Princess Beatrice for a heritage thingy. Also Shergar's approach, different but similar... Not quite family trees but I'll see if I can find one of those now... The Rambling Man ( talk) 09:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
<-"Vectorised" Sounds uncomfortable. Anyway, good idea. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:44, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello , admin! You deleted a page Raja Rasalu to be very short. I want to create much developed article for the same. Can I see the previous contents of the page that were deleted by you, Please? And please leave a talkback message on my talk page. TariButtar (talk) 07:04, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi there - do you have any other sources? I'm not happy he meets GNG and am considering AfD. Giant Snowman 12:24, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, now at AfD. Giant Snowman 15:44, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello there! Certainly, in an ideal Wikipedian world, the term "terrorist" should be expunged from certain areas of the 9/11 article, but at the moment I am not going to go through and remove them all, considering the backlash that I would undoubtedly receive from certain editors, many of whom are still very sensitive about the issue. However, it is academically recognised that the word "terrorist" is essentially subjective, primarily being used in reference to "militants we oppose" by English-speaking governments and media outlets. Thus, most westerners have no qualms about labeling Al-Qaeda a "terrorist" organisation, whereas hardline Islamists might call them "freedom fighters" or something of that nature. To use an example that is currently relevant, the Syrian government has labelled the Free Syrian Army as "terrorists", but western media and governments tend to prefer the term "opposition forces". Within Wikipedia, which strives for neutrality, objective terms such as "militant" are therefore preferable to words like "terrorist" ( Midnightblueowl ( talk) 10:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)).
Hi Dweller, Thanks for removing the sysop bit the other day. You added back rollbacker and IP-block exempt, but I'm fairly sure I won't be needing IP-block exempt, and I seem to recall that the powers that be like to give that out on an as-needed only basis. Could you remove the IP-block exempt for me? -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 21:20, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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The link I usually used appears to be broken, so by all means remove it if you wish. My son's girlfriend is a Canaries fan, and hails from a village between Diss and Beccles. She says she will try to find out. Bashereyre ( talk) 17:57, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
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All counts in those data files (posted on 12-13 June 2012) seem to be low at about 71%-73%, so multiply by 138% to estimate the corrected counts. - Wikid77 ( talk) 08:29, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dweller, thanks for such a calm comment. I read your pages with interest. I read the Wiki Edit page you link about creation of featured articles, understanding that the "directions', if you will, are all about showcasing well-written articles. This does make sense, as it rewards people for all their hard work.
However, before I began to edit, I always used to wonder, "what is it about Wikipedia and Dreadnought class battleships, cricket players (often Australian), etc." Between the "on this day" "featured articles" and "did you know" sections, you really could get the impression World War Two is still going on, with short breaks for cricket! Nothing personal - I realize I'm treading on hallowed ground here, however...
Wikipedia is also a source of news and information for people. In its capacity as knowledge disseminator and entertainment site, (entertainment, or shall I say engagement, draws the viewrs who pay for the site), I think Wikipedia should give some thought to trying to showcase a variety of articles. That Wiki Edit page has nothing about content, but I really think it should. We should develop some mechanism for keeping an interesting flow of articles, even if some beautifully written pieces don't get spotlighted on the home page. Maybe something each day from a different section on rotation, like Art, Science, History, Cricket, People, Dreadnought class battle ships, Music, Biology, Environment, Cricket, etc., Sorry, I'm having a little fun and hope you are too. :) Just my two sense. cheers Ben — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billyshiverstick ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
According to the page Kevin Keelan won it twice - if this is correct then Gunn is not the only goalkeeper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.146.132 ( talk) 12:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Goodness me, whatever next. Check article history, the SPI pushing it all over Tracy Austin, did you even know we weren't allowed to say this in front of people any more? The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:18, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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I acknowledge that SZwick, as Romney's national finance chair, is not automatically a notable person. I certainly didn't step up to create an article for him today. But the NYTimes article which alerted me to him, which I cited at W. Craig Zwick, did seem to give a pretty good argument for having SZwick represented as I did on the dab page. Given the financial link between the father and other major Mormon figures, on the one hand, and the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012 on the other, I thought the addition worthwhile. You accepted the other additions I made to the dab page including that one to his father. Can you see your way to a bit of leeway, here?
I also did edits at 2002 Winter Olympics and Restore Our Future from the Times article. Without trying to make Wikipedia a news account, the emerging Romney campaign and fundraising, with roots back to '94 and before that (including back to early Mormon history), seems worthy of a somewhat fuller "population" (several more names added, some with Wiki articles already, some without) and linkages in the encyclopedia.
I'll also note that finance chairs have in the past moved on into senior administration positions or "personality positions" I'd call them (or ambassadors) if their candidate wins. I considered a red link on SZwick on that basis but demurred for the time; obviously the citation would be upgradable. Doing a Wiki search for ~national finance chair, I come up with Penny Pritzker, Obama's '08 NFC, John Rakolta, one of Romney's 2008 NFCs, among other recent ones deemed notable enough for articles; and, dating myself, the one I remembered was Nixon's Maurice Stans, who became Commerce Sec'y and was indicted and acquitted on campaign fundraising charges post-Watergate.
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Can you block this Daft? extra999 ( talk) 16:01, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
link Ya just never know when a Kmweber is gonna sneak in. :) Chedzilla ( talk) 10:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks much. I fear the state of the world when I'm copyediting British sports articles :) - Dank ( push to talk) 14:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I was not aware that a move discussion was necessary for an uncontroversial move request. After all, having the title on a family or other group of people at the singular form is plainly wrong, per "Ottomans", "Habsburgs", "Windsors", "Abbasids", etc... Constantine ✍ 12:02, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
The article has been where it is for a long time. I suggest you open a page move discussion. Personally, I would oppose a move to a plural term, for the same reason as why the terms Dank mentions are singular, but that wasn't the reason I declined the deletion. Speedy deletions can only be done for unambiguously uncontroversial things, and this was not unambiguous. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:36, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
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The other day, you performed my requested user page move, for which I thank you. But, I just noticed that roughly 2/3rds of my talk page archives are now redlinks. Do you have any idea why this might be the case? I can only assume that some of them simply did not get moved. Is that correct? At any rate, I am baffled. I was just about to create a new archive page, but I think I will wait 'til I hear back from you. Thanks. --- The Old Jacobite The '45 21:23, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
I have requested the re-opening the Dispute Resolution mechanism for the Misha B article @ Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 38 as the debate about neutrality has really flared up. on User talk:Steven Zhang who closed the original Dispute Resolution based on my suggestion...no one else in the dispute contributed.
or should I go to formal mediation?
I make no pretence that I am a fan, I guess the majority articles about (living) people are started and mainly contributed by those who are 'fans', but my contibutions have been done in good faith regards neutrality (as a newbie I have made mistakes...like not spotting blogs) I always take personal criticism and attacks maybe too seriously but I have said I welcome genuine verifiable editing contributions from others, even when they remove my contributions, which can be seen from page history.
DRN
Why does the Misha article read like a magazine article?
Too much information and way too biased
In the mean time I would very much welcome a neutral viewpoint from someone not involved in the article.........
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Ouch, well of course amongst football fans, Col U and even Saafend are part of East Angular for pig-skin chasing reasons, but clearly geographically it's not the case. Best, unless a source can be found saying "football fans consider Essex to be part of East Anglia for the purposes of determining the Pride of Anglia" (or similar!), we leave the Essex clubs cleared out.... Good luck tomorrow by the way, big season for you guys. Like that awkward second album... The Rambling Man ( talk) 14:24, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Can you have a butcher's at this? I'm not entirely uninvolved (and personally think IIO's crusade to be distateful) so wondered if you had a view on a way ahead... The Rambling Man ( talk) 09:34, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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Your intelligent comments on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/City_population_templates resonated with me and I clarified the questions. Would you care to comment again? Thanks, Mrt3366 (Talk?) (New thread?) 12:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
He says, my RfC was "over-conditioned allusion to India" hahaha... Now, you tell me is India the only nation with global or regional economic and military influence in the world (Which I removed anyway)?? Now, if I start an RFC that includes "nation with global or regional economic and military influence", he need not bring India up. And how is his comment serving any constructive purpose other than obfuscation and digression?
Yes it's true, I wanted such a template included in India, but it was buried under comments like "such a template just won't add anything to the article", yup that's it and nothing more. (If you still want a glimpse of one of many such quagmires, see WP:DRN if you have enough time to squander) And this RFC, although based on that disgust, is far beyond India, it is about these templates in general.
I am a reasonable person, when I see Australia, Japan, Canada, etc, I particularly look for those templates to get an idea of their population. Hence, a clear-cut consensus of what the global wikipedia community wants is utterly necessary otherwise this trend of stifling reason with WP:IDON'TLIKEIT-type comments will never end, trust me! Mrt3366 (Talk?) (New thread?) 15:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
The "regulars" here, who are among other things zealously preserving this article's featured article status, are acting like they own it. [..] WP:BOLD says that we're all free to improve the encyclopedia as we see fit, and personally, I think the burden of proof should be on the objectors who want to remove an improvement, not the other way around. But this is probably a highly debatable point.[..] The "regulars", dedicated though they are to this article's preservation and improvement, are inevitably way too close to it to ever really know how it looks to outsiders, or what they'd really like to see or not see. [..]
what I see is a well-intentioned editor making good-faith efforts to improve an (already good) article, and a bunch of others kicking those attempts down with unthinking, knee-jerk comments like "unnecessary clutter" and "looks awful" and "absolutely no to such ugliness"
Do I think you're being too severe? Yes, absolutely. You've done nothing but criticize and mock Mrt3366, and now you're mocking me. Everything about your behavior here makes it seem as if you and a few others WP:OWN this article, and that you will suffer no edits to it by anyone else without forcing them to endure a gauntlet of "consensus building" here first, in which there will never be consensus because you will find fault forever with anything that you don't like.
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<sigh> Yes, there's been some bad behaviours. On both sides of the argument. But this is actually very simple: you've failed to gain consensus for a significant change to an FA, so that's the end of it. You'll need to learn how to deal with not winning an argument if you're going to stay around Wikipedia. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Besides, did edit war over it? No.
Did I behave overly uncivilly with anybody? No, with occasional short-bursts of acerbity which is nothing compared to the reciprocation.
Did I go on a wiki-policy violation spree? no.
So what makes you think that I haven't learnt how to accept the fact that people are not always going to embrace logic over ego, while maintaining calm.
What I haven't learnt — you might be thinking — is how to just let it all go. I invite you to read my comments on the "additional discussion" section.
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Sincere apology if I offended, as my goal was to grab the attention of the community and get it to recognize that they were collectively overreacting (imo), not to point fingers or pass judgement on any individual. We all fall short of the target sometimes. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:34, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. Moved over here as my talkpage is infested with socks at the moment. My personal opinion, and it seems to be shared by many, is that if an individual posts as an IP, the information provided by Info Sniper or any of the other links on the IP template is public information. What would be the point of oversighting it - the information is still accessible via the IP template on the IP userpage, and any editor can go and look at it (unless you're me at work - our net filterware blocks whatismyipaddress.com but allows me to access Info Sniper. Go figure). Homer assumed that TAG was part of ATT, that the chap worked for TAG, that he was editing in work time, and that if he rang the supervisor the guy would be disciplined. That's a lot of assumptions that seem to have failed at first base, and that's what would be appropriate to oversight. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 22:20, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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Are you looking for something like Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2007? Bencherlite Talk 08:38, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, Bencherlite. I wonder if I shouldn't just overlay my userspace page with c+p of those pages and go from there? -- Dweller ( talk) 09:02, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
OK, taking WP:FA2006 as an example, I cut and pasted the displayed page contents (not the wikimarkup) into Excel, removed extraneous text, then removed the ones that had been on the main page by sorting and deleting, then removed FFAs, and saved the result as a text file. I then used the list comparer function of AWB to compare that list with the contents of Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed), I get these which have not been through FARC at all:
and this smaller list of current FAs that have not been TFA but which have been kept at FARC:
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but another check might be wise. Bencherlite Talk 09:45, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
I've done one (admittedly not very difficult as I had opposed it at TFAR!) – I'll try and do others as time permits. Have you called for volunteers at WT:TFAR? It might be a useful exercise for those who like hunting down unnominated and interesting FAs. Bencherlite Talk 13:44, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
It surprises me that there is someone who considers this important. Well done. Der yck C. 09:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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Your copyedit of the lead of Ranji popped up on my watchlist, and I noticed your note to TRM about taking Ranji to FA. Good stuff! I began work on this a while ago before taking a break, and it has been on my to-do list for a long time. The problem with Ranji is that it needs to be rather more academic than other cricketer FAs to be truly comprehensive. I've basically gutted the (truly excellent) Simon Wilde biography and that is in the article already. I've already got some bits from the Ross book, but it is basically a re-hash of old Ranji hagiographies. As you can probably see, it is currently waaaaaay too detailed, and my next job was going to be a trim and possibly a fork of Ranji's cricket career. But there are two other major books, the Migrant Races book in the further reading section, and Batting for the Empire by Mario Rodrigues. I have both of these books; the first is a very academic study and survey of writing on Ranji, the second concentrates on his "political" career. Both are quite heavy going and are on my to-finish list, but I think they are essential to include for this article to be FA. It also needs a style-technique section and, rarely for a cricket article, a "historiography" section given the rapidly evolving views on Ranji in cricket writing. I would be more than happy to help out on this one if you fancy a fairly long project, but there are one or two other things on my list first, including Hobbs and MacLaren. If not, fair enough and feel free to plough on and hammer the mess in which I left the article into some sort of shape. Either way, I can certainly help on images as I have a few which come from Beldam's Great batsmen and their methods, and I can get some images of Gilling, where he lived for a time, next time I am out that way.
Related to your main page comments, I think there is plenty of mileage in cricketers but the state of articles on non-English and non-Australian cricketers is woeful, and I regularly despair over the West Indian articles. If you ever feel like working on Viv Richards, Sobers, Marshall or anyone else, please ping me. Sorry for the long, rambling message! Sarastro1 ( talk) 20:13, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
This article is exactly copies Chichen Itza*Site description*Architectural groups*Other structures*Caves of Balankanche:
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No worries, I've added a ref and some categories and cleaned up as well. Could do with an infobox but I don't have time at the mo - but also worth mentioning that specific date of death not confirmed by that website. Giant Snowman 16:52, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for trying here. It seems the editor in question takes an odd kind of pride in deliberately upsetting others and using serious medical procedures like abortion as a way of a making a point. The Rambling Man ( talk) 19:59, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
No - these edits were not from me. I have corrected some of them including tidying up the references, but otherwise, they have nothing to do with me. Cheers. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 04:19, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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Can I nominate Bryan Gunn for FA, or are you still working on it?-- Lucky102 ( talk) 17:40, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for asking. I'd like to wait for 22 December 2013, just over a year from now, when the great man will be 50. -- Dweller ( talk) 22:16, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Kerub (כְּרוּב) and Rekub (רְכוּב) are indeed anagrams. How is this disputable ?? Rakab is also "anagrammatic" (ie lacking only one letter) and Merkabah is clearly similar. It doesn't have to be a perfect anagram to make poetical sense. Nevertheless, KRUB and RKUB are (perfect) anagrams. Ben Ammi ( talk) 00:45, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Unintelligible. RKUB and KRUB are anagrams, and clearly related to the context: "He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind." (Psalm 18:20) "He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind." (2 Sam 22:11) notice it's plural Cherubim, not singular, as you incorrectly stated.( http://biblez.com/search.php?q=rode+upon+cherubim) Even if this were not the case, and it is, but even if, then KRUB and RKUB are still anagrams and contextually related to riding, which bears being mentioned. Ben Ammi ( talk) 01:02, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
18:20 doesn't mention cherubs. 18:11 reads:
וַיִּרְכַּב עַל כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף וַיֵּדֶא עַל כַּנְפֵי רוּחַ That's singular KRV. Your bible text is inaccurate. Similarly, II Samuel 22:11 is also singular: וַיִּרְכַּב עַל כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף וַיֵּרָא עַל כַּנְפֵי רוּחַ You're missing a mem on both occasions. If the word had been plural, it would have an extra yod not needed in merkava. -- Dweller ( talk) 01:12, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
1) I haven't cleaned up my own talk page yet, and will ask for help to do this from someone else (how to archive). 2) I was a student at UEA (The University of East Anglia) and read Comparative Literature and Sociolinguistics there (does that count for anything?) 3) I have contacted Sjö (it means sea in Swedish) and there is a thread on his talk page. He was a Swedish admin who suggested I be blocked there. Permanently. It could not work anyway. I was astounded that all the Jewish articles were written through a Christian filter, and was editing the Swedish and English artlicles on Ritual Slaughter for a long time. 4) Now there is a thread on Sjö's Talk Page the final paragraphs of which are rotating on the display - I'm not sure why.— Preceding unsigned comment added by RPSM ( talk • contribs)
On 5 November 2012 you blocked user talk:86.26.248.185 with an expiry time of 1 month (Vandalism-only account: and WP:BLP violation) here. He was also guilty of 3RR. The editor is at it again. He has vandalised the University of Leeds page diff and Skyfall (song) diff. - Fanthrillers ( talk) 18:10, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your note, for information, I am still intending to quit permanently. Just too stubborn to be bullied into quitting and I wish to put a few things to bed first.
My main reason for quitting is a loss of faith in wikipedia's system for dealing with disruptive editors. Wee Curry Monster talk 13:11, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd quit while you're a little bit behind. The intended audience is clearly not in the right frame of mind this year. Leave the main page to fester. POTD is equally appalling. Enough already (as our "US brethren" would say)... The Rambling Man ( talk) 20:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointers about the Blackburn Olympic blurb. Your list of old FAs has proved useful, as you may have spotted at User:Bencherlite/TFA notepad! Bencherlite Talk 23:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
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I just want to draw your attention to this post to me on Sjö's talk page: I am, again, astonished at your blatant misrepresentations of the thruth. You have been lying and distorting the truth since your first post in this latest exchange when you claimed that no reason was given and I immediately pointed you to your Swedish talk page where the reasons were given and which you read after your block. As I said before, nothing good will come of further discussions here. I request that you don't post on my talk page again, nor contact me in any other way on or off-wikipedia.Sjö (talk) 07:34, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Since then, Sjö has suggested (on the Talk Page of the Shechita article) that we cooperate and has suggested a structure, etc. In the paragraph above, Sjö is complaining that I said I had been given no reasons for the block (I said on Jimmy Wale's page) and the Swedes replied "indeed I had". Well, I meant reasons that were true, as it was alleged I had called people antisemite, when I said that the Swedish law is antisemitic (it was one of the race laws removed from every country in Nazi-occupied Europe - at least every law had identical wording (that stunning must precede bleeding out/exsanguination) and Grillo immediately countered with "You called me an antisemite!" and later blocked me "for calling people antisemites" I do not call a reason that is what the police in England call a "verbal" by putting words in my mouth a reason.
That is the explanation and background, but right now I do not want this carping to go on for ever, so I am drawing your attention to it. RPSM ( talk) 11:46, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Princess Beatrice for a heritage thingy. Also Shergar's approach, different but similar... Not quite family trees but I'll see if I can find one of those now... The Rambling Man ( talk) 09:09, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
<-"Vectorised" Sounds uncomfortable. Anyway, good idea. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:44, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello , admin! You deleted a page Raja Rasalu to be very short. I want to create much developed article for the same. Can I see the previous contents of the page that were deleted by you, Please? And please leave a talkback message on my talk page. TariButtar (talk) 07:04, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi there - do you have any other sources? I'm not happy he meets GNG and am considering AfD. Giant Snowman 12:24, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, now at AfD. Giant Snowman 15:44, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello there! Certainly, in an ideal Wikipedian world, the term "terrorist" should be expunged from certain areas of the 9/11 article, but at the moment I am not going to go through and remove them all, considering the backlash that I would undoubtedly receive from certain editors, many of whom are still very sensitive about the issue. However, it is academically recognised that the word "terrorist" is essentially subjective, primarily being used in reference to "militants we oppose" by English-speaking governments and media outlets. Thus, most westerners have no qualms about labeling Al-Qaeda a "terrorist" organisation, whereas hardline Islamists might call them "freedom fighters" or something of that nature. To use an example that is currently relevant, the Syrian government has labelled the Free Syrian Army as "terrorists", but western media and governments tend to prefer the term "opposition forces". Within Wikipedia, which strives for neutrality, objective terms such as "militant" are therefore preferable to words like "terrorist" ( Midnightblueowl ( talk) 10:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)).
Hi Dweller, Thanks for removing the sysop bit the other day. You added back rollbacker and IP-block exempt, but I'm fairly sure I won't be needing IP-block exempt, and I seem to recall that the powers that be like to give that out on an as-needed only basis. Could you remove the IP-block exempt for me? -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 21:20, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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The link I usually used appears to be broken, so by all means remove it if you wish. My son's girlfriend is a Canaries fan, and hails from a village between Diss and Beccles. She says she will try to find out. Bashereyre ( talk) 17:57, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
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All counts in those data files (posted on 12-13 June 2012) seem to be low at about 71%-73%, so multiply by 138% to estimate the corrected counts. - Wikid77 ( talk) 08:29, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dweller, thanks for such a calm comment. I read your pages with interest. I read the Wiki Edit page you link about creation of featured articles, understanding that the "directions', if you will, are all about showcasing well-written articles. This does make sense, as it rewards people for all their hard work.
However, before I began to edit, I always used to wonder, "what is it about Wikipedia and Dreadnought class battleships, cricket players (often Australian), etc." Between the "on this day" "featured articles" and "did you know" sections, you really could get the impression World War Two is still going on, with short breaks for cricket! Nothing personal - I realize I'm treading on hallowed ground here, however...
Wikipedia is also a source of news and information for people. In its capacity as knowledge disseminator and entertainment site, (entertainment, or shall I say engagement, draws the viewrs who pay for the site), I think Wikipedia should give some thought to trying to showcase a variety of articles. That Wiki Edit page has nothing about content, but I really think it should. We should develop some mechanism for keeping an interesting flow of articles, even if some beautifully written pieces don't get spotlighted on the home page. Maybe something each day from a different section on rotation, like Art, Science, History, Cricket, People, Dreadnought class battle ships, Music, Biology, Environment, Cricket, etc., Sorry, I'm having a little fun and hope you are too. :) Just my two sense. cheers Ben — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billyshiverstick ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
According to the page Kevin Keelan won it twice - if this is correct then Gunn is not the only goalkeeper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.146.132 ( talk) 12:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Goodness me, whatever next. Check article history, the SPI pushing it all over Tracy Austin, did you even know we weren't allowed to say this in front of people any more? The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:18, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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I acknowledge that SZwick, as Romney's national finance chair, is not automatically a notable person. I certainly didn't step up to create an article for him today. But the NYTimes article which alerted me to him, which I cited at W. Craig Zwick, did seem to give a pretty good argument for having SZwick represented as I did on the dab page. Given the financial link between the father and other major Mormon figures, on the one hand, and the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012 on the other, I thought the addition worthwhile. You accepted the other additions I made to the dab page including that one to his father. Can you see your way to a bit of leeway, here?
I also did edits at 2002 Winter Olympics and Restore Our Future from the Times article. Without trying to make Wikipedia a news account, the emerging Romney campaign and fundraising, with roots back to '94 and before that (including back to early Mormon history), seems worthy of a somewhat fuller "population" (several more names added, some with Wiki articles already, some without) and linkages in the encyclopedia.
I'll also note that finance chairs have in the past moved on into senior administration positions or "personality positions" I'd call them (or ambassadors) if their candidate wins. I considered a red link on SZwick on that basis but demurred for the time; obviously the citation would be upgradable. Doing a Wiki search for ~national finance chair, I come up with Penny Pritzker, Obama's '08 NFC, John Rakolta, one of Romney's 2008 NFCs, among other recent ones deemed notable enough for articles; and, dating myself, the one I remembered was Nixon's Maurice Stans, who became Commerce Sec'y and was indicted and acquitted on campaign fundraising charges post-Watergate.
A few thoughts. I'd be interested in your thoughts. Thanks for your consideration. Swliv ( talk) 21:43, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Can you block this Daft? extra999 ( talk) 16:01, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
link Ya just never know when a Kmweber is gonna sneak in. :) Chedzilla ( talk) 10:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks much. I fear the state of the world when I'm copyediting British sports articles :) - Dank ( push to talk) 14:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I was not aware that a move discussion was necessary for an uncontroversial move request. After all, having the title on a family or other group of people at the singular form is plainly wrong, per "Ottomans", "Habsburgs", "Windsors", "Abbasids", etc... Constantine ✍ 12:02, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
The article has been where it is for a long time. I suggest you open a page move discussion. Personally, I would oppose a move to a plural term, for the same reason as why the terms Dank mentions are singular, but that wasn't the reason I declined the deletion. Speedy deletions can only be done for unambiguously uncontroversial things, and this was not unambiguous. -- Dweller ( talk) 12:36, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Sir,
I have found your name amongst the Wikimedia Commons
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The other day, you performed my requested user page move, for which I thank you. But, I just noticed that roughly 2/3rds of my talk page archives are now redlinks. Do you have any idea why this might be the case? I can only assume that some of them simply did not get moved. Is that correct? At any rate, I am baffled. I was just about to create a new archive page, but I think I will wait 'til I hear back from you. Thanks. --- The Old Jacobite The '45 21:23, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
I have requested the re-opening the Dispute Resolution mechanism for the Misha B article @ Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 38 as the debate about neutrality has really flared up. on User talk:Steven Zhang who closed the original Dispute Resolution based on my suggestion...no one else in the dispute contributed.
or should I go to formal mediation?
I make no pretence that I am a fan, I guess the majority articles about (living) people are started and mainly contributed by those who are 'fans', but my contibutions have been done in good faith regards neutrality (as a newbie I have made mistakes...like not spotting blogs) I always take personal criticism and attacks maybe too seriously but I have said I welcome genuine verifiable editing contributions from others, even when they remove my contributions, which can be seen from page history.
DRN
Why does the Misha article read like a magazine article?
Too much information and way too biased
In the mean time I would very much welcome a neutral viewpoint from someone not involved in the article.........
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Ouch, well of course amongst football fans, Col U and even Saafend are part of East Angular for pig-skin chasing reasons, but clearly geographically it's not the case. Best, unless a source can be found saying "football fans consider Essex to be part of East Anglia for the purposes of determining the Pride of Anglia" (or similar!), we leave the Essex clubs cleared out.... Good luck tomorrow by the way, big season for you guys. Like that awkward second album... The Rambling Man ( talk) 14:24, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Can you have a butcher's at this? I'm not entirely uninvolved (and personally think IIO's crusade to be distateful) so wondered if you had a view on a way ahead... The Rambling Man ( talk) 09:34, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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Your intelligent comments on Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/City_population_templates resonated with me and I clarified the questions. Would you care to comment again? Thanks, Mrt3366 (Talk?) (New thread?) 12:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
He says, my RfC was "over-conditioned allusion to India" hahaha... Now, you tell me is India the only nation with global or regional economic and military influence in the world (Which I removed anyway)?? Now, if I start an RFC that includes "nation with global or regional economic and military influence", he need not bring India up. And how is his comment serving any constructive purpose other than obfuscation and digression?
Yes it's true, I wanted such a template included in India, but it was buried under comments like "such a template just won't add anything to the article", yup that's it and nothing more. (If you still want a glimpse of one of many such quagmires, see WP:DRN if you have enough time to squander) And this RFC, although based on that disgust, is far beyond India, it is about these templates in general.
I am a reasonable person, when I see Australia, Japan, Canada, etc, I particularly look for those templates to get an idea of their population. Hence, a clear-cut consensus of what the global wikipedia community wants is utterly necessary otherwise this trend of stifling reason with WP:IDON'TLIKEIT-type comments will never end, trust me! Mrt3366 (Talk?) (New thread?) 15:17, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
The "regulars" here, who are among other things zealously preserving this article's featured article status, are acting like they own it. [..] WP:BOLD says that we're all free to improve the encyclopedia as we see fit, and personally, I think the burden of proof should be on the objectors who want to remove an improvement, not the other way around. But this is probably a highly debatable point.[..] The "regulars", dedicated though they are to this article's preservation and improvement, are inevitably way too close to it to ever really know how it looks to outsiders, or what they'd really like to see or not see. [..]
what I see is a well-intentioned editor making good-faith efforts to improve an (already good) article, and a bunch of others kicking those attempts down with unthinking, knee-jerk comments like "unnecessary clutter" and "looks awful" and "absolutely no to such ugliness"
Do I think you're being too severe? Yes, absolutely. You've done nothing but criticize and mock Mrt3366, and now you're mocking me. Everything about your behavior here makes it seem as if you and a few others WP:OWN this article, and that you will suffer no edits to it by anyone else without forcing them to endure a gauntlet of "consensus building" here first, in which there will never be consensus because you will find fault forever with anything that you don't like.
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<sigh> Yes, there's been some bad behaviours. On both sides of the argument. But this is actually very simple: you've failed to gain consensus for a significant change to an FA, so that's the end of it. You'll need to learn how to deal with not winning an argument if you're going to stay around Wikipedia. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Besides, did edit war over it? No.
Did I behave overly uncivilly with anybody? No, with occasional short-bursts of acerbity which is nothing compared to the reciprocation.
Did I go on a wiki-policy violation spree? no.
So what makes you think that I haven't learnt how to accept the fact that people are not always going to embrace logic over ego, while maintaining calm.
What I haven't learnt — you might be thinking — is how to just let it all go. I invite you to read my comments on the "additional discussion" section.
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Sincere apology if I offended, as my goal was to grab the attention of the community and get it to recognize that they were collectively overreacting (imo), not to point fingers or pass judgement on any individual. We all fall short of the target sometimes. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:34, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. Moved over here as my talkpage is infested with socks at the moment. My personal opinion, and it seems to be shared by many, is that if an individual posts as an IP, the information provided by Info Sniper or any of the other links on the IP template is public information. What would be the point of oversighting it - the information is still accessible via the IP template on the IP userpage, and any editor can go and look at it (unless you're me at work - our net filterware blocks whatismyipaddress.com but allows me to access Info Sniper. Go figure). Homer assumed that TAG was part of ATT, that the chap worked for TAG, that he was editing in work time, and that if he rang the supervisor the guy would be disciplined. That's a lot of assumptions that seem to have failed at first base, and that's what would be appropriate to oversight. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 22:20, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Following up on the RfA thread from last week, I'm sending a message out to a few people who seemed to have positive and/or constructive comments on the admin score tool. I created a subpage where editors could indicate their own preferences for the relative importance of various criteria, but I didn't get as much input on it as I expected. If you have time, would you consider taking a look at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Admin scoring workshop and adding your input? The most important section is the top section ("Relative importance"). If you have a minute, add a row to that table. If you have a few more minutes, consider adding input to the more specific tables on the rest of the page. Thanks for your help. -Scottywong | confess _ 16:51, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Are you looking for something like Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2007? Bencherlite Talk 08:38, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, Bencherlite. I wonder if I shouldn't just overlay my userspace page with c+p of those pages and go from there? -- Dweller ( talk) 09:02, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
OK, taking WP:FA2006 as an example, I cut and pasted the displayed page contents (not the wikimarkup) into Excel, removed extraneous text, then removed the ones that had been on the main page by sorting and deleting, then removed FFAs, and saved the result as a text file. I then used the list comparer function of AWB to compare that list with the contents of Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed), I get these which have not been through FARC at all:
and this smaller list of current FAs that have not been TFA but which have been kept at FARC:
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but another check might be wise. Bencherlite Talk 09:45, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
I've done one (admittedly not very difficult as I had opposed it at TFAR!) – I'll try and do others as time permits. Have you called for volunteers at WT:TFAR? It might be a useful exercise for those who like hunting down unnominated and interesting FAs. Bencherlite Talk 13:44, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
It surprises me that there is someone who considers this important. Well done. Der yck C. 09:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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Your copyedit of the lead of Ranji popped up on my watchlist, and I noticed your note to TRM about taking Ranji to FA. Good stuff! I began work on this a while ago before taking a break, and it has been on my to-do list for a long time. The problem with Ranji is that it needs to be rather more academic than other cricketer FAs to be truly comprehensive. I've basically gutted the (truly excellent) Simon Wilde biography and that is in the article already. I've already got some bits from the Ross book, but it is basically a re-hash of old Ranji hagiographies. As you can probably see, it is currently waaaaaay too detailed, and my next job was going to be a trim and possibly a fork of Ranji's cricket career. But there are two other major books, the Migrant Races book in the further reading section, and Batting for the Empire by Mario Rodrigues. I have both of these books; the first is a very academic study and survey of writing on Ranji, the second concentrates on his "political" career. Both are quite heavy going and are on my to-finish list, but I think they are essential to include for this article to be FA. It also needs a style-technique section and, rarely for a cricket article, a "historiography" section given the rapidly evolving views on Ranji in cricket writing. I would be more than happy to help out on this one if you fancy a fairly long project, but there are one or two other things on my list first, including Hobbs and MacLaren. If not, fair enough and feel free to plough on and hammer the mess in which I left the article into some sort of shape. Either way, I can certainly help on images as I have a few which come from Beldam's Great batsmen and their methods, and I can get some images of Gilling, where he lived for a time, next time I am out that way.
Related to your main page comments, I think there is plenty of mileage in cricketers but the state of articles on non-English and non-Australian cricketers is woeful, and I regularly despair over the West Indian articles. If you ever feel like working on Viv Richards, Sobers, Marshall or anyone else, please ping me. Sorry for the long, rambling message! Sarastro1 ( talk) 20:13, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
This article is exactly copies Chichen Itza*Site description*Architectural groups*Other structures*Caves of Balankanche:
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No worries, I've added a ref and some categories and cleaned up as well. Could do with an infobox but I don't have time at the mo - but also worth mentioning that specific date of death not confirmed by that website. Giant Snowman 16:52, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for trying here. It seems the editor in question takes an odd kind of pride in deliberately upsetting others and using serious medical procedures like abortion as a way of a making a point. The Rambling Man ( talk) 19:59, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
No - these edits were not from me. I have corrected some of them including tidying up the references, but otherwise, they have nothing to do with me. Cheers. -- Daemonic Kangaroo ( talk) 04:19, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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For creating Yom tov sheni shel galuyot. I was surprised to see we didn't already have an article on it, so thanks for taking the initiative! Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 07:05, 25 November 2012 (UTC) |
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Can I nominate Bryan Gunn for FA, or are you still working on it?-- Lucky102 ( talk) 17:40, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for asking. I'd like to wait for 22 December 2013, just over a year from now, when the great man will be 50. -- Dweller ( talk) 22:16, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Kerub (כְּרוּב) and Rekub (רְכוּב) are indeed anagrams. How is this disputable ?? Rakab is also "anagrammatic" (ie lacking only one letter) and Merkabah is clearly similar. It doesn't have to be a perfect anagram to make poetical sense. Nevertheless, KRUB and RKUB are (perfect) anagrams. Ben Ammi ( talk) 00:45, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Unintelligible. RKUB and KRUB are anagrams, and clearly related to the context: "He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind." (Psalm 18:20) "He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind." (2 Sam 22:11) notice it's plural Cherubim, not singular, as you incorrectly stated.( http://biblez.com/search.php?q=rode+upon+cherubim) Even if this were not the case, and it is, but even if, then KRUB and RKUB are still anagrams and contextually related to riding, which bears being mentioned. Ben Ammi ( talk) 01:02, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
18:20 doesn't mention cherubs. 18:11 reads:
וַיִּרְכַּב עַל כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף וַיֵּדֶא עַל כַּנְפֵי רוּחַ That's singular KRV. Your bible text is inaccurate. Similarly, II Samuel 22:11 is also singular: וַיִּרְכַּב עַל כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף וַיֵּרָא עַל כַּנְפֵי רוּחַ You're missing a mem on both occasions. If the word had been plural, it would have an extra yod not needed in merkava. -- Dweller ( talk) 01:12, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
1) I haven't cleaned up my own talk page yet, and will ask for help to do this from someone else (how to archive). 2) I was a student at UEA (The University of East Anglia) and read Comparative Literature and Sociolinguistics there (does that count for anything?) 3) I have contacted Sjö (it means sea in Swedish) and there is a thread on his talk page. He was a Swedish admin who suggested I be blocked there. Permanently. It could not work anyway. I was astounded that all the Jewish articles were written through a Christian filter, and was editing the Swedish and English artlicles on Ritual Slaughter for a long time. 4) Now there is a thread on Sjö's Talk Page the final paragraphs of which are rotating on the display - I'm not sure why.— Preceding unsigned comment added by RPSM ( talk • contribs)
On 5 November 2012 you blocked user talk:86.26.248.185 with an expiry time of 1 month (Vandalism-only account: and WP:BLP violation) here. He was also guilty of 3RR. The editor is at it again. He has vandalised the University of Leeds page diff and Skyfall (song) diff. - Fanthrillers ( talk) 18:10, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your note, for information, I am still intending to quit permanently. Just too stubborn to be bullied into quitting and I wish to put a few things to bed first.
My main reason for quitting is a loss of faith in wikipedia's system for dealing with disruptive editors. Wee Curry Monster talk 13:11, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd quit while you're a little bit behind. The intended audience is clearly not in the right frame of mind this year. Leave the main page to fester. POTD is equally appalling. Enough already (as our "US brethren" would say)... The Rambling Man ( talk) 20:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointers about the Blackburn Olympic blurb. Your list of old FAs has proved useful, as you may have spotted at User:Bencherlite/TFA notepad! Bencherlite Talk 23:14, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello again. If you get a chance, would you mind popping back to WP:Today's featured article/requests? There are now two suggested articles for 1st January and I'm inviting input as to which one people would prefer for the day itself and when the other one might be scheduled instead. Thanks, Bencherlite Talk 09:42, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dweller. I decided to contact you since you recently took part in the discussion on this matter. Please participate in the latest part of the discussion and help form a consensus based resulotion by stating your ideal option regarding the main issue in dispute here. TheCuriousGnome ( talk) 06:14, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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I'll be headed to Carrow Road next Saturday. If you happen to be going, a pint with your name on it will be available. Oldelpaso ( talk) 18:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
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I just want to draw your attention to this post to me on Sjö's talk page: I am, again, astonished at your blatant misrepresentations of the thruth. You have been lying and distorting the truth since your first post in this latest exchange when you claimed that no reason was given and I immediately pointed you to your Swedish talk page where the reasons were given and which you read after your block. As I said before, nothing good will come of further discussions here. I request that you don't post on my talk page again, nor contact me in any other way on or off-wikipedia.Sjö (talk) 07:34, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Since then, Sjö has suggested (on the Talk Page of the Shechita article) that we cooperate and has suggested a structure, etc. In the paragraph above, Sjö is complaining that I said I had been given no reasons for the block (I said on Jimmy Wale's page) and the Swedes replied "indeed I had". Well, I meant reasons that were true, as it was alleged I had called people antisemite, when I said that the Swedish law is antisemitic (it was one of the race laws removed from every country in Nazi-occupied Europe - at least every law had identical wording (that stunning must precede bleeding out/exsanguination) and Grillo immediately countered with "You called me an antisemite!" and later blocked me "for calling people antisemites" I do not call a reason that is what the police in England call a "verbal" by putting words in my mouth a reason.
That is the explanation and background, but right now I do not want this carping to go on for ever, so I am drawing your attention to it. RPSM ( talk) 11:46, 3 January 2013 (UTC)