User talk:Ronhjones/Archive 24
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Unwarrented deletion of user page
I'm not quite sure why you deleted one of my user sub pages (User:HuffTheWeevil/Places I've Been). Thousands of other Wikipedia users have the exact same types of pages. So why did you pick on me? HuffTheWeevil / talk / contribs 01:23, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- I pick on nobody - it was tagged for deletion as WP:NOTWEBHOST by Rosario Berganza - it was then deleted several hours later. If you object, I can restore and the other user will have to consider WP:MfDRonhjones (Talk) 20:10, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- As you know, once the page is deleted, I have no idea who tagged it for deletion. But it is my opinion that you should have to wait at least 24 hours. I should have ample time to contest the deletion. So yes, please restore it so that I can go through the proper process of contesting it. Thank you. HuffTheWeevil / talk / contribs 20:54, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- No problem Ronhjones (Talk) 20:57, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- As you know, once the page is deleted, I have no idea who tagged it for deletion. But it is my opinion that you should have to wait at least 24 hours. I should have ample time to contest the deletion. So yes, please restore it so that I can go through the proper process of contesting it. Thank you. HuffTheWeevil / talk / contribs 20:54, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Reverted edits
Hi Ronhjones. FYI, I reinstated 4 of Mateka9911's edit that you reverted, because they were valid edits. That is one of the frustrating things about that editor - they actually made some helpful edits in amongst the disruptive ones. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 00:59, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- So you can't see the wood for the trees. C'ést la vie. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:14, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Indeed. Cheers. DH85868993 (talk) 22:05, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of 2016 Formula One season
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Shoukhrat Mitalipov biography
Hi! I have seen that you deleted the new page about Shoukhrat Mitalipov, I don't really understand why you deleted my page. i can provide as much source as i can. Dolatjan (talk) 20:37, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
- Restored as a contested PROD - but you need to edit the page for it to remain, otherwise the original PRODer will put it up for WP:Afd Ronhjones (Talk) 18:56, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- It has no references - so as a WP:BLP I can't restore it direct - so it's been userfied to User:Dolatjan/Shoukhrat Mitalipov Ronhjones (Talk) 19:01, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Sanaz Marand
Hello, I recently created an article titled, "Sanaz Marand". The article had been deleted, as this tennis player had not yet met the Tennis Notability Guidelines. However, she will appear this week in the WTA 2014 Citi Open doubles competition. Now that she's appeared in a WTA main draw, does she meet the Tennis Notability Guildlines? If so, is it possible for my created page to be restored instead of creating a new one?
Zane Nariman (talk) 21:39, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
- Restored as contested PROD - need to add your new data to stop further deletions. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:03, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
User Haytham Douaihy
Hello, you deleted my User page, i created it 2 days ago, and yesterday was nominated for deletion because its content do not match with wikipedia policies. i was shocked why don't you give notice and time, it was not a final version and was planing to edit it to be more conform. strange that you delete it that quickly! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haythamdouaihy (talk • contribs) 06:11, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- The U5 says Pages in userspace consisting of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals, where the owner has made few or no edits outside of userspace - you need to edit some articles to show you intend to contribute. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:06, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Daffodil International University
Hi - I don't know if you realise that this has been mainly edited by employees of the University. What kind of dog is that? Dougweller (talk) 06:04, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- Haven't even looked at the page - I was just deleting unlicensed images with deli-batch in Twinkle - Twinkle does the editing. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:08, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
PIX11
Why did you take off the pics I had on the PIX11 page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.21.12.149 (talk) 05:14, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- The images were deleted. No license, no source. They had the full 7 day waiting period - uploader was notified correctly and made no changes User talk:Chrisbvalentin Ronhjones (Talk) 19:12, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Please undelete File:KitchenerJellicoe French.jpg
I had added the information asked for. Can you not read, or are you a robot? Vandal?Rodolph (talk) 21:09, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- My answer is at User_talk:Diannaa#File:KitchenerJellicoe_French.jpg Ronhjones (Talk) 22:38, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
History-only undeletion request
Please restore the history of MSDN Blogs, which was deleted via WP:PROD but is now a redirect. (Also, please restore the associated talk page.) Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 21:06, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- @Dogmaticeclectic - Page restored as a contested PROD - if you wish to change it to a redirect then you can do so. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:43, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Australia (yacht) photos
Thank you for deleting my photos from the 'Australia (yacht)' page.
However I did provide the permission through the 'permissions@wikipedai' email.
ALthough I have been requested to provide something further, this should not have resulted in a deletion - especially as it took wikipedia a week to get back to me with the request for further information. Dazcag (talk) 00:48, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
- You never annotated the images with {{OTRS Pending}} - that is the only way to extend the live time before deletion, otherwise we don't know you have submitted anything to OTRS - Plenty of people just leave the image with "Evidence: Will be provided on request" and hope that will do. Since you say you have submitted the notice, I will restore and add the template - you then need to get the images approved - I'm regularly deleting "OTRS pending" that are >60 days waiting. Ronhjones (Talk) 00:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
- Both images restored Ronhjones (Talk) 00:59, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
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Murray & Roberts
Hi Ronhjones, I noticed that you have deleted the page Murray & Roberts. As one of the contributors/creators of this article I was very surprised to only find out about this now by accident as I was not notified of its proposed deletion. Murray & Roberts is a very notable construction company that I feel passes the notability tests for organiasitons and companies. As such I ask that you please undelete it and restore the page on main space.
Reasons for undelete:
- Murray & Roberts has the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources. (see Sources list for a few of the articles out there mentioning the company)
- It is very large and a pillar of industry in the South African economy
- It is a multinational sized and based corporation with projects all over the world.
- Contributors to the article such as myself were not notified that it was being nominated for deletion.
Sources:
- Collusion: Murray & Roberts reveals names of 4 projects, Citypress (national newspaper)
- More cheating at Murray & Roberts, Noseweek (national publication)
- Articles relating to Murray & Roberts on News24, News24
- Murray & Roberts ‘pursues’ former executives implicated in collusion, Business Day (national business newspaper)
- Murray & Roberts interims: Henry Laas - CEO, Murray & Roberts, Moneyweb
- Murray & Roberts rises on winning of contract for De Beers’ Venetia mine
Thanks, --Discott (talk) 12:59, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
- You don't have to prove it to me - any deleted PROD can be restored on request - it becomes a contested PROD. Only the person who created the page gets the notification of delete (in this case the person who created it - put it up for deletion). They may decide to go to WP:AfD, that will be their choice. Ronhjones (Talk) 13:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
The Dumping Ground
Please do not change the image on the main page for The Dumping Ground. The image will be changed and updated if replaced again. This is one of three warnings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cartman810 (talk • contribs) 16:48, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
- @Cartman810 the image you uploaded was far too big for non free use. In such cases it's normal to revert back to the non-free image that does follow the policy. As the version you have now uploaded falls within size guidelines, I have revision deleted the previous version. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:08, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Nomination of 2016 Formula One season for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2016 Formula One season is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Formula One season (3rd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Tvx1 (talk) 15:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
John W Hickenlooper photo.
Hi, I saw that you deleted the photo I put up of John Hickenlooper. I gave a rationale for why this image is valid and not replaceable. Was it not sufficient? Please reply on my talk page. Thanks! AJohnson93 (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Photo of Steven Naifeh
We have talked to the photographer, and he gave us permission to use this on Wikipedia. We also gave him all the info on confirming the licensing with Wikipedia, but apparently he has not completed that process. I'll try to get ahold of him and remind him. Thanks for the heads up! Sehr Gut (talk) 16:19, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- NB: It's possible he's sent something in that is not suitable, and he hasn't noticed a reply (we had a current bug at OTRS, so we cannot search anything longer than 30 characters - so searching urls isn't working, hence I wait 60 days before tagging, rather than 30) If he has sent something in, and can't find a reply then e-mail me his e-mail address so I can find any ticket that might have arrived. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks! Mr. Naifeh is contacting the photographer again, so OTRS should be hearing from him again soon. Sehr Gut (talk) 14:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- I see that the other image created by this photographer ([[1]]) was approved with an OTRS ticket. That ticket may have information regarding this image as well. I'm PMing you the photographer's email address. Cheers! Sehr Gut (talk) 15:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- @Sehr Gut All comes clear with that link! The image was approved on the same ticket as the other photo - The image was then moved to commons and the ticket applied, but the en-wiki image was left with the "OTRS pending" (I would have added the ticket and then moved it...) As the en-wiki image is the same name, you cannot see the commons image! I've deleted the en-wiki image, now the commons image with it's ticket shows through. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:35, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
- Awesome! I'm still seeing the "pending" tag on the image in the lightbox Media Viewer, so perhaps it's taking time for the change to propagate through some caching for the viewer? Sehr Gut (talk) 21:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Remember the image is on your hard drive - you may be seeing a cached image. See WP:BYPASS and WP:PURGE Ronhjones (Talk) 21:59, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Awesome! I'm still seeing the "pending" tag on the image in the lightbox Media Viewer, so perhaps it's taking time for the change to propagate through some caching for the viewer? Sehr Gut (talk) 21:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- @Sehr Gut All comes clear with that link! The image was approved on the same ticket as the other photo - The image was then moved to commons and the ticket applied, but the en-wiki image was left with the "OTRS pending" (I would have added the ticket and then moved it...) As the en-wiki image is the same name, you cannot see the commons image! I've deleted the en-wiki image, now the commons image with it's ticket shows through. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:35, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Photo for Helen Sung Wikipedia page
Hello, my name is Helen Sung and I have been trying to update the photo on my Wikipedia page. But it keeps getting removed, and I don't understand why. The photos belong to me and I'm at my wit's end about this. I think you are the most recent person to have removed my photo and I am trying to resolve this as soon as possible. Please advise, thank you. Helen 71.246.102.224 (talk) 21:36, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- You stated
- Description = Photo taken of pianist Helen Sung performing live.
- Source = Sent to me personally
- Author = Ella Gahnt
- Permission = Evidence: Will be provided on request.
- Ms. Gahnt took this photo of me during one of my performances. She sent it (along w/several other shots) to me for use as I saw fit.
- So we need formal permission from Ella Gahnt to release the copyright to least CC-BY-SA - the procedure is described at WP:DCM. Or get Ella Gahnt to personally upload the image with a CC-BY-SA license. Although most people are happy to give photos out, very often we find that once the CC-BY-SA license is explained to them - then they back out, often because they do not want others to be able to use the images commercially with no fee. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Carson2345
Thanks for dealing with this editor. That said, I think you should be aware of Canada's Wonderland (talk · contribs), which has just been created and is also doing the same thing. I'm working on a SPI report now and will add it momentarily. --McDoobAU93 19:03, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- @User:McDoobAU93 - Page protected fully for 2 days, edit reverted and editor warned. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:07, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks again. SPI now up for review. There's also a report on ANEW that probably can be closed out now. --McDoobAU93 19:09, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Huggle
Hi again, I just started using huggle from today, had made like 2 edits from it some 2-3 months ago but today I did over 50. You've got over 37,000 edits with huggle, got any tips? I find that this program has some benefits over other programs such as Stiki, you can skip the edit that is not vandalism while Stiki warns against skipping. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 13:26, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- It's been a while... I still had version 2.1.16 on my PC - too many pages to delete these-days. Loaded up V3 - similar - I used to have some user defined edit summaries in V2 - I think that's gone now, maybe it does not need them now! Make your own queue - I would tick all the boxes in the queue defining box, make sure the queue is set to keep going when full and not stop. For V2 I used to set 2 minutes as life in queue (the default was 10), not sure if that option is in V3 (can't see it in my User:Ronhjones/huggle3.css file)- it meant I only saw edits of less than 2 minutes - otherwise someone else has reverted first! DO learn the keyboard shortcuts - you can't move the mouse that fast - when there is a lot of vandalism then... space Q space Q etc soon sorts them out! I've in the UK in the evening so I got to see a lot of US school edits :-) Quiet time now that schools are out. Only final thing is that if your have any thoughts about being an admin later, then don't overdo it - read Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ronhjones and you will see why - WP:EDITCOUNTITIS in spades. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:03, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- And the talk page there is good reading Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Ronhjones. I quite forgot all that drama. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for sharing. Amount of vandalism is still high and today if there is huge amount of constructive editing, it would technically suppress the chances of picking out the vandalism as many of our anti-vandal users depends upon Special:RecentChanges. Overdoing really leads to generalization and must be avoided. Your RFA was interesting for a read, especially that "we don't want automated user for admin". Now even if those opposes had any sense you've already got over 45,000 non-automated edits, such concerns are outdated but then they may have really mattered. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 14:22, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
- Whatever you don't do well - will be found at RfA, you can please some of the people some of the time... RfAs that sail through are rare, and they should have applied years before! (I'll exclude my commons RfA - that was quite different!) In my Huggle days there were 12 vandals a minute in 150 total changes. The bigger WP gets, the more editors appear... As I've got on my talk page This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. - I think that day will eventually come, who knows when? Until then we just have to live with the policies in place. Ronhjones (Talk)
- That's why wikipedia is different than all, even IPs can edit. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 12:46, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Even if this proposal got accepted, soon these same people will request for signups that would include real life details, then they will ask to include a photo, then more and more, if any single detail would be left empty it will be pointed during the conduct of user. Better to just ignore or tame down such proposal from start.
- Always remind them that this is encyclopedia and MMORPG
, not a social network. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- It's always hard to know where to draw a line in the sand. Let's face it, we used to have article creation allowed by IPs - that's been stopped for a very long time - about 2006. See Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll (and talk page) for a read of changing auto confirm requirements - it impossible to please everybody about that! - getting agreement for no IP editing is many years away. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:51, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- That's why wikipedia is different than all, even IPs can edit. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 12:46, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
- Whatever you don't do well - will be found at RfA, you can please some of the people some of the time... RfAs that sail through are rare, and they should have applied years before! (I'll exclude my commons RfA - that was quite different!) In my Huggle days there were 12 vandals a minute in 150 total changes. The bigger WP gets, the more editors appear... As I've got on my talk page This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. - I think that day will eventually come, who knows when? Until then we just have to live with the policies in place. Ronhjones (Talk)
- Thanks for sharing. Amount of vandalism is still high and today if there is huge amount of constructive editing, it would technically suppress the chances of picking out the vandalism as many of our anti-vandal users depends upon Special:RecentChanges. Overdoing really leads to generalization and must be avoided. Your RFA was interesting for a read, especially that "we don't want automated user for admin". Now even if those opposes had any sense you've already got over 45,000 non-automated edits, such concerns are outdated but then they may have really mattered. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 14:22, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
- And the talk page there is good reading Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Ronhjones. I quite forgot all that drama. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
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Assuming good faith
Hi Ron,
I was hoping you could offer some advice on an issue I am having with another user. He and I do not get along, and have not for some time. All of this came to a head in the past two days or so when he reported me to ANI/3RR. It's true that there was some edit-warring involved, but this is a separate issue - it's not the first time that he has reported me to an ANI. No action aside from the odd warning has ever been taken, but what bothers me is that these reports always co-incide with a dispute over content that we have had. It's happened so often that I can no longer assume good faith in his actions; I am beginning to believe that he is abusing the ANI process to try and get editors he disagrees with blocked.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but he has employed some extremely aggressive and under-handed tactics in the past, such as deliberately stalling discussions and refusing to acknowledge a consensus among editors to claim NOCONSENSUS and keep his preferred edits in an article. Similarly, he has admitted in the past that he will do a 2RR, and then sit on the page waiting for a revert before going to ANI. Likewise, he has grossly misrepresented issues when calling for mediation to the point where other editors comment on it. Consequently, I have a very hard time assuming good faith in his edits.
This particular user claims that he only ever goes to ANI to act in the interests of an article, but I have only ever seen him refer editors that he has had a disagreement with, and he happily ignores other issues that, if he was true to his word, he would have reported. Hence, I believe that he is abusing the ANI system, and that it can no longer be ignored. Is there something that can be done, like banning him from reporting to ANI? Prisonermonkeys (talk) 05:59, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- Since you suspect he might be gaming the system, then the answer is to not to fall foul of any rules. When you know you are reverting on of his edits, then just do the one revert, if he reverts back, then discuss WP:BRD - if you cannot agree then go to dispute resolution, don't do a second revert. Some editors do sit there waiting for just one rule to be broken, I don't know if this is the case, but when you suspect such a case, you must take extra care. I doubt if there is any rule that would allow his to stop using ANI, it would have to be a full block - and as such unlikely to happen at present. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Bodybagstyle Productions.jpg
Hello, an email was sent by the creator of the image to the permissions email address as required by Cedric Clark, before the deadline of 8/10/14. The artwork was still deleted, is there something I did wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by D420world (talk • contribs) 22:03, 11 August 2014 (UTC) D420world (talk) 22:05, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
- OTRS is not quick. If you are going down that path you need to tell us by putting {{OTRS pending}} on the page. I've restored and done that for you - I tend to leave it for 60 days now for the OTRS process to complete. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:30, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Page : Surendra Krishna Deleted
Hi Ron Johnes,
I have created a page called Surendra Krishna. He is a good writer and a lyricist in Telugu(Indian) Cinema. He has written over 100 songs and might deserve to have a page on Wikipedia. Few of his songs stood as chart busters for long time.
I have provided few links of web that mentioned his name.
Here are few more :
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5769405
- http://www.telugump3lyrics.com/Lyrics-Writer-Songs/1353/0/Surendra-Krishna.html
- http://www.telugulyrics.org/Songs.aspx?Source=Lyricist&ID=323&Name=Surendra%20Krishna
- http://www.dishantcom.com/lyricist/Surendra-Krishna.html
Here are few links where his name was mentioned in Wiki pages :
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oye!_(film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madatha_Kaja
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(2010_film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thammudu_(film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadanthe_Ado_Type
Could you please re-instate the page or let me know what information should I provide to get the page live.
14.139.111.228 (talk) 06:47, 13 August 2014 (UTC)Viswanadh Malladi
- As a WP:BLP page with no references, I can't restore as a contested PROD direct. I have therefore restored it as a draft article at Draft:Surendra Krishna Ronhjones (Talk) 19:23, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Please undelete the following page .. The player has played in fully professional leagues, namely : UEFA Champions League , Estonian Premier League , Egyptian 2nd division. The player holds a professional status in FIFA records, and the page is also referenced to his UEFA web profile
20:48, 31 July 2014 Ronhjones (talk | contribs) deleted page Omar Nabil Elhussieny (Expired PROD, concern was: Article about a footballer who fails WP:GNG and who has not played in a fully pro league.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmad Matar (talk • contribs)
- Any PRODed article may be objected by anyone, just by removing the notice. If deleted then it may be restored as a "contested PROD" (I will do so). Note that the original nominator may start a WP:AfD discussion Ronhjones (Talk) 19:26, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Can you please delete the history for all of my User pages
I need all of User page history deleted because of personal information that I placed on it a long time ago. This is now an issue for me. So can all the history pages please be deleted so that I am left with a blank page at the front. Thank you.Vodomar (talk) 00:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Template:StructureDelete
Hi Ronhjones. Is Template:StructureDelete, which you created, still required? DH85868993 (talk) 12:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- Not used much now. Don't seem to find the time! Too much admin/commons admin/otrs things. I'd even forgotton it was there... I'll delete it, if I see a real need it can be uneleted. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:47, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
To those who are constantly complaining about my editing on Fields Medal page.Especially some Wikipedia editors.
To those who are constantly complaining about my editing on Fields Medal page.Especially some Wikipedia editors. Can you give a justified,comprehensive definition about the concept of Nationality? Does nationality determine with birthplace?if the answer is yes,why Alexander Grothendieck is referring as "Stateless",despite what has been written in his Wikipedia page? Does nationality determine with the place that someone raised in?if the answer is yes,why Manjul Bhargava is mentioned both as Canadian and American despite being raised in US? The approach that has been chosen for determining the Nationality of Fields Medal laureates are quite biased. Rezameyqani (talk) 08:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- You only got a message from me, because you are creating an edit war, which is against policy. We don't mind you beeing bold with your fist edit WP:BRD, but we do not expect it to be repeated. Wikipedia is not truth, it's all about verifiable data from reliable sources to form a good page by consensus of all' interested editors - not about one person forcing his/her own view Ronhjones (Talk) 18:55, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Help
Thank you for deleting the File:Olufemi.jpeg. I need your help on how to recognise file that will not violate the copyright policy. Hint on file usage. Please kindly reply on my talk page sir. Thanks Wikicology (talk) 20:42, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
article deletion "Rising Star Casino Resort"
I think the article for "Rising Star Casino Resort" should be reinstated. Relevant sources include: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/08/12/grand-victoria-casino-gets-new-name.html
as well as what appears to be the current website for the resort: http://www.risingstarcasino.com/
Currently there is a link to the "Rising Star Casino Resort" article from the following useful Wikipedia page: "List of casinos in Indiana"
Afryan (talk) 05:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- Restored as contested PROD - without some serious improvement, it's likely to die. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Please restore - Charles Byron Andrews
You deleted Charles Byron Andrews as of 8/14/14.
My name is Michaelle Daceus. I'm a neutral party and Charles Byron Andrews is notable and very known in the real estate industry. Please research him as a published author and a regular contributor to MSNBC.
Thanks,
Michaelle D. Mdaceus@live.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdaceus (talk • contribs) 07:45, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
- Restored as contested PROD - I think it will need major improvements to stay (it been tagged for improvements for 5 years). Ronhjones (Talk) 19:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Please restore article Team City
You deleted the article Team City. It is a important and recognized system in the CI world. Please restore it and I improve it. TeamBuild2020 (talk) 23:11, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
- Well I would if I could find it! Team City has never been created - have you got the name correct - searching deleted titles is very limited. Also checked Team city - never created either. There was a TeamCity - but that was restored well over a month ago and moved to User:Encyclopedant/TeamCity by user:Tokyogirl79 Ronhjones (Talk) 23:37, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
- I remember moving it there after someone requested it be restored. Doesn't look like anyone did anything with it. On a side note, your username is slightly problematic since it kind if suggests that you are involved with Team City to some extent, so I would recommend that you read over our WP:COI policy if you are part of the Team City crew and you're looking to edit the userfied copy and resubmit it to the mainspace. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 00:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- Are you involved with the band Tokio Hotel because your username sounds similar? In fact that would be very bad for your reputation at all. Just kidding. I'm a build engineer team lead with the internal mission to bring our build infrastructure (which is really big) to the next century. That's my name. A team member had to do some research about state of the art CI tools, and found that nobody has taken care of this section in Wikipedia since months (or years). So I decided to update some articles. We are evaluating Team City (among others) at the moment, so I just contribute my findings. TeamBuild2020 (talk) 15:55, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Deletions and cleaning up
Hi, thanks for deleting Chi-chi Nwanoku. Perhaps you were in a hurry, but you left the talk page. It's also best, if you have time, to check "what links here" and remove or unlink such mentions from other articles (see Wikipedia:PROD#Deletion). Cheers, – Fayenatic London 17:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I somehow missed that one. No-one's perfect :-( Ronhjones (Talk) 21:23, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
- No problem! – Fayenatic London 15:58, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Why did you delete my article? Judith Silverthorne JSilverthorne (talk) 14:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Wondering why you would delete my page? I am a bonafide Canadian author. Please put it back up. Thank you. Judith Silverthorne
- Deleted because no one objected to it going. Restored, but it may go for a full discussion - depends on the original editor who proposed the deletion. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Heads up.
Just to point this out on The Beaverton Facebook page.219.88.68.195 (talk) 01:15, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks you - I have replied there :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 18:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Leyla Yunus, prominent human rights defender, page deleted -- please could you restore?
Hello,
We've noted that the Wikipedia entry for the prominent human rights defender, Leyla Yunus, seemed to have been deleted in July 2014. Could you kindly restore and protect this entry? Leyla Yunus is an internationally acclaimed human rights defender in Azerbaijan, who has worked for decades to promote human rights and peace building in the country, risking her life, liberty and health. On 30 July 2014, Leyla was arrested by the Azeri government on false charges. Her husband, Arif Yunus, also a human rights defender and conflictologist, was imprisoned soon after. Rasul Jafarov and Intagim Aliev, also human rights defenders were also arrested in this recent wave of crackdowns on civil society in the country (several other defenders have been threatened and many organizations shut down). There are dozens of statements and articles about this wave of arrests and attacks on civil society -- see just the ones from Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/05/dispatches-towering-figures-silenced-azerbaijan-s-crackdown). Please let me know how to help restore this entry, it is an important part of recognizing her powerfully important work, particularly now that she remains imprisoned, and is in seriously deteriorating health. With thanks and respect, Jane — Preceding unsigned comment added by InsistePersisteResisteExiste (talk • contribs) 01:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC) InsistePersisteResisteExiste (talk) 17:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Restored as contested PROD - the deletion proposer may decide to go for a full deletion process at WP:AfD Ronhjones (Talk) 18:51, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Marianne Miller
Just a heads up, the Talk Page for Marianne Miller was missed during the PROD deletion. Esw01407 (talk) 00:23, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks - I do miss the odd one occasionally. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:18, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
He/she disruptive editing on genre changes again. 183.171.162.165 (talk) 07:51, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
- They are now trying to add references whenever possible. No new editor is going to be perfect - we just ask editors to try to improve. There's not enough bad editing now for a block, maybe you can add a note to them when there is an issue - their current editing pattern would suggest they need a fresh warning or two (if there is a bad edit) before a block. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:27, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Fields Medal page
Hello there.I want to invite you to participate in our discussion about publishing a new table for the Fields Medal page,which is ongoing in talk section of the page.Thanks.Rezameyqani (talk) 19:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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Deletion of World Film Magic
Hello Ron, Thank you for reviewing the Wikipedia page for World Film Magic, a film distributor in the United States that has distributed important films that have contributed to the culture of said country. We will be working on the noted points for the Wikipedia page for World Film Magic, we are requesting undeletion of the page.
Thank you very much, Please reply to photon8@hotmail.com
World Film Magic
75.92.126.74 (talk) 06:06, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
- I assume you meant World film magic, World Film Magic was deleted in 2007. The former has been restored as a contested PROD. Note the original proposer may decide to go for a full WP:AfD if the page is not improved. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Colin_and_Julie's_route_through_the_Mediterranean.jpg
Colin Angus sent permissions an email saying that the file File:Colin_and_Julie's_route_through_the_Mediterranean.jpg has as the base map Wikipedia Commons. Is there any more we need to do? 139.78.67.109 (talk) 13:44, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
- I see the ticket (I have annotated the file page) - the base map is stated to be File:Blank Map - Mediterranean 1.svg - but we can easily see that is a different file format and the degree of islands resolution is far higher on the route map - I think he has supplied the wrong url. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:14, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the assistance!
Thanks very much for correcting my incorrectly formatted "redirect!"Johnbtv (talk) 14:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Request
Can you G7 Steven Moya when you have a chance?--Yankees10 20:30, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again, but do you think you can do it again? A bot says I copyrighted from this: http://hausmieten.potiori.com/Steven_Moya.html, but I'm not even sure what that even is.--Yankees10 22:32, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- It's OK - it's weird. There's a remote web page (http://hausmieten.potiori.com/Steven_Moya.html) that is copying the wiki page as it changes. The bot (an automated script that run when a page is created) found a match. Really odd. The page does say (in very small print) when it got the data from. I've cleared the bot window, suggest just continue editing. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Is there any way of just deleting that edit? I'd kind of rather it not appear in the edit history.--Yankees10 22:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Tricky, but not impossible. :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 22:49, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! I just preferred that it didn't even look like I copy/pasted anything.--Yankees10 22:56, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Tricky, but not impossible. :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 22:49, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Is there any way of just deleting that edit? I'd kind of rather it not appear in the edit history.--Yankees10 22:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Can you do one more tonight? Nick Kingham?--Yankees10 23:10, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Too many other editors. Ronhjones (Talk) 23:14, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Oh wow, didn't even realize that an IP un-redirected it a few months ago. Thought my version from November was only there. Sorry about that.--Yankees10 23:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- C'ést la vie. That's why we check first :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 23:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- Oh wow, didn't even realize that an IP un-redirected it a few months ago. Thought my version from November was only there. Sorry about that.--Yankees10 23:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Dinesh Weerawansa.jpg
Hi Ronhjones,
The owner of the above photograph had given his copyrights for me & he had sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org kindly request to see to it & upload the photograph back, pl.
Anuradha
අනුරාධ (talk) 15:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
- You must add {{OTRS pending}} to the file page when going through OTRS - it could take several weeks - the e-mail is in the queue. Restored and OTRS pending template added. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks
Anuradha
අනුරාධ (talk) 03:40, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Blocked user Bukyrrocro
Hello. I noticed that you blocked Bukyrrocro, so I thought you might also be interested in a very loudly quacking user account, 14Gazanflict (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who has been tag-teaming with Bukyrrocro lately. I filed an SPI against them earlier today, naming Bukyrrocro as sock master since it's the older of the two accounts. Their close but never overlapping tag-teaming lately is outlined in the SPI, complete with an Editor Interaction analysis. Cheers. Thomas.W talk 16:59, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- Agreed. Neither are here to build an encyclopaedia. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:09, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
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Can you do Jason Rogers (baseball)?--Yankees10 18:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks.--Yankees10 23:26, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
R. J. Alvarez?--Yankees10 19:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Why not... :-) Ronhjones (Talk) 20:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks.--Yankees10 20:45, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Alessandro Esseno page
Hi Ronhjones,
Let me explain what's going on. I think I'll need your help. After many years, the Italian Wikipedia page of composer and pianist Alessandro Esseno was canceled on the pretext that this artist would have released all his records with the record label owned by him. This is totally false. There are link iTunes and Amazon that witness. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/186-0955803-3150508?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=alessandro+esseno In addition to this has been put in doubt that this artist can be "encyclopedic". This is despite a slew of articles about him in specialized journals since 1990, radio and television interviews, concerts in Italy and abroad, and of esteem on the part of people like Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Sting. http://www.tvnumeriuno.it/?p=982 Many of us in Italy, to admire the musical art of this great artist, and frankly what's going on there seems deeply unfair to him. Every news has been checked with great care. In 2006 the CD "La Terra non finisce all'orizzonte" published by Rai Trade, has passed into the iTunes charts, the album by Ennio Morricone. This is not quite encyclopedic? Esseno was a guest in 2009 of the prestigious Ravello Festival, in 2011 he performed at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. It is not a stranger. So why all this malice against him? In 2013 Rai Uno (the TV most important in Italy) has dedicated a special visible on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2-k8G-NZA Until the publication of his groundbreaking method of composition: http://www.inmondadori.it/metodo-composition-Alessandro-Esseno/eai978889112507/ I am convinced that the truth always wins in the end, both the prejudices that on lies. I would be honored if you would help me to fix the page en.wikipedia. Esseno deserves it. Ars gratia Artis. Thank you.--91.252.52.64 (talk) 23:58, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
From Wikimedia Commons User:අනුරාධ
Hi Ronhjones,
All these photographs are from my family collection & they were taken by my late father (Dr.N.P Wijeyeratne) Now they belongs to me. Therefore I kindly request to rectify the error & do not delete, please.
1/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MW_in_1963.jpg
2/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NW,_MW_%26_ADW_in_1964.jpg
3/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NW_in_1961.jpg
4/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EW_%26_NW.jpg
Kind regards,
Anuradha
අනුරාධ (talk) 18:04, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
Image Restore Request - CoalShastra
Please restore the deleted images by you. I am again using them in a draft article of mine, which I shall submit later for reviewing. (Shikhar1432 (talk) 09:07, 3 September 2014 (UTC))
- You are not allowed to use fair-use images in Draft space - Item 9 of WP:NFCCP. Suggest ask at WP:AFCHD for best way to handle the lack of images. Ronhjones (Talk) 21:02, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
Deletion of "List of sandbox games"
Is there any way to prevent the deletion of pages like this in the future? Surely leaving a notice of "under construction" or "incomplete" would be enough to leave it open long enough for others to locate it and begin contributing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_sandbox_games&action=edit&redlink=1 Wikinium (talk) 19:58, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- It's only a PROD deletion, I can undelete on request if you want. With four million plus pages, it's unlikely that many will "wander" onto it. We do ask the nominators to notify the creator, but it's not mandatory. If undeleted then it would have to got for a full WP:AfD, if the nominator wants to do so. You can use {{under construction}}, but it's only really designed for a few days use. Ronhjones (Talk) 21:08, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
Wilhelm Reich
Hi Ronhjones, would you mind undeleting File:Wilhelm Reich in his mid-twenties.JPG? It was being used as the lead image in Wilhelm Reich. You deleted it in March as unfree, even though it had a fair-use rationale on it (the free status was unclear, so fair use was claimed in the event that it wasn't free). I didn't say anything at the time because it was on Commons too, but it's now a red link, so I assume has been deleted from there. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:16, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- @SlimVirgin - ???? It's still on commons. Nothing in the deletion log there. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:28, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- So it is. That's odd. It was coming up a red link for me. Sorry to have troubled you! SlimVirgin (talk) 22:34, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
From Wikimedia Commons User:අනුරාධ
Thanks.
Anuradha
අනුරාධ (talk) 01:08, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Milý John, zrejme, sudiac podľa počtu Vašich príspevkov do wiki, vy a váš pes sa nudíte preto dávate pozor na čistotu artikles vo Wikipédii, preto chcem upriamiť Vašu pozornosť aj na artikel o firme Shine Elisbeth Murdoch, ktará tiež zrejme neexistuje, lebo sa odkazuje na nie spoľahlivé odkazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_(film) Potom ma musí moja dcéra vodiť za nos a klmat lebo už tuším 5 rok tam v Shone France, pracuje. Hneď v úvode Vás chcem upozorniť, že ak nie som uvedený v "podľa vás" spoľahlivých kanáloch a lilnkách na Slovensku, je to aj preto, že ja nemám čas diskutovať s dogmatikmi typu ako ste Vy. Je smutné, že Wikipédia stráca, aj vďaka Vám, a wám podobných ľudí, šancu byť slobodnou, ktorú jej ponukol Internet a vynález Interentu, a že cestou aj Vám podobných ľudí, z nej robí iba nastavbu "overených" mafianských zoznamov lokálných inštitúcii. Ak pre Vás nie je odkaz na RFE (Radio Free Europe) ani na MTV dôkazom o existencii autora, a nie je ním ani odkaz na takú webstránku ako je www.grogy.eu a www.csdf.cz, a ak deletovanie stránky nebolo urobené na objednávku slovenskej filmovej mini mafie, potom Vám ja oznamujem, lebo vidím, že písať a čítať zrejme viete, že školy a vzdelanie rozvíjajú všetky vlastnosti ludí, hlúposti vrátane. S pozdravom Oleg Makara.
Here is Google translation: Dear John, apparently, judging by the quantity of your contributions to the wiki, you and your dog are bored therefore you pay attention to cleanliness artikles in Wikipedia, therefore I want to draw your attention to the article about the company Shine Elisbeth Murdoch, wich also probably does not exist, because it refers the links are not reliable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_(film) Then I must lead them for my daughter's nose _are klmat because I think five years is already there in France Shone works. At the beginning we would like to point out that if I'm not mentioned in "you think" reliable channels and lilnkách in Slovakia, it's also because I do not have time to discuss the type of dogmatists like you. Sadly, Wikipedia losing, thanks to you, _are wám similar people a chance to be free, that offers Internet and the invention Interent, and that way you also like them, makes it the only bodies "verified" mafia lists of local institutions. If for you it is not a reference to RFE (Radio Free Europe) or on MTV evidence of the existence of the author, and is not even a link to such a website as _are www.grogy.eu www.csdf.cz, and if deleting pages has been done to order Slovakia mini mafia film, then I will announce, because I see that write and read probably know that schools _are education are developing all the characteristics of people, including stupidity. Sincerely, Oleg Makara.
I send you my photo, for you can from a single trusted institution in Slovakia, the Slovak Police Arrest Warrant:
I will not insret I do no konow how: https://scontent-b-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10157257_746049002095766_1178890956_n.jpg?oh=76308e7baa0192adcda08de9c2c8758c&oe=5470D298 — Preceding unsigned comment added by BA-MAKRO (talk • contribs) 13:23, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
The translation does not make sense. Not an article I've ever edited anyway. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:57, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
You declined the PROD on Rob hegel with the argument that a reference had been added. But the requirement is that a reliable source be added, and certainly none of the sources provided can be counted as reliable. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 02:48, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- You have 5 references there - we can discount 1 and 4. The other three are more of a grey area. They aren't blogs or editable by the public nor made by the page subject. Personally I think such pages should go for a normal PROD as "not notable". You can't expect admins to know whether every reference is truly reliable or not - we have to delete pages that are not in our own "subject field". BLPPROD is far better suited to those many pages with zero references. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:09, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
What was the trigger?
Hi! I'm looking at the copyvio at Aqua (mineral water), which is clear-cut enough. Before I look at other contributions from the same user (which I will at this point anyway need to do), I wondered if you could tell me what what triggered this, whether image or text problems? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:03, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- It was reported at WP:AIV - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism&oldid=623077381 Ronhjones (Talk) 22:19, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, missed that. It doesn't look as if there are widespread text problems. Thanks again, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:03, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
I saw that you declined a BLPPROD on Jarred Sullivan (Actor) as "Decline PROD - ref added". AFAICT, the two added references are just random news articles that have nothing to do with the subject. Kolbasz (talk) 16:30, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- You are quite right - odd idea of putting in duff refs - deleted. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:53, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing it. Kolbasz (talk) 11:30, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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Draft: Sam Semple / Proposed Picture
Hi Ronhjones,
I have an article on singer/songwriter Sam Semple currently in review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sam_Semple
I submitted a pic of Sam singing at his album launch and I sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedeia.org giving evidence of the photographer's permission to use this picture 'in any way you wish'.
The picture has been removed but I wonder if Wikipedia might reconsider this decision in light of the email I sent which clearly shows permission being granted to use the pic.
We can always find another picture but I just thought I'd double-check about this one.
Many thanks
HKatharine (talk) 09:32, 5 September 2014 (UTC)HKatharine
- I can't see any e-mail in OTRS with "Semple" in it - but searching for e-mails when you don't know the text sent is not foolproof. When you use OTRS - you need to add {{OTRS pending}} to the image page as that can take up to 30 days - I've restored for now and added the template, you need to ensure that it all complete in the next month. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:41, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- I've fixed the image placement in the draft for you - you don't need the brackets in an "infobox". Ronhjones (Talk) 18:43, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
HKatharine (talk) 11:13, 7 September 2014 (UTC) I'll do that. Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate it.
Godwin Grech
Hi Ronhjones. You are listed as the protecting admin of Godwin Grech. I believe that Godwin Grech meets eligibility criteria, and would like to do a proper article on him (currently a redirect to Utegate). I have put my argument forward at the Godwin Grech talkpage, what do you think? Could we unprotect the page so I can write an article?
I have never been through this process (of wanting to edit an admin-protected page) before, so apologies if I'm not following the correct protocol, happy to take advice/direction of how to go about this. Clare. (talk) 03:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
- It got protected following a chain of events which was a full deletion request, then it was tried to be re-created again with a copy and paste from another source. I would normally suggest using WP:AfC, but since I see you have created 856 articles, that might be a bit of an insult! (probably 800 more than me as well...). Have a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Godwin Grech first - if you think that the new article will address all the concerns stated there, then come back and tell me, and I will unprotect for you. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:58, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Ronhjones. I have gone ahead and looked at the deletion log, and am pursuing this using WP:AfC. By the way, your suggestion was not at all insulting, and I am sure the number I have created is much lower! Thanks for your help. If you'd like to see my AfC article, please visit User:Clare./Godwin Grech.
- @User:Clare. You are correct - it's 434 - It was bit late last night...! 856 is the total of all types of pages you have created. https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/?user=Clare.&project=en.wikipedia.org&namespace=all&redirects=none. If the draft get approved then they will sort out the protection - there is at least one reviewer who is an admin. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:08, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Ronhjones. I have gone ahead and looked at the deletion log, and am pursuing this using WP:AfC. By the way, your suggestion was not at all insulting, and I am sure the number I have created is much lower! Thanks for your help. If you'd like to see my AfC article, please visit User:Clare./Godwin Grech.
Financial Ombudsman Service links
Hello Ron
I hope you're well.
I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask, but you kindly replied on the page before, so I thought I'd check.
The third link on our page is broken and needs to be replaced with this one: http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/problem/can-i-take-my-financial-complaint-to-the-financial-ombudsman
Can you fix that for us please?
By the way, what are the ethical considerations for us of making simple fixes like this ourselves? Is it usual that large organisation's sort our their own inaccuracies?
Thanks for your time.
ShaneShanemckenna7 (talk) 14:25, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
- I will direct you to WP:COI for a fuller explanation. As regard the broken link - I don't see an issue with fixing it - so long as the new link gives the same data as the old link - otherwise it may need to be fixed as per WP:LINKROT (if possible). Do always use the edit summary when making any edits - COI edits will be more scrutinised. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Deleted images
Hi, and why you just deleted images I uploaded was a lack of license? --Allen talk 23:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- They had been tagged as "no license" for 7 days. If no licence can be found then they are deleted. Ronhjones (Talk) 23:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- @Ronhjones: Actually, the images I uploaded to Wikipedia must be stay undeleted unless they're licensed... other companies I'm affiliated of. --Allen talk 23:59, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Article rewritten
Hello, Ron. You deleted All-Women Ultra Marathon because it was a copyright infringement of http://www.allwomenultramarathon.com/?page_id=7 . This is my fault, since I should have checked more carefully and rewritten or removed the copyright text before adding to it. I have created a new draft about this topic at User:Anne Delong/All-Women Ultra Marathon. Since all of the text in the deleted article, other than that which was written by me, was a copyright infringement, there should be no need for attribution to anyone else. If you agree that the draft is no longer an infringement, I will move it to All-Women Ultra Marathon to replace the deleted article. —Anne Delong (talk) 15:29, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- Looks fine to me - no significant match. Ronhjones (Talk) 20:24, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- Great. It's in mainspace now. —Anne Delong (talk) 20:29, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Page deleted: Marco Roberto Capelli
Hi, about deletion of page Marco Roberto Capelli, it exists in Spanish version: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Roberto_Capelli and both the group Martiria and the Literary Magazine Progetto Babele have pages in wikipedia: (i.e http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martiria - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martiria - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto_Babele). It was also connected to several pages in the EN version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto_Babele http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capelli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinny_Appice
WOuld this be enough to undelete the page? Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.185.105.200 (talk) 08:02, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- It was only a PROD deletion - anyone can contest it, even after deletion - now restored. Note that the proposer can now got to WP:AfD if they wish, and also note the the criteria for inclusion in other wikis will not be the same - they have all grown with their own set of rules. Ronhjones (Talk) 12:34, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the advice concerning File permission problem with File:Maternity by Jose F. Caro.png
Action is under way. Any reply in Neuralia talk page please. Cheers. Neuralia (talk) 15:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
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deleted image, DC Thomson Family history HQ
Hi there, I took a photo of DC Thomson family history headquarters and it appears to have been deleted, which I'm sure is some kind of misunderstanding. The photo was given to me by the author, an employee of the company who was happy to have the image used and happy to send an email to that effect if required from a company address etc. - is there any way it can be restored or I can get him to take another one that would stay? It's definitely beneficial to the article and I want to make sure I'm doing all of this by the book. All the best Djangoinspired (talk) 16:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- When an image is already on the internet (unless that page has a Wikipedia suitable license) then it will be deleted as a copyright violation. The image was found at https://foursquare.com/v/find-my-past-formerly-dc-thomson-family-history-formerly-brightsolid/4f4d0c9a4fc61d08035cc244/photos?openPhotoId=514190e0e4b0978506f99268. To use material already on the internet you need to follow one of the methods at WP:DCM Ronhjones (Talk) 16:42, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Article Deletion
Hi Ronhjones . If you recall, we had the VPIN article nominated for speedy deletion, and after one week nobody opposed. Then it was moved to AfP, and here is the conclusion: VPIN. Do you think we can delete it now? One of the editors has resumed his personal attacks... Thanks!! Fkswe25 (talk) 21:32, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- Check the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion - Deletion requests started on the 2nd will start to be reviewed tomorrow - it needs to be done by an uninvolved admin. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:00, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you so much, Ronhjones . Is there a way I can send you a message? I would be very grateful if you could give me some advice. Thanks! Fkswe25 (talk) 17:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
File:KASSMORGAN.jpg
I noticed your reversion of EuroCarGT's edit to File:KASSMORGAN.jpg and just thought I'd point out that the uploader has uploaded a series of images, all claiming that an OTRS email has been sent, all with "available online" as the source and all licensed with {{PD-author}}. That seems a little suspicious, especially when they're not all related. According to the EXIF data for File:KASSMORGAN.jpg, Julie Millet is the author, not Kass Morgan as claimed by the uploader. The complete image list is:
- File:Kass Morgan.jpeg - EXIF author Michael Bisberg, not Kass Morgan
- File:Kass Morgan.jpg
- File:KASSMORGAN.jpg - EXIF author Julie Millet, not Kass Morgan
- File:Neon Jungle.jpg
- File:WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE.jpg
- File:Serenaposter.jpg - Author claimed to be "Movie"[2] - now converted to fair use
- File:JenniferLaw.jpg
I've asked the uploader to add specific urls to each image, because "available online" is insufficient and to confirm that OTRS emails have been sent,[3] but he/she has gone quiet. --AussieLegend (✉) 17:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- I go though the Category:Items pending OTRS confirmation of permission for over 60 days at regular intervals - their time in the sun is always short lived if they don't get the permission sorted. I'm using the 60 days at present as we had a indexing bug at OTRS which prevented searching for urls! However the bug was fixed on Aug 18th (for new e-mails only), so I will soon be pruning down the [:[Category:Items pending OTRS confirmation of permission for over 30 days]] post Sept 18th! Ronhjones (Talk) 19:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
A rare vandalism case
Do you still review the cases of vandalism and disruptive editing? There is one case on WP:AIV, please have a look. It is certainly 'rare' because disruption remains on going for months, user has returned after 3 months and renewed disruptive editing. His edits can be easily considered as vandalism. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 19:25, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm everywhere...:-) It's very difficult, it not vandalism as per WP:Vandalism, but it is rather disruptive. He does seem very fixed on Unique Identification Authority of India and Aadhaar. Since everybody seems to be reverting the latter back to a redirect - I think it's best we fix that as protected. He may then attack the former, but I suspect there are more people watching that page, and he will have a harder time in getting his severe POV across. If he just continues with one article - then dispute resolution may be the best way forward. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:50, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Protection seemed the best way to deal with. Hopefully, if he is going to adhere to his 1 year old editing habit, he will try importing same content on other pages, including those that had been turned into redirect. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 20:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
File:Jhbnewtown.jpg
As you asked I have emailed the permission for File:Jhbnewtown.jpg to permissions-.en@wikimedia.org and used guidelines on the permission letter. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kasirap (talk • contribs) 20:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Added {{OTRS pending}} for you Ronhjones (Talk) 20:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Images of Becca
Greetings Ronhjones. Thanks for leaving the notifications on my talk page regarding File:Becca in Brazil.jpg and File:Becca at the Ovation Red Carol charity ball.jpg. The declaration of consent form was sent to OTRS on Tuesday, 8 Jul 2014 by the copyright owner whose email is: <removed> Can you please check OTRS and get back to me. Thanks. If you're not able to locate the email, I'll have to send another request to the copyright owner. For privacy purposes, can you please remove this message from your talk page once you read it. Thanks Versace1608 (Talk)
- Thanks for the e-mail address - I would never have found the ticket otherwise - the e-mail just had the two images attached - no urls to use and no-one answered the reply from OTRS about where the files were. I see several approved tickets from same author so I'm happy to process them. Since the images match the uploaded ones - both images sorted. All versions of this page with e-mail address RevDeleted (you could have sent that by e-mail direct using the link on the left). Ronhjones (Talk) 20:36, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking care of everything. I appreciate it. Versace1608 (Talk) 20:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- In the licensing section, it says "GFDL", but there is no template there. Could you check if this is
{{GFDL}}
,{{GFDL-1.2}}
,{{GFDL-1.3}}
or some other version? --Stefan2 (talk) 20:46, 10 September 2014 (UTC)- I knew I'd forget something - Dual Licenses:GFDL and CC-by-sa-3.0. Something else to sort out... Ronhjones (Talk) 20:50, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- In the licensing section, it says "GFDL", but there is no template there. Could you check if this is
- Thanks for taking care of everything. I appreciate it. Versace1608 (Talk) 20:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Reino Aarnio images
At File:ReinoAarnio5.jpg, there is something which looks like an OTRS ticket number in the permission field, but you tagged the file with {{subst:npd}}. Is that one in some way related to the image? Should the file have some other tag, such as {{OTRS received}} or {{PermissionOTRS}} instead? Also note that the ticket number also is mentioned on some of the uploader's other images. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:59, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- Someone has added that - not (I suspect) an OTRS agent. It does refer to the image, but there is no permission. I've added the correct banner. It can still go in 7 days, they have had long enough. Ronhjones (Talk) 21:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- The following files are mentioned in the ticket
- 3 park.jpg , 505.3 KBytes
- Sylvia and Reino Aarnio.jpg , 561.8 KBytes
- 4 park.jpg , 741.3 KBytes
- 7 park.jpg , 493.2 KBytes
- 9 park.jpg , 683.0 KBytes
- EDITED PHOTO OF REINO AARNIO.jpg , 574.1 KBytes
- October 1993 Family Photo.jpg , 486.6 KBytes
- Reino Aarnio at the drafting board New York.jpg , 1.5 MBytes
- No permission for any has been granted. Ronhjones (Talk) 21:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- If they do ever get granted then the names of the images in the ticket (the jpgs were attached to the ticket) will have to be matched with the uploaded names...! Why change the file name before you get permission...? Ronhjones (Talk) 21:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- The ticket number is mentioned on the file information page of several of the uploader's image. If you have the images in the OTRS system (and not only file names), you can probably identify the Wikipedia file names by comparing the user's uploads with the images in the OTRS ticket. However, if nothing shows up, it might not be worth the trouble to add {{OTRS received}} to them. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:18, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- If I get a minute - I'll see if they are matchable, the 7 days notice is still going to stand. I don't think the OTRS will be sorted. Ronhjones (Talk) 21:26, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- The ticket number is mentioned on the file information page of several of the uploader's image. If you have the images in the OTRS system (and not only file names), you can probably identify the Wikipedia file names by comparing the user's uploads with the images in the OTRS ticket. However, if nothing shows up, it might not be worth the trouble to add {{OTRS received}} to them. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:18, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- If they do ever get granted then the names of the images in the ticket (the jpgs were attached to the ticket) will have to be matched with the uploaded names...! Why change the file name before you get permission...? Ronhjones (Talk) 21:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- The following files are mentioned in the ticket
Alessandro Esseno page
Hi, I'm sorry, but the composer and pianist Alessandro Esseno there are other records with other labels over her, including BMG Ariola and Rai Trade. The sources were cited. So it is not true that he has released records only with her record label.. --Brainstorm76 (talk) 23:31, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
- The last person to delete that page was User:FreeRangeFrog, not myself. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:05, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Dear Ronhjones,
Everybody knows that you are a distinguished admin, who has proven his objectivity and his steadfast adherence to wikipedia rules repeatedly. I would like your input and your expertise regarding my report here: Talk:Macedonia (ancient kingdom)#Vandalism, unjustified removal of reliable sources, POV editing. I believe that your input and your intervention could be crucial and enlightening. Thank you so much for your attention. With respects, Gtrbolivar (talk) 16:00, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Idea Museum logo
Hi. I guess you deleted my photo. The note said, "A tag has been placed on File:Idea Museum logo.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted." It was actually a photo I took of the sign on their building. The screws were visible on the edges. Is that a copyright infringement? Kirs10 (talk) 21:29, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- The question of who took the image does not really matter (as a logo it was naturally a very close match to http://cybercraftrobots.com/press/). Who designed the logo? That is the person with the copyright. Taking a photo of a copyrighted image does not transfer the copyright to the photographer - it's just a derivative work - the copyright still belongs to the logo's creator - it is a 2D image, just like a painting. Normally taking an image for one's private collection is not big deal, however use at Wikipedia means that it can be re-used by anyone for any purpose including commercial use, and copyright owners are usually reluctant to give away their rights. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- You could consider using it as a non-free logo if the WP:NFCC criteria can all be satisfied. You would have to reduce to 25% both ways = 410x239 pixels to be an acceptable size for non-free. If that is possible you need a filled in WP:FURG as a description and a {{Non-free logo}} as a license. Do check similar article to see how the non-free rationale is filled in - use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Non-free_logo to find some. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:42, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Please unsalt and delete the redirect here pending acceptance of Draft:Godwin Grech and ping me when you have decided what to do in order that I may accept the draft. Fiddle Faddle 11:22, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Done Ronhjones (Talk) 12:53, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- For which kindness, much thanks. The article will now stand or fall on its own merits. Fiddle Faddle 13:52, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Ronhjones for your help. I can definitely say Godwin Grech has been a learning experience for me so far, let's see what the next step is.Clare. (talk) 13:56, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
File un-delete request
Hi there. Today, you deleted File:Youth Olympic Games 2018 Logo.png, because it was an unused non-free file. However, it was only unused because someone uploaded a version to Commons and used that in the original file's place. When the Commons file was inevitably deleted for being non-free, the page became logo-less. Could you un-delete the original if at all possible? Cheers, Malpass93! (what I've been up to/drop me a ___) 15:41, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- @User:Malpass93 It was deleted as "unused" - all non free images must be on at least one page or they will be deleted 7 days later. Options...
- I could undelete for now and re-tag with a new "unused" banner - gives you 7 days to sort out the image's placement, but you will never be the creator, so any new delete notices will still go to User:Iehutin as the person who uploaded the image - who is not around anymore.
- You could e-mail me (link in tools on left of this page) and I will send you back the image and the page data - you could then upload with the basic upload form in one go and become the "creator" - attribution don't matter as it's non-free.
- Let me know which option you want to do. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:06, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Option No.1 would be preferable. I'll keep the file on my watchlist so that if any issues emerge later on, I'll be aware of them. Malpass93! (what I've been up to/drop me a ___) 18:20, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- It's all yours... :-) Remove the di-orphaned fair use template when you have added the image to the article.Ronhjones (Talk) 18:59, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Option No.1 would be preferable. I'll keep the file on my watchlist so that if any issues emerge later on, I'll be aware of them. Malpass93! (what I've been up to/drop me a ___) 18:20, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Permission for image sent, but apparently not received
Hello Ron, I received a message that the image on Druid (open-source data store) requires a permission. The author, Fangjin Yang, sent that permission (using the official template letter) to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on July 1, 2014. Could this have been missed somehow? Please also respond on my talk page where the original message on this issue is posted. Thanks ... --textractor (talk) 19:45, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Replied Ronhjones (Talk) 20:20, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry, my bad for not reading carefully. The version 2 of that image isn't used in the article, so it can be deleted. The version 3, which has the permission, is the one that's used. --textractor (talk) 21:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
You wrote "decline - source field filled in". Could you tell where to find that source? --Stefan2 (talk) 16:17, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- It's obviously a TV screenshot - I recognise it as a UK programme. Probably not available anywhere else. Ronhjones (Talk) 16:46, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- That doesn't solve the problem, though: there is still no source specified. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:06, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- It says The logo may be obtained from The Graham Norton Show. (obviously every time the programme is aired) - where else would you get a screenshot? You can change it to BBC if you like (just looked up next transmission on my Window Media Center - BBC1 HD Fri 26th Sept at 22:35). Ronhjones (Talk) 18:08, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- The wording "The logo may be obtained from The Graham Norton Show" implies that the show is an entity which has a street address, a phone number or some other kind of contact information. There is no evidence that the show has such contact information. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:31, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- That view depends on where you live. I'm sure the creator won't mind you correcting it. Ronhjones (Talk) 18:46, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- The wording "The logo may be obtained from The Graham Norton Show" implies that the show is an entity which has a street address, a phone number or some other kind of contact information. There is no evidence that the show has such contact information. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:31, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- It says The logo may be obtained from The Graham Norton Show. (obviously every time the programme is aired) - where else would you get a screenshot? You can change it to BBC if you like (just looked up next transmission on my Window Media Center - BBC1 HD Fri 26th Sept at 22:35). Ronhjones (Talk) 18:08, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- That doesn't solve the problem, though: there is still no source specified. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:06, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Answer to your comments and thank you
Hello, I never responded to you because I did not how to get onto this site before. I am experimenting to learn how to do things properly in the future. I would like to have a page under my name Aneliese Roettger. I put in links that directly led to the tv shows and movies I was in and used the [[ ]] before and after, however, they were all taken down. I also put a link up to my IMDB page, and that was taken down too. Someone wrote back that I could have it on my page, but the content was wrong? I think it may have put in the wrong place, but I don't know how to find the right place to put it. I have read and re-read articles on how to, but I don't understand them. Is there a template I can download and put in the requested information there so I know that I am not doing something incorrectly? I may have to pay someone who knows how to help me. Any help as to where I can go find answers that I understand. I would reapply appreciate your advice. Thank you, Aneliese Roettger Aneliese Roettger (talk) 21:36, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- You are going to struggle. Editors here do not like autobiographies - see WP:AUTO - it not forbidden but is strongly discouraged. I've added a template on your talk page to all the various policies and guidelines. I don't know if you qualify for inclusion, I would suggest you read WP:N as a general guide to notability and WP:ENT which refers to people in films, etc., as a start. Just to let you know your initial article was deleted because it had no references - there are two types of links in Wikipedia (A) Links to other pages using [[ ]], these are useful but do not show notability, and (B) Proper references - links to external sites/papers/books/journals/etc., using <ref> and </ref> - see WP:CITE for a full explanation - we need good, verifiable, reliable sources to show enough notability for inclusion. As regard paid editing, that is possible, but is again not recommended, as it is impossible for any paid editor to truly make a page from a neutral point of view - see WP:NPOV. I would also add that creating pages direct (as you tried) is the most difficult way to start, as soon as you hit save, many eyes will examine your new page, and decide if it should stay. I always tell all new editors to us the Article Wizard at WP:AfC, at least you can edit a page in relative peace, and when finished get a proper review from an experienced editor. Do remember that once a page is up and running, then any editor here can edit the article (so long as they follow the policies!), it is not possible to make a page and keep it as you like it - see WP:OWN, also if you have any skeletons in the cupboard then some one will find them and add them to the article - I've seen far too many articles started by a subject only to try to delete later, when all the old bad deeds came to light. Ronhjones (Talk) 01:36, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Charlie's Farm
Hi There, I have been asked by the Director / Screenwriter for Charlie's Farm, Chrs Sun, to create the wiki page for the movie. Upon going to create the page I discovered a page had previously been made with the same title and had been deleted for copyright infringement.
Wiki advised I speak to those involved in its deletion prior to continuing.
The article I have prepared includes references. The Plot has been copied from both the IMBd websites and the Official Charlies Farm website, with permission from the Director himself and all these sections have been quoted and referenced.
Just looking for a go ahead so the page is not deleted once it is posted again.
Cheers 733Rose 733Rose (talk) 05:34, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- You cannot copy text verbatim from other web sites unless those web sites show an explicit permission to at least a cc-by-sa license on the site, or such formal permission has been received, from the copyright holder, by the Foundation and approved. Suggest you check out the page to get the permission - WP:DCM. When the page gets created an automatic script will test for copyright issues, you need to be sure that the permission has been sorted out. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:13, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear Ron Jones,
I'm writing concerning the deletion of a photo from the Alessandro Ferrara wiki page. Here is the info:
This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
23:00, 26 June 2014 Ronhjones (talk | contribs) deleted page File:Alessandro Ferrara Dublin 2013 A.jpg (File deleted: F11: No evidence of permission for more than 7 days (TW))
The evidence of permission is provided by the author of the photo, with the following letter, which has the photo on it (it's a pdf) and if you give me an email address I'll be happy to send it:
To Whom it Concerns I hereby declare that I am the author of the photograph “Ferrara in Dublin” [see below], taken at the philosophy workshop “Transcendence in Political Philosophy” at University College Dublin on 8 November 2013. And I authorise Professor Ferrara to use it free of any copyright in any form he may wish to do. Martin Sauter Martin Sauter 90 Roebuck Road Dublin 14 IRELAND Sautermartin35@gmail.com
Authorship of Photo “Ferrara in Dublin” [see below]
Can I please have the photo restored where it was? Thank you so much. sanfr53Sanfr53 (talk) 07:17, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- It needs to be sent through the OTRS system - see WP:DONATEIMAGE for address (use the suggested address for text as the image is here, and not on commons - do include the url of the image in the message). It's been restored for now - you have 30 days to get the permission sorted. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:13, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 September 2014
- Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
- Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
- WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
File:Jude Anthany Joseph.jpg
Hi Ronhjones, The image which has been deleted "Jude Anthany Joseph.jpg" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Anthany_Joseph has been provided by the owner in an email with permissions and i had forwarded that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on March 2014 itself.
Jibin net (talk) 15:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)jibin_net
- The image was deleted as no OTRS ticket had been added to the image during the 60+ days that the OTRS pending notice had been up (should only take 30 days at best). Did OTRS reply to your e-mail? If so there would be a ticket number in the subject line. Due to a search bug in OTRS since the last upgrade (now fixed for new e-mails), I cannot search for any word >30 characters, which means cannot search for urls! Please e-mail me (link in toolbox on the left) your e-mail address you used and I can try to search OTRS for it. Ronhjones (Talk) 17:13, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- I've eventually found the ticket (2014032810002128) - they replied to you (16/04/2014 22:24 - insufficient permission) - if you did not receive it, I can re-send it. Ronhjones (Talk) 22:56, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
list of twelve-step groups
Howdy Ronhjones. A experienced editor has proposed to change the standard for inclusion of List of twelve-step groups from being a list of wikipedia articles, to being a list of 12 step groups (without the necessity of having an article attached to the entry). The discussion is currently on the talk page. I am contacting you because you have participated in the maintenance of that article. If you have no opinion, please feel free to disregard this notice. Cheers! Coffeepusher (talk) 05:09, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- Not for me - I just removed the obvious non notable red links. Ronhjones (Talk) 23:08, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi RonhJones,
You recently protected the page Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
The link below, is the version of the consensus, reached by User:Taivo and User:Stevepeterson
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)&oldid=625115334
Until it was sneakily changed by User:Gtrbolivar
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)&oldid=625117854
Gtrbolivar reached no consensus and the warring editors, Taivo and Stevepeterson, reached a consensus for the first link.
Could you please re-instate the version which had been agreed upon until the vandal Gtrbolivar changed it?
Thanks and I look forward to your response and your reversion of this blatant vandalism.
Here is the old id
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)&oldid=625115334
Macedonia (talk) 09:05, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- When there is edit warring we just protect the article as is - then you can all go away on the talk page and get a full agreement for the next version. There is no deadline in Wikipedia - get the agreement on the content sorted first. Changing now will just re-flame the edit war - I'll have the other side saying there is a bias against them, and they are being ignored. Ronhjones (Talk) 23:14, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- You are, of course, free to ask for protection removal at WP:RFUP Ronhjones (Talk) 23:17, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Ronhjones save wikipedia
Dear Ronhjones, Unfortunately wikipedia is becoming a place where vandals, masters of propaganda, ultranationalists who believe in fairy tales and historically ignorant people with hidden agendas are calling the shots. I am sure you are aware of the massive propaganda mechanism of FYROM, a country who desperately tries to steal ancient Greek history in order to create a (false and based on lies and myths) national identity (within the process of nation-building see: Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities), Ernest Gellner etc).
I never believed that unspeakable and inconcievable fairy tales and monstrous propaganda mecahnisms like these could ever permeate our project, but unfortunately they have. Ridiculous as it may seem, people like this user are trying to impose their personal pseudo-historic, propaganda-driven imagined theories (if you take a look at his user page you're not gonna believe your own eyes) in an encyclopedia with the stature of wikipedia. They have violated all wikipedia rules, common sense, common knowledge and they are trying to sneak into this encyclopedia unbelievable theories with no historical and academic evidence whatsoever. User Taivo, suggested something even more unthinkable and dangerous: In the name of an ill-understood neutrality (as if neutrality means bury the truth, the evidence, the reliable sources, everything) he asks us to hide the truth because it would be painful to the inhabitants of a country (!!!!!) who believe in a ridiculous state-driven propaganda full of pseudo-historic fairy tales. He started a crusade to bury the truth, to remove all the reliable sources (he has blatantly violated Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources a thousand times) in order to impose his own agenda which obviously gives propaganda a vital space to grow.
According to Taivo we are not allowed to write that Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom even if this is a well-known fact backed-up by every distinguished historian, every professor, every world-class university and museum in the world, because it will be hard for the inhabitants of a certain country to read it. Next thing will be to remove the Armenian genocide from wikipedia because the Turks deny it, the Holocaust because the prime minister of Iran, or some Neo-Nazis deny it. According to Taivo and every given Taivo it's not neutral to write that Armenians were slaughtered because (quote): It is offensive to the Turks, so you need to leave your politics at the door." If tomorrow Albanians start advocating that Napoleon was Albanian and not French, we should respect them and not provoke them by writing in wikipedia that Napoleon was French.
So in wikipedia we don't care about the sources, about the evidence, about the truth. We care about creating a propaganda-driven project which buries the reliable sources, disregards the evidence and its own rules in order to create some form of diplomatic decorum and a safe haven for anyone who wants to impose his propaganda by distorting the truth, by removing evidence, by insulting common sense. I am appealing to your education and to your unquestionable integrity. We have to protect and save wikipedia from this upcoming disaster. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place where propaganda and distortion triumphs. I am asking you to give us your input, your point of view. Thank you so much for your attention. Gtrbolivar (talk) 23:59, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
PS: I would like to bring this matter to the administrators, to inform as many admins and reliable users of wikipedia as possible. I would like to see a vast partcipation of admins and users who have an interest in history (or contribute in historical articles in wikipedia) in the Talk:Macedonia (ancient kingdom) talk page. Can you help me on this? What should I do? I would like this matter to be presented in a much broader wikipedia audience. Could you assist me on this? Gtrbolivar (talk) 23:59, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
- There is always Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece - maybe you'll find some more like minded editors there. There are only around 1000 active admins, and the vast majority of those will be based in English speaking countries. Looking at who has Greek language userboxes I see...
- One admin (User:Magioladitis) as native
- One admin (User:Future Perfect at Sunrise) as advanced
- One admin (User:Delirium) as intermediate
- Four admins (User:Tkinias), (User:Andres), (User:Papa November), (User:Carlossuarez46) as basic.
- Feel free to try some of those - they may have more interest in the subject as they speak some Greek (I've not wiki-linked them as they would get a notify, I'll let you decide it you want to contact them). Ronhjones (Talk) 01:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, I would like to see your input and your comments in the Talk:Macedonia (ancient kingdom) talk page. Sorry for all the inconvenience, but admins like yourself are essential to matters of such importance. I really appreciate your attention and your immediate response. Gtrbolivar (talk) 02:22, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Was surprised to see this being deleted for "F4: Lack of licensing information" overnight, because I remember explicitly adding a Geograph attribution tag to it. Looking back at a cached version it's clearly presented as CC-Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 with a named photographer and a link to their Geograph page. Was it still missing something? --McGeddon (talk) 07:57, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Doh! Looks like that was one bad delete (out of 500 last night...). I'm still not sure why it got tagged - I see it was the automatic script, which I have not known to make mistakes before, I can only assume that the script does not recognise the geograph template you used (I think it's fairly new). Sorry for that, I've restored the image and it's article placement. I'll leave a note with the bot owner. Ronhjones (Talk) 10:28, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- @User:McGeddon That Geograph template has now been added to the bots approved list. Such tagging errors should not occur again. Ronhjones (Talk) 15:09, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- Good to hear it! Thanks for taking a look. --McGeddon (talk) 15:27, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
- @User:McGeddon That Geograph template has now been added to the bots approved list. Such tagging errors should not occur again. Ronhjones (Talk) 15:09, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for deleting the file that I had marked without source - I just happened to notice the talkpage was still there: File_talk:R.c.dutt.jpg can you delete it too? Kind regards, Deadstar (talk) 08:15, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
- No problem, one I missed (again!) Ronhjones (Talk) 15:25, 17 September 2014 (UTC)