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Thanks a lot for the tip Pam, cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucasmatti ( talk • contribs)
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Hi Pam, sorry about the ANI I started yesterday, I know it hit a sore spot for you since you are a retired librarian yourself. I just wanted to emphasize that I had no idea these kind of training events took place and the thought didn't cross my mind. I probably should have looked at the individual user pages before bringing it to ANI, but that's something I don't normally do as new users rarely have any content on their user pages. When I wrote the ANI I was careful not to accuse anyone of anything, and just state my concerns that I thought it was odd behavior and may be a problem. I hadn't come across a situation like this before and wasn't sure how to handle it, I figured it was best to inform the admins rather than ignore it. My intentions were surely not to upset anyone, and I apologize if it did. I have issued an apology to each of the users who were left ANI notices. Have a nice day. - War wizard90 ( talk) 00:20, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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Yeah I have already tagged so many of his articles for deletion, sadly some of them though I can't get deleted cause they went through a afd already though. (which this guy has been blocked for sock puppets) Wgolf ( talk) 17:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi PamD
I have been having some 'conniptions' with a Nepalese editor, see
here and
here and found another one who I though might be able to help me, but then I saw you had queried them in March last year about a cut&paste they did to a DAB page.
I am disturbed because apparently they are an Admin and Bureaucrat on the Naplis WP.
[1] (see ne.wikipedia.org)
I saw that they did
this edit which appears to be a move/cut&paste to an article without explanation and wondered what you thought of it?
220
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I see also that you can access the link/s I marked that were dead for me. I'm stumped!
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@ 220 of Borg: see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Mahendra_Niraula_-_competence_is_required. Pam D 18:43, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello and Namaste PamD sir,
I am sorry for my mistakes when some of the texts were removed.I never do any mistakes but sometimes it happens accidently and ask for appologizes if i made such any.You know peoples have to give respects to peoples because no animals need any respect like us and so,i wanna humbly suggest and would like to ask for help when i fall in difficulties.Anyway thanks. Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 07:38, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
File:Informatiohigherlleft Hello,It's me MaheIndra Niraula and by the way you did a confusion act that you left a message written to me on your own user page which makes me a bit baffled to find it quickly so,please to write me any messages,leave that written messages on my own user page Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 09:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC) so th I can read it out as soon as you posted here.Well,with the respect to your suggestion about writing articles and editing styles,what I wanna say you that I do these all by being careful to the some extent however, sometime it does happen something wrong and I try to avoid them all.yea,that's a good idea when you advised me to try in familiar language and I am doing both in English and Nepali language therefore, I think you are clear about my intentions and attempts of doing something for Wikipedia now.You also are a editor like me but since you have just a language(English) as a mother language,you have no any difficult and can make rare mistakes while editing but I don't have such easy way. But I understand the English well to some extent or including to help Wikipedia whatever you don't understand about my writing.Anyway,happy editing Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 09:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Iam a bit unsatisfied with what you have done to the article " Singha bahini higher secondary school" because the section or heading "Teachers " is suitable and you have reverted it too but i would say if you feel this whole article is quite unfit to wikipedia you can delect it all.It's not good to put just a heading.You are trying to do unjust to the new editor like me and you are discouraging totally in my thought.You know i took a long time to procure the facts to make a perfect article so,iam hesitating to write article now and ask to other expert editor too whether it is fit or not.You have removed my citations and references too why?So,if the wesites are like this then what to add other? This is your policy of making to other editor quite upset.Anyway,if you are doing it by mistakes then it's ok.And i would like to request you to not remove all headings like you did in that article. Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 12:48, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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PamD:
Verry verry good morning and I am going to convince you as to the confusion in spelling of the school about which i created the page (singha bahini higher secondary school,Myanglung),the official registered name is actually (Singha Bahini) not (singaha) and you don't have to be confused on it. And to In terms of particular page,which page shall i refer you when this page ready existing here I am talking about its heading that you took out? Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 01:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
@PamD :And by the way,you have focused to procure the (link) but a Iam confused even on this cases so,what kind of links should be added here please?I think you are just pretending that you don't understand the writing which I am using here in both talk Page and writing. But the reality is that I use simple English as I do writing article so that it can easily be read and understood by all. Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 01:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
@PamD :Another case is that you have talked and quoted me that just the "Teachers" can't be listed in school's article so,what about placing the headline with different subject and including the names of teachers?Don't claim by saying that you have not removed my citations linked to article (Singha Bahini) because I had added few citation by removing the ( citation templt) but I don't see any of them.
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@ Mahendra Niraula: I will reply on your talk page, to keep the record of my comments there. Pam D 07:43, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Okay so I saw this page for Project profile which you put a prod for but the creator deleted it-I do agree it does sound like a dictionary deff but not sure if it should go through a afd or not. Wgolf ( talk) 04:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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I recently edited this sentence: "She followed this by volunteering with Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal and trekking with a mule through Ethiopia" to read: "She followed this by volunteering to help Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal etc".
The original sentence didn't convey the meaning which was intended - which is that she volunteered to help Tibetan refugees - but that she volunteered with Tibetan refugees to do something in India and Nepal. You changed another part of the text (Full Tilt and other early writings), which I hadn't edited, from "Murphy volunteered to work with Tibetan refugees" to read: "Murphy worked as a volunteer with Tibetan refugees". You then reverted the sentence I had edited to its original form, with the comment ""volunteered to work"sounds like the one-off decision to work". I don't see that it does, and in any case the next part of the sentence, that she worked in two separate countries, would have cleared up any confusion on that score.
Can I suggest that "She followed this with volunteer work helping Tibetan refugees" would explain the circumstances without any possible misinterpretation? Robocon1 ( talk) 09:44, 18 April 2015 (UTC) Apologies, link here: Dervla Murphy Robocon1 ( talk) 09:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
I apologize for duplicating the stub tag in the insect articles you created and for the time you spent correcting the error. I'm not sure how it happened, but I clearly failed to notice that they were already placed. Roches ( talk) 18:40, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
In 2012 you reverted my son's edits to the Arnside Knott with snarky comments about Wikipedia policy.
I have been pissed off at you since then.
I believe that you should have, at worst, added an 'attribution needed' tag to his edits.
But instead, you reverted true information because of what I perceive as your stick in the butt opinions of wikipedia policy.
I am still pissed off, and I still don't understand why someone would _revert_ true information rather than add the 'attribution needed' tag.
Am I missing some detail, or was your behavior simply lame?
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichGibson ( talk • contribs) 07:17, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for contributing to and referencing the Anne F. Garréta page - the first page I've created on Wikipedia! Technolalia ( talk) 11:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice & tips. Much appreciated. Don't know AFG personally, got birthdate from the French page https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_F._Garr%C3%A9ta Should I cite that? Or translate the page? Technolalia ( talk) 15:32, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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Help! This page has twice been speedily deleted as being promotional. I agree it's very positive, but I haven't found any negative coverage. In fact the company's press releases are less flattering than the stuff which comes from independent sources. Can you help me - either to make it less promotional, or to defend it as it is? I can't see what else I can do to it. I've removed the material which came from the company's press releases. Rathfelder ( talk) 21:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Pam - sorry I hadn't realized I had done anything wrong. Someone already made the page and I just edited the topic of my degree and my birth date. You can delete if you wish! Profkatejones ( talk) 22:17, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
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Yeah I agree-but there also seems to be if the person has had no info in years-heck I've seen possibly living for former child stars who last acted in the 1960s even! Wgolf ( talk) 22:57, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Hey, just to let you know, I saw your question at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting, and made the edits... before realising that the page had been copy pasted from PMDTechnologies. About to follow Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves. Cheers for pointing this out! ‑‑ mjgilson T 16:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
For the moment, I'm going to leave aside from the fact that it took you eight hours, not "a couple of minutes", to create the category in question. The main thing is that if I'm in the middle of working with the untagged uncategorized articles list and a page I've already tagged suddenly comes bouncing back onto the list again barely minutes after I've cleared it, then I have to immediately stop everything else I'm doing and unbounce it again before I even go back to the rest of the batch I'm still in the middle of tagging, because that's the way the job of tagging uncategorized articles works.
If you want to use a category that doesn't exist yet, then you have the option of creating it first and then applying it to the article after it's been converted into a bluelink — but as the person who's doing an uncats-tagging run, I do not have the option of simply leaving it as a redlink-categorized article pending something that might happen in the future. My responsibility, when working with that tool, is to get it cleared to absolute zero each and every time I'm working with it — I cannot leave some articles sitting on it just because somebody might deign to eventually create the category in question. People frequently add redlinked categories without intending to create them right away, and it's not my responsibility to be able to read anybody's mind.
If a page shows up on the uncats list, then I have to do whatever is necessary (creating it, restripping and retagging it again, or replacing it with other categories) the very moment I see it there at all, especially if it's bouncing right back at me mere minutes after I've already dealt with it the first time — because keeping that list clean is the categorization project's single overarching "trump card" priority. As the categorizer, you have other options (i.e. creating the category first and then applying it), while as the tagger, I don't have the option of simply leaving the page on the uncats list — so you're free to feel as inconvenienced as you want by it on your own time, but you don't get to put it on me as some kind of error or inappropriate action or unwikilike conduct on my part, when I merely took the action that the task I was working on required me to take. Bearcat ( talk) 07:37, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Ah, I see now. I saw 134 was, essentially, a useless article in a category that wasn't complete yet and decided to merge this into it to help. Thanks on picking that up so quickly! KieranTribe ( talk) 20:21, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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Regarding the stupid and ridiculous fuss over adding one stupid definition to one stupid article explaining the uses of an abbreviation, it is a sad state of affairs for this enterprise that people are allowed to force through their edits simply by virtue of having the time and obsessiveness to come back again and again undoing someone else's good work. 86.152.163.183 ( talk) 14:33, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clare Richards. You may be interested in
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clare Richards, since you said in an earlier edit that
Clare Richards is not a DAB page. Thanks.
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Wondering if you followed up at all on this exchange. I just picked up another case of wholesale removal, to Chris Lehane here. There are more indications in the user's User Contributions, some on lists, some on articles with 'wikiquotes' as the opaque-ish explanation, of wholesale removals; then a cessation of all activity, under IP# at least, in August last year. I don't have a strong feeling for the quotes or an inclination to do a wholesale reversal but feel I'm closer to your inclusive bent than to the other user's rather fearsome attitude. I am inclined to reverse the Lehane-article removal -- the quotes have good citations, seem worth having in. Curious, would appreciate any thoughts. Swliv ( talk) 21:21, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
I think this is also done by a sockpuppet-but not 100% sure yet. Puvvulaku Rangeyyala-the sockmaster I think it is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vamsiraj. Wgolf ( talk) 03:44, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
While I would tend to agree that this article should be deleted, per WP:DEPROD any removal of the PROD tag - including by the article creator, whether in good faith or bad - makes it ineligible for deletion by that process. Perhaps take it to AFD? Nikkimaria ( talk) 00:49, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Pam. Yes, that sounds fine to me. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 15:32, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
hi PamD, I am getting a bit frustrated but it's because of my incompetence. I am the Editor of British Journal of Sports Medicine which is a STUB - so I am trying to improve it. I am happy to be impartial. I was using Harvard Business Review as a template - hence I made an info box with a nice image I uploaded from Wikimedia (but I need to demonstrate the copyright better, no problem) I put an hour into it on Saturday and had it looking good (opinion) but the changes were essentially deleted by RandyKitty I replied to RandyKitty and now you and I are starting again.
I am really open to being mentored and to follow the rules.
The goal is to have British Journal of Sports Medicine page be a valuable page on Wikipedia.
What do you suggest please?
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Hallo PamD! 1) Please explain and hence let me to learn form you: why you have placed {{ software-stub}} at the end instead at the start of article? At end of article it is not visible for reader, hence does not play its role as something that point or underline something important for reader, here information this is stub? I have added stub template as the one you have place at the end simply is irrelevant in the meaning not visible. As I have seen so far all similar templates are located at start of page, and IMHO that is reasonable while located at the end is useless. Your contribution:
18:34, 10 August 2015 PamD (talk | contribs) . . (4,311 bytes) (-9) . . (remove misplaced and superfluous stub tag - it's already got a stub tag at the end, in the correct place) (undo | thank)
Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Saera_%28software%29&action=history
Article: Saera (intelligent personal assistant)
2) BTW: please redirect Saera (intelligent personal assistant) from Saera (software) as this is misleading. You use "handy computer terminal with ability to communicate via GSM network" most probably everyday, but always you will describe it simply "mobile" and never as above mentioned. That is very similar situation. However formally (software) is correct but it is not adequate in this context while used is (intelligent personal assistant) for this purpose.
I appreciate your contribution, even when disagree.
Ocexyz ( talk) 21:14, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
{{tl|software-stub}}
("tl" short for "template link"). (I fixed it in your comment above).
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Hi PamD, I am organising another Editathon - this time at Clitheroe Castle Museum. See page for details Wikipedia:GLAM/Clitheroe Castle Museum. I hope you can come. Jhayward001 ( talk) 14:50, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
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PamD, thank you for the note. I certainly don't take offense, and appreciate your courtesy. I don't want to create a page that was already created. I think I know the source of the problem. I must have inadvertently created two pages, one in which there was an upper case "J" in Japan, and in one in which there is a lower case "j" in japan.
I think the best thing to do is to delete the entry with the lower case "j," and keep the entry with the upper case "J." What do you think? Iss246 ( talk) 00:38, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Pam. Thanks for your help so far. The news is that it's worse than that - it's misspelt everywhere, even on the Hammer Films website. It shows what a grip Conan Doyle's mistake has. It's quite astonishing how people will misspell it "Marie" when the spelling "Mary" is right in front of their eyes. I've tidied up as many loose ends as poss, corrected the source that spelt it two different ways(!), and removed the source that's an ill-informed blog. We've come a long way since that first, badly thought out redirect. There are still some things I would argue about, but we'll do that on the articles' Talk pages. It's a pleasure to deal with someone who thinks getting the facts right is more important than being right. Wikipedia needs more of it.
Lovely place, Silverdale. Used to stop there on our way to Millom, in the days when the journey from Manchester took all day . . .
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Fully agree with what you have said, but would note that "dick" is a very commonly used term of someone being an idiot. Indeed WP:DICK exists. It seems more an american thing than british, though does highlight that sex specific terms are used for both sexes. Polequant ( talk) 14:44, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you Pam D, I am taking all your comments into consideration. Thank you for all your help. MarkYabloko 18:11, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
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Pam, Many thanks. You only see what you expect to see. JMcC ( talk) 12:05, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
I have been on wikipedia on and off for years and years, and every time there seems to be significant changes. You Pam D, with all your long valuable continuos experience probably have not even noticed any! Interesting to note also how significantly different Wikipedia and its community in every other language/ country. I am really enjoying your guidance and advises. Thank you so much for all your help! I think I would have filled your page with STARS if I could, but everyone else should! Best, MarkYabloko 16:05, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Pam!
You reverted Mark Yabloko's tag on this "article" as incorrect, saying that this is an article in English. But it really is, substantially, simply the poem itself. Perhaps the tag was wrong, but I cannot see that it is appropriate to have so-called articles which are simply pastings of poems, prayers, hymns or whatever, even if they were in English. I'm not practised at adding these tag things, but it seems to me evidence is needed that there is likely to come an article-sized bit of text about this poem, and support for its notability. Compare for example John Wesley, whose article simply gives an external link to a collection of hymns he had written. What do you suggest should be done? Imaginatorium ( talk) 16:44, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi PamD, You left me a message regarding content you restored on the Assurance page, but now I can't find the page. I don't know why it would be taken down or who did it. Did you delete all the content on the page? JenniferJaacks ( talk) 16:11, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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I guess you're right, and wrong in the same time as well
, but surely you've point out the best way out of this problem. That's right, I cannot change it because it has been used since 2009 and been linked to so many articles. But actually, "Buddha" (noun) is a holy title which is not refer to Gautama only, and it can not be linked to Buddhahood (adj). I think I'm gonna use the
Buddha (...) article instead. Can you help me to make a suggestion, what should I put in the (...) ? "term" or "title" or
Buddhas instead? I don't think Buddhas would be a good choice, because
sanskrit is lack of plural and singular, and the title "Buddha" can be used as both.
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It doesn't yet exist but I'm working on it at User:PamD/sandbox/List of fictional English universities, as a light-hearted little project. Do any of my page-watchers have any suggested additions? (And yes, the UU isn't technically English but seems quintessentially so in spirit!)
This was inspired by reading a totally non-notable novel by a non-notable author (our local librarian set it aside for me because she thought I'd appreciate its settings, including roads I drove over a couple of weeks ago), which featured the "University of North Yorkshire". There are already lists of fictional Cambridge / Oxford / Oxbridge colleges: time for the redbrick and plateglass inventions to get a list too, methinks. Pam D 18:00, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks PamD for your help with Richard Edward Cecil Law James R T Law ( talk) 21:02, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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I am not on Facebook, but the following may help you in finding out about Wetwang University, of course it could all be just a big joke? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wetwang-University-England/106450936057135
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Hi Pam, why haven't you started a discussion page about the deletion of Mereş, Gurmgum Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa ( talk) 14:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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My article was nominated for deletion. I think this is a mistake. There are many articles that confirm the importance of: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].
If the problem is in the text, I ask you to correct this. My English, unfortunately, it does not allow. Thank you in advance! EvenGo ( talk) 15:39, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello PamD,
thank you for your note! I'm a new member on wikipedia, so I will probably try to get to know it better the next weeks and improve my article, make adjustments and get my own page improved. I'm really sorry I didn't do it prior to writing it - sometimes my creative mind starts acting without thinking of formal stuff :) I'll try to improve though - thank you for your help! And I will check the refrences and try to improve that the next two days!
To your questions, I'm not personally involved in it but I'm always looking for new things - new patents, new ideas coming out and rethink those ideas and in cases I think they have a great future I'm trying to help and support those ideas - even without knowing personally the people behind. I think good ideas need support from people who believe in them and by explaning the ideas behind it - I can bring it closer to other people and encourage them to give their support. I hope that's okay. :)
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hi Pam, can I ask you for some help? I don'T really get how to put the right citation - my references are not connected to the spot they need to be at in the article (so some of them are put in there another time) but I saw that you can actually connect those - I'm just not really getting it - even after reading the articles about it. Thank you very much in advance Samira RZ ( talk) 15:13, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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16:46, 26 November 2015 (UTC)thank you so much! Just edited the article, put inline references. Going to see how to improve it more now. however, thanks a lot for your help!! Samira RZ ( talk) 11:26, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes
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Hi Pam,
Concerning your revert: I agree it was bold--but that was actually requested by the original bold editor :-):
In any event, I also agree with your revert, mainly because as I looked at the original paragraph more carefully, I realized there was a lot more that really should be changed. So I took it to talk... please take a look. Thanks, NapoliRoma ( talk) 19:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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Stub sorting is probably a pretty thankless job and I just thought that I would take a minute to thank you for it. I ran into traces of your work at Mark Pearson (journalist), which I caught in the New Pages queue and worked on for a few minutes this morning. Anyway, thanks for your efforts on behalf of our project. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 18:09, 18 December 2015 (UTC) |
@ Carrite: Thanks for that. Stub-sorting brings me into touch with a wide range of articles - I tend to try to keep the letter "P" of Category:Stubs clear, and pick up others which look as if they need a DEFAULTSORT, or have a disambiguator and might not be properly linked from the main term, or look in some way dodgy as if they might be a longer article over-written or something else odd. And while stub-sorting I do a few other bits of cleanup as routine - DEFAULTSORT and birth/death cats, slam on a few tags if need be, tidy up a bit of formatting... that journalist was a bit of a mess initially and I cleaned it up somewhat, though I see you've now gone far beyond that. Thanks again for the barnstar. Pam D 22:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed that you removed my proposal for deletion of Martin French. I proposed it for deletion because the two people it asks you to choose between have never had Wikipedia articles, so I don't think it's a useful disambiguation page. Why do you think it's worth keeping? -- 211.30.17.74 ( talk) 07:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Pam,
Thank you for replying at: the Carpenter List page.
I made a reply there.
I appreciate your time and patience. Any help is appreciated. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 21:41, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Jrcrin001 ( talk) 01:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
@ Jrcrin001: I'd say it's not resolved until you apologise at ANI and on their talk pages to the two editors you incorrectly accused of violating rules and damaging the encyclopedia. Pam D 08:39, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I really appreciate your help in fixing the link. I was fustrated but when I just thought of giving up, you came right in time to help me fix it. Thanks and Merry chrismas in advance Mahveotm ( talk) 00:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC) Mahveotm ( talk) 00:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Recently I did a rewrite/reorganization of White (surname). I quickly realized that the list of real and fictional people would make the article too long. I created List of real and fictional people with the surname White and within 2 minutes had it cited for speedy deletion.
I marked the talk page appropriately protesting the speedy deletion and referred to Talk:White (surname)#Rewrite.2Freorganization which I wrote the following.
I followed
Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Standards to rewrite or reorganize this article.
As per
MOS:DABNAME the
List of real and fictional people with the surname White is too long for the primary article
White (surname). As per MOS:DABNAME - "For short lists of name holders, new sections of Persons with the surname Xxxx or Persons with the given name Xxxx can be added below the main disambiguation list. For longer lists, create an
anthroponymy list article and link to it from the disambiguation page. If it isn't clear that the article includes a list, consider mentioning that in the description."
As per
WP:INTDABLINK - created a list that points directly toward the relevant article. "With few exceptions, creating links to disambiguation pages is erroneous. Links should instead point to a relevant article."
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The List page and contents was quickly deleted.
11:25, 25 December 2015 Metropolitan90 (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:List of real and fictional people with the surname White (G8: Talk page of a deleted page)
11:25, 25 December 2015 Metropolitan90 (talk | contribs) deleted page List of real and fictional people with the surname White (A10: Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic, White (surname))
I believe the speedy deletion was done improperly. A rfd or merge should have been considered if the editor objected.
WP:G8 Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page - Clearly this page was dependent on
White (surname) and a split off list.
WP:A10 - "This applies to any recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Wikipedia topic, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect. This does not include split pages or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, mergeable material. It also does not include disambiguation pages. (When the new title is a reasonable term for the subject, converting the new article to a redirect may be preferable to deletion.)"
During a rewrite or reorganize of
White (surname) the name list of real and fictional people was too long in my opinion for the primary article and I did a split off. This was very clear in my statement (see above).
The White (surname) page was reverted to the way it was before I started. The cleanup, infobox, et cetera all gone. All the work gone. Question. Did I follow the guidelines wrong for such articles? I do not think so.
Again, I believe the speedy deletion was done in error and I am requesting that you as an administrator please review or send it to the proper area for review. Thank you. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 16:21, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi PamD. Happy new year!
I've been thinking about Search and intitle and trying to support the articles that use them, in all there forms. I've done about all I can do, and in the process given ear and hand to all aspects of the situation. Yet I cannot say I've reached my goal of answering your original question at Help talk:Searching. It was my goal to support your efforts, and they aligned with mine. Now I'm not so sure.
All I need is that you will at some in the near future please make comments at WT:What Wikipedia is not#Should search links be allowed in articles? for the usefulness of your search links at List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names as an example of why they should not all be deleted as well as the many thousands of lesser search links? I hope you are interested. I think you should at least contribute, as the example, how and why they are so useful and necessary for content building? You might tip the argument. — Cpiral Cpiral 03:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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There is a section on Wetwang, but not on its supposed university. The joy of all things ( talk) 21:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks a lot for the tip Pam, cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucasmatti ( talk • contribs)
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Hi Pam, sorry about the ANI I started yesterday, I know it hit a sore spot for you since you are a retired librarian yourself. I just wanted to emphasize that I had no idea these kind of training events took place and the thought didn't cross my mind. I probably should have looked at the individual user pages before bringing it to ANI, but that's something I don't normally do as new users rarely have any content on their user pages. When I wrote the ANI I was careful not to accuse anyone of anything, and just state my concerns that I thought it was odd behavior and may be a problem. I hadn't come across a situation like this before and wasn't sure how to handle it, I figured it was best to inform the admins rather than ignore it. My intentions were surely not to upset anyone, and I apologize if it did. I have issued an apology to each of the users who were left ANI notices. Have a nice day. - War wizard90 ( talk) 00:20, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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Yeah I have already tagged so many of his articles for deletion, sadly some of them though I can't get deleted cause they went through a afd already though. (which this guy has been blocked for sock puppets) Wgolf ( talk) 17:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi PamD
I have been having some 'conniptions' with a Nepalese editor, see
here and
here and found another one who I though might be able to help me, but then I saw you had queried them in March last year about a cut&paste they did to a DAB page.
I am disturbed because apparently they are an Admin and Bureaucrat on the Naplis WP.
[1] (see ne.wikipedia.org)
I saw that they did
this edit which appears to be a move/cut&paste to an article without explanation and wondered what you thought of it?
220
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I see also that you can access the link/s I marked that were dead for me. I'm stumped!
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@ 220 of Borg: see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Mahendra_Niraula_-_competence_is_required. Pam D 18:43, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello and Namaste PamD sir,
I am sorry for my mistakes when some of the texts were removed.I never do any mistakes but sometimes it happens accidently and ask for appologizes if i made such any.You know peoples have to give respects to peoples because no animals need any respect like us and so,i wanna humbly suggest and would like to ask for help when i fall in difficulties.Anyway thanks. Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 07:38, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
File:Informatiohigherlleft Hello,It's me MaheIndra Niraula and by the way you did a confusion act that you left a message written to me on your own user page which makes me a bit baffled to find it quickly so,please to write me any messages,leave that written messages on my own user page Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 09:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC) so th I can read it out as soon as you posted here.Well,with the respect to your suggestion about writing articles and editing styles,what I wanna say you that I do these all by being careful to the some extent however, sometime it does happen something wrong and I try to avoid them all.yea,that's a good idea when you advised me to try in familiar language and I am doing both in English and Nepali language therefore, I think you are clear about my intentions and attempts of doing something for Wikipedia now.You also are a editor like me but since you have just a language(English) as a mother language,you have no any difficult and can make rare mistakes while editing but I don't have such easy way. But I understand the English well to some extent or including to help Wikipedia whatever you don't understand about my writing.Anyway,happy editing Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 09:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Iam a bit unsatisfied with what you have done to the article " Singha bahini higher secondary school" because the section or heading "Teachers " is suitable and you have reverted it too but i would say if you feel this whole article is quite unfit to wikipedia you can delect it all.It's not good to put just a heading.You are trying to do unjust to the new editor like me and you are discouraging totally in my thought.You know i took a long time to procure the facts to make a perfect article so,iam hesitating to write article now and ask to other expert editor too whether it is fit or not.You have removed my citations and references too why?So,if the wesites are like this then what to add other? This is your policy of making to other editor quite upset.Anyway,if you are doing it by mistakes then it's ok.And i would like to request you to not remove all headings like you did in that article. Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 12:48, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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PamD:
Verry verry good morning and I am going to convince you as to the confusion in spelling of the school about which i created the page (singha bahini higher secondary school,Myanglung),the official registered name is actually (Singha Bahini) not (singaha) and you don't have to be confused on it. And to In terms of particular page,which page shall i refer you when this page ready existing here I am talking about its heading that you took out? Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 01:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
@PamD :And by the way,you have focused to procure the (link) but a Iam confused even on this cases so,what kind of links should be added here please?I think you are just pretending that you don't understand the writing which I am using here in both talk Page and writing. But the reality is that I use simple English as I do writing article so that it can easily be read and understood by all. Mahendra Niraula ( talk) 01:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
@PamD :Another case is that you have talked and quoted me that just the "Teachers" can't be listed in school's article so,what about placing the headline with different subject and including the names of teachers?Don't claim by saying that you have not removed my citations linked to article (Singha Bahini) because I had added few citation by removing the ( citation templt) but I don't see any of them.
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@ Mahendra Niraula: I will reply on your talk page, to keep the record of my comments there. Pam D 07:43, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Okay so I saw this page for Project profile which you put a prod for but the creator deleted it-I do agree it does sound like a dictionary deff but not sure if it should go through a afd or not. Wgolf ( talk) 04:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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I recently edited this sentence: "She followed this by volunteering with Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal and trekking with a mule through Ethiopia" to read: "She followed this by volunteering to help Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal etc".
The original sentence didn't convey the meaning which was intended - which is that she volunteered to help Tibetan refugees - but that she volunteered with Tibetan refugees to do something in India and Nepal. You changed another part of the text (Full Tilt and other early writings), which I hadn't edited, from "Murphy volunteered to work with Tibetan refugees" to read: "Murphy worked as a volunteer with Tibetan refugees". You then reverted the sentence I had edited to its original form, with the comment ""volunteered to work"sounds like the one-off decision to work". I don't see that it does, and in any case the next part of the sentence, that she worked in two separate countries, would have cleared up any confusion on that score.
Can I suggest that "She followed this with volunteer work helping Tibetan refugees" would explain the circumstances without any possible misinterpretation? Robocon1 ( talk) 09:44, 18 April 2015 (UTC) Apologies, link here: Dervla Murphy Robocon1 ( talk) 09:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
I apologize for duplicating the stub tag in the insect articles you created and for the time you spent correcting the error. I'm not sure how it happened, but I clearly failed to notice that they were already placed. Roches ( talk) 18:40, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
In 2012 you reverted my son's edits to the Arnside Knott with snarky comments about Wikipedia policy.
I have been pissed off at you since then.
I believe that you should have, at worst, added an 'attribution needed' tag to his edits.
But instead, you reverted true information because of what I perceive as your stick in the butt opinions of wikipedia policy.
I am still pissed off, and I still don't understand why someone would _revert_ true information rather than add the 'attribution needed' tag.
Am I missing some detail, or was your behavior simply lame?
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichGibson ( talk • contribs) 07:17, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for contributing to and referencing the Anne F. Garréta page - the first page I've created on Wikipedia! Technolalia ( talk) 11:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice & tips. Much appreciated. Don't know AFG personally, got birthdate from the French page https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_F._Garr%C3%A9ta Should I cite that? Or translate the page? Technolalia ( talk) 15:32, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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Help! This page has twice been speedily deleted as being promotional. I agree it's very positive, but I haven't found any negative coverage. In fact the company's press releases are less flattering than the stuff which comes from independent sources. Can you help me - either to make it less promotional, or to defend it as it is? I can't see what else I can do to it. I've removed the material which came from the company's press releases. Rathfelder ( talk) 21:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Pam - sorry I hadn't realized I had done anything wrong. Someone already made the page and I just edited the topic of my degree and my birth date. You can delete if you wish! Profkatejones ( talk) 22:17, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
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Yeah I agree-but there also seems to be if the person has had no info in years-heck I've seen possibly living for former child stars who last acted in the 1960s even! Wgolf ( talk) 22:57, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Hey, just to let you know, I saw your question at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting, and made the edits... before realising that the page had been copy pasted from PMDTechnologies. About to follow Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves. Cheers for pointing this out! ‑‑ mjgilson T 16:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
For the moment, I'm going to leave aside from the fact that it took you eight hours, not "a couple of minutes", to create the category in question. The main thing is that if I'm in the middle of working with the untagged uncategorized articles list and a page I've already tagged suddenly comes bouncing back onto the list again barely minutes after I've cleared it, then I have to immediately stop everything else I'm doing and unbounce it again before I even go back to the rest of the batch I'm still in the middle of tagging, because that's the way the job of tagging uncategorized articles works.
If you want to use a category that doesn't exist yet, then you have the option of creating it first and then applying it to the article after it's been converted into a bluelink — but as the person who's doing an uncats-tagging run, I do not have the option of simply leaving it as a redlink-categorized article pending something that might happen in the future. My responsibility, when working with that tool, is to get it cleared to absolute zero each and every time I'm working with it — I cannot leave some articles sitting on it just because somebody might deign to eventually create the category in question. People frequently add redlinked categories without intending to create them right away, and it's not my responsibility to be able to read anybody's mind.
If a page shows up on the uncats list, then I have to do whatever is necessary (creating it, restripping and retagging it again, or replacing it with other categories) the very moment I see it there at all, especially if it's bouncing right back at me mere minutes after I've already dealt with it the first time — because keeping that list clean is the categorization project's single overarching "trump card" priority. As the categorizer, you have other options (i.e. creating the category first and then applying it), while as the tagger, I don't have the option of simply leaving the page on the uncats list — so you're free to feel as inconvenienced as you want by it on your own time, but you don't get to put it on me as some kind of error or inappropriate action or unwikilike conduct on my part, when I merely took the action that the task I was working on required me to take. Bearcat ( talk) 07:37, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Ah, I see now. I saw 134 was, essentially, a useless article in a category that wasn't complete yet and decided to merge this into it to help. Thanks on picking that up so quickly! KieranTribe ( talk) 20:21, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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Regarding the stupid and ridiculous fuss over adding one stupid definition to one stupid article explaining the uses of an abbreviation, it is a sad state of affairs for this enterprise that people are allowed to force through their edits simply by virtue of having the time and obsessiveness to come back again and again undoing someone else's good work. 86.152.163.183 ( talk) 14:33, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clare Richards, since you said in an earlier edit that
Clare Richards is not a DAB page. Thanks.
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Wondering if you followed up at all on this exchange. I just picked up another case of wholesale removal, to Chris Lehane here. There are more indications in the user's User Contributions, some on lists, some on articles with 'wikiquotes' as the opaque-ish explanation, of wholesale removals; then a cessation of all activity, under IP# at least, in August last year. I don't have a strong feeling for the quotes or an inclination to do a wholesale reversal but feel I'm closer to your inclusive bent than to the other user's rather fearsome attitude. I am inclined to reverse the Lehane-article removal -- the quotes have good citations, seem worth having in. Curious, would appreciate any thoughts. Swliv ( talk) 21:21, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
I think this is also done by a sockpuppet-but not 100% sure yet. Puvvulaku Rangeyyala-the sockmaster I think it is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vamsiraj. Wgolf ( talk) 03:44, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
While I would tend to agree that this article should be deleted, per WP:DEPROD any removal of the PROD tag - including by the article creator, whether in good faith or bad - makes it ineligible for deletion by that process. Perhaps take it to AFD? Nikkimaria ( talk) 00:49, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Pam. Yes, that sounds fine to me. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 15:32, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
hi PamD, I am getting a bit frustrated but it's because of my incompetence. I am the Editor of British Journal of Sports Medicine which is a STUB - so I am trying to improve it. I am happy to be impartial. I was using Harvard Business Review as a template - hence I made an info box with a nice image I uploaded from Wikimedia (but I need to demonstrate the copyright better, no problem) I put an hour into it on Saturday and had it looking good (opinion) but the changes were essentially deleted by RandyKitty I replied to RandyKitty and now you and I are starting again.
I am really open to being mentored and to follow the rules.
The goal is to have British Journal of Sports Medicine page be a valuable page on Wikipedia.
What do you suggest please?
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Hallo PamD! 1) Please explain and hence let me to learn form you: why you have placed {{ software-stub}} at the end instead at the start of article? At end of article it is not visible for reader, hence does not play its role as something that point or underline something important for reader, here information this is stub? I have added stub template as the one you have place at the end simply is irrelevant in the meaning not visible. As I have seen so far all similar templates are located at start of page, and IMHO that is reasonable while located at the end is useless. Your contribution:
18:34, 10 August 2015 PamD (talk | contribs) . . (4,311 bytes) (-9) . . (remove misplaced and superfluous stub tag - it's already got a stub tag at the end, in the correct place) (undo | thank)
Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Saera_%28software%29&action=history
Article: Saera (intelligent personal assistant)
2) BTW: please redirect Saera (intelligent personal assistant) from Saera (software) as this is misleading. You use "handy computer terminal with ability to communicate via GSM network" most probably everyday, but always you will describe it simply "mobile" and never as above mentioned. That is very similar situation. However formally (software) is correct but it is not adequate in this context while used is (intelligent personal assistant) for this purpose.
I appreciate your contribution, even when disagree.
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{{tl|software-stub}}
("tl" short for "template link"). (I fixed it in your comment above).
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PamD, thank you for the note. I certainly don't take offense, and appreciate your courtesy. I don't want to create a page that was already created. I think I know the source of the problem. I must have inadvertently created two pages, one in which there was an upper case "J" in Japan, and in one in which there is a lower case "j" in japan.
I think the best thing to do is to delete the entry with the lower case "j," and keep the entry with the upper case "J." What do you think? Iss246 ( talk) 00:38, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Pam. Thanks for your help so far. The news is that it's worse than that - it's misspelt everywhere, even on the Hammer Films website. It shows what a grip Conan Doyle's mistake has. It's quite astonishing how people will misspell it "Marie" when the spelling "Mary" is right in front of their eyes. I've tidied up as many loose ends as poss, corrected the source that spelt it two different ways(!), and removed the source that's an ill-informed blog. We've come a long way since that first, badly thought out redirect. There are still some things I would argue about, but we'll do that on the articles' Talk pages. It's a pleasure to deal with someone who thinks getting the facts right is more important than being right. Wikipedia needs more of it.
Lovely place, Silverdale. Used to stop there on our way to Millom, in the days when the journey from Manchester took all day . . .
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Fully agree with what you have said, but would note that "dick" is a very commonly used term of someone being an idiot. Indeed WP:DICK exists. It seems more an american thing than british, though does highlight that sex specific terms are used for both sexes. Polequant ( talk) 14:44, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you Pam D, I am taking all your comments into consideration. Thank you for all your help. MarkYabloko 18:11, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
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Pam, Many thanks. You only see what you expect to see. JMcC ( talk) 12:05, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
I have been on wikipedia on and off for years and years, and every time there seems to be significant changes. You Pam D, with all your long valuable continuos experience probably have not even noticed any! Interesting to note also how significantly different Wikipedia and its community in every other language/ country. I am really enjoying your guidance and advises. Thank you so much for all your help! I think I would have filled your page with STARS if I could, but everyone else should! Best, MarkYabloko 16:05, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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You reverted Mark Yabloko's tag on this "article" as incorrect, saying that this is an article in English. But it really is, substantially, simply the poem itself. Perhaps the tag was wrong, but I cannot see that it is appropriate to have so-called articles which are simply pastings of poems, prayers, hymns or whatever, even if they were in English. I'm not practised at adding these tag things, but it seems to me evidence is needed that there is likely to come an article-sized bit of text about this poem, and support for its notability. Compare for example John Wesley, whose article simply gives an external link to a collection of hymns he had written. What do you suggest should be done? Imaginatorium ( talk) 16:44, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi PamD, You left me a message regarding content you restored on the Assurance page, but now I can't find the page. I don't know why it would be taken down or who did it. Did you delete all the content on the page? JenniferJaacks ( talk) 16:11, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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I guess you're right, and wrong in the same time as well
, but surely you've point out the best way out of this problem. That's right, I cannot change it because it has been used since 2009 and been linked to so many articles. But actually, "Buddha" (noun) is a holy title which is not refer to Gautama only, and it can not be linked to Buddhahood (adj). I think I'm gonna use the
Buddha (...) article instead. Can you help me to make a suggestion, what should I put in the (...) ? "term" or "title" or
Buddhas instead? I don't think Buddhas would be a good choice, because
sanskrit is lack of plural and singular, and the title "Buddha" can be used as both.
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It doesn't yet exist but I'm working on it at User:PamD/sandbox/List of fictional English universities, as a light-hearted little project. Do any of my page-watchers have any suggested additions? (And yes, the UU isn't technically English but seems quintessentially so in spirit!)
This was inspired by reading a totally non-notable novel by a non-notable author (our local librarian set it aside for me because she thought I'd appreciate its settings, including roads I drove over a couple of weeks ago), which featured the "University of North Yorkshire". There are already lists of fictional Cambridge / Oxford / Oxbridge colleges: time for the redbrick and plateglass inventions to get a list too, methinks. Pam D 18:00, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks PamD for your help with Richard Edward Cecil Law James R T Law ( talk) 21:02, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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I am not on Facebook, but the following may help you in finding out about Wetwang University, of course it could all be just a big joke? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wetwang-University-England/106450936057135
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Hi Pam, why haven't you started a discussion page about the deletion of Mereş, Gurmgum Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa ( talk) 14:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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My article was nominated for deletion. I think this is a mistake. There are many articles that confirm the importance of: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].
If the problem is in the text, I ask you to correct this. My English, unfortunately, it does not allow. Thank you in advance! EvenGo ( talk) 15:39, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello PamD,
thank you for your note! I'm a new member on wikipedia, so I will probably try to get to know it better the next weeks and improve my article, make adjustments and get my own page improved. I'm really sorry I didn't do it prior to writing it - sometimes my creative mind starts acting without thinking of formal stuff :) I'll try to improve though - thank you for your help! And I will check the refrences and try to improve that the next two days!
To your questions, I'm not personally involved in it but I'm always looking for new things - new patents, new ideas coming out and rethink those ideas and in cases I think they have a great future I'm trying to help and support those ideas - even without knowing personally the people behind. I think good ideas need support from people who believe in them and by explaning the ideas behind it - I can bring it closer to other people and encourage them to give their support. I hope that's okay. :)
Samira RZ ( talk) 14:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
hi Pam, can I ask you for some help? I don'T really get how to put the right citation - my references are not connected to the spot they need to be at in the article (so some of them are put in there another time) but I saw that you can actually connect those - I'm just not really getting it - even after reading the articles about it. Thank you very much in advance Samira RZ ( talk) 15:13, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
<ref> </ref>
outside your reference in the text of the article, and it will appear, numbered, under "References" because {{
reflist}} is already there.
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16:46, 26 November 2015 (UTC)thank you so much! Just edited the article, put inline references. Going to see how to improve it more now. however, thanks a lot for your help!! Samira RZ ( talk) 11:26, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello PamD, I'm working in concert with you to replace "installment" with "book", as you wish, in both series. Additionally, with regard to the Flavia Alba series, I've found and inserted references to provide evidence of the use of the series descriptor: Flavia Albia Mysteries [1] (Falco: The New Generation [2]). Froid ( talk) 08:35, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Pam,
Concerning your revert: I agree it was bold--but that was actually requested by the original bold editor :-):
In any event, I also agree with your revert, mainly because as I looked at the original paragraph more carefully, I realized there was a lot more that really should be changed. So I took it to talk... please take a look. Thanks, NapoliRoma ( talk) 19:50, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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Stub sorting is probably a pretty thankless job and I just thought that I would take a minute to thank you for it. I ran into traces of your work at Mark Pearson (journalist), which I caught in the New Pages queue and worked on for a few minutes this morning. Anyway, thanks for your efforts on behalf of our project. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 18:09, 18 December 2015 (UTC) |
@ Carrite: Thanks for that. Stub-sorting brings me into touch with a wide range of articles - I tend to try to keep the letter "P" of Category:Stubs clear, and pick up others which look as if they need a DEFAULTSORT, or have a disambiguator and might not be properly linked from the main term, or look in some way dodgy as if they might be a longer article over-written or something else odd. And while stub-sorting I do a few other bits of cleanup as routine - DEFAULTSORT and birth/death cats, slam on a few tags if need be, tidy up a bit of formatting... that journalist was a bit of a mess initially and I cleaned it up somewhat, though I see you've now gone far beyond that. Thanks again for the barnstar. Pam D 22:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed that you removed my proposal for deletion of Martin French. I proposed it for deletion because the two people it asks you to choose between have never had Wikipedia articles, so I don't think it's a useful disambiguation page. Why do you think it's worth keeping? -- 211.30.17.74 ( talk) 07:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Pam,
Thank you for replying at: the Carpenter List page.
I made a reply there.
I appreciate your time and patience. Any help is appreciated. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 21:41, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Jrcrin001 ( talk) 01:45, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
@ Jrcrin001: I'd say it's not resolved until you apologise at ANI and on their talk pages to the two editors you incorrectly accused of violating rules and damaging the encyclopedia. Pam D 08:39, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I really appreciate your help in fixing the link. I was fustrated but when I just thought of giving up, you came right in time to help me fix it. Thanks and Merry chrismas in advance Mahveotm ( talk) 00:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC) Mahveotm ( talk) 00:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Recently I did a rewrite/reorganization of White (surname). I quickly realized that the list of real and fictional people would make the article too long. I created List of real and fictional people with the surname White and within 2 minutes had it cited for speedy deletion.
I marked the talk page appropriately protesting the speedy deletion and referred to Talk:White (surname)#Rewrite.2Freorganization which I wrote the following.
I followed
Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/Standards to rewrite or reorganize this article.
As per
MOS:DABNAME the
List of real and fictional people with the surname White is too long for the primary article
White (surname). As per MOS:DABNAME - "For short lists of name holders, new sections of Persons with the surname Xxxx or Persons with the given name Xxxx can be added below the main disambiguation list. For longer lists, create an
anthroponymy list article and link to it from the disambiguation page. If it isn't clear that the article includes a list, consider mentioning that in the description."
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The List page and contents was quickly deleted.
11:25, 25 December 2015 Metropolitan90 (talk | contribs) deleted page Talk:List of real and fictional people with the surname White (G8: Talk page of a deleted page)
11:25, 25 December 2015 Metropolitan90 (talk | contribs) deleted page List of real and fictional people with the surname White (A10: Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic, White (surname))
I believe the speedy deletion was done improperly. A rfd or merge should have been considered if the editor objected.
WP:G8 Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page - Clearly this page was dependent on
White (surname) and a split off list.
WP:A10 - "This applies to any recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Wikipedia topic, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect. This does not include split pages or any article that expands or reorganizes an existing one or that contains referenced, mergeable material. It also does not include disambiguation pages. (When the new title is a reasonable term for the subject, converting the new article to a redirect may be preferable to deletion.)"
During a rewrite or reorganize of
White (surname) the name list of real and fictional people was too long in my opinion for the primary article and I did a split off. This was very clear in my statement (see above).
The White (surname) page was reverted to the way it was before I started. The cleanup, infobox, et cetera all gone. All the work gone. Question. Did I follow the guidelines wrong for such articles? I do not think so.
Again, I believe the speedy deletion was done in error and I am requesting that you as an administrator please review or send it to the proper area for review. Thank you. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 16:21, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
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Porur, Malappuram has to stay because it has its own village government called Panchayath and so it is not part of any other village. More details are coming. Prof. Manna ( talk) 08:50, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi PamD. Happy new year!
I've been thinking about Search and intitle and trying to support the articles that use them, in all there forms. I've done about all I can do, and in the process given ear and hand to all aspects of the situation. Yet I cannot say I've reached my goal of answering your original question at Help talk:Searching. It was my goal to support your efforts, and they aligned with mine. Now I'm not so sure.
All I need is that you will at some in the near future please make comments at WT:What Wikipedia is not#Should search links be allowed in articles? for the usefulness of your search links at List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names as an example of why they should not all be deleted as well as the many thousands of lesser search links? I hope you are interested. I think you should at least contribute, as the example, how and why they are so useful and necessary for content building? You might tip the argument. — Cpiral Cpiral 03:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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The renowned poet, Ian McMillan, refers to Cleckheaton university twice in his book 'Daft Yorkshire Customs.' All are made up by McMillan himself and the university is referred to on pages vii, viii, ix & 58 as background to some very wild but innocuous claims. [1]
There is a section on Wetwang, but not on its supposed university. The joy of all things ( talk) 21:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
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