User talk:Alemedicen

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Happy editing! Cheers, Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 23:34, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

August 2023

Hello, I'm Shazback. I noticed that you recently removed content from Augusta Treverorum without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Shazback (talk) 20:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Alemedicen. Thank you for your work on Hiddensee (island). User:Fork99, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thank you for translating this from the German Wikipedia, however there already is an article on this island on the English Wikipedia located at Hiddensee. I will shortly propose a merge request of Hiddensee (island) into Hiddensee; the original creator of this article should have a read of Wikipedia's instructions on merging articles outlined at WP:Merge as it may not be completed automatically by another editor within due course. Step 5 of the information page on proposing a merge states: The main reason that the merge backlog includes thousands of articles is because the people who support the merge neglect to undertake this final step. Any user is allowed to close the merge proposal discussion and determine consensus per WP:MERGECLOSE and follow through with the merge. I am assuming that Help:Translation's instructions has been followed, but please ensure that it has.

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Fork99 (talk) 02:36, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Alemedicen. Thank you for your work on Mast cell tumor of the dog. User:Fork99, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

I'm not sure if this is the best name/title that the article currently has. Please also note a cursory article on general dog health already exists at Dog health. I have not reviewed this article for notability, however from a cursory read, it seems notable and possibly warrants a separate article.

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Fork99 (talk) 02:59, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Alemedicen. Thank you for your work on Force control. User:Fork99, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

In the future, when translating an article into English for the English Wikipedia, please check if an article already exists at another name on the English Wikipedia. I have no idea if there is an article on the same topic on the English Wikipedia regarding this. I will ask a relevant WikiProject and get back on this one.

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Fork99 (talk) 03:13, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello! After seeing what exactly happened, I can explain the slight confusion with the article called Hiddensee (island). I believe that someone created an article for the island and linked it to the German article for the Gemeinde since the specific article for the Gemeinde didn't exist in English. I translated the article about the island, which already exists in English. So it indeed should be merged/expanded. The article should have the link to the Gemeinde article removed and this one about the Gemeinde should be translated into English. As you said before, they should be merged. I look forward to hearing from you. Alemedicen (talk) 18:14, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Rosetta Barnstar
	Thank you for your efforts in translating large amounts of text from German into English! Fork99 (talk) 03:25, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Librerei!

Thanks so much for the supercool article about the German library building and history. Neat stuff. jengod (talk) 23:39, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Alemedicen. Thank you for your work on Jakob Joseph Matthys. User:FuzzyMagma, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

some sentences are missing inline citation but in general very good work

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FuzzyMagma (talk) 19:43, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

@FuzzyMagma: Hello! I am going to improve that part, thanks for the feedback!~~~~ Alemedicen (talk) 23:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Alemedicen. Thank you for your work on Johannisberg (Jena-Lobeda). User:ARandomName123, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thanks for your work on this page!

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ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 02:51, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

See also links

Hello, please don't add see also links to tangentially related topics, like you did at Salve Regina. This violates the see also guideline and is highly promotional. Graham87 (talk) 02:08, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

@Graham87 ok... no worries, thanks! Alemedicen (talk) 02:11, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges.

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Graham87 (talk) 03:34, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

This edit and many others disobeyed my message above. You are not welcome here and neither are any members of your organisation. Graham87 (talk) 03:34, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Alemedicen (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

It was good faith edits and not intentional. Also the user who blocked me was disrespectful with his message. Alemedicen (talk) 14:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

A mess made in good faith is still a mess. As to being disrespectful, I can't say I blame them. We're here for free. 331dot (talk) 16:30, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Regarding the edits, I have always made the same modifications (adding links at the end) to the articles for weeks now and I have not had any comments or problems with them. The payment that the other people in the organization and I receive is for the time and dedication we put into each translation. Likewise, translation in any field and country is paid because our experience for our work backs it up. Alemedicen (talk) 17:57, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

That you are compensated for your editing is not the only issue. The specific links being added to pages and the pages being created are very clearly promotional in nature, as is the sum of your contributions to Wikipedia. Aoidh (talk) 21:16, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Alemedicen (talk) 17:57, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

I noticed your edits to Catholic Church and Stained glass. The group that arranges your paid editing emphasizes increasing traffic to targeted pages. In the edits I've reviewed, you have inserted links to relatively minor articles into high-traffic pages, regardless of how tangential the topic. I am concerned that you may be receiving compensation to perform these specific edits. If this is the case, please say so. ~ Pbritti (talk) 19:37, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Pbritti, @331dot, and @Aoidh

I am the founder of OKA, the non-profit that provides stipends to @Alemedicen. I have reviewed the situation and I agree that the edits that she made were irrelevant to the articles and should not have been made. This was not intentional of her, and definitely not reflective of the overall contribution she has made to Wikipedia.

Internally, there are a couple of measures we will take:

1) Briefing her to ensure that this does not happen again. It was clearly a good faith edit from her -- she thought that adding more links could help the discoverability of these articles, so there was no bad intention here.

2) Bringing more clarity around this within our trainings and policy. I've added a paragraph about it in section 7.5 of our guidelines at oka.wiki/overview

3) Notifying all of our translators so that they are made specifically aware of this, to avoid the risk that they do the same mistake.

Regarding the stipends, I would like to clarify that translators are paid on a monthly basis based on the #hours worked, independently from which articles our translators work on (i.e., there is no bonus based on things like #articles translated, #edits, etc.), which is why we call it a "stipend" or a "grant". We are a tax-exempt non-profit and so far have only received funding from individuals that are disinterested from any particular cause. Our translators have published several thousand pages, which are all listed in oka.wiki/tracker

Could you elaborate on why "the sum of (her) contributions to Wikipedia" are "highly promotional in nature"? She is not working on any specific topic but rather on various categories of articles based on her own choosing -- I fully understand the concern around the "See also" links, but her overall work is not of promotional nature.

I agree that it should not be the role of the community to clean up errors such as these ones, and whenever we notice these we try to address them ourselves, but it happens that these get missed as each translator has full autonomy to how they edit.

We would be very appreciative if you could provide Alemedicen with another chance on this

7804j (talk) 21:21, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Of all of the churches in the world, it is this one that needs to be singled out on various high-traffic articles? That no one specific topic is being edited does not mean the edits are not promotional, whether promotion is the intent or not. This edit for example added the church to an article with hundreds of thousands of page views a year and again, whether it is the intent or not, has the impression of promoting the article on high-traffic pages. The church wasn't added to Gärtringen for example, where it would make much more sense as a wikilink, and it does not go unnoticed that Gärtringen is a page with very little traffic. It was instead added to an unrelated but much higher-traffic article that the church is not a relevant topic for, not in any way that is more or less relevant than any other church that happens to have organs or stained glass, of which there are a great many throughout the world. After re-reviewing the contributions I do not think it appropriate to unblock the editor on your behalf, especially without consulting User:Graham87 per Wikipedia:Appealing a block#Appeals by third party. - Aoidh (talk) 22:11, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

I absolutely concur with Aoidh. 331dot (talk) 22:23, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah I don't really feel like an unblock right now, given what the user has posted so far (which is by far the most important factor in any unblock request here). As for not receiving any feedback about see also links until now, many articles aren't well-watched and not all editors check a user's contributions thoroughly when checking their watchlist.

7804j, the fact that you provided a link to the guidelines about the project as a URL rather than a link is a shibboleth that proves that you're not in any way involved enough in the Wikipedia community to lead a project like this. And it's not just see also links that are highly problematic, either; I had to make this edit to replace absolutely woeful categorisation with proper categories. We have guidelines about using specific categories which I notice are not mentioned in your instructions. To find good categories for a new article, it's best to check out how established articles about similar topics are categorised. I also notice that the Manual of Style is only mentioned *once* in the whole instructions; this is completely unacceptable, especially considering that I had to make this edit (plus my previous one ) to the Stefan Weinfurter page. Overall, the project just creates more work for the Wikipedia community for little benefit. Pinging Johnbod, who was involved in previous discussions about this topic. Graham87 (talk) 02:46, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Formal procedure law in Switzerland moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Formal procedure law in Switzerland. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources, it needs more sources to establish notability and 90% of the article is unsourced. . I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. scope_creep^Talk 04:14, 28 January 2024 (UTC)