User talk:Rich Smith/Archive99

Need help getting past apparent copyright violation
Hi Rich, Our first article submission was rejected since it did not contain an encyclopedia tone. Rather than lose all the work we had put into it, we posted it at our site http://gnag.org/rta while we reworked it to have the right tone for Wikipedia -- not realizing that a Wikipedia reviewer would see our reworked article as violating a copyright of our first article! Ugh! What a mess! Since you rejected our second submission for seeming to contain copyright violations, we have realized our error and have removed the first article from our gnag.org website and we have removed references to that article from our (now, third) article. However, when I try to submit the reworked third article, the draft will not "Publish" and I am getting messages from OhNoitsJamie that I must stop my "disruptive editing" or else I might be blocked from editing. Does something need to be "reset"? Or how can we proceed from here? Please advise. Marcia

Marciaheisler (talk) 03:38, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

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Copyvio Revdel
Hi,

Thank you for your vigilance on copyrighted material. I've done a couple of your revdel requests and noticed that the revision you set for the "end" is the version where you have cleared the copyright violation, and so that version is clean. The end should be set to the revision before that which still contains the copyvio. Regards. Whpq (talk) 02:54, 6 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi I have been requesting revdels for a while now and nobody has brought this up (although, you can thank User:RichBot/copyvios for the diligence :) ). I have just checked the template and you are quite right, I will endeavour so pick the correct Diff - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 05:32, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks and nice bot. Whpq (talk) 05:58, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Whpq Thanks! - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 06:24, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

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ClueBot NG IRC feed
Hi there—is the ClueBot NG IRC feed broken? I'm not particularly knowledgeable about IRC, but it looks like there's no messages being sent in the channel indicated on the bot's user page, although I do see you in the user list. Is there some other way to consume a feed of the bot's data and actions? Uhai (talk) 05:38, 21 October 2022 (UTC)


 * @Uhai If CNBG_Relay isn't there, it will need a kicking, I can do this later on - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 05:49, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that user wasn't there when I just checked. Interestingly, it was when I checked a few days ago but there still was no activity in the channel.  Thanks for taking a look. Uhai (talk) 05:54, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Uhai Aye, it needs restarting, I'll do it later on unless beats me to it - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 06:45, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at Unicode 11 case map migration . More information can be found at T292552.
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