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So happy to know you are watching the Pattaya article. I am in USA for six months and return to Pattaya in October. As usual up to my neck in work. So double thanks to you. Your contributions are all right on. รัก-ไทย ( talk) 01:21, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
You previously blocked User:Dbiela8293 for adding the real name of a porn performer to their article. Despite that block and earlier warnings, they did it again. Can you please indef? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 13:50, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
hi zebadee, i received the wiki email that you restored my deletion of "john g. zimmerman" to wiki's list of photographers. i would appreciate your help--the reason i deleted the name is because when i added it to wiki's list of photographers the day before (july 1), a tag appeared on john g. zimmerman's wiki page citing partiality and a need for neutrality.i thought that by deleting the addition of his name to the photographer list, the tag on his wiki page would disappear. no such luck.
how can i make the partiality tag on zimmerman's wiki page disappear? why did it appear when i added his name to the photographers' list? thanks, Tesuro1212 ( talk) 13:38, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
hi zebedee, i found an incorrect blue biographical link on the page i wrote you about earlier today (july 2, 2.3-tag removal). --instead of a bio of contemporary photographer (John Dominis), the link takes you to a bio of a 19th century person with the same name. could you advise how to correct this? i don't know enough about John Dominis to write a bio myself. i tried adding an exclamation point before the name, which turns the name red, but with an exclamation point in front of it. thank you, Tesuro1212 ( talk) 07:00, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by J.Wilders ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 3 July 2011
Although the book written by David Dickson, Old world colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 suggests Richard Covert Alderman of Cork as a huguenot--he was not. He was the son of Richard Covert, merchant of London and Cecily Fettiplace Covert. Richard is stated in Burke's Landed Gentry as such. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is another source. In The History of Bandon, Lady Freke's diary ties this Richard to the Covert family of Sussex, Surrey and London.
Richard was married to Christian King, daughter of Nicholas King, gent of Surrey. This Nicholas and Richard jointly owned land after landing in Irleand about 1656. I have contacted the City of Cork archives--they said there is no proof that Richard was a huguenot.
If you need further information, please let me know. Thank you for your consideration
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<email redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaya55 ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Remember this? We evidently frightened her off for a bit, but not permanently: recently she has tried again. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 10:09, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the Freedom Debt Relief page. I just wanted to point out, that I do not work for that company. In fact, I've been laid off for 4 months now. =( I just randomly started updating various pages I found and that was one of my first so I just like to update it when I can. However, I did have a question on some of the points Ground101 made. I haven't been trying to suppress legal information at all. In fact, as you can see from my last edit, I added legal information and settlements on there. I actually have more I will be adding (including some licensing information I found on the contrary to what Ground101 said) soon, but I wanted to clarify if this type of information is ok? As you can see from my edit I was trying to make it more wikipedia friendly both content and formatting wise. I've never had to deal with a page vandal before and I didn't even know what a sockpuppet was until another admin pointed it out to me. I just don't want to be accused of doing the same thing so am wanting some clarification. I know your busy, so I appreciate your time. Happy 4th of July too! Elementrider77 ( talk) 21:54, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
...started admining in this space, could you add List of Nadars to your watchlist? I'm WP:INVOLVED in the article as I've edited it in the past. However, there's a current set of edits that needs monitoring. See the last discussion on the talk page. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 12:01, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
You may want to see WP:ANI#Muckraking by new user? and the link [1]. Dougweller ( talk) 06:07, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't think it was necessary to Afd this article as you may see here the author removed the speedy tag which is inappropriate. — Abhishek Talk 19:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Just saw a couple of my edits got revdel'd amongst some others at ANI. What's that about then? Fainites barley scribs 22:04, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you just deleted Young Astronauts Club. I was just in the process of bring that situation to ANI. The user( User:CarmygnCanteri(also operating as IP 108.57.29.149) has also sought to hijack the dab page YAC with the same info and are edit warring on U2 to change the nationality of the band. Can you offer any assistance ? He iro 20:23, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I am Jamaican and from the last cenus it showed that Portmore has over 300, 000 people while Kingston has far less and since Kingston in within another parish so people usally consider Kingston and St. Andrew as one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burning Amber ( talk • contribs) 00:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
dalahäst ( talk) 06:18, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Boing, at present I think there are four sock drawers. Shannon1488, KondottySultan, SumitKachroo and Prashantv79. The first two we are pretty much on top of (but another article will attract them soon - Ezhava. The third one will need some updating soon based on the contributions. The fourth one will need some matching in that set of articles to actually do a fresh SPI ( Utcursch might be of help on that as he has edited in that space before). I'd bet you a month's wages from the Prince that the four aren't related. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 18:43, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Sigh, can you add Iyengar to your watchlist. I've had to fully protect the page as there's really nothing but reverts on two sides and the prior protection expired yesterday and the reverts came back again. See the contribution history of the editors involved. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 19:09, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Deleted page of tony knight i set on bio of saint artjunkie new member reported to WIKIPEDIA AND ALSO REPORTING TO POLICE FOR HARRASSMENT THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A VANDALE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.217.194 ( talk • contribs) 00:00, 12 July 2011
After receiving your message I took the liberty of addressing it here. The 3-Revert Rule was no longer an issue after last Wednesday. However, I did do a one page edit on one topic webpage and one other page edit on another topic webpage (see: aforesaid title webpages) on Saturday. In addition to that I addressed such issues on talk pages which I didn't believe constituted an edit in the same way as a topic webpage edit that everyone else sees the results of. That being said, censorship of truthful, admittedly accurate and verifiably cited information is wrong and unethical. And you know it. Wikipedia allows a plenitude of contributions so long as such said additions are backed up by verifiable citations. There is nothing more to understand from such a fair policy. Yet, what I have seen was open butchery and censorship of topic webpages in favor of verifiably INCORRECT and uncited or even miscited information. One other editor took the extreme measure of deleting 95% of a topic webpage which is downright unethical and wrong as well. If it isn't censorship, then it certainly doesn't constitute a scholarly contribution either. When I edit such said webpages I will do so more infrequently, but I will not tolerate inaccurate information on an open and free electronic medium that calls itself an encyclopedia, since my english legal training prevents me from doing otherwise.
Thetruthnow2012 ( talk) 04:59, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks very much for your help so far with my name change request, as you can see it has been approved. You mentioned on my request that you would be willing to help me out with the article I am trying to write on Forum Invest, which is currently missing third party confirmation to make it credible. If you could take a look at the article and let me know where you think I should start adding and changing things I would be really grateful. I know you're very busy so any help however small will be very appreciated :) thanks! MariaPopovici ( talk) 08:51, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
I've been reported by a new user for edit warring on Kurmi. This happened while I was writing up an SPI. Brief outline of circumstances are at User_talk:SpacemanSpiff#Another possible sock. - Sitush ( talk) 09:28, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
There is also likely socking at Yadav. I note your recent revert but the edits immediately before it also removed cited content - I realised that I was way over the limit for reverts & so did nothing about it.
I am inclined to get some other admins involved in these issues. Fut. Perf and Salvio have both stepped in recently & I feel that if we spread the load a little then perhaps the message might start sinking in. Is it ok with you if I float the idea with them? - Sitush ( talk) 11:40, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
See i am a Yadav and we are not shudras,the references given on wikipedia page to prove us 'shudra' are totally sense-less and insane nor they are authentic.Its an attempt by some anti-social element who is trying to malign our image.If we were 'shudras' we should have been under 'Schedule Caste' under Indian constitution but we are not under 'Schedule Caste'.Indians have too much importance towards one's caste and 'Yadav' is a very strong caste with atleast 10 billion population in India so dont play with the emotions of these many yadavs.there will be mass boycott of wikipedia by yadavs and if it not corrected then we can take the legal route also through court.A good site like wikipedia ooesnt deserve to spread false information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parthyadav ( talk • contribs) 14:59, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Sir I want to make a point to you thant Yadavs are large number in population and form one of the largest castes in India. Putting Shudra status hurts sentiments of so many people. They are Aryans and Aryans are not Shudra. Please take this point in view. Some writers may write without much research. I will be thank full to you on behalf of my group. This is a genetic study that shows Yadavs as Aryans( Khaktriya Aryans are not Shudras) [1]
Areeb786 ( talk) 09:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Just in case you care, one of the caste SPAs (this one from Talk:Kurmi) has opened a discussion criticizing the behavior of you, SpacemanSpiff and myself (as "admins", even though I'm not one), as well as Sitush and MatthewVanitas. It's at WP:NPOVN#One sided opinion of Admin and user Sitush and Matthews on the page Kurmi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurmi if you feel like commenting. Qwyrxian ( talk) 13:42, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
I have it on good authority that Sitush has
TP'ed the houses of editors with whom he disagrees, written them fake "secret admirer" letters to convince them to show up for a rendezvous only to be humiliated on hidden camera as they stand there alone in the bar lobby holding a red rose, and on at least two occasions stolen their hubcaps.
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17:15, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
If you had bothered to look at my article, sources I cited, mostly books, used the title with Daily in it. Thus, that seemed to be the right title. Now, you seem to have deleted my article with references...Why would you do that? I would've understood if you'd made the mistake of changing the title but keeping the sources. Zigzig20s ( talk) 18:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying about the Talk Page CSD. I was unsure how to handle that. I was not clear if it was appropriate to remove other editor's comments. jsfouche ☽☾ Talk 20:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Whatever you did on Commons, I see it worked. If you want to repeat the trick, there is another one here. I meant to point that out in our original discussion, but carelessly linked the first one twice instead. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 21:01, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
It's somewhat vexing to realise that, just on Talk:Kurmi we have 44 sections almost entirely dealing with the inclusion of the word Shudra, and it would be far worse were it not for the frequent barring of IPs from the articlespace and even the Talk. It's really not something we can back down on, because there are dozens and dozens more articles which contain inflated Kshatriya claims for labouring castes (note how the old version of Varna (Hinduism had essentially no modern castes of any significance listed as Shudra, but had quite a few listed as Kshatriya despite deep doubts). In the big picture, it'd be great to figure out some sort of way we could tackle the issue in a manner other than laborious house-to-house fighting. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:05, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm just letting you know, if you don't mind, I have added your userbox User:Boing! said Zebedee/Userboxes/noadmin to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/User groups. Cheers. - Porch corpter ( talk/ contribs) 10:26, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
User:Bevinbell has falsely accused me of vandalism and reverted many of my recent edits. I removed additions made by Norm mit because I saw them as spam; one could agree or disagree with my edits, but they were made in good faith and were not vandalism. I note that you removed one of Norm mit's additions yourself (at Khmer language) and that Bevinbell did not revert you. Could you please explain to Bevinbell that I am not guilty of vandalism? 203.118.185.209 ( talk) 03:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
...appears to be a place in India, too (when you search for it, as one of my user pages, not yet moved to main article space pending reliable references). Too many hoaxes, too little time, best to remove unless they can can be verified- Cheers Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Zuggernaut. Just FYI. - Sitush ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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-- Bampublore ( talk) 21:34, 21 July 2011 (UTC)one user is abusing me please help me , please check my talk page . -- Bampublore ( talk) 21:34, 21 July 2011 (UTC)-- Bampublore ( talk) 21:34, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
This diff, and a previous removal of cited info, at Nambudiri involve someone who has had some involvement with the current group of India-related contributors. For now, I have left a note at Talk:Nambudiri#Origin and will leave it for a couple of days to give a chance for replies. Fortunately, since the Nambudiri community are indubitably Brahmins, the shudra issue is not going to rear its head. However, I rather think that oversight may be required. - Sitush ( talk) 13:24, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the message above the edit box. It is really astounding to see a message pop up when I opened the edit box. I hope you don't mind me disturbing you, but I do think that I should inform you about this. I have reported Sitush at WP/ANI and also mentioned you in the report.- MangoWong ( talk) 17:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
This IP has posted a thinly-veiled threat about "militias" and then an extremely coarse mockery about predicted future Pashtun suffering in Afghanistan (which I imagine looks even worse through South Asian eyes than through Anglo). Is this enough to just block off his IP, or anything really to be done for someone we can't easily pin down? My post here covers his diffs: User talk:84.59.190.210 MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:10, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Please look at this edit [4], could you take some action on such insults to (a)India (b)Indian editors (c)Wikipedia policy makers, a provocative statement, as an admin, please. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 20:21, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
... in this. There are some serious accusations being made + another repeat of the blog. - Sitush ( talk) 14:21, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello BsZ, I just wanted to let you know you've been mentioned on my talk page, here. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:53, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
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This edit on their talk page is the first since Vikraantkaka was blocked for a couple of days on 11 July. It is baffling (the first 4 characters may be "eyes" ?). Just a little concerned that something may be going on, or about to happen. - Sitush ( talk) 07:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings Zeb, once I get some time this evening I'll be filing an ANI on Yogesh. Today he brough up "that blog" again, and despite his coy claims "I'm not saying it's true, it's just important to see how WP's credibility is damaged", he clearly implies that you, Sitush, CT, and I are under investigation by Jimbo and will get our comeuppance. Basically still clearly using the blog to undermine others. Also still throwing around vague accusations (bias, grudge, incompetence) that any legit editor would take to ANI, but by not doing so and just dragging them up he's being disruptive and basically constantly PAing. Of course, he did file an ANI and not a single one of us was criticized by outside editors. I hate to drag you into this since I know now the caste-crufters are claiming you're a pet attack admin and all, but just mentioning in case you want in on the ANI as PA'ed party, especially as YK keeps tossing around claims of "incompetent admin" which again is totally unsat unless you're bringing up an actual ANI (and he did, and it failed). Anyway, here's a discussion which includes some diffs; will try to file ANI later tonight: User_talk:MatthewVanitas#Malaise. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Greetings BsZ, there's an account from Oct2010 that did nothing useful for about a week, went dormant, and just woke up to go tamper with templates (unintentionally making huge formatting errors) and make PAs. Can you take a look at this: Special:Contributions/Msreddy004 ?
Recent misbehavior:
Xer older posts are kind of entertaining PAs:
In any case, Reddy-centric SPA that does pretty much nothing but mess with pages and insult people. Thanks for your consideration. I did delete a few of his posts, but only because they were blatant trolling/attacks and would in no way lead to positive discourse, so thought it best to remove the bait from the equation. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 14:36, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
make me da admin nowww. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.67.65.222 ( talk) 03:32, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
The IP, User:84.59.190.210 is clearly not going to give up with his vandalism and insulting other wikipedians. I won't even bother reverting him as he will not stop. ( Ketabtoon ( talk) 05:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC))
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#How_to_deal_with_tendentious_editing.3F. You are not named: this is just so you know, given your heavy involvement. - Sitush ( talk) 16:50, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Any idea why
Fowler&fowler might have changed some cites at
Kurmi to Harvardnb format but left others as {{cite ...}} format? As I understand it, cite formats once established for an article should not be changed without discussion and they should not be mixed within an article.
Personally, I do not have a problem with Harvardnb but I know that a lot of people do not like it, a lot do not know that it exists, and if changing like this then one might as well go the whole hog and use the citeshort format so beloved at
WP:FAC (& which I use if starting a new article). I could ask F&f direct but am not sure of my ground here. -
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06:19, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, there's a section at Talk:Kamma (caste), Dumbest Debate on Wikipedia or Dumbest Debate EVER that is just a lengthy ramble by someone presumably taking Philosophy 101 in college, which says nothing really about Kamma but is just a drearily pretentious ramble about how I and another editor aren't brilliantly philosophical enough to see the big picture. It's kind of funny but pointless, but now we're getting IPs replying to it, and getting snotty when told to keep the topic on Kamma. I was going to just remove the chunk and its replies, but didn't want to be accused of CoI as though I were just removing it because it hurt my feelings or something. If you as a neutral admin agree it's non-pertinent, can you chop this unhelpful distraction: Talk:Kamma_(caste)#Dumbest_Debate_on_Wikipedia_or_Dumbest_Debate_EVER.3F.3F.3F.3F ? Thanks!
Sir, Yadavs has large number of population and form one of the largest castes in India. Putting Shudra status hurts sentiments of so many people. They are Aryans and Aryans are not Shudra. Please take this point in view. Some writers may write without much research. I will be thank full to you on behalf of my group. this is a genetic study that shows Yadavs as Aryans( And Aryans are not Shudras)-- http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2156-7-28.pdf www.biomedcentral.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hitendra dba ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtos (Myrtos Guide) is not a good one, it's a website about Mirtos (Myrtos) near Ierapetra in the Southern part of Crete, what do I see in how to get there ?. Kefalonia Island International Airport is the closest airfield from Myrtos and with the advent of low cost carriers; Kefalonia has got its own round of flights.
Everyone knows that Heraklion is the nearest airport; suggestion for accurate information about Myrtos in South East Crete:
Ron Vos ( talk) 21:58, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
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It is a little garbled but I think that an IP whom you recently blocked for 24 hours due to a threat of violence has pretty much just done the same thing again at User_talk:MatthewVanitas#3rd_opinion_needed. - Sitush ( talk) 18:56, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
I reported this IP few days ago, but you said he was not making personal attacks. Here we are with personal attacks in Persian language. Forget about the Persian parts, here is the English one. I will quote it "give order to my uncles and cousins the execution of Pashtuns in the entire northern Afghanistan..."
Not only that, he is clearly vandalizing topics - it is not about content dispute.
Hi, does this (combined with the IP's other edits) look suspicious to you? -- Beloved Freak 13:11, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Any chance of semi-protecting Talk:Jat people for a couple of days? Someone IP hopping over a big range (or it is a co-ordinated group?) is inserting/reinserting garbage that amounts to an attack on the Jat community. I keep undoing it because it is simply gratuitous abuse and WP:NOTFORUM. They may go away if there is a short period of semi-pp. - Sitush ( talk) 14:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
I realise that you are not around much at the moment but if/when you get the opportunity could you please take a look at List of Ezhavas? There are ongoing issues regarding unlinked/uncited = unverifiable content, but in particular regarding the contributions of Ss19751975. I have tried to explain, tried using templates etc but it seems not to be sinking in. Of course, I may be wrong and I almost certainly have not dealt with Ss19751975 in the optimum way. I may not be an admin but feel free to trout me. - Sitush ( talk) 00:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you again. Since you know the IP, I came back to you. The IP 84.59.190.210 is evading his block and is editing under the following IP, 188.107.5.219. He continues to vandalize and call for ethnic cleansing here in Wikipedia. Any permanent or long term solution for this? Thank you for your help. ( Ketabtoon ( talk) 04:43, 13 August 2011 (UTC))
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Just wanted to let you know that I undid your protection of the article talk page as seen here because I semiprotected the main article, and didn't want to have both pages protected at the same time. I admit that I didn't notice that the talk page was protected when I did it. I see you have some history with this article, so feel free to adjust as you see fit. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 16:15, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
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HI,
Appreciate your comments on Angana P. Chatterji , which you had marked as Libelous , I had referenced the FBI website an the Newsweek article to substantiate that input. I have nothing personal with the concerned individual , but have attended a few talks and realize the message posted on wikipedia is misleading for many without an appropriate background on the source of her funding and association with numerous organizations (now branded terrorist organizations ).
Most of her work is based on the agenda of a specific countries intelligence agency and mis-representation of facts. My main concern is all the trash she generates is now becoming reference material in other publications . I respect & adhere by your values to keep wikipedia clean of prejudice and hence find this borderline mis-representation disturbing.
Really appreciate your time to read my comments, would like any words of wisdom to to start making many of these articles more balanced , as they are currently a propaganda tool with all not so flattering comments being weeded out . thank you . regards MM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manja mali ( talk • contribs) 12:28, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
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So happy to know you are watching the Pattaya article. I am in USA for six months and return to Pattaya in October. As usual up to my neck in work. So double thanks to you. Your contributions are all right on. รัก-ไทย ( talk) 01:21, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
You previously blocked User:Dbiela8293 for adding the real name of a porn performer to their article. Despite that block and earlier warnings, they did it again. Can you please indef? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 13:50, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
hi zebadee, i received the wiki email that you restored my deletion of "john g. zimmerman" to wiki's list of photographers. i would appreciate your help--the reason i deleted the name is because when i added it to wiki's list of photographers the day before (july 1), a tag appeared on john g. zimmerman's wiki page citing partiality and a need for neutrality.i thought that by deleting the addition of his name to the photographer list, the tag on his wiki page would disappear. no such luck.
how can i make the partiality tag on zimmerman's wiki page disappear? why did it appear when i added his name to the photographers' list? thanks, Tesuro1212 ( talk) 13:38, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
hi zebedee, i found an incorrect blue biographical link on the page i wrote you about earlier today (july 2, 2.3-tag removal). --instead of a bio of contemporary photographer (John Dominis), the link takes you to a bio of a 19th century person with the same name. could you advise how to correct this? i don't know enough about John Dominis to write a bio myself. i tried adding an exclamation point before the name, which turns the name red, but with an exclamation point in front of it. thank you, Tesuro1212 ( talk) 07:00, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by J.Wilders ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 3 July 2011
Although the book written by David Dickson, Old world colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 suggests Richard Covert Alderman of Cork as a huguenot--he was not. He was the son of Richard Covert, merchant of London and Cecily Fettiplace Covert. Richard is stated in Burke's Landed Gentry as such. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is another source. In The History of Bandon, Lady Freke's diary ties this Richard to the Covert family of Sussex, Surrey and London.
Richard was married to Christian King, daughter of Nicholas King, gent of Surrey. This Nicholas and Richard jointly owned land after landing in Irleand about 1656. I have contacted the City of Cork archives--they said there is no proof that Richard was a huguenot.
If you need further information, please let me know. Thank you for your consideration
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<email redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaya55 ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Remember this? We evidently frightened her off for a bit, but not permanently: recently she has tried again. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 10:09, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the Freedom Debt Relief page. I just wanted to point out, that I do not work for that company. In fact, I've been laid off for 4 months now. =( I just randomly started updating various pages I found and that was one of my first so I just like to update it when I can. However, I did have a question on some of the points Ground101 made. I haven't been trying to suppress legal information at all. In fact, as you can see from my last edit, I added legal information and settlements on there. I actually have more I will be adding (including some licensing information I found on the contrary to what Ground101 said) soon, but I wanted to clarify if this type of information is ok? As you can see from my edit I was trying to make it more wikipedia friendly both content and formatting wise. I've never had to deal with a page vandal before and I didn't even know what a sockpuppet was until another admin pointed it out to me. I just don't want to be accused of doing the same thing so am wanting some clarification. I know your busy, so I appreciate your time. Happy 4th of July too! Elementrider77 ( talk) 21:54, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
...started admining in this space, could you add List of Nadars to your watchlist? I'm WP:INVOLVED in the article as I've edited it in the past. However, there's a current set of edits that needs monitoring. See the last discussion on the talk page. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 12:01, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
You may want to see WP:ANI#Muckraking by new user? and the link [1]. Dougweller ( talk) 06:07, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't think it was necessary to Afd this article as you may see here the author removed the speedy tag which is inappropriate. — Abhishek Talk 19:02, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Just saw a couple of my edits got revdel'd amongst some others at ANI. What's that about then? Fainites barley scribs 22:04, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you just deleted Young Astronauts Club. I was just in the process of bring that situation to ANI. The user( User:CarmygnCanteri(also operating as IP 108.57.29.149) has also sought to hijack the dab page YAC with the same info and are edit warring on U2 to change the nationality of the band. Can you offer any assistance ? He iro 20:23, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I am Jamaican and from the last cenus it showed that Portmore has over 300, 000 people while Kingston has far less and since Kingston in within another parish so people usally consider Kingston and St. Andrew as one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burning Amber ( talk • contribs) 00:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
dalahäst ( talk) 06:18, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Boing, at present I think there are four sock drawers. Shannon1488, KondottySultan, SumitKachroo and Prashantv79. The first two we are pretty much on top of (but another article will attract them soon - Ezhava. The third one will need some updating soon based on the contributions. The fourth one will need some matching in that set of articles to actually do a fresh SPI ( Utcursch might be of help on that as he has edited in that space before). I'd bet you a month's wages from the Prince that the four aren't related. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 18:43, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Sigh, can you add Iyengar to your watchlist. I've had to fully protect the page as there's really nothing but reverts on two sides and the prior protection expired yesterday and the reverts came back again. See the contribution history of the editors involved. cheers. — Spaceman Spiff 19:09, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Deleted page of tony knight i set on bio of saint artjunkie new member reported to WIKIPEDIA AND ALSO REPORTING TO POLICE FOR HARRASSMENT THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A VANDALE — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.217.194 ( talk • contribs) 00:00, 12 July 2011
After receiving your message I took the liberty of addressing it here. The 3-Revert Rule was no longer an issue after last Wednesday. However, I did do a one page edit on one topic webpage and one other page edit on another topic webpage (see: aforesaid title webpages) on Saturday. In addition to that I addressed such issues on talk pages which I didn't believe constituted an edit in the same way as a topic webpage edit that everyone else sees the results of. That being said, censorship of truthful, admittedly accurate and verifiably cited information is wrong and unethical. And you know it. Wikipedia allows a plenitude of contributions so long as such said additions are backed up by verifiable citations. There is nothing more to understand from such a fair policy. Yet, what I have seen was open butchery and censorship of topic webpages in favor of verifiably INCORRECT and uncited or even miscited information. One other editor took the extreme measure of deleting 95% of a topic webpage which is downright unethical and wrong as well. If it isn't censorship, then it certainly doesn't constitute a scholarly contribution either. When I edit such said webpages I will do so more infrequently, but I will not tolerate inaccurate information on an open and free electronic medium that calls itself an encyclopedia, since my english legal training prevents me from doing otherwise.
Thetruthnow2012 ( talk) 04:59, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks very much for your help so far with my name change request, as you can see it has been approved. You mentioned on my request that you would be willing to help me out with the article I am trying to write on Forum Invest, which is currently missing third party confirmation to make it credible. If you could take a look at the article and let me know where you think I should start adding and changing things I would be really grateful. I know you're very busy so any help however small will be very appreciated :) thanks! MariaPopovici ( talk) 08:51, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
I've been reported by a new user for edit warring on Kurmi. This happened while I was writing up an SPI. Brief outline of circumstances are at User_talk:SpacemanSpiff#Another possible sock. - Sitush ( talk) 09:28, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
There is also likely socking at Yadav. I note your recent revert but the edits immediately before it also removed cited content - I realised that I was way over the limit for reverts & so did nothing about it.
I am inclined to get some other admins involved in these issues. Fut. Perf and Salvio have both stepped in recently & I feel that if we spread the load a little then perhaps the message might start sinking in. Is it ok with you if I float the idea with them? - Sitush ( talk) 11:40, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
See i am a Yadav and we are not shudras,the references given on wikipedia page to prove us 'shudra' are totally sense-less and insane nor they are authentic.Its an attempt by some anti-social element who is trying to malign our image.If we were 'shudras' we should have been under 'Schedule Caste' under Indian constitution but we are not under 'Schedule Caste'.Indians have too much importance towards one's caste and 'Yadav' is a very strong caste with atleast 10 billion population in India so dont play with the emotions of these many yadavs.there will be mass boycott of wikipedia by yadavs and if it not corrected then we can take the legal route also through court.A good site like wikipedia ooesnt deserve to spread false information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parthyadav ( talk • contribs) 14:59, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Sir I want to make a point to you thant Yadavs are large number in population and form one of the largest castes in India. Putting Shudra status hurts sentiments of so many people. They are Aryans and Aryans are not Shudra. Please take this point in view. Some writers may write without much research. I will be thank full to you on behalf of my group. This is a genetic study that shows Yadavs as Aryans( Khaktriya Aryans are not Shudras) [1]
Areeb786 ( talk) 09:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Just in case you care, one of the caste SPAs (this one from Talk:Kurmi) has opened a discussion criticizing the behavior of you, SpacemanSpiff and myself (as "admins", even though I'm not one), as well as Sitush and MatthewVanitas. It's at WP:NPOVN#One sided opinion of Admin and user Sitush and Matthews on the page Kurmi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurmi if you feel like commenting. Qwyrxian ( talk) 13:42, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
I have it on good authority that Sitush has
TP'ed the houses of editors with whom he disagrees, written them fake "secret admirer" letters to convince them to show up for a rendezvous only to be humiliated on hidden camera as they stand there alone in the bar lobby holding a red rose, and on at least two occasions stolen their hubcaps.
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17:15, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
If you had bothered to look at my article, sources I cited, mostly books, used the title with Daily in it. Thus, that seemed to be the right title. Now, you seem to have deleted my article with references...Why would you do that? I would've understood if you'd made the mistake of changing the title but keeping the sources. Zigzig20s ( talk) 18:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying about the Talk Page CSD. I was unsure how to handle that. I was not clear if it was appropriate to remove other editor's comments. jsfouche ☽☾ Talk 20:19, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Whatever you did on Commons, I see it worked. If you want to repeat the trick, there is another one here. I meant to point that out in our original discussion, but carelessly linked the first one twice instead. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 21:01, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
It's somewhat vexing to realise that, just on Talk:Kurmi we have 44 sections almost entirely dealing with the inclusion of the word Shudra, and it would be far worse were it not for the frequent barring of IPs from the articlespace and even the Talk. It's really not something we can back down on, because there are dozens and dozens more articles which contain inflated Kshatriya claims for labouring castes (note how the old version of Varna (Hinduism had essentially no modern castes of any significance listed as Shudra, but had quite a few listed as Kshatriya despite deep doubts). In the big picture, it'd be great to figure out some sort of way we could tackle the issue in a manner other than laborious house-to-house fighting. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 21:05, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm just letting you know, if you don't mind, I have added your userbox User:Boing! said Zebedee/Userboxes/noadmin to Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/User groups. Cheers. - Porch corpter ( talk/ contribs) 10:26, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
User:Bevinbell has falsely accused me of vandalism and reverted many of my recent edits. I removed additions made by Norm mit because I saw them as spam; one could agree or disagree with my edits, but they were made in good faith and were not vandalism. I note that you removed one of Norm mit's additions yourself (at Khmer language) and that Bevinbell did not revert you. Could you please explain to Bevinbell that I am not guilty of vandalism? 203.118.185.209 ( talk) 03:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
...appears to be a place in India, too (when you search for it, as one of my user pages, not yet moved to main article space pending reliable references). Too many hoaxes, too little time, best to remove unless they can can be verified- Cheers Crusoe8181 ( talk) 10:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Zuggernaut. Just FYI. - Sitush ( talk) 12:21, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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-- Bampublore ( talk) 21:34, 21 July 2011 (UTC)one user is abusing me please help me , please check my talk page . -- Bampublore ( talk) 21:34, 21 July 2011 (UTC)-- Bampublore ( talk) 21:34, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
This diff, and a previous removal of cited info, at Nambudiri involve someone who has had some involvement with the current group of India-related contributors. For now, I have left a note at Talk:Nambudiri#Origin and will leave it for a couple of days to give a chance for replies. Fortunately, since the Nambudiri community are indubitably Brahmins, the shudra issue is not going to rear its head. However, I rather think that oversight may be required. - Sitush ( talk) 13:24, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the message above the edit box. It is really astounding to see a message pop up when I opened the edit box. I hope you don't mind me disturbing you, but I do think that I should inform you about this. I have reported Sitush at WP/ANI and also mentioned you in the report.- MangoWong ( talk) 17:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
This IP has posted a thinly-veiled threat about "militias" and then an extremely coarse mockery about predicted future Pashtun suffering in Afghanistan (which I imagine looks even worse through South Asian eyes than through Anglo). Is this enough to just block off his IP, or anything really to be done for someone we can't easily pin down? My post here covers his diffs: User talk:84.59.190.210 MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:10, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Please look at this edit [4], could you take some action on such insults to (a)India (b)Indian editors (c)Wikipedia policy makers, a provocative statement, as an admin, please. Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 20:21, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
... in this. There are some serious accusations being made + another repeat of the blog. - Sitush ( talk) 14:21, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello BsZ, I just wanted to let you know you've been mentioned on my talk page, here. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk about it! 22:53, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I shall endeavor to meet your and the community's expectations as an admin.Thank you also for your careful work providing at least a tiny semblance of reason to the India-caste articles. I will myself continue to act only as an editor in that entire field, and its good to know that we have neutral admins willing to help the attempt to "bring that darkness into the light". Qwyrxian ( talk) 07:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC) |
This edit on their talk page is the first since Vikraantkaka was blocked for a couple of days on 11 July. It is baffling (the first 4 characters may be "eyes" ?). Just a little concerned that something may be going on, or about to happen. - Sitush ( talk) 07:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings Zeb, once I get some time this evening I'll be filing an ANI on Yogesh. Today he brough up "that blog" again, and despite his coy claims "I'm not saying it's true, it's just important to see how WP's credibility is damaged", he clearly implies that you, Sitush, CT, and I are under investigation by Jimbo and will get our comeuppance. Basically still clearly using the blog to undermine others. Also still throwing around vague accusations (bias, grudge, incompetence) that any legit editor would take to ANI, but by not doing so and just dragging them up he's being disruptive and basically constantly PAing. Of course, he did file an ANI and not a single one of us was criticized by outside editors. I hate to drag you into this since I know now the caste-crufters are claiming you're a pet attack admin and all, but just mentioning in case you want in on the ANI as PA'ed party, especially as YK keeps tossing around claims of "incompetent admin" which again is totally unsat unless you're bringing up an actual ANI (and he did, and it failed). Anyway, here's a discussion which includes some diffs; will try to file ANI later tonight: User_talk:MatthewVanitas#Malaise. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 19:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Greetings BsZ, there's an account from Oct2010 that did nothing useful for about a week, went dormant, and just woke up to go tamper with templates (unintentionally making huge formatting errors) and make PAs. Can you take a look at this: Special:Contributions/Msreddy004 ?
Recent misbehavior:
Xer older posts are kind of entertaining PAs:
In any case, Reddy-centric SPA that does pretty much nothing but mess with pages and insult people. Thanks for your consideration. I did delete a few of his posts, but only because they were blatant trolling/attacks and would in no way lead to positive discourse, so thought it best to remove the bait from the equation. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 14:36, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
make me da admin nowww. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.67.65.222 ( talk) 03:32, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
The IP, User:84.59.190.210 is clearly not going to give up with his vandalism and insulting other wikipedians. I won't even bother reverting him as he will not stop. ( Ketabtoon ( talk) 05:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC))
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#How_to_deal_with_tendentious_editing.3F. You are not named: this is just so you know, given your heavy involvement. - Sitush ( talk) 16:50, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Any idea why
Fowler&fowler might have changed some cites at
Kurmi to Harvardnb format but left others as {{cite ...}} format? As I understand it, cite formats once established for an article should not be changed without discussion and they should not be mixed within an article.
Personally, I do not have a problem with Harvardnb but I know that a lot of people do not like it, a lot do not know that it exists, and if changing like this then one might as well go the whole hog and use the citeshort format so beloved at
WP:FAC (& which I use if starting a new article). I could ask F&f direct but am not sure of my ground here. -
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06:19, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, there's a section at Talk:Kamma (caste), Dumbest Debate on Wikipedia or Dumbest Debate EVER that is just a lengthy ramble by someone presumably taking Philosophy 101 in college, which says nothing really about Kamma but is just a drearily pretentious ramble about how I and another editor aren't brilliantly philosophical enough to see the big picture. It's kind of funny but pointless, but now we're getting IPs replying to it, and getting snotty when told to keep the topic on Kamma. I was going to just remove the chunk and its replies, but didn't want to be accused of CoI as though I were just removing it because it hurt my feelings or something. If you as a neutral admin agree it's non-pertinent, can you chop this unhelpful distraction: Talk:Kamma_(caste)#Dumbest_Debate_on_Wikipedia_or_Dumbest_Debate_EVER.3F.3F.3F.3F ? Thanks!
Sir, Yadavs has large number of population and form one of the largest castes in India. Putting Shudra status hurts sentiments of so many people. They are Aryans and Aryans are not Shudra. Please take this point in view. Some writers may write without much research. I will be thank full to you on behalf of my group. this is a genetic study that shows Yadavs as Aryans( And Aryans are not Shudras)-- http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2156-7-28.pdf www.biomedcentral.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hitendra dba ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtos (Myrtos Guide) is not a good one, it's a website about Mirtos (Myrtos) near Ierapetra in the Southern part of Crete, what do I see in how to get there ?. Kefalonia Island International Airport is the closest airfield from Myrtos and with the advent of low cost carriers; Kefalonia has got its own round of flights.
Everyone knows that Heraklion is the nearest airport; suggestion for accurate information about Myrtos in South East Crete:
Ron Vos ( talk) 21:58, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
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It is a little garbled but I think that an IP whom you recently blocked for 24 hours due to a threat of violence has pretty much just done the same thing again at User_talk:MatthewVanitas#3rd_opinion_needed. - Sitush ( talk) 18:56, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
I reported this IP few days ago, but you said he was not making personal attacks. Here we are with personal attacks in Persian language. Forget about the Persian parts, here is the English one. I will quote it "give order to my uncles and cousins the execution of Pashtuns in the entire northern Afghanistan..."
Not only that, he is clearly vandalizing topics - it is not about content dispute.
Hi, does this (combined with the IP's other edits) look suspicious to you? -- Beloved Freak 13:11, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Any chance of semi-protecting Talk:Jat people for a couple of days? Someone IP hopping over a big range (or it is a co-ordinated group?) is inserting/reinserting garbage that amounts to an attack on the Jat community. I keep undoing it because it is simply gratuitous abuse and WP:NOTFORUM. They may go away if there is a short period of semi-pp. - Sitush ( talk) 14:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
I realise that you are not around much at the moment but if/when you get the opportunity could you please take a look at List of Ezhavas? There are ongoing issues regarding unlinked/uncited = unverifiable content, but in particular regarding the contributions of Ss19751975. I have tried to explain, tried using templates etc but it seems not to be sinking in. Of course, I may be wrong and I almost certainly have not dealt with Ss19751975 in the optimum way. I may not be an admin but feel free to trout me. - Sitush ( talk) 00:46, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you again. Since you know the IP, I came back to you. The IP 84.59.190.210 is evading his block and is editing under the following IP, 188.107.5.219. He continues to vandalize and call for ethnic cleansing here in Wikipedia. Any permanent or long term solution for this? Thank you for your help. ( Ketabtoon ( talk) 04:43, 13 August 2011 (UTC))
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Just wanted to let you know that I undid your protection of the article talk page as seen here because I semiprotected the main article, and didn't want to have both pages protected at the same time. I admit that I didn't notice that the talk page was protected when I did it. I see you have some history with this article, so feel free to adjust as you see fit. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 16:15, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Boing, this is just a quick reminder about the Manchester wikimeet this Saturday (17th September). Hope you can still make it. Mike Peel ( talk) 23:05, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
HI,
Appreciate your comments on Angana P. Chatterji , which you had marked as Libelous , I had referenced the FBI website an the Newsweek article to substantiate that input. I have nothing personal with the concerned individual , but have attended a few talks and realize the message posted on wikipedia is misleading for many without an appropriate background on the source of her funding and association with numerous organizations (now branded terrorist organizations ).
Most of her work is based on the agenda of a specific countries intelligence agency and mis-representation of facts. My main concern is all the trash she generates is now becoming reference material in other publications . I respect & adhere by your values to keep wikipedia clean of prejudice and hence find this borderline mis-representation disturbing.
Really appreciate your time to read my comments, would like any words of wisdom to to start making many of these articles more balanced , as they are currently a propaganda tool with all not so flattering comments being weeded out . thank you . regards MM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manja mali ( talk • contribs) 12:28, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
RfA reform: ...and what you can do now.
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