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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
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  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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Movie "The Dancing Clown"

This article's only two sources are sources that, when I examined them in Google Books, mentioned nothing about any sort of dancing clown. Creator and primary editor of this article attempted to create numerous hoax articles in the past and add false information to articles. I could find absolutely nothing about this movie when I did an Internet search. Based on all this, I am led to believe that this article is a hoax and that this film is nonexistent. Link to article: The Dancing Clown

ApplePieGuy95 (talk) 17:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I think you have the wrong contributor. I don't recall making any entries about this movie. Sorry. Entertainment Buff (talk) 20:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the confusion if you thought that I was implicating you in this. The contributor's name is "Cornbread pancakes." Very revealing. ApplePieGuy95 (talk) 21:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Improving "Ross Elliott"

Hello @Entertainment Buff. I am interested in improving the article on the actor Ross Elliott. I notice you tried the other day to link to the article on him at Find a Grave, which another editor disapproved. But that entry did have a lot of information that might usefully be added to the Wikipedia article, if reliable sources could be located. I have not had much luck at that. Could you take a look at the entry I just put on talk: Ross Elliott and let me know if you can help? PDGPA (talk) 01:05, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

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Disambiguation hatnotes

Hi. Please review WP:NOTAMB and stop adding hatnotes to articles that don't have an ambiguous name. Thank you. snapsnap ^(talk) 20:24, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Will do. Thank you very much for your advice!!! Entertainment Buff (talk) 18:01, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

August 2024

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at John Goodman, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Chauncey Green (talk) 09:42, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

There must be some mistake here. I did not vandalize John Goodman. I am a long-time editor with over 33,000 edits. I was simply writing that John Goodman played a director William Castle-like filmmaker in "Matinee". Please explain to me how this is considered vandalism. I am totally baffled.

Thank you. Entertainment Buff (talk) 09:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

You can ignore that warning...just one of our long-term abusers found a new account. DMacks (talk) 10:14, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Entertainment Buff (talk) 10:15, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

That person must be from the UK. Notice how he or she spells "vandalised". Perhaps find the IP address and block that from making any more edits to Wikipedia? Since this is a repeat, long-term abuser? Entertainment Buff (talk) 10:25, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

IP tracing is definitely a good idea! There are only a handful of WP admins who have access to that info due to privacy rules, and likewise they cannot reveal to anyone outside that group all the details of their findings or some of the actions they take basead on them. But they're on the case, and both they and some of the features of the WP software do have an impact. But given this abuser appears to have been active for over a decade, they also know how to evade some of those measures. I don't have access to the IP data and also am intentionally being vague about some of the actions WP takes to avoid making it too easy to evade them. Feel free to email me if you'd like a bit more detail. DMacks (talk) 17:13, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. If that abuser has been active for more than a decade, this most definitely needs to be addressed. Escalate it, please. That user definitely needs to get some psychological help.

Thanks for restoring my edit on John Goodman. Entertainment Buff (talk) 17:18, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks. Correction made. Entertainment Buff (talk) 13:03, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

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