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[[William Ryan]] looks good now. [[User:Mpearl]] moved all the links to the numerous William Ryans onto the [[William Ryan]] page. Keep up the good work, Wikipedia is certainly a work in progress! -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 00:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC) |
[[William Ryan]] looks good now. [[User:Mpearl]] moved all the links to the numerous William Ryans onto the [[William Ryan]] page. Keep up the good work, Wikipedia is certainly a work in progress! -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 00:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Common names == |
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For names like Will, Bill, Willy, Billy, the proper convention to use is [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common_names)]]. In other words, you should use the common name, that is the name that the person is best known for. [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 03:41, 24 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Adam Forkner == |
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I've removed the tag from [[Adam Forkner]]. The musicians of [[Yume Bitsu]] should surpass these requirements. I'm off for a few days, enjoy! -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 05:30, 24 December 2005 (UTC) |
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:The warning about seizures seems appropriate for the external link. Regarding your edits to [[John Fitz-Gerald]], make sure that your article clearly establishes notability. The article was deleted by the A7 clause of [[Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion]]. If you recreate it, try to establish importance so it won't get speedy deleted next time. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 23:48, 25 December 2005 (UTC) |
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::[[Adam Forkner]] is looking good! It's clearly not a stub. We still have the issue of the images you uploaded. Those that are clearly for media publicity should be good. For the other ones you have a few options - [[fair use]] should allow you to reproduce CD covers if you have any. I think images really add to wikipedia, but you have to keep in compliance with all the copyright laws. Another option is writing email to the relevant people and asking for permission to use images in wikipedia. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 04:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== More fun with disambiguation == |
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Good question about how to handle [[South (band)]]... For now, I would create the article on the American band as [[South (US band)]]. Eventually, you'll probably want to make [[South (band)]] a disambiguation page and move the UK band to a distinct page. But for now I'd just create the article on the American band and make sure to establish notability per [[WP:Music]]. If there is a second US band named south that is notable enough, you'd probably want to rename the articles something like [[South (Whatever state band)]], and link them on the [[South (band)]] page. Just use your good judgement! -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 16:45, 26 December 2005 (UTC) |
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:[[Chris Bennett]] looks fine! -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 20:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Disambiguation and avoiding speedy deletion == |
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My best advice for you is to [[Wikipedia:Be bold|be bold]]! Using the [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disamiguation]] policy as a guide, and create any relevant disamig pages and articles. Wikipedia is very flexible and self-correcting, so just use the policy as a guideline and create articles. The community, as well as yourself, can make improvements as time goes on. |
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To avoid speedy deletion, make sure your new articles comply with [[WP:Music]] or [[WP:Bio]] guidelines and express notability as much as possible. If you feel a music-related article was wrongly speedy deleted, then I would recreate it and emphasize the history of the band or musician, include a discography, and include any information about collaborations -- then the article will not be a candidate for speedy deletion. I would also add a discography to the [[M.O.T.O.]] article when you can, to show that the band has a number of albums produced on indie labels. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]] 20:18, 26 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Dan Burton == |
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'Dan Burton (politician)' or 'Dan Burton (U.S. Congressman)' would probably be most appropriate place to move the 'Dan Burton' page. I've seen both used before for members of the [[U.S. House of Representatives|House]]. [[Politician]] may have a negative connotation, so moving it to (Congressman) or (U.S. Congressman) may be preferable. If you move it, make sure to move the plethora of inbound links. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 02:56, 28 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Technical limitations == |
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There are a few characters that cannot appear in a page title, and + is one of them. Take a look at [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical_restrictions)]] for how to handle this. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 05:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Me'Shell NdegéOcello page move == |
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Before moving the page, I'd quickly propose the move on the talk page first. I doubt this would be a controversial move, but its a good idea to get consensus before moving anything around. It also looks like the article will have to be rewritten to use the accented spelling. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 19:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC) |
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::No [[faux pas]] at all, that's what talk pages are for! Regarding how much time to allow for discussion on the talk page, I'd give it a week or so to see if anyone objects. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 20:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== E-mail == |
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To send me an email, go to my talk page and click on "E-mail this user" from the toolbox in the left hand panel. Thanks. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 21:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Fair use and signatures == |
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Publicity photos probably fall under fair use - take a look at [[Wikipedia:Publicity photos]] for the details of what can be used. Changing your signature is fairly simple; just go to "my preferences" and put something like: |
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:<code><nowiki>[[User:Example|Example]]<sup>[[User talk:Example|(talk)]]</sup></nowiki></code> |
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for your nickname, and select "raw signatures". You can use the sandbox and the preview function to test your new signature. If you run into problems, check out [[Wikipedia:How to fix your signature]] -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 03:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Watchlists and article submissions == |
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I've not experienced the watchlist issue you're seeing, it could be a bug in the Mediawiki software. I doubt anything else would be going on. There are no limits regarding the number of articles or edits you can have during a day, so you're welcome to create as many articles as you feel like, keeping in mind the various Wikipedia guidelines ([[WP:MUSIC]], [[WP:BIO]], [[WP:CORP]], etc). |
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If you sign your message with four ~'s, the date should show up after your signature. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 06:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Subject's Acting == |
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In response to your question, the performances of an actor are, in every case that I have seen, included in the article/stub with the actor. --[[User:Emersoni|Emersoni]] 21:40, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[[Emersoni|Emersoni]] 21:40 December 29, 2005 (UTC) |
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== Bright == |
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Once you've made [[Bright (band)]], I'd probably move [[Bright]] to [[Bright (noun)]] and make a disamiguation page on [[Bright]]. The usual disclaimers apply: [[WP:MUSIC]] and fixing inbound links (article links will probably be sufficient in this case). -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 03:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Edit conflicts == |
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Edit conflicts happen from time to time. It isn't too uncommon for an editor to quickly edit a newly created page to insert a stub template, various categories, speedy deletion notice, or something of the sort. I wouldn't be too concerned with it. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 00:33, 31 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Stubs, signatures == |
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[[Robert Alexander (general)]] is no longer a stub -- I've removed the stub notice and placed the wikify template on the page. It certainly needs to be cleaned up. Regarding the three Moser-Sachs articles: since they all seem to have the same content using redirects would make sense. I'd find which name is the most common way to refer to him, and redirect the other ones there. |
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I'm not sure why you're having problems with your signature. Under "my preferences", I have exactly the following: |
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:<code><nowiki>[[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup></nowiki></code> |
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with "raw signatures" enabled. When I sign my messages with four ~'s, it seems to leave the timestamp correct. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 21:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC) |
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Here seemed a good place to respond. For my signature, the code I use is |
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:<code><nowiki>[[User:GeeJo|<font style="padding : 0px 1px 1px 1px; border : 1px solid #809EF5; background: #FFFFFF ; color: #809EF5">GeeJo</font>]] <sub>[[User talk:GeeJo|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/GeeJo|(c)]]</sub><small>•</small></nowiki></code> |
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with raw signatures enabled, this produces [[User:GeeJo|<font style="padding : 0px 1px 1px 1px; border : 1px solid #809EF5; background: #FFFFFF ; color: #809EF5">GeeJo</font>]] <sub>[[User talk:GeeJo|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/GeeJo|(c)]]</sub> <small>• </small>. For the date, I use |
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:<code><nowiki><small> ~~~~~</small></nowiki></code> |
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So overall I type <nowiki>~~~ <small>~~~~~</small></nowiki> when signing posts. This produces [[User:GeeJo|<font style="padding : 0px 1px 1px 1px; border : 1px solid #809EF5; background: #FFFFFF ; color: #809EF5">GeeJo</font>]] <sub>[[User talk:GeeJo|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/GeeJo|(c)]]</sub> <small>• </small> <small>21:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)</small>. You're welcome to use any, all, or none of the code if you want. |
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== Martin Moser == |
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[[Aloha]]! As to my comments about good faith, see [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith]]. Basically it looked like someone had copy-pasted the article from another encyclopedia, but since a quick google search didnt show anything matching it, I assumed the author was simply trying to present the article in typical encyclopedia format, rather than having lifted it from a print source. Hence the {{tl|wikify}} tag. Regarding responsibility, since you moved the article, the history was maintained - so I could see it wasnt you who created the article anyways, but rather [[Special:Contributions/80.123.151.230|80.123.151.230]]. Happy new year! [[User:GeeJo|<font style="padding : 0px 1px 1px 1px; border : 1px solid #809EF5; background: #FFFFFF ; color: #809EF5">GeeJo</font>]] <sub>[[User talk:GeeJo|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/GeeJo|(c)]]</sub> <small>• </small> <small>21:28, 31 December 2005 (UTC)</small> |
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== Images == |
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Some of the images you uploaded might not live up to [[Wikipedia:Fair Use]]. I'll take a look in depth tomorrow and let you know. The ones that are clearly publicity photos should be fine. Getting images on Wikipedia can be tricky... [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 06:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== [[South (U.S. band)]] == |
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Hi, thanks for the comment. It's not that I personally think there's anything wrong with the article, but many articles about bands eventually get nominated for deletion if they don't meet one of the requiremenets listed in the guideline [[WP:MUSIC]]. So if you know that their album charted or the band received mainstream media attention or something, you should mention that on the article. And it's probably better to leave the tag on so that people know to improve the article until it's clear if it qualifies per the guideline. - [[User:Bobet|Bobet]] 18:49, 3 January 2006 (UTC) |
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:Well, it looks like a good sized stub article that does assert notability to a degree so I removed the {{tl|music-importance}} tag. I hope no one else will feel the need to disagree. - [[User:Bobet|Bobet]] 23:32, 3 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== South, Bryan Hoffa, Signatures, Images == |
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Greetings! [[South (U.S. band)]] looks good so far. Regarding [[Bryan Hoffa]], is there a way you could add an article to a references section? It is good to cite sources, but you can go overboard. I'm not sure what's best in this case... For your signature, what happens when you sign with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>? That's all I do for my signature. |
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Now to the images... The relevant places to look for official policy are [[Wikipedia:Publicity photos]] and [[Wikipedia:Fair_use#Images]]. In general, you can only use images of people that have been placed in the public domain, or are specifically meant to be used for publicity. However, fair use would allow you to take an image of an album or CD cover, and place that in Wikipedia. Screen shots from TV or video should also be acceptable. But unless an image is meant to be a publicity photo, it probably isn't good to use. [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 01:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
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:Any images you've uploaded without confirmed copyright status should be deleted within a week. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 01:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Alexandru Xenopol == |
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Take a look at the change I made to [[Alexandru_Dimitrie_Xenopol]] - adding links to other language wikipedia articles works like that. -- [[User:ElBenevolente|ElBenevolente]]<sup>[[User talk:ElBenevolente|(talk)]]</sup> 20:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Bryan Hoffa tag == |
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Any reference or source that provides evidence that Bryan Hoffa was a sound engineer who has worked with Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Carbon Leaf, Patrick Phelan, South, Tanakh, The Saints or Neil Hagerty & The Howling Hex would do the trick. At the moment the article ''only'' asserts this as truth, but the claims needs to be [[WP:V|verifiable]]. I notice you provided a link to the Sound of Music Studios, but unfortunately that site doesn't seem to provide confirmation of Hoffa's involvement in the studios (unless I missed something, of course). |
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Regards, [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 12:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::Digging a bit further, I notice the Sound of Music Studios' [http://myspace.com/soundofmusicrecordingstudios myspace] site does mention Hoffa, which is a positive. [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 13:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::The tag indicates my opinion is that the article should back its claims with verifiable source(s). I was noting that the above site provides some evidence for one of the claims in the article. [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 22:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::There are no source(s) for the claims regarding Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Carbon Leaf, Patrick Phelan, South, Tanakh, The Saints or Neil Hagerty & The Howling Hex at the moment, and myspace web pages don't generaaly form adequately [[WP:V|verified]] sources. [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 22:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::Yes, I'd chuck the link into an 'External links' section. However, I do notice that the AMG entry is for a "Br'''i'''an Hoffer", but the article is about "Br'''y'''an Hoffer", you might want to include a quick note on the homonym. It goes a long way to providing source material. Any more sources available? [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 23:15, 9 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::Well, [[WP:Be bold|be bold]] and put the link in then! [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 23:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Thanks for your efforts. Cheers, [[User:Sliggy|Sliggy]] 13:43, 10 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== amg links == |
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To get them to format properly, just use the template {{tl|amg}}. Instructions for using it are on the template's talk page at [[Template talk:Allmusicguide]]. - [[User:Bobet|Bobet]] 02:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== "Working group" wikifications == |
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Please take care when setting up internal links to "working group"; "Working '''G'''roup" goes to a disambiguation page, and "working group'''s'''" causes a redirect. I see you are going through a significant number of articles and setting up this link, so please be sure to format the link as <nowiki>[[working group]]s</nowiki> (with the "s" on the outside of the brackets) if you want to make a plural. It will look the same, but will avoid the redirect. I've gone through a few to correct them, but I wanted to give you a heads up to try to nip the problem in the bud in case you have a few hundred more to go through. Thanks very much for your work, and happy editing! [[User:Kafziel|Kafziel]] 20:40, 15 January 2006 (UTC) |
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:No, but the title of the page is singular so the plural form has to go through an automatic redirect page before it can get to the correct title. It's really just a matter of trying not to tax the system too much. If you put the s outside the brackets, it will still look blue like the rest of the word, but the link will go straight to the article. |
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:As you can see, both of these look the same, but if you click on [[working group]]s (correct format) and [[working groups]] (incorrect) you can see the difference: the little note under the title that says "redirected from...". |
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:Also, if you want to capitalize the whole thing, put <nowiki>[[Working group|Working Group]]</nowiki> so it goes to the right page. |
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:Hope that clears it up. Thanks again. - [[User:Kafziel|Kafziel]] 20:49, 15 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::It's no problem at all. I have gone through and fixed quite a few, and you formatted a lot of them correctly anyway. Thanks for all your effort. [[User:Kafziel|Kafziel]] 21:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC) |
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::You don't need to delete the redirect pages themselves; those are good to have, for the next time someone formats a link the same way, or in case someone searches for the plural form. It's okay to have them sitting out there, it's just better not to use them in the articles if we don't have to. [[User:Kafziel|Kafziel]] 21:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Glad I could help; that's why I'm here. Great job on the articles! Happy editing! [[User:Kafziel|Kafziel]] 17:06, 16 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Takashi Hasegawa and why I nominated the article for deletion == |
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Depends what you mean.. personal reasons? none whatsoever. don't know him, never met him, never used his program, never heard of his program etc... I care as much about this guy as I do about the man on the moon. Wikipedic reasons? There is no indication from the entry that he is truly "notable" which is the basic requirement for an individual to have a separate page on wikipedia. Writing an application, being a university grad or working for Hitachi does not automatically make someone notable. This does not mean that his inventions / collaborations are not notable - if they are (I have not participated in discussions on any of them) then it might be appropriate to include info about him there - rather than the other way round. Think how many computer programmers out there think they have created something special... millions. If you have information that is not in the article, now would be the time to add it and enhance the chances of the page being retained. As it stands, the article is a '''very short, uninformative''' biography of a computer programmer who wrote some code in '''1998'''. A quick look at [[Wikipedia:Notability_(people)]] will show you that this falls a long way short of what is expected. |
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Would people expect to find information about this guy in an encyclopedia? Computer programmers do not deserve to be in wikipedia simply because it is a web-based entity. The practice of analysing "google hits" is also slanted with programmers which makes it necessary to give closer analysis to other factors. |
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The reason I nominate any article for deletion is because i agree with the principles of wikipedia and think that it's helpful to uphold and enforce them. You can find out a lot more about the pillars of wikipedia from the links at the top of this page. Hope that clears things up. --[[User:Deiz|Deiz]] 20:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC) |
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* Sweet.. I'd love it if everyone could have an entry too... but I guess that's called having a user page or a blog... take it easy --[[User:Deiz|Deiz]] 20:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC) |
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==Re: Spoken Wikipedia on [[Nightwish]]== |
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Just out of curiosity, can anyone tell me how long ''spoken'' articles have been available for Wikipedia? [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]]<sup>[[User talk:Folajimi|(talk)]]</sup> |
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:Well, [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia]] was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia&dir=prev&offset=20050412211645&limit=20&action=history created] on 2005-04-12, if that helps. ~[[User:Mdd4696 |MDD]][[User_talk:Mdd4696 |46]][[Special:Contributions/Mdd4696 |96]] 22:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC) |
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==SVG edit question.== |
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No, I am not aware if the GIMP developers ever made such claims. I have made the edits based on my own experiences: The [[GIMP]] can import [[SVG]] files, but I have not been able to export (or save as) SVG. [[User:Jeff schiller|Jeff schiller]] 19:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC) |
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*'Sup Folajimi, well, yes, the GIMP does import AND export SVG's. The export function is well-hidden, on the other hand. See [[Talk:Scalable_Vector_Graphics]] if you want to see my explanation of how to do it. [[User:68.100.68.23|68.100.68.23]] 04:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re: Acid Test inquiry. == |
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:''Hi, I noticed that [[User:Catapult|Catapult]] updated the [[Acid Test]] page to correct an oversight on my part. Thanks!'' [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 03:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)<sup>[[User talk:Folajimi|(talk)]]</sup> |
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:''Just out of curiosity, does the bot also watch for vandalism???'' [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 03:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)<sup>[[User talk:Folajimi|(talk)]]</sup> |
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You're welcome, but I just realized the article for the band itself doesn't seem to exist. If they aren't notable enough for an article, they shouldn't be listed on the disambiguation page either. Do you plan to write an article? As for watching for vandalism, no, it's not that smart yet. Maybe sometime in the future. — '''''[[User:Freakofnurture/|<font color="006000" title="User:Freakofnurture">F<small>REAK OF</small> N<small>UR<sub>x</sub>TURE</small></font>]]'' <small>(<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:User talk:Freakofnurture|action=edit§ion=new}} <font color="006000" title="User talk:Freakofnurture">TALK</font>]</span>)</small>''' <small>03:24, Jan. 19, 2006</small> |
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*Well, what can I say? They look like stubs, of course, lol. I'm not sure I understand the question. As for "Acid Test", I was merely updating everything that linked to the disambiguation page "[[rock]]" to point to a better target. This should not be interpreted as interest in the topics of the [[special:contributions/catapult|articles being updated]] by my bot. — '''''[[User:Freakofnurture/|<font color="006000" title="User:Freakofnurture">F<small>REAK OF</small> N<small>UR<sub>x</sub>TURE</small></font>]]'' <small>(<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:User talk:Freakofnurture|action=edit§ion=new}} <font color="006000" title="User talk:Freakofnurture">TALK</font>]</span>)</small>''' <small>15:24, Jan. 20, 2006</small> |
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== Re. 411 on Henry Taub revision. == |
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:''Hi,'' |
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:''I noticed that you recently did a revert on an edit to the Henry Taub article. It seemed like the edit you reverted was vandalism. Yet, you were cordial and even took the time to talk to an IP??? What's that all about??? Just curious, is all... Folajimi 02:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)(talk)'' |
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Sine it was the first edit from that IP address, I was [[WP:AGF|assuming]] that it was a "do they really let any random web sufer like me edit?" test edit. It only takes a few seconds to drop {{tl|test}} on a user talk page, and by giving advice on how to edit it helps prevent [[WP:BITE|biting newcomers]]. -- [[User:AJR|AJR]] | [[User talk:AJR|Talk]] 16:31, 19 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== re: Joshua Ortega == |
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Adding [[Wikipedia:Template messages|template messages]] to articles (like "stub") will draw different editors working on different projects to the article. I was working on stub-sorting, which is changing simple "stub" tags to more specific ones like "US-author-stub". I often just change the stub to a more appropriate one, ignoring other issues. |
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In the case of the [[Joshua Ortega]] page, when I got there it looked pretty comprehensive, so I removed the stub (I may have been wrong, but I've certainly seen shorter, less detailed articles without it). As you pointed out, it wasn't in any categories. I don't know much about categories, so I added the "uncategorized" tag to the bottom of the page, which should draw people working on that. |
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And for the record, I haven't been here as long as you, I just got into stub-sorting and have a pretty good feel for it after sorting a whole bunch. Thanks for dropping me a line. - [[User:Dharmabum420|Dharmabum420]] 22:55, 20 January 2006 (UTC) |
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==Image copyright problem with Image:Chrissplash.jpg== |
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Thanks for uploading [[:Image:Chrissplash.jpg]]. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The [[Wikimedia Foundation]] is very careful about the images included in [[Wikipedia]] because of [[copyright law]] (see Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Copyright|Copyright policy]]). |
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The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are [[open content]], [[public domain]], and [[fair use]]. Find the appropriate template in [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] and place it on the image page like this: <code><nowiki>{{TemplateName}}</nowiki></code>. |
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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from [[Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags]]. --[[User:OrphanBot|OrphanBot]] 02:27, 22 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Eugène Soubeiran == |
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Hello, |
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According to the sources, the content is correct. I would also try to find more references to complete this stub. Cheers, [[User:Korg|Korg]] <small>(''[[User talk:Korg|talk]]'')</small> 05:09, 22 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== NSIDC edit == |
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It's not as obvious as the "joey is gay" sort, but we're seeing an increase in subtle vandalism, in this case adding mystifying junk to the text. For nonobvious edits, the anon needs to describe in the edit summary or talk page, otherwise blam. [[User:Stan Shebs|Stan]] 01:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== Deletion == |
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Hi. You asked, ''Today, I stumbled onto this [[Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion!|WP page]] and was wondering how that really works. Can you reconcile those remarks with the action known as "speedy deletions?"'' |
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: These may be of interest: [[Wikipedia:Speedy deletions]], [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion]], [[Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators]]. I haven't gotten deeply involved in the subject myself. Thus far, I've just used deletion to move articles. For instance deleting the old "Ryan G. Anderson", which was just a redirect with no significant history, to make room for the article on the guy. |
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:[[User:Wwoods|—wwoods]] 07:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== User page editing == |
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While I appreciate the interest, I'll edit my user page myself, thank you. (Some people really really hate that, so be aware.) Why don't you make a user page of your own? [[User:Stan Shebs|Stan]] 13:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== [[Interface inheritance]] == |
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I did a quick cleanup. [[Dynamic programming]] isn't what you think it is: it's a kind of algorithm, like [[Dijkstra's algorithm]] and the solution to the [[knapsack problem]]. I made the definition more general, but it might not be what you like. I'd leave it broad, though, because people use interface inheritance in Python without any specific machinery. What the page needs now is an example and perhaps a formal model, and then it's golden! --[[User:Mgreenbe|Mgreenbe]] 16:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC) |
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:Sure! C++ interface inheritance is generally through pure [[virtual function]]s. This, however, isn't the [[Standard Template Library|STL]] approach: it uses agreed upon interfaces rather than virtual base classes. This is necessary because one needs to be able to treat a pointer as an iterator. --[[User:Mgreenbe|Mgreenbe]] 17:12, 26 January 2006 (UTC) |
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== [[Pierre Fouquier]] == |
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:You're welcome! ''Eloi'' or ''Eloy'' is a masculine name, and ''Eloi'' is more widespread. Yes, his middle name written as ''Édouard'' is creddible too. I'd try to search other sources... |
:You're welcome! ''Eloi'' or ''Eloy'' is a masculine name, and ''Eloi'' is more widespread. Yes, his middle name written as ''Édouard'' is creddible too. I'd try to search other sources... |
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:Best regards, [[User:Korg|Korg]] <small>(''[[User talk:Korg|talk]]'')</small> 02:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC) |
:Best regards, [[User:Korg|Korg]] <small>(''[[User talk:Korg|talk]]'')</small> 02:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC) |
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==Image copyright problem with Image:Patphelan.jpg== |
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Thanks for uploading [[:Image:Patphelan.jpg]]. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The [[Wikimedia Foundation]] is very careful about the images included in [[Wikipedia]] because of [[copyright law]] (see Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Copyright|Copyright policy]]). |
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The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are [[open content]], [[public domain]], and [[fair use]]. Find the appropriate template in [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] and place it on the image page like this: <code><nowiki>{{TemplateName}}</nowiki></code>. |
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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from [[Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags]]. -- [[User talk:Carnildo|Carnildo]] 23:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC) |
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==Image copyright problem with Image:Sen16.jpg== |
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Thanks for uploading [[:Image:Sen16.jpg]]. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The [[Wikimedia Foundation]] is very careful about the images included in [[Wikipedia]] because of [[copyright law]] (see Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Copyright|Copyright policy]]). |
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The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images on Wikipedia is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are [[open content]], [[public domain]], and [[fair use]]. Find the appropriate template in [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] and place it on the image page like this: <code><nowiki>{{TemplateName}}</nowiki></code>. |
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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from [[Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags]]. -- [[User talk:Carnildo|Carnildo]] 08:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC) |
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== Jury == |
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I'm no legal expert and thus would have preferred somebody else do it... [[User:David.Monniaux|David.Monniaux]] 16:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC) |
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==Stub== |
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While the OBE article shorter than ideal, a stub is an article of only three or four sentences. Since almost every article is shorter than need be, we should be careful only to mark those greatly in need of attention with stub tags. - [[User:SimonP|SimonP]] 19:43, 16 February 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re:Personal page == |
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We all make mistakes now and then. No harm meant.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] 17:51, 20 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:Your personal page has been reverted, except that it's no longer a red link. It's the best I can do.<br> |
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:Sorry for any inconvenience.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] 18:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:I'll see what you can do tonight. Can probably find an admin willing and able.<br> |
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:BTW, your personal touch could use a little work. Just sayin'.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] 18:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC) |
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*I've made a request to an admin. If he hasn't responded, my options are somewhat limited, since I don't have those priveleges myself. I'll try the village pump tonight and hope for the best.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] 13:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:Ignored me? That's quite possible, if not probable. The problem is that I don't have a personal relationship with ''any'' admin, and can't compel them to do as I ask. As I said before, I'll bring it up at the village pump tonight, and I hope that that will rectify the situation. Ultimately, that's all I can do.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] 17:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC) |
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::I have made the request now at the village pump. Fingers crossed, and sorry.[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] 17:32, 23 February 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re: Ann Cotton == |
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Well, I somehow decided that it's a long article. I don't mind you (or anyone) inserting stub tag(s) back into it ({{tl|UK-bio-stub}} and {{tl|philanthropist-stub}} would do well, I guess). [[User:Conscious|Conscious]] 19:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC) |
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== 311 page == |
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I must have made a mistake - I thought I was removing the "needs a category" comment. |
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Please return the stub, or let me know and I will. |
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- Stafford |
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==[[Thaddi Herrmann]]== |
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[[Thaddi Herrmann]] has been proposed for deletion. Please see the article for details. [[User:NickelShoe|NickelShoe]] 04:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:So has [[Herrmann & Kleine]]. [[User:NickelShoe|NickelShoe]] 04:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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Thank you for notifying me of the proposed deletion of stubs I created. Where exactly should I go to respond to the charges? The link provided takes me to a page for an item which does not even exist yet. |
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Eagerly awaiting your reply... [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 13:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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*In case I am unavailable when you do respond, here is some of the information to defend the articles: |
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:To put it mildly, de:bug is a German magazine dedicated to electronic music — perhaps the nation's most distinguished publication in that category. Is it valid to argue having Thaddi Herrmann as an editor for the publication is non-notable? As great as it would be to create an entry for the magazine in the encyclopaedia, it appears that Wikipedia's technical limitations make that impossible to implement. Perhaps you have a suggestion as to how to proceed with creating such an article? |
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:Also Herrmann was part of Sonic Subjunkies, an outfit that released at least a pair of full-length recordings, and were one of many artists featured in the online tribute from [[BBC]]'s [[Radio 1]] to [[John Peel]]. There is more I would like to say on the subject, but it should be said that google produces more than a handful of [http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Sonic%20Subjunkies results on the outfit]. |
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:As for information the duo known as Herrmann & Kleine, does information available on {{amg|id = 11:fq6zefwk1gf6| label = Herrmann und Kleine}} count? |
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:Cheers, [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 14:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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::All you have to do is remove the "prod" notice on the pages, and that'll stop the deletion process. You'll of course want to incorporate this information here into the articles, so they don't get sent to [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion]], a deletion process that relies on debate (for which you would not be allowed to remove the notice). [[User:NickelShoe|NickelShoe]] 14:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:The "edit this page" link inside the prod notice is actually the same as hitting "edit this page" at the top of the page. Only for some reason [[Herrmann & Kleine]] is confused and sends you to the wrong place... I think it's the ampersand. Just edit the page normally. I'll get rid of the prod template for you if you don't do it in a little while, but please remember to add this information so that people know the article ought to be kept. [[User:NickelShoe|NickelShoe]] 14:33, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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== Stub-sorting == |
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Wow, your response was so formal I was taken aback! (at the time I saw it I was placing my bets in [[Wikipedia:Millionth topic pool]], so I was in a fairly goofy mood). My feeling on stub-sorting is that articles should always have some sort of category applied rather than the generic stub so that users with more expertise in a particular field can review the article to either add to it or <nowiki>{{prod}}</nowiki> as necessary. I just got done fixing articles with stub tags placed in a number of awkward spots and figured no one would read [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=311_%28DSM%29&action=history my edit summary] until at least a week from now so I sort of vented. Sorry if I offended! At times the generic ''Stub-sorting. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting|You can help!]]'' message doesn't seem to get the message across that the stub tag is deprecated and I'm just so used to users who haven't taken the time to read the basics about Wikipedia before pounding away on their keyboards. =P Anywho, sorry! — '''[[User:LaurenMcMillan|<font color="#8080C0">Indi</font>]]''' <sup>[ [[user talk:LaurenMcMillan|talk]] ]</sup> 14:38, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:And many thanks for your concern with my digestive tract. ;-) — '''[[User:LaurenMcMillan|<font color="#8080C0">Indi</font>]]''' <sup>[ [[user talk:LaurenMcMillan|talk]] ]</sup> 15:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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::Very much so, thanks for your time! — '''[[User:LaurenMcMillan|<font color="#8080C0">Indi</font>]]''' <sup>[ [[user talk:LaurenMcMillan|talk]] ]</sup> 00:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC) |
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==No offense taken, if that's even possible!== |
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In the end I just felt I was out of my depth, either my brain's choice, or my mental capacity, I never distinguish between the two. :) --[[User:Zeizmic|Zeizmic]] 20:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC) |
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==Your Userpage== |
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[[User:Bjones|Bjones]] recently created a userpage for you by accident. He requested at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)]] that it be deleted, and I have taken the liberty of doing so. This returns it to being a redlink without a page history. If for some reason this doesn't work for you, just leave me a message. [[User:Canderson7|Canderson7]] <sup>([[User_talk:Canderson7|talk]])</sup> 03:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC) |
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:Glad to hear you're satisfied. [[User:Canderson7|Canderson7]] <sup>([[User_talk:Canderson7|talk]])</sup> 04:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC) |
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== Redirect == |
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I assume you are referring to [[Academy of Medicine]] which redirects to a [[French language|French]] title meaning roughly the same thing. This redirect isn't harming anything, and I did specifically state that it could be replaced with a separate article whenever somebody gets around to writing one. If you feel strongly about this, I encourage you to write the article about the Georgia institution you mentioned and place it at this title. — <small>Mar. 3, '06</small> <tt class=plainlinks>'''[18:11] <[[user:freakofnurture/ |freakof]][[special:newpages |nu]][[WP:EA |r<sub>x</sub>]][[special:random |ture]][[special:ipblocklist ||]]<font color=002BB8>[{{fullurl:user talk:freakofnurture|action=edit§ion=new}} talk]</font>>'''</tt> |
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== ACPOC Syndrome == |
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You may notice that I've been removing your references at [[ACPOC Syndrome]], and that I restored the neologism complaint that you removed. This is because the cited references do not support the idea that there is something called "ACPOC Syndrome". I have preserved the links on the article's talk page for future use if this term is eventually properly sourced, because they do seem to talk about the idea, if not the term. I've also explained why I've taken these actions. If you feel these links are sufficient, you should make your case on the talk page instead of just re-adding material that others have removed with explanation. If you have any questions, feel free to post me a note on my talk page. Thanks. ~ [[User:Jeffq|Jeff Q]] [[User talk:Jeffq|(talk)]] 18:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC) |
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== Sorry == |
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I didn't knew you were still editing it when I moved it. The rational of the move was it is not advisable to have an encyclopedia article just for telling that a person has a pseudonym. It can be better addressed at his own article page. A redirect from his pseudonym should be sufficient for redirecting people to where they were looking for. If you sincerely think that noone will look for his name and everyone will look for his pseudonym only, you can move back the page, but then build the whole article there and don't create a wiki link for his real name. Didn't want to startle you though. Cheers. -[[User:Ambuj.saxena|Ambuj Saxena]] ([[User_talk:Ambuj.saxena|talk]]) 11:13, 5 March 2006 (UTC) |
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:Please feel free to edit, or even undo the move. I have told my logic of the move. If you contest you may, as you are the original author. Keep up the good work. -[[User:Ambuj.saxena|Ambuj Saxena]] ([[User_talk:Ambuj.saxena|talk]]) 13:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC) |
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Sorry to say, but there's a lot of confusion between us. Let me first put the things as I see it, and if you disagree, we can go ahead with what you suggested. |
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First of all, by moving the page from [[Aarktica]] to [[Jon DeRosa]], the only thing that happened is that all the content that were initially present in ''Aarktica'' are now present in ''Jon DeRosa''. A redirect from the former to the latter has been created so that anyone searching for Aarktica will be redirected to Jon DeRosa's page. The rational behind this was that the naming conventions requires people to be named by their real names unless they are uncommon. |
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According to you, Jon DeRosa has been famous long before ''Aarktica'' gained popularity. This means you will also agree that Jon DeRosa deserves to have a page dedicated to himself, that talks about his achievements and biographical details not related to his being Aarktica. Now, if we have a consensus on this, let us find out what a person looking for ''Aarktica'' will be looking for as against one looking for ''Jon DeRosa''. The one looking for former will clearly be interested in only his musical career, while the latter would be interested in his whole life (including his work as a musician). Clearly, the former is a sub-set of the latter. Hence, the main article should be on Jon DeRosa. But someone searching for Aarktica should be able to reach what he was looking for but avoiding data dupliaction. This is achieved by redirects. To test how robust the system is, ask any friend of yours to find out about this person from Wikipedia, and then take his feedback. I am sure he would tell that he was satisfied. Actually after going through what you have said, it seems to me that even you have wanted a separate page for Jon DeRosa, but I am not able to understand why you are not happy about it. |
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Now the second issue. It appears like you don't know the difference between a revert and a rollback. A rollback is a feature available exclusively to admins (not to lesser mortals like us). Using this feature they can tackle vandals better by having to click just one button to undo the damage done by vandals. A revert on the other hand is a more general term used for undoing something that has been done. It is achieved by editing the page that you want to revert back to and saving the page as it is. This will undo the change made since. More details can be found at [[WP:REVERT]]. Now what needs to be done in this case is neither a revert nor a rollback. What needs to be done is (considering you still want it to be done) a move (again). Anyone can do a move operation and if the logic is given correctly, noone will object to it. Please note that it does not require any approval from admins or even any contact. So there is no case of tarnishing one's image. |
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Howsoever right I felt at my decision to move the page, I accepted your full right to undo what I said just because of the reason you told...about not stepping on other's foot. I am sure after reading this you will realise that we have been wanting the same thing, as it exists now. If not, there is no need to debate. You can do it yourself (by choosing move from the tabs above). If you feel uncomfortable doing it, I don't have any problem in doing it. Just leave a message and it will be done. Any kind of re-move will not be considered as an edit-war or uncivil behaviour as everything has been agreed upon. Even if you decide to move the page, I extend my full support. Anyway, keep up the good work and ask for any other help if needed. Regards, -[[User:Ambuj.saxena|Ambuj Saxena]] ([[User_talk:Ambuj.saxena|talk]]) 12:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC) |
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== Paul Hernandez == |
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Eh it's not your article (or mine). I can move it whenever I want so long as its a valid move. I don't see how it matters who moved it or when, it needed to be moved. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 05:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC) |
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*Eh look... it would only be a faux pas if my acting quickly did something that actually wasn't a good decision for the article. Which it didn't. I don't understand what the problem is. If you had come to me in a more civil tone, my reply wouldn't have been so hasty. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 05:16, 15 March 2006 (UTC) |
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==[[Paul Hernandez (photographer)]]== |
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[[Paul Hernandez (photographer)]] has been proposed for deletion. Please see the article for details. [[User:NickelShoe|NickelShoe]] 18:51, 15 March 2006 (UTC) |
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== Wikilinking year names == |
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Hi--I just reverted some of your recent edits on the UML page, and suggested you take a look at [[WP:DATE#Avoid_overlinking_dates]]. There's been some controversy over wikilinking years lately, and I don't feel I'm 100% on top of the issue, but my understanding is that we shouldn't link years unless there is something specifically important about that, which I don't think there is in this case. Feel free to discuss, revert, whatever, but check out the link about first. (Someone else apparently wanted to senf you the same message, but put it on your user page instead of here for some reason.) <b><span style="color: #f33">·[[User talk:Rodii|<span style="color: #669"> rodii </span>]]·</span></b> 15:50, 25 March 2006 (UTC) |
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==Delinking dates== |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29 |
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[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 15:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC) |
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:I do apologise for accidentally posting my reply on your user page! [[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 19:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC) |
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==Done== |
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I've deleted your user page as you requested and moved the message placed there to your talk page. Happy editing! [[User:Canderson7|Canderson7]] <sup>([[User_talk:Canderson7|talk]])</sup> 18:47, 25 March 2006 (UTC) |
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== [[Brian L. French]] == |
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Thank you for contacting me. I hadn't seen your proposed version, so I wasn't trying to "short-circuit the review process". I found a page in need of a little aid, so I [[WP:BOLD|was bold]] and fixed it up. Your proposed version looks like an improvement over the current one, so please, edit away. Cheers! [[User:Deltabeignet|Deltabeignet]] 19:06, 25 March 2006 (UTC) |
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==Gnome (Bot)== |
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sorry about the delay, I was explaing here [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Gnome (Bot)]] |
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[[user:Eagle 101|Eagle]] ([[user_talk:Eagle 101|talk]]) ([[user:Eagle 101/Desk|desk]]) 02:46, 28 March 2006 (UTC) |
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== Wikify by date == |
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Hi, to add an article to the by date category, add <code><nowiki>{{Wikify-date|{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}</nowiki></code> which is the same as <code><nowiki>{{Wikify-date|March 2006}}</nowiki></code> rather than the old <nowiki>{{Wikify}}</nowiki> tag. I don't really know how you could help, other than to use this newer template, and of course by wikifying some articles, The old category has about 6000 articles in it, so it will by a while before the by-date categories have taken over fully. thanks [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 15:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC) |
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:Unfortunately adding months pre march 2006 won't work, as the categories dont exist, they could be created, but it is unlikely many articles would ever be added to them. [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 16:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC) |
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::I don't know when the articles where tagged, that is why I started the by-month categories, so in the future it would be easy to find out, and also so the categories wouldnt continue to get bigger and bigger. I'm not sure if there is any way to determin which are the oldest articles in the category. [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 16:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Creating the categories is really very simple, look at the one I made before [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikify_from_March_2006&action=edit here]. That will show you how to make the category (<nowiki>[[Category:Wikify from January 2006]]</nowiki> for example), then to add an article to the category, just add the template <code><nowiki>{{Wikify-date|January 2006}}</nowiki></code> for example. [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 17:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC) |
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That template has been substituted, i.e. that is the code contained in the template directly placed on the article, this can be done by adding <nowiki>{{subst:Wikify}}</nowiki>. It is not recommended for templates like these. While those categories are empty they are not needed, I removed the delete tage from the november one though as that is more likely to be used than the July 2005 one. [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 22:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Pile driver == |
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Hi, thanks for the message. While I was editing [[Pile driver]], I noticed that there was another entry about the same device under [[Piledriver]]. It's usally smart to search wikipedia before creating a new article to avoid these accidental forks, there's been a few of them lately. I merged Piledriver into your article since yours was the far better of the two, and it seems like Pile driver is the most common spelling. Again thanks for the comment, it nice to get some positive feedback now and again. [[User:EivindFOyangen|Eivind]][[User talk:EivindFOyangen|<sup>t</sup>]][[Special:Emailuser/EivindFOyangen|<sup>@</sup>]][[Special:Contributions/EivindFOyangen|<sup>c</sup>]] 08:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Bryan Thomas Schmidt == |
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Hey, I finished looking into the [[Bryan Thomas Schmidt]] article. If it weren't for the 3rd and 4th paragraphs, I think it could easily deleted as a db-bio/vanity. The article does assert his notability, and he does have an IMDB entry. However I think the claims are unverifiable or unimportant, and I don't think that the IMDB entry is a [[WP:RS|reliable source]] since it appears that it was written by Bryan Thomas Schmidt himself.[http://imdb.com/name/nm0772857/bio] I definitely think this is AfD-able. — [[User:TheKMan|'''<font color="#0000FF">The</font><font color="#FF0000">KMan</font>''']][[User_talk:TheKMan|<font color="#000000"><sup><u>talk</u></sup></font>]] 17:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Disambig == |
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Hey, no problem. Check out [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation]] for more info. [[User:Mrtea|Mrtea]] <small>[[User_talk:Mrtea|(talk)]]</small> 14:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== wikify-date == |
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Hey, look at that. Who knew that template existed? Thanks for letting me know... —[[User:wknight94|Wknight94]] ([[User talk:wknight94|talk]]) 16:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Thanks == |
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Folajimi, |
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Thank you for your clarification. I'll keep this in mind when I tag new articles. |
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[[User:Covington|Covington]] 17:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Request for clarification == |
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Good day, |
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Today, I noticed that a bot which you created is involved in the ongoing wikification effort. Could you please explain the bot's [[M.O.]] so that interference is kept to a minimum? Cheers. [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 13:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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* The algortithm is the same as for cleanup-date. The <nowiki>{{wikify}}</nowiki> tag and known redirects are replaced by <nowiki>{{wikify-date|MONTH YEAR}}</nowiki>. Pearle will look at previous versions in the page history, at one-month intervals, to determine the month in which the tag was originally assigned. Human editors can continue to use <nowiki>{{wikify}}</nowiki> and not worry about assigning the correct date, if they wish. Pearle sometimes also does some category and interwiki link cleanup, as described on [[User:Pearle]]. -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] 16:40, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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* Could you explain what Pearle is up to with the wikification effort? Although it updates the tags, the modified entries are not moved to the new subcategories. --[[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 17:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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* You can look at the history of, for example, [[Live Squad]], and see that the tag is changed and that the category has also changed. What leads you to believe that the category is not changing in sync with the tag? Sometimes there is a brief delay, but there is currently no backlog on the job queue (which is noted on [[Special:Statistics]]). -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] 18:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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*Initially, I did not think much of the delay, until I noticed that some of them remained on the old page, even after several page cycle attempts. For an example of what I am talking about, please see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Csortan&diff=46778630&oldid=46778042 this delayed response]. Then again, "...a brief delay..." is relative. |
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:I tried playing "spot the difference" with several of the revisions; apparently the bot was not making any syntax errors. The cause of the delays — some of which were longer than the example I gave — baffled me. I was just wondering if you knew why it happened, is all... [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 19:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:* Thinking more about the job queue, as far as the database is concerned, the change should take effect immediately. But there's any number of reasons why you might have been looking at a cached version of a page. It might be something in your web browser, or it might be some other kind of minor server lag. I haven't been able to catch any delays in action. I guess I wouldn't worry about it unless you have a problem that persists for more than a day? Pearle is working her way through the huge backlog of articles to be sorted; when she is finished, I will make sure there are no leftovers. -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] 03:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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* P.S. Does the bot ever [have to] "take a break" from working? Just curious. [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 00:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:* Strictly speaking, computer programs don't get tired, so not really. Pearle will soon run out of work to do, though. She's activiated around 4am (my time) every day to perform some accumulated cleanup tasks, and those usually get completed within the hour. Pearle would actually go a lot faster, except that there is a bot "speed limit" of no more than one edit every ten seconds. She also "sleeps" for a bit if the Wikipedia servers get overloaded enough to respond slowly, so human editors get priority. -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] 03:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Did you know? {{tl|prod}} takes a parameter. == |
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Hello there. You have proposed the article [[Bryan Thomas Schmidt]] for deletion without providing a reason why in the {{tl|prod}} template. You may be interested to know that you can add your reasoning like that: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>prod|''Add reason for deletion here''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>. This will make your reasoning show up in the article's deletion notice. It will also aid other users in considering your suggestion on the [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/en_proposed_deletion Proposed Deletions log]. See also: [[WP:PROD#How_to_propose_deletion_of_an_article|How to propose deletion of an article]]. [[User:Sandstein|Sandstein]] 17:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Hello. I didn't mean to imply you did wrong; the article does indeed look a bit vanity-ish and has no sources. But he may well be notable ([[WP:BIO]]) for [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0772857/bio his producing work] alone. I am no expert, so I have no opinion, really. If you think the article should go, you could take it to [[WP:AfD]]. Best, [[User:Sandstein|Sandstein]] 18:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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::What are the odds of successfully pursuing AfD with this entry? Well, we won't know [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bryan Thomas Schmidt|until we try it]]... :-) [[User:Sandstein|Sandstein]] 19:15, 3 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== <nowiki>{{wikify-date|date}}</nowiki> == |
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Hello there. Thanks for the heads up. will keep that in mind while tagging. Cheers! --<FONT style="color:#5A3696">[[User:Miljoshi|ΜιĿ]]</FONT>ː<FONT style="color:#008000">[[User talk:Miljoshi|talk]]</FONT> 13:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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Reasonable suggestion, I try to remember using that in the future (althought I've tried to tag mainly uncategorized articles). As for hyphen or no hyphen, I'm not sure what would be more appropriate - [[User:Skysmith|Skysmith]] 13:10, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Your RFA == |
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Hi, I moved your FRA to [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Folajimi]]. [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 16:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Your RfA== |
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Hi, I've added a few questions to your RfA. When you have a minute, I'd appreciate if you would respond to them. Thanks. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 17:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Please withdraw== |
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I dont mean to be cruel, but your RFA is not going to pass. Please withdraw your candidacy. There's no point in continuing. I suggest you try again in 2-4 months, [[User:KI|KI]] 21:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Hey, I saw your RfA as well, and I'll have to second KI's recommendation to withdraw your candidacy for now. Take the constructive criticism posted within the RfA to heart, and given a few months, I think a future request should easily succeed. See you 'round — [[User:TheKMan|'''<font color="#0000FF">The</font><font color="#FF0000">KMan</font>''']][[User_talk:TheKMan|<font color="#000000"><sup><u>talk</u></sup></font>]] 04:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:I supported your RfA, but I'd also suggest, if not withdrawing, that you take all of the oppose comments on board. If you do, I'm sure you'll succeed in another RfA down the line. - '''[[User:Wezzo|W]][[User:Wezzo/Esperanza|<font color="green">e</font>]][[User:Wezzo|zzo]]''' <small>[[User talk:Wezzo|(talk)]] [[User:Wezzo/userboxes|(ubx)]]</small> 07:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Request for Adminship == |
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It is my regretful task to inform you that I have closed your request for adminship early as unlikely to achieve consensus. Please do not be discouraged; a number of users have had their first RfA end without consensus, but have been promoted overwhelmingly in a later request. Please continue to make outstanding contributions to Wikipedia, and consider requesting adminship again in the future. You may find [[Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship]] helpful in deciding when to consider running again. If I can be of any help to you, please do not hesitate to ask. <font color=#696969>[[User:Essjay|Essjay]] <sup>[[User talk:Essjay|''Talk'']] • [[User:Essjay/Contact|''Contact'']]</sup></font> 21:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Transwiki "Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee Against Torture" to wikisource? == |
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I [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Periodic_Report_of_the_United_States_of_America_to_the_United_Nations_Committee_Against_Torture&diff=prev&oldid=47300788 recommended that] [[Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee Against Torture]] [[m:Transwiki|be moved]] to [[wikisource]]. Like you I made some good faith edits to that article without realizing that it was not a summary of the document, but a cut and paste of [http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/55712.htm the original]. |
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Since you did some work on the article I thought you might want to voice an opinion on the transwiki. Have you ever been involved in a transwiki? |
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Cordially, [[User:Geo Swan|Geo Swan]] 21:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Jumping the gun. == |
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Good day, |
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It was recently brought to my attention that you were one of the people involved in the arbitrary deletion of an article I created a few months ago. While it had always bothered me that I did not get a fair shot at defending the article, I was uncertain who to express my concern to about the matter. |
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At any rate, others have recreated the deleted article, using the '''exact same content''' used in the entry you helped give the deep-six. The entry has since survived because others have vouched for its notability. |
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I say that to say this: please be careful with your privileges. It takes quite a bit of effort to contribute articles to this project; I would appreciate it if you could refrain from deleting entries and be courteous enough to offer the author a chance to defend the article. |
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Cheers. [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 14:14, 21 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:Without knowing what article you are referring to, I can't make any reply to this. Can you please link to the article for me? Thanks. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 17:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:: The article in question is [[Cuba (band)]]. [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 17:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Thank you. I did not delete this page. [[User:Mushroom|Mushroom]] deleted it. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 22:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==Collaboration== |
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Hey -- got your message. What kind of collaboration did you have in mind? Currently, I've been working on [[Wikipedia:Notability (academics)]] and [[List of shock sites]] (the latter being a very controversial page that needs a lot of cleanup; I'm trying to calm people down and get people discussing their edits). I'm also trying to get [[Cryptography]] ready for a nomination to [[WP:FAC]]. I'm also interested in cleaning out the cruft from disambiguation pages; there are a lot of them out there and many contain inappropriate redlinks or don't conform to the style guidelines, and furthermore, articles link there when they shouldn't. What are you working on? [[User:Mangojuice|Mangojuice]] 02:25, 22 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:I took a look at [[Robert Salerno]] and made it a stub about the film producer (since nothing else links there, and the other two are redlinks). The danger there, I think, is that if someone DOES make an article on those people, there's no guarantee they'd name them the same as you did. Plus, the film producer seems to be easily the most notable use of that name. Not sure how [[Lokman]] is supposed to be a disambiguation issue. [[Henry Havemeyer]] strikes me as unnecessary: perhaps it would be best to just make this a redirect to [[Henry O. Havemeyer]], until someone makes an article on the painter. (Might they be related, by any chance?) What's the deal with Lokman? [[User:Mangojuice|Mangojuice]] 22:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Regarding Catboy == |
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You're not supposed to do [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catboy&diff=50424230&oldid=50420382 this]. If anybody (even the creator fo the article) removes the {{tl|prod}} tag, you are not allowed to return it. But, you are allowed to tag it with {{tl|afd}}, of course. --[[User:Dijxtra|Dijxtra]] 19:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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* Hi Folajimi, I noticed this too. If anyone deletes the <nowiki>{{prod}}</nowiki> template, it's considered a contested deletion and you're not supposed to restore the <nowiki>{{prod}}</nowiki>. This is documented at [[WP:PROD]]. In this case it's a little confusing, because it looks like the first removal was done as part of a page blanking by a vandal, so it's easy to see how you wouldn't think of it as "re-prodding" so much as "restoring a vandalized page." But it looks like at least one person really was intending to delete the <nowiki>{{prod}}</nowiki>, in which case PROD no longer operates. <b><span style="color: #f33">·[[User talk:Rodii|<span style="color: #669"> rodii </span>]]·</span></b> 20:58, 27 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:*No problem--I assumed there was no malicious intent. PROD is new and we're still working out the kinks, and like I said, this wasn't a straightforward case. <b><span style="color: #f33">·[[User talk:Rodii|<span style="color: #669"> rodii </span>]]·</span></b> 00:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC) |
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==[[Quero]]== |
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The text was so poorly written that I commented it. It was an automated translation. Try to edit the article and you will see it. Ciao! [[User:Attilios|Attilios]] |
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:You could undo it by yourself. It was very awful, however. A question: I'm of Italian language and ain't the more apt person to do it. Why don't you wik ify it, if you've time? Let me know.[[User:Attilios|Attilios]] |
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== Pneumo-whatsis == |
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The article is on Afd at [[Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano-coniosis]] where the result is either going to be a redirect or deletion; sorry if the summary was confusing. [[User:Thatcher131|Thatcher131]] 21:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC) |
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*Actually it looks like it has been '''boldly''' redirected in spite of the AfD. [[User:Thatcher131|Thatcher131]] 21:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC) |
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==Acad Ronin== |
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Re Jetha Lila |
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Of course it is not notable, unless you are researching Indians in East Africa, the Zanzibari revolution and its impact, the development of financial institutions in Africa, or foreign banks in East Africa, as I was when I finally found the article that I used to source the stub. I found the article by chance after having looked literally for years for any info on who the heck Jetha Lila was after finding some fleeting references in Colonial Office Annual Reports, and in directories of banks. I put the stub in as a pointer to the article in the hope that should someone else be doing research on any of the topics I mentioned above, or even some others I can't even imagine, they could benefit from my research. |
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Basically, I see no benefit from throwing away factual, well-documented information. I have a couple of other such stubs in Wikipedia that I put in for precisely the same reason. It is the ability of wikipedia to act as a central repository of potentially useful, though obscure info, that makes it of value. There are lots of sources for info on well-known stuff; it is the input by hobbyists of the detailed knowledge they have gleaned on highly specialized topics that is valuable. |
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==Joze_Abram== |
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Hello, |
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You [[WayneRay]] recently created the entry Joze_Abram entry, but the article's notability was not established. Please provide credible information to establish the notability of the subject. Folajimi 01:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC) |
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I have no recollection of this although my name is there on the history page. The only thing i can think of is when I was going through the lists of poets or writers, i may have googled the name and made a page but I should have just made a link to the googled page I found. It doesnt seem to be a article about a writeror poet so just delete it. Where was the link from?? [[User:WayneRay|WayneRay]] 02:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)WayneRay |
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===List of slovenian writers=== he was there but I see no thing about writing so I deleted his name so go and delete the page I remember now adding. [[User:WayneRay|WayneRay]] 03:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)WayneRay |
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==Re: Jim Maxwell (commentator)== |
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''Hello. Is there a way to clarify the decision behind the keep? Considering that the content which is being kept is not the same as the entry I nominated, it is important that this distinction be made. Folajimi 12:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)talk'' |
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:Done. See the top of [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Maxwell (commentator)]]. [[User talk:Snottygobble|Snottygobble]] 23:44, 3 May 2006 (UTC) |
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==John Francis Laboon Sr.== |
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You recently closed the requested deletion of the entry [[John Francis Laboon Sr.]] The remark left on the debate page "Transfer to [[WP:CP]]". |
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First, there was never any debate. Rather, there seems to be no record of such a debate, as far as I can tell. |
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Also, the aforementioned target does not list the supposedly transferred entry. |
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Can you explain what this is about? [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)<sup>[[User talk:Folajimi|talk]]</sup> |
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:I am sorry, I forgot to properly transfer the issue to [[WP:CP]]. This has now been completed. |
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:Standard Wikipedia procedure dictates that copyright violation issues take precedence over the AFD procedure. The debate therefore should not take place at [[WP:AFD]], at least not until the copyright problem has been settled. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 21:22, 5 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Patent nonsense == |
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Please don't tag things as [[WP:PN|patent nonsense]] that aren't. Patent nonsense only refers to ''total'' gibberish, such as alsk;djJKK:JKJ;kjazs v89c*(***!!!!LKNL. No matter how poorly formatted the text is, if it's legible, it's not patent nonsense. [[User:Snoutwood|Snoutwood]] [[User talk:Snoutwood|(talk)]] 00:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC) |
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: Thank you for your informed message. |
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: To be honest, it never occured to me that you meant anything different by "read like" than "it is." I certainly respect your diligence in choosing your words, but I think that most admins who see that on a tag would not discriminate the two, and I don't believe that most editors would mean "read like" in the same way that you did. In the future, I'd recommend actively discriminating, that is, make it clear that that's what you mean by saying something like "reads similiar to patent nonsense, as differenciated from 'it is' patent nonsense." |
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: In response to your second point: you are indeed correct that there is another definition of patent nonsense, one which I do not believe applies. My original post was terse, and did not reflect that. I apologize: I've been meaning to make a proper template about this issue, which I've come across a lot, and I'll be certain to do so now. I interpret case 2 as meaning "although not utter gibberish, confused in a manner such that any intended meaning is lost or impossible to understand, such as properly spelled but entirely random words." I interpret it as such as it says "so completely and irredeemably confused that no intelligent person can be expected to make '''any''' sense of it '''whatsoever'''" (emphasis mine). I conclude that had the intention been for it to be more liberal, than there wouldn't be so much emphasis placed on it being entirely impossible to make any reason from the sentence. Sentences that are meaningful but irrelevant are to be speedied under different criteria. |
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: The article in question, [[Oxidation base]], does not meet that criterion. It is misspelled and the grammar is poor, but every sentence is sensible. Although I cannot be sure of the article's accuracy, I have no question as to what each sentence means. As far as I know, the article may be wrong. I don't know. But as far as I understand patent nonsense it is not that. |
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: As to your third concern, I don't doubt your good faith, and I'm glad to hear that you take such care with your edits. All I saw was an article that I thought was mismarked as nonsense, a very common error (although I can tell that you'd thought this over, and understood what you were doing), and I didn't want it to happen again. That's all. |
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: I hope that you find this reply helpful and satisfactory. Yours, [[User:Snoutwood|Snoutwood]] [[User talk:Snoutwood|(talk)]] 04:57, 6 May 2006 (UTC) |
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::: For ease, I will quote your passages and reply under them. When you reply, it's probably best if you don't interweave, as that makes things hard to follow. |
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::: ''Or did you mean something else by planning ''"...to make a proper template about this issue..."''?'' |
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:::: Yes, I did mean something different. I mean, "create a proper template in my userspace that I can use to explain to people what patent nonsense is a clear manner." |
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::: ''First, let me say that your point about diction is well taken; however, I am afraid that I cannot be responsible for the interpretation of the rationale behind my actions.'' |
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:::: To a point, yes. But if you craft a sentence poorly or unclearly it is not my fault if I take it in the way it appears, even if that's not what you intended. "Reads like patent nonsense" isn't a CSD, so it's entirely natural for me to assume that you meant for me to speedy it under the actual CSD, which is "it is patent nonsense." As to assuming good faith, I have assumed good faith. I just didn't assume that you understood patent nonsense, which is different. Also, that it took you a long time to craft the sentence doesn't change that what you came up with is a phrase that isn't a CSD but is understandable close to a CSD, and I think that anyone would assume that that's what you meant. If you disagree, feel free to get some other views from the [[WP:AN|admins' noticeboard]] or the [[WP:VP|village pump]]. |
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::: ''As to the second point, notice that I provided references to support my reasoning. While the sentences were coherent, they were wholly inaccurate. You said that you do not believe the second criteria applies; can ''you'' provide any evidence to refute the arguments I put forth, or are you [respectfully] making the assertion that my point of view is invalid?'' |
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:::: I have no idea if the article is wrong or not. I don't doubt your sources. But "article is wrong" isn't a CSD. I can't speedy an article for that. Not to mention that what we're talking about is patent nonsense, and that doesn't change that it isn't PN (see also [[WP:PN#Not to be confused with...]]). If that article's wrong, fix it or take it through [[WP:AFD]]. |
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:::: ''While I will acknowledge that I can see your point, the phrase which preceded it — "...that no intelligent person..." — did much to negate that point of view for me.'' |
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:::: Just to be clear, that's not my phrasing, that's a direct quote from [[WP:PN]]. And yes, the point is "to everyone": it has to be ''that'' confused. Which is why only gibberish (defined in #1 as random key pressing) and near gibberish, such as "John is a turnpike-eating waffle man!" (defined in #2 as "while apparently meaningful after a fashion, is so completely and irredeemably confused that no intelligent person can be expected to make any sense of it whatsoever") applies. |
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::: ''Sure, the article in question does not qualify, '''based on your interpretation.''' Notice that my argument made no reference to spelling or semantic errors; that would have undermined my case.'' |
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:::: Yes, your point seems to be based on the article being wrong, which is different. |
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::: ''Finally, you said that you cannot determine the accuracy of the remarks. If that is the case, why should questionable information — for which I have provided information '''which casts doubt on said entry's assertions''' — be allowed to stay in the main space? Why make Wikipedia a willing party to the charges that the Internet is a primary resource for misinformation dissemination?'' |
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:::: Because when something is tagged for speedy deletion, it's not my business to determine the accuracy of the content. It's my business to see if it falls under a CSD. There's a good reason that I can't just speedy things that I want to or that I think are wrong: I might be. If you don't like the content, fix it or take it through AfD. [[User:Snoutwood|Snoutwood]] [[User talk:Snoutwood|(talk)]] 16:23, 7 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Automation == |
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If you have Windows you can use [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]]. Are you going to populate the category? If so, it should be renamed to [[:Category:Working groups]], a plural form (or whatever decided at CFD). [[User:Conscious|Conscious]] 16:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== AWB == |
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In short, it didn't. I had AWB set to unicodification, removal of white space, and alerts; I was a [[klutz]] with it and made an edit that didn't need making. Apologies if I was confusing. [[User:Matthew Platts|Matthew Platts]] 15:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC) |
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==[[The Lotus Case]] and [[Laser resurfacing]] == |
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Have been "in use" since you created them... {{smiley|1}} ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich ]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]'' 16:29 [[11 May]] [[2006]] (UTC). |
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== Folajimi == |
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The name Folajimi sounds [[Yoruba]] to me. Is that right? — [[User:Mark Dingemanse|mark]] [[User Talk:Mark Dingemanse|✎]] 17:17, 11 May 2006 (UTC) |
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:I guess so. [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 18:55, 11 May 2006 (UTC) |
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? But what I meant to ask was: are you a Yoruba, do you speak Yoruba, or is there another reason you chose a Yoruba name? — [[User:Mark Dingemanse|mark]] [[User Talk:Mark Dingemanse|✎]] 19:08, 11 May 2006 (UTC) |
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: In that case, I would have to say it's the latter. However, I consider myself to be semi-fluent. [[User:Folajimi|Folajimi]] 19:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC) |
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::Aha.''Ẹ ṣeun!'' (that's about it for my fluency). See you around, — [[User:Mark Dingemanse|mark]] [[User Talk:Mark Dingemanse|✎]] 05:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Jim Phelan == |
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My mistake - I meant to put it on a different page instead. Thanks for finding my error! --[[User:Fuzzy510|fuzzy510]] 02:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== inuse == |
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You added the tag 2 weeks ago and made no edits since. The only plausible point of that tag is to avoid edit conflicts on busy articles... it is not a flag to be planted on articles you claim as your own. Leaving it up for prolonged periods of time might discourage people from editting an article. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 00:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC) |
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:I didn't say anything about the GFDL. Anyway it was effectively forgotten if it had been 2 weeks. Perhaps I should have said "misused template" or whatever. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 01:18, 14 May 2006 (UTC) |
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::So what, this is over a word I used in an edit summary? As for the GFDL, I am unsure of whether that really applies as that's more of a legal concept (I am not sure that people have a legal right to edit articles on Wikipedia's servers). [[WP:OWN]] would be the relevent policy here. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 01:44, 14 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Quality collaboration == |
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Hey -- I've got something for you to work on, if you're interested. I've noticed that a lot of articles have sections on "Trivia" or "Cultural references." In some cases these are short, sweet, and interesting, but in a lot of cases (look at [[Morrissey]] for a particularly bad example) they end up getting very long and filling up with microminutiae of no interest to readers of the article. I cleaned up such a section in [[Mammon]], which had a section that was becoming a list of every time any random video game or manga mentioned the name... [[Morrissey]] is still a big mess, so in particular that one could use some attention from someone other than me... I was trying to edit it but I stopped as I think I might have been overreacting, so maybe you could look at that one. If you come across any other articles with this problem, let me know about them. Cheers! [[User:Mangojuice|Mango]][[Special:Contributions/Mangojuice|<font color="orange">'''juice'''</font>]]<sup>[[User talk:Mangojuice|talk]]</sup> 04:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== OCS Technical == |
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G'day Folajimi, |
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thanks for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MarkGallagher&diff=prev&oldid=53292415 your query]. I removed the speedy deletion tag from [[OCS Technical]] because your reasons were invalid under the [[WP:CSD|speedy deletion criteria]]. If you have any questions, my talkpage (as you've discovered) is always open, but I believe you will find all you seek at the CSD page. Cheers, [[User:MarkGallagher|fuddlemark]] ([[User talk:MarkGallagher|fuddle me!]]) 16:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re: Brunoise == |
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I responded to your question about deletion after transwikification at my [[User talk:TheProject#Brunoise|talk page]]. Thanks. [[User:TheProject|TheProject]] 18:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Move of Square Kilometer == |
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Thanks for your message. I was browsing [[WP:MERGE]] and came across the article as it was tagged. The [[1 E6 m2]] article had the vast majority of the information already on the Square Kilometer page, and given that there had been some (breif) discussion of moving things and that the 1 E6 article was part of a series, I decided to be [[WP:BB|bold]] and go for it. --[[User:Harris000|Harris]] 13:21, 18 May 2006 (UTC) |
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==Richard Booth - not a vanity page== |
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My page was created by my team at Final Cut Films (www.finalcutfilms.co.uk) after I directed a music video earlier this year for signed music artist [[Nick Tatham]]. I also made a feature film two years ago, readily available on DVD (which was shown in English cinemas and is featured on IMDb), and I am directing a short film with Equity-registered actors this summer. I make my living as a filmmaker. |
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== Wikify tag on Spiral == |
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Are you sure about your addition of the {{tl|wikify}} tag on [[Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna]]? It is usually reserved for articles vastyl worse than Spiral, which is actually not that bad. --[[User:Marudubshinki |maru]] [[User talk:Marudubshinki| (talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Marudubshinki | contribs]] 22:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re: C&D == |
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Dude... you don't own those articles. Sorry. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 01:21, 21 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== Wayward reply == |
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Sorry about the hard-to read text. I merely wished to tell you that creating disambiguation pages only adds to the work of other wikipedians. Instead of creating a disambiguation pages, you should consider taking the pages that link there, and making them instead link to the actual page with that meaning. A useful reference would be this page. [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links]] [[User:Waywardson13|Will]] 21:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC) |
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:No, making disambiguation pages is still correct, continue with what you were doing. The instructions I gave to Waywardson above apply to [[WP:DLR|disambiguation '''link repair''']], not to disambiguation pages, so it of course makes no sense in context. Happy editing! [[User:Prodego|<font color="darkgreen">''Prodego''</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Prodego|<font color="darkgreen">talk</font>]]</sup> 21:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC) |
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:::::No problem at all. Best of luck. -- '''[[User talk:Miborovsky|<font color="#FF0000">Миборовский</font>]]''' 22:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
:::::No problem at all. Best of luck. -- '''[[User talk:Miborovsky|<font color="#FF0000">Миборовский</font>]]''' 22:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
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== Santa Agnese Fuori le Mura == |
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I noticed you wrote the article [[Santa Agnese Fuori le Mura]]. Actually, there already exists [[Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura]], so the articles will be merged. In future, would you please check the article [[Churches of Rome]] before starting an article on a church of Rome, just to avoid waste of effort? |
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--[[User:Panairjdde|Panairjdde]] 16:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC) |
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It looks like I was not clear in my statement. I just wanted to let you know that there is a "project" about the Churches of Rome. Following it will save time. You are obviously free to work in the way you prefer. Best regards, [[User:Panairjdde|Panairjdde]] 21:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC) |
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::Again, excellent work with [[Rod Blake]]. Keep going - I won't stop you :) -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 23:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC) |
::Again, excellent work with [[Rod Blake]]. Keep going - I won't stop you :) -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 23:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re:Redirecting The Names. == |
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Not a problem! --[[user:Cholmes75|cholmes75]] ([[User talk:Cholmes75|chit chat]]) 15:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC) |
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::::::::You're close to becoming a major participant in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Geelong|WikiProject:Geelong]] :) I've got to pop outdoors for a moment to the real world. I'll be back online later today. Thanks for your inputs. They're most welcome. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 03:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC) |
::::::::You're close to becoming a major participant in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Geelong|WikiProject:Geelong]] :) I've got to pop outdoors for a moment to the real world. I'll be back online later today. Thanks for your inputs. They're most welcome. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 03:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC) |
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{{wpafl2}} <b><font color="darkblue">[[WP:AFL|R]]</font><font color="red">[[Special:Contributions/Rogerthat|o]]</font><font color="darkblue">[[User:Rogerthat|gerthat]]</font></b> ''<sup><font color="black">[[User_talk:Rogerthat|Talk]]</font></sup>'' 07:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC) |
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:I'm not sure how to correct the succession box issue. It's another problem I'll raise with more the more box-inclined Australians :) -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 22:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC) |
:I'm not sure how to correct the succession box issue. It's another problem I'll raise with more the more box-inclined Australians :) -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 22:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC) |
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Thanks for uploading '''[[:Image:Jvh jface.jpg]]'''. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the [[copyright]] status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page. |
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If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{tl|GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the [[GFDL]]. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]], and then use a tag such as {{tlp|fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use]]. See [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. |
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If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "[[Special:Contributions/{{PAGENAME}}|my contributions]]" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on [[wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Images.2FMedia|criteria for speedy deletion]]. If you have any questions please ask them at the [[Wikipedia:Media copyright questions|Media copyright questions page]]. Thank you. [[user:Cholmes75|cholmes75]] ([[User talk:Cholmes75|chit chat]]) 16:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC) |
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*Thanks for adding the source! --[[user:Cholmes75|cholmes75]] ([[User talk:Cholmes75|chit chat]]) 16:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC) |
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== Image tags == |
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I'm not sure why they were removed. Possibly to save space on the menu? In any case, [[WP:FAIR]] has a fuller listing of them, which you may find useful. --[[user:Cholmes75|cholmes75]] ([[User talk:Cholmes75|chit chat]]) 16:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC) |
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Per 9cds's nomination, voters are strict and oppose if the RFA is malformed or put in the wrong place. [[User:ForestH2|ForestH2]] |
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:You need to archive most of your dicussions. What is still an issue? [[User:ForestH2|ForestH2]] |
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:...and after checking, it appears that was named after an American. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 00:46, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
:...and after checking, it appears that was named after an American. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 00:46, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
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::No. The AFL WikiProject invite was sent from [[User:Rogerthat]]. He probably saw your article on Costa and assumed you were an Australian at the very least. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 01:46, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Nothing has my goat. Everything is as per normal around here, I think. I just have some important real life things to do today, so I'm calmly proceeding rather than receptively inviting the onslaught :) Thanks for the concern. All is well. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 23:05, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
:::Nothing has my goat. Everything is as per normal around here, I think. I just have some important real life things to do today, so I'm calmly proceeding rather than receptively inviting the onslaught :) Thanks for the concern. All is well. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 23:05, 9 June 2006 (UTC) |
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It happens quite often. Perhaps some people have an allergy to red links? :) I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just let me know if it ever happens again and I'll happily zap it clean for you. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 01:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC) |
It happens quite often. Perhaps some people have an allergy to red links? :) I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just let me know if it ever happens again and I'll happily zap it clean for you. -- [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] 01:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC) |
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Unfortunately, this messed up [[WP:RFA]], causing the lower RfAs to appear as subsections of Agateller's. The only way this could work would be to have them be third-level (===) headings. I wouldn't be opposed, but you should ask at [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship]] first. |
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Thanks, <b>[[User:Audacity|<font color="black">Λυδ</font>]][[User:Audacity/Esperanza|<font color="lime">α</font>]][[User talk:Audacity|<font color="black">cιτγ</font>]]</b> 14:02, 20 June 2006 (UTC) |
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Welcome!
Hello Folajimi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Ryan Anderson
Take a look at Jack Ryan for what you'll probably want to do here. If there are a list of different people with the same name (being similarly notable), the article for the name should point to the different people. Take a look at Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation_pages) for the gory details. -- ElBenevolente 04:33, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- The disamibuation page you've created for Ryan Anderson looks pretty good right now. I'd keep Ryan Anderson (traitor) for the article title, and redirect Ryan G. Anderson to the traitor article. -- ElBenevolente 05:19, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- I think "Ryan G. Anderson" would be a more natural way to disambiguate "Ryan Anderson". For one thing, as far as I can tell from the article, the guy wasn't convicted--or even charged--with treason.
- —wwoods 01:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Done. "I suspect that such an effort might require action from a Wikipede with admin rights to make the move..." Yup. As it happens, I am such a person. —wwoods 03:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
William Ryan
William Ryan looks good now. User:Mpearl moved all the links to the numerous William Ryans onto the William Ryan page. Keep up the good work, Wikipedia is certainly a work in progress! -- ElBenevolente 00:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello again,
I've corrected a link, since Académie des Sciences ([1] - hist.) and Académie de Médecine ([2] - hist.) (Academy of Medicine) are not the same entity. Are you sure of his birthyear and his second name? A page mentions a birthyear of 1786 (see [3]), and another website spells his name "Pierre Éloi Fouquier" (see [4]). Best regards, Korg (talk) 05:57, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- You're welcome! Eloi or Eloy is a masculine name, and Eloi is more widespread. Yes, his middle name written as Édouard is creddible too. I'd try to search other sources...
- Best regards, Korg (talk) 02:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
RE:Huyuan Zan
Hope you read Chinese: http://www.tydao.com/sxren/minjiang/01-huyanzan.htm -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 03:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- I would, but I don't particular feel like translating an article now. :D BTW, Huyan Zan and Huyuan Zan are probably the same person, IIRC "延" can be pronounced both ways. Try Babelfish? :x -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 04:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Symbols? You mean the Chinese characters? Uh, your Windoze install disc should have files to display Chinese characters. -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 04:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Of course. -- Миборовский U|T|C|M|E|Chugoku Banzai! 06:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Huyan Zan. -- Миборовский 20:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- No problem at all. Best of luck. -- Миборовский 22:22, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Deletion
No problems. I also noticed my own talk page within the deletion pile. An honest mistake I know :) -- Longhair 01:57, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- I doubt it would have been deleted, but who knows. Crazier things happen. :) -- Longhair 02:00, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oh sorry I must have overlooked your request amidst some vandal fighting. You'd like your actual user page deleted and returned to a red link? Once you confirm I'll delete it as requested.. -- Longhair 03:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Done. -- Longhair 03:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- No problems. I wonder how long it is before some anti-redlinker decides it's best editing once again :) -- Longhair 03:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Very good, for somebody I assume has never visited the City of Geelong, my home town, it's an excellent start. -- Longhair 04:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've categorised and stubbed the article for now. I'll do a search for a good image. Most local politicians are pictured with images online. Finding a suitable freely licenced photograph is usually the only problem. I'll see what I can dig up. -- Longhair 04:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I dislike politics actually, and politicians for that matter, as they always, always seem to win every bloody election :) Well done however on another fine stub, bringing a close to all current open requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geelong. It's highly appreciated. -- Longhair 05:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
If you're going to write on state politics, I hope you can do better than your articles on Peter Loney and Michael Crutchfield, both of which I've just had to clean up. You included silly trivia in Crutchfield's article (and not much else), and included patent nonsense in Loney's article about him resigning for being a socialist. Edits like that are asking to get reverted or fixed up. Please take more care and do more research in the future. Rebecca 10:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- If you are unwilling or unable to abide by the guidelines set forth in WP:CIVIL, you are no longer welcome to leave messages on my talk page. --Folajimi 15:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi again. I wasn't 100% sure what you required, but I realised the article history had been lost in a recent move. I restored to Ambroise Vollard. How's that? -- Longhair 23:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- What's the correct spelling? Ambrose Vollard or Ambroise Vollard? Sorry, it's still early here :) -- Longhair 00:01, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
- I think I got it right first time. How's this look?, which is the article at Ambroise Voillard. The article history now begins from your contributions in January 2006, rather another users edits from today. -- Longhair 00:10, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
The image File:Emerson color thumb.jpg appears not to have changed. Remember, once an image is overwritten or deleted, it's gone. Administrators cannot recover deleted images. -- Longhair 23:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Userpage subpage deletion
This user subpage has been deleted as requested. -- Longhair 21:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Our barter system seems to be working very well :) Thanks again. -- Longhair 22:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- I see your point with the 'other uses' tag. I took it out to avoid confusing readers with a redlink. We'll have to arrange an auto signature script for you me thinks ;) We all do it at times. -- Longhair 22:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- It could be the wrong time to arrange a 'fancy sig'. Some editors are doing their best to see them gone. What type of sig were you thinking of? -- Longhair 22:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Don't let me stop you. If you want colours, go ahead. I thought it best to remind you though that non-standard changes sometimes break when software is upgraded, which occured to myself. All one really needs to do is edit the relevant field under preferences, as the examples on that link above show. Easy stuff. -- Longhair 23:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Certainly do. It's all over the local papers. -- Longhair 00:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- Most articles referring to the Australian dollar do so as such, as per the example of AUD$10M. Australia doesn't have a unique currency symbol like say, the Euro. We use '$' to denote currency. -- Longhair 00:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- No. It's broken. Our local media hasn't learned yet about internet archiving. I've tried, trust me, I've tried. Ignore that site. Content never sticks around long enough to worry about. -- Longhair 00:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- Our local media can go to hell :) -- Longhair 01:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC) (who's been the subject of a badly written story in the past from said paper).
- I wouldn't call it a stub, but there's a section of editors who see stubs as any article that isn't complete. If you wish to remove the stub notices I won't complain. Well researched. May I ask where you're at? You do seem to be able to source and write on information well with limited resources available. -- Longhair 02:49, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- Sleep well. Another productive day at the office. Thanks for all your help. -- Longhair 02:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- Possibly. The name doesn't ring any bells. Try looking through the Category:Australian awards, or if you can let me know which sport he was awarded for, I'll do my best to find your answer. Who awarded Costa the award, which may give me a clue. I wouldnt worry about Point Richards. It's of minute importance really. Most locals wouldn't even know of the place unless taken there by force. :) -- Longhair 03:02, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed it seems the Australian Sports Medal is redlinked, I'll put up a request for it to be created by a more knowledge editor. -- Longhair 03:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- You're close to becoming a major participant in WikiProject:Geelong :) I've got to pop outdoors for a moment to the real world. I'll be back online later today. Thanks for your inputs. They're most welcome. -- Longhair 03:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how to correct the succession box issue. It's another problem I'll raise with more the more box-inclined Australians :) -- Longhair 22:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Tom Price
I'm not sure on who's more notable. I'd say they'd take equal par with disambigutation. One I suspect was responsible in some way for the naming of the town, Tom Price, Western Australia, though I've never reseached it's origins. -- Longhair 00:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- ...and after checking, it appears that was named after an American. -- Longhair 00:46, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- Nothing has my goat. Everything is as per normal around here, I think. I just have some important real life things to do today, so I'm calmly proceeding rather than receptively inviting the onslaught :) Thanks for the concern. All is well. -- Longhair 23:05, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
RE:Request for Collaboration
Would you like to help? I don't foresee myself doing New 6th Army for quite some time. I'll probably try to copyedit/cleanup some of the current articles first. ;) -- Миборовский 23:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- Very nice! Thanks a lot. ;) -- Миборовский 05:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Establishments by year
Thanks for your consideration. Have a look at Category:1908 establishments for example and you should be able to see what I'm doing. Essentially, I'm temporarily using estcattemp whilst I've modified estcat. As I've now finished with estcat I'm in the rather long process of renaming all the years back to use estcat. Eg. for 1908: {{estcattemp|190|8}} goes to {{estcat|190|8|1899|1910}}. This change allows the reader to skip forwards and back between decades. If you want to help then please do. Greenshed 13:34, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
List of Mayors of Geelong/Mayors of Geelong
I lived out of town for a while there, so my information could be wrong. Many smaller municipialities amalgamated in the 80's or 90's, forming the City of Greater Geelong. There is now no longer a posistion of Mayor of Geelong West (or West Geelong, it's the same thing). The Mayor of Geelong = the Mayor of the City of Greater Geelong. Is that confusing enough? ;) Politics ain't my major. -- Longhair 21:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
- Our local political experts would be User:Adam Carr or User:Rebecca. They'd both be able to set you straight on making sense of such a list. I spent 8 years away from Geelong and more or less didn't keep track of anything local during that time. -- Longhair 01:03, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. Are you asking me where to find information about Geelong mayors, or on how to write an article about Geelong mayors?
- If the former, I have no particular expertise on this, but I suggest the Greater Geelong City Council would probably have such a list, and they might have some biographical information. Once you have a list of names, I suggest you go to the State Library of Victoria website and search their cataloge for the names, you will probably turn up something on most of them. There may well be a good library in Geelong too, but I don't know. If you are a really dedicated researcher, the files of the Geelong Advertiser, one of the oldest papers in Australia, would give you information on mayoral elections back to very early times, and obituaries of the mayors at the date of their deaths.
- If the latter, there are numerous "List of..." articles you could use as a template. Some use fancy tables, some are just plain lists. Browse around and find one you like, then copy the format.
Adam 13:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
- No. Geelong is about, err, 70kms from South Melbourne. The two aren't related in any way. I've deleted the image as requested also. I'm on wikibreak now until further notice. I've got to arrange a pending move across the state. Back soon. -- Longhair 00:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
User page deleted
It happens quite often. Perhaps some people have an allergy to red links? :) I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just let me know if it ever happens again and I'll happily zap it clean for you. -- Longhair 01:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)