high quality. Let me know if you have any comments or questions (feel free to respond here). Thanks! Jujutacular T · C 03:51, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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OTRS help request
Hi Nishkid, can you please have a look at File:PuranaanuruPalmManuscript.jpg and File:VatteluttuInscriptionAtJainaCave.jpg? The original provider of the two images has confirmed that he has send his agreement on licensing to OTRS. But, the status has not changed to OTRS received. Please advice. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 16:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
- He has sent an email again, copying me this time. Please have a look. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 08:51, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Please let me create Calum
Hello Nishkid64. I tried to create a page Calum but it appears to have been blocked by you. I can see why, from the history of unproductive pages that people have created. I have real content I would like to place in a Calum page in the form of a given name page with about 30 entries. Can you unblock it please so that I can create it? — Hebrides (talk) 19:45, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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