User talk:LeadSongDog/Archives/2014/December

Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
The Military history Wikiproject has opened nominations for the Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year. Nominations will be accepted until 13 December at 23:59 GMT, with voting to begin at 0:00 GMT 14 December. The voting will conclude on 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:41, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

This message was accidentally sent using an incorrect mailing list, therefore this message is being resent using the correct list. As a result, some users may get this message twice; if so please discard. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Ref for description
It is PD and is reffed when one clicks on the picture but agree a second ref is a good idea. Thanks for this  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 06:42, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Voting for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year now open!
Nominations for the military historian of the year and military newcomer of the year have now closed, and voting for the candidates has officially opened. All project members are invited to cast there votes for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year candidates before the elections close at 23:59 December 21st. For the coordinators,

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:33, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 17 December
Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. as follows: Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:A930913/RBpreload&editintro=User:A930913/RBeditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:A930913&preloadtitle=ReferenceBot%20–%20&section=new report it to my operator]. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:20, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * On the Ayurveda page, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=638559242 your edit] caused an unsupported parameter error (help) . ([ Fix] | [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&preload=User:ReferenceBot/helpform&preloadtitle=Referencing%20errors%20on%20%5B%5BSpecial%3ADiff%2F638559242%7CAyurveda%5D%5D Ask for help])

Disambiguation link notification for December 19
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Niebla dactylifera, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Cortex. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:36, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Bot
Hey Lead. I see that you are marking some as TP but not reverting such as this. I assume that you just forgot to revert? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:50, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yup. Tool should ideally track whether text is still in the target article or has been reverted, undone, excised.... LeadSongDog come howl!  14:35, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CV, December 2014
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:51, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Re Cochrane pages wholesale deletions
Hi LeadSongDog,

Re Cochrane pages:

I was asked if I would clean this page up since I was beginning as a Wikipedia editor. Cochrane is an excellent organization that makes good contributions for reliable health knowledge. There were multiple errors and omissions on this page. I was unaware that it was a copyright violation to use the materials from their own pages especially the about us pages. I apologize for this and will not repeat this error, policy is policy. I will work on a solution to get permissions or rewrite which would be easy if the material was still accessible. My concern was to faithfully represent a their voices and it seemed reasonable to use their words with the links to their pages.

In the interim edits were not judged on their own merit. This was overkill and unfair seeing as they were made and timestamped as individual edits. There was no need to wholesale delete. Indeed I would have immediately taken full responsibility on notification and removed any materials that violate Wikipedia policy. To be clear I have no quarrel with the deletion of anything that violates Wikipedia policy.

Descriptions were given with every edit. Many of those edits were not copyrighted materials. I respectfully request that you restore the headings and links which took hours of work and the edits that obviously were not copyright violations or direct me to a place where the back ups are stored and I will do this myself.

While I do understand the need to deal with negative situations in an efficient and timely manner there is a point where this wholesale attitude/action of just obliterating everything the volunteer has worked on is inappropriate. Particularly since multiple edits contained no violations and were not mixed in with those that did and yet they were deleted as well. For any newbie this is a significant deterrent to continued participation. The offer to ban me on top of this was an added attack. I did appreciate the link to Wikipedia copyright policy which of course I will respect. Please bear in mind that this sledgehammer approach could be one of the factors contributing to the high attrition rates for Wikipedia editors and I hope that you will be able to govern yourself accordingly. AmyEBHC (talk) 19:55, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * We love Cochrane-sourced content at WikiProject Medicine, but it is not freely licensed, so we must paraphrase. I had no choice to revert you and could no longer presume it to be legally contributed. Yes it is unfortunate that time pressures do not allow every such edit to be individually investigated, but that is the situation. However, a revert does not "obliterate" the intervening edits, it merely removes them from the active revision. They are still in the history. If any edits were entirely original wording, they can still be reintroduced by copying your wiki text from the edit diff and reinserting it in the current article. LeadSongDog  come howl!  03:36, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Ok, Thanks, I figured this out now. It is actually easier to work from the history and will do some each day as an added bonus I spotted a bursary for a friend to apply for while re-editing AmyEBHC (talk) 17:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 31
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Mark S. Komrad, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page JAMA. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:38, 31 December 2014 (UTC)