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Revision as of 19:03, 3 December 2007

• If you have copied text to which you own the copyright: Please read the guide to donating your own copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest.

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• If the original source was itself a copy of Misplaced Pages text: Reusing the text is probably okay, but make sure you link back to the original article to comply with the GFDL. If the site CSBot found is a Misplaced Pages mirror, you may want to notify me so I can add it to the list for the future.

• If the original source is in the public domain: Reusing the text is okay, but you almost certainly want to attribute it with an appropriate template (such as {{DANFS}} or {{1911}}); this will cause CSBot to leave the article alone.

  If you did attribute it with an appropriate template, but it was still flagged as a copyvio, then it's probable the bot does not know the template you have used. You might want to tell me on this page so I can add it to the list.

Otherwise, remember that text found on other web pages is copyrighted by default. Unless there is an explicit permission on the page (or site) allowing reuse without conditions (or under the GFDL) you can not use that text in a Misplaced Pages article!

Thank you!

((older cruft/undated messages moved to User talk:Coren/old stuff))

Gregory H. Rickel

The material used in the Misplaced Pages article was based on a press release from the Diocese of Olympia I received as a reporter covering his consecration. It was meant to be used again (and again, and again). I have added additional comments about this in the talk section of Gregory H. Rickel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrchapman (talk • contribs) 01:38, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

my page got deleted (institute of information security professionals) please can I have it back

Coren, did the page i put up get deleted?? because one of our members have our words on their site...We have all the material on our site - www.instisp.org (and are the legal owners)

Can we get our material back up? Or do we have to ask our members to remove their entries???

my rfa

...thank you for your participation. I withdrew with 83 supports, 42 opposes, and 8 neutrals. Your kind words and constructive criticism are very much appreciated. I look forward to using the knowledge I have accrued through the process to better the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers and Wikidudeman for their co-nominations.

Thomas Andros

Copy of CSBot message elided

This matter has been taken up with various editors and is addressed in several places including the copyright section. Virtuaology.com has given us permission to use the biographies to create stubs where no bios exist and add to articles. Damslerset

== my page ==MAndrake Mechanism

i tried to make a page for Mandrake mechanism and giving it's true explantion in verbatum from the book "the creature from jekyll island" it's cited. and i woul dlike to have it back. Just because a person online has a site with it one doesn't mean i copied it from them, they got it from the same book.

Re: Whatever!

Actually, if this had been on a talk page, I'd have left it alone. Editing someone else's user page without invitation, however, is rather rude. — Coren  04:07, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

It says at the bottom, "You may edit this page! Really, you can! Please feel free to do so! Make an edit! After all, that's what Misplaced Pages is all about!" – Gurch 04:08, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Western Airlines Flight 2605

CSB tagged this article. It seems that it found a match against a commercial website that is mirroring content from another WP article Western Airlines part of which I had copied as a seed to start the specific article on the flight.LeadSongDog 16:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi!

And thanks for blocking Giove. You would do good to block this guy, too, as it would seem that he is a Giove puppet. They both hate the same users, are both Italian, and both make the same grammatical mistakes when speaking in English. Reply on my talk page. Best, --Gp75motorsports 17:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

HMS Press (Toronto/London) Canada

Hi. Thanks for the message. The title of the original article was "HMS Press". Victoriagirl 18:38, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Miranda warning (Band)

Hi, why did you delete that stub? I think that my answer was enough here. --Codorado 18:54, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the explanation, i will try to do better next time.--Codorado 19:03, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

myxx

i put a headline saying credit to myxxonline.com and i didnt use all the info from the website i changed it around a bit

Actually, the article was deleted because it was an article about a band that did not make an assertion of importance or significance. — Coren  19:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

National Internal Growth for Gaining Environmental Reconstruction‎

Hi. You declined {{db-nonsense}} on National Internal Growth for Gaining Environmental Reconstruction‎ but gave no reason. I tagged it per WP:VAN which states that vandalism is "a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Misplaced Pages" and requires bad faith. IMHO adding an article about a non-existent organisation compromises the integrity of WP, and we can be sure the author was acting in bad faith because of the offensive acronym and also because of this edit.

WP:VAN states that "if all versions of the article are pure vandalism, mark it for speedy deletion by tagging it with {{db-nonsense}}". Which is what I did.

andy 20:01, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah; the only problem is that it's not really nonsense per the criterion. I'm talking it over with DGG (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) who prodded it to see if a G3 wouldn't be more appropriate. — Coren  20:03, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree, G3 for vandalism seems the solution. I should have thought of it myself. so I just now went and did it "per Coren and DGG" -- I see the user has done this sort of thing before, so I've left a level 4 warning. DGG (talk) 03:47, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

From "Ethernet hub" to "Network hub"

Thank you for moving the article from "Ethernet hub" to "Network hub", I will improve Misplaced Pages articles whenever needed. QQ 20:49, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Dear Coren SearchBot, You seem to have tagged this new article about the society, because it includes a snippet of text about its own aims from the society's own website. This is OK. (If not, could you inform me what you would need to know to be be assured that it is OK?) Thanks.

Feline Hymnic 21:05, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Hymn Society in the United States and Canada

Dear Coren SearchBot, You seem to have tagged this new article about the society, because it includes a snippet of text about its own aims from the society's own website. Could you inform me what, if anything, you would need to know to be be assured that it is OK? Thanks.

(Similar request to that for Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland.)

Feline Hymnic 21:12, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Sam and SAM

Your 'bot automatically tagged the page SAM as a duplicate of Sam. I was in the process of splitting these pages apart when your 'bot tagged the SAM page and left a message on my user page. Perhaps, you should give a few more minutes before your 'bot tags an article as duplicate. Just a suggestion, but I've fixed the problem. — Val42 21:22, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Your Bot

Whenever I copy text from my sandbox from userspace to mainspace, your bot gives me a warning. Please stop this from happening in the future, because it's annoying. Miranda 09:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Coren, I have moved a page from Mannes College of Music to Mannes College The New School for Music to reflect its current official name, and I left a Redirect command on the old page. Hope that everything's okay now. Thanks. Objectivesea 01:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

HMS Press (Toronto/London) Canada

This was not an article per se and it was the first of several in that category. This was BOOK COVERS only in the Book Covers category. There are only book covers in there, I was in the process of putting together other Canadian small Press book publishers "Book Covers" in the only category for them. How is this similar to the naive first article I wrote 2 years ago when I first started out? If I organized all the McGraw Hill Book Covers into an article it would be the same wouldn't it?? Just book covers? WayneRay 12:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC)WayneRay

Copyright etc.

Coren: You may be interested that a user to whom you gave a "final warning" seems to have violated copyright policy yet again. By the way, thanks for your clever bot! --Coppertwig 19:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:ANI

Thanks for doing something with this. Everyone else seemed not to be taking it seriously enough. I've emailed Jimbo with my concerns. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 19:51, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I've also emailed the Foundation with what happened. — Coren  20:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

"Popples" and "Popples (TV series)"

The bot left me a message regarding the similarities between the pages "Popples" and "Popples (TV series)". At the time, I was separating the information from the first page between the two pages (having just created the second one), to clarify the division between the toys and the cartoon series; naturally, the two pages looked close to identical before both of them were finished.

By now, the two should be different enough that no problem exists; if one does, please let me know. Thank you.

Wrightaway 20:58, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

George Robertson (bookseller)

Pls. review the article. I hope it is satisfactory in its current form. Thanks!Goodby, Mr. Chipz 23:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Joseph Schlessinger

Hi Coren, I have tried reasoning/compromising with a very irate letsnotlie/Hillhealth with no luck and need your help. I'm actually the one who posted this for editor assistance yesterday.

It appears that letsnotlie and Hillhealth are the same person who keeps deleting select sections of the Joseph Schlessinger page, either not reporting or heavily censoring an a full report of the facts. (i.e. keeps deleting almost everything remotely perceived as negative even though the page is almost completely positive and anything which might be perceived as negative is all the way at the bottom). I've taken special care to use the words "alleged" and "claimed" and "the lawsuit stated" as much as possible, but that didn't seem to appease letsnotlie/hilhealth. The editing history speaks for itself.

What might work out best for this would be for someone higher up (you?) to just make a decision on what to include or not include based on the references from the source below, as they see fit. Editing out the entire section is not giving a full disclosure of the facts.

Yale Universitiy's own newspaper investigated, wrote and published a detailed article about this, which has been referenced in several places in the section below. I believe the following section is written very factually from MULTIPLE bona fide news sources. I am not quoting ANY blogs, as has been mentioned.

Quoting comments from the Joseph Schlessinger talk page "...Perhaps Garceau's people discovered that they have no case and settled without compensation."

The fact that letsnotlie/Hillhealth who posted above just happens to know settlement information that, as he wrote above, is nowhere in the media, is a good indicator that letsnotlie/Hillhealth are both Joseph Schlessinger himself.

I would be interested in commentary on the applicability of the text below and Joseph Schlessinger potentially self-editing his own page.

Thank you in advance for reviewing this.

At this point, looking into dispute resolution is your best avenue. Given that I have intervened with administrative action to stop the edit war, it would not be appropriate for me to participate in the actual content dispute. — Coren  23:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Elided complete repost of BLP section— Coren  Truther truther 23:51, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

It is neither useful nor necessary to repost the text of the article on my talk page. I am not involved in the edition of that article, nor am I interested in mediating. You way want to read the avenues for dispute resolution available to editors who find themselves in conflict over article contents. — Coren  23:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts

The text is an edited version of that on our website. We felt we would increase knowledge of the band by adding the text within our website to Misplaced Pages. www.brettmarvin.co.uk

Please note that Misplaced Pages is not a proper venue for promotion. — Coren  00:11, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

A nosey passer-by

Hi, do we know if user:Vampire Warrior went through with his threat or not? I note he has been blocked, along with a sockpuppetry template. It would be much more polite of people if they could simply off-themselves quietly without concerning the entire wiki community. Cheers! --For Queen and Country 00:23, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid we'll never know short of him returning. The police don't make a habit out of informing passing strangers about the results of their investigations.  :-) — Coren  00:40, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to say thanks for your action and congratulations for getting it done promptly. You hit the ground running while I was still trying to figure out how to do what needed to be done; obviously you're someone anyone would want to have around in a crisis situation. I'll make this appreciation more tangible as soon as I figure out the best way to do it. Accounting4Taste:talk 18:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Confused bot

Reception history of Jane Austen was simply posted from a draft. This is the second time this has happened to me. Isn't there a way to have the bot distinguish between wikipedia pages that have "draft" or "user" in the title? Awadewit | talk 10:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Surely anything in "User:" space could be a copy of a Misplaced Pages page without causing problems. The "/Sandbox/" path should also be a clue. Colin° 11:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

BL Rochester Page Deleted

Where did the created page go? it was created 2 December and deleted 3 december? Blrochester 17:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC) Brian Rochester 3 December 2007.

"EMT" Barnstar

		The "EMT" Barnstar
		For your ability to act quickly and correctly in a difficult situation with potentially serious repercussions, I am delighted to award you this barnstar. Thank you for doing the right thing, and congratulations on getting it done fast and accurately. Accounting4Taste:talk 19:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)