User talk:De728631/2015

Global account

Hi De728631! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with {{ping|DerHexer}}. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 23:32, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for this notice but I am aware of the unified login feature. However, for security reasons I am against using a global account and prefer to keep my single accounts with individual passwords and user names across different WM projects. Should one of my passwords ever get hacked it would only compromise one of my accounts while the rest would remain secure. So unless the unified login becomes mandatory I'd rather not use it. De728631 (talk) 20:50, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Completely understood. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 20:57, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi, while I understand your concerns and they are certainly valid in general, I don't think they apply to Wikimedia global accounts. First of all your local accounts will be automigrated into global ones soon, so you will then have several global accounts. As you probably have different passwords and email addresses your accounts wont be automatically mergeable, thus each local account will be renamed and turned into one global account with the new name. Due to that CentralAuth will then create multiple accounts on the English Wikipedia for you (which can become a mess). On top of that, I don't see the security benefit of having multiple accounts, that all use the same infrastructure (and eg. access from one site to another is possible with JavaScript via CORS). In fact you make yourself easier to attack by having multiple passwords that could be used to hijack one of your accounts and then to take over other accounts from there (unless you took countermeasures to that, eg. by disabling JavaScript). If you care about security a lot, I suggest you to create a global account and choose a very good password for it. If you want to do more, you can look into using something like NoScript, which is especially interesting over here, as we have a fairly high number of users (all administrators) to change JavaScript. - Hoo man (talk) 22:15, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Ah well, since some sort of automigration is ahead anyways I have now merged my accounts. There's one at Meta though which I don't remember having created and that doesn't use any passwords I could possibly have invented myself, so I guess that will have to be usurped one day. De728631 (talk) 20:03, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Seeking your help to translate from English

Hello my fellow Wikipedian,

Thanks for taking your time off to help hapless Wikipedians and otherwise stucked-up articles find their way to the forefront of other non-English speaking readers. I would hope that I have approached you the right way.

Nonetheless, I humbly seek your intervention to translate the following pages from English to your native tongue, since I gathered that it may mean something to Wiki readers in other languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Letters_to_Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Adonis

Thanks in anticipation for facilitating this request.

Webwatchergy (talk) 16:27, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello there. I am fairly busy with other projects right now, but I might consider translating these articles for the German language Wikipedia. The Ten Letters to Obama, however, will first have to survive the deletion discussion. De728631 (talk) 16:30, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Bizarre German coming and going

Did you look at the prose in Die Sage von der Seerose? especially the last paragraph? I really hope the editor has someone else translate it before they upload it on de.

That brings me to something that is on de: in de:Andreas Borum, what do you make of "Unter den Mitinhabern des 'lithographisch-artistischen' Institut der Gebr. Kehr, auch unter Gebr. Kehr & Niessen in der Literatur erwähnt, den Lithographen Carl Kehr in Köln sowie seinem Bruder Johann Philipp Kehr (* 1800 in Bad Kreuznach) war er neben D. Leon, Eduard Gerhardt und Bonaventura Weiß (* 1812) von 1835 bis 1839 als Mitarbeiter tätig."? I cannot figure out the syntactic relationship of "den Lithographen Carl Kehr in Köln sowie seinem Bruder Johann Philipp Kehr" to anything else or really frankly of the accusative brother to the dative brother. I made a dogged attempt to wrestle meaning out of it at Andreas Borum, which Drmies started yesterday. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:08, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Umm, I didn't even read Die Sage von der Seerose in detail but I seem to remember that it looked weird compared to the English article. Now as to the Kehr brothers and Andreas Borum, this is one of the encapsulated sentences Kleist would have loved. The accusative in "den Lithographen Carl Kehr in Köln sowie seinem Bruder Johann Philipp Kehr" refers to the owners of the institution, and you'd better shuffle the parts around for an English tranlation. I.e. "Together with D. Leon, Gerhardt and Weiß he was employed under the management of the co-owners of the lithographical-artistical institute ..., namely the lithographers Carl Kehr of Cologne and his brother Johann." De728631 (talk) 15:17, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

My attempt wasn't far off that: "From 1835 to 1839 he was employed together with D. Leon, Eduard Gerhardt and Bonaventura Weiß (born 1812) at the "lithographic-artistic" institute of the Kehr brothers, sometimes called Kehr & Niessen, which was founded in Cologne by the lithographer Carl Kehr and his brother Johann Philipp Kehr (born 1800 in Bad Kreuznach)." I'm still not sure about the dative brother :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Pedophelia and Sex Trafficking issue

You have decided to make unconstructive deletions to prevent the discussion of an important topic. This topic is pedophilia and sex tourism in Cambodia, and bias against anti-sex slavery advocates. You've taken action to delete this comment and prevent it from being even discussed. You claimed that this is an "unconstructive edit" and yet it not even a edit to an article. Furthermore, there is nothing unconstructive about it. If you want to make a comment about it, you can do so on the talk page. Wikipedia operate by consensus, so deleting the comment was not appropriate.180.150.134.149 (talk) 13:06, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

You have been told by several editors that the Wikipedia Village Pump was not the proper place to discuss your concerns about a specific article, but you kept restoring the section. That is what we call disruptive. We're not trying to prevent any discussion about an article but there there are certain place for this to do at Wikipedia, and surely the Village Pump is not one of them. If you would like to discuss the deletion of an article, please see WP:Deletion review. For issues about the content of an existing article please use the talk page of that article, but note also that Wikipedia is not general forum. De728631 (talk) 13:21, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Deletions at the village pump

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. You can comment on your role in deleting my comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.136.36.235 (talk) 23:38, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Revdel at User:Fête dans la vie

Thanks for deleting the revisions. But revision 648707408 is still public (and a copyright violation). Or is it not possible to delete the first revision without some extra work? Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 21:00, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah, it seems I forgot this one, but it does contain verses by Festin. So now I've zapped it, too. Thank you for the reminder. De728631 (talk) 15:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Sources

On the article Tolkien family, Twitter has been used a source. I don't think it can be used a source. I think it should be removed from the article. One more thing I'll like to ask is whether the website http://www.theonering.net/ can be used a source. KahnJohn27 (talk) 10:28, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Also can you please add Edwin Neave as husband to Jane Suffield in the family tree? I can't seem to figure it out. KahnJohn27 (talk) 10:47, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Twitter can be used as a primary source. So in this case that is ok since Royd Tolkien himself posted about his brother. As to Theonering.net, this is primarily a fansite but sometimes they do feature reliable content, so I'm going to check the article for it. De728631 (talk) 20:34, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Tolkien family tree

Can you please add Edwin Neave as husband to Jane Suffield in the family tree? I can't seem to figure it out. I've already sourced this information in the article. KahnJohn27 (talk) 14:28, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I've added Edwin Neave but we should take care not to become too detailed. Wikipedia is not a directory where every family member needs to be listed, so I think it would be best if we concentrated on rather direct relatives and noteworthy people in general. De728631 (talk) 18:43, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Why did you remove the image??

Hey De728631 I just saw that you removed the image from Arindam Bhattacharya. Is there any valid reasond behind removing that?? | Check what you did Suman420 (talk) 19:24, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

From my edit summary you can see that the photograph is most likely a copyright violation (copyvio). All the recent uploads made by SaUp2014 at Wikimedia Commons have been tagged for missing permission from the photographers. In fact it seems he just copied the pictures from the websites of the relevant football clubs and made up a free licence of his own liking. Unless there is evidence that this photo of Arindam Bhattacharya has been released under a free licence we shouldn't show it. De728631 (talk) 22:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

• Now I've got it. CopyVio= Copyright Violation :) At first I could not get it. good job De728631. keep it up. Suman420 (talk) 13:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Redirect or delete?

Hi. I contact you because I remember I proposed a deletion and you thought it should be redirected so I want to ask you for advice. I have for over a year thought about the articles Stockholm urban area, Malmö urban area and Gothenburg urban area. I think it was a misunderstanding by the user who created these articles over ten years ago. He also created other with "urban area" in their title but they were later redirected to other articles, such as Ludvika urban area to Ludvika. These three articles were not. So I think about redirecting those to Stockholm, Malmö respectively Gothenburg, bbecause they are also about "urban areas" (tätorter).

I have written in the Swedish Wikipedia about Stockholm urban area and some there wanted to keep the Swedish equivalent as they did not think the articles were about the same thing, however, this one at English Wikipedia (Stockholm urban area) is about the same thing (Stockholm) so I think all three should be redirected. --IRISZOOM (talk) 00:34, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, in case of these three urban area articles I wouldn't use a simple redirect but I'd rather merge the content into the main articles where applicable. You should also consider whether the main articles aren't already too long so forked content with standalone articles about the urban areas would be justified. De728631 (talk) 18:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

What I mean is that they are duplicates. For example, Göteborg is about the "urban area" (the city or "tätort"), just like Gothenburg urban area, but there are two articles about the same thing likely because of a misunderstanding several years ago. So the first article contains basically the same info and much more other info. The municipalities listed in Stockholm urban area are the same as the one listed in the second part of Stockholm#Demographics or the infobox. Stockholm Municipality, Huddinge Municipality etc. are all part of the the city of Stockholm ("tätort" or urban area). I don't think they contain something more than what is already in the bigger articles but if someone later want to add something, it could always be added if those smaller articles are redirected. --IRISZOOM (talk) 23:36, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I see. Well, if there is nothing to transfer from the small articles about the urban areas, simple redirects will do the trick. De728631 (talk) 19:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your answers. I will look again on the articles to see if there is something that can be added and then I redirect. --IRISZOOM (talk) 21:06, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Need help again

Need help again on the Tolkien family tree. Please add Marian Esther Tolkien (1866–1934) to the family tree and also add Frederick William Chippendale as her spouse. Also please add Katherine Madeleine Green as spouse of Wilfred Tolkien. I tried to add her but the name of Laurence George H. Tolkien becomes cut off from the tree. Please add it. Thanks. KahnJohn27 (talk) 10:16, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I think the tree has already become too cluttered, and as I mentioned in an earlier discussion, Wikipedia is not a directory that needs to list any and all members of the family. We should limit the entries to the notable members. So I'm afraid but I don't think that adding other names to the family tree would be constructive. Please feel free though to open a discussion on the article's talk page to ask for other people's opinions. De728631 (talk) 13:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Since most of the members in the tree are non-notable names I suggest you add the ones I mentioned. Marian Esther Tolkien is sister of Arthur Tolkien (father of JRR Tolkien) and Katherine Madeline Green is wife of Wilfred Tolkien, Arthur's brother. So I request you to please add it. If you won't then I'll try adding it by myself despite of how difficult it might be or how long it might take. KahnJohn27 (talk) 20:48, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Ok, I've added them. But that generation really should be covered with that. Any children of, let's say, Wilfred and Katherine would be out of scope and, if at all, they should only be mentioned in the text part.

I agree children should not be added. In actual no children of theirs or other sublings are mentioned ina ny sources. I only wanted them added because other siblings of Arthur Tolkien were already there and they were the only missing important additions to the family tree. Thanks for the help. KahnJohn27 (talk) 18:08, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

stop changing genres to suit a mass WRONG OPINION of what a genre is.

stop changing something to suit what you believe is goth rock when it is metal,hard rock,shock rock, and anything unrelated ot the music. your giving people wrong information about a band that has nothing to do with the music. just because someone looks like something doesnt mean they are.stop changing things to suite your opinion on what the genre is.

You are right: my opinion is totally irrelevant – but so as is yours. All that matters is what professional critics have written in reliable sources. That is how Wikipedia works. Fan-based likings and what "true goths" may personally think has no place in an encyclopedia unless it has been published on a noteworthy level. Please see also this essay. And please sign your contributions to talk pages by using four tilde characters ~~~~. Thank you. De728631 (talk) 18:28, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

User:Smoothest Aashu

User:Smoothest Aashu re-created himself only minutes after your kind deletion. Any chance of a little salt on his tail to end the tedium of repeat CSDs ?. Many thanks  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   16:26, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for notifying me. Although it was less promotional than before I zapped the page again and left him a note about appropriate user page content. De728631 (talk) 16:31, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

For the record: indeffed by Smalljim (NOTHERE). De728631 (talk) 17:11, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

But still able to post his promotional stuff on his old talk page here!. Any chance of tighter sanctions ? Regards  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   11:24, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Sure. JohnCD revoked the guy's talk page access. De728631 (talk) 17:40, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Research Invitation

Hello De728631,

We’d like to invite you to participate in a study that aims to explore how WikiProject members coordinate activities of distributed group members to complete project goals. We are specifically seeking to talk to people who have been active in at least one WikiProject in their time in Wikipedia. Compensation will be provided to each participant in the form of a $10 Amazon gift card.

The purpose of this study is to better understanding the coordination practices of Wikipedians active within WikiProjects, and to explore the potential for tool-mediated coordination to improve those practices. Interviews will be semi-structured, and should last between 45-60 minutes. If you decide to participate, we will schedule an appointment for the online chat session. During the appointment you will be asked some basic questions about your experience interacting in WikiProjects, how that process has worked for you in the past and what ideas you might have to improve the future.

You must be over 18 years old, speak English, and you must currently be or have been at one time an active member of a WikiProject. The interview can be conducted over an audio chatting channel such as Skype or Google Hangouts, or via an instant messaging client. If you have questions about the research or are interested in participating, please contact Michael Gilbert at (206) 354-3741 or by email at mdg@uw.edu.

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Marge6914 (talk) 21:04, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your research

Thanks for your research on the page on Dinesh Singh which was deleted. I also had the impression that the page that was used to justify deletion as in fact a copy of the wikipedia entry that was deleted. Best, 69.159.18.138 (talk) 15:12, 26 April 2015 (UTC) Animesh

You're welcome. Let's wait and see what Jimfbleak thinks about it. De728631 (talk) 15:26, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Three revert rule

Hi there. I see you're an admin and that you recently blocked someone for breaching 3RR. Currently (at my time of writing), the Clovelly is subject to a dispute and I am up to my neck in it. Just before I started writing this my revision was on display. By the time this is sent it may not be. What I want to know (if you get to it on time) is, am I currently in violation of 3RR? I've made four edits but the first was an "addition". I admit it is the same as what I was doing a few days earlier (and that may be wrong too) but I am willing to self-revert if the opportunity is there and I really really have to. Can you advise at this point (without need for further action)? --Mario Payne (talk) 21:24, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Continuing: to be safe I self-reverted although it is next day, hope now it won't end up with block. --Mario Payne (talk) 17:25, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello. From what I can tell, this edit of yours was your first revert in the series at Clovelly. Additions that do not remove content written by other editors do not count as reverts, nor do consecutive edits by the same user count as individual reverts. Anyhow, you're now at 4 reverts even though you self-reverted your last edit. But since you've noticed your mistake of getting into an edit war yourself I don't see any need to take action here. Generally I'd say once your revert gets reverted, it's time to start a discussion at the article's talk page instead of hitting the undo button again. De728631 (talk) 22:21, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Ok thanks for that. --Mario Payne (talk) 04:23, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

User:Viet-hoian1

Hi. I have a problem with the User:Viet-hoian1. User try push controversial changes without discussion and consensus and against status quo. Despite some requests and warnings, user still push own version to many (>20) articles without discussion and consensus. Two days ago he got {test4} with text: This is the final warning that you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you vandalize a page, you may be blocked from editing without further notice) - it did not help. So, please help. I also have the impression that the account (created in March 2015) has been created for disruptive edits, 95% editions are controversial, in general - no useful changes to Wikipedia. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 14:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@Subtropical-man: The account wasn't created for any disruptive changes. What happens is that I essentially edit on Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedias, and only seldomly on the English Wikipedia. As the account in the English Wikipedia assumed the same username as the one used on Portuguese and Spanish Wikipedias, I admit that such confusion might arise from it, though it's not the case. As I said previously, the account was created to edit essentially on those two Wikipedias I mentioned, not so much on the English Wikipedia. Viet-hoian1 (talk) 18:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@Subtropical-man: please remember that rollback shall only be used for outright vandalism, but not for contentious edits or disruptive editing. To revert such edits you should always use the "undo" button with an appropriate edit summary, but not the rollback option. That said, Viet-hoian1's edits were not vandalism. And I think it is pretty obvious that you, too, have been edit-warring about this regions issue. @Viet-hoian1: unfortunately your edits here have in fact become disruptive to the point that you should not make any changes of this kind unless you got a broad consensus from other editors. Otherwise you will be blocked for edit warring.

Anyhow, before this problem drives you both NUTS (pun intended), I suggest you two address this problem at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Country subdivisions. It needs to be discussed with other editors and not just between the two of you. Consensus can change, but that requires input from other editors. De728631 (talk) 20:44, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@De728631: Well, then, where should I discuss it with other users, apart from @Subtropical-man:? I've explained my reasons and proposed some sort of compromise in my talk page. I'd be glad if I could also explain them and propose such compromise in a talk page that is used by other users. Thanks a lot for your attention!Viet-hoian1 (talk) 20:57, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@De728631: Sorry, I didn't notice at the 1st glance that you had already mentioned the place to discuss it. Greetings! Viet-hoian1 (talk) 21:00, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

De728631, Wikipedia:Rollback say: "On Wikipedia, rollback is used to undo problematic edits such as vandalism", so, not only vandalism. Pushing own version on mass scale without discussion and consensus and against status quo and also edit-warring = typical disruptive behavior, so - should be automatically reverted. Edit summary? edit summary was at the previous reverts and also was explanation in the user talk page - so, further descriptions of the changes are unnecessary. You're right, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Country subdivisions is good place for discussion about this and it needs to be discussed with other editors (not just between me and Viet-hoian1). Eventually in Wikipedia:WikiProject Portugal or Talk:Portugal. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 21:17, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid but I have to disagree. If you take a closer look at the "When to use rollback" section, there is a list of specific circumstances when to use rollback, and "use of standard rollback for any other purposes – such as reverting good-faith changes which you happen to disagree with – is likely to be considered misuse of the tool." And your idea of automatically reverting edits without consensus does not fit into the standard use of rollback. You may use the tool "to revert widespread edits (by a misguided editor or malfunctioning bot) which are judged to be unhelpful to the encyclopedia", but I wouldn't think that Viet-hoian1 was misguided or editing in bad faith. And stubborn, disruptive editing may lead to a block, but it is not considered vandalism. And yes, when you undo contentious edits at various pages, you should always use an edit summary, or do you expect other editors to track your edit history just to understand why you reverted something at one page without leaving a note? Anyhow, good luck with debating the NUTTY regions. The Portugal pages seem to be a good idea, too. De728631 (talk) 21:32, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thanks :) Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 22:08, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@Subtropical-man: Well, I've posed this issue on the Talk Page that the user "De728631" suggested to me, and both you and De728631 are invited to discuss it, and I'd like that other Portuguese editors, namely from the most displaced region on the NUTS II classification (Ribatejo). Since the regionalization was rejected in the 1998 referendum, the only administrative regions that there are in Portugal are actually the districts, and even these ones are not very relevant in terms of general government administration now (they are in terms of more specific administrative issues). The NUTS regions, apart from Madeira and Azores have no role on the administration of the country. It's almost like continental Portugal has no regions at all, but there are the districts which still have a significant administrative role, and the historical and cultural regions (namely those which had administrative roles between 1936 and 1976), which are regarded as regions among the common Portuguese people. The NUTS regions inside Portugal, with few exceptions (like Algarve) don't reflect the Portuguese reality and perception in terms of regions. It would be like considering that Aragón was in Catalonia or that Asturias was in Castille-León. It makes no sense at all. Viet-hoian1 (talk) 01:55, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

I'll try to debate that as well in the Talk Page of Portugal and pages related to Ribatejo. Greetings!Viet-hoian1 (talk) 02:04, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

A Head's up...

Hi De728631! You may wish to do something about this – diff. I deleted this IP's comment after you closed the thread at ANI for the second time, and the IP reverted my deletion (ignoring your closing comment)... Just so you know. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:47, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

This just got revedeled before I could even view it. Personal attacks on FPS and outing... 'Nough said. De728631 (talk) 16:50, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Advice please

Hi! I wonder, is this [1] a personal attack? I thought so and reverted but it has been reinserted. Perhaps revoking talk access might not be a bad idea. That said, your call of course. Thanks. Dbrodbeck (talk) 13:44, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I revoked the guy's talk page access. De728631 (talk) 14:00, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Help for a problem

Hello, I found your name on the administrators list. Concerning the article about Israel (Siouxsie and the Banshees song)", the wiki link for the talk doesn't work and shows "Talk: Israel ( Bee Gees song)" whereas it is not a song from the same band! I've tried to move the title myself and change it but I failed and for some reasons, a message says, contact an administrator. Could you make the change, please? Thanks Carliertwo (talk) 18:53, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

There was some leftover redirect code from some strange move in the past. I fixed that and the talk page should now work for Israel (Siouxsie and the Banshees song). De728631 (talk) 19:00, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Gérard de la Barthe

Hello, you have deleted this article with a false justification. Yes, there is an already existing article in the German Wikipedia, I have write. Now there is a link with the question of whether you want to translate the article into English. The action is therefore lawfull.

However, I have the article not translated into English. But maybe someone would be to help as has already happened twice. Why the article had to be cleared so fast?

Please excuse my bad English. Greetings from --Jageterix (talk) 13:27, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Articles from other Wikipedias cannot be simply copied into the live article space of the English Wikipedia, even more so when you can't translate them properly yourself. You can, however, request a translation of the German article at WP:Translation without copying the content. Articles that are copied from other language Wikipedias are valid targets for speedy deletion under our criteria for speedy deletion (No. A2), and that is why your copy was deleted.

Artikel aus anderen Wikipedias können hier nicht einfach in Originalsprache als 1:1-Kopie eingestellt werden, in der Hoffnung, dass sie schon irgendjemand übersetzen wird (insbesondere, wenn Du selbst keine richtige englische Übersetzung verfassen kannst). Nicht-englischsprachige Artikel, die so im Wortlaut auf anderen Wikipedias existieren, sind zur Schnelllöschung freigegeben ((Kriterium A2). Du kannst allerdings auf WP:Translation eine Übersetzung beantragen, ohne den Text vorher zu kopieren. De728631 (talk) 16:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation.--Jageterix (talk) 06:18, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Question for proofreading

Hello. Could you proofread the article Adalbert von Mörsberg, please? It's my first translation. Thank You, Volmar (talk) 13:15, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done De728631 (talk) 19:18, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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Author

This wiki link leading to Paul Rambali's article works, so reverting my edit is unjustified. You have to provide a wiki guideline when reverting and obviously adding the excerpt of this wiki guideline supporting what you advance in the summary, otherwise this doesn't work. Woovee (talk) 16:51, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

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Red Mass

What do you people not understand about the fact that I'm trying to help YOU out here. I don't maintain a bunch of pages, I'm not a seasoned page editor, and I'm not lifting another finger to help you verify an image that has long been in the public domain. So, if you want an inferior page on the Red Mass, then take the fucking image down and make yourself happy. And the next time you have a fundraising drive, I'll just refuse to support your project from now on. I'll just use Wikipedia all I want for free like everybody else and never send another dime your way. You can't just let me edit this one page in peace. Go away whoever you are. Leave me alone. Do whatever you want. SMH. Mitchagana (talk) 05:19, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Velaga Venkatappaiah

You are invited to join the discussion at Velaga Venkatappaiah. Participate in AfD Discussion Thanks. KCVelaga _{☚╣✉╠☛} 15:33, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)

Seasons Greetings,

This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.

While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.

Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.

This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Wikipedia:Translators available list.

Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 05:41, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Vüsal Hüseynov

i have put 4 reliable sources. please check reference list part — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jafarov.kamal (talk • contribs) 06:29, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Did you read the reason for the proposed deletion? This is the English Wikipedia where all content shall be written in English. There is an entire Wikipedia though for articles in Azeri language. That is why I proposed this one for deletion. Reliable sources are always required, but this is totally not about sources and references but about the article being written in the wrong language. De728631 (talk) 16:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Could you help me how to move it to azeri wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jafarov.kamal (talk • contribs) 05:03, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Please see az:Vüsal Hüseynov. By the way, please sign your contributions to talk pages like this by typing four tilde characters ~~~~. This will add your name and a timestamp for reference. De728631 (talk) 18:46, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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