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Hope to see you around the Wiki! If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to contact me on my talk page! Pegasus1138 Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 04:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Jayvdb's efforts in tackling vandalism to the Anthony Burgess page are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for editing (and re-editing) the Rivers page- I keep accidentally deleting stuff (oops) I'm getting (slightly) better with computers though and he deserves the best (big hero of mine) so thanks a lot
Pudupudu
Dear Jayvdb: Do you know of a copyright-acceptable Anthony Burgess image that might be usable for the Anthony Burgess page? Best regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.21.16 ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 21 October 2006
When you wrote about the "North Wing" did you mean Hertford Lodge, which is next door to Avenue House is not actually Avenue House. Do you want to amend or remove. There is a history for Hertford House (it was a school for a long time) Hugh : )
Hey, thanks heaps for the work you're doing on Executable UML. GeorgeBills 10:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
My pleasure; Im glad I ran into it. I have been lightly researching Model Driven Architecture vs Domain-Specific Modeling in order to define our architectural goals at work, so im keen to find further articles in this area. Jayvdb 10:20, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
There are about 1300 Canadian airports ( Category:Airports in Canada) and they all have the same (or should have unless I missed some) reference source. I was curious as to what was wrong with this particular airport as nobody has had a problem with any of the others. Many articles ( Section Thirty of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for example) have references that can't be checked unless you have access to the particular book. Because I work at Cambridge Bay Airport I have the access to the most current Canada Flight Supplement and use it to provide the information, which I update ever 56 days when the new edition comes out. The book is available to anybody that cares to purchase a subscription and not just to people involved in transportion. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
This user doesn't care about military history or historic accuracy; the only operational titles being changed are those of the United States military. This is nothing but rabid anti-Americanism, and it's pretty disgusting that you continue to enable it. Haizum 00:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Just curious as to what other work you thought was needed on this article? As far as wikify goes it is done as can be for now. -- Brad101 03:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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I fixed that. Thanks for pointing that out. SkeenaR 04:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello Jayvdb. Thank you for asking about the change I made to the entry about the Martin Scorsese interview about his reaction to Barry Lyndon. I heard this interview years ago. Right now I can't remember if it was on NPR or the Charlie Rose show or somewhere else. I know that he, like most English speakers did not call it the 'El Prado' because that, in essence, is saying - the The Prado - which is a redundency to be avoided. In fact I don't really ever remember hearing it called the El Prado by any English (Brit or American) speakers. But, that down't mean the phrase isn't used it just means that I haven't heard it. Now, I don't have a copy of this interview and I don't know if it was ever transcribed anywhere so I won't change it again, but, you might ask User Rosuna whether they have a source for their edit as they have not cited one either time they made their entry. It looks odd to my eye as I read it, but, it certainly isn't worth an edit conflict. My apologies for not being able to give you more specifics. MarnetteD | Talk 18:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
The following is a pedantic, hair-splitting question, but I'm still trying to get a handle on what constitutes proper/normal Wiki style.
I note that your edit on Nomad removed a list sequence within the paragraph. I'm wondering about your thinking here. I find the revised sentence a bit awkward, due to the presence of a rogue comma and the long second point:
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We could change it along these lines:
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This seems better; but I thought that the previous a), b) sequence was reasonably readable:
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Thanks if you don't mind explaining your views. Trevor Hanson 19:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I see that you added a 'citation needed' tag to a curious claim in the Nomad article. I was never happy with that entire section of the article; it was obviously added by somebody with considerable firsthand knowledge (I can confirm the veracity of what is stated), but this person did not help us with citations. (Kind of like my own editing in fact. :) But I digress.)
I think we can soften that "world's first" claim into a safer form by calling CP/CMS "an early" or "a precursor" open-source project (since it was manifestly both publicly funded and available for free in source code form). What I'd really like to do is move this section to the National CSS article, as I stated in my editorial note, since it has nothing to do with Nomad. However, I have been puzzled that the National CSS article is not found when I try to search for it, only when I link to it. Does this perhaps mean that it has been removed, or is being considered for removal? I know that articles about companies are held up to high standards, and it may be necessary to make a case for its retention. Alternatively, perhaps there's something I need to do to get it into the search trees. Anyway before yanking that section out, I wanted to be sure it had a home. Thanks if you can again guide me. Trevor Hanson 06:38, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Following are replies to your latest comments. One wonders if we are crossing into email territory....
BTW, sorry for being so prolix. You really need to be careful about encouraging me! But I do find that such exchanges help tease out memories and give them shape, especially when dealing with topics that one hasn't thought about for years.
[JV] I agree that this branch of computer science has been kept under wraps. IBM probably did this to protect its own interests.
[JV] did it ever escape into Europe ?
[JV] My rationale for it being on a separate page is that I gather that VP/CSS is inextricably linked with both National CSS and Nomad. Rather than move it from one to the other, it feels more appropriate for it to find its own home. That said, reading through WP:REDIRECT, I've come across the Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities justification -- I think that provides good reason for the VP/CSS content to live on the National CSS page, with a redirect to take the user to the proper page.
[JV] nod I was looking from a comp.sci. history point of view rather than the hardware it ran on POV.
[JV] Veddy, veddy interesting. I doubt that IBM has anything to fear at this stage from the muddy history being investigated. It may even help for the murky waters to be covered in a separate article to the articles for VM/CMS, VM370, etc.
[JV] and i watch on ebay for those journals to appear :-) It is a terrible, inexplicable, shame that the period just before the internet is going to end up notably vague. Maybe in time, or with our effort, this will be fixed, but it seems like this period will be lost because there is a cognitive dissonance in play wrt to the 10-20 years prior. I've read so many textbooks that cover this history of computer (abacus->valve->vague IBM references or nada->pdp-11->onwards and upwards) that somehow miss the heyday.
[JV]{{fact}} is Template:fact. The curly braces tell MediaWiki to look in the Template namespace. I havent created any templates myself so that is as much as I know at this stage.
[JV] another aside; It seems like Timeline of computing 1950-1979 is missing a lot of mainframe history.
All right, how about an action plan? I believe this is what we're considering:
What else do we need to do? I don't perceive any Wiki-technical challenges to these (i.e. even I could do them) but perhaps you are aware of pitfalls I don't see. Trevor Hanson 18:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've taken a first crack at pushing around the material; see National CSS, VP/CSS, and Nomad software. (I also fixed my search woes by adding National css (lower case) and redirecting to National CSS.) In the process I've spewed a lot of new text so I'll have to go back and re-edit it, but I thought I'd get the new framework in place anyway. I'll keep churning on CP/CMS sources and will let you know when I have something to discuss. I hope you concur with the direction I've gone, but of course feel free to flame away. Trevor Hanson 00:34, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I didn't know I could create a sub page under my user page. That was a big help. I have done as you suggested. Mrhsj 14:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Yikes! Thanks for catching my ridicilous mistake on the piano regulation page. !melquiades 17:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
No worries. Finding and fixing spelling mistakes is now really easy with Mozilla Firefox 2.0, as it includes a spelling checker. John Vandenberg 22:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
...as does virtually every text editor in every app under OS X, which provides spell checking as a general feature. I was just not paying attention! !melquiades 05:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
He's doing this everywhere.
etc.-- HanzoHattori 07:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've also fixed those three. I know there are more but I dont want to rush this and cause a rv war. I'll add a note to the IP's talk page and wait for a response. Cheers, John Vandenberg 12:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch—of course "program" could be confusing. I've given the article in question a tweak. Does that clarify it in your mind? — Ryan McDaniel 23:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Jayvdb, thanks for clearing the marketing fluff from my Frame addition. I let my enthusiams override my brain there. Rekiwi 00:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I saw your exchange on user:HQCentral Talk:David Farrow Maxwell. We've discoever that he is the sockpuppet of notorious plagiarist Primetime. Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Primetime, Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Primetime. It is almost certain that material you were discussing was copied from elsewhere. Sorry that we didn't catch him earlier. - Will Beback 05:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Jayvdb. I have mixed feelings about linking journal names, as in Cohn's irreducibility criterion. My thought is that hardly anyone who comes to such a specialized article will be unfamiliar with the American Mathematical Monthly, a well-known journal. Links should be informative, i.e. answer a question that a typical reader of that article will have. My concern is that the only people who ever click on that link will be those who (incorrectly) think it will lead them to the text of the cited article. I'd suggest that the names of contemporary and widely-used journals not be linked in math articles. A quick scan of some mathematics FAs did not reveal any linked journal names. EdJohnston 17:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I havent run into OCLCs before; what advantage do they have over ISSNs? John Vandenberg 07:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
p.s. there is a known issue with using ISSNs on Template:Infobox_Journal. The template needs to be expanded, so I guess it is important to know where OCLCs fit into the picture. John Vandenberg 09:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for details you have provided; I think these need to be feed into OCLC/ WorldCat, or perhaps Comparison of bibliographic databases or Wikipedia:Bibliographic databases. John Vandenberg 00:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
DOIs are a workable way to point to a journal article, but the format doesnt intrinsically (appear to) cater for pointing to an entry about the journal itself. The reason I am interested in this is that often a citation will not have sufficient information to be able to find the FQ-DOI -- in that event, it would be handy to be able to record the components of it that have been nailed down.
Do you have any experience with how well DOI.org resolves partial identifiers? John Vandenberg 07:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I removed your merge discuss links to November 2006. I guess you meant to write "|date=November 2006" instead of just "|November 2006" in the merge tags. PrimeHunter 05:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
See [4]. This example has an article URL, but no DOI. It might be worth converting a sample article (whose creator does not object) so see how different reference styles would look. EdJohnston 22:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I took a look at the conversation in Template_talk:cite_journal. It seems that they have played around with adding parameters in the past, and there have been 'taste wars' (whether titles should display with quotes, for example). It looks as though more reading in the citation areas of WP will be necessary before being comfortable asking for a change in a standard template that's so heavily used. I also looked at m:Wikicite but that work seems a touch utopian.
Your discovery about Google books and OCLC appears promising. Perhaps Google HAD to use OCLC because their main focus is on books that are out of copyright, which generally are too old to have ISBNs. Also they are starting with books found in libraries which thus are guaranteed to have OCLCs.
Here's something you might find interesting. The French WP has a centralized reference list. You could look at [6] and then select one of the items in the reference list. If you choose Serge Lang's book, and click on 'détail des éditions' it will take you to [7]. At that book you can pick reference format from a roll-down list, which is kind of cute. That way, if you didn't want to look at the ISSN or the DOI, you wouldn't have to. However they don't do this for all their references, just some of them. The other advantage of their scheme is that it gives them ready-made reading lists for certain topic areas. For instance their mathematics project has an algebra reading list called [8] which includes Lang's book.
I guess this is a bit far afield from your interest in journal citations, but it just shows what is possible if the editors have enough patience. EdJohnston 03:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey John. I know you're mostly tracking journals rather than books, but bad ISSNs and bad ISBNs have something in common. I left an update over at Rich F's talk page about published-invalid ISBNs. One would hope that serial publishers don't make that kind of mistake, but, your recent findings do raise the question. EdJohnston 03:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi John,
I saw that you added a link to "as of December 2005" to the article Google Book Search. That format is deprecated; we're just supposed to use "as of 2005", with a piped link when necessary to amplify. One of my projects is to remove the deprecated usage from pages (and try to improve them as I flit by), so thanks for your help. MKoltnow 04:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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Greetings, person who is listed as being interested in future meetups in Melbourne. The fourth meetup will be held on 18 December, at Lower House in Fed Square (in the Alfred Deaking building, Flinders Street end near the Atrium: map), starting from 7pm. We don't currently have a separate location for discussion beforehand, but there'll be plenty of time to talk wiki over dinner. -- bainer ( talk) 15:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
See Talk:Scientific citation guidelines for a review of some things you and I talked about before. EdJohnston 19:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
There are as of mid-Dec. 2500 of them. DOAJ DGG 20:29, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
also: -- see continued discussion on my user page. DGG 21:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps you can help me figure out what the hierarchy of categories (and lists) for academic publication ought to be--and in partic what shoul dbe done with the List of scientific journals. that now includes all subjects, not just science DGG 04:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, I'm not the real inventive sort, so my preference is always to organise things in classifications schemes that someone else has created. The classification scheme that I am most intimately aware of is is Research Field, Course and Discipline ( RFCDs); the problem is that typically any research is comprised of multiple RFCDs -- In the australian research market, all funded research _must_ be defined in terms of one or more weighted RFCDs. Ideally (some time into the future) the Australian research industry needs an electronically accessible database of all/most journals that includes weighted RFCDs, so that university research offices can audit and/or automate the RFCD classification of a researchers publication. I wonder if there is an equivalent international classification scheme...
With regard to List of scientific journals, there are currently 29 lists of journals on WP. I prefer categories over lists of article names, but no doubt we would have difficulty removing the lists. John Vandenberg 06:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar | ||
For your work on ISBNs Rich Farmbrough, 00:13 19 December 2006 (GMT). |
(irt Wikipedia:Deletion review#JasperReports)
Jayvdb, I understand and even mostly agree with your statement about two-fisted speedy-ing. If I'm even slightly hesitant about deletion, I'll either tag it as a speedy and palm it off on someone else, use a {{ prod}} tag, or send it to afd. In this case I had no hesitation, as there was nothing to differentiate it from the raft of other de facto advertising articles.
We have dynamic tension between preserving encyclopedic content and keeping the signal:noise ratio high. The speedy deletion backlog is always high, and if admins were required to "double check" their own judgement in a tag-and-bag operation, it would perhaps get higher.
However, there are plenty of mad inclusionists1 out there double checking after the fact, and lots of them are adminstrators. Most of the time we get it right, and for the times when there's even a chance that we didn't deletion review has the "content review" section just in case.
brenneman 07:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Only poking mild fun, don't read anything into it.
Hi John. I just want to thank you for taking the time to consider the facts and express an informed opinion with respect the the Islamic Cults AfD. The issues that you have raised are right on the ball, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your comments. Kind regards -- Aylahs (talk) 00:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Wow, small world. Hope all is well with you. Orderinchaos78 11:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I apologize for my over-imaginative use of external links. I knew it was wrong but I was in a hurry. Trying to quickly upgrade articles someone else should have done correctly tends to do that. Thanks for watching. DGG 22:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
There is no need to wikilink proper names, especially if it is unlikely an article on the subject will ever be created. This just adds redlinks which clutter up pages. — Swpb talk contribs 14:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you reverted some edits I made with the reason "we dont list to external directories", which pertains to the site I own, Count From Zero. There are three reasons why I think this is incorrect:
1) On the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links, the second item under "Links to be considered" states
"A web directory category, when deemed appropriate by those contributing to the article, with preference to open directories."
Admittedly, Count From Zero is not open, but I intend to make it so soon. An argument could be made about the appropriateness of content, but considering that I provide significant additional information beyond that available from Wikipedia, I think the content is appropriate.
2) IMDB, a directory if there ever was one, is linked to pervasively on Wikipedia, and is not open. Is a special exception is made for this case?
3) The article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_engine has links to "Open source software in" Java," an external directory also not open, although this may just be an oversight.
Olinga 04:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
addendum: after reading Wikipedia:External links I admit I was in violation of the of the Conflict of Interest policy. Olinga 06:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Name of author himself isn't showed, so I only say that author company is Newsfront Corporation. -- Izumi5 13:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I added an ISSN that you were looking for, but can't get the syntax right- can you help out? Thanks - Freechild 20:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I saw your comment on the Category talk:Articles with invalid ISBNs page. I've worked on about a thousand ISBNs so far. I've tried to leave tracks about what action I took. If you look at my contributions page you will notice that I tried to mark what I did as a "repair", "delete", "repair" or "unable to locate". I hope this is of help to you.
A few of the "unable to locate" articles have ISBNs that are supposed to refer to DVDs. I am not sure DVDs have ISBNs. -- Droll 01:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Good evening. Per the discussion about privacy concerns expressed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays, date of birth should generally not be added to the biographies of living non-public or semi-public figures. So far, that policy has been interpreted fairly strictly with a pretty high bar being set for the definition of "public figures" who are assumed to have given up their rights to privacy.
By the same token, we should not be adding Category:Date of birth missing to articles unless we have made the case that the person meets the "public figures" threshold. Otherwise, we're just baiting new users into adding content even though the community has already said that we shouldn't include that particular data point. Category:Year of birth missing is okay but the exact date is often not. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 23:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I happened to see your edit comment asking about Telecells. That was a redirect to Telecell, which was deleted due to prod on 20 January. EdJohnston 17:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
John, I'm not sure what you seem to be saying: 40+ publications with hundreds of citations to them isnt V of N? He just has to be more notable than mot people in the field, and full professors of both medicine and biochemistry at stanford are certainly that. Also considerably more than the avg 3 or 4 papers are enough. WP:PROF is not a policy or even a guideline, and even if it were, any one of the criteria is enough. DGG 02:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I don't want to replace any material you might have added to this article, but the two songbooks at the top of the list looked somewhat imaginary to me, so I just plain got rid of them. Please revisit if you think this was incorrect. the 'Garbage Version 2.0' book certainly existed and was found all over the place via Google. I'm guessing that someone just filled in some entries from memory, and didn't get it right. The rest of the article was exhaustively detailed and I figure they would rather include verifiable information. EdJohnston 03:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey. I don't understand what you mean. This, this and this were not "reasonable attempts" but vandalism. Even a bot tried to revert him, but was too slow. I didn't revert his section blanking the second time anymore, because that, instead, could be an attempt to improve the article. Thanks, Prolog 13:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the OttoBib page. Maybe the AfD is not a bad thing if it helps get some attention. But be sure to weigh in at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OttoBib.com. BTW, I don't know if you have been using it in your ISBN work, but it seems to return results on obscure ISBN numbers that many other tools cannot handle. Dhaluza 02:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for help on * User:Badgettrg/Minnesota Colon Cancer Control Study (PMID: 7580661). How do I delete a another test page I made in my user space ( User:Badgettrg/test)? Do I need an administrator? Thanks Badgettrg 19:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you left an message at Talk:Types of trombones about the Mandip Kang reference. I removed the referece because it seems to have been created by a vandal. I left a note on the talk page. -- DRoll 10:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
P.S. I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of removing the ISBN reference from your note on the talk page so that it will not be flagged by smackbot some time the future. I'd be glad to revert the edit if you want. I know it was not quit proper but I thought you would not mind. -- DRoll 10:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
fixed it. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Re Evan Siegel religion See his website, he was a Hebrew Instructor 1994-2000 Park Slope Jewish Center ;and Faculty advisor to the Jewish Interests 1997-2000. also see item 11 of http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:qe43ynz0e0kJ:www.laguardiacorruption.com/lagcorruption/MONTHLY_UPDATE+jew+%22Evan+Siegel%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&lr=lang_en Kiumars
Hi, been looking around and there are enough good sources re. Fadiga ... they just have to be referenced in the article and there could be a keep 87.203.48.160 00:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I have changed my AfD vote based on the work you did on William Bradford (professor). Out of sheer curiosity I stumbled across your essay, and figured you could count my experience as a success story. :) / Blaxthos 17:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I note that you've been disambiguating links to text. You might find the article I've just started at textuality helpful. Thanks. Chick Bowen 16:10, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Do you think we need a {{Listed Invalid ISSN|X}}? I've noticed that you and I have each tried to fix the remaining article tagged with an invalid ISSN. Keesiewonder talk 01:24, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you can help me with this too:
Why do the first two links below bring up the same thing, but the third does not match (when it should)? Is there a bug at WorldCat? --
Keesiewonder
talk 02:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[9]
OCLC
9806395
ISSN
0739-8018
Another FYI ... -- Keesiewonder talk 19:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
What did you have in mind with Category:Infobox Journal without name parameter ? I cant find any references to it anywhere. John Vandenberg 04:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Will try to have a friend dig up some Newspaper reports n Switzerland. Good job Alf photoman 13:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Regards, Dfrg. msc 07:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Done and done! And even cited my reasons! [gasp] :) Sorry about the punk'd link, totally forgot I was a brat and put that up there. [grins] ;) Jachin 08:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Interesting project. I am not sure I want to commit myself to a project like this, however, as I have a few other things I had planned to do, but I will keep it in mind and perhaps add the odd article on a journal now and then, provided people won't start suggesting them for deletion as soon as they have been written. Does that happen often?
The list at Wikipedia:List of missing journals looks rather incomplete. I would expect many more German-language journals beginning with "Zeitschrift..." and "Jahrbuch...", for instance. (I doubt the articles have all already been written.) Is it somehow auto-generated? Can it be easily updated with the help of a few more library collections? (And perhaps divided into smaller parts?) Pharamond 08:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Jay, please stop blindly reverting my contributions to the Carl Steadman article. Your "evidence" to justify vandalizing my work consists of a page written at least three years before Carl's death [12]. So, you're claiming that I'm the vandal here, and yet you can't be bothered to spend the five seconds it took me to look that up at the Internet Archive? The level of hypocrisy you've shown here is staggering. TVshot 01:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Canada has three (research funding) granting councils: NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR These provide funding for graduate students and post-docs.
Canada also has a national research agency that PERFORMS research, the National Research Council of Canada.
A good reference is The State of Science and Technology in Canada. Rakerman 14:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi John, See the Denny Klein AfD. This stuff is so good, you could not possibly make this up! A new and combustible form of water?? Anyway, per the links I show below, there is a new journal which (amazingly) is offered through www.sciencedirect.com, called the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. I nominate this for your consideration in WP:LOMJQ as a journal that ought to have a WP article. Here is the link to the specific article that caused my excitement: [13] I guess the bottom line is, articles about journals will be more interesting the less the reader has heard about them, and the more strange they are. I don't know how many people will bother to read our article about the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, but they could be more likely to read about the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. It would certainly belong in Category:Fringe science journals, which sadly, has only six members at this time. There must be more weirdness out there that we could document! Sorry to be politically incorrect. EdJohnston 01:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks like you've been busy recently. Thanks for helping the articles along, I really appreciate you efforts. The AfD, I think, has been a major backfire for the nominator, before the AfD some of the articles were tiny and had little or no attention; now the spotlight is on and they are flourishing, better than ever and stand much less chance of being deleted. See you out there. Cheers, Dfrg. msc 05:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please help me out I don't know what to do. I am being chased around by User:PinchasC who will not let me add a single word or link about Michichism, let alone create a separate article.
Every time I try he pulls another deceitful slight of hand, reverting endlessly, nominating good articles for AfD just to confuse people and so on and so forth.
Chabad Messianism is one of the major controversies in Judaism in the past 50 years with numerous books on the subject yet PinchasC (and co) have ensured that there can only be 1 paragraph in all wikipedia about it - which is followed by endless of the point Berger-bashing.
He nominated Controversies of Chabad-Lubavitch for AfD to create a smokescreen, when there was a clear consensus expressed that there should be a Chabad Messianism article I un-redirected it. He then redirected back again, without any debate and falsely claimed that all the info was in the other article.
How can this be resolved?
David Spart 21:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
He is deliberately trying to provoke me at every opportunity, and threatening to ban me for removing his frivolous warnings from my own talk page. Can you please help me deal with this Chabadnik who has made it his mission to control everything about Chabad on wikipedia.
David Spart 22:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. — Doug Bell talk 21:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Here's a template to use in an AfD, when it has been listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts (please do list appropriate AfDs there). I think it should go under the article details and above the nom statement, as it is a formal notice and not part of the debate. It will sign your name with date stamp automatically. Please pass on to others.
Mnemonic: List of Visual arts-related Deletions.
Template to use:
Result:
Tyrenius 00:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
This article has just been deleted on the grounds of failing WP:PROF, WP:BIO, and WP:RS. Interestingly enough it has almost immediately been recreated without adressing those issues. I placed a {{ db-repost}} tag on the page. Also I would like to refer to your discussion and mine. Doug Bell suggested asking you for advise how to proceed. And I posted a comment on AN/I on this matter. Respectfully. Nomen Nescio Gnothi seauton 01:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I made a new article about the above subject matter ( Aquygen) and clearly worded it in such a manner that presents the subject as pseudoscience and does not endorse Denny Klein in any way. I cited a famous Skeptic's appraisal of the phenomena also. Its been on CNN and FOX news and is similar to some hoaxes in the 90's. The thing some editors don't understand is that articles about Hoaxes and Pseudoscience are allowed on wikipedia provided that they don't endorse the hoaxes and actually exist as a notable phenomena in real world. For instance, the phenomena of Phrenology exists, even though it is quakary. However, some parties apparently want to delete this article. The intervention on this matter of someone with your presence of mind and experience is definitely needed. Majestic Lizard 04:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
The individual trying to delete the page is now vandalizing (with the assistance of a probable sock puppet) and making insulting remarks in his edit captions such as "you would never make it as lawyers". An attempt to make HHO look like an actual science is also being made. Your intervention would be appreciated. Majestic Lizard 19:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I have started a Deletion review. — Omegatron 14:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional evidence. Both of those make me very sad to read, but it's better that we bring every bit of this into the light. Regards, William Pietri 02:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I can't reply to you on my user page as I'm now banned from editing anything (including my own user page) on Wikipedia. By the way, your link to 2nd Amendment/Gun Control teachers plans in the United States is dead. Kade
Turns out I was right about Essjay. His statement declaring himself to be a five-year paralegal and Fortune 20 account manager was false.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060446/1008
Kade
Following a recent wheel-war over Controversies of Chabad-Lubavitch in which PinchasC did not let me write an article on Chabad Messianism even after an AfD implied consensus for such an article. You advised me to write such an article in my user space. Thankyou for your advise. I have now done so and would be grateful for any feedback from you before I put it up. David Spart 00:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Partial agreement and partial disagreement- newspapers are generally primary sources- they are reporting on what the primary sources and such. That said, I wouldn't necessarily mind a notability criterion that required some form of retrospective secondary or outright tertiary overview source. But that isn't policy, and attempting to apply that sort of notion to a single controversial article is bad. JoshuaZ 14:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
You can delete it. -- Ideogram 08:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, If Peter was deputy leader of the liberal party since 1994, then he would have to now be deputy prime minister which he is not, Mark Vaile is. I doubt that Peter was deputy leader of the liberal party but if he was he was only deputy until 1996. So the phrase, 'deputy leader since 1994' is incorrect. Thanks, ( 210.49.218.202 01:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC))
I'm sure this was well-intentioned, but why are you editing my talk archives? - Jmabel | Talk 02:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
What are your ideas for making the existing (or a new) template work for the UK's Amazon.com? I've discovered that the ASIN numbers here are invalid in the US but valid in the UK. Keesiewonder talk 00:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb, please revert yourself on Khachkar destruction. I withdrew my nomination for deleting this article, so the AfD is moot and awaiting to be closed by an admin. I cannot revert this article myself for another 24 hours per a 1RR parole regarding an Armenian-Azerbaijani RfA. -- Aivazovsky 22:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Please revert yourself. Obviously you did not notice the large discussion going on in the talk page about it: [14] Now that you are aware that there is an ongoing discussion on the talk page about the section, I'd appreciate it if you reverted yourself. I have also asked for a neutral third party to come and give an opinion. Thanks. Azerbaijani 13:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that I made a small change in the {{ DRV top}} (or {{ drt}}) template: the level 4 header, with a (closed) marker, is now part of the template. So any discussion can now be closed by simply replacing the four equal signs on each side of the title into the the template text:
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Hope that makes closures a bit easier. Comments and questions please here. Take care, trialsanderrors 08:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The fifth meetup of Melbourne Wikipedians is being planned as a breakfast meeting in the city with Jimbo Wales (at a venue to be arranged) on Friday, 27 April 2007.
Jimbo has proposed breakfast as the one real window of opportunity during his tightly scheduled stay in Melbourne. Tbe precise time has to be sorted out with Jimbo, but the arrangements for the equivalent Adelaide meetup a few days before may give a good idea.
Feel free to edit the relevant page in any way that might be helpful. I feel like a bit of an interloper, not having attended previous meetups. If there's anything you can do to help, I'll be grateful. Please think about whether you'll be able to make it, assuming the arrangements are similar to those Adelaide is adopting (i.e. a block of time with people being fairly free to arrive when it suits them). Some indication on the page of your possible participation would be really helpful. Metamagician3000 06:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. I was wondering if this were possible: Prior to registering, I edited several articles under the IP address 68.194.79.110. For some reason, I believed once registered, these prior edits would link to my new identity; as you know, this does not occur. However, is there a way to have this done? All edits under 68.194.79.110 (except for Applegate, Pink Flamingos, and the film Frankie and Johnny) are mine. Thanks for any help! -- TashTish 12:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. A few days ago, you made this edit to non-notable band page Non-Divine. It seems (given the edit summary) that you meant to submit the article to speedy deletion. However you placed the template {{ notability}} which is just a tag and does not actually submit an article to speedy (or for that matter any kind of) deletion. It might have been just a mistake on your part but just in case you don't know, the correct template for speedy deletion in this case is {{ db-music}}. No harm done of course! In any case, I have now submitted it for speedy deletion. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 22:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am going to be really busy this week, so if you dont see me make much comments on the Rasulzade article, please dont think that I am avoiding the topic. I will be able to discuss it in full next weekend. Thank you. Azerbaijani 20:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Dude about the whole april fools thing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pearsy ( talk • contribs) 11:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC).
Hey there John.
Not sure if you know, but all this music was from when Denton was on MMM's breakfast show. He hasn't been there for a long time now. Maybe it says on his article when he was there?
This was a charity album, all the rights (from both the songwriters and the recorded performers) were donated to a charity. I think it may have been Westmead Children's hospital, it says who the charity is in the CD sleeve. Ga rr ie 23:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the wrong shortcut. I meant WP:NOTE. Trish Schuh is not notable nor is she writing for any notable publication. Furthermore, she provides little to no evidence for her allegation, she seems to be listing any pro-Israel group that comes to mind. As for MEMRI, which has simply translated and publicized the broadcasts, Schuh smears them as "neo-con" and does not mention whether or not the broadcasts were true or false. -- Shamir1 19:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is Shamir part of "Internet Haganah"- the Israeli group that destroys/hacks/censors internet entries it opposes or disagrees with..? Unfortunate. Every line in the article on Al Manar TV referred to is verified by research, from such "credible" sources as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), Jerusalem Post, Haaretz etc.
A Brief Partial list of sources: 1. Most information came from WINEP's tool "Beacon of Hatred" by Avi Jorisch which was used to lobby Congress, the Pentagon and State Dept to censor Manar & label it a terrorist organization 2. NY Sun reporter Eli Lake credits Natan Sharansky with "leading the campaign against Manar" and showing clips of Manar to Congress in an effort to pass legislation censoring the station and declaring it a terrorist org 3. neo-con NY Sun launches a campaign with five part series called "Must-See Hezbollah TV" via MEMRI. On 1/4/05 it's sister "news source" MEMRI credits itself with being "instrumental in bringing the issue of Al Manar to the attention of world leaders including high ranking American government officials, Germany's chancellor and foreign minister, the Swedish and Australian prime ministers and France's prime minister and president" upon which Le Monde said the French PM agreed to ban Manar. 4. AJC- slate.com (12/29/04)and several other MSM sources on varying dates quote the American Jewish Committee as lobbying US State Dept to ban Manar TV 5. ADL officially starts lobbying the US to designate Manar a terrorist organization in July, 2003 (ADL press releases)and also publishes a list of actions to be taken by US against Manar outlet- all subsequently carried out by US government 6. IDF's Psychological Warfare Unit(PWU)had Lt Gen Moshe Yaalon, among others, speaking against Manar in 2004 7. Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth (10/14/05)sited IDF Media Head Eitan Arussi referring to Manar TV as a problem to be dealt with "Israel Must Concentrate on Arab Media" 8. Coalition Against Terrorist Media a 'project' of neo-con Foundation for Defense of Democracies issued a statement on 12/20/04: "Ending Al Manar's access to American living rooms is an important victory..." 9. Israel's Haaretz (3/18/05) lists FM Silvan Shalom as lobbying EU ministers to ban Manar. Haaretz lists his successes-EU satellites ban Manar, France bans Manar from Eutelsat, Dutch Skies Sat bans Manar. "The Tranatlantic Institute, a Brussels based think tank set up by AJC" had also pushed for the bans. 10. Washington Times (10/23/04) sites MEMRI's Steve Stalinsky agitating to ban Manar, as does WINEP, tho the Pentagon had not even heard of Manar before neo-con efforts 11. AIPAC (April 11, 2005) in "Off the Air" celebrates its success in getting Manar censored throughout Europe and in getting it labeled a terrorist organization in the US 12. AIPAC (May 8, 2006) in "Cracking Down" applauded the blacklisting of Manar by Treasury Dept as well as the State Dept 13. JTA also celebrated Spain's removal of Manar from Hispasat as well as its banning from North and Latin America satellites (JTA "Breaking News") 14. Radio Netherlands (1/27/05) reveals a ban of other Arab outlets has been extended to Lebanon, Iran and Saudi Arabia 15. Simon Wiesenthal Center also assists in expanding the ban to include other Arab countries' media and in Palestine (Arutz Sheva, 5/16/05)
Trish Schuh bio-- Prior affiliations/work appearing: ABC News, NBC, Fox, Jerusalem Post-(material reprinted without permission, attribution or payment), Economist, NSA, CIA, FBI websites, Asia Times, and various arab outlets in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Libya, Jordan etc Member of Military Reporters & Editors, Middle East Studies Association, United Nations Correspondents Association and cofounder of Military Families Support Network. Lived,travelled,and studied Arabic/Islamic issues in Leb, Syria, Iraq, Palestine. Freelance, never embedded.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.180.38 ( talk • contribs) 06:28, 3 June 2007
Hi John. Could you please check this article: [17] It contains the same dubious claim about Rasulxade's apology about the name. I would appreciate if you could help resolve this issue. Regards, Grandmaster 12:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
John, I have some new information that I will present to you. Azerbaijani 18:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Gday Jayvdb, Im new to this wikipedia stuff...
I just removed a spam URL from Andrew Denton that you just reverted back? using TW? Would you be able to enlighten me on this TW and the reason for putting the who weekly spam back on the page? Cheers mate :) Jpk82 10:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Good idea with the stubs. Don't you think that as an article over two years old that's in this condition could use a bit more direction for other editors' to focus on, such as the importance tag? -- Ronz 00:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I'm one of the two folks who've been "reverting" the text on the Norman Lamb. (You sent both of us a message earlier today.) I noticed the additions yesterday, and -- as a very new user -- have been trying to figure out how to deal with them. I sent one message to the other (anonymous) user, advising him/her that the additions were not neutral POV. In fact, they seemed to be potentially libelous to me, so I've been working my way through the various "Help" articles, trying to work out what to do next. Thanks for weighing in, since it gives me a chance to ask an administrator directly!
What do you suggest I do next? Understand, I have no vested interest in this, beyond "fair play" in Wikipedia. I'm not a UK citizen, and can't vote for Norman Lamb. I just don't think Wikipedia should allow those who support rival political candidates to trash opponents! MeegsC 17:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jayvdb,
Can you help me, and create a new Search template which can be called {{Missing species}}
-- Ricardo 20:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi John,
Thanks a lot. I wrote some comments about this template in its talk page.
Best wishes,
-- Ricardo 15:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
An editor has nominated Trevor Ivory, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also " What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trevor Ivory and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 19:20, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Inselkampf is gone. It looks like Urban Dead and Starships! may be next on the hit-list. Let me know of any articles that you think may be in danger, and I'll try to clean them up or find citations for them, or help out in any way I can. Matt Brennen 18:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I thought you might be interested to know that the template generational cohorts has been nominated for deletion. See: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 April 24
Thanks,
Peregrine981 16:11, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
While looking at some of the "On this day" articles, I followed an external link for Flag of the Faroe Islands and found that the WP article is basically copied almost word-for-word from the Flags of the World website -- which seems a pretty blatant copyvio. Reading the history for the article, I see it had been slated for deletion for copyvios in the past. Is that something an admin follows up, or is it something any editor can do? I'm still learning all the ropes here! MeegsC 23:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you know of anyone who could translate an article into other languages for me? If you do, just have them contact me on my talk page. Matt Brennen 07:19, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Take a look at Wikipedia:Translation. John Vandenberg 10:27, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
im glad you agreed with my changes, i did in fact make the database models page from what was in that article. the previous database models page just appeared to be a list of database models?! so ive moved that to List of database models. the page was getting a bit big and off-topic.
thank you for letting me know about edit summaries, i think i became so use to seeing it i didnt bother even notice it. i did mention what i had done on the discussion page in case anyone had disagreements with it. :-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Decrease789 ( talk • contribs) 14:07, 30 April 2007 (UTC).
Hi there you recently commented on a deleted article we tried to get on wikipedia and offered your help to us.
Firstly, thank you very much for your offer and we'd be very happy to have you help us! Secondly, is there an email account I can contact you at? I'm not overly familiar with the wikipedia format and I'm not even sure if this will be getting to you!
The thread that I am reffering to went like this:
The article The Vans has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.
Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Veinor (talk to me) 17:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. check out WP:COI. If you can point me towards some critical reviews of the band by magazines or dates the guys appeared on Triple J or something, I should be able to write an article on the band. Cheers, John Vandenberg 17:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Some critial reviews:
28/2/2007 Garage to V, written by Michael Inglis ( http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/) gig review: - http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/8091/Garage_to_V_WA_final_Artrage_Bakery_Perth_2822007
5/4/2007 Orange EP review, ( http://www.perthbands.com/) EP review (unsure of author): - http://www.perthbands.com/displayReview.php?type=CD&reviewID=12
28/2/2007 Paddington Ale House, unsure of author ( http://www.perthbands.com/) gig review: - http://www.perthbands.com/displayReview.php?type=GIG&reviewID=5
if you are able to supply us with a contact email, we will be able to send you some more reviews which were published in print media, including an article in Groove Magazine (March 2007), an article in Pelican magazine (August 2006), an article in Drum Media magazine (April 2007) gig reviews in X-press magazine (November 2006, December 2006). All these we would be able to supply to you as scanned images unless you are able to aquire them.
in the coming weeks, a review of the Orange EP should be appearing on http://www.allmusic.com/ , there is already an entry for the band under "the vans" on there.
dates the Vans have appeared on radio:
- 11/04/2007 92.1 RTR FM (Live & interview on Breakfast with Peter Barr) - 03/04/2007 89.7 Twin Cities FM (Live & interview at the OZ) - 15/01/2007 RTR FM (Live & interview on Breakfast with Peter Barr)
If we are able to email you, we would be able to inform you of when we would be appearing on 92.9FM, FOXfm and Triple J, the two former are in confirmation stages, Triple J are yet to contact us as their incoming demos/etc is quite substantial.
As previously mentioned, if you are able to help us we would be extremely grateful to you! Please feel free to contact us through better_thank_your_lucky_stars@yahoo.co.uk (not the official email account but I'm trying to avoid spam.)
Thank you again, Adelle
This is one of the best sourced articles in the category. If it goes down, they will be able to take them all down. Matt Brennen 20:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, but your revert was wrong! If you choose VoIP, you of course depend on the internet. Without bandwidth reservation, your QOS depends on the bandwidth available. I think to say more is mere advertizing for POTS, what is completely unencyclopedic. I agree to keep the paragraph, but it must be wikified! -- Kgfleischmann 10:14, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Yours, -- Kgfleischmann 18:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for closing the AFD! Had you not provided that website I would have continued to think that the article should be deleted. -- Deepak D'Souza ( talk • contribs) 10:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, whydja revert my tag? there was only one citation in the whole article. George 23:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
OK
Done what I could for the moment. Cant figure out just what the nom is getting at-- took no part in prev. AfDs--ck her user page. 05:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
G'day. Thanks for your musings. I didn't associate your real name with your user name, so sorry. I should say that I consider myself a "keeper" particularly for public organisations. I would prefer a soft delete option for marginal cases (and which I think Amir fits in) and whilst I think Wikipedia's policies on biographies on living people are tough, I think we should follow them until we can convince the community otherwise. Amir's article is getting better by the way. Cheers. Assize 11:00, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
This should be deleted; please dont bother with an Afd. refer to notice I've added to top of the article. John Vandenberg 12:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
Awarded for standing up for truth and justice in an unpopular cause. The fact that your views (and mine) did not prevail in this debate does not make your work less valid. Many thanks. NBeale 20:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC) |
Sorry, but my !vote stands. Per WP:N: ""Coverage" means that sources address the subject directly and no original research is needed to extract the content.2 It does not require that a topic be the sole focus of a source, but does require that the source speaks on the subject in detail, rather than a mention in passing or name drop." The sources I see quoted still fail to assert any reasonable level of notability. — Moondyne 05:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I have responded. Sr 13 05:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi John, regarding my article on Virtual Sheet Music, I was wondering why the article has been deleted before I could provide more evidence? I have been very disappointed above all because I didn't have even the time to backup the article correctly. Thank you for any answer. -- Fablau 16:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Way back in April, you helped me out with a few things when I was a new editor, so I'm hoping you'll be able to do so again! About a week ago, I created a short article on a bird genus and managed to misspell the article name when I started it (as Haliaster). I moved it to a page with the correct name ( Haliastur), and am wondering if there's some way to delete the original; after all it should never have been there in the first place! I tried to put it on the AfD list, but couldn't... Thanks for any advice you can give me! MeegsC | Talk 18:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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Wow, that article is in really bad shape. With the amount of opposition to it and the huge amount of work to keep it afloat, I don't think it can be viably done. I think we'll have to just let it go. Thanks for telling me though John, good editing. Cheers mate, Dfrg. msc 07:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb, you should not use rollback tools to revert legitimate edits, or label good faith edits as vandalism. Also, please do not restore poorly cited, POV and advertisement style material. Thank you. Proabivouac 00:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Although I am tired of reverting all the spam tutorial links that have been added to Visual Basic recently, I think removing the entire section is a bit extreme. There was a good-faith editor a while ago who went through and trimmed down the external links, and I would hate for all that effort to be lost. I restored the article to before the latest batch of spam additions. If you disagree, feel free to start a discussion on the talk page. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 13:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
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I've published a proposal to gauge interest in setting up a micronation Wikiproject, which I thought might be of interest to you based on your recent contributions. Comments and suggestions are welcome: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Micronations -- Gene_poole 01:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
The Michael Schwarz guy you AfD'ed authored this Ajax.NET thing. I think it is unremarkable too (only a couple of microsites use it), maybe you can add it to the AfD? Stellatomailing 22:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
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Ah ok, thanks for the tip on the deletion listing. And with the signature can you copy whats in your signature onto my talk page please? thanks [[User talk:Savin Me|Savin Me]] 05:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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Our favorite disruptive user has nominated Brown's gas and HHO gas again. Brown's gas is absolutely fine at this point, HHO gas still needs some work, but is not even close to deletion-worthy. — Omegatron 14:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
There's been some sizable changes to the essay in question which you nominated for MfD, and I'd appreciate it if you'd spend a few moments looking over it to see if you still support deletion or wish to reconsider your position in light of the improvements. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 15:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Nice work! Suprised to see they didn't have an article already. Your article clearly shows that even stubs can be well referenced. Ga rr ie 05:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work with Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music It is extremely helpful and your work is appreciated. Cricket02 19:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC) |
Hi. This is a reminder to people on the Melbourne meetup participation list that the next meetup has been arranged for 19 June. Could you indicate on the meetup page your likely attendence, or otherwise. Regards. - Cuddy Wifter 23:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I ended up relisting this article at AFD, the nom explains why, just giving you due notification. -- W.marsh 19:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Ah, fair play. Well I've had a look at Armenian_language#Phonology and I think I can work out the IPA, but I'm not sure what that first letter is; is it (from that table) a "k‘" or an "x"? My browser doesn't have armenian character support so i can't see the text. The IPA would be either [kʰɑtʃkɑr] or [χɑtʃkɑr] depending on the first letter. Don't know how the IPA would help solve the dispute on the talk page though. - Zeibura Talk 06:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, those are two fairly wide ranges to block -- especially since the disruption has been ongoing, but at a slow pace, for awhile, now. For the time being, I've semi-protected Visual Basic for one month. I'll look into adding http://www.geocities.com/ + cooltutorials (etc) to some of the spam blacklists, for the relevant bots. Are there any other affected pages, that you know of? – Luna Santin ( talk) 08:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. Looking through the history of what seems to have happened overnight on List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning, you seem to have gotten into a WP:EDITWAR with a couple of anons and an established user over using a Geocities website as a source. Even if you're "right" in a content dispute, it doesn't give you the "right" to get into a revert war (see WP:3RR). In this case, though, I don't think you were right in the first place, as the article on Geocities is a self-published source per WP:SPS and is not acceptable as a reference in this context. The entry for the University of Esoterica is fine, as are the Michigan and Oregon cites, and I don't see the sense in continuing to wrangle over a self-published website (no matter how well referenced internally) that's not even necessary to "prove your case." If you really think that link belongs in the references, the burden of proof (showing it's an acceptable source, etc.) is on you. We can discuss this at the article's Talk page if you wish to pursue it further. However, please do not reinsert that link again without discussion. --Dynaflow babble 16:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. I have rewritten the article and would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 07:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for all your listing of visual-arts deletions, but normal theatre ones aren't for us - unless they seem to involve performance art, or special claims are made for the artistic quality of the sets I suppose. The VA project is essentially just for stuff that might be found in an art museum, plus street art, etc. Whether the performing arts have their own list I don't know. Having said that, if you're not sure please add them. Thanks again, Johnbod 14:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
No problem - a couple were interesting anyway. Thanks for the 3rd time for your heroic work on the sorting! Johnbod 00:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
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The nomination may have been by an indef blocked user, but there was clear consensus to delete. « ANIMUM » 15:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
You are listed as a participant in the Philately WikiProject. Today I have created an inactive list consisting of those participants who have not made any philatelic edits for more than six months. I was going to use a 3 month cut off point but felt generous. You may be one of those editors, so if I have moved you and you want to remain an active participant, please forgive me, and move your name back from the inactive list to the active list. If you are still active on Wikipedia but are inactive in philately I hope there is no harm done in listing you as inactive. We really need more active participants for all philatelic articles. The Philately Portal has been running for some time and I am doing occasional updates, Postage stamps of Ireland is a candidate for featured article (that would be the first philatelic article), and several of the redlinks have been filled but we need more activity so if you are around please participate. Otherwise thanks for the work you have done in the past. Cheers ww2censor 00:27, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, i had only just noticed i messed that up and was trying to quickly scan every Page on how to delete. I suppose this is why only admin's should do it. -- Jimmi Hugh 14:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, afd was speedily & procedurally withdrawn! The Rambling Man 18:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I have no objection to the page's deletion. After all, it sees no activity, does not serve a topic-specific WikiProject, and only links to other delsort pages. -- Black Falcon ( Talk) 02:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I removed a couple of sentences from the article as they weren't unambiguously supported by the refs. Obviously we need to tread very carefully here and only report what is known as facts. Where it is speculation on the part of a West journo, then we should only ever report it as speculation. I hope you understand.
WRT your question on separate articles for other gangs, IMO, no. Thankfully, gangs such as these are not that prominent in WA (yet) and most would be non-notable. I could see most of the stuff going into an expansion of Crime in Western Australia though, thus you don't have to be so concerned with notability issues. Reading Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bra Boys, although the consensus was keep, the arguments for notability seem to be the main issues of concern. In that case though there is a much stronger case on notoriety. Regards. — Moondyne 15:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
The copyrighted sections you removed from Patrick Knight have been added again. Do you think in their current form they are satisfactory? I'm hesitant to remove the section personally because I'm not yet familiar with what constitutes copyright violations for text and since I nominated the article for deletion it might appear biased if I were to do so. Thanks for your advice. Talmage 17:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb, could you please clarify whether you are Talmage or not? The editing action between the both of you seems .. odd. Furthermore, I've readded the content. Your last revert of it in my opinion was vandalism, as you were aware of the cautioning I made of Talmage of arbitrary deletion that lowers article content and makes the article appear irrelivant to further strengthen the AfD case. Thus, again, I reitterate, blanket removal of material can be deemed vandalism, please stop.
If you believe that it requires further citations, put a cite request up there, or find more. Do not arbitrarily remove text. Further action on your or Talmage's behalf will be passed on to an administrator for arbitration, as there's clearly no point in wasting more time or getting into edit wars. This has been syndicated to Talmage's page for his review, although at present I'm of the belief you're both possibly even the same person, please get back to me on that one. Jachin 00:02, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I appreciate you sorting the articles in the WP:PW that are up for deletion. What I don't appreciate is the insinuation in this remark [28]. If you want to say something, then say it. The articles listed fall under the project, a number of PRODs were discussed here [29], and when PRODs were removed [30] then the articles went to AfD. If you have a problem then go to the project talk page or my talk page, don't insinuate things about good editors. Darrenhusted 11:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I would like you to know that i am not part of the wikiproject pro wrestling as you said on the Articles for deletion for Glen Osbourne. It may appear this way cause i have edited that artical several times, that is cause i was putting AFD tag's back on removed by bittenbender who has removed it several times. I have removed my name from that part. Thank you. Oyster Guitarst 00:47, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
LHP Evarts was the 43rd overall pick in
MLB First Year Player Draft
[31]. He receieved a signing bonus of $800,000 and since June of 2006 he has played professional baseball fulltime. Currently he is a roster player for the
Danville Braves, a professional team where MANY current
Atlanta Braves once played. Evarts is the real deal and his notarity is without questions to scouts, player developers, and Atlanta Brave fans nation-wide. There are many notable players in the Braves minor league farm system, Evarts is one of them.
I appreciate your inquiry as well as your scrutiny. Best Regards,
Magicmahka 13:55, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
I am a baseball FANantic. I am new to this and I want to thank you for the help. I certainly desire to do this correctly and I am a quick learner.
I believe Evarts has the tools to make it as a major league pitcher and when he does this effort will have grown into a wonderful way to track his career. I am wondering if I can use and list the same citation for more then one bit of information? Is it better to find more then one citation?
Magicmahka 00:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Has the main list button that loads /Compact been removed from the script? -- pb30< talk> 15:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi John,
I understand your point, I think this product is very new, I had never heard of it before I discovered it in a forum 2 weeks ago (at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/1421d12f8cecde50/505a1a3720ff0f99). I have been using it since then, and I am impressed by the tool, so I was wondering why it was not on Wikipedia. I don't know if there has been article published. But I have been using VPNs for a while and it is definitely one of the best free solution I have tried. I will follow your advice and request for an article.
Tyrenius had already added this (near the top) to the Visual arts list, so it now appears twice. I'm not sure how to sort; no doubt you know. Johnbod 14:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
-ok-thanks Johnbod 14:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Just had a look through the deleted article, and that was about as blatant as the "blatant advertising" criterion gets. Have a look at some sample lines here...
Not only does it look like it could have come out of someone's PR department, it looks like in this case it actually did. I've no objection to recreating the article, provided the organization passes the corporate notability guidelines, but quite honestly you'd probably be better off starting from scratch and making sure to use good, reliable sources independent of the organization. The previous "article" is basically just a press release, you'd spend more time fixing it then you would writing a new one. Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
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Jayvdb's efforts in tackling vandalism to the Anthony Burgess page are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for editing (and re-editing) the Rivers page- I keep accidentally deleting stuff (oops) I'm getting (slightly) better with computers though and he deserves the best (big hero of mine) so thanks a lot
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Dear Jayvdb: Do you know of a copyright-acceptable Anthony Burgess image that might be usable for the Anthony Burgess page? Best regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.21.16 ( talk • contribs) 19:22, 21 October 2006
When you wrote about the "North Wing" did you mean Hertford Lodge, which is next door to Avenue House is not actually Avenue House. Do you want to amend or remove. There is a history for Hertford House (it was a school for a long time) Hugh : )
Hey, thanks heaps for the work you're doing on Executable UML. GeorgeBills 10:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
My pleasure; Im glad I ran into it. I have been lightly researching Model Driven Architecture vs Domain-Specific Modeling in order to define our architectural goals at work, so im keen to find further articles in this area. Jayvdb 10:20, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
There are about 1300 Canadian airports ( Category:Airports in Canada) and they all have the same (or should have unless I missed some) reference source. I was curious as to what was wrong with this particular airport as nobody has had a problem with any of the others. Many articles ( Section Thirty of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for example) have references that can't be checked unless you have access to the particular book. Because I work at Cambridge Bay Airport I have the access to the most current Canada Flight Supplement and use it to provide the information, which I update ever 56 days when the new edition comes out. The book is available to anybody that cares to purchase a subscription and not just to people involved in transportion. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
This user doesn't care about military history or historic accuracy; the only operational titles being changed are those of the United States military. This is nothing but rabid anti-Americanism, and it's pretty disgusting that you continue to enable it. Haizum 00:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Just curious as to what other work you thought was needed on this article? As far as wikify goes it is done as can be for now. -- Brad101 03:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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I fixed that. Thanks for pointing that out. SkeenaR 04:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello Jayvdb. Thank you for asking about the change I made to the entry about the Martin Scorsese interview about his reaction to Barry Lyndon. I heard this interview years ago. Right now I can't remember if it was on NPR or the Charlie Rose show or somewhere else. I know that he, like most English speakers did not call it the 'El Prado' because that, in essence, is saying - the The Prado - which is a redundency to be avoided. In fact I don't really ever remember hearing it called the El Prado by any English (Brit or American) speakers. But, that down't mean the phrase isn't used it just means that I haven't heard it. Now, I don't have a copy of this interview and I don't know if it was ever transcribed anywhere so I won't change it again, but, you might ask User Rosuna whether they have a source for their edit as they have not cited one either time they made their entry. It looks odd to my eye as I read it, but, it certainly isn't worth an edit conflict. My apologies for not being able to give you more specifics. MarnetteD | Talk 18:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
The following is a pedantic, hair-splitting question, but I'm still trying to get a handle on what constitutes proper/normal Wiki style.
I note that your edit on Nomad removed a list sequence within the paragraph. I'm wondering about your thinking here. I find the revised sentence a bit awkward, due to the presence of a rogue comma and the long second point:
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We could change it along these lines:
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This seems better; but I thought that the previous a), b) sequence was reasonably readable:
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Thanks if you don't mind explaining your views. Trevor Hanson 19:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I see that you added a 'citation needed' tag to a curious claim in the Nomad article. I was never happy with that entire section of the article; it was obviously added by somebody with considerable firsthand knowledge (I can confirm the veracity of what is stated), but this person did not help us with citations. (Kind of like my own editing in fact. :) But I digress.)
I think we can soften that "world's first" claim into a safer form by calling CP/CMS "an early" or "a precursor" open-source project (since it was manifestly both publicly funded and available for free in source code form). What I'd really like to do is move this section to the National CSS article, as I stated in my editorial note, since it has nothing to do with Nomad. However, I have been puzzled that the National CSS article is not found when I try to search for it, only when I link to it. Does this perhaps mean that it has been removed, or is being considered for removal? I know that articles about companies are held up to high standards, and it may be necessary to make a case for its retention. Alternatively, perhaps there's something I need to do to get it into the search trees. Anyway before yanking that section out, I wanted to be sure it had a home. Thanks if you can again guide me. Trevor Hanson 06:38, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Following are replies to your latest comments. One wonders if we are crossing into email territory....
BTW, sorry for being so prolix. You really need to be careful about encouraging me! But I do find that such exchanges help tease out memories and give them shape, especially when dealing with topics that one hasn't thought about for years.
[JV] I agree that this branch of computer science has been kept under wraps. IBM probably did this to protect its own interests.
[JV] did it ever escape into Europe ?
[JV] My rationale for it being on a separate page is that I gather that VP/CSS is inextricably linked with both National CSS and Nomad. Rather than move it from one to the other, it feels more appropriate for it to find its own home. That said, reading through WP:REDIRECT, I've come across the Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities justification -- I think that provides good reason for the VP/CSS content to live on the National CSS page, with a redirect to take the user to the proper page.
[JV] nod I was looking from a comp.sci. history point of view rather than the hardware it ran on POV.
[JV] Veddy, veddy interesting. I doubt that IBM has anything to fear at this stage from the muddy history being investigated. It may even help for the murky waters to be covered in a separate article to the articles for VM/CMS, VM370, etc.
[JV] and i watch on ebay for those journals to appear :-) It is a terrible, inexplicable, shame that the period just before the internet is going to end up notably vague. Maybe in time, or with our effort, this will be fixed, but it seems like this period will be lost because there is a cognitive dissonance in play wrt to the 10-20 years prior. I've read so many textbooks that cover this history of computer (abacus->valve->vague IBM references or nada->pdp-11->onwards and upwards) that somehow miss the heyday.
[JV]{{fact}} is Template:fact. The curly braces tell MediaWiki to look in the Template namespace. I havent created any templates myself so that is as much as I know at this stage.
[JV] another aside; It seems like Timeline of computing 1950-1979 is missing a lot of mainframe history.
All right, how about an action plan? I believe this is what we're considering:
What else do we need to do? I don't perceive any Wiki-technical challenges to these (i.e. even I could do them) but perhaps you are aware of pitfalls I don't see. Trevor Hanson 18:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've taken a first crack at pushing around the material; see National CSS, VP/CSS, and Nomad software. (I also fixed my search woes by adding National css (lower case) and redirecting to National CSS.) In the process I've spewed a lot of new text so I'll have to go back and re-edit it, but I thought I'd get the new framework in place anyway. I'll keep churning on CP/CMS sources and will let you know when I have something to discuss. I hope you concur with the direction I've gone, but of course feel free to flame away. Trevor Hanson 00:34, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I didn't know I could create a sub page under my user page. That was a big help. I have done as you suggested. Mrhsj 14:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Yikes! Thanks for catching my ridicilous mistake on the piano regulation page. !melquiades 17:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
No worries. Finding and fixing spelling mistakes is now really easy with Mozilla Firefox 2.0, as it includes a spelling checker. John Vandenberg 22:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
...as does virtually every text editor in every app under OS X, which provides spell checking as a general feature. I was just not paying attention! !melquiades 05:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
He's doing this everywhere.
etc.-- HanzoHattori 07:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've also fixed those three. I know there are more but I dont want to rush this and cause a rv war. I'll add a note to the IP's talk page and wait for a response. Cheers, John Vandenberg 12:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch—of course "program" could be confusing. I've given the article in question a tweak. Does that clarify it in your mind? — Ryan McDaniel 23:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Jayvdb, thanks for clearing the marketing fluff from my Frame addition. I let my enthusiams override my brain there. Rekiwi 00:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I saw your exchange on user:HQCentral Talk:David Farrow Maxwell. We've discoever that he is the sockpuppet of notorious plagiarist Primetime. Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Primetime, Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Primetime. It is almost certain that material you were discussing was copied from elsewhere. Sorry that we didn't catch him earlier. - Will Beback 05:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Jayvdb. I have mixed feelings about linking journal names, as in Cohn's irreducibility criterion. My thought is that hardly anyone who comes to such a specialized article will be unfamiliar with the American Mathematical Monthly, a well-known journal. Links should be informative, i.e. answer a question that a typical reader of that article will have. My concern is that the only people who ever click on that link will be those who (incorrectly) think it will lead them to the text of the cited article. I'd suggest that the names of contemporary and widely-used journals not be linked in math articles. A quick scan of some mathematics FAs did not reveal any linked journal names. EdJohnston 17:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I havent run into OCLCs before; what advantage do they have over ISSNs? John Vandenberg 07:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
p.s. there is a known issue with using ISSNs on Template:Infobox_Journal. The template needs to be expanded, so I guess it is important to know where OCLCs fit into the picture. John Vandenberg 09:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for details you have provided; I think these need to be feed into OCLC/ WorldCat, or perhaps Comparison of bibliographic databases or Wikipedia:Bibliographic databases. John Vandenberg 00:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
DOIs are a workable way to point to a journal article, but the format doesnt intrinsically (appear to) cater for pointing to an entry about the journal itself. The reason I am interested in this is that often a citation will not have sufficient information to be able to find the FQ-DOI -- in that event, it would be handy to be able to record the components of it that have been nailed down.
Do you have any experience with how well DOI.org resolves partial identifiers? John Vandenberg 07:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
I removed your merge discuss links to November 2006. I guess you meant to write "|date=November 2006" instead of just "|November 2006" in the merge tags. PrimeHunter 05:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
See [4]. This example has an article URL, but no DOI. It might be worth converting a sample article (whose creator does not object) so see how different reference styles would look. EdJohnston 22:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I took a look at the conversation in Template_talk:cite_journal. It seems that they have played around with adding parameters in the past, and there have been 'taste wars' (whether titles should display with quotes, for example). It looks as though more reading in the citation areas of WP will be necessary before being comfortable asking for a change in a standard template that's so heavily used. I also looked at m:Wikicite but that work seems a touch utopian.
Your discovery about Google books and OCLC appears promising. Perhaps Google HAD to use OCLC because their main focus is on books that are out of copyright, which generally are too old to have ISBNs. Also they are starting with books found in libraries which thus are guaranteed to have OCLCs.
Here's something you might find interesting. The French WP has a centralized reference list. You could look at [6] and then select one of the items in the reference list. If you choose Serge Lang's book, and click on 'détail des éditions' it will take you to [7]. At that book you can pick reference format from a roll-down list, which is kind of cute. That way, if you didn't want to look at the ISSN or the DOI, you wouldn't have to. However they don't do this for all their references, just some of them. The other advantage of their scheme is that it gives them ready-made reading lists for certain topic areas. For instance their mathematics project has an algebra reading list called [8] which includes Lang's book.
I guess this is a bit far afield from your interest in journal citations, but it just shows what is possible if the editors have enough patience. EdJohnston 03:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey John. I know you're mostly tracking journals rather than books, but bad ISSNs and bad ISBNs have something in common. I left an update over at Rich F's talk page about published-invalid ISBNs. One would hope that serial publishers don't make that kind of mistake, but, your recent findings do raise the question. EdJohnston 03:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
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Hi John,
I saw that you added a link to "as of December 2005" to the article Google Book Search. That format is deprecated; we're just supposed to use "as of 2005", with a piped link when necessary to amplify. One of my projects is to remove the deprecated usage from pages (and try to improve them as I flit by), so thanks for your help. MKoltnow 04:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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Greetings, person who is listed as being interested in future meetups in Melbourne. The fourth meetup will be held on 18 December, at Lower House in Fed Square (in the Alfred Deaking building, Flinders Street end near the Atrium: map), starting from 7pm. We don't currently have a separate location for discussion beforehand, but there'll be plenty of time to talk wiki over dinner. -- bainer ( talk) 15:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
See Talk:Scientific citation guidelines for a review of some things you and I talked about before. EdJohnston 19:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
There are as of mid-Dec. 2500 of them. DOAJ DGG 20:29, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
also: -- see continued discussion on my user page. DGG 21:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps you can help me figure out what the hierarchy of categories (and lists) for academic publication ought to be--and in partic what shoul dbe done with the List of scientific journals. that now includes all subjects, not just science DGG 04:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, I'm not the real inventive sort, so my preference is always to organise things in classifications schemes that someone else has created. The classification scheme that I am most intimately aware of is is Research Field, Course and Discipline ( RFCDs); the problem is that typically any research is comprised of multiple RFCDs -- In the australian research market, all funded research _must_ be defined in terms of one or more weighted RFCDs. Ideally (some time into the future) the Australian research industry needs an electronically accessible database of all/most journals that includes weighted RFCDs, so that university research offices can audit and/or automate the RFCD classification of a researchers publication. I wonder if there is an equivalent international classification scheme...
With regard to List of scientific journals, there are currently 29 lists of journals on WP. I prefer categories over lists of article names, but no doubt we would have difficulty removing the lists. John Vandenberg 06:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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(irt Wikipedia:Deletion review#JasperReports)
Jayvdb, I understand and even mostly agree with your statement about two-fisted speedy-ing. If I'm even slightly hesitant about deletion, I'll either tag it as a speedy and palm it off on someone else, use a {{ prod}} tag, or send it to afd. In this case I had no hesitation, as there was nothing to differentiate it from the raft of other de facto advertising articles.
We have dynamic tension between preserving encyclopedic content and keeping the signal:noise ratio high. The speedy deletion backlog is always high, and if admins were required to "double check" their own judgement in a tag-and-bag operation, it would perhaps get higher.
However, there are plenty of mad inclusionists1 out there double checking after the fact, and lots of them are adminstrators. Most of the time we get it right, and for the times when there's even a chance that we didn't deletion review has the "content review" section just in case.
brenneman 07:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Only poking mild fun, don't read anything into it.
Hi John. I just want to thank you for taking the time to consider the facts and express an informed opinion with respect the the Islamic Cults AfD. The issues that you have raised are right on the ball, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your comments. Kind regards -- Aylahs (talk) 00:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Wow, small world. Hope all is well with you. Orderinchaos78 11:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I apologize for my over-imaginative use of external links. I knew it was wrong but I was in a hurry. Trying to quickly upgrade articles someone else should have done correctly tends to do that. Thanks for watching. DGG 22:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
There is no need to wikilink proper names, especially if it is unlikely an article on the subject will ever be created. This just adds redlinks which clutter up pages. — Swpb talk contribs 14:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you reverted some edits I made with the reason "we dont list to external directories", which pertains to the site I own, Count From Zero. There are three reasons why I think this is incorrect:
1) On the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links, the second item under "Links to be considered" states
"A web directory category, when deemed appropriate by those contributing to the article, with preference to open directories."
Admittedly, Count From Zero is not open, but I intend to make it so soon. An argument could be made about the appropriateness of content, but considering that I provide significant additional information beyond that available from Wikipedia, I think the content is appropriate.
2) IMDB, a directory if there ever was one, is linked to pervasively on Wikipedia, and is not open. Is a special exception is made for this case?
3) The article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_engine has links to "Open source software in" Java," an external directory also not open, although this may just be an oversight.
Olinga 04:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
addendum: after reading Wikipedia:External links I admit I was in violation of the of the Conflict of Interest policy. Olinga 06:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Name of author himself isn't showed, so I only say that author company is Newsfront Corporation. -- Izumi5 13:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I added an ISSN that you were looking for, but can't get the syntax right- can you help out? Thanks - Freechild 20:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I saw your comment on the Category talk:Articles with invalid ISBNs page. I've worked on about a thousand ISBNs so far. I've tried to leave tracks about what action I took. If you look at my contributions page you will notice that I tried to mark what I did as a "repair", "delete", "repair" or "unable to locate". I hope this is of help to you.
A few of the "unable to locate" articles have ISBNs that are supposed to refer to DVDs. I am not sure DVDs have ISBNs. -- Droll 01:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Good evening. Per the discussion about privacy concerns expressed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays, date of birth should generally not be added to the biographies of living non-public or semi-public figures. So far, that policy has been interpreted fairly strictly with a pretty high bar being set for the definition of "public figures" who are assumed to have given up their rights to privacy.
By the same token, we should not be adding Category:Date of birth missing to articles unless we have made the case that the person meets the "public figures" threshold. Otherwise, we're just baiting new users into adding content even though the community has already said that we shouldn't include that particular data point. Category:Year of birth missing is okay but the exact date is often not. Thanks for your help. Rossami (talk) 23:38, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I happened to see your edit comment asking about Telecells. That was a redirect to Telecell, which was deleted due to prod on 20 January. EdJohnston 17:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
John, I'm not sure what you seem to be saying: 40+ publications with hundreds of citations to them isnt V of N? He just has to be more notable than mot people in the field, and full professors of both medicine and biochemistry at stanford are certainly that. Also considerably more than the avg 3 or 4 papers are enough. WP:PROF is not a policy or even a guideline, and even if it were, any one of the criteria is enough. DGG 02:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I don't want to replace any material you might have added to this article, but the two songbooks at the top of the list looked somewhat imaginary to me, so I just plain got rid of them. Please revisit if you think this was incorrect. the 'Garbage Version 2.0' book certainly existed and was found all over the place via Google. I'm guessing that someone just filled in some entries from memory, and didn't get it right. The rest of the article was exhaustively detailed and I figure they would rather include verifiable information. EdJohnston 03:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey. I don't understand what you mean. This, this and this were not "reasonable attempts" but vandalism. Even a bot tried to revert him, but was too slow. I didn't revert his section blanking the second time anymore, because that, instead, could be an attempt to improve the article. Thanks, Prolog 13:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the OttoBib page. Maybe the AfD is not a bad thing if it helps get some attention. But be sure to weigh in at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OttoBib.com. BTW, I don't know if you have been using it in your ISBN work, but it seems to return results on obscure ISBN numbers that many other tools cannot handle. Dhaluza 02:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for help on * User:Badgettrg/Minnesota Colon Cancer Control Study (PMID: 7580661). How do I delete a another test page I made in my user space ( User:Badgettrg/test)? Do I need an administrator? Thanks Badgettrg 19:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you left an message at Talk:Types of trombones about the Mandip Kang reference. I removed the referece because it seems to have been created by a vandal. I left a note on the talk page. -- DRoll 10:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
P.S. I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of removing the ISBN reference from your note on the talk page so that it will not be flagged by smackbot some time the future. I'd be glad to revert the edit if you want. I know it was not quit proper but I thought you would not mind. -- DRoll 10:58, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
fixed it. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Re Evan Siegel religion See his website, he was a Hebrew Instructor 1994-2000 Park Slope Jewish Center ;and Faculty advisor to the Jewish Interests 1997-2000. also see item 11 of http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:qe43ynz0e0kJ:www.laguardiacorruption.com/lagcorruption/MONTHLY_UPDATE+jew+%22Evan+Siegel%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&lr=lang_en Kiumars
Hi, been looking around and there are enough good sources re. Fadiga ... they just have to be referenced in the article and there could be a keep 87.203.48.160 00:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I have changed my AfD vote based on the work you did on William Bradford (professor). Out of sheer curiosity I stumbled across your essay, and figured you could count my experience as a success story. :) / Blaxthos 17:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I note that you've been disambiguating links to text. You might find the article I've just started at textuality helpful. Thanks. Chick Bowen 16:10, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Do you think we need a {{Listed Invalid ISSN|X}}? I've noticed that you and I have each tried to fix the remaining article tagged with an invalid ISSN. Keesiewonder talk 01:24, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you can help me with this too:
Why do the first two links below bring up the same thing, but the third does not match (when it should)? Is there a bug at WorldCat? --
Keesiewonder
talk 02:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[9]
OCLC
9806395
ISSN
0739-8018
Another FYI ... -- Keesiewonder talk 19:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
What did you have in mind with Category:Infobox Journal without name parameter ? I cant find any references to it anywhere. John Vandenberg 04:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Will try to have a friend dig up some Newspaper reports n Switzerland. Good job Alf photoman 13:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Regards, Dfrg. msc 07:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Done and done! And even cited my reasons! [gasp] :) Sorry about the punk'd link, totally forgot I was a brat and put that up there. [grins] ;) Jachin 08:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Interesting project. I am not sure I want to commit myself to a project like this, however, as I have a few other things I had planned to do, but I will keep it in mind and perhaps add the odd article on a journal now and then, provided people won't start suggesting them for deletion as soon as they have been written. Does that happen often?
The list at Wikipedia:List of missing journals looks rather incomplete. I would expect many more German-language journals beginning with "Zeitschrift..." and "Jahrbuch...", for instance. (I doubt the articles have all already been written.) Is it somehow auto-generated? Can it be easily updated with the help of a few more library collections? (And perhaps divided into smaller parts?) Pharamond 08:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Jay, please stop blindly reverting my contributions to the Carl Steadman article. Your "evidence" to justify vandalizing my work consists of a page written at least three years before Carl's death [12]. So, you're claiming that I'm the vandal here, and yet you can't be bothered to spend the five seconds it took me to look that up at the Internet Archive? The level of hypocrisy you've shown here is staggering. TVshot 01:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Canada has three (research funding) granting councils: NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR These provide funding for graduate students and post-docs.
Canada also has a national research agency that PERFORMS research, the National Research Council of Canada.
A good reference is The State of Science and Technology in Canada. Rakerman 14:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi John, See the Denny Klein AfD. This stuff is so good, you could not possibly make this up! A new and combustible form of water?? Anyway, per the links I show below, there is a new journal which (amazingly) is offered through www.sciencedirect.com, called the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. I nominate this for your consideration in WP:LOMJQ as a journal that ought to have a WP article. Here is the link to the specific article that caused my excitement: [13] I guess the bottom line is, articles about journals will be more interesting the less the reader has heard about them, and the more strange they are. I don't know how many people will bother to read our article about the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, but they could be more likely to read about the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. It would certainly belong in Category:Fringe science journals, which sadly, has only six members at this time. There must be more weirdness out there that we could document! Sorry to be politically incorrect. EdJohnston 01:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Looks like you've been busy recently. Thanks for helping the articles along, I really appreciate you efforts. The AfD, I think, has been a major backfire for the nominator, before the AfD some of the articles were tiny and had little or no attention; now the spotlight is on and they are flourishing, better than ever and stand much less chance of being deleted. See you out there. Cheers, Dfrg. msc 05:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please help me out I don't know what to do. I am being chased around by User:PinchasC who will not let me add a single word or link about Michichism, let alone create a separate article.
Every time I try he pulls another deceitful slight of hand, reverting endlessly, nominating good articles for AfD just to confuse people and so on and so forth.
Chabad Messianism is one of the major controversies in Judaism in the past 50 years with numerous books on the subject yet PinchasC (and co) have ensured that there can only be 1 paragraph in all wikipedia about it - which is followed by endless of the point Berger-bashing.
He nominated Controversies of Chabad-Lubavitch for AfD to create a smokescreen, when there was a clear consensus expressed that there should be a Chabad Messianism article I un-redirected it. He then redirected back again, without any debate and falsely claimed that all the info was in the other article.
How can this be resolved?
David Spart 21:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
He is deliberately trying to provoke me at every opportunity, and threatening to ban me for removing his frivolous warnings from my own talk page. Can you please help me deal with this Chabadnik who has made it his mission to control everything about Chabad on wikipedia.
David Spart 22:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. — Doug Bell talk 21:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Here's a template to use in an AfD, when it has been listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts (please do list appropriate AfDs there). I think it should go under the article details and above the nom statement, as it is a formal notice and not part of the debate. It will sign your name with date stamp automatically. Please pass on to others.
Mnemonic: List of Visual arts-related Deletions.
Template to use:
Result:
Tyrenius 00:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
This article has just been deleted on the grounds of failing WP:PROF, WP:BIO, and WP:RS. Interestingly enough it has almost immediately been recreated without adressing those issues. I placed a {{ db-repost}} tag on the page. Also I would like to refer to your discussion and mine. Doug Bell suggested asking you for advise how to proceed. And I posted a comment on AN/I on this matter. Respectfully. Nomen Nescio Gnothi seauton 01:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I made a new article about the above subject matter ( Aquygen) and clearly worded it in such a manner that presents the subject as pseudoscience and does not endorse Denny Klein in any way. I cited a famous Skeptic's appraisal of the phenomena also. Its been on CNN and FOX news and is similar to some hoaxes in the 90's. The thing some editors don't understand is that articles about Hoaxes and Pseudoscience are allowed on wikipedia provided that they don't endorse the hoaxes and actually exist as a notable phenomena in real world. For instance, the phenomena of Phrenology exists, even though it is quakary. However, some parties apparently want to delete this article. The intervention on this matter of someone with your presence of mind and experience is definitely needed. Majestic Lizard 04:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
The individual trying to delete the page is now vandalizing (with the assistance of a probable sock puppet) and making insulting remarks in his edit captions such as "you would never make it as lawyers". An attempt to make HHO look like an actual science is also being made. Your intervention would be appreciated. Majestic Lizard 19:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I have started a Deletion review. — Omegatron 14:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the additional evidence. Both of those make me very sad to read, but it's better that we bring every bit of this into the light. Regards, William Pietri 02:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
I can't reply to you on my user page as I'm now banned from editing anything (including my own user page) on Wikipedia. By the way, your link to 2nd Amendment/Gun Control teachers plans in the United States is dead. Kade
Turns out I was right about Essjay. His statement declaring himself to be a five-year paralegal and Fortune 20 account manager was false.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060446/1008
Kade
Following a recent wheel-war over Controversies of Chabad-Lubavitch in which PinchasC did not let me write an article on Chabad Messianism even after an AfD implied consensus for such an article. You advised me to write such an article in my user space. Thankyou for your advise. I have now done so and would be grateful for any feedback from you before I put it up. David Spart 00:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Partial agreement and partial disagreement- newspapers are generally primary sources- they are reporting on what the primary sources and such. That said, I wouldn't necessarily mind a notability criterion that required some form of retrospective secondary or outright tertiary overview source. But that isn't policy, and attempting to apply that sort of notion to a single controversial article is bad. JoshuaZ 14:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
You can delete it. -- Ideogram 08:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, If Peter was deputy leader of the liberal party since 1994, then he would have to now be deputy prime minister which he is not, Mark Vaile is. I doubt that Peter was deputy leader of the liberal party but if he was he was only deputy until 1996. So the phrase, 'deputy leader since 1994' is incorrect. Thanks, ( 210.49.218.202 01:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC))
I'm sure this was well-intentioned, but why are you editing my talk archives? - Jmabel | Talk 02:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
What are your ideas for making the existing (or a new) template work for the UK's Amazon.com? I've discovered that the ASIN numbers here are invalid in the US but valid in the UK. Keesiewonder talk 00:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb, please revert yourself on Khachkar destruction. I withdrew my nomination for deleting this article, so the AfD is moot and awaiting to be closed by an admin. I cannot revert this article myself for another 24 hours per a 1RR parole regarding an Armenian-Azerbaijani RfA. -- Aivazovsky 22:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Please revert yourself. Obviously you did not notice the large discussion going on in the talk page about it: [14] Now that you are aware that there is an ongoing discussion on the talk page about the section, I'd appreciate it if you reverted yourself. I have also asked for a neutral third party to come and give an opinion. Thanks. Azerbaijani 13:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that I made a small change in the {{ DRV top}} (or {{ drt}}) template: the level 4 header, with a (closed) marker, is now part of the template. So any discussion can now be closed by simply replacing the four equal signs on each side of the title into the the template text:
====[[ Title]]====
is changed to
{{subst:drt|[[ Title]]|Decision}}
which turns into
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Hope that makes closures a bit easier. Comments and questions please here. Take care, trialsanderrors 08:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The fifth meetup of Melbourne Wikipedians is being planned as a breakfast meeting in the city with Jimbo Wales (at a venue to be arranged) on Friday, 27 April 2007.
Jimbo has proposed breakfast as the one real window of opportunity during his tightly scheduled stay in Melbourne. Tbe precise time has to be sorted out with Jimbo, but the arrangements for the equivalent Adelaide meetup a few days before may give a good idea.
Feel free to edit the relevant page in any way that might be helpful. I feel like a bit of an interloper, not having attended previous meetups. If there's anything you can do to help, I'll be grateful. Please think about whether you'll be able to make it, assuming the arrangements are similar to those Adelaide is adopting (i.e. a block of time with people being fairly free to arrive when it suits them). Some indication on the page of your possible participation would be really helpful. Metamagician3000 06:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. I was wondering if this were possible: Prior to registering, I edited several articles under the IP address 68.194.79.110. For some reason, I believed once registered, these prior edits would link to my new identity; as you know, this does not occur. However, is there a way to have this done? All edits under 68.194.79.110 (except for Applegate, Pink Flamingos, and the film Frankie and Johnny) are mine. Thanks for any help! -- TashTish 12:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. A few days ago, you made this edit to non-notable band page Non-Divine. It seems (given the edit summary) that you meant to submit the article to speedy deletion. However you placed the template {{ notability}} which is just a tag and does not actually submit an article to speedy (or for that matter any kind of) deletion. It might have been just a mistake on your part but just in case you don't know, the correct template for speedy deletion in this case is {{ db-music}}. No harm done of course! In any case, I have now submitted it for speedy deletion. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 22:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am going to be really busy this week, so if you dont see me make much comments on the Rasulzade article, please dont think that I am avoiding the topic. I will be able to discuss it in full next weekend. Thank you. Azerbaijani 20:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry Dude about the whole april fools thing —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pearsy ( talk • contribs) 11:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC).
Hey there John.
Not sure if you know, but all this music was from when Denton was on MMM's breakfast show. He hasn't been there for a long time now. Maybe it says on his article when he was there?
This was a charity album, all the rights (from both the songwriters and the recorded performers) were donated to a charity. I think it may have been Westmead Children's hospital, it says who the charity is in the CD sleeve. Ga rr ie 23:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the wrong shortcut. I meant WP:NOTE. Trish Schuh is not notable nor is she writing for any notable publication. Furthermore, she provides little to no evidence for her allegation, she seems to be listing any pro-Israel group that comes to mind. As for MEMRI, which has simply translated and publicized the broadcasts, Schuh smears them as "neo-con" and does not mention whether or not the broadcasts were true or false. -- Shamir1 19:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is Shamir part of "Internet Haganah"- the Israeli group that destroys/hacks/censors internet entries it opposes or disagrees with..? Unfortunate. Every line in the article on Al Manar TV referred to is verified by research, from such "credible" sources as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), Jerusalem Post, Haaretz etc.
A Brief Partial list of sources: 1. Most information came from WINEP's tool "Beacon of Hatred" by Avi Jorisch which was used to lobby Congress, the Pentagon and State Dept to censor Manar & label it a terrorist organization 2. NY Sun reporter Eli Lake credits Natan Sharansky with "leading the campaign against Manar" and showing clips of Manar to Congress in an effort to pass legislation censoring the station and declaring it a terrorist org 3. neo-con NY Sun launches a campaign with five part series called "Must-See Hezbollah TV" via MEMRI. On 1/4/05 it's sister "news source" MEMRI credits itself with being "instrumental in bringing the issue of Al Manar to the attention of world leaders including high ranking American government officials, Germany's chancellor and foreign minister, the Swedish and Australian prime ministers and France's prime minister and president" upon which Le Monde said the French PM agreed to ban Manar. 4. AJC- slate.com (12/29/04)and several other MSM sources on varying dates quote the American Jewish Committee as lobbying US State Dept to ban Manar TV 5. ADL officially starts lobbying the US to designate Manar a terrorist organization in July, 2003 (ADL press releases)and also publishes a list of actions to be taken by US against Manar outlet- all subsequently carried out by US government 6. IDF's Psychological Warfare Unit(PWU)had Lt Gen Moshe Yaalon, among others, speaking against Manar in 2004 7. Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth (10/14/05)sited IDF Media Head Eitan Arussi referring to Manar TV as a problem to be dealt with "Israel Must Concentrate on Arab Media" 8. Coalition Against Terrorist Media a 'project' of neo-con Foundation for Defense of Democracies issued a statement on 12/20/04: "Ending Al Manar's access to American living rooms is an important victory..." 9. Israel's Haaretz (3/18/05) lists FM Silvan Shalom as lobbying EU ministers to ban Manar. Haaretz lists his successes-EU satellites ban Manar, France bans Manar from Eutelsat, Dutch Skies Sat bans Manar. "The Tranatlantic Institute, a Brussels based think tank set up by AJC" had also pushed for the bans. 10. Washington Times (10/23/04) sites MEMRI's Steve Stalinsky agitating to ban Manar, as does WINEP, tho the Pentagon had not even heard of Manar before neo-con efforts 11. AIPAC (April 11, 2005) in "Off the Air" celebrates its success in getting Manar censored throughout Europe and in getting it labeled a terrorist organization in the US 12. AIPAC (May 8, 2006) in "Cracking Down" applauded the blacklisting of Manar by Treasury Dept as well as the State Dept 13. JTA also celebrated Spain's removal of Manar from Hispasat as well as its banning from North and Latin America satellites (JTA "Breaking News") 14. Radio Netherlands (1/27/05) reveals a ban of other Arab outlets has been extended to Lebanon, Iran and Saudi Arabia 15. Simon Wiesenthal Center also assists in expanding the ban to include other Arab countries' media and in Palestine (Arutz Sheva, 5/16/05)
Trish Schuh bio-- Prior affiliations/work appearing: ABC News, NBC, Fox, Jerusalem Post-(material reprinted without permission, attribution or payment), Economist, NSA, CIA, FBI websites, Asia Times, and various arab outlets in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Libya, Jordan etc Member of Military Reporters & Editors, Middle East Studies Association, United Nations Correspondents Association and cofounder of Military Families Support Network. Lived,travelled,and studied Arabic/Islamic issues in Leb, Syria, Iraq, Palestine. Freelance, never embedded.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.180.38 ( talk • contribs) 06:28, 3 June 2007
Hi John. Could you please check this article: [17] It contains the same dubious claim about Rasulxade's apology about the name. I would appreciate if you could help resolve this issue. Regards, Grandmaster 12:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
John, I have some new information that I will present to you. Azerbaijani 18:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Gday Jayvdb, Im new to this wikipedia stuff...
I just removed a spam URL from Andrew Denton that you just reverted back? using TW? Would you be able to enlighten me on this TW and the reason for putting the who weekly spam back on the page? Cheers mate :) Jpk82 10:08, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Good idea with the stubs. Don't you think that as an article over two years old that's in this condition could use a bit more direction for other editors' to focus on, such as the importance tag? -- Ronz 00:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I'm one of the two folks who've been "reverting" the text on the Norman Lamb. (You sent both of us a message earlier today.) I noticed the additions yesterday, and -- as a very new user -- have been trying to figure out how to deal with them. I sent one message to the other (anonymous) user, advising him/her that the additions were not neutral POV. In fact, they seemed to be potentially libelous to me, so I've been working my way through the various "Help" articles, trying to work out what to do next. Thanks for weighing in, since it gives me a chance to ask an administrator directly!
What do you suggest I do next? Understand, I have no vested interest in this, beyond "fair play" in Wikipedia. I'm not a UK citizen, and can't vote for Norman Lamb. I just don't think Wikipedia should allow those who support rival political candidates to trash opponents! MeegsC 17:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jayvdb,
Can you help me, and create a new Search template which can be called {{Missing species}}
-- Ricardo 20:08, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi John,
Thanks a lot. I wrote some comments about this template in its talk page.
Best wishes,
-- Ricardo 15:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
An editor has nominated Trevor Ivory, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also " What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trevor Ivory and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 19:20, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Inselkampf is gone. It looks like Urban Dead and Starships! may be next on the hit-list. Let me know of any articles that you think may be in danger, and I'll try to clean them up or find citations for them, or help out in any way I can. Matt Brennen 18:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
I thought you might be interested to know that the template generational cohorts has been nominated for deletion. See: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 April 24
Thanks,
Peregrine981 16:11, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
While looking at some of the "On this day" articles, I followed an external link for Flag of the Faroe Islands and found that the WP article is basically copied almost word-for-word from the Flags of the World website -- which seems a pretty blatant copyvio. Reading the history for the article, I see it had been slated for deletion for copyvios in the past. Is that something an admin follows up, or is it something any editor can do? I'm still learning all the ropes here! MeegsC 23:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Do you know of anyone who could translate an article into other languages for me? If you do, just have them contact me on my talk page. Matt Brennen 07:19, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Take a look at Wikipedia:Translation. John Vandenberg 10:27, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
im glad you agreed with my changes, i did in fact make the database models page from what was in that article. the previous database models page just appeared to be a list of database models?! so ive moved that to List of database models. the page was getting a bit big and off-topic.
thank you for letting me know about edit summaries, i think i became so use to seeing it i didnt bother even notice it. i did mention what i had done on the discussion page in case anyone had disagreements with it. :-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Decrease789 ( talk • contribs) 14:07, 30 April 2007 (UTC).
Hi there you recently commented on a deleted article we tried to get on wikipedia and offered your help to us.
Firstly, thank you very much for your offer and we'd be very happy to have you help us! Secondly, is there an email account I can contact you at? I'm not overly familiar with the wikipedia format and I'm not even sure if this will be getting to you!
The thread that I am reffering to went like this:
The article The Vans has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.
Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Veinor (talk to me) 17:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. check out WP:COI. If you can point me towards some critical reviews of the band by magazines or dates the guys appeared on Triple J or something, I should be able to write an article on the band. Cheers, John Vandenberg 17:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Some critial reviews:
28/2/2007 Garage to V, written by Michael Inglis ( http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/) gig review: - http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/8091/Garage_to_V_WA_final_Artrage_Bakery_Perth_2822007
5/4/2007 Orange EP review, ( http://www.perthbands.com/) EP review (unsure of author): - http://www.perthbands.com/displayReview.php?type=CD&reviewID=12
28/2/2007 Paddington Ale House, unsure of author ( http://www.perthbands.com/) gig review: - http://www.perthbands.com/displayReview.php?type=GIG&reviewID=5
if you are able to supply us with a contact email, we will be able to send you some more reviews which were published in print media, including an article in Groove Magazine (March 2007), an article in Pelican magazine (August 2006), an article in Drum Media magazine (April 2007) gig reviews in X-press magazine (November 2006, December 2006). All these we would be able to supply to you as scanned images unless you are able to aquire them.
in the coming weeks, a review of the Orange EP should be appearing on http://www.allmusic.com/ , there is already an entry for the band under "the vans" on there.
dates the Vans have appeared on radio:
- 11/04/2007 92.1 RTR FM (Live & interview on Breakfast with Peter Barr) - 03/04/2007 89.7 Twin Cities FM (Live & interview at the OZ) - 15/01/2007 RTR FM (Live & interview on Breakfast with Peter Barr)
If we are able to email you, we would be able to inform you of when we would be appearing on 92.9FM, FOXfm and Triple J, the two former are in confirmation stages, Triple J are yet to contact us as their incoming demos/etc is quite substantial.
As previously mentioned, if you are able to help us we would be extremely grateful to you! Please feel free to contact us through better_thank_your_lucky_stars@yahoo.co.uk (not the official email account but I'm trying to avoid spam.)
Thank you again, Adelle
This is one of the best sourced articles in the category. If it goes down, they will be able to take them all down. Matt Brennen 20:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, but your revert was wrong! If you choose VoIP, you of course depend on the internet. Without bandwidth reservation, your QOS depends on the bandwidth available. I think to say more is mere advertizing for POTS, what is completely unencyclopedic. I agree to keep the paragraph, but it must be wikified! -- Kgfleischmann 10:14, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Yours, -- Kgfleischmann 18:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for closing the AFD! Had you not provided that website I would have continued to think that the article should be deleted. -- Deepak D'Souza ( talk • contribs) 10:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, whydja revert my tag? there was only one citation in the whole article. George 23:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
OK
Done what I could for the moment. Cant figure out just what the nom is getting at-- took no part in prev. AfDs--ck her user page. 05:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
G'day. Thanks for your musings. I didn't associate your real name with your user name, so sorry. I should say that I consider myself a "keeper" particularly for public organisations. I would prefer a soft delete option for marginal cases (and which I think Amir fits in) and whilst I think Wikipedia's policies on biographies on living people are tough, I think we should follow them until we can convince the community otherwise. Amir's article is getting better by the way. Cheers. Assize 11:00, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
This should be deleted; please dont bother with an Afd. refer to notice I've added to top of the article. John Vandenberg 12:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
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Awarded for standing up for truth and justice in an unpopular cause. The fact that your views (and mine) did not prevail in this debate does not make your work less valid. Many thanks. NBeale 20:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC) |
Sorry, but my !vote stands. Per WP:N: ""Coverage" means that sources address the subject directly and no original research is needed to extract the content.2 It does not require that a topic be the sole focus of a source, but does require that the source speaks on the subject in detail, rather than a mention in passing or name drop." The sources I see quoted still fail to assert any reasonable level of notability. — Moondyne 05:24, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I have responded. Sr 13 05:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi John, regarding my article on Virtual Sheet Music, I was wondering why the article has been deleted before I could provide more evidence? I have been very disappointed above all because I didn't have even the time to backup the article correctly. Thank you for any answer. -- Fablau 16:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Way back in April, you helped me out with a few things when I was a new editor, so I'm hoping you'll be able to do so again! About a week ago, I created a short article on a bird genus and managed to misspell the article name when I started it (as Haliaster). I moved it to a page with the correct name ( Haliastur), and am wondering if there's some way to delete the original; after all it should never have been there in the first place! I tried to put it on the AfD list, but couldn't... Thanks for any advice you can give me! MeegsC | Talk 18:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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Wow, that article is in really bad shape. With the amount of opposition to it and the huge amount of work to keep it afloat, I don't think it can be viably done. I think we'll have to just let it go. Thanks for telling me though John, good editing. Cheers mate, Dfrg. msc 07:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb, you should not use rollback tools to revert legitimate edits, or label good faith edits as vandalism. Also, please do not restore poorly cited, POV and advertisement style material. Thank you. Proabivouac 00:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Although I am tired of reverting all the spam tutorial links that have been added to Visual Basic recently, I think removing the entire section is a bit extreme. There was a good-faith editor a while ago who went through and trimmed down the external links, and I would hate for all that effort to be lost. I restored the article to before the latest batch of spam additions. If you disagree, feel free to start a discussion on the talk page. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 13:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
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I've published a proposal to gauge interest in setting up a micronation Wikiproject, which I thought might be of interest to you based on your recent contributions. Comments and suggestions are welcome: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Micronations -- Gene_poole 01:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
The Michael Schwarz guy you AfD'ed authored this Ajax.NET thing. I think it is unremarkable too (only a couple of microsites use it), maybe you can add it to the AfD? Stellatomailing 22:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
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Ah ok, thanks for the tip on the deletion listing. And with the signature can you copy whats in your signature onto my talk page please? thanks [[User talk:Savin Me|Savin Me]] 05:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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Because per our fair-use criteria and guide to nonfree content they were being used as a gallery (pretty obvious from the gallery tag) and this is simply not allowed. It came up at the list linked to at this Administrators Noticeboard thread as part of general clean up. Please familiarize yourself with the two guidelines I linked to and lend a hand fixing the fair use violations on other pages if you wish :) - M ask? 08:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Our favorite disruptive user has nominated Brown's gas and HHO gas again. Brown's gas is absolutely fine at this point, HHO gas still needs some work, but is not even close to deletion-worthy. — Omegatron 14:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
There's been some sizable changes to the essay in question which you nominated for MfD, and I'd appreciate it if you'd spend a few moments looking over it to see if you still support deletion or wish to reconsider your position in light of the improvements. Cheers, Thewinchester (talk) 15:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Nice work! Suprised to see they didn't have an article already. Your article clearly shows that even stubs can be well referenced. Ga rr ie 05:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work with Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Music It is extremely helpful and your work is appreciated. Cricket02 19:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC) |
Hi. This is a reminder to people on the Melbourne meetup participation list that the next meetup has been arranged for 19 June. Could you indicate on the meetup page your likely attendence, or otherwise. Regards. - Cuddy Wifter 23:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I ended up relisting this article at AFD, the nom explains why, just giving you due notification. -- W.marsh 19:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Ah, fair play. Well I've had a look at Armenian_language#Phonology and I think I can work out the IPA, but I'm not sure what that first letter is; is it (from that table) a "k‘" or an "x"? My browser doesn't have armenian character support so i can't see the text. The IPA would be either [kʰɑtʃkɑr] or [χɑtʃkɑr] depending on the first letter. Don't know how the IPA would help solve the dispute on the talk page though. - Zeibura Talk 06:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, those are two fairly wide ranges to block -- especially since the disruption has been ongoing, but at a slow pace, for awhile, now. For the time being, I've semi-protected Visual Basic for one month. I'll look into adding http://www.geocities.com/ + cooltutorials (etc) to some of the spam blacklists, for the relevant bots. Are there any other affected pages, that you know of? – Luna Santin ( talk) 08:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. Looking through the history of what seems to have happened overnight on List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning, you seem to have gotten into a WP:EDITWAR with a couple of anons and an established user over using a Geocities website as a source. Even if you're "right" in a content dispute, it doesn't give you the "right" to get into a revert war (see WP:3RR). In this case, though, I don't think you were right in the first place, as the article on Geocities is a self-published source per WP:SPS and is not acceptable as a reference in this context. The entry for the University of Esoterica is fine, as are the Michigan and Oregon cites, and I don't see the sense in continuing to wrangle over a self-published website (no matter how well referenced internally) that's not even necessary to "prove your case." If you really think that link belongs in the references, the burden of proof (showing it's an acceptable source, etc.) is on you. We can discuss this at the article's Talk page if you wish to pursue it further. However, please do not reinsert that link again without discussion. --Dynaflow babble 16:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your support. I have rewritten the article and would be grateful if you could take a look. Capitalistroadster 07:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks for all your listing of visual-arts deletions, but normal theatre ones aren't for us - unless they seem to involve performance art, or special claims are made for the artistic quality of the sets I suppose. The VA project is essentially just for stuff that might be found in an art museum, plus street art, etc. Whether the performing arts have their own list I don't know. Having said that, if you're not sure please add them. Thanks again, Johnbod 14:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
No problem - a couple were interesting anyway. Thanks for the 3rd time for your heroic work on the sorting! Johnbod 00:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
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The nomination may have been by an indef blocked user, but there was clear consensus to delete. « ANIMUM » 15:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
You are listed as a participant in the Philately WikiProject. Today I have created an inactive list consisting of those participants who have not made any philatelic edits for more than six months. I was going to use a 3 month cut off point but felt generous. You may be one of those editors, so if I have moved you and you want to remain an active participant, please forgive me, and move your name back from the inactive list to the active list. If you are still active on Wikipedia but are inactive in philately I hope there is no harm done in listing you as inactive. We really need more active participants for all philatelic articles. The Philately Portal has been running for some time and I am doing occasional updates, Postage stamps of Ireland is a candidate for featured article (that would be the first philatelic article), and several of the redlinks have been filled but we need more activity so if you are around please participate. Otherwise thanks for the work you have done in the past. Cheers ww2censor 00:27, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, i had only just noticed i messed that up and was trying to quickly scan every Page on how to delete. I suppose this is why only admin's should do it. -- Jimmi Hugh 14:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, afd was speedily & procedurally withdrawn! The Rambling Man 18:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I have no objection to the page's deletion. After all, it sees no activity, does not serve a topic-specific WikiProject, and only links to other delsort pages. -- Black Falcon ( Talk) 02:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi John. I removed a couple of sentences from the article as they weren't unambiguously supported by the refs. Obviously we need to tread very carefully here and only report what is known as facts. Where it is speculation on the part of a West journo, then we should only ever report it as speculation. I hope you understand.
WRT your question on separate articles for other gangs, IMO, no. Thankfully, gangs such as these are not that prominent in WA (yet) and most would be non-notable. I could see most of the stuff going into an expansion of Crime in Western Australia though, thus you don't have to be so concerned with notability issues. Reading Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bra Boys, although the consensus was keep, the arguments for notability seem to be the main issues of concern. In that case though there is a much stronger case on notoriety. Regards. — Moondyne 15:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
The copyrighted sections you removed from Patrick Knight have been added again. Do you think in their current form they are satisfactory? I'm hesitant to remove the section personally because I'm not yet familiar with what constitutes copyright violations for text and since I nominated the article for deletion it might appear biased if I were to do so. Thanks for your advice. Talmage 17:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Jayvdb, could you please clarify whether you are Talmage or not? The editing action between the both of you seems .. odd. Furthermore, I've readded the content. Your last revert of it in my opinion was vandalism, as you were aware of the cautioning I made of Talmage of arbitrary deletion that lowers article content and makes the article appear irrelivant to further strengthen the AfD case. Thus, again, I reitterate, blanket removal of material can be deemed vandalism, please stop.
If you believe that it requires further citations, put a cite request up there, or find more. Do not arbitrarily remove text. Further action on your or Talmage's behalf will be passed on to an administrator for arbitration, as there's clearly no point in wasting more time or getting into edit wars. This has been syndicated to Talmage's page for his review, although at present I'm of the belief you're both possibly even the same person, please get back to me on that one. Jachin 00:02, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I appreciate you sorting the articles in the WP:PW that are up for deletion. What I don't appreciate is the insinuation in this remark [28]. If you want to say something, then say it. The articles listed fall under the project, a number of PRODs were discussed here [29], and when PRODs were removed [30] then the articles went to AfD. If you have a problem then go to the project talk page or my talk page, don't insinuate things about good editors. Darrenhusted 11:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I would like you to know that i am not part of the wikiproject pro wrestling as you said on the Articles for deletion for Glen Osbourne. It may appear this way cause i have edited that artical several times, that is cause i was putting AFD tag's back on removed by bittenbender who has removed it several times. I have removed my name from that part. Thank you. Oyster Guitarst 00:47, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
LHP Evarts was the 43rd overall pick in
MLB First Year Player Draft
[31]. He receieved a signing bonus of $800,000 and since June of 2006 he has played professional baseball fulltime. Currently he is a roster player for the
Danville Braves, a professional team where MANY current
Atlanta Braves once played. Evarts is the real deal and his notarity is without questions to scouts, player developers, and Atlanta Brave fans nation-wide. There are many notable players in the Braves minor league farm system, Evarts is one of them.
I appreciate your inquiry as well as your scrutiny. Best Regards,
Magicmahka 13:55, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
I am a baseball FANantic. I am new to this and I want to thank you for the help. I certainly desire to do this correctly and I am a quick learner.
I believe Evarts has the tools to make it as a major league pitcher and when he does this effort will have grown into a wonderful way to track his career. I am wondering if I can use and list the same citation for more then one bit of information? Is it better to find more then one citation?
Magicmahka 00:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Has the main list button that loads /Compact been removed from the script? -- pb30< talk> 15:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi John,
I understand your point, I think this product is very new, I had never heard of it before I discovered it in a forum 2 weeks ago (at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/1421d12f8cecde50/505a1a3720ff0f99). I have been using it since then, and I am impressed by the tool, so I was wondering why it was not on Wikipedia. I don't know if there has been article published. But I have been using VPNs for a while and it is definitely one of the best free solution I have tried. I will follow your advice and request for an article.
Tyrenius had already added this (near the top) to the Visual arts list, so it now appears twice. I'm not sure how to sort; no doubt you know. Johnbod 14:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
-ok-thanks Johnbod 14:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Just had a look through the deleted article, and that was about as blatant as the "blatant advertising" criterion gets. Have a look at some sample lines here...
Not only does it look like it could have come out of someone's PR department, it looks like in this case it actually did. I've no objection to recreating the article, provided the organization passes the corporate notability guidelines, but quite honestly you'd probably be better off starting from scratch and making sure to use good, reliable sources independent of the organization. The previous "article" is basically just a press release, you'd spend more time fixing it then you would writing a new one. Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)