User talk:MER-C/archives/39

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FYI: Landing Page. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:57, 14 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi MER-C/archives.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

92.73.29.215 has asked for a deletion reviewofBahram Tavakoli. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 01:11, 20 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi MER-C/archives. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

You have a reputation on being able to sniff out spam and of course we don't want spam in the encyclopedia. On the talk page of the article Incontinence, there was a template located at the top of the talk page that announced that a copyvio did not exist even though it might appear to be taken from another source. When I clicked on the link that was supposed to take me to the page where the content was supposed to NOT be a copyvio, instead I was taken to a commercial site selling incontinent supplies. Now you know. I removed it and I certainly won't believe those templates any more. Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 12:51, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) Barbara, according to the talk page discussion, it was a backwards copy in 2012, see Special:Diff/510445639. — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:49, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

It's an interesting social engineering technique. I've seen copyvios from spam websites before (complete with the spam), but I don't think this has been exploited deliberately. MER-C 08:41, 8 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello MER-C! Can you un-delete this article so I can edit it to meet the guidelines? Thanks! Sean. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seandavidfrank (talk • contribs) 05:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

No, that page is completely unsalvageable. Furthermore, I have reasons to believe you have not read our Terms of Service. MER-C 07:01, 12 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

[1] --JustBerry (talk) 01:53, 13 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Also, you actually missed deleting the article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hario itself. Cheers, SwisterTwister talk 06:35, 17 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Be patient. I'm closing these manually and deleted promotional articles need to be checked for wikilink spamming. MER-C 06:52, 17 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi i have recieved the below message.

[snip]

i am not advertising the company at all, i dont want to lose my account i dont undestan why the threatening meaagse ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickm94 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 19 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Read User:MER-C/SmartQuestions and try again. And yes, I will revoke your editing privileges if you continue to violate the purpose of Wikipedia and the copyright policy by dumping text from company websites. MER-C 05:29, 20 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

I just stumbled across Ready Pac Foods, which was created by an editor you blocked; the block message refers to deleted contributions of Sonywaga1, to which, as a mere Wikimortal, I don't have access.

My question: Is there some kind of centralized list, discussion area, etc. regarding review/deletion of articles by this sockfarm? The (terrible) article is probably AFD-worthy for non-notability of the subject company, but before I nominate it, I wanted to make sure I wasn't stepping on some existing mechanism specific to Sonywaga1 articles. Much obliged--thanks! - Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:53, 21 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

At the time I looked, there were only two accounts and the disgustingly promotional draft Draft:E-Tabletop. (Sonywaga1 reposted the content I deleted the first time around.) There seems to be more than this than that, I wouldn't be surprised that 89 Buckeye, Jhonnybonzala1 and Donzack1 were involved as well.

As for the AFD nomination, go ahead -- I agree that it is necessary. There is no central cleanup effort, I just noticed a "coincidence" when doing my daily rounds and acted accordingly. MER-C 04:43, 22 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello MER-C: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU ^(✉) 23:39, 23 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

A very merry Christmas to you as well! MER-C 12:48, 24 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I'm Kosta (konstantin) Peric, the person for which the Wikipedia entry was deleted on Dec 31, 2016. It seems that the reason for deletion was that the page was created by a banned user. However, the page was up since November 2016 and was succcesfully reviewed. I'm not aware of any banned person contributing to the article. It would be great if you could double check the deletion and the reason. Thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Copernicc (talk • contribs) 17:54, 1 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

The deletion was absolutely correct, and I explicitly refuse to undo it. The creator was one of many accounts operated by someone suspected of engaging in undisclosed paid advocacy, in complete disregard for the purpose of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a volunteer curated encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. Both the WMF and the Wikipedia community strongly disapprove of the abuse of our resources for promotional, marketing or PR purposes, especially the commission of promotional "articles" in exchange for undisclosed payments. MER-C 02:45, 2 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

MER-C,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 07:01, 2 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Happy New Year to you as well. MER-C 08:26, 2 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Genebandhu; the creator of the 1st article has recreated it. Jytdog (talk) 19:31, 5 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Deleted and salted, thanks for letting me know. MER-C 02:22, 6 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

You deleted the Factom wiki entry under the A7 criteria, but Factom is an open source software project, which is explicitly excluded from A7.Paulsnx2 (talk) 05:51, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

It's also spam, as the deletion log entry states. I'm not restoring it. MER-C 10:01, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

Hope all's well. I've been wondering - is there any way of configuring recent changes so it shows pages on which new accounts have overlapped? This would be extraordinarily helpful for hunting spammers.

Thanks,

GAB^gab 01:01, 27 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Not really. One could try fetching recent changes from the API, grouping by article title and eliminating non-autoconfirmed users, but it's going to be slow, limited to the last day or so and prone to false positives (think current affairs and TFA). MER-C 05:05, 27 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

I have recently created a page which was deleted . The page regarding KRChoksey investment managers pvt ltd. I copied the content from the website. Its not a promotional but an information regarding the company. How can I do that? Shall I write the whole original content. Please help. I am not trying ti spam nor promotional however trying to help to create more info.

I am not aware of all the rules, so please help me so that I can be a good contributor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sadhakm (talk • contribs) 03:54, 27 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

This goes well beyond not knowing what the rules are... your edits directly repudiate the purpose of Wikipedia. In particular if you think a company's "about us" page -- this one containing the text "With an impressive track record in terms of services to its broad clientele", among other buzzwords -- is somehow not meant to promote and paint said company in the best light possible, you shouldn't be editing Wikipedia. MER-C 04:36, 27 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hello MER-C! Please create page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luka Kukhianidze. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.64.113.197 (talk) 16:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Already taken care of. MER-C 05:11, 1 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi. I was wondering if there is any way to improve upon the previous submission for Paul Massey or go about creating a page him in a different way. I'm a little unfamiliar with Wikipedia.

Af398 (talk) 00:56, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

No. The page was deleted because it was determined to be unsalvageable -- you have been told five times (now six) that the subject does not meet our inclusion criteria for biographies. If you recreate that page, I will revoke your editing privileges for disruptive editing and misusing Wikipedia for promotional purposes. MER-C 02:02, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

I've relisted an RfC that was run at WT:Admin in Sept. 2015. It is at Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest#Concrete proposal 3 as there are a number of similar proposals going on at the same place. Better to keep them together. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:50, 5 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

I note that on 17 January 2017, the page Thomas Rome was deleted. I know next to nothing about Wikipedia, so you'll forgive me if I'm out of my depth here, but Thomas is a friend of mine who has represented various acclaimed musicians throughout the years. I'd like for the old page to be reinstated. Is there anything you can do to help on this matter?

Thanks, Bds92 (talk) 17:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC) BrianReply

That page was deleted because we believe its creator was sabotaging the integrity of the encyclopedia for financial gain, and thus I'm not undeleting it. I suggest getting feedback at articles for creation, in the current form that draft wouldn't survive long as an article. Bear in mind the answer could be "no, it's unfixable". MER-C 06:36, 22 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

You may wish to revoke talk page access as well.--Cahk (talk) 10:06, 26 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Done. MER-C 11:25, 26 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

You blocked them just now with instruction they utilise UTRS. So, question: how and to whom do I forward emails I have received from them? Cheers! O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 12:17, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Are they asking for an unblock? My advice would be to post on the talk page stating essentially "follow the instructions in the red box". FYI, I do not consider unblock requests made via email. MER-C 12:30, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for advice- no, not an unblock request, thhe emails were sent between the nomination and the deletion. I suppose it's not outing to just put the body of the texT without heasers and footers etc. O Fortuna!^{...Imperatrix mundi.} 12:35, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

I usually respond to all emails that don't require privacy on the talk page. I can't remember receiving an email from someone I've revoked talk page access to -- if you're able to answer their query then be very careful to use Special:Emailuser instead of directly replying. I advise against posting emails on-wiki -- it is, strictly speaking, a copyvio. You could summarize the contents here if you need my help in responding. MER-C 13:25, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi. Please see below, your action re: our Wikipedia article for Untold News. I am not Wiki savvy and a colleague coded and submitted our entry, which seemed straightforward, well-sourced, and non-controversial. Please advise why this article was blocked, and what I can do to resubmit it or have it unblocked. Thank you very much.Jewess77 (talk) 22:50, 27 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

We do not tolerate the abuse of this encyclopedia for promotional purposes. Due to the level of abuse by the relevant (your?) PR/SEO/whatever firm, we are explicitly forbidding creation of any page about this subject indefinitely. MER-C 11:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hello. I am reaching out to you regarding the deletion of my page Allied Marine Brokerage and Charter. May I receive some feedback on why the page was deleted, and how I can improve the content to avoid this mistake from occurring again. Please and thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilianadiane (talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

See here. MER-C 11:11, 3 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

RE: your comment about the creation on Spanish Wikipedia... I guess when all else fails, try, try, try another-language-Wikipedia?Chrissymad ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 18:25, 4 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I hope not. Looks isolated for now, maybe they happened across a subcontractor who speaks Spanish much better than English. I'm not sure how to arrange for that page to disappear. MER-C 04:33, 5 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

es:Usuario:AldoFX. MER-C 02:37, 6 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

What do you think? I wasn't sure before, but the contribs today clinch it for me. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:09, 13 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I had a look at the revision deleted content; it is extremely similar, with a few words changed here and there. Definitely a sock. MER-C 02:06, 14 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! I've started a discussion at ANI. I mentioned your name, as you'll have seen. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:56, 14 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi there! I was notified that in Jan. 2017 you deleted the page Food Future Inc? I've been desperately in the process of providing information for someone's review to update the page only to find out that the whole thing was deleted. Can you restore it? I need to provide new materials, updates and suggestions to be reviewed. Please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgj 524 (talk • contribs) 12:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

>I've been desperately in the process of providing information for someone's review to update the page

Who, exactly? Please elaborate. MER-C 12:56, 17 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

[2][3]. Thanks, GAB^gab 00:41, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Maybe. These appear to be a recreation of some sort, but looking for deleted pages when one doesn't know the exact title is a hopeless exercise. MER-C 02:42, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia received an email at OTRS regarding the blacklisting of womanitely.com.

I don't do much work with the blacklist but if I'm reading correctly you added it

here

Am I reading correctly that you are the one who added it? Can you tell me a little about it so I can either pass information on to the person inquiring or should I ask them to reach out and have a discussion with you?--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:42, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I made the blacklisting request. m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/womanitely.com and m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/amerikanki.com give the diffs of the spamming. It's a blog that has been aggressively spammed cross-wiki. MER-C 00:15, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

We recently found out that our blog Womanitely (womanitely.com) got blacklisted by Wikipedia and we're writing in hope of being removed from your Blacklist. We don't know a reason but we suppose it happened because someone - whether intentionally or unintentionally - added the links to some articles of our blog to Wikipedia, without asking for our permission.

Womanitely is a relatively young blog with a great purpose to help women overcome life obstacles, improve their health and upgrade their lifestyles. We are trying to spread a word and help as many people as possible. We have no intention of spamming.

Could you please let us know what we should do to be removed from the blacklist? Catalina520 (talk) 18:45, 22 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

>We are trying to spread a word

Wikipedia, being an encyclopedia, is not the place for that.

As for removal, you can try making one at m:Talk:Spam blacklist. I don't expect it to be granted; it is standard practice to decline removal requests from people associated with the relevant website because our experience demonstrates a significant portion are dishonest. MER-C 12:22, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I have created a company page. It has been deleted saying I am promoting. I just want to know how can I create the company page. The company is well known among the financial sectors in India. Please help me. (Talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sadhakm (talk • contribs) 11:23, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I've got a sense of deja vu for this one... MER-C 12:38, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

With due respect I beg to state that I had created an draft article for CarryMinati as it was protected from creation, the original page was deleted because of A7. But you had also deleted the draft article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:CarryMinati) as it was the recreation of draft article which was deleted (G4). So, I want you to look into the case and also make the main article available for creation (CarryMinati). CarryMinati aka is quite a reputed Indian YouTuber with over 800,000 subscribers and 100 Million views on Youtube. Yours sincerely --PrateekKumarDas (talk) 05:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Community consensus is that this youtuber does not even merit a draft. No means no. MER-C 11:19, 27 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I thought the 'sandbox' was a place where we can work on pages BEFORE submitting them to be reviewed. Why has a page that's less than 50% complete (and filled with sample text) eligible for deletion? 4dmbrown (talk) 13:26, 29 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) MER-C; I was going to ask about paid editing; but I think this tells us all we need to know. — O Fortuna! ^{Imperatrix mundi.} 13:49, 29 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

That's still not a helpful answer. 4dmbrown (talk) 13:51, 29 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

That garbage you posted is not tolerated anywhere on Wikipedia. Consider this your only warning. MER-C 00:30, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Could you please explain why this page was deleted?

05:19, 3 January 2017 MER-C (talk | contribs) deleted page Food Future, Inc. (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Food Future, Inc.)

As I am affiliated with the company I was providing suggestions for an editors review so that they could update the information on the page. Unfortunately I believe my suggestions were misconstrued and that is why the page was deleted. I do not want to edit the page, would merely like to suggest sources so that the page can be improved. If you would kindly restore the page that would be much appreciated so that we can continue making suggestions to be reviewed by the Wikipedia community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgj 524 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

As explained on that page, the article was promotional and the subject does not meet our inclusion criteria for companies. As the deletion was by community consensus, I will not restore it. MER-C 04:44, 31 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hey, you're an admin, right? Well, I figured I'd alert you about a situation on the Did you Know section on the main page. I'd estimate that about ~2 million people know that thrust into a difficult situation, Horney Dicks failed to satisfy. I suspect this as vandalism, though it's not listed on the edit history. It's location is the last did you know on the did you know section. Greasemann (talk) 01:05, 1 April 2017 (UTC)GreasemannReply

I'll get around to it... tomorrow. MER-C 11:33, 1 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi

I noticed that the page I created was deleted, just wanted to be clear on the guidelines as to why, so that I can continue to create a more appropriate version of the page.

Many thanks

DigitalManager (talk) 23:55, 10 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Guidelines? This goes way beyond that -- if you had bothered to take the minute or so necessary to understand the purpose of Wikipedia, you wouldn't (1) be asking that question and (2) have cribbed that content from http://lsbo.co.uk/about_us.htm in the first place. MER-C 03:53, 11 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

I found this one recently moved to project space and reverted it(redirect suppressed) because it was not appropriate for there. He now moved it to article space(I still believe it is not appropriate for there either). Can you take a look?--Kostas20142 (talk) 13:03, 18 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

WP:PROD it. MER-C 13:08, 18 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

An editor has asked for a deletion reviewofFood Future, Inc.. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Sgj 524 (talk) 14:49, 20 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

That probably should be on meta (where I blacklisted earlier another site of the same spam-family) .. but:

• behance.net: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

Is also used by them, see Behance .. a network for self promotion .. is there ever a reason to link to thát?

(I also have:

• dest-war.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
• playmovie21.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com
• movflix.website: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

And from this morning:

• watchmovie-gratis.info: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

What to do with them .. meta?) --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:25, 24 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

I support a meta blacklisting. This is pure spam. vroh.me was especially egregious... explicitly labelling Wikipedia as the referrer in the URL = blacklist on sight. Unfortunately, I don't think this will stop them. MER-C 12:00, 24 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

What do we do with behance? Somehow the description of the site makes me think that that also does not belong, yet it is linked everywhere. I'll blacklist the others now. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:32, 24 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

NoScript chews up the entire page... a sure sign this is yet more Adobe trash. It doesn't look good, but as I don't want to allow JS in this case I won't give a definitive opinion. In the meantime, there's another domain: selix32.esy.es. I've semi-protected the two main targets for three days. MER-C 12:42, 24 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

persistent. Your remark was predictive. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 18:05, 25 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

[4] Indef? cheers, — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 12:47, 28 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Done. ECP applied to the talk page as well. MER-C 12:54, 28 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

That's grand, cheers! — O Fortuna ^{semper crescis, aut decrescis} 12:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Any chance you can change my User page to extended confirmed like my talk? I have Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access (indefinite) on it presently like my talk was before you upped it today to extended confirmed but my stalker/troll is hitting my user page with pornography which has been revdeled. Chris "WarMachineWildThing" ^{Talk to me} 00:32, 29 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Already taken care of. MER-C 02:23, 29 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

I was just getting ready to remove request. Thanks for the help earlier. Chris "WarMachineWildThing" ^{Talk to me} 02:25, 29 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 01:56, 2 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Noted. MER-C 12:21, 2 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

[advert removed]

I need your help create a facts-only article about a company (are there enough references)Jacob.ki (talk) 09:29, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Adding more references to that "article" isn't going to magically make it acceptable. I suggest you think about what an encyclopedia is and review your intentions. MER-C 11:13, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi. you deleted Asiatech Co. page. It is an Iranian ISP. I linked the page to its Persian version. How can I recreate this page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ram yazdi (talk • contribs)

I suggest you get some experience editing other aspects of Wikipedia before attempting to recreate that page. The version I deleted was obviously inappropriate and the subsequent attempt was not much better, lacking key information justifying its inclusion. MER-C 11:21, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Asiatech Co is an Iranian company. There is very few pages in English about it. May I use Persian references in wiki English? They can be translated to English. Ram yazdi (talk) 10:22, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

If need be, but read my previous comment first. MER-C 10:51, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

What IP address is affected by this autoblock as i would like to verify if it spammed or not Flow 234 (Nina) talk 10:11, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

The point of using a sequential number is so that the IP address is not disclosed to anyone but checkusers. MER-C 10:39, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi MER-C,

I was trying but failed to understand what's the reason for you to revert all my editings on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=APUS_Group&action=history. I was also wondering if next time you could provide a reason like I do when I submit my editing which might save you the trouble of repond to this post. By the way, after your reverting, I realized I might have added too much into that page, but I guess a correction of the product name and an update of user base which was outdated like one year ago should be acceptable by Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.193.19.110 (talk • contribs)

>I was trying but failed to understand

Try harder. MER-C 03:13, 1 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the hints. I think I'll update the numbers only.

Good day,

I would like to know the reasoning behid the deletion of the LLC Lement Page about this company. I understand you thinking behid this, but allow me to mention following in the defence of the page. 1. This page has been created to allow users around the world to know about the LLC Lement, their products and products functionality. 2. As a pattern I have took the next page https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrike ( I have used russian version) - I have made an accent on the same points as it was on the mentioned article. Can you expalin to me how are they different from each other then?

Thanks in advance. Sansiro12 (talk) 13:34, 13 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

>This page has been created to allow users around the world to know about the LLC Lement

That is promotion, and is not what Wikipedia is for. It also goes without saying that you're not the only one who is under the mistaken impression that Wikipedia is a marketing medium (despite it being painfully obvious). MER-C 05:18, 14 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

But can you explain to me, how my page was promotion, and one that I showed you as example is not??? I have read the rules and see you point - but I see clearexample of the same type of article in front of me. Sansiro12 (talk) 06:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Intent is enough. Regardless, if you can't understand how your page was promotional you should not be editing Wikipedia. MER-C 11:23, 14 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

I really "like", how you have dodge my question about the example, that I have shown to you. Anyway, I saw you point and can clearly here, that I will not get any proper answer here, because you speak in really disrepectfull manner to me. Have a nice day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BFBP (talk • contribs) 14:02, 14 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 16 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

HI, I saw that a edit I made was deleted by you with the comment "the statement was false". https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoast&oldid=786397638 the comment was "De Valk credits much of the company’s growth to the “runaway success” of its wordpress plugin". I tried to see if perhaps I misunderstood the exact quote and used it inaccurately, but I am still under the impression that the statement was true. Would you explain why you removed it? here's the link to the interviews: https://hostadvice.com/blog/yoast-building-best-class-seo-products/

the quote I was referring to was "After about two years, I hired my first employee, Michiel, who is now a partner. In the years after that, Yoast grew like wildfire, not in the least because of the runaway success of our Yoast SEO WordPress plugin."

thanks H. --Hawad10 (talk) 10:53, 22 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

You're editing in an area that is very prone to spamming. I also don't see how the site is a reliable source, and looking at our records I note the majority of links and "references" to this site are questionable. MER-C 12:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

thank you for your answer. I understand. I thought that the fact that it relies on an actual quote from the person that the article is on would be a more dominant parameter. Hawad10 (talk) 10:26, 25 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hello Sir Their are some Broken links on it will you please allow me to make some good change or to Improve the Content

Thanks Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahbaztamboli (talk • contribs) 06:32, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

You seem to have missed the bit about Wikipedia being an encyclopedia and not a means for driving website traffic or search engine results. Your changes are unambigiously spam. Do not add any more links or I will revoke your editing privileges. MER-C 06:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

You may wish to revoke talk page access as well.--Cahk (talk) 08:49, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Done. MER-C 12:14, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi. You contributed in a previous part of the discussion, so this is just a reminder to you (and any interested talkpagewatchers), that it's the second week of our Movement Strategy Cycle 3 discussion. There's a new topic each week in July, and this week's is: How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways? You can see more details, and suggest solutions or respond to other people's thoughts (from this week and last week) at Wikipedia:Wikimedia Strategy 2017. You can also read a summary of discussions that took place in the past week. Cheers. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 03:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

You may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 07:56, 13 July 2017 (UTC)Reply