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The Signpost: 09 April 2014
- News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
- Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
- Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
- Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
The Signpost: 23 April 2014
- Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
- News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
- WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
- Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
- Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
- Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
OER inquiry
Hi Makecat, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:44, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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又一位优秀的维基百科编者离开了，一如之前的很多因为各种原因离开的维基百科编者一样。与黑雪姬，Makecat等等。不论他们在一些特定事物上的处事如何，但它们的确曾有很多让整个维基百科也无法忘记的贡献，它们已经铭刻在维基百科的编辑历史，字里行间，和从他们活跃时代走过来的维基人的心理，并间接影响着新一代维基百科人。对于他们的事情，除了深深地哀伤与悔痛，在辗转难眠之际，谨述此文。
有人曾问我，诸如黑雪姬，hanteng，守望者爱孟这样的编者，是不是维基人中的失败者。守望者被封禁了，互助客栈中漂浮着各种杂乱的味道，似乎在为这一天的到来感到惊奇。对我而言，守望者是优秀的，失败的不会只是他。
一位很有天赋的编者，在刚刚加入维基百科之际便学会了回退、将条目占为己有，在屡次碰壁之后才渐渐学会沟通与基本的维基礼仪。我自视少年轻狂，高中时甚至曾妄言自己已经掌握了狭义相对论的基本内容，也正是那时加入了维基百科。我是对维基百科怀着敬畏之心，观望许久才注册，注册之后四个月才斗胆开始编辑，为维基百科海纳百川的精神，全人类协作的默契与作为一部百科全书气节所吸引并加入进来。我一点点摸索，跌爬滚打，只是微微希望自己的努力兴许有机会为凝聚人类知识之和略有帮助。我无法相信一个人的先天的狂气与傲骨就能够让守望者爱孟像这样加入维基百科，无法想象一个人是怎样跳过那么多学会回退的。一个编者要受到那么大的鼓励方能斗胆开始编辑，那么作为维基百科的推广者、引路者，在聚会也好，线上也罢，讨论页求助等等，怎能跳过维基百科的基本精神支柱，跳过合作与共识的达成，跳过协作精神，跳过善意推定甚至最基本的维基礼仪，就让一个新人学会回退呢？
守望者视我为前辈，尽管他现实生活中的年龄大概是我两倍。他曾跟我抱怨过种种他在维基百科上遭遇的悲哀，作为旁人我不能指出是非，也只能为他感到悲哀。在他加入之始便已植入的观念已经根深蒂固，让我在为他的编辑天赋欣喜的同时也只能默默地感到悲哀了罢。木已成舟，不论在当初是谁在他身上刻下的烙印，已经无法抹去了。
于是我开始回顾我所帮助过的维基百科新手们，曾经向我咨询过的维基人与维基百科的读者以及潜在的编者。想起Bluedeck刚刚加入之时便仔细地读完了维基百科各种让人昏昏欲睡的方针指引，记忆之深刻娴熟让人刮目；庆幸一年前的聚会上，尽管Yhz1221的演讲让大多数人睡倒在桌前，却也阐述清楚了维基百科的共识、协作等等的重要性；我开始庆幸自己在一年多的推广探索中，依然努力地传达着对维基百科的敬畏与协作、共识的重要性；也开始惋惜，自己过晚地意识到投票的弊端之重，本可让维基百科上少一些荒唐之事。
之前有一位编者，Makecat，年纪比我略小。他编写过很多维基百科的特色条目、优良条目，很多他编写过的条目质量远超英文维基百科，他还曾是维基百科的管理员，他的机器人曾是活跃度仅次于才女机器人重要帮手。有人说他的离开，大抵是因为一切可以做的事情也好，荣誉也好，都已经获得了，失去了继续奋斗的动力。我也曾跟他探讨过复出之事，他也惋惜当初维基中毒之深。维基百科失去了他，的确失去了很多。
想到他，我开始想到那些让编者一个个离开的原因：恃才傲物、恶意推定、玩世不恭……它们带来了回退战、泛滥的投票、霸占条目、游戏规则、拉帮结伙……每个人本身都是在用业余时间来贡献维基百科的，在工作学习等等现实生活中的重负之外还要腾出宝贵的时间来，竟还要被这样的事情所影响与浪费。呜呼哀哉！
我开始感谢当初引导我怎样融入这个社群的人，已经不再活跃的今古庸龙、田昊也好，还有卓老师，铁铁的火大了等热心的朋友。维基百科需要这样的热心的人。看着Bluedeck即将当选管理员，想起他如何认真地修改UI设计、完善一些工作流程、像自己当年一样指导新手并认真巡查，心中也对维基百科的推广事业继续燃起了希望。
热心的维基人越多越好，维基百科需要的是这样的人。没有人发光，维基百科只会陷入黑暗。
Do you want to come back? Almost one year passed.--GZWDer (talk) 11:58, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for reposting 燃玉's impressive essay, even though I occasionally check my watchlist and village pump on zh.wikipedia. Since my unblock request was rejected about six months ago, I'm not sure whether it's time to submit another one. May be next month, when I have some time to write something about it. --Makecat 15:20, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
- Don't you see the page I've linked to: Wikipedia:Standard offer? If possible, Please provide all sockpuppets you have used in a user subpage (sorry I don't have E-mail), It will help you to get unblocked. You should also promise to avoid the behavior that led to the block.--GZWDer (talk) 09:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
- And, please read messages archived at User talk:Makecat/Archive5.--GZWDer (talk) 10:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
- Listing all socks you have used will help you to get unblocked.--GZWDer (talk) 10:03, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
- And, please read messages archived at User talk:Makecat/Archive5.--GZWDer (talk) 10:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
- Don't you see the page I've linked to: Wikipedia:Standard offer? If possible, Please provide all sockpuppets you have used in a user subpage (sorry I don't have E-mail), It will help you to get unblocked. You should also promise to avoid the behavior that led to the block.--GZWDer (talk) 09:55, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Just notice you that there're an RfDA vote in zhwiki, starts on September 4.
If you like, you can email to unblock-zh, and you are qualified to vote then.--GZWDer (talk) 15:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I may request for unblock recent days, but voting for the sysop initially nominated by me immediately after unblock may cause some controversies. --Makecat 06:59, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews
Hello Makecat. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.
Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.
I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).
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Makecat兄
为兄多年来之贡献致敬。
Lt2818 (talk) 13:35, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
FYI, you can you this page to request deletion your user pages in other wikis. They will be automatically replaced by your user pages in Meta. As you have a block in zhwiki, the page in zhwiki will be skipped.--GZWDer (talk) 04:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
far demoted
zh:Talk:超价分子#.E7.89.B9.E8.89.B2.E6.9D.A1.E7.9B.AE.E8.AF.84.E9.80.89--Antigng (talk) 05:26, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
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Come back
Please come back to Chinese Wikipedia, you are actually a good editor. If you apologise, others will forgive you. You have been an administractor for a period of time, you know about the operation well. Please come back. I am waiting for you. --219.78.190.197 (talk) 14:38, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Percobaltate is proposed for deletion
I could find no literature on this compound in any significant journal. If it is real, it would be a big deal. So either it is real and mainly unpublished, in which case it is un-notable, or it is just not real or a hoped for material. Co(V) again would be of great interest, so this thing probably would not slip by not noticed. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:40, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
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Bots Newsletter, April 2017
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Arsenic halides
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