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Just back from doing a show in Brattleboro, Vermont, during which I did almost no Wiki-editing, so I'm a bit late on the 100k-congrats, but "well done" anyway. (Not to be too competitive, but between User:Before My Ken, User:Between My Ken and User:Beyond My Ken, I've got 101,603 -- but, of course, I'm not as beloved as you are so...) Anyway, I'm really quite pleased to have gotten to know you, a little bit, here on Wikipedia. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 04:38, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Doc
Could you check out MyBB versus the previously deleted one? Wondering if G4 is applicable or if I should send it to AfD again. Bongo matic 14:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Tx
Enjoy. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 14:37, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I saw you warned User:HammerFilmFan for removing talk page comments. But it seems he is unwilling to understand the talk page guideline as he not only changed your warning message but also continue to remove talk page comments by other users. Can you please look into the issue? Thanks! -- SMS Talk 11:27, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you mind having a look at this for me - Impiety (band)? I'm having some difficulties explaining the concept of WP:RS to an anon user who has just contravened 3RR. Cheers, Blackmetalbaz ( talk) 13:01, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Sjeez, me, OLD??? :-)
Seriously, I'm getting a bit irritated with an IP and a SPA editor (perhaps the same person) at Bharath Sriraman. Being the cranky old Calvinist that I am (I grudgingly admit that there may be some truth somewhere in that assertion), I'm perhaps being too purist. The article looks decent, but there is a tendency to put everything that the guy ever has done in there, every seminar, trip, published note, etc. The article is also being overcategorized (in my opinion). Could you perhaps have a look and tell me whether I'm being unreasonably Calvinistic? Thanks. -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 16:06, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya Doc, I see we are working in parallel, I had just removed the speedy template from Joy Romero, I thought that director of whatever for big oil, and chair of something at Athabasca University was sufficient indication of importance, I was just going to ask you if the press release was enough for BLPPROD, but you deleted me to it. Cheers, and happy Easter. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 04:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I've only nominated the articles from this user that I thought were problematic. There ae some others that are borderline, but I left them alone. West Eddy ( talk) 05:04, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya Doc, would you do me a favour and use your adminly powers to add the protected the redirect UFC on FX 4 to Category:2012 in mixed martial arts. Hope the girls enjoyed Easter. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 07:12, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your support at my RfA. I will do my best to live up to people's confidence in me. Yngvadottir ( talk) 18:03, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I feel West Eddy ( talk · contribs) is wikistalking me and I need your help to prevent his constant harassment. Now he's undone a speedy tag I placed on CUPE 3902. I left him a note politely asking him to stop. Me-123567-Me ( talk) 20:26, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jill Kenton is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jill Kenton until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. JoeSperrazza ( talk) 21:04, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't like making appositives - upsets my stomach - I prefer making pastries. On the religion issue, an elegant solution, but don't expect it to stay that way. :-) -- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:53, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Sir... I am Sorry... Please guide me for editing Vithurgod ( talk) 05:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
I wont edit war... I will do Edit Summaries... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vithurgod ( talk • contribs) 05:20, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Sir. I wont add any more info in the short term... Discopgraphy page is a List of all Songs sung by the singer, and it appears in all singer s Wikipage... Thanks for considering.... Much regards Vithurgod ( talk) 05:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
I wont add any info in the short term... The Discography is the Main Table of Content for a Singer/ Musician and hence the data is very important as it describes and lists the songs sung by the Singer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vithurgod ( talk • contribs) 05:26, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the Note.... I wont Edit War.. I would learn it and post only content which have ample value and significance... Vithurgod ( talk) 05:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Drmies, Sorry to keep coming back to you with the odd issue, but I would like your imput. Since the last time we spoke (when Pankaj Oswal page subjected to vandalism) there have been a couple of other editors making contributions to page. Fair enough. For the most part I have simply corrected very minor aspects of those particular edits. Recently I added extra text of my own & it would seem that one of those editors disagrees with the content. At this point I have not changed anything, but I feel the latest new edits give a very unbalanced view of the (living) subject. Suspect there is relationship between this editor & previous vandal..the aim is the same to change page substantially. I would like a neutral person, ie. yourself, to have a look. Happy if you could find the time. Thankyou so much. A fair go ( talk) 10:44, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
The protection time is over, and there's been no editing in about a week. Feel free to start charging through it with a great big red editor's pen. I'm not going to edit the article directly, but I say--if it's not verified, either throw it out, or, if not terribly controversial, tag it and then throw it out later. If IP editors start interfering with unsourced changes, I'll semi-protect again. Qwyrxian ( talk) 13:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
There are again users, and other IP users who keep on adding birthdays and trivias again in the Members section of U-KISS. I am deleting them from time to time but it keeps on coming back. I need your help please. jmarkfrancia ( talk) 06:32, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Drmies. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Koolakamba, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not blatantly vandalism or a hoax. Thank you. Nikkimaria ( talk) 03:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
The references in this section appear to be more opinion than based on cited sources, and is probably not quite NPOV. I added a {{ cn}} on one of them but citing on a cite note seems to be a little redundant. I figured I'd bring it to your attention as a slightly more experienced editor, given you may have a more appropriate way to deal with this. PuppyOnTheRadio talk 04:07, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Drmies, thanks for the early copyedits at Chrisye. The article just passed its recent FA nomination. Your prose edits helped tremendously, and feedback (and humour) you gave was priceless. In thanks, I'd like to give you a local brew: Bintang Beer. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 23:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC) |
...slowly and deeply..before you pop a blood vessel or something like that. :)
I rather gather that you might be more upset about something that scales beyond that particular thread. It isn't worth getting that upset over, you know?
They are asking because they are frustrated and don't know what else to do...and they are following the standard procedures with the templates. This is what they know. For some, the human touch might turn it into a botched job so they would prefer to fall back on crafted language to avoid errors (and trouble!).
I think you are doing a good job in setting an example...let's hope it works.
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Ah, see, I was wondering what the hell all those hearts on everyone's page were for! That's an interesting (if inevitable) development. I'm still trying to get a handle on policy...turns out that blocking vandals is like riding a bike, but closing contentious XfDs is most definitely NOT. *eep* Thanks for the e-beer! Keilana| Parlez ici 01:54, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
I probably didn't make myself clear on that 30 day suggestion after first leaving a msg and seeing if he did it again. The guy edits so infrequently, I was thinking to make sure he was blocked when he came back (with a more personal block msg as well), again as a last resort, but not punitively. Been working on communicating more clearly and concisely, some days are better than others I suppose. Dennis Brown (talk) 02:08, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Check your email.-- kelapstick( bainuu) 03:18, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
<--You're a good man, darax. Drmies ( talk) 01:11, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
You weren't being sarcastic, were you (ie, "congrats on your principled stance")? I truly hadn't encountered that abbreviation before (now that I know it, it's painfully obvious). Levdr1lostpassword ( talk) 03:27, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
The issue was handled, I was trying to contribute and apparently, misunderstood and violated "conflict of interest" rules. I have correct my errant ways and there is no need to keep that post up there as active as it's dead and handled per Hulu. Additionally I would not like to be archived as some evil entity here on the wiki as I am in full rule compliance now and have a better grasp of what is expected from editing here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeroyon01 ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of the Panathinaikos F.C. situation. I don't know if you read my message at WT:FOOTY, but recently there was a campaign by "Prasini" (a Panathinaikos fan newspaper) to make the Hellenic Football Federation recognise their team's pre-1928 championships as official, against all sources. A fan blog also urged their viewers to "restore Panathinaikos' lost titles" at the English Wikipedia [4], so a semi-protection was necessary. Cheers. – Kosm 1 fent 16:51, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there MIES, VASCO here,
since you don't edit much in soccer and don't participate in its forums obviously, have a read at this (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Making_room_for_the_young). Would have liked very much to make your acquaintance for real, but can't have everything can you :)
Kind regards, keep it up - -- Vasco Amaral ( talk) 17:49, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey you write on the A Smile from the Trenches page that you had a source for screamo, could you send it to me because the lead singer gave me the basic genres e.g Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Alternative Rock, and Emo but i want to add screamo (i will also add Emocore) do you think you could send the link? can you also reply on my chat page because i might forget your user name 86.25.246.30 ( talk) 21:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)ericdeaththe2nd 86.25.246.30 ( talk) 21:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
that's the badger, thanks :D Ericdeaththe2nd ( talk) 23:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)ericdeaththe2nd23:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Its a saying Ericdeaththe2nd ( talk) 17:20, 17 April 2012 (UTC)ericdeaththe2nd Ericdeaththe2nd ( talk) 17:20, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I am just a tad concerned about a post left by 완젬스 on the talk page Talk:Occupy Wall Street [5] which makes a statement about "Eyeing his/her goal set for this weekend" that is linked to a youtube video of a physical fight. Don't know what to make of it. Seems very inappropriate.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 00:52, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
You have my full support on edits made on Gjeke Marinaj and "protonism", as this is your profession. I suspect Gjeke Marinaj, or a person strongly affiliated with him, is behind sockpuppets listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Festes
I suggest to edit articles Albanians as accounts above (or related to the account) insists on having Gjeke Marinaj listed in the Albanians infobox (by removing James Belushi), Albanian Americans infobox and has also listed Gjeke Marinaj under Notable Albanians with description "the founder of Protonism - Eminent Albanian-American writer and literary critic." a description that is not objective, verifiable or realistic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.236.90.41 ( talk) 01:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Hmm..there is an entire army of poppet accounts belonging to Gjeke Marinaj and Frederick Turner operating, they also made a tour together in the Balkans where F.Turner praised the works of Gjeke Marinaj on disruptive protonism, being presented as multiple Nobel prize candidate. User User:Empathictrust has made very positive edits on both Gjeke Marinaj and Frederick Turner(poet), I think it is the famous User:Festes behind account Empathictrust. 87.236.90.110 ( talk) 23:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The part I removed recently from the page of Hindu Kush which you reverted back, was removed because of its offensive nature to a community and its not even a true fact, its an opinion of the some extremists, the majorly accepted fact is just below which is not explained. Oldmonk7 ( talk) 05:16, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Sounds like a Bay City Rollers song...anyway, very exciting night at casa del kelapstick. Assembling the new BBQ, 99 luftbaloons is on the radio, and I am assisting at IRC (quiet as it is there tonight). I know, I wish you were me. Pool temp is still holding, but we still can't convince the youngest to get in, she makes runs at the edge, then says "noooo" (in the manner that 2 year olds do). -- kelapstick( bainuu) 12:39, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC) 01:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies, Could you please take a quick peek at this page that I think is almost ready for upload, and tell me what you think? Thank you for your quick peek in advance. Doc2234 ( talk) 01:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I have seen you put this whole segment away. Not that I am in any position to say that I am right after reviewing other kpop articles like TVXQ. But instead of putting the whole segment away and saying the language is poor etc. Why not you go an extra mile and tell me what went wrong and maybe I can edit it instead of just deleting the whole segment away?
I am keen in listening to opinions after which making the appropriate changes but by removing the whole section, it's just looking down at me. Using an analogy for example, I have dedicate my time doing a research that the teacher does not require me to do. However, when the teacher actually spot checked my research, instead of telling me where I gone wrong and making appropriate changes, the teacher throw back the research at me and say it's wrong. In this sense, how will I feel?
I felt unappreciated. Moreover, the endorsement section have been existing since YEAR 2010! I may sound like I am whining but in fact when b2st wiki was nominated for delete etc. I took my time off starting this article from scratch and re-organizing them.
I am not autocratic, I know I do make some mistake, I do understand why you remove b2st discograph as there is already an article on that. This make sense and I am alright with it.
However, I don't understand what's wrong with b2st endorsement. Those comments? It's on the article itself, it's even credited with reference, just click on the link and read. By deleting the whole section off, it only makes me even more puzzled since no one has deleted it since year 2010.
Maybe, you would like to explain in detail or probably edit a better section. Not simply deleting the whole section away.
Sorry for a long feedback section that demands an explanation.
PS : It's not like I am going back to find those articles again, since I don't understand hangul. It takes a very long time. So in the meantime, I will not touch the page till june holiday arrives. Nicky456 ( talk) 04:59, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
If you're referring specifically to this edit--sorry, but the language was first of all ungrammatical and not in accordance with encyclopedic style, and secondly, it reads like it came straight out of a press release advertising the band and the product: "On April 3, 2012, B2ST was selected as the newest models to promote ‘bodyART™’ in Korea which is said to be slow, but fast and smooth, yet strong. It is very dynamic almost like a dance, but also being a form of exercise." K-pop articles will have to start conforming to Wikipedia's guidelines; there is no nicer way to say it. Articles that appear to be a combination of fan sites and promotional efforts must be trimmed and revised to become encyclopedic in tone and content. I hope you will help in that effort: your favorite band is better served by a good encyclopedic article than by an article that lists everything but says nothing, and is constantly subjected to this edit-warring over unencyclopedic content (. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 13:56, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm considering a run at RfA, and would like your input on my talk page about the issue. We haven't crossed paths extremely often, but you seem brutally honest, and I would like some objective opinions before I make a final decision. If you don't have the time or inclination to participate, no offense will be taken. Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 17:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
There used to be an editor who'd drop homework assignments on RfAs, like "create Gibbons-Hawking space" (I just pulled that off article requests). I don't think that was very fair, but if you can show that you can create a decent article, that will help convince those who think that content is just as or more important than proper CSD tagging and an even-keeled temperament. (I'm one of them, though others feel more strongly than I do.) Drmies ( talk) 17:41, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Are you sure about that? The IP(s) responsible for this, this, and that will very likely come back.
I'm not around every day to check whether the silly joke gets re-inserted... -- Berntie ( talk) 19:15, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
When I redirected this name after closing the AfD, I was surprised to find five incoming links from film articles referring to this guy who has evidently been a redlink up to now, though on the basis of these references is probably as notable as the pseudonymous author. I have turned him back into a redlink at Charles Brokaw (actor) to encourage somebody to write his article. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 21:30, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is " Katie piper". Thank you. -- 108.210.33.203 ( talk) 05:05, 17 April 2012 (UTC).
I had not realised we "intersect" on 75 fairly random articles! Pleased to make your acquaintance, surely. Collect ( talk) 12:49, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, our friend is back and at it again, [7], although he then removed the "football manager" bit, [8], which as I pointed out at ANI was vandalism added by an IP, but User:Whatever17 is obviously pasting the whole wikitext into Word and then just pasting it back in again whenever he adds something. Oh, and not too brightly, he's socking under a new name that's not very well chosen to conceal his identity, making the same edits to the same article. I would like to continue copyediting the article as, amongst other things, the Personal life section is atrocious, all that crap about the woman and the baby needs to go, but I can't see the point of spending my time on it if this user doesn't get a clue. I'm bringing the ANI post out of the archives and linking to this post, just in case you're not around for a while. Cheers! CaptainScreebo Parley! 15:36, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you removed the bulk of Mr.Yoo Young-Jin's credits. He is my favorite Kpop producer and I am determined to restore his page to include all the work that he should be rightfully credited so it serves as a reference point for anyone interested in Kpop to look up his compositions, lyrics and productions. Please kindly educate me on how I can do it so it is verifiable and not looking like a resume. Thank you.-- RageX009 ( talk) 00:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't see why I have to set the table - I didn't do anything. Besides, I should get to eat the crumpets (the hell with the tea) for setting the stage for your decision. I agree with everything you said, and, frankly, I'm getting very tired of agreeing with you. (I commented on the Rosen Talk page to nudge things along.) -- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:53, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. You said I should remove "that rather irksome warning from your user page". What warning? I didnt put it in there. Can I just remove it? I am really not sure what you are talking about. I have been the one staying on topic until another user, Hector, started all this complaining instead of staying on topic and discuss the issue at hand. Now why is any of this my doing or fault? CarrieBee ( talk) 17:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I see that you have completed that which I could not regarding redirects/moves etc. There was a comment on Talk:Arjun (Actor) - can that be moved over to Arjun (actor) also?
And since you love me so much, do you fancy taking a look at User talk:Rahulkris999#Thiyyar and the various somewhat wayward edits that are going on? I cannot decide if it is disruptive or just the incompetence of a new contributor. - Sitush ( talk) 17:31, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
Please note my recent edits to this new article. It began like this:
The lay reader seeing that will not recognize it as being about mathematics or mathematical physics. I added an initial context-setting phrase:
It didn't say who Gibbons and Hawking are, so I added this:
I changed the title from
to
because WP:MOS requires an en-dash rather than a hyphen in that context.
A remaining issue is that no other articles currently link to that article. You can find out which other articles link to it by clicking on "Toolbox", then on "What links here", and then under "namespace" choose "article" (that last will exclude talk pages link this present user-talk page that link to it, and various sorts of administrative pages that list new articles, etc.). Accordingly, I've added an "orphan" tag to the top of the article. I notice that there are several other articles that begin with the words "Gibbons-Hawking"; possibly some of those ought to link to it, and maybe the list of physics articles and some other physics and mathematics articles. Probably also the pages on Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking. Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:31, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Drmies,
Regarding my page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_D_Kuwait I have re-done it again and hopefully it will fulfill your requirements where as my biography can meet the music notability criteria and I have changed the look in which hopefully you would consider it is not promotional at all and personally I do not seek promotion at all. Please consider accepting it. I definitely do not intend in any way to be a part of any advertisement for myself. I have put reliable sources this time, I added it in my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Big_D_Kuwaiti_Rapper/sandbox as well but I think its ready now that is why i posted it, I have worked with producers that are well known to pass the music notability guideline, and i guess this time the article will be overlooked as encyclopaedic. I have included reliable, independent secondary sources that I have had since 2001, and documents, official record deals, and verification's, and the tone of the way the article was written has been changed, I really believe I'm notable enough for a Wikipedia article and if you read my article you will see I have done many great accomplishments as a independent artist, and I hope you can accept my article. Regards, Dhari Dhulaei - Big D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
--Mr Drmies I included My "Record Deal Contract With Smile TV 1" "Record Deal Contract With Smile TV 2" with a respected record label and TV Channel called "Smile TV" associated with http://www.aiwagulf.com/ that has over 7 million customers and worked with well known artist Massari my country is based on 1 million people only Kuwait is very small as you may already know sir, there are hardly any rappers I have started hip hop in my country, and you can see the date on this contract sir "Record Deal Contract With Yacoub_Al-Mohana 1" "Record Deal Contract With Yacoub_Al-Mohana 2" "Record Deal Contract With Yacoub_Al-Mohana 3" with "Gulf Records" in 2001, with well known producer in the middle east Yacoub Al-Mohana which worked with respected artist Rashed Al-Majed plus his father Yousif al Mohana was a icon in the arab music world, and the blogs you've seen in my references that posted me are the top in my country in which there are only few blogs in Kuwait, I'm willing to add more references in the future and upgrade the article but I have worked 3 sleepless nights on my article so far, in addition if you search all of wikipedia you will see there are no rappers in Kuwait except Big D the only rapper in Kuwait with a legitimate story and the only well known rapper in my country. since 1999-present. could you please reconsider my reason to be on wikipedia after knowing this information? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 20:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
That can change, of course, so my advice would be to move the article into your userspace, where you can continue to update it as your career moves along, and if a time comes when you are written about in regularly-published newspapers or magazines, or in recognized sites online (but not in people's personal blogs, or YouTube or Facebook), you can move the article back into mainspace and see if it passes a review for notability then. I think that may be your only option, because it's likely that the article will be deleted at this point. Good luck. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 21:43, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Beyond My Ken and Mr. Drmies,
I appreciate the fact you both looked into my case and tried to help furthermore I'm trying to get a reporter from daily news Arab Times to write a article about me and post it in http://www.arabtimesonline.com/, I hope if that works out my article would qualify your demands, hopefully I will have authoritative sources soon so I can earn your trust, but if you can offer anything positive regarding my case so far I would be very grateful and thankful, knowing I tried my best and I tried to be accepted, I regret to say I can't offer you much more then the sources I have right now, but if you trust me, I will have reliable sources in the future and hopefully my article would be legitimate and accepted, thank you both for everything, if you both ever decide to visit Kuwait and you need anything from here, don't hesitate to ask me. Thank you once again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Smart SE,
I had someone work so hard to make this page for me it took time. i thought i was deemed worthy of being looked up in an encyclopedia. i have been working hard writing everyone that tries to delete me to explain my case. i am not mainstream, and i plan on staying underground. i'm not using this as a way to help my career, im using this for proof; and a reliable source for me to be looked up in by Kuwait. im not in it for money or fame. that's how my small country recognizes me in public, but i needed an article of proof. even if it was a small paragraph. unfortunately at the moment i don't have the reliable source that you ask for. but i earned my fame mostly because i stayed underground. so i can have freedom of speech in cases such as this my Islamic country forbids profanity or even having a music career (if you want to know more about why my religion is against making money off of music i will explain more if you ask me). therefore i cant be true to myself if i was a signed artist because the media will never let me say what i want. they like my music because i am the only Kuwaiti that went this far on my own personal budget.
Im the only unsigned Kuwaiti artist that went this far. where as there is a signed group by the name of Army Of One, Kuwaiti rappers. but Kuwait media decides how there music should be and they can't rap with profanity, freedom, and self will. the songs they make are just for commercial purposes it's not what they truly want to release. i know this because they are my friends. but in my case i have the advantage of being underground and producing my own music. so i can talk about politics, religion, and middle eastern issues, and what the middle east really wants to hear.
Please look at this a article, it is about the band "Army of One" on a Kuwaiti news website "Army of one - Arab Times" what if I could get a article similar to the one I just posted. will that be enough reliable source? my question to you Mr. SmrtSE would I be accepted then. i hope my situation is more clear. thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 13:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies, Thank you again for the references, and for referring me to User:MichaelQSchmidt! Revisions have been made and references in addition to those that you provided have been added here. User:MichaelQSchmidt thinks that the article may be ready to go live, and we would both like your opinion on that. Thank you for another quick peek in advance. Doc2234 ( talk) 00:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies. Just FYI, I've started an SPI that involves Sonduarte, an account you seemed to think was a sock, here. Polisher of Cobwebs ( talk) 03:10, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
See Talk:Parkour#Content removal, March 2012. You were the one who removed the links and I don't like having to defend other people's positions. :). -- Izno ( talk) 13:53, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
I agree with the changes done to article based on such reasoning, but I disagree with the final edit... if information that isn't sourced is put on there, then adding the positions without source is just as trivial. Linking to the members pages solely would serve its purpose. The way it looks right now doesn't look very encyclopedia-like either. Chocolat ≈ Dubulge ( Chat Me Up) 17:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I was just fooling around with the icon, that's all. It won't happen again.
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Have a little thing going on at ANI [9]that you may or may not be able to help with. About an editor's contribs [10], new, all 14 are reverts of the same editor. Looking through the first few articles I see a lot of reverts from 4 or so editors, over time, and I noticed you doing some reverts as well. Thought you might be familiar with the back story on this. Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 23:49, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Slakr's RFPP Predator Award For your work in helping to tear apart backlogs at requests for page protection by pouncing on requests, I hereby award you this deluxe, camouflaged, tiger-like padlock. Not sure why you'd necessarily need a deluxe, camouflaged, tiger-like padlock, but at least it's a nice conversation piece. :P Keep up the great work. =) Cheers, -- slakr\ talk / 01:48, 20 April 2012 (UTC) |
In response to your referral to me of User:Doc2234 and his article on Giulia Marletta, I did some work on his piece and then went ahead a spent a couple days creating the article Donkey Xote. As I sent it over to DYK, might you look in on it and check my spelling? And then perhaps offer an opinion on my hook? Thanks. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 04:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Fixed it.
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Please see ( [11]), the user is threatening me. Soviet King : Talk or Yell 09:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
After our conversation in which you suggested I run for admin, I started looking at this guide, which, on the whole, I found remarkably well written. However, there was one point (in two places) I thought should be reworded. So, I looked back at the history, found the admin who had added the part that bothered me, opened a discussion on the Talk page, and left the admin a note. He's been very responsive and civil, but, per my last comment in our discussion, I think we've reached an impasse, an unsual impasse in my view, but nonetheless a point where further discussion would probably be futile.
Unfortunately, no one else has commented. In your view, what would be the best way to obtain more comments? WP:RFC? A post to WP:AN (although I would really like to get comments from non-admins as well as admins)? Something else?
Thanks for any advice.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Given that 203.118.187.167, 203.118.187.43, and 203.118.187.209 were found to be socks of WLU, is there any chance I could convince you to roll back 203.118.187.226's revert in the now protected paraphilic infantilism? BitterGrey ( talk) 16:56, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, somehow I missed your comment at MFD so I'm pasting below to respond. SÆdon talk 19:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
( Moved from MFD)My watchlist has more entries than your list of edits, probably--both yours and Noformation's, haha. I liked that name, BTW--why'd you get rid of it? This wouldn't be admin shopping. I can only speak for myself, but if something happened over a week ago and I don't still feel it in my wallet or my pants I have forgotten about it. Drmies ( talk) 03:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Don't work too hard on it, but I jumped into a dispute here [21] and think I handled it properly, but wouldn't mind a quick review if you have the time. The guy filing was a 4 day new user and both parties screwed up, and I had to use a bit of a velvet hammer, and wanted to make sure I didn't overstep my authority as a lowly editor ;) Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 00:22, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Drum roll: My first new article. Be kind.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:20, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies! Getting to DYK, who can nominate the Giulia Marletta article for DYK? Doc2234 ( talk) 00:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, I have noticed your presence on most of the backspace of Wikipedia so I figure you are the guy to ask. Is it allowable for a normal editor (myself), to comment or contribute information to RFPP entries such as this one?. I know generally all editors are allowed to participate project wide, but I am concerned as to whether my input and contribution would be more of a hassle to admins working on RFPP than helpful. I find myself more interested in maintenance tasks and back processes including civility issues than mainspace work; I am trying to find a few places to help out without being a nuisance. Thanks in advance! Judicatus | Talk 01:01, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Man I was a prude of the prudes back then..."Such RUDE LANGUAGE (insert british accent)" [23]...embarassing considering I apparently did not understand NOTCENSORED. Judicatus | Talk 03:28, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
And editor removed the tag I had previously put on there about single source, I reverted, we are discussing it. Am I correct in that any article with only one source, regardless of the quality, can have the tag on it? I've never been a discussion about it, and you are the only admin I know that is currently online, so a 3rd on my talk page would be helpful if you have the time. Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 15:22, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I've got a couple of musician articles that are not notable outside their band. I've tried to redirect to the band, but I get reverted by the creating editor.... reverted with no comment, saying I need to disprove his argument, name calling, etc... Where do I go/do next and trying to do a redirect? Bgwhite ( talk) 00:29, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Ever heard of Cholermus? Was tagged at CSD for no context and a hoax, clearly neither (it's no spaghettisburger!) Very little available, mainly people making it after watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory...Would probably go good with the strawberries...-- kelapstick( bainuu) 05:50, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
::::::*They were quite tasty, thanks, though I don't understand why a dough with so much butter doesn't guarantee total freshness the day after. I agree with the reassessment, BTW. Sadie gives you a paw. Drmies ( talk) 02:33, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Drmies,
You've overseen the Eliane Karp page from time to time. I kept an eye on the page because of mysterious information I came across as an Americanist, and because the claim of a doctorate is not true and language ability is exaggerated. I see two IP's who might be thought of as 'friends' of Ms. Karp, 128.113.140.89 (21 March 2011) and 66.117.137.195 (9 April 2010). I also see a 'non-friend' at 128.113.140.89 (21 March 2011) who accurately described claims (but did not cite) that are known and documentation does exist - but is obscure. For such a well-placed figure, these details are politically sensitive. One might find that the publications claimed are also obscure, non extant, or authored differently. I am not going to take the time to explore claims in Hebrew or French.
Here is an item charging influence pedaling for example: http://www.tvperu.gob.pe/noticias/politica/politica/562-eliane-karp-podria-ser-citada-por-comision-de-fiscalizacion.html
Here is scandalous ynet news from Israel, where the claim of the doctorate also is included: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3318035,00.html
This Israeli item contains the following paragraph: "A survey taken in Peru showed that she is seen as ambitious, power-hungry, a money-lover, arrogant, haughty, patronizing, vulgar, exploitative, domineering, a spendthrift, immoral, and ungrateful, and that’s only a partial list."
This YouTube item, titled: BIOGRAFIA DE LA DRA. ELIANE KARP - TOLEDO refers to her as Dr. Karp. This is a work of unabashed propaganda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ijw6Dm1Jp4
On a more positive note, she did successfully lead an initiative against Yale for artifacts from Machu Pichu.
I don't recommend re-stating the negative information, but this site has a history of 'fixes'. Unfortunately, I see claims of possession of a doctorate from Stanford are still made on the Spanish language Wikipedia, along with glorious claims to respectable banking and international NGO relationships. Well, one chooses one's battles, I won't be making additional changes, but the complex pattern of untruths, and/or extent of publicly-described untoward issues are not represented in this instance. I do see that the page is less aggrandizing than in the past. You may remove this message. KSRolph ( talk) 21:13, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
It's a small world among some of us, seeing my user page, you will understand. I must exercise caution - we are not talking about humble people. In fact, I looked into this current matter because I see keynote speaker status at a coming Human Rights conference at SU. This is when there is also question of human rights abuses, so some people are missing some information, or have decided unpleasant information is conspiratorial. On über national's status, I don't know. But, ignorance of Quechua is revealed here, Ethnologue lists about 30 Quechuas in Peru alone, several of which are not mutually intelligible. I might add, Ethnologue contributors correspond with me about my view of the languages, varieties, and the numbers of speakers.
The party of interest is now teaching in the History Dep't. at Peru's top private university. One wonders if all believe she holds the doctorate from SU. Believe it or not, through certain channels at SU, the party managed to get appointments, without the usual doctorate, or rather... (nearly) all believed she had earned one there. Faculty who knew better, were tight-lipped. I figured it out looking for her dissertation which appeared nowhere. I saw a big poster of the 'first couple' in the Alumni Center that said M.A. I contacted them and told them they missed her Ph.D., but then learned she does not have one. A little slippery...
As for the former president, he DID earn one. He gave an infamous talk a couple years ago, for which he - appeared in front of others - to be drunk. This unit enjoys presidential immunity from possible criminal charges. With Peru becoming a key strategic country, leaders are becoming more important. To give credit where do, the Mister truly supports democracy, at least some form of it. I see the same non-friend had things to say about his scandals' toolkit also.
It makes me wonder if I should hear/see/speak no evil. And by the way, it's Sunday for you too, or most likely... KSRolph ( talk) 01:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Historia de dos aventureros : Toledo y Karp, la política como engaño is by Umberto Jara, 2005. The translation is something like: The History of Two Adventurers: Toledo and Karp, politics of deception. I cannot comment on its credibility; the author is a controversial, well-known journalist. I find an honorary doctorate (Peru) awarded in 2011. But it makes this claim:
"La Dra. Karp obtuvo el grado de bachiller en Estudios Latinoamericanos y el doctorado en Antropología en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Maestría en Humanidades y fue candidata al Doctorado de Finanzas y Economía de Desarrollo en la Universidad de Stanford, California, Estados Unidos."
This means the party claims she has a doctorate from Hebrew University and was a doctoral candidate in finance and economics at SU... I'm going to move on to other topics for a time. I've had enough of this!
http://peg.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php?id=1841 KSRolph ( talk) 04:58, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Nice work. Will consider at a later time. Appreciate the interest. KSRolph ( talk) 05:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Drmies,
After some time away from Wikipedia to work on some other writing projects, I have returned:
...did you know that the Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1949 and 1950 by two Detroit Public Schools teachers who "scrimped and saved" on an income of $280.00 per month?
Will you please give me your opinion on this? If you think it promising, I will try to master the arcane DYK procedures. Mrs. Cullen is almost done with her second article, by the way. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 00:08, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure I would describe them rules as "arcane"... BTW, both I and Mrs. Drmies love his style, so I'll be glad to have a look. Drmies ( talk) 00:42, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Your (plural) articles always make me feel good about the US--they touch on that optimism my former teacher described so well, that of the Greatest Generation to whom we owe so much. That is a wonderful house. I redid the deck behind our house to mimic such lines; the house itself is beyond beautification, I'm afraid. Drmies ( talk) 00:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me, I commented on the talk page. We have a serious problem, indeed. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 16:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Please read my comment with regards to your revision comments: User_talk:214.26.214.162. Thanks, )
I dab'd Hui (secret society) because romanized 'Hui' is used for so many different words in so many different contexts. My concern began with the Haw wars, where "Haw" (or identically pronounces "Ho") refers to the Hui people, but the bandits themselves were in all likelihood not Hui people, though some of them could have been. -- Pawyilee ( talk) 01:25, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Radiodj1520 is back and still adding unnecessary, unsourced and unencyclopedic content to TV station pages. I have reverted all his edits to this point and added a Warn4IM warning. Looks like it is time to play whack-a-mole. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:05, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Considering your expertise and all, would you give me some help/advise at either User:Pawyilee/Sandbox/Edmund Roberts or Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Edmund_Roberts? -- Pawyilee ( talk) 09:41, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Came across the article Danny Delvers, which is all in Dutch. Wondering if you knew of any crazy and wild Dutch. Bgwhite ( talk) 18:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't agree with your review. Both notoriety and reliable verifiable sources are satisfied. Review process should have intellectual rigour and not just be a lottery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacksoncowes ( talk • contribs) 18:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for partial response - better to keep to the general. Did you check any of the citations - read or check out the book at 8?
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Whilst I accept that I will only get an answer if you want me to, I would be interested to know if you checked out the reference to the book before you rejected the article. I would quite understand if you didn't check it out. As with many book references it is likely to be difficult to do. That problem must exist with many citations of written published work. If the rejection came after you had checked out that reference the rejection seems perverse. If the rejection was made without checking out all the references it is, surely, whimsical?
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Ok; so, Tiles happens to be a band that I like. I was reading their page; I noticed that it requires much citation; as noted. While looking around the internet, I found that the wiki page appears to be a complete rip of this page Tiles - Biography. Is this acceptable? If citations were added to the page; they all would point to the same page (source). This doesn't seem appropriate. Suggestions... Thanks. BigJoeRockHead ( talk) 23:42, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Started it for you. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 00:03, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I don't know if this is something you're doing systematically, or if my random look at an AFC article you moved happened to get the one where you did this, but I moved your comment to the article talk page instead of leaving it at the bottom of the article. Ladyof Shalott 02:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
So are we still even pretending to be an encyclopedia? Or are we just admitting that we are WikiPeople Magazine? Ladyof Shalott 03:25, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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Facepalm in favor of the *headdesk* option. I may feel the need to place "head to desk" multiple times while I attempt to remove the very thought of such obviously important topics. —
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24.132.2.224 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is up to his old tricks again, for example the nonsense added to Maryam Hassouni, and bizarre POV rubbish about Christianity. Time for another block? Thanks. 2 lines of K 303 21:23, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
[24]. That's a quality edit right there. VolunteerMarek 21:37, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for assisting in the current misunderstanding at ANI. I have learnt something valuable from the outcome. As per your suggestion, I would like to offer this cup of tea, as a sign of gratitude. Wesley ☀ Mouse 22:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC) |
I've edited as an IP myself, and getting the vandalism warnings (I got them up to level 3 more than once) are really exasperating and it's hard to remain civil when you're accused of vandalism and threatened with a block--"impudent shit" is not civil, you're right, but I understand the feeling. Schedule and all: drop me a line any time. I'm sure the same goes for the Hand. Happy days! Drmies ( talk) 00:13, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you contributed to the recent thread at WT:TW regarding a software blip. Alas, whatever it was is still affecting me, & given the number of times that I need to restore to a previous version, well, it is a bit of a pain. I've purged etc, am using the vector skin and ... you name it, anything mentioned in that thread has been tried. My last resort was to disable TW in Preferences and then re-enable it. No joy.
If I disable it again, do your admin powers extend so far as to delete the associated User:Sitush/twinkleoptions.js ? I am wondering if clearing everything and then enabling TW again might do the trick. - Sitush ( talk) 23:43, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
A user wants User:ZZ47/Golu Ke Goggles moved to article space. I've edited the article, so I guess I need a mighty admin to help move it. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:35, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
You were correct, even before I realized you were. Your observations are always welcome. Thank you. Dennis Brown 2¢ © 12:44, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Khvalamde : Holla at me 14:31, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
This seems inconsistent with the policy regarding canvassing. Nobody Ent 16:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick block! Allens ( talk | contribs) 17:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Could you get this guy off my hands for me? It's at AIV. Thanks. Calabe 1992 18:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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Fail to sign your post at ANI! ;) Calabe 1992 18:31, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi again, I know you're roaming about, just decided to NPP before going off-wiki, saw this user Carlossuarez46 has gone bananas creating tons of stubs about remote, sparsely populated mountain villages in Iran, appears to have autoreviewer rights as the articles are all turning up as patrolled, err ... these locations do not appear notable and the user is also creating a ton of redirects. What to do? CaptainScreebo Parley! 18:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I found another account User_Talk:Marshcrazy that had very strangely similar editing patterns to Cable Guy. The sock puppet investigation was CU endorsed and it came back as 'Possible'. Since then, he has put up this notice on his page claiming free speech and has removed the templates regarding the investigation on his page.
If any action or notifications are required to be given to him, your intervention would be appreciated. Hghyux ( talk to me)( talk to others) 20:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Done
Well done. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 23:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey. I wonder if the semi-protection on Falun Gong. Can the semi-protection be made semi-permanent? In aggregate that would save a lot of time over the long run. Every once in a while something like this, or some random troll comes along, and it burns up 30 minutes (in good scenarios) dealing with it. The Sound and the Fury ( talk) 20:58, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Drmies - I noticed the thread on AN/I but it's been closed. I've had experience (not good!) with Rinpoche as FightingMac and would like to see all the accounts linked to the sockmaster - I don't think that's been done yet. I have watches on the many accts that I'm aware of - most have been blocked but not all linked together. Anyway, just dropping this note, because I'm curious about where this has gone, and what, if anything, is being done about it. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 21:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Calabe 1992 21:11, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Just had to break in the tools, by private request. Better safe than sorry, then and now. Please review. That is what you get for opening your mouth about me using tools ;) Dennis Brown 2¢ © 00:17, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey you did not revert the article to before the edit warring started. You forgot to re-add the Kennedy quote and personal motto that were on the page, check the talk page and edit history of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.218.45 ( talk) 01:19, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Check Talk:General Joseph Colton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.218.45 ( talk) 01:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Doc (and stalkers), I was wondering if anyone can take a look at Leningradartist ( talk · contribs) for me? He has created many, many articles about artists from Leningrad, that are almost all sourced solely to a book that the user has written, called Unknown Socialist Realism, and primary sources (doesn't "unknown" = non-notable?). Whenever I've searched to try and find more sources, I can't find any. It's come up a couple of times at WP:COIN and elsewhere and I started two AFDs ages ago (first no consensus, second keep), but the issue has never really been dealt with. This over at commons came up on my watchlist earlier, which is what reminded me about all this. I'm stuck as I'm fairly sure that few of the articles should be here unless more secondary sources can be found, but proving or disproving whether they exist is almost impossible. That said, I have a huge library at my disposal, so in theory, if they exist I should be able to find some. Has anyone got ideas as to how to track down possible sources, and what to do with the articles in general? (Hope this isn't tldr). Cheers! SmartSE ( talk) 01:55, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your valiant attempt to clean up a mess. Too bad the bucket leaks. Ladyof Shalott 02:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
First of all, I appreciate your efforts, in cleaning up the sock puppet edits that were made on the General Joseph Colton article. However, I disagree with your decision to remove the image from the infobox, for the section about the character in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
The decision to include separate infoboxes for the movie characters was documented at Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe/Conventions, because some of the movie characters have different background information. The image in question File:GIJoeRetaliationColton.jpg is not so much promoting the film, as it is spotlighting that character specifically. Similar promotional images were released for the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and all of the articles for characters in that movie have separate infoboxes for the movie character, with the promotional image for that character in each infobox. I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same for the characters from the new movie, and therefore I believe that the fair use of the image is justified, because it is being used in the infobox properly. Fortdj33 ( talk) 13:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations! Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:04, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
See here for a proper interpretation of WP:NFOOTY. My favorite is the Manchester United comment. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 15:48, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies,
Remember the other day when you said I could "give you a shout" anytime I needed a bit of help? Well my friend, I think I could do with some assistance on a matter if possible. I stumbled onto an edit war between two other editors the other day on article Georgian Orthodox Church article; and swiftly acted by getting the two editors to sit down and discuss the POV dispute on the article talk page. Everything seemed to have run smoothly. One of the involved disputers has tendencies to be a bit bolshy and stomp around; but somehow (and I haven't the foggiest how) I managed to get that user to maintain a civil and calm communication from the start (that has to be worth an Olympic Gold Medal LOL).
Anyhow, I invited both users to write down their own interpretations of what the sources where portraying in regards to the disputed paragraph at the article's talk page; which they did; and another user also participated, as well as myself writing down how I interpreted sources. From that, I started to do a comparison between the 4 written thesis, and noticed 3 out of the 4 where basically covering the same understanding, while the remaining one didn't. That very user is now cyber-stomping there feet and throwing accusations that I am being partial, even though there are 2 other editors who have noted the same things as I have. Is there anything now that I need to be doing, as it seems that 3 people (a majority-ish) are in agreement of a rewording of the disputed paragraph, while 1 is kinda demanding their version should remain. Personally I think the dispute has reached its conclusion, but trying to get the one user to see that is proving to be harder than I anticipated. Wesley ☀ Mouse 16:42, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
I've been working on this page on and off for awhile. My current concern is with regards to this line: Some bands incorporate jazz fusion to their works which is often termed technical metal. citation needed in paragraph 1. I've not been able to find any sources to support this statement. Additionally, the "technical metal" page redirects to the "Progressive Metal" page. Seems kind of redundant. I could see if there were and actual technical metal page. Lastly, there's been a "citation needed" attached to the sentence since '09. May I remove it? Or, should I open it for discussion on the talk page? BigJoeRockHead ( talk) 17:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my talk page about the unblock request at User talk:58.7.177.161, which both you and 7 drew to my attention. I have replied there to the unblock request. Maybe either you or 7 would like to go back and accept or decline the request. (As you will see from my comment there, my choice would be to decline, but I will leave it up to you.) JamesBWatson ( talk) 19:28, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Dear Drmies, I would like to raise my concern that the issue and the opinions of the commenting editors were wrongly presented by Wesley on the discussed issue. The opinions were divided 2/2 (50%/50%) and drew his attention to it. The participants were also asked not to hurry as at least I have not enough time to edit several times a day. I also informed that I am going to involve 3rd party for additional opinion. This took place within the last several hours. Unfortunately Wesley disregarded these requests, paid little attention on my correction of his incorrect interpretation on the editors' opinions and closed the discussion within that very short time-frame.
Please suggest if this is a proper manner of resolving content disagreement and, if not, how should it be dealt with. Regards Aregakn ( talk) 02:05, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
But another issue: it seems to me that you think that this is a process that has reached some sort of final conclusion, but that's not the case. Nothing yet is written in stone, and from what I can gather discussion here might be ongoing for a while. Anyway, beside continued talk page discussion, there's other options, such as dispute resolution. Drmies ( talk) 02:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
No discussion before I know where the proper place for it is. Aregakn ( talk) 07:36, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
You asked "who or what mechanism gave Wesley the right to conclude discussions he is a part of and what is the mechanism to reverse these rights that, as to me, were obviously abused". As I suggested before, and now I'll be even more explicit, there is no "right" involved here. He started a discussion; he can close it. And you can unclose it, if you like. Or state that the conclusion is not correct. Or whatever. Again, you seem to think there is some sort of mechanism with rules and stuff in place, but there isn't. If you disagree, just say so--on the article talk page. I don't know what made you think that the results (if there were results) of a discussion were somehow binding, but as long as there isn't a clear consensus on the basic question, the evidence, and the majority opinion, there is nothing binding here. I have mentioned that I am not so sure anymore that there is a clear consensus on those issues, so why hammer on procedure when there is still a consensus to reach? You should ask Wesley what he considers the consensus is, and what evidence a proposed change or edit should be based on. On the article talk page. Drmies ( talk) 20:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Wow...easy on that, Sir :). You are just talking to an editor that does not really know all the "mechanisms" WP and editors use and what they are for so I'm asking for help to understand them. This is the reason I am (was) asking you for the second time, wanting to make sure I understood it correct. I don't discuss the content here or think it is a final decision either.
Think the second paragraph was what I wanted to hear. Thank you Drmies. So, to make it clear that I understood it right I will repeat it in my words, if I may:
1) The template Wesley used is a general template for any discussions on a content of an article and any editor can use it (or not) for A discussion. Right?
2) Concluding that template/discussion (whether resolved or not) can any editor at any time (s)he thinks is correct. Right? Or should it be the same editor that made the template?
3) If thought, that the discussion was not over yet on the subject, can that same "concluded" discussion be reopened by any editor right after (not long after) it was closed?
Thank you for your patience and assistance Aregakn ( talk) 17:15, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Re-opening the discussion is perhaps not the best thing to do--not for any procedural reason, but because it's a complicated matter and not all partners are talking about the same things, which is why (I think) there is no consensus on what the consensus was. That editor who discussed the reliability of one source (a very useful contribution) wasn't really addressing a specific question, I think, and so maybe a good way to start is by asking one specific question, in a new section. Good luck, Drmies ( talk) 17:25, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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You're just trying to make me crave to improve the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! article, aren't you? ;) Calabe 1992 04:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
Can you please remove your unnecessary - off topic comments from my talk pages. Thanks! Distributor108 ( talk) 04:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thanks for your decline explanation, it resolved a conflict in my brain about how to interpret the A7 guideline. The BLP Prod suggestion also clarified something for me too. Newmanoconnor ( talk) 04:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Could one of you look at the deleted page of Gavin Mikhail. It was recreated and I'd like to know if anything changed. I'd like to do a CSD, but the past AfD was way back when. I've removed the myspace and blogs refs. I can't find any good refs. His albums include the acoustic version of both Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga. Hmmm, I wonder if he follows them on twitter. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:36, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies and and other grammar/style gurus around (Malleus?), yesterday at work I proofread a flyer that a coworker was preparing. We hit upon a punctuation disagreement. She had used "so" as a conjuction for two independent clauses, with a comma preceding the "so". I didn't think that "so" was a proper conjunction, and said she needed a semi-colon. Well, she sent me this link which clearly supports her position, not mine. Now my followup question: is this one of those stylistic situations where different authorities have different views, or was I just flat-out wrong? Ladyof Shalott 13:22, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I found the file, and here's the sentence: "Some of these techniques look very manly, so don’t think this craft is just for the girls." Ladyof Shalott 14:04, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Button, Hex Nut, & Washer Jewelry
Wednesday, June 6, Time to be announced
Heavy Metal! We’re going to make some jewelry using bits and pieces from the hardware store in unexpected ways. Some of these techniques look very manly, so don’t think this craft is just for the girls. Limited to 15 teens.
There's a clear consensus here. Thank you all for your input! I stand corrected. Ladyof Shalott 20:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
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I forgot to give you this beer last night. I bought 4 when I was out in the pub, but only drank 3. I knew you'd appreciate the fourth, so here it is. Wesley ☀ Mouse 18:35, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
DID YOU INDEED READ EVERYTHING THAT I POSTED, DID YOU EVEN BOTHER TO LOOK UP THE REFERENCES? OBVIOUSLY NOT IF YOU REVERTED THE PAGE BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL SO QUICKLY. IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT THE PAGE IS VERY "ENCYCLOPEDIC" PERHAPS YOU WOULD CONSIDER REDESIGNING IT BEFORE YOU WHIPE IT OUT ALL TOGETHER. I DON'T MIND THE DIFFERENCE IN OPINION, BUT I DO MIND THAT YOU HAVE NOT EVEN GIVEN THIS INFORMATION A CHANCE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xylon Draganthus ( talk • contribs) 23:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
THAT'S BECAUSE THE FIRST FEW REVERTS TO THE ORIGINAL WERE VERY SHALLOW REASONS, AND THIS NEW INFORMATION WAS NOT EVEN GIVEN A CHANCE TO BE CONSIDERED. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xylon Draganthus ( talk • contribs) 23:56, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the speedy delete. Van Isaac WS contribs 06:45, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, just in case you noticed and were wondering, the rollback of your edit to your talkpage was due to me browsing my watchlist on my droid. SÆdon talk 07:06, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
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Just back from doing a show in Brattleboro, Vermont, during which I did almost no Wiki-editing, so I'm a bit late on the 100k-congrats, but "well done" anyway. (Not to be too competitive, but between User:Before My Ken, User:Between My Ken and User:Beyond My Ken, I've got 101,603 -- but, of course, I'm not as beloved as you are so...) Anyway, I'm really quite pleased to have gotten to know you, a little bit, here on Wikipedia. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 04:38, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Doc
Could you check out MyBB versus the previously deleted one? Wondering if G4 is applicable or if I should send it to AfD again. Bongo matic 14:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Tx
Enjoy. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 14:37, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I saw you warned User:HammerFilmFan for removing talk page comments. But it seems he is unwilling to understand the talk page guideline as he not only changed your warning message but also continue to remove talk page comments by other users. Can you please look into the issue? Thanks! -- SMS Talk 11:27, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. Would you mind having a look at this for me - Impiety (band)? I'm having some difficulties explaining the concept of WP:RS to an anon user who has just contravened 3RR. Cheers, Blackmetalbaz ( talk) 13:01, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Sjeez, me, OLD??? :-)
Seriously, I'm getting a bit irritated with an IP and a SPA editor (perhaps the same person) at Bharath Sriraman. Being the cranky old Calvinist that I am (I grudgingly admit that there may be some truth somewhere in that assertion), I'm perhaps being too purist. The article looks decent, but there is a tendency to put everything that the guy ever has done in there, every seminar, trip, published note, etc. The article is also being overcategorized (in my opinion). Could you perhaps have a look and tell me whether I'm being unreasonably Calvinistic? Thanks. -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 16:06, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya Doc, I see we are working in parallel, I had just removed the speedy template from Joy Romero, I thought that director of whatever for big oil, and chair of something at Athabasca University was sufficient indication of importance, I was just going to ask you if the press release was enough for BLPPROD, but you deleted me to it. Cheers, and happy Easter. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 04:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I've only nominated the articles from this user that I thought were problematic. There ae some others that are borderline, but I left them alone. West Eddy ( talk) 05:04, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya Doc, would you do me a favour and use your adminly powers to add the protected the redirect UFC on FX 4 to Category:2012 in mixed martial arts. Hope the girls enjoyed Easter. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 07:12, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your support at my RfA. I will do my best to live up to people's confidence in me. Yngvadottir ( talk) 18:03, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I feel West Eddy ( talk · contribs) is wikistalking me and I need your help to prevent his constant harassment. Now he's undone a speedy tag I placed on CUPE 3902. I left him a note politely asking him to stop. Me-123567-Me ( talk) 20:26, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jill Kenton is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jill Kenton until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. JoeSperrazza ( talk) 21:04, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't like making appositives - upsets my stomach - I prefer making pastries. On the religion issue, an elegant solution, but don't expect it to stay that way. :-) -- Bbb23 ( talk) 00:53, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Sir... I am Sorry... Please guide me for editing Vithurgod ( talk) 05:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
I wont edit war... I will do Edit Summaries... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vithurgod ( talk • contribs) 05:20, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Sir. I wont add any more info in the short term... Discopgraphy page is a List of all Songs sung by the singer, and it appears in all singer s Wikipage... Thanks for considering.... Much regards Vithurgod ( talk) 05:16, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
I wont add any info in the short term... The Discography is the Main Table of Content for a Singer/ Musician and hence the data is very important as it describes and lists the songs sung by the Singer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vithurgod ( talk • contribs) 05:26, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for the Note.... I wont Edit War.. I would learn it and post only content which have ample value and significance... Vithurgod ( talk) 05:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Drmies, Sorry to keep coming back to you with the odd issue, but I would like your imput. Since the last time we spoke (when Pankaj Oswal page subjected to vandalism) there have been a couple of other editors making contributions to page. Fair enough. For the most part I have simply corrected very minor aspects of those particular edits. Recently I added extra text of my own & it would seem that one of those editors disagrees with the content. At this point I have not changed anything, but I feel the latest new edits give a very unbalanced view of the (living) subject. Suspect there is relationship between this editor & previous vandal..the aim is the same to change page substantially. I would like a neutral person, ie. yourself, to have a look. Happy if you could find the time. Thankyou so much. A fair go ( talk) 10:44, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
The protection time is over, and there's been no editing in about a week. Feel free to start charging through it with a great big red editor's pen. I'm not going to edit the article directly, but I say--if it's not verified, either throw it out, or, if not terribly controversial, tag it and then throw it out later. If IP editors start interfering with unsourced changes, I'll semi-protect again. Qwyrxian ( talk) 13:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
There are again users, and other IP users who keep on adding birthdays and trivias again in the Members section of U-KISS. I am deleting them from time to time but it keeps on coming back. I need your help please. jmarkfrancia ( talk) 06:32, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Drmies. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Koolakamba, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not blatantly vandalism or a hoax. Thank you. Nikkimaria ( talk) 03:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
The references in this section appear to be more opinion than based on cited sources, and is probably not quite NPOV. I added a {{ cn}} on one of them but citing on a cite note seems to be a little redundant. I figured I'd bring it to your attention as a slightly more experienced editor, given you may have a more appropriate way to deal with this. PuppyOnTheRadio talk 04:07, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the Review |
Hi Drmies, thanks for the early copyedits at Chrisye. The article just passed its recent FA nomination. Your prose edits helped tremendously, and feedback (and humour) you gave was priceless. In thanks, I'd like to give you a local brew: Bintang Beer. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 23:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC) |
...slowly and deeply..before you pop a blood vessel or something like that. :)
I rather gather that you might be more upset about something that scales beyond that particular thread. It isn't worth getting that upset over, you know?
They are asking because they are frustrated and don't know what else to do...and they are following the standard procedures with the templates. This is what they know. For some, the human touch might turn it into a botched job so they would prefer to fall back on crafted language to avoid errors (and trouble!).
I think you are doing a good job in setting an example...let's hope it works.
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Ah, see, I was wondering what the hell all those hearts on everyone's page were for! That's an interesting (if inevitable) development. I'm still trying to get a handle on policy...turns out that blocking vandals is like riding a bike, but closing contentious XfDs is most definitely NOT. *eep* Thanks for the e-beer! Keilana| Parlez ici 01:54, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
I probably didn't make myself clear on that 30 day suggestion after first leaving a msg and seeing if he did it again. The guy edits so infrequently, I was thinking to make sure he was blocked when he came back (with a more personal block msg as well), again as a last resort, but not punitively. Been working on communicating more clearly and concisely, some days are better than others I suppose. Dennis Brown (talk) 02:08, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Check your email.-- kelapstick( bainuu) 03:18, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
<--You're a good man, darax. Drmies ( talk) 01:11, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
You weren't being sarcastic, were you (ie, "congrats on your principled stance")? I truly hadn't encountered that abbreviation before (now that I know it, it's painfully obvious). Levdr1lostpassword ( talk) 03:27, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
The issue was handled, I was trying to contribute and apparently, misunderstood and violated "conflict of interest" rules. I have correct my errant ways and there is no need to keep that post up there as active as it's dead and handled per Hulu. Additionally I would not like to be archived as some evil entity here on the wiki as I am in full rule compliance now and have a better grasp of what is expected from editing here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeroyon01 ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of the Panathinaikos F.C. situation. I don't know if you read my message at WT:FOOTY, but recently there was a campaign by "Prasini" (a Panathinaikos fan newspaper) to make the Hellenic Football Federation recognise their team's pre-1928 championships as official, against all sources. A fan blog also urged their viewers to "restore Panathinaikos' lost titles" at the English Wikipedia [4], so a semi-protection was necessary. Cheers. – Kosm 1 fent 16:51, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there MIES, VASCO here,
since you don't edit much in soccer and don't participate in its forums obviously, have a read at this (please see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Making_room_for_the_young). Would have liked very much to make your acquaintance for real, but can't have everything can you :)
Kind regards, keep it up - -- Vasco Amaral ( talk) 17:49, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey you write on the A Smile from the Trenches page that you had a source for screamo, could you send it to me because the lead singer gave me the basic genres e.g Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Alternative Rock, and Emo but i want to add screamo (i will also add Emocore) do you think you could send the link? can you also reply on my chat page because i might forget your user name 86.25.246.30 ( talk) 21:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)ericdeaththe2nd 86.25.246.30 ( talk) 21:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
that's the badger, thanks :D Ericdeaththe2nd ( talk) 23:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)ericdeaththe2nd23:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
Its a saying Ericdeaththe2nd ( talk) 17:20, 17 April 2012 (UTC)ericdeaththe2nd Ericdeaththe2nd ( talk) 17:20, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
I am just a tad concerned about a post left by 완젬스 on the talk page Talk:Occupy Wall Street [5] which makes a statement about "Eyeing his/her goal set for this weekend" that is linked to a youtube video of a physical fight. Don't know what to make of it. Seems very inappropriate.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 00:52, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
You have my full support on edits made on Gjeke Marinaj and "protonism", as this is your profession. I suspect Gjeke Marinaj, or a person strongly affiliated with him, is behind sockpuppets listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Festes
I suggest to edit articles Albanians as accounts above (or related to the account) insists on having Gjeke Marinaj listed in the Albanians infobox (by removing James Belushi), Albanian Americans infobox and has also listed Gjeke Marinaj under Notable Albanians with description "the founder of Protonism - Eminent Albanian-American writer and literary critic." a description that is not objective, verifiable or realistic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.236.90.41 ( talk) 01:03, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Hmm..there is an entire army of poppet accounts belonging to Gjeke Marinaj and Frederick Turner operating, they also made a tour together in the Balkans where F.Turner praised the works of Gjeke Marinaj on disruptive protonism, being presented as multiple Nobel prize candidate. User User:Empathictrust has made very positive edits on both Gjeke Marinaj and Frederick Turner(poet), I think it is the famous User:Festes behind account Empathictrust. 87.236.90.110 ( talk) 23:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The part I removed recently from the page of Hindu Kush which you reverted back, was removed because of its offensive nature to a community and its not even a true fact, its an opinion of the some extremists, the majorly accepted fact is just below which is not explained. Oldmonk7 ( talk) 05:16, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Sounds like a Bay City Rollers song...anyway, very exciting night at casa del kelapstick. Assembling the new BBQ, 99 luftbaloons is on the radio, and I am assisting at IRC (quiet as it is there tonight). I know, I wish you were me. Pool temp is still holding, but we still can't convince the youngest to get in, she makes runs at the edge, then says "noooo" (in the manner that 2 year olds do). -- kelapstick( bainuu) 12:39, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC) 01:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies, Could you please take a quick peek at this page that I think is almost ready for upload, and tell me what you think? Thank you for your quick peek in advance. Doc2234 ( talk) 01:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I have seen you put this whole segment away. Not that I am in any position to say that I am right after reviewing other kpop articles like TVXQ. But instead of putting the whole segment away and saying the language is poor etc. Why not you go an extra mile and tell me what went wrong and maybe I can edit it instead of just deleting the whole segment away?
I am keen in listening to opinions after which making the appropriate changes but by removing the whole section, it's just looking down at me. Using an analogy for example, I have dedicate my time doing a research that the teacher does not require me to do. However, when the teacher actually spot checked my research, instead of telling me where I gone wrong and making appropriate changes, the teacher throw back the research at me and say it's wrong. In this sense, how will I feel?
I felt unappreciated. Moreover, the endorsement section have been existing since YEAR 2010! I may sound like I am whining but in fact when b2st wiki was nominated for delete etc. I took my time off starting this article from scratch and re-organizing them.
I am not autocratic, I know I do make some mistake, I do understand why you remove b2st discograph as there is already an article on that. This make sense and I am alright with it.
However, I don't understand what's wrong with b2st endorsement. Those comments? It's on the article itself, it's even credited with reference, just click on the link and read. By deleting the whole section off, it only makes me even more puzzled since no one has deleted it since year 2010.
Maybe, you would like to explain in detail or probably edit a better section. Not simply deleting the whole section away.
Sorry for a long feedback section that demands an explanation.
PS : It's not like I am going back to find those articles again, since I don't understand hangul. It takes a very long time. So in the meantime, I will not touch the page till june holiday arrives. Nicky456 ( talk) 04:59, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
If you're referring specifically to this edit--sorry, but the language was first of all ungrammatical and not in accordance with encyclopedic style, and secondly, it reads like it came straight out of a press release advertising the band and the product: "On April 3, 2012, B2ST was selected as the newest models to promote ‘bodyART™’ in Korea which is said to be slow, but fast and smooth, yet strong. It is very dynamic almost like a dance, but also being a form of exercise." K-pop articles will have to start conforming to Wikipedia's guidelines; there is no nicer way to say it. Articles that appear to be a combination of fan sites and promotional efforts must be trimmed and revised to become encyclopedic in tone and content. I hope you will help in that effort: your favorite band is better served by a good encyclopedic article than by an article that lists everything but says nothing, and is constantly subjected to this edit-warring over unencyclopedic content (. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 13:56, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm considering a run at RfA, and would like your input on my talk page about the issue. We haven't crossed paths extremely often, but you seem brutally honest, and I would like some objective opinions before I make a final decision. If you don't have the time or inclination to participate, no offense will be taken. Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 17:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
There used to be an editor who'd drop homework assignments on RfAs, like "create Gibbons-Hawking space" (I just pulled that off article requests). I don't think that was very fair, but if you can show that you can create a decent article, that will help convince those who think that content is just as or more important than proper CSD tagging and an even-keeled temperament. (I'm one of them, though others feel more strongly than I do.) Drmies ( talk) 17:41, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Are you sure about that? The IP(s) responsible for this, this, and that will very likely come back.
I'm not around every day to check whether the silly joke gets re-inserted... -- Berntie ( talk) 19:15, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
When I redirected this name after closing the AfD, I was surprised to find five incoming links from film articles referring to this guy who has evidently been a redlink up to now, though on the basis of these references is probably as notable as the pseudonymous author. I have turned him back into a redlink at Charles Brokaw (actor) to encourage somebody to write his article. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 21:30, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is " Katie piper". Thank you. -- 108.210.33.203 ( talk) 05:05, 17 April 2012 (UTC).
I had not realised we "intersect" on 75 fairly random articles! Pleased to make your acquaintance, surely. Collect ( talk) 12:49, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, our friend is back and at it again, [7], although he then removed the "football manager" bit, [8], which as I pointed out at ANI was vandalism added by an IP, but User:Whatever17 is obviously pasting the whole wikitext into Word and then just pasting it back in again whenever he adds something. Oh, and not too brightly, he's socking under a new name that's not very well chosen to conceal his identity, making the same edits to the same article. I would like to continue copyediting the article as, amongst other things, the Personal life section is atrocious, all that crap about the woman and the baby needs to go, but I can't see the point of spending my time on it if this user doesn't get a clue. I'm bringing the ANI post out of the archives and linking to this post, just in case you're not around for a while. Cheers! CaptainScreebo Parley! 15:36, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you removed the bulk of Mr.Yoo Young-Jin's credits. He is my favorite Kpop producer and I am determined to restore his page to include all the work that he should be rightfully credited so it serves as a reference point for anyone interested in Kpop to look up his compositions, lyrics and productions. Please kindly educate me on how I can do it so it is verifiable and not looking like a resume. Thank you.-- RageX009 ( talk) 00:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't see why I have to set the table - I didn't do anything. Besides, I should get to eat the crumpets (the hell with the tea) for setting the stage for your decision. I agree with everything you said, and, frankly, I'm getting very tired of agreeing with you. (I commented on the Rosen Talk page to nudge things along.) -- Bbb23 ( talk) 23:53, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. You said I should remove "that rather irksome warning from your user page". What warning? I didnt put it in there. Can I just remove it? I am really not sure what you are talking about. I have been the one staying on topic until another user, Hector, started all this complaining instead of staying on topic and discuss the issue at hand. Now why is any of this my doing or fault? CarrieBee ( talk) 17:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I see that you have completed that which I could not regarding redirects/moves etc. There was a comment on Talk:Arjun (Actor) - can that be moved over to Arjun (actor) also?
And since you love me so much, do you fancy taking a look at User talk:Rahulkris999#Thiyyar and the various somewhat wayward edits that are going on? I cannot decide if it is disruptive or just the incompetence of a new contributor. - Sitush ( talk) 17:31, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
Please note my recent edits to this new article. It began like this:
The lay reader seeing that will not recognize it as being about mathematics or mathematical physics. I added an initial context-setting phrase:
It didn't say who Gibbons and Hawking are, so I added this:
I changed the title from
to
because WP:MOS requires an en-dash rather than a hyphen in that context.
A remaining issue is that no other articles currently link to that article. You can find out which other articles link to it by clicking on "Toolbox", then on "What links here", and then under "namespace" choose "article" (that last will exclude talk pages link this present user-talk page that link to it, and various sorts of administrative pages that list new articles, etc.). Accordingly, I've added an "orphan" tag to the top of the article. I notice that there are several other articles that begin with the words "Gibbons-Hawking"; possibly some of those ought to link to it, and maybe the list of physics articles and some other physics and mathematics articles. Probably also the pages on Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking. Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:31, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Drmies,
Regarding my page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_D_Kuwait I have re-done it again and hopefully it will fulfill your requirements where as my biography can meet the music notability criteria and I have changed the look in which hopefully you would consider it is not promotional at all and personally I do not seek promotion at all. Please consider accepting it. I definitely do not intend in any way to be a part of any advertisement for myself. I have put reliable sources this time, I added it in my sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Big_D_Kuwaiti_Rapper/sandbox as well but I think its ready now that is why i posted it, I have worked with producers that are well known to pass the music notability guideline, and i guess this time the article will be overlooked as encyclopaedic. I have included reliable, independent secondary sources that I have had since 2001, and documents, official record deals, and verification's, and the tone of the way the article was written has been changed, I really believe I'm notable enough for a Wikipedia article and if you read my article you will see I have done many great accomplishments as a independent artist, and I hope you can accept my article. Regards, Dhari Dhulaei - Big D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 19:55, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
--Mr Drmies I included My "Record Deal Contract With Smile TV 1" "Record Deal Contract With Smile TV 2" with a respected record label and TV Channel called "Smile TV" associated with http://www.aiwagulf.com/ that has over 7 million customers and worked with well known artist Massari my country is based on 1 million people only Kuwait is very small as you may already know sir, there are hardly any rappers I have started hip hop in my country, and you can see the date on this contract sir "Record Deal Contract With Yacoub_Al-Mohana 1" "Record Deal Contract With Yacoub_Al-Mohana 2" "Record Deal Contract With Yacoub_Al-Mohana 3" with "Gulf Records" in 2001, with well known producer in the middle east Yacoub Al-Mohana which worked with respected artist Rashed Al-Majed plus his father Yousif al Mohana was a icon in the arab music world, and the blogs you've seen in my references that posted me are the top in my country in which there are only few blogs in Kuwait, I'm willing to add more references in the future and upgrade the article but I have worked 3 sleepless nights on my article so far, in addition if you search all of wikipedia you will see there are no rappers in Kuwait except Big D the only rapper in Kuwait with a legitimate story and the only well known rapper in my country. since 1999-present. could you please reconsider my reason to be on wikipedia after knowing this information? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 20:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
That can change, of course, so my advice would be to move the article into your userspace, where you can continue to update it as your career moves along, and if a time comes when you are written about in regularly-published newspapers or magazines, or in recognized sites online (but not in people's personal blogs, or YouTube or Facebook), you can move the article back into mainspace and see if it passes a review for notability then. I think that may be your only option, because it's likely that the article will be deleted at this point. Good luck. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 21:43, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Beyond My Ken and Mr. Drmies,
I appreciate the fact you both looked into my case and tried to help furthermore I'm trying to get a reporter from daily news Arab Times to write a article about me and post it in http://www.arabtimesonline.com/, I hope if that works out my article would qualify your demands, hopefully I will have authoritative sources soon so I can earn your trust, but if you can offer anything positive regarding my case so far I would be very grateful and thankful, knowing I tried my best and I tried to be accepted, I regret to say I can't offer you much more then the sources I have right now, but if you trust me, I will have reliable sources in the future and hopefully my article would be legitimate and accepted, thank you both for everything, if you both ever decide to visit Kuwait and you need anything from here, don't hesitate to ask me. Thank you once again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 05:58, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Smart SE,
I had someone work so hard to make this page for me it took time. i thought i was deemed worthy of being looked up in an encyclopedia. i have been working hard writing everyone that tries to delete me to explain my case. i am not mainstream, and i plan on staying underground. i'm not using this as a way to help my career, im using this for proof; and a reliable source for me to be looked up in by Kuwait. im not in it for money or fame. that's how my small country recognizes me in public, but i needed an article of proof. even if it was a small paragraph. unfortunately at the moment i don't have the reliable source that you ask for. but i earned my fame mostly because i stayed underground. so i can have freedom of speech in cases such as this my Islamic country forbids profanity or even having a music career (if you want to know more about why my religion is against making money off of music i will explain more if you ask me). therefore i cant be true to myself if i was a signed artist because the media will never let me say what i want. they like my music because i am the only Kuwaiti that went this far on my own personal budget.
Im the only unsigned Kuwaiti artist that went this far. where as there is a signed group by the name of Army Of One, Kuwaiti rappers. but Kuwait media decides how there music should be and they can't rap with profanity, freedom, and self will. the songs they make are just for commercial purposes it's not what they truly want to release. i know this because they are my friends. but in my case i have the advantage of being underground and producing my own music. so i can talk about politics, religion, and middle eastern issues, and what the middle east really wants to hear.
Please look at this a article, it is about the band "Army of One" on a Kuwaiti news website "Army of one - Arab Times" what if I could get a article similar to the one I just posted. will that be enough reliable source? my question to you Mr. SmrtSE would I be accepted then. i hope my situation is more clear. thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Big D Kuwaiti Rapper ( talk • contribs) 13:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies, Thank you again for the references, and for referring me to User:MichaelQSchmidt! Revisions have been made and references in addition to those that you provided have been added here. User:MichaelQSchmidt thinks that the article may be ready to go live, and we would both like your opinion on that. Thank you for another quick peek in advance. Doc2234 ( talk) 00:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Drmies. Just FYI, I've started an SPI that involves Sonduarte, an account you seemed to think was a sock, here. Polisher of Cobwebs ( talk) 03:10, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
See Talk:Parkour#Content removal, March 2012. You were the one who removed the links and I don't like having to defend other people's positions. :). -- Izno ( talk) 13:53, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
I agree with the changes done to article based on such reasoning, but I disagree with the final edit... if information that isn't sourced is put on there, then adding the positions without source is just as trivial. Linking to the members pages solely would serve its purpose. The way it looks right now doesn't look very encyclopedia-like either. Chocolat ≈ Dubulge ( Chat Me Up) 17:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I was just fooling around with the icon, that's all. It won't happen again.
Tboii99
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Have a little thing going on at ANI [9]that you may or may not be able to help with. About an editor's contribs [10], new, all 14 are reverts of the same editor. Looking through the first few articles I see a lot of reverts from 4 or so editors, over time, and I noticed you doing some reverts as well. Thought you might be familiar with the back story on this. Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 23:49, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
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Slakr's RFPP Predator Award For your work in helping to tear apart backlogs at requests for page protection by pouncing on requests, I hereby award you this deluxe, camouflaged, tiger-like padlock. Not sure why you'd necessarily need a deluxe, camouflaged, tiger-like padlock, but at least it's a nice conversation piece. :P Keep up the great work. =) Cheers, -- slakr\ talk / 01:48, 20 April 2012 (UTC) |
In response to your referral to me of User:Doc2234 and his article on Giulia Marletta, I did some work on his piece and then went ahead a spent a couple days creating the article Donkey Xote. As I sent it over to DYK, might you look in on it and check my spelling? And then perhaps offer an opinion on my hook? Thanks. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 04:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Fixed it.
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Please see ( [11]), the user is threatening me. Soviet King : Talk or Yell 09:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
After our conversation in which you suggested I run for admin, I started looking at this guide, which, on the whole, I found remarkably well written. However, there was one point (in two places) I thought should be reworded. So, I looked back at the history, found the admin who had added the part that bothered me, opened a discussion on the Talk page, and left the admin a note. He's been very responsive and civil, but, per my last comment in our discussion, I think we've reached an impasse, an unsual impasse in my view, but nonetheless a point where further discussion would probably be futile.
Unfortunately, no one else has commented. In your view, what would be the best way to obtain more comments? WP:RFC? A post to WP:AN (although I would really like to get comments from non-admins as well as admins)? Something else?
Thanks for any advice.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Given that 203.118.187.167, 203.118.187.43, and 203.118.187.209 were found to be socks of WLU, is there any chance I could convince you to roll back 203.118.187.226's revert in the now protected paraphilic infantilism? BitterGrey ( talk) 16:56, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, somehow I missed your comment at MFD so I'm pasting below to respond. SÆdon talk 19:58, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
( Moved from MFD)My watchlist has more entries than your list of edits, probably--both yours and Noformation's, haha. I liked that name, BTW--why'd you get rid of it? This wouldn't be admin shopping. I can only speak for myself, but if something happened over a week ago and I don't still feel it in my wallet or my pants I have forgotten about it. Drmies ( talk) 03:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Don't work too hard on it, but I jumped into a dispute here [21] and think I handled it properly, but wouldn't mind a quick review if you have the time. The guy filing was a 4 day new user and both parties screwed up, and I had to use a bit of a velvet hammer, and wanted to make sure I didn't overstep my authority as a lowly editor ;) Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 00:22, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Drum roll: My first new article. Be kind.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:20, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies! Getting to DYK, who can nominate the Giulia Marletta article for DYK? Doc2234 ( talk) 00:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, I have noticed your presence on most of the backspace of Wikipedia so I figure you are the guy to ask. Is it allowable for a normal editor (myself), to comment or contribute information to RFPP entries such as this one?. I know generally all editors are allowed to participate project wide, but I am concerned as to whether my input and contribution would be more of a hassle to admins working on RFPP than helpful. I find myself more interested in maintenance tasks and back processes including civility issues than mainspace work; I am trying to find a few places to help out without being a nuisance. Thanks in advance! Judicatus | Talk 01:01, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Man I was a prude of the prudes back then..."Such RUDE LANGUAGE (insert british accent)" [23]...embarassing considering I apparently did not understand NOTCENSORED. Judicatus | Talk 03:28, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
And editor removed the tag I had previously put on there about single source, I reverted, we are discussing it. Am I correct in that any article with only one source, regardless of the quality, can have the tag on it? I've never been a discussion about it, and you are the only admin I know that is currently online, so a 3rd on my talk page would be helpful if you have the time. Dennis Brown (talk) (contrib) 15:22, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I've got a couple of musician articles that are not notable outside their band. I've tried to redirect to the band, but I get reverted by the creating editor.... reverted with no comment, saying I need to disprove his argument, name calling, etc... Where do I go/do next and trying to do a redirect? Bgwhite ( talk) 00:29, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Ever heard of Cholermus? Was tagged at CSD for no context and a hoax, clearly neither (it's no spaghettisburger!) Very little available, mainly people making it after watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory...Would probably go good with the strawberries...-- kelapstick( bainuu) 05:50, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
::::::*They were quite tasty, thanks, though I don't understand why a dough with so much butter doesn't guarantee total freshness the day after. I agree with the reassessment, BTW. Sadie gives you a paw. Drmies ( talk) 02:33, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Drmies,
You've overseen the Eliane Karp page from time to time. I kept an eye on the page because of mysterious information I came across as an Americanist, and because the claim of a doctorate is not true and language ability is exaggerated. I see two IP's who might be thought of as 'friends' of Ms. Karp, 128.113.140.89 (21 March 2011) and 66.117.137.195 (9 April 2010). I also see a 'non-friend' at 128.113.140.89 (21 March 2011) who accurately described claims (but did not cite) that are known and documentation does exist - but is obscure. For such a well-placed figure, these details are politically sensitive. One might find that the publications claimed are also obscure, non extant, or authored differently. I am not going to take the time to explore claims in Hebrew or French.
Here is an item charging influence pedaling for example: http://www.tvperu.gob.pe/noticias/politica/politica/562-eliane-karp-podria-ser-citada-por-comision-de-fiscalizacion.html
Here is scandalous ynet news from Israel, where the claim of the doctorate also is included: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3318035,00.html
This Israeli item contains the following paragraph: "A survey taken in Peru showed that she is seen as ambitious, power-hungry, a money-lover, arrogant, haughty, patronizing, vulgar, exploitative, domineering, a spendthrift, immoral, and ungrateful, and that’s only a partial list."
This YouTube item, titled: BIOGRAFIA DE LA DRA. ELIANE KARP - TOLEDO refers to her as Dr. Karp. This is a work of unabashed propaganda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ijw6Dm1Jp4
On a more positive note, she did successfully lead an initiative against Yale for artifacts from Machu Pichu.
I don't recommend re-stating the negative information, but this site has a history of 'fixes'. Unfortunately, I see claims of possession of a doctorate from Stanford are still made on the Spanish language Wikipedia, along with glorious claims to respectable banking and international NGO relationships. Well, one chooses one's battles, I won't be making additional changes, but the complex pattern of untruths, and/or extent of publicly-described untoward issues are not represented in this instance. I do see that the page is less aggrandizing than in the past. You may remove this message. KSRolph ( talk) 21:13, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
It's a small world among some of us, seeing my user page, you will understand. I must exercise caution - we are not talking about humble people. In fact, I looked into this current matter because I see keynote speaker status at a coming Human Rights conference at SU. This is when there is also question of human rights abuses, so some people are missing some information, or have decided unpleasant information is conspiratorial. On über national's status, I don't know. But, ignorance of Quechua is revealed here, Ethnologue lists about 30 Quechuas in Peru alone, several of which are not mutually intelligible. I might add, Ethnologue contributors correspond with me about my view of the languages, varieties, and the numbers of speakers.
The party of interest is now teaching in the History Dep't. at Peru's top private university. One wonders if all believe she holds the doctorate from SU. Believe it or not, through certain channels at SU, the party managed to get appointments, without the usual doctorate, or rather... (nearly) all believed she had earned one there. Faculty who knew better, were tight-lipped. I figured it out looking for her dissertation which appeared nowhere. I saw a big poster of the 'first couple' in the Alumni Center that said M.A. I contacted them and told them they missed her Ph.D., but then learned she does not have one. A little slippery...
As for the former president, he DID earn one. He gave an infamous talk a couple years ago, for which he - appeared in front of others - to be drunk. This unit enjoys presidential immunity from possible criminal charges. With Peru becoming a key strategic country, leaders are becoming more important. To give credit where do, the Mister truly supports democracy, at least some form of it. I see the same non-friend had things to say about his scandals' toolkit also.
It makes me wonder if I should hear/see/speak no evil. And by the way, it's Sunday for you too, or most likely... KSRolph ( talk) 01:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Historia de dos aventureros : Toledo y Karp, la política como engaño is by Umberto Jara, 2005. The translation is something like: The History of Two Adventurers: Toledo and Karp, politics of deception. I cannot comment on its credibility; the author is a controversial, well-known journalist. I find an honorary doctorate (Peru) awarded in 2011. But it makes this claim:
"La Dra. Karp obtuvo el grado de bachiller en Estudios Latinoamericanos y el doctorado en Antropología en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, Maestría en Humanidades y fue candidata al Doctorado de Finanzas y Economía de Desarrollo en la Universidad de Stanford, California, Estados Unidos."
This means the party claims she has a doctorate from Hebrew University and was a doctoral candidate in finance and economics at SU... I'm going to move on to other topics for a time. I've had enough of this!
http://peg.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php?id=1841 KSRolph ( talk) 04:58, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Nice work. Will consider at a later time. Appreciate the interest. KSRolph ( talk) 05:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Drmies,
After some time away from Wikipedia to work on some other writing projects, I have returned:
...did you know that the Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1949 and 1950 by two Detroit Public Schools teachers who "scrimped and saved" on an income of $280.00 per month?
Will you please give me your opinion on this? If you think it promising, I will try to master the arcane DYK procedures. Mrs. Cullen is almost done with her second article, by the way. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 00:08, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure I would describe them rules as "arcane"... BTW, both I and Mrs. Drmies love his style, so I'll be glad to have a look. Drmies ( talk) 00:42, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Your (plural) articles always make me feel good about the US--they touch on that optimism my former teacher described so well, that of the Greatest Generation to whom we owe so much. That is a wonderful house. I redid the deck behind our house to mimic such lines; the house itself is beyond beautification, I'm afraid. Drmies ( talk) 00:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me, I commented on the talk page. We have a serious problem, indeed. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 16:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Please read my comment with regards to your revision comments: User_talk:214.26.214.162. Thanks, )
I dab'd Hui (secret society) because romanized 'Hui' is used for so many different words in so many different contexts. My concern began with the Haw wars, where "Haw" (or identically pronounces "Ho") refers to the Hui people, but the bandits themselves were in all likelihood not Hui people, though some of them could have been. -- Pawyilee ( talk) 01:25, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Radiodj1520 is back and still adding unnecessary, unsourced and unencyclopedic content to TV station pages. I have reverted all his edits to this point and added a Warn4IM warning. Looks like it is time to play whack-a-mole. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:05, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Considering your expertise and all, would you give me some help/advise at either User:Pawyilee/Sandbox/Edmund Roberts or Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Edmund_Roberts? -- Pawyilee ( talk) 09:41, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Came across the article Danny Delvers, which is all in Dutch. Wondering if you knew of any crazy and wild Dutch. Bgwhite ( talk) 18:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
I don't agree with your review. Both notoriety and reliable verifiable sources are satisfied. Review process should have intellectual rigour and not just be a lottery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacksoncowes ( talk • contribs) 18:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for partial response - better to keep to the general. Did you check any of the citations - read or check out the book at 8?
Jacksoncowes (
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Whilst I accept that I will only get an answer if you want me to, I would be interested to know if you checked out the reference to the book before you rejected the article. I would quite understand if you didn't check it out. As with many book references it is likely to be difficult to do. That problem must exist with many citations of written published work. If the rejection came after you had checked out that reference the rejection seems perverse. If the rejection was made without checking out all the references it is, surely, whimsical?
Jacksoncowes (
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Ok; so, Tiles happens to be a band that I like. I was reading their page; I noticed that it requires much citation; as noted. While looking around the internet, I found that the wiki page appears to be a complete rip of this page Tiles - Biography. Is this acceptable? If citations were added to the page; they all would point to the same page (source). This doesn't seem appropriate. Suggestions... Thanks. BigJoeRockHead ( talk) 23:42, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Started it for you. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 00:03, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I don't know if this is something you're doing systematically, or if my random look at an AFC article you moved happened to get the one where you did this, but I moved your comment to the article talk page instead of leaving it at the bottom of the article. Ladyof Shalott 02:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
So are we still even pretending to be an encyclopedia? Or are we just admitting that we are WikiPeople Magazine? Ladyof Shalott 03:25, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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this post and its relevant links, I regret to inform you that I will be bypassing the obvious
Facepalm in favor of the *headdesk* option. I may feel the need to place "head to desk" multiple times while I attempt to remove the very thought of such obviously important topics. —
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24.132.2.224 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is up to his old tricks again, for example the nonsense added to Maryam Hassouni, and bizarre POV rubbish about Christianity. Time for another block? Thanks. 2 lines of K 303 21:23, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
[24]. That's a quality edit right there. VolunteerMarek 21:37, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for assisting in the current misunderstanding at ANI. I have learnt something valuable from the outcome. As per your suggestion, I would like to offer this cup of tea, as a sign of gratitude. Wesley ☀ Mouse 22:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC) |
I've edited as an IP myself, and getting the vandalism warnings (I got them up to level 3 more than once) are really exasperating and it's hard to remain civil when you're accused of vandalism and threatened with a block--"impudent shit" is not civil, you're right, but I understand the feeling. Schedule and all: drop me a line any time. I'm sure the same goes for the Hand. Happy days! Drmies ( talk) 00:13, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you contributed to the recent thread at WT:TW regarding a software blip. Alas, whatever it was is still affecting me, & given the number of times that I need to restore to a previous version, well, it is a bit of a pain. I've purged etc, am using the vector skin and ... you name it, anything mentioned in that thread has been tried. My last resort was to disable TW in Preferences and then re-enable it. No joy.
If I disable it again, do your admin powers extend so far as to delete the associated User:Sitush/twinkleoptions.js ? I am wondering if clearing everything and then enabling TW again might do the trick. - Sitush ( talk) 23:43, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
A user wants User:ZZ47/Golu Ke Goggles moved to article space. I've edited the article, so I guess I need a mighty admin to help move it. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:35, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
You were correct, even before I realized you were. Your observations are always welcome. Thank you. Dennis Brown 2¢ © 12:44, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Khvalamde : Holla at me 14:31, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
This seems inconsistent with the policy regarding canvassing. Nobody Ent 16:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick block! Allens ( talk | contribs) 17:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Could you get this guy off my hands for me? It's at AIV. Thanks. Calabe 1992 18:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
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Fail to sign your post at ANI! ;) Calabe 1992 18:31, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi again, I know you're roaming about, just decided to NPP before going off-wiki, saw this user Carlossuarez46 has gone bananas creating tons of stubs about remote, sparsely populated mountain villages in Iran, appears to have autoreviewer rights as the articles are all turning up as patrolled, err ... these locations do not appear notable and the user is also creating a ton of redirects. What to do? CaptainScreebo Parley! 18:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I found another account User_Talk:Marshcrazy that had very strangely similar editing patterns to Cable Guy. The sock puppet investigation was CU endorsed and it came back as 'Possible'. Since then, he has put up this notice on his page claiming free speech and has removed the templates regarding the investigation on his page.
If any action or notifications are required to be given to him, your intervention would be appreciated. Hghyux ( talk to me)( talk to others) 20:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Done
Well done. Thank you. Drmies ( talk) 23:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey. I wonder if the semi-protection on Falun Gong. Can the semi-protection be made semi-permanent? In aggregate that would save a lot of time over the long run. Every once in a while something like this, or some random troll comes along, and it burns up 30 minutes (in good scenarios) dealing with it. The Sound and the Fury ( talk) 20:58, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Drmies - I noticed the thread on AN/I but it's been closed. I've had experience (not good!) with Rinpoche as FightingMac and would like to see all the accounts linked to the sockmaster - I don't think that's been done yet. I have watches on the many accts that I'm aware of - most have been blocked but not all linked together. Anyway, just dropping this note, because I'm curious about where this has gone, and what, if anything, is being done about it. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 21:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Calabe 1992 21:11, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Just had to break in the tools, by private request. Better safe than sorry, then and now. Please review. That is what you get for opening your mouth about me using tools ;) Dennis Brown 2¢ © 00:17, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey you did not revert the article to before the edit warring started. You forgot to re-add the Kennedy quote and personal motto that were on the page, check the talk page and edit history of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.218.45 ( talk) 01:19, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Check Talk:General Joseph Colton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.218.45 ( talk) 01:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Doc (and stalkers), I was wondering if anyone can take a look at Leningradartist ( talk · contribs) for me? He has created many, many articles about artists from Leningrad, that are almost all sourced solely to a book that the user has written, called Unknown Socialist Realism, and primary sources (doesn't "unknown" = non-notable?). Whenever I've searched to try and find more sources, I can't find any. It's come up a couple of times at WP:COIN and elsewhere and I started two AFDs ages ago (first no consensus, second keep), but the issue has never really been dealt with. This over at commons came up on my watchlist earlier, which is what reminded me about all this. I'm stuck as I'm fairly sure that few of the articles should be here unless more secondary sources can be found, but proving or disproving whether they exist is almost impossible. That said, I have a huge library at my disposal, so in theory, if they exist I should be able to find some. Has anyone got ideas as to how to track down possible sources, and what to do with the articles in general? (Hope this isn't tldr). Cheers! SmartSE ( talk) 01:55, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your valiant attempt to clean up a mess. Too bad the bucket leaks. Ladyof Shalott 02:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
First of all, I appreciate your efforts, in cleaning up the sock puppet edits that were made on the General Joseph Colton article. However, I disagree with your decision to remove the image from the infobox, for the section about the character in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
The decision to include separate infoboxes for the movie characters was documented at Wikipedia:WikiProject G.I. Joe/Conventions, because some of the movie characters have different background information. The image in question File:GIJoeRetaliationColton.jpg is not so much promoting the film, as it is spotlighting that character specifically. Similar promotional images were released for the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and all of the articles for characters in that movie have separate infoboxes for the movie character, with the promotional image for that character in each infobox. I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same for the characters from the new movie, and therefore I believe that the fair use of the image is justified, because it is being used in the infobox properly. Fortdj33 ( talk) 13:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations! Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:04, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
See here for a proper interpretation of WP:NFOOTY. My favorite is the Manchester United comment. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 15:48, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies,
Remember the other day when you said I could "give you a shout" anytime I needed a bit of help? Well my friend, I think I could do with some assistance on a matter if possible. I stumbled onto an edit war between two other editors the other day on article Georgian Orthodox Church article; and swiftly acted by getting the two editors to sit down and discuss the POV dispute on the article talk page. Everything seemed to have run smoothly. One of the involved disputers has tendencies to be a bit bolshy and stomp around; but somehow (and I haven't the foggiest how) I managed to get that user to maintain a civil and calm communication from the start (that has to be worth an Olympic Gold Medal LOL).
Anyhow, I invited both users to write down their own interpretations of what the sources where portraying in regards to the disputed paragraph at the article's talk page; which they did; and another user also participated, as well as myself writing down how I interpreted sources. From that, I started to do a comparison between the 4 written thesis, and noticed 3 out of the 4 where basically covering the same understanding, while the remaining one didn't. That very user is now cyber-stomping there feet and throwing accusations that I am being partial, even though there are 2 other editors who have noted the same things as I have. Is there anything now that I need to be doing, as it seems that 3 people (a majority-ish) are in agreement of a rewording of the disputed paragraph, while 1 is kinda demanding their version should remain. Personally I think the dispute has reached its conclusion, but trying to get the one user to see that is proving to be harder than I anticipated. Wesley ☀ Mouse 16:42, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
I've been working on this page on and off for awhile. My current concern is with regards to this line: Some bands incorporate jazz fusion to their works which is often termed technical metal. citation needed in paragraph 1. I've not been able to find any sources to support this statement. Additionally, the "technical metal" page redirects to the "Progressive Metal" page. Seems kind of redundant. I could see if there were and actual technical metal page. Lastly, there's been a "citation needed" attached to the sentence since '09. May I remove it? Or, should I open it for discussion on the talk page? BigJoeRockHead ( talk) 17:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my talk page about the unblock request at User talk:58.7.177.161, which both you and 7 drew to my attention. I have replied there to the unblock request. Maybe either you or 7 would like to go back and accept or decline the request. (As you will see from my comment there, my choice would be to decline, but I will leave it up to you.) JamesBWatson ( talk) 19:28, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Dear Drmies, I would like to raise my concern that the issue and the opinions of the commenting editors were wrongly presented by Wesley on the discussed issue. The opinions were divided 2/2 (50%/50%) and drew his attention to it. The participants were also asked not to hurry as at least I have not enough time to edit several times a day. I also informed that I am going to involve 3rd party for additional opinion. This took place within the last several hours. Unfortunately Wesley disregarded these requests, paid little attention on my correction of his incorrect interpretation on the editors' opinions and closed the discussion within that very short time-frame.
Please suggest if this is a proper manner of resolving content disagreement and, if not, how should it be dealt with. Regards Aregakn ( talk) 02:05, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
But another issue: it seems to me that you think that this is a process that has reached some sort of final conclusion, but that's not the case. Nothing yet is written in stone, and from what I can gather discussion here might be ongoing for a while. Anyway, beside continued talk page discussion, there's other options, such as dispute resolution. Drmies ( talk) 02:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
No discussion before I know where the proper place for it is. Aregakn ( talk) 07:36, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
You asked "who or what mechanism gave Wesley the right to conclude discussions he is a part of and what is the mechanism to reverse these rights that, as to me, were obviously abused". As I suggested before, and now I'll be even more explicit, there is no "right" involved here. He started a discussion; he can close it. And you can unclose it, if you like. Or state that the conclusion is not correct. Or whatever. Again, you seem to think there is some sort of mechanism with rules and stuff in place, but there isn't. If you disagree, just say so--on the article talk page. I don't know what made you think that the results (if there were results) of a discussion were somehow binding, but as long as there isn't a clear consensus on the basic question, the evidence, and the majority opinion, there is nothing binding here. I have mentioned that I am not so sure anymore that there is a clear consensus on those issues, so why hammer on procedure when there is still a consensus to reach? You should ask Wesley what he considers the consensus is, and what evidence a proposed change or edit should be based on. On the article talk page. Drmies ( talk) 20:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Wow...easy on that, Sir :). You are just talking to an editor that does not really know all the "mechanisms" WP and editors use and what they are for so I'm asking for help to understand them. This is the reason I am (was) asking you for the second time, wanting to make sure I understood it correct. I don't discuss the content here or think it is a final decision either.
Think the second paragraph was what I wanted to hear. Thank you Drmies. So, to make it clear that I understood it right I will repeat it in my words, if I may:
1) The template Wesley used is a general template for any discussions on a content of an article and any editor can use it (or not) for A discussion. Right?
2) Concluding that template/discussion (whether resolved or not) can any editor at any time (s)he thinks is correct. Right? Or should it be the same editor that made the template?
3) If thought, that the discussion was not over yet on the subject, can that same "concluded" discussion be reopened by any editor right after (not long after) it was closed?
Thank you for your patience and assistance Aregakn ( talk) 17:15, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Re-opening the discussion is perhaps not the best thing to do--not for any procedural reason, but because it's a complicated matter and not all partners are talking about the same things, which is why (I think) there is no consensus on what the consensus was. That editor who discussed the reliability of one source (a very useful contribution) wasn't really addressing a specific question, I think, and so maybe a good way to start is by asking one specific question, in a new section. Good luck, Drmies ( talk) 17:25, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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For your general admin work, especially at WP:RfPP. Keep up the good work and congrats at 100k edits! -- Luke (Talk) 02:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
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You're just trying to make me crave to improve the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! article, aren't you? ;) Calabe 1992 04:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
Can you please remove your unnecessary - off topic comments from my talk pages. Thanks! Distributor108 ( talk) 04:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thanks for your decline explanation, it resolved a conflict in my brain about how to interpret the A7 guideline. The BLP Prod suggestion also clarified something for me too. Newmanoconnor ( talk) 04:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Could one of you look at the deleted page of Gavin Mikhail. It was recreated and I'd like to know if anything changed. I'd like to do a CSD, but the past AfD was way back when. I've removed the myspace and blogs refs. I can't find any good refs. His albums include the acoustic version of both Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga. Hmmm, I wonder if he follows them on twitter. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:36, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Drmies and and other grammar/style gurus around (Malleus?), yesterday at work I proofread a flyer that a coworker was preparing. We hit upon a punctuation disagreement. She had used "so" as a conjuction for two independent clauses, with a comma preceding the "so". I didn't think that "so" was a proper conjunction, and said she needed a semi-colon. Well, she sent me this link which clearly supports her position, not mine. Now my followup question: is this one of those stylistic situations where different authorities have different views, or was I just flat-out wrong? Ladyof Shalott 13:22, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I found the file, and here's the sentence: "Some of these techniques look very manly, so don’t think this craft is just for the girls." Ladyof Shalott 14:04, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Button, Hex Nut, & Washer Jewelry
Wednesday, June 6, Time to be announced
Heavy Metal! We’re going to make some jewelry using bits and pieces from the hardware store in unexpected ways. Some of these techniques look very manly, so don’t think this craft is just for the girls. Limited to 15 teens.
There's a clear consensus here. Thank you all for your input! I stand corrected. Ladyof Shalott 20:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
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I forgot to give you this beer last night. I bought 4 when I was out in the pub, but only drank 3. I knew you'd appreciate the fourth, so here it is. Wesley ☀ Mouse 18:35, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
DID YOU INDEED READ EVERYTHING THAT I POSTED, DID YOU EVEN BOTHER TO LOOK UP THE REFERENCES? OBVIOUSLY NOT IF YOU REVERTED THE PAGE BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL SO QUICKLY. IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT THE PAGE IS VERY "ENCYCLOPEDIC" PERHAPS YOU WOULD CONSIDER REDESIGNING IT BEFORE YOU WHIPE IT OUT ALL TOGETHER. I DON'T MIND THE DIFFERENCE IN OPINION, BUT I DO MIND THAT YOU HAVE NOT EVEN GIVEN THIS INFORMATION A CHANCE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xylon Draganthus ( talk • contribs) 23:48, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
THAT'S BECAUSE THE FIRST FEW REVERTS TO THE ORIGINAL WERE VERY SHALLOW REASONS, AND THIS NEW INFORMATION WAS NOT EVEN GIVEN A CHANCE TO BE CONSIDERED. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xylon Draganthus ( talk • contribs) 23:56, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the speedy delete. Van Isaac WS contribs 06:45, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, just in case you noticed and were wondering, the rollback of your edit to your talkpage was due to me browsing my watchlist on my droid. SÆdon talk 07:06, 29 April 2012 (UTC)