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Support request with team editing experiment project
Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

WikiProject Research Invitation
Hello Ceyockey,

We’d like to invite you to participate in a study that aims to explore how WikiProject members coordinate activities of distributed group members to complete project goals. We are specifically seeking to talk to people who have been active in at least one WikiProject in their time in Wikipedia. Compensation will be provided to each participant in the form of a $10 Amazon gift card.

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Marge6914 (talk) 17:36, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

iso4 journal titles
Hey Ceyockey,

Could you give me a link to the policy/MOS entry/whatnot you're basing the tweaks you're making to journals on? Right now it seems like kind of an unnecessary change. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 23:36, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * And can you please stop making those changes until you've gone back and fixed the ones you've already made? this form makes the references readable but most of your edits don't bother with the name and just use a raw hard-to-read wikilink. Ironholds (talk) 23:38, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Comply with Wikipedia licensing terms of reuse
Dear Courtland,

Sorry for my late reply. I would like to thank you for taking time to contact us and for all the explanations about how to comply with Wikipedia licensing terms of reuse. Despite our efforts to be correct in the reuse of Wikipedia articles, I understand from you that the mention we had put in our Terms of Use was not sufficient. We will make everything that is needed in order to comply with Wikipedia terms.

Our team has already applied your recommendations and we’ve put at the bottom of every section that uses Wikipedia material the following text to license the material under GFDL:

"The section "History and Origin" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Abrahão"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL."

For example: http://themeaningofthename.com/abrahao/

As well, we have updated our Terms of Use to comply with Wikipedia licensing on every page that uses Wikipedia material.

For example: http://themeaningofthename.com/contact-us/terms-of-use/#sources

Could you please confirm that these modifications are sufficient?

Thank you once again. Best Regards, Momchil

Themeaningofthename (talk) 15:59, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

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Open/closed access
I noticed that you added "closed access" templates to several sources at cosmic microwave background for which the journal itself is closed-access, but the citation included a version on arxiv. Shouldn't this count as open access ("green" open acess in the language of the open access article)? Has there been discussion on this? --Amble (talk) 19:19, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean to complain about your edit or to say that you should revert it -- I was truly just looking for more information. I haven't used the open and closed access templates before.  They seem useful, so I was curious about how they are being used.  Thanks. --Amble (talk) 15:50, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * As far as I could tell from some searches the issue has not been discussed. It is a legitimate one and one that kind of confuses the whole copyright issue for academic papers in the physical sciences; the biological sciences tend to be more clear cut as there isn't a repository quite like arxiv, and the notion of "previously published" is handled differently between the two domains.  I reverted as I'd done found this confusion and didn't have time to further pursue it.  It's bubbling in the back of my brain and might resurface with some commentary at the appropriate places later (i.e. a couple of months or more). --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 21:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. I imagined the purpose of the templates was to indicate to Wikipedia editors that they can read the source without going through a paywall; in that case, arxiv would be good enough.  However, if the idea is to indicate licensing status, and alignment with some notion of what open-access publishing is about, then of course there might be other requirements. --Amble (talk) 22:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Entecavir
Please review this edit at Entecavir. Template:Infobox drug offers melting_point + melting_high + melting_notes, but I don't see a way to accommodate your text—the infobox is currently showing an error because all the text is being passed to convert which requires a number. I guess melting_point could be "220" and melting_notes could start with "or more", but that's not the same as >220. Johnuniq (talk) 05:35, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

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Aburaihan listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Aburaihan. Since you had some involvement with the Aburaihan redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 16:26, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Bakhtar Bioshimi listed at Redirects for discussion
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CCL Pharmaceuticals listed at Redirects for discussion
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Catalytica listed at Redirects for discussion
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Ethypharm listed at Redirects for discussion
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Help with MetLife?
Hi Ceyockey, I am looking for editors who might be interested in updates and corrections for the MetLife article and I came across your name while poking through edit histories for various similar companies; I saw that you made some constructive edits on the Aetna article recently. Given that you also seem to generally be interested in updating company pages, I wondered if you'd be interested to take a look at MetLife. I've put forward some edits there as part of my work (I work for an agency called Beutler Ink and we are providing consulting to MetLife) and would like editors to review my suggestions, rather than making edits myself. There are some small requests that I've made recently about updating existing material to improve the references, chronology and accuracy. If you couple spare a few minutes to take a look, I would be grateful. Thanks in advance for any feedback you can give. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 21:13, 9 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I think soliciting assistance from established editors with no potential conflict of interest is a good way forward. I've had some history in being "called out" for some CoI edits in the past (not on Wikipedia, but on the internet at large), so I understand the need for indirect and non-involved editing to prevail.  Thanks for reaching out and I'll take a look. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 03:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! Appreciate any time you can spare. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 13:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi there Ceyockey, hope you're having a good week. I was wondering if you've had a chance to take a look at my open request at Talk:MetLife yet? Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 15:14, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi. I've had little time to do editing recently due to accelerated work obligations.  However, I'm easing into unplugging from work and had started to do some editing on the article.  This is what I did this evening, which includes a rewrite of the opening of the Products and Services section. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 03:47, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for diving in and making some edits! I see you've added a section about the corporate structure. I'd previously put forward a draft that might help with that, you can see here in the Corporate overview I'd put together that the current structure was put in place in 2011, when the company restructured into several global business units. I wonder if that information could be used to update the first part of what you have? For instance, the five segments are no longer accurate as they've been replaced by this new global split. Also, if you have time, you'll see on the MetLife Talk that I've pointed out a few issues with some existing material in the article, would be interested in your thoughts on that. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 06:04, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion issue on List Page break off of surname page - help request
Hello,

Recently I did a rewrite/reorganization of White (surname). I quickly realized that the list of real and fictional people would make the article too long. I created List of real and fictional people with the surname White and within 2 minutes had it cited for speedy deletion.

I marked the talk page appropriately protesting the speedy deletion and referred to Talk:White (surname) which I wrote the following.

I followed WikiProject Anthroponymy/Standards to rewrite or reorganize this article. As per MOS:DABNAME the List of real and fictional people with the surname White is too long for the primary article White (surname). As per MOS:DABNAME - "For short lists of name holders, new sections of Persons with the surname Xxxx or Persons with the given name Xxxx can be added below the main disambiguation list. For longer lists, create an anthroponymy list article and link to it from the disambiguation page. If it isn't clear that the article includes a list, consider mentioning that in the description." As per WP:INTDABLINK - created a list that points directly toward the relevant article. "With few exceptions, creating links to disambiguation pages is erroneous. Links should instead point to a relevant article." Jrcrin001 (talk) 21:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

The List page and contents was quickly deleted. 11:25, 25 December 2015 Metropolitan90 (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:List of real and fictional people with the surname White (G8: Talk page of a deleted page) 11:25, 25 December 2015 Metropolitan90 (talk | contribs) deleted page List of real and fictional people with the surname White (A10: Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic, White (surname))

The White (surname) page was reverted to the way it was before I started. The cleanup, infobox, et cetera all gone. All the work gone.

Question. Did I follow the guidelines wrong for such articles? Any idea what I did wrong? Curious. Jrcrin001 (talk) 06:02, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Category:Food companies by year of disestablishment has been nominated for discussion
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