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Modified MediaWiki.pm

Hello, Ryan.

My name is Jack and I'm looking to get another HBC AIV Helperbot going as I've noticed yours is the only active one currently. Although I've run in to a small issue of not being able to find the modified MediaWiki.pm file. Would it be possible to send me the file? Thank you! TheEpTic (talk) 22:00, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Sure, mail me so I have your address and I'll reply with an attachment. —Darkwind (talk) 08:43, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Done! :) TheEpTic (talk) 18:42, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Could you help out re the Dustin Lance Black article?

This needs urgent attention (protection and/or blocking an IP - though I suspect the IP will hop), due to ongoing attempts to post material violating WP:BLP policy. I'd rather not draw attention to it by posting on WP:ANI. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

I'll take a look. —Darkwind (talk) 05:20, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

• 22:22, 12 May 2014 Darkwind (talk | contribs | block) changed block settings for 2602:306:cc6b:6b90::/64 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 month ({{anonblock}}: <!-- extending block due to history of blocks on this range -->) (unblock | change block)
• 22:21, 12 May 2014 Darkwind (talk | contribs | block) blocked 2602:306:cc6b:6b90::/64 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours ({{anonblock}}: <!-- Violations of WP:BLP policy -->) (unblock | change block)

—Darkwind (talk) 05:25, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Bot request

Hey, sorry to bug you but do you have any idea how long it'll take for somebody to look at the bot request for my helperbot12 bot? It's been ages now and nobody has looked at it.

Thanks :) TheEpTic (talk) 10:46, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

It was 6 days from when I posted at BAG until mine was approved. —Darkwind (talk) 18:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks/request

Thanks for the Defacto sockpuppet blocks. Would it be possible to do a mass-rollback of the socks' edits?

Best,

Lesser Cartographies (talk) 08:28, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Already done, for any pages where they were still the latest edits. —Darkwind (talk) 09:50, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Much appreciated, and let me offer particular thanks for helping with the backlog at SPI. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 18:19, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Liallis

Hello. Maybe other virtuals of Liallis (Buzova, Alanish) must also be indefblocked? See also 109.106.136.0/21. OneLittleMouse (talk) 13:23, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

• Oh, Alanish is globally locked, pardon, but Buzova is not. OneLittleMouse (talk) 13:24, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done —Darkwind (talk) 13:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Regarding the IP range you mentioned, I found some Voronezh-related contribs from 109.106.138.0/24. However, since that range was not mentioned in the SPI, if you believe it is active and disruptive, you'll need to add a new section to the SPI. —Darkwind (talk) 13:49, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

OK, thanks. OneLittleMouse (talk) 13:52, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Sock puppetry proceeding

Thank you for your help here[1], but I am not sure how to continue proceeding. The sockpuppet has been used to created illusion of consensus and RFC comments in the talk page, how should I edit that or should I leave it as it is? Best Regards --Biglobster (talk) 11:01, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

If "checkuser" had been used to confirm the relationship between the two accounts, there's a tag you could add to the puppet account's comments ({{csp}}). However, there's no specific protocol on how to handle this type of case where "checkuser" wasn't used and the account was blocked based on behavior only. My suggestion is that, as the discussions continue about editing the page, you can mention and link to the SPI investigation confirming that Jeanlepetit was not a legitimate account/editor. —Darkwind (talk) 14:00, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Liallis

Hi Darkwind. Thank you for your work on the SPI and for finding and blocking the additional socks. I just wanted to mention that perhaps Liallis should have his/her block extended, because although blocked for a week by Ponyo on the 12th, s/he still socked with Buzova on the 14th. Best regards. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 15:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

New sockpuppets

Hello. See, new sockpuppet (detected by two users) to this case. Please o quick block for this account. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 16:56, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm taking a short break for Wikipedia for everyone's best interests

I think a break for about a week or 2 would be in Wikipedia's best interest. Plus I have alot of sports I'm doing lately. Venustar84 (talk) 20:46, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rosed889

Hi. For Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rosed889, another account has popped up. See User:Rosed500/sandbox. Can you have a look? Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 15:42, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Checkuser

Where do you come from all of a sudden and request a checkuser? Who are you and why don't you state an opinion before you do something like that? What is a checkuser needed for in this case? Bandy boy (talk) 17:15, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

@Bandy boy: I am an administrator on Wikipedia who regularly patrols and investigates WP:SPI cases. The fact that I requested a checkuser on a case someone else filed means that I agree there may be merit the case -- to the point where I feel it is necessary to verify the allegations one way or another, but that further evidence is necessary before I take any action like blocking accounts. That is implied by what I did, and the clerks at SPI will know what I meant by that action without me needing to spell it out. —Darkwind (talk) 17:47, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Your answer does not clarify anything. You just make it more confusing. Also, why is a ckeckuser needed when I have already pledged never to use any other acvounts and promissed to answer any questions (just not for anybody to see )? The willingness to cooperate does not matter at all, in spite of what has been said? The need to know is more important than to be civil and to see what the accused person has to say before anything is done? Bandy boy (talk) 22:41, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Okay. Let's put it this way. Someone filed a report about you. One would assume that someone, somewhere, gets that report and investigates it, right? Well, I'm one of those people. I got the report, I read it, and determined that there was a situation we refer to in America as a "hot mess". The only way to clear it up is further investigation, which I requested. At any rate, anything further can be said on the investigation page. —Darkwind (talk) 04:11, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

You might want to look at

the edit history of Baklava (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Uishaki's edits there. Dougweller (talk) 14:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

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Sorry for interrupt, an account named Zistebá, he/she always added unsourced genres as did on Both Sides. Can you block him/her indefinitely? 183.171.178.82 (talk) 13:03, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

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Behavioural investigation

Your comment would be greatly appreciated. According to this[2] investigation, it has been done by CheckUser and Risker marked them as unrelated at all, not even a pair of user. However, I thought I had this case very obvious even than previously closed case -- timing, same tone, same topic and same behaviour. I am not sure is CheckUser is only technical, and not behavioural at all? Can I bring this up for behavioural investigation? --Biglobster (talk) 04:25, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Similar articles approved

Dear Darkwind,

We have been trying to offer some information about Federation of Finnish Financial Services to Wikipedia because we got feedback that there is no article about the organization. We have written our article in the same way than similar organization have done, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_of_Finnish_Industries and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Banking_Federation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Europe. We got feedback from you that our article lacks notability but cannot see how these articles have it more than ours. Can you please give us hints how to get the notability if our association is formed by our members but no governmental institution is involved as we are independent? The FFI has about 400 member companies and organizations, which employ about 42,000 people in total and FFI is only and therefore biggest association representing financial industry in Finland.

Br, Mamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)MamannisMamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC) and Mamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)amlamMamannis (talk) 12:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rtuftrbsee

Darkwind, I'm sorry if it seems like I'm picking on you, but I don't understand your actions with respect to the merge of the two SPI reports. First, this is not the kind of task normally undertaken by a non-clerk. Second, you chose the wrong master. As I stated in one of the two reports, the correct master is Mtrerfowp as they created their account about an hour before Rtuftrbsee. Finally, merges are very difficult in these things, and I was hoping that King of Hearts would take it on as he appeared to be clerking the case (and that way I wouldn't have to do it <smile>). These things are very hard and often require manual editing in addition to anything else. I'm fairly certain that the entire history of the two reports is not there now, and I'm reluctant to undo it and redo it properly. I sometimes punt these things to the very capable DoRD. He's far better at it than I am, although I'm getting better.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:57, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

@Bbb23: I must have misunderstood you then. Since you pinged me in your statement, I thought you meant for me to do it -- since I figured you'd know I'm not a clerk, and would have done it yourself if you felt it was a clerking task. Why'd you ping me and tell me it needed to be done if you didn't mean for me to do it?

As for what I did, I followed exactly, step-by-step, the instructions at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Clerk and checkuser procedures#Cases filed under the name of the sock under "No case is currently active for the account that we wish to file the case as, but a prior case has been filed", which is the closest I could find for instructions on how to fix the problem. Plus one step that wasn't listed (copying the text from the last revision of the original /Rtuftrbsee page and inserting it into the merged version). Stated another way, I performed a standard WP:HISTMERGE as outlined in the "an easy case" example. The page revisions from both pages are there in the history exactly as they should be, but diffs are going to look strange if you diff between old revisions that were originally on different pages.

Also, does it really matter which account edited first? It's not like there's any truly constructive history going on there, nor are any of the accounts likely to be allowed to resume editing given how extensive this is. It's not like we're talking about an experienced Wikipedian with an extensive editing history we might need to reference. If it matters all that much, since the histories are merged, just move /Rtuftrbsee to /Mtrerfowp, deleting the soft redirect presently at /Mtrerfowp in the process. Then, re-tag all the socks to point to the right page. —Darkwind (talk) 00:54, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

I pinged you because of your comment. It wasn't intended to inspire you to fix anything. Part of the problem is there is no precise procedure in the clerk procedures for doing this kind of merge. I have a cheat sheet on it in my user space, which I believe would work, but that would first require undoing everything you did. As far as the oldest account being the master (it's not who edits first, it's who creates an account first), it's not the end of the world considering how close in time the two creations are, but I figured as long as we were going to straighten things out, we might as well fix the master at the same time. I'm too tired to undertake anything now, so it'll have to wait.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:01, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

He back [3]. Please block this sockpuppet. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 16:49, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Duration

Hi ... you imposed a block to coincide with the duration of the related AfD, but the AfD has been extended now. Perhaps the block should be extended accordingly. Tx. --Epeefleche (talk) 19:18, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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This has been at SPI and ANI but no one blocked the range that this guy is currently (as in within the past hour) editing from.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 14:25, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't matter, it's still not appropriate for AIV. AIV is intended to help put a stop to severe disruption in cases where the reviewing admin can make a snap judgement about the situation. If the report requires investigation or verification beyond looking at contribs and saying "yep, that's vandalism", then it needs to go to a forum/page that allows community discussion and a chance for the accused to rebut the accusation. —Darkwind (talk) 14:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Doesn't blindly reverting the same editor over and over in a common pattern equate to severe disruption?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 14:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

You're missing my point. It's not the "severe disruption" part you got wrong, it's the "can make a snap judgement" part. If all I have to go by is ONE edit in the IP's contribs, that is not enough information for me to say the IP is a sock or disruptive. If I further have to click through and read the history of the article and compare the contribs of the logged-in and IP editors and yadda yadda, then we've already gone well past the "snap decision" part into "performing an SPI investigation" territory. Id est, not appropriate for AIV. —Darkwind (talk) 14:47, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

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As per the topic ban at User talk:Venustar84#Use of multiple accounts. Looks like she adhered to it for 2 weeks, but is now back to creating categories. I have a feeling things only stick for so long with the user, perhaps due to the self-admitted mental health problems at the sockpuppet investigation. Nymf (talk) 06:39, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

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HannahBxxx

Hi Darkwind. This user has agreed to stop adding the links for which she was blocked; would you be happy for me to unblock her on the understanding that she will no longer spam? Cheers, Yunshui ^雲_水 11:50, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

@Yunshui: Sure, I'm always willing to give someone a second chance. —Darkwind (talk) 18:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Cheers, I'll go do it now. Yunshui ^雲_水 08:12, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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Typo lists

@Faizan, Carriearchdale, Vanisaac, and Mogism: (pinging you all here rather than leaving a separate message on each of your talk pages) You all marked at least one of my typo lists with {{done}}, but you didn't update the actual list page to remove the articles you completed. Did you finish all 1000 articles from each of the pages marked done? I'd like to update the count of how many are left. Thanks! —Darkwind (talk) 06:00, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I only marked a list as done if I had processed every page on that list. I cut the list down to the remaining items only when I had not completely processed the whole thing. VanIsaac_WS^cont 06:13, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I also did as Vanisaac posted above, I completely processed each list I chose. When finished I went back and marked the list as done. I did not need to stop partway thru any of the lists I did. TY for posting the lists Darkwind. Carriearchdale (talk) 06:23, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

@Carriearchdale: Thanks! You still have page 17 marked as {{doing}}, did you finish that one as well? —Darkwind (talk) 06:56, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, sorry 17 is all done. I will mark it ty. Carriearchdale (talk) 06:58, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Same here, I only marked them as done once complete. Mogism (talk) 12:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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ANI

I've mentioned you in this thread on User:Earl_King_Jr. [4] - you may wish to comment. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:05, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I think it is wrong of you Andy to solicit this involved Admin. from a previous Ani. Earl King Jr. (talk) 02:18, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Please read WP:INVOLVED again. Just because I have closed a noticeboard discussion involving you, and taken (or not taken) administrative action, does not make me "involved". Being involved means I have an opinion of some sort about the article in question or the edits you are making, e.g. if I think your edits are "right" or "wrong" then I would be "involved". As it is, I will probably let some other admin(s) make a decision here, but it is certainly well within my rights as a member of the community to comment on the discussion if I so choose. —Darkwind (talk) 03:56, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Alright. I am sorry. Feel free then. Earl King Jr. (talk) 04:22, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I sounded snappish; my post was not intended to express any kind of anger or upset. I just wanted to make sure you were aware that "involved" has a specific meaning according to Wikipedia policy and custom. —Darkwind (talk) 06:49, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

User:Farhan112233

They're back on the same article again. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 12:38, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Repeated reverts from the past one month only on one issue i.e., the official language by changing it to urdu, telugu. Nothing more is happening in that page which is tagged for inline citations, no improvement but only a an edit war. This is the latest reversal. Kindly intervene.--Vin09 (talk) 18:06, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

I have blocked the editor in question indefinitely, as per the reasoning posted on their talk page. —Darkwind (talk) 20:17, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I realised today that I had forgotten to login while reverting this user. Is it possible to remove the username from the history? — LeoFrank  ^Talk 10:41, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done —Darkwind (talk) 06:38, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the revdel. I have some concerns on Raju198. Looks like a sock. Please see [5] — LeoFrank  ^Talk 12:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I have filed an SPI case here. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 15:47, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Additionally, please remove this edit summary. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 15:49, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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I think the bot may be malfunctioning or not running, quite a backlog of blocked vandals not being cleaned off the page. ♥ Solarra ♥ ^{♪ 話 ♪} ߷ _{♀ 投稿 ♀} 09:01, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

The bot is working correctly. None of the editors currently listed on WP:AIV are blocked. —Darkwind (talk) 09:06, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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L. L. Clover deletion from 2013

At the same time the Powers article was deleted; so was the one on L. L. Clover, which I also covered in an article I wrote in 2010 for North Louisiana History. Being in a historical journal would meet the notability requirement for Wikipedia.

The deletion decision says Mr. Clover was the founder of a "defunct" seminary. This is false. The seminary moved into a new building some ten years ago and is still functioning. It graduates about thirty pastors per year, which is a larger number than it might seem.

The decision says one or more of Mr. Clover's books are "not in a library anywhere in the world." False, I got the books from Interlibrary Loan. They are rare but can be located.

Mr. Clover founded his seminary with two or three students in his residence, and it has expanded over the past half century, long after his death. He is not part of a church hierarchy; the ABA is a series of local churches with a loose association. It has some 250,000 members, the last count I saw. It is stronger in AR and LA than most other places.

Both Clover and Powers died in 1975; so there is limited Internet material on them.

The photo mentioned is from a seminary yearbook (1966) that I found in the seminary library when I visited there several years ago. Photos from yearbooks before 1978 are public domain and hence allowed on Wikipedia.

I am requesting that this article too be undeleted pending further editing, review, and consideration. It seems to me that the people pushing for deletion of both articles have a vendetta against me. Of course, I have no idea who these people are or their motivation. The vitriol though is beyond scholarly dissent. Billy Hathorn (talk) 15:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

A. T. Powers deletion from 2013

I was not informed that the A. T. Powers article which I created c. 2010 was deleted in 2013. There are three incorrect matters in the deletion decision:

(1) "local pastor who served as the American Baptist Association leader for two years in the 1950s" belittles his service. He was PRESIDENT of the ABA for two years, which is the normal tenure in such positions.

(2) The book(s) cited was obtained from Inter-Library Loan; so it is in a library. I got a copy of his presidential addresses from Interlibrary Loan. The book is available on Amazon. Austin T. Powers As I Knew Him, 83 pages Publisher: Bogard Press (1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0892112905 ISBN-13: 978-0892112906

(3) I wrote Mr. Powers' biography in an historical journal, North Louisiana History. Some even tried to kill the Wikipedia article on this journal to retaliate against me, but thankfully saner heads prevailed.

I am requesting that this article be undeleted and brought back to the board for review and further consideration. Billy Hathorn (talk) 14:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

I have no earthly idea what you are talking about. I interact with thousands of pages on Wikipedia every year, so I need context to understand what you're after. At the moment, I have no idea what role I played in the deletion in question. Please link to the article in question (even if it is a red link) or the AfD discussion so I can review what happened and respond to your concerns. Same goes for the section below. —Darkwind (talk) 09:51, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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Dear Darkwind! I haven't seen your reply for my question. It's now on your archive page 11 with subject "Similar articles approved". --Mamannis (talk) 13:19, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Mamannis 03/07/2014

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Hey Darkwind. I've been able to get DeltaQuadBot UAA back up and stable. Could you readd the helperbot that removes the blocked users please? -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 21:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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This page was tagged for deletion but the time has expired, is there any issue with this page?--Vin09 (talk) 07:54, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

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New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon

Hi Darkwind, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle ^connect!

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Socking

Greetings. About 4 months ago you closed this SPI, in which an editor admitted to editing logged out, stating that it was unintentional. When you closed the SPI, you left a warning that further editing while logged out may result in a block. As a side note, Stumink has been blocked before for socking.

Today, I cam across this edit by this IP that seemed very similar, in tone and content, to Stumink's edits. The contributions also show similar edit summaries, on similar topics. Finally, the range looks identical to all those IPs that were reported in the SPI, all beginning "88.104.2..."

I am not particular on what action should be taken; but I do know that it is rather annoying dealing with an experienced editor, who often tends to slightly POV edits (not very blatant, but detectable) who refuses to log in and take responsibility for their edits. If you require any more evidence, I'd be happy to look further. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

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If you have time and inclination, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DeFacto?

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Hey Darkwind I know im late.

hey I hope you get administrator or some other higher rank than moderator you a cool guy. Shadowvault (talk) 13:07, 29 October 2014 (UTC) Shadowvault

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As a note, I made a small change to User:Darkwind/waLib.js to make it be compatible with the new personal bar. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:43, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

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I'd left the name at WP:UAA because my block was only for 24 hours on a 3RR violation and I was looking for input from others about whether the block should be extended. If you have removed the name from the list may I assume I was correct in my assumption that this account should be indef blocked on username violation grounds? TomStar81 (Talk) 08:10, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Darkwind. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

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Rename account for Venustar84?

Hi, I am a mentor for Venustar84, who prefers to be called by Kristine rather than her username. I saw your posting on User_talk:Venustar84#Use of multiple accounts and understand that she can just have one account due to sockpuppet accounts.

Is it possible / allowed, though in this circumstance, for her to rename her account to User:KristineVenustar, assuming Venustar is not part of her surname, or something else that might have "Kristine" in it?--CaroleHenson (talk) 19:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

@CaroleHenson: Sorry for taking so long to get back to you; I haven't been very active on the project lately. I don't see a problem with going through the standard rename process, following the guidelines at WP:CHU. —Darkwind (talk) 05:21, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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Hi I cleaned up the Vesuvianite gemstone article a bit. Can you wikify or edit it more? Thank you. Venustar84 (talk) 18:17, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2014 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in November's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 43 people who signed up for this drive, 26 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The November Drive removed 26 requests from the Requests page and 509 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog. We copy edited 83 articles tagged in the target months; July, August, and September 2013. Together with tag removals from articles unsuitable for copy editing, we eliminated July 2013 from the backlog and reduced August and September's tags to 61 and 70 respectively. As of 01:01, 1 December 2014 (UTC), the backlog stood at 1,974 articles, dipping below 2,000 for the first time in the Guild's history (see graph at right). Well done everyone! Blitz: The December Blitz will run from December 14–20 and will focus on articles related to Religion, in recognition of this month's religious holidays in much of the English-speaking world. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. Sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from 1 January to 30 June 2015 is now underway. Candidates can nominate themselves or others from December 01, 00:01 (UTC), until December 15, 23:59. The voting period will run from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. You can read about coordinators' duties here. Please consider getting involved and remember to cast you vote—it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Thank you all once again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve anything without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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