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about working in such a large collaborative project like Knowledge (XXG). We have a lot of people pulling things in different directions. The images are a great example of that. I usually don't bother with images, because of the copyright issue, and because in the past I've tried uploading images, not fully understanding if they're appropriate or not. So now I only usually worry about images that I'm uploading myself (which I usually know for a fact are in the public domain, either due to age or knowing who it was made by. Many users have also experienced that dejection because they were proud of an article they wrote, only for the article to get merged. I wanna address that briefly. There are millions of Knowledge (XXG) articles, but not all are created equally. If you make a brand new article on a super niche topic, there's a decent chance no one will ever notice it, meaning they won't notice if you bent the rules a bit, but also that means no one will read it. That partly explains the recent push toward merging smaller topics into bigger ones (and I bring this up specifically because of the tornado article you wrote). It would be like if there was an article for a storm that barely affected anyone, versus that same information being in the storm article. The info is still needed, it's just a question of where it's most useful. ♫
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what y'all said about improving the outbreak article if it is merged (not sure if that will happen anymore as it is a split consensus right now). But, the problem is that I just really don't have the time to do that anymore. My edit count may seem to be "high" still, but it is in bursts for like an hour. For a comparison, from February to August, I averaged about 747 edits per month. We are over halfway into September and I have a total of 56 mainspace edits. So my reasoning for being so "pissed" (what probably feels like
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website has been around over 20 years, and there are certain processes and ways of letting things play out. I think your enthusiasm toward editing is quite apparent, and I hope you can channel that in the right direction. If you need any help or suggestions or guidance, please let me know, but otherwise, just wanted to do a general check-in after all that jazz, so to speak. Cheers, ♫
302:– As a P.S. in case you were bored or looking for something new to try out. In the last PD-NWS update I sent out (not sure if you read it), I mentioned using non-free files on Knowledge (XXG) over the Commons. Even though the Commons may not be able to host the NWS-tornado photos, EN-Knowledge (XXG) can. On the Commons, there is a category of the deletion discussions in progress ( 377:. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Knowledge (XXG). If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Knowledge (XXG) (see 189: 261:
I'm not really down over the FAC/GA debate. Now that you could say the "emotion" has died down from it, I'll let you know more or less why I was...well, the best word I'm looking for is "pissed" I guess (I thought for a while how to describe it...lol). Honestly, it is just a lack of time. I fully get
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Hah yea I had a feeling you might've gotten a little pissed. I understand why. I've seen it a lot over the years. People want to help, but then they find out that they haven't really been helping as much, because of reasons A through Z that you might not have even been aware of. It's the tricky part
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topics. But that's about all I have time to do for actual improvement/creation. Lack of time to work on new stuff or even try to save content also compounded with the NWS photo copyright fiasco on the Commons (another batch of about 900 images were found and are in review right now...on top of the
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Hey there WeatherWriter! I saw the semi-retired template on your user page, and I just wanted to check in. I've really appreciated your help during my journey here, from the TI12 stuff to learning about featured images, so thank you for that. I hope that whatever you are doing finds you well, and
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Hey there WeatherWriter, just checking in how you're doing, and making sure you're not too down about the FAC fiasco with the tornado article. I think you have a lot of value as an editor. Sometimes the rules on Knowledge (XXG) seem arbitrary, and on one hand they are, but on the other hand, this
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photograph can be used as well). But yeah, I'm just watching the discussions to see if/when one is deleted, if it does indeed need to be replaced as a non-free file. All of those non-free photos are being added to this category as well in case you just wanted to look at them:
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or permission. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been deleted. Knowledge (XXG) takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators
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Please don’t post any messages on my talk page about SPI investigations unless you are warning me that I am being accused of sockpuppetry; because you’re probably not going to get a reply back on those comments and I’ll probably revert your comment.
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300 either ongoing deletion requests or soon to be deletion requests) just makes it for a rough time. I do appreciate the check in though. Hopefully that explains why I seemed off from probably my normal editing self during that FAC/GA debate.
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to y'all) was because I physically can't improve the outbreak article, so that GA/GA "award"/"feeling" that I accomplished and "completed" would just be gone. ChessEric, also recently said basically the same thing
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and death threats against the latter. It got so bad that an administrator on the Simple English Knowledge (XXG) had to semi-protect my talk page; and it got so bad on Meta that I had to contact a steward over it.
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I’d just like to warn you if you’ve been paying attention to the SPIs recently that there is a troll that has been mimicking Andrew5 and apparently other LTAs for a while.
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If the file belongs to you, and you want to allow Knowledge (XXG) to use it — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you
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And o by the way; is the semi-retired template a mistake? If you’re only taking a temporary break: there are {{Wikibreak}} templates you know.
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and a couple others. I will especially be backing away from SPI, and focusing more on article related stuff such as creating tornado lists for
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talk page; but has also vandalized my talk page cross wiki (he would continually spoof interactions between me and
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All I am asking is; if the user or IP has already been blocked as a sock; to not open an SPI. But instead follow
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and others (not pinged); I will be backing away from project space a bit (except places like
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does not believe that this troll is in fact Andrew5. The troll has vandalized not only
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photograph in the infobox can be used as a template when doing so (or
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My main thing I have been working to at least keep up is the
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verify that externally by one of the processes explained at
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Orphaned non-free image File:Thumbnail for Poison.jpeg
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for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at
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to determine whether its use and function meets the
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