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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Caroline Langat Thoruwa is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caroline Langat Thoruwa until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Störm (talk) 16:58, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect UnitedKingdom. Since you had some involvement with the UnitedKingdom redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nevé–selbert 20:45, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article It's OK to be white is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It's OK to be white until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Ꞷumbolo 21:22, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to It's OK to be white. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Otterathome (talk) 23:48, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Which content do you think is unsourced? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:59, 9 November 2017 (UTC).[reply]

The article Anne Duncan has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Found Yellowfish, but their website does not mention Anne Duncan. Cannot find anything on Anne Duncan. https://www.yfish.co.uk/ Rogermx (talk) 15:24, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rogermx (talk) 15:24, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing—Deepak Singh (politician)—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. #1997kB 04:56, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

A tag has been placed on Caroline Langat Thoruwa requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://actilhub.org/our-team.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Kingofaces43 (talk) 20:54, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what happened when you created the page (forgot to edit draft text maybe), but the main reason for CSD is because the copyvio goes all the way back to page creation for a major portion of the article. If it weren't for attribution issues, I would have tried to have individual text revdeled. No prejudice against re-creating in my book related to the CSD at least if that's what an admin does. Kingofaces43 (talk) 21:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kingofaces43, a list of publications cannot be copyright. The actual substance of the article is not cv, so I have declined the speedy. Primefac (talk) 01:53, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Primefac, I'm not sure what you're referring to. The CSD nom clearly indicated this url (scroll to the very last entry on the webpage). At the time of the request, about 50% of the page was directly pasted from that website, and the publication list hadn't been added yet. The copyvio remains, and per WP:G12, that situation was rather clearly an obvious copyright violation from the very start of the page. Kingofaces43 (talk) 03:04, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, I broke my usual rule of not reviewing CVs late at night, and I did not do my due diligence in checking the history of the page. I've cleaned up and revdel'd the cv text. Primefac (talk) 03:22, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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