Hi Hoary, are you able to help out with Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Peter_Dench please? ... added at 18:04, 7 January 2012 by Lopifalko
Hey there Hoary, thought I'd drop by and say hi. I was driving back from Cleveland Ohio (USA), and was thinking about our conversation about all the PA and CIV stuff and all, and an old memory popped into my head. Some 25 or so years ago when my daughter was maybe 6 or 7 ... she came home one day a bit despondent, and quiet. I asked her what was wrong - and she told me about a neighbor boy (that she kinda liked) at school. She said: "Dad, he's being such a poopey head". Poopey head? ... lmao .. is that not the best PA you've ever heard? Not sure why - but I thought you might get a kick out of that. :) — Ched : ? 17:29, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you, but I'm not particularly interested in British empire related topics. My participation in that direction is small and recent and prompted merely by the (surprisingly secret) matter of one, empire-irrelevant linguist, the dubiously notable (?) Hans Marchand. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey there. I noticed your edit on Talk: Financial costs of the American Revolutionary War. I am just saying sorry for putting my comment ahead of you. I just really wanted The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick to reply to my comment because he is usually slow to reply. Sometimes not even replying at all: see Talk: British colonisation of Tasmania. OKelly ( talk) 01:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
(In case you have stopped looking for replies) To tag a photo with questionable permission I would use {{ subst:npd}} (which substs to {{ di-no permission}}). — teb728 t c 23:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Why would you do that, replace a removed external that has not been in the article previously and is clearly contentious and requires discussion ? You really can 11:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Its an attack site against a living person that we have an article about - attacking him is its only purpose - why do you think it has been kept out of the article for this long? If you want to include it open a discussion on the talkpage don't blindly revert it back in. You really can 11:41, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Have you gone into the blogger site and read some of the personal attacks posted there? Anyway, if you want to add it, as its previously been discussed and kept out - don't you think its addition now warrants a talkpage discussion? Seems reasonable to me, better than warring it in. You really can 11:53, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
In case you hadn't seen this...Clearly an attack only account, I've blocked it indeff. -- Hu12 ( talk) 16:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
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I added some references to The Izu Dancer and removed the tag (since it's no longer true). Why don't you add some references, if you have them, for the film adaptations? Timothy Perper ( talk) 17:09, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Great! Maybe there's some stuff hidden on the Wiki entry for the TV show? Timothy Perper ( talk) 14:36, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
My turn to say "sorry" -- I wasn't clear. I mean this article, here on Wiki: Izu no odoriko (1993 TV drama) -- it gives some details about the show airing on Tokyo TV in the early 1990s -- maybe some hunting around in Jp newspapers and stuff might turn up some information. Hope that's clearer. Timothy Perper ( talk) 18:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
My sympathies, really. I detest that kind of off-the-top-of-the-head, make-it-up-as-you-go bloggery and egonet stuff. OK, so we can let this one wait until something surfaces somewhere. We've made quite a dent in this article as it is. Timothy Perper ( talk) 02:45, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
FTR, I'm involved. Not only have I edited the article on and off over two years' time, but today I full-protected the redirect and blocked the latest SPA. -- Orlady ( talk) 15:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
This formerly blocked IP:
is at it again as:
He's a newbie, young, seems to have an overly-inflated view of his own competence, and is engaged in reviling other editors, OR, synthesis, and edit warring at Occupy Wall Street. A stern warning and some advice from you as the blocking admin might be in order. Maybe he can be saved, and maybe not. -- Brangifer ( talk) 22:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi You have posted a {{BLP unsourced section|date=February 2012}} on the "selected exhibitions" section of an article I just had updated on this page I later added the additional sources. Can you see if these are satisfactory so that the BLP can be removed?
More widely, the main reason if I'm writing to you is not specifically this page, it is the issue of sources in this kind of sections (publications / exhibitions etc. of artists, writers, filmmakers, etc.). I have been writing several biographies of (mainly) Lebanese artists, being inspired by other good articles in Wikipedia, and trying to be as adequate as possible in citing sources. In most of the articles I found, there were always sources cited in the biographic notice, but lists of exhibitions or publications were merely sourced (as this kind of information is usually easily verifiable and can hardly by biased...) So, I wished to have your opinion about it... Thanks :-) ( Lea Sarraf ( talk) 17:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC))
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If I see correctly, one student group chose a bio of their teacher as their assignment... -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 10:22, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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Ok, I have wielded my blade and updated the tags and left a note on talk. Notability is in question, could go to AfD as you said. Let me know if you need more help. Cheers!-- — Keithbob • Talk • 15:10, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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I've just come across this article after reading about Bailey's current art exhibition in London: see here. It seems to me such an eminent English photographer deserves a far better biography on Wikipedia. Given your own interest, perhaps you could contribute - or encourage some other Wikipedians to step in. I'll try to get back to it myself it due course but am pretty tied up with other work at the moment. – Ipigott ( talk) 09:08, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Well maybe I'll get around to it myself one of these days although I keep getting bogged down in more and more articles outside my main areas of interest. I'll put something on the talk page in the hope that someone who's watching the article (if anyone is!) will come in and help. Hope you had a good time with the Ruskies - or whoever they were. - Ipigott ( talk) 17:28, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
He certainly does deserve better, brought home to me very clearly now that I've read this. -- Hoary ( talk) 00:46, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the work on Gladwell. Best wishes Span ( talk) 15:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Looks like I didn't have to wait that long for some Gladwell criticism action. Lovin ' it. 50.47.119.246 ( talk) 06:22, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
You can add MSNBC to the growing list of SHAME exposure. The Gladwell bio will reflect his corporate whoredom. It's just a matter of time. added at 22:11, 21 June 2012 by 50.47.119.246 ( talk)
See this; he won't stop. Maybe time to salt that one, too? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 23:42, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Hoary. Sometime since we've been in touch but I see you are still going strong. As you not only seem interested in language but also have lots of Wikipedia experience, I thought I would contact you on something I have recently observed in Wikipedia articles which I believe ought to be fixed. It's about the line breaks which occur automatically when hyphenated words come at a point in a sentence when a line break is needed (such as the breaking of Pont-Aven in a recent article I wrote on Henri Delavallée). The problem is that recently I have observed breaks when the hyphen is incorrectly wrapped over to the next line, for example:
instead of (the correct)
The choice of whether the hyphen should appear on the next line or not seems to be based simply on the number of characters per line rather than on any rules. You can perhaps see the effects better in the examples here but of course it all depends on the screen display you are using. I would have thought that with almost 4 million articles in English, a problem like this would have been resolved once and for all but apparently not. Any ideas about where to go to have it fixed? We should not be setting bad examples for non-native English speakers. - Ipigott ( talk) 14:54, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I hadn't considered the browser. I was in fact using Internet Explorer 9 as I believe it is the most widely used browser and I like to see what the majority of other users are likely to see. I was indeed unable to reproduce the problem with Firefox - so it could well be connected to the browser. Strangely, the examples in my sandbox now display correctly although I have not changed anything and the computer has been running non-stop. However, with IE9 the problem is still occurring in the Henri Delavallée article in the sentence "In 1894, he met Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven." I can, of course, get it to display correctly by changing the character size (Ctrl C and turning the mouse wheel). The funny thing is that I can't remember experiencing the problem before. But someone, somewhere seems to be working on it or the sandbox display would not have changed. Perhaps tomorrow even the Delavallée article will display correctly. But in any case, I would have thought Wikipedia could sort out the problem so that whatever the browsers try to do, the Wikipedia display will be correct. - Ipigott ( talk) 07:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
It appears that 107.6.124.27, which has been commenting on you know who's talk page has been blocked because that IP address is a proxy. Please be aware of this new behavior. I was under the impression that it is permissible to strike/revert comments from such users. Is this correct? Fasttimes68 ( talk) 21:12, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Hoary. About WP:AN3#Sandra Fluke reported by User:Hoary (Result: ). This is not in the usual form of requests to WP:AN3. Would you please give some thought to withdrawing the report? If not, can be more specific as to the edit warring and the individuals who you think need admin action. At first glance, the talk page seems to be on its way to reaching a conclusion. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:35, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your research. Please feel free to contribute to the article as you see fit. More knowledgeable and balanced editors like you are needed on these topics which are infested with agenda-driven POV pushers. I personally think the twitter part, is also questionable, given National Post's history on these kind of issues, and should be at least attributed to them, if not shortened or removed. Kurdo777 ( talk) 10:01, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hoary, I recently created the following stub: Vanishing Spray. Sadly it doesn't make things actually vanish. Notwithstanding and if you care too, would you edit the article a bit? I am curious to see how it would look after you applied your touch. Fasttimes68 ( talk) 17:06, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Here's a proposed change to the Majd article I want to make sure is OK with recent editors (follows BLP and all) -- BoogaLouie ( talk) 15:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Stanley Kubrick had an answer for this in Full Metal Jacket. You strike me as a man whose choice in cinema might be a bit more discriminating then the typical Hollywood offerings, so I suspect you may have seen this film and might understand the reference. It would have been money better well spent. Fasttimes68 ( talk) 05:45, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Guerillero | My Talk 19:22, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I was too late to remove the rant from Bias - luckily someone else took care of it - but I appreciated the reference :) – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 17:35, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm dropping a note to you since you added the "notability" to The Swordless Samurai in March 2009. Just to notify that I have turned this page into a redirect to Tim Clark (author). I also put an autobiography tag on the Tim Clark page and added a note to the talk page to justify that. JoshuSasori ( talk) 01:46, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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Please take a look at the #13 request. I think it's a simple mistake. If you agree with me, correction please. Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 09:37, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
I have had to suppress a great deal of unsourced libelous information at Talk:James Eagan Holmes which violates WP:BLP. I realize this is in contradiction to your edits. I have done the best I can, but unavoidably other material has also been lost. User:Fred Bauder Talk 02:57, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am presently writing biographies of top notch French executives. I would like to add a picture of them but do not know exactly how to deal with the law.
Jean-Paul Herteman ; I uploaded a picture of him on Commons, but I am afraid it won't work.
Would you be so kind as to give me some tips in order not to infringe the US law ?
Thanks in advance for your help. Euroflux ( talk) 17:39, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Hoary, are you able to help out with Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Peter_Dench please? ... added at 18:04, 7 January 2012 by Lopifalko
Hey there Hoary, thought I'd drop by and say hi. I was driving back from Cleveland Ohio (USA), and was thinking about our conversation about all the PA and CIV stuff and all, and an old memory popped into my head. Some 25 or so years ago when my daughter was maybe 6 or 7 ... she came home one day a bit despondent, and quiet. I asked her what was wrong - and she told me about a neighbor boy (that she kinda liked) at school. She said: "Dad, he's being such a poopey head". Poopey head? ... lmao .. is that not the best PA you've ever heard? Not sure why - but I thought you might get a kick out of that. :) — Ched : ? 17:29, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you, but I'm not particularly interested in British empire related topics. My participation in that direction is small and recent and prompted merely by the (surprisingly secret) matter of one, empire-irrelevant linguist, the dubiously notable (?) Hans Marchand. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey there. I noticed your edit on Talk: Financial costs of the American Revolutionary War. I am just saying sorry for putting my comment ahead of you. I just really wanted The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick to reply to my comment because he is usually slow to reply. Sometimes not even replying at all: see Talk: British colonisation of Tasmania. OKelly ( talk) 01:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
(In case you have stopped looking for replies) To tag a photo with questionable permission I would use {{ subst:npd}} (which substs to {{ di-no permission}}). — teb728 t c 23:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Why would you do that, replace a removed external that has not been in the article previously and is clearly contentious and requires discussion ? You really can 11:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Its an attack site against a living person that we have an article about - attacking him is its only purpose - why do you think it has been kept out of the article for this long? If you want to include it open a discussion on the talkpage don't blindly revert it back in. You really can 11:41, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Have you gone into the blogger site and read some of the personal attacks posted there? Anyway, if you want to add it, as its previously been discussed and kept out - don't you think its addition now warrants a talkpage discussion? Seems reasonable to me, better than warring it in. You really can 11:53, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
In case you hadn't seen this...Clearly an attack only account, I've blocked it indeff. -- Hu12 ( talk) 16:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
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My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
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I added some references to The Izu Dancer and removed the tag (since it's no longer true). Why don't you add some references, if you have them, for the film adaptations? Timothy Perper ( talk) 17:09, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Great! Maybe there's some stuff hidden on the Wiki entry for the TV show? Timothy Perper ( talk) 14:36, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
My turn to say "sorry" -- I wasn't clear. I mean this article, here on Wiki: Izu no odoriko (1993 TV drama) -- it gives some details about the show airing on Tokyo TV in the early 1990s -- maybe some hunting around in Jp newspapers and stuff might turn up some information. Hope that's clearer. Timothy Perper ( talk) 18:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
My sympathies, really. I detest that kind of off-the-top-of-the-head, make-it-up-as-you-go bloggery and egonet stuff. OK, so we can let this one wait until something surfaces somewhere. We've made quite a dent in this article as it is. Timothy Perper ( talk) 02:45, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
FTR, I'm involved. Not only have I edited the article on and off over two years' time, but today I full-protected the redirect and blocked the latest SPA. -- Orlady ( talk) 15:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
This formerly blocked IP:
is at it again as:
He's a newbie, young, seems to have an overly-inflated view of his own competence, and is engaged in reviling other editors, OR, synthesis, and edit warring at Occupy Wall Street. A stern warning and some advice from you as the blocking admin might be in order. Maybe he can be saved, and maybe not. -- Brangifer ( talk) 22:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi You have posted a {{BLP unsourced section|date=February 2012}} on the "selected exhibitions" section of an article I just had updated on this page I later added the additional sources. Can you see if these are satisfactory so that the BLP can be removed?
More widely, the main reason if I'm writing to you is not specifically this page, it is the issue of sources in this kind of sections (publications / exhibitions etc. of artists, writers, filmmakers, etc.). I have been writing several biographies of (mainly) Lebanese artists, being inspired by other good articles in Wikipedia, and trying to be as adequate as possible in citing sources. In most of the articles I found, there were always sources cited in the biographic notice, but lists of exhibitions or publications were merely sourced (as this kind of information is usually easily verifiable and can hardly by biased...) So, I wished to have your opinion about it... Thanks :-) ( Lea Sarraf ( talk) 17:43, 18 March 2012 (UTC))
Thanks for all this invaluable information and advice. Your work is quite impressing! (
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Hello! I see that you commented at the AfD discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank worth. That article has now been completely rewritten, just in case you want to take a second look at it. Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 02:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Hoary. Can you lend some expertise and ideas to the page I'm now editing on Baku (spirit)? Over the years, I've been the only person who has systematically edited the page, adding most of the current references, plus rewriting. At the moment, another editor -- an interesting artist with some rather traditional ideas about Japanese folklore -- has raised a number of issues. We could use another set of eyes and lenses. Thanks! Timothy Perper ( talk) 14:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
If I see correctly, one student group chose a bio of their teacher as their assignment... -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 10:22, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, this AfD could probably use some input from someone with your expertise. Cheers! -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 09:39, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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Ok, I have wielded my blade and updated the tags and left a note on talk. Notability is in question, could go to AfD as you said. Let me know if you need more help. Cheers!-- — Keithbob • Talk • 15:10, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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...you want it to be through a Simpsons quote. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 11:06, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I've just come across this article after reading about Bailey's current art exhibition in London: see here. It seems to me such an eminent English photographer deserves a far better biography on Wikipedia. Given your own interest, perhaps you could contribute - or encourage some other Wikipedians to step in. I'll try to get back to it myself it due course but am pretty tied up with other work at the moment. – Ipigott ( talk) 09:08, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Well maybe I'll get around to it myself one of these days although I keep getting bogged down in more and more articles outside my main areas of interest. I'll put something on the talk page in the hope that someone who's watching the article (if anyone is!) will come in and help. Hope you had a good time with the Ruskies - or whoever they were. - Ipigott ( talk) 17:28, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
He certainly does deserve better, brought home to me very clearly now that I've read this. -- Hoary ( talk) 00:46, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the work on Gladwell. Best wishes Span ( talk) 15:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Looks like I didn't have to wait that long for some Gladwell criticism action. Lovin ' it. 50.47.119.246 ( talk) 06:22, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
You can add MSNBC to the growing list of SHAME exposure. The Gladwell bio will reflect his corporate whoredom. It's just a matter of time. added at 22:11, 21 June 2012 by 50.47.119.246 ( talk)
See this; he won't stop. Maybe time to salt that one, too? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 23:42, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for blacklisting a spam at the Tenga article. The same IP user is trying to do it again, this time with a Facebook page. [1] (This time a bot reverted it within 64 minutes.) Could you blacklist this URL also? Thank you. -- 朝彦 (Asahiko) ( talk) 01:38, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello Hoary. Sometime since we've been in touch but I see you are still going strong. As you not only seem interested in language but also have lots of Wikipedia experience, I thought I would contact you on something I have recently observed in Wikipedia articles which I believe ought to be fixed. It's about the line breaks which occur automatically when hyphenated words come at a point in a sentence when a line break is needed (such as the breaking of Pont-Aven in a recent article I wrote on Henri Delavallée). The problem is that recently I have observed breaks when the hyphen is incorrectly wrapped over to the next line, for example:
instead of (the correct)
The choice of whether the hyphen should appear on the next line or not seems to be based simply on the number of characters per line rather than on any rules. You can perhaps see the effects better in the examples here but of course it all depends on the screen display you are using. I would have thought that with almost 4 million articles in English, a problem like this would have been resolved once and for all but apparently not. Any ideas about where to go to have it fixed? We should not be setting bad examples for non-native English speakers. - Ipigott ( talk) 14:54, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
I hadn't considered the browser. I was in fact using Internet Explorer 9 as I believe it is the most widely used browser and I like to see what the majority of other users are likely to see. I was indeed unable to reproduce the problem with Firefox - so it could well be connected to the browser. Strangely, the examples in my sandbox now display correctly although I have not changed anything and the computer has been running non-stop. However, with IE9 the problem is still occurring in the Henri Delavallée article in the sentence "In 1894, he met Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven." I can, of course, get it to display correctly by changing the character size (Ctrl C and turning the mouse wheel). The funny thing is that I can't remember experiencing the problem before. But someone, somewhere seems to be working on it or the sandbox display would not have changed. Perhaps tomorrow even the Delavallée article will display correctly. But in any case, I would have thought Wikipedia could sort out the problem so that whatever the browsers try to do, the Wikipedia display will be correct. - Ipigott ( talk) 07:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
It appears that 107.6.124.27, which has been commenting on you know who's talk page has been blocked because that IP address is a proxy. Please be aware of this new behavior. I was under the impression that it is permissible to strike/revert comments from such users. Is this correct? Fasttimes68 ( talk) 21:12, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
ARMYbling ( talk) 13:18, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Hoary. About WP:AN3#Sandra Fluke reported by User:Hoary (Result: ). This is not in the usual form of requests to WP:AN3. Would you please give some thought to withdrawing the report? If not, can be more specific as to the edit warring and the individuals who you think need admin action. At first glance, the talk page seems to be on its way to reaching a conclusion. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:35, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your research. Please feel free to contribute to the article as you see fit. More knowledgeable and balanced editors like you are needed on these topics which are infested with agenda-driven POV pushers. I personally think the twitter part, is also questionable, given National Post's history on these kind of issues, and should be at least attributed to them, if not shortened or removed. Kurdo777 ( talk) 10:01, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hoary, I recently created the following stub: Vanishing Spray. Sadly it doesn't make things actually vanish. Notwithstanding and if you care too, would you edit the article a bit? I am curious to see how it would look after you applied your touch. Fasttimes68 ( talk) 17:06, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Here's a proposed change to the Majd article I want to make sure is OK with recent editors (follows BLP and all) -- BoogaLouie ( talk) 15:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Stanley Kubrick had an answer for this in Full Metal Jacket. You strike me as a man whose choice in cinema might be a bit more discriminating then the typical Hollywood offerings, so I suspect you may have seen this film and might understand the reference. It would have been money better well spent. Fasttimes68 ( talk) 05:45, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Guerillero | My Talk 19:22, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I was too late to remove the rant from Bias - luckily someone else took care of it - but I appreciated the reference :) – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 17:35, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm dropping a note to you since you added the "notability" to The Swordless Samurai in March 2009. Just to notify that I have turned this page into a redirect to Tim Clark (author). I also put an autobiography tag on the Tim Clark page and added a note to the talk page to justify that. JoshuSasori ( talk) 01:46, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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Please take a look at the #13 request. I think it's a simple mistake. If you agree with me, correction please. Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 09:37, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
I have had to suppress a great deal of unsourced libelous information at Talk:James Eagan Holmes which violates WP:BLP. I realize this is in contradiction to your edits. I have done the best I can, but unavoidably other material has also been lost. User:Fred Bauder Talk 02:57, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am presently writing biographies of top notch French executives. I would like to add a picture of them but do not know exactly how to deal with the law.
Jean-Paul Herteman ; I uploaded a picture of him on Commons, but I am afraid it won't work.
Would you be so kind as to give me some tips in order not to infringe the US law ?
Thanks in advance for your help. Euroflux ( talk) 17:39, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I have proposed that Category:Second language acquisition be renamed to Category:Second-language acquisition, and I am notifying you because you either participated in discussions about the hyphenation of "second(-)language acquisition" on the article's talk page, or because you participated in the previous CfD discussion. I would be grateful if you could give your opinion on the latest discussion, which you can find at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 10#Category:Second language acquisition. Thank you for your time. — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 03:13, 10 November 2012 (UTC)