It won't be this bad, but it'll be a disaster nonetheless. No need to discuss it further, I'm sure................... Remember how kind I am.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 01:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Re: [1], it is sourced in the external links, a refimprove tag would have been better than blanking. DuncanHill ( talk) 22:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey there - yes indeed, in most cases, the names are arranged in reverse chronological order, though this is certainly not true in all cases - I had intended to write a note originally saying something along those lines, but then I realized that a couple of the lists were not arranged in this way.
Any suggestions for teams I've missed out would be very useful - gives me something to do, at least..! Thank you very much. Bobo . 17:05, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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So, TFA on 20 December. Hurrah! I looked at the stats and was surprised, to say the least. Apart from your lot, did you/I ever get anything else mainpaged? I can't recall... The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
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Bill O'Reilly (1905–1992) was an Australian cricketer, rated as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. Following his retirement from playing, he became a well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster. O'Reilly was a spin bowler, who delivered the ball from a two-fingered grip at close to medium pace with great accuracy, and could produce leg breaks, googlies, and top spinners, with no discernible change in his action. When O'Reilly died, Sir Donald Bradman said "he was the greatest bowler he had ever faced or watched". O'Reilly's citation as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1935 said of his batting: "He had no pretensions to grace of style or any particular merit, but he could hit tremendously hard and was always a menace to tired bowlers." O'Reilly was also known for his competitiveness: he bowled with the aggression of a paceman. In a biographical essay on O'Reilly, his contemporary, the England cricketer Ian Peebles, wrote "any scoring-stroke was greeted by a testy demand for the immediate return of the ball rather than a congratulatory word. Full well did he deserve his sobriquet of 'Tiger'." ( more...)
Thanks for the CE and comments. Replied on talk. I've tweaked one or two of your changes to fit in with previous comments (and to head off one or two possible prose reviewers who seize on a couple of things!) but thanks for the review so far. Really appreciate having a cricket chap look at it. -- Sarastro1 ( talk) 23:38, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks very much - I'd love to! -- Dweller ( talk) 10:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Dweller! I responded to a few questions that were mailed to OTRS regarding this page. I see you've added a few tags, and I'm in no position to judge whether they're appropriate or not (though by a cursory glance at the page, they seem to be.) Regardless of that, and the facts that these tags might be self-explanatory to experinced users, this still is a case of "drive-by tagging".
I understand you do a lot of patrolling here, and don't have time for lengthy discurses on each subject. Nevertheless, I feel that all experienced users, especially the "high profile" ones, should set an example by adding a comment on talk pages when they add tags.
I suggest you just prepare a template for each tag (or make it a collaborative effort), which can simply be pasted into the talk page. It's got to be something that is helpful to inexperienced users, e.g. with links to improvement suggestions. There's plenty of good advice to be found on WP regarding these matters, so let's make use of it.
Mostly, tagging alone is of little help and tends to inflate, rather than improve, Wikipedia! Asav ( talk) 14:06, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
OK, I worked it out, by checking your contrib history.
Re CMIIM2008, this came about because a user approached the bureaucrats for a name change. When I checked their contrib history, it became clear they were making COI edits to a mainspace article. The two tags I left are pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not sure what a talk page edit would have added, particularly as my fellow bureaucrat chose to indefblock the account. I think that I have a pretty good record for being helpful to newbies, but this particular newbie, whatever their username, would be making COI edits, however much they understood the tag.
On the bigger point, if you feel the tags are not sufficiently self-explanatory, perhaps it's worth developing them, rather than trying to get editors to do (more than) twice the work by tagging and repeating the explanation on the talk page. If this doesn't work, then perhaps a request to develop Twinkle to automate this would be a good idea.
Cheers, -- Dweller ( talk) 14:19, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
You and The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs) are the leading contributor's to Collingwood's article, but neither of you have edited the article since 2009. Are you maintaining the article? Nev1 ( talk) 23:30, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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Sorry, I had no idea of Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard/Archive_4#Changes_of_account_name_by_restricted_users when asking for the rename. It's not my intention to cause any confusion to the admins. Does "...change their username with a suppressed redirect from the old name..." mean that the old username needs have a redirect to the new one? If so, could you please restore the redirect? Nanobear ( talk) 12:13, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the invitation. I duly accept your request ( Wiki id2 (talk) 09:36, 11 January 2011 (UTC))
Hi! I don't have this book...But I think User:Cattivi does. I've just added informations to the article from a discussion we had at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Duggie Lochhead.-- Latouffedisco ( talk) 20:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller, the below comment:
01:51, 14 January 2011 Rrius (talk | contribs) (10,824 bytes) (There is no obvious reason why this section exists. As Dweller apparently forgot to remove it (see talk), I am doing so now.) (undo)
This made the local press and tv, and was widely condemned. Luciana made an apology afterwards via her twitter feed.
I've removed the reference to the blog post (guido-fawkes), but I beleive the above should stay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.156 ( talk) 10:37, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am currently in the process of removing my digital footprint (as much as possible), I don't like the fact that when I Google my name someone can find out so much information it's a breach of my privacy. I know it is impossible to delete a Wikipedia username but I wish to vanish (RtV) as much as possible and I am following the steps outlined on that page. I have requested for my page to be removed already and now just require a name change to anything that does not involve my name - I have no preference so hopefully in time I cannot be found on Google. Thank-you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evankaragiannis ( talk • contribs) 08:03, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank-you :) 122.106.166.51 ( talk) 13:50, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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Here, just in case you didn't see it. I get another appointment with the mainpage!! (As long as Raul doesn't pull it beforehand...) The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:59, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
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G'day Dweller, I helped the interested parties to set up this wikiproject - and set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Essex/Collaboration as well, as I figured collaborations are one of the best things about wikiprojects. dunno if it'll sink or swim. I helped resurrect the US collaboration at Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM which seems to be getting up a nice head of steam. I think maybe these are good ways of getting more and less experienced editors working together. Anyway, figured some ideas of Essex articles might be good, and you're only just up the road a bit ;) (trying to think of broad articles with lots of gaps so there'd be data gathering as well as ref tweaking etc.) cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 00:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there. I see that you have done a lot of work in getting the John Wark article up to featured status. I would be very grateful if you could give your thoughts/tips on getting the Kenny Dalglish article (which I have just begun trying to improve) up to a good standard. Thank you and keep up the good work. Jprw ( talk) 12:07, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I have left a couple of pence at Talk:Rhodocene and one more at scratch team (I feel a bit as if I have been stalking you today...)
Anyway, if you have the time (or indeed any of your talk page stalkers), I wonder if you think there is any value in this. (Did you know that none of the teams that beat a non-league side in the Fifth Round has gone on to win the FA Cup, but Blackpool and Everton were runners-up in 1948 and 1985 respectively.)
I think a proper article on the "giant-killers" would be good - recentism up to its usual tricks here - but I am finding it remarkably difficult to find good sources. I have a list somewhere with Stafford, Leatherhead, Blyth, Harlow, Telford and Kettering; Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic in 1957, Worcester City in 1959, Hereford United in 1972, Wimbledon in 1975, Altrincham in 1986, Sutton in 1989, and ... -- Testing times ( talk) 20:59, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
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I really don't like the fact we have a section 3 with a single subsection 3.1 with its own single subsection 3.1.1. Can we fix this before I delete the article and indef block myself? The Rambling Man ( talk) 20:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hope you don't mind that I edited your post. I think that's what you meant. Please revert and hit me with a trout if not... WJBscribe (talk) 14:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
fair do's, I guess he couldn't remember the exact number and was just exaggerating for effect. Jmorrison230582 ( talk) 20:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I don't have a lot of time to contribute much at the moment but I wish you well with it (can see good progress is being made already). Thanks for asking. -- NCFCQ ( talk) 19:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
In this edit you named a ref but it doesn't exist. I suggest you fix it or face a lifetime ban for disrupting Gunnipedia. The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:15, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear Dweller, please, to complete the unification of my business, you could rename the User:Conrado, if possible? My main wikipedias is eo:Conrado and pt:Conrado. Thanks! 187.86.18.130 ( talk) 15:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
How's Gunny going? You continue to expand, when do we talk about moving on with the FAC itself? The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:07, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Wolffe (2001), p. 289: "The indecisive, ambivalent actions which were characteristic of the king before the onset of his madness were now increasingly obvious and rapidly led to an armed clash and politically motivated assassinations in the main street of St Albans on 22 May 1455. This marked the beginning of the longest period of intermittent civil war in English history, which for want of a better title, and by long-established convention, we call the Wars of the Roses." This serves as the source (backed up by Ross's 7 pages of more detailed overview of the politicking then) for the article's opening sentences: "In 1461, England was in the sixth year of the Wars of the Roses ... Henry VI, an indecisive man who suffered bouts of madness. ... escalated into a full-blown conflict." When chunk of information is sourced to a single source, it is acceptable to have a single cite for it (minimum boundary at a paragraph) than for each individual sentence. Henry's mental health is not a disputed issue among historians; the claims are not controversial (i.e. not that "strong" of a claim). Jappalang ( talk) 11:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller, I emailed Credo about your account, and was told it would be dealt with separately from this latest batch, so I'd say it's almost certain you'll get one. I'll keep in touch with them and you about it, and try to make sure you don't fall through the cracks. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 14:02, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Notice you have edited page. Article seems extremely biased. Torossian has never been featured in media for Israel activities he is prominent due to PR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronn_Torossian -- 199.19.186.9 ( talk) 21:48, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
I saw that you have deleted details of various High Court Judgements! Surely this kind of censorship of public documents is wrong. Where is all the material relating to the five year libel action which acted as a legal precedent? Blatant censorship. Are you connected to the subject in some way or have you taken payment for your actions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silleekhunt ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the message on my talkpage. Yep, I'm a City fan and I've done a few edits and tidy-ups on pages related to that. It'd be good to see Gunny's article get featured, so I'll see if I can help with it a bit more. It gives me an excuse to read his book again! Roranicus ( talk) 19:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, in case you didn't notice the ronnin issue was also posted to the blpn. Here - you were not mentioned by name so this is just fyi. I am going to close the thread as resolved - nothing to see, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 16:02, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I responded to the coment you posted on my talk page. —Preceding undated comment added 02:49, 18 April 2011 (UTC).
.. even mention it. Happy bank holiday(s). The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:22, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, Dweller, hope you're well. Since you've previously advised me on the subject of unwanted talkpage comments, perhaps you could offer a view on this gem over at WP:ANI#SarekOfVulcan and repeated unwanted talkpage messages? Best, ╟─ Treasury Tag► Not-content─╢ 15:54, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller, the Credo emails have been sent out with the account details. Just want to make sure you got yours. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 13:09, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
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We can talk here if you like. Lc-- 92.25.237.156 ( talk) 11:42, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
I would prefere it if only you knew my new name so as to avoid possible harassment from other editors with a grudge against me.-- 92.25.237.156 ( talk) 11:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm not going to encourage banned editors to edit Wikipedia against the terms of their ban. Any further correspondence on this page from banned editors will have to be subject to RBI. I will however happily discuss with banned editors by email. If someone has concerns over privacy, disposable email addresses are readily available. But if anyone seriously doubts my integrity, perhaps I'm not the right person to help them. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:16, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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Dweller, given the number of featured articles that you have authored, it appears that this is overdue. Keep it up. MrMedal ( talk) 15:11, 14 May 2011 (UTC) |
Hello Dweller, you commented on AfD for Abraham Reuel, may I please ask to state your opinion on the two last sections at the article's talk page, in particular the section named "IP edits reinstated" and the section named "Single-sentence mention in Chronicle". Thank you for your time.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 06:46, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Been moved back again by LM... The Rambling Man ( talk) 18:24, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Si tu est interessé au grammaire de français, tu aurais dû dire "Tu ne comprends pas? Cliquez ici, svp, pour aider. Excusez mon pauvre Francais...!" au lieu de "Non comprend? Cliquez ici, svp, pour aider. Et excusez mon pauvre Francais...!". ~~ EBE123~~ talk Contribs 22:02, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Here is a contribution on the Swedish talk page of the Shehitah (skäktning = religious slaughter) article:
Actually, regardless, relying on myself as a person, but I can also turn to everyone here who edits. We are biological beings, and like other creatures, we can feel stress, anxiety, pain, etc.. There is really nothing that separates us from other animals. If anyone got the idea that hanging me upside down or otherwise depriving me of my freedom, starting to cut my throat and letting me bleed to death while in a fixed position, I would feel myself extremely vulnerable, defenseless, feel pain, become stressed and so Furthermore, while life literally drains out of me. Then in any case a bolt in my head would be much more humane. Is there any research independent of the particular religion) that shows that Jewish ritual slaughter does not create unnecessary suffering for animals while they bleed to death? DNM (d | b) March 30, 2011, at. 20:54 (CEST)
I quite understand that discussing the actual controversy itself is a different matter from discussing what reliable research says (or does not say) and formulating arguments around how the text is to be expressed.
Bringing up the question: "Is religious slaughter humane (or not)? will get us nowhere. Surely the Swedish admins should have made a comment here not to discuss the core question of a controversy that has been going on since 1849, and instead digging up reliable sources that outline the core arguments.
My response "All slaughter is cruel." (a quote from Lewin, a key author) I think was erased.
It has to be mentioned that in this controversy there are enormous financial interests (the meat industry). and great sensitivity. RPSM ( talk) 14:38, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the user rename. But it seems something's not right. The account is not displayed here. It's still connected to the old SUL. Is there a way to fix that?-- Dreynner ( talk) 16:36, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
So, bag it and tag it, why is this still a redlink?! The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:22, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I have proposed another interaction ban between TreasuryTag and SarekOfVulcan. Since you commented in the last ban discussion that failed to gain consensus I am notifying you of this one. See - Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Propose_interaction_ban_between_TreasuryTag_and_SarekOfVulcan_2. Cheers. Griswaldo ( talk) 22:01, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Come on, a few more characters and this is a charming DYK. Need 1,500 in prose, no section headings etc. Let's do it. The Rambling Man ( talk) 16:19, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Whenever you add references, tell me first, you used a HYPHEN in a page range! Man alive.
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I understand the decision to group events the way you have, and to exercise discretion as to what goes in. Its certainly far preferable to the all-too-common temptation to create some kind of turgid proseline simply to preserve chronology. My thinking was that the part of Gunn's career he is best known for is his time playing with Norwich, so that should be the focal section. Meant more as food for thought than something I'd call essential. If there's little that would make interesting reading that's fine. I put next to nothing about Bert Trautmann's late club career, for example, as the rest was so much more interesting. Oldelpaso ( talk) 10:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Soccer isn't awful! It's as Canadian as Tim Hortons, is all. Sorry for the mistakes. I am going for breakfast and will have time to do a little more on the article this morning before I go to my event. -- Ninja Diannaa ( Talk) 14:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:56, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't suppose you got anywhere with this (?). RPSM ( talk) 17:42, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I have to log out in a couple of minutes, but will come back with info. RPSM ( talk) 12:56, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dweller, I hope all is going well that side. I'm just looking for a bit of input onto the Robin Friday article, which I'm presently working up to Featured status. I'm after your opinion on a sourcing issue, to be more specific: There is only one book about Friday, The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw, which naturally is cited rather a lot because there aren't many other sources. However, the book is made up almost entirely of interview extracts and match reports taken from the Reading Evening Post and South Wales Echo, so as long as all quotes and so on are credited (which they are), I'm thinking that it may not count as over-reliance. I'm not sure, so that's why I'm asking your opinion. Anyway, if you get a few minutes I'm sure you'd enjoy giving it a quick read, and your opinion on the sourcing matter would be appreciated. Baie dankie, keep well! – Cliftonian the orangey bit 22:33, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I just saw your message to me saying I should contact you via the "Email this user" button on your page. However I see no such button on your page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.90.241.213 ( talk) 11:56, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm sv:Användare:Niklas R. How may i be of assistance? Niklas R Talkpage 23:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, you asked what Joan Armatrading's "Drop the Pilot" is about.
The singer is suggesting to another woman that she drop her current (male) lover and take up with her (the singer). ("My aim is straight.") The pilot and the mahout (an elephant driver) are metaphors for the male lover. The singer is saying that she could give give her desired a better ride if she would do so; that she could give her everything she needs (animal, mineral, physical, spiritual). "Don't use your army to fight a losing battle" means you cannot resist me. "Kissing cousins" suggests that there is no passion in the other woman's current relationship.
In case you didn't know, Joan is gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Well, thank you for this article Victuallers ( talk) 08:03, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
You have been given incorrect information. I am not able to edit my own user page on Swedish Wikipedia, or anything else at all. I cannot defend myself on the Swedish Wikipedia as I can write nothing there - not even on my own personal page and the block is permanent. RPSM ( talk) 11:01, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I was not able to write a plea on Swedish Wikipedia because I was blocked from writing anything there and still am. Perhaps I could write a request on the English Wikipedia to be unblocked on the Swedish Wikipedia because I never had a chance to do it there and I can write nothing there. RPSM ( talk) 11:19, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
(Thanks for trying) RPSM ( talk) 11:20, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Jag har en klar åsikt i att samtliga som uppenbarligen har en agenda och gång på gång inte kan följa NPOV, utan envisas med med att lägga in kraftigt vinklade texter, utan att vilja ta en saklig diskussion, bör blockeras. Inte blockeras kortsiktigt, utan blockeras för evigt. Dessa personer har inget intresse i att skriva en neutral och saklig encyklopedi, utan är värre än klottrarna. Mer effektiva metoder för att upprätthålla friheten att skapa en fri och neutral encyklopedi måste upprättas. Och det snart, innan de vinklade artiklarna tar över Wikipedia totalt.
Grillo (who blocked me on Swedish Wikipedia) writes on his home page:
"I have a clear opionion that those who obviously have an agenda and time and again cannot follow NPOV, but stubbornly write heavily slanted texts, without wanting to have a rational discussion, ought to be blocked. Not on a short-time basis, but blocked permanently. These people have no interest in wrtiting a neutral and factual encyclopedia, and they are worse than klottrare (graffiti nerds?/scribblers). More effective methods for supporting the freedom to create a free and neutral encyclopedia must be found and that without delay, before the slanted articles take over Wikipedia entirely."
My original inspiration was an admin called Shirahadasha here on enwikipedia and HG. One or the other said I should go ahead and gather source material (which I have done). I put it on the Swedish version, and there were lots of hurt feelings and not much serious argument. RPSM ( talk) 11:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Both of these admins deal exclusively with Jewish subjects (I think) but that seems to be a no no in itself on Swedish wikipedia. Keep off controversial subjects seems to be the message there. If the cultures are different, can we have some clear definitions and guidelines? RPSM ( talk) 11:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Well you tried anyway :P [4] ╟─ Treasury Tag► consulate─╢ 11:07, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
FYI, I fixed your beef with Powersville, Missouri Wiki by changing it from city to village. Took me all of 30 seconds. Less time than it took you to post about it on that articles Discussion page and the Wiki Project Missouri page. You're obviously an experienced editor so why not just change it yourself, move on, and save everyone some time? Just MHO Sector001 ( talk) 19:18, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I see you speak en-5, so hopefully can understand this message better than I understand Spanish! I noticed that you speedy deleted Bryan Gunn. I'm surprised there was no message on my talk page that the article was being considered for deletion, or had been deleted. Gunn is definitely notable. If you can let me know what you need as a reference, I can easily provide it (see the en: article). I presume references in English are acceptable. Please could you also post the original text to my userspace. Thanks -- Dweller ( discusión) 21:42 19 jun 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. I'm not sure how big it needs to be to meet your criteria? -- Dweller ( talk) 14:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller,
Thank you for closing my RfA as successful back in March and directing me to the new admin school. I've been taking things fairly slowly in trying out the tools, as was suggested to me, so I'm only getting around to article restoration now. If an article has been deleted by another administrator after an expired proposed deletion and I now wish to contest the deletion, should I go through the process of requesting undeletion or is it fine for me to undelete the article myself and then notify the nominator and the deleting administrator of the restoration? Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Neelix ( talk) 15:28, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm not altogether sure what context "gosh" was meant. I realise that my reply was a little sentimental; so I thought I might explain. The thing is that I've been working a lot in WP:NPP recently. About 99% of the time I get it right, and get an ear full (or an eye full, I guess) from the article creators. Then the one time in 100 when I get it wrong I get an ear full from the admins. It's very soul draining. I can handle the comments from the article creators. But I never get any thanks from the community for the 99 correct tags, but I get a hard time for the one wrong one. It's all stick and no carrot. — Fly by Night ( talk) 21:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I disagree that the article was not suitable for a speedy delete - the first reference is to the band's own page; and every other single reference does not support the statement made but simply is to the website or university referred to (homepage). The article by no means manages to determine its notability and indeed reads as a CV with useless references - clearly a personal attempt to boost his profile. Reichsfürst ( talk) 06:10, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your messages, which are passionate and polite - two great "p"s. There's a big difference between a self-promoting article that says "xxxxx is a notable radio producer" and the article about Tarrant, which includes several claims to notability and a bunch of references. I'm sorry if that slows down the deletion procedure, but that's policy. I suggest an AfD may be appropriate for this chap, but speedy is inapporpriate. I'm glad you take the time trawling new pages and looking for junk - I think sometimes it can get difficult to see the wood for the trees. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:13, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a user account in the German WP (tmfroehlich) which I would also like to use to contribute to the English WP. I tried to internationalize my account but failed, because tmfroehlich is occupied in the English user space. The person behind that account seems not to be very active and I wonder if I could take it over. I was advised to ask here by German administrators. Please let me know if this is the right approach and if so, what will happen next. Kind regards,
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Hi Dweller. I wonder if you could change edit rights on Luciana Berger to semi-prot please? We seem to have a few more experienced editors around taking an interest now and you could always zap the non-IP editor who was causing difficulties there if there's a recurrence. We are spotting various poor quality content points in the talk page. Thanks for any assitance. Jamesinderbyshire ( talk) 14:51, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
I asked you about one problem, can you reply? Bulwersator ( talk) 16:02, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your correction at [5]. -- Natalya 20:09, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thanks for the comments at the Katyn Massacre FAR. They are useful. If you find anything else please let me know, regardless of whether the article gets relisted or not. I think that having the article continue to improve is more important than whether or not it has FA status. So thanks. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 20:30, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Any chance you can put back the Alcohol section, especially the PI quote? It's relevant to his standing as a journalist and unoffensive - best - Gavinturner ( talk) 00:47, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
You must be mistaken regarding your question here; I've never pursued an RFA in the past. Tyrol5 [Talk] 13:11, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to the team. I name-dropped you on BN. There's a sparsely-used mailing list - it's almost exclusively for RTV stuff that can't be discussed onwiki for privacy reasons. If you'd like to join it, you're welcome, but there's no compulsion. Other Crats have, in the past, opted not to, and there's enough of us on there (see the chart on WP:CRAT) to handle the meagre amount of traffic. Up to you. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:25, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. I've been quite busy the past week, and I haven't had a chance to respond until now. I don't need mailing list access, but thanks for the welcome. :) Maxim (talk) 02:53, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Gonna be logging off here shortly, could you please watch this page? Vandalism is persisting at the moment. Calabe1992 ( talk) 15:35, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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On en.wiki is user, which uses my nick ( User:Marcelus, my user page on polish wikipedia: pl:Wikipedysta:Marcelus). He so far, has not done any edit. Could you change his username, so i will can create a unified login and start to editing? 79.163.41.94 ( talk) 23:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Learning from Gunny, don't forget to look at what links to Aggers. The Bee Gees?! The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Current ref 27 don't link to naarfin boi. See if you can get to the page in two steps rather than one, i.e. search on Agnew then select the JP Agnew from there, that might work. The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:45, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Please stop by the discussion to see if your concerns have been addressed. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:27, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello boss. How's about nominating our old chestnut (and possibly our most "universal" work) England national football team manager for WP:TFL? Might need some dead links fixing and checking that Fabio's stats are up to date, but other than that it should be good to go....? The Rambling Man ( talk) 12:08, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
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You commented on a previous FAC for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Would you mind checking in at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/archive6 to see whether your previous concerns have been addressed? Ucucha ( talk) 01:32, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
I am anxious and worried about the business you tried to help me with. I wonder, should I just forget everything and walk away? Because following up stuff could get me into more trouble. In the large view, Wikipedia needs editors who can sort out difficult subjects. Niklas said it was a waste (ditching me from the Swedish WP) But a sensible strategy would be to pick up my things and go and put the research I have done into some article under my own name and retain my copyright to get rid of bother and frustration. This is an exchange I had recently [6] RPSM ( talk) 08:37, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
and this: Your message at Talk:GameOnJag fick ett meddelande på min svenska diskussionssida att du kontaktat GameOn, och jag har läst vad du skrivit på hans diskussionssida här. Jag uppskattar att du tar dig tid att gå tillbaka och reda ut de problem som har varit. Tack för omtanken. Ursäkten är så klart accepterad.Sjö (talk) 08:49, 10 August 2011 (UTC) translation: I received a message on my Swedish talk page that you contacted GameOn, and I read what you wrote on his talk page here. I appreciate that you took the time to go back and sort out the problems that arose. Thank you for being so considerate. Your apology, is, of course accepted. Sjö (talk) RPSM ( talk) 08:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't know what you stand to gain by pursuing this editor for a retraction. All you're doing is making yourself look bad. You're damaging his "psychological wellbeing" more by hounding him here. Just drop it. Your ban on Swedish Wikipedia is not entirely because of him and if he gave in and apologised fulsomely, you wouldn't be welcomed back there tomorrow. -- Dweller ( talk) 21:26, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks, Dweller. Typically, Daft has made a colossal error when moving a match from 1728 to 1729 on the basis of what he has read in that book. The 1729 fixture was a repeat of the 1728 one and they are both in the book. What can you do, eh? ---- Jack | talk page 16:29, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
It's been suggested, at the bottom of the page of this discussion, that I "…approach a respected Wikipedia bureaucrat, and have said ‘crat assign a closing admin to this, who should be entrusted with carefully parsing the above arguments to see which side of the debate is best grounded in Wikipedia’s policies." On the assumption that you are such a respected individual, I wonder if you might undertake to do so to see about arranging closure of this RM discussion (which encompasses all topics on the talk page) (as requested by another user on 2011-10-21 [last Friday]). Thx — Who R you? Talk 03:07, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, Dweller. With regard to the way you used a common sense approach there and explained your reasoning in plain-speak: is that allowed on Wikipedia?? Ballsy, man. This must be a no-B.S. zone. Greg L ( talk) 16:56, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
P.S. I fixed ( ∆ edit, here ), the close-out template at Talk:Marek Zidlicky. The end of the div had to be moved to the bottom. Greg L ( talk) 17:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
This was, while done in good faith, an inappropriate way to close a hotly debated RM on an issue where the community has not formed a consensus. Regarding the circumstances, you were contacted by the most vocal participant in the discussion (who had previously canvassed five others from his "side" to comment). Having been put in a position of a special admin needed to save Wikipedia from policy being ignored, you did not arrive to the discussion like RM regulars. As debates involving diacritics tend to be contentious, they are usually closed by the regulars who know this dispute inside out. So, why did you not leave the discussion to be closed by someone experienced in that area of the project and not hand-picked by an involved user?
Regarding your closure, you cite COMMONNAME, like the supporters, but the move is not supported by this policy but by your interpretation of it; the stretching of this principle to always cover the most common spelling (includes diacritics, capitalization, hyphens/dashes...) of the common name is not supported by consensus and was in the slight minority in the recent RFC. You also did not respond to the 5P concerns (Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and incorporates elements of other reference works), the NOTBURO argument ( actual practice on Czech people) or to the BLP point of getting the article right (well-sourced unencyclopedic material is rejected from BLPs all the time). Furthermore, people usually want their name spelled correctly and, as this is supported in proper English and the practice by other encyclopedias, there is seemingly very little reason not to do so. It is also easy to demonstrate, as you seem to have guessed, that your closure differs dramatically from those of others. In my opinion, by claiming that the other five admins who participated in the discussion "argued passionately" but don't know policy, you seem to have accepted the super admin position. Prolog ( talk) 21:01, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Since the central tenet of your complaint doesn’t appear to be that Dweller has some sort of serious personality disorder or chronic B.O. (topics that ought to be addressed on individuals’ talk pages) and since the bone you have to pick is over the decision he made when closing the RfC, and since much of your above complaint regarding the slings and arrows of great misfortune pertains to details of the proper use of diacritics with regard to Czech individuals in general, and Marek Zidlicky in particular, the proper way to continue this discussion is to continue it over there, where editors who take an interest in these sort of issues have a better opportunity to see and participate; the sunshine of public scrutiny helps to sanitize weak and infected arguments. Greg L ( talk) 01:40, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Prolog. Apologies for not replying yesterday - I didn't want to respond to your post in a heated manner so thought waiting a day might help.
I'm glad you appreciate my "good faith" but the charge of "inappropriate" closure is rather shocking. If you merely disagreed with the way I called the consensus, that'd be fine. I accepted in my close that with such a close vote-count there would be people who disagreed, but "inappropriate"? You seem to be arguing that only a small cabal of admins should be permitted to close these requests - and that I totally disagree with. You also seem to be arguing it was inappropriate of me to close it because one of the participants to the debate invited me to close it, as if that would somehow have skewed my opinion. That's ridiculous and insulting in equal measure.
I'd happily have engaged with you on detailed discussion of the close, here or at the article talk, but frankly, the way you set up the discussion makes it seem pointless: fundamentally you believe my action was inappropriate, so the detail is a waste of time. -- Dweller ( talk) 11:38, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
I just became aware of this RM and your close of it. While most US residents give up their diacritics and I have no problem with reflecting this in our articles, I think you gave too much credence to some invalid anti-diacritics arguments that you will probably encounter in other discussions again. "To further make that point, we should be clear that unless and until consensus changes in core policies such as WP:COMMONNAME diacritics are not ideal, but should be used where appropriate." I am not sure what you mean by that, precisely, but it makes you sound biased against diacritics, when in fact all the English-language authorities that are most careful about language recommend their use or just use them themselves (e.g. Britannica, Webster's Dictionary of Geographical Names, Chicago Manual of Style), fully consistent with how Wikipedia is using them in roughly 4% of our article titles. WP:COMMONNAME is primarily about names not about spelling of names. That's an important distinction, because in many places which are not encyclopedias or dictionaries, diacritics are dropped systematically for technical reasons. Most notably this is the case for wire news, although many quality newspapers go to great lengths to restore diacritics to the extent practicable -- as you can verify with their style guides. Basically we have to decide whether we want to be an encyclopedia (=> use the most pedantic spellings, with diacritics) or a sports news aggregator (=> uses the most simplified spellings).
A lot of people, especially Americans, appear to have misconceptions about how English treats diacritics. There are many contributing factors:
I was just drafting something for WP:ANI and here you are before I've even finished it! Thanks again, Dweller, but watch out because you'll be on his list now. ---- Jack | talk page 15:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. Be sure that take a peek back at your question on the maths ref desk, as there is some concern there that you might have left with a misunderstanding, as evidenced by your in reality, the expression is meaningless as a reflection of reality remark, which is quite incorrect. Also, let me know if you dabble in any programming, as if you do then I will point out a correlation between initializing variables and empty sums and products. Best regards, -- 110.49.227.102 ( talk) 03:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC) Wow, we really are nerds over there.
This is my latest article. Feel free to make any improvements. -- Doug Coldwell talk 19:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
A new account should be guided to a one-page tutorial, and the new user
should be required to click a box indicating that they understand that
one-page tutorial (with blunder avoidance tips).
It's actually not so easy to find the tutorial section on your own,
and I am still-living proof that you can break a lot of expensive glassware
with only the best intentions. I don't want to see the Logarithm article
disappear before my eyes, but that's what I caused.
I did not recognize that revising after a preview is dangerous, in that IF the
editing box has secretly emptied, then that's what will show on the article.
I tested this in sandbox today. I changed my first preview, and the new preview
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But though a second preview looked good, the edit box had secretly emptied,
and that "empty space" appeared on the article. And I could not undo that.
Maybe there should be a 922 button for blunder assistance.
But I need more tutorial time.
UPDATE: Before I posted this from preview, I noticed that the
edit box had secretly emptied. So one precaution is to not post
after a preview. This goes to press without a preview .... — Preceding
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Hello. I'm not sure I really understand what you're saying. Previewing and then revising does not create problems, it's considered good practice (I've previewed this response three times and tweaked it!)... unless, I suppose, you get an WP:EDITCONFLICT. Does that link help? NB it looks like you're typing messages into a word processor and then pasting them here. That creates the weird formatting problems that make your post look like a poem. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:14, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Dude, this sentence: "He did, however, play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) on that tour, two in India and one in Australia.[33] " ref 33 is that useless link that doesn't do what you want it to do. I may be able to help, but you need to tell me what you typed into Cricket Archive to get what you thought was a decent result? (P.S. Budgies doing alright, eh?) The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:02, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Whoosh. Which of these are still live issues? PS Thanks for all the editing over the weekend. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Ref 33 works perfectly. Maybe you already fixed it? -- Dweller ( talk) 13:20, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Coolio. "Cap" seems to be fine as well. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
ref name=cap
and others you used ref name="cap"
which clearly wouldn't work...! So that just leaves the tidbits re:JP Getty and Agers [sic].
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How do I go about getting Otium reassessed to possible B-Class and getting an assessment of "importance" on the WikiProjects?-- Doug Coldwell talk 12:48, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Do you mind moving File:RavMosheKever.jpg to commons? Chesdovi ( talk) 11:21, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Dweller. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Noor Aftab, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article has been edited since it was tagged and is no longer a copyvio. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 23:24, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
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I excluded Polish interwiki since it is about American trappers, not about animal trapping in general. Olegwiki ( talk) 10:39, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi,Thanks for your direction.I saw you've undid my version and i'm glad for that.I found naming some bowlers' name in other pages like Doosra, so i too planned to add those guys name.Nothing more personal :) . What should i do if i join The Cricket WikiProject? Thanks Abdul raja ( talk) 12:12, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks!!! I've added my name in that list. Hope i can make something!!! Thanks for your guidance. Abdul raja ( talk) 12:22, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Yes.My Mother Tongue is Tamil. How you got it? I'm in Tamil Wiki also. Abdul raja ( talk) 13:44, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
I’ve mentioned the way you (properly so, in my opinion) closed a move request on an article. The discussion is here on Jimbo’s talk page. If you can add anything of value to the discussion (I suspect you can given your recent expertise in this area), it would probably be helpful over there. I think your participation would certainly improve the quality of the discussion. Greg L ( talk) 00:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dweller, just to let you know I've responded to your comments at the FAC, Cheers. NapHit ( talk) 10:52, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I saw your post at Jimbo's talk page; it seems to reflect the same general methodological problems that most readers have identified, there's pretty good consensus on the flaws in the analysis, but since most of the feedback is consolidated at WT:FAC, and there is little at Jimbo's talk, it might be helpful for you to also add your post to the ongoing discussion at WT:FAC so it's all kept in one place. TCO's multiple accounts and IP edits already make following the matter hard enough. Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:39, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
You forgot to transclude it to the FAC page! I did it and left a note to say so; looks good, by the way and I'll try to chip in during the next few days. -- Sarastro1 ( talk) 18:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dweller, sorry not Doug. How did you come up with the Google Books results for Jacob-ben-Meir. That's a string search on a single term, Jacobbenmeir. It shouldn't be affected by loose Jacobs and Meirs. What number did you get? In ictu oculi ( talk) 13:50, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
sorry about that. — Ched : ? 20:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
it's certainly going to be less humorous if you remove the humor! ;-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 13:11, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
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I'm a bit loath to edit the Agnew article when you and TRM are making such as good job of putting it into some order. But as someone thought the early career stuff was a bit thin you might be interested in a snippet I found in The Times about his injury-proneness early on. It's from the issue of 28 October 1980 under the heading "Another setback for Agnew" (page 9, issue No 60761) and reads:
I'll go on perusing copies of The Times from his early cricket days and will post anything sensible I find here, or on the talk page if you prefer. Johnlp ( talk) 23:22, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Ref 85 (The Times one you added) provides me with nothing we can use as citation paramaters. I don't even get a headline or anything, I just get redirected to the homepage... The Rambling Man ( talk) 15:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
See today's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/nyregion/rabbi-pintos-followers-blame-aides-for-missing-millions.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp -- Mosmof ( talk) 19:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
We can't help it we're Dutch. Congrats on getting your name in the paper, by the way, and thanks for the copy edit. OK, your edit summary, I say those kinds of things too--Mrs. Drmies hates me for it. All the best, Drmies ( talk) 14:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Oopsie. Perhaps better luck for us next year? Maybe a new mandate appeared at FAC lately, I've seen nominations running for months. Seemed a little harsh considering how much work we'd put into it during candidacy (and given our previous contributions, both in nominations and reviews at FAC) but hey ho, that's why FAC is dying on its arse I suppose, like the rest of Wikipedia. I think I need a break. The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:36, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
I would be absolutely happy to take you up on your generous offer. It's a confounding issue, and I much admire your courage and optimism in volunteering to mediate. I hope the others in this case feel that mediation is as appropriate as I do. With thanks, Tenebrae ( talk) 18:55, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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Happy New Year my friend. I wish all the best, the very best, to you and yours. Also sort-of glad to see your budgies doing alright. Stick it to the man, I think someone once said.
Sadly, right now, I find Wikipedia to be particularly unpleasant when my seeming naivety has been cited in an Arbcom circus. SandyGeorgia has decided to name me as a complicit member of the community, avoiding "punishing" one member while seemingly passively acknowledging and allowing another to be a wanker. They're both wanders, and I'm not sure what got her goat, but in any case it's a crock and feels like Kanga and Roo would be at home. Last time I bother giving that crew my time, not that they would care.
Right, moving on. I'll be soon to leave these Wiki-shores, (this whole "save the whale/malleus/you're a c-word" is beyond belief") but perhaps we can talk privately sometime. Much love to you and Family Dweller. The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
You're both wrong (about my intent, about me being upset, about every assumption you've made here), but I doubt it will be useful to try to convince you of anything, or get you to develop another perspective, until you're calmer (TRM, haven't we been down this path before? that is, your thin skin and how often you got upset on Raul's talk page while not getting that there was no problem?). TRM, you are cited as absolutely nothing, and I'm sorry the 500-word limit prevents me from making a better case, and if you can't wait for me to figure a way around the 500-word limit to solve that problem, can't help it. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:19, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, Sandy, I interpreted this, followed by your 'go fly a kite' wikibreak as being upset. If you prefer your choice of word, "disgusted", I'm happy to replace it. As for calmness, I'm totally calm about the MF situation. Just a little saddened. -- Dweller ( talk) 23:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
If he keeps going like this, I could write a List of Jordan Rhodes hat-tricks 2011–12 article. Legit. Five already, what the... ? I wish Roy Keane hadn't sold him, but what can I do? All I find myself doing now is watching the budgies on some stream somewhere, and they keep winning. Not fair, not fair at all. Bon weekend. The Rambling Man ( talk) 22:31, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, What is the official tranquilizer when WP:Forum is pushed to the limit as it has been on the Shroud of Turin page? There is no edit war (yet) but as you have seen there are two editors with a desire to discuss the matter more than anything else. It is just taking up time to even calm them down. What is the best way to calm this before it gets out of control? Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 22:54, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your copyedit of the old Euro finals list. Thought you'd be more interested in another little listy thing I'm expanded right now? The Rambling Man ( talk) 12:43, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Since you extended an offer of mediation to User:Tenebrae in relation to the Demi Moore article, I would like to take up that offer if it's still on the table - I'm not proud of some of my own responses in that debate but after repeated requests [10] [11] that Tenebrae refrain from personal attacks, [12] [13] [14] and comment on content not contributor he has again failed to abide by the request. [15] For his benefit, I would rather that at this stage, a mediator steps in if possible, rather than taking my concerns and both of our actions to a more formal or binding discussion such as WQA or RFC/U. If it is possible for you to do this then it would be appreciated. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 23:11, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I've changed my mind. I think going to mediation asap would be good for Wikipedia. If the two of you agree, let's do it. Hopefully between us we can resolve this and other editors will either join us along the way or will tweak or accept whatever we can work out.
To be clear, this offer is open to both of you and to anyone else who has been involved in the dispute.
Please read the following very long sentence really carefully... and bear with me :-)
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Stuart Jamieson is breaking his word and editing Talk:Demi Moore. I reverted his post and added a note at the mediation that we had agreed not to edit that page or make any other comment about the issue outside the mediation page. Now, he has restored the disallowed post. I reverted it again. This is so childish. I'm at my wits' end. Is there any way to enforce our keeping our word, or has he poisoned the well of mediation? -- Tenebrae ( talk) 19:05, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Worth considering a re-nom? I think we dealt with all the outstanding issues, just didn't any supports in time... whaddyareckon? The Rambling Man ( talk) 09:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Baton passed, did a bit at Aggers, bring it on.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:12, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
The author is Michael Atherton, writing in The Times and the date is 4 August 2008. As it's going to be a citation to a web page, I presume we don't need a page number. Do we need anything else? -- Dweller ( talk) 17:02, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
further to the discussion about when Agnew started with TMS and the BBC, I have now cited some references on the article's talk page. Regards, Dean B ( talk) 07:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
I only have like 16k edits .. but I'm thinking I might want my real name might want to go away. I just wanted to know what was possible, and didn't want any high drama involved. — Ched : ? 13:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
????? paint me lost. :) — Ched : ? 01:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Yes, indeed it does. See if you can hear some youtube coverage of this genius in action. He's the best thing about darts. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:47, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Okay, so we have just Axl's hit-and-run left, there seems to be no dialogue there so all we can do is wait for an image check and a source spotcheck.... I haven't seen a FAC promoted lately without both of those.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 10:32, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey there, I emailed you a couple of weeks ago as well but never heard back. Could you please help with my rename request. At the moment, I think I'm attracting too much attention by using my actual name. Could you please change my username to MHDH. I'd appreciate that, thanks! Hassan514 ( talk) 13:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Dweller. I know the real world of making a living, caring for family and all the rest is more important than what is, essentially, for most of us, a hobby. And I know you know how much I, and I'm sure everyone else involved, appreciates the time that you've been able to give in a generous attempt at helping mediate what seems an intractable issue.
It's only becoming more so, across three pages now (User:Dweller/Demi Moore, User talk:Dweller/Demi Moore, and Talk:Demi Moore). Accusations of bad faith and much more are flying, with Jimbo Wales' name now being invoked (not by me). So I wonder now if, despite all your good efforts, this whole mess should go to arbitration. What do you think? Would it be too much to ask that you shepherd this issue there to give it a foothold? What is your advice? With respect and regards, Tenebrae ( talk) 15:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, a long time ago you encouraged me to consider adminship. Finally got round to it: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Fayenatic london – Fayenatic (talk) 21:54, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Apologies. I couldn’t believe that you personally would be seriously involved in a dispute over such a matter. (I thought it was a hypothetical excercise by several, and I thought everyone was being too reasonable.) My fault for not checking, and discovering that you are facilitating.
I hope to make some amends by offering a positive contribution. There is a lot read, and I am a slow reader. My leaning at this stage is to suggesting a more cautious sticking to what other reliable and reputable independent secondary sources have already said on the subject. I see this as significantly in the field of “verifiability not truth”. I see people making references to secondary sources, and I think these need critical review, taking a firm historiological definition of “ secondary source”. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 23:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I thought that, perhaps instead of heading into the darkness of cricket, we could get listified, and have a good stab at List of Norwich City F.C. managers? Whaddya reckon? The Rambling Man ( talk) 14:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Note: the "Assessment" section really, honestly should form perhaps one sentence in this whole article. If you think I'm wrong, tell me why... The Rambling Man ( talk) 18:57, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I know you've done more than your share with this, but the discussion at Talk:Demi Moore has degenerated into the issuing of threats and what seems to be a disregard for the mediation process. It's gotten extremely ugly. Are there any other avenues of mediation or arbitration that you could suggest? The protocol can be complicated to understand, and I don't want to skip steps or put in a request at the wrong page. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 17:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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His whole playing career has just two references, two of which are statistic based and his managerial/coaching career doesn't have any. Therefore it "needs additional citations for verification" as the tag suggests. Pretty obvious really. -- Jimbo [online] 14:59, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
B==Soccerbase refs from back in the day== Just to let you know that those Soccerbase refs which you've added no longer point at league tables and just redirect back to the homepage again... We'll need to either work out how to access Soccerbase correctly all over again or use Statto.com to find the tables.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:17, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I guess I should have come to you first. The violation of privacy was so bad I'd already contacted an admin via e-mail as suggested at [[Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment] (which says that because Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents is “a highly public forum and you could inadvertently bring unwanted attention to the link by reporting your concern publicly on Wikipedia” that “A better option may be to directly email an administrator....”) You've done so much in this bizarre case already, I felt I'd be asking too much to ask you for more help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This was so creepy, I can't tell you. Thank you again, -- Tenebrae ( talk) 16:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I didn't create the Dana Gaier page but I contributed a NYT article. You recently deleted it. I think it should be recreated based upon the following resources which I have found.If there is something specific you are looking for, please let me know. Thanks. http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/movies/09despicable.html http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2010/DESME.php http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1214097-despicable_me/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323594/ http://news.yahoo.com/film-trailer-despicable-2-3d-101035394.html Dana is an American Child actress best known for her voice role as Edith in Universal Pictures' Despicable Me. She is currently working on the sequel. She also hosts an anti-bullying website called "Got Your Back!" www.GYourB.org. Dmmom10 ( talk) 17:59, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please unprotect the article as soon as possible so that the consensus edits can be done. Roger ( talk) 09:36, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Dweller, and thank you again for accomplishing what seemed the impossible task of mediating at the Demi Moore article. I remain amazed at your skill and calm in doing so. I had despaired at a couple of points, and I'm happy you proved me wrong.
As you know from your March 1 edit at Talk:Demi Moore, I had expressed great concern over User:Stuart.Jamieson investigating my personal, off-Wiki life, which I found disturbing.
Now, as one can see at User talk:Stuart.Jamieson, he's involved in off-Wiki discussions with User:AndyTheGrump and an admin, and now is seems to be following my edits, as I note at Commons talk:Abuse filter#Report by Tenebrae: Of all the thousands of images uploaded to Wikipedia and the hundreds moved to the Commons every day, he chose to move an image of mine — one that I'd uploaded and that I thought I had asked to be removed months ago when a better image of the subject became available. Given the extraordinary odds, I don't believe it's coincidence that he singled out an image of mine. Maye if he hadn't been prying to my personal life I might chalk it up as a weird coincidence, but this is part of a pattern.
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Some editors on Portsmouth F.C. over the past few weeks asserting Pompey Chimes as the "oldest" football song. I see the NCFC page says the same of its own song. It's likely that both Pompey and Budgie sources make that claim. I would consider toning down the City claim (or reinforcing it somehow with other evidence....) The Rambling Man ( talk) 12:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Dweller, I appreciate the edit in which you added a Level 2 heading for Yom Hazikaron#History and repositioned the appropriate content. I realize my content edit was clumsy - but I'm editing under considerable duress at present due to the strict demands to improve the page so it qualifies for inclusion in On this day... today. Since in your edit you - perhaps inadvertently? - removed the template for inadequate references and citations, please see what's happening on Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors#Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day... - and if you have any further advice for me, please do share it! -- Deborahjay ( talk) 13:03, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
...and I-still-O-U; this one's on me. Does the explanation help? I deliberately avoided the dread term " p.c."...! Cheers, Deborahjay ( talk) 07:13, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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Btw there are some stunning images on Commons - I just love this one and while the history section of our WP:Featured Pictures makes it seem as if history began fairly recently, I think there may be some useful photos in the architecture section. -- Dweller ( talk) 15:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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It won't be this bad, but it'll be a disaster nonetheless. No need to discuss it further, I'm sure................... Remember how kind I am.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 01:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Re: [1], it is sourced in the external links, a refimprove tag would have been better than blanking. DuncanHill ( talk) 22:16, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey there - yes indeed, in most cases, the names are arranged in reverse chronological order, though this is certainly not true in all cases - I had intended to write a note originally saying something along those lines, but then I realized that a couple of the lists were not arranged in this way.
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So, TFA on 20 December. Hurrah! I looked at the stats and was surprised, to say the least. Apart from your lot, did you/I ever get anything else mainpaged? I can't recall... The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
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Bill O'Reilly (1905–1992) was an Australian cricketer, rated as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. Following his retirement from playing, he became a well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster. O'Reilly was a spin bowler, who delivered the ball from a two-fingered grip at close to medium pace with great accuracy, and could produce leg breaks, googlies, and top spinners, with no discernible change in his action. When O'Reilly died, Sir Donald Bradman said "he was the greatest bowler he had ever faced or watched". O'Reilly's citation as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1935 said of his batting: "He had no pretensions to grace of style or any particular merit, but he could hit tremendously hard and was always a menace to tired bowlers." O'Reilly was also known for his competitiveness: he bowled with the aggression of a paceman. In a biographical essay on O'Reilly, his contemporary, the England cricketer Ian Peebles, wrote "any scoring-stroke was greeted by a testy demand for the immediate return of the ball rather than a congratulatory word. Full well did he deserve his sobriquet of 'Tiger'." ( more...)
Thanks for the CE and comments. Replied on talk. I've tweaked one or two of your changes to fit in with previous comments (and to head off one or two possible prose reviewers who seize on a couple of things!) but thanks for the review so far. Really appreciate having a cricket chap look at it. -- Sarastro1 ( talk) 23:38, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks very much - I'd love to! -- Dweller ( talk) 10:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Dweller! I responded to a few questions that were mailed to OTRS regarding this page. I see you've added a few tags, and I'm in no position to judge whether they're appropriate or not (though by a cursory glance at the page, they seem to be.) Regardless of that, and the facts that these tags might be self-explanatory to experinced users, this still is a case of "drive-by tagging".
I understand you do a lot of patrolling here, and don't have time for lengthy discurses on each subject. Nevertheless, I feel that all experienced users, especially the "high profile" ones, should set an example by adding a comment on talk pages when they add tags.
I suggest you just prepare a template for each tag (or make it a collaborative effort), which can simply be pasted into the talk page. It's got to be something that is helpful to inexperienced users, e.g. with links to improvement suggestions. There's plenty of good advice to be found on WP regarding these matters, so let's make use of it.
Mostly, tagging alone is of little help and tends to inflate, rather than improve, Wikipedia! Asav ( talk) 14:06, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
OK, I worked it out, by checking your contrib history.
Re CMIIM2008, this came about because a user approached the bureaucrats for a name change. When I checked their contrib history, it became clear they were making COI edits to a mainspace article. The two tags I left are pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not sure what a talk page edit would have added, particularly as my fellow bureaucrat chose to indefblock the account. I think that I have a pretty good record for being helpful to newbies, but this particular newbie, whatever their username, would be making COI edits, however much they understood the tag.
On the bigger point, if you feel the tags are not sufficiently self-explanatory, perhaps it's worth developing them, rather than trying to get editors to do (more than) twice the work by tagging and repeating the explanation on the talk page. If this doesn't work, then perhaps a request to develop Twinkle to automate this would be a good idea.
Cheers, -- Dweller ( talk) 14:19, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
You and The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs) are the leading contributor's to Collingwood's article, but neither of you have edited the article since 2009. Are you maintaining the article? Nev1 ( talk) 23:30, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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Sorry, I had no idea of Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard/Archive_4#Changes_of_account_name_by_restricted_users when asking for the rename. It's not my intention to cause any confusion to the admins. Does "...change their username with a suppressed redirect from the old name..." mean that the old username needs have a redirect to the new one? If so, could you please restore the redirect? Nanobear ( talk) 12:13, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the invitation. I duly accept your request ( Wiki id2 (talk) 09:36, 11 January 2011 (UTC))
Hi! I don't have this book...But I think User:Cattivi does. I've just added informations to the article from a discussion we had at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Duggie Lochhead.-- Latouffedisco ( talk) 20:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller, the below comment:
01:51, 14 January 2011 Rrius (talk | contribs) (10,824 bytes) (There is no obvious reason why this section exists. As Dweller apparently forgot to remove it (see talk), I am doing so now.) (undo)
This made the local press and tv, and was widely condemned. Luciana made an apology afterwards via her twitter feed.
I've removed the reference to the blog post (guido-fawkes), but I beleive the above should stay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.156 ( talk) 10:37, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am currently in the process of removing my digital footprint (as much as possible), I don't like the fact that when I Google my name someone can find out so much information it's a breach of my privacy. I know it is impossible to delete a Wikipedia username but I wish to vanish (RtV) as much as possible and I am following the steps outlined on that page. I have requested for my page to be removed already and now just require a name change to anything that does not involve my name - I have no preference so hopefully in time I cannot be found on Google. Thank-you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evankaragiannis ( talk • contribs) 08:03, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank-you :) 122.106.166.51 ( talk) 13:50, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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Here, just in case you didn't see it. I get another appointment with the mainpage!! (As long as Raul doesn't pull it beforehand...) The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:59, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
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G'day Dweller, I helped the interested parties to set up this wikiproject - and set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Essex/Collaboration as well, as I figured collaborations are one of the best things about wikiprojects. dunno if it'll sink or swim. I helped resurrect the US collaboration at Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM which seems to be getting up a nice head of steam. I think maybe these are good ways of getting more and less experienced editors working together. Anyway, figured some ideas of Essex articles might be good, and you're only just up the road a bit ;) (trying to think of broad articles with lots of gaps so there'd be data gathering as well as ref tweaking etc.) cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 00:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
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I have left a couple of pence at Talk:Rhodocene and one more at scratch team (I feel a bit as if I have been stalking you today...)
Anyway, if you have the time (or indeed any of your talk page stalkers), I wonder if you think there is any value in this. (Did you know that none of the teams that beat a non-league side in the Fifth Round has gone on to win the FA Cup, but Blackpool and Everton were runners-up in 1948 and 1985 respectively.)
I think a proper article on the "giant-killers" would be good - recentism up to its usual tricks here - but I am finding it remarkably difficult to find good sources. I have a list somewhere with Stafford, Leatherhead, Blyth, Harlow, Telford and Kettering; Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic in 1957, Worcester City in 1959, Hereford United in 1972, Wimbledon in 1975, Altrincham in 1986, Sutton in 1989, and ... -- Testing times ( talk) 20:59, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
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I really don't like the fact we have a section 3 with a single subsection 3.1 with its own single subsection 3.1.1. Can we fix this before I delete the article and indef block myself? The Rambling Man ( talk) 20:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hope you don't mind that I edited your post. I think that's what you meant. Please revert and hit me with a trout if not... WJBscribe (talk) 14:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
fair do's, I guess he couldn't remember the exact number and was just exaggerating for effect. Jmorrison230582 ( talk) 20:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I don't have a lot of time to contribute much at the moment but I wish you well with it (can see good progress is being made already). Thanks for asking. -- NCFCQ ( talk) 19:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
In this edit you named a ref but it doesn't exist. I suggest you fix it or face a lifetime ban for disrupting Gunnipedia. The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:15, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Dear Dweller, please, to complete the unification of my business, you could rename the User:Conrado, if possible? My main wikipedias is eo:Conrado and pt:Conrado. Thanks! 187.86.18.130 ( talk) 15:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
How's Gunny going? You continue to expand, when do we talk about moving on with the FAC itself? The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:07, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Wolffe (2001), p. 289: "The indecisive, ambivalent actions which were characteristic of the king before the onset of his madness were now increasingly obvious and rapidly led to an armed clash and politically motivated assassinations in the main street of St Albans on 22 May 1455. This marked the beginning of the longest period of intermittent civil war in English history, which for want of a better title, and by long-established convention, we call the Wars of the Roses." This serves as the source (backed up by Ross's 7 pages of more detailed overview of the politicking then) for the article's opening sentences: "In 1461, England was in the sixth year of the Wars of the Roses ... Henry VI, an indecisive man who suffered bouts of madness. ... escalated into a full-blown conflict." When chunk of information is sourced to a single source, it is acceptable to have a single cite for it (minimum boundary at a paragraph) than for each individual sentence. Henry's mental health is not a disputed issue among historians; the claims are not controversial (i.e. not that "strong" of a claim). Jappalang ( talk) 11:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
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Notice you have edited page. Article seems extremely biased. Torossian has never been featured in media for Israel activities he is prominent due to PR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronn_Torossian -- 199.19.186.9 ( talk) 21:48, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
I saw that you have deleted details of various High Court Judgements! Surely this kind of censorship of public documents is wrong. Where is all the material relating to the five year libel action which acted as a legal precedent? Blatant censorship. Are you connected to the subject in some way or have you taken payment for your actions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Silleekhunt ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for the message on my talkpage. Yep, I'm a City fan and I've done a few edits and tidy-ups on pages related to that. It'd be good to see Gunny's article get featured, so I'll see if I can help with it a bit more. It gives me an excuse to read his book again! Roranicus ( talk) 19:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, in case you didn't notice the ronnin issue was also posted to the blpn. Here - you were not mentioned by name so this is just fyi. I am going to close the thread as resolved - nothing to see, regards. Off2riorob ( talk) 16:02, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I responded to the coment you posted on my talk page. —Preceding undated comment added 02:49, 18 April 2011 (UTC).
.. even mention it. Happy bank holiday(s). The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:22, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dweller, the Credo emails have been sent out with the account details. Just want to make sure you got yours. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 13:09, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
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We can talk here if you like. Lc-- 92.25.237.156 ( talk) 11:42, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
I would prefere it if only you knew my new name so as to avoid possible harassment from other editors with a grudge against me.-- 92.25.237.156 ( talk) 11:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm not going to encourage banned editors to edit Wikipedia against the terms of their ban. Any further correspondence on this page from banned editors will have to be subject to RBI. I will however happily discuss with banned editors by email. If someone has concerns over privacy, disposable email addresses are readily available. But if anyone seriously doubts my integrity, perhaps I'm not the right person to help them. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:16, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Dweller, you commented on AfD for Abraham Reuel, may I please ask to state your opinion on the two last sections at the article's talk page, in particular the section named "IP edits reinstated" and the section named "Single-sentence mention in Chronicle". Thank you for your time.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 06:46, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Been moved back again by LM... The Rambling Man ( talk) 18:24, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Si tu est interessé au grammaire de français, tu aurais dû dire "Tu ne comprends pas? Cliquez ici, svp, pour aider. Excusez mon pauvre Francais...!" au lieu de "Non comprend? Cliquez ici, svp, pour aider. Et excusez mon pauvre Francais...!". ~~ EBE123~~ talk Contribs 22:02, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Here is a contribution on the Swedish talk page of the Shehitah (skäktning = religious slaughter) article:
Actually, regardless, relying on myself as a person, but I can also turn to everyone here who edits. We are biological beings, and like other creatures, we can feel stress, anxiety, pain, etc.. There is really nothing that separates us from other animals. If anyone got the idea that hanging me upside down or otherwise depriving me of my freedom, starting to cut my throat and letting me bleed to death while in a fixed position, I would feel myself extremely vulnerable, defenseless, feel pain, become stressed and so Furthermore, while life literally drains out of me. Then in any case a bolt in my head would be much more humane. Is there any research independent of the particular religion) that shows that Jewish ritual slaughter does not create unnecessary suffering for animals while they bleed to death? DNM (d | b) March 30, 2011, at. 20:54 (CEST)
I quite understand that discussing the actual controversy itself is a different matter from discussing what reliable research says (or does not say) and formulating arguments around how the text is to be expressed.
Bringing up the question: "Is religious slaughter humane (or not)? will get us nowhere. Surely the Swedish admins should have made a comment here not to discuss the core question of a controversy that has been going on since 1849, and instead digging up reliable sources that outline the core arguments.
My response "All slaughter is cruel." (a quote from Lewin, a key author) I think was erased.
It has to be mentioned that in this controversy there are enormous financial interests (the meat industry). and great sensitivity. RPSM ( talk) 14:38, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the user rename. But it seems something's not right. The account is not displayed here. It's still connected to the old SUL. Is there a way to fix that?-- Dreynner ( talk) 16:36, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
So, bag it and tag it, why is this still a redlink?! The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:22, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
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Come on, a few more characters and this is a charming DYK. Need 1,500 in prose, no section headings etc. Let's do it. The Rambling Man ( talk) 16:19, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Whenever you add references, tell me first, you used a HYPHEN in a page range! Man alive.
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I understand the decision to group events the way you have, and to exercise discretion as to what goes in. Its certainly far preferable to the all-too-common temptation to create some kind of turgid proseline simply to preserve chronology. My thinking was that the part of Gunn's career he is best known for is his time playing with Norwich, so that should be the focal section. Meant more as food for thought than something I'd call essential. If there's little that would make interesting reading that's fine. I put next to nothing about Bert Trautmann's late club career, for example, as the rest was so much more interesting. Oldelpaso ( talk) 10:47, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Soccer isn't awful! It's as Canadian as Tim Hortons, is all. Sorry for the mistakes. I am going for breakfast and will have time to do a little more on the article this morning before I go to my event. -- Ninja Diannaa ( Talk) 14:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
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I don't suppose you got anywhere with this (?). RPSM ( talk) 17:42, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I have to log out in a couple of minutes, but will come back with info. RPSM ( talk) 12:56, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dweller, I hope all is going well that side. I'm just looking for a bit of input onto the Robin Friday article, which I'm presently working up to Featured status. I'm after your opinion on a sourcing issue, to be more specific: There is only one book about Friday, The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw, which naturally is cited rather a lot because there aren't many other sources. However, the book is made up almost entirely of interview extracts and match reports taken from the Reading Evening Post and South Wales Echo, so as long as all quotes and so on are credited (which they are), I'm thinking that it may not count as over-reliance. I'm not sure, so that's why I'm asking your opinion. Anyway, if you get a few minutes I'm sure you'd enjoy giving it a quick read, and your opinion on the sourcing matter would be appreciated. Baie dankie, keep well! – Cliftonian the orangey bit 22:33, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I just saw your message to me saying I should contact you via the "Email this user" button on your page. However I see no such button on your page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.90.241.213 ( talk) 11:56, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm sv:Användare:Niklas R. How may i be of assistance? Niklas R Talkpage 23:14, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, you asked what Joan Armatrading's "Drop the Pilot" is about.
The singer is suggesting to another woman that she drop her current (male) lover and take up with her (the singer). ("My aim is straight.") The pilot and the mahout (an elephant driver) are metaphors for the male lover. The singer is saying that she could give give her desired a better ride if she would do so; that she could give her everything she needs (animal, mineral, physical, spiritual). "Don't use your army to fight a losing battle" means you cannot resist me. "Kissing cousins" suggests that there is no passion in the other woman's current relationship.
In case you didn't know, Joan is gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Cheers! 74.190.132.112 ( talk) 02:55, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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Well, thank you for this article Victuallers ( talk) 08:03, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
You have been given incorrect information. I am not able to edit my own user page on Swedish Wikipedia, or anything else at all. I cannot defend myself on the Swedish Wikipedia as I can write nothing there - not even on my own personal page and the block is permanent. RPSM ( talk) 11:01, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I was not able to write a plea on Swedish Wikipedia because I was blocked from writing anything there and still am. Perhaps I could write a request on the English Wikipedia to be unblocked on the Swedish Wikipedia because I never had a chance to do it there and I can write nothing there. RPSM ( talk) 11:19, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
(Thanks for trying) RPSM ( talk) 11:20, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Jag har en klar åsikt i att samtliga som uppenbarligen har en agenda och gång på gång inte kan följa NPOV, utan envisas med med att lägga in kraftigt vinklade texter, utan att vilja ta en saklig diskussion, bör blockeras. Inte blockeras kortsiktigt, utan blockeras för evigt. Dessa personer har inget intresse i att skriva en neutral och saklig encyklopedi, utan är värre än klottrarna. Mer effektiva metoder för att upprätthålla friheten att skapa en fri och neutral encyklopedi måste upprättas. Och det snart, innan de vinklade artiklarna tar över Wikipedia totalt.
Grillo (who blocked me on Swedish Wikipedia) writes on his home page:
"I have a clear opionion that those who obviously have an agenda and time and again cannot follow NPOV, but stubbornly write heavily slanted texts, without wanting to have a rational discussion, ought to be blocked. Not on a short-time basis, but blocked permanently. These people have no interest in wrtiting a neutral and factual encyclopedia, and they are worse than klottrare (graffiti nerds?/scribblers). More effective methods for supporting the freedom to create a free and neutral encyclopedia must be found and that without delay, before the slanted articles take over Wikipedia entirely."
My original inspiration was an admin called Shirahadasha here on enwikipedia and HG. One or the other said I should go ahead and gather source material (which I have done). I put it on the Swedish version, and there were lots of hurt feelings and not much serious argument. RPSM ( talk) 11:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Both of these admins deal exclusively with Jewish subjects (I think) but that seems to be a no no in itself on Swedish wikipedia. Keep off controversial subjects seems to be the message there. If the cultures are different, can we have some clear definitions and guidelines? RPSM ( talk) 11:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Well you tried anyway :P [4] ╟─ Treasury Tag► consulate─╢ 11:07, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
FYI, I fixed your beef with Powersville, Missouri Wiki by changing it from city to village. Took me all of 30 seconds. Less time than it took you to post about it on that articles Discussion page and the Wiki Project Missouri page. You're obviously an experienced editor so why not just change it yourself, move on, and save everyone some time? Just MHO Sector001 ( talk) 19:18, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I see you speak en-5, so hopefully can understand this message better than I understand Spanish! I noticed that you speedy deleted Bryan Gunn. I'm surprised there was no message on my talk page that the article was being considered for deletion, or had been deleted. Gunn is definitely notable. If you can let me know what you need as a reference, I can easily provide it (see the en: article). I presume references in English are acceptable. Please could you also post the original text to my userspace. Thanks -- Dweller ( discusión) 21:42 19 jun 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. I'm not sure how big it needs to be to meet your criteria? -- Dweller ( talk) 14:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller,
Thank you for closing my RfA as successful back in March and directing me to the new admin school. I've been taking things fairly slowly in trying out the tools, as was suggested to me, so I'm only getting around to article restoration now. If an article has been deleted by another administrator after an expired proposed deletion and I now wish to contest the deletion, should I go through the process of requesting undeletion or is it fine for me to undelete the article myself and then notify the nominator and the deleting administrator of the restoration? Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Neelix ( talk) 15:28, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm not altogether sure what context "gosh" was meant. I realise that my reply was a little sentimental; so I thought I might explain. The thing is that I've been working a lot in WP:NPP recently. About 99% of the time I get it right, and get an ear full (or an eye full, I guess) from the article creators. Then the one time in 100 when I get it wrong I get an ear full from the admins. It's very soul draining. I can handle the comments from the article creators. But I never get any thanks from the community for the 99 correct tags, but I get a hard time for the one wrong one. It's all stick and no carrot. — Fly by Night ( talk) 21:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I disagree that the article was not suitable for a speedy delete - the first reference is to the band's own page; and every other single reference does not support the statement made but simply is to the website or university referred to (homepage). The article by no means manages to determine its notability and indeed reads as a CV with useless references - clearly a personal attempt to boost his profile. Reichsfürst ( talk) 06:10, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your messages, which are passionate and polite - two great "p"s. There's a big difference between a self-promoting article that says "xxxxx is a notable radio producer" and the article about Tarrant, which includes several claims to notability and a bunch of references. I'm sorry if that slows down the deletion procedure, but that's policy. I suggest an AfD may be appropriate for this chap, but speedy is inapporpriate. I'm glad you take the time trawling new pages and looking for junk - I think sometimes it can get difficult to see the wood for the trees. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:13, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a user account in the German WP (tmfroehlich) which I would also like to use to contribute to the English WP. I tried to internationalize my account but failed, because tmfroehlich is occupied in the English user space. The person behind that account seems not to be very active and I wonder if I could take it over. I was advised to ask here by German administrators. Please let me know if this is the right approach and if so, what will happen next. Kind regards,
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Hi Dweller. I wonder if you could change edit rights on Luciana Berger to semi-prot please? We seem to have a few more experienced editors around taking an interest now and you could always zap the non-IP editor who was causing difficulties there if there's a recurrence. We are spotting various poor quality content points in the talk page. Thanks for any assitance. Jamesinderbyshire ( talk) 14:51, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
I asked you about one problem, can you reply? Bulwersator ( talk) 16:02, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your correction at [5]. -- Natalya 20:09, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thanks for the comments at the Katyn Massacre FAR. They are useful. If you find anything else please let me know, regardless of whether the article gets relisted or not. I think that having the article continue to improve is more important than whether or not it has FA status. So thanks. Volunteer Marek ( talk) 20:30, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Any chance you can put back the Alcohol section, especially the PI quote? It's relevant to his standing as a journalist and unoffensive - best - Gavinturner ( talk) 00:47, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
You must be mistaken regarding your question here; I've never pursued an RFA in the past. Tyrol5 [Talk] 13:11, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to the team. I name-dropped you on BN. There's a sparsely-used mailing list - it's almost exclusively for RTV stuff that can't be discussed onwiki for privacy reasons. If you'd like to join it, you're welcome, but there's no compulsion. Other Crats have, in the past, opted not to, and there's enough of us on there (see the chart on WP:CRAT) to handle the meagre amount of traffic. Up to you. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:25, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. I've been quite busy the past week, and I haven't had a chance to respond until now. I don't need mailing list access, but thanks for the welcome. :) Maxim (talk) 02:53, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Gonna be logging off here shortly, could you please watch this page? Vandalism is persisting at the moment. Calabe1992 ( talk) 15:35, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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On en.wiki is user, which uses my nick ( User:Marcelus, my user page on polish wikipedia: pl:Wikipedysta:Marcelus). He so far, has not done any edit. Could you change his username, so i will can create a unified login and start to editing? 79.163.41.94 ( talk) 23:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Learning from Gunny, don't forget to look at what links to Aggers. The Bee Gees?! The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Current ref 27 don't link to naarfin boi. See if you can get to the page in two steps rather than one, i.e. search on Agnew then select the JP Agnew from there, that might work. The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:45, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Please stop by the discussion to see if your concerns have been addressed. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:27, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello boss. How's about nominating our old chestnut (and possibly our most "universal" work) England national football team manager for WP:TFL? Might need some dead links fixing and checking that Fabio's stats are up to date, but other than that it should be good to go....? The Rambling Man ( talk) 12:08, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
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You commented on a previous FAC for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Would you mind checking in at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/archive6 to see whether your previous concerns have been addressed? Ucucha ( talk) 01:32, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
I am anxious and worried about the business you tried to help me with. I wonder, should I just forget everything and walk away? Because following up stuff could get me into more trouble. In the large view, Wikipedia needs editors who can sort out difficult subjects. Niklas said it was a waste (ditching me from the Swedish WP) But a sensible strategy would be to pick up my things and go and put the research I have done into some article under my own name and retain my copyright to get rid of bother and frustration. This is an exchange I had recently [6] RPSM ( talk) 08:37, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
and this: Your message at Talk:GameOnJag fick ett meddelande på min svenska diskussionssida att du kontaktat GameOn, och jag har läst vad du skrivit på hans diskussionssida här. Jag uppskattar att du tar dig tid att gå tillbaka och reda ut de problem som har varit. Tack för omtanken. Ursäkten är så klart accepterad.Sjö (talk) 08:49, 10 August 2011 (UTC) translation: I received a message on my Swedish talk page that you contacted GameOn, and I read what you wrote on his talk page here. I appreciate that you took the time to go back and sort out the problems that arose. Thank you for being so considerate. Your apology, is, of course accepted. Sjö (talk) RPSM ( talk) 08:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't know what you stand to gain by pursuing this editor for a retraction. All you're doing is making yourself look bad. You're damaging his "psychological wellbeing" more by hounding him here. Just drop it. Your ban on Swedish Wikipedia is not entirely because of him and if he gave in and apologised fulsomely, you wouldn't be welcomed back there tomorrow. -- Dweller ( talk) 21:26, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks, Dweller. Typically, Daft has made a colossal error when moving a match from 1728 to 1729 on the basis of what he has read in that book. The 1729 fixture was a repeat of the 1728 one and they are both in the book. What can you do, eh? ---- Jack | talk page 16:29, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
It's been suggested, at the bottom of the page of this discussion, that I "…approach a respected Wikipedia bureaucrat, and have said ‘crat assign a closing admin to this, who should be entrusted with carefully parsing the above arguments to see which side of the debate is best grounded in Wikipedia’s policies." On the assumption that you are such a respected individual, I wonder if you might undertake to do so to see about arranging closure of this RM discussion (which encompasses all topics on the talk page) (as requested by another user on 2011-10-21 [last Friday]). Thx — Who R you? Talk 03:07, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, Dweller. With regard to the way you used a common sense approach there and explained your reasoning in plain-speak: is that allowed on Wikipedia?? Ballsy, man. This must be a no-B.S. zone. Greg L ( talk) 16:56, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
P.S. I fixed ( ∆ edit, here ), the close-out template at Talk:Marek Zidlicky. The end of the div had to be moved to the bottom. Greg L ( talk) 17:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
This was, while done in good faith, an inappropriate way to close a hotly debated RM on an issue where the community has not formed a consensus. Regarding the circumstances, you were contacted by the most vocal participant in the discussion (who had previously canvassed five others from his "side" to comment). Having been put in a position of a special admin needed to save Wikipedia from policy being ignored, you did not arrive to the discussion like RM regulars. As debates involving diacritics tend to be contentious, they are usually closed by the regulars who know this dispute inside out. So, why did you not leave the discussion to be closed by someone experienced in that area of the project and not hand-picked by an involved user?
Regarding your closure, you cite COMMONNAME, like the supporters, but the move is not supported by this policy but by your interpretation of it; the stretching of this principle to always cover the most common spelling (includes diacritics, capitalization, hyphens/dashes...) of the common name is not supported by consensus and was in the slight minority in the recent RFC. You also did not respond to the 5P concerns (Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and incorporates elements of other reference works), the NOTBURO argument ( actual practice on Czech people) or to the BLP point of getting the article right (well-sourced unencyclopedic material is rejected from BLPs all the time). Furthermore, people usually want their name spelled correctly and, as this is supported in proper English and the practice by other encyclopedias, there is seemingly very little reason not to do so. It is also easy to demonstrate, as you seem to have guessed, that your closure differs dramatically from those of others. In my opinion, by claiming that the other five admins who participated in the discussion "argued passionately" but don't know policy, you seem to have accepted the super admin position. Prolog ( talk) 21:01, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Since the central tenet of your complaint doesn’t appear to be that Dweller has some sort of serious personality disorder or chronic B.O. (topics that ought to be addressed on individuals’ talk pages) and since the bone you have to pick is over the decision he made when closing the RfC, and since much of your above complaint regarding the slings and arrows of great misfortune pertains to details of the proper use of diacritics with regard to Czech individuals in general, and Marek Zidlicky in particular, the proper way to continue this discussion is to continue it over there, where editors who take an interest in these sort of issues have a better opportunity to see and participate; the sunshine of public scrutiny helps to sanitize weak and infected arguments. Greg L ( talk) 01:40, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Prolog. Apologies for not replying yesterday - I didn't want to respond to your post in a heated manner so thought waiting a day might help.
I'm glad you appreciate my "good faith" but the charge of "inappropriate" closure is rather shocking. If you merely disagreed with the way I called the consensus, that'd be fine. I accepted in my close that with such a close vote-count there would be people who disagreed, but "inappropriate"? You seem to be arguing that only a small cabal of admins should be permitted to close these requests - and that I totally disagree with. You also seem to be arguing it was inappropriate of me to close it because one of the participants to the debate invited me to close it, as if that would somehow have skewed my opinion. That's ridiculous and insulting in equal measure.
I'd happily have engaged with you on detailed discussion of the close, here or at the article talk, but frankly, the way you set up the discussion makes it seem pointless: fundamentally you believe my action was inappropriate, so the detail is a waste of time. -- Dweller ( talk) 11:38, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
I just became aware of this RM and your close of it. While most US residents give up their diacritics and I have no problem with reflecting this in our articles, I think you gave too much credence to some invalid anti-diacritics arguments that you will probably encounter in other discussions again. "To further make that point, we should be clear that unless and until consensus changes in core policies such as WP:COMMONNAME diacritics are not ideal, but should be used where appropriate." I am not sure what you mean by that, precisely, but it makes you sound biased against diacritics, when in fact all the English-language authorities that are most careful about language recommend their use or just use them themselves (e.g. Britannica, Webster's Dictionary of Geographical Names, Chicago Manual of Style), fully consistent with how Wikipedia is using them in roughly 4% of our article titles. WP:COMMONNAME is primarily about names not about spelling of names. That's an important distinction, because in many places which are not encyclopedias or dictionaries, diacritics are dropped systematically for technical reasons. Most notably this is the case for wire news, although many quality newspapers go to great lengths to restore diacritics to the extent practicable -- as you can verify with their style guides. Basically we have to decide whether we want to be an encyclopedia (=> use the most pedantic spellings, with diacritics) or a sports news aggregator (=> uses the most simplified spellings).
A lot of people, especially Americans, appear to have misconceptions about how English treats diacritics. There are many contributing factors:
I was just drafting something for WP:ANI and here you are before I've even finished it! Thanks again, Dweller, but watch out because you'll be on his list now. ---- Jack | talk page 15:07, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. Be sure that take a peek back at your question on the maths ref desk, as there is some concern there that you might have left with a misunderstanding, as evidenced by your in reality, the expression is meaningless as a reflection of reality remark, which is quite incorrect. Also, let me know if you dabble in any programming, as if you do then I will point out a correlation between initializing variables and empty sums and products. Best regards, -- 110.49.227.102 ( talk) 03:33, 1 November 2011 (UTC) Wow, we really are nerds over there.
This is my latest article. Feel free to make any improvements. -- Doug Coldwell talk 19:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
A new account should be guided to a one-page tutorial, and the new user
should be required to click a box indicating that they understand that
one-page tutorial (with blunder avoidance tips).
It's actually not so easy to find the tutorial section on your own,
and I am still-living proof that you can break a lot of expensive glassware
with only the best intentions. I don't want to see the Logarithm article
disappear before my eyes, but that's what I caused.
I did not recognize that revising after a preview is dangerous, in that IF the
editing box has secretly emptied, then that's what will show on the article.
I tested this in sandbox today. I changed my first preview, and the new preview
was fine.
But though a second preview looked good, the edit box had secretly emptied,
and that "empty space" appeared on the article. And I could not undo that.
Maybe there should be a 922 button for blunder assistance.
But I need more tutorial time.
UPDATE: Before I posted this from preview, I noticed that the
edit box had secretly emptied. So one precaution is to not post
after a preview. This goes to press without a preview .... — Preceding
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Hello. I'm not sure I really understand what you're saying. Previewing and then revising does not create problems, it's considered good practice (I've previewed this response three times and tweaked it!)... unless, I suppose, you get an WP:EDITCONFLICT. Does that link help? NB it looks like you're typing messages into a word processor and then pasting them here. That creates the weird formatting problems that make your post look like a poem. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:14, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Dude, this sentence: "He did, however, play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) on that tour, two in India and one in Australia.[33] " ref 33 is that useless link that doesn't do what you want it to do. I may be able to help, but you need to tell me what you typed into Cricket Archive to get what you thought was a decent result? (P.S. Budgies doing alright, eh?) The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:02, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Whoosh. Which of these are still live issues? PS Thanks for all the editing over the weekend. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Ref 33 works perfectly. Maybe you already fixed it? -- Dweller ( talk) 13:20, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Coolio. "Cap" seems to be fine as well. -- Dweller ( talk) 13:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
ref name=cap
and others you used ref name="cap"
which clearly wouldn't work...! So that just leaves the tidbits re:JP Getty and Agers [sic].
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Do you mind moving File:RavMosheKever.jpg to commons? Chesdovi ( talk) 11:21, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Sven Manguard Wha? 16:54, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dweller. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Noor Aftab, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article has been edited since it was tagged and is no longer a copyvio. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 23:24, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
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I excluded Polish interwiki since it is about American trappers, not about animal trapping in general. Olegwiki ( talk) 10:39, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi,Thanks for your direction.I saw you've undid my version and i'm glad for that.I found naming some bowlers' name in other pages like Doosra, so i too planned to add those guys name.Nothing more personal :) . What should i do if i join The Cricket WikiProject? Thanks Abdul raja ( talk) 12:12, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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I’ve mentioned the way you (properly so, in my opinion) closed a move request on an article. The discussion is here on Jimbo’s talk page. If you can add anything of value to the discussion (I suspect you can given your recent expertise in this area), it would probably be helpful over there. I think your participation would certainly improve the quality of the discussion. Greg L ( talk) 00:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey Dweller, just to let you know I've responded to your comments at the FAC, Cheers. NapHit ( talk) 10:52, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I saw your post at Jimbo's talk page; it seems to reflect the same general methodological problems that most readers have identified, there's pretty good consensus on the flaws in the analysis, but since most of the feedback is consolidated at WT:FAC, and there is little at Jimbo's talk, it might be helpful for you to also add your post to the ongoing discussion at WT:FAC so it's all kept in one place. TCO's multiple accounts and IP edits already make following the matter hard enough. Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 17:39, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
You forgot to transclude it to the FAC page! I did it and left a note to say so; looks good, by the way and I'll try to chip in during the next few days. -- Sarastro1 ( talk) 18:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Dweller, sorry not Doug. How did you come up with the Google Books results for Jacob-ben-Meir. That's a string search on a single term, Jacobbenmeir. It shouldn't be affected by loose Jacobs and Meirs. What number did you get? In ictu oculi ( talk) 13:50, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
sorry about that. — Ched : ? 20:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
it's certainly going to be less humorous if you remove the humor! ;-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 13:11, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
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I'm a bit loath to edit the Agnew article when you and TRM are making such as good job of putting it into some order. But as someone thought the early career stuff was a bit thin you might be interested in a snippet I found in The Times about his injury-proneness early on. It's from the issue of 28 October 1980 under the heading "Another setback for Agnew" (page 9, issue No 60761) and reads:
I'll go on perusing copies of The Times from his early cricket days and will post anything sensible I find here, or on the talk page if you prefer. Johnlp ( talk) 23:22, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Ref 85 (The Times one you added) provides me with nothing we can use as citation paramaters. I don't even get a headline or anything, I just get redirected to the homepage... The Rambling Man ( talk) 15:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
See today's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/nyregion/rabbi-pintos-followers-blame-aides-for-missing-millions.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp -- Mosmof ( talk) 19:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
We can't help it we're Dutch. Congrats on getting your name in the paper, by the way, and thanks for the copy edit. OK, your edit summary, I say those kinds of things too--Mrs. Drmies hates me for it. All the best, Drmies ( talk) 14:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Oopsie. Perhaps better luck for us next year? Maybe a new mandate appeared at FAC lately, I've seen nominations running for months. Seemed a little harsh considering how much work we'd put into it during candidacy (and given our previous contributions, both in nominations and reviews at FAC) but hey ho, that's why FAC is dying on its arse I suppose, like the rest of Wikipedia. I think I need a break. The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:36, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
I would be absolutely happy to take you up on your generous offer. It's a confounding issue, and I much admire your courage and optimism in volunteering to mediate. I hope the others in this case feel that mediation is as appropriate as I do. With thanks, Tenebrae ( talk) 18:55, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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Happy New Year my friend. I wish all the best, the very best, to you and yours. Also sort-of glad to see your budgies doing alright. Stick it to the man, I think someone once said.
Sadly, right now, I find Wikipedia to be particularly unpleasant when my seeming naivety has been cited in an Arbcom circus. SandyGeorgia has decided to name me as a complicit member of the community, avoiding "punishing" one member while seemingly passively acknowledging and allowing another to be a wanker. They're both wanders, and I'm not sure what got her goat, but in any case it's a crock and feels like Kanga and Roo would be at home. Last time I bother giving that crew my time, not that they would care.
Right, moving on. I'll be soon to leave these Wiki-shores, (this whole "save the whale/malleus/you're a c-word" is beyond belief") but perhaps we can talk privately sometime. Much love to you and Family Dweller. The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
You're both wrong (about my intent, about me being upset, about every assumption you've made here), but I doubt it will be useful to try to convince you of anything, or get you to develop another perspective, until you're calmer (TRM, haven't we been down this path before? that is, your thin skin and how often you got upset on Raul's talk page while not getting that there was no problem?). TRM, you are cited as absolutely nothing, and I'm sorry the 500-word limit prevents me from making a better case, and if you can't wait for me to figure a way around the 500-word limit to solve that problem, can't help it. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:19, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, Sandy, I interpreted this, followed by your 'go fly a kite' wikibreak as being upset. If you prefer your choice of word, "disgusted", I'm happy to replace it. As for calmness, I'm totally calm about the MF situation. Just a little saddened. -- Dweller ( talk) 23:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
If he keeps going like this, I could write a List of Jordan Rhodes hat-tricks 2011–12 article. Legit. Five already, what the... ? I wish Roy Keane hadn't sold him, but what can I do? All I find myself doing now is watching the budgies on some stream somewhere, and they keep winning. Not fair, not fair at all. Bon weekend. The Rambling Man ( talk) 22:31, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, What is the official tranquilizer when WP:Forum is pushed to the limit as it has been on the Shroud of Turin page? There is no edit war (yet) but as you have seen there are two editors with a desire to discuss the matter more than anything else. It is just taking up time to even calm them down. What is the best way to calm this before it gets out of control? Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 22:54, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your copyedit of the old Euro finals list. Thought you'd be more interested in another little listy thing I'm expanded right now? The Rambling Man ( talk) 12:43, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Since you extended an offer of mediation to User:Tenebrae in relation to the Demi Moore article, I would like to take up that offer if it's still on the table - I'm not proud of some of my own responses in that debate but after repeated requests [10] [11] that Tenebrae refrain from personal attacks, [12] [13] [14] and comment on content not contributor he has again failed to abide by the request. [15] For his benefit, I would rather that at this stage, a mediator steps in if possible, rather than taking my concerns and both of our actions to a more formal or binding discussion such as WQA or RFC/U. If it is possible for you to do this then it would be appreciated. Stuart.Jamieson ( talk) 23:11, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I've changed my mind. I think going to mediation asap would be good for Wikipedia. If the two of you agree, let's do it. Hopefully between us we can resolve this and other editors will either join us along the way or will tweak or accept whatever we can work out.
To be clear, this offer is open to both of you and to anyone else who has been involved in the dispute.
Please read the following very long sentence really carefully... and bear with me :-)
If you agree to mediation on the Demi Moore issues, and agree to participate in a process following rules I set that might seem a little fussy at first, but are based on my experience of how to generate an atmosphere that is conducive to producing an agreement, please click through to this page and just sign your name with no further comment here, there or on Talk:Demi Moore (or, on the subject of this dispute, anywhere else for that matter) for now.
Thank you. -- Dweller ( talk) 21:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
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Stuart Jamieson is breaking his word and editing Talk:Demi Moore. I reverted his post and added a note at the mediation that we had agreed not to edit that page or make any other comment about the issue outside the mediation page. Now, he has restored the disallowed post. I reverted it again. This is so childish. I'm at my wits' end. Is there any way to enforce our keeping our word, or has he poisoned the well of mediation? -- Tenebrae ( talk) 19:05, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Worth considering a re-nom? I think we dealt with all the outstanding issues, just didn't any supports in time... whaddyareckon? The Rambling Man ( talk) 09:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
Baton passed, did a bit at Aggers, bring it on.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:12, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
The author is Michael Atherton, writing in The Times and the date is 4 August 2008. As it's going to be a citation to a web page, I presume we don't need a page number. Do we need anything else? -- Dweller ( talk) 17:02, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
further to the discussion about when Agnew started with TMS and the BBC, I have now cited some references on the article's talk page. Regards, Dean B ( talk) 07:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
I only have like 16k edits .. but I'm thinking I might want my real name might want to go away. I just wanted to know what was possible, and didn't want any high drama involved. — Ched : ? 13:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
????? paint me lost. :) — Ched : ? 01:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Yes, indeed it does. See if you can hear some youtube coverage of this genius in action. He's the best thing about darts. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:47, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Okay, so we have just Axl's hit-and-run left, there seems to be no dialogue there so all we can do is wait for an image check and a source spotcheck.... I haven't seen a FAC promoted lately without both of those.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 10:32, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey there, I emailed you a couple of weeks ago as well but never heard back. Could you please help with my rename request. At the moment, I think I'm attracting too much attention by using my actual name. Could you please change my username to MHDH. I'd appreciate that, thanks! Hassan514 ( talk) 13:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Dweller. I know the real world of making a living, caring for family and all the rest is more important than what is, essentially, for most of us, a hobby. And I know you know how much I, and I'm sure everyone else involved, appreciates the time that you've been able to give in a generous attempt at helping mediate what seems an intractable issue.
It's only becoming more so, across three pages now (User:Dweller/Demi Moore, User talk:Dweller/Demi Moore, and Talk:Demi Moore). Accusations of bad faith and much more are flying, with Jimbo Wales' name now being invoked (not by me). So I wonder now if, despite all your good efforts, this whole mess should go to arbitration. What do you think? Would it be too much to ask that you shepherd this issue there to give it a foothold? What is your advice? With respect and regards, Tenebrae ( talk) 15:47, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, a long time ago you encouraged me to consider adminship. Finally got round to it: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Fayenatic london – Fayenatic (talk) 21:54, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Apologies. I couldn’t believe that you personally would be seriously involved in a dispute over such a matter. (I thought it was a hypothetical excercise by several, and I thought everyone was being too reasonable.) My fault for not checking, and discovering that you are facilitating.
I hope to make some amends by offering a positive contribution. There is a lot read, and I am a slow reader. My leaning at this stage is to suggesting a more cautious sticking to what other reliable and reputable independent secondary sources have already said on the subject. I see this as significantly in the field of “verifiability not truth”. I see people making references to secondary sources, and I think these need critical review, taking a firm historiological definition of “ secondary source”. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 23:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I thought that, perhaps instead of heading into the darkness of cricket, we could get listified, and have a good stab at List of Norwich City F.C. managers? Whaddya reckon? The Rambling Man ( talk) 14:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Note: the "Assessment" section really, honestly should form perhaps one sentence in this whole article. If you think I'm wrong, tell me why... The Rambling Man ( talk) 18:57, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I know you've done more than your share with this, but the discussion at Talk:Demi Moore has degenerated into the issuing of threats and what seems to be a disregard for the mediation process. It's gotten extremely ugly. Are there any other avenues of mediation or arbitration that you could suggest? The protocol can be complicated to understand, and I don't want to skip steps or put in a request at the wrong page. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 17:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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His whole playing career has just two references, two of which are statistic based and his managerial/coaching career doesn't have any. Therefore it "needs additional citations for verification" as the tag suggests. Pretty obvious really. -- Jimbo [online] 14:59, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
B==Soccerbase refs from back in the day== Just to let you know that those Soccerbase refs which you've added no longer point at league tables and just redirect back to the homepage again... We'll need to either work out how to access Soccerbase correctly all over again or use Statto.com to find the tables.... The Rambling Man ( talk) 11:17, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I guess I should have come to you first. The violation of privacy was so bad I'd already contacted an admin via e-mail as suggested at [[Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment] (which says that because Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents is “a highly public forum and you could inadvertently bring unwanted attention to the link by reporting your concern publicly on Wikipedia” that “A better option may be to directly email an administrator....”) You've done so much in this bizarre case already, I felt I'd be asking too much to ask you for more help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This was so creepy, I can't tell you. Thank you again, -- Tenebrae ( talk) 16:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I didn't create the Dana Gaier page but I contributed a NYT article. You recently deleted it. I think it should be recreated based upon the following resources which I have found.If there is something specific you are looking for, please let me know. Thanks. http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/movies/09despicable.html http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2010/DESME.php http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1214097-despicable_me/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323594/ http://news.yahoo.com/film-trailer-despicable-2-3d-101035394.html Dana is an American Child actress best known for her voice role as Edith in Universal Pictures' Despicable Me. She is currently working on the sequel. She also hosts an anti-bullying website called "Got Your Back!" www.GYourB.org. Dmmom10 ( talk) 17:59, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Here is some updated info:
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Consensus seems to have been reached at Mitch Gaylord, but I would sure like to get your thoughts before we give it the official thumbs up. Please comment if you have a moment. Many thanks. Ebikeguy ( talk) 21:35, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Please unprotect the article as soon as possible so that the consensus edits can be done. Roger ( talk) 09:36, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Related to this edit ... do you have access, and could you review the OTRS system and investigate the ticket that was created regarding the material? --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 20:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Dweller, and thank you again for accomplishing what seemed the impossible task of mediating at the Demi Moore article. I remain amazed at your skill and calm in doing so. I had despaired at a couple of points, and I'm happy you proved me wrong.
As you know from your March 1 edit at Talk:Demi Moore, I had expressed great concern over User:Stuart.Jamieson investigating my personal, off-Wiki life, which I found disturbing.
Now, as one can see at User talk:Stuart.Jamieson, he's involved in off-Wiki discussions with User:AndyTheGrump and an admin, and now is seems to be following my edits, as I note at Commons talk:Abuse filter#Report by Tenebrae: Of all the thousands of images uploaded to Wikipedia and the hundreds moved to the Commons every day, he chose to move an image of mine — one that I'd uploaded and that I thought I had asked to be removed months ago when a better image of the subject became available. Given the extraordinary odds, I don't believe it's coincidence that he singled out an image of mine. Maye if he hadn't been prying to my personal life I might chalk it up as a weird coincidence, but this is part of a pattern.
I don't know what to do. I've found that formal noticeaboard pages about this sort of thing just brings out trolls who say, "That's just how Wikipedia is, and if you don't like it, leave." So I come to you, extremely humbly, to ask for advice and help. There is just no reason for Stuart.Jamieson to have any involvement with me or with my edits at articles he normally doesn't edit. I'm sorry to have to come to you, but his behavior seems obsessive and it's freaking me out a little. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you can help. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 22:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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My name is Alex and I'm one of the students working on the new Admin page project. You said that you were interested in taking part in an email survey to help us get a better idea of what being an Admin is all about. I don't have your email address, so feel free to email at stepiena@msu.edu so I can send you the survey. The sooner we get your response the sooner we can finish our project. Thanks for your time. Stepiena ( talk) 18:02, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello again. I don't believe I have received an email response from you about the interview and I would like to get your perspective as soon as possible. Shoot me an email or leave me a message on my talk page.
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Some editors on Portsmouth F.C. over the past few weeks asserting Pompey Chimes as the "oldest" football song. I see the NCFC page says the same of its own song. It's likely that both Pompey and Budgie sources make that claim. I would consider toning down the City claim (or reinforcing it somehow with other evidence....) The Rambling Man ( talk) 12:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Dweller, I appreciate the edit in which you added a Level 2 heading for Yom Hazikaron#History and repositioned the appropriate content. I realize my content edit was clumsy - but I'm editing under considerable duress at present due to the strict demands to improve the page so it qualifies for inclusion in On this day... today. Since in your edit you - perhaps inadvertently? - removed the template for inadequate references and citations, please see what's happening on Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors#Errors in today's or tomorrow's On this day... - and if you have any further advice for me, please do share it! -- Deborahjay ( talk) 13:03, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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Oh. Thanks. I needed to have one of the prime Isreal-Palestinian edit-warriors show up on Middle Ages. Thanks. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:31, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Btw there are some stunning images on Commons - I just love this one and while the history section of our WP:Featured Pictures makes it seem as if history began fairly recently, I think there may be some useful photos in the architecture section. -- Dweller ( talk) 15:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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