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Your redirect of Internexus English Language School back to Regent College

Hi,

I'm with Internexus Los Angeles. We discovered that the Internexus English Language School wikipeida page had been set to redirect to Regents College in the UK. We operated a campus of our ESL school at Regents for several years but that relationship is no longer active.

We revised the page to give current info about our network but it keeps getting reset to the prior redirect to Regents.

Just fyi, technically this redirect is a trademark violation since we own Internexus as a registered mark for our network of English Language Schools.

How can we prevent this from happenign in the future?

Thansk Internexus Los Angekes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Internexus Los Angeles (talk • contribs) 16:19, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

@Internexus Los Angeles: Well for starters the username you picked is a violation of the username policy here, see WP:ORGNAME. Secondly, you must disclose any paid editing, see WP:PAID, your conflict of interest is already quite clear. And if you have any issues with the content then use the article's talk page and raise your concerns there. Shellwood (talk) 16:30, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Looking for help with fair-use image tag

Hello, I uploaded File:The 35th Annual National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Suncoast Chapter Emmy Award Winners.pdf to Wikipedia. This is a list of the NATAS Suncoast Chatper Emmy Award Winners in 2011. This list is so important. The Suncoast Chapter does not archive before 2013. They gave me this list via Facebook Messenger. I have reached a stopping point in the process of uploading the file. Would you please consider helping me with this file with a fair-use image tag? I need the help. Thank you,--Wyn.junior (talk) 17:40, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Question about the link removed from List of DVD authoring applications

Hi Shellwood. I rarely log in Wikipedia, so just receive your message. Thanks for the noting. But is there any problem with the link I added before? I used that freeware WinX DVD Author (if I remember correctly) once and thought it is a kind of DVD authoring software. So I add it to the the page List of DVD authoring applications. And because it is free, I thought it would be ok to leave a link.

Anyway, I just want to know if it violates some regulations of Wikipedia or not, so that I could be more careful about my editing hereafter. Thanks!--u say it best when u say nothing at all (talk) 04:07, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Burmese Cat

What was wrong here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_cat Psypherium (talk) 12:15, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

@Psypherium: Fixed, sorry about that! Shellwood (talk) 12:19, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

It's ok. :) I hope you have a good day. :) Psypherium (talk) 12:21, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Fat finger

Sorry, that was an accidental reversion. Was aiming for “thank” when network latency caused a shift on my screen. Peaceray (talk) 17:06, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

@Peaceray: No need to be sorry these things happen, cheers! Shellwood (talk) 17:09, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

John Gacy

Due to the almost daily vandalism this page receives, don't you think it should be afforded protection status indefinitely?

Yeah I agree, a request has been made. Shellwood (talk) 01:04, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Shellwood. Sorry to contact you out of the blue like this. I have no evidence to back up what I am about to write, but I have noticed a vast increase in vandalism on, particularly, true crime Wiki. articles over the last few months from random IP addresses, new accounts and accounts very seldom used over the years but, lo and behold, suddenly becoming active again to vandalize and am becoming increasingly convinced it is the same person or small group of people responsible. I could be wrong, but there you go. Regards, --Kieronoldham (talk) 01:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

My apologies

Hello Shellwood,

I’m a Dutch teacher and I teach study skills (and Dutch and drama) to my students (13/14 years old). Most of them go to Wikipedia to find information for reports or presentations. I wanted to show them the reliability of Wikipedia as a source. That’s why I placed myself in a few pages. I fully intended to delete everything after today, since I had my last class about this subject today. I’m sorry for your inconvenience.

Kind regards,

Nelleke Schoo Jufned (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You disrupted Wikipedia to illustrate a point. This is functionally equivalent to smashing open a car door to prove its security. Please do not do that ever again. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:18, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Why do the words "pinch" and "salt" come to mind here? I'll say no more...--Kieronoldham (talk) 02:39, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Building ownership: Anup Mandal, Government Company, anupmandalcom.wordpress.com

Hi, I see you've reverted of couple of this fools edits, but just to make you aware they are dong it across multiple buildings and multiple IPv6 ranges.

2405:204:E40D:C760:*

2405:204:E380:A4F:* all three blocked yesterday

Keep up the good work :) Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 10:43, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi Shellwood. As you probably know, I occasionally wander round talk pages thinking "I wonder who'd be a good RfA candidate in future"? In your case, you do a lot of anti-vandalism, much of which I notice, and having seen you be "first on the scene" at main page disruption several times, you would make good use of the block button. However, the obvious problem is while I might be able to be convinced to do a free pass on "Why admins should create content" under the right circumstances (eg: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678 2), many editors won't, and that's where things will get tricky. I wonder if Oshwah has any further advice? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:21, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Candidates passing an RFA citing their recent changes patrolling and anti-vandalism work as the basis of their experience and the need for the tools is very rare. While having a high degree of demonstrated experience in recent changes patrolling is a great thing to see in an RFA candidate, that experience alone is almost never seen as sufficient enough for an RFA to pass. Participants in the RFA process don't just want to see a "good vandal fighter" but with little or low experience to show in other places; they want to see someone who has a great talent in an area that's necessary and essential on Wikipedia, but also someone who has well-rounded experience in many pre-requisite areas and projects: A good CSD log record and with little amount of declines, a good AFD record that shows mostly green across the board when the stats page is opened, and the participation and experience in other places and areas around Wikipedia. While the lack of article creation and expansion experience isn't a deal breaker to most participants depending on your answers to the questions in your RFA application, it is a deal breaker to a significant number of editors who believe that at least some experience is essential. I can say that a good group of support votes in my last RFA cited my article creation and expansion experience (the two articles I helped bring to GA status) as being part of their personal criteria. I hope that the information I've detailed here provides a good insight on my observations with RFA candidates in this area. If I can be of further assistance with anything else, please don't hesitate to let me know. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 17:49, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/China and Chinese-related articles

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A goat for you!

Removing vandalism is often a thankless job, but thank you for defending those who cannot defend themselves, such as the inimitable Mr. Snuffleupagus.

‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ^ᐐT₳LKᐬ 12:47, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

@El cid, el campeador: Thanks a million! I shall slaughter the goat this weekend. Shellwood (talk) 13:52, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

reverting vandalism
... you were recipient no. 1928 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:33, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Qizilbash

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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Shellwood,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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I would like present you with ....

		CVU Anti-Vandalism Award
		For your outstanding and tireless efforts fighting vandalism. You are truly an inspiration. If I ever see you in RfA, I would consider it an honour to cast a vote in your favour. Regards, Guywan (talk) 21:45, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

@Guywan: Thank you very much for the award and those kind words. Shellwood (talk) 07:15, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is MOS:ETHNICITY on articles about Polish Jews. Jayjg ^(talk) 20:04, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Apparently you scare the kids

In a good way, though: Help Students Evaluate Wikipedia as a 21st Century Research Skill. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:59, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Well I welcome discussions like that, hopefully an awareness of how things function here will come out of that. Shellwood (talk) 20:02, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

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Notice

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Phil Anselmo Edit

Wanting to know why what i edited was reverted? Its irrelevant information being used to try and tarnish the legacy of a man whose done more for this world than most people could ever dream of. Its a bunch of he said she said commie bullshit and it needs to go. Juiceman7602 (talk) 03:46, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

oops

i dont know how to correctly edit wikipedia article Alternative for Sweden, can you please help me? 185.135.184.81 (talk) 14:41, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

You can preview your changes before saving them, use the show preview button at the end of the page. I can't see anything wrong with the article and I restored the electoral results you published, with a reference. Thank you for your work on it. Shellwood (talk) 21:05, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Discussion on scope of the "Sailing ship" article

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Sailing ship#Scope?, regarding what should be included in the article. You'll find a proposed outline, there. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 12:36, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:List of most visited museums

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Shellwood,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

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PERM

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Please comment on Talk:List of airliner shootdown incidents

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Your edit on Napoleon III

Hi. In your recent edit to the article Napoleon III, you reverted an edit by 159.86.134.30 (talk · contribs) who in turn was was reverting an edit by 2.92.126.42 (talk · contribs). 2.92.126.42 (talk · contribs) was engaged in an edit war. I assume you didn't notice because you were using huggle, but I thought you would like to know since your reversion was subsequently reverted. Thanks.---- Work permit (talk) 18:42, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

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Pictures

I just got a Wikipedia account, I noticed that the picture of Downtown of Tekamah was missing, I attempted to add a picture into it, but it didn't work. How do I add a picture? Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany is awesome) (talk) 03:30, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

@Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany is awesome): This will help you: WP:UPIMAGE, however since your account isnt autoconfirmed yet you can ask for assistance here WP:FFU. Make sure you do not violate any copyrights and use a proper filename. Shellwood (talk) 06:43, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Ivy’s ivanovic

Please kindly edit back in info on Ilya assistant Charles Carrington Campbell. You have deleted vital information and making this article in complete. As a professor of history of science And ethic we rely on Wikipedia for quick referencing and hopping Wikipedia has for a long while becoming a fake and a very unreliable site for students research due to inexperienced research my by people unable to find info. Charles Carrington Campbell and Ivanovic work is in life science Cambridge Edinburgh other universities. So please don’t remove our Edinburgh university’s article Thank you Kirbylufc (talk) 03:03, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

@Kirbylufc: Please dont add unsourced material into articles, find a source to support your claims and you cant base your contributions here on what you have seen on television. Shellwood (talk) 10:56, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

LTA at UAA

I've indeffed your friend. Thanks for your attention. Bishonen | talk 13:57, 18 August 2019 (UTC).

@Bishonen: Anytime, cheers! Shellwood (talk) 14:08, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:White genocide conspiracy theory

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Jhonen Vasquez edits

Hello, I am LPS and MLP Fan. I would like your comment about a series of recent edits about Jhonen Vasquez, since you were one of the reverters on the article. Vasquez posted a tweet saying that he wants his photos on Wikipedia to be replaced by a wombat. Editors have did that. I encountered User:Knownmints while patrolling for username violations. Looking at their contributions, they are involved with this issue. I have reverted his/her edits already. I have discussed this with the user on their talk page. I have requested semi-protection for the article. Please tell me about any of your comments regarding this. Thanks for reading. LPS and MLP Fan (Littlest Pet Shop) (My Little Pony) 13:27, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

@LPS and MLP Fan: Single purpose accounts whom yet haven't been told about WP:OWN. I saw the posts on twitter earlier, lets hope that no one else piles on this. Thanks for making a request at WP:RFPP. Shellwood (talk) 13:36, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Virtual College Counselor

You have taken away my revisions for the virtual college counselor section for college admissions. I fixed the section after it was undone the first time and made it more information based. Please let me know what further changes need to be made to publish the update so that it conforms to what you are looking for. I have been in the higher education space for a long time and this is a disruptive concept that is taking shape. Thank you in advance. CollegeAdmissionsExpert — Preceding unsigned comment added by CollegeAdmissionsExpert (talk • contribs) 21:10, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

@CollegeAdmissionsExpert: Parts of the text you added to the article was copypasted directly from an advertisement on another website. This is not what Wikipedia is about, see WP:NOTPROMOTION. Shellwood (talk) 21:26, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

I fixed that, please let me know if my proposed edits are satisfactory. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CollegeAdmissionsExpert (talk • contribs) 21:30, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Long Distance Walkers Association links

I started undoing your reversion of User:LDWAFootpaths's additions of LDWA links to articles on UK long-distance walks, but then I saw there were quite a lot of them, so thought I ought to consult. Although the username suggests a conflict of interest, I don't think the links themselves are actually invalid. The LDWA (of which I'm not a member or advocate) is a recognised authority on long-distance paths in the UK, it's a reliable source and in my opinion their links warrant inclusion. Would you object if I resurrected the links? Dave.Dunford (talk) 18:34, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

@Dave.Dunford: I won't object, thanks for explaining this. Shellwood (talk) 18:37, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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Vandalism of SA pages

I've noticed you've been rolling back some of the vandalism on the infoboxes of SA cities. It appears multiple accounts and IP addresses are vandalizing the same infoboxes over and over again. I'm not really sure how to respond to this. Perhaps a more experienced user such as yourself can help? See the edit history of Cape Town for an example. Francoisdjvr (talk) 11:26, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

@Francoisdjvr: Hi, I can't say I have put much thought on SA related articles. The thing that struck me in this case was that the new numbers didn't match those in the source, and thus must be reverted unless someone can provide new source or show a new census but that was not the case here. I was not sure if this was some subtile vandalism or someone acting in good faith providing correct information without citing a source, but having seen the history now clearly shows something odd going on. Having the Twinkle gadget enabled will ease the work with both warning users and reporting them to WP:AIV if needed. Thank you for cleaning up the mess. Shellwood (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice, I will look into it! Francoisdjvr (talk) 14:41, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:U.S. state

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About Kyiv and Kiev

Hello, Shellwood. Recently you reverted the changes that I've made on the Kiev Oblast page. Please note that Kyiv Oblast is the official translation from Київська Область.[1] It is in the Article 133 of the Constitution of Ukraine. OlekUKR (talk) 15:50, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

@OlekUKR: Hi, that spelling is not standard here on Wikipedia and has been discussed many times before, see WP:P-NUK. Shellwood (talk) 15:52, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

OR on Man in the High Castle

Thanks for reverting the incessant OR by Aledownload on Man in the High Castle. He's now evading his block using an IP. I'm going to go notify the blocking editor in a minute, but thought I'd give you a heads up just in case you hadn't noticed what was going on. ----Dr.Margi ✉ 20:42, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

@Drmargi: Thanks for notifying me, yes I am aware that those two articles have been under a lot of pressure for some time but I haven't taken the time for any deeper analysis over who is a sock and whos not. Shellwood (talk) 06:38, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Shellwood,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 09:47, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

@Path slopu: Thanks a lot for the barnstar, your work here is much appreciated too, keep it up! Shellwood (talk) 09:53, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Collapsible option must be coded

I see you have added {{collapsible option}} to many templates which don't have this option, e.g. [2]. A template must be coded to have the option, e.g. by passing | state = {{{state|}}} to {{Navbox}}. {{National squad}} does not have the option so it would currently be impossible to add the option to navboxes which use {{National squad}} and don't call {{navbox}} directly. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:37, 16 September 2019 (UTC)