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User talk:Billinghurst#James Shaw Willes

As per the bot's command here with commentary. To note that the article that it flagged is text from the article s:A Compendium of Irish Biography/Willes, Sir James Shaw (similarly just added), from s:Page:A Compendium of Irish Biography.djvu/589 (data added 17 Apr). The article was appropriately referenced to WS, which seems to have not been a test performed. It may be useful (and trivial?) to have the bot follow a refs to WS to check validity of text, or at least the existence of the page. Note that {{IrishBioWS}} exists, however, an inline reference was more appropriate. billinghurst sDrewth 11:55, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Coren, would you please remove the site http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/ from your search check as they are using a public domain source for their text, and it is the same text which I am fully reproducing at Wikisource. billinghurst sDrewth 05:06, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Whitelisted. — Coren  14:05, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Here Comes The Kraken

CorenSearchBot tagged this article as a copyright of a page that turns out to be nonexistent. Can you please look into that? -- Blanchardb -- timed 15:16, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Judging from other searches, the page definitely used to exist, and still appears on the Yahoo search used by CSBot (AFAIK), so it was likely only recently deleted. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:42, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Claudio Osorio

I just removed the advice and removed the copyright info BredoteauU2 (talk) 00:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Indomitableal

I believe the SearchBot flagged the content of my article in error.

The name of my article is Zest (positive psychology), and it says that the content of the article resembles that of manojagarwal.com. I read through the content of the site, but none of it seemed to warrant such a flag. It simply does not seem to have anything to do with my article on Zest.

Thank you for your consideration. Indomitableal (talk) 07:24, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The sky is falling

Your bot seems to be down: contribs, tool indicates the last article it processed was the one listed at 0800. – Toon 12:29, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

It's running, though you shouldn't trust the status tool anymore— I had to rip out some of its functionality for stability reason. I'll keep an eye on it to make sure it really is just a coincidence. — Coren  15:40, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Merci pour ton commentaire Coren , mais je trouve franchement que ces positions sont injustes: je contribue d'une façon civile, je fournie un nombre de sources incroyable, mais la seule chose qu'Arbcom trouve à faire, c'est encore de prolonger mes restrictions d'un an dès qu'Elonka se plaint, et en plus sans cause objective. Je trouve que des décisions un peu plus subtiles auraient lieu d'être, surtout eut égard à la qualité et la quantité de mes contributions à cette encyclopédie... Per Honor et Gloria ✍ 16:23, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Start-Up@Singapore

Hi,

I have created an article related to Start-Up@Singapore, a business plan competition organized in Singapore by the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Society (NES). I have acquired all the data from their website, and have cited all information, thereby avoiding any copyright infringement. As the intention is to provide a clear understanding of the competition, and not any personal gains, I believe the article should not be flagged. As I do not claim ownership of the information, and have not manipulated the data to misrepresent Start-Up @ Singapore in any manner, I hope the article is restored. It is not a marketing/promotional stint either.

Thanks.

(Ruchiahuja (talk) 10:34, 26 April 2010 (UTC))

David Arnold (disambiguation) - inappropriate bot tag

Your bot claims this disambiguation page is a copyvio. Obviously this is nonsense. It only has a single line of text, and bears no resemblance to the page it is claimed I copied. What's more, it suggests I can remove a tag from the page, but none was added. JRawle (Talk) 16:09, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Excirial beat you to it and already removed the tag for the same reason. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:14, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Just for entertainment value, the bot in fact reacted to the short excerpt of the lead sentence of the film composer's article (on Misplaced Pages) that was present on the page identified by CSB as a potential source. The bot is, as almost always, spot on in terms of identification but lacks the human brain to discard such false positives.

And before someone suggest whitelisting linkbacks to wikipedia obtained that way, let's just bear in mind that more often than not CSB detects a cut & paste move that must be repaired. MLauba 16:35, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Ping

Coren -- I have posted something new at Response to Coren:

I wonder what distinguishes the Tang Dynasty "clarification" thread from "Strategic default"? If this is not "Strategic default", please explain it to those who have volunteered to explain such things to me.

Ping.

Coren -- Now what? Cui bono?

• This whatever-it-is is indistinguishable from punishment; and I'm left wondering what precisely am I being punished for?
• What recidivism is thus prevented?

How are the volunteer mentors and others in the community expected to construe this thread? What are you going to do?

I look forward to your further comments; and I continue to hope for action. --Tenmei (talk) 20:38, 26 April 2010 (UTC)