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Rick21784 ( talk) 12:08, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Good catch, ACN - my big cameras don't have that feature so I never thought about it being on an item that would. Atsme ✍🏻 📧 14:48, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Dear all. Recently, our community lost a dedicated user, Abelmoschus Esculentus ( talk). Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of Abelmoschus Esculentus' scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.
If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:30, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
You said "Wikipedia is not for things made up one day" but if you knew ANYTHING about the current political climate of Nampa Idaho you would not be saying this was made in one day. The moment is popular among many people and I found there was a lack of serious information provided. The KNC it has gained serious traction in the local political climate of Nampa Idaho and Boise Idaho.So I respectfully ask you to change your decision are you even involved in Nampa's local politics or even live in Nampa this is actually a serious political movement with 153 members and growing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Camdinner500 ( talk • contribs) 05:38, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Dear AntiCompositeNumber,
I don't want to sound like a pill but I you flagged my webpage and due to my position I don't know what to do.
I am one of Jack-David Carson's teachers so I know his life very well from our conversations and I even sent what I wrote to him to make sure it was correct. Unfortunately, there is nothing particularly on the internet about him (he has not been part of any public interviews). What should I do because I know that he deserves a page? David Fort89 ( talk) 04:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Regarding image (ColoradoDesertImageOfCA.jpg) on Charles Robinson Rockwood ( /info/en/?search=Draft:Charles_Robinson_Rockwood) article that I submitted on 3.5.19 about a message from you on 3.6.19.
...sorry but I'm not sure exactly how to do what you requested. I think I corrected the issue.
I obtained the base satellite image from a NASA web site and added in the names and outline of the larger Salton Sea myself. So it's a government photo modified by me. I looked at another similarly licensed image and copied the appropriate 'code', modifying the copyright information as necessary. Hopefully that fixes it. If not, may I request you modify it to reflect my statement above that it is a NASA image from circa 1970 that I modified. Thank you.
Here are two links.
NASA.gov Web Site: https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-36/html/iss036e011034.html ...also found it on WikiCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-36_Salton_Trough.jpg
I made a mistake on the date. I have another similar NASA picture from the 1970s, but it looks like I picked the 2013 picture from the international space station as my base image. I thought I had used the early photo. Oh, well.
...no, thank you for making all the changes and additions to the image page. I should have included that from the beginning. Sorry. Terrawide ( talk) 01:46, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm Blue Riband. User:Dreamweaverjack has removed the Copyvio tag from the article MV Doulos Phos but didn't specify how the issue was resolved. The diffs don't show any other changes. I've left him a message to ask how he thinks the copyvio problem has been addressed. As of this writing it looks like the copyright clerks have not yet moved my re-write to the main space. Blue Riband► 23:39, 12 May 2019 (UTC) Blue Riband► 23:39, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello there. I apologise for my request. I never realised that the name was never in English. I just thought it was a bit vague. I just thought I'd apologise since I want to be mature and acknowledge my mistakes. This also wouldn't look good on my file mover application if I tried to get out of apologising. I assure you it is a one off. Thank you. The Duke 14:57, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. Regarding this file, Ticket:2018120310011533, can you check if they complete the process sucessfully? Regards. Ganímedes ( talk) 17:32, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. Sorry again. Almost a month ago I asked you about this file, see [63]. They've send a dropbox file with exif-metadata and seems to be correct. Can you please verify and ask me if I can proceed, or do it yourself? Thanks a lot. Ganímedes ( talk) 20:39, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hello! I have been working on my Draft: Milen Manoj Earath which you had looked into earlier via the IRC. It was declined about 5 weeks back by Cameron due to a promotional tone. I had worked on the tone and asked editors both in IRC and in their talk pages if it had improved, they had given me positive answers. I had submitted it for re-review about 4 weeks back. But, Cameron had just emailed me that he will be out of town for the next 2 weeks and it would be better if I ask someone else to re-review. If time permits, would you mind taking a look and if possible re-review the draft? Thanking you, Yours Sincerely, Refluxdonut ( talk) 11:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
@ Refluxdonut: Thank you for your patience. Drafts in the WP:Articles for Creation process are reviewed in a random order, so I won't be accepting or declining your draft out of respect to the others waiting for a review. I will, however, give my opinion on what other reviewers likely will decide when they look at the draft.
First off, I notice that you've had problems with the copyright status of images. Until you are familiar with the copyright rules here and on Wikimedia Commons (a sister project to Wikipedia that holds freely-licensed images), please do not upload any images that you have not taken yourself. I would suggest that you not worry about images in the article at all until it has been accepted, since images are not considered in draft reviews.
Now on to notability. According to the
notability criteria for musicians and ensembles, musicians are likely to be notable if they have received significant coverage in reliable sources, have had their music on a national music chart, were nominated for a major music award or major music competition, has had their music played regularly, or otherwise have meaningfully impacted musical history. Additionally, people who have received a well-known and significant award or honor
are likely to be notable. I'm not sure if the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement would be considered well-known or significant, so I won't be considering it. That leaves us with significant coverage in reliable sources. Having looked through the sources, source 3 appears to be the best. Sources 2, 4, and 5 provide less information, and the information provided by sources 4 and 5 is very similar. The other sources, while useful for citing specific information in the article, do not contribute to notability. Earath appears to be in the gray area between "clearly not notable" and "clearly notable" right now. Assuming that Earath continues to grow in his career, I believe that he will become clearly notable, but it is difficult to tell
right now. I think I would lean toward accepting the article, but I would not be surprised if it went to a
deletion discussion soon after.
You've done a lot of great work with this article, and it's come a long way from when it was first reviewed. I encourage you to work on improving other Wikipedia articles while you wait for your draft to be reviewed. If you have any questions, let me know and I'd be happy to answer them. -- AntiCompositeNumber ( talk) 21:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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18:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
..for the file move, that's a mighty big cleanup broom you've got, much appreciated NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 19:30, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I while a go I got declined for the submission of Wikipedia article “Raoul Bhatt”, I’ve revised the post, hoping you can take a look? Thanks! Tonystargazer ( talk) 06:15, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
IMDB titles, were added through 3rd party involvement of productions by Raoul Bhatt, it’s all I could find as most coverage is social media from 3rd party, verified instagram accounts. Is this article valid if these social media links are removed? Do you have recommendations on how to make this a valid article?
Also, I reached out to the people that have the social media links of Raoul Bhatt, and asked if they are posting on their main websites. Some say “we're going to update the wesbite with all the profiles we got over the summer and new tools”
So it’s delay from them, but their social links must be valid because it’s directly from them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonystargazer ( talk • contribs) 01:36, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Sorry, just to follow up, maybe this doesn’t fall into the notable tag, but it would fall under expert in his field, right? Thanks in advance for your help. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Notability Tonystargazer ( talk) 02:36, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
I understand what you’re referencing but they are from world wide and recognized accounts. Most companies now don’t even post content on their own master sites, but focus on micro blogging on social media.
See here https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxh9lh-le0i/?igshid=1uae7ts8zsjx1
https://twitter.com/daytimeemmys/status/1127949675791835136?s=21
These are prominent accounts which aren’t controlled by the subject person.
Please just approve it as he has more links and credibility than most other people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonystargazer ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 30 August 2019 (UTC)