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Your GA nomination of John B. Magruder

The article John B. Magruder you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:John B. Magruder for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AustralianRupert -- AustralianRupert (talk) 03:01, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John B. Magruder

The article John B. Magruder you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:John B. Magruder for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AustralianRupert -- AustralianRupert (talk) 02:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Precious

"I edit here when I have nothing else to do, just for fun."

Thank you for quality articles such as John B. Magruder and Pizzagate conspiracy theory, for contributions at the help desk, for expanding and sourcing stubs, for fighting vandalism, for welcoming new users and missing, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:27, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

HOLY CRAP! I can’t believe I got one... Thank you very much, Greda! (Although it should be mentioned that TGS did most of the work on John Mugrader and I continued the nomination after they were banned because I didn’t want their work to go to waste)💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 23:55, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Even better! I recently tried to rescue Mark Judge for DYK, and did the GA thing earlier for The Lilacs, - Precious is from the cabal of theoutcasts, DYK? Look for the desert image on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

sig test

Hello mr. Money!yeet (talk) 19:35, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Looks like that a little too excessive...💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 19:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Money emoji!

Happy New Year!

Money emoji,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year, Money emoji!

Happy New Year!

Money emoji,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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2019

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019

begin it with music and memories

Not too late, I hope ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:29, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 18:16, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

@The C of E: Yeah, A "friend" of mine thought that it would be funny to blank the entire arbcom case page that I was planning to make a statement on while I was using the bathroom. shouldn't have left my computer open.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 18:20, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Log out of your account next time please :) TonyBallioni (talk) 18:22, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, some people can't be trusted...💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 18:23, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Stop undoing my edits

The two companies are operating as different companies under different LLCs. Collaborative Fusion is now a separate entity.

Look at the picture of :Juvare" does that say Collaborative Fusion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasezhang2.0 (talk • contribs) 14:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

@Chasezhang2.0: See what I said on your talk page.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 14:59, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

@money emoji - thank you, I did. Writing the reason now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasezhang2.0 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

This is how you tell I'm old

Having to do a CU request on 10 or so yeet "socks" in UTRS was what taught me the word existed. Still have no earthy idea what it means. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:24, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Here is one possible explanation of its origin. Captain Eek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 21:44, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Huh. Is it me or did it just become popular around last fall again? I'm old enough to have no clue about pop culture references from today, but in 2014 I should have been more tuned in. Knowing the context of the phrase, it still makes zero sense. Whatever, I'm not paid to be kewl. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:53, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Honestly, it just sounded funny; I don’t think it has any kind of meaning, maybe throwing something hard?💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 01:09, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Industry in Syracuse, New York

Hello Money emoji. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Industry in Syracuse, New York, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not an unambiguous copyright infringement, or there is other content to save. Thank you. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 23:53, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Nconwaymicelli

Hi! It'd be just great if you were able to make some headway with this monster CCI. I tried a bit, and found it unbelievably time-consuming – a huge number of small edits, and a lot of splitting/moving of content. What I'm now fully convinced of is that we can't trust one word of his running text to be copyvio-free. Speedy deletion isn't a good option for a page like the one above, with a long history and contributions from other editors too. In that particular case there is also a (probably) clean version (the very first) that could be reverted to, so speedy wouldn't apply. Unless you are able to revert to before his first edit, blanking and listing at WP:CP is probably the best move; unless it's been rewritten, any page listed there may be deleted after a week if that's appropriate. I'm happy to try to help/advise at any time. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:18, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a ton for the advice, Jlsn. I'm currently trying to clear out all CCIs (Because I think that would be cool) and the Nconwaymicelli seems to be the worst one. I'll try to get it cleared out though, because it would be pretty cool If I did. (Also can you archive Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/BeeCeePhoto Since I cleared it out? Again, Thanks a lot.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 15:29, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

salt potatoes RD1

I'm looking at your RD1 request for salt potatoes. the earliest edit appears to be this one on 10 November 2010.

However the source was captured by the Internet archive in March 2012. How did you conclude that the source material was written prior to the Wikipedia article? (I do see the copyright notice at the bottom of the page has a range of dates 2004 – 2011, but I don't think I can use that to draw any conclusions about when this specific material was added to the site.)--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:19, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: Scanning the article using earwig's copyvio detector, I found a sentence near the top of the page while looking at the comparison that said "Syracuse Salt Potatoes Sides Add comments Oct 15 2007 Syracuse Salt Potatoes" This lead me to believe that was when the recipe/article was published, so I removed the content accordingly and tagged the diffs for revdel. If I'm understanding how the Internet Archive works, it "saves" domains after they "die", so I assumed the the "March 2012" was just the month it was saved. If I'm wrong/incorrect somehow, I'd be happy to hear, since I'm just starting to wade into the realm of copyvios.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 21:29, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

(edit conflict) (talk page watcher) Sphilbrick, see here (also, the probable year and month of creation, 2007/10, are part of the more recent url). Money emoji, in an article like this where there is an (apparently) clean version before Nconwaymicelli's first edit, I think the only safe thing to do is to revert to that version; an exception would be if you can see a clearly-defined block of text added by him which you can cleanly remove while leaving the other content intact. In cases where – as here – he has repeatedly copy-edited the text, we just have to make sure we remove every single word he added (unless it is really minimal and demonstrably different from the cited source, as in some of the motor-car pages). However, before I go ahead and do that, I'm going to ask Sphilbrick if he agrees with this advice? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:38, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, jln. The funny thing is, my dumbass that you can just click the "restore this revision" button, so I'll make sure to use that when dealing with issues like this in the future.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 00:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

That works; or you can load the old revision, hit "edit", ignore the warning and save with a suitable edit summary. Just in case it ever happens to you: if you do that with a biography, you'll often have to do it twice over – an old template (persondata) triggers an edit filter and won't let you save unless you try a second time. Thank you so much for working on this! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:11, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers, I am now convinced. the link I looked at to the Internet archive didn't have an entry prior to the date of the Wikipedia article which is why I was concerned. Now that I see an entry dating to 2008, it's a reasonable conclusion that the article was copied from elsewhere. S Philbrick(Talk) 14:07, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Money emoji, I have now completed the RD1. Thanks for your diligence. S Philbrick(Talk) 14:10, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

salomon's house and copyright

Marvelhouse words (talk) 08:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC) Hi Money emoji, and thank you for your message. I'm very new here so still working out te (rather opaque) system.

With regards the text I uploaded to the page Salomon's house, I see your point. I have two replies and one request.

1. Good work in spotting it (the Literary encyclopedia, I believe).

2. I wrote it, and I'm pretty sure Lit Enc entries belong to the writer. (correction. This appears to have changed).

3. Damn I hate rapacious publishers.

(I love being pulled up for copying myself, but then that's the modern world)

I'll rejigger it suitably. At some point when I have the time.

On this matter in general, ought I register somewhere here my interest (as in, my interest and knowledge on Bacon)? I can't for the life of me work out this sandbox businss, and lack patience with things that don't offer themselves immediately (when that's their job).

Thank you in advance,

(apologies if I sign out wrong, btw)

Marvelhouse words

@Marvelhouse words: Thanks for coming here and explaining the situation. For your question about Sandboxes, here's a simple explanation: You can create a sandbox as a subpage of your user page, like User:Marvelhouse words/sandbox. Aside from material that would be considered advertising, disruptive, musings unrelated to wikipedia, or a copyright violation, you are allowed to write whatever you want whatever you want in it. Again, thanks for coming here, and feel free to ask questions.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 11:55, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Copyright

This is not how copyright works.[1] If you've been adding this to other articles, please go back and make sure the copyright violations have been removed. Natureium (talk) 19:52, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

@Natureium: Yes, I know. I would not have ever done that on a main space article, and in hindsight I’m not sure why I did it on the draft. (I think I was trying to make an admin viewing the copyvio csd i placed aware of what the user had claimed on the talk page, but they would have seen it anyway if they were doing there job correctly, making it unessecary) But yes, I know you can’t just put some bolded text on an article and say “yeah it’s copyright but uh it’s not lol”. I have never done this with any article, and apologize for any hassle I created in putting the faux notice on the page.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 20:08, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Haha, no problem. People do some very strange things on wikipedia, so I wanted to make sure. Natureium (talk) 20:10, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Copy Patrol

I know you've been helping out with CCI's for which I thank you.

It's my opinion that of all the copyright tasks, the CCI's tend to be the toughest, mainly because they often are fairly dated and a lot of the material shows up in Wikipedia forks and mirrors, so watching out for false positives is important. In addition, sometimes the original source material is no longer directly available on the net so you have to resort to the Internet archive which you have where do use very well.

You mentioned recently that you do not have access to the Internet archive, so that may hamper your ability to work on CCI's.

Can I tempt you to help out at Copy Patrol?

That's a relatively new tool that identifies potential copyright violations in real time.

One advantage of working on these as opposed to CCI's, is that the edits typically happened within the last few hours, so access to the Internet archive is almost never an issue.

One important thing to be aware of is that the tool doesn't look for matches within Wikipedia itself, so there are often false positives when someone copies material from one Wikipedia article to another. The tool may pick up a match to a mirror and it may look like a copyright violation but in fact it might be a legitimate Wikipedia. (In theory, editors are supposed to note this in the edit summary but many do not know the rules.)

There are a small handful of us active in this area, but I have to cut back a bit because I need to do more work in OTRS so I'm going to have to cut back on the number I can handle each day.

I recently left a post with Diannaa, who handles more than anyone else, and she suggested reaching out to some people who have contributed in the past. I don't think you've been part of copy patrol but I thought of you as someone with copyright experience.S Philbrick(Talk) 19:19, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: (sorry it took a bit to get back to you) thanks a lot for the compliments and the offer, I'll gladly use the tool while I'm sorting out the issue with the Internet Archive💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 11:24, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Money emoji, Great! S Philbrick(Talk) 12:01, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Money emoji, just out of curiosity, what's the problem with the internet archive? Are you getting an error message when you try to load the page? I'm asking because I had, and have fixed, such an error; I might even be able to remember how I did it. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:00, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers: No, its far stupider than that; My workplace installed a wifi thing that blocks sites, and Archive.org was one of them, for seemingly no reason ( Facepalm ). I'm currently trying to get it added to a white list.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 13:05, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Money emoji, Thanks for all you've done over the last few days! S Philbrick(Talk) 20:17, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Aamir Hussain RD1 request

I'm not seeing the text at this site.

What am I missing?--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:37, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: Yeah, I think I got the wrong url. The copy patrol report shows more than one URL, and they all looked similar, so I assumed that it wouldn't matter which one I choose, but I guess it did since two of them just seem to redirect to the websites mainpage, and only one of them (this one: https://www.tesla-pv.com/about-us/) shows the copied text. My bad, I should have clicked on all of them to make sure.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 18:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Money emoji, No prob, it happens. Thanks again for stepping up with Copy Patrol. S Philbrick(Talk) 19:11, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

RD1 request

I'm probably missing something simple with respect to your RD1 request at Bab Antakeya, But when I go to the identified site, I see a photo but not the relevant text.S Philbrick(Talk) 18:32, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick:, Yeah it was the wrong link- the one i provided was just some photo gallery for the actual infrigned article, https://archnet.org/sites/2870. 💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 21:05, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Money emoji, Thanks, now  Done S Philbrick(Talk) 21:29, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

April 2019

Hello! I am RaquelSalanchez and I am a Spanish developer of the English Wikipedia. I am trying and learning how to contribute with Wikipedia and I am making some errors. I want to apologize for it. Best regards

• @RaquelSalanchez: Thank you for the apology. However, you must understand that adding Copyrighted material to articles is not allowed, and that you should not remove reports at the Admin's noticeboard If they have not been resolved.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 13:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Orsu

Alright dear, thank you very much for the correction.

• You're welcome.💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 14:48, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Any user who makes significant progress towards clearing a task with a 9-year backlog (!) clearly deserves a barnstar. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:22, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

@Pppery: I appreciate this greatly. Thank you very much. 💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 17:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Minden

I'd looked at that mess 5 years ago, when I first started to work on school articles, and just threw up my hands. It was like inheriting a house from a distant relative only to discover he was a chronic horder. The first thought is "burn it to the ground." Unfortunately, WP:OMGTHISISJUSTWAYTOOMUCH is not a valid reason for deletion. John from Idegon (talk) 01:16, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Ben W. Hooper

Where is the investigation for copyvio? I wrote much of the article, and I assure you it was not plagiarized or copypasted. BrineStans (talk) 20:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

I found it. I'll clean up the article and make sure any Hathorn IP edits are removed or reworded. BrineStans (talk) 21:21, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

BrineStans, Sorry about removing some of your good work. I noticed that you had a lot of good contributions on the article after and rolling back and was in the process of adding some of them back in when I was distracted by and irl situation. Again, sorry for any hassle I caused. 💵Money💵emoji💵^💸 21:49, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

It's no problem. Better safe than sorry when it comes to copyright. BrineStans (talk) 21:52, 1 July 2019 (UTC)