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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Skating Minister

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Reverend Robert Walker (1755 - 1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:28, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Hazelsletterings (again)

Hi MER-C,

I've been in email contact with Hazelsletterings. I'm convinced that she wants to contribute and is amenable to mentorship and a topic ban. Is there some way that we could commute her indefinite block into a temporary block and topic ban? I'm offering my time and energy for the rehabilitation effort. --Slashme (talk) 12:56, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't believe them. UPE and sockpuppetry are both dishonest acts that demonstrate the editor does not have the honesty and integrity to edit Wikipedia. The aim of nearly all UPE is professional lying - marketing, public relations, search engine optimisation - and therefore the only acceptable response is maximum cynicism. There is still no explanation for the coordinated editing, which I think is meatpuppetry. MER-C 18:15, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Adamshahin account

Hello MER-C, FYI that Adamshahin is confirmed with FCBlinder (Special:CentralAuth/مينا جمال صبحي). Related Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amir Krara and Draft:Ahmed Alneaimy. Thanks on advance --Alaa :)..! 21:47, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, AFD closed. MER-C 12:03, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Quarantining

Hi MER-C. I noticed a spam article that you moved to Draft space with the comment "Quarantine likely covert advertising". This seems like a very appropriate action, and I am wondering if it would also be suitable for other spam articles that I've come across. So is there any guidance or links to policies you can give me about when quarantining is an appropriate action? Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 09:07, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

It is effective because it punts the spam page out of mainspace and therefore their spam doesn't get indexed by Google. Paid editors must not make inclusion decisions. I don't want to see community time wasted at AFD deleting the garbage, or even worse deciding to keep it. It's even more effective as an admin because I block those who I suspect of UPE spamming. Quarantine is only applicable for recently created articles - within the last six months, everything else has to go through AFD. MER-C 12:23, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. That sounds like a much more effective method than clogging up AfD with spam articles. I'm guessing it can be a difficult job trying to keep promotional articles off Wikipedia, so thanks for all your efforts. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 22:25, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Not ready to fully comply with WP:PAID

As per off-wiki evidence (in your inbox) user Babitahamdard was hired to move and remove the paid tag from Draft:Fahad Badar through Upwork, but not ready to accept and disclose under WP:DISCLOSEPAY. They are mostly creating promotional articles. GSS ^💬 05:33, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

• When I said I do not want to disclose. But the Upwork source is not mine. After consulting the client I got that my client has hired someone else before it was not me. I only came into the picture after the 26th of August 2020. I already disclosed to Wikipedia that I am a paid editor. Yes, I will not remove Paid tag again until the admin tells. Thank you. At last, I was never hired through Upwork. I am a female Wikipedia contributor and want to use it for good. --Babitahamdard (talk) 07:55, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

• User RoseTeeyana is lying through their teeth when asked to disclose their paid editing status for Draft:Nini Amerlise. Please see your inbox for evidence. GSS ^💬 07:55, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

  Now blocked. MER-C 09:39, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

  Did you get the time to look at Babitahamdard? they again attempt to move the draft:Fahad Badar to main, but still not disclosing their Upwork account per WP:DISCLOSEPAY. GSS ^💬 06:28, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

  I did not attempt to move it to main this time. I attempted it to move it to my special page contribution and get it on the main page using submission requests. I was not hired to delete paid tag. I was hired to create a new Fahad Page. The current version of Fahad is promotional and I wanted to remove that I did that but GSS ^💬 established the old promotional version. It is fine to not to remove paid tag from it but I want new version should be accepted.--Babitahamdard (talk) 07:28, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

  You also need to disclose how you were hired to create Draft:Ajay Shukla, Connect2India, Pawan Gupta (Entrepreneur) and Shoogloo? You also need to disclose your paid editing status for creating another promotional article Draft:Mikki Koomar, Draft:Buddha at Work, Draft:GD Vashist among others. GSS ^💬 07:51, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

  I was hired for Connect2India, Pawan Gupta (Entrepreneur), Draft:Mikki Koomar, Draft:Buddha at Work and already disclosed it on my user profile. Draft:GD Vashist It is only a close connection nothing else. Shoogloo was ex employer. I think I have already disclosed it on my user page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babitahamdard (talk • contribs) 08:05, 10 September 2020 (UTC) --Babitahamdard (talk) 08:07, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

  It's possible that the Upwork account belongs to the company he works for (trivially searchable). You need to make a paid editing disclosure, not a conflict of interest declaration, for each article you were paid to create. MER-C 12:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

• I declared it on my Userpage please check Babitahamdard (talk) 17:23, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

• @GSS ^💬 can I edit articles but I will not put it into mainspace since I have declared?--Babitahamdard (talk) 07:20, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Boxing Page

Hi MER-C - I would like to republish the Draft:David Diamante that had been flagged as spam. David is an acquaintance of mine who has done enough in the boxing/sports business to warrant his own page. I've edited the page and added appropriate citations to better reflect what it is that makes him noteworthy: his ring announcing. Given the changes I have made and the citations I have added (NY Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker) of feature pieces about him I would sincerely appreciate his page being republished on the Wikipedia platform. 4rounder (talk) 16:22, 29 August 2020 (UTC) 4rounder

References

You have a conflict of interest. I advise you to submit the article for review by placing {{subst:submit}} at the top. MER-C 16:33, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks MER-C, I appreciate that. I reposted the article as a separate page. How should I best proceed from here? 4rounder (talk) 16:41, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Why did you not wait for me to reply to your first comment? Anyway, you should wait until the article is checked for inclusion. MER-C 16:48, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

My apologies4rounder (talk) 16:54, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Ed Emmett article deletion

Can I ask why the article on "Ed Emmett," a local Harris County Texas leader and politician, was deleted? It appears the reason may have been copyright issues, but that seems odd, given that the article has been active for some 12 years. It also seems strange that a copyright issue would result in the deletion of an entire article. I'm new to this, so just wondering. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2C6:8180:5480:C02A:8D3E:104F:516E (talk) 02:54, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

The article was written by a serial copyright infringer and was deleted presumptively. This is a volunteer project, things happen slower here than you may expect. MER-C 08:24, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Advent Technologies

This looks like more UPE crap. Can you take a look at it? Moose Goat (talk) 12:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked both the OP and the creator of that article. MER-C 16:58, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

New cci

Could you fill out Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Veillg1? Thanks, and thanks for your diligent work in clearing out the crap from big CCIs. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 20:28, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

You know you can do this yourself, right? See https://wikipediatools.appspot.com/contributionsurveyor.jsp. MER-C 17:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't know... Sorry! Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 17:24, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

If you're not already on it, could you cull the two new ones (Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Kiraroshi1976 and Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Cyberpuke) when you have the time? Thanks again. Moneytrees🏝️^{Talk🌴Help out at CCI!} 04:03, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cephalanthus occidentalis occidentalis

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Cephalanthus occidentalis occidentalis1.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:52, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible UPE

A quick glance of the talk page of @WilliamBagshot as seen here shows they are clearly editing with a COI & possibly violating PAID as they seem to be a promo account used for creating promotional non notable articles. I believe they are not here to build an encyclopedia. Celestina007 12:30, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked. MER-C 16:33, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

UPE or COI

I can't make heads or tails of this editor, but think it's UPE. See the September 2020 section.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:01, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked. MER-C 08:56, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible upe and edit warring

User Nidhitaparia sounds like an undisclosed paid editor, not responding to paid warrings and constantly edit warring (removing redirect) at Namita Thapar. GSS ^💬 09:04, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Also uploaded File:Namita Thapar Emcure Pharmaceuticals.jpg as their own work and the same image was previously uploaded by user Shalav3190 under File:Namita Thapar.jpg. I can't find this image online but as per the metadata on both images, the original copyright holder is "mohan ranade photography". GSS ^💬 09:10, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked. MER-C 09:13, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Ali Mahmoud Al Suleiman

Well, well. I was wondering if any real editor was about to say anything about restoring the deleted article, and how long the case would continue to run. I saw that User:Deepfriedokra and User:LadyofShalott had looked at it and decided that it wasn't worth looking at further. Well, well. But the filing party turns out to be an even bigger sockmaster. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:43, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

LTA

Hello MER-C, in relation to this, today I locked another new sock Ibrahim Altay DS, he created Arabi21.com (Deleted on arwiki as article created by LTA). Thanks in advance --Alaa :)..! 19:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Nuked. MER-C 19:30, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

File:Cobra-papagaio - Bothrops bilineatus - Ilhéus - Bahia.jpg scheduled for POTD

Hi MER-C,

This is to let you know that the featured picture File:Cobra-papagaio - Bothrops bilineatus - Ilhéus - Bahia.jpg, which you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for September 23, 2020. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2020-09-23. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:34, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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is back as Dimetri Hogan (creative director)Praxidicae (talk) 14:35, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked and quarantined. It was too dissimilar to be a G4. MER-C 14:55, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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wikiprofessionals

It appears they've returned. RDR - 2 has recreated Anthony D. Castelli previously created by Lee-aam as well as Revolushn which was quarantined in draft based on this discussion which I can't see and was created by AnimatedGeorge. Praxidicae (talk) 15:26, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Certainly a sock of someone... I can't remember which SPI they fall under. That discussion is archived here btw. SmartSE (talk) 15:47, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Smartse I don't think an SPI is even worth it for these farms. They have an endless supply of people that I doubt a CU would be of use. Praxidicae (talk) 15:52, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

@Praxidicae: It's always worth a go... even if it's just so that CUs can see what they're doing to evade detection. SmartSE (talk) 16:10, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

The discussion was Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_134#wikiprofessionalsinc. I've blocked this account. MER-C 16:40, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

LTA2

Hello MER-C, can you please delete Mohamed Sherif (actor), this is LTA see here, also it's already deleted by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohamed Sherif Hasan. Also this one please Abdullah Rushdy. Thanks in advance --Alaa :)..! 09:14, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Nuked. MER-C 11:56, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks --Alaa :)..! 12:18, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

UPE, socking and move warring

As per off-wiki evidence user Missus IP was hired to create Joe Tasker (Presenter) and Harpz Kaur earlier created by user Simonneedle. The account was inactive since October 2019 but came back today only to post these page. GSS ^💬 11:18, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Barsana Holi Festival.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Barsana Holi Festival.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:07, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Vandals need quashing

Hi MER-C. Not the issue I normally raise, but could you throw down 24hrs of semi-protection at Shibani Dandekar? I requested page protection at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Shibani_Dandekar but there has been a good deal of vandalism done to the article in question in the last hour (and its getting old reverting). Thanks. SamHolt6 (talk) 12:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Done. MER-C 12:28, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

When something appears to be UPE.. and they deny it.

Usually the pattern starts with brand new account that jumps right into companies or people related editing with skills and familiarity with Wikipedia not reasonable for someone just starting for the first time and completely fluent with the codes, but "unfamiliar" with sourcing rules and other guidelines. When a paid-UW1 is left and the person denies it, is that essentially the end of it? Graywalls (talk) 21:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

No, because all spammers will deny being spammers. Who are you referring to? MER-C 08:15, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Perhaps Special:diff/977473831 ☆ Bri (talk) 17:04, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't this look rather similar to that big pile of accounts we found recently? MER-C 17:12, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

If you are referring to the Richcitii (?) Yoodaba case at SPI and still open at COIN. Maybe. They are doing similar rather pointless corp updates/grooming. Hard to say for sure with just a few days of edits. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:35, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Category spamming

I assume know you're an admin, even though I see your signature mostly on FPC. Could you please take a look at the over 200 category spams by this editor - I reverted one, but found many,many more:

• ZI_Jony (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Egregious spams of TV channel categories in multiple articles. (see [[1]])

- looks like some automated tool was used for the spamming. I have no idea how to revert such a massive cat spam... Regards, --Janke | Talk 21:50, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

It's already been reverted. However I've given you rollback to help deal with something like this faster if it arises again. MER-C 09:09, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, but I don't know if rollback would have helped in this case, since the 200 edits were made on different pages - have to look into the "user manual"... --Janke | Talk 11:15, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Nope, won't work on 200 different article pages, you'd have to go to each one and do the rollback. I'm sure admins have tools for reverting such a massive amount of edits? I don't need/want any such tools, in fact, I'm not even sure I'll ever use the rollback feature. --Janke | Talk 11:35, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Head to Special:Contributions/X and click on each rollback link so that it opens in a new tab. MER-C 11:48, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Am I missing something, or would I still have to click on 200 links to revert such a huge mistake by the cat spammer? (Looks like it was unintentional, using an unfamiliar tool...) --Janke | Talk 18:50, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Then use User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js to revert everything in one click. MER-C 19:00, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

I won't. Looks dangerous for someone (me) who doesn't understand it - I'll let others do the dangerous driving... ;-) --Janke | Talk 10:19, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible block evasion?

Hi MER-C. You deleted the article Aram Archer as "(G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)". An extremely similar article has been created at Aram Archer (producer). Can you check it out? Thanks. Tassedethe (talk) 20:14, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, another Çelebicihan repost. Nuked and sock blocked. MER-C 12:26, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Another block case

Hi MER-C, another pair of articles like Aram Archer. One deleted as G5 (Diana Pegas) and then recreated at Diana Pegas (television presenter). Could you check them out? Thanks. Tassedethe (talk) 19:52, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Same sockmaster as the previous report. Blocked and deleted. MER-C 16:32, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

SPA only here to promote Draft:Izzat (Music Producer)

User Gholatechomas sounds like an undisclosed paid editor who was registered last month, made no major edits outside creating Draft:Izzat (Music Producer). I asked them to disclose COI and his answer was "I do not have any conflict of interest", but they uploaded File:Izzat-3000.jpg as their own work and I'm unable to find this image online. The user is not interested to follow the AfC process and keep moving the draft to main. GSS ^💬 20:38, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Looks like a recreation of IZZAT (musical artist) and also take a look at user talk:Ervest-music. GSS ^💬 20:43, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

@GSS, coupled with this blatant rubbish they did here & here they apparently aren’t here to build an encyclopedia. Thanks to Deepfriedokra who nabbed their disruptive edits in time and reverted them accordingly. Celestina007 03:40, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I blocked for 31 hours just to lower the disruption. Feel free to upgrade. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 03:43, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

...and extended to indefinite for likely UPE (the image is a giveaway). MER-C 18:23, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

ssshhh! --Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:44, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

hmmm

This user has all the hallmarks of a paid editor but I can't place my finger on who. They've recreated Ehraz Ahmed numerous times using some black hat sources and their general interest in marginally notable/non notable business people leads me to believe they're paid. Anything in their deleted contribs that could help connect the dots? Praxidicae (talk) 14:28, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Two articles: Cafe Latte attack and Anand Prakash (draft copy). First is a single author page. Second one is multiply deleted but no paid spammers in history. MER-C 18:35, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

""39 Boo"" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect "39 Boo". The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 14#"39 Boo" until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 17:29, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Macracantha

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Macracantha arcuata - Curved Spiny Spider (8550192839) by Rushen edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:21, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

SPA’s and possible UPE

Both @MF Worldwide and @IBC Worldwide are single purpose accounts who have been trying to get this draft: Draft:Leesaseal into mainspace all day long, first the draft article was created by @IBC Worldwide under the name of “Leesa” see here where it was speedy deleted for being too promotional. Shortly after another editor @MF Worldwide recreated the draft under a different name “Leesaseal” and that too was G11 deleted. Yet again it has been recreated once more by MF Worldwide as seen here. This disruption has gone on for too long & I don’t believe both editors are here to build an encyclopedia. Their eerie similar usernames also show they might be a PR firm accepting financial rewards to create articles for their clients Celestina007 19:59, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked IBC Worldwide, MF Worldwide was already blocked. MER-C 16:34, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Good job on blocking the other account who’s obviously an spa not here to build an encyclopedia. Celestina007 22:15, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

WP:NOTHERE and COI

User Tonystargazer is only here to promote Draft:Raoul Bhatt since they were registered. The user was asked to disclose their paid editing status after this advert was posted which was later protected from public view. The advert was posted by the "Raoul Bhatt", but Tonystargazer claimed it was posted by his boss. They are not ready to follow the AfC process and moved it to main despite it was declined multiple times. WP:NOTHERE applies I guess. GSS ^💬 06:42, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked. MER-C 18:05, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Resident troublemaker

Our resident troublemaker in some contentious articles appears to be a UPE sock of this user Praxidicae (talk) 14:15, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked. MER-C 16:37, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Battle for Dream Island!

Can you please unblock Draft:Battle for Dream Island, please? CephalaspisLyelli (talk) 18:58, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

No. Wikipedia has explicitly rejected having a draft on this subject (Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Battle for Dream Island, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Battle For Dream Island (BFDI)). Take it to Fandom. MER-C 19:13, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

But why?--LittleAwesomeApple (talk) 03:06, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Because it will never be made into an article and too much time has been wasted reviewing crap drafts on this subject. You should take the hint about time wasting. MER-C 08:43, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible UPE

User LwdBell first made some random edits and immediately hitting the autoconfirmed status they posted a promotional article Ismail Hussain (singer) and uploaded File:IsmailHussainSinging.jpg which I'm unable to find online. I asked them about the picture and they replied I contacted him through the email address available in his site and askedwhether that can be used in Wikipedia and he sent me this one to use instead. Also, I caught them convincing users to save their article and after I voted on the AFD and left a warning on their talk page they decided to take revenge here and here. Not assuming good faith at all. GSS ^💬 13:21, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

@GSS, I think a block on that editors account is pertinent at this juncture. I’ve also gone ahead to close both AFD’s as they are clearly REVENGE. Celestina007 (talk) 15:04, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Gave him another final warning, however, I think he's already ripe for blocking as WP:NOTHERE --Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:08, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Deepfriedokra, very much apt. They are way too young to be constituting a nuisance. Celestina007 (talk) 15:14, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

@Celestina007 and Deepfriedokra: Thank you guys. If you guys are around can you please quickly take a look at this advert as a piece of evidence before its protected from public view. Also pinging @Praxidicae and GeneralNotability:. GSS ^💬 18:48, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Gone. FWIW, it might be best to email the ARB's and the stewards with off-wiki evidence. I defer to Praxidicae's greater knowledge about that. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:53, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Robert le diable: The Ballet of the Nuns

Should be fixed. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.5% of all FPs} 23:27, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Financial District, Manhattan

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Lower Manhattan from Governors Island August 2017 panorama.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:07, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Rosa Raisa

Fixed it.Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.5% of all FPs} 22:56, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Next Insurance

Hi MER-C,

I joined Next Insurance recently and wondered why can't I write an article about the company. It seems like improper past attempts got the article Salted. This was when the company was small was not notable and it read as covered advertising and I'd like to apologize for that.

Nonetheless, I strongly believe Next Insurance now meets the notability conditions today since (1) it's has become one of the top insurtech companies in the world (2) All similar and even less notable insurtech companies seem to meet the notability conditions, and all of them have an active article (Lemonade, Root, Metromile, Hippo and many more).

Recent references regarding its notability:

I can provide numerous additional reliable and independent sources to support it.

Again, apologies for previous attempts (it proceeds my time) and we will make sure that the new edit will be reliable and independent. I'll also disclose my COI as a connected contributor. Effifuks (talk) 22:07, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

"I joined Next Insurance recently... We will make sure that the new edit will be reliable and independent. I'll also disclose my COI as a connected contributor." Independent? Really? Do you even know what the term independent means? MER-C 16:22, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi MER-C, I would like to help here if possible. I opened a deletion review request.

Deletion review for Next Insurance

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Next Insurance. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Delbarital (talk) 22:22, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Copyright status of K. A. Subramaniam

Dear MER-C

Thanks for highlighting the copyright from http://noolaham.net/project/128/12749/12749.html on 5 September 2020. I am extremely so sorry for the trouble and please accept my sincere apologies. Please help to have a look at K.A. Subramaniam's talk page about the copyright status updated by Noolaham Foundation and the emails sent with Ticket#: 2020090610001228 to permissions-en@wikimedia.org

Kindly assist to reconsider your decision and please help to restore the article when you get a chance. Best regards Roshan Sylu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roshan Sylu (talk • contribs) 03:47, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't have access to the ticketing system. MER-C 08:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

The following is the actual text updated by Noolaham Foundation in the following URL page on top http://noolaham.net/project/128/12749/12749.html :"License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)". Kindly help to have a look when you get a chance please. Roshan Sylu (talk) 00:56, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Did you copy from anywhere else? MER-C 09:41, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes I imported some from K.A. Subramaniam's wife's blog https://sathiamanai.blogspot.com Her profile displays as follows: "Please note that I started this in 2009 only and the events up-to 1969 are placed in 1970. I have re-posted the events after 1971 accordingly. I retired from the Government of Sri Lanka in 1991 and lived in Singapore from 1998 to 2011. Currently living in Chulipuram, Sri Lanka. I, wife of K.A. Subramaniam and mother of PLOTE Meeran Master ( Sathiarajan 1962 -2001) give my full copyright permission from this Blog's contents to re-produce in Wikipedia or any other media. I permit the use of my material under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).- Valliammai Subramaniam". Also I searched and found many other independent resources in Tamil and translated them for citations in English. This article took a lot of my time from 29 July to 29 August 2020. Please be assured that I will not violate any copyrights in future. Roshan Sylu (talk) 10:30, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

By translate, did you directly translate a source and pasted the resulting English language text into Wikipedia? That is also a copyright violation.

As to why you need to be patient I am the only one handling copyright problem listings at the moment, the process is massively backlogged and WP:VOLUNTEER. MER-C 11:14, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

I confirm that the imported texts are from 'Noolaham' and 'Sathiamanai' only. I used the third party resources for verification of the imported text only and made these translated title's links as references. I am extremely sorry for adding your work load and please trust me that I will be more careful in my future edits. Roshan Sylu (talk) 00:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

A new potential UPE

A sleeper for a long period, please see this contributions log] which shows behaviour charateristic of gaming the system. Notice that the eidtor has applied today to be an AFC reviewer! There are a couple of decent edits in the history, but the meat of it is the extraordinary competence they show in creating Kalyana Vaibhogam (TV series) and then ofering it up for G7 when challenged. Something here is quacking very loudly, and it needs someone with your skillset to get to the bottom of it, please. Fiddle Faddle 12:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Obvious sock per Special:Undelete/Kalyana Vaibhogam (TV series). Blocked. MER-C 15:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't have the right goggles to see that Fiddle Faddle 15:47, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Presumably sockpuppet

Hello mer-c, the paid editor user:ovedc denied accepting draft noam shalev and upload by other editor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.71.6.51 (talk) 13:08, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Emu 1 - Tidbinbilla.jpg

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Kleiber Sitta europaea-0447.jpg

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Paid Disclosure

I have hired freelancers on freelance platforms to clean up Matt Fraser (psychic) and I was not aware that they should disclose it. I declare that I have hired them and they are working to improve the page. Dont delete these pages. Please revert all edits but don't delete these pages and I was not aware of non-disclosure is a policy violation. I am here to support the cause and but dont want deletion of page like that happened in 2017. This freelancer has claimed that he drive editors on dispute resolution and other talk pages to clean this page, he has been already paid and nothing is happening now. I cant pay him more and I have also realized that he has created a new account and not a senior account that he claimed. I am really highly disappointed and feel like cheated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.90.177.198 (talk) 04:21, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

MER-C, I'm looking at this as trolling. The IP has accused editors of being paid on pages where they have never edited, [2][3] and it looks like a Joe job. - Bilby (talk) 04:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Work–life balance

Hi, I see you are involved in the copyright issue regarding the page Work–life balance. Has the matter been forgotten about or is it making progress? The page has been unavailable to view for over a month now and from what I can see nothing is being done to try and restore the page to be viewable again. The page is still getting hundreds of views every day but none of these people have been able to view the page's content for over a month due to the copyright notice. Helper201 (talk) 13:12, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Copyright problems is heavily backlogged. To speed it up, see WP:RFA. MER-C 13:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

block evasion and UPE

As per this 46.34.227.129 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 94.54.236.59 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) were hired to edit Sami Jo Small and as per this the master account is Elmakkan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). GSS ^💬 18:26, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Green terror

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Aquatic copyvio

Text which I removed from Talk:Aquatic may be similar to deleted revisions of the article. Certes (talk) 18:49, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Done. MER-C 18:57, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

File:Naghsh-e rostam, Irán, 2016-09-24, DD 20-24 PAN.jpg scheduled for POTD

Hi MER-C,

This is to let you know that the featured picture File:Naghsh-e rostam, Irán, 2016-09-24, DD 20-24 PAN.jpg, which you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for October 26, 2020. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2020-10-26. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:30, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Naqsh-e Rostam is an ancient Persian necropolis located about 12 km (7.5 mi) northwest of Persepolis in Iran. The site includes rock reliefs from the Achaemenid and Sassanid periods, and four tombs of Achaemenid kings. The oldest relief, dating from around 1000 BC, is thought to be Elamite in origin. The tombs carved into the rock, as seen from left to right in this panoramic photograph, are thought to belong to Darius II (423–404 BC), Artaxerxes I (465–424 BC), Darius I (522–486 BC), and Xerxes I (486–465 BC), respectively. An inscription on the facade of Darius I's tomb mentions his conquests and achievements. In the far left of the image is the Cube of Zoroaster, belonging to the Achaemenid era (5th century BC); its purpose is unclear. Inscriptions on its walls in three languages have been described as the "most important historical documents from the Sassanian era".

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blech

I don't have the brainpower to file an SPI right now but look what has returned from a spammy editor! Praxidicae (talk) 13:45, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

They're now blocked. MER-C 16:43, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Undisclosed paid editing by user Laxmanaa Doraemi‎

As per this advert (now protected) user Laxmanaa Doraemi‎ was hired to recreate Samuel Somerville that they posted under Samuel Jacob Somerville and also to edit Darren Lok. Please check your inbox for more details. Thank you, GSS ^💬 10:54, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Blocked. MER-C 11:32, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Sheriff of Cochise (tv series)

Am planning to write a new entry for the series Sheriff of Cochise. Is that okay with you?Glammazon (talk) 13:45, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Yep. MER-C 15:09, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

SPA only

I think with his autobiography currently in his sandbox & simultaneously on his Userpage as well , coupled with casual usage of multiple accounts it is safe to say he isn’t here to build an encyclopedia but only to self promote. Celestina007 (talk) 16:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

I think it's gross incompetence. Not a SPA though because of Draft:Paul Ekpo. MER-C 17:56, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

You are correct, it’s most likely competency related. I’d be keeping an eye on them. Celestina007 (talk) 12:50, 13 October 2020 (UTC)