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More Omegacommand socks

Hi, Coren. I see that you've been dealing with Omegacommand and his socks. I think that BarackBlows (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and 76.110.175.48 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) are him too. Both are blocked at the moment: BarackBlows indefinitely, the IP for one week. If you agree with my assessment that this is the same individual, we can block both 76.110.175.48 and 76.110.167.164 (which you blocked earlier) for a longer duration. —Josiah Rowe (talkcontribs) 06:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

There is no copyrighted material on the Catamount, A North Country Thriller Page. The links are also open links to my website and my publishers website. Filmrd (talk) 16:14, 2 November 2008 (UTC) Rick Davidson

I'm thinking of taking the recent Companions EP vinyl cover.jpg IfD close to DRV.

From your point of view, do you think that would be worthwhile?

Myself, I feel the close completely failed to represent the balance of the discussion, or even to recognise where the issues were that there were differences of opinion about.

Anyway, I've given some thoughts at User_talk:Peripitus#Image:Companions EP vinyl cover.jpg_close, asking the closing admin to reconsider.

I'd appreciate your advice and thoughts as to whether you think this is the right angle to take, whether you think it's worth going forward, and/or anything you think could be tightened up or differently presented more effectively, in the event it were to go to DRV. Thanks, Jheald (talk) 16:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't think there was consensus, but this is a philosophical battle more than a debate over a particular image, and until some wiki-wide decision is reached about exactly how much fair use is okay chances are the DRV will just rehash the same debate with no resolution. I'm not for or against it, but I'm not sure what it is likely to achieve. — Coren (talk) 03:44, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, the bot left a message saying that I had copied from a site called "artistdirect", however if you have a look at the page, you will see that the only similarity is the track listing--SilverOrion (talk) 02:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I had a notice from CorenSearchBot saying that my article raag_tilang is a substatial copy of http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Raag_Tilang. This is true, however I am the original author of this information and donated the article to sikhiwiki whilst holding all rights. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jujhars13 (talkcontribs) 14:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Prayer for Peace

Hi! The prayer for peace is an established prayer of Universal Sufism and is not owned or copy protected by any one person or organisation.

Hasanovic26 (talk) 13:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)Hasanovic26

Astral Hygiene

Can somone please tell me why Astralhygiene,co,uk page has been blocked. I am the owner of the web site and all content belongs to me, please can someone unblock this content.

Yewan Armstrong 04/11/2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.79.139.127 (talk) 18:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Source Problem...

Um, your bot thingy says that I'm taking things from some website called www.bloodgod.com, but I'm actually sourcing a book, not this website, I was typing the synopsis of Memories of Empire by Djang Wexler...

--Bioluminesence (talk) 01:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

RollerForks

It's correct that there is a resemblance. But there is no other way to explain how the RollerForks works. It's just a fact. --Siegrid (talk) 14:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning. It was misplaced. I included in the edit summary a link to the page where it was ripped from, and not long thereafter the content on that page was removed. You might want to add a short delay to the check, and look to see if the "ripped off" content disappears from the originating page; another indicator that I knew what I was doing was the edit summary which included the link. Josh Parris 22:46, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

History of University of Santo Tomas

Regarding the copy thing, I'm just using the main article, University of Santo Tomas, to come up with a related article- its History. I'm on my way of filling the History article with new contents. I'd be getting some of the information from the main article though to give the History article a uniform introduction. Thank you. --Pampi1010 (talk) 02:24, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Since I'm still watching atm, I've left this contributor a note at his talk page about how to log a split to preserve GFDL attribution. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Dynamite D

I was the one who wrote the original press release about D, the content of which I have tried to use to create his Wikipedia page. My text was then used on dozens of pro wrestling related websites, including the one the bot found the text on, which I had actually never even heard of. As I wrote the text myself, it is my copyright if it is anyone's. Please allow the content to be used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrestlingwriter (talkcontribs) 09:57, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I've replied at his talk page, too. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:41, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Potential modification to CorenSearchBot warning?

Hi. :) You give reference to WP:COPYREQ above, but I was wondering if it would be plausible to modify your bot's initial advisory, since quite often I find at WP:CP that contributors have asserted permission on the talk pages in ways we can't use. I wondered if you could modify the bot's message to add something like, "(See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more.)" Presuming they read it, this would allow contributors an opportunity to see how to follow up, so that by the time the listing becomes current 7 days later they might already have verified. There may be good reasons why this shouldn't be included, of course, but I thought to bring it up in case not. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:44, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, p.s., I'm watching here for response. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:45, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Sure, any little bit helps. I'm a bit busy for several hours, so if you want to tweak the templates yourself you are welcome to them; otherwise I'll do so late tonight. — Coren (talk) 19:40, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
I tweaked the one that it leaves on the page but couldn't figure out how to find the one it leaves on user talk. :) Maybe what I did is good enough. If you think it would be helpful on the user talk notice, please either help me figure out where it is or add it. :D --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:28, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, nice work. I don't know how useful it would be to change the notice templates, however, they were meant to be shortish instead of replicating the whole "list of things you can do", but if you think you can reword them to include the pointer, go for it. You can find them there; specifically, they are the ones that start with notice- (with the name corresponding to the same article-space notice). — Coren (talk) 16:34, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Waaksens, and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Waaxens. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 19:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Coren/Archives/2008/November's Day!

User:Coren/Archives/2008/November has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Coren/Archives/2008/November's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Coren/Archives/2008/November!

Peace,
Rlevse
~

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:EVula/Userboxes/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.RlevseTalk 00:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Punishing Kiss

I received a message from your bot. Seems some improvement is necessary. I have just started with the track listing and I already receive a message ! Hektor (talk) 00:46, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

please add {{NIST-PD}} to your list of public domain templates

Thanks, Btyner (talk) 03:10, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

 Done. — Coren (talk) 04:32, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

It means a lot, coming from you, knowing what an often thankless job you do! :) I try. I know many of our contributors are confused by copyright issues, and I'm happy to help when I can. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Unhelpful Corenbot on Ulong

I moved some content from the disambiguation page at Ulong to start a stub at Ulong, New South Wales. For perhaps 60 seconds (I cannot be everywhere at once) there was some duplicate content. But a human would have noticed the edit summaries "taken from Ulong disambiguation" and "move extensive content to Ulong, New South Wales" and not have caused me extra effort.--Rumping (talk) 10:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the reason why CSBot leaves notes in a case like this is because cut-and-paste moves are almost always an error because the history is lost (which is a GDFL requirement). I've fixed it by merging the history into the spinned out article and restored the disambig. — Coren (talk) 16:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
That just makes things worse. Most of the history now at Ulong, New South Wales has nothing at all to do with that town or article. --Rumping (talk) 09:13, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Aşiyan Asri Cemetery

Hi. The one I created recently is the article Aşiyan Asri Cemetery and the one you mention is the category:Burials at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery, which are totally different subjects even they focus on the same. Is it possible that I missed something else? Cheers. CeeGee (talk) 19:55, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Probably not. CSBot is a little dumb and will sometimes confuse two pages on closely related topics. It only ever tags pages once, though, so you should have no further problems. — Coren (talk) 19:57, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.But yhe copyvio tag on the category page should br removed also.CeeGee (talk) 20:05, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to remove it; but you needn't worry about it in general: humans review tags placed by the bot and will remove erroneous tags. — Coren (talk) 20:19, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your response to Newyorkbrad's first question: if I may say so, it's somewhat optimistic to expect to be able to perform all of those roles for three full years. Arbitrators naturally perform only a few—for example, Morven performs mainly ArbCom-l work; Jpgordon, a lot of CheckUser work; and Brad, a lot of decision analysis. If you are able to perform fully (A) through (G), then you have my vote! But, mocking Brad's question is not really justified... One Arbitrator isn't able to do all of them.

Good luck again with your candidacy.

AGK 22:17, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Then I probably didn't express myself properly or understood Brad's question right (which would explain why it confused me). I do understand that day-to-day, the arbs take care of what they are most comfortable at; but I read the question as "which of those are you willing and able to do" and not "which of those will do do continuously". Misread? — Coren (talk) 22:22, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Quite so, yes. I believe the intention of the question is "which of these niches do you intend to settle into?", rather than "which of these roles do you think are the purview of an Arbitrator?". Brad is therefore asking you what "sub-type" of Arbitrator do you anticipate being. ;) AGK 22:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Ooooh. Oops. Guess it's a good thing I work on them questions long in advance, eh? (Or that people read that page whether it's linked anywhere or not)  :-P Thanks for the heads up, I'll be reexamining the question under that new angle. — Coren (talk) 22:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
I can understand your misreading a question after answering a raw, lump page of questions; it's a lot of work! Be sure to stock up on coffee, Coren, because I suspect you'll have a lot more to answer over the next few weeks. ;) AGK 22:37, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Recorded debates and discussions

Candidates and the community,

Wikivoices (formally NotTheWikipediaWeekly) would be interested in making several podcasts with candidates running in the 2008 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election. Given the high number of candidates likely to be signing up during the nomination stage (likely to be around 45) it will be a very busy 2 weeks. These shows typically last about one and a half hours to record, taking into account setup time, and are recorded using the free, downloadable programme, Skype. The programme can be used on Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems and is also available on some mobile platforms. If any candidates have problems with installing or running the program please contact either myself at my talk page or by email

There will be 2 formats being run over the next 2 weeks. The first will be general discussion with a small number candidates at a time with several experienced hosts from Wikivoices. Each candidate will be given 2-3 minutes to introduce themselves then the main body of the cast will begin. The topics discussed will vary in each recording to ensure fairness however the atmosphere will be generally free flowing. These will be running throughout the two weeks starting tomorrow. Specific signup times can be found here at our meta page.

The second format will be based on a similar style to election debates. Questions will be suggested here by the community. A selection of these will then be put to a panel of larger panel candidates with short and concise 1-2 minute responses. Other than an introduction and hello from each candidate, there will be no opportunity for a lengthier introductions. Specific signup times can be found here at our meta page.

It is recommended that candidates attend both formats of casts and we will try to be as flexible as possible. We are looking for the greatest participation but also for shows with enough members to keep it interesting but not too many that it causes bandwidth and general running issues. I look forward to working with all candidates in the coming weeks.

01:42, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiVoices

Seddσn talk Editor Review

Universal Ballet

I created this page in order to redirect Universal Ballet Company to Universal Ballet because the company does not use the word Company in their official name any longer. --WorldPeaceGypsy (talk) 05:36, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I took the material in question was taken from the public domain page [1]. It is likely that the web site [2] cited by your bot took its material from the same sourse. Please let me know if you require any additional clarification.Ndunruh (talk) 17:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Yo Coren, you intervened in this article a while back, but the same edit war has flared up again. If you can spare the time, it could use an admin's eye. Regards, the skomorokh 22:48, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I appreciate it. Mahalo, the skomorokh 23:17, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


Your bot is right, these two articles are similar, but for reasons connected to there being several Bala stations I am about to turn the Bala ststion article into a disambiguation page. But the similarities are there so the bot is doing what it's meant to. Britmax (talk) 03:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

John Joseph Wantuck article

Coren -- I made an error by forgetting to include the DANFS reference in the text of the John Joseph Wantuck article, which confused the bot. The DANFS reference is in there now and bot tag is deleted. The bot cited the hazegray text as being the same, but, of course, hazegray gets its text from DANFS, too. Mdnavman (talk) 03:05, 12 November 2008 (UTC)mdnavman 11 November 2008

webwriter1104

The page Peter_S._Kim contains the original source material and is owned by Dr. Kim. The MIT website contains a mirror of this, which is what your bot spotted. Moreover, the wikipedia page is different, and the most up to date, and thereform the content of record. So please DO NOT delete this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Webwriter1104 (talkcontribs) 22:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Critical Studies in Television

The description of Critical Studies in Television that is on the Manchester University Press site was written by the editors of the journal - myself and Janet McCabe - we therefore own the copyright. Would it be possible for you to grant us use?

Kim Akass 12 November 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimakass (talkcontribs) 14:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom Candidate Template

Hello, fellow candidate! Just so you know, in an effort to announce our candidacies and raise further awareness of the election, I have created the template {{ACE2008Candidate}}, which I would invite you to place on your user and user talk pages. The template is designed to direct users to your Questions and Discussion pages, as well as to further information about the election. Best of luck in the election! Hersfold (t/a/c) 16:37, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

I think it might be a little too garish for my already loaded talk page, but I'll put it on my user page certainly. Thanks for the effort. — Coren (talk) 17:15, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Harmony School

The Harmony School page repeat information from our website because it is best stated there. We take full responsibility for the information as a clear description of our school and its international relationships. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jebazur (talkcontribs) 00:40, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

RE:Bot

Thanks a ton for approving it! Also, how are those templates treatin' ya? ;) Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 03:14, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

With a great deal of grinding rust.  :-) — Coren (talk) 03:17, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Oh, speaking of which; I noticed that the link links to the User Rights log, which doesn't show anything. Why not making it link to this? Eg.
http://toolserver.org/~chris/botstatus.php?crat=&bot={{{1|}}}
Just a thought. Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :) 03:19, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Because of the descriptiion about Changsha University of Science and Technology is authoritative, I quoted some of it from the official website www.csust.edu.cn and added it in my article. You can have a check, All information of the site is open, and my article is not simply copy. In additional, I graduated from Changsha University of Science and Technology, so I think I own the right of quoting my Alma Mater's description. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xulei77 (talkcontribs) 11:01, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

blebrave

The material found on Afropop is a copy of the press release sent to them by the label, Akwaaba Music. I am its founder and own the copyright.

Blebrave (talk) 03:59, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Bath profile.

Bath Profile is OK? I took material from Wikipedia, which was then copied to a website outside Wikipedia. Gordo (talk) 11:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Checked by a third party. Gordo (talk) 08:33, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Dowa(Universal Sufism)]]

Dowa is a universal sufi prayer meant to be read by all universal sufis, it is a religious prayer publically owned and written over 100 years ago.Hasanovic26 (talk) 14:58, 14 November 2008 (UTC)Hasanovic26

Regarding Jim Stack, current general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves

I am not surprised that Hoopedia, the NBA wiki, would have an article on Stack, but this website does not. As you may know, Hoopedia is the NBA's wiki, as mentioned above. The information was from the Timberwolves' General Manager Section, and as seeing that Stack did not have a page, I went and took some information. Apparently, I had to rewrite the article because it sounded too much like Hoopedia's, but Hoopedia's NBA player files are in fact based on Wikipedia's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr of sports1991 (talkcontribs) 19:06, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

To sum up the situation: I am a person who reads books, and I happened one day to read What is Property?. Thus, I added some material to the article. Libertatia is a professor of history, who teaches a course on Proudhon. SteveWolfer is a randroid pov-warrior who shows no evidence of having read anything written by Proudhon. I have invested perhaps a dozen hours trying to get this fool to listen. Libertatia has invested less time, but still enough to be certain that the situation is hopeless, that he was casting pearls before swine. An RFC was filed; SteveWolfer ignores the result. StephenWolfer's reverts have resulted in two page protections. StephenWolfer has ignored all the latest discussion--everything during the first page protection, during which he seemed to disappear--and ignored plenty that went on before that even while he was participating.

For you to ask either me or Libertatia to do any more, by way of discussion, when our experience already demonstrates the futility of doing so, is simply asking too much. I am not willing to put an unlimited number of hours into this. I don't know what Libertatia is willing to do; yet surely neither is he. For you to ask for more discussion, for you to withhold intervention on this condition--to ask for an absurd, futile discussion--is to make a fatal mistake. The danger here is of driving off the only informed editors, by making demands upon them which are not required of the obstinate fools, who need merely revert, and make some pretense of discussion.

I'm not willing. I can't make demands of you, but it's in your hands. You can file the myriad requests--or bypass them and act directly--or do nothing (and maybe Libertatia will do it). Let the page go to hell, or not. But for me to do it--for you to ask that of me (or of Libertatia, or anyone else who has invested so much, though I don't think anyone else is likely to do so)--at this point, after what has gone on, is simply asking too much. —Jemmytc 02:58, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

PS. I really hope you recognize this as representative of a serious weakness in WP as a whole. Plenty of other people do--for example, Larry Sanger. And this is not my first encounter with it; the last time, after hours of effort, I simply gave up, and allowed a page to remain filled with completely made-up bullshit which I would hardly dignify with the phrase "original research." And so it remains, and has remained, for a year. —Jemmytc
Have you considered dispute resolution? There are a number of avenues there for intervention when there is a dispute about the contents of an article. — Coren (talk) 03:17, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
No. You can do that if you want. As far as I am concerned this is not a "dispute about the contents of an article"; it is one editor whose behavior makes contributing to an article impossible. Literally impossible, at present, since (for the second time, because of his edit warring) the page is protected. —Jemmytc 18:39, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Osmotic coefficient

This is a standard definition such as can be found in many text-books. The reference is for verifiability. Petergans (talk) 15:23, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support!

Thanks for supporting my successful Rfa! Hope to work with you more in the future!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 19:49, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia mirror site?

Hi, Coren. Please note this entry at WP:SCV:

Coppertwig(talk) 03:11, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Eww. Those live leeches give me the creeps. Marked. — Coren (talk) 04:53, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Pooch screwing

In case it wasn't clear, my question was referring to ArbCom as a whole. The lead-in is mostly to acknowledge that by criticizing a decision rendered within the past 2 years, the odds are great that the candidate committing the critique will be in effect criticizing one or more of his or her future colleagues, should he or she be elected. Thanks for your answer! Badger Drink (talk) 07:00, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Axionestin

The bot says we copied text from www.axionestin.org/about, which is true, but we own the rights to that text. As advised I sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org from an email address affiliated with the website.Axionestin (talk) 22:10, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Made Change to Charyn Sutton

Websrx (talk) 15:28, 16 November 2008 (UTC) Charles

CorenSearchBot error

Just after I had just separated out the snake information from Asp to create Asp (snake), CorenSearchBot decided that I had used copyrighted text from this page: http://www.lingoz.com/en/dictionary/asp . I'm not sure if lingoz.com can be defined as a mirror site of Wikipedia, but it's definitely where they got this information. --Jwinius (talk) 19:15, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

The Bot said we copied text from www.axionestin.org/about, which is true, but we own the rights to that text. As advised, I sent an email to permissions-en@wikimeia.org saying so with an email address affliated with the website. The wikipedia article in question is Axion Estin Foundation. Axionestin (talk) 22:09, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Arbcom Election - Questions page

Good morning. I've posted General Questions from six users to your questions for the candidate page. With that, and the questions you've already answered, you now have all of the General Questions. Again, good luck with your candidacy. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 14:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I deliberately created a copy of Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and then modified it to reflect recent events. Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin and Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh are similar cases, where a second copy of the article has been necessitated in order to reflect an ongoing schism-like event where one history is claimed by two organisations.--Bhuck (talk) 16:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

no it's correct it was taken directly from said source for the sake of making a start, was going to deal with the copy edit in the next couple of days, but note that there is no explicit statement of copyright on the Ears page. Will adjust the content now nonetheless. Semitransgenic (talk) 23:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Flash da Belizean Jagwar

I adjusted my page so there's no conflict w/the other website. My content is authentic & Flash is me so no bots. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by GRFlash (talkcontribs) 01:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: McNair Petroff, LLC

The article regarding the law firm McNair Petroff, LLC was disallowed because it contained the same or substantially the same text as a LinkedIn page. The reason for this is that both pages were written with the same text taken directly from the firm's website which was drafted by this author. As such, since this Author is the owner and creator of said text and of both the LinkedIN and the Wikipedia article, by definition, the text is not copyrighted or trademarked. Please publish the article. Thank you.

-McNair Petroff, LLC —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petroff.13 (talkcontribs) 03:14, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK copyvio needs

Can User:CorenSearchBot be adpated to run checks for posts at Template_talk:Did_you_know and post positive hits under the DYK suggestion? The DYK Copyvio check doesn't have to be too accurate, just enought to flag the DYK nomination so that the DYK review will know to give a more detailed review of the article. Please reply at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Copyright again. Thanks. -- Suntag 08:44, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Faux français

This was a relief to me - I has been wondering why I found "Jason"'s French so hard to understand. He told me: "Tristement mon français est vu seulement comme poids sur les épaules du wikipedia français" - I wonder what they made of it? Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:04, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I would expect much the same I did: the renewed observation that while machine translation is nice to get a general idea, it still a source of much humor.  :-)

Unblock

I've got no problems with it; I trust your judgment. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

The bot labeled my entry and copyright infringement, however the copyright permission for the text is held by me and the company I work for. Since one of their authors is Australians next biggest author, Wikipedia should have an entry; I was completing said entry. Please reinstate. HadesPub (talk) 00:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Please read the guide to donating your own copyrighted material to Wikipedia. Note that, in addition to copyright requirements, the article must still comply with notability guidelines, advertising prohibition and avoid conflicts of interest. — Coren (talk) 01:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Samuel Rutter, Bishop of Sodor and Man

Hope this is OK now - I have removed the quotes of Sam's epitaph which I think were causing the problem - I thought it was nice to have the Latin in but I guess it causes problems - the trnaslation that is there should now be OK. Sorry for the problem. I'll remove your little thing as I guess it will come back if things are not alright. I should do a proper drafts first. (Msrasnw (talk) 01:56, 20 November 2008 (UTC))

Global Conflicts: Palestine

I have created Global Conflicts: Palestine which is identical to Global Conflict: Palestine as the correct title of the game is Global Conflicts: Palestine (with an "s" on Conflicts). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikkel184 (talkcontribs) 09:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Only Men Aloud! Page

I've put info up here about the new choir Only Men Aloud and have taken it from my site - onlymenaloud.com/biography. This is fine to use. thanks, Chris —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chriselrin (talkcontribs) 14:22, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

On ArbCom Q&A reply

Re: your reply to one of my questions: Any chance you'd be willing to elaborate on some of the other areas you think are as poisonous as nationalist/ethnic edit wars? If you would, it might help me follow your thinking better and have a better idea of what I think about your candidacy. Thanks. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 13:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

ACPM Medical College

Content of the page has been sufficiently modified. All content has verifiable references. Tag removed. Thanks. Akshaygn (talk) 17:10, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

ArbCom questions

Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article this week, and your response is requested.

  1. What positions do you hold (adminship, mediation, etc.), on this or other wikis?
  2. Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?
  3. Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
  4. How do you feel the Arbitration Committee has handled cases and other situations over the last year? Can you provide an examples of situations where you feel the Committee handled a situation exceptionally well, and why? Any you feel they handled poorly, and why?
  5. What is your opinion on confidentiality? If evidence is submitted privately to the Committee, would you share it with other parties in the case? Would you make a decision based on confidential information without making it public?
  6. Why do you think users should vote for you?

Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press on Tuesday, but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) 10:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Do you have an opinion about this unblock request? I don't, but you're the blocking admin.  Sandstein  13:05, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I've commented on his talk page. The short answer: not without his having demonstrated a real desire to contribute via a {{2nd chance}}. — Coren (talk) 15:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Andrez Castilho Biography tagged to be deleted

Dear Sir/Madam

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am here by given you the authorization to use the Andrez Castilho (my own) Biography copy and pasted from www.brazilfilms.com film and TV production company webpage. Andrez Castilho is the sole author of that text copied and pasted.

Truly yours,

Andrez Castilho Andrezcastilho (talk) 18:51, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I have explained how to verify at this contributor's talk page. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:18, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Disovery Real Time (UK TV channel)

I think Discovery Real Time needs an page for UK and Ireland only. As the Discovery Real Time that is on wikipedia right now is for Asia and Europe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamhillwill (talkcontribs) 20:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Archive

Hi Coren. The archives for this page are not linked, and the 'index' is out of date, can you please fix that. I was looking for a complaint from another editor, which I could only find from the talk page history, and his claim that you did not respond. While editors should not be insulted by the bot's error, a short reply would do no harm. cygnis insignis 21:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. Looks like when the archiving duties switched from bot to bot, the archive itself got messed up. I'll look into fixing the mess tonight.
What editor are you talking about, exactly? I can probably handle this sooner. — Coren (talk) 00:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Cheers. The item posted was this, which may have a GFDL issue rather than a copyvio. I haven't looked very deeply into it, but there may be a chance to improve the bot if there is no problem (a false positive?) at all. Regards, cygnis insignis 00:48, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Actually, GFDL issues are copyvios. In that particular case, it was a straightforward cut and paste instead of move preserving the history — I would have expected the admin that fixed the move to have also told Jwinius why that was a problem (which is generally the case; the editors that patrol WP:SCV are the ones who are in the best position to figure out exactly what happened and guide the user appropriately). At any rate, CSBot is usually fairly good at figuring out in-wiki copies rather than pick up from a mirror (and gives a clearer and more appropriate message), but isn't infallible. — Coren (talk) 02:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I suppose you are correct, but it should be noted that some history moves are sometimes impractical. I sometimes copy/paste contributions to use as templates for new articles, and I (usually) include a note in the edit summary saying what I did. This is for the GFDL, but also in case I'm repeating an error in our document. However, in the edit your bot queried, the history should have moved then restored - simply because I was in the page history! (feigned indignation at 'stolen' property :-) Ta for the reply, cygnis insignis 03:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Digger Phelps articles

I removed the template {{csb-wikipage|1=Digger Phelps}} from the article Digger Phelps (the band) because the existing article about the Digger Phelps the basketball coach has been reverted to cover the coach, as was originally intended. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 03:58, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

FGreenberg

The Jason Binn page is created on behalf of our client. the contents are also furnished by them, please don't delete. ThankYou. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fgreenberg (talkcontribs) 16:38, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

The RfA Barnstar
Coren/Archives/2008, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:18, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

design by neurolysis | to add this barnstar to your awards page, simply copy and paste {{subst:User:Neurolysis/THOBS}} and remove this bottom text | if you don't like thankspam, please accept my sincere apologies

My Yiddishe Momme

I am attempting to correct the page with the name as originally written by Jack Yellen. I will redirect the page in error to the new page. BuffaloBob (talk) 01:23, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I own the material that was used on my page

Hello,

I got copywrite warnings on the article I did as it is information from my site that I own at www.mystickick.com

I own the copywrite to this site and its information as well I am the owner of the band Mystic Kick.


Kyle —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mystickick (talkcontribs) 01:27, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm responding to a bot generated note on my Talk page. The article I just created, Helen Island in Nunavut, is not a duplicate of Saint Helen's Island in Montreal. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Our Lady of the Assassins removing tag

Tagging possible copyvio of La virgen de los sicarios was removed due to desambi action performed by User:Albeiror24. Our Lady of the Assassins page disambi Our Lady of the Assassins (film) and Our Lady of the Assassins (novel)). --Albeiror24 - English - Español - Italiano 02:16, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

CorenSearchBot works great, maybe a bit quick on the draw

duplicated from my talk page:

==[[:Love Is (album)]]==

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Love Is (album), and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Love Is. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 11:21, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

You are a very fast bot. Duplication of the two pages was temporary (<5 min) while I moved one page to another in order to redirect the former page to a disambig page. Great job, might want to wait 5-10 minutes, and then recheck, before sending this automated message. Your creator has done a nice job with you. thanks, Jim Butler (t) 11:27, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Same for tagging concerned pages: might well be better to wait a bit before putting those up. Otherwise, it just creates more work for those of us going about our work responsibly and at a typical, human pace, where duplications may exist for a few minutes. thanks, Jim Butler (t) 11:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
I've put a note on that subject on your talk page. — Coren (talk) 14:22, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Coren, thanks; I replied [3] on my talk page. Would interested in your take; maybe you should move the page back due to titling conventions. Many thanks, Jim Butler (t) 08:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Leduc-Nisku Economic Development

Good afternoon, I have finally discovered how to put content onto Wikipedia. Although we do own the copyright to the material I have placed on our Wikipedia page, I can change it if you like. I would like to have editing capabilities and put the following text on our page. If you can provide any assistance, that would be great.

The text I would like added to the Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Authority entry includes: Centrally located on the Edmonton-Calgary corridor, Alberta's International Region is a busy hub of air, rail road and telecommunications networks. It is internationally recognized for its expertise in teh energy, agricultural, advanced manufacturing, environmental and transportation sectors.

Partners in Alberta's International Region include the City of Leduc, Leduc County, the Towns of Beaumont, Calmar, Devon, and the Villages of New SArepta, Thorsby and Warburg clustered around Nisku and Leduc Business Parks and Edmonton International Airport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virtualtradeshow (talkcontribs) 23:04, 28 November 2008

See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Coppertwig(talk) 01:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Adding header to SCV?

Would it confuse CorenSearchBot if I add a section heading to WP:SCV, after the header and just before the list of articles? Thanks. Coppertwig(talk) 01:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Nope; CSBot only adds stuff at the end of the page. — Coren (talk) 02:30, 30 November 2008 (UTC)