User talk:Pmmccurdy

Concern regarding Draft:Alan Hustak

Hello, Pmmccurdy. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Alan Hustak, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 12:47, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Murat Pak

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A tag has been placed on Murat Pak requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 03:36, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Pmmccurdy, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz Read! Talk! 04:07, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Murat Pak

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The page Murat Pak has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:26, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Pak (Creator)

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A tag has been placed on Pak (Creator) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murat Pak. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:01, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Drawingyourdreams, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:16, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

That investigation has been closed with no action taken. I apologise for raising it, and for any trouble or annoyance that it may have caused you. In partial explanation, I was concerned at the evident concerted editing of the Pak article, and also at your uploads as "own work" on Commons of works by him, which would only be "own work" if you actually were that person (in which case you should not be writing about him in mainspace, of course). Both these things are common signs of editors trying to abuse our project for their own ends, so I thought that perhaps your account was compromised. I was wrong, I apologise. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:49, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers could we re-open this investigation? I notice that on Talk:Pak_(creator)#Contested_deletion there are dozens of edits coming from unregistered IP addresses within seconds of an edit by this user after a speedy deletion notice was opened on the article. SiliconRed (talk) 16:11, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Siliconred, those edits in November were a major part of what caused me to open the SPI. The opinion expressed there by GeneralNotability was that this was the result of off-wiki canvassing rather than socking; it's not the only possible explanation, but it's a reasonable one. Unless there's also been some more recent activity of the same kind I see little value in re-opening that discussion. The article still needs some serious editing, though. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:19, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Got it, thank you! Canvassing seems also to be a reasonable explanation here. SiliconRed (talk) 17:34, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Honestly SiliconRed I didn't appreciate the explicit accusations in your changes to my Pak editing. You need to realise I created and am editing a Wikipedia page of an artist with a very large social media following. Naturally, their users also chimed in when they saw this entry was being deleted. I have been upfront in and transparent in ALL of my edits. I have added sources where required asked for clarification about edits. I am also using my account linked to my IRL profile; I'm not hiding using sockpuppets, I don't need to tbh. I've been online since the early 90s, using Wikipedia since its inception and giving students Wikipedia assignments for a decade now. Yes, some of my edits may be sloppy but this is done in good faith as I expressed to Justlettersandnumbers. I've come to take an active interest in this space since the famous Christie's Beeple auction and am trying to add to the collective history.

File permission questions

A helpful flowchart.

Hey there,

I noticed you are interested in restoring the image File:Lost Poet 12755.png and are still active in the Commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Lost_Poet_12755.png. That discussion is closed, I'd recommend you contact the editor who deleted the file on their talk page if you want to follow up directly with them. If you are wondering what permission is required for an image to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, you can find more information at Commons:Licensing. There's a great flowchart that may help with this process.

Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that are not subject to copyright restrictions which would prevent them being used by anyone, anytime, for any purpose. The use may however be restricted by issues not related to copyright, though, see Commons:Non-copyright restrictions, and the license may demand some special measures. There is also certain material, the copyrights of which have expired in one country while still applying in another. Some of the details are explained below. Wikimedia Commons tries to ensure that any such restrictions are mentioned on the image description page; however, it is the responsibility of reusers to ensure that the use of the media is according to the license and violates no applicable law.

To answer your specific question: To upload Pak's work to Wikimedia, the images must be freely licensed under one of the permitted licenses. The Twitter thread you referenced does not explicitly open the license for the works. Pak's works do have copyright restrictions as they currently stand, those restrictions would need to be released. Happy to help if you have other questions. SiliconRed (talk) 09:37, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

COI?

I'd like to ask explicitly, and not in an accusatory way -- do you have a WP:COI with Pak (creator) or other content about NFTs on Wikipedia?

Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships.

Thanks! SiliconRed (he/him) (talk) 19:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)