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Dear Khan !
Thanks for your generous assistance, you rock. You have suggested a better name for my article Hazara Killings in Pakistan Since 2001toPersecution of Hazaras I luv it. Two thing I wanted to talk about 1. The word Hazaras should be replaced with Hazara people grammatically correct (or famous) and secondly the in Pakistan should be added to it because I was intending to write about persecutions in Pakistan only. I was thinking of writing another one by the same name only replacing Pakistan with Afghanistan, If we don't separate the list (Afg and Pak) then the article would be too long, I assume so. What do you think? Hazara-Birar (talk) 09:23, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I've been asked to assist with evaluating copyright concerns with some of your content. The first thing I found was that you had recreated this article for some reason, even though it was deleted as the creation of a known serial copyright infringer. This is a problem under our requirements for attribution to begin with, but in this case is complicated by the fact that you have knowingly restored the work of said serial copyright infringer. His history of copyright infringement is explained in a link from the deletion log. Having recreated it, you are solely responsible for any copyright problems with it, and the article contains duplication of at least one source: [1]. There is nothing to indicate that this content is public domain. We must verify that this material is public domain, or it must be deleted. No content added by this contributor can be assumed to be safe.
The article has been blanked. You will have one week to rewrite it in your own words if you wish to retain it. You may use language copied from identified sources only if you can verify that the source is public domainorcompatibly licensed or if it can be handled in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline. If it is public domain or compatibly licensed, it must be handled in accord with Wikipedia:Plagiarism. If you cannot locate a source from which material placed by this contributor was copied, we cannot use it. We cannot presume that he copied only some of the article.
I will let you know if I see any other issues. I do appreciate that you have gone back to attribute splits you have made. I hope that you have addressed all of these, as this is a legal requirement. If not, please make sure that you do so now. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:22, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
You received my notes and moved them to User:Mar4d/Sandbox 4 on 23 September 2011. You have put hours into editing Wikipedia since then, but have taken no steps to clean up the problems of which you were notified.
Since specific copied content was pointed out to you in Tourism in Balochistan, Pakistan, but you have done nothing to address it, the article is now blanked pending your repair. Copying may not be limited to the identified source; no content should be restored without your first checking carefully to make sure that you did not copy any of the other material from somewhere else. You have taken no efforts that I can see to identify the articles you copied in Pakistani tea culture (if there are any beyond the one I pointed out to you) or to attribute that copying as you are required to do; Economy of Lahore remains unattributed as well. Never mind the time you should have been putting into finding other issues, the ones that were pointed out to you should have been a priority for you to address.
If you do not begin cleaning up the copyright problems you have created, I will block you in accordance with Wikipedia:Copyright violations: "Contributors who have extensively violated copyright policy by uploading many copyrighted files or placing copyrighted text into numerous articles may be blocked without warning for the protection of the project, pending satisfactory assurances that infringement will not continue. In extreme cases administrators may impose special conditions before unblocking, such as requiring assistance with cleanup by disclosing which sources were used."
I have not yet decided if a contributor copyright investigation is necessary here, but your display of indifference to the copyright problems you have created leads me to concern that we cannot rely on you to fix them yourself. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Dear Mar4d,
My name is Juliana de Melo Bezerra. I am a phd student at ITA (www.ita.br). I am doing a research regarding members’ motivation in virtual communities, and my case study is Wikipedia. I would like your collaboration in my research. If you are interested, I will send you some questions.
I do not understand why you stopped attempting to attribute splits. :/ While you did not do it correctly when you established this article on 26 May 2011, which was taken from here (you did not provide the link in edit summary), you did place the proper tag on the talk page: [2]. You even did a proper edit summary here in May 21 2011. I don't know why you did not, then, provide attribution for this July 2011 article. Or this August 2011 article.
I see you've gone back to fix attribution issues for those two and some other articles, but you have not fixed attribution issues in all of your unattributed splits. For instance, this one. You labeled it "extracts" when you created it; I've identified at least one of the sources from which you extracted: [3]. And this one, which split from [4].
Please take the time to evaluate your edit history to be sure that you are given proper attribution in any splits you've created. (I will hold off on further evaluation to give you a bit more time to do this.) It's really important that this be dealt with promptly and that, for whatever reason you stopped giving attributing after May 2011, you do not stop again. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
I am thinking of re-adding the following:
"There has been ubiquitous media coverage since the War on Terror, both factual and satirical, associating British Pakistanis with extremism. However, such individuals represent only a radicalised minority who exist among several notable British Pakistanis."
The reason that I would like to re-add this is so that the article can comply with WP:lead. Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/British Pakistanis/1 states that the lead section does not fully summarise the article per WP:Lead. Thanks, Sansonic (talk) 19:16, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
محترم ہم مدیر، السلام علیکم، میں اپنا صارفی صفحہ پھر سے ترتیب دینا چاہتا ہوں
جس کے لئے آپسے گزارش ہے کہ موجودہ صفحہ جو کہ کورا کردیا گیا ہے (blanked out)،
.اسے حذف کر دیا جاۓ . براہ کرم اس میں میری مدد کیجئے یا پھر کسی مجاز شخص کا رابطہ فراہم کیجئے
Hindustanilanguage (talk) 07:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I m a wiki user.There is an article on pakistani artist on "Imran Channa" which is being tagged for deletion and copy-violent which is done by one shared IP ( 182.185.234.113) constantly for few days. i want help from the administration for the protection of the page.. Thank u...--Artmartxx (talk) 18:23, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Reading through your conversation with User:Ironholds above, I noticed that you were concerned that there was no duplication in Tourism in Balochistan, Pakistan. I checked the link, and it is working for me at this point. The Internet Archive machine is notoriously unreliable, so it may come and out it. It is essentially an archived version of this Pakistan government page (the archive dates to January 2010, which predates your creation of that article, obviously, as it was started in August 2011.
I see a few issues with close paraphrasing there. Your article says:
Balochistan was the cradle of the 9,000 year old Mehrgarh civilisation. There are numerous archeological sites dating back to antiquity, hosting valuable cultural treasures that also provide evidence of some of the first invented items. ...In 325 B.C, Alexander the Great passed through the coastal belt of Balochistan, covering a long trail.
The source says:
Balochistan is the cradle of 9000 years old Mehrgarh civilization. There are numerous archeological sites dated back to antiquity, hosting valuable cultural treasures. ....Alexander passed through the coastal belt of Balochistan in 325 B.C covering a long trail.
The document you cite as your source is quite long, so I do not know if there is language borrowed between that source and the government website, but in any event it is handling of previously published text that is somewhat out of keeping with Wikipedia's approach. We are required to rewrite content from scratch if it is under copyright, unless we incorporate brief quotations of non-free text.
Please make sure that language in that article is completely rewritten, whether it draws from the government page or from the longer document you cite. If other language is similarly close, that should be revised as well. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:41, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Migration from India to Afghanistan occurred during the last several centuries, mainly from the Punjab region. The emigrants mostly belonged to the category of retail shopkeepers and general merchants dealing in clothes and consumer items. They settled down in various parts of Afghanistan, in particular Kabul and Jalalabad. In 1990, it was estimated that there were 45,000 persons of Indian descent in Afghanistan and most of them had become naturalised Afghan citizens.
Migration from India to Afghanistan had occured during the last several centuries, mainly from undivided Punjab. The emigrants mostly belonged to the categoy of retail shopkeepers and general merchants dealing in clothes and other consumer items. They settled down in various parts of Afghanistan, in particular Kabul and Jalalabad. In 1990, it was estimated that there were about 45,000 persons of Indian descent in Afghanistan. Most of those persons had become naturalised Afghan citizens.
Balochistan was the cradle and the centre of the Mehrgarh civilisation which began nine thousand years ago. There are several historical and archeological sites located in the province which date back to ancient times, hosting rich cultural treasures that provide evidence of some of the first invented items.
That looks a lot better and I hope that you would agree it is not as closely paraphrased to the original sentence. The Government of Balochistan source that you have provided is not what I originally used; a copy of the text in this source is in fact written on page 35 of the longer source I used. I have double checked all the other words and have confirmed that there is no word-to-word plagiarised text and that the language used is in own words. The various placenames I have mentioned in the last part of the article is derived from what is written in the source too, but I am quite sure that you would agree the paragraph is differently worded (and that whatever may make it sound similiar to the text in the source is the mention of the placenames - but that is information which cannot be changed, regardless). The fact that only two odd phrases could be found in the whole article which had close (but not exact) paraphrasing with the original quotes pretty much gives credence to my claim that this article does not have excessive copyright violations present in it.Mar4d (talk) 11:29, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Emigration from India towards Afghanistan took place in the course of the the last few centuries, mainly from the undivided Punjab region. The Indian emigrants had a background mostly in retail shopkeeping and as general merchants who engaged in the trade of clothes and consumer items. They settled down in different parts of the country, in particular Kabul and Jalalabad. As of 1990, various estimations put the number of Indian origin people in Afghanistan at 45,000; most of these people had been settled in the country for generations and subsequently become naturalised Afghan citizens.
The wording has been improved from its previous form and is quite different from the close paraphrasing which was evident before. You said that you are "unsure if the rest of the content follows similarly closely", but that paragraph is pretty much the main body of the article that would have had any traces of close wording. The two-sentence intro has not been copied, neither has the section titled "relations with society" which talks about attacks on expatriates. Minus that, and the only "rest of the content" you're left with are the "see also", "references" and "external links" headings. Thus, the temporary page can replace the current version. Mar4d (talk) 13:22, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I am sorry; it slipped my mind that you had proposed rewrites. Their listing at WP:CP has brought them to my attention.
Looking at the moment at your proposed rewrite of Talk:Indians in Afghanistan/Temp, while this is a big step in the right direction, you are still appropriating the structure of your source. Copyright does not rest only in the literal language (if it did, it would not be a copyright violation to translate something from a foreign language into English without permission of the copyright holder, as every word is changed). Creativity also goes into selecting facts and their order of presentation. In this particular case, your source says the following:
This is your proposed rewrite:
Emigration from India towards Afghanistan took place in the course of the the last few centuries, mainly from the undivided Punjab region. The Indian emigrants had a background mostly in retail shopkeeping and as general merchants who engaged in the trade of clothes and consumer items. They settled down in different parts of the country, in particular Kabul and Jalalabad. As of 1990, various estimations put the number of Indian origin people in Afghanistan at 45,000; most of these people had been settled in the country for generations and subsequently become naturalised Afghan citizens.
It says the following:
This is a problem we run into when we attempt to address copyright problems by rewriting sentence by sentence instead of by revising the whole. We risk creating a derivative work. Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing gives some suggestions for rewriting to avoid inadvertently retaining the structure of the original. It is always helpful to intersperse information from multiple sources in one passage to avoid simply lifting their structure, but if no other sources are available, you can generally find a way to do it, although you may lose some detail. A good approach is to focus on the information you want and find a different way of presenting it. For instance, looking at the article and the facts, we might write:
The number of people living in Afghanistan who have roots in India is not precisely known. It was estimated at 45,000 in 1990. Most of these people were citizens whose ancestors emerged from the Punjab region in the last several centuries, clothing merchants and shopkeepers who settled heavily particularly in Kabul and Jalalabad.
(If any of that text is of interest to you, you are welcome to incorporate it. I hereby waive my right to attribution. :)) From that, you might easily go on to describe the depopulation that followed the Taliban takeover.
While another administrator may feel differently (perhaps not, since none have taken it up at WP:CP), I believe that the material needs revision. Again, you are welcome to use the text I offer as an example as a base. I'll look at the other rewrite you offer now. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:13, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Sardar Ibrahim Khan family requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for four days or more and it is not presently under discussion at Categories for discussion, or at disambiguation categories.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Logan Talk Contributions 01:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I recently made a template, Template:Airports in Bangladesh and I'm kinda stuck with a few issues.
Thanks! Zahir (talk) 08:39, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for helping me out with the template!! I appreciated that.
Allah Hafeez. Zahir (talk) 11:41, 16 October 2011 (UTC) |
Hi,dear Mar4d,can you please help to add proper lists of category to article, Haider Qureshi.Thanks.Ehsan Sehgal (talk) 17:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey thanx.. I would appreciate if you guide me how to categorize my articles. Secondly tell me how to get away from AFD, I have tried to revise the write-up so many times but i keep on getting same remarks from some of the users. Thanx again for supporting new users like me :) Samar Saeed Akhtar (talk) 13:30, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Assalam-o-Alaikum,
I have gotten myself into template trouble, again.
This time it's with this one Member Schools of Round Square. I tried to follow the technique you used to make groups and it kinda worked, but the problem is there are suppose to be 24 groups and I made all of them but only 20 seem to appear.
Can you do anything about it? I saw a few templates with sub-groups, can you try and make subgroups for this template? I tried studying how it's done, but it's really confusing. If you can, please divide them into five groups: 1) Africa 2) Asia 3) America 4) Australasia 5) Europe
Then, put the countries and it's schools into the groups according to which continent they belong to.
Thanks! Zahir (talk) 06:35, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Sub-groups were exactly what I wanted! Thanks a lot! Zahir (talk) 09:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
Thanks a lot for fixing that template! It takes a lot of trouble to make something like that. Zahir (talk) 09:52, 21 October 2011 (UTC) |
remove Stephen P. Cohen definition. explain that the military has the power to enforce marital law instead of what you write "secret power to dissolve power with out anyone knowing" that just makes it sound like something hidden and illegal . its a constitutional power the military has as a helper of last resort to deal with corrupt politicians etc. the zia doctrine on afghanistan has no relevance a) it was dropped in 1998 b) zia is just one person his ideas dont need to make it to this page its just one random policy.....make thoose changes, and I will agree to your other points :) . --Multan47 (talk) 23:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
You had added a "wikiproject:czech republic" template to the Nargis fakhri article talk page. She hails from New York and is an american citizen. However, as most Pakistanis happen to be recent migrants into the U.S, the "Wikiproject:Pakistan" template is certainly necessary.
But what is the need for a "czech republic template"? Is her mother just a recent migrant into the country? If not, then that template could be removed, as there are too many such ones for a stub class article. For example:take a look at the Sylvester Stallone page. Every white american has a european ancestry. Likewise Stallone is of patrilineal italian origin. Now that doesn't mean that the page would be of any importance to wikiproject:italy. His ancestors have been in the U.S for more than 400 years. Although all of them remember their ancestral lineage, they are simply identified as white americans. Likewise, if Nargis' mother is just a "white american of czech ancestry", you don't have to keep the "czech republic" template - it could well be removed. Thank You. Hari7478 (talk) 12:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Mar4d
As you read on the instructions at {{Recent death}}, the threshold for edit frequency is when "perhaps a hundred or more" editors edit the article on a single day. In the past 15 hours (there were no edits in the previous 9 hours) 23 editors have made changes to the article. Scaled up to a day, that is 37 editors, not close to the guidance given in the template.
If edit frequency by additional editors increases to something closer to the threshold stated in the instructions, please feel free to re-add the template. Otherwise, don't.
Thank you, Bongomatic 02:59, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Conderning the change you made [5]: In 2010 the Martial Arts Project reviewed (and improved and deleted) many articles: see Wikipedia:MAAR. We made much use of the Catscan tool [6] for searching the category tree under Martial Arts. As part of the review, we made some order in the categorization. Categories are useful when they separate things. At that time, we separated all the categories of people from all the categories of martial arts. In the category of people, we added a 'see also' to point to the martial art. In the category of martial art, we added a 'see also' to point to the people category. It would be nice to keep this structure: could you undo the above change? Thanks! jmcw (talk) 14:30, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, As per my knowledge, I requested and ensured that Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi is renamed to Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi. Accordingly, I renamed his autograph on Commons which I had uploaded. Please provide your inputs about the appropriateness of the spelling. Hindustanilanguage (talk) 07:27, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Page 32, I have given the source...I know you havnt read the book so why did you change the information ? that is a clear violation of wiki policy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Multan47 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
also I remember Bhuttos grave has the name of the 4 Caliphs,Shias only accept the 4th and skip the first 3. Whilst Bhutto's wife was a shia, inter marriage is (was?) common in rural sindh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Multan47 (talk • contribs) 23:01, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Your recent edit appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. the religion of Zulficar Ali Bhutto cannot be arbitrarily changed --Multan47 (talk) 01:19, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Mar4d. You have new messages at Talk:List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001.
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Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 01:07, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Do you understand that most of these Pakistani related images are stolen from google? For example, you can see "google" in the middle of this one, meaning it was copied from google. The same uploader who stole that image from google was in 1965 war with India and shot this photo?This one is a standard Pakistani passport style photo, and the description states :Copyright © 2002 Senate of Pakistan www.senate.gov.pk/Main.asp" but no permission is given from the author. The description on this one states "Hand drawn by Syed Amjad Hussain. Widely available online" and again no permission is given. I find it very hard to believe that Wikipedia editor Raza0007 (talk · contribs) went to take photos of Pakistan's nuclear missiles at close up, and at different times and different places. I carefully check each image and then nominate it so please don't revert my nominations.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 02:25, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Mar4d. You have new messages at Philosopher's talk page.
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Why are you putting ridiculous high numbers? You are ignoring the UNHCR and the Government of Pakistan after they clearly explained that a total of 1.7 million Afghans live in Pakistan? Why are you raising the number to so high? You need to stop using old sources for current estimates. Go take a rest and stop pushing your POV on this. On the one hand you wish to see all the Afghans leave from Pakistan as soon as possible and on the other hand you are deceptively raising their numbers to ridiculous higher nonsense figures. Also, the Durrani Empire is what is today Politics of Afghanistan (the modern state of Afghanistan) please don't pretend like you don't know this.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 11:07, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Please learn the definition of vandalism at WP:NOTVAND, and do not use it for good faith contributions as it's uncivil and incorrect. If you're still feeling weak-kneed, check out WP:DV for a better explanation. Thanks. Magog the Ogre (talk) 18:53, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Well I see you've ignored my polite request. So I'll state it another way: if I see you referring to another user's edits as vandalism again when you're in a content dispute with them (i.e., when it's not vandalism), i will block you for making personal attacks. Magog the Ogre (talk) 18:54, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
I reported you here because you not only reverted me over 7 times, but you are tooo much of an anti-Afghan. You need help my friend.--NorthernPashtun (talk) 18:23, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Philosopher Let us reason together. 18:44, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
To be clear, this is in respect to the conflict and edits documented at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Afghans in Pakistan, Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring, brought to my attention at User talk:Philosopher#Afghans in Pakistan. I am sorry to issue the block, but this dispute seemed to have gotten well out of hand. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:00, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could go to Talk:Afghans in Pakistan#Distorting and falsifying and explain why you think your version of the smuggling information is better than NorthernPashtun's and respond to his description of why he thinks his version is better? While I appreciate that you disagree over what should be in the article, it might make things better if you discussed your edits. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:32, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, you deleted the page I created with the heading as above, and redirected it to the Pakistan–United States skirmishes page. I see why you have done this, however, I disagree. All other events on the timeline of the Pakistan–United States skirmishes page have been important but incidental and have not resulted in loss of life. Today's incident was massively different as it left 26 people dead. This does not deserves to have a few lines at the bottom of this page. It deserves to have its own page, and, if it were up to me, it would be on the 'In the news' section of the front page of Wikipedia. As you are from Peshawar you should understand the gravity of the ituation, and I urge you to reconsider. However, I leave the decision in your hands. Thanks, Stephen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.devincenzi (talk • contribs) 16:50, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
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template. In its current form, the supposedly brief entry on the skirmishes page has overgrown all other previous events – thus making the skirmishes page seem more like the Salala incident page. Therefore, I suggest for a re-structuring and movement of content from the Salala sub-heading to its own article. I second the initial suggestion by Stephen. Cheers -- Arun Reginald (talk · contribs) 11:16, 27 November 2011 (UTC)I am very glad to see it has been put on the front page now! It must be big news in Peshawar, yes? --S.devincenzi (talk) 00:53, 27 November 2011 (UTC)