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Lane Bryant

Since Lane Bryant, Inc. and Lena Himmelstein Bryant Malsin are two seperate entities, I split the page. I also added more information from other sources (such as the census). betselu 2-4-08

Xtrakter

Hi There,

You have deleted our page from Misplaced Pages, we are a market utility and are entitled to coverage.

We accepted that copying and pasting text was not sufficient so the section was amended and now you have blocked it again.

Please resolve this situation or provide agreeable edited text.

User: CapitalMarket

Nabari no Ou

Coren, the contents of the Nabari no Ou page in Misplaced Pages does not include a substantial copy of: http://www.xanadu-dreams.net/timcampi.html Your bot should take this into consideration.

RMLRAG212 (talk)

Lough Gara

• Lough Gara

I have got premission from the webmaster of http://www.ogara.org/ to use this information as it relates to Monasterdaen OzEire (talk) 15:16, 6 March 2008

Cathal Twomey

I recently editted the summary of Finding the Fox, which was at that time part of the aricle on the Shapeshifter series. When I had completed my editting, I realised that the summary was far too long not to be in an article of its own. I therefore created one. However, before I could remove the version of the summary from the Shapeshifter article, I recieved a complaint from Coren that my summary appeared to be a copy of the Shapeshifter article. I have since removed the summary from the Shapeshifter article, and the only version of it now exists in the Finding the Fox article. I apologise for any inconvenience I may have caused. User:Cathal Twomey, 31 March 2008

help

Hello. As you may know I was blocked for 2 weeks by the admin Alex Bakharev for allegedly having a socket puppet called Neptunes. The block is over now, but Alex still hasn't clarify his decision. I think i have the right to see a solid evidence, 'user check' or any sort of evidence. I have contacted Alex several times but i see no sign of respond towards revealing his evidence. so can you please get envolved as a third party. I know for sure that Neptunes2007 is another user. so I am 100% sure that there is something wrong with the decision. Best regards --Aziz1005 (talk) 13:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Iam still waiting for your reply. thanks --Aziz1005 (talk) 12:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm uncertain how, exactly, you expect me to help? — Coren  13:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Do I have the right to know why I was blocked and what kind of abuse has happened? You as a third party can contact Alex and ask him to justify or clarify his decision. So far he does not want to listen unless another admin get involved. So can you conact him to reveal his evidence or ask him to at least give me one example of an abusive contribution i have done. Thanks --Aziz1005 (talk) 15:40, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Ali Pabrai

I was instructed to create a biography page by Mr. Pabrai for him on wikipedia and because he has the same information on his own website, I am unable to post his bio here. How can I post his bio without infringing?

Hollowbelly15 (talk) 23:24, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

New GFDL site

I am working Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems/2008 April 3/Articles and found CorenSearchBot tagged Kevin Dilmore which is a copy and paste from http://startrek.wikia.com/Kevin_Dilmore which has a GNU Free Documentation License. I am guessing you have list someplace to add this to? Jeepday (talk) 02:30, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I think I will let you do the update this time. Jeepday (talk) 02:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

This one as well http://starwars.wikia.com/Main_Page which I beleive would be added as \ .wikia.com/ or as \ .?wikia.com/, But I hesitate to test on a system that I don't have control of. Jeepday (talk) 02:52, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I'll add both. For the record, both were technically correct, but a little overgenerous: they would catch all wikia sites (which may actually be the right thing— do all Wikia sites use the GDFL?) — Coren  04:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Yep http://www.wikia.com/About_Wikia Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley in 2004. Jeepday (talk) 04:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

all the Wikia are GFDL - http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_use Any use you make of content hosted by Wikia, Inc. must be in line with the terms of that wiki's license. Most Wikia are available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Memory Alpha and a few of our other sites are available under a Creative Commons license. Any content you upload or post to any Wikia, Inc. wiki must be compatible with the relevant license (for example, the GFDL for any Wikia, or the relevant CC license for other wikis) I updated User:CorenSearchBot/exclude based on your example. Jeepday (talk) 04:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Template question

Hiya, I was admiring the template that you'd placed at Talk:John Buscema awhile back. Could you tell me if that was an expanded version of an existing template? Or did you massage something else to make the message? I'd like to provide something like that for an example at some discussions we're having at the WP:WORKGROUP wiki, and before I go and make my own, it's much easier if I can just copy somebody else's!  :) Thanks, Elonka 09:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I used Template:User article ban arb, which used to look a lot like Template:User article ban. It's been tweaked to be more distinctive a bit ago, but you can grab the older version (around Dec 2007) from the history. — Coren  12:36, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Fermanagh Trust

I'm writing to ask that you remove the tag from the article that has been added to Fermanagh Trust. We give permission to use this text which was copied from our website www.fermanaghtrust.org. Thank you Fermanagh Trust info@fermanaghtrust.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fermanaghtrust (talk • contribs) 11:42, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot

I'm an admin at nowiki, and I'm wondering if it is possible to use this bot on another language? Perhaps even run it from an other machine and against another web search engine? By using the web search engine no:Sesam we could scan norwegian newspapers which otherwise isn't indexed. Jeblad (talk) 15:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

It should be fairly easy to adapt; the search function is pretty well isolated. Are you looking for the source only or for someone to run it? — Coren  17:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Mey

Hello, the article Mey has been split in 2 articles. The content of Mey (instrument) was temporarily a copy of Mey. — M-le-mot-dit (T) 18:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

GNU Nana copyright violation?

The GNU Nana does use bits of the text out of the GNU Nana homepage at www.gnu.org. Since nana is available under either GPL or BSD style licenses I think this is fine but of course I may have failed in the intelligence test. Do we need to get the FSF to release under the GFDL?

Amendment: sorry, had a proper look at the GFDL license, its not compatible with the GPL, Debian don't like it, oh my go its full of stars.

Ballanda (talk) 01:53, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Travb block

Coren, can you confirm something for me? I was just looking through the diffs when you re-blocked; which diffs are the really problematic ones? (I'm saying this in the light of the recent fiasco with MONGO, obviously). Technically, you are wheel warring. Black Kite 23:17, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. Stanley Cup.  :-) In particular, is problematic, so is the edit summary of . Given the recent arbcom ruling and the necessity of having no tolerance in that editing area, the block is entirely warranted— mind you I agree totally that WMC should not have done so himself and brought it to arbitration enforcement instead. — Coren  00:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, fair enough - I just wanted to check as it's a delicate area :) Thanks, Black Kite 08:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Coren, I understand your point but is it normal block a person without any previous warning?--Pokipsy76 (talk) 15:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

creating page on my lastname

hello ,i was just creating page on my lastname cuz there was no page on wikipedia before , but there is another website having same info so i got one message in regarding this.

and i m new to this article creating ,so plz help me to create a same page like this http://www.jatland.com/home/Lohchav

but some of info on this site is contributed by me , this site have wikipedia on lastnames :)

i just created a page on Lohchav

thanks alot

Manjinder Singh Lohchav

Humanitarian League

Hi, your bot sent an automated message stating that part of an article I have started is a copy, the section I think it has picked up on is the part (which I have now deleted, for now, until I hear from you) is the part that sets out the organisatons OFFICIAL WRITTEN AIMS (their core manifesto) specifically, I don't believe that I can embelish these, they should stay as they were orginally written down by the League. See Aims and Objects etc. these should be as they were first laid out as reproduced in their original form by that webside also. What do you think? Will await your reply. Thank you. Sue Wallace (talk) 10:25, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot

Hi Coren, can CorenSearchBot deal with non-Latin script such as Arabic? Would you like to run it on ar wp if I were to look after its edits and answer questions there? Or will the code be available soon? Санта Клаус (talk) 21:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)