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Hey man im josh (talk) 13:08, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Duckstation (emulator)

The article Duckstation (emulator) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:GNG due to lack of significant coverage in reliable, secondary sources.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Woodroar (talk) 15:05, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

What's the problem and where can I fix it? KungfuMantis (talk) 15:15, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Currently, the article isn't supported by any reliable, secondary sources. To be considered notable for an article on Wikipedia, subjects need to to have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. That usually means multiple articles, with many paragraphs devoted to the subject, run by multiple reputable publishers. Unfortunately, I looked and could only find 1 rather trivial source: GamesRadar. GamesRadar is considered a reliable source, but only 2 sentences are about Duckstation. That's just not enough. Woodroar (talk) 15:25, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm just adding a lot of sources and improving the page; was that enough to pass the approval? KungfuMantis (talk) 17:57, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately not. GitHub is a primary source, GoogleDocs is primary and user generated, Logic-Sunrise.com isn't reliable (as it was written by some random pseudonymous forum user), and GameTechWiki is also user generated. I suggest reading our Notability guideline in full, and also Wikipedia:Reliable sources for the types of sources that we're looking for. We also maintain a list of reliable, situational, and unreliable game-related sources at WP:GAMESOURCES. I used our custom Google search to look for sources and, as I mentioned, only found the 1 trivial GamesRadar source linked above. Woodroar (talk) 18:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Duckstation (emulator) for deletion

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Woodroar (talk) 19:17, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello KungfuMantis! Your additions to Polyrhachis mucronata have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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August 2023

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Hello, KungfuMantis,

What are you doing here? With page moves and page creations that make no sense. Please stop. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:40, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you have added Creative Commons licensed text to one or more Wikipedia articles. You are welcome to import appropriate Creative Commons licensed content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Compatibly licensed sources, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any Creative Commons content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. Fram (talk) 07:09, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Let me explain

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes._sticticus I can't rename this page, so I just need your help by deleting those pages, and Ochlerotatus sticticus is not even a species and has never existed; it's just a synonym. Can you guys delete it?KungfuMantis (talk) 07:43, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Aedes notoscriptus

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A tag has been placed on Aedes notoscriptus requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://wiki.pestinfo.org/wiki/Aedes_notoscriptus. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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So CC BY SA 4.0 from the source, wiki.pestinfo.org, is copyrighted? If it is copyrighted, then I will not violate the rules again, and what I need to do is fix this problem. KungfuMantis (talk) 07:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

As a wiki, it is not a reliable source in any case and shouldn't be used to base articles on. And if you copy text from a site with an acceptable license, you still need to clearly acknowledge that your text comes from there and isn't your own. Fram (talk) 08:08, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

As you've noted, CC-BY-SA 4.0 is fine (it's compatibly licensed). However, I have moved the page to Draft:Aedes notoscriptus to allow you to add better sources. Please do not use user-generated sources, and only it move it back to the mainspace when you have added reliable sources. Sdrqaz (talk) 08:14, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Aedess sticticus

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Speedy deletion nomination of Aedes notoscriptus

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A tag has been placed on Aedes notoscriptus requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/notoscriptus and https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/59/1/67/6382597. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Aedes notoscriptus

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A tag has been placed on Aedes notoscriptus requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://citscihub.nz/Phil_Bendle_Collection:Mosquito_(Striped)_Ochlerotatus_notoscriptus. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Unsourced moves

Hello KungfuMantis, please refrain from deleting sourced content and moving articles to former names without any discussion or providing edit summaries to justify these moves. Your changes at Geocrinia alba and Geocrinia lutea have now been reverted until you can explain why you do not consider the descriptions at ASW and AW to be correct. Loopy30 (talk) 01:34, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

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