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Recently released Bengali films
Please help here if you can. The things which have been tried 1) warning users 2) Indic noticeboard reporting 3) ANI reporting 4) multiple page protections. The ANI thread is here. These editors are increasing in numbers (both registered and anonymous). They are making more number of edits in more articles now.
Most of the other vandal fighters have given up. It is difficult to monitor 13-14 accounts and similar number of articles. It'll be disappointing for me if someone gives me edit warring or 3RR warning. For a long time now, I have been going to every possible places for suggestions! Any suggestion? --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:23, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- is the most recent edit (unreverted still). --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:25, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm. Didn't notice it was an archive. I've put my solution there. :) I've semi protected the ones that seem to have ongoing issues for two weeks. I recommend escalating templated warnings for any registered users who persist in the behavior, followed by blocking as necessary if they will not stop. The protection can be extended if needed, but I would also suggest considering an edit notice, such as the one I just created here for Mankatha. I believe these are a bit helpful, although I am all too aware that they are not guarantees. --Moonriddengirl 11:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- Though there were multiple articles, I have created draft notice for two articles here: Template talk:Editnotices/Page/Paglu 2, Template talk:Editnotices/Page/Khokababu --Tito Dutta (talk) 02:02, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- They are continuing similar edits in those (and now few more) articles! --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- That's okay. That's part of the recommended escalating warnings and blocks I mentioned above. :) That's how they learn that they can't do it. But I'm afraid that you put the edit notices at the wrong page - sorry; I didn't notice that earlier. I'm moving them to the correct space. --Moonriddengirl 20:25, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- I am personally very happy at this moment. An editor has been blocked. But only for 48 hours. I have some special messages in my talk pages where I have set criteria "Do not archive till November 20012" (yes twenty thousand twelve). People should think like this, bigger.. bigger... just kidding.. ignore.. please..
- Only admins can create editnotices, non sysops can suggest in talk page. So, I posted that there!
- The best thing might be: do a blind sockpuppet test. Check all suspected editors of those affected articles and block all sockpuppets if there are any. But, Misplaced Pages does not allow such investigation. I am still trying to understand who might be whose sock (so many accounts and all edits are similar).
- Most probably you noticed all of reverts were re-reverted..
- Frankly Moonriddengirl, I know I have been in an edit warring and most probably have been trapped in 3RR too. Some admin may warn me for that too. But the thing they will miss most probably, I am almost begging for suggestions and help in almost everywhere (noticeboard, ANI, admin's talk page)!
- Breaking News: If you know Dr Blofeld, he has retired for some reason.--Tito Dutta (talk) 21:01, 6 November 2012 (UTC) typo correction arn → warn signed: Tito Dutta (talk) 21:03, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to hear about Dr Blofeld. :(
- Reverting vandalism is exempted from 3RR, and vandalism includes "
Copyvio being restored
Hi. The copyvio at Union, Ubay that you cleared out has been restored by the original violator, User:Olivarries,
who also tried to remove an AfD notice from Loon, Bohol Elected Barangay Officials (2010-2013) today. Can anything be done, please? --Stfg (talk) 21:54, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Blocked for 72 hours and message left. Their recent contributions need checking. The three larger contributions I checked all seemed to introduce material from the same website as before but I don't have time to check more now. Dpmuk (talk) 22:14, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, we needed that breathing space. The website you mentioned in the block notice is the only one I'm aware of that he's done copyvio from. (There's a CCI, by the way). His recent contributions have included copying images of barangay official seals from there to the articles' infoboxes. His other activity is to create massive pages of local election results, all for Bohol. I understand these are not copyvio, but they are massively high-volume WP:IINFO in my view. If the Loon AfD goes to deletion, I'll be doing a block nom of 47 more. Today he has created two new electoral results pages on a slightly different pattern. It's hard to see where this is heading. --Stfg (talk) 22:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you, Stfg for finding that it's ongoing. :/ And thank you, Dpmuk, for not only putting a temporary halt to it but for explaining the issue to him so succinctly and clearly. :) If he continues after this, without providing any evidence of permission, I think we'll have no choice but to indef. I've completed the check of all of his contributions since the CCI listing and cleaned up a few more copy-paste issues. It's all documented at the bottom of the existing CCI. --Moonriddengirl 10:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
protection
I request you to pls protect this article: Mankatha for at least a month. bcoz the film's actor has such insane fans, they keep altering the content in the article and their edits are never noticed. so pls protect it. Kailash29792 (talk) 10:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- As a first step, I have created an edit notice for the page. It may help. Let's give it a shot before protecting. I'll try to keep an eye on the article to see if it helps; please let me know if you notice that it does not. --Moonriddengirl 11:04, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Flickr
I have now added The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). — Preceding unsigned comment added by NatureSam (talk • contribs) 08:06, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, I've added the "template" on the talk page of the article to log your permission. That will allow you to incorporate the text, making sure that it otherwise meets policies and guidelines. Please be sure you keep that notice displayed on the Flickr page. While we use webcitation to log such permissions in case the releases are removed, Flickr doesn't seem to work with the webcitation archival process. :/ --Moonriddengirl 13:32, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Change of the title: Port Lympne
Hi
Ive been asked by work (The Aspinall Foundation who own the house) would it be possible to change the title from Port Lympne, to Port Lympne House so as not to confuse the visitors to the wild animal park? If so is this something only you can do? I'm very excited in that on the 15th September 2013 I'm going to open up the house to the public as part of the Heritage today Open weekend.
Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by NatureSam (talk • contribs) 08:14, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- This is not something only I can do, but I did it anyway. :) I moved it to Port Lympne Mansion, since that's the name used in the article itself, and fixed the links elsewhere. If you need to move it again at any point, you can follow the procedure at Help:Move. And congratulations on the pending opening! I'll go take care of the note you've left me above. :) --Moonriddengirl 13:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Copyright question for you
See WP:ELN#Link to a BBC History article hosted in an academic site. A copy of an article from BBC History magazine, is hosted on an academic server as course information. There is no information on the copyright status but the original author is a historian at the university. Would I be correct in my presumption that without a clear cut indication of copyright status we shouldn't be linking to it? Would you agree? I'd be grateful if you could take a moment to comment at WP:ELN. Regards. Wee Curry Monster talk 13:10, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- Opined there. :) --Moonriddengirl 12:18, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
CCI update
Finally, one of the big old ones is down. Exhausting, but am almost able to keep pace with how fast they're being added nowadays. --Wizardman 04:57, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- Wow! Congratulations and thank you. Do you have any ideas how we might be able to get more people involved in this work? My various appeals to AN haven't had long-term success, although they've brought a few folk in for little bits of time. I'm pretty sure that Village Pump doesn't get enough readership to make a difference. Do you think if Signpost would run a story for us that it would help? If so, we could perhaps put together a simple "How to" for CCI, based on the existing instructions, WP:CV101 and Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems/Advice for clerks. By which I mean, I'd be willing to write something up, if you think it would be useful, but would be very grateful for sensible overview, since writing "simple" is sometimes a challenge for me. --Moonriddengirl 11:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- So funny story: I happen to be the editor of the Signpost and a talk page stalker. In the dark ages, we had a "Tutorial" section, and more recently we had the "Dispatches" (see here). I'd be happy to run something similar, or if you would want to go further, we could run versions of your 2010 Bugle op-eds and make it a multi-part series. Ed 11:34, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, that would be awesome! I think the main thing here is to encourage editors to participate in the cleanup, so a more targeted approach in Signpost might be better. But I would love to hear what talk page stalkers think about the best way to do that, if any happen to be hanging about? --Moonriddengirl 12:29, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I'll bite on that. The instructions in Cv101 and on the CCI page are mostly very clear, but I needed reassurance that I would be OK to tick things off after making ordinary best efforts (source spotchecks and google searches), or whether there are mysteries that ordinary mortals don't know about. MER-C has clarified that for me now, and I'll be doing some, but it will be on the edge of many people's comfort zones, I think. IOW, it may need a "here's what you need to be able to to do" kind of thing. --Stfg (talk) 13:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- For getting people interested, the best way may be to do targeting based on interests. For example, if I asked on the Baseball Wikiproject for copyright help on Epeefleche, I would likely get some help there. If I were to ask there for general help or Singingdaisies, I most likely won't hear anything back. It would be tough to do, but possible. Wizardman 17:26, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- That might help, Wizardman. I've left a few CCI "please help" templates for Wikiprojects and haven't gotten much response, but it might depend on which project. Stfg, that's a good idea. Should that be added to the CCI instructions directly, do you think? --Moonriddengirl 20:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- That could be a good idea. One thing it might help to clarify is any difference (if there is one) between ccleans done presumptively at CCI and ccleans of general suspected copyvio, where there may be backwards copy or permission an editor might overlook. Fear of mis-stepping on issues like that is what keeps me from doing more; perhaps other editors too? --Stfg (talk) 10:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- ... although, on reflection, better not discourage that fear too much ;) --Stfg (talk) 11:35, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
That's always the difficult balance. :D We don't want people scared to take action, but I've seen CCIs where people have restored copyvio content without evidently doing even a cursory check. :/ Anyway, what do you think of this? Does it help? Should it go further? --Moonriddengirl 13:25, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- I think it's great and it certainly helps. It probably says enough, imo. Thank you! --Stfg (talk) 15:24, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
CCI
Hi. I just thought that after two years and no apparent indication in many months of any cases of infringement located, that the matter was resolved. I didn't mean to come off as arrogant and I guess, in retrospect, that I should have left you a note here but I didn't know if you were still involved. Yours, Quis separabit? 20:48, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Hi. I didn't take you as arrogant and didn't mean to sound like I had in response. I wish that these matters could close out more quickly, but as is being discussed in the section immediately above there just aren't enough people working on them. Yours is not even the oldest unresolved CCI we have. That dates back to October 2009. I can understand that it would be frustrating to have it not concluded, but there is no easy answer to this. :( --Moonriddengirl 20:50, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Got it. The reason I thought it was basically over is that there are sections that have clearly been completed but not updated as such. Also the last section has been worked on, so if whoever is/are doing this is/are going in consecutive order then logically that would mean the previous ones had been looked over as well. Could you or whoever, at your convenience, at least update the sections that have been completed? Thanks. Quis separabit? 20:53, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- These are not done consecutively. The ones that are complete will have notes. I'll see if there are any completed sections that haven't been closed and take care of that, if so. --Moonriddengirl 13:16, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- I'm afraid I don't see any completed sections, other than the first, which is already closed. --Moonriddengirl 13:17, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2012
Help
Hi! Moonriddengirl I have been editing Bade Achhe Lagte Hain since long, but recently other users have been vandalizing the article by deleting info and references. They also fill more than half of the article with plot while I add a sumarrized one as Misplaced Pages says to write a plot by cutting away whatever is not the plot of that particular soap opera. I beg you to protect the article for at least some 10 or 15 days. Please reply on my talk page. Thank you! --Tamravidhir (Jiva Is Shiva!) 07:49, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 Thank you --Tamravidhir (Jiva is Shiva!) 13:20, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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