User talk:Stadenerino

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November 2016
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Royal Institute International School. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

SomeImage.jpg

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Your message
First of all, sorry, I don't personally use email for wikipedia matters. Secondly, you should never leave your email address on a public page unless you want it to be freely available to every spammer who reads the page. I removed it. If your issue is that you revealed personal details of yourself or someone else somewhere, you should follow the instructions at Oversight. If it's a different issue, you can see if it's covered at Requests for administrator attention and follow the instructions there. If that doesn't help and you're still stuck, you can try describing it in general terms (without the "embarrassing" part) and ping me back here and I'll try to give you some further advice if I can. -- Begoon 23:45, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, you don't have to apologise, I understand. And thank you for removing my email address. I may have exaggerated my issue by calling it embarrassing, therefore, first, I must apologise. I doubt the administrators will help me with this silly issue. I submitted an essay for my final examinations without running plagiarism checks as I was confident there was no plagiarism, but a post-submission plagiarism check I ran indicates that 2% of the essay was plagiarised from the Capital Punishment wiki page. I did not actually plagiarise or lift anything from the page, but the first 8 words of the wiki article return a 75% word-to-word match with a sentence in the essay. Usually, something like this shouldn't be a problem, but it exceeds the 45% matching limit which means automatic disqualification of not only the essay but for all the subjects including written examinations I've sat during the year. In the worst-case scenario, I may get barred or be forced to resit the year, but even in the best case it's likely that I would at least have to travel 250 miles to the capital city to try and convince them that this is actually a coincidence and not even the same context.

If I actually plagiarised, I would've run checks to ensure that it doesn't match, but since I didn't cheat, this struck me as a surprise. I have no way of amending the submissions since it's final once submitted. My request is for you to consider revising the first 8 words of Wiki article on Capital Punishment since the article is now locked. Please, consider my request because my future depends on this examination and even having to re-sit the exam would mean I would be a year late for college for a rule I didn't break. If I'm not wrong they haven't started marking them yet, therefore, no plagiarism checks would've been run as of yet. Apologies for this ridiculous request and my horrid grammar, I'm not a native English speaker. --Stadenerino (talk) 08:24, 23 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I can't do that, sorry. I'm going to be frank here - the first 8 words of that article are "- - - - - - - -". I honestly do not believe that any system of plagiarism detection for an exam would work in the way you describe and disqualify you simply because a sentence you wrote in an essay contained a close match to that phrase, and for no other reason at all. Either you have misunderstood and have nothing to worry about or this is all complete nonsense. In the unlikely event I am wrong then even so I couldn't do as you ask because, under those bizarre circumstances, I would be knowingly working to subvert the check procedures. In addition, wikipedia is mirrored by thousands of other sites who take various amounts of time to "catch up", so any alteration here would not stop there being hundreds of web matches to the "old" phrasing. Your grammar, by the way, is far better than that of many for whom English is not a first language, and that of quite a few for whom it is. -- Begoon 08:45, 23 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'm probably just being paranoid, but I understand your reasoning. Good day! --Stadenerino (talk) 09:39, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Royal Institute International School


The article Royal Institute International School has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails the requirements of WP:NSCHOOL, lacks any independent secondary sources. Has been tagged as such since January 2018, without change."

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Dan arndt (talk) 04:23, 3 September 2020 (UTC)