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File:Bit8-Company-Logo.png

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bit8

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A tag has been placed on Bit8, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Edwardx (talk) 17:48, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Maltalinks. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Bit8, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Edwardx (talk) 10:30, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi EdwardX, all, I do not have any COI with Bit8 or any company in the gaming industry in Malta. I used to work in the gaming industry for a long time in Malta, doing SEO and writing copy. I am not paid in any way as my interest now lies in covering companies that are working in artificial intelligence in the regions I am familiar with - which is mainly Malta and the UK -- Mark. Maltalinks (talk) 10:30, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Bit8 for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bit8 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bit8 until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Edwardx (talk) 10:33, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Non-free rationale for File:Bit8-Company-Logo.png

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Orphaned non-free image File:Bit8-Company-Logo.png

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File permission problem with File:Mark Mallia 2015.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mark Mallia 2015.jpg, which you've attributed to The author, Mark Mallia. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. - FlightTime (open channel) 20:07, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Will be following the process to have the author's permission recorded properly. Have the email at hand. Maltalinks (talk) 11:15, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

File:Mark_mallia_narcissus_broke_his_mirror.jpg

You uploaded, File:Mark_mallia_narcissus_broke_his_mirror.jpg, where you either stated or implied that you had permission of a third party to upload it; or that evidence of such permission would be provided on request.

Wikipedia currently needs the permission to be explicit and proven at the time of upload.

Please read Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission, which advises on how to confirm the permission you obtained from a third party.

It is also advisable to ask the third-party what source attribution they desire, as opposed to marking the image as having been "sent personally". ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:29, 26 June 2018 (UTC) Will be following the process to have the author's permission recorded properly. Have the email at hand. Maltalinks (talk) 11:15, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Conrad Borg Manché

The article Conrad Borg Manché has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. —C.Fred (talk) 14:27, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Mark Mallia 2015.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mark Mallia 2015.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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Hi User:FlightTime - there is proper permission for this file. The author Mark Mallia had sent the permission email a long time ago (on 30 June 2018), it should be logged within OTRS, I think the ticket number was 2018062610006679. Don't have access to OTRS so cannot check this myself. Let me know if you need me to forward a copy once again. The email had covered his photo and that of his painting, Narcissus. Kindly remove the deletion tag as this is in error. Thanks.Maltalinks (talk) 06:33, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

You were correct, the ticket number is VRTS ticket # 2018062610006679. There was an issue with an insufficient first mailing, but that seems to have been resolved. I have removed the deletion request and tagged both Files as permissions received. Thank you for your contributions. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 12:40, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

P.S. You should of not reverted this edit an OTRS agent (me) would of fix it after the issue was resolved. Displaying an image with permission issues is a big no, no. Thanks, - FlightTime (open channel) 12:46, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks User talk:FlightTime no problem, as you said better to ensure that there is proper permission for everything. Cheers! Maltalinks (talk) 17:12, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Angelo Dalli) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Angelo Dalli.

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Of the 50+ sources currently attached to the article, maybe 5 are actually useful, in that they are independent, reliable, and contain significant coverage of the subject. Please consider removing the various citations to database entries, to articles written by Dalli, and to interviews with him that do not contain information not already provided by other, more reliable sources.

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_signed, Rosguill ^talk 21:24, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

@Rosguill:Thanks for your assessment. I have erred on the side of caution when it came to references - will clean it up a bit as I may have overdone it a bit. Please appreciate that it is difficult to find good sources for people from Malta, which is the editorial area I am focusing on, so I thought that it would be better to have more rather than less references. I am going to leave interviews conducted by third parties unless there is some major objection to this -- Mark.Maltalinks (talk) 15:11, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for following up on this. I can understand your reasoning behind providing so many citations, but you should still avoid ever having more than one citation per claim (unless it's a particularly controversial claim or a claim of the form "multiple sources say X"). As for interviews, if there's information that is reported nowhere else then I guess you can keep them, but bear in mind that they are generally not considered to be independent as a rule because they rely primarily on the subject's input (although there are often interview articles that start with a biography of the subject, and only then begin the interview: in these cases, the biography part is likely independent, although it is a subjective judgment that varies from case to case). _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:39, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Finally found the time to update this article and fix the issue, deleted redundant references, and shortened it a bit. Maltalinks (talk) 16:25, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Conrad Borg Manche portrait.jpg

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This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 01:00, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Fastily:A permission email *was* sent by the author as I have a copy of it in cc - added the OTRS pending tag, this should have already been tagged with an OTRS number - please check and remove the deletion tag as this is incorrect (Maltalinks (talk) 11:48, 22 February 2019 (UTC))

Collaboration on a page

Hi. I'd like to collaborate with you on a Malta page in Wikipedia. Can I reach out @Maltalinks? Thanks ! DigitalArchiver2020 (talk) 21:51, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes of course Maltalinks (talk) 10:54, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Excellent. Can I drop you an email? DigitalArchiver2020 (talk) 14:10, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Mga logo.png

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