User talk:BalochMedia

Copy-pasting copyrighted text from other websites is prohibited
Your addition to Baloch people has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. AtticusX (talk) 02:12, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Your addition to Baluchi culture has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. AtticusX (talk) 02:27, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Your addition to Baloch people has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. AtticusX (talk) 08:45, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Please stop
Just how many times how many people need to say this? No copy-pasting from other sites, period. East of Borschov 23:04, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Baloch people
BalochMedia,

I assume you meant well with your recent edits to Baloch people, despite your repeated overwriting of valid material with copyrighted material, and other problematic editing that has required reversion. However, I ask that you please respect Wikipedia guidelines in your future edits.

Below is a summary of some of the problematic aspects of your most recent changes to Baloch people that required reversion:


 * wapedia.mobi is an inappropriate reference source. It is a mirror of the Wikipedia site.
 * The ethnologue.com sources you added for several statistics do not support the statistics.
 * Unexplained removal of valid sources in second paragraph of lead section.
 * Dubious unsourced changes to statistic-country pairings in third paragraph of lead section.
 * Unexplained deletion of entire "Demographics" section.
 * Bad grammar in "Origins and History" section.
 * Unexplained blanking of the entire section titled "History of the Baloch people".

Other, less problematic changes you made simultaneously with the above changes may have been reverted along with them because you lumped them all together in one massive edit.

It is recommended that you break up your changes into smaller, more incremental edits. Monolithic, all-at-once edits that completely rewrite the article are not in the spirit of collaborative, transparent editing on which Wikipedia depends, and are likely to be reverted. Smaller, incremental edits can be more easily evaluated by your fellow editors for whether they are improvements on the previous version, saving everyone time.

If another editor reverts one of your changes, do not reinstate it without explanation. So-called edit-warring will result in your account being blocked. Discussion on talk pages is the best way to argue your case when disagreements arise.

Please use the "edit summary" box below the edit box to explain exactly what you are doing in each edit and/or your rationale for each edit. If your edits are too numerous or complex to summarize in that field, go to the Discussion page for the article and explain your intentions there.

Again, the best advice I can offer is to make your edits step by step, summarizing them in the Edit Summary box, so that other editors can efficiently see, understand, and evaluate your edits on a case-by-case basis.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

AtticusX (talk) 09:46, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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You have message at ---> Help desk .....Moxy (talk) 00:05, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Ok lets see what i can do....So the copy you like is this one right? and it was changes back to this copy......So what we need to do is fine references for the first copy ...and

So lets go over the refs found in the above links to see if we can find sources for your version...lets put a copy to work on ..in a private page for you --> User:BalochMedia/sandbox <---

Some reassurance from AtticusX
Just a few comments:


 * I'm not an administrator. Just a regular Wikipedia editor.  I've been editing here a long time, but I don't have any fancy editing privileges.


 * I don't know much about Baloch culture. You, on the other hand, sound well-versed in the subject and all the hot-button issues at stake.  Your knowledge in such an obscure field is potentially very valuable to Wikipedia.  Of course, the big rule of no original research still applies.  Everything you contribute needs to be verifiable in third-party, reliable sources.  If you want your contributions to endure, it's up to you to find and add references to sources that support your claims.  That, more than any other factor, will improve the longevity of your contributions!


 * My personal specialization here is in presentation and process, not content generation. I tend to work on fixing grammar, spelling, formatting errors, vandalism, and violations of the editing process.  I watch for editors who are disrupting the collaborative process (intentionally or unintentionally) and I fix, tag, or undo their edits, and sometimes I put warnings on their talk pages.  Anybody can do this.  Frankly, it doesn't take a lot of brains.  But I do it because I think Wikipedia's guidelines are well-built and serve a good purpose that deserves enforcement.


 * My reversion of several of your edits has been nothing personal, I promise. And I also promise that it has nothing to do with the information they contain.  For all I know, the information you've tried to add to Baloch people is 50 times as accurate as the original article.  The reason I've had to revert several of your edits is because they didn't comply with various important Wikipedia rules, and because I didn't know enough about the subject to safely salvage the usable bits of your edits from the unusable bits.


 * Some people break Wikipedia's rules because they are just being stupid or trying to damage it. You're not one of those people.  You're trying to help.  This is appreciated.


 * WP:COPYVIO is one of the most important rules, because Wikipedia could obviously get in a lot of legal trouble if it allowed copyrighted material to remain for any length of time. So you broke that rule a few times, and you got reverted and warned a few times, and then you figured out that that was bad and stopped doing it.  No worries.


 * The other reasons I had to revert some of your edits when I came across them are listed further up on the page. I don't usually take the time to go into such detail on people's talk pages about what improvements need to be made if they want their edit to stick.  But it seemed to me that you were honestly trying to improve the article.  I also don't normally spend as much time as I am right now following up to reassure an editor and try to correct misunderstandings.  These days I am normally pretty impatient with people who don't take the time to learn the rules before they make drastic edits, because their behavior seems contemptuous of the collective endeavor.  But in your case, I think Wikipedia would benefit from your expertise if you are willing to spend the time to learn its guidelines for style, etiquette and verifiability, etc.  So I am writing this time to encourage you to stick with it.


 * If you ever want my assistance cleaning up material-in-progress in your sandbox that has already been properly supported with references, I would be happy to help with issues related to English grammar, spelling, formatting, verifying sources, general proofreading, etc., because that's what I'm good at.

In other words: don't freak out. Your edits are not under attack by a government-sponsored agent with an information-suppressing agenda. You're just figuring out the ropes of how Wikipedia works, as everyone does when they first arrive here. It takes time and patience, but it's worth it.

AtticusX (talk) 08:03, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Sandbox for rewrite of Baloch people
A few hours ago, at Moxy's request I scanned your sandbox version of the Baloch people article for copyright infringements, and I found just one remaining copyvio paragraph of text, which apparently pre-dated your involvement with the page and had gone undetected for a while. That was the paragraph beginning with "There are two main dialects: Eastern and Western...", which I guess someone else had once copy-pasted from this copyrighted external page. Since you tweaked that paragraph a bit, I think your text is now free of any obvious copyright problems.

However, I just noticed that you've added some images to the article, and those images don't have their copyright information filled out. Therefore, those images will be automatically deleted soon. I assume you didn't photograph those images with your own camera, but copied them from elsewhere on the web -- which usually makes it a copyright violation. I don't know much about images on Wikipedia -- they're outside my realm of expertise -- but I do know that you can't just add images you found on other websites unless they are in the public domain, which is rare. I don't think you will be blocked for uploading those images if they were illegally obtained, since you did it before you knew you weren't supposed to and presumably won't do it again, but the images will disappear and the links to them will become broken within a few days, so you'll want to do something about that. The images from the original article are of course not as colorful, but they are all in the public domain and are free to use.

Looking further at your rewrite-in-progress, I can see that some work remains to be done before your sandbox version is ready to present as a viable alternative to the current article. For example:


 * The syntax of some of the more grammatically mixed-up sentences needs to be fixed so we can understand what you are trying to say. There are sentence fragments and incomprehensible syntax scattered throughout the article.  You will probably need somebody's help to fix this. I would be willing to copyedit your work if you like, once you address the more urgent issues pertaining to sources...
 * Footnote [1] cites Wapedia.mobi as a source. That's not allowed, since Wapedia is essentially a mirror of Wikipedia's own site, and Wikipedia can't cite Wikipedia as a source.  Why did you get rid of the original sources here?
 * "Some 70 percent of the total Baluch population live in Baluchestan." -- Here you changed "Pakistan" to "Baluchestan" without changing the statistic. Pakistan is not the same as Baluchestan, is it? This source states that 70% live in Pakistan.  Similarly, you changed "Pakistan" to "Baluchestan" in the population statistics box, with no supporting source.  You're gonna need to cite a source for these changes if you really think they are correct.
 * Your citations for the population statistics of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Bahrain all point to a source which only gives population information for Kuwait. Unless you have real sources for those countries' statistics, I'd recommend just reverting to the original article's "Citation needed" tags.
 * Footnotes are supposed to come immediately after the information they support. Free-floating footnotes like [10], [11], [13], [15], [18] and [19] need to be moved so it's clear which text they support.
 * Footnote [11] seems to be broken.

Once you have fixed up the article to make it presentable, your next step will be announcing on the talk page for the Baloch people article that you've been working on a complete rewrite of the article in your sandbox here, sharing the link to it so they can come read it for themselves, and inviting people to comment on your version versus the current version of the article. This gives everyone a chance to share their suggestions or objections. If there aren't any objections, then it's time (at last!) to copy your completely rewritten version to the live page, making sure you briefly summarize your reason for doing so in the Edit summary box. (For example, "Completely rewrote article. Original version was poorly sourced, full of inaccuracies and needed to be restarted from scratch. See recent discussion.")

AtticusX (talk) 13:24, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

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P. D. Cook Talk to me! 20:25, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Baluchwomen.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:Baluchwomen.jpg, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

copyright violation see http://www.buzzle.com/articles/tolerant-baloch-religious-leaders-executed-in-iran.html

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. AllahLovesYou (talk) 07:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Mozati.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:Mozati.jpg, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

copyright violation see http://balochipic.blogspot.com/

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. AllahLovesYou (talk) 07:05, 30 October 2010 (UTC)