Tim Riley just pinged me that the Andrew Sledd article has been promoted to Feature Article. It was a much improved article for your efforts, and I look forward to our next collaboration in the new year. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:37, 19 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, it looks like the editor not only fixed the place you gave as an example of close paraphrasing, but also a few other places. When you get a chance, please take another look. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:28, 20 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hi. I am literally out of my debt here wrt to you comments on the fac, unable to fix. Can you give more guidance pls; I don't mind if it means loosing files. Ceoil (talk) 03:56, 20 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Nikkimaria, could you have a look at File:Dwayne_Jones,_Jamaican_murder_victim.jpg please? WP:NFC#UUI #7 flatly states "no AP images". However AP themselves state, that the image was provided by someone else, and it's not entirely clear who is the current copyright owner to begin with. Are the copyrights for all AP photos always transferred to AP? If yes, we'd have to reject and delete that image. Best regards, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. GermanJoe (talk) 07:30, 22 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, I believe you pulled this one from prep due to close paraphrasing issues. The nominator has posted that the issue has been addressed; I imagine you will want to check to make sure this is indeed the case. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:07, 24 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, I'm running out of dux (or, more likely, re), but it looks like Rochelimit has done a significant rewrite of portions of the article. Whether this has finally addressed all of the close paraphrasing I couldn't say, but I thought I should let you know that it seems ready for you to check. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:16, 25 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, I'm so sorry to be bombarding you with these (third one in the last few minutes!), but we have another close paraphrasing case where the nominator has come through with a fix. In this case, if there is no more close paraphrasing, then the nomination can go forward; if there is more, then we're going to close the nomination as unsuccessful since the original nominator seems to be on an extended (if unannounced) wikibreak. Thank you for your patience, and get to these when you have the time. I hope you're having an excellent holiday season. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:32, 25 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, if you get the chance after looking at the three ones I posted on Christmas, I was hoping you could take a look at this one. There were enough instances of close paraphrasing, even though the ones brought to light so far have been fixed by the nominator, that I thought it advisable to ask someone clearly better at it than I am to take a look. Thanks for anything you can do. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:31, 27 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, this is our oldest nomination currently, but has been fairly problematic. I figure you'll end up checking it anyway, so I was hoping you could make a check on whether any significant close paraphrasing remains. It was just given an AGF tick, so if you can take a look prior to promotion, that would be great. Many thanks, and I hope that we get fewer of these soon; it seems like I've been practically inundating you with requests after a fairly dry period. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, while the reviewer of this nomination seems to have placed too great a trust in a high-90s percentage number returned by the Copyvio detector (one that didn't show up when I ran the tool), the 14.5% and 9.9% results I got back for two of the sources—I stopped my spot-check at that point—seemed nevertheless to evidence some close paraphrasing to me when comparing text, but I'd like your take on the matter, since you don't always agree as to the severity. (Then again, sometimes you find quite a bit more than I did.) Of course, there may be some additional issues in the sources that Copyvio didn't check. When you get the chance, please take a look and see what you find. Many thanks, and I hope you are having a very happy New Year. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:38, 1 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, you were just pinged from this nomination page, but since you usually aren't notified when you're pinged from templates, I thought I should give you a heads up. Thanks for your work on this nomination; I always appreciate it when you respond to my requests for aid. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:16, 3 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Their is no need to say thanks mister, my comment on the Mary Elizabeth McGlynn page was saying "This is on you Nikkimaria" stating it's your fault for removing most of the info and I reverted the page because I am not going to have to deal with your bickering and reporting me for edit warring!!!!--AnimeDisneylover95 (talk) 23:42, 7 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, Happy new year to you, and I hope all is well. Tim riley and I have recently been working on the Albert Ketèlbey article. This is now at FAC and I wonder if I could impose on you for a source review, if you have some availability? Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 17:11, 8 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, the article has once again had a section (or more?) rewritten per your most recent comment. I'll let you determine whether the new wording adequately addresses the problem, and if not, whether you want to close the nomination or go another round. Thanks for your patience. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:12, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi: I reverted your recent change to the Corn stew article, because as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images and WP:MOSIM, lead images can be up to 300px in size. Please consider not changing all lead images in articles to thumbnail size as a default, because sometimes an enlarged image serves to bring out detail that would otherwise go unnoticed. North America1000 15:38, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Also, lead images that are larger than the standard thumb size can serve improve the introduction section of articles, providing a visual overview of topics, particularly when high-resolution/high quality images are used. North America1000 15:42, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Mayabazar turns a FA! Thanks for your contribution as a source reviewer. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 02:45, 10 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, this nomination has had both close paraphrasing and source misrepresentation concerns noted on its review. Yoninah just posted on my talk page that the latter are the real concerns, but that a source check is not feasible at the present time. I was wondering, since you've been doing spotchecks on the Shooting of Jamar Clark nomination, if it would be possible to do that level of check on this nomination. I suppose we could also request Zanhe to check the Chinese sources, to see whether the problems with the English ones carried over there. Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:32, 10 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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DaltonCastle did a series of edits on January 11 to take care of the close paraphrasing issues you identified in the article; I'll leave it to you to judge whether this effort was successful. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, I've dropped Isabella BeetonatFAC for comments and thoughts. If you have time for a source review I'd be very much obliged. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 14:51, 16 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, did SusunW actually do a fix to the remaining issue you mentioned, or not. Regardless of whether she's frustrated, it's frankly not our job to go fixing DYK submissions with this kind of serious persistent problem; there have been quite a few problems with Nvvchar's nominations lately, which is distressing when you consider that he's had well over a thousand of them hit the main page. It's an old nomination, one of the few left over from November, so I'd like to get it closed one way or the other in the next week or two. Thanks for your help, and sorry you got bit. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:37, 18 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, I have noted that you often pop-by FA candidate pages to do image reviews. As this FAC above is in need of an image and source spotcheck, would you be interested to pop by and take a look? You're the most welcome if you would like to drop by, but please don't feel pressured or obliged if you are unable to do so. Thanks and hope to see you! Mr Tan (talk) 10:29, 21 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikki, before I take the relevant article to GAN, can I get your opinion on this image from Commons? The only dating seems to be "1940s", which could of course mean after 1945, the cutoff for an Australian image to qualify for PD-1996 (which hasn't in any case been included in the Commons page). I like the shot and would prefer to keep it but not if it doesn't meet the criteria. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:59, 21 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, a while back I noticed you commented about copyright violations related in an article here [1]. I have basically no copyright experience so I was hoping you might suggest ways that I can check an article for potential copyright/cut and paste issues. My concern have been added to the article talk page here [2]. By chance I found one clear cut copy-paste example. Another editor found three close paraphrasing examples. Is there a tool that can be used to check the article in greater detail? Springee (talk) 16:22, 29 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
This has been dragging on and it does not seem there are any issues left. Could it be closed please.--Grahame (talk) 22:26, 1 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hey Nikkimaria, sorry to bother you. Isn't there a list somewhere of OK licenses? I have a file I want to use for the Oceanides that in FAC; the file is licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Tks! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 08:49, 6 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi. Why is it better to type in '&ndash' than '-'?Zigzig20s (talk) 17:11, 6 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, I happened to notice that this nomination, in its original review, didn't mention the DYK "within policy" checks. While neutrality was sort of addressed with regard to the hooks, close paraphrasing/copyvio wasn't, so I plugged the article name into Earwig's just to see if anything came up. (First I had to find the real name of the article, which is now 2015 Zaria massacre, but Earwig helped with that a bit.)
The results were actually rather scary. Two at over 75%, with whole paragraphs (and sometimes a few in a row) copied, and while the footnote gave the source, it didn't include any quote characters beyond what appeared in the original: no outer quote to indicate that it was copied material. There also seems to be excessively long quotes from statements, but it's the copyvio that concerns me, so much so that I gave the article a DYKno icon (the "X"). Under the circumstances, I thought I should ask you to look at it to see whether any further steps should be taken. I haven't searched to see who introduced what copied material when.
Thanks for anything you can do here. I'm in over my head (and it's also past my bedtime), so I'm going to leave it to you. If you think it appropriate, you can add a comment to the nomination template as a follow-up. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:44, 7 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Nikkimaria, nice to meet ya. If you have time, can you do spot check on this FAC? -- Frankie talk 21:23, 13 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi I am wondering how we are to post references. I have written papers in university and college but it seems that footnotes and references are done differently in here... I have checked out the examples but can't figure out how to type them in. If you can send me info so that I can do them the next time I want to reference n article on one of the pages as it seems complicated to me as of now and I myself have not done one on here Wifey93 (talk) 01:44, 15 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
I added extra writing written by Sarah J Maas this afternoon as part of a college assignment. I have never edited Wikipedia before, I was wondering why you removed my edit. ( I do know it was correct she has written several other pieces that were not on her page) Tiggy513 (talk) 02:32, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
ok thanks for letting me know, I will try to find it from a more reliable source and edit it again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiggy513 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikki, thanks very much for pitching up with the image review on Hordern's FAC. Is there any chance I can milk your kindness by asking you to conduct a source review? I'd be much obliged, but will understand if you can't. CassiantoTalk 10:22, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, I asked you to comment a couple of weeks ago on the talk page of the article being nominated, and the article was subsequently given a significant revision, which among other things removed the section of quotes.
At the moment, the DYK review is wrestling over the same issue in the revised version—whether the level of quoting, even decreased as it has been, is still too much, or if it's at an acceptable level. Since you're the usual go-to person on such issues, I was hoping you could take a look at what is being said and give your opinion as to whether the article does or does not need further reduction is quoted material, and which of the cited quotes should be paraphrased, if any.
While you do, could you please take a look at the Pillar paragraph? That was the first one being objected to, and since I'd been responsible for adding a couple of quoted sections, I took it upon myself to paraphrase them, and then ended up mostly paraphrasing the whole paragraph. Please be sure I haven't closely paraphrased the original review, or (just as bad) not adequately represented Pillar's views. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:17, 17 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hello Nikkimaria, I am a relatively new editor here. I saw you active on the FA pages commenting on media copyrights, so thought I will ask you for help. For a few days, I have posted a query on the Media Copyright noticeboard, but nobody has answered. Would it be possible for you to take a look at the question and comment if possible? I will be at ease if you could. Thank you. Xender Lourdes (talk) 11:40, 18 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikkimaria! Thank you for your recent edits to my article Jerome Coopersmith. I will start by saying that I am fairly new at this so I greatly appreciate all efforts to improve my article and Wikipedia as a whole.
I wanted to ask if you could explain the reasoning for the removal of the 2 cites... both are to the same source, so I am guessing that perhaps it is not considered an acceptable source because it is another wiki? I am still learning so any insight you can share would be helpful for me.
Also, I am under the impression that I need to cite every section of content, so now one of my sections is without a source. Do I need to find an alternate source for that section?
Thanks in advance!
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Not sure which I'm using as it just comes up as en.m.wikipedia.org so not sure the differences between each Wifey93 (talk) 01:35, 23 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, I've just opened up the Siege of Sidney StreetatFAC Would you be able to work your usual magic spotting the errors in the sources? Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 16:58, 23 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Signed up today; sorry for my delay and thanks for your work on this.Parkwells (talk) 17:08, 24 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, the nominator here has responded to your comments on the close paraphrasing, but forgot to ping you. Do you think you could stop by again and see whether the issue has been addressed? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikki, would you mind giving this one a quick scan source-wise (formatting/reliability)? Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:34, 29 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Please let me know what's missing for the Easter cantata FAC, - Easter is soon. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)Reply
Precious again, your detailed constructive comments which helped to improve Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 to FA!
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Adding thanks for improving BWV 196, now a GA, thanks to your efforts, - how beautiful, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
It appears it's different trying to do them mobile as they never quite work for me.
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I am trying to line up the table but the Chicago and Carolina keep getting tangled and I checked the formatting and I can't figure out why it's off centre
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What do you think of an image of Nikolaus HarnoncourtinBWV 4, to replace Boulanger? He is mentioned in the recording text, and did a lot for understanding the piece. I watched him conduct several times, especially Monteverdi's Ulisse and Poppea, but never met him in person. RIP. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 6 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
The table looks great. I fixed the titles in the captain tables as they made no sense without references but now GoodDay is reverting my edits when more explain is needed since there were broken references before that Wifey93 (talk) 22:14, 6 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikkimaria. I've seen that you solved some doubts about Fauré's images in Tim riley's page. By that, I'd like to ask you about other Fauré's images in en:wiki that could be transferred to Commons if copyright is compliant. Images are following ones:
Could you help me, please? Your help on this must be appreciated. Thanks and kind regards --Obelix83 (talk) 19:44, 7 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikki, how's it going? A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. (Hey, I remember this one.) The summary mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank (push to talk) 23:03, 9 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
I posted a request at Wikipedia:Elsevier_ScienceDirect as did another editor but there hasn't been a response( I did leave a note at [3] however no response either) what should I do?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:28, 10 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Greetings, Nikkimaria.
I noticed several deletions that you made to the Article: Texarkana, Texas, here, and here. For the most part, it is my opinion that these deletions were unnecessary, and they did not add anything to the Article substance. While you noted both edits as (rm unsourced), it appears more likely that the deletions simply removed information that was not formatted to suite a personal preference. My reasoning is based here, and here. I do not wish to be overbearing in my position on this matter, but I'd like to make the point that it is not always necessary to delete content. Instead, one might provide their expertise in properly formatting and correctly citing the information. Even a small amount of this sort of editing would be far more useful than taking the short route to deletion. I'm reasonably sure that you can appreciate the efforts that other editors put forth, so please forgive me if I seem abrupt or unpleasantly forceful. I simply do not see the logic for deletions of work that, with a bit of editing, would help to provide an interesting and enhanced Article. I have not reverted your edits, but because these deletions appear to be a bit short sited, I moved them to the Articles Talk Page. If you'd like to help in properly formatting and citing this information, your efforts would, of course, be greatly appreciated. Respectfully. Curley Wolf (talk) 01:00, 11 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
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You helped me understand image copyright issues and I don't think I would have understood it better from anyone else. I also noticed you help so many editors on the FAR, guiding them on image issues with consistently high inputs. I don't have even a bit of the experience you have, but I have some sense to understand the superlative work you're doing out here. Thank you for your efforts in such a critical area of copyrights. Xender Lourdes (talk) 03:03, 11 March 2016 (UTC)Reply |
Hi Nikki. I was poking around and found this link to a Google Doc that is basically broken: Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Processes/Check ins#Sample survey.
Also, I cannot pull up those preliminary links you gave me to start getting up to speed. What I mean is I cannot find them again in my Gmail queue. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk}
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Hi Nikki, if the subject of an article was to allow me to use a donated photograph of theirs, what is the procedure I need to walk them though so that all rights are disclaimed etc. Have tried a few times with them saying basically "you can do what you want with it", but with deletion at the end. Thanks for any help. Ceoil (talk) 11:20, 17 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you for your sage counsel on Shaw's FAC page. I've replaced the one questionable image and removed the other. Ought I to be doing anything about alerting the authorities in Commons to the dubiety of the copyright status? I don't dabble in Commons much and would be glad of your advice when you have a moment. Tim riley talk 13:09, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
...was a mis-click. My apologies. Yash! 20:21, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Your talk page, at 241,671 bytes as I type, is one of the longest on Wikipedia. Its length will make it difficult for some to read or edit. Please archive most of it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, thanks for stopping by there. I'm guessing that as you didn't make any edits to the underlying article, I'd managed to find all of the copyvio and eliminate it. Good catch on the copying from within Wikipedia, which I didn't notice.
Did you also check the rest of User:Bhavin169's edits, to see whether he introduced copyvios along with them as well? There are 17 edits that don't involve this article. If you don't have time, should we report it to the copyvio pages? For that matter, the extensive copyvios in this article were there for four years. Is there anything we need to have done? Should those versions be made unviewable or something? Again, thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:44, 22 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
I am taking one last run at getting Emily Ratajkowski promoted to WP:FA in time for a 25th birthday WP:TFA on June 7th. Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Emily Ratajkowski/archive3 needs discussants. Since you were a Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Emily Ratajkowski/archive2 participant (images only), I am hoping you might give some comments (at least on the images).--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:35, 23 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
I'm sorry: I don't seem to be able to locate the email that you sent me. Could you resend it, please? Dschslava (talk) 01:03, 24 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hello Nikkimaria! Kinda curious, how long does it usually take till someone receives his JSTOR account? I wrote my username and email in that Google form yesterday, but accidently did it two times, so I was wondering if I messed something up when I did it two times? --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:45, 24 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, My request for JSTOR use was put at Pending week or two ago, the understandable reason being no email address. I have since given, as far as I am aware, my email address, but the status is still Pending. I wonder if has been received? Now, seeing what you explained to your user above, I shall be patient and wait and see. Thank you. P0mbal (talk) 19:12, 25 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hey Nikki, the Visiting Scholar thing we discussed a while back fell through for copyright ownership reasons (oddly). Meanwhile Too many databases still seem to have no librarian...I can do that if there's no set time requirements Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 00:35, 26 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikkimaria. I reverted your second edit to remove flag icons on the Manhattan Project article. I am confused by your edits. The WP:INFOBOXFLAG states, "Examples of acceptable exceptions include military conflict infobox templates and infoboxes that include international competitions."
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Do you have time to do an image review of Huguenot-Walloon half dollar? It should not be complex. Many thanks,--Wehwalt (talk) 11:11, 27 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you could check this nomination to see whether the close paraphrasing issues noted by an earlier reviewer have been adequately addressed. Many thanks for anything you can do. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:44, 28 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, can you please look this over for the quoting? I'm most concerned about the poem/lyric translation, which seems to be from a 1970s source; the original poem would be in the public domain by now, though I'm less sure about the Strauss song and whether the original poem gets new coverage for a song. Probably only the music and how it is set, though if Strauss made any adjustments to the poem (something I imagine Dehmel would have complained about and the article would have mentioned), those portions of the lyrics might be covered, since he didn't die until 1949.
There may be issues with one or two blockquote sizes, or perhaps not. I'm not the best judge of these, so I thought I'd pass the buck to you. Thanks as always for your help. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:42, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, Can I ask for yet another source review favour? I have recently been working on the Senghenydd colliery disaster, which is now at FAC. I think I have everything covered, but I've never managed to get a clean report from you yet: this may (finally) be the time! Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 12:03, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria,
Hope all has been well since the last time that we talked. Wanted to see if you could help once more with figuring out how to remove the copyvios tag from the page for Civility. I have gone through with all the tools you had mentioned before to update the page, and have made several updates since the last time we talked. Do you feel that this page my be a candidate yet to have that message removed?
Thanks! Blippincott (talk) 16:43, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Although I appreciate your edit citing lack of citation. You should notice that I did put a reference to the Cree page on Wikipedia where it clearly says under Official Status that Saskatchewan recognizes Cree as an official minority language. Thank you.
Oh, I see now. Ok I'll adjust its ref. thx!
You have twice replaced the template 'Infobox person/Wikidata' with 'Infobox person/' on Mai Sukhan - is this template deprecated or something? Thanks, Batternut (talk) 12:24, 2 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you could check this DYK nomination for close paraphrasing, and whether the Earwig concerns are from the article copying the sources or vice versa? It's a large GA, so I'm not asking for a full source check, but I'm concerned by the mention of former sources showing up as possible sources of copying, and figure you're the one person who's most likely to identify what's a problem and what isn't. Thanks as always for your help. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:36, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikkimaria. I'm an editor (not very active till now) of the Italian Wikipedia, where the gender gap is a real issue. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks, --Kenzia (talk) 17:03, 9 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Dear Nikkimaria,
I see you keep removing my additions to the Burnley F.C. Wikipedia page. I don't understand it: the added additions are linked to approved and reliable websites and books about Burnley F.C., for example "Never Had it So Good: Burnley's Incredible 1959/60 League Title Triumph" and "The Burnley FC Miscellany", where they are describing most of the content of the "trivia" part in their books.
With kind regards, Welovevenkys
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Nikkimaria,
My bad, I did not read the whole of your correction in the first place. Apologies.
Have a nice day,
Welovevenkys
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A protected edit request has appeared here, Template_talk:Infobox_writer#Please_make_active_the_following_fields. Can you facilitate its review? Thank you in advance for any effort. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 15:14, 14 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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In a longish list of compositions, not (initially) sorted by genre, I would like to see at a glance what the main genres are, such as for Ferruccio Busoni works. Some do operas, others don't, for example. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 15 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Stop removing non-controversial sections of articles which you have suddenly deemed reasonable to excise because they happen to be sourced to IMDB, for instance. Please, worst case, tag them with something so that people can actually help improve things, which you are abundantly not doing. I do not want to but I will undo each of these destructive edits until you stop: you are not actually improving Wikipedia. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:22, 16 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, I hope all is well with you. I have just taken From Russia, with Love through a re-write and PR, and it's now at FAC. Would you be able to work your magic on the sources? Could you also do an image review? There are only two images there, so it should be straightforward. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 11:18, 18 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, this nomination is stalled for other reasons, but I was looking at it and, like another recent nomination, it has an entire three-stanza lyric translated, and the translation is cited to a 1971 source. I don't think this is short enough to qualify for fair use, but again I'm not at my best in such areas. Can I ask you to opine here? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:30, 18 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thank you so much for your help on Let's Marry. Very kind and wonderful of you. Moscowamerican (talk) 05:04, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikkimaria. Some weeks ago I applied for access to OUP's online resources but haven't heard back from anyone till now. I was wondering if the approval procedure is still active (noticed that the last approval was way back in January and at least all the latest requests were handled by you). As one of those who are very interested in OUP's resources, I would appreciate it if you could have a look at the pending requests. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Cheers, --Dada (talk) 18:05, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi Nikkimaria, I've restored the page number in the cite book template in the Peckham biography. As I mentioned in edit history, the 'page=' parameter is used for page reference. Since there is no dedicated parameter for total number of pages, it is often appended after the publisher's name, as this is information germane to the publication and publisher. Not sure why this is an issue for you, but total number of pages is common place in book listings, esp Google books, and helps the reader to see right off if the work is extensive (many pages) or is just an overview. Unless there is a pressing reason not to include this notation after the publication name, and there have never been any issues with the system or with editors because of this, would you please leave it, as this convention is used in a good number of historical biographies, and again, is helpful information commonly found in Google and Amazon book listings. Thanx. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 18:55, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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to the end of the citation - can we use that notation instead? While the information may be germane to the publication, it is not itself part of the publisher name, so including it in that parameter doesn't make sense. And there is already information about the source outside of the citation template to begin with, so this wouldn't be novel. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:48, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker)For me the issue is that the page count is not generally included in the bibliography of books, but only in catalog-type stuff like OCLC and Google Books. So, while I understand why you're doing this, I place no value on that little tidbit of information as I really don't see that it's worthwhile.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:49, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Apologies, requested access to a number of resources through WP Library, have not responded or been active editing for some time. RL. - - MrBill3 (talk) 07:33, 20 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Nikkimaria, I notice that you have been tagging some FAs with a popular culture trivia tag. It seems to me that a valid item in this category should
Is my understanding of the criteria correct?
I thought all the items for masked shrike and most for common blackbird met those criteria as I understand them, but I'm not going to edit war with such a respected editor.
I would prefer it if you just removed the items you think don't meet the criteria, rather than tag, otherwise I have to guess, and in the case of the shrike I just removed the section because I couldn't see what you were objecting to (the film item referenced the shrike's appearance and song)
Please let me know if you think I am wrong on what is acceptable, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:51, 22 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
I reverted the article to the version before excessive trivia and infoboxes with excessive detail were added. Feel free to re-add the tag if you think there are still issues. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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G'Day. Just wanted to get some pointers from you. I saw you made a few changes to the article. I understand most of them after following a few MOS links. Must say the cite work/newspaper/publisher fields aren't the most intuitive - but it is what it is. A few things I wanted to understand though are to do with the person infobox. I couldn't find any definitive information about how to use wikidata. I can see some areas prefer wikidata - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control. Just wondering where I can get directions on using it on other pages? Seems that the more we use it - even though incomplete, the more chance there is of it being filled in? Is it something to do with the template I used? I can see it does say its a test template - maybe we need to wait until there is a fully complete template before using it? One other thing - the normal template has death_place and death_cause - just wondering why they aren't kept? The only think I can think of is verifiability? Cheers. SeanMack (talk) 01:29, 23 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I got CUP access a couple of weeks ago, and the books is working fine, which is great, but not the journals. I got an email from CUP at the time explaining: "I'd like to apologise for any difficulty you may have experienced in accessing Cambridge Journals content since getting in touch yesterday. Books access appears to be working OK, but a couple of you have emailed to tell me you're still on the wrong side of the paywall. I've asked my colleagues on the software side to look into it, but one explanation I've been offered is that it may take a day or two for your access rights to filter through. If that's the case then you should hopefully find you'll be able to get to content very shortly. I'll be keeping an eye on this and will let you know as soon as I have news." (italics added) Should I hassle them, or just be patient, I wonder. zzz (talk) 06:36, 23 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
You were involved in one of the prior WP:FACorWP:PR discussions about Emily Ratajkowski. The current discussion at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Emily Ratajkowski/archive4 needs more discussants. In my prior successful FACs, success has been largely based on guidance at FAC in reshaping the content that I have nominated. I would appreciate discussants interested in giving guidance such guidance.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:56, 26 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, the nominator has made some edits and checked further after your last comment about remaining close paraphrasing. Can you please check to see whether it has all been found, or whether more exists that needs to be taken care of? Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi there, I was granted JSTOR access about a month ago, but I don't need it any more. My institution recently acquired JSTOR access so I can get academic papers at work. What's the easiest way to give my spot to someone else who would need it? thanks --LK (talk) 06:45, 30 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
Would you mind telling me what software you use to detect copy violations? I use Copyscape, but it is not really up to the job. For example, it didn't pick up remaining copy violations after I fixed ones it did detect on Kype (anatomy). --Epipelagic (talk) 08:28, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, can you please return and opine? I've expressed my opinion that even quoting a single stanza of the copyrighted translation (out of three) would be too much, but I'd rather have your take, since your experience is so much greater in this area. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
Nikkimaria, this has been sitting for a while because of possible copyvio/close paraphrasing/plagiarism issues, which are discussed on the article's talk page, and would seem, in part, to involve PD sources. Can you please take a look at the article and see whether it meets Wikipedia's (and DYK's) standards, or if more work needs to be done? If the work would seem to be substantial, I'll let you decide whether we should give them more chances, or if the nomination should be closed. Thank you as always for your excellent help. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:03, 5 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Nikkimaria, I've been working on Walt Disney recently, and just taken him through a very positive PR. The article is now at FAC and I wonder if I could tempt you into undertaking a source review for me? Many thanks – and please let me know if I am ever able to help you out on anything. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 07:54, 7 May 2016 (UTC)Reply
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