I'm really surprised no one checked this for six months. User:Marckd has a history of adding fancruft and trivial information to this and other articles. It does nothing to enhance the readability of the article, and he's been asked time and again to stop (obviously, he hasn't).
There is still some stuff remaining in your revertion that needs to be deleted, in my opinion, namely stuff about sign-on times and Field Communications' other stations. I'll delete that manually, if you don't mind. 74.108.205.127 (talk) 18:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No it isn't, it is the first time you have warned him. Just linking him to Wikipedia:DRC would probably get a better result than just threatening to get him blocked for vandalism (he won't be, anyway). Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, I was just restoring a warning from earlier today that was posted to the user in question. Is that not something I should do? (Not a sarcastic question, legitimately asking.) PerryTachett (talk) 19:36, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, you can request to change your user name if you wish (this will preserve your edit history). Since policy lists personal preference as a valid reason for renaming, your total edit count is not in the thousands, and both target accounts are currently free, this shouldn't be a problem. --illythr (talk) 15:34, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I patrol recent changes, and I saw Tanjung Pinang lose over 20 KiB, so checked that the content being deleted looked good, reverted, and warned with uw-delete1. However, when I double checked, I found the inserted content was inserted earlier the same day, and seems to be literally taken from http://daycass.blogspot.com/2007/05/bintan-phoenix-of-malay-archipelago.html. Being unsure of how Wikipedia usually resolves potential copyright violations like this one, I decided to just leave a warning, so I used subst:copyvio|url, which left an enormous scary looking warning. This was not what I intended, as the warning looked quite threatening, so I deleted the warning. I have clearly screwed up the response to this pretty badly, and am not sure what to do now.
Questions:
Could a more experienced Wikipedian help out in this particular case? Has been handled by Excirial.
In the future, what is the correct response to this sort of thing?
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If the whole thing is a blatant copyvio, tag it for speedy deletion G11 - easiest way to do that is to use WP:TWINKLE (enabled in Special:preferences under 'gadgets') - so the user gets the appropriate warning/notification.
If there is a portion of the article that appears to be a copyvio, remove those portions (explaining the reason in the edit summary) and warn the user with Template:Uw-copyright. Check for their other contribs.
If it is a more complex case, or you have doubts, post to Wikipedia:Copyright problems (which has instructions).
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