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Just noticed in passing ...

... and didn't know if you were aware of the history. — Ched :  ?  18:00, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Block review

Is this statement of intent by Balph Eubank sufficient for you to review the block? http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Balph_Eubank&diff=prev&oldid=507721600 Thanks. -- Avanu (talk) 18:33, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Sources for nett gross in India for Bollywood films

BoxofficeIndia.com cannot be used as official reference(tracker) for Bollywood films nett collections in India. BoxofficeIndia is not updating its website on a regular basis ,so the reports og nett collections in India are reported very late on its website.Also, Misplaced Pages is not able to utilize lists of film grosses created by Box Office India, until permission is provided to the Wikimedia Foundation of permission by Box Office India. Respected critics such as Taran Adarsh and Komal Nahta are giving regualar and genuine nett collection figures in India for Bollywood films.Taran Adarsh has website www.bollywoodhungama.com and Komal Nahta has website www.koimoi.com We can also use OneIndia.com, The Times of India as sources it doesn’t means that a magazine like Hindustan Times or The hindu will not report genuine sources ,compared to a not so updated website of BoxofficeIndia.com BoxofficeIndia should be used only when other sources stop giving gross report.First bring a consensus on this nett gross issue. --Ghajinidetails (talk) 20:16, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Sources for worldwide gross and overseas gross of Bollywood films

BoxofficeIndia has demerit that it is not giving overseas reports of films on a regular basis.It will show figues only once or twice,So u cannot include BoxofficeIndia figures. Also,When u wil see infobox of Holywood films,they have worldwide gross. So try to include worldwide gross which includes domestic gross(nett gross in India+entertainment tax) and overseas gross. --Ghajinidetails (talk) 20:16, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Final push

The Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/Vanished 6551232 CCI is down to its final 25 articles. If we can tackle one a day each we can get it done in a week, and two a day will get it closed by the end of the weekend. Let's see if we can get this done and cut down a bit on the CCI backlog, we've been doing great so far. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 18:29, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/Vanished 6551232 is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI.

Nice to finally see another one closed. :) Got done faster than I expected there. --Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 04:32, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)

Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.

In this issue:

• Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
• Research: The most recent DR data
• Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
• Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
• DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
• Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
• Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

--The Olive Branch 18:59, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Sancap (talk · contribs)

Hard to believe, but they came off their block and then returned to the article to make the exact same edit. I didn't think it was possible for someone to do that. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 03:40, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for taking the time to participate in my RfA. I hope that I will be able to improve based on the feedback I received and become a better editor. AutomaticStrikeout 02:40, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

University of Ceylon Review.

This was a valid scholarly journal of good standing. The article was deleted in the middle of a discussion about citation and copyright, which seems a little extreme. The amount of material cut out by a contributor who took citation of an author and title as a copyright problem naturally left the article stripped of useful content. The wiki article did not copy out text from the Review, it only pointed to the PDFs the University of Perediniya provides. The description was close to their description of the publication, for sure, but that's about it: the publication stopped back in 1967 so the description, which appeared also on the inside covers of the Review, is an historic artefact. If you put the article back, I will change the wording. As it stands (stood?) I was just representing the journal they way they wanted to represent it. The wording could be improved, and I thought that at the time. Perhaps I should have intervened at that point, but I did not want to appear like a neo-colonialist. Anyway, I hope we can start again, otherwise this falls off the map, sadly, like so much in Sri Lanka.Shirazibustan (talk) 23:45, 12 November 2012 (UTC)Shirazibustan

• Reply to your message. Thanks for the message. The points are well taken. That we are not a directory is a good observation, fair enough. We can therefore move to mentioning a few notable articles, i.e. those cited externally to the Review for whatever reason. So now a proposed plan: if you would kindly put the article back in place, I will, in the next 5 hours, edit the piece so that it does not infringe the copyrighted description of the Review, and I will give a sentence or two about the journal's notability. This is a publication that matters to Sri Lankans and to those with an interest in the place. I hope you'll find this a useful way of moving forward. Thanks.Shirazibustan (talk) 09:25, 13 November 2012 (UTC)Shirazibustan

Edward O'Grady

You say that"My main area of work is in copyright problems" and I was wondering would you be able to assist me with one or two probelms. You correctlty guessued that my method involved copying and pasting from sources and then writing the articles. I have got all my offending userpace drafts deleted.But the article Edward O'Grady has copyrightd material in its history from it was a userspace draft and I was wondering would you be able to delete this without delting the entire article. Alternatively would I be as well to copy exsisting article to Microsoft word and have current article deleted and recreate article? What would you sugest? Finnegas (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

There is no copyvios or copyright violation in List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

its not copyvios or copyright violation.Telugu and tamil versions of Don 2 and Ra.one are given for worldwide and its totally different from BOI figures.u can check. also BOI tables listing is different from here .total 44 films are here.there its absurd). i have not mentioned ra.one at 202 cr and don 2 at 206 cr. u can check the data. also jab tak hai jaan is not in BOI tables.its an old table. i am putting recent updated figures with table listing.Also Highest-grossing Bollywood films adjusted for inflation,on the lines of List of highest-grossing films.the table listing is different with different data .Please check once .dont do anything immmeadiately. Besharamsun (talk) 07:44, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

CCI process documentation

Thank you for your help in improving the CCI process documentation. I look forward to collaborating with you on improving the accuracy and completeness of the CCI process documentation. Thanks again. Hugh (talk) 08:22, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Technical issue at CP?

Hi. :) I'm trying to delist 9/13, as I've completed it, but every time I try to remove it and save, I trip the spam filter. I tried munging the address on the three days where it appeared, but that didn't help, so I finally redacted the URL altogether from everywhere I found it, even in fragment form. But I still can't edit the copyright problems page to remove the 13th. :( I'm a total loss. My major confusion is that this has been blacklisted sine 2010, according to the logs. And, of course, this URL is NOWHERE ON THE PAGE. It is, at best, transcluded. Can you help? This is horribly frustrating and a massive waste of time that should be put into actually cleaning copyright problems. --Moonriddengirl 15:40, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Well I found the problem - the url was on the 11/13 SCV page and by removing 9/13 WP:CP was now trying to transclude 11/13 whereas previously it wasn't due to transclude limit issue. I removed the url from 11/13 and could save CP with 9/13. What I'm less sure about is how the link got and stayed there in the first place. Do you know if bot edits are checked against the spam lists? As existing links seem to be allowed when saving a page this might explain it as the edit that would have included the url on both day listings would have been done by a bot, as it normally would've been at WP:CP if it wasn't for the backlog that means a day isn't transcluded as soon as it's added. Dpmuk (talk) 16:47, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Wow. Thank you so much for fixing it. I have no idea how the spam blacklist works, I'm afraid. Maybe bots are exempt? That would seem to make sense. --Moonriddengirl 16:48, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Just thought I'd chime in here: bot's aren't exempt from the spam blacklist, and CorenSearchBot's code simply crashes when it tries to make an edit with one and are rejected (although I don't know all of the changes that MadmanBot has to fix those smaller bugs, so it may handle it with more grace). Anyways, the particular URL which was apparently causing the problem wasn't implemented until a couple of hours after that posting at SCV. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:22, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Ahh, thank you. I'd somehow confused the .info and .com addresses in the blacklist log. That makes a lot more sense now! Dpmuk (talk) 17:39, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Non-free content

Then it looks like VeroWhitney has some work to do. There are 35 seasonal bowls games in 2012-2013 that use logos. If this policy is as effective as you have written, then it should they should be deleted on all articles. I assume it may cause some issues in the Misplaced Pages community and perhaps it will clear up some confusion.--68.98.115.70 (talk) 02:56, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Sorry for the drama.

Bearian (talk) 00:35, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

New page for Abbas uddin

Hey! I want to create a page for Abbas Uddin Previous page was deleted for the copy violation. I am not aware about the exact content of the previous article. It was written there that before creating the page I should contact u. Is there any special rule for creating this page? Please let me know.Urbashi (talk) 13:46, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Falkland Islands dispute.

Hi. I was part of that, and am attempting to facilitate. At the moment it seems to be much smoother and constructive discussions are now ongoing on the relevant talk page. You mentioned your closing statement. Where can I find that? I would like to read it, as I am interested in the mechanisms of dispute resolution "on the ground". Any link to it would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards Irondome (talk) 05:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed response! regards Irondome (talk) 00:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. After several days of excellent progress, where the parties have got as far as proposing a short concise and generally acceptable draft, things are in danger of spinning out of control again. We are not yet at a crisis though. However I would greatly appreciate it if you could spare the time to pop over and take a fresh look. "Proposed version" is the most relevant and recent section where most work is being done at the mo. Cheers! Irondome (talk) 02:23, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Your input and time is greatly appreciated, and im sure I dont just speak for myself. Kind regards Irondome (talk) 05:55, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Indeed thank you very much for your time. Not any editor would be willing to dive into such a long mess to help out. Regards. Gaba p (talk)

Note

Just for the record since you are a neutral outsider to the discussion, this is the kind of things I complain later on about Wee. Regards. Gaba p (talk) 16:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: your email

Thanks for your concerns, but I'm not particularly interested in doing anything. The user is blocked, so no disruption is going to happen there; that's the only reason that I wanted to conceal anything. I've previously connected my IP (a previous one that Comcast gave me for a few months) with my username, and my location in Bloomington is something I've mentioned multiple times on-wiki, so I don't mind this information being publicly guessable. Nyttend (talk) 03:54, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh, definitely; I complete understand, and I appreciate it. Much better to be safe than sorry. Nyttend (talk) 04:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

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Deletion of Amber Wolfe

I'm curious about the deletion of the article about Amber Wolfe. As far as I can tell, there was no nomination for deletion or opportunity for discussion. As its creator, I'd like to know more, and why the need for such speed.Rosencomet (talk) 21:44, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

It seems to me that the proper thing to do would be to nominate it for deletion rather than just decide to delete it, and give the community the chance to comment on it and/or to beef it up and add material to support the subject's notability. Just deciding on your own, with no notice either to the creator of the article or anyone else - heck, not even a speedy delete notice - that this author of at least six books and producer of at least three spoken word recordings by a notable publisher, Llewellyn Worldwide, is not notable enough for YOU, seems an overly quick action. Couldn't you have allowed others to have some input?Rosencomet (talk) 06:17, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Request

Hi Dpmuk,

I see you had to close down the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute article. This should not have been necessary if editor Apcbg didn't edit war thoroughly discussed content out of the article simply based on "no consensus" (incidentally: WP:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus") after having contributed not a single character to a two-week long discussion.

I know it's a lot to ask, but would you be willing to go through the discussion over here and open a neutral RfC? If I open one Wee Curry Monster will immediately accuse it of not being NPOV so I don't even bother. As a neutral outsider and one with some knowledge of discussions that go on in that article, you'd be the ideal candidate for this.

I'll understand if you don't have the time (or simply don't want to get sucked into this) and in that case I'll see about asking some other editor. Regards. Gaba 17:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of burnpur cement

Why have u deleted the page? U do not seem to be from india, so how can u know whether a company is significant or not? The company is one of the leading cement manufacturers of cement in the eastern region Kindly undelete the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishabhgutgutia (talk • contribs) 19:45, 16 April 2013 (UTC) I have written the article myself, hence it does not violate any copyright laws Only certain names and certain technical terms have been copied — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishabhgutgutia (talk • contribs) 19:57, 16 April 2013 (UTC) Kindly type in burnpur cement in google, an option appears saying "burnpur cement wiki" which indicates that many people have searched for this page The primary reason for me to create this page was to cater to the demands of the people Kindly paste the old article on my talk page (so that i can work on a new draft) or undelete the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishabhgutgutia (talk • contribs) 20:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)