It appears that the entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mattlobato has been deleted on the basis of an alleged copyright violation. I would be grateful if the decision to delete this entry could be reviewed in the light of the following information:
In fact as soon as I received an allegation that an infringement of copyright may have occurred, this was immediately remedied and the content deleted, and an entirely new version replaced it without delay with notice to the party alleging infringement. However, notwithstanding this, the new content appears to have been mistakenly deleted, and this amended version did not contain any copyright material whatever. I hope this clears up any confusion in this matter and I trust that the deleted content may now be restored. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattlobato (talk • contribs) 19:33, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Contents
- 1 Proposed deletion of Londonistan (term)
- 2 Charlene Cafritz AfD
- 3 Obelisk
- 4 Jersey Legal French
- 5 Proposed deletion of Onboarding article
- 6 Barbara Stcherbatcheff
- 7 Heads Up
- 8 Fair use rationale for File:Florissimo 03.JPG
- 9 Your GA nomination of Constitutional Council of France
- 10 Fair use rationale for File:Edinburgh Make poverty history dsc06375.jpg
- 11 Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Edinburgh Make poverty history dsc06375.jpg
- 12 File:Edinburgh Make poverty history dsc06375.jpg
- 13 Unreferenced BLPs
- 14 Orphaned non-free image File:Le Parisien 2005 03 21.png
- 15 Orphaned non-free image File:Le Parisien logo.png
- 16 Speedy deletion nomination of Sahar (TV station)
- 17 École Polytechnique
- 18 File source problem with File:Clyster1.jpg
- 19 Association de la Régie Théâtrale
- 20 Fair use rationale for File:HIA Percy.jpg
- 21 Replaceable fair use File:Florissimo 03.JPG
- 22 Non-free rationale for File:Ni Putes Ni Soumises cover.jpg
- 23 Orphaned non-free image File:TOUBON.GIF
- 24 Non-free rationale for File:Petillon drawing.png
- 25 DRN discussion
- 26 MSU Interview
- 27 Nomination of Karen Russell for deletion
- 28 Speedy deletion nomination of Competitive examination
- 29 Non-free rationale for File:Trust Bonvoisin Krief.jpg
- 30 Non-free rationale for File:SuperLiar.png
- 31 Happy 9th Wikipedia Anniversary to you :)
- 32 Orphaned non-free media (File:Association for Computing Machinery logo.png)
- 33 Toulouse
- 34 Disputed non-free use rationale for File:RDDV mecontent 573.jpg
- 35 Please see
- 36 Misinterpretation of sources about the status of Scientology
- 37 ArbCom elections are now open!
- 38 Reminder: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December
- 39 URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December
- 40 URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December
- 41 URGENT: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by 31 December
- 42 FINAL NOTICE: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by TOMORROW
- 43 Autograv
Proposed deletion of Londonistan (term)
I have proposed this article for deletion, as I think that the use of the term apart from being a title of a book is non-notable. Of course it could just be that I have not heard this term used much myself, if that is the case please provide references showing when and how this term was used and by whom. -- Q Chris (talk) 07:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Charlene Cafritz AfD
I added a courtesy blank tag--figured that was your intention. Blueboy96 20:38, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Obelisk
Hello
You added a lead image to this page a while ago; there is a discussion on the lead image for this page here. You might want to comment...Swanny18 (talk) 16:20, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Jersey Legal French
Bonjour. C'est vrai? [1] On dirait de nos jours en français de France sire Philip Bailhache? Merci pour le conseil. Man vyi (talk) 18:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- En fait, on dirait sans doute "Monsieur Philip Bailhache". Sire et messire sont de l'ancien français. Sir n'est pas du français, c'est pourquoi j'ai rajouté le "e", peut-être à mauvais escient. David.Monniaux (talk) 19:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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- Mon dictionnaire français-anglais (d'Oxford) donne "Sir James" comme traduction de "Sir James". Pour des journaux, Le Monde semble favoriser uniquement l'usage de "Sir" (avec majuscule) dans les titres britanniques ou du Commonwealth, tandis que Le Figaro semble basculer entre "sir" et "Sir"[2] [3] [4] [5]. Je n'ai pas pu trouver "sire" dans des journaux français dans le contexte d'un titre britannique actuel. Man vyi (talk) 06:29, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Onboarding article
David - Accepting my own bias, having written three books on the subject, I do not think we should delete the "Onboarding" article. If you Google onboarding, you'll find 768,000 entries. It's a large and growing subject that is making a dramatic impact on the acceleration of new employees and reducing their risk of failure. Of all the Google entries, the Wikipedia article is the first one.
You made some comments about some parts of the article not seeming academic enough. I took out all the corporate references and embedded sales pitches for onboarding software. The books cited were published by Wiley, the world's largest business publisher, and the Harvard Press, part of Harvard University - both extremely credible publishers that believe this is an important topic. Watkins was a professor at Harvard and is now at Insead. He's looked at this subject from the academic side. I've been building a body of knowledge around this for 20+ years from both a business and research perspective.
Net, let's evolve and improve instead of deleting. The article is definitely helping some people.
George Bradt —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbradt (talk • contribs) 15:37, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Barbara Stcherbatcheff
I fail to understand your deletion of Barbara Stcherbatcheff as A7. The article needed work, and was potentially a candidate for a deletion discussion, but the article did assert in the lead that she is a published columnist. The body also showed that she's a published author. A7, as I understand it is for when an article makes no attempt to establish notability. -Verdatum (talk) 16:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- We had complaints on OTRS about it, from its subject. If an article is of interest only to its subject and its subject's personal enemies, that's definitely a problem and probably indicates lack of notability. David.Monniaux (talk) 18:29, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
- I see nothing wrong with the version in Google's cache. --Apoc2400 (talk) 19:21, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
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- Earlier versions contained demeaning comments, and the subject basically had to have an edit war to get them removed.
- I myself see something wrong with this cached article - it's a biography of a living person largely without sources. The only sources cited are primary sources (she once wrote articles for <insert name of magazine>, proof: see magazine), her own personal web site, her employer's web site and so on. If you compare to, say, the biography of Charles de Gaulle, you'll notice that the latter has a multiplicity of sources.
- Wikipedia is not a directory of professionals, including professionals involved in journalism. David.Monniaux (talk) 20:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
This was a OTRS action because of repeat edit wars with unflattering commentary in an article otherwise violating Wikipedia's rules because of absence of independent sources. Apart from that, I'm not into wikilawyering and red tape. David.Monniaux (talk) 15:43, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
- I can appreciate that, I'm just trying to confirm the situation so I know what to do next. I don't think there's any point in proposing undeletion, since attacks should remain stricken, and selective history deletes are a pain. I suppose I'll recreate the article minus whatever content that fails WP:BLP and see where it goes from there. -Verdatum (talk) 21:04, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Heads Up
David, If you ears are burning it might be because of this which references this. Not sure What M's point is thought since it seems a perfectly normal edit but you should be aware that you are being discussed. Cheers Spartaz Humbug! 06:43, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
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- Maybe, but please do not remove copyright and photographer information. David.Monniaux (talk) 08:49, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
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École Polytechnique
David.Monniaux, would you be so kind as to contribute to the selectiveness discussion on the École Polytechnique talk page? We have competing claims, but no hard evidence to back either of them up. I'm inclined to remove all mention of selectiveness entirely unless and until the claims can be properly bolstered MyPOV (talk) 15:38, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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Association de la Régie Théâtrale
Dear David,
As you can read on my talk page, Foobarnix is willing to develop articles on French theatre around Jean Giraudoux. I found a very nice site : Architecture Topaze, Affiches... I saw that you have some experience in getting permissions for images and furthermore I assume from your professional page that you're in Paris from time to time (I live in Germany) and I was wondering if you could help contacting the Association de la Régie Théâtrale and trying to get some images from them into commons.
Many thanks for your help,
--Anneyh (talk) 07:07, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
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MSU Interview
Dear David.Monniaux,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
- Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
- Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
- All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
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- The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 14:09, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Happy 9th Wikipedia Anniversary to you :)
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Toulouse
Hi! Are you still in Toulouse? WhisperToMe (talk) 23:31, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
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Please see
Most recent talk entry at Paclitaxel. Your comments welcome, even before the edit being addressed appears. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 23:16, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Misinterpretation of sources about the status of Scientology
Hi,
After seeing this and that, I think you could help on this topic (I already asked for help here but to no avail).
Thanks. Apokrif (talk) 14:12, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
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Autograv
Hi David, I was looking for images of gravimeters, and I found an entire category on commons of your photos [6]. I would be about to use these images in a page on it.wiki, but I have to ask you a question before editing properly: I saw the gravimeter displaying the acceleration in mGal, showing an average value around 4000 mGal. I know that acceleration of gravity on earth is about 976-983 Gal, so I can't understand what the instrument was measuring while you took the pictures. Can you dispel my doubt please? If it's not too much trouble, answer me on my discussion page on it.wiki, here. Thanks--Samuele Madini (talk) 20:31, 14 January 2016 (UTC) Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give GIGN a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Bradv 20:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)