User talk:ComplexRational/Archive 13
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
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- Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
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Delete my account
Please Gladcape2013 (talk) 22:03, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Gladcape2013: Unfortunately, it is not possible to delete accounts, as attribution is required for your contributions, even though you have only made very few of them. If you wish for your user page to be deleted, please tag it for WP:CSD#U1, and I or another admin will handle that shortly. Complex/Rational 02:37, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ok thx Gladcape2013 (talk) 21:36, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
September 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| This award is given in recognition to ComplexRational for accumulating at least 10 points during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:33, 7 October 2024 (UTC) |
- Thanks! I hope to do more reviews next time around. Complex/Rational 23:44, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
A racecar for you!
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A racecar for you! |
| Great to meet you at WCNA this weekend – and now I'm extra stoked for NYC next year! :) Hope you had a good conference experience and till next WCNA, see you around the wikis! Accedietalk to me 18:58, 8 October 2024 (UTC) |
- @Accedie: It was nice meeting you as well, and the conference was well worth it. Looking forward to next time! Complex/Rational 21:21, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
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About Tzortz Mpalntok
The reason I suggested deleting the redirect is gibberish. This user, due to his nationalistic pov, transcribes Greek names in this way in several articles. However, there is not a single source that supports this way of writing You can check his point of view here here and here 77.49.102.48 (talk) 17:45, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Even WP:CSD#G1 is inapplicable if there is any way the content can be reasonably understood, so I would have declined then as well, but merely for being out of scope of the speedy deletion criteria. However, I have no prejudice against a nomination at redirects for discussion; I suggest you bring concerns about neutrality and verifiability to a discussion there. Complex/Rational 18:50, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- o.k.! Thank you 77.49.102.48 (talk) 01:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Deletion review for Dara Greaney
I have asked for a deletion review of Dara Greaney. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Dgreaney (talk) 21:58, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Deletion review for Draft:Shuying Li
2600:1010:A13E:2DE2:D41D:BDA8:D765:C404 has asked for a deletion review of Draft:Shuying Li. Because you speedily deleted the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 19:31, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Access to Content of deleted edits
There are 4 deletions on the page of Banu Qurayza, all of which correspond to major edits. The reasons listed on the deletions is that they violate copywrite. The page itself is implicated in an ANI outcome (Incident archive 1159: Kaalakaa on Islam-related topics) where a consensus of uninvolved found that the user @Kaalakaa maintained a collection of NPOV abused pages on Islam related topics, including this page.
I would like to request a copy of the deleted content (3 most recent deletions), all of which were found violating RD1: Copywrite. I would like to salvage the knowledge and assess if portions of it remain relevant. If so, remedy it of its violation to be reintroduced, as long as its citations are of acceptable standard.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Bro The Man (talk) 08:51, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Bro The Man: I cannot provide or reinstate content that was deleted as copyright infringement. Additionally, the additions of infringing content were immediately reverted, so they had no long-term impact on the overall accuracy and neutrality.
- The deletion log entries include some of the sources from which material was copied, though, and you are free to assess the original sources for relevance and write fresh content in your own words. However, I am not familiar enough with the subject matter to point you to the best available sources. I see that you also started a thread on the article's talk page and I hope that you find assistance there. Thanks, Complex/Rational 16:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- So it was just blocks of copy-pastes? If that's so, then that's useless, lmao. Please, let me know if i understood you correctly. Bro The Man (talk) 18:27, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I haven't checked it thoroughly, but in general, copyright infringement refers to improper verbatim copy-and-paste or close paraphrasing. So yes, you'll find essentially the same material in the original sources as you would in the deleted version. Complex/Rational 19:59, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- So it was just blocks of copy-pastes? If that's so, then that's useless, lmao. Please, let me know if i understood you correctly. Bro The Man (talk) 18:27, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
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since you mentioned "perhaps the full article has still more" regarding Lv
The full article is available from Lund University. :) Double sharp (talk) 17:06, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Double sharp: Thanks for sharing! Complex/Rational 17:08, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
6-year editaversary
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi ComplexRational! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 6th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Sdkb talk 05:32, 28 October 2024 (UTC) |  |
Sdkb talk 05:32, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: Thank you! Here's to another trip around the Sun! Complex/Rational 12:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
| Happy First Edit Day! Hi ComplexRational! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy sixth anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 21:42, 28 October 2024 (UTC) | |
- @DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Thank you! Complex/Rational 22:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)