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Mohammad El Medawar
I understand deleting my article. I know this is my first time on Wikipedia. I understand also that you wrote that you do not look at the article twice. But, how can I know my mistakes?
Plus, I'm trying to send you an email and I'm putting your username rich_smith, it is giving me that no email address is assigned to this username
Please help
- @MohammadElMedawar: Apologies, it seems I made a mistake here. I have reverted the deletion request... however, you should not be writing about yourself, please read WP:AUTOBIO - RichT|C|E-Mail 15:36, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Rich Smith: :@Rich Smith:
Dear Mr. Smith, I understand very well your deletion of my article.
The text that I wrote is exactly the same as the text written in this Wikipedia article below https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Langston
Mr. Michael works as a professor at a university, and I work also as a lecturer in a reputable university. Mr. Michael work in research field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and I work also in the research field of the same topics. Mr. Michael has multiple publications and he mentioned only 1 reference, and also I have multiple publications and I mentioned 1 reference.
May I know why my article is deleted while the article of Mr. Michael is available online.
I'm willing to listen to you, know what wrong I am doing and to correct my mistakes. My ultimate goal is to have my profile published on Wikipedia.
I truly believe that my article is notable (unique), I am not advertising myself, and I have an important award, and a very notable invention in the field of education. Moreover, I didn't write the article myself. Someone wrote it for me in a very neutral and non biased way, and I am just publishing it under my name. If that suits you, I can send it to you and you can publish it under your name so it doesn't show as autobiography
--MohammadElMedawar (talk) 10:27, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
Apology & Seeking Support
I had another account which was not being used by me but with similar COI disclosure. Finding it really really difficult to not appear like thief and the wiki police behind me)
for my draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:BitRaser ( I have created this after a lot of decline and study to not make it look like advertisement, the entire page is re-written to adhere to wiki policy). Please if you can guide on which citation to be removed (as you had guided on earlier draft- in this draft I have used all new links as well), so that I will remove and it will give me a fair idea on those citation allow, so that I can bring similar credible citations. this page talks about a software that has been widely spoken in the media. But just that I am really newbie to really make sense of right citation. Please help on this. Thanks.
Note: I have been really thrashed on my user talk page, not because i intend to do something mischievous. It's just that I am caught into my noviceness, my hurry and my impatience. Will try to work on all. Need support!
Shujakhan88 (talk) 12:42, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Please help me if you get some time, thanks Shujakhan88 (talk) 15:41, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).
- The "auto-number headings" preference is being removed. You can read phab:T284921 for the reasons and discussion. This change was previously announced. A JavaScript snippet is available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that still want to support auto-numbering.
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- You can join a meeting about the Desktop Improvements. A demonstration version of the newest feature will be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at 16:00 UTC. See how to join.
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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
ClueBot III
Hey Rich. Are you the person who fixed ClueBot? See my recent post at VPT. I wonder if Lowercase sigmabot III might be fixed by a similar set of changes. Assuming it uses pywikipediabot. EdJohnston (talk) 15:50, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
- @EdJohnston:, I didn't... DamianZaremba did with this commit. CB3 is all PHP, not pywikipediabot - RichT|C|E-Mail 16:02, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).
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- The Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).
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- Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [8]
- The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [9]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.
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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
GWB.
Hi Rich! On the GWB page I do not see the changes in the box on the right side of the page. It is the box that gives a brief description of the bridge. It still says October 24th. How do I make Those changes? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maincable (talk • contribs) 23:49, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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