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You commented on this debate already, and your voice would be welcome again. Homunq ( ࿓) 00:51, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
I think your voice would be useful again over there. Homunq ( ࿓) 17:56, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Just saw you contested all the moves after I had finished the cleanup for this one. I agree that the larger ones with things such as street names and other MOS stuff would probably be best discussed in an RM, but thought this one would be fine (and there were only three requests, not six when I saw it.) Feel free to revert my move here if you want. TonyBallioni ( talk) 15:45, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Rwandan Civil War you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lemurbaby -- Lemurbaby ( talk) 17:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I got your name off and active list of admins. I was wondering if you could please help in regards to this topic: On the southern American English page, Me, along with Kelthan and Dubyavee ( /info/en/?search=Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image ) opposed taking the map off. It was originally removed without any edit summary. Since it was sourced, I heard you can't remove content without justification. That's three opinions against one that have given feedback on this. I took this to Bilcat who reverted our edits. I politely contacted Bilcat on his talk page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:BilCat&action=history), and he immediately removed and ignored my message. Can you please help? If you look at the history page https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Southern_American_English&action=history You can see both Kelthan and I were against taking the map off. And there was a previous discussion about this on the talk page here /info/en/?search=Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image where Dubyavee disagreed with taking the map off. Bilcat then reverted this falsely claiming the consensus was against this. The map was originally taken off without given and edit summary, despite it being sourced. Can you please help? Thanks. Kevinfromtx ( talk) 23:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Please restore the full protection on this page until March 12. Please contact User:Jo-Jo Eumerus for questions about the AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 Kids' Choice Awards. Thank you, Unscintillating ( talk) 01:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Amakuru - please can you review my response regarding the page 'Andrew Jeptha' many thanks MikeJep ( talk) 18:14, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
At an RM, you commented "I don't support the notion that our MOS automatically overrides WP:COMMONNAME on purely stylistic questions. Where sources overwhelmingly style something a certain way, so should we." The conflict you imagine does not exist, since MOS:TM, the guideline covering stylization of names, has essentially the same rule.
Where actual conflicts usually arise is when a particular camp misinterprets COMMONNAME as saying something it does not, e.g. to use the most common name in highly specialized sources – which often prefer some aberrant stylistic quirk like over-capitalization or not hyphenating compound modifiers, that the party in question wants to impose on Wikipedia to match what they are used to in their academic journal or their rapper fan magazines (or whatever the "field" is) – and they then try to override MoS with a bogus COMMONNAME argument, misapplying the "policy trumps guideline" reasoning. It's bogus because:
MOS:TM is the escape valve for unusual cases where almost all RS do something they wouldn't normally do for a parallel case. Examples: Virtually all RS write iPhone instead of IPhone (except at the beginning of a sentence, where this spelling is common) or Iphone or I-Phone, and write Deadmau5 instead of Deadmaus. These are both special cases of going along with unusual trademark stylization, when the same publishers would not write Alien3 in imitation of movie poster logos but use Alien 3, and would not write "P!nk" to mimic album covers but use " Pink" for the singer.
Why the MOS:TM material is not in WP:AT policy is because style trivia like this doesn't rise to policy level. Readers may be genuinely confused if something that has a recognizable, precise, natural, and concise name (see WP:CRITERIA) – which is usually the most common name in sources – is for some inexplicable reason put under a completely different article title here. Thus we have a titles policy. But no one is likely to be confused by a tiny spelling or punctuation difference in most cases, and WP:Common sense, WP:IAR, and WP:SMALLDETAILS apply in such a case. We have guidelines not policies about style nit-picks mainly for consistency and to curtail the habit of editwarring over minutiae. Remember (or become aware) that WP:AT originated as part of MoS; the present article-titles policy is the thin cream off the top of the style guidelines that were the matters the community decided were so crucial they had to be elevated to policy, i.e. the only style stuff that was essential to WP functioning properly as an encyclopedia and as a community/project. That's the real operational distinction of policies from guidelines; the latter are just evolved best practices for helping those goals be achieved smoothly, while policies ensure they can be achieved at all. If you go through all the policies and the guidelines you'll see that this is true, even if WP:POLICY doesn't get around to explaining it in quite those terms.
There is a misperception of conflict about COMMONNAME, because people will !vote with comments like "Spell/punctuate/capitalize it this way, per COMMONNAME" when they really should write "per MOS:TM", and then when other people point out that COMMONNAME has nothing to do with style and they're presenting a broken rationale, the first party's head asplode in confusion and disbelief, because they have not closely read the relevant policies and guidelines and are making incorrect assumptions about what COMMONNAME actually says. It's exactly the same sort of (very common) error as asserting "this is trademarked under copyright law", or "this is a patent under trademark law". Yes, they're all forms of intellectual property, but they are different regulatory regimes for different types of things, just as COMMONNAME and MOS:TM are superficially similar Wikipedia rules of thumb about names, but are also different regulatory regimes for different types of concerns. Or, if you like, it's analogous to arguing that person A should not be mentioned in person B's bio because A is not notable, when WP:Notability has nothing to do with who/what can be mentioned in an article, only with who/what can have a separate article; the correct policy to cite about in-article relevance is WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, which is a totally different document with different concerns, even if to the casual observer it's easy to confuse them as they both touch on inclusion and encyclopedic relevance in different contexts.
PS: I've taken the time to cover this stuff because I'm betting that just helping one admin, who may be involved in RM and related matters, per month to dispel the misbelief in a conflict between AT and MOS could be enough for a positive sea change in strife levels over the course of a year or so, given the current size of the admin pool involved in relevant closes, and how frequently requested moves and similar style RfCs involve the same issues and confusions, yet the unfortunate frequency with which closer give conflicting closes, often based on incorrect interpretation of COMMONNAME. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 04:33, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up, I reverted your deletion of this user talk (and then immediately deleted the problematic content in question on it). User talk pages are almost never deleted - editors may need to look through the user's history for warnings, for example. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:05, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Amakuru. I saw how you reformatted Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Rwanda) back in February, and I decided to do the same at Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation (Burundi). But, I have a certain problem: I saw that, at the Rwandan article, you translated the name of the ministry into Kinyarwanda (Minisiteri y'Ububanyi n'Amahanga n'ubutwererane), and I tried to do the same at the Burundian article – namely, to translate Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation into Kirundi. Still, I was unable to find a correct and reliable translation online, so I must ask you for help with it. I am really not familiar with local African languages in any way, so I would really appreciate your input here. Cheers! -- Sundostund ( talk) 16:43, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about redirects to Queens Road Peckham railway station and the road it is named for at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Queen(')s Road Peckham. As you have had involvement with one or more of the existing redirects, your comments are invited there. Thryduulf ( talk) 21:46, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
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I can't figure out why Release of palmyra was deleted by you. Would you mind elaborating on this? Thanks. -- Mhhossein talk 11:47, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings Amakuru! I noticed that an inexperienced user made an improper close of Talk:Donald Trump disclosure of classified information to Russia#Requested move 17 May 2017: the discussion was only open 3 days, it's not an obvious SNOW and the closer is involved. I would have reverted and explained what he did wrong, but I'm involved too. Could you please take a look at the matter and dispense some sage advice? Many thanks in advance, — JFG talk 20:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
Please reverse your edit to the image, as discussed at WP:MPE, the image of the Manchester Arena is preferable to that of the Iranian President, as there is otherwise an implication that Iran is in some way involved in the bombing, which it is not. Agree that image quality is poorer, but there is an overriding reason to have the arena image. Mjroots ( talk) 16:14, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Vijayawada Airport the discussion was closed. But I want a review for international naming. Though the name in the requested cannot be placed now, it was upgraded recently to international status, so atleast need review for international word in the name.
-- Vin09 (talk) 04:18, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
FYI, I've started a discussion on UK station disambiguation here. Your input would be valuable.-- Cúchullain t/ c 17:12, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
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The request for arbitration in which you were involved has been withdrawn by the filing party. For the Arbitration Committee, Mini apolis 20:38, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Amakuru, I will very much appreciate that you help address the issues raised by the warning tag in the article "Maryann Keller" here: /info/en/?search=Maryann_Keller . I appreciate very much your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Testingblog ( talk • contribs) 04:38, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Amakuru, ah, I missed that Heartland (Canadian TV series) also premiered in 2007. So, Heartland (2007 U.S. TV series) does require "double disambiguation" (whereas Heartland (1989 TV series) does not). Thanks for catching that.
However, this means that the Canadian TV also requires "double disambiguation" – IOW, Heartland (Canadian TV series) needs to be moved to Heartland (2007 Canadian TV series) (see, other examples where this has been necessary) to fully disambiguate from the 2007 U.S. TV series. (The redirect can stay at Heartland (Canadian TV series) in this case.) Should I launch a WP:RM about this? Or should it just be "moved"? -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 15:06, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
US | Canadian | Australian | |
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1989 | |||
1994 | |||
2007 |
Hi, You made a mistake at Israeli apartheid allegations. As several people pointed out, the meaning of that phrase is "apartheid allegations made by Israel", whereas the subject of the article is "apartheid allegations made about Israel". Nearly all the people who suggested that title do not have English as their first language. The new title is simply wrong and can't be sustained. Please correct this error. Zero talk 12:46, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Amakuru – as one of the "move expert" Admins, I thought I'd bring this to you. I just discovered Talk:Migo Adecer – it looks like it was an attempt to move an article from WP:Draftspace to WP:Mainspace. However, it looks like Migo Adecer is creation-protected. I'm not sure what the next step is here, as at first glance the article Talk:Migo Adecer appear to be viable (but there's obviously "history" involving this article subject)... In any case, probably better to have an Admin look into this further. Thanks! -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 16:40, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru. Talkpages of disambiguation and set-index pages are usually deleted once a primary topic is declared (examples include Talk:Gladstone and Talk:Van Buren), I would assume, so wouldn't it make sense to delete Talk:Varadkar as well? I doubt somebody would prefer to start a discussion there, rather than at Talk:Leo Varadkar. IMHO it should stay deleted.-- Nevé – selbert 18:26, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Varadkar, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Varadkar and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Talk:Varadkar during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Nevé – selbert 19:22, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Well, that closure has WP:SUPERVOTE written all over it. When the arguments for support are "the name is too long" and "I want to close the discussion" versus an actual oppose, at most that would lead to a "no consensus". I don't mind you disagreeing with my !vote, but that needs to be left as a separate !vote, not as a closing rationale. Perhaps then we can discuss the merits of both opinions versus what I feel is an improper closure. -- Tavix ( talk) 13:24, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Amakuru, Please recheck your closing of the discussion. I interpret the consensus as being for Frogman Corps (Denmark), following the MILMOS, not for Frogman Corps, and for Frogman Corps to be a redirect to List of military diving units. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 20:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:00, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Steve, so sorry to keep you waiting this long to complete the GA review. Fantastic work as always - I'm very glad to pass it at last. Thank you for your continued dedication to WP and to bringing quality info about Rwanda to the masses. -- Lemurbaby ( talk) 13:11, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
The article Rwandan Civil War you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Rwandan Civil War for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lemurbaby -- Lemurbaby ( talk) 13:22, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
I want to take this offline from RfA as it's not really relevant, but I think you've misunderstood.
I can't speak directly for Anarchyte, but when the IP re-added the unsourced claim, I simply didn't believe them. London streets have been established for hundreds of years and are an essential part of navigation for the millions of tourists that visit the capital each year, so for Westminster CC to formally propose a renaming of one of the most prominent shopping streets in the West End seems an illogical waste of money. (I realise now the IP actually agreed with this sentiment on the talk page). Furthermore, the rename was carried out in 2014 and documented online in the council archives, so any editor could have added a source for this in the past three years - yet nobody did.
So, to summarise, I think there were extenuating circumstances regarding this, and to twist it into some sort of violation of WP:AGF / WP:BITE is a little wide of the mark, in my view.
I might seem like I'm ranting a little unncessarily, but to me the factual accuracy and integrity of a Good Article is more important than a Request for Adminship, and people should be focusing their attention on what's good for the article, not using minor errors to whack each other over the head with! Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:12, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
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?fuzzy=1
to the URL, as with
Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Thanks for deleting that youngster's userpage a few minutes ago. The same personal details are included in previous versions of his talk page which ought to be revdel-eted. Hope that's enough info without pointing it out to all and sundry. Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 12:59, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
This was unexpected. - Dank ( push to talk) 17:54, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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You commented on this debate already, and your voice would be welcome again. Homunq ( ࿓) 00:51, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
I think your voice would be useful again over there. Homunq ( ࿓) 17:56, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Just saw you contested all the moves after I had finished the cleanup for this one. I agree that the larger ones with things such as street names and other MOS stuff would probably be best discussed in an RM, but thought this one would be fine (and there were only three requests, not six when I saw it.) Feel free to revert my move here if you want. TonyBallioni ( talk) 15:45, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Rwandan Civil War you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lemurbaby -- Lemurbaby ( talk) 17:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I got your name off and active list of admins. I was wondering if you could please help in regards to this topic: On the southern American English page, Me, along with Kelthan and Dubyavee ( /info/en/?search=Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image ) opposed taking the map off. It was originally removed without any edit summary. Since it was sourced, I heard you can't remove content without justification. That's three opinions against one that have given feedback on this. I took this to Bilcat who reverted our edits. I politely contacted Bilcat on his talk page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:BilCat&action=history), and he immediately removed and ignored my message. Can you please help? If you look at the history page https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Southern_American_English&action=history You can see both Kelthan and I were against taking the map off. And there was a previous discussion about this on the talk page here /info/en/?search=Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image where Dubyavee disagreed with taking the map off. Bilcat then reverted this falsely claiming the consensus was against this. The map was originally taken off without given and edit summary, despite it being sourced. Can you please help? Thanks. Kevinfromtx ( talk) 23:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Please restore the full protection on this page until March 12. Please contact User:Jo-Jo Eumerus for questions about the AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 Kids' Choice Awards. Thank you, Unscintillating ( talk) 01:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Amakuru - please can you review my response regarding the page 'Andrew Jeptha' many thanks MikeJep ( talk) 18:14, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
At an RM, you commented "I don't support the notion that our MOS automatically overrides WP:COMMONNAME on purely stylistic questions. Where sources overwhelmingly style something a certain way, so should we." The conflict you imagine does not exist, since MOS:TM, the guideline covering stylization of names, has essentially the same rule.
Where actual conflicts usually arise is when a particular camp misinterprets COMMONNAME as saying something it does not, e.g. to use the most common name in highly specialized sources – which often prefer some aberrant stylistic quirk like over-capitalization or not hyphenating compound modifiers, that the party in question wants to impose on Wikipedia to match what they are used to in their academic journal or their rapper fan magazines (or whatever the "field" is) – and they then try to override MoS with a bogus COMMONNAME argument, misapplying the "policy trumps guideline" reasoning. It's bogus because:
MOS:TM is the escape valve for unusual cases where almost all RS do something they wouldn't normally do for a parallel case. Examples: Virtually all RS write iPhone instead of IPhone (except at the beginning of a sentence, where this spelling is common) or Iphone or I-Phone, and write Deadmau5 instead of Deadmaus. These are both special cases of going along with unusual trademark stylization, when the same publishers would not write Alien3 in imitation of movie poster logos but use Alien 3, and would not write "P!nk" to mimic album covers but use " Pink" for the singer.
Why the MOS:TM material is not in WP:AT policy is because style trivia like this doesn't rise to policy level. Readers may be genuinely confused if something that has a recognizable, precise, natural, and concise name (see WP:CRITERIA) – which is usually the most common name in sources – is for some inexplicable reason put under a completely different article title here. Thus we have a titles policy. But no one is likely to be confused by a tiny spelling or punctuation difference in most cases, and WP:Common sense, WP:IAR, and WP:SMALLDETAILS apply in such a case. We have guidelines not policies about style nit-picks mainly for consistency and to curtail the habit of editwarring over minutiae. Remember (or become aware) that WP:AT originated as part of MoS; the present article-titles policy is the thin cream off the top of the style guidelines that were the matters the community decided were so crucial they had to be elevated to policy, i.e. the only style stuff that was essential to WP functioning properly as an encyclopedia and as a community/project. That's the real operational distinction of policies from guidelines; the latter are just evolved best practices for helping those goals be achieved smoothly, while policies ensure they can be achieved at all. If you go through all the policies and the guidelines you'll see that this is true, even if WP:POLICY doesn't get around to explaining it in quite those terms.
There is a misperception of conflict about COMMONNAME, because people will !vote with comments like "Spell/punctuate/capitalize it this way, per COMMONNAME" when they really should write "per MOS:TM", and then when other people point out that COMMONNAME has nothing to do with style and they're presenting a broken rationale, the first party's head asplode in confusion and disbelief, because they have not closely read the relevant policies and guidelines and are making incorrect assumptions about what COMMONNAME actually says. It's exactly the same sort of (very common) error as asserting "this is trademarked under copyright law", or "this is a patent under trademark law". Yes, they're all forms of intellectual property, but they are different regulatory regimes for different types of things, just as COMMONNAME and MOS:TM are superficially similar Wikipedia rules of thumb about names, but are also different regulatory regimes for different types of concerns. Or, if you like, it's analogous to arguing that person A should not be mentioned in person B's bio because A is not notable, when WP:Notability has nothing to do with who/what can be mentioned in an article, only with who/what can have a separate article; the correct policy to cite about in-article relevance is WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, which is a totally different document with different concerns, even if to the casual observer it's easy to confuse them as they both touch on inclusion and encyclopedic relevance in different contexts.
PS: I've taken the time to cover this stuff because I'm betting that just helping one admin, who may be involved in RM and related matters, per month to dispel the misbelief in a conflict between AT and MOS could be enough for a positive sea change in strife levels over the course of a year or so, given the current size of the admin pool involved in relevant closes, and how frequently requested moves and similar style RfCs involve the same issues and confusions, yet the unfortunate frequency with which closer give conflicting closes, often based on incorrect interpretation of COMMONNAME. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 04:33, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up, I reverted your deletion of this user talk (and then immediately deleted the problematic content in question on it). User talk pages are almost never deleted - editors may need to look through the user's history for warnings, for example. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:05, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Amakuru. I saw how you reformatted Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Rwanda) back in February, and I decided to do the same at Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation (Burundi). But, I have a certain problem: I saw that, at the Rwandan article, you translated the name of the ministry into Kinyarwanda (Minisiteri y'Ububanyi n'Amahanga n'ubutwererane), and I tried to do the same at the Burundian article – namely, to translate Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation into Kirundi. Still, I was unable to find a correct and reliable translation online, so I must ask you for help with it. I am really not familiar with local African languages in any way, so I would really appreciate your input here. Cheers! -- Sundostund ( talk) 16:43, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
I have started a discussion about redirects to Queens Road Peckham railway station and the road it is named for at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Queen(')s Road Peckham. As you have had involvement with one or more of the existing redirects, your comments are invited there. Thryduulf ( talk) 21:46, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
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I can't figure out why Release of palmyra was deleted by you. Would you mind elaborating on this? Thanks. -- Mhhossein talk 11:47, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings Amakuru! I noticed that an inexperienced user made an improper close of Talk:Donald Trump disclosure of classified information to Russia#Requested move 17 May 2017: the discussion was only open 3 days, it's not an obvious SNOW and the closer is involved. I would have reverted and explained what he did wrong, but I'm involved too. Could you please take a look at the matter and dispense some sage advice? Many thanks in advance, — JFG talk 20:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
Please reverse your edit to the image, as discussed at WP:MPE, the image of the Manchester Arena is preferable to that of the Iranian President, as there is otherwise an implication that Iran is in some way involved in the bombing, which it is not. Agree that image quality is poorer, but there is an overriding reason to have the arena image. Mjroots ( talk) 16:14, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Vijayawada Airport the discussion was closed. But I want a review for international naming. Though the name in the requested cannot be placed now, it was upgraded recently to international status, so atleast need review for international word in the name.
-- Vin09 (talk) 04:18, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
FYI, I've started a discussion on UK station disambiguation here. Your input would be valuable.-- Cúchullain t/ c 17:12, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
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The request for arbitration in which you were involved has been withdrawn by the filing party. For the Arbitration Committee, Mini apolis 20:38, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Amakuru, I will very much appreciate that you help address the issues raised by the warning tag in the article "Maryann Keller" here: /info/en/?search=Maryann_Keller . I appreciate very much your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Testingblog ( talk • contribs) 04:38, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Amakuru, ah, I missed that Heartland (Canadian TV series) also premiered in 2007. So, Heartland (2007 U.S. TV series) does require "double disambiguation" (whereas Heartland (1989 TV series) does not). Thanks for catching that.
However, this means that the Canadian TV also requires "double disambiguation" – IOW, Heartland (Canadian TV series) needs to be moved to Heartland (2007 Canadian TV series) (see, other examples where this has been necessary) to fully disambiguate from the 2007 U.S. TV series. (The redirect can stay at Heartland (Canadian TV series) in this case.) Should I launch a WP:RM about this? Or should it just be "moved"? -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 15:06, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
US | Canadian | Australian | |
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1989 | |||
1994 | |||
2007 |
Hi, You made a mistake at Israeli apartheid allegations. As several people pointed out, the meaning of that phrase is "apartheid allegations made by Israel", whereas the subject of the article is "apartheid allegations made about Israel". Nearly all the people who suggested that title do not have English as their first language. The new title is simply wrong and can't be sustained. Please correct this error. Zero talk 12:46, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Amakuru – as one of the "move expert" Admins, I thought I'd bring this to you. I just discovered Talk:Migo Adecer – it looks like it was an attempt to move an article from WP:Draftspace to WP:Mainspace. However, it looks like Migo Adecer is creation-protected. I'm not sure what the next step is here, as at first glance the article Talk:Migo Adecer appear to be viable (but there's obviously "history" involving this article subject)... In any case, probably better to have an Admin look into this further. Thanks! -- IJBall ( contribs • talk) 16:40, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru. Talkpages of disambiguation and set-index pages are usually deleted once a primary topic is declared (examples include Talk:Gladstone and Talk:Van Buren), I would assume, so wouldn't it make sense to delete Talk:Varadkar as well? I doubt somebody would prefer to start a discussion there, rather than at Talk:Leo Varadkar. IMHO it should stay deleted.-- Nevé – selbert 18:26, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Varadkar, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Varadkar and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Talk:Varadkar during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Nevé – selbert 19:22, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Well, that closure has WP:SUPERVOTE written all over it. When the arguments for support are "the name is too long" and "I want to close the discussion" versus an actual oppose, at most that would lead to a "no consensus". I don't mind you disagreeing with my !vote, but that needs to be left as a separate !vote, not as a closing rationale. Perhaps then we can discuss the merits of both opinions versus what I feel is an improper closure. -- Tavix ( talk) 13:24, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a Move review of Albanian Civil War. Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. -- Tavix ( talk) 13:49, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru, Please recheck your closing of the discussion. I interpret the consensus as being for Frogman Corps (Denmark), following the MILMOS, not for Frogman Corps, and for Frogman Corps to be a redirect to List of military diving units. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 20:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:00, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Steve, so sorry to keep you waiting this long to complete the GA review. Fantastic work as always - I'm very glad to pass it at last. Thank you for your continued dedication to WP and to bringing quality info about Rwanda to the masses. -- Lemurbaby ( talk) 13:11, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
The article Rwandan Civil War you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Rwandan Civil War for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lemurbaby -- Lemurbaby ( talk) 13:22, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
I want to take this offline from RfA as it's not really relevant, but I think you've misunderstood.
I can't speak directly for Anarchyte, but when the IP re-added the unsourced claim, I simply didn't believe them. London streets have been established for hundreds of years and are an essential part of navigation for the millions of tourists that visit the capital each year, so for Westminster CC to formally propose a renaming of one of the most prominent shopping streets in the West End seems an illogical waste of money. (I realise now the IP actually agreed with this sentiment on the talk page). Furthermore, the rename was carried out in 2014 and documented online in the council archives, so any editor could have added a source for this in the past three years - yet nobody did.
So, to summarise, I think there were extenuating circumstances regarding this, and to twist it into some sort of violation of WP:AGF / WP:BITE is a little wide of the mark, in my view.
I might seem like I'm ranting a little unncessarily, but to me the factual accuracy and integrity of a Good Article is more important than a Request for Adminship, and people should be focusing their attention on what's good for the article, not using minor errors to whack each other over the head with! Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:12, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
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Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.Thanks for deleting that youngster's userpage a few minutes ago. The same personal details are included in previous versions of his talk page which ought to be revdel-eted. Hope that's enough info without pointing it out to all and sundry. Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 12:59, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
This was unexpected. - Dank ( push to talk) 17:54, 12 July 2017 (UTC)