User Talk: BalinKingOfMoria

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WP:CWW ↗ at CopyPatrol

Hi BalinKingOfMoria, thank you for your recent efforts at CopyPatrol. If you notice an editor copying text from one Wikipedia page to another without attribution in the edit summary, please resolve the report by making a dummy edit with the attribution in the edit summary (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adversarial_machine_learning&diff=prev&oldid=1105881024 ↗), and then notifying the editor of the attribution requirements using {{tl|uw-copying}} or a similar message. Thanks! DanCherek (talk) 06:21, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:I hadn't been aware of that; thank you for letting me know. I'll do that in the future! BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 06:22, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Maria Robles ↗

Hi BalinKingOfMoria, you tagged this draft for deletion under the A7 criteria but that is only applicable to articles not drafts, so I removed your nomination. If there is another applicable CSD criteria please feel free to renominate it. S0091 (talk) 18:50, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:I wasn't aware of that, my bad! Thanks for the correction. BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 18:51, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
:{{ping|S0091}} Also, in hindsight, I guess the claim about the invention of "neo abstract" would mean that A7 wasn't applicable anyway. I'll take this as a lesson for myself to be less hasty in the future. BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 18:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
:{{ping|S0091}} By the way, is there a way to know ''a priori'' whether a given criteria applies to drafts or just full-fledged article? (I did a little digging but wasn't able to immediately find anything.) BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 18:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
::The WP:CSD ↗ policy does state "article" and its in the article section (like all the A type reasons...A=article). For drafts some the G types apply, with G11 and G12 being the most common. You might find WP:Field guide to proper speedy deletion ↗ helpful. S0091 (talk) 19:07, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
:::Oh, I see. Thanks! BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 19:10, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
::::No problem! Also good catch they had copied most of the content from another article. While not a huge issue once attributed, you do appear correct in that it was at best "loosely" related. As you can see now the draft was declined by another editor. Hopefully the creator will be able to provided sources that support the claims and notability. S0091 (talk) 19:16, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

WP:CP ↗ listings

Hi Balin! I noticed that you've been listing things at copyright problems recently, and while I really appreciate your efforts in cleaning up and patrolling potential copyright violations, for smaller issues like what you've been listing you can normally clean them up yourself by removing the content. Copyright problems usually is involved when there are foundational issues across a large portion of the article or complex cases of copyvio across the article. Other cases include declined G12s for complexity reasons or not having enough violations for a G12, and we usually handle those as well. Hope this helps, and happy copyright cleaning! <span style="color:#800a71">Sennecaster</span> (<span style="color:#AE0949">Chat</span>) 04:37, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

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Copyediting on Anglophone problem

Hello! I have made an effort of copyediting and improve the text of the first sections of the Anglophone problem ↗. More copyediting work is needed on the next sections. Since you add the ''copyedit tag'' on the article, please feel free to check it. Chiserc (talk) 11:30, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

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Tone tag on 2022 Brinks theft ↗

Hi. Do you think you could go to the talk page and explain this tagging ↗ in some more detail? Daniel Case (talk) 03:46, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

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Unicode escape characters switch

Hello Balin,

Not sure if you did this manually or you're running some sort of script, but take a look at the diff here ↗ that you made. You've changed all of the instances of " &ndash ;" (space added) to instead be Unicode escapes for the ndash character ( https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2013 ↗ ). This looks identical, but is much less editor-friendly. An editor reading the source can easily understand what "&ndash " is but very few will know off the top of their head what Unicode character 2013 is. If you're running a script, you need to adjust the settings, and if you did that manually, then this kind of change isn't helpful. SnowFire (talk) 14:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

:It was a manual edit, but I have no idea how that happened—maybe I messed something up in the visual editor? I guess this is a lesson to check wikitext ''and'' visual editor diffs, because for me the ndash changes only show up in the former (which is probably why I missed it). Thanks for letting me know! BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Emu Clean up

No issues with most of the clean up. Don't really understand the who thing. Added crew, but really feel that was unnecessary. Who else could it have been referring too?

Also I called it bizarre, because it's a rescue of a chimp and his magician owner. If we can't call that bizarre what can we? Don't really feel that the tone was an issue. Happy for you to change it if you really feel so. But it's unnecessary.CheersBasetornado (talk) 06:04, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

:I do think "bizarre" is pretty clearly editorialization, or at least unencyclopedic (even if everyone would agree that the rescue was in fact bizarre); in particular, words like "bizarre" are disallowed by MOS:NOTE ↗ as I read it. I don't know anything about the ''Emu'' except for this article—is that one rescue well-known or otherwise notable? It might be worth reiterating in the introduction section if so (although, I suppose it already has its own section heading). BalinKingOfMoria (talk) 15:19, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
::I would say that the main reason I wrote Emu's page is because it was one of the rare Australian Navy vessels that didn't have it's own page already. So you're not the only one who would have no idea about the Emu. That was me before I wrote it as well. I'd say though that is considered notable, because there are multiple sources about it, and it's largely the most reported info about Emu. (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-08/jimmy-the-chimp-on-elcho-island-nt-footage-hollywood/100355030), here's one for example. I wouldn't call it well known enough to say it in shorthand without explaining it though. Understand MOS: Note and happy for you to change it back, but I just don't see the issue with calling something objectively bizarre, bizarre.Basetornado (talk) 05:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)