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Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Intertranswiki

What do you think of the new project I'm setting up? Dr. Blofeld 16:20, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps it could be tied to meta:Translation of the week which is related. Angela. 09:26, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

That would be a good idea. Also see this new proposal by Kotniski here. Dr. Blofeld 09:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

he.wiki

There is a ideological censorship about porn in the Hebrew Misplaced Pages, this is the current policy: here translated to English. You cannot create an article about a porn star unless she or he became famous for something else (like Traci Lords because she is a singer/actor or Ilona Staller because she is a politician). "Character's life there is another aspect to meet the criteria of encyclopedic value. Action porn is not enough to win about Hebrew Misplaced Pages." "Not displayed pictures of her body except the portrait of the character, even if the figure wearing a Catholic nun.", "There will be no external links to sex sites." and etc.

You can talk to User:Yonatan or User:Amire80 to confirm this.

I think it's a strong violation of the global Misplaced Pages (The 💕)/Wikimedia rules and of WP:NOTCENSORED policy.

I think you should force them to change this policy.

Sorry for my bad English.

Thanks.

Copyright violation ?

Hi, I'm wondering why you've removed a paragraph from the page Penny (Australian) for the reason "removing likely copyright violation" ? How can you know that this text violates some copyright ? DeepPurple46 (talk) 18:53, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

It had been pasted in directly from part of another page in this edit. I don't believe they copied it from Misplaced Pages but that the Misplaced Pages user copied it from them because it was only part of their page, and because it's not the usual encyclopedic style of Misplaced Pages but instead a style that matches the rest of the site it was copied from. Angela. 02:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for this explanation. It is sure that the style isn't the encyclopedic one, and that the added value of this paragraph was very low. DeepPurple46 (talk) 04:55, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Rename me, please!

Hi there, I don't know if it's possible, Angela; but I want you to rename me, if you don't mind. Thus: Zack wadghiri. I'll be thankful.--Zack (talk) 12:33, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I've not seen the note above.--Zack (talk) 12:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

IP's editing your sandbox

The reason IP's are editing you're sandbox is probably because it is linked to from Misplaced Pages:About the Sandbox.--Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 01:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Odd. I'd forgotten about that. I've removed it. I don't think my sandbox is a great example really. :) Angela. 05:44, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Meetup Time in Sydney :-)

Hi all,

It's meetup time again in Sydney - hopefully you'll be able to come along for friendly chat and drinks about all things wiki - topics will no doubt include the Chapter - perhaps with planning for the upcoming AGM, the general state of wiki-play, and the traditional candle lighting to encourage the mythical flagged-revisions extension to make its way on to the wiki. At this point, I usually mention that sitting wiki arbitrators are compelled to buy everyone a drink, but one of our number has taken a rather extreme route in avoiding this duty - if you have no idea what I'm talking about then you're probably busy writing and maintaining articles - but come along anyways on the 21st October, from 18.30 til late, to find out :-) cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 21:32, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Translators

Any chance you could contact some language schools and colleges to help practice their language skills by translating from Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Intertranswiki? For this to be a success we need numbers. Publicizing that we need translators in any language I think is an important step to make. Have you browsed French, Spanish and Italian and German wikis for instance. There are several million articles which we could benefit from having them translated into english... Himalayan 09:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't have any contact with any language schools. Perhaps the people at translatewiki.net could help to promote this instead? Angela. 13:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

OK thanks for letting me know. Do you not think though that wikia has a responsibility to try to meet its goals, one of them "producing an encyclopedia of the highest standard". Given that well over half of our existing encyclopedia and million of missing articles need instant improvement by translating from a different language whether it is Italian municipalities which have remained one liners for years or German castles or whatever don't you think we need to be doing something to publicize this need for translators? I think we should be doing more to publicize the need for this sort of work on wikipedia and we are missing thousands of potential contributors who are unaware of this demand for translators. I think that if the people who run this site are serious about improving quality we should be doing a lot more to contact schools and universities and any other potential contributors to raise awareness. I mean I know that wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the web and used by millions of people, the problem is that it is not edited widely by a similar number.. For instance see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Intertranswiki/German. At present we have just 4 German-English translators. How many people in the world speak German and English and how many quality articles are there on German wikipedia which are in urgent need of translation..? How do we attract the mass of people needed to translate if we don't do anything to make potential translators in schools or whatever aware of it?. Himalayan 13:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikia is a separate company to the Wikimedia Foundation which operates Misplaced Pages. Angela. 20:40, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Expanding Article on Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

There appears to be a group of individuals who consistently impede any constructive additions to the article in question. Undoing and blocking all editions pertaining to users outside their nest of selections.

The editing recently done to this article has been referenced to credible sources, some already available on other related articles, regardless of the fact of the neutrality displayed in the additions manifested in the facts and phraseology in use.

It would be detrimental to Misplaced Pages if a consensus is not reached on this question pertaining to all articles not only this one. If the material being added is not significant it would be understandable, yet where the facts could be correct and the community interested in the subject at hand are in conflict with the manner of its publication, the rational and professional solution would be to offer an alternative to the edition being proposed. Simply deleting and blocking any attempt to contribute to this and any other article in a constructive manner can only be viewed as autocratic in the least and a hypocrisy of what the globally renowned Misplaced Pages stands for.Wsa1 (talk) 22:22, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Bureaucrat discussion for Juliancolton RfB

A bureaucrat discussion has been opened in order to determine the consensus in this request for adminship. Please come participate. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:02, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Constant harassment against me by a small group of editors

Can you please do something about this? There are a small group of editors that keep harassing me by constantly insulting me and then requesting that I be banned. It has gotten well out of hand and I feel that the bureaucrats as a whole need to step and tell them to stop it. Here is an attempt by them to get me banned Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Wiki Greek Basketball. I am 100% confident that there must be some kind of site policy that is against trying to wrongly get people banned and doing it simply out of some sort of hatred or personal issues. I don't know what exactly to do about this other than to report it directly to a general group of people. That is why I am telling you and all the others directly about it. Because reporting it on the noticeboard is not working and does not work. As long as only a small group of people are involved they are able to harass you and get away with it. Please kindly tell these editors to stop harassing me and to not bring any false abuse reports against me again and please tell them to not attempt to wrongly ban me again. I thank you very, very much if you will help me with this. Thank you sincerely for any help as it will be greatly appreciated.Wiki Greek Basketball (talk) 09:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Angela! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 4 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Jane Davidson - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:46, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

There was a reference - just not the new style of reference as it was written in 2004. Maybe your bot should convert old style references instead of leaving such messages and adding tags claiming there are no references when there's a section called references on the page. Angela. 07:03, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

You are talking to a bot, you need to click User talk:DASHBot and leave a message there. Thanks. Ikip _{an olympic medallist for f**k's sake} 09:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Mentorship

I reach out to you, in part, because of a speculative thread you initiated in 2003 at meta:Misplaced Pages needs editors -- here. In the months since I created Teachable moment, the topic has taken on an unanticipated personal relevance. I wonder if you might consider joining other co-mentors in a mentorship committee for me?

Perhaps you might consider taking a look at an old edit at Misplaced Pages:Mentorship#Unintended consequences? In the search for a mentor deemed acceptable by ArbCom, I cite this as a plausible context for discussing what I have in mind.

I am sending you an e-mail as well. Please contact me by e-mail or on my talk page. --Tenmei (talk) 04:57, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Sydney meetup

It's been a while since the wiki folk of Sydney had the chance to meetup - and there's quite a lot going on. If you've never been to a meetup before, you're especially welcome, and if you're an old hand, then please do make an effort to touch base :-) You can sign up here, or drop a note on my talk page if you have any questions or anything - hope to see you there! cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 02:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

It's a pretty arbitrary date (as usual co-inciding with me being in the city) - no-one's signed up as definite yet, so does a week earlier or later mean you guys might make it? - worth a thought anywhoo.. Privatemusings (talk) 03:19, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Maybe if it was later, but I can't guarantee it so it's not worth changing the date for us. Maybe just have another in April, as long as it doesn't clash with the MediaWiki / Chapters meetings in Berlin. (I realise those pages are unhelpfully blank for now, but I believe it's happening sometime around the 14th.) Angela. 07:34, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Esperanza A.png listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Esperanza A.png, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. IngerAlHaosului (talk) 14:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit war in the article of prekmurian dialect

Angela! I need to help, as User:Doremo keep at edit war in the article of prekmurian dialect. Doremo constantly constrain to the names Prekmurje dialect, Prekmurje language, and Slovenian language, Slovenian dialects, Hungarian Slovenians. In the english wikipedia Slovene language, Slovene dialects, Hungarian Slovenes articles is legibles, accordingly the Slovenes the received name. I know account for the prekmurian language, prekmurian dialect also received, grammatically convenient names. Doremo allude to the tractate of the american linguist Marc L. Greenberg, where Greenberg use to the Prekmurje language name. But yet Greenberg and the dean of University of Maribor, Marko Jesenšek also accept to the prekmurian norm. See also: STYLISTICS IN ADVERTISING TEXTS IN PREKMURJE. My mother tongue is the prekmurian, and few speakers be for to the name prekmurian language, prekmurian dialect. Besides i care to shortly presentate to the prekmurian in SIL international, that enrol this language with name prekmurian. Doncsecz 16:50, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

John Hunyadi

Can you please solve the vandalism problem at this page, user http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Squash_Racket is erasing comments on the discussion page, he violates the facts on the article even if the other concensus is achieved on the discussion page. Can you please check it out, if not, who should i address with this problem? Thank you.188.2.97.229 (talk) 18:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

User:Iadrian yu (above IP) evades his block he received for edit warring. Squash Racket (talk) 18:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Lol, he follows me. User:Iadrian yu we live in the same city, i am not registered but i am trying to prevent page valdalism after i saw that user banned. Just because we live in the same city means i can`t edit wikipedia? And the fact that http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Squash_Racket is manupilating even the discussion page is outrageous.188.2.97.229 (talk) 18:12, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Again: User:Iadrian yu (above IP) evades his block he received for edit warring.

They live in the same city and happen to edit extremely similarly. Squash Racket (talk) 18:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Again: User:Squash Racket is vandalizing the discussion page and the article.188.2.97.229 (talk) 18:13, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Blocked user's (User:Iadrian yu) edits SHOULD be removed. Squash Racket (talk) 18:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

If there's a problem with vandalism, please report that at WP:AIV. Angela. 19:17, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Interwiki poll by chance

4 deleted beginnings by User:Kanonkas 78.55.51.15 (talk) 22:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Update: vandal's buddy. And here is his reward :-). Congratulations 78.55.65.160 (talk) 17:51, 28 November 2009 (UTC))

• Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=328415260#Might_be_interesting_for_Jimbo_or_some_hesitating_donors

• Is this vandalism or not? Regards Mutter Erde 92.230.92.67 (talk) 18:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

• See also: User:Kanonkas vandalizing your talk site Regards Mutter Erde 78.55.98.47 (talk) 16:43, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

down with war!

A quick Question

Is it possible to take control of a username that is not active anymore? I like to create an acount and the username i first chose is already is use, he has not edited an almost 2 years. Or do I have to chose another.173.203.100.79 (talk) 22:20, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, see WP:USURP. Angela.

An Admin power abuse question

Hi, Angela I am writing to you because you were one of the first in the list of bureaucrats. My user name is Lilit Gabyan. I used to be an admin in Armenian language wiki in 2005 as user Lilith. Then I stopped being active because of some personal problems. Quite recently I decided to return back and was astonished to see that for Four years so little has been done in the site as compared to other language sites. So I felt somewhat excited and responsible for doing something. I am an educated adult and hope I do not sound as capable for indecent and offensive behaviour, violating Misplaced Pages ethics because these were exactly the charges for banning my IP for three days. I had dared to ask the admin HOW MANY OPINIONS ARE MAKING THE VOICE OF COMMUNITY and something like WHO IS THE CLEVER GUY that has broken the links in all articles to other language wikis without cleaning up so as the word is blue but linking to nowhere. Whatever I want to regain adminship because I see I have a lot to do in the Armenian wiki but I feel that the current admins are very prone to abusing their power and I am afraid that there is some sort of admin brotherhood conspiracy so they will resist by all means the entry of a new admin through community voting, as long as they are the most active participants pushing away all newcomers with different viewpoints. I understand the adminship acquiring and regaining processes in each wiki are internal affairs. But in this particular case there is no bureaucrat in the Armenian wiki and 6 young male admins are going astray without a balancing voice. The community is not active and there is a danger of continuous collective power abuse. The statistics of the Armenian wiki are quite eloquent. Would you please be so kind as to advice me what can I do to regain adminship. I had more than 1500 edits in the course of the first two weeks of April. And my IP closure came like a bucket of ice water in the middle of saving an article that I had worked on for several hours. First I was so disappointed that I had decided not to return. I have had enormous emotional stress in the course of these three days. Now I am determined to stay and work for regaining adminship as long and as much as it takes. I will highly appreciate your advice --Lilit Gabyan (talk) 20:04, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't know what the local policies on the Armenian Misplaced Pages are, so I can't really advise what you should do about this. Is there any process like WP:RFC or WP:ARBCOM there? Would it help if you just edited without adminship for a while first in order to rebuild trust within the community? Angela. 01:26, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

That is the biggest question. All references for adminship are linked to the English wiki files they have not been even translated. The majority of Misplaced Pages files existing now are those that I personally have started to translate back in 2005. Which has been not more than 15 percent of all. Now for the beginning I started to edit and translate whatever files where missing for the Help functions, even the History of Misplaced Pages was unfinished. The only file complete and done after me is 5 pillars which these guys are quoting in answer to any question. All the other answers and justifications they give are references to either selectively and erroneously translated sentences with very subjective interpretation, like: It is forbidden to link to other language wikis. Give it with ref tags because it is an unpleasant surprise when a visitor is pushing on the link and it takes him to another language page. And later another admin is making a statement: It is forbidden to give references to the articles of other language wikis. We have already discussed and made decision and you ought to abide to the decision of the community. I brought this examples because they were the latest. Or: It is forbidden to translate articles from other language wikis period. And there is an ominous template in all articles promising to erase all translations because it is a violation of copyrights however there is no explanation to the English language referenced Commons attribution circumstances with no whatsoever corresponding translated clauses. I started to make a list of Misplaced Pages files to be translated ASAP which I think was exactly what frightened them. All internal policies are orally agreed upon in personal meetings and to any objection the reference is made: look in the discussion in the Archive.
There is very obvious discrimination. Like in the course of two weeks I was not aware that under three names one and the same person is participating in the discussions and doing it so masterfully changing the style of writing and even orthography and wording that I was answering to each of his statements thinking I am talking to three different persons. All the others in the admin community were actually having fun watching my multilateral dialogue. Nobody even hinted the fact of puppetry. However when I made an attempt to object against my banning using my other account with my own name, the banning of my IP was extended to a week with a very loud accusation of puppetry and bringing erroneously translated clauses again from articles which do not exist in the wiki as reference. There were even such ridiculous statements as I have a hide IP soft here if you need which where preferred to be neglected. When one of the other participants said what if she is disappointed and decide not to come back, she has done in two weeks more than others in their whole wikilife time. The answer was good riddance. I had translated already the new version of About WIkipedia, however instead of referring the already existing files the admins again prefer to make quotations from English wiki, shutting down any attempt to object with such demagogy and stormy statements taking almost as long paragraphs as this one is, that anybody watching from aside will loose the logic of sequence of statements.
In the discussion forum have been me and three admins only, whereas they claim everybody, community community. When two other participants started to object for my points and demand to reopen my accounts they were also been shut down.
There are open statements in the discussions about censorship, about deleting articles which they think do not deserve to being, about not allowing or the undesirability of stupid newcomers, because FINALLY we are on our own and if more people come in then the quality of articles will AGAIN go down. But WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES for clean up. Last summer they had organized what they call a COMMUNITY CLEAN UP WEEKEND erasing articles which they think have no right to exist and obviously people coming back and not finding what they had started once are disappointed and pushed away.
My confrontation began when I protested against some of the articles that I had started being erased. I know the rules I cannot be cheated but the templates placed under the erased articles are so offending and threatening like THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN ERASED BECAUSE OF INCONSISTENCY WITH WIKIPEDIA OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS. YOU SHOULD RECONSIDER THE EXPEDIENCY OF RESTARTING IT. which even for me sounded frightening. I could bring pages of such facts but I do not want to bother you more than I have already done. So there is neither policy nor even corresponding article for applying for adminship and all references and links are bringing to the English wiki. So you see it is a vicious circle. --91.103.31.11 (talk) 06:40, 15 April 2010 (UTC) --Lilit Gabyan (talk) 12:02, 15 April 2010 (UTC) (Sorry for taking so much of you time)

I am really sorry I have bothered you with this. This way or that way I will have to edit for a while without adminship. I will simply shut up and continue doing what I have planned and in a couple of months we shall see. In any case thank you very much for reading all this and sorry for the bother.--Lilit Gabyan (talk) 20:19, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

help

I'm a Chinese wiki user My user page,but the Chinese wiki administor blocked me, the reason is that I am Likely a sockpuppet,they assume the user is bad,not assume good faith, so I come here for help,hope you can help me,Thank you--愛你千萬次 (talk) 21:58, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

here is the reason they blocked me,the reason

Hello, I have created the page Beaman (cryptid), and it is a hoax. Thus, I would be grateful if this could be removed. Thank you.

I suggest you use an {{delete}} tag on it. Angela. 07:46, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you

I recently started a new wiki that is hosted on wikia. I would like to grant one user admin rights and my understand is that I should be able to but I can't find out how, could you help me? If you respond here, ill be watching :P 58.209.224.150 (talk) 06:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, 10 min. after posting this, I found out how. 58.209.224.150 (talk) 06:55, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Ok. If you have other questions, you can find the Wikia forums here. Angela. 07:06, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages logo use

Please grant permission for me to upload this image to Misplaced Pages/Commons. It has been deleted several times when I have provided permission from other sources, so I would like permission from you. thanks! ~Darth Starbo 19:55, 13 May 2010 (UTC)