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In-citation quotes
Wikipedia's policy on in-citation quotes
"Consider adding quoted material to the referenced citation directly, rather than adding the quoted text to the article."
appears to be neutral-to-positive.
Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 23:05, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
- History of Europe. You've got quotations, some of them quite large, in 54 of the citations. That is excessive non-free content in my opinion. It's unlikely to be useful to the average reader of the page, which appears to be school children, based on the pattern of most of the page views being on weekdays (i.e. school days). — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:02, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Per Wikipedia:Non-free content:
- "Articles and other Wikipedia pages may, in accordance with the guideline, use brief verbatim textual excerpts from copyrighted media, properly attributed or cited to its original source or author (as described by the citation guideline), and specifically indicated as direct quotations via quotation marks, blockquote, Quote, or a similar method."
- Per Wikipedia:Citing sources#Additional annotation:
- "A footnote may also contain a relevant quotation from the source. This is especially helpful when the cited text is long or dense. A quotation allows readers to immediately identify the applicable portion of the reference. Quotes are also useful if the source is not easily accessible." Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 01:03, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- I already gave my opinion— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:06, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Per Wikipedia:Non-free content:
Dune 3
Hi Diannaa; There is no Plot summary for Dune 3 at this time since it only comes out this December 2026; I've added a "Synopsis" from a reliable source to give readers some guidance. Is it worth returning to the article. ErnestKrause (talk) 14:55, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- We don't normally copy the synopsis from elsewhere online. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:12, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Since there is RS for it then should it be changed to "Premise" as done for the another upcoming film here: The Dog Stars (film). ErnestKrause (talk) 19:56, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- In The Dog Stars (film), the premise was not copied from elsewhere online. That is a good way to do it. However, the webpage provided as a citation does not support the content. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:24, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Since there is RS for it then should it be changed to "Premise" as done for the another upcoming film here: The Dog Stars (film). ErnestKrause (talk) 19:56, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
Quick question
Hi Diannaa. I'm curious: is there a rule for placing improper Service awards / Incremental service awards on user pages like User:DonnieNova? Thanks and kind regards, Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 16:48, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- I don't think there's a rule about the service awards, but nobody should claim on their user page to be an administrator when they are not. I have removed all three templates.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:17, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you Diannaa. Appreciate your help. Best, Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 03:17, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- This DonnieNova character is asking for trouble. They have only 2,667 edits and just added the "250,000" edits" template to their user page. Carlstak (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- I removed some false claims, but they restored them and added the 250000 edits award. I managed to get the claim of adminship off of there but that's all I was able to accomplish. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:34, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- You've done all you could - thank you! There should be an "obnoxious editor of the year" or a "liar editor of the year" award. Best, Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 03:25, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- I removed some false claims, but they restored them and added the 250000 edits award. I managed to get the claim of adminship off of there but that's all I was able to accomplish. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:34, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- This DonnieNova character is asking for trouble. They have only 2,667 edits and just added the "250,000" edits" template to their user page. Carlstak (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you Diannaa. Appreciate your help. Best, Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 03:17, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
S-100 (chart)
I note that my submission in June on the history relating to the development of S-100 was deleted on the basis that it was taken from a copyright document - IHO publication M-10. I am the editor of M-10. I am also the previous Secretary-General of the IHO. M-10 is a publicly available, free of charge publication available for download via the IHO website. In the circumstances, is there still a reason why my submitted text cannot be used in Wikipedia? Sharkey51 (talk) 09:15, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
- S-100 (chart). Free of charge is not the same thing as free of copyright. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder or have their permission, unless special documentation is in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.The second problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I have placed some information about conflict of interest on your user talk page. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:36, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
A favor
Hi Diannaa, how are you? I have a favor to ask: please restore the edits to these articles, as they appear here; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pablo_Escobar&diff=prev&oldid=1267285859 and here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaim_Rumkowski&diff=next&oldid=1267035697. Everything had reliable sources until a disgruntled user came along and ruined it all, there are plenty of people who vandalize even what CitationBot does. Sending you a hug. Thank you.--~2026-40165-13 (talk) 00:33, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- No, sorry, I am not going to restore content that was removed as being the work of a sockpuppet of a banned user. Also, unsolicited hugs are not welcome. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:29, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- Is it your policy to treat people this way, doing nothing but also not letting others do anything? what does it matter if those edits were made by a sockpuppet or a banned user? and I don't care. They're excellent edits. As if those kinds of edits were the source of an infection that could cause a pandemic—that's how you see it, in a terribly illogical way. Please restore that edits what isn't hurting anyone. Thank you. ~2026-40416-32 (talk) 22:51, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- The edit that removed you link to on Pablo Escobar took place a year and a half ago and is huge (155,329 bytes); it can't be restored without losing a lot of people's work. Similarly the removal on Chaim Rumkowski took place in January 2025. I'm not going to restore this content, because people are within policy to remove the work of socks of blocked users. Blocked editors are not allowed to edit, and they are not allowed to create sockpuppets to continue editing.Also it is not allowed to proxy for a blocked editor by editing on their request, as you have done.
"Editors in turn are not permitted to post or edit material at the direction of a banned or blocked editor (sometimes called proxy editing or proxying) unless they can show that the changes are productive and they have independent reasons for making such edits."
Stop posting as an IP; that's not allowed either. Someone will do a range block of your IP soon if you carry on. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:15, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- The edit that removed you link to on Pablo Escobar took place a year and a half ago and is huge (155,329 bytes); it can't be restored without losing a lot of people's work. Similarly the removal on Chaim Rumkowski took place in January 2025. I'm not going to restore this content, because people are within policy to remove the work of socks of blocked users. Blocked editors are not allowed to edit, and they are not allowed to create sockpuppets to continue editing.Also it is not allowed to proxy for a blocked editor by editing on their request, as you have done.
- Is it your policy to treat people this way, doing nothing but also not letting others do anything? what does it matter if those edits were made by a sockpuppet or a banned user? and I don't care. They're excellent edits. As if those kinds of edits were the source of an infection that could cause a pandemic—that's how you see it, in a terribly illogical way. Please restore that edits what isn't hurting anyone. Thank you. ~2026-40416-32 (talk) 22:51, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
Possible Copyvio Medgar Evers
Hi Diannaa, Earwig's Copyvio Detector shows an 81% probability of potential copyright content that was added to the Medgar Evers article on July 18, 2026. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 19:28, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for the report. Content matching http://www.wesleyan.edu/mlk/posters/pdfs/evers.pdf has been there since at least 2005 so I an leaving that stuff alone.--— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:46, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
2026
@Diannaa You left one issue in my talk page. I didn't entirely copy and paste something from that link. So as per your advice, I am adding the content again, but entirely in my words. Will this be okay? XYZ 250706 (talk) 03:20, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Proposed Version : Adarsh has played a leading role in student movements across different states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. He has been at the forefront of numerous protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He also organised the student demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi protesting Israel's attacks on Palestine. 1 XYZ 250706 (talk) 03:22, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
- Your proposed wording is better. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:27, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
References
Admin help requested - would like to see deleted article
Hallo, I've just created Owain Park but an earlier article on him was deleted 15 years ago. Could you possibly let me see the old version as it may have some useful sources? (Even the AfD discussion provided one nice source). Thanks. (Just picking you as a "Recently active admin" with a familiar name!) PamD 19:50, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Key point: the deleting editor User:Ron_Ritzman hasn't edited for 5 years, so it seems pointless to ask them. PamD 19:57, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Pam! I have sent you a copy of the deleted article via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:03, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- @ User:PamD: there's also some content at User talk:Opheclide32/Sandbox— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:05, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks - Opheclide32 seems to have been a short-lived and rather unsuccessful editor. The deleted article was written when Park was only 18, so hardly surprising it got deleted. But I'll check the sources. Thanks. PamD 20:25, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Looking again at the old version, I wonder if it was autobiographical, and not just a coincidence that the first 2 letters of the editor's name were "Op"! But that's water under the bridge as he does now seem properly notable. Thanks for your help. PamD 16:42, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Happy to help. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:37, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Looking again at the old version, I wonder if it was autobiographical, and not just a coincidence that the first 2 letters of the editor's name were "Op"! But that's water under the bridge as he does now seem properly notable. Thanks for your help. PamD 16:42, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks - Opheclide32 seems to have been a short-lived and rather unsuccessful editor. The deleted article was written when Park was only 18, so hardly surprising it got deleted. But I'll check the sources. Thanks. PamD 20:25, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
Editors removing cv templates
(Summoned by RAA) Hi Diannaa, I applied a {{db-copyvio}} to Infrastructure Development Authority, Patna and it got removed (diff) by the author, seemingly without being prevented by an edit filter or with the revision getting tagged. I was under the impression that this was normally disallowed - am I mistaken, or is this a bug? Thanks, ScalarFactor (talk) 19:20, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hi ScalarFactor, that's a good question. I don't think there's an edit filter or bot that prevents this. I suggest watch-listing any you G12 and if tags are removed, report it to one of us.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:43, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Oddly Special:AbuseFilter/29 only stops users when they have less than 50 edits, I thought it would be there was a filter preventing authors from removing speedy deletion templates from their own articles/drafts, but it seems not? Tenshi! (Talk page) 23:55, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- I suppose the logic is that experienced users may want/need to remove spurious speedy tags from their own pages (I've seen a few LTAs that add them), but I think I was expecting it'd be tagged by Special:AbuseFilter/856 or some equivalent. ScalarFactor (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Draft:Film Bulletin
your Speedy deletion of Draft:Film Bulletin'
seems abusive, you could have removed some perceived excessive quote, instead of blanking
as I recall, since I cannot refer to what you deleted, the page was merely a few URLs
your framing is excessive
Xo4v (talk) 23:54, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- The draft contained some copyright content that was a copy from material found here. The paragraoh begins:
"Film BULLETIN: Motion Picture Trade Paper published every other Monday by Wax Publications. Inc. Mo Wax, Editor and Publisher. PUBLICATION - EDITORIAL OFFICES: ..."
Was this perhaps an accidental copypaste?— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:08, 26 July 2026 (UTC)- that is the required USPS postal statement for all US periodicals to get non-first class rates
- it is like the german impressum, it is not original content, or copyrightable content
- https://pe.usps.com/text/DMM300/207.htm
- https://about.usps.com/forms/ps3541.pdf
- Xo4v (talk) 01:38, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- https://about.usps.com/handbooks/dm204.pdf
- Xo4v (talk) 01:39, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ragardless. it's not suitable as content for a Wikipedia article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:42, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- a Public notice by definition is not copyrightable content
- Xo4v (talk) 20:41, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that's true. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:40, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ragardless. it's not suitable as content for a Wikipedia article. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:42, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
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Re:July 2026
Hi. Why you deleted all the edits? I mean. OK, we're gonna remove Stojnic article and we can rewrite the sentences for copyright. But Stojnic is literally quoted in maybe three sentences or something, and you removed basically everything - and now it is lost. This doesn't make sense. TeenAngels1234 (talk) 19:57, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- I left in a bit, part of which was actually framed as a quotation. The rest was copy-pasted with no quotation marks. Please don't copy material from your sources, not even temporarily for editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:03, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
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