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CSFRS

"I have performed a web search with the contents of Central Sierra Field Research Stations, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~sagehen/CSFRS%20site/CSFRS.htm."

I am the author of that page and I donate the contents to wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xeliff (talk • contribs) 03:33, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I've replied on your talk page. — Coren  04:08, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot identifying Misplaced Pages mirror as 'source' of text

Hello. Not a big deal, but re. this, could the bot be enhanced so that any Misplaced Pages mirror pages are not picked up as possible sources of copyrighted text? In this case "From Misplaced Pages" is perhaps something that the bot could pick up as an indication to ignore a page, although in this case the whole site is not a mirror. The article concerned was based on a similar competition from another league, so the content is similar to the other WP article. Thanks. --Michig (talk) 11:55, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it's a good idea to try to detect mirrors automatically, but when we find one that pops up regularly, we can add it to User:CorenSearchBot/exclude, and it will be ignored from that point. — Coren  12:13, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

From this warning, it appears http://www.presidio.sweden.wielun.pl is another mirror. I'll leave it up to you to determine if it pops up regularly. tedder (talk) 18:26, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Good job. Wanna do it again?

Hi, Coren. I left a general note here but wanted to single you out for your especially eloquent closing comments. I don't suppose there's any chance we could rope you in over here, is there? (I see you didn't participate in the recent RfC but can't recall if you were "involved" earlier.) Rivertorch (talk) 07:46, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I hold (and have expressed) rather strong opinions on pending changes in the past and I expect closing by me could make some of the participant uncomfortable – regardless of how neutral I might strive to be. — Coren  10:49, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Damn, I was afraid of that. If you can think of anyone else brave or foolhardy enough who might have been neutral on the topic, that would be great. (Sandstein is involved. I just asked Jc37 but am not holding my breath.) Rivertorch (talk) 19:03, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

That's not going to be trivial: many of the most established longtime editors that would normally be tapped to close a big contentious decision like that are also the ones most likely to have a very definite opinion about a substantial change like PC. I might recommend asking Newyorkbrad, Risker, and Casliber; I don't know how involved they may have been in the debate in the past, but they are very well respected and I trust them implicitly. — Coren  19:14, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh, you might want to ask Dennis Brown; he's a relatively recent administrator, so he may have had no prior involvement, and he's already gained quite a bit of community respect with his demeanour and acumen. — Coren  19:25, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Risker and Casliber are involved. Not sure if Newyorkbrad would be willing again, but it's a thought. Dennis hadn't occurred to me, but I agree with you about his demeanor and acumen. Thanks for the suggestions. (Btw, whatever your opinions on PC—and I haven't looked to see—it would be nice to get a few more eyes on the proposals to date before it heads into the RfC stage. If you have any spare time . . .) Rivertorch (talk) 07:51, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm definitely involved so couldn't wear an admin hat at all.....thanks for thinking of me though XD Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:30, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Barnstar archivated. Thank you, it's appreciated; but much of the credit goes to the well-organized RfC and the decorum of the participants which made analysis easy. — Coren  17:56, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Bobby Gibb

• Bobby Tango Gibb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Bobby tango gibb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

hi Coren. I am trying to create a page and it is apparently being challenged for deletion. I also enterd the info twice after a correction and received a message about it. I entered the info as it is pertinent info about myself. I have never entered info on here before and need assistance in making corrections. Many of my colleagues have entered info concerning themselves and have had no issues. My name is Bobby Tango Gibb, and I am a former member of the rock band Bang Tango. But I am trying to create a page as no one knows the info entered better than me, so when I am searched my Misplaced Pages info is included.Any suggestion would be great as how to step by step enter the correct information and publish it. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobbytangogibb (talk • contribs) 16:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

• User:Uncle G/On notability#Writing about subjects close to you is my standard advice of long standing on this subject, if you want to use it, Coren. Uncle G (talk) 22:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot reporting an article as a copy of itself

This edit to Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 11) reporting that the article appears to be a substantial copy of Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 11) seems rather peculiar. The page is now at AfD for other reasons, but the bug seemed worth reporting. --AussieLegend (talk) 08:39, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, that sometimes happens when an article has been indexed by yahoo so fast that by the time CSBot looks, it's already been indexed and the article's name contains a single quote/apostrophe (which defeats the code meant to prevent that). Sorry for the trouble. — Coren  11:17, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

No trouble, it was more amusing than anything. Thanks for the explanation. --AussieLegend (talk) 12:14, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Conclusion

Thank you very much for your response.but, as a matter of fact I am curious regarding several points. I wish you would be able to answer. First of all, I am still unaware what was that issue of blocking me in coincidence. I see that there is no WP:SPI case against me neither any complaint from others. So, What was the need of checking the contributions of mine occurred from which IP.( Or probably using check user tool to see my IP , not sure how it is called) Doesn't it violates privacy policy ? Second one my room partner User:Irontaker and I share same computer. So, why not blocked him ; but only me? Thanks. GiantBluePanda (talk) 17:42, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Part of the job of checkuser is to help protect the project from disruption in the cases where normal administrators cannot; users returning in avoidance of a ban is such a case, and we often proceed on our own discretions in such cases (and, honestly, a very new editor jumping in on one of the noticeboards to comment about a different process while already clearly aware of jargon and procedure is one of the things we watch for, as it is extremely atypical of "real" new editors).

I didn't block your roommate simply because I had not noticed him as matching you. We sometimes have cause to "widen the net" and look around the editors when we do a check, but even if you were in fact a sock your behaviour was not so egregious as to warrant it; we usually take care to make minimal use of checkuser when it suffices.

Finally, the privacy policy explicitly allows a few users to look at private information – just not to then disseminate that information publicly. We are always extremely careful to not divulge what we can see using the tools, and any information we find (or you tell us) is kept strictly confidential. — Coren  17:57, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Help! - Don't know how to remove tags from our page, and your copyright infringement info is wrong.

Dear Coren:

Please forgive me, I still don't have the hang of WIKIPEDIA, we will be hiring someone soon who does. I'm not sure I'm even writing you in the correct space.

I represent a record label and theater production company.

One of our shows, has incorrect info on it from Misplaced Pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/Love,_Linda:_The_Life_of_Mrs._Cole_Porter

Firstly, I don't know how to remove this stuff, whicc is inaccurate: The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (September 2009) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2009)

Secondly, I just now saw your talk back to me: "What you violated was the copyright policy. Text in the article was copied from other sources. That cannot be--there is a big difference between "listing" and "copying". Removing the reference to Playbill doesn't help at all (and might make it worse); I note that the sentence "Although Cole Porter was gay, their companionship and love lasted through 35 years of marriage and together they lived a spectacular, glamour-filled life" is still "taken" from somewhere else (plagiarism = theft of intellectual property), as a quick Google search verifies. If you wish for this article to live, you will have to write it, not copy it. Hope this helps. Drmies (talk) 17:52, 30 August 2009 (UTC)"

We did NOT lift the text in the article from other sources - that is OUR PROPERTY that was re-quoted in press and news articles. If you Google that line, you'll see it's in all of the promo articles for LOVE, LINDA (!!) - they took it from US.

Any help you can offer is so greatly appreciated.

All my best, Michele Oliver 150 Music (talk) 20:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC)150 Music150 Music (talk) 20:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC) 150 Music/Productions www.150music.com

Please read the guide to donating your own copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest. — Coren  21:36, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

False Postives

Hi, when various editors of the 2012 Pacific typhoon season have been splitting articles off, they keep getting told that they are copyvios of http://www.eosnap.com/tropical-storms/ even though that site seems to be copying the PTS article. Can you do anything? Regards.Jason Rees (talk) 12:32, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Well, if you still have a lot to do I can suppress the warnings; but if you're about done there isn't much point: the 'bot will only warn on newly created articles, not on further work you do to them. — Coren  12:34, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Um, because the season is ongoing and there will be more deadly typhoons, i think it would be wise to suppress the warnings please.Jason Rees (talk) 12:53, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Heh. Fair 'nuf.  :-) That part of eosnap is now excluded from consideration on matches. — Coren  13:03, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Youreallycan

• - Misplaced Pages:BLPN#Stephen_M._Cohen

Youreallycan is causing issues on Stephen M. Cohen again, an issue that occurred prior to his block on 20 July 2012, this time in regards to new content that he is insisting is not allowed per WP:BLPPRIMARY. Would you please speak with him, either privately or in the discussion taking place on WP:BLPN?—Ryulong (竜龙) 00:47, 3 August 2012 (UTC)