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Barış Arduç
Hello, I hope you are doing well??? What happened with my InesNY(talk) article??? Why you delete all information??? Do you have a proof for your actions??? What here the reasons??? I hope to hear from you!!! Send me your email, we have to talk!!! —Preceding undated comment added 06:14, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Barış Arduç
Hello Scope creep, thank you for quick reply! Thank you that you make some corrections! Can you tell me what I InesNY(talk) need to do to keep this page active and without any notice on the article from Wiki? Other words how may I fix the article and remove all errors or mistakes at the article? The Wiki instructions are not really helpful.. Thank's again! —Preceding undated comment added 06:30, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Barış Arduç
Hello, how are you doing there? Why you requested for deletion the page of Baris Arduc? I am the author InesNY(talk) of this article... What did you mean no references??? (The article Barış Arduç has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references.) There are 62 references ... I was asking for full protection of this article, because of people violations... They put there what ever they want, I am periodically removing fake information. There no fictions, that a real person with real life events... What is wrong there? Can you tell me the details? May we discussed? I hope, to hear from you soon. I appreciate your time. 1 february 2018 — Preceding unsigned comment added by InesNY (talk • contribs) 03:10, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Rane2030
Hi there, Thank you for your comments, I really follow you - I should focus more on the subject I write about! - your in my thoughts. ............. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rane2030 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 5 November 2017 (UTC) Dear Scope creep, Thank you very much for reviewing my page. It is my first effort, your review of it is a greater courage, and I hope to follow similar reviews. I have taken out the refs etc you have have enlisted. Hope it's is okay now! -- Thanks

Sphingosine 1-P receptor modulators
Hi, Scope creep. Thank you for your review. We have changed the refrences and put in the receptor link. We resubmitted it --anhahe (talk) 15:33, 3 october 2017 (UTC)

Sylvan Edwards
Scope creep - thanks for your notes on Edwards. I would like to get a picture up but I would worry about the Wikipedia Copyright issues. With rugby grounds I visit and take my own pictures so not a problem but with Edwards playing for a side that is not local to me it is a different matter. I may be able to contact one of his clubs to ask for permission. Jgjsmith006 (talk) 15:52, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Talkback Hawar_News_Agency
Batternut (talk) 21:36, 25 June 2017 (UTC) Batternut (talk) 08:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

new article Paolo Aldighieri (sculptor)
Hi, i'd like to create a new article: Paolo Aldighieri. I write it in my sandbox User:99ernst/sandbox. What can you think about it? Can i create it? --99ernst (talk) 16:10, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Craik–Leibovich vortex force
Dear Scope creep, thank you very much for your positive review! All the best, Crowsnest (talk) 13:44, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Barcade
Thank you for reviewing the Barcade page. It was getting frustrating trying to make sure it fit encyclopedic standards with so much pushback from editors who are bar regulars. Dragonmaw (talk) 16:31, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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Early NSU cars
Dear Scope creep, thank you very much for your review of the NSU-Pipe 15/24 PS. I am only disappointed that you didn't also reach the page NSU-Pipe 34 PS before it was considered un-wiki-worthy and changed into a redirect. Any thoughts as to how I can help bring it back? Yadsalohcin (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Dan Wagner
Thank you for your recent contributions to the Dan Wagner page. I do agree with your observations and numerous rewrites have been attempted over the life of the article to address your observations. Unfortunately, edit wars have broken out when attempts to restore the 'puffery' of the article have occurred. I think the whole article needs a rewrite given that a major contributor User: Techtrek has been indefinitely blocked for WP:SOCKING and would welcome/actively encourage more involvement from previously uninvolved editors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.159.223 (talk) 11:54, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I'm the IP address whom initiated the rfc. I'm happy to close it in favour of a full article review. 82.163.113.33 (talk) 14:29, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I have closed the rfc to allow for a full article review. Thank you for your input. 94.193.159.223 (talk) 18:49, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Scope creep, I noticed you removed the entire section on Venda from the Dan Wagner page. It is very odd to ignore a company he started in 1998 and sold to Oracle subsidiary NetSuite in 2014 after having built it into the European market leader for SaaS enterprise e-commerce especially as it represented 16 years of his career and you have retained coverage of Dialog and Powa. Can you please either revert your edit or redraft it?

95.210.221.6 (talk) 17:23, 12 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Ah, the 'Orcale subsidiary NetSuite' angle. This has been covered many times on the talk page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Wagner#Edits_26th_June_2017 & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Wagner#Venda. Venda was sold to NetSuite in 2014, NetSuite was sold to Oracle in 2016, yet you conflate the two. The same POV as other previously banned editors. WP:QUACK Yak shaving (talk) 19:00, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Scope creep, I have noticed another edit you made that I think needs further consideration. You left in the reference from the FT Blog about their independently determined valuation of Powa at £75m but removed the fact reported by the Times and City AM that Goldman Sachs had valued the business at $18 billion was on a "clear path to a $50bn". I think it is completely misleading to remove the widely reported Goldman Sachs valuation (a highly respected investment bank) and instead leave the page with the statement from the FT Blog. Goldman Sachs, as advisors to Powa, are in a much better position to have opined on valuation and the FT blog was referencing a tax return as the basis for their much reduced valuation. As it is, it makes out the subject was a fantasist in stating the value was over $2bn but clearly this is not the case. Can you please revert your edit so that it is more balanced?

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I'm pleased to see this article getting some attention, but can I ask where you got the birth/death dates in the infobox from? Or is that a copy-paste error? Josh Milburn (talk) 08:21, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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I was rather taken aback by the 13 edits you did to the Retrospect (software) article on the morning (NYC time) of 19 September 2017. You took out information that is important to understanding the software, and that I shall now proceed to put back. You also messed up information that was left in the article, especially by putting in links to irrelevant or non-existent articles. All that gives the impression that you were suddenly impelled to a furious burst of activity. You first said on 15 September that "People are losing patience with you"; I think that you just "lost it" on the morning of 19 September.

When that happened, I think you ignored the fact that since 15 September I have been systematically cutting out the contents of sections beginning with "Concepts prior to Retrospect 7" and moving them—greatly cut-down—to a new "Main features" section. I was less than a day's work away from completing that. Possibly you are not happy with the fact that, in doing that, I have demonstrated my point that there is no reasonable way a complete "Main features" section could be cut down below a single screen page—much less a paragraph. (If you give me a chance to finish it, I'll be happy to sit back and watch you try—with or without rehashing it in terms of production versions.)

I have in fact read and understood all the points you and others have been making about the lead (not lede, that's a newspaper term that isn't in Wikipedia), "History", and "Architecture" sections. I was just holding off on making the necessary changes to those sections until I did away with the old back sections first. After all, this whole issue started off with a mention of template tags placed at the top of the article by the editor now known as 2001:2003:54FA:2751::1 back in October 2016. I thought everybody was most concerned about the "overly detailed" problem.

I shall now proceed to make what I consider to be the necessary changes to the first three sections of the article. I'll start with a paragraph or two on the article's Talk page, outlining why I consider some of your edits to be erroneous. I will not revert your edits; I'll just rewrite the sections in the way they need to be IMHO. I'm just writing this post on your Talk page first to alert you. If Wikipedia had a Private Messaging system of the type many forums have, I would have sent you a Private Message instead—but AFAIK it hasn't such a system. DovidBenAvraham (talk) 19:22, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I have just received a copy of the following document from a colleague at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park. It has a lot of detail of the development of Enigma and of the differences between TICOM interview results and other evidence as to the extent to which the Germans considered that the allies deciphered Enigma messages. Because of your recent post to the Enigma talk page, I thought I would let you have this information in case you don't already have it, and before I have tried to locate it on line. Meyer, Joseph A. (2007) [Unknown], Der Fall WICHTER: German Knowledge of Polish Success on ENIGMA, Declassified and approved for release by NSA on 10-31-2007, DOCID: 3838699, NSA Regards, Ted. --TedColes (talk) 17:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

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Regierungsbaurat
In all German states, the term Regierungsbaurat ("building engineer") was, or is, a structural engineer who worked for a government or an authority. Hope that helps. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:15, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

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Request on 08:24:10, 25 October 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by Rane2030
Dear Scope creep, Thank you very much for reviewing my page, I have revised the references you have highlighted, and taken out internal links etc. I hope, now the article is improved. Please let me know if there is anything I should attend. I have resubmitted the article.

Regards Rane2030

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Undone Steve Down Vandal Edit
Hi Scope creep!

I noticed not too long ago you undid a recent edit to to the Steve Down page. It was obviously vandalistic and I thank you. But in your edit summary you incorrectly mentioned my username as the offending vandal. Whats the deal with that? I've been framed haha! Quite clearly, a newly created user, SaltLakeSnape edited the page in that instance?

-Anon1-3483579 (talk) 15:30, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Resumbmitted Draft:Robert Kost (Artist) Per Your Suggestion
Hello Scope creep!

Thank you for your comments on Draft:Robert Kost (Artist). I appreciate your taking the time to review my draft and also for encouraging me to resubmit it. I have resubmitted the draft as-is as you requested.

- Noitidednoces October 25, 2017

Hello

The changes requested have been made and you do not have to keep reverting them. If you feel there is something missing or lacking, let me know what they are.

If you read this, respond or back off.

Because I was to make links, then you decided I had too many links. I am going to make a complaint that you are merely hassling me here.

I am still going to ask that you recuse yourself and I will ask that someone else look at your decisions in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leebrandoncremer (talk • contribs) 11:53, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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German Radio Intelligence Operations during World War II
Hi Scope creep, let’s look more closely at what Praun wrote;

"The volume of messages was very large, the average word count was 200 letters.”

Perhaps you might like to explain what this means to you? I don’t really understand it and if I don’t then other readers are not likely to either. Perhaps we can look at ways of simplifying the intention behind the statement?

The way I see it. A word is typically made up of a number of letters (aka characters). In an encrypted message we may just have a sequence of letters or effectively a message block. A plaintext message will be a sequence of words, space separated. To say that the “average word count” is a number of letters does not make sense to me. If we say that a message contains a group of words then the average ‘word count’ would be a number, a number of words. So we can say that for a set of messages that the “average word count” is 200. This would mean that messages contain an average of 200 words. We could say that the “average word” was 200 letters. This would more likely be a reference to a message block, as an “average word”, as we know, is more likely around 6 or so letters. Perhaps the intention is to comment on the average message as being 200 letters? So which is it? “200 letters” is not a reference to a “word” as I understand it, unless the “word” is intended to mean a message block.

Your comment?

Neils51 (talk) 10:02, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Neils51, looking at it, it must mean it is a message block of some type, but it doesnt make any sense otherwise. Ideally I would try and find out what code (simple) or cypher (strong and more complex) it was assocatiated with. Generally it will resolve itself, if I can find a ticom document which explains it, which I intend to do. I think it is one of those points, which the article rotates around. It is salient enough, as a point, which can be used to identify the code or cipher, and subsequently add much more details about later, as tends to happen, possibly enabling the creation of other articles. At the moment I dont know what it is. It is very early days in writing about this organization and its people. With a bit of luck, a doc explaining what codes were used in that sector will be found, perhaps at NARA, or the NSA will show up, and I can subsequently request it. That is my plan anyway. He was an important guy, and he is all over these docs, but the article itself needs detailed up if that is the right phrase, with other sources, (docs found at a future date) which may not be possible, as he was a military man, working in a secret, obscure org. Which brings me onto my last point. Praun must have been quite clear headed, being a military man, who was at the top command hierarchy. So they dont tend to make mistakes, they are acute thinks, which makes me think the sentence is genuine. He wasn't a pure cryptanalyst, so he is not at the coal face, he is getting the details from his cryptanalyts. So I think at the moment, leave it as it is, keep it parked, until I can find a document. I have lots of sources now which can locate these types of docs. The docs TICOM and released by NSA tend to have good details on this type of stuff as well. When your write about these guys and organizations, who never knew that Enigma was broken until 1974, and subsequently make claims which you know are junk, it must be stripped out. scope_creep (talk) 10:46, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Looking at the section, it was Praun himself who wrote, hence it must indicate a property of the code or cypher used. scope_creep (talk) 10:50, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Neils51 the codes used in that Norway sector during that time:


 * 1) Naval Cypher No 1, a 4-figure book used since 1934.
 * 2) Administrative Code, a 5-figure book used since 1934.
 * 3) Auxiliary Code No3, a 4-letter book used since 1937 by small units.

They are all 4 and 5 alphanumeric words. Having now figured it out. You need to read it as an aggregation. It is a 4 or 5 digit words, adding up to 200 letter. So it was accurate.scope_creep (talk) 11:15, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Neils51, I have clarified it somewhat. scope_creep (talk) 11:24, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

That is an exceptional piece of clarification work. Well done! Neils51 (talk) 09:29, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Neils51, it was only perchance that I had them lying about from a previous article, and I noticed it was the Norway campaign at the last minute, while I wanting ranting on, and got them from the B-Dienst article. Otherwise it could months for a document to turn up. scope_creep (talk) 11:30, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

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Indeed thank you, I'll follow what you have suggested about the Character Actor Section of the Article. May I request you, are there any other comment you can give me to improve it in terms of copy editing (I like to add a little bit more information Early life section). --16:30, 6 November 2017 (UTC)Rane2030 (talk)

Indeed thank you, I'll follow what you have suggested about the Character Actor Section of the Article. May I request you, are there any other comment you can give me to improve it in terms of copy editing (I like to add a little bit more information Early life section). --16:32, 6 November 2017 (UTC)Rane2030 (talk)

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Hi Scope creep! I see you reverted my edit on German Radio Intelligence Operations during World War II, for what appears to be reasons of date formatting (use of ordinals). Per MOS:BADDATE, the format to which you have reverted the article is unacceptable. As such, I've reverted the article back to my original edit. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks! Phuzion (talk) 02:48, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Ordinal dates on Erhard Maertens‎‎
I tried to look for a WP:MOS-clause allowing ordinals or "British English dates" , but couldn't find one. To the contrary, MOS:NUM explicitly states on the Unacceptable date formats table: Do not use ordinals (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). To what clause do you refer? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 03:25, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Tom.Reding, Try WP:DATERET. There needs to be some differentation between American and British articles. This is written in British English, using standard English date formats. It is also a European standard, Germany uses that format also, as does most European countries.. So it is correct to use it, and reflects their standard. scope_creep (talk) 10:34, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh, that's an interesting internal contradiction that I think deserves more discussion; will ping you on MOS talk.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:16, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm hoping I might help with your discussion on ordinals in dates. I also found it odd that we say "10th of May 2017" with an ordinal number, but the MoS demands that we write it as 10 May 2017 with a cardinal number. There are, however, good reasons for this. In addition to the press links that SMcCandlish provided, you might have a look at the BBC website and page 8 of the Oxford University Manual of Style. Both are reputable British publishers, and both use the format 10 May 2017. This format has also entered into common usage in British English over the last 50-60 years. Have a look at this Google analysis of books published between 1800 and 2008. Note that the corpus is set to British English. You can see that, from the 1950s, usage of the cardinal is significantly greater compared to the ordinal. Whatever its origins, and however we still speak it, the format 10 May 2017 is these days very British. I hope this helps, and good luck. FactotEm (talk) 15:43, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks FactotEm, that is great help, as I didn't know where to start. Although it is disheartning to a certain extent, I can lots of work has been done on it already, in the past 10 years. scope_creep (talk) 10:28, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I can sympathise. I have used the word "whilst" my whole life, and was really offended when I found out that we should use "while" in Wikipedia. "Who are these damn foreigners to tell us how to speak our own language!?", I thought. I did a little digging, though, and found out that "whilst" is very old-fashioned, even in British English usage. The MoS does a great and necessary job, but sometimes it can, in my experience at least, appear to be ridiculous, illogical and dictatorial, and I wish they did a better job of explaining themselves over there. I'm not sure if you're still planning to try and change it to accept ordinals in dates; the modern world is against you and I would encourage you not to, but who am I to try and tell you what to do? FactotEm (talk) 11:26, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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The gradient controller is a Wikipedia page in German Language: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradienten-Regler

and can be reached by a link within a controller selection page of Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Regler

Do these links make the article acceptable?

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16:06:25, 11 January 2018 review of submission by PhilJackson
I'm not requesting a re-review yet, but I have some questions for the reviewer before submitting a revision and requesting a re-review:

Google Scholar indicates there are 168 citations for my book "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", 10 citations for a paper I co-authored ("Summary of the Characteristics of Several "Modern" Programming Languages"), and 4 citations for another paper I authored in the AI Journal ("Proving Unsatisfiability for Problems with Constant Cubic Sparsity").

Is this information sufficient to establish noteworthiness for Wikipedia. If so, should it be added to the biographical article?

If someone else submits a biographical article about me does that carry more weight, in terms of establishing noteworthiness?

If so, is there a way for me to be notified whenever an article is submitted about me so I can check it for accuracy, and perhaps improve it?

Thanks in advance for your advice,

Philip C. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D. Unsigned comment by user:PhilJackson


 * Hi user:PhilJackson. All articles must have verifiable sources, that can used to verify the contents of the articles. This is covered by policy WP:V. For biographical articles, the appropriate policy, WP:BLP, defines how they are supposed to be structured. BLP is very strict policy. All BLP articles must have sources, that satisfy WP:RS, i.e. verifiable. Your article doesn't have any refs. If I posted that into mainspace, it would get deleted immediately. I think the article is notable, as it passes a higher standard of notability, for senior academics, which is WP:PROF. This standard is a much more objective, than something like WP:BIO. To pass WP:PROF, On GScholar your citation count must be reasonably high with a high H-index. Another way you can be considered notable, is if there is coverage within media, of your work, which is the criteria it fits into, regarding the book.


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 * I see you have made a COI declaration. Get some refs added to the article and remove the promotional information, and submit for re-review. scope_creep (talk) 16:26, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Scope creep, it is not "illegal" for a user to edit their own page. It is strongly discouraged, but if they can actually manage to add information in a neutral, well-sourced manner, they are not prohibited from doing so. Primefac (talk) 16:42, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Scope, I just added some Yidan Prize-related photos on Yidan Prize Wikipedia but I realised that it caused the COI issue. So I added the COI disclose as per Wikipedia's instruction and deleted all the visuals but it seems it doesn't help. What else should I do to resolve the issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeysdy (talk • contribs) 02:58, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you Scope, I have add more on COI.But on Yidan Prize page, there is another template saying "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments". I really have no idea what it is and how to help solve? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeysdy (talk • contribs) 03:20, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in the case to rid me from the website. I don't believe we've met? I felt compelled to clarify your above post, I do hope you don't mind. Ok, well, to answer your point, we currently have a policy which says That basically translates to: "I have as much right not to use an infobox, and to delete them, as you do to use one, and add one". Flawed, isn't it! Maybe...just maybe...that Ian the root cause of all these problems. I know, crazy, isn't it! Anyway, sorry for coming here, I hope you don't mind; but rather than adding to the drama at the ArbCom case, I thought we could have a civil discussion here. If not, feel free to delete this...I'll AGF. Good evening.  Cassianto Talk  18:19, 25 January 2018 (UTC)


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 * Sadly, it's the adhering to such a chocolate teapot policy that's led to the ARBCOM case. I like infoboxes on certain articles; my problem is with which does not do the job it sets out to do. Grown up discussions cannot be had as there are too many people out there who think it's either their way or the ANI way. That is why things get so heated.   Cassianto Talk  20:25, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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It looks as if the discussion at Talk:Hans Globke has dried up. I suggest you go ahead and make the necessary changes. The lead is far too long  and some  of that  content  can go in the body of the article. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:45, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Kudpung กุดผึ้ง, I completly forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. I have been really busy at work at the moment. I'll do it over the weekend. scope_creep (talk) 00:48, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

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Hello and thank you for your welcome message! I thought I would reach out with a question I came across today. I was trying to expand a stub article and saw that there is a duplicate article but it was written in a different language. The second article has more information but I'm not sure how or if I can share the information as it (and its sources) come in a different language. Can information between similar pages in different langauges be shared and, if so, how would you cite the information? The pages are Cab No. 13 and [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiaker_Nr._13 Fiaker Nr. 13] Kelsey246! (talk) 20:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Kelsey246!. A 1926 film, that is early. The way I was told, was generally speaking the information is copyright, when it is written by another person, so a full size attribution tag, called the Template:Translated page needs to be placed in the talk page, which is a legal requirement. Take a look at the Talk:Wolfgang Franz (mathematician). You will see the Translated page tag on the right hand side. To create it, you dump the tag in, you go the dutch article, you look at the page history, you click on the date of the top most version of the article you are retreiving the text from, then you look in the URL in the address bar, and you will see the oldid attribute in the address url. Copy that 9 digit number value out, and place it in the Translated page tag in the talk page, and sav the save the page. That takes care of the legal requirements.


 * As regard the sources, I generally update them to a certain extent. Generally you want to improve the imported sources, to the best possible format. Often in a foreign language or in a bareurl state. As English is the primary language here. You reformat the reference, if possible. If it is a bareurl, meaning it is like www.jim.co.uk, you convert it into a real full references, e.g.


 * and if you have good translation skills, put the English title and the native title next to each other, e.g. English title, Netherland: netherlands title, and then the rest the same, except you set the language attribute to dutch. You will not this example Template:Cite journal source, has the language attribute set to pl for polish source. In this way, the references are in best possible state with the most information, and best long term chance of surviving.  Hope that helps. If you need hand with the tag, give me a shout, I'll do the first one. scope_creep (talk) 22:35, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Scope creep. I followed your advice and added the Translated page template to the talk page, updated the content of Cab No. 13, and added more references. Thank you for all your help! Kelsey246! (talk) 19:22, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for the feedback, I'm very much new to wiki (it's took me an embarrasingly long to figure out how to reply to you, or type it correctly, for instance), so still finding my feet, but I'll be a little more discerning with my edits from now on. Cheers. Goldencalves(talk) 25 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * Where is your reference for this? It's not stated as a problem here: Forbes 30 under 30. Thanks — Qualifications (talk) 01:16, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Goodshop
Considering the extensive history of the article, I think it would need AfD.  DGG ( talk ) 20:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi  DGG What one is that exactly. Ah, right got you. Right. It is heading for the Afd shop. Surprised it was taken off. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 21:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello Scope creep from Nastyasova
Thank you for your kind explanation. Wiki is new to me and I had no purpose to receive compensation for my edits as I am willing to share some interesting facts and in case scientific articles the professional information from Journal of Science Spinoffs and other sources as I do many unique interviews and research work we can share with Wiki communite such information. Our team of 5 people works at non-profit and non comercial project willing to share the information with science society. I didn't want to do editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting only as informative sciencific aditions. Please advice how should I and my friends add the information and the links in this case in order to fulfill all Wikipedia requirements? maybe like this or could you advice the best way? With respect — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nastyasova (talk • contribs) 08:30, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

John Sing Tang ‎
Please do not remove tag without improving it first to show notability with sources supporting the architect's notability in his field per WP:CREATIVE. Add sources first before removing the tag. Failure to show notability will result in the article being deleted.Hzh (talk) 16:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

General der Nachrichtenaufklärung
Hi Scope creep. Would like to discuss style and float some suggestions. The lists are varied in style, including bullet, a,b, & 1,2, etc. I would suggest a standard style, perhaps bullet? The short name 'In 7/VI' tends to get lost in sentences and can be confusing. Perhaps this could be be in italics? Most quotes are italicised however some are in quote marks. Perhaps all in italics? Neils51 (talk) 21:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Neils51, how are you? You have been doing a stellar job mate. A lot of the stuff is repeated I know, and I don't mind if a lot is in italics, if it can break the text up a bit, it needs it, although it is a ton of work. The reason for the a.b.c then 1,2,3, is that a,b,c means majors actions in part of the forces, while 1,2,3 is minor actions, with a single action. It is completly logical. It mentions it in one TICOM docs. You could lose the meaning, if you change it too much, as the documents is all you have, and you can't search for different source on the internet. This is an example of one it needs fixed: 1939–1941. e) should be 1,2,3,4. It needs an ordered list. I'am also planning to take a logical textual chunk out it, to slim it down. Regarding 7/VI, I don't mind that Italics either, if you think it needs it and it works.  I try to put in agency, unit, section, referat and so, to split it up, but your still left with too many In 7/VI etc.   scope_creep (talk) 21:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thinking about it, if the a,b,c stuff needs redone, do it. scope_creep (talk) 22:01, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Scope creep, thanks, I'm good. Congratulations on the material, great articles.  I'll try an example and see how it flies. Neils51 (talk) 06:51, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

YGM
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Micro Focus
Hi - I am not sure why you removed the properly sourced information for operating income and for net income for this company. If you look at any other NYSE Arca Major Market Index company, FTSE 100 company or FTSE 250 company you will find disclosure of such information. I do not see why it is advertising. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 21:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Sangu
To be honest, I don't even get what you mean. What is the definition of a major award in your opinion? She has received three Golden Butterfly awards in her own country which are among the most major awards in Turkey. She's a Turkish actress; do you expect her to receive awards in any country other than her own? Keivan.f Talk 22:16, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It is nothing to do where the awards given. I spent a lot looking at these awards, and how valuable they are, most of them are scrap. There is  not a general notabily standard for awards, so they rely on coverage, so most of them don't qualify. When you are given an award by your university for essentially starting your career, then it is not notable. The average star, like Keanu Reeves or Margot Robbie will get dozens of awards every year, as this lady will, if she is sucessful. Most of them are junk, and get put in the cupboard and forgotten about. They are simply not notable. Only the Golden Butterfly is notable in this instance, the rest are not, and in the lede.  scope_creep (talk) 22:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

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Within seconds of me protecting the page, reverted the revert. Suggest this is may possibly the IP editor. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:10, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yip.I noticed that. I was going to send PibeDeOuro up to coin. The user gives the suggestion they are an established editor, but with 38 edits.scope_creep (talk) 16:16, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Read Template:Infobox company. There are no restrictions for adding executives. It is officially allowed to add non-notable executive there.--PibeDeOuro (talk) 00:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It is unsourced content, and it I have reported you to WP:COIN scope_creep (talk) 00:15, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * We do not allow any non-free images of living persons, unless it's absolutely impossible to see that person, which is rather rare (e.g. long time missing, some high security prisons, etc.) Ron h jones (Talk) 21:16, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I guess that is the reason why Wikipedia is still a desert when it comes to images. It has signally failed to address the problem, of a changing digital world and it is not exactly the vision I had of a world wide encyclopedia when I started. Please delete it. scope_creep (talk) 21:44, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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21:26:39, 11 April 2018 review of submission by Vicki.olds
DATE: 180411 TO: Scope Creep FROM: Wiki User Vicki.olds RE: "Tom Dinwoodie" wiki page ("Thomas Linn Dinwoodie" search redirects here)

Dear Scope Creep;

I am ready to submit new contents (copy & photo images) for the "Tom Dinwoodie" wiki page that I believe is suitable for Wikipedia publication that has gained the approval of the subject, Tom Dinwoodie. *Whew*

I hope that you, or someone with more experience than me, will review and provide feedback. I hope this is the right channel to request such help.

The contents for this revision exists in two MSWord files, which I can upload. Could you review before I attempt, again, to program a Sandbox entry that includes 60+ external Web references and many wiki link references?

I hope my request is kosher. If not, then I hope to be pointed in the right direction!

THX for your help, and I look forward to your response.

Truly, Vicki Olds shibumi2 21:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

shibumi2 21:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Dear User:Vicki.olds, Thanks for getting back to me. I see there is a Draft:Thomas_Linn_Dinwoodie but there is also an actual article about Tom Dinwoodie already present What is the purpose of doing a draft, when the article is already present. The both of these articles are highly promotional, particularly the draft, but also the actual articles, which has only a couple of real primary references. The rest are invalid. The article doesnt have any secondary source at all, and none seem to exist, which makes the existance of the article problematic, since it is not likely to survive as it is a clear WP:Afd candidate. It would need reworked and some second sources to survive. The draft, is massively promotional and WP:POV laden, it needs to be neutral.


 * You also seem to give the impression that your working with or for Tom Dinwoodie, is that the case?

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 * Only in death does duty end. I know what the consensus is. I understand the rules implicity regarding image use, having been doing it for over 10 years. I though the guy was dead and made a simple mistake, because I didnt check the university listing, that indicated he was still life. It was harrassment, plain and simple. I never started it. The editor failed to send me a message that he was going to do it. The editor didn't need to do, but it is courteous, and coversation is the lingua franca of Wikipedia and without the whole project would collapse. I added it back in twice, would no reverts, the first time, when I still didn't known he was was, the second time to annoy him, but still no message, instead a block message. Now I have a red block message on my talk page, which I didnt ask for, because he doesn't want to send a message.  scope_creep (talk) 20:45, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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