User talk:Jobas/Archive 2A

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Have a look please
Hello Jobas,

I have updated the nomination Featured picture candidates/Egg fruit with a new one in the set, kindly have a look, I have noticed that you have supported the image before adding the second image. DreamSparrow  Chat   15:51, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Copying text without attribution
Hi, Jobas. I see that you have been copying significant portions of content from one Wikipedia article to another, without the required attribution indicating from where it came. Again. I can tell these additions are cut-&-paste copies with very little modification because sometimes the reference citations have very old "access dates", or the citations are footnotes which haven't been defined in the destination article, etc. These copied additions are also frequently lacking necessary context from the origin articles. I've found problems with the content you've copied, but without knowing where you copied it from, it is difficult for me to make corrections and improvements. This appears to be an ongoing, long-term problem. Despite advice and even warnings, you persist even as recently as today, as these few examples (out of many) show:
 * → Here and also here and here, you copied and pasted to the Ablution in Christianity article, verbatim from the Lavabo, Foot washing and Ritual purification articles.
 * → Here and also here, you copied to the Antireligion article, with copied text and references verbatim from the Religious persecution in Communist Romania and Forced Conversion articles.
 * → You then pasted a portion of the same content and refs here, into the Persecution of Buddhists article.

You have been repeatedly advised about this, by many editors, at least as far back as February, 2015:
 * You may copy content from one WP article to another, but when doing so you need to state what you are doing in you edit summary or on the destination article talk by User:Vsmith in February, 2015.
 * It appears that you copied or moved text from Arab Christians into Greater Maghreb. 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) by User:Worldbruce in December, 2015
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. 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. by User:Diannaa in May 2016.
 * A few weeks after the above, you are still inserting text taken from elsewhere into Wikipedia, like you did at Antwerp (text taken from here). Further copyright violations will result in a block for this account. Note that copying text someone else has added to Wikipedia to another article, is also not allowed without proper attribution. by User:Fram in June, 2016.
 * It appears that you copied or moved text from Catholic Church in the United States into Christianity in the United States. 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). by User:Diannaa in June, 2016.
 * I see you are still not adding the required attribution, as required under the terms of the CC-by-SA license. Please have a look at this edit summary as an example of how it is done. Please let me know if you still don't understand what to do or why we have to do it. Thanks by User:Diannaa in July, 2016.
 * Could you tell me where this content was copied from elsewhere on Wikipedia? I see Diannaa has mentioned a similar concern recently by Xenophrenic in July, 2016.
 * Wikipedia's CC-by-SA license requires 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 the content. Please start doing this legal requirement right away, because otherwise these edits are copyright violations. by User:Diannaa in July 2016.
 * It appears that you copied or moved text from Forced conversion into Persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc. 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 by User:Diannaa in March, 2017.

I came here with the intent to remind you to provide the required attribution, but after discovering the above history, I now suspect it will fall on deaf ears. Something stronger than another reminder is required, but I'll leave that to someone more qualified and familiar with this stuff. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 04:16, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Clogging the edit history with spam
Hi, Jobas. Could you please stop spamming the "Edit Histories" of articles and "Recent Changes" logs with repeated insertions and deletions of single characters, as you did just today here, and here, etc.? According to your contribution history, you've made thousands of these edits across dozens of articles and talk pages for more than a year. Many editors have expressed concern and requested that you cease; they have explained in detail why it is disruptive, advised you on how to use "Show preview", yet you persist:


 * he has been engaged in what I would define a "strange" edit activity: tens of edits in "Wikipedia:Feature picture candidates" entries consisting in the addition, removal, addition again and removal again and addition again, etc., of commas, dots and hyphens (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I think the only reasonable explanation to this behavior is that he is trying to "bury" the chronology of the latest discussions which reveal the problematic and unfair nature of his editing. by User:151.82.71.159 in September, 2016.
 * In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving, by User:BlackcurrantTea in September, 2016.
 * Jobas, please use "preview" before you post, instead of endlessly fiddling with your own post. You're giving me alert after alert, and bloating up the page history, by User:Bishonen in September, 2016.
 * Just a question out of curiosity: Why do you make your Featured Picture comments over the course of 10-15 edits? by User:Rhododendrites in January, 2017.
 * Hi. I noticed that virtually all of your FPC comments involve some twenty edits in succession, most doing nothing but adding and then removing spaces (example). Is this intentional, or is there some tool or script you're using that might be causing this? by User:Paul_012 in March, 2017.
 * Hi. I'd appreciate a response on the issue. You've since made more self-reverted 1-byte edits to numerous articles. If it is unintentional the cause needs to be corrected. If it's intentional, it's becoming disruptive, by User:Paul_012, yet again, in March, 2017.

I don't know if the massive spamming of unconstructive edits is an effort to thwart scrutiny of edit histories, as other editors have suggested, but it is most certainly disruptive and should stop. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 13:33, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Last warning
Hi, Jobas. You have been warned and advised sufficiently about your practice of making lots of tiny edits which you then revert, over and over. It's been explained repeatedly that it seriously inconveniences other editors. Stop it right now or you will be blocked for disruptive editing. Bishonen &#124; talk 14:18, 16 April 2017 (UTC).