User talk:SpacemanSpiff/Archives/2011/December

St John Plessington Catholic College
Hello,

I think St John Plessington Catholic College might need some updates including the school's logo and a few picturesalong with some more relevant information about the college. I'm a student of this school and I had a chat aboutthis with the school's management. They agreed to give me the copyright free images so do you mind in me updatingthat? I'm also asking a few more opinions in this task, hope you won't mind. I have also read this (Schools, Article_guidelines, What_not_to_include) so I hope I can proceed, or may I? If you have any concern about it them could you please contact me onmy talk page. -- Njavallil ... Talk 2 Me  20:12, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Racist, isn’t it?
If Alexander’s Wikipedia page name includes “the Great” than Ashoka’s Wikipedia page must includes “the Great” or else, "the Great" should be remove from Alexdender's page name as well! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pt.Sumit (talk • contribs) 16:17, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not interested in the content, follow the proper process at WP:RM. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  16:22, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me about the procedure--Pt.Sumit (talk) 16:27, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Colinkirton.jpg
I noticed you moved the above file to Commons and deleted the local version - however, the Commons version doesn't have any author/copyright holder info. Would it be possible to add that from the local version? I can't rescue that information now that it's been deleted. Kelly hi! 18:37, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, I was sure I did it when I added the OTRS ticket info, but apparently not. cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  18:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Kelly  hi! 18:46, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Favonian (talk) 20:02, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Chitranna
. Looks familiar. But cant identify who exactly is this. Someone sounding like him sent a mass mail to a number of "indian" editors last week complaining about Fowler and Elockid (specifically about angus maddison). Can you identify the master?--Sodabottle (talk) 04:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * It's Realhistorybuff, can you check with Elockid? I'm "involved" with this chap. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:10, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Block me please
Hi. Can you please block me for 2 days? --AndyTheCop (talk) 06:49, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't do blocks on request. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:38, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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Kindly revert deletion of wiki article about "Deepak Shikarpur"
Dear Sir/Madam

I request you to provide me the possible improvements in wiki article I have created for Mr. Deepak Shikarpur. I am new to writing article on wikipedia. I will update or resubmit the article as per the your suggestion. I dont want to upload image with the article. In case of issue with content about Deepak Shikarpur please let me know.

Please reply me as soon as possible.

Thank You!

Sagar SMO DCPL


 * You can not keep copying content on to Wikipedia from elsewhere, be it text or images. Please read WP:C for our copyright policies. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  11:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi!
good morning! could you please remove my rollback rights? hope everything is going well with you! best regards. --CarTick (talk) 11:51, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Done, hope you're doing well and get back to editing soon. cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  14:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Chennai
Hi SpacemanSpiff - I just dropped onto the talk page of Chennai and noticed that you had posted a notice of work needed back in September. It looks like there has been some work on the article since then; however, there are still tags in some areas of the article. I just wanted to drop a ping here in case you had forgotten about your post! (Also, on an off-topic note, the header that comes up when I edit your talk page says you will be away last July - perhaps time to update that? :) Dana boomer (talk) 17:55, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't had the wikitime to do anything on the article in a while. There have been some improvements, but the article suffers from a case of "if it's printed then it can be put on Wikipedia" syndrome, there are a lot of gaps in coverage and undue coverage of other bits. I'll take another look in a few days and write up a note. It does require a FAR discussion IMO. Thx for the edit notice note, fixed that. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  19:51, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Mughal Lohar
A similar issue was raised with me by email last night and I posted to an SPI clerk, see User talk:MuZemike. This guy is a problem, especially with the copyvio. Dougweller (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've just been going through a lot of the articles. Many of them are cases for plagiarims (out of copyright sources), but there are a lot of copyvios too. This can be dealt with quick and dirty though, so I'll bring up a discussion at MRGs page once I have some notes and let you know. cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  06:06, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Problematic IP
This IP, a Jyothika fan has a long history of adding a lot of false claims and glorifying the article. Since the article is now semi-protected, he has satrted attacking other actresses pages. &mdash; Commander (Ping me) 12:41, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I reverted a couple of times, the range is too busy and it looks like he's already stopped using the IP. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  12:45, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Ankit Fadia
The cornerstone of Ankit Fadia's career was that at age 16 the U.S. Government asked him to decrypt a steganographic message from Al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks, no one has collaborated this statement, the branch of the U.S. Government that does code cracking is the National Security Agency, they are the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States, and they are one of the largest consumers of electricity in Maryland, likely to run their acres of code cracking supercomputers, they don't need to call 16 year old foreign national to break messages from Al Qaeda.

There has been no confirmation that Al Qaeda has used steganography as that would confirm sources and techniques of intelligence gathering, the only reporter that wrote something about Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and steganography was Jack Kelley of USA Today who was let go for fictionalizing his stories. Now when you take the story from MiD Day, which was in both their print and online editions, and posted on Ankit Fadia's website, Fadia mentions that "The agencies had tracked some emails where few people were frequently exchanging photographs of Canadian rockstar Avril Lavigne They had used technography to send messages." While MiD Day likely transcribed technography as Steganography this would have been impossible in the days or even months after the 9/11 attacks as Avril Lavigne's debut album Let Go was released on June 4, 2002.

There is no computer security technology called technography but steganography which allows users to hide messages in pictures, video and sound files. News reports that Fadia has been quoted in over the years have him deciphering this message from Osama bin Laden's men in the months after 9/11, a few source this as happening in November 2001, and now he's saying that these groups were exchanging photographs of Canadian rockstar Avril Lavigne in November 2001 when Avril Lavigne's debut album Let Go was released on June 4, 2002. I am not going to say this whole story is a lie, but given that he's repeated this story over and over again, adding new things here, how does this not qualify as biographical information when its published online and the dates don't mesh.

From his own website - http://www.ankitfadia.in/who_is_ankit_fadia.html - In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden's men.

Cracking the Code - http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/youth/article49478.ece?homepage=true - fter the September 11 attacks, the U.S Government found some encrypted mails. The mails apparently had only pictures and no text accompanying them. “The pictures followed the steganography pattern where in photographs with embedded messages are used. I gave a few suggestions on decoding them. It was exciting as I was only 16 then. They usually never give any feedback as it is classified information but since I received a few projects even after that I feel I have been of use at some level,” smiles the 24-year-old.

Don't you find it the least bit odd about Fadia mentioning Avril Lavigne pictures in this story? Doesn't this qualify in the same league as having the second best hacking site by the FBI when there has never been any list to that effect?

Please reconsider the undid with this information.

Thanks!

Shawn Fynn (talk) 09:39, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia reports what reliable sources say, you can not juxtapose two different sources and claim something, nor add your own judgment and interpretation in the form of article content, especially in BLPs. "this would have been impossible in the days or even months after the 9/11 attacks as Avril Lavigne's debut album Let Go was released on June 4, 2002" is not supported by the source you cited, so it's a clear WP:BLP violation. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:47, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

So if the article was reposted without adding my own judgment and interpretation in the form of article content and left it to the user to research that it would be impossible for Ankit Fadia to decrypt photographic encrypted messages from a singer whose hasn't released her first album, that would be OK? Thanks! Shawn Fynn (talk) 11:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * THere has to be some encyclopaedic relevance for any information to be added, even with reliable sources. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  12:44, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

KVGs
Now that you have pp'd the List of KVGs, can I restore it to the state at my last edit? I am trying to work through the thing and weed out the unverified etc, but the IP was getting upset (as per the article talk page). - Sitush (talk) 12:44, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, part of the Pondhee brigade. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  16:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I noticed. Oddly, their frustrated blanking turns out to have been correct. The article is devoid of any content now, and rightly so. - Sitush (talk) 17:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Naraharisumadhwa
See 's edits. I've warned him for copyvio. And take a look at this edit. 'Hats off'? Dougweller (talk) 13:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Did you mean to give a different diff? This one's from March? Eitherways, Randy seems to be stepping out of Idaho too often these days. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  16:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * No, that was just an example of a weird edit I found. But he doesn't edit very often, so I guess not a big worry. Dougweller (talk) 06:59, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, not the only one, I haven't gone back to these articles in a while, perhaps time for another round of clean up. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  09:23, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

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FLC for List of universities in India
Hi SpacemanSpiff. I am contacting you since at the previous nomination you made some comments. Sadly, the previous nomination was rejected due to lack of support. Following one of your suggestion, and to avoid technical issues, the list was split, using a much clearer and tighter inclusion criteria: only institutes listed by the UGC are now listed. I would appreciate it if you could comment on the list, and perhaps voice your support if you think the list deserves it. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 16:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll comment in the next few days, I'm running behind on my to-do list! cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  16:31, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Nokia-Lumia-710.jpg
Hi, Can you please tell me what is the Copyright infringement in this image? Thanks Abdul raja  T  17:28, 17 December 2011 (UTC)


 * You can not upload images that are marketing materials (from Nokia in this case) without any evidence that it's been released to PD and claim PD. Available on the internet does not mean public domain. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Can you tell me in which license this image suits well? so that i'll upload it under it. Abdul raja  T  01:55, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * You can't just force-fit a license to images you want to upload here, images have to be freely available in compatible licenses. Please read WP:IUP to get an understanding of the policy. cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Abdul raja  T  10:42, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Opinion
Would you mind weighing in your opinion here &mdash; Commander (Ping me) 16:34, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  05:01, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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FA review
I am nominating Chennai for an FA review. Thought you might be interested.  X.One   SOS  15:44, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

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Siddharth
Please re-state your opinion here. Thanks.  X.One   SOS  07:43, 31 December 2011 (UTC)