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Invitation to a research survey
Hello Dbachmann, I am Qi Wu, a computer science MS student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Currently, we are working on a project studying the main article and sub article relationship in a purpose of better serving the Wikipedia article structure. It would be appreciated if you could take 4-5 minutes to finish the survey questions. Thanks in advance! We will not collect any of your personally information.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Political extremism in Switzerland
A tag has been placed on Political extremism in Switzerland requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. PanchoS (talk) 15:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
History of Carthage merge
There is a discussion regarding merging History of Punic-era Tunisia: chronology and History of Punic-era Tunisia: culture into History of Carthage being held at Talk:History of Carthage#Merge. You are being approached as you are a recent or significant editor of one or other of the articles, or because you have expressed interest in the merge previously. SilkTork ✔Tea time 19:06, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Germania
I see your name on nearly every page related to things Germania. I may not always agree with you, but you seem an intelligent, balanced, and unbiased user. Thank you for your valuable contributions here.73.220.34.167 (talk) 20:57, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
- thank you, I have to say, I do not always agree with myself :) as after more than ten years of doing this, there is no way to avoid learning new things. I would love to go over points of disagreement and improve coverage on them (but you should get an account for that of course). --dab (𒁳) 07:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
- Sadly, wikipedia does not encourage accounts. I do not know how you do it. But I have all of my contributions or edits deleted immediately, I get stalked, harassed, banned, and so on. I am not ashamed to say that I have lost many accounts and have given up. Strangely, as an "IP" as the dialect calls us derisively, I my edits and contributions have a 90% rate of retention. With an account, only about 5% stays. Strange... I know sometimes I am informal in talk pages, but so are others. In articles I try to be a pragmatic and practical German... There should be some discussion about the phenomenon. 73.220.34.167 (talk) 22:07, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to discuss a controversial article you edited previously
You are invited to comment on the article "List of expeditions ordered by Muhammad" in the Wikipedia Administrators Notice Board. Your input is highly valued as you edited this article previously.
Click here: Controversial Islamic Article-90% of page wiped out by Muslims, possible bias to comment--Misconceptions2 (talk) 03:33, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
WP:Copying within Wikipedia
An edit made to Romanos IV Diogenes at 05:39, 1 November 2010 by user:Oatley2112. At 10:33, 17 March 2016 you copied text from Romanos IV Diogenes. Your comment to the edit history "import from emperor bio pages" does not meet the requirements of WP:Copying within Wikipedia. See the section WP:ATTREQ. You needed to provide a link to the pages from which you copied the text eg "text copied from Romanos IV Diogenes..."
There is a further problem. You have copied text from several pages and have provided short and long citations to two different books by the same author:
- Norwich, John Julius (1993), Byzantium: The Apogee, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-011448-3
- Norwich, John Julius (1996), Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-011449-1
but because you have not included the year in the short citations it is impossible to tell if the short citation "Norwich, pg. 5" refers to to a page in the volume Byzantium: The Apogee or Byzantium: The Decline and Fall.
Please fix the attribution to meet copyright attritions and please fix the short citations by adding the year to the short citations. -- PBS (talk) 20:44, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
- You are, technically, 100% right, and I was actually half wondering if anyone was going to call me out on it, so, well done, it is reasurring to see that there are still people looking out for the project's integrity. --dab (𒁳) 11:44, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Paul the Deacon / Eutropius (revisited)
Hi there,
Some months ago you pointed out that File:Paulus Diaconus.jpg is not, in fact, Paul the Deacon but is actually Eutropius (historian) (I presume, rather than Eutropius (consul)). I left a message about it, and you directed me to your Commons description. I forgot to follow up, but am reminded today so doing so. I'm just curious how you know it was a mistake? I have no reason to doubt what you're saying, but if it is indeed a mistake, that image is still all over various Wikipedias as Paul the Deacon (and, because of that, all over the Internet as such). Perhaps the answer is as simple as "I can read Latin and the text says it's Eutropius". If that's the case, I'd be happy to rename the file on Commons and carry out the replacement of the images elsewhere -- I just need to know what I'm basing it on (as is probably apparent, I cannot read Latin and do not see any readily available translation). Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- I can read Latin and the text says it's Eutropius :) --dab (𒁳) 16:49, 13 April 2016 (UTC)