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Hi, we are staff from SCGS and we would like to help to keep the info up to date. Please advise how we can assist to keep the information updated. Thanks. email: scgss_ict@moe.edu.sg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.189.35.234 (talk) 01:10, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Scoobalawyer==26 July 2015

Hello DMacks, I Kindly Request You To Protect This Misplaced Pages Page of Kick (2014 film) because of High Vandalism by unknown users link : https://en.wikipedia.org/Kick_(2014_film). Thanks!

Re: OxNotes.com on Wallington Grammar page

Hello DMacks,

I am a representative of OxNotes (a student run website and soon to be textbook) , I apologise for method in which it was recently added to the Misplaced Pages page, I have ensured all 'marketing speak' has been removed and what is left is only factual information. Please feel free to contact me via LinkedIn, Twitter or email k@oxnotes.com if you require any further information. Thank you.

Kind Regards

Kazim

Kazim Chaudri Editor: OxNotes by Fluxty (Non-Profit) www.linkedin.com/in/kazimchaudri

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Sorry not sure how els to contact you to discuss the farm page.

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

added external links

I had added one reference link to page Бесхвостые , tutorvista had added its 4 links, then why not i can add one more reference link from other website. Its not promotion, but the page which i have, also tells about fron digestive system. So is that bad to put a reference link on that page. Please guide me.

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Misplaced Pages about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Misplaced Pages community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Misplaced Pages everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Maybe you should not rollback my code in the word "leapyear"

Hi, DMacks:

    When I fixed the some mistake of python code in "leap year", my code is rollback by you for the reason "Too much detail/WP is not a how-to manual". I'm software engineer, and I found many people don't known the history of "leap year", include the textbooks about programming in china. the wrong code is used for getting "leap year"(before 1582). So, I spend some time to study this question, and wrote the code which let more people know "leap year". can you allow the code is added to the context of "leap year".

   It's my first commit in Wiki. :)

   Best Regards

   Jerry.Liu, Beijing, China

   PS:
   I have add python code to bake of baidu. let more people knows the history of "leap year".  My English is poor, maybe you can know what I said.  hah.

Too many quotes: 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile

DMacks: When dealing with chemicals like 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile that can cause harm to people and environment, how does one decide "too many quotes"? If you read through the quotes in this entry, you'll find that they wind up contradicting each other -- that this chemical is safe but then is banned in the EU and (under Toxicity) according to the UN IPCS and US CDC can cause harm to the environment (which is the intended use: to effect the environment, starting with tree roots)... Respectfully --Aboudaqn (talk) 12:15, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

It's worthwhile mentioning the different and contradictory positions. But that doesn't have to be done by extended direct quotes. Instead, summarize the relevant material in your own words. DMacks (talk) 19:57, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

DMacks: Shortened longest quote: does that work for you, and do you agree the rest are short enough? (While I agree with you in general regarding quotes, when it comes to technical matters I find that nuance can often go missing when summarized.--Aboudaqn (talk) 20:11, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Chris Pine vandal

is at it again. I have requested page protection, but thought the other two IPs inserting crap about killers/murderers might need to be temp-blocked or something... ugh, the things people come up with. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 22:57, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

NeilN protected it. Unless the IPs spread their crap to other pages, I'm content to leave it as "they chose a target, it got protected, they gave up". I think the IPs are not part of a reasonably blockable range:( DMacks (talk) 07:21, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

About Standard Penetration Test as well as Boring (earth)

Dear

I've provided reliable academic papers. I urged User:Argyriou to join the discussion, but he never did. The following link -Zatsuwa, Monosagu (2005). "Beware, soft ground and the standard penetration test" (in Japanese). Public Works Research Institute.- is without a doubt what I found and he repeatedly kept deleting my writing as well as the link and stole the link as his for his writing even though he does not understand what it says. This can be confirmed from SPT history.

If you examine the SPT talk page,and its history as well as ANI, I am positive you would understand that I have provided all the necessary and reliable source to validate my writings, and I never enforced my points to User:Argyriou or others; I have been very open to discussion. He is the one who kept deleting my writings and cussing without solid reasons.

One more thing about three-revert rule in Boring(earth). I know about three-revert rule, but i though I could revert more than three if it was reverted by more than one other user. I am no expert in Misplaced Pages, and I never intended an edit-war.

I reported User:Argyriou's act as vandalism because there was a huge discussion about this issue in SPT talk and ANI a while ago, and I specifically pointed out about the link issue as well as others, and I thought it was settled. I urged him to join the discussion but he never did. And a couple of days ago, he deleted my writings and stole my link source as his again. I looked at Misplaced Pages:Vandalism, and it seems his act fits the description of vandalism. This is why I reported. I honestly do not know if this reporting is an act of edit-war.

Sincerely,Yoshi123Yoshi (talk) 07:00, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

I am not taking a position on the content at this time. As an admin, I am merely stopping a content dispute, forcing you (plural) to talk about it, get additional editors' input, etc (see WP:DR). The WP:3RR rule is a bright line regarding each individual's behavior, not "per opponent". But I do notice you have a history of uploading media files whose license/source tags are incorrect and often are WP:COPYVIO. Do you have some affiliation with a company or product related to this topic? DMacks (talk) 07:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

If there is vandalism, there are places and ways to report it before you yourself become tainted. But your WP:AIV was rejected (and I similarly reject this as a simple/obvious case) given that it has already been to AIV. I have no idea what it means to "steal" a link...links are just sources, and anyone can point to them to claim they support some fact. Perhaps this is a mis-translation of some other language's expression? DMacks (talk) 07:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

It is true that anyone can use a link to support his writing as long as his writing follows the source material. He cannot read Japanese, and he does not understand PWRI article. Anyone who has read the article know he never read it. His writing is quite different from the PWRI article. Although you say it is only a matter of the link, but he deleted my PWRI summary and took its link as his. I don't see why you don't find it strange. Yoshi123Yoshi (talk) 08:04, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

You are the one who raised the issue with stealing a link, a concept that makes no sense. Nobody "owns" a link, we (editors) all just use links as references to support content we write ourselves. I'm glad his writing is different than the content on some other website...if it were the actual same content, it would be forbidden as WP:COPVIO. As I can now see, your edits are disputed by multiple other editors, therefore I was correct not to rely solely on your statements here, but instead to recommend you use venues that give multiple other editors a chance to discuss. You did not answer my quetion: what (if any) is your affiliation with the companies involved with this topic? DMacks (talk) 08:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

That was a lot of vandalizing!

^ Krett12 (talk) 01:09, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Yup. Was out for coffee, then took me a few minutes to remember which sock-drawer it was and tag it. It's a WP:LTA who edits rapidly when he gets in the mood. Doesn't make it any harder to clean up, just more noise in the watchlists:) DMacks (talk) 01:15, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Nora Fatehi

Don't you think, sentence is contradictory ? (Her next movie was ?) Shachiindra (talk) 06:13, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

We're talking about Nora Fatehi? The previous sentence talks about the movie that was her "debut". That means that movie was her first one. Some other movie would not be "previous" to it, but instead would come after it ("next"). Are you thinking "next" means "after now" rather than just "after something else"? The whole sentence is past tense, so "after now" meaning doesn't make sense. DMacks (talk) 06:19, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Help

Hi DMacks, I want to bring this to your notice. This user Turehnde is removing content from many pages which include Karanvir Bohra, Surbhi Jyoti, Parth Samthaan and many more. When I reverted those edits the user is citing that content was removed from Karan Singh Grover without discussion. So the user is applying same rules over these pages according to him/her. Please take action on this. Regards, Digvijay411 (talk) 4:51 , 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Blocked as yet another Durr-e-shehwar sock based on many clues. DMacks (talk) 06:12, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Dopamine

Thank you for your improvements to the dopamine article. Now all I have to do is find a good ref for all that stuff . . . Looie496 (talk) 13:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

@Looie496: You're welcome! The analysis of the structure as being "catechol", "phenethylamine", etc is too obvious to need refs, but the definitions of those terms could be taken from their target articles if someone complains. The general idea of formulating amine drugs as salts for solubility reasons is supported (and cited) in the hydrochloride article--the ref looks like a reliable secondary/tertiary source. That this drug is formulated this way (•HCl rather than •HBr or other combinations) does need its own ref--I know about chemistry but not this chemical in particular. DMacks (talk) 19:17, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Desmethyletizolam

In response to your edit summary, I did not add the content that you are concerned about. The uncited claim was in the article before I ever edited it. 71.175.72.159 (talk) 00:18, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Logged-out edits

Dmacks, if an editor edits logged out, the IP adress is revealed- if it was accidental and unintended, is there a means of deleting the IP address from the edit history (re. WP:OUTING I guess)? cheers, _Fortuna 14:32, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Yes, admins can hide the IP-address of individiual edits in a page's edit-history. My link is available if you'd like to use it (ping me here so I know to check that account). Or you can email OTRS and someone who monitors that queue will handle it (those agents are vetted for handling non-public info regarding some WP activities). DMacks (talk) 15:03, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you: naturally I forgot to watch this page! Cheers _Fortuna 08:49, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Joe Hockey article protection?

Hi, would it be possible to reduce the protection level of Joe Hockey's article? He has recently retired from the Parliament, and several sum-ups of his career are coming out, and the article has been semi-protected (without a visible padlock) since last December. There have been no attempts at vandalism since then - could the protection level be changed to pending changes level or fully unprotected? Thanks. --110.20.234.69 (talk) 00:17, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

I knocked it down to pending-changes, and will check back in a day or so to see how it is surviving. For the record, we can't see "attempts at vandalism" that semi-protection is preventing. The software completely disables editing for those who are prevented from editing, so we cannot tell what they would have tried to do:) DMacks (talk) 01:45, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that! I've seen some spurious edit requests on pages which have been vandalised in the past, so I took it as a good sign that there was none of that on Hockey's article. --110.20.234.69 (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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Recent changes

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here.
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong.
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Misplaced Pages article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users.

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• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time.
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week.
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms.
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it.
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

whats your problem its my own page

mother fuckers Bfan20 (talk) 06:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Copyvio of the content as a whole and license violation of the image. It's only "your own" page in that it is associated with your account; it is still within the Misplaced Pages site and governed by certain rules. I recommend you spend some time re-familiarizing yourself with our core policies, as many/most/all of your recent edits have been unacceptable. DMacks (talk) 06:24, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Unlock the Article Cloudfone

Hello DMacks Can you unprotected the article Cloudfone From Materialtechnology — Preceding unsigned comment added by Materialtechnology (talk • contribs) 05:10, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

No. You and others with interest in that article have demonstrated that you are incapable of creating an acceptable article there (or elsewhere), so you will need to use a sandbox/draft-space so that an administrator can make sure it's acceptable this time. Consider it as an alternative to having your edit-privleges revoked altogether. DMacks (talk) 05:19, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

FACE:B00C collateral victim

addresses with FACE:B00C in their range are used by internet.org app service and not "geologically localized" in that a person in south asia can get allocated an address for a time which will be later cycled to any person in EU or NA. blocking entire ranges is too much collateral damage. please look deeply into this. block the sock accounts, not ip ranges. speaking as a victim of ip rangeblock associated with someone I did not know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahfuzur rahman shourov (talk • contribs) 05:22, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

The socks are using many IPs directly and to create many sock accounts using many IPs. Whack-a-mole on the accounts is not an effective or efficient solution at this point. If a pool of IPs that is assigned to a certain service provider is being abused by a vandal who rapidly jumps within that pool, that's exactly the reason a rangeblock is a reasonable solution. And indeed this case is a vandal jumping among many IPs in the range you cite. Maybe internet.org should stop running such an abusable proxy system? I'm not on their administrative or technical staff. Collateral damage of non-vandal users is often easily worked-around (but that it's "too much" as you say). DMacks (talk) 06:28, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

problem is that everyone in the world who are using internet.org gets assigned IP in the face:b00c range and internet.org system cycles the ip on a global scale, not regionally. so, because of some vandals in the ip range, innocent users get blocked. and the vandals can get away by creating accounts in "not face:b00c" range and logging into the vandal accounts using internet.org.