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Thank you That Space Nerd (talk) 05:48, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Huge History section text: Source?

Hi That Space Nerd,

Special:Diff/1046568381 looks as if it has been copied from somewhere, perhaps after translation. Could you please tell me where the text is from?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:07, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.clhs.edu.my/history.php
I translated and edited it
I also study there
I undid it because they told me not to do it yet
— Preceding unsigned comment added by That Space Nerd (talk • contribs) 12:39, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; they're correct about not doing this: Copying text from the website violates Wikipedia's copyright policy (see WP:COPYVIO). I have removed the affected page revisions for now.

Please note that, especially if you're in contact with representatives of the school, you have a conflict of interest and are discouraged from editing the article directly. I'll add two standardized notification messages below. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:14, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Thanks That Space Nerd (talk) 13:25, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, i think that they dont want me to pulbish it is because they don’t want me to write inaccurate or negative information That Space Nerd (talk) 13:32, 26 September 2021 (UTC) That Space Nerd (talk) 13:32, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:14, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:14, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removals

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sure That Space Nerd (talk) 04:10, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The edit was fine, it just could have been improved by a proper edit summary saying something like "removing promotional content / not [[WP:NPOV|neutral]]". ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:26, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Zencoder

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

Per WP:SIRS, I do not think the sources shown on the article count for notability criteria, along with the fact that it seems that one product created (the Flix Cloud mentioned in the article) by this company also had a Wikipedia article created by the same person who did this article that was then speedy deleted.

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**Source assessment table:**
Source	Independent?	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
Future of Technology 2010	No mention of sponsorship with Zencoder.	Bloomberg is a trusted source, although it does lean left-wing according to AllSides (https://www.allsides.com/news-source/bloomberg-media-bias).	The article is over angel investors, some of which happened to invest in Zencoder, but it does not concern Zencoder at all.	✘ No
On2 Technologies and Zencoder Partner to Create On-Demand Video Encoding Service	Following accsess via the Internet Archive, the story comes from On2's PR Newswire.	Bloomberg is a trusted source, although it does lean left-wing according to AllSides (https://www.allsides.com/news-source/bloomberg-media-bias). However, the story being from the On2 PR newswire means that we cannot trust if this was true.	Concerns a large project partially started by Zencoder	✘ No
Google Closes On2 Technology Acquisition	The article is about Google buying the partner company for their product, and this is from Google's own Investor news.	This is Google's own Investor page, they cannot be trusted to provide reliable details on their acquisition.	~ If talking about how the product was shut down because of this acquisition, then yes, it is significant.	✘ No
Encoding Performance: Comparing Zencoder, Encoding.com, Sorenson & Panda	First sentance in the post states that it was paid for by Zencoder.	First sentance in the post states that it was paid for by Zencoder.	Directly talks about the performance of Zencoder.	✘ No
Brightcove Acquires Zencoder	The article is from Zencoder's own blog.	The article is from Zencoder's own blog, so we cannot trust the reliability of the statments.	Directly talks about Zencoder being bought.	✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

You are the latest person to edit the article that has a userpage, so that is why I am informing you of this. WikipeidaNeko (talk) 00:57, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]