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Request to move/create page on my behalf?

Hi

I was trying to publish this page ([1]) when I received the following message:

The page title or edit you have tried to create has been restricted to administrators at this time. It matches an entry on the local or global blacklists, which is usually used to prevent vandalism.

If you receive this message when trying to edit, create or move an existing page, follow these instructions:

* Any administrator can create or move this page for you. Please post a request at the Administrators' noticeboard. * You may also contact any administrator on their talk page or by e-mail. * Be sure to specify the exact title of the page you are trying to create or edit, and if it might be misunderstood (for example, an article with an unusual name), consider explaining briefly what you want to do. * If you wrote any text, save it temporarily on your computer until you can edit the page.

Thank you.

I'm not quite sure what the error is and would like some feedback and help with getting this page published.

Much appreciated, Gloria — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dionlineed (talk • contribs) 09:57, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

It looks like you've written a draft of an article at your userpage (User:Dionlineed), and it seems to show up just fine. It's unclear what you mean by publish, though - do you mean that you wish to move it to a new title? Which specific title gives you the error? UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 13:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

How do I go about moving this article from my userpage to something publicly accessible on Wikipedia? I can't seem to make sense of the help instructions on my own. Is it a matter of waiting a few days to I get the "Move" tab on my userpage as I've read elsewhere? In the meantime, could you please or someone please review my article to make sure it's good enough for Wikipedia? Thanks! --Dionlineed (talk) 07:11, 29 April 2010 (UTC)Gloria

It looks like she wants to create Dance International (magazine), but she's getting a message saying the title is blacklisted. Maurreen (talk) 07:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't know anything about the blacklist message. But I just clicked on the red link and there was no obvious problem.

Glorio / Dionlineed, do you want to try clicking on the red link in my post above, and pasting your text in there? Maurreen (talk) 07:27, 29 April 2010 (UTC) Or maybe you tried that already, I dunno. Maurreen (talk) 07:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Dance International does not exist. Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be there? Maybe that's why it was blacklisted? 124.171.194.6 (talk) 19:42, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

No, the blacklist doesnt work like that. It's not "intelligent". In any case, I cant replicate the problem, so I have to wonder if maybe Dionlineed accidentally typed something different at first, and that it was that erroneous title which was causing the error. After all, she never actually said what the title she was trying to create it at was. It's either that, or there's something I've yet to learn about the blacklist. I've posted a link to this thread on MediaWiki_talk:Titleblacklist just in case someone there might be able to help. —Soap— 22:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

If you're still here, do you remember the exact title that you typed out when trying to create the page? —Soap— 22:33, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

They seem to have created the page at Dance international magazine. —Soap— 17:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Just an FYI, "Dionlineed" looks a lot like "Dance International Online Editor" which is skirting near if not violating WP:ORGNAME. Anyone who is working with this editor might consider discussing a username change. -- Atama頭 18:17, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I've raised the issue with Dionlineed, which you could have done, Atama. Mjroots (talk) 05:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Overdue DRVs

Resolved

 – Done. — Coren ^(talk) 23:20, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Would an admin close the overdue discussions at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 April 22 and Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 April 23? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 07:53, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Requesting a schoolblock

Resolved

 – IP blocked by Tan. —DoRD (talk) 19:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Anoka High School's ISP of 206.131.130.132 has been warned several times, blocked several times, for persistant vandalism of pages. I just undid vandalism from this ISP at Anoka's two primary rival's pages of Coon Rapids High School [2] and Blaine High School [3]. I'm requesting that a school block be put on this ISP so that anybody editing from there needs to at least register thier own account. Thanks! Rapier (talk) 18:28, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Blocked for two years. Next time, this can simply be reported at WP:AIV. Thanks for the heads-up, however. Tan | 39 18:44, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

mass speedy deletion tagging

Is there a good explanation for the mass tagging of a lot of articles by User:Sfan00 IMG? Most of them are on Wikimedia Commons and for me this mass tagging is looking like vandalism.--Stone (talk) 20:52, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Did you ask him? No, I see you didn't. Please do so first before coming here. --Jayron32 20:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Sfan00 IMG is tagging useless blank description pages on enwiki for files on Commons. He has explained this on his talk page, for those who actually sought to contact him on his talk page - which, of course, ought to be the first step if you have a problem with mass changes. While one is allowed to disagree with this action, it is not vandalism. — Gavia immer (talk) 21:10, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

The only thing I saw was a lot of complaints about tagging all the images for speedy delletion, the explanation was given on the talk page of somebody else. Would be good if somebody filling a lot of user talk pages with speedy deletion messages would write a short not what this really is about.--Stone (talk) 21:29, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

• The few images I have seen have been categorized here on en.wiki? Are we forbidden from categorizing images that fall under our project scope here, just because they are hosted on the Commons? And what about image talk pages that have various WikiProject headers related to our projects, for files hosted on the Commons? I know, dealing with WP:IFU, I've added such talk page headers here on en.wiki, even though I uploaded the file at the Commons. Example would be File_talk:Postitmosiac.jpg, though this hasn't been tagged I2 yet. And I'm not saying I wouldn't be fine with deleting such pages if there was community consensus, or a rule saying we shouldn't be doing this. But it seems like more than just me have been creating such pages, so maybe we should discuss it before they are all speedy deleted without discussion.-Andrew c ^[talk] 21:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
  • There are a ton of images tagged, but I've only gone through the first couple dozen, and found almost all of them were validly tagged as F2, as an image on Commons was most often placed in a non-image category on en.wiki, or there was basic text, or vandalism in the page history of an image found on Commons. Two iffy situations have been Category:UNESCO and Category:Qantas. Clearly neither is an image specific category, but they do mix non-free (from en.wiki) and free (from Commons) images related to the parent cat. With clean up, there could be arguments to keep the categorization of Commons images (or not). I also found Category:Abortion maps, but I think it is entirely redundant with an existing category on Commons, so perhaps it should be nominated deleted (then I'd support deleting the blank image pages here), but with the current category, those blank image pages seem valid for the time being. I have a hypothetical situation in my mind where mixing en.wiki and Commons images in a category here would be valid, yet I have yet to find that situation, and I have not come across an images tagged for F2 deletion that fall under such a situation (though with that many images being tagged, I haven't looked at them all).-Andrew c ^[talk] 22:12, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm holding back on taggin any more 'blank' image descriptions using CSD's as there seems to be a growing consensus that the current templates and process might be confusing. If experienced contributors are finding it confusing, then so will new users..

Also I've reviewed and de-tagged some because according to someone that left a note on my talk page 'featured' media should retain a 'local' page for some reason. If I've missed any , feel-free to de-tag the relevant items, and generally cleanup as appropriate. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:11, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 23:11, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, the featured image makes sense as well, because there are two independent set ups for promotion, where something could be promoted here but not on the Commons and vice versa. Therefore, we'd need to keep the featured templates/categorization on a blank image page on en.wiki in instances where the image is hosted on the Commons. -Andrew c ^[talk] 23:47, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

As the person who left the note about the featured media pages, I should note that I oppose keeping pages for Commons files in every other situation that I can think of. Since (as far as I know) Commons doesn't have tags for "This is a featured image at ____ project", we need to tag these images here. However, Commons categorises images and does everything else that these local image description pages do; consequently, there's no good reason to keep them. This is precisely the purpose for which F2 was designed. Nyttend (talk) 03:07, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

By the way, note that {{Db-f8}} says that after moving a featured image to Commons and deleting the local copy, a local page should be created with a "featured at en:wp" template. Nyttend (talk) 04:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

And by the way if there is a file talk page with project tagging, we can keep that even if there is no image file on en.wiki. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:36, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I want to start an article on a protected page - help

Resolved

How do I do this? I've just created the article Breakin' Dishes (song), but I want it to be at Breakin' Dishes. However, this page is protected. Can anyone sort this out? KingOfTheMedia (talk) 22:47, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

 Page moved NW (Talk) 22:52, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:RPP...

Resolved

 – not anymore --Jayron32 03:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

...is getting a bit backed up. More admin eyes would be appreciated. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:20, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Looks like its up to date. Zero open requests as of now. --Jayron32 03:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty

Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification that:

1) Tenmei (talk · contribs) may edit Wikipedia under the guidance of his self-declared mentors (Nihonjoe (talk · contribs), Kraftlos (talk · contribs), Coppertwig (talk · contribs), Leujohn (talk · contribs), Jmh649 (talk · contribs), McDoobAU93 (talk · contribs)). The period of mentorship will last six months from the date on which this motion passes, although it may be extended with the agreement of Tenmei and one or more mentors. Tenmei is strongly encouraged to seek advice and guidance from his mentors regularly. Should they deem it necessary, Tenmei's mentors may return to the Arbitration Committee for clarification of any editing restrictions or questions with respect to the terms of mentorship. Editors who come into conflict with Tenmei are advised to contact the mentor(s) either publicly or via email.

2) Tenmei is reminded of the remedies from Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty that apply to him. Specifically:

• Tenmei is topic-banned from Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty for a period of six months. He is permitted to comment on the talkpage, so long as he does so in a civil fashion. (The six-month period will commence from the date on which this motion passes.)
• Tenmei is instructed not to interact with or comment with regard to Teeninvestor or Caspian blue on any page of Wikipedia, except in the course of legitimate dispute resolution initiated by others.

For the Arbitration Committee, AGK 15:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

• Discuss this

linking a foto file to a name in an article

I have uploaded a self portrait of the artist Ernst Hacker to wikicommons the address is - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ErnstHackerselfportrait1.jpg i would like to link it to a mention of ernst hacker [in red] on the page of his friend and teacher Koshiro Onchi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōshirō_Onchi i receive the message contact the administrator can you help pliny13 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pliny13 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

This is a Commons matter. The photo is a self portrait which was made by someone who died in 1987. Therefore you could not have made it and it is not your "own work", and as such is a copyright violation. It may be possible to use it in an article on the artist himself under fair use rules, but almost certainly not on the article about Kōshirō Onchi. Mjroots (talk) 05:01, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Action required on geonotice request

I placed a geonotice request ten days ago to invite interested NZers to Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 5. There has been no response to this request. Could an administrator please look into this request? This would be greatly appreciated as the meetup is this Sunday.. Many Thanks. Linnah (talk) 23:27, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Try inviting people who went last time, but otherwise, there is nothing an administrator could do. Sorry. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Yes we've invited previous attendees. Reason for asking here is there's a note in the geonotice page that says:

Notify geonotice maintainers

In case there is no feedback in a few days after posting the request, ask an administrator to take a look.

Hence the note here hoping an admin knows how to notify the geonotice maintainers. Thanks. Linnah (talk) 15:43, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

You might consider pinging someone recently active who appears here: [4]. –xeno^talk 16:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

On the unwritten rule regarding a limit to number of unblock requests

I would appreciate any thoughts on this here. –xeno^talk 19:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I must agree with your post Xeno. In my opinion the so-called "unwritten rule" is disruptive and quite frankly I've seen it abused too often against innocent editors. Caden ^cool 19:34, 5 May 2010 (UTC)