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and welcome from me also. --Bduke (Discussion) 21:25, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but I don't really know much about Scouting - the only reason I was editing some Scouting related articles recently is because I've been doing a lot of edits on Nauru (and a few other pacific nations), and that included knowing about Scouting in those areas. Orthogonal1 (talk) 23:08, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Education in Tokelau

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False alarm. :) WikiEducator uses CC BY-SA 3.0, so it's okay. Orthogonal1 (talk) 01:47, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

• Hello! You are correct that the source is under a compatible free license, CC-BY-SA. So yes you are free to use that text in the article, but the license requires attribution, that is: saying where you got the material from. A simple link in the edit summary when creating is usually enough. Just FYI for future. I'll dig around and see if I can find the right talk-page template to accomplish the same thing after-the-fact. Thanks for your contributions! Crow^Caw 21:20, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I tried giving attribution in a notice at the bottom of the page, but I'll use the edit summary as well next time. Orthogonal1 (talk) 21:37, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

No problem at all, thanks! Crow^Caw 21:41, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

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.io page edits

Otrhogonal1,

You rolled back a removal of the "Controversy" section on the .io page, and in the process deleted the British Government Parliamentary Record that clearly addressed and closed the controversy, and posted the following to my talk page:

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In the spirit of that notice, I have added the parliamentary record from the house of lords back to the page, which clarifies and closes the alleged controversy, and I provide you a well articulated response.

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Orthogonal1,

You rolled back some edits which I have made, but I only added to the existing content which has been on the page for an extended period of time.
I simply updated the sections you removed, which I did not create to begin with. You have yet to state the information in question that was objected to on your removal and you have still not referenced it in your talk message to me. If there is a specific problem, then please state what the issue is. 

Here are the two edits you made:

(cur | prev) 05:28, 7 May 2015‎ Orthogonal1 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (11,795 bytes) (+50)‎ . . (Added deletion caption to File:ICB DOMAINS SH.png) (undo | thank) (cur | prev) 05:17, 7 May 2015‎ Orthogonal1 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (11,745 bytes) (-5,240)‎ . . (Removed tables of domains) (undo | thank)

You "Removed tables of domains", to which I did not create, but simply updated with new the new sales and information in Alexa.
The other "Added deletion caption to File:ICB DOMAINS SH.png", was not something I created or edited.

As far as the removal of the tables, you have to state why you would remove them. If you go back in history you can see they have been there since Oct 2014 and were added by user: AxelThomson
If there is a problem with that information, it needs to be made clear what that issue is. If you can explain why you removed content which was 7 months old, but was simply refreshed with the newest data, then please do so.

Thanks,
Racked1 (talk) 12:56, 16 May 2015 (UTC) 
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The National Society of Leadership and Success- Article Tagged

Hello Orthogonal1, Thank you for all your feedback and guidance through the AfD nomination process. It appears however, that there might be another issue with the article as there have been multiple tags placed on the page for advert and COI. I am a bit confused by this as it was pretty clear on the Afd project & talk pages that these issues were addressed and resolved. If you have any information that could better help me understand why another editor tagged the page and what this means for the article itself it would be much appreciated. Thank you. Nslssap (talk) 18:52, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi User:Nslssap, I don't know why the article has been tagged. Perhaps the editor was unaware of the AfD discussions? Anyway, I've removed the tags and started a discussion on the talk page in case they want to dispute it. Orthogonal1 (talk) 21:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

CCBY

I am doing work on copyright violations. I would like your opinion on your edit [1]. What if the govt.nz is violating the copyright of the UN report (which is not creative commons)? It seems like we know the original source is copyright projected, yet find it on a CCBY site. Thoughts?--Lucas559 (talk) 00:01, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

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Robert Pera

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"Pera employs a flat management structure and embraces the openness of the Internet, directly connecting customers to one another and to Ubiquiti’s engineers through the company’s online community forum. This differentiated business model has enabled the company to break down traditional barriers such as high product and network deployment costs, thereby offering solutions with disruptive price-performance characteristics."

"Pera has [been] named Top 10 “Young and Powerful CEOs under 40” and Top 10 “Youngest Billionaires in the World.”

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Under Pera’s leadership, Ubiquiti Networks has made meaningful progress towards closing the digital divide. More than 70 percent of Ubiquiti’s sales are outside of North America and over 20 million Ubiquiti devices have been deployed in over 180 countries, where Ubiquiti’s community of grassroots operators have connected millions of people to the Internet in some of the most remote regions in the world. Ubiquiti Networks, which has been profitable since its formation and whose growth has been funded by its own earnings, went public in October 2011 and has been one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley.

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Merge TazLiTo?

Last year you suggested that TazLiTo be merged into SliTaz GNU/Linux. No discussion ensued, so if you're still of the same mind it should be safe for you to go ahead and merge it. I would do it, but can't tell what content is worth merging. It cites no sources, and seems to violate WP:NOTMANUAL. --Worldbruce (talk) 23:23, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Same. I'm really not sure what's worth saving either, so I tagged it and hoped that someone else would deal with the problem. I think that maybe some parts of the "Common Operations" section could be saved, but I don't think that there's any hope for the rest. I'll leave it up to you. :) Orthogonal1 (talk) 04:49, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hey man, I don't we know each other, I'm a new year 9 this year. It's good that there's plenty of Nossalonians (old and current) that are contributing to wikipedia and judging by your hair colour, another white person at Nossal? Hahah I'm joking, but I do think that we can improve the Nossal article well enough so that it matches the quality of the MHS or even the Macrob one. --LeoC12 (talk) 04:59, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Your Concearn

I noticed you removed material from transcript of court cases. Someone said it's bias. That is your concearn? You said I may have a conflict of interest. You removed what a judge or barrister said in a transcript in a court of law. Facts. Not what I or some other editor said. ThanksGkable (talk) 20:19, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Gkable (talk) 20:19, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

In relation to the bias comment it appears CLPO 13 posted just after you. And you have the same Mo laying down wikipedia rules to suit their own concearn and or bias. Both came within ear shot of the other.Gkable (talk) 01:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Now I have discussed the issues you raised I feel we both have a better understanding and can move on. Thanks.

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Monis v The Queen

Can you show proof that the content is held under this license? The link didn't come up for me so I had to look at a cached version of the page, which lacks any sort of confirmation that the content is held under this license. I tried bringing up the Australian Human Rights Commission page, but that isn't coming up either and the website has a copyright at the bottom. What we need here is something that clearly marks the content as being under a compatible license - it's not as easy as you saying that something falls under the public domain. For example, if these are government records then they'd likely be in the public domain (if Australia follows the same principle as here in the US) but you'd have to show that they are court records rather than someone's personal writeup of the court case.

That's really all I need and until then I'm going to keep the page deleted. Once you can show that this document has a compatible license, I'll restore the article. I've also emailed you a copy of the article just in case. It's just that we can't really just accept that it can be freely posted to Wikipedia without some sort of confirmation that it falls under an acceptable license. You might want to see if the AHRC would be willing to file a ticket giving it up as fair use if there's nothing that would clearly mark it as in the public domain. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:09, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

• I actually decided to be a bit proactive and I'm contacting them now to see if it falls under creative commons. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:10, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
• Hey, can you give me a link to the page where the PDF was hosted? In particular I need to know if the excerpt was under a different name than what the PDF was named. This way if anyone asks it can be specifically pointed to rather than to the PDF document itself, which doesn't really have any copyright notices marked on it. In any case, the AHRC has pretty much said that this is their work for the most part, so I'm going to restore it for now. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:34, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
• Nevermind, I found it. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:35, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

About Victoria local government areas...

Hey, Orthogonal. Recently, I have been improving council make-ups of local government areas in Metropolitan Melbourne and currently the city of Ballarat. I have done the best I can to find the party affiliation of members in some of these councils. However, I feel like that I'm missing some of them. Do you think you can add to the council make-ups that I have created to these pages? You can see the Victoria local government areas I edited through my contributions. I also copied your format of local government area councils, so I hope you're okay with that. Thank you very much. ExecutiveWashington (talk) 23:14, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

It looks like someone had already collected the information on party affiliation in the City of Stonnington, but the council then removed it. As for the other councils, I haven't had time to look at those, but when you can't find information on the internet, you can try sending the councillors (or other councillors on the same council) a phone call or an email. This is original research, but I'm kind of tempted to overlook this rule. For example, I found out from a councillor that the City of Casey's Louise Berkelmans is actually Liberal-alligned, but I couldn't find this anywhere on the internet. (I haven't added this to the article; I'll let you decide.) Orthogonal1 (talk) 00:00, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

BLP

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Done. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 08:29, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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MPS1992, I completely agree with what you're saying, but I think this is a misunderstanding. The comment you are referring to followed on from in which he threatened legal action. Not wanting to put Wikipedia at risk, I gave him the contact address of Wikimedia's legal department and agreed to refrain from editing the article until he'd heard back. I hope that this clears up the confusion. Orthogonal1 (talk) 01:22, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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Nossal

Hey man! After like a year, I've finally started to do some genuine work on the Nossal page HAHAHHA; if it pleases you to know, for the Greater Dandenong page, I've inserted a parliamentary chart for the council composition.

Anyway bro, the Nossal introduction is complete and looking quite nice.

P.S. Can't believe that a lot of your work is on the Tokelau page, since I remember doing Tokelau for a Humanities project in Year 8; we seem to have a lot in common.

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