Could somebody look at the mess that is Jerry Speziale. I've got an editor harassing me and I'd like to stay away from them, but this page needs some massive editing. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:59, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm not really sure what all went down over the last couple days .. but I hope you have a great new years Drmies. — Ched : ? 16:54, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
To continue my support of your attempts to gain youth cred, I have to point out Aymatth2's and Dr Blow-Dry's mistake with Riin Tamm ( AfD discussion). Everyone knows that doing articles on scientists isn't hep and in the now, man. As you can see from User talk:Aymatth2#A New Year's present for you., Aymatth2 is even doing very dead scientists, which is even worse. And as you can also see from User talk:Aymatth2#Joseph Colt Bloodgood there's a whole load of very dead fellas, grandfathers and grandsons, with the same name that are leading Aymatth2 astray yet further. Very dead mayors aren't popular; and all these are only serving to lead Aymatth2 into contact with Poms who read noticeboards. Poms on noticeboards are things to be avoided.
Now you could do some more work on a K-Pop sub-unit of twee, and counter Pommiepedia bias. But that would be missing out on the Wikipedia editorship's mission to get every reality/talent show winner into Wikipedia. Rimas Valeikis, cartoonist, painter, and winner of Baltic Robinson, is absent, for example. As is his niece Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, better known by her stage name of Migloko, whose album is reasonably priced. Lithuanian pop culture is what you want if you want effective youth cred. Not that science, history, geography, and philosophy dren.
After all, the Wikipedia editorship at large wants pretty pictures of young pop singers, not boring things for squares. Only a square, man, would have Wikipedia tell the world ( or at least tell Greg Bard) that Arvydas Juozaitis was a prominent member of Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis and a scholar who did his dissertation on Wilhelm Dilthey; and that his withdrawal from the 1989 election led to Algirdas Brazauskas winning his seat. Lithuanian history ain't where the cool cats are at, man.
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Oi! Stop thinking about the 1960s and get with the present day! Rimas Valeikis, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, and Migloko are all still redlinked. Chop-chop! Uncle G ( talk) 22:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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Dr mi estas: Dear Onion Lady, fain I would cast off this veil of old age, and ugly hat and beard, and appear as young as the editors of K-Pop articles! But Providence stands athwart my efforts to gain youth cred, despite the sagely counsel of Uncle G. I find myself thinking about the 1960s and Noam Chomsky. Couldst thou write Rimas Valeikis, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, and Migloko for me? Here's $5 for your trouble. Onion Lady: Sir! How daredst thou approach me for such? I am a humble and Christian onion lady, whose onions are not tainted by the foul infamy of paid editing. Direct your elderly and infirm hands at the harlots, trollops, and bottom-wipers of Nederland, and trouble me no more for such base purposes as the popular culture of Lithuania. exeunt omnes |
Hi Drmies, up for a chronic BLP issue? Please have a look at Walledro ( talk · contribs) re: David Hammond (director), now being discussed at ANI. My thinking is this has gone on way too long. Hope all's well. Cheers. 99.156.64.147 ( talk) 03:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys. This is not a chronic BLP issue. I've followed all rules and sourced and cited all quotes and comments. Mr. Hammond is simply not happy with posts if they have any negativity at all despite their validity and being sourced Walledro ( talk) 03:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)walledro
Fortunately, we won't have to look around for an expert to translate Dit lijf, wat ist, als stanck en mist? into English. It's translated on Schama 1988, p. 481. ☺
Well the Onion Lady (not to be confused with The Onion Girl) has started work on blueing one of those redlinks. Ladyof Shalott 17:46, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, why did you move the ghost ship page to the plural, ghost ships? Ego White Tray ( talk) 13:08, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I accidently posted this one someone else's talk page. But thanks again for your help on the Give It Away move. Oldag07 ( talk) 14:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Drmies! I hope the Manchester Star was palatable, although since J. W., Lees stuff usually travels no more than 70 miles or so, the impact of a cross-Atlantic journey might have been considerable.
Got a query for you. I'd take it to WP:RSN but they now only deal with specific "is source A suitable for statement B in article C" stuff, rather than the more generalised issues. Can you take a quick look at this? It is hosted by the Govt. of India but, honestly, it reads like a poor hagiography to me and it cites no sources. I've also got no idea what merit attaches to the author and am pretty concerned about seeing it used at, for example, Kakori conspiracy and related biographical articles. Stalkers welcome! - Sitush ( talk) 16:24, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Me too. Thanks for closing. CsDix ( talk) 18:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
When a user has already reverted without discussion, then makes a statement like "And I'll be reverting your last edit tonight..." [1] while still not discussing the actual issue (or the alternatives presented), does that sound like a little system-gaming and intent to edit war? Or just my imagination? Niteshift36 ( talk) 19:15, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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Page protection per this comment from the IP? Sounds like the IP will be persitent for a while. Hwy43 ( talk) 06:28, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Have one too, this one from my bar called "The Anonymous Doofus"! Sorry to be out of glasses, big brawl last night, you'll have to drink from the keg :)
Happi(est) 2013 to you too -- 217.129.65.198 ( talk) 15:17, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Happy vibes - -- AL ( talk) 18:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
You just tell M. Cripes It's 1942 that it is spelled Crispito ( AfD discussion). ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 19:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, you may want to check his talk page, I don't think that he's paying attention. GregJackP Boomer! 20:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Those of you with JSTORrery, Tex-Mex Lexus, and Main Beaming might like to help out Aymatth2 with Douglas Syphax ( AfD discussion). Uncle G ( talk) 02:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I have noticed your recent, very large, edits to the T-ara Wikipedia article. I don't see how having a chart of the members with a little bit of information about them is turning the page into a "full-blown fan site". Do you even read other Korean idol groups' pages? Almost all have charts like these. Anyways, I hardly see how those little bits of information turn the entire article in a fan site, it's not like it's hurting anyone and the information is confirmed by credible sites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.123.88 ( talk) 07:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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When you closed out the discussion on the format changes, you also closed out a huge section with a completely unrelated discussion going on about notability requirements. There is actually a request on another admin page requesting a mediator come in to come to a compromise on WP:NMMA. Willdawg111 ( talk) 17:44, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I see there is an edit notice still extant at Breast cancer awareness. Following this discussion and subsequent action this edit notice is now incorrect. In my opinion, this edit notice should simply be removed. However, others might disagree -- Senra ( talk) 19:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Now that I have your attention... User:Roger Ellory has posted a pretty convincing unblock request on his talkpage, and after reviewing the history I'm inclined to oblige. He's agreed to stop editing his own bio, which seems to have been the only major issue with his editing, so I see no reason not to let him have another bite at the cherry. Is that cool with you? Yunshui 雲 水 10:34, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Knock knock knock "Son, get up! It's time for school!"
few minutes later...KNOCKKNOCKKNOCK "Son, get up! You have to get ready for school!"
KNOCKKNOCKKNOCK "Son, get up! You're gonna be late for school!"
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My heartfelt apologies to all who were concerned by the above header - hopefully a large order of bacon will assuage any bad feeling... Yunshui 雲 水 22:48, 7 January 2013 (UTC) |
Seems like a mere footnote now, but I unblocked Roger... Yunshui 雲 水
Hello. I recently noticed your major changes to the page of Wheeling Park High School. I am a school representative and spent many hours on our Wikipedia page. I would like to know your reasoning behind deleting most of my information that I worked on. We at the school do not appreciate this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.22.182 ( talk) 21:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Knowing that people here enjoy low humour, and seeing that Rimas Valeikis, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, and Migloko are still redlinked, here's a little story for you:
Once upon a time, we had an article that for six years looked roughly like like this. A person with a pseudonym had the bright idea of looking in books of anatomy, physiology, and (yes) Aristotle to see whether we could come up with something that was a little less an echo chamber of total ignorance on the subject, and found that there were bones and muscles and nerves and things to write about. Who knew? That person with the pseudonym is, alas, very busy.
So perhaps the people who enjoy the risqué on this user talk page can rise to the challenge and do the same thing with Crotch ( AfD discussion). Remember that you may not cheat, like some person who spells xyr name completely wrong did, and write about the groin. Bonus points for the first person to realize that being less of an echo chamber of total ignorance means working in "narrow crotches", "knee timber", "included bark", "veneer", and other humorous words. Double bonus points to anyone who can find an excuse for citing the writing of L. S. Jankiewicz from Skierniewice.
Dr mi estas is of course excused games with a sicknote, here. It is well known that the ungrammatical Esperantist is a doktoro, not a kuracisto, and so has not the medical expertise to assist.
Uncle G ( talk) 00:43, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
The Onion Lady and others may enjoy these:
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Enjoy the fact of the existence of the Instytut Sadownictwa i Kwiaciarstwa in Skierniewice. You're all gobsmacked to find that scientists put serious time and effort into the study of crotches, I expect.
Uncle G ( talk) 00:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I wonder why Uncle G likes to drop references here instead of on the talk page of the relevant article (or better yet by adding them to the article). Ladyof Shalott 05:06, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Everyone settle down. The world is about to stop turning; things will go back to normal again after the Tide rolls over Notre Dame. Should that fail to happen--well, then, I don't know. Drmies ( talk) 01:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
It's January. When does football finally go away again until fall? Ladyof Shalott 01:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
My highlight so far is surely Brent Musberger's going off his nut over A.J. McCarron's girlfriend. Fathers, lock up your daughters, besportcoated septuagenarian sportscasters are on the prowl. davidiad .:τ 03:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Awwwww... sweet picture! Ladyof Shalott 04:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
As a former Tuscaloosan, after seeing this section header I feel required to drop in and say ROLL TIDE. That is all. - Sudo Ghost 16:38, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Drmies,
Given your recent edits at the bca page, I'd like to ask your opinion on the pie chart towards the bottom of the page in the "Risks of too much awareness" section. To me, it is pretty clearly logically flawed. I think it's self-evident and I don't have to explain it to you. In fact, I'm having a little bit of difficulty articulating it myself because it's just too obvious. But anyway, here goes: the point of awareness is not to give more funding to the disease than it deserves, it's to increase awareness, lower stigma, etc to a disease that is lacking in those areas. For example, there is no stigma for heart disease. Furthermore, there might be adequate funding for other diseases compared to BC, especially when you consider the effectiveness of funding (eg it might be implausible that research will help another disease, while scientists feel that BC research is valuable). Another complicating factor is the fact that BC is specific to women. Thus, it is considered more important in the context of the women's movement and feminism.
Please just take a look and if you have any thoughts, please let me know what you think. I don't want to be too bold over there, and I feel that your edits would be more effective and they would respond to you better anyway. Thanks. Charles35 ( talk) 15:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Would your boobies be able to cope with one of these? - Sitush ( talk) 17:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi.. I see you have done large editing in Mnet Media, T-ara, Davichi, The SeeYa, etc pages. I have read your statement that you have read other K-Pop pages. I suppose you are not K-Pop fan. If you're thinking that you did is right and then you are in unfair because you should did the same thing to other K-Pop artists. What you've done has destroyed our K-Pop fans' effort to build comprehensive wiki. – Wihan Tan ( talk) at 01:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Drmies,
I am Francisco X. Alarcon and I made some revisions of the titles of my Works because there were errors in the use of capital letters in the Spanish titles and errors in the actual titles. I added additional information on Life, Awards, and Works. I understand that there is a conflict of interest since I am the actual author and so the revisions and information I added were deleted. The information I added is basically neutral and I am sure could be useful to Wikipedia readers.
I have never edited, revised or added information to any Wikipedia page. Could someone (a Wikipedia editor) go over the information I posted below and maybe incorporate this information to the page. There are few US Latino/Chicano authors as Wikipedia entries.I wanted to be helpful. Since I write both in English and Spanish, maybe this page could also be available in Spanish. I am willing to help with the Spanish translation.
Please let me know if that is possible or how should I proceed.
Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francisco X. Alarcon ( talk • contribs)
As for Spanish, I am sure that the Spanish wikipedia would be happy to have that article in translation; create an account there and go for it. I'll be glad to help with the English version in whatever way I can, but you (since you know this best) will have to help first, by adding references to the articles, even if it's just a hyperlink to a newspaper article or a review. Don't worry about the formatting--we'll get that straightened out. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 15:36, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, could you give me a hand with User:John.Toth.uk..essex on this thread on User:Ryan Vesey's talk page. It is clear that John.Toth.uk..essex doesn't understand the rules of Wikipedia and he is dangerously close to getting himself blocked. Maybe a message from an admin would help. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 16:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
edit summary made me laugh. Giant Snowman 16:58, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, just in case, do you want to salt The Age of The Universe is wrong as well? — Torchiest talk edits 17:54, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#The problem with this type of discussion, do you think it would be appropriate to unblock Alan Liefting just so he can take part in discussion at the noticeboard. A discussion that will soon lead to an unblock request as well. He had requested an unblock for this reason which was declined by Nick-D, but I still feel an unblock would be appropriate. Ryan Vesey 18:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Admittedly OR, I had to add it because it jumped to mind when I read your article. (Have you read the book?) Ladyof Shalott 04:14, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
John R. Holmes teaches English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Richard Firth Green is at Ohio State University.
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... second reply of Sitush here where he is talking about his health issues! -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 04:51, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, the band is notable so their albums, a simple search on allmusic.com proves it. if you want to redirect or delete them put afd on them. Spada II ♪♫ ( talk) 07:57, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
I am unable to find much that will interest you in thrash metal music from Lithuania, so here instead:
Knowing you, you'll be itching to write about the professor. She's not an English professor, though. Uncle G ( talk) 21:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
...for the assist at Men's rights movement. I haven't been on for a few days, so I wasn't around to handle this one. I try to deal with these things before they get to ANI and blocks but I just wasn't here for that one. :-/ -- Killer Chihuahua 22:03, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
You know what the cool kids like nowadays? Farming... and not in video games — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 00:51, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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--He now has a little more information and 2 interwikis. You folks can all read the stuff at de. about his Ahnenerbe activities, right? -- Yngvadottir ( talk) 13:57, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Any interest in helping out Textiles of Sumba? Ladyof Shalott 03:03, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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I would normally hat a discussion like that anywhere myself... but you should see the offsite complaints that happen whenever I hat a thread on that set of pages :p Kevin Gorman ( talk) 04:23, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Which is correct, Prof. Brig. Gen. or Brig. Gen. Prof.? — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 05:24, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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Could the person who nominated it for ITN reasonably have been expected to know about the DYK nomination? If it was transcluded to the article talk, then yes, they could be expected to know about it; I'm wondering if that was the case, or if it was an innocent mistake. What it reminds me of somewhat (though it's not quite the same) is when I'd worked up a decent article on the Ossabaw Island Hog in my sandbox, and when I went to move it, found that Steven Walling had created the article already. We'd started on our respective versions within a day or two of one another, neither with any idea of the other's project. Ladyof Shalott 00:50, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
As for how much work you put into the article... you should be pleased that you have the opportunity to showcase it on the Main Page for days rather than just an eight-hour DYK. I wasn't around when the rule was formulated, but presumably the rule is to ensure that DYK spotlights material which is new to the reader, not something which has already been on the Main Page for a week.
Incidentally, Lady, I have a somewhat similar story, but with a happy ending. I had an article in my userspace which I occasionally worked on in typical Mandarax slothful fashion. Then one day the article showed up on my watchlist (I always watchlist articles which I'm writing or considering writing). Turns out that someone had created an article which was nothing but a huge copyright violation. I CSD'd it, got to work, quickly completed my version, created it in article space, and turned it into my very first DYK. And yes, I somehow managed to allude to The Office twice today.... MANdARAX • bИAM 03:51, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
You cannot suck Professor Woolf ( ISBN 9780299207502) into the English Professor Vacuum, Dr mi estas.
You don't see a case for her? Are you getting your eyes checked regularly? She has two biographical chapters devoted to her, and I haven't even looked at JSTOR for reviews and stuff. Feel free to expand her current article, though. ;) Drmies ( talk) 22:38, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Did you ever pay up on your wager here? -- kelapstick( bainuu) 04:32, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
I've mentioned you here. Prioryman ( talk) 10:47, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
[For the curious: this section uses {{ British English}}; specifically the adjective italicized. "italicized". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) -- Senra ( talk) 16:42, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Would a WP:MOS familiar lurker confirm my conjecture that public house names, such as "The Rose and Crown" or "The Globe", should not be italicized within a Wikipedia main-space article? Note the clear and hopefully unambiguous qualification. He he-- Senra ( talk) 15:15, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Let me check public houses and inns in Grantham. … No, I didn't use italics. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 16:17, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Depressingly article 'quality' is not actually a criteria for inclusion in DYK. I have been doing some research in my spare time on past DYK articles, who created them, who reviewed, based against a few small indicators of 'quality' (prose punc & gram, accurate references etc), and it's very reviewer-specific. So far I have found the more 'interesting' DYKs tend to correlate fairly strongly with specific reviewers who look at things beyond rubber-stamping the DYK criteria (is the hook sourced, is it correct length). Likewise on the negative side, the more boring and low-quality articles tend to correlate with the checkbox 'this is what you must have to get a DYK' method. Personally I don't see it as a failing of the article editor/creator if a badly written DYK makes it to the main page. I see it as a failure of the reviewer and the process/community that runs DYK. I might actually publish the results when I have a decent (read 200+) sample size. Unfortunately the winter months are my busiest time of year so I have only sporadically been able to work on it. Only in death does duty end ( talk) 21:52, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Moving right along, I think you're correct. In fact, I've had second, third, and fourth looks at articles just because I saw who the reviewer was, and of course at articles because I saw who the author was. One specific author comes to mind and you probably know who I'm talking about, and some who need not be named here. Those article authors are also not very good reviewers. One of the disadvantages of that QPQ process is of course that we get reviewers who aren't very seasoned and don't know what to look for, and for whom article quality is the last thing to pay attention to. (And, and I assume you read the discussion about Devil Tower's Road, it's of course ridiculous to state that quality is completely subjective.) I'm interested in your study; do keep me posted. Drmies ( talk) 22:40, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
An IP editor has been removing information from a page (not related to the Zimmermanh1997/Hollisz guy) and I posted this message on their talk page. Do you think it oversteps my unblock rules? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:39, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
An article that could serve as a template for how not to write a biography: Mark Janicello. Needs a cleaning if you're up for it--I'll be happy to lend a hand later. Hope all's well with you. Cheers, 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 16:26, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Hasteur ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
I see from his user talk that you thought it unlikely he'd be disruptive at AN. I removed his personal attack against TRM and my finger hovered heavily over the block button. I'm too busy to watch AN any further tonight, which perhaps is just as well. -- Dweller ( talk) 22:54, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Here. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:42, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Rest assured, Drmies, I'm not avoiding you, but there just isn't that much available on him online, even in Romanian. Anyway, I did do a rewrite: see how you like that. I may restore the "works" section, although in less verbose form. - Biruitorul Talk 01:59, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Re "stock" -- bullshit. All that's been established recently is that you're human like every other asshole on Wikipedia, including this one. NE Ent 02:34, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Professor, and anyone else here who may speak English.... I have a question about a specific instance, but I'll apply the answer to my future editing in general. Someone complained that I removed a "the" from a DYK hook without discussion, changing "... that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck" to "... that Austrian tenor Karl Beck". As for the discussion part, I wouldn't clutter up the already-huge DYK nominations page with discussion about each of the many, many small but obviously correct edits I make there every day. But was I justified in making this change? The complaining user said:
Well, I agree that they're simply descriptors, but I disagree that omitting the "the" causes them to be treated as titles. If anything including the "the" could have that effect: "the Austrian tenor" could be interpreted as meaning that the guy holds the title as the only tenor who's Austrian. Simply saying "Austrian tenor" just means he's a tenor who's Austrian.
I think it reads better without "the". Another consideration is that when it comes to DYK, if a shorter hook works as well as or better than a longer one, the shorter one is almost always preferred. Thanks for your thoughts on the matter, and sorry for cluttering up your talk page.... MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 03:55, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
I'llbe interested to hear what our resident professor has to say. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 04:21, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
The issue seemed so insignificant, but this is Wikipedia, where everything matters to someone, so thanks for the confirmation that I wasn't doing anything wrong. Incidentally, I do discuss any DYK change that I realistically think could be subject to dispute, but this one never occurred to me. Thanks again, everybody. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Concur with Dr. Another way to explain it is tThe" is a definite article, but we know which Austrian tenor we're talking about so we don't need it -- we also don't need that "that" either. NE Ent 14:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Thinking radically outside the box here, why not 'an'? Yeah crazy I know. (More seriously, I would not use 'the' or 'that' in the above example.) Only in death does duty end ( talk) 16:40, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Drmies,
I see that you have completely removed the student life section from the University of Georgia's page. I have undone this move. I agree that the page is riddled with promotional bits, but the student life section was long standing and key to the university of Georgia. Especially the Greek portion. Please properly research UGA before removing any more information. It's much better for everyone if we remove promotional bits without losing on content. Many other university pages are like this.
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University of Florida — Preceding unsigned comment added by DMB112 ( talk • contribs) 05:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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I have reinstated several removed portions. They have been stripped of biased language and promotional content. Please review "Student Life" and "UGA Honors Program" and let me know what you think. I am wholly and entirely for a neutral view point. I understand your need to avoid bias. Please work with me before suddenly removing so much content from University of Georgia. I will surely comply. I kept the Student Government Association part because of it's unique involvement with University System of Georgia. Not all states and higher ed systems allow such involvement. It's good content, and I've included many internal links to support the content. I did cite the paragraph. I will further edit it. It's true, many universities have SGA and Honors programs, but these sections are relevant to the University of Georgia.
I kept UGA Miracle because it's a student organization unique to UGA. I have also removed some biased language from the "Rankings" portion of the page. I will continue to clean it up if need be.
Once again, please communicate with me before destroying so much content right away. I thought you were a bot. I am new to Wikipidea, and I haven't figured everything out quite yet. I receive emails from Wikipidea, and I'll respond promptly. DMB112 ( talk) 05:51, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Re unblock request. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:52, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a heads up, I undid your {{ db-person}} on this article, because the setup of the Scottish football league system states that the Scottish Football League Third Division, of which Stirling Albion F.C. is one of the teams, is the lowest level professional level of Scottish football, and therefore the most marginal of passes into WP:NFOOTY. And to survive a CSD, all you need is a claim that this is the case - you'd be well within your rights to take the article to PROD or AfD and say "okay, give me a reliable source" (of which the one in the article, a blog, isn't). -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:57, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Ok I try that but even some admins consider it reliable! anyway please let's end this argue cause you have sharp eyes and I want you to check Arsames (band) article, I seriously doubt the notability and I need exprienced editor to take care of it. I cant find any positive album reviews and the article written by the advertiser of the band! thanks in advance. please answer me here. Spada II ♪♫ ( talk) 11:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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I saw your edits to the Perella Weinberg Partners page. Your argument about Wiki not being a directory makes sense, but some of those are key people in the company. Would the infobox be a more appropriate placement for these (as opposed to complete deletion)?
I also saw that you marked David Schiff (portfolio manager) for deletion. I was wondering why you would mark this for deletion and not Peter Weinberg, which has no references and less detail? I'm not looking to start a rumble here -- just looking for thoughts on how to make both pages work. Let me know - thanks! -- Stlamanda ( talk) 17:18, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Question: is there an existing POV movement that advocates the removal of all references to the Dynamic Steady State Universe Theory? I ask because the theory, although published (e.g. DSSU Relativity —The Lorentz Transformations Applied to Aether-Space. Physics Essays Vol 23, No.3, p 520 (2010)), does not seem to be mentioned anywhere else on Wikipedia. I ask because of the impending doom of the article -- Senra ( talk) 15:46, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
I have a serious factual beef with the blurb for today's featured picture, which I happened to see on someone's userpage. See here. But I hesitate to abuse my power to edit the Main Page by high-handedly changing it. What does one do in such situations? Yngvadottir ( talk) 22:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
To continue this newly-begun tradition of baffling the denizens of the English Professor Vacuum with physics and technology and chemicals, I present the humble Rotolock valve ( AfD discussion) for your edification. There, too, issues of nomenclature have raised their heads.
Uncle G ( talk) 01:43, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
I suggest that you call an HVAC engineer, sit back, relax, and enjoy some more Migloko on YouTube.
Uncle G ( talk) 08:48, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted large amounts of the page, saying that it was unverified. I put in some references for the Marching Band section, and reinserted it (I forgot that I had a Wikipedia account so it shows up as my IP address, 98.225.97.103). Do you think that the problem has been fixed? Kevince59 ( talk) 05:21, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for closing that - I was just going to withdraw the nom anyway. I know AfD isn't supposed to be for article rescue, but by heck it's effective... There ought to be some way of getting articles discussed without the 'deletion' bit coming in - yes, there are talk pages, but who reads them? And you have to know the article's in existence first. BTW I knew you liked tits (mine are getting snowed on at the moment, and don't look very happy), but I didn't know you had dealings with stolen property.... Peridon ( talk) 11:11, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Alright, I'll overlook your lack of response to my previous post here; perhaps the lack of offer of ale was to blame. Would appreciate your input on this one, an autobiography by a WP:SPA. Impressive resume, but it is a resume, with the requisite listing of publications and very few cites pertaining specifically to him; even the NYTimes links don't mention him. I take it he meets notability guidelines for an academic, but this began as a copyright violation, and continues to have the inherent COI issues. Do you think this is better addressed at BLP or COI noticeboard, or neither? Cheers, 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 20:56, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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I'm new to Wikipedia so I'm unsure if this is the place to respond directly to an edit of mine that Drmies undid, but here it goes:
You undid my edit on the Scopolamine page and cited my reference as not credible. What exactly is the criteria to determine credibility? Besides "noble language", I don't see why any of what's done in the documentary as being anything other than original investigative journalism. Does Vice have a history of making false claims? If so, where is this information available? If not, I reiterate: on what basis is the documentary not credible? Torvum ( talk) 21:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts for English teachers. Having to continually read discussion contributions, by people participating in what is notionally an encyclopaedia writing project, that say things like "two advices", "editors dislikes", and "criteria was" would make one itch for the red purple pencil.
Thanks for those info and giving me your time for discuss. Honestly I was surprised by getting those warning messages first, I though I was right about those undo things . I'm not new to Wikipedia, I know the rules but I still believe they are tough sometimes. Best wishes -- MetalS-W ( talk) 04:09, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
I expanded Costas Kadis a little bit with some education information and I'm curious as to whether or not they are significant enough to be included. Second, what exactly are they? I checked Academic certificate, but that's such a hodgepodge of different things that have the same English name that it's useless. Ryan Vesey 04:36, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
I was very tempted to give you a response as if it had been written on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts. But I decided instead to point out in English that the other source describes one of these courses as a training course. So the certificate mentioned is for the completion of a training course — at Cornell University, no less. (Aha! Now we know why the obviously conflicted about Cornell Doktoro Mi Estas is asking for a third opinion.) I think that you are better off leaving the various "certifigates" out of things for now.
You closed this WP:ANI six weeks ago. The other party in that dispute has now violated that ruling here and here. Can you offer some direction, Drmies, as to how he/she might be notified and reminded of the terms of WP:IBAN? Thanks. Tristan noir ( talk) 06:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that the AN thread about the reduction in my restrictions was archived without a closing admin making a final decision. Not sure what you want to do there. Take Care... Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:47, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Am I able to revert multiple changes in one edit? An editor ( Bir89 ( talk · contribs)) has used two contiguous edits ( here and here) to make, what I believe to be, incorrect changes to Ely and Littleport riots of 1816. According to the WP:MOS guideline, specifically WP:DATESNO, we do not use ordinal suffixes to dates. Before a well-meaning lurker fixes this, and at the risk of WP:OWN, I would prefer to learn how to do it myself, if I am able. In addition, is it possible to fix multiple non-contiguous edits? -- Senra ( talk) 10:42, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
That means that I can merge the TV episodes now? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I should let you know that I mentioned your name, in a good way, in a recent post -- Senra ( talk) 23:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Drmies, could you perhaps have a look at the recent history of this article and the comments that I posted on User talk:Yoko Hashimoto and User talk:Mallneck. I have now done several reverts and although I think that I technically am still adhering to 3RR, I'm on the border of going over it... I think that if I would revert the latest edit, this would fall under reverting vandalism, but others may see this differently. Thanks for your frank opinion, as always. -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:34, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
You have a clear COI on this issue, and if you "ban" me I will make a complaint as to that. You need to step back and let a different Admin handle this. =//= Johnny Squeaky 17:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello again; another onslaught of poorly sourced promotional edits for your amusement, this time at Charles Eisenstein. I've tacked up the templates, brought this to the BLP board, issued warnings to two accounts, to no avail. I dunno, maybe next stop page protection. Thanks for any help you can provide. Cheers, 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 02:12, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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Like you really need another one of these. Still, you're practically fishing for this, and somewhere the guidelines must say something about keeping the admins happy. 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 02:41, 22 January 2013 (UTC) |
Could somebody look at the mess that is Jerry Speziale. I've got an editor harassing me and I'd like to stay away from them, but this page needs some massive editing. Bgwhite ( talk) 22:59, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm not really sure what all went down over the last couple days .. but I hope you have a great new years Drmies. — Ched : ? 16:54, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
To continue my support of your attempts to gain youth cred, I have to point out Aymatth2's and Dr Blow-Dry's mistake with Riin Tamm ( AfD discussion). Everyone knows that doing articles on scientists isn't hep and in the now, man. As you can see from User talk:Aymatth2#A New Year's present for you., Aymatth2 is even doing very dead scientists, which is even worse. And as you can also see from User talk:Aymatth2#Joseph Colt Bloodgood there's a whole load of very dead fellas, grandfathers and grandsons, with the same name that are leading Aymatth2 astray yet further. Very dead mayors aren't popular; and all these are only serving to lead Aymatth2 into contact with Poms who read noticeboards. Poms on noticeboards are things to be avoided.
Now you could do some more work on a K-Pop sub-unit of twee, and counter Pommiepedia bias. But that would be missing out on the Wikipedia editorship's mission to get every reality/talent show winner into Wikipedia. Rimas Valeikis, cartoonist, painter, and winner of Baltic Robinson, is absent, for example. As is his niece Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, better known by her stage name of Migloko, whose album is reasonably priced. Lithuanian pop culture is what you want if you want effective youth cred. Not that science, history, geography, and philosophy dren.
After all, the Wikipedia editorship at large wants pretty pictures of young pop singers, not boring things for squares. Only a square, man, would have Wikipedia tell the world ( or at least tell Greg Bard) that Arvydas Juozaitis was a prominent member of Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis and a scholar who did his dissertation on Wilhelm Dilthey; and that his withdrawal from the 1989 election led to Algirdas Brazauskas winning his seat. Lithuanian history ain't where the cool cats are at, man.
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Oi! Stop thinking about the 1960s and get with the present day! Rimas Valeikis, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, and Migloko are all still redlinked. Chop-chop! Uncle G ( talk) 22:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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Dr mi estas: Dear Onion Lady, fain I would cast off this veil of old age, and ugly hat and beard, and appear as young as the editors of K-Pop articles! But Providence stands athwart my efforts to gain youth cred, despite the sagely counsel of Uncle G. I find myself thinking about the 1960s and Noam Chomsky. Couldst thou write Rimas Valeikis, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, and Migloko for me? Here's $5 for your trouble. Onion Lady: Sir! How daredst thou approach me for such? I am a humble and Christian onion lady, whose onions are not tainted by the foul infamy of paid editing. Direct your elderly and infirm hands at the harlots, trollops, and bottom-wipers of Nederland, and trouble me no more for such base purposes as the popular culture of Lithuania. exeunt omnes |
Hi Drmies, up for a chronic BLP issue? Please have a look at Walledro ( talk · contribs) re: David Hammond (director), now being discussed at ANI. My thinking is this has gone on way too long. Hope all's well. Cheers. 99.156.64.147 ( talk) 03:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys. This is not a chronic BLP issue. I've followed all rules and sourced and cited all quotes and comments. Mr. Hammond is simply not happy with posts if they have any negativity at all despite their validity and being sourced Walledro ( talk) 03:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)walledro
Fortunately, we won't have to look around for an expert to translate Dit lijf, wat ist, als stanck en mist? into English. It's translated on Schama 1988, p. 481. ☺
Well the Onion Lady (not to be confused with The Onion Girl) has started work on blueing one of those redlinks. Ladyof Shalott 17:46, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, why did you move the ghost ship page to the plural, ghost ships? Ego White Tray ( talk) 13:08, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I accidently posted this one someone else's talk page. But thanks again for your help on the Give It Away move. Oldag07 ( talk) 14:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Drmies! I hope the Manchester Star was palatable, although since J. W., Lees stuff usually travels no more than 70 miles or so, the impact of a cross-Atlantic journey might have been considerable.
Got a query for you. I'd take it to WP:RSN but they now only deal with specific "is source A suitable for statement B in article C" stuff, rather than the more generalised issues. Can you take a quick look at this? It is hosted by the Govt. of India but, honestly, it reads like a poor hagiography to me and it cites no sources. I've also got no idea what merit attaches to the author and am pretty concerned about seeing it used at, for example, Kakori conspiracy and related biographical articles. Stalkers welcome! - Sitush ( talk) 16:24, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Me too. Thanks for closing. CsDix ( talk) 18:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
When a user has already reverted without discussion, then makes a statement like "And I'll be reverting your last edit tonight..." [1] while still not discussing the actual issue (or the alternatives presented), does that sound like a little system-gaming and intent to edit war? Or just my imagination? Niteshift36 ( talk) 19:15, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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Page protection per this comment from the IP? Sounds like the IP will be persitent for a while. Hwy43 ( talk) 06:28, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Have one too, this one from my bar called "The Anonymous Doofus"! Sorry to be out of glasses, big brawl last night, you'll have to drink from the keg :)
Happi(est) 2013 to you too -- 217.129.65.198 ( talk) 15:17, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Happy vibes - -- AL ( talk) 18:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
You just tell M. Cripes It's 1942 that it is spelled Crispito ( AfD discussion). ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 19:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, you may want to check his talk page, I don't think that he's paying attention. GregJackP Boomer! 20:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Those of you with JSTORrery, Tex-Mex Lexus, and Main Beaming might like to help out Aymatth2 with Douglas Syphax ( AfD discussion). Uncle G ( talk) 02:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I have noticed your recent, very large, edits to the T-ara Wikipedia article. I don't see how having a chart of the members with a little bit of information about them is turning the page into a "full-blown fan site". Do you even read other Korean idol groups' pages? Almost all have charts like these. Anyways, I hardly see how those little bits of information turn the entire article in a fan site, it's not like it's hurting anyone and the information is confirmed by credible sites. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.123.88 ( talk) 07:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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When you closed out the discussion on the format changes, you also closed out a huge section with a completely unrelated discussion going on about notability requirements. There is actually a request on another admin page requesting a mediator come in to come to a compromise on WP:NMMA. Willdawg111 ( talk) 17:44, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I see there is an edit notice still extant at Breast cancer awareness. Following this discussion and subsequent action this edit notice is now incorrect. In my opinion, this edit notice should simply be removed. However, others might disagree -- Senra ( talk) 19:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Now that I have your attention... User:Roger Ellory has posted a pretty convincing unblock request on his talkpage, and after reviewing the history I'm inclined to oblige. He's agreed to stop editing his own bio, which seems to have been the only major issue with his editing, so I see no reason not to let him have another bite at the cherry. Is that cool with you? Yunshui 雲 水 10:34, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
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Seems like a mere footnote now, but I unblocked Roger... Yunshui 雲 水
Hello. I recently noticed your major changes to the page of Wheeling Park High School. I am a school representative and spent many hours on our Wikipedia page. I would like to know your reasoning behind deleting most of my information that I worked on. We at the school do not appreciate this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.22.182 ( talk) 21:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Knowing that people here enjoy low humour, and seeing that Rimas Valeikis, Miglė Vilčiauskaitė, and Migloko are still redlinked, here's a little story for you:
Once upon a time, we had an article that for six years looked roughly like like this. A person with a pseudonym had the bright idea of looking in books of anatomy, physiology, and (yes) Aristotle to see whether we could come up with something that was a little less an echo chamber of total ignorance on the subject, and found that there were bones and muscles and nerves and things to write about. Who knew? That person with the pseudonym is, alas, very busy.
So perhaps the people who enjoy the risqué on this user talk page can rise to the challenge and do the same thing with Crotch ( AfD discussion). Remember that you may not cheat, like some person who spells xyr name completely wrong did, and write about the groin. Bonus points for the first person to realize that being less of an echo chamber of total ignorance means working in "narrow crotches", "knee timber", "included bark", "veneer", and other humorous words. Double bonus points to anyone who can find an excuse for citing the writing of L. S. Jankiewicz from Skierniewice.
Dr mi estas is of course excused games with a sicknote, here. It is well known that the ungrammatical Esperantist is a doktoro, not a kuracisto, and so has not the medical expertise to assist.
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Enjoy the fact of the existence of the Instytut Sadownictwa i Kwiaciarstwa in Skierniewice. You're all gobsmacked to find that scientists put serious time and effort into the study of crotches, I expect.
Uncle G ( talk) 00:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I wonder why Uncle G likes to drop references here instead of on the talk page of the relevant article (or better yet by adding them to the article). Ladyof Shalott 05:06, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Everyone settle down. The world is about to stop turning; things will go back to normal again after the Tide rolls over Notre Dame. Should that fail to happen--well, then, I don't know. Drmies ( talk) 01:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
It's January. When does football finally go away again until fall? Ladyof Shalott 01:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
My highlight so far is surely Brent Musberger's going off his nut over A.J. McCarron's girlfriend. Fathers, lock up your daughters, besportcoated septuagenarian sportscasters are on the prowl. davidiad .:τ 03:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Awwwww... sweet picture! Ladyof Shalott 04:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
As a former Tuscaloosan, after seeing this section header I feel required to drop in and say ROLL TIDE. That is all. - Sudo Ghost 16:38, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Drmies,
Given your recent edits at the bca page, I'd like to ask your opinion on the pie chart towards the bottom of the page in the "Risks of too much awareness" section. To me, it is pretty clearly logically flawed. I think it's self-evident and I don't have to explain it to you. In fact, I'm having a little bit of difficulty articulating it myself because it's just too obvious. But anyway, here goes: the point of awareness is not to give more funding to the disease than it deserves, it's to increase awareness, lower stigma, etc to a disease that is lacking in those areas. For example, there is no stigma for heart disease. Furthermore, there might be adequate funding for other diseases compared to BC, especially when you consider the effectiveness of funding (eg it might be implausible that research will help another disease, while scientists feel that BC research is valuable). Another complicating factor is the fact that BC is specific to women. Thus, it is considered more important in the context of the women's movement and feminism.
Please just take a look and if you have any thoughts, please let me know what you think. I don't want to be too bold over there, and I feel that your edits would be more effective and they would respond to you better anyway. Thanks. Charles35 ( talk) 15:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Would your boobies be able to cope with one of these? - Sitush ( talk) 17:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi.. I see you have done large editing in Mnet Media, T-ara, Davichi, The SeeYa, etc pages. I have read your statement that you have read other K-Pop pages. I suppose you are not K-Pop fan. If you're thinking that you did is right and then you are in unfair because you should did the same thing to other K-Pop artists. What you've done has destroyed our K-Pop fans' effort to build comprehensive wiki. – Wihan Tan ( talk) at 01:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Drmies,
I am Francisco X. Alarcon and I made some revisions of the titles of my Works because there were errors in the use of capital letters in the Spanish titles and errors in the actual titles. I added additional information on Life, Awards, and Works. I understand that there is a conflict of interest since I am the actual author and so the revisions and information I added were deleted. The information I added is basically neutral and I am sure could be useful to Wikipedia readers.
I have never edited, revised or added information to any Wikipedia page. Could someone (a Wikipedia editor) go over the information I posted below and maybe incorporate this information to the page. There are few US Latino/Chicano authors as Wikipedia entries.I wanted to be helpful. Since I write both in English and Spanish, maybe this page could also be available in Spanish. I am willing to help with the Spanish translation.
Please let me know if that is possible or how should I proceed.
Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francisco X. Alarcon ( talk • contribs)
As for Spanish, I am sure that the Spanish wikipedia would be happy to have that article in translation; create an account there and go for it. I'll be glad to help with the English version in whatever way I can, but you (since you know this best) will have to help first, by adding references to the articles, even if it's just a hyperlink to a newspaper article or a review. Don't worry about the formatting--we'll get that straightened out. Thank you, Drmies ( talk) 15:36, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Drmies, could you give me a hand with User:John.Toth.uk..essex on this thread on User:Ryan Vesey's talk page. It is clear that John.Toth.uk..essex doesn't understand the rules of Wikipedia and he is dangerously close to getting himself blocked. Maybe a message from an admin would help. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 16:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
edit summary made me laugh. Giant Snowman 16:58, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, just in case, do you want to salt The Age of The Universe is wrong as well? — Torchiest talk edits 17:54, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#The problem with this type of discussion, do you think it would be appropriate to unblock Alan Liefting just so he can take part in discussion at the noticeboard. A discussion that will soon lead to an unblock request as well. He had requested an unblock for this reason which was declined by Nick-D, but I still feel an unblock would be appropriate. Ryan Vesey 18:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Admittedly OR, I had to add it because it jumped to mind when I read your article. (Have you read the book?) Ladyof Shalott 04:14, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
John R. Holmes teaches English at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Richard Firth Green is at Ohio State University.
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... second reply of Sitush here where he is talking about his health issues! -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 04:51, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, the band is notable so their albums, a simple search on allmusic.com proves it. if you want to redirect or delete them put afd on them. Spada II ♪♫ ( talk) 07:57, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
I am unable to find much that will interest you in thrash metal music from Lithuania, so here instead:
Knowing you, you'll be itching to write about the professor. She's not an English professor, though. Uncle G ( talk) 21:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
...for the assist at Men's rights movement. I haven't been on for a few days, so I wasn't around to handle this one. I try to deal with these things before they get to ANI and blocks but I just wasn't here for that one. :-/ -- Killer Chihuahua 22:03, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
You know what the cool kids like nowadays? Farming... and not in video games — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 00:51, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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--He now has a little more information and 2 interwikis. You folks can all read the stuff at de. about his Ahnenerbe activities, right? -- Yngvadottir ( talk) 13:57, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Any interest in helping out Textiles of Sumba? Ladyof Shalott 03:03, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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I would normally hat a discussion like that anywhere myself... but you should see the offsite complaints that happen whenever I hat a thread on that set of pages :p Kevin Gorman ( talk) 04:23, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
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Could the person who nominated it for ITN reasonably have been expected to know about the DYK nomination? If it was transcluded to the article talk, then yes, they could be expected to know about it; I'm wondering if that was the case, or if it was an innocent mistake. What it reminds me of somewhat (though it's not quite the same) is when I'd worked up a decent article on the Ossabaw Island Hog in my sandbox, and when I went to move it, found that Steven Walling had created the article already. We'd started on our respective versions within a day or two of one another, neither with any idea of the other's project. Ladyof Shalott 00:50, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
As for how much work you put into the article... you should be pleased that you have the opportunity to showcase it on the Main Page for days rather than just an eight-hour DYK. I wasn't around when the rule was formulated, but presumably the rule is to ensure that DYK spotlights material which is new to the reader, not something which has already been on the Main Page for a week.
Incidentally, Lady, I have a somewhat similar story, but with a happy ending. I had an article in my userspace which I occasionally worked on in typical Mandarax slothful fashion. Then one day the article showed up on my watchlist (I always watchlist articles which I'm writing or considering writing). Turns out that someone had created an article which was nothing but a huge copyright violation. I CSD'd it, got to work, quickly completed my version, created it in article space, and turned it into my very first DYK. And yes, I somehow managed to allude to The Office twice today.... MANdARAX • bИAM 03:51, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
You cannot suck Professor Woolf ( ISBN 9780299207502) into the English Professor Vacuum, Dr mi estas.
You don't see a case for her? Are you getting your eyes checked regularly? She has two biographical chapters devoted to her, and I haven't even looked at JSTOR for reviews and stuff. Feel free to expand her current article, though. ;) Drmies ( talk) 22:38, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Did you ever pay up on your wager here? -- kelapstick( bainuu) 04:32, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
I've mentioned you here. Prioryman ( talk) 10:47, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
[For the curious: this section uses {{ British English}}; specifically the adjective italicized. "italicized". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) -- Senra ( talk) 16:42, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Would a WP:MOS familiar lurker confirm my conjecture that public house names, such as "The Rose and Crown" or "The Globe", should not be italicized within a Wikipedia main-space article? Note the clear and hopefully unambiguous qualification. He he-- Senra ( talk) 15:15, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Let me check public houses and inns in Grantham. … No, I didn't use italics. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 16:17, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Depressingly article 'quality' is not actually a criteria for inclusion in DYK. I have been doing some research in my spare time on past DYK articles, who created them, who reviewed, based against a few small indicators of 'quality' (prose punc & gram, accurate references etc), and it's very reviewer-specific. So far I have found the more 'interesting' DYKs tend to correlate fairly strongly with specific reviewers who look at things beyond rubber-stamping the DYK criteria (is the hook sourced, is it correct length). Likewise on the negative side, the more boring and low-quality articles tend to correlate with the checkbox 'this is what you must have to get a DYK' method. Personally I don't see it as a failing of the article editor/creator if a badly written DYK makes it to the main page. I see it as a failure of the reviewer and the process/community that runs DYK. I might actually publish the results when I have a decent (read 200+) sample size. Unfortunately the winter months are my busiest time of year so I have only sporadically been able to work on it. Only in death does duty end ( talk) 21:52, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
Moving right along, I think you're correct. In fact, I've had second, third, and fourth looks at articles just because I saw who the reviewer was, and of course at articles because I saw who the author was. One specific author comes to mind and you probably know who I'm talking about, and some who need not be named here. Those article authors are also not very good reviewers. One of the disadvantages of that QPQ process is of course that we get reviewers who aren't very seasoned and don't know what to look for, and for whom article quality is the last thing to pay attention to. (And, and I assume you read the discussion about Devil Tower's Road, it's of course ridiculous to state that quality is completely subjective.) I'm interested in your study; do keep me posted. Drmies ( talk) 22:40, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
An IP editor has been removing information from a page (not related to the Zimmermanh1997/Hollisz guy) and I posted this message on their talk page. Do you think it oversteps my unblock rules? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 23:39, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
An article that could serve as a template for how not to write a biography: Mark Janicello. Needs a cleaning if you're up for it--I'll be happy to lend a hand later. Hope all's well with you. Cheers, 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 16:26, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
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I see from his user talk that you thought it unlikely he'd be disruptive at AN. I removed his personal attack against TRM and my finger hovered heavily over the block button. I'm too busy to watch AN any further tonight, which perhaps is just as well. -- Dweller ( talk) 22:54, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Here. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:42, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Rest assured, Drmies, I'm not avoiding you, but there just isn't that much available on him online, even in Romanian. Anyway, I did do a rewrite: see how you like that. I may restore the "works" section, although in less verbose form. - Biruitorul Talk 01:59, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Re "stock" -- bullshit. All that's been established recently is that you're human like every other asshole on Wikipedia, including this one. NE Ent 02:34, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Professor, and anyone else here who may speak English.... I have a question about a specific instance, but I'll apply the answer to my future editing in general. Someone complained that I removed a "the" from a DYK hook without discussion, changing "... that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck" to "... that Austrian tenor Karl Beck". As for the discussion part, I wouldn't clutter up the already-huge DYK nominations page with discussion about each of the many, many small but obviously correct edits I make there every day. But was I justified in making this change? The complaining user said:
Well, I agree that they're simply descriptors, but I disagree that omitting the "the" causes them to be treated as titles. If anything including the "the" could have that effect: "the Austrian tenor" could be interpreted as meaning that the guy holds the title as the only tenor who's Austrian. Simply saying "Austrian tenor" just means he's a tenor who's Austrian.
I think it reads better without "the". Another consideration is that when it comes to DYK, if a shorter hook works as well as or better than a longer one, the shorter one is almost always preferred. Thanks for your thoughts on the matter, and sorry for cluttering up your talk page.... MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 03:55, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
I'llbe interested to hear what our resident professor has to say. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 04:21, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
The issue seemed so insignificant, but this is Wikipedia, where everything matters to someone, so thanks for the confirmation that I wasn't doing anything wrong. Incidentally, I do discuss any DYK change that I realistically think could be subject to dispute, but this one never occurred to me. Thanks again, everybody. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Concur with Dr. Another way to explain it is tThe" is a definite article, but we know which Austrian tenor we're talking about so we don't need it -- we also don't need that "that" either. NE Ent 14:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Thinking radically outside the box here, why not 'an'? Yeah crazy I know. (More seriously, I would not use 'the' or 'that' in the above example.) Only in death does duty end ( talk) 16:40, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Drmies,
I see that you have completely removed the student life section from the University of Georgia's page. I have undone this move. I agree that the page is riddled with promotional bits, but the student life section was long standing and key to the university of Georgia. Especially the Greek portion. Please properly research UGA before removing any more information. It's much better for everyone if we remove promotional bits without losing on content. Many other university pages are like this.
For example and ironically,
University of Florida — Preceding unsigned comment added by DMB112 ( talk • contribs) 05:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hello,
I have reinstated several removed portions. They have been stripped of biased language and promotional content. Please review "Student Life" and "UGA Honors Program" and let me know what you think. I am wholly and entirely for a neutral view point. I understand your need to avoid bias. Please work with me before suddenly removing so much content from University of Georgia. I will surely comply. I kept the Student Government Association part because of it's unique involvement with University System of Georgia. Not all states and higher ed systems allow such involvement. It's good content, and I've included many internal links to support the content. I did cite the paragraph. I will further edit it. It's true, many universities have SGA and Honors programs, but these sections are relevant to the University of Georgia.
I kept UGA Miracle because it's a student organization unique to UGA. I have also removed some biased language from the "Rankings" portion of the page. I will continue to clean it up if need be.
Once again, please communicate with me before destroying so much content right away. I thought you were a bot. I am new to Wikipidea, and I haven't figured everything out quite yet. I receive emails from Wikipidea, and I'll respond promptly. DMB112 ( talk) 05:51, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Re unblock request. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:52, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Just a heads up, I undid your {{ db-person}} on this article, because the setup of the Scottish football league system states that the Scottish Football League Third Division, of which Stirling Albion F.C. is one of the teams, is the lowest level professional level of Scottish football, and therefore the most marginal of passes into WP:NFOOTY. And to survive a CSD, all you need is a claim that this is the case - you'd be well within your rights to take the article to PROD or AfD and say "okay, give me a reliable source" (of which the one in the article, a blog, isn't). -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:57, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Ok I try that but even some admins consider it reliable! anyway please let's end this argue cause you have sharp eyes and I want you to check Arsames (band) article, I seriously doubt the notability and I need exprienced editor to take care of it. I cant find any positive album reviews and the article written by the advertiser of the band! thanks in advance. please answer me here. Spada II ♪♫ ( talk) 11:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
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I saw your edits to the Perella Weinberg Partners page. Your argument about Wiki not being a directory makes sense, but some of those are key people in the company. Would the infobox be a more appropriate placement for these (as opposed to complete deletion)?
I also saw that you marked David Schiff (portfolio manager) for deletion. I was wondering why you would mark this for deletion and not Peter Weinberg, which has no references and less detail? I'm not looking to start a rumble here -- just looking for thoughts on how to make both pages work. Let me know - thanks! -- Stlamanda ( talk) 17:18, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Question: is there an existing POV movement that advocates the removal of all references to the Dynamic Steady State Universe Theory? I ask because the theory, although published (e.g. DSSU Relativity —The Lorentz Transformations Applied to Aether-Space. Physics Essays Vol 23, No.3, p 520 (2010)), does not seem to be mentioned anywhere else on Wikipedia. I ask because of the impending doom of the article -- Senra ( talk) 15:46, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
I have a serious factual beef with the blurb for today's featured picture, which I happened to see on someone's userpage. See here. But I hesitate to abuse my power to edit the Main Page by high-handedly changing it. What does one do in such situations? Yngvadottir ( talk) 22:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
To continue this newly-begun tradition of baffling the denizens of the English Professor Vacuum with physics and technology and chemicals, I present the humble Rotolock valve ( AfD discussion) for your edification. There, too, issues of nomenclature have raised their heads.
Uncle G ( talk) 01:43, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
I suggest that you call an HVAC engineer, sit back, relax, and enjoy some more Migloko on YouTube.
Uncle G ( talk) 08:48, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted large amounts of the page, saying that it was unverified. I put in some references for the Marching Band section, and reinserted it (I forgot that I had a Wikipedia account so it shows up as my IP address, 98.225.97.103). Do you think that the problem has been fixed? Kevince59 ( talk) 05:21, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for closing that - I was just going to withdraw the nom anyway. I know AfD isn't supposed to be for article rescue, but by heck it's effective... There ought to be some way of getting articles discussed without the 'deletion' bit coming in - yes, there are talk pages, but who reads them? And you have to know the article's in existence first. BTW I knew you liked tits (mine are getting snowed on at the moment, and don't look very happy), but I didn't know you had dealings with stolen property.... Peridon ( talk) 11:11, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Alright, I'll overlook your lack of response to my previous post here; perhaps the lack of offer of ale was to blame. Would appreciate your input on this one, an autobiography by a WP:SPA. Impressive resume, but it is a resume, with the requisite listing of publications and very few cites pertaining specifically to him; even the NYTimes links don't mention him. I take it he meets notability guidelines for an academic, but this began as a copyright violation, and continues to have the inherent COI issues. Do you think this is better addressed at BLP or COI noticeboard, or neither? Cheers, 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 20:56, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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I'm new to Wikipedia so I'm unsure if this is the place to respond directly to an edit of mine that Drmies undid, but here it goes:
You undid my edit on the Scopolamine page and cited my reference as not credible. What exactly is the criteria to determine credibility? Besides "noble language", I don't see why any of what's done in the documentary as being anything other than original investigative journalism. Does Vice have a history of making false claims? If so, where is this information available? If not, I reiterate: on what basis is the documentary not credible? Torvum ( talk) 21:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts for English teachers. Having to continually read discussion contributions, by people participating in what is notionally an encyclopaedia writing project, that say things like "two advices", "editors dislikes", and "criteria was" would make one itch for the red purple pencil.
Thanks for those info and giving me your time for discuss. Honestly I was surprised by getting those warning messages first, I though I was right about those undo things . I'm not new to Wikipedia, I know the rules but I still believe they are tough sometimes. Best wishes -- MetalS-W ( talk) 04:09, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
I expanded Costas Kadis a little bit with some education information and I'm curious as to whether or not they are significant enough to be included. Second, what exactly are they? I checked Academic certificate, but that's such a hodgepodge of different things that have the same English name that it's useless. Ryan Vesey 04:36, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
I was very tempted to give you a response as if it had been written on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mixed martial arts. But I decided instead to point out in English that the other source describes one of these courses as a training course. So the certificate mentioned is for the completion of a training course — at Cornell University, no less. (Aha! Now we know why the obviously conflicted about Cornell Doktoro Mi Estas is asking for a third opinion.) I think that you are better off leaving the various "certifigates" out of things for now.
You closed this WP:ANI six weeks ago. The other party in that dispute has now violated that ruling here and here. Can you offer some direction, Drmies, as to how he/she might be notified and reminded of the terms of WP:IBAN? Thanks. Tristan noir ( talk) 06:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that the AN thread about the reduction in my restrictions was archived without a closing admin making a final decision. Not sure what you want to do there. Take Care... Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:47, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Am I able to revert multiple changes in one edit? An editor ( Bir89 ( talk · contribs)) has used two contiguous edits ( here and here) to make, what I believe to be, incorrect changes to Ely and Littleport riots of 1816. According to the WP:MOS guideline, specifically WP:DATESNO, we do not use ordinal suffixes to dates. Before a well-meaning lurker fixes this, and at the risk of WP:OWN, I would prefer to learn how to do it myself, if I am able. In addition, is it possible to fix multiple non-contiguous edits? -- Senra ( talk) 10:42, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
That means that I can merge the TV episodes now? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Drmies. I should let you know that I mentioned your name, in a good way, in a recent post -- Senra ( talk) 23:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Drmies, could you perhaps have a look at the recent history of this article and the comments that I posted on User talk:Yoko Hashimoto and User talk:Mallneck. I have now done several reverts and although I think that I technically am still adhering to 3RR, I'm on the border of going over it... I think that if I would revert the latest edit, this would fall under reverting vandalism, but others may see this differently. Thanks for your frank opinion, as always. -- Randykitty ( talk) 15:34, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
You have a clear COI on this issue, and if you "ban" me I will make a complaint as to that. You need to step back and let a different Admin handle this. =//= Johnny Squeaky 17:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello again; another onslaught of poorly sourced promotional edits for your amusement, this time at Charles Eisenstein. I've tacked up the templates, brought this to the BLP board, issued warnings to two accounts, to no avail. I dunno, maybe next stop page protection. Thanks for any help you can provide. Cheers, 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 02:12, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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Like you really need another one of these. Still, you're practically fishing for this, and somewhere the guidelines must say something about keeping the admins happy. 99.136.252.89 ( talk) 02:41, 22 January 2013 (UTC) |