Welcome!

Hello, Nojan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! --Meno25 (talk) 18:13, 26 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Credo Reference

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I'm sorry to report that there were not enough accounts available for you to have one. I have you on our list though and if more become available we will notify you promptly.

We're continually working to bring resources like Credo to Wikipedia editors, and this will very hopefully not be your last opportunity to sign up for one. If you haven't already, please check out WP:HighBeam and WP:Questia, where accounts are still available. Cheers, Ocaasi 19:14, 22 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Help with Possible Persian Speaking User

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Hi! I was wondering if you could help me communicate with User:Tatobay.weekly as they haven't been editing in English at all. I wanted to let s/he know about Wikipedia policies but after not getting a response from inquiring about their username, I am not sure if they would understand me if I commented in English. So I was wondering if maybe you can perhaps communicate in Persian (if that is indeed the language s/he is speaking) to see if that gets a response.

I came here per the suggestions made at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#Help with Possible Arabic, Persian, or Dari speaking user and tried to find a Persian speaker that was still active. I would appreciate any help (even if it is just to confirm whether it is Persian or not). Thanks for your time, LlamaDude78 (talk) 20:48, 6 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Hi LlamaDude78! S/He is probably speaking either Pashto or Balochi. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand what he had written in his talk page and one of my Pakistani friends could verify that it's not Urdu. Hence, I'm sorry if I can't help you communicate with this contributor in that language. Best, Nojan (talk) 21:10, 6 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

That's alright. Thanks for at least eliminating Persian and Urdu as an option. I will try find someone that knows Pashto or Balochi. LlamaDude78 (talk) 11:12, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

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Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

 

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter


Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 19:59, 27 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

The Wikipedia Library Survey

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As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 14:50, 9 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

hello nojan,This article has been timed before removing the tag and the tag has been removed from the source of the problem in mobina sadat atashi, Please look at the history and Do not re-label. Thanks(Nazaninan (talk) 21:32, 7 March 2014 (UTC))Reply

Query about Persian adminship

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Hello, Nolan. I see that on your user page you say "I'm an administrator in the Persian Wiki". However, I have not been able to confirm that. For example, https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ویژه%3Aفهرست_کاربران&username=Nojan&group=&limit=1 does not say that you are an administrator, whereas I would expect it to do so, as, for example, https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ویژه%3Aفهرست_کاربران&username=Taranet&group=&limit=1 Tells us that Taranet is an administrator. Can you explain why what you say on your English Wikipedia user page does not appear to agree with what the Wikipedia logs tell me? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:01, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi JamesBWatson! My account's name in the Persian wiki is "نوژن" which is the Persian written form of Nojan. You can contact me here if you wanted. -- Nojan (talk) 06:02, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
BTW, you could actually find my user page in Persian wiki from the interwiki on the left side of my English wiki user page :) -- Nojan (talk) 06:06, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
After I had posted the message above, I realised that you must have a different username for the Persian Wikipedia, but it didn't occur to me to look for an interwiki link. If you are interested, the reason why I was asking is to do with Nazaninan, who was claiming that you were a vandal. I see that you have blocked that account on Persian Wikipedia: [1]. Well before I saw your answer to my question above, it had become clear to me that Nazaninan's word was not to be trusted, but when the accusation was first made, I didn't know that, and I wanted to check that your claim to be an administrator was valid, and not part of the vandalism that you were accused of. Anyway, thank you for answering my question. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
You're welcome JamesBWatson. Maybe you can help me with this user. She has made several sock puppets in our wiki and has used them to influence deletion nominees and recreating deleted articles. I wanted to talk to a steward, but now that you're here, maybe you can investigate the use of Nazaninan puppet to remove the deletion request from Mobina sadat atashi. In fact, Nazaninan (talk · contribs), Sorudeh (talk · contribs) and ویشکا (talk · contribs) are all her puppets. Regards, Nojan (talk) 17:44, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I have nominated the article for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mobina sadat atashi (2nd nomination). You may wish to take part in the discussion there. I agree that the accounts look like sockpuppets, but I don't at present see enough evidence on English Wikipedia to take any action. If I see a little more evidence here, then I will be willing to allow the history on fa.wikipedia to tip the balance in favour of a block, but my experience suggests that blocking almost entirely on the basis of what has happened on another Wikipedia, without at least a significant amount of corroborating evidence on en.wikipedia, is not normally considered acceptable. Having said that, please do let me know on my talk page if you do see any further evidence. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:53, 10 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Ghasem Hajizadeh

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The article Ghasem Hajizadeh has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Aerospeed (Talk) 01:17, 5 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:03, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:04, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Loves Pride 2016

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As a past contributor, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?

  1. Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
  2. Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
  3. Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC)Reply