User talk:Coren/Archive/2015/October

Wikimania 2017

Congratulations and good luck with the preparations, Coren! 2017 will be here in no time! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:30, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

I suppose, given the leak, that it makes little sense for me to be coy about it (though I'm a little disappointed that this news ends up spreading without proper context). Thank you – we're currently champing at the bit, but I fully expect we'll be in "oh my god why in hell did we sign up for this" frantic mode 20 months from now.  :-)

That said, we're looking forward to hosting the community in Montreal and we have a few ideas we hope will make that Wikimania a memorable one! (More news later, as the leak caught us flatfooted and we don't have a proper announcement ready yet). — Coren ^(talk) 23:20, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm leaving my congratulations, too, Coren. Montreal has always been on my bucket list, and now I have a good reason to go. Best, --Rosiestep (talk) 00:15, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Vetbook

Dear; I have an issue with writing an article about a non-profit organization that I had founded it. Article was about Vetbook which is a non profit organization of my own.(www.vetbook.net) I tried to write an article about it; however that I found your had deleted it. The organization is legally operates in Egypt and I have all documents that prove and state that I am the CEO of such organization and the owner of web domain (www.vetbook.net) Please help; since I had went through too much text on Wikipedia to resolve it however I failed to do. My Username on Wikipedia is: "Eslamvet" and article name is "Vetbook". Please help.

Eslamvet (talk) 12:36, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

• @Eslamvet: 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) 14:31, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

User Page

I hope that you don't mind, but I have used your user page as a template for my own. Please tell me if you have any concerns about such. Will2022 (talk) 21:47, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Bot

Hi, the CorenSearchBot is indicating that the page I created is similar to its own page. See Lauren O'Reilly. Sander.v.Ginkel ^(Talk) 17:49, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Draft versions of Wikipedia articles

It is often desirable to create a draft version of a Wikipedia article to facilitate collaboration, especially when the mainspace article is protected for whatever reason. Most recently I created Draft:Causal loop to demonstrate some changes to Causal loop which is currently protected. Would it be possible to turn off the bot's warnings in these cases? Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:33, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Diachrony

It was an intentional editing on order to resolve the ambiguity in Wikidata about "Synchrony" and "Synchronic". Please, note there was the page for "Synchronic" and one for "Synchrony", one for "Diachronic" but not for "Diachrony". A few Wikis' like the English one have a common page for both ("Synchrony and diachrony"), sometimes in common with the redirect to "Dicotomias saussureanas". Creating the page "Diachrony" I've been able to substitute "Diachronic" with "Diachrony" in Wikidata. --Skyfall (talk) 15:52, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Deletionpedia

So, what does it mean if this bot identifies a duplicate at deletionpedia? See Spottoon if it's not deleted. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 01:33, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Multiple copyvios

I would like to report that three near-identical articles were created Homs offensive (October 2015), Daraa offensive (October 2015) and the Damascus countryside offensive (October 2015). The editor in question who made all three articles just had his original one article on the events deleted following a majority talk page discussion. It seems now he partially recreated the said article under the cover of three different article names. EkoGraf (talk) 14:19, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

• POV-forking aside, what article are these 3 copyvios of? Crow ^Caw 14:30, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Of eachother. All three are near-identical. Not to mention the text was taken out of an article that was deleted and now recreated, thus violating a deletion decision. Coren already, justly, noted that another 2 articles this guy created were copyvios of themselves (Latakia offensive (October 2015) & Quneitra offensive (October 2015)). Before I redirected both to already existing articles on the subjects. EkoGraf (talk) 20:04, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Michael Lombari (financial guru)

The author bio was taken from ProfitConfidential.com which is a website the author owns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moulder78 (talk • contribs) 13:56, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but that doesn't suffice - the text needs to either demonstrably be published with a compatible license or we need explicit permission to do so ourselves from the right holder. But, beyond that, in general text written by the subject of an article is unlikely to be suitable for inclusion because it's a clear conflict of interest and does not comply with our requirements for sourcing. — Coren ^(talk) 19:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Public domain imports

I've been tagged by CorenSearchBot a few times adding 19th century public domain text to Wikipedia. I add Template:Yaleobit to each article to indicate its copyright status. I don't mind getting tagged by the bot, I just worry I'm making work for others sorting through the bot's results. Is there something I should be doing differently or should I just ignore it? Gamaliel (talk) 14:53, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

There's nothing you can do, but there is something I can do: I'll add that template to the list of templates CSBot knows to be indicating a text known to be in the public domain.  :-) You shouldn't get needlessly annoyed by the bot starting soon. — Coren ^(talk) 16:49, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Gamaliel (talk) 17:23, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Alternatively - seek out proper sourcing for such cases - I did George Goodyear easily in a few minutes without parsing a "public domain" source so literally. Collect (talk) 21:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)