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Since you're familiar
The Jim Sterling editor continues to make trouble on his own SPI. BenYes? 23:00, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocked and noted there (among other things I did about it). Will check back periodically for the next few days to see how things are going. Let me know if anything else is needed (I don't know anything about the actual article-subject). DMacks (talk) 23:10, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The article subject is basically a year-long feud between Jim and a game developer. I find it strange how, just today, Digital Homicide step in (Jromine2445), as well as an IP hell-bent on deleting (not highlighting reference errors) the entire section of the article.
 * I'm trying to work on a section with 3rd party refs, but as this is a game journalist feud, few exist. But it is an important part of what Jim Sterling has been involved with this past year. Hell, he's almost gone down the legal route just a few weeks ago over recent revelations in the story. He's a link or two away from suing the developer. --Kizzycocoa (talk) 23:17, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a common situation for this sort of topic. Independent sources that comment on this feud existing, even in niche publications (gaming/game-developer magazines or notable news sites?), anything that supports "an important part...this past year", would support inclusion of the idea. Primary sources of what each said are fine (a ref to them actually saying it surely proves what they said) if the theme of them saying something has attracted attention outside of the feuding parties themselves. DMacks (talk) 23:23, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah good, thanks for clarifying that! I've already got some links to Destructoid, GameRant and GameRampage articles covering this situation, along with a game news youtube video on the recent attack blogs, so I can add those references into the page to show it has attracted attention.
 * incidentally, the Reddit for Jim has had several newly-created users defending Digital Homicide, on the same day that the developers have personally come to comment on Reddit, and edit the wiki page themselves. We're suspecting sock-puppetry on both platforms. This seems to be too co-incidental to be just an average edit. --Kizzycocoa (talk) 23:53, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47
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Louis Diggs Honors and Tributes
As a relatively new editor, I appreciate my work being reviewed. However, I think that being lifted up as a role model is a tribute, although perhaps not an honor. Can you tell me of a better way to incorporate this information into the Diggs site? Thank you.

"A Good Black Man, Incorporated is a non-profit organization whose ongoing mission is to enhance the life options for African American males and to provide a global forum to dispel the myths that demonize them. The three-fold vision of the members and volunteer board of directors of A Good Black Man, Inc is empowerment, education and community service. We seek to contribute to the empowerment of African American males through our annual Legacy of Excellence Initiatives. We work towards the enrichment of African American male youth (specifically, those between the ages of 11-14 years) with educational initiatives designed to strengthening their self-confidence by replacing negative images with positive ones, thus helping to reverse the process of self-hatred. Through outreach and partnership with like-minded organizations, A Good Black Man, Inc. can fulfill its commitment to answering the call by assisting with servicing communities in need." Nancyhmarshall (talk) 22:37, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Nancy! First, thank you for contributing, and I hope my edits have not come across as any sort of negative towards ths interesting person or your work on him...it is definitely not my intent. I'm not sure what it actually represents that AGBM has highlighted Diggs. Did he work with them? Did they build their organization (or some major project of theirs) on his life's work? Are they themselves a notable organization? Is any of that reported by third parties? The organization does have important goals and recognizing his work/role-model seems in keeping with it, but I don't yet see how it is significant enough to mention alone or how to integrate it with his larger picture. DMacks (talk) 22:52, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Nancyhmarshall (talk) 23:18, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Alumni list
Why am I not allowed to introduce the list of Alumni of SP Jain? What is wrong with you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by VismayH (talk • contribs) 08:47, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I did not say you were not allowed to include this content itself. I said you were not allowed to edit-war once someone else disagrees with your edit. This is an administrative policy about behavior regardless of how worthy the content of the edit might be. DMacks (talk) 08:49, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ...but looking at the content itself, the other editors are correct. It is not appropriate to list individuals who are not notable, as demonstrated by having articles about themselves here on wikipedia. You say that they do, but I tried linking the very first three in your list, and none of them do that I can find (Vinay Raghunath Shetty, Rajesh Arun Jejurikar, Madan A. Padaki are all redlinks). DMacks (talk) 08:59, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Kent Hovind
Hi DMacks. I think the protecion template expiry date should be 30 November 2015. The current date is in the past. Best. Dr.  K.  23:30, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for catching it. Fixed (I think). That's what I get for WPing before coffee fully kicks in. DMacks (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome. Thanks for the edit-summary. It was really funny. :) Dr.   K.  23:49, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

30 November
Hello DMacks, I Kindly Request You To un-protect This Wikipedia Page of Gurjar because of their is no Vandalism record in history of gurjars. link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurjar Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.160.71.3 (talk) 13:34, 30 November 2015‎ (UTC)


 * ❌. There is indeed, and your own behavior is that of the vandal. DMacks (talk) 15:07, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015.
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Uerryiscool9953
Hi, this account that you just blocked, Uerryiscool9953, also appears to be a sock of Twerking unicorns7. Please take a look into this. Thanks.  The StormCatcher   (talk)   (contribs)  23:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks DUCK enough, and no redeeming qualities either. Blocked. Thanks for tracking it! DMacks (talk) 23:46, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Laurenlovelistenmusic
Extended your block of this user to indef. Feel free to change if you think it wasn't needed. --Neil N  talk to me 00:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Good block. Demonstrating even more lack-of-WPclue is not a way to act when responding to the fallout from demonstrating lack-of-WPclue. It's the Law of holes. DMacks (talk) 00:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ...and she went for more WP:DE of the type you specifically warned against earlier, so I disabled talkpage access. DMacks (talk) 00:23, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

1 December
Hello DMacks, I Kindly Request You To un-protect This Wikipedia Page of Gurjar for 3 days. link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurjar Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.160.67.70 (talk) 3:24, 1 December 2015‎ (UTC)


 * ❌. I have no plans to enable you to vandalize. DMacks (talk) 03:36, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * You are too fast for me, by the time I could go to your history and restore that comment you've already replied to it!&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:38, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * :) DMacks (talk) 03:40, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Webworld Technology LLC


A tag has been placed on User talk:Webworld Technology LLC, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Thanks
In re: your edits to the BD page on 8 September, thanks for the attention. Note, the discrepancy between text description and image is a result of having set the text, anticipating from a collaborator a revised MO image of an amine approach, making the article as a whole more cohesive (given the origin of the principle in the B-D crystal studies of aminoketones). But that revised image never was uploaded, and I lost track. Thanks for making things right, until we get an amine-ketone MO cartoon. Cheers, Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 05:32, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world. 
 * Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
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 * Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
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 * Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
 * Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
 * Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
 * Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
 * Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
 * Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
 * France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
 * Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
 * Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
 * Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
 * Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
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My changes to the blue-footed booby article were not unconstructive. The original writer of the article used UK spelling. Within the article some words were in UK spelling some were not, some still are in UK spelling. I corrected the US spellings to match the original. It is appropriate to keep one type of spelling throughout an article. Please read WP:ARTCON to understand my position and to adjust yours. Furthermore, I did not appreciate the tone of your message. Remember to be more collegial. That is a Wikipedia standard. Dger (talk) 20:30, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

The Microwave
You recently deleted the redirect, which had a CSD tag on it. I had removed the CSD tag and added rcats (fixed it as instructed by the CSD tag). This is the nickname of the targeted subject, Vinnie Johnson, mentioned both in a hatnote and in boldface in the lead; therefore, it was a valid redirect. I would like your blessing to recreate this redirect. Happy holidays!  Paine  02:05, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Go for it! And happy holidays to you too! DMacks (talk) 03:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! and ✅.  Paine   04:12, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

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Amino Acids, Response 13DEC2015
Hello DMacks! Thanks for catching my mistakes regarding the amino acid pages Histidine and Pyrrolysine. I added the links and fixed the sub-scripting as you suggested. When I get the chance to get to a PC with ChemDraw, I'll fix the images as well. Anything else you might suggest? Abuzzanco (talk) 01:38, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 2,014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

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Re: Heavy water Argentina information
I didn't add it; it was in the "Other Countries" section despite having enough content for one of its own, so I moved it into the main list. I agree that it should be sourced and thought as much then, but I didn't want to delete it outright, had no interest in doing the necessary research, and just plain forgot the citation needed tag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.11.116.195 (talk) 07:27, 2 January 2016‎ (UTC)
 * Ah yes, now I see the history (I agree that if it had cite, it would be a reasonable own section). Thanks for double-checking! DMacks (talk) 07:42, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Airbnb
Thank you - that was much better :) Springnuts (talk) 20:09, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Reverted edit on my Talk Page
I'm wondering why you reverted this edit Dunkleosteus77   (push to talk)  01:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Abusive edit from a vandal-only account that is a sock of...I don't know or care who the master is. So I quick-nuked all the edits where he called people names, and indef'ed the account. Feel free to look up any words in his edit or links you don't know... DMacks (talk) 01:43, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Please refrain from abusing Wikipedia or I will regretfully have to begin arbitration to have you permanently banned.
Hello DMacks.

Please refrain from abusing Wikipedia or I will regretfully have to begin arbitration to have you permanently banned. Please be advised that your IP address is logged each time you abuse the Wikipedia space.

Specifically in your latest breach of Wikipedia rules, You have persisted to reference the Southern Poverty Law Center as a reputable source. As can be clearly seen in its motto "Fight bigotry, teach tolerance, & seek justice", This is a propaganda center championing ideals NOT FACTS.

I appreciate your passion to champion yoru cause; however, Wikipedia is not the correct place for propaganda, it is an arena of facts. Please view the Wikipedia rules of conduct at yoru earliest convenience to avoid a permanent ban through arbitration.

Thank you and have a nice day! :)

Jonmax74
 * The article content makes it clear that the statements are the SPLC's analysis/opinion. It's a notable organization specifically for giving these sorts of statements, as our article about them is well-cited to that fact about them. I don't advise Edit-warring when multiple long-standing editors disagree with you. DMacks (talk) 20:10, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Book of Bad Arguments
Hi DMacks,

Would you please take a second look at BookofBadArguments.com, which I cited on the Ad Hominem page? Although there is a print book available, the URL I posted leads to the full text of the book, which has been released under a CC license. The Book of Bad Arguments was conceived as a free, public education project, so I thought the link was worthwhile addition. Defer to you though! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.79.152 (talk) 23:48, 8 January 2016‎ (UTC)
 * This subject is not my field of expertise and I have not had a chance to look at the work you are linking itself, but in general, it sounds like it might fail external-links guidelines. If there are ideas in the work you mention that not already included in an WP article, the ideas could be included and cited to the work (assuming it meets reliable-source guidelines). But otherwise, you would need to make a case that the work provides content that is valuable on the subject and also not suitable for direct inclusion in the article itself. Merely being free and educational by design doesn't suffice. Maybe Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy would be a place to get input from editors who deal with the philosophy articles. DMacks (talk) 11:40, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Danielle Spencer (American actress)
DMacks you have challenged my changes to the Danielle Spencer page. If you read the Spouse information it says David L David, I am David L David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dldavid1970 (talk • contribs) 21:12, 9 January 2016‎ (UTC)
 * The spouse field is blank, and it is not displayed at all when I look at the page, nor is there any other article content regarding her marital status or mentioning your name. Nor did your changes remove any such content. Perhaps you are looking at content hosted by Google or some other third-party site that is caching old content (for example, prior to this edit yesterday)? [[User:DMacks|DMacks] (talk) 21:18, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

When I Google it, it says David L David as spouse and then wiki appears there too. Danielle and myself don't appreciate people writing false information or information we don't approve. If you read any of the articles relating to her, you'll know who I am so I got offended by being challenged. Nothing against you my friend but we like privacy and proper information written.
 * "When I Google it"==you are seeing google's cache of an old version. The version you yourself wrote inserted "-David" on her name, where previously there was no mention of your name at all in the entire article. Something is going wrong between your good intention and your action to resolve the problem you saw. DMacks (talk) 21:24, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-02
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Some baklava for you!

 * I never said (and I don't agree) that ASF Mexico is okay. But WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS one of the worst possible ways I can envision making the case for your stuff being okay. DMacks (talk) 19:32, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Porphyrin
Can you check my last edit to porphyrin? There has been some inconsistency in the article's history. I think I have it corrected, but would like a second opinion. Thanks. -- Ed (Edgar181) 21:29, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your edit. I should have known that it would have been better to look to the literature rather than relying on my own simplistic analysis. :)  -- Ed (Edgar181) 21:57, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * "It's complicated" as usual--why the hell can't Nature just follow our empirically-derived rules in arbitrarily complex systems? :) I removed the strict Huckel's-rule counting and instead simply noted some variable aspects of the actual electronic nature. I'm never sure how much of this sort of material to put in the parent-molecule article vs the molecular-class article, but Porphin probably needs to be adjusted regardless. DMacks (talk) 21:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Perry Hall High School vandal
Pretty sure this and this are him, per style of writing and IP range. Both are obvious NPA issues. Please do what you feel should be done. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 22:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * IP seems close, yes. Could you give me an example of an edit from another of the known/presumed PHHS vandal accounts so I can have a more confident feeling for what I might do about it? Feel free to email me if you wish to avoid WP:BEANS--just leave me a YHM note here so I know to check. DMacks (talk) 22:18, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

thank you
for deleting that image at Angel of Grief. I think that the "new" image is now in place, rotated as should be and attributed to the original poster. Life is good, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:02, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! DMacks (talk) 21:03, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Ileana D'Cruz
There have been reverts. Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 05:06, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Apoligies About the Le Jardin Academy page
Some of my friends got on my computer and made an account. They then proceeded to change the information on our school's page. I'm very sorry about that, and I will do my best to make sure no one does that on my account again. Thank you for being so vigilant in making Wikipedia a place of facts. God Bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.113.32.14 (talk) 06:49, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

I should have figured
Thank you for catching this massive pile of &#%. Suspecting plagiarism, I tried searching a one phrase and did not get a hit. I could not figure out how anyone could get some much new content so fast, the answer being that it was not legit. Also the editor having no talk page etc should have been a flag. Would be nice if Wikipedia had a mechanism on such gushers. --Smokefoot (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2016 (UTC)