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Hi- that is odd! I can only assume it is a feature available on the German Wikipedia to allow translated articles to be completely GFDL compliant (see Wikipedia:Copyrights). I'm not aware of any similar feature on the English Wikipedia, so I think your best bet would be to ask for help over there. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I only really know about the English Wikipedia and Commons. J Milburn ( talk) 19:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Done. J Milburn ( talk) 17:15, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
It's up at sv:Genevieve Nnaji. Just a quick-n-dirty, but it should do the trick. I retired from Swedish Wikipedia a while ago, so I haven't done English-Swedish translations in quite a while. I thought I'd make an exception for your request since I assume that the Nigerian film industry isn't exactly over-represented on sv.wiki.
Peter Isotalo 17:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Done. I made several rather minor corrections. GregorB ( talk) 19:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
You might want to complain at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. -- BorgQueen ( talk) 20:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim, I have created a new name for Civilian casualties of strategic bombing. Thanks for your help Gregology ( talk) 02:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Responded. Don't worry too much though. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 21:06, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
On a more positive note, nice job with Stephanie Okereke! You know, a few hundred more characters and I think it would be eligible for a Did you know. The front page publicity would bring some eyes. =) -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 21:14, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
You have to deal with one of the administrators of the Greek Wikipedia, my administrator rights only work on the english wikipedia . DGG ( talk ) 19:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Amsaim. I hope you are member me pretty well. You told me through mail that whenever I need your favor you'll be more than willing to help me out with it, isn't? Hope yes. Now, I'm begging you to write the article about Swahili Wikipedia at there on the German Wikipedia. Would you be so kind to help me for that? Yours,-- Mwanaharakati( Longa) 04:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Lourie Pieterse 20:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Arakunem Talk 22:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Jamie S93 15:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Take a look at it now - that work? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 00:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I was offline when you stopped by - please let me know if I can help out with anything else. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 12:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes you have the right idea. To go live is just to move (rename) to {{ Infobox African Moview Awards}} (plus the /doc and discusssion page)...
However I can then see an infobox being created for each separate award in Category:Film awards of which there are an awful lot, better would be a universal {{ Infobox Movie Award}} taking a new parameter of award to specify each award and no one then needs reinvent the wheel :-)
Hence:
2006 African Movie Academy Awards | ||||
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Highlights | ||||
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{{Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox Movie Awards | award = African Movie Academy Awards | name = 2006 | image = | caption = | date = | site = | host = | producer = | director = | organizer = | best_picture = | most_wins = | most_nominations = | next = 2007 }}
and
75th Academy Awards | ||||
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Date | ||||
Site | ||||
Host | ||||
Highlights | ||||
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{{Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox Movie Awards | award = Academy Awards | name = 75th | image = | caption = | date = | site = | host = | producer = | director = | organizer = | best_picture = | most_wins = | most_nominations = | next = 79th }}
I'll notify the folks at WP:FILM project to see what else might be acheived. David Ruben Talk 01:17, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't get to your requests, I have been busy in real life lately and haven't had as much time on Wikipedia as I would like. If you still need help with them, send me an e-mail and I'll try to get to it shortly. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:44, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello - thought I was clear on the edit summary of this move. I will be creating page on Surulere, Oyo State within a few days and will provide necessary dab page when this is done. Regards ( Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)).
Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to check refs at the moment; you might consider the Reliable Sources noticeboard, the The No original research Noticeboard, or Requests for Page Protection. Since the edits stopped a few hours ago, protection might be premature - but they will be able to assist. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 15:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
The editor seems to have stopped (actually, moved onto Lagos) but I'm really not sure about your overreaction. The edits reverted aren't malicious, just newbie edits (what's the local municipality, what stadiums are there), and given the difficulty of finding editors willing to work on small Nigerian cities, I think it would be more productive if we actually tell them that we need sources on their talk page, rather than via edit summaries they aren't likely to read. I'm more concerned about WP:BITE and driving away a possible new editor rather than having a bit of news like "this stadium is in the city" unsourced. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 04:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I have removed the {{ prod}} tag from How to Orginize a Club and get it Prosper and to Stay Stable, which you proposed for deletion, because its deletion has previously been contested or viewed as controversial. Proposed deletion is not for controversial deletions. For this reason, it is best not to propose deletion of articles that have previously been de-{{ prod}}ed, even by the article creator, or which have previously been listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article, but feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! — C.Fred ( talk) 17:51, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edits on his page? He was the first President to be born in the 19th century, not the second. See List of United States Presidents by date of birth. Aquila89 ( talk) 21:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I removed your G4 speedy deletion tag. G4 does not cover pages deleted by speedy deletion. It only covers pages deleted after discussion, i.e. AfD. Also, I noticed you cautioned the author for removing CSD tags, but I didn't see any edits where the author did that. Singularity42 ( talk) 04:29, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
After making my above comments, I thought I would make a helpful comment regarding speedy deletion templates. It is very important to note that they have very narrow scopes, and should not be over-used. For example, A7 only covers individuals, animals, groups/organizations, and web content. Schools are specifically exempt from them, so you should not tag schools with A7. G11 is for obvious spam (i.e. "Check out our website and buy our product. We have the best prices in the world!"). If it appears to have the ulterior motive to promote a product, but is written in an encylopedic format, G11 does not apply.
PROD is a great tool when something does not meet a speedy deletion criteria but is obviously not proper for Wikipedia, and one I find very handy as a new page patroller. If you have any questions, please let me know. Singularity42 ( talk) 04:42, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see you reverted some edits of mine, not a problem in itself but you tagged them as vandalism. The pages seems to an autobiography and is identical to the creators user pages, I redirected the page to its creators userpage and and requested its deletion as per the procedure for that sort of thing. If I made a mistake, fair enough but just to clrify, I was not vandalising the page
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SchuminWeb ( Talk) 07:33, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Unless you can provide any evidence that the song is in the public domain your user page would seem to constitute a copyright violation. Please change it, as we take copyright very seriously at Wikipedia. Phil Bridger ( talk) 19:00, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Amsaim. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Copyright violation at User:Amsaim. Thank you. Phil Bridger ( talk) 00:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
I've declined the speedy deletion on this as it asserts a significance, a lower standard than notability. With 40 Google scholar hits, it might be better to discuss at WP:AFD before deleting. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 19:04, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Nerd Corps Entertainment - a page you tagged - because: producing notable television shows for a major broadcaster is an assertion of significance. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Skomorokh, barbarian 19:54, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Your proposed deletion of this article has been disputed so I have sent it to AFD and have used part of your original prod rational in my nomination - hope this is OK with you. The AFD is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawrence Onuzulike. Best, Nancy talk 10:26, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I made a mistake when editing that Chumnnambar boat house, it wasn't my article, I was trying to nominate it for deletion but ended up destroying your tag in the process by mistake :) ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Happy Birthday To You! ( talk • contribs) 12:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Homance, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not blatantly vandalism or a hoax. Thank you. Ged UK 22:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I moved it there so the user can work on the article while it is not in the article space. The user is a new user, so I gave them a chance to edit it in userspace so they don't have to rewrite the whole thing. At the same time it can safely be removed from the article space. – BuickCentury Driver 10:54, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I understand that you would put that deletion thing on the page, because it was badly written but if its deleted before I even have a chance to speak out for myself (on the talk page) I think its a bit unfair. Please undelete it and give me a fighting chance! Quiggers1P ( talk) 20:41, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes but my article seemed to fit all of your links. It is notable it is any personal experiences etc and I had reliable sources! Is it just impossible to make a page on wikipedia? My friends did once, but then they were found to be connected and all got banned. Quiggers1P ( talk) 21:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Re this, are you able to understand the content of the article?-- Jac16888 Talk 21:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Tata Motors have launched many new vehicles at Delhi Auto Show, kindly use Google News to know more about these Cars. I started these new articles using other( Tata Ace) as draft, and was planning to add more data as soon as it is available (specifications, dimensions etc).I haven't added anything new, so i don't know how the new article is infringing copyright when i have used data from wikipedia itself. I will deal with this matter tomorrow as I am feeling a bit tired. -- Anmol.2k4 ( talk) 23:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I have rolled back your edit re-adding an Expand tag to Funke Akindele. Under the guidance at Template:Expand it states that the template should not be used on articles concurrently with stub templates, only for articles beyond stub length which still require expansion. Miyagawa (talk) 22:07, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Amsaim. WP:AIV is not the best forum for the post you made there about Dako1. I have moved the post to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Dako1. Cheers.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Re your message: Yup. I suspect that it is towards the end of the school day and the kids are bored. It seems to come in bursts, unfortunately. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 22:47, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Looks like another admin beat me to it; thanks for the heads up, though! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 04:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Amsaim. I removed the A10 tag you placed on List of Mature Cartoon Series because {{ Db-a10}} states the article tagged for deletion "does not expand upon, detail or improve information within the existing article". List of Mature Cartoon Series does attempt to detail, as it lists only animated series targetting adult viewers while List of animated television series lists all animated series.
I personally like the idea behind the article, but it is contestable because it doesn't state what qualifies a series for inclusion, so you're welcome to bring it up at AFD if you'd like. Liqudluck✽ talk 01:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
...thanks for letting me know. Gawdalmighty, I wish folks like that would read the doggoned rules before slapping stuff like this on the site. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 04:28, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up, but I am not the creator of the article in question.
There is sufficient information in the Richard Baker article to assert notablility, even if the article currently fails to meet wikipedia standards, hence the removal of your speedy nomination. I've tagged the article with a 'Like resume' template and will monitor the article for improvement and submit it for AFD if none comes. Catfish Jim and the soapdish ( talk) 14:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I notice that NJA deleted the cat for you. I would have done it myself, but I was doing a complex history merge, and I couldn't deal with your message at the time. I wasn't trying to ignore you. Graham 87 13:37, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the article is still undergoing the AFD process, having failed to reach consensus. As the original author did not come back to improve it, I took it upon myself to add references that establish notability as per WP:GNG. It's now a substantially different article. As the person who nominated the article for deletion in the first place, you might want to add a comment to the AFD discussion. Cheers, Catfish Jim and the soapdish ( talk) 18:19, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the update! I didn't know those D3 policies existed, but definitely helpful! The links you chose in your revision weren't where I wanted the disambig to go, so I ended up changing it to the instrument and tale directly. Silivrenion ( talk) 14:34, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Right. I created The Beam (tale) as a stub. Hopefully more people will be able to add to it. Silivrenion ( talk) 14:54, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
It's gone (; Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
- FASTILYsock (TALK) 03:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Please be aware that you and Zencv ( talk · contribs) are currently engaged in an edit war. Should this behavior persist, one or both of you may find yourselves blocked for edit warring in order to prevent further disruption to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali article. Please take time to discuss your issue on the article's talk page and possibly visit our third opinion or dispute resolution venues. Thank you. — ξ xplicit 01:27, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Update: after reporting the matter to AiN, it was established by consensus & actions taken by the admins, that my reverts were in line with Wikipedia's BLP & NPOV guidelines. Amsaim ( talk) 01:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
First of all, please take some time to read WP:DTTR. It would be more helpful if you leave a proper message either in my talk page or in the talk page of the article, explaining why do you think that adding Islamophobia to the list here violates NPOV. I added the link as Islamophobia and Criticism of Islam often overlap. Or do you have an explanation why Irshad Manji, Wafa Sultan, Tasleema Nasreen and Criticism of Islam do not violate NPOV and Islamophobia does? Take some time to explain instead of dropping templates. Thanks Zencv Whisper 12:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
...off to clobber it again. Gawdalmighty, I wish folks like that would read the rles and not treat this site like a doggoned chalkboard. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 02:25, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
how you gone deleted the page and you just got the work that i just did and now its up for deletion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrshistory2010 ( talk • contribs) 18:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Why you reverted my edit? Cross namespace links are not good. Articles should link to articles and pages from the Wikipedia namespace to Wikipedia pages. -- Obersachse ( talk) 15:16, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Re your message: Paul Erik replied to you on his talk page with a very good explanation of why the article now meets the notability standards. The only thing I have to add is that the deletion log for the article doesn't give the whole story. The first two deletions were done on the same article creator and probably should have been labeled as CSD#A3, however, back then admins didn't have the fancy popup menu to fill in the deletion reasons like we do now. The fourth deletion was actually do to not only a copyright violation, but an AfD discussion. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 19:15, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Admsaim. Just letting you know I declined the speedy tag on this article because I don't think it was unambiguously promotional. Cheers, Olaf Davis ( talk) 16:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
The references I removed didn't state anything about the peoples ethnicity. Plus some were dead links. Ukabia ( talk) 20:06, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I guess I appreciate your (procedural) notification on my talk, but—as I pointed out at AN/I—your complaint is overblown and spurious. You resorted to AN/I without any sort of mediation, which is frankly ridiculous. I suggest that you review the dispute resolution process before resorting to the "nuclear option." I think you will find that nothing will come of this AN/I post, nor should it. Also—as I pointed out at AN/I— Category:Demo albums was on there before I ever edited it, so by your own reasoning, it should stay on until the AfD is closed. If you would like to respond, please do so on my talk or possibly at AN/I. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 02:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I feel that my page "War of Ideas" was taken down unjustly. Ive been told by another administrater that I need a citation in the opening paragrah. You say its a copyright infringment. The Strategic Studies Institute does NOT have a Copyright policy because its part of the US Military, hence its taxpayer funded.The following is from their website: Copyright and Reprinting Policy SSI studies hold no copyright. Current statutes prevent the U.S. government from copyrighting intellectual property since that property is paid for by the public and is therefore 'owned by the public'.
Reprinting - Since, at this time, there is no copyright policy, many organizations reprint our studies for classroom/seminar use. We do ask that you write us a message with the number of reprints and their intended use so that we can report this information for budgeting and resource allocation. [ [1]] By all means, please check this out.-- Friedrich Dusseldorf ( talk) 05:21, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Friedrich Dusseldorf
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How do i use this template? I've read the documentation, but I can't find a place to enter my hash string. Mandavo88 ( talk) 09:44, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I saw your edit on Scoff (disambiguation), and wanted to say thanks.
Can I also ask, on that disambiguation page, because the word "Scoff" is used much more in the English language to refer to a "Mocking expression" than the two other uses I have added it to the main list, this is disobeying the rules ( WP:D3) but it is there for a reason, what do you think? Thanks, Captain n00dle \ Talk 13:58, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
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Sorry, I hadn't noticed that the creator was actually objecting to an earlier speedy; nevertheless as s/he contested deletion by a reasonably acceptable rationale my rejection of the prod stands. The creator appears to be a good-faith contributor who is new to Wikipedia, and it feels unfriendly to me to place a speedy within 6 minutes of the article's creation, and then successively escalate to prod & AfD, whilst making little or no attempt to help them get the article up to scratch or to give them time to find appropriate references.
I did put a note on the creator's page explaining that the article needed work, and particularly references, in order to be acceptable, and would have hoped that you would have given them at least a week to try to comply. Espresso Addict ( talk) 23:45, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Yep, strictly speaking there was a reason: my mistake. I was quick editing stuff in different languages and just... mixed up players :$. Thanks! -- DataSport ( talk) 20:17, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, but you'll have to explain to me how Kirsten Rosenberg and Courtney Cox (musician) meets the criteria of all the guidelines you just quoted, as I don't see it. I'll bring it to AfD if need be. Nymf hideliho! 20:45, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your query. Notability criteria are not normally applied to userspace. The page is in reality a page about its author, which is true of most userpages. But it is not offensive or promotional, so I am not eager to delete it. Feel free to nominate it at WP:CSD to gauge opinion. -- Anthony.bradbury "talk" 20:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:Shia Islam in Kuwait DGG ( talk ) 14:32, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Actually, you are looking at the wrong project. The ones you've been changing is the WP:ACTOR project, which states this for the high priority criteria: "Actors and filmmakers who are well-known in the film industry, to film buffs, and others. These people can reasonably be expected to be included in any print encyclopedia." See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Actors_and_Filmmakers/Assessment#Priority_scale. --> Gggh talk/ contribs 11:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim, I am Xu , a chinese studying in Helsinki. I attended a workshop on Codewit self development workshop last saturday. Today I was browsing about them and noticed that their organsiation was about to be deleted in wikipedia. I was wondering why. Please take your time to reserach more about them and check their website too at Codewit Global Network Ry. probably you will observe that they are not suppose to deleted. that is my opinion anyway. Thank you for listening to me Xuci-p ( talk) 15:20, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Amsaim,
I'd be happy to include specific pages for the entry on African cinema; I didn't didn't realize I needed to be that specific when I was citing - given that there were no direct quotes from the text and that most of what I was saying can be found in any number of texts on African cinema.
Do I have to re-write the whole section, or is there a way to revert to the text I wrote before you made the edits?
Best, Jmembe ( talk) 20:41, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Amsaim! The report you filed at AN/I concerning User:Varlaam is stale, and no action is likely to occur on it. Would you mind if I closed the thread as: "Resolved: No administrator action required." Because that is the situation, and this board has many threads that many editors comment on. Closing threads as resolved is the best way to avoid "clogging" stale reports with extraneous comments. What say you? Cheers :> Doc9871 ( talk) 05:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
What are you talking about? I cited public Los Angeles County court documents. You don't believe that as sufficient?! LOL It looks pretty strange that you would cover up (censor) public information on Wikipedia. I've never heard of quoting a court document as being libelous, or adding a performer's real name as being libelous. I think you need to actually look up the definition of this word, because the last time I checked -- saying someone's name, or repeating the content of public court documents wasn't slander. It only appears as if you did not even take the time to look at what was included on the page and the references that were indeed added. Just canceling everything like this is the worse type of "vandalism" on here, and the heavy handed approach what gives Wikipedia an ever increasing bad name. 76.89.129.139 ( talk) 05:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I know you want to improve The Iron Maidens article, but why did you remove Melanie Sisneros and Elizabeth Schall from the History section? Sisneros was a founding member of the band, and Schall - not Heather Baker - was Jojo Draven's direct replacement from 2005 to 2006. - Areaseven ( talk) 02:36, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
I have left another note, suggesting he talk to you and other interested folk. Remember to [{WP:AGF|assume good faith]], and that the requirements for lists are sometimes less than "it is notable enough to have an article" - they are likely to be "significance". There's an essay somewhere I'm sure... Regards.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:11, 6 October 2010 (UTC).
None of the things I included into the article was unsourced. I provided many sources that were direct, and one indirect.
* Some of the material which you added is not sourced, e.g. in the infobox data field "native_name" you placed the word "Diobu", but there's no source given for that, and in the lead section of the article you wrote that Port Harcourt in the Igbo language is Diobu, and again no source is given for that.
* The source which you attributed to this sentence of the lead section "The area that became Port Harcourt in 1912 was originally the farmland of the Diobu village group of the Ikwerre, a subgroup of the Igbo people" is from a self-published source (published by iUniverse, a selfpublishing company), and thus cannot be used for inclusion in Wikipedia, and most certainly not to source controversial material.
*In the opening sentence of the History section, you used 2 sources as a reference for Diobu. The first source is the same self-published source as in the lead section (from iUniverse), and you also used this source as a reference for your statements about Diobu. However, the word Diobu does not appear anywhere in the second source. Thusly, your additions about Diobu are either unsourced or are from a self-published source.
The second source (the guide book) was a reference for the 1912 date, the founding of the city of Port Harcourt, instead of putting it in the middle of the sentence, I put it at the end with the other source (linking to a quote of Isichei).
This is my last version of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Port_Harcourt&oldid=392400951#cite_note-8
Apart from the quoted reference, there were other citations that were reliable and had backed up the infromation I entered into the article, such as this:
Njoku, Onwuka N (October 2008). " Eastern Nigeria Under British Rule" (PDF). Department of History, University of Nigeria (University of Nigeria, Nsukka): 23.
A journal from the University of Nigeria, it has everything that I entered into the article including:
"Port Harcourt arose from the creation of a wharf at Diobu and the construction of the railway to access the coal discovered at Udi"
Did you note see this? If you want to see information about the relationship between Port Harcourt and Enugu, see the Enugu article. Ukabia - talk 11:50, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Please could you explain to me why you have repeatedly deleted this article. I have spoken to a number of editors now who say there is nothing wrong with the article as it currently stands, however you have relentlessly objected to it. I am new to Wikipedia however I have done hours of reading and as far as I am aware, there is nothing wrong with this article. Many thanks Wikimuso ( talk) 21:02, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello I did see this one before you but I couldnt bring myself to undo, just in case he really is notable (even after the injection)!! Cheers ( Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:09, 4 December 2010 (UTC)).
hey how are you you have monitored some of my changes to the above mentioned article /thank you very much/ could you please then look after the article by adding relevant information and or cleaning up especially the zimbabwean section and where the grammar and punctuation is poor. sorry im new here and being that im zimbabwean, my edits affect mostly the zimbabwean articles (references hard to come by, so trolling the internet right now and trying to understand how i can use non online references in general) and so while im getting my feet i prefer not to create new articles all together but clean up grammar and add common sense to articles that need it and where i deem myself knowledgeable enough to sufficiently make contributions of note for example blaklizt entertainment is not a person but a record company whose only notable artist is tek neek but you reversed that information that i had cleaned up. i am not sure he is even notable enough to mention on wikipedia but i guess someone put it there in the first place. then the most noteworthy hiphop artist from zimbabwe happens to be carlprit who i added but you removed and reverted to an older version so i guess its fine but im just trying to understand how i can get articles becoming relevant
hey im not sure what to do next so please advise as youre in a position to mentor me into creating better articles Wikispott ( talk) 12:38, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
As requested. Deb ( talk) 09:42, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
RefTools should be totally back to normal now. Kaldari ( talk) 02:46, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I notice you rather summarily reverted my addition of dates etc. for writers on this page, as well as one redlinked (but referenced) individual, Samson Amali, on the grounds Amali was non-notable. I wondered why. Best, Dsp13 ( talk) 21:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Re your reversion of my edit: on what basis do you consider the photo irrelevant? We lack a separate article on the writer/director; this is (so far) his only feature film, and it is one that has won numerous awards; he is, to the best of my knowledge, the first Congolese to successfully bring a commercial film to fruition in a couple of decades. We are unlikely to have more relevant 'free' image for the film, since anything from the film itself will be copyrighted. - Jmabel | Talk 06:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I'd not got that one on my watchlist. Peridon ( talk) 18:56, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I have noticed your insistence on including chameleone from Uganda as an afrobeat artist. This is very misleading and if you really knew Chameleone you would know he is mostly a dancehall musicians and sometimes does whats called "kidandali" in Uganda. His music has never had the stylistic elements described on the afrobeat page. Please view his official profile with all his songs and you will know for sure. Follow this link: http://www.kerere.com/artists.php?id=100
Thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xalixo ( talk • contribs) 08:04, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Asmain I am at Wikimani right now so I can't look at this deeply, but on the Lional Richie page at least it doesn't look vandalistic, possibly wrong, of course, in which case it shoul;d be reolved by discussion in the usual way. I notcie you alos rasiedthe matter on AIV, so hopefully anyt necessary action wil be taken. All the best,
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... and again. JamesBWatson ( talk) 15:08, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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I moved your request for a page number to Talk:Elohim#Page_number_missing as it is not now accessible. Hopefully someone else will see it. Though the grammatical point that elohim is singular is very basic knowledge and could be supplied from any reference work or grammar. Cheers. In ictu oculi ( talk) 17:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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Email would have been better, but oh well. Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 14:26, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Just saw your message concerning the page I put up. This is a page of a well known Nigerian rapper widely appreciated so I see no reason why this should be regarded as "inappropriate" because all other related articles are still up and running till today. Like I said, I have previously had a comprehensive conversation with one of the other admins and I was given the go ahead to continue with it. I hope you consider it and allow this page to stand without any warning whatsoever and I take full responsibility regarding that. Thanks.
comment added by Seandbadest ( talk • contribs) 19:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I have not deleted them. (1) the errors of the editor elsewhere are irrelevant, unless created by an indefinitely banned or blocked editor during their period of block. (if the problems were copyright related it would justify a very close look, but they do not seem to be) (2) The sources would obviously be in the individual area articles. The refs could presumably be copied over if you like, but I think that's unnecessary. (Perhaps, btw, there's a general government source that could be added that would cover them all. DGG ( talk ) 01:49, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Awesome job of maintaining the article at List of companies of Nigeria; most articles of that type devolve quickly into spam magnets, but you've kept that one up well! Kuru (talk) 22:06, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mike_Ezuruonye&diff=prev&oldid=503084939, I see many articles on Wikipedia which use thenigerianvoice.com as a source or reference, see http://en.wikipedia.org/?search=thenigerianvoice.com&title=Special%3ASearch. Are you suggesting all of these references and links should be removed? Why do you believe this source is questionable? -- beefyt ( talk) 13:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
GregJackP Boomer! 20:21, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Amsaim, thanks for spotting my additional info on 'Osuofia in London' lacked a citation. It's a difficult one: I know that 'Osuofia in London' was filmed in south east London because I've watched the film several times and I recognise the places (I live in south east London). I've written extensively about the film for my MA research here: http://freepdfhosting.com/d7dfaf1ffb.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.7.117.219 ( talk) 18:17, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I was checking the contributions of accounts recently issued spam warning and I saw your warnings to this new user. I did not see anything I would call spam. First you warned him for not adding references to support his edits. Then he linked to Nigerian newspapers and you warned him for spamming. Normally we save spam warnings for people trying to "push" a particular web site.
Am I missing something here? If not, I'm worried maybe we're being to BITEy with a newcomer. If I am missing a spam problem, I'm interested in following up.
Thanks, -- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:17, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Amsaim! Thank you for the notice.
Anyhow, Wikipedia:Verifiability says "This means that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation." - I believed that the corporate name wasn't likely to be challenged. Usually I cite almost everything I write but on some occasions I do leave something uncited if I think it isn't likely to be challenged. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:53, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new to editing Wikipedia so I apologise if I made some errors when editing the Declan Galbraith page. I am a representative of his Management and so I have been trying to correct the errors and false information that was on the page. I would appreciate your help in doing this, as I know you deleted some of my corrections, the info I have given is correct but maybe I didn't input it in the right way. Firstly the so called 'Official' MySpace page is not official at all, so we don't want that on the page. Also you removed some information I placed in the 'Fame' section regarding Declan's recent work at the Hackney Empire (London), my source of this info is the 'About' page on his official web site. I also changed the Genre...It was Pop, but I changed it to Folk, Rock, Pop. I'm not sure what you're problem was with this and why you changed it back. If you could explain this to me I would appreciate it. Also you removed the link to Declan's Official YouTube channel. Could you tell me why this is? Also is it possible to change the photo? The one currently being used is very old. Preferably we would like to use something from his official Web Site, something from a recent photo shoot. Thank you in advance, Declan-Galbraith-Management Declan-Galbraith-Management 16:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Declan-Galbraith-Management ( talk • contribs)
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Hi- that is odd! I can only assume it is a feature available on the German Wikipedia to allow translated articles to be completely GFDL compliant (see Wikipedia:Copyrights). I'm not aware of any similar feature on the English Wikipedia, so I think your best bet would be to ask for help over there. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I only really know about the English Wikipedia and Commons. J Milburn ( talk) 19:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Done. J Milburn ( talk) 17:15, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
It's up at sv:Genevieve Nnaji. Just a quick-n-dirty, but it should do the trick. I retired from Swedish Wikipedia a while ago, so I haven't done English-Swedish translations in quite a while. I thought I'd make an exception for your request since I assume that the Nigerian film industry isn't exactly over-represented on sv.wiki.
Peter Isotalo 17:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Done. I made several rather minor corrections. GregorB ( talk) 19:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
You might want to complain at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. -- BorgQueen ( talk) 20:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim, I have created a new name for Civilian casualties of strategic bombing. Thanks for your help Gregology ( talk) 02:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Responded. Don't worry too much though. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 21:06, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
On a more positive note, nice job with Stephanie Okereke! You know, a few hundred more characters and I think it would be eligible for a Did you know. The front page publicity would bring some eyes. =) -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 21:14, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
You have to deal with one of the administrators of the Greek Wikipedia, my administrator rights only work on the english wikipedia . DGG ( talk ) 19:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Amsaim. I hope you are member me pretty well. You told me through mail that whenever I need your favor you'll be more than willing to help me out with it, isn't? Hope yes. Now, I'm begging you to write the article about Swahili Wikipedia at there on the German Wikipedia. Would you be so kind to help me for that? Yours,-- Mwanaharakati( Longa) 04:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Lourie Pieterse 20:03, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Arakunem Talk 22:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Jamie S93 15:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Take a look at it now - that work? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 00:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I was offline when you stopped by - please let me know if I can help out with anything else. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 12:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes you have the right idea. To go live is just to move (rename) to {{ Infobox African Moview Awards}} (plus the /doc and discusssion page)...
However I can then see an infobox being created for each separate award in Category:Film awards of which there are an awful lot, better would be a universal {{ Infobox Movie Award}} taking a new parameter of award to specify each award and no one then needs reinvent the wheel :-)
Hence:
2006 African Movie Academy Awards | ||||
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Site | ||||
Host | ||||
Highlights | ||||
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{{Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox Movie Awards | award = African Movie Academy Awards | name = 2006 | image = | caption = | date = | site = | host = | producer = | director = | organizer = | best_picture = | most_wins = | most_nominations = | next = 2007 }}
and
75th Academy Awards | ||||
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Date | ||||
Site | ||||
Host | ||||
Highlights | ||||
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{{Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox Movie Awards | award = Academy Awards | name = 75th | image = | caption = | date = | site = | host = | producer = | director = | organizer = | best_picture = | most_wins = | most_nominations = | next = 79th }}
I'll notify the folks at WP:FILM project to see what else might be acheived. David Ruben Talk 01:17, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't get to your requests, I have been busy in real life lately and haven't had as much time on Wikipedia as I would like. If you still need help with them, send me an e-mail and I'll try to get to it shortly. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:44, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello - thought I was clear on the edit summary of this move. I will be creating page on Surulere, Oyo State within a few days and will provide necessary dab page when this is done. Regards ( Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)).
Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to check refs at the moment; you might consider the Reliable Sources noticeboard, the The No original research Noticeboard, or Requests for Page Protection. Since the edits stopped a few hours ago, protection might be premature - but they will be able to assist. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 15:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
The editor seems to have stopped (actually, moved onto Lagos) but I'm really not sure about your overreaction. The edits reverted aren't malicious, just newbie edits (what's the local municipality, what stadiums are there), and given the difficulty of finding editors willing to work on small Nigerian cities, I think it would be more productive if we actually tell them that we need sources on their talk page, rather than via edit summaries they aren't likely to read. I'm more concerned about WP:BITE and driving away a possible new editor rather than having a bit of news like "this stadium is in the city" unsourced. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 04:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I have removed the {{ prod}} tag from How to Orginize a Club and get it Prosper and to Stay Stable, which you proposed for deletion, because its deletion has previously been contested or viewed as controversial. Proposed deletion is not for controversial deletions. For this reason, it is best not to propose deletion of articles that have previously been de-{{ prod}}ed, even by the article creator, or which have previously been listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article, but feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! — C.Fred ( talk) 17:51, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edits on his page? He was the first President to be born in the 19th century, not the second. See List of United States Presidents by date of birth. Aquila89 ( talk) 21:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I removed your G4 speedy deletion tag. G4 does not cover pages deleted by speedy deletion. It only covers pages deleted after discussion, i.e. AfD. Also, I noticed you cautioned the author for removing CSD tags, but I didn't see any edits where the author did that. Singularity42 ( talk) 04:29, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
After making my above comments, I thought I would make a helpful comment regarding speedy deletion templates. It is very important to note that they have very narrow scopes, and should not be over-used. For example, A7 only covers individuals, animals, groups/organizations, and web content. Schools are specifically exempt from them, so you should not tag schools with A7. G11 is for obvious spam (i.e. "Check out our website and buy our product. We have the best prices in the world!"). If it appears to have the ulterior motive to promote a product, but is written in an encylopedic format, G11 does not apply.
PROD is a great tool when something does not meet a speedy deletion criteria but is obviously not proper for Wikipedia, and one I find very handy as a new page patroller. If you have any questions, please let me know. Singularity42 ( talk) 04:42, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see you reverted some edits of mine, not a problem in itself but you tagged them as vandalism. The pages seems to an autobiography and is identical to the creators user pages, I redirected the page to its creators userpage and and requested its deletion as per the procedure for that sort of thing. If I made a mistake, fair enough but just to clrify, I was not vandalising the page
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SchuminWeb ( Talk) 07:33, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Unless you can provide any evidence that the song is in the public domain your user page would seem to constitute a copyright violation. Please change it, as we take copyright very seriously at Wikipedia. Phil Bridger ( talk) 19:00, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Amsaim. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Copyright violation at User:Amsaim. Thank you. Phil Bridger ( talk) 00:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
I've declined the speedy deletion on this as it asserts a significance, a lower standard than notability. With 40 Google scholar hits, it might be better to discuss at WP:AFD before deleting. Cheers, Dloh cierekim 19:04, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Nerd Corps Entertainment - a page you tagged - because: producing notable television shows for a major broadcaster is an assertion of significance. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Skomorokh, barbarian 19:54, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Your proposed deletion of this article has been disputed so I have sent it to AFD and have used part of your original prod rational in my nomination - hope this is OK with you. The AFD is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawrence Onuzulike. Best, Nancy talk 10:26, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I made a mistake when editing that Chumnnambar boat house, it wasn't my article, I was trying to nominate it for deletion but ended up destroying your tag in the process by mistake :) ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Happy Birthday To You! ( talk • contribs) 12:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Homance, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not blatantly vandalism or a hoax. Thank you. Ged UK 22:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I moved it there so the user can work on the article while it is not in the article space. The user is a new user, so I gave them a chance to edit it in userspace so they don't have to rewrite the whole thing. At the same time it can safely be removed from the article space. – BuickCentury Driver 10:54, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I understand that you would put that deletion thing on the page, because it was badly written but if its deleted before I even have a chance to speak out for myself (on the talk page) I think its a bit unfair. Please undelete it and give me a fighting chance! Quiggers1P ( talk) 20:41, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes but my article seemed to fit all of your links. It is notable it is any personal experiences etc and I had reliable sources! Is it just impossible to make a page on wikipedia? My friends did once, but then they were found to be connected and all got banned. Quiggers1P ( talk) 21:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Re this, are you able to understand the content of the article?-- Jac16888 Talk 21:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Tata Motors have launched many new vehicles at Delhi Auto Show, kindly use Google News to know more about these Cars. I started these new articles using other( Tata Ace) as draft, and was planning to add more data as soon as it is available (specifications, dimensions etc).I haven't added anything new, so i don't know how the new article is infringing copyright when i have used data from wikipedia itself. I will deal with this matter tomorrow as I am feeling a bit tired. -- Anmol.2k4 ( talk) 23:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I have rolled back your edit re-adding an Expand tag to Funke Akindele. Under the guidance at Template:Expand it states that the template should not be used on articles concurrently with stub templates, only for articles beyond stub length which still require expansion. Miyagawa (talk) 22:07, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Amsaim. WP:AIV is not the best forum for the post you made there about Dako1. I have moved the post to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Dako1. Cheers.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Re your message: Yup. I suspect that it is towards the end of the school day and the kids are bored. It seems to come in bursts, unfortunately. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 22:47, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Looks like another admin beat me to it; thanks for the heads up, though! Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 04:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Amsaim. I removed the A10 tag you placed on List of Mature Cartoon Series because {{ Db-a10}} states the article tagged for deletion "does not expand upon, detail or improve information within the existing article". List of Mature Cartoon Series does attempt to detail, as it lists only animated series targetting adult viewers while List of animated television series lists all animated series.
I personally like the idea behind the article, but it is contestable because it doesn't state what qualifies a series for inclusion, so you're welcome to bring it up at AFD if you'd like. Liqudluck✽ talk 01:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
...thanks for letting me know. Gawdalmighty, I wish folks like that would read the doggoned rules before slapping stuff like this on the site. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 04:28, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up, but I am not the creator of the article in question.
There is sufficient information in the Richard Baker article to assert notablility, even if the article currently fails to meet wikipedia standards, hence the removal of your speedy nomination. I've tagged the article with a 'Like resume' template and will monitor the article for improvement and submit it for AFD if none comes. Catfish Jim and the soapdish ( talk) 14:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
I notice that NJA deleted the cat for you. I would have done it myself, but I was doing a complex history merge, and I couldn't deal with your message at the time. I wasn't trying to ignore you. Graham 87 13:37, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, the article is still undergoing the AFD process, having failed to reach consensus. As the original author did not come back to improve it, I took it upon myself to add references that establish notability as per WP:GNG. It's now a substantially different article. As the person who nominated the article for deletion in the first place, you might want to add a comment to the AFD discussion. Cheers, Catfish Jim and the soapdish ( talk) 18:19, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the update! I didn't know those D3 policies existed, but definitely helpful! The links you chose in your revision weren't where I wanted the disambig to go, so I ended up changing it to the instrument and tale directly. Silivrenion ( talk) 14:34, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Right. I created The Beam (tale) as a stub. Hopefully more people will be able to add to it. Silivrenion ( talk) 14:54, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
It's gone (; Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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Please be aware that you and Zencv ( talk · contribs) are currently engaged in an edit war. Should this behavior persist, one or both of you may find yourselves blocked for edit warring in order to prevent further disruption to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali article. Please take time to discuss your issue on the article's talk page and possibly visit our third opinion or dispute resolution venues. Thank you. — ξ xplicit 01:27, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Update: after reporting the matter to AiN, it was established by consensus & actions taken by the admins, that my reverts were in line with Wikipedia's BLP & NPOV guidelines. Amsaim ( talk) 01:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
First of all, please take some time to read WP:DTTR. It would be more helpful if you leave a proper message either in my talk page or in the talk page of the article, explaining why do you think that adding Islamophobia to the list here violates NPOV. I added the link as Islamophobia and Criticism of Islam often overlap. Or do you have an explanation why Irshad Manji, Wafa Sultan, Tasleema Nasreen and Criticism of Islam do not violate NPOV and Islamophobia does? Take some time to explain instead of dropping templates. Thanks Zencv Whisper 12:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
...off to clobber it again. Gawdalmighty, I wish folks like that would read the rles and not treat this site like a doggoned chalkboard. -- PMDrive1061 ( talk) 02:25, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
how you gone deleted the page and you just got the work that i just did and now its up for deletion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrshistory2010 ( talk • contribs) 18:21, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Why you reverted my edit? Cross namespace links are not good. Articles should link to articles and pages from the Wikipedia namespace to Wikipedia pages. -- Obersachse ( talk) 15:16, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Re your message: Paul Erik replied to you on his talk page with a very good explanation of why the article now meets the notability standards. The only thing I have to add is that the deletion log for the article doesn't give the whole story. The first two deletions were done on the same article creator and probably should have been labeled as CSD#A3, however, back then admins didn't have the fancy popup menu to fill in the deletion reasons like we do now. The fourth deletion was actually do to not only a copyright violation, but an AfD discussion. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 19:15, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Admsaim. Just letting you know I declined the speedy tag on this article because I don't think it was unambiguously promotional. Cheers, Olaf Davis ( talk) 16:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
The references I removed didn't state anything about the peoples ethnicity. Plus some were dead links. Ukabia ( talk) 20:06, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I guess I appreciate your (procedural) notification on my talk, but—as I pointed out at AN/I—your complaint is overblown and spurious. You resorted to AN/I without any sort of mediation, which is frankly ridiculous. I suggest that you review the dispute resolution process before resorting to the "nuclear option." I think you will find that nothing will come of this AN/I post, nor should it. Also—as I pointed out at AN/I— Category:Demo albums was on there before I ever edited it, so by your own reasoning, it should stay on until the AfD is closed. If you would like to respond, please do so on my talk or possibly at AN/I. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 02:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I feel that my page "War of Ideas" was taken down unjustly. Ive been told by another administrater that I need a citation in the opening paragrah. You say its a copyright infringment. The Strategic Studies Institute does NOT have a Copyright policy because its part of the US Military, hence its taxpayer funded.The following is from their website: Copyright and Reprinting Policy SSI studies hold no copyright. Current statutes prevent the U.S. government from copyrighting intellectual property since that property is paid for by the public and is therefore 'owned by the public'.
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Hello, I saw your edit on Scoff (disambiguation), and wanted to say thanks.
Can I also ask, on that disambiguation page, because the word "Scoff" is used much more in the English language to refer to a "Mocking expression" than the two other uses I have added it to the main list, this is disobeying the rules ( WP:D3) but it is there for a reason, what do you think? Thanks, Captain n00dle \ Talk 13:58, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
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Sorry, I hadn't noticed that the creator was actually objecting to an earlier speedy; nevertheless as s/he contested deletion by a reasonably acceptable rationale my rejection of the prod stands. The creator appears to be a good-faith contributor who is new to Wikipedia, and it feels unfriendly to me to place a speedy within 6 minutes of the article's creation, and then successively escalate to prod & AfD, whilst making little or no attempt to help them get the article up to scratch or to give them time to find appropriate references.
I did put a note on the creator's page explaining that the article needed work, and particularly references, in order to be acceptable, and would have hoped that you would have given them at least a week to try to comply. Espresso Addict ( talk) 23:45, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Yep, strictly speaking there was a reason: my mistake. I was quick editing stuff in different languages and just... mixed up players :$. Thanks! -- DataSport ( talk) 20:17, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, but you'll have to explain to me how Kirsten Rosenberg and Courtney Cox (musician) meets the criteria of all the guidelines you just quoted, as I don't see it. I'll bring it to AfD if need be. Nymf hideliho! 20:45, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your query. Notability criteria are not normally applied to userspace. The page is in reality a page about its author, which is true of most userpages. But it is not offensive or promotional, so I am not eager to delete it. Feel free to nominate it at WP:CSD to gauge opinion. -- Anthony.bradbury "talk" 20:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:Shia Islam in Kuwait DGG ( talk ) 14:32, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Actually, you are looking at the wrong project. The ones you've been changing is the WP:ACTOR project, which states this for the high priority criteria: "Actors and filmmakers who are well-known in the film industry, to film buffs, and others. These people can reasonably be expected to be included in any print encyclopedia." See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Actors_and_Filmmakers/Assessment#Priority_scale. --> Gggh talk/ contribs 11:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello Amsaim, I am Xu , a chinese studying in Helsinki. I attended a workshop on Codewit self development workshop last saturday. Today I was browsing about them and noticed that their organsiation was about to be deleted in wikipedia. I was wondering why. Please take your time to reserach more about them and check their website too at Codewit Global Network Ry. probably you will observe that they are not suppose to deleted. that is my opinion anyway. Thank you for listening to me Xuci-p ( talk) 15:20, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Amsaim,
I'd be happy to include specific pages for the entry on African cinema; I didn't didn't realize I needed to be that specific when I was citing - given that there were no direct quotes from the text and that most of what I was saying can be found in any number of texts on African cinema.
Do I have to re-write the whole section, or is there a way to revert to the text I wrote before you made the edits?
Best, Jmembe ( talk) 20:41, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Amsaim! The report you filed at AN/I concerning User:Varlaam is stale, and no action is likely to occur on it. Would you mind if I closed the thread as: "Resolved: No administrator action required." Because that is the situation, and this board has many threads that many editors comment on. Closing threads as resolved is the best way to avoid "clogging" stale reports with extraneous comments. What say you? Cheers :> Doc9871 ( talk) 05:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
What are you talking about? I cited public Los Angeles County court documents. You don't believe that as sufficient?! LOL It looks pretty strange that you would cover up (censor) public information on Wikipedia. I've never heard of quoting a court document as being libelous, or adding a performer's real name as being libelous. I think you need to actually look up the definition of this word, because the last time I checked -- saying someone's name, or repeating the content of public court documents wasn't slander. It only appears as if you did not even take the time to look at what was included on the page and the references that were indeed added. Just canceling everything like this is the worse type of "vandalism" on here, and the heavy handed approach what gives Wikipedia an ever increasing bad name. 76.89.129.139 ( talk) 05:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I know you want to improve The Iron Maidens article, but why did you remove Melanie Sisneros and Elizabeth Schall from the History section? Sisneros was a founding member of the band, and Schall - not Heather Baker - was Jojo Draven's direct replacement from 2005 to 2006. - Areaseven ( talk) 02:36, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
I have left another note, suggesting he talk to you and other interested folk. Remember to [{WP:AGF|assume good faith]], and that the requirements for lists are sometimes less than "it is notable enough to have an article" - they are likely to be "significance". There's an essay somewhere I'm sure... Regards.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:11, 6 October 2010 (UTC).
None of the things I included into the article was unsourced. I provided many sources that were direct, and one indirect.
* Some of the material which you added is not sourced, e.g. in the infobox data field "native_name" you placed the word "Diobu", but there's no source given for that, and in the lead section of the article you wrote that Port Harcourt in the Igbo language is Diobu, and again no source is given for that.
* The source which you attributed to this sentence of the lead section "The area that became Port Harcourt in 1912 was originally the farmland of the Diobu village group of the Ikwerre, a subgroup of the Igbo people" is from a self-published source (published by iUniverse, a selfpublishing company), and thus cannot be used for inclusion in Wikipedia, and most certainly not to source controversial material.
*In the opening sentence of the History section, you used 2 sources as a reference for Diobu. The first source is the same self-published source as in the lead section (from iUniverse), and you also used this source as a reference for your statements about Diobu. However, the word Diobu does not appear anywhere in the second source. Thusly, your additions about Diobu are either unsourced or are from a self-published source.
The second source (the guide book) was a reference for the 1912 date, the founding of the city of Port Harcourt, instead of putting it in the middle of the sentence, I put it at the end with the other source (linking to a quote of Isichei).
This is my last version of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Port_Harcourt&oldid=392400951#cite_note-8
Apart from the quoted reference, there were other citations that were reliable and had backed up the infromation I entered into the article, such as this:
Njoku, Onwuka N (October 2008). " Eastern Nigeria Under British Rule" (PDF). Department of History, University of Nigeria (University of Nigeria, Nsukka): 23.
A journal from the University of Nigeria, it has everything that I entered into the article including:
"Port Harcourt arose from the creation of a wharf at Diobu and the construction of the railway to access the coal discovered at Udi"
Did you note see this? If you want to see information about the relationship between Port Harcourt and Enugu, see the Enugu article. Ukabia - talk 11:50, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Please could you explain to me why you have repeatedly deleted this article. I have spoken to a number of editors now who say there is nothing wrong with the article as it currently stands, however you have relentlessly objected to it. I am new to Wikipedia however I have done hours of reading and as far as I am aware, there is nothing wrong with this article. Many thanks Wikimuso ( talk) 21:02, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello I did see this one before you but I couldnt bring myself to undo, just in case he really is notable (even after the injection)!! Cheers ( Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:09, 4 December 2010 (UTC)).
hey how are you you have monitored some of my changes to the above mentioned article /thank you very much/ could you please then look after the article by adding relevant information and or cleaning up especially the zimbabwean section and where the grammar and punctuation is poor. sorry im new here and being that im zimbabwean, my edits affect mostly the zimbabwean articles (references hard to come by, so trolling the internet right now and trying to understand how i can use non online references in general) and so while im getting my feet i prefer not to create new articles all together but clean up grammar and add common sense to articles that need it and where i deem myself knowledgeable enough to sufficiently make contributions of note for example blaklizt entertainment is not a person but a record company whose only notable artist is tek neek but you reversed that information that i had cleaned up. i am not sure he is even notable enough to mention on wikipedia but i guess someone put it there in the first place. then the most noteworthy hiphop artist from zimbabwe happens to be carlprit who i added but you removed and reverted to an older version so i guess its fine but im just trying to understand how i can get articles becoming relevant
hey im not sure what to do next so please advise as youre in a position to mentor me into creating better articles Wikispott ( talk) 12:38, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
As requested. Deb ( talk) 09:42, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
RefTools should be totally back to normal now. Kaldari ( talk) 02:46, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I notice you rather summarily reverted my addition of dates etc. for writers on this page, as well as one redlinked (but referenced) individual, Samson Amali, on the grounds Amali was non-notable. I wondered why. Best, Dsp13 ( talk) 21:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Re your reversion of my edit: on what basis do you consider the photo irrelevant? We lack a separate article on the writer/director; this is (so far) his only feature film, and it is one that has won numerous awards; he is, to the best of my knowledge, the first Congolese to successfully bring a commercial film to fruition in a couple of decades. We are unlikely to have more relevant 'free' image for the film, since anything from the film itself will be copyrighted. - Jmabel | Talk 06:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I'd not got that one on my watchlist. Peridon ( talk) 18:56, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I have noticed your insistence on including chameleone from Uganda as an afrobeat artist. This is very misleading and if you really knew Chameleone you would know he is mostly a dancehall musicians and sometimes does whats called "kidandali" in Uganda. His music has never had the stylistic elements described on the afrobeat page. Please view his official profile with all his songs and you will know for sure. Follow this link: http://www.kerere.com/artists.php?id=100
Thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xalixo ( talk • contribs) 08:04, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Asmain I am at Wikimani right now so I can't look at this deeply, but on the Lional Richie page at least it doesn't look vandalistic, possibly wrong, of course, in which case it shoul;d be reolved by discussion in the usual way. I notcie you alos rasiedthe matter on AIV, so hopefully anyt necessary action wil be taken. All the best,
Rich
Farmbrough,
09:33, 6 August 2011 (UTC).
JamesBWatson ( talk) 10:59, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
... and again. JamesBWatson ( talk) 15:08, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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I moved your request for a page number to Talk:Elohim#Page_number_missing as it is not now accessible. Hopefully someone else will see it. Though the grammatical point that elohim is singular is very basic knowledge and could be supplied from any reference work or grammar. Cheers. In ictu oculi ( talk) 17:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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Exceptional work in finding sources for and improving the Sabina Umeh-Akamune article, which appears to have very likely rescued the article from deletion. Northamerica1000 (talk) 04:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC) |
Email would have been better, but oh well. Matthew Thompson talk to me bro! 14:26, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Just saw your message concerning the page I put up. This is a page of a well known Nigerian rapper widely appreciated so I see no reason why this should be regarded as "inappropriate" because all other related articles are still up and running till today. Like I said, I have previously had a comprehensive conversation with one of the other admins and I was given the go ahead to continue with it. I hope you consider it and allow this page to stand without any warning whatsoever and I take full responsibility regarding that. Thanks.
comment added by Seandbadest ( talk • contribs) 19:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I have not deleted them. (1) the errors of the editor elsewhere are irrelevant, unless created by an indefinitely banned or blocked editor during their period of block. (if the problems were copyright related it would justify a very close look, but they do not seem to be) (2) The sources would obviously be in the individual area articles. The refs could presumably be copied over if you like, but I think that's unnecessary. (Perhaps, btw, there's a general government source that could be added that would cover them all. DGG ( talk ) 01:49, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Awesome job of maintaining the article at List of companies of Nigeria; most articles of that type devolve quickly into spam magnets, but you've kept that one up well! Kuru (talk) 22:06, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mike_Ezuruonye&diff=prev&oldid=503084939, I see many articles on Wikipedia which use thenigerianvoice.com as a source or reference, see http://en.wikipedia.org/?search=thenigerianvoice.com&title=Special%3ASearch. Are you suggesting all of these references and links should be removed? Why do you believe this source is questionable? -- beefyt ( talk) 13:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
GregJackP Boomer! 20:21, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Amsaim, thanks for spotting my additional info on 'Osuofia in London' lacked a citation. It's a difficult one: I know that 'Osuofia in London' was filmed in south east London because I've watched the film several times and I recognise the places (I live in south east London). I've written extensively about the film for my MA research here: http://freepdfhosting.com/d7dfaf1ffb.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.7.117.219 ( talk) 18:17, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I was checking the contributions of accounts recently issued spam warning and I saw your warnings to this new user. I did not see anything I would call spam. First you warned him for not adding references to support his edits. Then he linked to Nigerian newspapers and you warned him for spamming. Normally we save spam warnings for people trying to "push" a particular web site.
Am I missing something here? If not, I'm worried maybe we're being to BITEy with a newcomer. If I am missing a spam problem, I'm interested in following up.
Thanks, -- A. B. ( talk • contribs) 23:17, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Amsaim! Thank you for the notice.
Anyhow, Wikipedia:Verifiability says "This means that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation." - I believed that the corporate name wasn't likely to be challenged. Usually I cite almost everything I write but on some occasions I do leave something uncited if I think it isn't likely to be challenged. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:53, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new to editing Wikipedia so I apologise if I made some errors when editing the Declan Galbraith page. I am a representative of his Management and so I have been trying to correct the errors and false information that was on the page. I would appreciate your help in doing this, as I know you deleted some of my corrections, the info I have given is correct but maybe I didn't input it in the right way. Firstly the so called 'Official' MySpace page is not official at all, so we don't want that on the page. Also you removed some information I placed in the 'Fame' section regarding Declan's recent work at the Hackney Empire (London), my source of this info is the 'About' page on his official web site. I also changed the Genre...It was Pop, but I changed it to Folk, Rock, Pop. I'm not sure what you're problem was with this and why you changed it back. If you could explain this to me I would appreciate it. Also you removed the link to Declan's Official YouTube channel. Could you tell me why this is? Also is it possible to change the photo? The one currently being used is very old. Preferably we would like to use something from his official Web Site, something from a recent photo shoot. Thank you in advance, Declan-Galbraith-Management Declan-Galbraith-Management 16:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Declan-Galbraith-Management ( talk • contribs)
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