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Your submission at Articles for creation: Universe@Home (July 23)
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Theroadislong (talk) 20:02, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Al Piskun (talk) 21:21, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from List of distributed computing projects into Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 21:05, 23 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks!
 * I have included "The table above includes copied content from List_of_distributed_computing_projects" below the edited table I added.
 * This is my first day of updating a Wikipedia page, so I'm bound to make several more errors... Al Piskun (talk) 21:20, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but the attribution statement belongs in the Help:Edit summary, rather than the article itself.
 * In this instance, I have already fixed the attribution issue in this diff (click it to see my edit summary), so this is just a heads up for any future instances of copying within Wikipedia. Let me know if you have any questions. DanCherek (talk) 21:39, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 13:12, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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September 2022
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Category:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects
Hello, Al Piskun,

Please do not put article redirects on a category page. That will cause that page to show up on a list of pages need to be fixed or deleted (which is how I came across this page). Category redirects use a special template, Template:Category redirect, and they are always kept empty. They point to a related category that actually contains the pages that a reader might expect to find in the category redirect.

If you have any further questions about editing, redirects, categories or templates, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 22:01, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Category:BOINC Project
You created Category:BOINC Project. We already have :Category:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects. What is your plan? If you want the old category to be renamed then category renames must be discussed first. See Categories for discussion. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:16, 11 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting in touch. This started when I tried to remove Category:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects from Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing because it is not a project, but the category still showed when I removed it. I tried to fix that by creating a category from an existing WikiData Entry - BOINC Project and categorizing them as Category:BOINC Project which is also in the has part(s) section of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing wikidata entry. I see now that the Category:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects on Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing page came from Template:BOINC projects so I'll back out my category moves and redirect the BOINC Project category to Category:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects and maybe point to that in the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing wikidata entry.
 * Al Piskun (talk) 01:32, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:POEM@Home


A tag has been placed on Category:POEM@Home indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:17, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Draft - iThena Project Wiki Page
Hi Al Piskun! Cloud you please help me edit the Draft:iThena? I need help editing this page. Bam123456 (talk) 09:43, 6 November 2022 (UTC)


 * To me that is a beautiful draft. However, it was declined 3 times because references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article even despite your attempts to prove otherwise.
 * I don't know how to convince folks of the importance of this project and that the draft qualifies but maybe I can trim the page down a bit and add the importance of internet mapping in general. I'll think about this. Al Piskun (talk) 13:36, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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