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Give me a single reason why you should bite newbies and I will give you multiple reasons why you are not here to build an encyclopedia ~ Olatunde Isaac

Invitation to WikiProject TAFI

Hello, Wikicology. You're invited to join WikiProject Today's articles for improvement, a project dedicated to significantly improving articles with collaborative editing in a week's time. Feel free to nominate an article for improvement at the project's Article nomination board. If interested in joining, please add your name to the list of members. Thanks for your consideration. North America 17:28, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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20:31:41, 4 March 2016 review of submission by Alice Ananian

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  • Draft:Avetik Chalabyan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Wikicology. Thank you for reviewing my article earlier last month. Since then I have been editing this Biography of living persons (https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Avetik_Chalabyan) article to include better sources, and a more neutral and appropriate tone. At this point I have submitted it for another review. I realize that there are almost 493 articles waiting to be reviewed. Since it's been a few weeks since I resubmitted the article I just wanted to ask if everything is on the right track, and if there are any additional step that need to be taken in the meantime.

Thank you very much in advance for your advice and time. User:Alice Ananian (talk) 20:31, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

I have concerns on the structure of the article. Thus, I'm a bit reluctant to move the article to mainspace. Please see Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Biographies. Wikic¤l¤gy 22:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2016)

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This Month in GLAM: February 2016

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2016)

A typical Swedish school lunch. Hello, Wikicology. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Lunch Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: People • Music of Africa Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot 00:06, 14 March 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

Re deletion of Excelsior balgerhoeke

Hi, I saw your message on the talk page of the above article, but the article was deleted before I had a chance to reply, which you probably would not have seen anyway.
If a language parameter is included in the {{not English}} template (in this case {{not English|Dutch}}), it provides a link to a Google translation of the article. Whilst a machine translation is never suitable for being pasted into the article to replace the foreign language, it does provide a good clue what the article is about and whether the topic is notable. I am quite active at WP:PNT, where the above article came to my attention. The machine translation of the article had phrases such as "we are a proud amateur team" and "we once won a third division tournament but were then relegated to fourth division". So it was quite clear that it was a non-notable amateur football (soccer) club. When a foreign-language article appears to be about a notable topic, it is listed at WP:PNT for two weeks, which gives plenty of opportunity for it to be translated. After that it is marked for deletion via PROD. I hope this alleviates your concerns. Regards, AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 00:26, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Question

It is still morning here, so I'll say good morning to you, Wikicology. Your body of work on WP is impressive. I appreciate your style of writing, particularly BLPs. Considering your areas of interest and what you've accomplished for the project overall, may I impose upon you to review a project I recently created called WP:Project Accuracy. I look forward to reading your input and thank you in advance. Atsme 13:55, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Atsme, accept my apology for this extremely slow response. I've been busy with Wikimedia outreach activities. However, I want to thank you for establishing this amazing project. I found it very interesting and I'm ready to give you all the support to achieving the set goals. Let me know how I can help. Wikic¤l¤gy 13:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Well, I could use your guidance and expertise regarding the following: proposal, and how best to approach it. Atsme 17:46, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Atsme, thank you for the effort you have put into developing this request. I will be glad to help. Do you want me to email you? Or leave the suggestions on the proposal's talk page or here? Let me know what will work best for you. Wikic¤l¤gy 18:07, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Whichever is easiest for you will work for me. 😊 Atsme 18:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Good! I will take a closer look at the draft later today. Wikic¤l¤gy 18:19, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

I emailed you. Cheers. Wikic¤l¤gy 21:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!! I hope to get back working on the project in the next day or two. Atsme 05:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm glad to know. Let me know how I can help further. Wikic¤l¤gy 06:30, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

RE: Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode

Hi Wikicology, Thank you for your comment on Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode page, I requested for undeletion of the page and this was granted, while working to improve the page on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User:Aisha_Muhammed-Oyebode it was moved by another administrator to the mainspace i am trying to revert move it back to the userfied old version https://en.wikipedia.org/User:Ebubay01/Aisha_Muhammed-Oyebode to complete work on improving the article before requesting for it to be moved to mainspace/article --Ebubay01 (talk) 11:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Moved to User:Ebubay01/workspace/Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode. Work on it there. Wikic¤l¤gy 14:10, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2016)

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Can I help?

Let me know, and I'll help you format this page. You probably don't want mention of the closed COINoscopy. Ping me. Atsme 17:15, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Atsme...Please help with the formatting. I'm using yours as a template. I fell in love with your talk page. Lolz..Thank you. Wikic¤l¤gy 18:13, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Happy to help. It's the least I can do after all the help you've given me. Is it your intention to collapse all the posts, or just a portion of them? Atsme 19:32, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

PS - I'm working on it now - will let you know when complete. Atsme 20:17, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

21:28, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Atsme, I lack words to say thank you. But for better choice of words THANK YOU. Am so grateful. Warm regards. Wikic¤l¤gy 21:41, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Talkback

Request to revisit the discussion, sources found. North America 12:46, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawn. Thanks for bringing my attention to the discussion. Happy esther. Wikic¤l¤gy 06:32, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Note to RHaworth

User_talk:RHaworth#Olatunde_Isaac Peter Damian (talk) 12:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

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ANI

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Peter Damian (talk) 07:46, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Inaccurate claims of authorship

Hi. You have stated that several of the images you've uploaded are your own work, but I'm struggling to see how this is the case. As I've noted on commons, the EXIF data of File:Isaac_Adewole2.jpg states the author as modovictor, which I presume is this guy rather than you. Others e.g. File:Ahmed_Tijjani.jpeg look like you have taken a photograph of a photograph - this is a copyright violation as the original work was by the portrait photographer not you. Can you please clarify what's going on. Thanks SmartSE (talk) 22:42, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Smatse . I'm sorry for the extremely slow response. I can see that I misunderstood "Own work". Now I clearly understand that only the original photographer can claim "Ownership" of a work. Thanks for your calmness. In the interim, please flag copyrighted images for deletion. Cheers. Wikic¤l¤gy 17:19, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi

I just wanted to say that I hope you will not be discouraged by the rather intense and somewhat mean-spirited scrutiny you are currently under. I think Peter Damian has a point in some of his critiques in so far as you have clearly made a number of mistakes both in terms of editing articles without proper understanding of policy for sourcing and copyrights, and in terms of representing yourself on wiki (I dont think there is a policy against calling one self an academic without being a university employee, but having so many sockpuppets clearly was a bad idea). I think however that he is being very unreasonable and unpleasant in his way of pursuing this. I think I would encourage you to just keep being calm and honest about your mistakes and show that you are willing to learn from them. I think your work on getting better representation for Nigeria and Africa related topics is extremely important, and you definitely deserve credit for that. Thanks, keep up the good spirit and keep improving the encyclopedia and yourself as an editor! ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 00:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Maunus and thanks for encouraging me. I'm very happy to hear from you. I want to let you know that I have no single intention to be disruptive on Misplaced Pages. I've always look for thousands of ways to improve Misplaced Pages, both in terms of editing, content creation and in terms of recruiting new editors for Misplaced Pages. I'm doing this because of my passion for the project and I cannot knowingly disrupt the project that I'm passionate about. We all make mistakes and its always a good idea to learn from them. Surely, I will learn from this mistakes and that will make me a better editor. I decided not to respond to Peter again not because I'm rude but because I want to remain calm as possible as I can which I think its the right thing to do. Just as I pointed out on the ANI, and as you have pointed out here, I'm not under any obligation to declare my identity on Misplaced Pages or to any editor. I'm not a WMF staff neither I'm I an Oversight or Checkuser. I'm a volunteer like anyone around. If I call myself a farmer for example or a philosopher on my userpage, it doesn't mean its true or false. I mean, it could be true or false and only reliable sources outside Misplaced Pages can validate my claims. I may choose to call myself a "Vampire" or "Goat" on Wikpedia or other Wikimedia project. I wonder why an editor will call me a liar and several other names on this basis if they found it outside Misplaced Pages that I'm neither " a Vampire" nor a "Goat". This is clearly against the ethics of collaboration. If Peter or any editor feels some unverified information/claims on my userpage is likely to mislead other people or editors, there are polite ways of requesting a confirmation or changes to the claims. I'm not a rigid person, I will make the changes or provide confirmation. I don't mind sending them a private email with confirmation. If I wish to declare my true identity to WMF, there are processes for doing that. No one is perfect here on Misplaced Pages and everyone were once new here as a Wikipedian. I understand that Peter intentionally want to embarrass and discredit me and my contributions to Misplaced Pages but I won't allow that to discourage me. If only Peter would know that every Wikipedians have two lives, his/her personal life and his/her life as a Wikipedian. I won't insult Peter or any editor that strongly criticize or insult me and I want to believe they are doing that in good faith with the aim of improving the encyclopedia and I will learn from their constructive criticisms. Still a learning curve. Thank you. Wikic¤l¤gy 08:10, 30 March 2016 (UTC)