User talk:Reception123

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"  As well, as your wiki is a public wiki, please do note that it is regularly backed up, with its XML dumps shared publicly at The Internet Archive by Reception123"

Where are they located on the website linked above in bold format and how would I know to look for them? Any answer is appreciated. Paramount1106 (talk) 02:33, 12 September 2022 (UTC)


 * You can find all archives under this tag. If your wiki has been recently deleted there should also be XML backups on our servers from which it can be restored. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 08:39, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello
Hi,

This is User:Soni. I am posting on your talk page. This is a section where I am writing. It is indeed me writing this message.

Soni (talk) 14:17, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

I want my GreenGreen account globalled.
I've decided to leave these wikis once and for all, since I am now done editing on Miraheze and will move on from the reception wikis, and since I'm now moving onto other stuff outside of Miraheze, I don't need to make an account on this site anymore and will find others interest on other websites, so I would like it if you global my account please since I'm done for now on this site. GreenGreen (talk) 15:38, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Fair dealing vs fair use?
Hi, I noticed there's now a mention of "fair dealing" in the upload text, although several of wikis I do have USA fair use templates. What are the key differences between fair dealing and fair use? Bawitdaba (talk) 19:35, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Hope you don't mind me asking. I've just worked very hard on wikis that I do & would be very devastated if they were to close for some things that I could have manually changed. Bawitdaba (talk) 19:41, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Upon investigation, I think I found that with fair dealing one has to specify why they use images (e.g. video game sprites -- shows the depiction of character from a given game). But yeah, uploading tons of tv screenshots without proper captions etc I'd deem a violation of fair dealing (i don't do that). I am an American (and live in the USA), as you can probably tell, and seeing as it will be a lot of work, I wonder if it can be said in the Project:Copyrights of the wikis that I run that I recognize the media I use as U.S. fair use but the host itself by fair dealing, meaning that there can't be conflictions between the two. Bawitdaba (talk) 20:15, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for the kind words! Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 17:57, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You're welcome @Reception123, you always deserve this award!  Hey Türkiye  message? 17:59, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

A week old CheckUser request of mine
Since the stewards ask others to alert them if sockpuppeteers return on the same site, I have a list, both the main topic and reply, of them abusing accounts on the site, some of them were previously IP banned on the AVID Wiki. Of course, there are more sockpuppet accounts on the wiki ever since I last made that request. I am asking you in particular due to your locking of 09limbua's latest sock, which I appreciate your work, and I am looking to see if you check to see if the listed sockpuppet accounts are indeed alt accounts of a sockpuppeteer, perhaps an IP locking on some who had long term abuse on the AVID Wiki. Thank you for your cooperation. Camenati (talk) 16:19, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I will look into the SN thread and see what I can do. I'd mention though that 09limbua wasn't blocked as part of a wider investigation, they were simply blocked due to the fact that they disrupted multiple wikis and to prevent that behavior from continuing. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 16:32, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

I think I get it
I think "fair use" runs upon the principles of "does it contribute to profit loss," so would result in more copyrighted works being used in that regardless.

For "fair dealing" I think it's "don't use more of copyrighted content than is necessary" -- for instance, use only snippets of a book if using an excerpt as a source for an article being written as the rest of the page may not be relevant to the excerpt. Because of this I decided to be safe and delete some full page images of a book on one of the wikis.

Was this the correct course of action? Bawitdaba (talk) 14:04, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * This isn't a legal opinion but essentially that's how I understand it. So if you want to, for example, critique a part of a movie you can't just upload the entire movie for that. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 06:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * yeah, and not to mention uploading entire movies would take up an enormous amount of server space. Bawitdaba (talk) 12:07, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * A 2-hour 1080p Full HD movie would take up to 10 GB of server space. Silicona (talk) 18:52, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
 * oof yeah we don't want that Bawitdaba (talk) 21:17, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

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