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Hi Padgriffin,
I have been working to create article about Georgian Based Software company Webdoors JSC , which is serving more than 100000 users daily through more than 10 client websites in Georgia. Please be precise and remove deletion tag from the companies article, it is not for a commercial use, but for the history that this company has achieved and will achieve.
Shalikosi
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- Please read
WP:GNG
- the article currently does not display any evidence of notability.
Padgriffin
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13:45, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
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- no that is the link to provide students all and depth knowledge of msc as that was not the ariticle we can't provide depth knowledge there so i inserted the link
AnshulKumar2003
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- What?
Padgriffin
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04:21, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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- I am saying that the link i have linked there is only for students as you know the page msc has no defination i described it there. And there in no proper knowledge about msc in the page so the link is necessary there for students purpose.
AnshulKumar2003
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- You edited a disambig and added a spam link- also, there is a link to
Master of Science
on the page, under "Education".
Padgriffin
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11:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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Dear Padgriffin,
I noticed that
Yiwu railway station
has a Telegraph code called YWH, but however you changed the
YWH
page from a disambiguation page to a redirect.
Please look into this.
Thank you.
Aravindhan Ravikumar
(
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) 07:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
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- I restored the redirect as I could find no instances of "YWH" actually being used to refer to the station- all of the instances of "YWH" I could find were used to refer to the Canadian airport, with no hits outside of Wikipedia (and mirrors) for the station.
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- Moved.
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You reverted my deletion of "nationality French" stating that it did not appear constructive. No other supercentenarian has their nationality in their Infobox. I wasn't experimenting, I was simply making a reversion of an edit by a new editor with the grand total of four edits. I myself, although retired for the time being, have made well over 16 thousand. Regards,
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is this the HKGW
219.76.24.194
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I noticed that the anon
reverted a removal
on
Template talk:HK routes
by
Citobun
Citobun
removed an anon's talk
and flagged that edit as HKGW. Citobun hasn't edited for a few months and I saw you also reverted an edit on Tt:HK routes. I removed one of the anon's red link categories and was pinged to the anon's talk page. I replied and then noticed that the anon had added a number of red linked categories which I started removing. Then noticed the Tt EW. Not familiar with how to proceed, so leaving this message. Thanks
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Category requests by 219.76.24.194
Cheers
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- Reporting the IPs to AIV should suffice. The New Kowloon category and obsession with roads in Hong Kong is a pretty clear giveaway that it's them again, despite their attempts at claiming otherwise.
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- Thanks. That was a simple AIV report. Was the RACFC comment a good idea or not? DENY? Cheers
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- I'm a bit iffy about that, as two of those categories do make sense and are needed as a result of the CFD- but the "New Kowloon" one is questionable as it's one of HKGW's favorite terms that has close to zero actual usage in real life.
Padgriffin
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@
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Wow! I came back from a couple months off Wikipedia and my notifications are filled with reverts by HKGW using countless different IPs. Thanks for keeping an eye on this user.
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Hello Padgriffin. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of
Pagure
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Hello, Padgriffin. Thank you for your work on
Gawar people
.
User:Onel5969
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page curation process
, had the following comments:
Hi there... I unreviewed this because none of the sources talk in-depth about this ethnic group. In fact, 8 of the 9 don't even mention the group, only the language, Gawar-Bati, or the Gawar region. The ninth mentions it, but only in a passing sense. I think this should stay unreviewed for a while to give the creator time to add more sources (I left a message on their talk page). But if it remains in this condition for a week, I'll draftify it, or mark it for deletion.
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Hi, I noticed you're currently engaged in an
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- I personally don't know how the IP is doing this, Pending Changes lock is enabled so a reviewer is allowing these.
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- After further looking into it, the IP in question is blocked. Please disregard, thank you for reverting.
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- I would like to note that the IP in question was adding
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- I didn't know there were exceptions to 3RR, thanks for this info
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you can click here
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for the accurate dates, try the birth charts by putting the dates, and Aries dates are from March 20 to April 20
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- That is very obviously not a
WP:RS
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Hi it appears an organization's page was mistakenly flagged to be deleted, may you please resolve this.
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- Thank you!
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The map of India isn't right and you think this is a neutral thing? Why? Now you are going to decide what is our nation's boundaries? Or you're one of the great worker of the following company to make sure everything is against anything that doesn't suit you or west's mindset?
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- Please read
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and
WP:NPA
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The article I edited contradicts itself, by making a claim that there is no infinite dimensional Lebesgue measure, and then constructing three examples two paragraphs down. Do not edit if you are not a mathematician or do not understand mathematics.
??Preceding
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(
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The article itself contains the references! Do you even read?
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How can you edit this page when you do not understand what it is saying? It is saying that Lebesgue measure doesn't exist, then constructs it two paragraphs down as the product measure! The claim is that it doesn't exist on separable spaces, this is true, and that sigma finite versions don't exist. This is the only claim made in the sources. How can you edit without understanding the article?
??Preceding
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I left a detailed explanation of my argument to the deletion request on the talk page. In response to the nomination for deletion, this article uses nearly all reputable 3rd party sources and the one or two instances where it may use an interview or Crunchbase, it does so for very limited information like to cite that he is CEO or that the company does employ 90 people. Apparently the old article used a lot of improper sourcing but, that is not the case with my version. My argument for notability is that the company is often referenced as notable competition by other companies in the field that are deemed reputable, the company was one of the few successful SV tech companies led by a female founder, that managed to raise over $76M in venture capital. It is backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and has the Managing Partner of Sequoia, Douglas Leone on its board. The company is also cited on his Wikipedia page and on the page of competitors.
The page isnt completely finished .. I thought I would like to put an early version up where myself and the rest of the community could work on it. If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the article or you would like to chat, I am happy to converse on my talk page . I would be happy to take you through my logic.
ScienceAdvisor
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- Unfortunately, notability is not inherited, and the mere fact that a notable company may have invested in the company does not help the article in terms of determining notability. I've looked through almost every source cited and they either involve some sort of participation from the company in question, making them not independent, are press releases or fails to qualify as significant coverage. The only one that initially looked semi-promising (Socialstarts) turned out to be a promotion from a Venture Capital fund that also has/had a direct disclosed financial state in the company. I couldn't find any other significant coverage through Googling either.
Padgriffin
Griffin's Nest
21:04, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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- Can you give me an example of a press release used on this page? Also there are a number of articles that are independent sources. I avoided all of the articles where the company was mentioned and there was only a quote from the CEO, instead focusing on articles where the subject was strongDM and their product offerings. There is a NY Post article about them being an early female founder investment from HearstLabs, the Global Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital is one of their board members and has it on his profile. There is coverage from Forbes, I know they sell articles occasionally but, those are usually from low level contributors. Their platform is technical in nature so, their coverage is from sources like TechCruch, DevOps and IT sources.. Did you really go through and look at the articles that have strongDM in the heading and the more technical sources? Do you understand what they do? I don't want to overstep but your argument doesnt seem as credible. A simple Google search for a technical product like wouldnt differentiate from credible sources and ones which they were just participating as a technical expert.
ScienceAdvisor
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- WP:SIRS
requires sources to be be
completely
independent of the article subject. A quote from the CEO renders the source non-independent. Even if the
WP:NYPOST
article passed SIGCOV it would still not be usable regardless. The DevOps articles are both non-independent. The
WP:TECHCRUNCH
article is nearly half-comprised of direct comments from the CEO, and the source is questionable in for use of establishing notability.
Padgriffin
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21:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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- Using a quote from a press release does not stop the source from being independent. Also, in this type of tech based area, it is common to request a quote from the source when doing an article. In fact in journalism, it is proper to notify a subject of an article and request a comment. It just good journalism and it adds to the cache of the article. Plus the NY Post article is quoting an employee of Hearst and not from strongdm. What is not appropriate sourcing is using articles where the employees are being quoted as experts on other subjects. In those articles the company is usually only mentioned once and there are hundreds of them on the internet to go through.
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Hi dear the page you edited Saraik District Province Bamian Country Afghanistan is a historical place in Afghanistan . you don't know about historical background of Saraik District in Afghanistan , The Saraik District in Afghanistan is with the name of Saraik where Saraiki language is spoken . SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA ,
The geographical name data for Saraik in Afghanistan, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Full Name
(
see definition
)
:
Saraik
Primary Country Code
(
see definition
)
:
AF (
Afghanistan
)
First-order administrative division code
(
see definition
)
:
05 (B?my?n )
Region Font Code
(
see definition
)
:
4 (Russia/ Central Asia)
Unique Feature Identifier
(
see definition
)
:
-3390841
Unique Name Identifier
(
see definition
)
:
-4822293
Latitude in decimal degrees
(
see definition
)
:
35.185
Longitude in decimal degrees
(
see definition
)
:
67.721111
[
https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-4822293&fid=154&c=afghanistan
] let people know the background of Saraik in Afghanistan , Requested that dont misguide the people of World .
Saraik
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) 05:31, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, i'm aware that you've removed my reversion of the Nijikon Article for "unconstructive editing" Despite the fact that the article in question has been constantly vandalized for weeks now by people who have since been exposed for spreading misinformation about Nijikon and Japanese Otaku Culture in general. As me and several other users have attempted to fix and restore the article to its original state our reversions have all been removed for nonsensical reasons. I would like a full explanation for why this is happening and what is the true purpose doing this.
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Hi,
How would I move the page for
Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts And Technology
? I asked about this seven years ago on the page, but no one answered, and once I tried moving it, I couldn't because the page I wanted to move to already existed as a redirect. The capitalization at the original page is incorrect. It should be moved. But I can't do it.
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- I've applied for CSD G6 (
WP:G6
) speedy deletion on the alternative spelling- an admin should come along and move the page properly in a bit.
Padgriffin
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The Romani people portal is also up for deletion.
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Hi,
Padgriffin
! I have a quick question about an article you recently draftified,
Draft:Copper Development Association UK
. Because the article didn't have sources, I was keeping an eye on it for draftification, but wanted to ensure it hadn't been edited within an hour (per
WP:DRAFTIFY
). The article creator made a substantial edit at 6:22 CT, then another editor draftified at 6:32 CT. Because this violated WP:DRAFTIFY, I moved the article back into the mainspace at 6:54 CT, but then you draftified again two minutes later. Given that you have much more experience with New Page Patrol and Wikipedia more generally than I do, could you explain why you draftified the article again?
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- That's odd, because when I came to the article I saw that there were two edits, the initial edit and yours at 11:52 GMT, and since it had been an hour (12:56 GMT) it was presumably fine to move it. Looking at the history I can see that there were multiple edits in between, but I didn't see them- and since you moved the page back without a redirect, I wasn't aware that you had done a
WP:DRAFTOBJECT
(note: it's not a good idea to move it back to mainspace just because someone else violated
WP:DRAFTIFY
's 1-hour timer as technically this means nobody can move it back in the future). Maybe the logs hadn't caught up on my end because the page had been moved back and forth? Very odd indeed.
Padgriffin
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- Thanks for the explanation! I'll keep the undrafting comment in mind, too.?:)
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You restored a claim that a 2004 document is the Israeli government's latest population projection about Israel. Why did you restore this? Do you believe that they haven't issued a single projection in the last 20 years?
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- I... have not done that. My last edit to that page was
here
. As of writing nobody has actually reverted
your removal
of that specific claim, so I am extremely confused as to why you're claiming that I did.
Padgriffin
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- I didn't realise that you'd reverted the first edit rather than the second. But why did you revert that one? Your templated warning treated me like a vandal.
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- Because your edit changed the wording in a way that made it more confusing so I reverted it. The templates are sent automatically via Huggle.
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- Thanks! Ten years really does seem to fly by, eh? (Yes I know I'm late)
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If Wikipedia were Facebook, I would have awarded this line a like and a lol: "The summary for Air France Flight 447 is 'Entered high-altitude stall; impacted ocean' and not 'plane crashed because too slow' for a reason." I may start talking about stalls as "plane crashed because too slow".
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- Thanks! I was trying to figure out how to communicate that occasionally you will need to use the correct technical term to describe an incident even if the general public would likely not be aware of it, and describing a stall as "plane slow then crash" was the best way I could do it.
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Hi. I appreciate your hard work on Reddit but my edit should not have been deleted. Many uses for molasses have been added recently and I see no reason why its use in dinosaur shaped dog treats is less worthy of mention than any of the other uses. It is in fact being used in this way as you can verify with a google search or this link to the product I am referring to:
- https://petrinserepeatstore.myshopify.com/products/handmade-molasses-dino-delights-wheat-corn-and-soy-free-designer-dog-treats-12-per-case
2600:1001:B055:2DB7:B122:36F9:86A4:5522
2600:1001:B055:2DB7:B122:36F9:86A4:5522
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- This is a
WP:LTA
who has been inserting claims about supposed dinosaur content in molasses into
Molasses
since at least 2019. See
User:Meters/Molasses dinosaur vandal
Meters
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Hello,
I was editing/adding to the page for Ministry for Ethnic Communities and my work has been reverted. I was wondering if you could perahps let me know your reasoning? I am aware is was not strictly MOS compliant, but thats what I was working to fix i.e adding relevant citations for my new addition. Even my fixing of grammatical errors was reverted? Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you.
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If you think my Theseus comments constitute "original research", please read
this
. But I'm not gonna engage in those move discussions any longer, cos life's too short.
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