User talk:Andershus

Indian painting
Dear reader If you are a NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING person, and if you have some spare time, please take a look on this article, machine translated from French (fr:Peinture en Inde). Don’t hesitate to log on as user, and make the needed language corrections. Best regards Andershus. Andershus (talk) 14:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

to find english speaking translator"Andershus (talk) 07:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)"


 * See WP:Translators available if you're looking for French-to-English translators. Please note that machine translations without manual improvements are not considered beneficial on the English Wikipedia. Huon (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Actually, it looks like it was translated from English to French, at least in the early days (2007): see Talk:Indian painting.  It's possible, of course, that some translation in the other direction (fr -> en) happened subsequently.  Andershus, I believe you were responsible for adding the article page banner about translation from French. Do you have evidence of MT in the fr -> en direction?  Can you please review the situation, and check if a translation banner is still required?  If not, please remove it.  And if it is, the expert needed template is not the right one; please see rough translation, cleanup translation, and proofreader needed.  Pinging Huon.  Mathglot (talk) 23:22, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Indian tribal painting
Dear reader If you are a NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING person, and if you have some spare time, please take a look on this article, machine translated from French (fr:Peinture tribale en Inde). Don’t hesitate to log on as user, and make the needed language corrections. Best regards Andershus. Andershus (talk) 14:32, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I have turned that page into a draft at Draft:Indian tribal painting. It clearly wasn't ready to be a live article yet. It included editorial comments. Significant parts were unreferenced. It will need to be improved before turning it into a live article. Huon (talk) 11:41, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
 * and the images were (as in the French) not "thumb" formatted, & other very basic format stuff was not done. PLEASE STOP ADDING THIS SORT OF STUFF! Johnbod (talk) 17:18, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

MT and disruptive editing at Indian painting
Hello, Andershus, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm aware that you've edited a handful of articles sporadically since 2014, and two articles very intensively since Feb 9, however your pattern of editing indicates that you are still a beginning editor and unfamiliar with some very basic rules of Wikipedia, including such fundamental points as placing comments and discussion at the Talk page and not in the article itself.

Another important point, is that this is English Wikipedia, and articles are written in English. The community opinion is that adding unedited machine-translated text is worse than nothing. By my browser's tally, you have 562 edits to Indian painting since February 9, and they appear to be all, or mostly, dumps of machine-translated text from the French article fr:Peinture en Inde into the English article. This is not helpful.

Please stop adding MT text to Indian painting immediately.

I appreciate that you are acting in good faith, but in reality, your edits require other editors to come in after you and try to fix what you have done. This amounts to disruptive editing as it is not helpful to the project. Translations into English from other languages are best done by those with native or near-native competence. There is no objection to your discussing on the article talk page at Talk:Indian painting any changes or additions you think are necessary, and requesting assistance in adding them. I will be opening a Talk page section about a possible rollback of your edits at Indian painting, to see whether there's a consensus to remove them or not, so please be aware that further edits at Indian painting may be a waste of your time, at least until there is consensus on how best to move forward.

Finally, I've seen your edits on French Wikipedia and that may be the best venue for your obvious talents, interests, and energy. Thanks again for your contributions to Wikipedia. If you'd like to comment about this post, please do so below, so the discussion is kept all in one place. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 00:34, 11 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Est-ce que vous avez du mal à comprendre l'anglais écrite ici? Utilisez-vous parfois la traduction automatique pour lire les messages ici sur votre PdD, et pour répondre aux messages?  En principe, on devrait répondre en anglais ici sur en-wiki, mais si vous preferez, vous pouvez bien me répondre en français, si cela encouragerait une meilleure échange entre nous.  Bien Cordialement, Mathglot (talk) 00:49, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Follow-up about your machine translations
Just a follow-up to let you know that according to a consensus of users at Talk:Indian painting, several hundred of your edits at Indian painting subsequent to version 824774041 of 11:55, February 9, 2018 have been removed as unconstructive machine translations.

Please refrain from adding any more machine translations. Any further edits of yours at Indian painting, or at other articles on English Wikipedia which involve machine translation are likely to be reverted expeditiously, and may be viewed as disruptive. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cordially, Mathglot (talk) 05:38, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Viswanadhan


The article Viswanadhan has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 12:27, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Indian tribal painting


Hello, Andershus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Indian tribal painting".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ― Abelmoschus  Esculentus  10:35, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Samikshavad and multiple other articles into Indian painting. 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. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:21, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Stop your disruption at Indian painting
Please stop your renewed disruptive activity at Indian painting. You may not use articles on en-wiki as a dumping ground for machine translated text. You are already at risk of having your last 600 edits at Indian painting rolled back (see Talk:Indian painting). If you continue to WP:DISRUPT this article, or any article at Wikipedia in this manner, I or some other editor may take you to WP:ANI and seek to have you topic banned from articles about Indian painting, or may seek to have your editing privileges suspended.  Do not ignore this message. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 20:07, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * यदि आप अपना विघटनकारी संपादन जारी रखते हैं, तो आपको अपने संपादन विशेषाधिकारों को स्थगित करने का जोखिम रहेगा। कृपया सुनिश्चित करें कि आप ऊपर दिए गए अंग्रेजी संदेशों और Talk:Indian painting को समझ सकते हैं। धन्यवाद।.


 * আপনি যদি বিঘ্নিত সম্পাদনা চালিয়ে যান তবে আপনার সম্পাদনার সুযোগগুলি স্থগিত করার ঝুঁকির মধ্যে পড়বেন। দয়া করে নিশ্চিত হয়ে নিন যে আপনি উপরের ইংরেজি বার্তাগুলি বুঝতে পেরেছেন এবং Talk:Indian painting এ। ধন্যবাদ. Mathglot (talk) 20:15, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Indian painting, you may be blocked from editing.
 * If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
 * If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Stop your continuing, massive disruption at Indian painting, and discuss what changes you would like to make at the article Talk page. Stop ignoring attempts to communicate with you, and  If you continue your disruption I will attempt to have your editing privileges curtailed. Mathglot (talk) 00:25, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Don’t forget to log in
Don’t forget to log in. There have been numerous edits very similar to yours from  recently, some of which occurred after the warnings about machine translation above, and the multiple requests to respond to other editors. Thank you, Mathglot (talk) 16:46, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion concerning your edits at Indian painting
A discussion is taking place concerning your edits at Indian painting. Please join this discussion at Talk:Indian painting. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 03:28, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * There is an impending rollback of hundreds of your edits at Indian painting coming soon. Please see the discussion above. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Rollback at Indian painting
The article Indian painting has been rolled back to the version of July 20, removing approximately 800 of your recent edits. Please see this discussion.

This is the second time this has happened. If you continue to disrupt the article, you may be taken to WP:ANI with a request for a topic ban to prevent you from editing the article or any article about this topic. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 18:27, 24 August 2019 (UTC)