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article on "Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0"

hi wizardman, thanks again for userfying the article on "Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0", which had been deleted before. i have now finalized the editing of the article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Becomingx7/Institute_for_New_Culture_Technologies/t0). i had updated the article itself already during the deletion discussion, but then it was too late. in the discussion the main point of concern seemed to be that there were not enough references to coverage in secondary sources. so what i did now was mainly adding references and links to prove t0's 'notability.'

could you please have a look at the article, if it is now possible to move it back to the main namespace, and could you please tell me what are the next steps in this process?

thanks a lot for your help! Becomingx7 (talk) 19:17, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Hey Wizardman, can I ask you for advice? I'm considering deleting Allen H. Greenfield since its first version, this one here (created by a sock), gets one half of its text and all of its material ("references") from the subject's own biography (the "references" under the list headed "He is quoted (and occasionally misquoted) and referred to in many books, including". Is that copyvio enough for deletion? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 17:59, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

I'll take a look. Did so a couple days ago and it looks like a rather tough situation, so I wanted to wait and check with fresh eyes. Wizardman 15:13, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

The Original Barnstar
For your moves to help clean up the backlog at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Arts and entertainment/Literature/Books! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 16:37, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
  • I'm always incredibly happy when anyone makes an effort to create any of the books at this page. It's always a little bit overwhelming when I see that so many people are adding articles and we have so few editors that can or will help weed out the articles or help create them. It warms my heart to see someone else working on this! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 16:37, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

International Conference on Health in the African Diaspora (ICHAD) Deletion

Hello Wizardman,

I am the administrator that created the ICHAD wiki page. I recently sent an email detailing permission by my boss to use copyright materials in the page as well a a few other pages that I have created. Is there a way that the page can be reinstated or re-reviewed so that I may make the appropriate changes?

Thank you, Pmensah1Pmensah1 (talk) 18:47, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

CCI

Does this mean that we're finally all done? Jsayre64 (talk) 00:02, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Null edits regarding "copyright" - thanks

Thanks for reverting those false edits regarding "copyright", as at Laurentius Siemer. The back story is that the blocked editor user:Greengrounds occasionally surfaces with an IP and reverts the latest edits of a series of editors he took a disliking to prior to his being banned for abuse and vandalism. Currently he's using IP 174.3.153.23 Ozhistory (talk) 01:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Indian Alumni Association of Peoples Friendship University of Russia

Did something change? I was under the impression that this copyright issue had been settled.

Please consider restoring it or enlightening me on how the issue got un-settled in the last few hours.

See User talk:RHaworth#Indian Alumni and User talk:Cardiology08 for related discussions. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 05:44, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Restored for now. Wizardman 15:37, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

October 2013

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Seton Hall University School of Law

Thank you! I looked at it a while back and was flummoxed, so I just tagged it for copyvio and threw up my hands. Cheers, JNW (talk) 16:39, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The ATOM Project

Hi, just saw your post at the closed AfD. I did not notice it was a copyvio but will recreate with non-copyvio material since there was consensus for an article on this topic. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 18:09, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello Wizardman

My name is Sandra Ferrerio-Colton and I recently had my work deleted from wiki. This was originally posted on the Lucille Roberts website, But I am the sole author of this piece. I would like to post all of the work I have written on various websites here on wiki where I feel it will get better treatment. Please contact me regarding my recent speedy deletion.


Thank you Wizardman. Will be looking into wikihow shortly.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Fitnessdiva.sf (talk • contribs) 23:45, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

John Nunneley

I disagree with your deletion of John Nunneley - as clearly had at least one other reviewer. After so much work, it might have been a courtesy to contact me before deleting.

Looking again at the final version of the text, it had been expanded to cover areas of his life that were not covered in the Telegraph (his notable career in commerce - the Beeching report et al.) and had links to many new sources. Any similarity with one published source could easily be removed by altering one or two clauses either by you or by asking me to look again at it. I am now re-reading his book and can further expand it with additional page references.

It is my intention to restore an article after further revision - which has now been made unnecessarily hard work. Nedrutland (talk) 10:00, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

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Bigg Boss 7

Hello Wizardman. For the last few days, and particularly in the last few hours, various sockpuppets of User:Imtitanium and User:Salarsikandar.81 have been reinserting the infringing material you removed with this edit. I can't keep up with them so have requested full protection. If this happens I won't be able to edit the page, so perhaps you could have a look and restore the latest non-infringing version. In the meantime I've opened an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Salarsikandar.81. —Psychonaut (talk) 16:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Mighty Med

Hello Wizardman. today I just notice that the page I created was deleted for copyright. I know anons be putting work on the wiki from word for word, the page needs to come back so people can keep up with Might Med updates. Thank you. —TheUpdates (talk) 20:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to provide thoughts

Hi, Wizardman!

Since you provided comments on this discussion, I invite you to look at the discussion for a system of automating article requests I have been working on independently.

Thanks much! ~ Matthewrbowker Make a comment! 18:35, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Restoring Mighty Med

Hello again lol Sorry for the bugging you but in order to get the page back do I start a fresh page? because it doesn't give me a link in there/ all it says to start a new one. —TheUpdates (talk) 19:26, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

List of New York Institute of Technology faculty and staff

Hi, you recently deleted List of New York Institute of Technology faculty and staff and cited "copyright violation," and non-notable split as the reason. You did not add its content in the appropriate section at NYIT nor did you remove the link to the now deleted article. Most of the stated faculty's article mention NYIT, and this source also claims that most of them did work at NYIT. Please fix it. Regards, --Trenttrip (talk) 03:11, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

StrongLoop article

The StrongLoop article I have posted has been taken down again for copyright violation (being told it is possibly crunchbase). I have taken extreme care to phrase the information for StrongLoop differently that Crunchbase both times, referring instead to the company's own press / web material. Is there a particular sentence, paragraph or section you feel violates? I would very much like to resolve this and certainly didn't anticipate this happening a second time.

Thanks, AlanCharlesYVR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.67.177.25 (talk) 22:09, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Nox Aeris

If song titles are redirected to the artist per WP:NSONG, shouldn't the same take place with album titles per WP:R#KEEP bullets 3 and 5? If "Nox Aeris" is to be used for something else, shouldn't "Nox Aeris (2012 Janus album)" [or something more concise] redirect to Janus (American band)? --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:10, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Main Page appearance: Bob Feller

This is a note to let the main editors of Bob Feller know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on November 3, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask Bencherlite (talk · contribs). You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 3, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:

Bob Feller (1918–2010) was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted by wartime service in the U.S. Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average. He first played for the Indians aged 17 and was the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before the age of 21. He threw no-hitters in 1940, 1946, and 1951 and also recorded 12 one-hitters; his no-hitters and one-hitters were records at the time of his retirement. He helped the Indians win a World Series title in 1948 and an American League-record 111 wins and the pennant in 1954. Feller led the American League in wins six times and in strikeouts seven times. In 1946, he recorded 348 strikeouts, a total not exceeded for 27 years. An eight-time All-Star, Feller was 36th on Sporting News's list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was named the publication's "greatest pitcher of his time". He was a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. (Full article...)

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Drive-by GANs

Hi! I saw that you undid a GAN review and put it back on the queue about a week ago here. Since then, he did 3 drive-by nominations of articles that are still on the queue: Talk:Maryland Route 14, Talk:Virginia State Route 27, and Talk:Iowa Highway 173. Many of the actual primary contributors to the 3 articles have expressed objections on his talk page. Since it's clear that the nominator does not understand the GAN process or criteria, would you be willing to fail these articles? I would myself, but after he did Talk:Interstate 805/GA2, that might come off the wrong way. --Rschen7754 01:18, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 October 2013

Question

Hello W. Do you know why so many edits underwent rev/del on this article. I can't speak to all the other edits but I know that the one I made two years ago had nothing in it that needed to be suppressed. Any help that you can give will be appreciated and thank you for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 05:13, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to let me know what was going on. It is much appreciated. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. MarnetteD | Talk 15:53, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of GA Review of International System of Units

Hi Wizardman,

On 19 October you deleted the page Talk:International System of Units/GA2 on grounds that the review had been abandonded. As proposer, I do not believe this to be the case. User:Pyrotec undertook to review two articles that I proposed for GA status. We are still working on the first - History of the metric system. Once that article has been reviewed, I believe that it is Pyrotec's plan to review the other. I have replied on behalf of Pyrotec as he does not appear to have made any edits for the past five days.

Will you please restore the page in question and also undo the changes that you made to the Talk Page.


Martinvl (talk) 05:36, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

No need, it was (and still is) on my watch list and having seen that it had been deleted I clicked on the button and re-created /GA2 again. Pyrotec (talk) 19:53, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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Deletion of Count No Man Happy

Hi Wizardman,

You deleted the page For Count No Man Happy, on grounds that the Article Contained Copyrighted Material. I understand why the article cannot contain material similar to the publisher's website, however, if I add original text, and remove text from other sources, will the article meet standards? I ask before devoting resources to rewriting the article to meet this requirement, or are there other issues that need be addressed? Thanks for your attention in advance, Ofurface —Preceding undated comment added 19:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)


Deletion of Polarion Software

Hi Wizardman,

You deleted the page for Polarion Software for copyright infringement. I would like to recreate the page and have to contact you before doing so. Please let me know what next steps I should take, as I'd like to have a revised version of the article published. Thanks for your reply in advance, polarionwiki —Preceding undated comment added 19:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick response. I'm new to Wikipedia & am wondering where I need to go to start revising the content? I clicked on editing Polarion Software's article for submission & saw I needed to contact you. Thanks for your help in advance! Polarionwiki 23:25, 22 October 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Polarionwiki (talk • contribs)

Requested articles revamp

Hi, you told me that you were interested in requested articles, so I thought that I should let you know that there is a proposal to use a bot, and make it a lot easier to request articles (we would need some clean up of existing categories if it worked). I thought that you may be interested to hear, and perhaps comment on the discussion there. Thanks, Matty.007 19:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Prathamprakash29

Hard to believe editors are actually voting at this "RfA". I'd like to remove the RfA. Is the best way to do that just to delete the page (it's pointless to close something that has no content from the candidate)? And would that be okay? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:29, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Actually, on second glance, it does have a little bit of content. I missed it because of the markup mess.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:34, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Suburban Express

The user Suburban_Express was criticized and blocked because some user(s) felt that it seemed to be shared username. Pursuant to the block, our posts to the reward board and bounty board were deleted, presumably because the username was blocked. I have registered a new username that is specific to an individual and is therefore compliant with wikipedia rules, and re-posted our entries on the two boards. You have deleted one or both of these one or more times when posted with the old username. Please refrain from deleting now that we have a compliant username. Suburban Express President (talk) 20:25, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, Suburban_express (talk · contribs) is blocked, not banned, with violation of the username policy as the only reason. —rybec 21:48, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter


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Billy Eckstine CP

Hi Wizardman, I left you a comment at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2013 August 28 regarding the Billy Eckstine article. Regards, Jafeluv (talk) 07:55, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Community Forests International

Hello Wizardman, Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I see that you removed the copy paste tag from Community Forests International in this Diff you apparently didn't take a look at the talk page and check the Wayback Machine. If you look at this archive from the month on which the tag was placed you will see the first sentence of the lead, "Community Forests International (CFI) is a volunteer-driven organization, working to connect people and their communities to the forests that sustain them." is identical to the second sentence on the archived webpage. Also a Google search of that sentence (given on the talk page) will return this page which also contains that exact sentence. Both pages have copyright notices. I have replaced the copy/paste tag with the link that currently contains that material. However, even if the page from which material was copied and pasted has changed and no longer exists it is still a copyright violation. Please check the talk page of an article before removing tags, the copy vio was explicitly spelled out. Also consider checking the Wayback Machine or other archive service for the source of copyrighted material at the time the tag was placed. I realize I should probably have removed the material or worked out a paraphrase myself but I have several ongoing editorial tasks. Best wishes. - - MrBill3 (talk) 12:56, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

I want to add that I see you are an experienced editor and admin so I (with much less experience) may not be correct in my thinking and am willing to accept any clarification or instruction on WP policy. I hope my post is properly civil and appropriate. Part of my intent is to solicit your feedback. Some of my comments have been seen as condescending, strident and/or verbose this is in no way my intent. - - MrBill3 (talk) 13:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your work on the article. I just wanted to let you know the duplicate detector didn't work before because the page pointed to was changed since it was placed in the tag and I changed the url to another page. - - MrBill3 (talk) 14:43, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Baynard's Castle

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Baynard's Castle you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hchc2009 -- Hchc2009 (talk) 18:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Time to step into the ring again?

[1] If you were on the Committee...well, I'm pretty sure if you're willing, you'd stand a good chance at winning a seat. I think there's been a long enough break since your last stint that you wouldn't be coming back with any agenda other than "keep the wheels on, and maybe do some fine tuning". I do confess you wrote some of the best (and most on-time) decisions during your tenure. Best wishes to you, either way: you do a lot of good things around here. Risker (talk) 02:16, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

+1 --Rschen7754 02:26, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Short answer: not a chance. Long answer: my wiki time is going to be extremely limited in the near future, so while I know I could whip Arbcom into shape if I wanted to, it would be counterproductive for me to use the bit of time I do have there. Wizardman 15:34, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
I understand your position, but Mr. Colbert is going to be very disappointed. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:36, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Dang, I knew I shoulda campaigned for 1-month arb terms while that RfC thing was still open. Oh well --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:00, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

  1. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
  2. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)
  3. Canada Sasata (submissions)
  4. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
  5. New South Wales Casliber (submissions)
  6. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions)
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions)
  8. Poland Piotrus (submissions)
  9. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

  • New South Wales Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
  • Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
  • Portland, Oregon Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
  • Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
  • Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
  • Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
  • Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
  • Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
  • United States Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
  • The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to British Empire The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
  • Finally, the judges are awarding Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:24, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

Congrats

Congrats on Bob Feller's main page appearance; I saw on the FAC that this has long been a goal of yours. He's not somebody I previously knew much about, but I enjoyed reading the article. -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:15, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

WP:AN discussion on a deleted RFC

Information icon This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Restoring (and then closing) a deleted RFC".The discussion is about the topic Talk:LGBT rights under international law. Thank you. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:04, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 November 2013

GA

Good day Wizardman. I've read some articles which you've reviewed some time ago and I would like you to make some comments on those topics. Everything best and see you. Links: here and here.--Вик Ретлхед (talk) 17:30, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

GA Saengerfest

Re your edit on Talk:Saengerfest/GA1, I'm not familiar enough with the bot to know why you did this. However, a recent post on my talk page from that reviewer indicates he will not be back to finish this review. The template makes it look like he's still working on it. He is not. Please tell me how the process works from here when a review has been dropped by the original reviewer. — Maile (talk) 20:07, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

I think I fixed it by editing the status on the article's talk page. — Maile (talk) 20:46, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Cary Holladay

Hi, I wrote the Cary Holladay article which you deleted because of copyright violation. I correctly cited everything that I used. I'm not sure what "violation" there was. Please let me know, so I can fix the article. She's a noteworthy subject, and all of my hard work on the article just disappeared. Icarus of old (talk) 02:40, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Also, is there any way to access the old page so I won't lose the hour or two of work I put in? It seems like it's in bad faith to delete the article outright, given that "Only if the history is unsalvageably corrupted should it be deleted in its entirety; earlier versions without infringement should be retained." Icarus of old (talk) 02:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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New baseball notability discussion

I have started a new baseball notability discussion at Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports). I am interested in your take and would appreciate it if you read and comment on it. Alex (talk) 14:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Trout

It's the first time I've been trouted by anyone. Could you elaborate so that I might learn something? I'm not sure what I should have learned yet. Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 09:34, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Armando Rodriguez

You could also delete Armando Rodriguez since Armando Rodríguez was deleted.--Yankees10 06:46, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

I've been working on Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Virago250 today, and have it down to ~15. I'm starting to get to the point where I'm unsure of what to do with the rest though... Any help would be appreciated; it would be nice to get another one cleared and off the books. Has there been any chatter on another drive for one of the big cleanups? The one for DD seemed to work well... Dana boomer (talk) 01:16, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Iced Earth album)

Hi Wizardman. Concern has been raised about sourcing in a GA article you reviewed. Your input might be helpful: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums#GA_reassessment. SilkTork ✔Tea time 02:15, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 November 2013

CCI update

Progress! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:38, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

For achieving the impossible

The Herculean Achievement Award
Your tireless toiling is largely responsible for catching up the multiyear backlog at WP:CP. It doesn't even bear thinking what WP:CCI would look like without you. Everywhere there is copyright cleanup, there is you. There are not words to express how much I appreciate what you do. Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:07, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
(I wanted something less depressing than Sisyphus to fall back on and moved to Hercules. When I found the globe image, it sealed the deal. :) You rock. Totally. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:08, 16 November 2013 (UTC))
Seconded. MER-C 12:24, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Just a note re List of hat types

Just an observation, List of hat types was not copyright infringement (the reasoning behind its deletion) as it was a content split from Hat (a couple of people HATED this, though, and reverted it though, despite it seeming logical to me) - the text in that article had been lifted by the site you cited as infringement. Not really a biggie, just a note that it wasn't actually copyright infringement, unless the section in Hat is also copyright infringement and needs removing forthwith (which would nark off the anti-split people). I tried opening a discussion about the proposed split, but nobody seems to have been interested in discussing it, and now the other page is deleted which doesn't really help show what the intentions of the split were. Mabalu (talk) 15:58, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

If you're copying content from another article, please link to the original revision in the edit summary and {{copied}} on the talk page per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. This provides the attribution in WP:CC-BY-SA and will avoid future problems like this. MER-C 10:44, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
It wasn't me that copied/split the article over, but that's useful to know. Mabalu (talk) 19:01, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Yadier Molina

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Yadier Molina you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 20:11, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Yadier Molina

The article Yadier Molina you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Yadier Molina for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 November 2013

My ACE 2013 Guide

For talk page stalkers: I had no time, nor much of a desire this year, to do an arbitration guide. There were enough this year that I think anyone who had read them and weighed the author of the guides accordingly understands the candidates well. However, I will provide three endorsements of who I think would be great arbitrators. Note that this doesn't mean I'm only supporting three necessarily, but I am definitely supporting fewer than eight this year, unfortunately.

  • User:28bytes - I know this user primarily as a bureaucrat, and in that role he has always made sensible decisions, and even if I didn't agree entirely with an opinion, his explanations always made complete sense and were well-written. More importantly, his answers to the questions demonstrated a huge amount of clue, and while I knew I was going to support him the second I saw the name, the answers made me feel more comfortable with that. Seeing him run at the last second, quite frankly, gave me hope for this year's class.
  • User:GorillaWarfare - Much like 28bytes, GW has a tremendous amount of clue. She is someone who I am confident can cut through the crap and made decisions as they should be made, rather than worrying about ramifications. That's what separates average arbs from good or great arbs. Plus, someone who has ambassador experience would be a huge asset to the committee, especially since ArbCom tends to be seen this time of year as ot of touch with the community (not a position I necessarily agree with, but one I can entirely understand why people would hold.)
  • User:Seraphimblade - For arbcom to properly work, there needs to be a good balance of users who lean towards second chances and those who lean towards law and order (lenient v. harsh). The law and order side seems to have been lacking a bit, and since I was probably further in that camp that almost any arb, i naturally want to see a couple of those elected. Blade fits that bill, but that's not my reason for supporting; my reason is because of his arbitration enforcement experience. That's a VERY tough field to navigate, since if you're slightly off you get attack, just like being an arb. I've looked at blade's past comments and haven't had any issues, and he seems to understand what ArbCom needs to do moving forward.

As long as those three are in and any "absolutely nots" are not elected, 2014's committee should be fine. Wizardman 23:48, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

CCI update

--Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello, Wizardman:

WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.

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Your GA nomination of Baynard's Castle

The article Baynard's Castle you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Baynard's Castle for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hchc2009 -- Hchc2009 (talk) 16:52, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Yadier Molina

The article Yadier Molina you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Yadier Molina for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:33, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 December 2013

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