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When you get the time...inactive Users

Gooday Ron - have I seen previously, or otherwise do you know, if there have been/are any developments for flagging-up inactive Users? Have I seen this on your talk page (I think I've seen it but unsure where...maybe Re. membership lists of Projects?). Unsure how to search for this info. Thx, Steve.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 17:11, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

There was a bit - it's at User_talk:Ronhjones/Archive_27#Please_explain - maybe talk to User:Technical 13 Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:06, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Yep, that was it - well-sleuthed as one User opined; your comment "When the encyclopaedia is finished - LOL. Answer never. I agree it not a high priority, but at the end of the day these talk pages with 500 substituted Willy Wonker's Newsletters, do take up some server space, so it does makes sense to think about sorting this out for the future of Wikipedia - 23 million named accounts - how many talk pages are growing weekly on long gone people? It will only get worse, if we don't lay some foundation now. Ronhjones (Talk) 02:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)" is the bit I recalled. I have on occasion sent messages to talk pages on the offchance they will stop by.

I've known about this absence since June 2013 (on my watchlist before then), but the 'absent' top template message and The Herald continuation is poignant.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 21:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

User:Zurich00swiss

OK, you're an admin. Hi! May I request you to consider blocking Zurich00swiss for good. This account had really no significant contribution whatsoever, and had only committed vandalism reverted by many editors. This person is back after a 48-hour block and redid some of the same edits. Please consider that Zurich00swiss had wiped "clean" his talk page many times and often switched to User:151.29.252.8 after warnings. Even my user page was vandalized twice. And he's been back for more today (Friday, March 6). HkCaGu (talk) 06:44, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

FYI: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. I raised it before seeing this conversation. RichardOSmith (talk) 13:25, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

@HkCaGu and RichardOSmith: Already indefnite block - and since he chose to abuse the blocking admin, I've revoked his talk page access as well. However it does strike me as one who will not go away so easily - do watch out for socks. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Possible Image Deletion - Permission Question

You tagged our page Puget Sound Senior Baseball League regarding permission to use the copyrighted logo. As president of the organization which created and owns the logo, I followed your instructions and sent an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. I used a template you suggested and also added OTRS Pending to the image file (hopefully in the right place). Being very new to all this, I tried to follow through correctly. If you have a moment, could you check? Thank you.

Looks like something has been received by OTRS - I'm sure they have replied to you. In reality you have 30 days to sort it out with the OTRS team. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:03, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Sameer Paudwal

Okay thanks, though his sockmaster seems to be unblocked now I should add. I am tagging tons of his pages now for a speedy. Wgolf (talk) 17:42, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye for them Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Kanak Chapa

Well its a draft made by Sandman that the actual page is protected now-I couldn't put a DB-banned on it though since well, he is the sockmaster. Draft:Kanak Chapa Wgolf (talk) 19:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@Wgolf:I don't mind pages in Draft space so much as they are not indexed by Google - so no one knows they are there! It will sit there until - 6 months passes or it gets improved. I suspect the former... P.S. I did all your G5s - wasn't he a busy one! Also salted a few pages where they had been deleted before. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:25, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

A user you recently blocked

Bradford ISIS -- should be blocked indef for their usernmae anyway? Just before you blocked I contacted NawlinWiki about it. NawlinWiki is on the list of admins willing to make difficult blocks, and hopefully this won't get too severe. —George8211 / T 19:54, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry yet again -- blocked indef anyway. —George8211 / T 19:55, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

I did think about it, wasn't 100% sure which way to go - decided to "give them enough rope..." Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:01, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

As long as there are no threats, it should all be fine and we can move on to other matters. —George8211 / T 20:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Deleted Image File:Increasing_litho_steps_for_advanced_nodes.png

This page was cited as a copyright violation. It is from a publicly accessible material, cited in the file. Please let me know where there is a violation. Thanks.Guiding light (talk) 09:47, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@Guiding light: There are millions of publicly accessible images on the internet, nearly all cannot be used here - showing an image does not give anyone the right up upload it to Wikipedia. Thus there were two things wrong on the page

• You claimed you were the copyright holder, which clearly you are not.
• For the re-use of a remote web image we need the url of the page the image is displayed (not the image url) and a url to show the permission for its re-use (suitable for Wikipedia - so that will be PD, CC-zero, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA).

It's possible that it may get covered as a US Gov site - I don't know, I could not see any useful page at http://www.sec.gov, and I don't see a Securities and Exchange Commission mentioned at any of the various templates at Wikipedia:File_copyright_tags/All#United_States_government. Maybe raise the issue at WP:MCQ - you might find more editors used to the US. We can restore the file if we can get the license sorted out and remove the self copyright claim. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:31, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

I actually had made the image myself using parts of the original presentation, which had a larger drawing. I felt it was a fair, minimal use with the citation is it not?Guiding light (talk) 22:32, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

@Guiding light:You don't want to go down the fair use line - it's more a minefield. 100,000 pixels max for a start. Anyway, I've been trying to work out what to do with this one - then I had an idea, I checked the images on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission article, all the modern images there are tagged with {{PD-USGov}} - so it looks like it does come under the US Gov site (it would be nice if they linked that properly). So I've restored that and added that template. Looking carefully at all the earlier versions, I can see where you are tweaking it, so I've left the other license in as well to cover the adjustments. Sorry for the delay, but it's best to get it right now, and not in a couple of years time when you may not see the warnings (and yes, that does happen...) - you may need to put it back in the articles it was in. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Well there are a few Sadman articles still floating around

Although I have prodded most, some might still need to be deleted, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sadman_Sakibzz (and looks like he is not blocked yet as the sockmaster) Wgolf (talk) 18:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Sockmaster blocked. Noticed applied to user page. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:02, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Questions

Hi, I have 3 questions I'd like to ask, if you answer them please could you list the answers in the way I have asked them, thanks

• 1) Can an administrator block them-self?
• 2) Can an administrator block other administrators?
• 3) Can an administrator remove admin privileges from other administrators?

Thanks again TeaLover1996 Lets talk about it 07:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

1. Yup - done that (by accident! - massive attack by many users on one page, and I was copying and pasting many user names copied from the history page, into the block page very quickly, and managed to copy my name and hit the block button too late...)
2. Yes - technically they can unblock themselves, but are not supposed to do so.
3. No

Hope that helps Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:31, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Portrait of Arthur Dyson

Hello. You deleted a portrait from the biography of Arthur Dyson that has been cleared by the copyright owner to be used. I do not know why this situation occurred, nor do I know how to correct it. Can you please help to put the portrait back where it was.

Thnank you.

_________________ I hereby affirm that I, David Swann, am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of Portrait of Arthur Dyson.jpg

I agree to publish the above-mentioned content under the free 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

I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.

I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites.

I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me.

I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. David Swann ASMP, AIA, FAF, NAPP davidswann photography

p | 559-359-1400 f | 888-885-1225 e | david@davidswann.com w | www.davidswann.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bragdonite (talk • contribs) 23:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

@Bragdonite: You said on the image page on 20 December 2014 "The license agreement will be forwarded to OTRS shortly. {{OTRS pending}}" - when we looked at OTRS there was nothing there. I always search for

1. The full url - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Arthur_Dyson.jpg
2. The file name - File:Portrait of Arthur Dyson.jpg
3. The user name - Bragdonite

in any e-mail received over the last 3 months. If I don't get a match then it gets tagged for deletion. I've just checked that data agian and there is no match. I have now also checked for "David Swann" and found a new Ticket#2015030910002304 Dated 9/3/2015 - but it doesn't use that text - I will have to reply to him to sort out the permission. If and when that is done, I can restore the image. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:24, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

@Bragdonite: Image restored and back on article. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:33, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox aqueduct navigable

Template:Infobox aqueduct navigable has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox bridge. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:33, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Commented there Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:45, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Martial arts vandal again

It looks like the martial arts vandal is back again, as 90.200.123.41 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). I don't want to become naively optimistic about him, but he only seems to be edit warring with one person right now instead of the epic edit wars under previous IP addresses (50–100 reverts per day). Maybe this is actually beginning to work out a little bit. If he stops edit warring and blanking categories, I would tentatively be open to letting him edit in peace. It seems like a long shot, but who knows? Maybe he's getting tired of constantly being blocked. Sorry to see that you're having PC trouble. For a little while, I was stuck on an old, low-end laptop after my desktop died. I know your pain. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:11, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: Agreed - edits not too bad now, if we leave him alone - at least you know where he is. He's on an old IP, maybe he thinks he's running out of unused IPs? Think PC has killed it's C: drive - still under it's 3 year warranty, so back to makers, stuck with a modest eMachines laptop (but I'm using main PC mouse and keyboard!), at least it modern enough to be AMD 64 bit, but not as quick as the overclocked i7...  :-( Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:26, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it's working out. He's insisting on blanking categories and edit warring to maintain these edits. He's currently engaged in edit wars with Dl2000, MarnetteD, and me across several articles after we attempted to restore blanked content or remove original research. I tried to communicate with him, but he ignored me, as usual. I don't know what to say except that his edits are only becoming more bold and disruptive as time goes on. I don't think he has any intention of changing his behavior, unfortunately. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 11:32, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

The new account is 90.205.211.165 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). I'm going to report it to AIV, but I figured I'd keep you in the loop. It looks like he's gone right back to 75% edit warring and 25% editing. It might be best to go back to protecting the pages that he edits. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:38, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate:I see 1 week block by Edgar181, pages done. Wait for the next IP address... :-( Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Looks like we didn't have to wait too long! 90.197.96.26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) seems to be the newest one. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:15, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

And another one bites the dust. :-) Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:45, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

He's back again as 90.197.96.26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). This has got to be the most tenacious person in the entire world. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:33, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: Interesting that he's using an IP he's used before - maybe he'll start running out - we don't know how the IPs are allocated. All sorted out. Tenacious! - see User_talk:Bahooka#Rangeblock - just as bad (but easier to spot). Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of redirect

My request for a 2nd opinion on the Bessora redirect seems to gone nowhere on the OTRS noticeboard possibly because they feel it should have gone elsewhere so I put a note on the BLP noticeboard. --Big_iron (talk) 13:07, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Sadman's latest one

I put a SPI a few days ago and it seems like this person defiantly is him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Shraddha_Arya Wgolf (talk) 19:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Pandher Page124.253.133.161 (talk) 13:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Why have you deleted the Pandher page? It is a caste in Punjab area in India. This happens when a person knows nothing about a place and thinks himself as of all knowing

Unreferenced article - nominated for deletion by User:Sitush as "Fails WP:GNG. It certainly is a name used in India but I can find no sources that discuss it as a caste, clan or gotra. Tagged as unsourced for years." - see User:Ronhjones/DeletedPROD if you want it back, but it would be unwise to restore back to main space as it's unlikely to survive a full deletion process. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:17, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Requesting image un-deletion

Hello, Ronhjones, I'm writing to request undeletion of the following referenced image:

00:06, 19 February 2015 Ronhjones (talk | contribs) deleted page File:Aimpoint T-1 on Glock 17.jpg (File deleted: F11: No evidence of permission for more than 7 days (TW))

Permission was forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org on February 11, 2015, and OTRS tag added the same day. Did I put the OTRS in the wrong field, maybe?

Thanks! -DFN (talk) 00:50, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, seems to me my error and I know not why! I have to assume I've been caught out by Wikipedia caching - I must have seen the page earlier and the PC has remembered the old version (it's a sick PC at present - still at the repairers - maybe that did not help). Restored to allow OTRS to proceed. I just looked - ticket is in the queue, not looked at yet. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:15, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Dan Lowenstein (physician) page

Hi,

I just saw your note about the removal of the image I had attached to Dan Lowenstein's page.

As a novice and infrequent user, I thought I had thoroughly read the details about the attribution process and uploaded the photo to something called the wikicommons (or wikiimage?) area.

I'm sorry but I don't understand the specifics of your directions in your 2014 message to me.

At the time I had posted the image, I had requested a photo to use directly from Doctor Lowenstein, and he had graciously emailed one to me.

I would like to put the image up again, and I hope you can help me find the right way to do so.

Thanks!

Itsnotsanfran (talk) 02:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

File:Daniel H. Lowenstein (physician).jpeg - you and only upload images you have the copyright. Otherwise you have to get the copyright donated. That system is explained at WP:DCM

OK, your image had on it {{OTRS pending}} - maybe added by the wizard. That gives you 30 days to provide the copyright evidence. Now there is a further issue (sorry...) in that I do not think that Daniel H. Lowenstein took the photo, it does not look like a selfie. The copyright belongs to the person who pressed the shutter. That's the only person who can donate any of the copyright. So there must be a copyright release from the photographer. If the photographer sold the copyright with the photo to Daniel H. Lowenstein, then we need to see that signed release, and then we would need a release from Daniel H. Lowenstein as he then owns the copyright. Once OTRS has all the informtion then they will undelete the image. Whoever owns the copyright can use the standard form at WP:CONSENT to send in. Hope that makes some sense - images are rather complex items when you don't take the photo yourself. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:49, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I understand. Thanks for the detailed response. It seems that getting a photo of him on here is more work than it's worth. How about if I go take a photo of him myself and then release it to Wikipedia? Less paperwork pushing. Will that be a satisfactory solution? Thanks in advance.

Itsnotsanfran (talk) 12:11, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

@Itsnotsanfran: Correct. Any phot you took is yours nto do waht you want - but note - be sure to upload it to Wikipedia first before any uploads to any other web sites, otherwise users will supect it's a copy! Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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About a deleted page - Shweta Taneja

Hi Ronhjones, i was creating a page for "Shweta Taneja" which i had saved as a draft. A day later it got created as a page (i dont know how, i am a newbie) and few days later it got deleted by you with a note that a banned user created it so the page was deleted.

I tried to create the draft again but after a couple of days of editing, the new draft also does not show in my list of contributions. Is there a way to get back that page in draft mode either from the version you deleted or from my second round of editing? I dont want to lose that work and would like to have the page created eventually after going through the submit and review process.

Thanks Ashwaniapex (talk) 15:37, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

@Ashwaniapex: No, no. There were 2 pages - the draft one was never approved.

1. Shweta Taneja created by Sameer Paudwal at 10:57, 25 February 2015 (and you added a bit to it later) and deleted by me 18:47, 8 March 2015 deleted page Shweta Taneja (G5: Creation by a banned or blocked user (Sadman Sakibzz) in violation of ban or block)
2. Draft:Shweta Taneja created by you at 05:29, 19 February 2015 and deleted - 11:53, 11 March 2015 user:Graeme Bartlett deleted page Draft:Shweta Taneja (G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)

You will have to talk to Graeme Bartlett to get the Draft version undeleted. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

The deleted article and the deleted draft are almost exactly the same so I concluded that the same person made both articles. I do not particularly like the G5 criterion for deletion. And I am not easily able to see what led to the ban/block. When I look at the history I see that Ashwaniapex is correct that the draft was first and that Sameer Paudwal copied it without credit. Since Ashwaniapex is not blocked I will restore the draft. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:59, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Ronhjones. I guess your action started some kind of chain and the article was eventually approved and created today. It needs polish by way of copy-editing and i still have more references to add but it is now live and that is a start :-). Thanks again.

Ashwaniapex (talk) 17:30, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Voting on functionary candidates

This is occurring at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions. Courcelles (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Request for undelete

Hi Ronhjones, i'd like to request an undelete of article 'Rachel Nordlinger' (deleted 23:06, 20 January 2015). Article may have been deleted because sources were not sufficient to indicate notability - further edits will rectify this. Roseybill (talk) 07:05, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@Roseybill:  Done Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:54, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

BitSnoop

Why did you delete BitSnoop Ltblood (talk) 21:57, 26 March 2015 (UTC)Ltblood

Hi Ltblood, does this page answer your question?

As stated above - Expired PROD, concern was: Nothing to indicate notability other than being one of many blocked sites Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:55, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Protection on MLS articles

Would you consider lifting or setting an expiration date for the indefinite semi-protection at Atlanta MLS team‎, New York City FC‎, Los Angeles Football Club‎, and Miami MLS team‎? Except for NYC FC, none of the articles had been protected previously, and judging from the histories none seemed to have a major vandalism problem. Conifer (talk) 06:49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I think there was a blocked user using IPs - cleared Miami MLS team, Los Angeles Football Club, New York City FC, Atlanta MLS team, 2014 Miami Beach Bowl. If there is still a padlock symbol - the normal bot will ,clear it, but the page is unprotected. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:53, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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User:Zmaher sockpuppet

You blocked User:Zmaher indefinitely in January 2015, but he seems to be using a series of sockpuppets in the 146.163 range to edit war on Metallica and/or Guns n Roses concert tour articles. Aspects (talk) 20:30, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

If there is any particular page then use WP:RFPP or tell me, if I'm around. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:19, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

For the past couple of months, it was just Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour, which I went to WP:RFPP once and it was protected for one week. But yesterday it extended to seven other articles, Damage, Inc. Tour, Use Your Illusion Tour, Damaged Justice, Wherever We May Roam Tour, Nowhere Else to Roam, Poor Touring Me and World Magnetic Tour. Aspects (talk) 21:31, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

And another new IP address from the 146.163 range came in to edit war on Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour without any edit summaries or talk page discussion. Aspects (talk) 20:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

@Aspects: Let's see how that goes. BTW - any reason Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour is a sub page and not a full page? That looks a bit odd - why not Metallica Stadium Tour? Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:23, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

I apologize for not replying earlier, I meant to thank you for your help and answer your question, but I guess I forgot. I think the article is a subpage is because the tour was in the middle of Guns n Roses tour, Use Your Illusion Tour, while in between tours for Metallica, so it seems to fall in a weird area. I did not set this up, but I have tried to maintain, if the article is deemed to fall into another article, I would not have a problem with it.

As for your protection, that seemed to have lasted two days. User:146.163.48.162 made their first edit asking to add the history of the tour, 22 minutes later User:Maniac1993 starts making edits to articles typical of Zmaher's behavior, thrash metal and heavy metal music, to get confirmed and then heads back to the concert tour article to make the same type of changes without edit summaries again, [1]. Aspects (talk) 00:00, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

I made three edits, [2], where I added Guns N' Roses tour chronology to the infobox, fixed sentences regarding Metallica's tours and added Category:Co-headlining concert tours, that were promptly reverted. The sockpuppet was even edit warring to keep the protected template with an end date of 1 March 2015, [3]. Am I going to get no help with this obvious sockpuppet of a blocked editor? Aspects (talk) 23:28, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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Prof Tony Elliott-kelly

Dear Ron I have uploaded a new photo for my professor, Prof Tony Elliott-kelly. I hope this is properly done this time. Thanks

Harcle — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harcle (talk • contribs) 02:54, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

@Harcle: As you see anything you actually create is easy, everything else is very hard. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 15:07, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

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Martial arts vandal

Got a new one for you: 90.213.44.138 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). His activity level seems to be slowing down, but I guess that's probably too much to hope for. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 15:31, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

He went on a binge of edit warring and category blanking, so I sent it to AIV. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:19, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_files/2015_April_14#April_14

FYI, I was processing 2015010110006524 (pertaining to files from the New Mexico legislature) and have nominated them at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2015 April 14. --B (talk) 11:39, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Ross Palombo

Hi Ronhjomes,

I see that you have deleted the page for "Ross Palombo". Your reason is that he is not relevant beyond local news.

What you didn't see is that he is highly notable in the Gay Community. He anchored a national show from CBS News called "365 Gay News" . It was the only gay-centric news program at the time and, in fact, the first program of its kind. That is a big part of gay history.

With gay pride month coming up in America this June, won't you consider restoring this page? I know the community would appreciate it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.109.80.67 (talk) 15:13, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

I've restored it, but it's poorly written, so unlikely to survive. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Vicnet

G'day ron As you can guess i am from Australia or as we call it here " Straya" -- Any chance you can explain why you randomly deleted entry on Vicnet? Not that hard to contact people involved with Vicnet?

It would have been a courtesy to ask?

Please reinstate the article and if you want to know what we do and did -- Just ask!!

With respect and clear annoyance

Brendan Fitzgerald Manager of Vicnet 2007 - 2011115.64.109.208 (talk) 12:17, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

No references at all in article. It could be restored as a contented PROD if you like, it would not survive long before being deleted. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

OTRS received

Hi Ronhjones. Why do you tag images as OTRS received without processing the tickets? In a lot of them I have seen, the permission is clearly acceptable as is and with the same level of effort, you could use the {{OTRS permission}} tag, reply with the thanks template, and save someone else from having to follow up four months later. Even for the ones that are not acceptable as is, a lot of times one of the standard replies is sufficient and sending that standard reply rather than leaving the ticket to age for a few months would be helpful.

We have a category Category:Wikipedia files with unconfirmed permission received by OTRS by date, which categorizes images with {{OTRS received}} in order by the date of the last edit, with the idea being that for the older ones, we should consider deleting the image because the contributor has not replied to the message. But when {{OTRS received}} doesn't mean that we have actually sent a message and are awaiting a reply, that doesn't work too well.

I have added a new flag - |notprocessed=1 - to the {{OTRS received}} template that you can use - {{OTRS received|notprocessed=1}}. This will leave the image out of the dated category and display a better generic message. (My preference would be to not use this and to always reply to the user if you are going to tag the image, but at least this will clearly mark the image as not having yet received a reply.) --B (talk) 04:06, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Usually when I spent a whole evening wading through the vast list at Category:Items pending OTRS confirmation of permission for over 30 days, (when I have the time to clear out the category, that is!), then not usually enough time to process the tickets as well as doing all the searches. If only people would include the urls in the tickets! Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Okay. Maybe the |notprocessed=1 flag would be a useful endeavor for these so that someone doesn't see that it's been in OTRS received for 2 months and decide to delete it. Side rant: I'd like to see us figure out a way to knock the backlog down and have enough people replying that everything is processed in a day. Our current process is 1. Person uploads photo with the permission of the copyright holder; 2. Someone tags it for deletion and leaves them an incomprehensible template message (or, worse, the person uploaded five images with full permission of the copyright holder and they get five copies of the same incomprehensible message); 3. The uploader sends in a statement of permission; 4. Four months later, someone replies asking for more information; 5. The person has long since given up and doesn't care enough to respond; 6. The image gets deleted and the contributor remains ticked off, never to do anything nice for us again. Somehow, some way, we at the English Wikipedia have to respond to these things in a timely fashion. I don't know what the right answer for that is or what level of begging it would take to get more volunteers at OTRS. --B (talk) 20:01, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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Emily Schooley Article

I have found two new sources that come up in Google News and have tried to clean up the article. The info boxes for her films don't seem to be displaying correctly right now, but I think the article sources should now be noteworthy and verfiable (newspaper, Digital Journal). Could you take a look? Sadfatandalone (talk) 13:15, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

@Sadfatandalone: You only need the file name in an infobox - no linking bits! Do you realise you have two versions? User:Sadfatandalone/sandbox and User:Sadfatandalone/Emily Schooley. when you have finished whichever one you don't need, either of them, just ask to have it deleted. If you think it's done, get a proper review - it won't hurt, drafts can be reviewed, improved, reviewed, etc... any number of times. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:29, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the one in my sandbox is the correct one. Not sure how I ended up with two. I will submit draft for review and I appreciate your help.Sadfatandalone (talk) 07:58, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Eliatropeyugo99

Hi RHJ, you were the last admin to deal with this dude. User Eliatropeyugo99 was last blocked for a month for repeated problematic submissions including unexplained and unsourced parenthetical numbers, specifically attempts to call certain episodes "part 1" and "part 2" without any context or sources to support that. Most recently, after two more warnings after the block released, the user has made these changes: [4][5] and [6]. Maybe a competence issue? Maybe a language issue? I dunno, because they've never responded, and just keep making these changes. Disruptive. Thanks, sir. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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Olympiacos B.C. Vandalism

Hi there Ronhjones, How are you RHJ. I hope this message finds you in good health. There has been a great deal of vandalism and removal of information in Olympiacos B.C. page (as you can see here for example: [7], [8]). I made some reversions but in any case I strongly believe it would be wise if the page gets under protection for a while. Thank you in advance Ronhjones, I wish you well. Gtrbolivar (talk) 15:54, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

98.234.128.202

Hey, Rohjones, may I recommend that you blocked 98.234.128.202 again for ignoring repetitive warnings to refrain from making disruptive edits, adding unsourced information to The Lion Guard (TV series) and Simba articles, and violating the Wikipedia:CBALL policy. Thank you very much. Christianster94 (talk) 20:54, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

University of Aberdeen main picture removed

The main picture 'arms of the university' of this page was removed and not replaced, leaving the page looking bare without a photo the top of the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.31.202.222 (talk) 13:20, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

It's complicated with Coats of Arms... It was placed as a non-free image, and then deleted as being "replaceable". Since the elemental parts of the coats of arms are public domain, anyone is free to make a coat of arms from them - thus that could be done by anyone, since that person has spent time making the image, then he has the copyright. Thus using the official coat of arms cannot be allowed as someone holds the copyright of that particular construction, but anyone could make a copy from the normal heraldic parts, which would then have it's own copyright and could be used here if licensed. In a nutshell either use the official COA (and get permission) or make your own and give permission. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:22, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi RonHJones, thanks for the response.

Firstly, apologies as I am not a wikipedian and unfamiliar with protocol. I merely presumed that as the editor who made the edit changing the page appearance of the university that you would also take responsibility for replacing the removed imaged.

I do not understand how the coat of arms can be copyrighted by individuals either, as every version I can find is an exact replica of the original. Surprisingly nor can I find the image provided by a university source anywhere, or see how anyone could create their own coat of arms without professional tools.

What I am asking is for you to help and replace the image, so that the university's page does not remain without one indefinitely. I would be very grateful for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.31.202.222 (talk) 09:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to move to dated pending and received categories

Hi Ronhjones, I am sending you this message because you are one of the admins, OTRS volunteers, or other editors who regularly deals with image issues. I would like to propose that we move to monthly {{OTRS pending}} and {{OTRS received}} categories and that we have a bot help out with automatically tagging images for deletion where the tag has been in place longer than the current {{OTRS backlog}}. The purpose of this exercise is twofold: (1) it reduces potential duplication of effort in checking on images and (2) it prevents images for which we do not receive appropriate permission from sitting around longer than need be. My idea is at Wikipedia:OTRS_noticeboard#Proposal to move to dated pending and received categories and I would welcome your input. Thanks, --B (talk) 22:01, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

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Martial arts articles

If the abuse from the martial arts vandal isn't too bad, could you lift the indefinite semi-protection from some of the targeted articles? (log). Conifer (talk) 20:23, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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Another User:Zmaher sockpuppet

Looks like another User:Zmaher sockpuppet has popped up, User:Coruscant123, to make the exact same edits to the exact same articles. Aspects (talk) 03:49, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Disregard this since the user has been verifies as a sockpuppet and blocked. Aspects (talk) 01:14, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Template:Non-free comic

Gooday Ron - can't see any size guidelines on this - anticipating a single image per:

• or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:
• the scene or storyline depicted, or
• the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;

Would 110,000 px be applied? Thanks and rgds, Steve--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 10:46, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looks_Fragile_After_All

I'm trying to check back for information that was on Wikipedia but seems to have been deleted by you. I'm not even going to list sources to reference for this album because of how unneeded that would be. I hope you don't do this often. Delete very well known albums by bands that other users spent their personal time contributing to.Sagerj (talk) 02:06, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Some Protected Page

Hey Man I'm not sure if here is right place for private messages but can I ask you why is page Growtopia is protected and unable to edit? Sufarga (talk) 19:20, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed that you deleted Siavash Haroun Mahdavi after PROD, but you did not remove some backlinks to the deleted page from other articles. This is recommended practice as set out in WP:PROD#Deletion. If you normally do this but overlooked it on this occasion, pardon me for intrudong. Otherwise, I hope this is helpful.

Thanks for all your work here, – Fayenatic London 13:44, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Please recreate the previously deleted Chris Tsakis entry

Chris Tsakis is an American DJ and Talk Show Host, known on the air as Chris T.heard on legendary U.S. Freeform Station WFMU every Tuesday night with the show Aerial View and on [http://siriusxm.com SiriusXM Satellite Radio weekdays on the Road Dog Trucking Channel (#146) Show Freewheelin' and on the Outlaw Country Channel(#60 Thursday and Friday nights, 8 pm to Mid Eastern time.

In addition, Chris Tsakis has served as MC of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade since 1989. This annual event now welcomes more than half a million visitors to Coney Island on Parade Day.

Chris was also a founder of the seminal New York Punk Rock Band The Nihilistics, was a member of the New York Industrial Band Missing Foundation and has acted on stage in productions of Kid Twist and onscreen in the film I Was A Teenage Mummy. He's also a published author, with pieces in the anthologies A Friendly Game Of Poker and OK, You Mugs, edited by Melissa Holbrook Pierson and Luc Sante.

TheoThanatos (talk) 13:33, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

• @TheoThanatos:, FYI, Ronhjones has not edited in over a month, but I have restored Chris Tsakis for you. As it was an expired PROD, it is subject to automatic restoration on request. This is not an endorsement of the article and, unless third party reliable sources are added, it is likely to be re-deleted. --B (talk) 16:01, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Resolved

Removal of Incheon Women Artists Biennial image

Could you bring this back? I have licensing information.--A21sauce (talk) 16:50, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

@A21sauce: Ronhjones has not edited in over a month. I will restore this and leave you a message at your talk page. --B (talk) 20:57, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!--A21sauce (talk) 21:03, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Resolved

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== Your opinion please... ==(Posted on 6-26-15)

Hello,

I hope I am going about this the correct way.

I am Gardner Goldsmith, and I noticed years ago that someone had created a page about me at Wikipedia. I am a radio host and writer who has worked on "Star Trek: Voyager" as well as the TV series "The Outer Limits". I have also been a regular co-host on the nationally syndicated radio program, "Free Talk Live", and have two books published.

I was contacted by someone who informed me that my page (entitled: Gardner Goldsmith) at Wikipedia is gone, even though it is still linked at the site for "Free Talk Live" and I was a NH Senate candidate in 2014.

I am hoping to have that page reinstated, if possible. Thank you for your help!

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Non-free rationale for File:Wow patcher.png

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Abuse of COIN

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Request to undelete

Dear Mr. Jones,

Is it possible to undelete the following page: [[9]]

I am a student trying to learn about the Heidelberg center and found out that the wiki page was deleted last year.

Thanks,

108.162.162.171 (talk) 02:02, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Arun.S.R.

It wouldn't survive - there is not much there, the data is all unsourced - you can read the text here - User:Ronhjones/Sandbox2 Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:28, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Gardner Goldsmith

Hello. This is Gardner Goldsmith

Last year, you deleted a page that was devoted to my background in radio, writing and television. This seems to have been done at a time I was running for US Senate for the Libertarian Party of NH.

The page was a delight to see, and I don't know why it was taken down. If you could restore it, that would be great. It's been very helpful for me, especially when people want to refer to my radio characters or books.

Thanks!

gardner Goldsmith — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:191:100:D4CF:38DE:9909:160C:3DC (talk) 00:21, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Articles about living people must be sourced - there was none. Cannot restore for that reason. It could be restored as a draft, if you know someone who would finish it off Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:31, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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R. K. Raghavan

Could you please unprotect Talk:R. K. Raghavan so I can create a talk page. --Racklever (talk) 13:39, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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Question about Vista Center deletion

Hello Ron, I hesitate to write just after a 60 Minutes segment but I would like to inquire about the specifics that led to the deletion of the page Vista Center and what if anything we can do to restore it with, what I assume are modifications that need to be made.

Any comments are appreciated.

Alice Sakamoto

Asakamoto (talk) 02:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

@Asakamoto: Article with zero in-line references, so no evidence of notability. If restored (just have to ask) then it's likely to end up in a full deletion review, and be deleted - then difficult to restore! Alternatively, it can be restored as a draft article for improvement. Just let me know what you want. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:26, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

DeletedPROD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phreakers

75.164.162.221 (talk) 13:40, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

The person who created the page wanted it deleted. It's unlikely to be any good to remain, do you really want it restored? Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:29, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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This is in regards to the Wiki page for Milton Geovanny Palacios. He plays for the San Antonio Scorpions of the North American Soccer League, a fully professional league. His wiki page needs to be added back.Kevinkwc (talk) 19:43, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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Semi-protection of Chinatown, San Francisco

Hi Ronhjones, this edit request made me aware that the page has been semi-protected since 2011 - do you reckon that this is still necessary, or can it be assumed that that IP sock from back then has lost interest? Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:22, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Unprotected. See how it goes. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:07, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, Mr. Jones...

My name is Gardner Goldsmith, and last year, you deleted the bio page about me. I discovered this last month. As noted on the page for Free Talk Live, the syndicated US radio program, I have been a frequent co-host for the program. I also have worked on two television programs in the US, have a non-fiction book that was released in 2007, a fiction novella released in 2013, numerous published short stories, and have hosted my own radio show since 2008. I enjoyed seeing the Wikipedia page and it was often useful to offer people references to my work.

I don't know what catalyzed the pull-down of that page, but I never found anything wrong with it. I hope you will restore it. If you would like further information on my work, you can search for some of my articles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute or Foundation for Economic Education. They pertain to political-economics and economics in general.

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If you would like to reach me, please write to me at LibertyConspiracy@yahoo.com and we can exchange information. I hope you will restore the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.187.40.234 (talk) 15:48, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Was deleted as "Expired PROD, concern was: unsourced BLP". Therefore cannot restore as articles about living people must have references. It can be restored to Draft sapce, if you can find someone to research and edit the page. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:13, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Restoring page

Hello, could you restore this page please: Carlos Diaz (soccer). Per WP:NSOCCER guidelines, he did play in the first leagues of Trinidad and Hungary, amongst other ones. So he does meet the criteria. Please ping me when done. Thanks, --Midas02 (talk) 04:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

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The user Ravishyam Bangalore is back right after the protection for this article expired. The page is now a re-direct and many editors had reverted to the redirect that I am reverting to given that there is too much of a POV in the article and that it duplicates to where it is currently being redirected. Could you edit protect this page permanently? — LeoFrank  ^Talk 09:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Ironically, the user was never blocked despite multiple threads on ANI. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 09:28, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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Reality TV Movie deletion - would like it back up

Dear Ron Jones,

We see that the Reality TV Movie posting was removed. We are hoping that you might put the posting back up. The movie has made a big splash in our area, as many dancers throughout the Bay Area Community were in the film, and we would love people who are interested in seeing the film to be able to find out more about it.

We and other dance studios also would like to add to the site because it truly was a community effort that has brought many people together. It was a multiyear production without outside funding produced purely by actors and dancers volunteering out of their commitment to the project. Various dance studios have been using the film to help promote dancing and break the ice for new dancers. It promotes dance for everyone and we would like it to have the potential for reaching more audiences.

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P.S. If you could respond by email, it would be great, as I am relatively new to posting anything on Wiki (though I have been reading for years) and am not quite sure how the squigly talk thing works

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User:Suziestudio - Restored as contested PROD. I think you will need to find some more good references to keep it alive. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:35, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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Mate Tsintsadze

Hi, I am contacting you regarding the article Mate Tsintsadze, since the other two admins that deleted previous articles of this player are not active anymore, I would like to ask you if I could recreate this article. He have actually played for the Georgia national team, thus fulfilling WP:NFOOTY. Here is the source confirming it. MbahGondrong (talk) 14:16, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Because the second deletion was a full WP:AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mate Tsintsadze), it will need to go through the deletion review process - see Wikipedia:Deletion review. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 15:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Done. Listed here. MbahGondrong (talk) 17:03, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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Undeletion of Ankaralı Namık

Hi Ronhjones,can you please undelete Ankaralı Namık article? He has won platinum album award in 2006, best selling 5th album of 2006 (ref http://www.mu-yap.org/news.asp?NID=158) Golden award in 2007, best selling 29th album of 2007 (ref http://www.mu-yap.org/news.asp?NID=248). If he is not notable, then we need to delete almost all Turkish singers from Wikipedia. --Joseph (talk) 20:51, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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Streamys logo

Hello there Ronhjones! I see you're not very active lately, and it's been more than a year, but do you know/remember why the Streamy Awards logo was deleted? Shouldn't it be allowed to stay under fair use rationale? Thanks --WikiKiwi 13:41, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Creating article on "Kanak Chapa"

Hi, I see the page Kanak Chapa is deleted for a while and non-administrators can't create a new one. Well, I have some resource (and proof of notability) to create the article:

http://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/01/26/d70126140199.htm http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=223737 http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=92368 http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=65459 http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=153204 http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=95150

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4652497/

Let me know if I can work on it.

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List of Phreakers

You had no business in the deletion of the list of Phone Phreakers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hequips (talk • contribs) 00:38, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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Sorry about this, but arbcom isn't doing their job

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File:SilverCityDailyPress26Apr2013.jpg

Hi Dr. Ron, You deleted[10] an image I uploaded since it was orphaned. I initially added the image here. User:Ipicknick replaced it with another image here, but gave no justification to make the replacement. User: Diannaa mistakenly replaced that image with a logo[11]. Another user placed the logo under the correct parameter[12] but the original images now were orphaned. In short, would you please restore File:SilverCityDailyPress26Apr2013.jpg into the image= parameter in the Silver City Daily Press article. Thanks. -- Jreferee (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 16:21, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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