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Bus factor

With regard to your mention of the Bus factor with regard to Yoninah's contributions to Wikipedia, I thought of a thread I started on her talk page in last July. She was upset by my suggestion that she was being too efficient, and I had to appologise for what I said. As things have turned out, her departure has left a large hole at DYK. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:04, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: there are one or two small backlogs I have essentially sole domain over in practice, so I understand the tension between leaving it a bit to see if someone else comes along but also feeling solely responsible for getting it done promptly when inevitably no-one does. I've read some of the archives of DYK talk and seen that there has been a large hole for the last two months. But it's a testament to the hard work of you and several others that I didn't even notice the difference until today. Thanks for eveything you've been doing at DYK. — Bilorv (talk) 12:48, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
HI! I don't know how to reply to your replies on the feedback you have sent me here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Lydell_Birch

What you said, and what others have said, is understandable and I will make the recommended changes. I just wanted to reach out and say thank you, I couldn't figure out how to reply directly to your comments. (Do I 'Edit Source' and write underneath your comment? I'm so new to this and so confused!) Thank you for your encouragement. \\M Beamer.Backdrop (talk) 03:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Reddit

I just wanted to let you know that while you were making your edit, I was also working on the same article and ended up merging the two versions together as best as I could. Since it might cause issues, I wanted to discuss a few things and see if things can be worked out, as my version and the merged version uses links to Reddit. My current understanding of policy is that a source can usually be used to describe its article, even if it cannot be used as a source elsewhere on Wikipedia due to the Reliable Sources policy. (Going to your edit, the article has around 38 citations to Reddit.) Additionally, most of them are statements about the situation with one from the r/ukpolitics moderator team, two from a Reddit Safety admins posting on r/ModSupport, and one from the CEO on r/announcements. I believe that those are able to be sourced within the article at the least. Also, I ended up modifying part of what happened which cause the controversy in the past, but it is a bit of a lengthy sentence now and might need to be altered to work. Anyways, if there are any questions you have, please let me know. -Super Goku V (talk) 10:18, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the message, Super Goku V. It's good that you added The Times source, and it seems you have a better handle on what happened here than I do. Regrettably I oppose most of your changes. I don't believe it's good to use the existing content on Reddit as precedent as it's not in great shape by any stretch of the imagination. It's even worse to use r/ukpolitics quotes because those people are not professionals, not subject to any fact-checking processes and don't speak for the company Reddit or for the users of Reddit (any more than I speak for all Wikipedians). The fact that it was Bindel's article originally linked to, or the sentence "The moderation team of r/ukpolitics turned the subreddit private over the banning to protect the subreddit and its viewers and contacted Reddit's admin team to find out why the moderator was banned and, after discussions with the admin team, they unbanned the moderator"... it's just too much detail. There's no due weight for content outside of secondary sources—even for secondary sources there should be an extremely no-holds-barred approach to selective usage of only the most significant because otherwise for a topic like Reddit the page would be longer and less coherent than the text of Hamlet. The other reason that Reddit sources are anathema here is because (unlike most of the rest of the page, I hope) the topic is child sexual abuse and WP:BLP requires use to "Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources". — Bilorv (talk) 10:48, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
@Super Goku V: take your time in response, but I've decided to reinstate the version I had originally for the time being (plus a source from The Times) because this is a high-profile topic at the moment (so every hour counts) and I'm concerned about the WP:BLP implications of using these sources like the moderators of r/ukpolitics. Hopefully we can come to a better agreement soon—I'm sure there is useful expansion to be had on what is now standing. — Bilorv (talk) 15:40, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay, but I had to get some sleep. Regarding the article, I am fine with reinstating your version. I was actually expecting that you would edit it, at least to keep the Times, plus the fact that my sentences do run-on for awhile. I do want to point out that I don't feel the topic is just the child sexual abuse, but about censorship as well. Originally, the interesting part was r/ukpolitics going private, then coming back to say that one of their moderators was permanently banned for sharing an article with someone's name in it. That is what drove the interest into the situation in the beginning. (Many popular Reddit pages have gone private today, protesting against what they believe to be censorship on the site. Subreddits ranging from r/Music to r/AmongUs have now become a private community due to their belief that the company is censoring mention of one of its employees, following the removal of an article mentioning former British political figure Aimee Knight (née Challenor) from the r/UKPolitics subreddit.) The focus did mostly switch to disapproval of Reddit over hiring someone who had hired in the past a person charged with sex crimes against children. But there was still some focus on the censorship issue. (Most to all of the follow-up statement by the Admin Safety team was in regards to removing content. The Game Revolution citation goes into a bit of detail about it.) I can accept that citing the r/ukpolitics statement is the most problematic citation, but I feel that we end up just talking about the details of the shutdown without fully explaining why it occurred. (The mention to Bindel's article was a leftover of my initial plans for discussing what happened and the only part that really matters to the article is that the focus of the article wasn't on Knight, so cutting most of that would be fine.) Anyways, before I made any changes to the Reddit article, would you like me to place a copy here or on the Reddit talkpage for your input and changes? (I would prefer it as I have a habit of not strictly getting to the point.) -- (Off-topic) While not regarding the Reddit article, I also want to bring a few things to your attention. While searching for articles involving Knight, I found this one dated back to May of last year that involves her. There is also one from June of last year as well. They might be suitable for her article. --Super Goku V (talk) 01:52, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
I forgot to ask, but do you consider the citation to the CEO as suitable? (Additionally, I just went to Knight's talk page and I am going to bring up the citation in my off-topic portion there. --Super Goku V (talk) 01:59, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
I consider the CEO citation reliable, but not necessarily significant. The secondary sources seem to quote/describe enough of it for it to not be needed, so far as I can see. If this was a position where all the news articles had come out before the statement and then not been edited, even though we don't have a "right of reply" on Wikipedia it would probably still be good to use it to make sure the statements weren't out of date or misleading. But when there are better sources, cite them rather than the CEO directly.
I understand that disapproval was both on the grounds of hiring and the censorship, and I did aim to communicate this in my version. I'm not sure what reasoning is not clear, given that it mentions Challenor's associations with a convicted child rapist and the partner's pedophilia comments, and also the ban/removals. When it says "went private in protest", is it not contextually obvious that this will be protest over both things? (And when I said child sexual abuse here, I just mentioned that because that's the most WP:BLP-sensitive part of it.)
I can see that limited additional detail on the following could be acceptable: (1) that the initial article only mentioned Challenor in passing, or came from The Spectator, or some other small snippet of information; (2) the admins' initial response where they said this was about anti-doxxing, and how the privating boycotts came after; (3) Huffman again mentions anti-harassment in the last statement. (Maybe we could explain exactly how the anti-harassment tool was described as working and how its effects were claimed to be unintended.)
Feel free to put the draft here to continue the conversation, although it would be fine at Talk:Reddit too. Thanks! — Bilorv (talk) 10:53, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
Regarding the first part, I can agree and should have amended this before logging out given the possibly sources that turned up. Regarding the second, I was just thinking of what you said here regarding "the topic is child sexual abuse" and was confused as I didn't consider your edits, so sorry for that. Regarding the third, I will do my best on it, though I don't think we can going into too many details on the anti-doxxing part. --Super Goku V (talk) 07:18, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Bilorv, I made small edits to Reddit, could you check if they violate WP:BLP? User:Tetizeraz. Send me a ✉️ ! 19:49, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@Tetizeraz: it seems to me that your expansion of the information in Huffman's comment is accurate and that there are no BLP issues. Just switched a "Knight" to "Challenor" as the former name is not mentioned/explained in this paragraph. No prejudice against rewriting to use Knight as the primary name if anyone thinks that is best. Let me know if that answers your question, and thanks for asking it. — Bilorv (talk) 01:36, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Requesting your assistance again when you have the time

Pinged you on the WP:TV talk page ystrdy for some more help re: the Run BTS page. Just leaving a little note here in case you might not have seen/rec'd the notification. -- Carlobunnie (talk) 23:50, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Carlobunnie. Ping didn't go through because you used an extra tilde when signing, which produces the date only rather than the full signature. (If I had a penny for every time I've done that...) I should get around to this in about 12 hours (message me again if I've not answered within 24). — Bilorv (talk) 23:56, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
Oh god. Everytime I update my phone's keyboard it makes me look like more and more of an idiot. I actually only typed four tildes but my keyboard duplicated a fifth. It's been doing that a lot lately but I didn't notice it this time (thanks for pointing it out). No rush, and will do. Thanks again! -- Carlobunnie (talk) 00:04, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello again. I just wanted to know if it be okay to copy our discussion on the WP:TV talk page to the actual Run BTS talk page? I feel it would be good to have there for others interested in the page to see. I think I've see editors use a template of some kind to make a discussion from one talk page appear on another one but idk what it is. Not everyone cares to check the edit history for explanations. -- Carlobunnie (talk) 04:59, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Carlobunnie might it not be better to just link to that discussion e.g. start a section titled "Numbering" and say "The numbering has been discussed at..." Rather than a link which will break when the WPTV discussion is archived, you can use a permalink: go to the history of the page and click on the date of the latest revision, and you'll see the URL ends in oldid=1017815089 (unless someone new edits it between me writing it and you reading it). So the code [[Special:Permalink/1017815089#Help with Run BTS episodes]] produces Special:Permalink/1017815089#Help with Run BTS episodes, a permanent link to the discussion. (In general, I don't think templates are used to transclude talk page discussions like you're describing, except for specific things like some DYK or GA reviews.) — Bilorv (talk) 09:08, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Modest flowers

Quick facts
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Thank you for what you said on Yoninah's talk, - see also Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-03-28/Obituary! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:32, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Happiness Ever After

I was looking at the draft, and you were looking at the draft. You declined it as too soon. I renamed/moved it, and was about to decline it, but you had already declined it. I think we are in agreement. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:54, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: since it looks like your edits were a couple of hours later, where were you looking that made you think it was currently submitted? In any case, I didn't even notice the title didn't match the movie name but thanks for moving it to the right place. — Bilorv (talk) 10:50, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
I had copied the draft from a category so that I could look at it. Then I took a break from my computer, and then came back. So I moved it, with the intention of declining it, and then it was no longer submitted because you had declined it. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:26, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
@Robert McClenon: ah I see, no worries. — Bilorv (talk) 17:10, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm CommanderWaterford. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Tomb (Angelo de Augustine's Album), and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:59, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

@CommanderWaterford: I think the copyvio was introduced after I accepted this draft at AfC, so thanks for catching it. The "Critical reception" section is fine as they're attributed quotes and that was the section by which I determined the topic was notable, so I've removed the G12 and replaced it with an RD1 so just the page history of the two sections with copyvio in are redacted. Hope this addresses the problem as you saw it. Let me know if not! — Bilorv (talk) 11:07, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
Absolutely correct, I honestly was not aware that you get automatically this message when I unreviewed it. Everyhting's fine. Happy Editing, CommanderWaterford (talk) 11:10, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Tomb's problem.

Hey, thanks for the help (again) in the article that i created (and sorry if my english is not that good). This is so embarrassing. Sorry for the copyright content in Tomb, for sure i'm not a Wikipedia Master. There's a way to put the cover there without violating anything? In a meantime i will write by myself the other topics of that article and put the references. And also, i was sawing other album pages and the name is always something like "Heaven & Hell (Ava Max album). You can help me putting the "Album" in lowercase and the "de" for "De"? --Eduhtml (talk) 16:54, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

@Eduhtml: no need to be embarrassed! There's a very steep learning curve to editing Wikipedia and your draft was accepted through Articles for Creation after its second submission, which is still better than maybe 90% of drafts I see. So that's a reason to be happy. You cannot copy content from another source, even if you link that source—this is called copyright violation. What you can do (though I understand this becomes harder the weaker your English is) is rewrite content from other reliable sources in your own words, making sure it's worded completely differently, but still only containing information that the source says.
As for the album cover, I've now properly uploaded it for you. You might be asking, "well why can you upload the image but when I did it, it was wrong?" The important differences are: I uploaded the image to Wikipedia, not Wikimedia Commons (which is only for freely licensed works); and I gave a correct copyright status for the image with a detailed fair use rationale. The non-free content criteria govern when we can and cannot use non-free images and in what context. I would recommend that you ask somebody else before trying to upload new images in future.
About the article title: we have a policy—WP:PRECISION—which says that we should only use disambiguators (words in brackets) to make sure that the title is unique, but not overly specific. I've requested that an admin deletes the redirect page currently at Tomb (album) so that the page can be moved to that title.
(If anything I have said is not clear, please ask follow-up questions or ask me to rephrase. English is the only language I speak but I'm happy to rewrite things using more simple words if that's a barrier to understanding.) — Bilorv (talk) 17:36, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
@Bilorv:: Thank you for the patience and all the tips! I saw that you edited the page a few minutes ago and it's perfect, thx again. About the images, i can't upload to Wikipedia because my account isn't yet verified, so i guess this is why i uploaded at Wikimedia Commons, but maybe in a few days i will be able to upload, these time more carefully. I think Tomb (album) is still waiting for deletion, so i will wait until that happens and creates articles for his other albuns. Thanks again (for a third time) and be safe xx. --Eduhtml (talk) 23:16, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
@Eduhtml: it's not the article up for deletion, but old revisions of the page which had the copyright violations, as I said in this edit summary. Notice that the template says It has been requested that certain historical revisions of this page be redacted (emphasis added). There was a previous deletion template which I contested. — Bilorv (talk) 23:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Okay Eduhtml (talk) 01:02, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § Redesigning the featured, good, and article assessment icons. Pbrks (talk) 21:11, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Connect film movie poster

Hi there, thanks for letting me know that the movie poster for connect.jpg has not been approved for this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_(film)

I have noticed that WikiPedia has movie posters on other movie pages. How does this happen if they are copyrighted posters?  Preceding unsigned comment added by Colinrosssmith (talkcontribs) 11:54, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the question, Colinrosssmith. You uploaded a movie poster to Wikimedia Commons under a free license, which is a copyright violation because you do not own the copyright to it. If you look at any movie poster on an existing article you'll see it was uploaded locally to Wikipedia with a detailed fair use rationale given—and if this is not true then point me to the article in the question because it's against the rules. The non-free content criteria govern when we can and can't use fair use content with a proper license and rationale, and one official movie poster in the infobox of an article about the movie is generally taken as something that satisfies these criteria.
I notice that the plot summary given in the article was identical to others elsewhere on the internet, so I removed it. Did you copy it from another source? This is also copyright violation. Again, if you look at another page and find content has been copied and pasted (rather than someone writing a summary in their own words) then please point me to it.
On a technical note, when leaving a message on a talk page you need to sign your posts by ending them with the code ~~~~. — Bilorv (talk) 12:06, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your answers. This helps me to understand the process. I am just new to WikiPedia and learning. You must have your hands full from new people submitting articles. Anything uploaded is done through not understanding all the ins and outs of it all yet. On this occassion I forgot to leave the signature.
I didn't think a plot summary on IMDB could be considered copyright violation. It's just a summary of a film.
Colinrosssmith (talk) 13:04, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
@Colinrosssmith: I'm glad to see this is helpful. A lot of people come with complaints but don't listen when you explain, but I always welcome someone who's trying their best. You can read Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for full detail but the simplest explanation is that under U.S. law, a person legally holds copyright to everything they write by default—you can quote them with attribution in small fragments for reasons like education or parody, but you cannot copy their text whenever you want. When you edit Wikipedia, however, the conditions written in small text above the "Publish changes" button legally make it so that you are only entitled to a lesser "Creative Commons" copyright (someone can copy your text if they say that Wikipedia is the source) but this is by a long margin not the most common situation. IMDb's content is mostly written by volunteers too but as their terms of use page says the company retains the copyright. You are welcome to write your own plot summary, ideally based on watching the movie but as a second option based on the information you find on IMDb or other websites in your own words (if you are confident that the information is true). You might want to read Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing#Example to establish how different your text needs to be from the original source for it to not be a copyright violation. — Bilorv (talk) 17:55, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Changed Lay It On Me title

Hi Bilorv I am new to creating Wiki pages, so thanks for your help! I was wondering if you could change the title back on the Lay It On Me page, as it is an EP and not a song and the "On" needs to be capitalized. Thanks! -CollinParrott  Preceding undated comment added 16:51, 7 April 2021‎

Hello CollinParrott! Messages go at the bottom of the page and you end them by typing ~~~~ to make a default signature appear with your userpage and talk page and (importantly) a timestamp. I changed the title to use a lowercase "on" because our naming conventions specify (see MOS:TITLECAPS) that Prepositions containing four letters or fewer (as, in, of, on, to, for, from, into, like, over, with, upon, etc.) are not capitalised. However, I've (hopefully) fixed the EP issue (my fault, sorry about that) by renaming to Lay It on Me (EP). You should never make an edit like this without an edit summary because it's not obvious what your reasoning is, it comes across as rude and someone patrolling that edit will likely undo it because they don't have the information to work out why you removed it. I'm still a bit confused about why you removed it, as we need to document it at the disambiguation page for people who are struggling to navigate to the topic they are looking for, so I've readded it under the new article title. Let me know if you have further questions or think there are more mistakes in my latest set of changes. — Bilorv (talk) 18:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you Bilorv!! Sorry for removing the disambiguation link, I got confused and then did not know how to add it back. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain what I did wrong! (and hopefully I'm doing this right) -- CollinParrott (talk) 18:49, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
No problem, CollinParrott. You just want to type the four tildes without the <code> and <nowiki> tags that I was just using to demonstrate the code (don't worry about what they do). (Most keyboards have a tilde button if you look for it.) There should also be a button in the edit window labelled "Sign your posts on talk pages" which you can click to insert the characters. At the disambiguation page, if you had clicked "View history" you'd have seen a page of all the changes made to the page, and you could undo your most recent change by clicking to see what text used to be there and then adding it back, or by clicking "Undo" on your own change (only works with the most recent edit to a page) or by clicking on the timestamp of a version and then going to "Edit" from that old version (which restores that version of the page, or allows you to edit it from there). Play around with some of the links and let me know if some specific option confuses you. — Bilorv (talk) 19:02, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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