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Hi, I noticed that the Rolta India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolta_India was deleted due to unambiguous promotion or advertising. May I know the parts of the content that look promotional. I had a chat with wiki moderators while posting the article and got it verified and they seem to be fine with it. Is there a way I can restore the page. If yes what are the areas I can improve on. I am new to wikipedia and any kind of promotional content here was purely unintentional. Awaiting your response Jovian 13 (talk) 10:28, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
On 8 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Betty Tebbs, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the English peace campaigner Betty Tebbs was arrested at the age of 89 for participating in anti-Trident protests? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Betty Tebbs. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Vanamonde93, thank you very much for supporting my project to reduce the Environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement! --Gnom (talk) 16:50, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 17:36, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for the thorough review of Wehrmachtbericht. The article is much improved for it! K.e.coffman (talk) 04:28, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
@Vanamonde93: Thank you very much for your understanding and responses on the article Mohammed Sani Haruna, i appreciate and i undertake to abide by the rules to have the article properly edited to address the promotional concern. your guide and assistance to achieve it, is highly solicited too. kindly advice further on the steps to take and what to take out, to avoid any promotional content.Francisozohu (talk) 10:35, 9 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francisozohu (talk • contribs)
Hey, sorry for the constant barrage of edits on your Talk page. I am facing a unique situation where I am being constantly harassed by the IP hopper. He/She goes through my daily edits and undo's without any explanation. Some of these edits include removing vandalism, un-cited content and someplace added cited content. I can give you diffs and more proof. Here are few of the 15 odd examples: , , . I am not sure how to deal with this without violating 3RR. I am also pretty sure it is the same IP hopper since IP's match to the same VPN being used earlier. Any ideas how to resolve this? Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 17:41, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
On a dispute about repeated deletion of inserted citations by a user, I raised the issue in WP:3O. The request moved by you and I don't know why. Could you please help in this dispute. Best Shadegan (talk) 06:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
11 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre was President of Guatemala for ten days? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre, and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
@Vanamonde93:
I appreciate what you do for Wikipedia. Would like to reach out regarding a page you formerly deleted about Brian Cain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cain
In an attempt to create this, it is evident that this was previously deleted per lack of notability.
Could you please take a look at the following resources which reference Brian and let me know what else might be needed to get this profile created:
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/110014572/strong-body-and-mind-fuel-cubs-jake-arrieta/
http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/build-mental-toughness
http://usatodayhss.com/2016/recruiting-column-interview-with-brian-cain-peak-performance
http://martialarts.about.com/od/mmaandufc/a/mentaltoughnessmma.htm
http://www.dbknews.com/archives/article_ff2ebc78-c9de-11e3-af5d-0017a43b2370.html
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/02/12/cain-bulldogs-break-blocks/
http://www.sportsnet.ca/blogs/mma/gsp-feels-rouseys-title-loss-pain-like-no-other/
http://www.sagacombat.com/blog/meditation-and-mental-training-in-combat-sports/
http://cscca.org/events/speakers?job=bio&id=57&even_id=71
Jholiday382 (talk) 00:28, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
47.185.10.206 (talk) 19:32, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
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Rising Phoenix World Championships should NOT have been deleted. It is the official successor to the Ms. Olympia competition, making it the highest ranking female bodybuilding competition on he planet. Pls un-delete now. AHC300 (talk) 05:20, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted Annette Toutonghi due to PROD and then saw that it was created again by the same editor, once again being put on PROD. Would you delete it again and possible Salt the article to get the editor to stop creating the same page multiple times? GamerPro64 18:01, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Hallo, as you deleted Integrated Technology Group you might be interested to see the new article Integrated Technology Group (ITG). The correct article title is salted. PamD 13:46, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Vanamonde93. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Carlos Castillo Armas at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! – Corinne (talk) 02:29, 14 February 2017 (UTC) |
Hello, Vanamonde93 - I hope the copy-edit I've just completed meets with your approval. I am now re-reading the article to see if there are any issues I'd like to ask you about.
1) One is near the beginning of Carlos Castillo Armas#Decree 900 reversal. Would you take a look at these sentences?
There are two ambiguous pronouns in the last sentence. One is "this" at the beginning of the sentence. The other is "it" later in the sentence. Let's discuss "it" first. It would be better if you could substitute a phrase instead of "it". What was a "long step backwards"? I couldn't tell if "it" was the government's attempt to reverse the agrarian reform project or Árbenz's agrarian reform project. But keep reading. If we resolve the other instance of ambiguity, the ambiguity of "it" might be taken care of.
Now let's look at "this" at the beginning of the sentence. I'm pretty sure that when you say "This", you meant the government's attempt to reverse the agrarian reform project by seizing land from agrarian laborers and giving them to large landowners (and not the few peasants hanging onto their land). If I am correct, then the intervening sentence "In only a few instances..." puts distance between the pronoun ("this") and its antecedent, which is the first sentence, making "this" a little ambiguous. I see two ways to fix this. One is to minimize the intrusion of the short intervening sentence, either
(a) by making it a prepositional phrase tacked onto the end of the previous sentence:
or
(b) by putting the sentence into parentheses:
The other way is to expand the pronoun "this" and make it a phrase that makes it clear what "led the US embassy to comment".
You could also do both. I prefer (a) and expanding "this" at the beginning of the third sentence. Maybe "This move by the government", "This attempt to reverse the agrarian reform project", or "This seizure and transfer of land".
What do you think of this wording? –
If you word it like this, I think the problem of the ambiguity of "it" is taken care of.
(I'm a little puzzled, though, why the US embassy would say this, since it had supported Castillo Armas all along. Were they surprised Castillo Armas would undo Árbenz's project? I don't see how they could be.) – Corinne (talk) 03:07, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
2a) In the Carlos Castillo Armas#Death and legacy section, this sentence seems somehow either out of place or isolated, not connected to anything else:
I would move this sentence, or remove it, or add a few words to explain why this is significant and/or who historians think was behind the media attacks. That would make the sentence seem less out of place.
2b) Also, you've got two sentences in a row with "Castillo Armas' death", this one and the next one. It would be good to figure out a way to avoid this kind of repetition.
3) Also, two sentences later, you have:
It's not clear at all why they would riot. Ydígoras Fuentes has not been mentioned in a while, and now suddenly it appears again. I think you should give a little more information here as to why Ydígoras Fuentes' supporters would suddenly break out into a riot. Was Ydígoras Fuentes standing in the wings, waiting for his moment? Was there a growing underground movement all during Castillo Armas' presidency? What was his base?
Just a thought.
4) At the very end of the Carlos Castillo Armas#Authoritarian rule section, there is a sentence with an error in it, but I cannot figure out what it should be. Here is the sentence:
You'll have to fix this one.
5) In the last paragraph in Carlos Castillo Armas#Aftermath is the following sentence:
It's not clear why this sentence is here, or what the relationship of this to the negotiations was. (I know I re-worded this sentence slightly – you can compare your original sentence to this in the revision history – and I hope I didn't introduce a factual error with my re-wording.) It's obviously something negative Castillo Armas felt about Monzón, but was Castillo Armas using this to his own advantage in the negotiations? Was he raising doubt about Monzón's loyalty or suitability? Can you add just a little bit to give some context for this sentence and relate it better to the surrounding sentences? Well, that's all for now. Best regards, – Corinne (talk) 03:30, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Dear Vanamonde93,
as you may know i cannot create Integrated Technology Group for several reasons
can you help me as an administrator to create this page for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heba Tabalat (talk • contribs) 06:57, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_and_West_Midlands_(North_Sector)_Army_Cadet_Force
I am the author of this page and according to Wiki, I have the right as the author to have it removed. I need this page deleted ASAP. What can be done?
Hi Vanamonde93, you added pending changes to Napoleon Hill in response to a claim of vandalism. I happened onto this page today and after examining the edits the IPs are not vandalizing the page. Instead, a named account has been making changes to the article using an unreliable blog post that is nothing more than an attack page on Gizmodo. The IP's are attempting to restore the stable, well sourced version of this article, while OmgItstheSmartGuy is edit warring with them to keep his changes intact. Please examine the edits by the IP's. You'll see what I'm talking about. Please then remove the pending changes on this article and allow the IP's to edit. IP attempting to restore stable, sourced material. here. I myself tonight attempted to clean up the lead but OmgitsTheSmartGuy immediately reverted my changes. The difference between the stable version and this editor's version seems to border on vandalism in plain sight. Thank you. SW3 5DL (talk) 07:31, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
The IP's were trying to protect the page, while OmgitsTheSmartGuy appears to have used the claim of vandalism to block legitimate editors from undoing whatever it is he's doing over there. SW3 5DL (talk) 07:35, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Can you also look at other pages created by User:Shikaa that I have tagged? i.e. Amit Kapoor, Akhil Kapur Coderzombie (talk) 13:50, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
May be it is a good idea to semiprotect a couple of days. Will you?·maunus · snunɐɯ· 17:39, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, I was wondering what I could do to gain the rollback user level. Mdriscoll03 (talk) 14:13, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
@Vanamonde93: Thank you for responding so quickly. I understand what you mean and I will keep on removing vandalism from Wikipedia.
@Vanamonde93: One more thing what does it mean by edits to mainspace because on my stats it says I have over 255 edits to Wikipedia.
Hi, The page Skype Mingo was deleted because it was apparently advertising? I don't believe it was, and I did not advocate the app as good or bad, just stated that it existed, and said some of the features. Is there a way it can be restored? Zjjppiscool (talk) 21:20, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
You recently deleted our firm's Wikipedia page (Sutherland Asbill & Brennan / Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP) for SPAM (G11). We would like to update it to comply with Wikipedia's standards. Can you please restore the page? And apologies, I think I accidentally posted this twice. Mktgtechnews (talk) 21:42, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Fantastic article. Not sure I'm nearly knowledgeable enough to review it. However, did you come across the protest song Azikatali noma siyaboshwa? Was sung at Soweto, and makes a fine 4-part harmony. YouTube versions. All the best Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Subject: Require your permission regarding recreating my article
I want to humbly inform you that I am new to Wikipedia so I am unaware of many regulations that I am supposed to follow during writing an article. I attempted to create a article named "Ganchill Music" but my article has been deleted by you due to Unambiguous advertising or promotion. I am planning to recreate the article by following the regulations this time. If you give me a green signal, I would like to start working on this article again. Maruf GGMU (talk) 08:37, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
I noticed you reverted an edit by Ahmados5 and gave a warning. Made no differece, (s)he has made a number of similar edits on other pages since, which I have reverted. There seems to be a distinct pattern here. I believe you are an admin; I'm not too au fait with these processes, but might a ban be in order? Emeraude (talk) 16:07, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Vanamonde93 - If you have time, would you mind taking a look at the recent back-and-forth editing at Ferdowsi? I believe Lysozym is a scholar. – Corinne (talk) 15:32, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, I saw that you deleted the Gritter (software) page which I created, but I do not see how to see the full deletion reason which you gave. When I go to the page I am shown "(Expired PROD, concern was: Nothing establishing actual notability and substance in our established policies at all since searches only found simple announcements and listings, none of which are actual significance for us and thus there's si...)". It is unclear to me where I should navigate to find the rest of this text, can you help?
(Separately, and FYI, I have nothing to do with the team creating Gritter, I created the page because there are pages for several similar JS libraries on Wikipedia and it would have been very helpful to me if that page had existed, before I created it! i.e. I would have had to do much less research myself to arrive at the info I put on the page. I missed the PROD. Very often when I create a page on Wikipedia, it is put as a candidate for deletion by a zealous editor, until this one I have always had to do the job of arguing my case for the existence of the page, as well as the job of creating it, and until this one, after discussion, I have 'won'. I wonder why I do have to waste quite so much time fighting to contribute to this free encyclopedia, especially with such a long history of genuine contributions. )
Bmju (talk) 07:45, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, I have been away for a couple of days. I see that you have sorted out the citations issue mentioned at the Modi GAN, having accepted an offer of help that I didn't fulfil due to my absence. That is one tough article! Thousands of electrons have died at my hands alone in trying to get it into some sort of fairly decent shape. - Sitush (talk) 01:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
You may want to mention something about E. Howard Hunt's role in the coup. By Hunt's own account, at least, he was the main "architect" of the operation. Just a suggestion. Nice work on the article.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 01:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed that you reverted and redirected the article , with awards and honours section!.Junosoon (talk) 16:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello Vanamonde93. May I know which portion of the content sounds promotional that it has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.176.153.117 (talk) 10:07, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your message I disagree with your assessment ... The page was not for promotion. I have liked you to suggest modification instead of just deleting it, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Det1234 (talk • contribs) 15:09, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi,
The disruptive editing has returned after your previous semi-protection on this article. Just letting you know so you can keep an eye on it. Regards. 172.56.39.178 (talk) 01:55, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
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The Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
Dear Vanamonde93, I'd just like to congratulate you on your excellent article Music in the movement against apartheid. It looks like you spent a ton of time and research on it, but the result makes Wikipedia all the better. Thanks! Yoninah (talk) 23:25, 26 February 2017 (UTC) |
Please Please explain how this reads like a companies website? What/who am I promoting? How is this not neutral? I am just dumbfounded. DevSecOps is a real thing that industry around the world is doing in response to DevOps (which has a Wikipedia page???).
Regarding notability, I have 5 unique independent citations/references. Certainly you can research this topic to understand its credibility.
Are you stating the topic alone is not worthy or how the content is written to support the content? Either way, the "promoting" stamp is very generalistic and does not identify what it is that is not compliant. Yes, you did reference the policies, but see my initial questions.
Thank you for your input. Bjm243wiki (talk) 14:51, 27 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bjm243wiki (talk • contribs) 14:22, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
On 1 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Music in the movement against apartheid, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the jazz piece "Mannenberg", considered a notable example of music in the movement against apartheid, has no words? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Music in the movement against apartheid. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Music in the movement against apartheid), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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