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User:Arilang1234/Sandbox/Black jails Arilang talk 13:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
hahaha thanks alot! ive enjoyed my first year on wikipedia alot!!!Sepulwiki 13:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I need your help. I added tags to Alexz Johnson the only user who edits it removed because he does not see "multiple issues". I know the tags I added are valid I'm just look for a third opinion so we can avoid a edit war. So, if you can just take a look and tell me if the claims are valid it'll be a great help. Also good luck on your RfA, I voted for you. ;) 月 (Moon) と 暁 (Sunrise) 20:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey do you feel like copy editing List of number-one singles of 2008 (Japan) for me? You don't have to if you haven't got the time or if you just don't want to. I find it annoying that I'm asking you to sopy edit articles for me all the time... 月 (Moon) と 暁 (Sunrise) 00:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, Rjanag, it is official. At this time of writing, your RfA stands at 99 editors in support and only one in opposition (and it's DougTech). You are about to hit WP:100. You really deserve it, too — you're one of the most polite and helpful editors I've seen around. You'll make an excellent administrator. Master&Expert ( Talk) 21:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag. I was making a submission at WP:PNT and I noticed an article that you may be able to assist with. 水至清则无鱼 人至察则无徒 needs translation, and given it is likely Chinese (Which type, I don't know) I figured you may be able to provide a better translation than the machine generated one that is accompanying it currently. ∗ \ / ( ⁂) 06:29, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Nice thought thanks. I love the lotus photo - are they indigenous to the area (i.e. hope they are not weeds)? Granitethighs ( talk) 03:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi
Sorry about the confusion - we just want to set up a page for The Big Issue in Australia. Can you assist with this??????
Danielle Bombardieri dbombardieri@bigissue,org.au —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Big Issue ( talk • contribs) 04:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Good job--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 13:43, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Any material that I've written which I've reposted from my Bob Feldman 68 blogsite onto the Wikipedia alternative enyclopedia, which I originally wrote for Downtown in the 1990s (before Wikipedia existed as a reference source) is now considered public domain (since I don't believe in the philosophical concept of copyrighting or privatizing access to information.
So there really wouldn't be any legal basis for deleting the more detailed historical information I recently posted to Wikipedia's entry for Parade magazine's and Vogue's history. Feel free to restore any of the material from my Bob Feldman 68 blog site that you think might interest your Wikipedia readers to your encyclopedia's Parade and Vogue, since none of this material is copyrighted and all of the material is public domain, since Downtown is now a defunct publication and the rights reverted to me and the public.
all the best, bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.35.66 ( talk) 16:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag,
If you're not going to delete from your encyclopedia all the inaccurate unverifiable material from the corporate web sites that you're currently allowing to be posted as a wikipedia listing (Vogue, for example, began as a weekly fashion magazine, not as a "biweekly" magazine as your wikipedia entry states, etc.), then it doesn't seem editorially ethical to automatically delete the more accurately researched historical material that comes from anti-corporate, public domain blogs and bloggers/writers from your wikipedia listings. Also, the more you block information from being added to your encyclopedia by dissident anti-corporate writers, the less credible become the mission claims that wikipedia might make to its readers and foundation funders about it being some kind of equal access, "alternative" type of encyclopedia.
So my impression is that by retaining the sketchy, misleading wikipedia historical listings you now have for Parade and Vogue in your encyclopedia and blocking the more detailed historical material from a public domain, anti-corporate blog site from being added for wikipedia users, you're not really giving most wikipedia users the alternative encyclopedia that they want. And I don' think it makes any sense to edit wikipedia material so that wikipedia starts to function more as just an historical publicity shield for corporate entities like the Newhouse media conglomerate.
all the best, bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.35.66 ( talk) 13:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle ( talk) 13:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
For the birthday message, I will have to give you one now! :) Andy ( talk) 19:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome to Wikipedia... I would follow Andy's example and welcome you too, but... Nabifly ( talk) 07:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
I here by award Rjanag this barnstar for moving comments from the editor review to my talk page and doing such a great job on wikipedia. |
Congrats
Staffwaterboy Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments 00:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag,
I have now changed all of the Various Artists with links to without using AWB
From,
Limideen
12:57, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I see from [1] that you have started recently on the CSD patrol just today. Good luck. You will probably get some feedback from users on this too. Have you rescued anything? The last one I rescued was Noemi Letizia. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 13:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I though you didn't want to be an admin. Hda3ku ( talk) 22:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Leaving a red AfD flag on a "deleted" bio page of a living person is not a deletion of the article at all. Instead, it creates a very negative image of that person when people visit the URL. It implicitly represents a judgment and a disqualification and thus impugns the excellent reputation of the individual. For the sake of fairness and neutrality Wikipedia must adopt and implement a policy that differentiates between a living person and an impersonal subject matter when installing templates that might cast aspersions. Wikipedia choses not to include a biographical article about a living person in the encyclopedia that is fine, but out of respect and commitment to neutrality, you should remove and blank any red flags and tags and all references to deletion, in order to preserve the individual's good name and standing in contemporary society. I intend to bring this matter before the appropriate admins, stewards and policy wonks. Meanwhile I would appreciate that YOU STOP re-deleting a bio page until the courtesy blanking issue is further explored by specialized Biography Project admins. - CulturalUniverse Wikipédien aux pieds nus 23:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag. If you have a moment, would you step in and enjoy a world of Nirvana? I nominated a Chinese food article to DYK under the name of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, but the current title is at "Fo tiao qiang" as a result of some editors' edit warring. I want to secure my nom by moving to the intriguing but mysterious name (to readers). Would you comment at Talk:Fo_tiao_qiang#Move to where?? Thanks.-- Caspian blue 00:52, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Please check Black jails and add contents when you can. Arilang talk 07:12, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I've responded to your question in Talk:Spray-on condom#Question. Chzz ► 08:33, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
If you have a spare moment and are interested, I was wondering if you would be willing to peer review this article I am working on. Thanks! Awadewit ( talk) 14:00, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
...For the wiki-bday greetings, didn't even think about it, honestly :D Also, congrats on passing your RFA! umrguy 42 00:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
If it's not an obnoxious 鬼子 question, how would you spell in Latin alphabet / pronounce in English " 军阀 "?
Thanks. --
201.37.230.43 (
talk)
15:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Congrats on your well-deserved success at RfA!
As for the Time Traveler's Wife peer review, once an article is on the backlog the regular reviewers who work on the backlog use the {{ doing}} template to avoid duplication of effort (most things on the backlog get only one review, but we are always glad when they get more comments). I am delighted you took the time to make such a detailed review of the article - I had read most of it when Awadewit first posted it at PR (I do the semi-automated PRs as AZPR) and so knew I had a few things to say about it. I will make some more comments later today. Thanks for the review and for all you do on WP and especially at DYK, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 15:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Reviewers Award | |
Thank you for your careful and thorough review of The Time Traveler's Wife – your thoughtful advice is very welcome. Awadewit ( talk) 04:32, 9 May 2009 (UTC) |
Te felicito por haber aventurado borrar mis paginas con BLUEBOY, pero tengo todos los derechos de copia, por si no lo sabias!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by ÆR ( talk • contribs) 04:54, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that the if statements for DYK credits on creators' talk pages aren't substituted, which results in a mess of code. (The current system uses Ameliorate!'s DYKmake and DYKnom, which rely on {{ UpdatedDYK}} and {{ UpdatedDYKNom}}.) I was thinking of adding the subst: statements to {{ UpdatedDYK}} and {{ UpdatedDYKNom}}. There's one hitch though: there are a few dozen user talk pages that have the un-substituted templates (see here and here). If we subst: the statements, the code will show on those templates. So what should we do? There are a few options: 1) Nothing, 2) make the change and do nothing to the user talk archives and hope they don't notice, 3) go into the user talk archives and substitute the templates, then make the change, 4) make new {{ UpdatedDYK}} and {{ UpdatedDYKNom}} copies that substitute the if statements. Shubinator ( talk) 21:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>
to {UpdatedDYK} and {UpdatedDYKnom} and go in and manually substitute the templates on the people's talk pages (or ask someone with AWB to do it...as an admin I'm supposed to be able to use AWB now, but I've been having trouble getting it installed and I've been too lazy to deal with it once and for all). I tried things out
in my sandbox and it's as you predicted: without subst'ing {UpdatedDYK} it makes a mess, but once you subst it (even if you do it after the fact) everything becomes right again.
rʨanaɢ
talk/
contribs
22:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for not coming back to clarify
my neutral at your RfA; I was real-life busy. I believe
User:Flaming/RFA#Neutral sums it up. If this were someone else's talk page, I would probably go into more detail, because I like to talk about RfA candidates in third person... but that really isn't an option here, since you're the second person. Well, have a nice time with the tools ^^ DON'T BLOCK ME pl0x
flaming
lawyer
22:53, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
I have noticed that you have reversed a number of changes that I made a few days ago to the entry for Tony Hollingsworth. The explanation for many of the reversals is, I gather, that I have used “peacock” terms that do not actually add any information. Having spent nearly 30 years as a professional journalist, working for titles such as the Financial Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, I also have a certain antipathy to this kind of wrtiting. But I would argue that this term in not applicable in these instances.
It seems to me that there is a very large difference between organising a live music concert and organising the types of global cause-related campaigns that are being described here, and hence in the roles and responsibilities of the person in charge.
The first instance involves assessing the likely live demand for a particular performer, booking them into an appropriate venue, providing a certain amount of advertising and then selling at most a few thousand tickets (which is not easy).
The second requires all of the same skills but a lot of others on top. It involves starting with the cause one is trying to promote – such as the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa or helping the world’s disadvantaged children – and then designing a campaign to achieve this.
This means not only coming up with the original concept, but also working with all of the worldwide media outlets involved – television, radio, web, mobile and print – to design a campaign that will maximise coverage including a television audience of several hundred million people. Plus working with sponsors, advertisers, film and television rights buyers and venue promotors to raise the finance to achieve this. So while the campaign might culminate in a live event which forms the basis of a global broadcast event, this live event forms only a small part of the process. And the arrangement of the particular artists who are taking part in the event actually comes quite late in the day, rather than at the beginning.
It is quite clear from Tony Hollingsworth’s biography that while he started his career organising the first type of activity, he has spent the last 20 years on the second, and it is appropriate that he should be described as such.
The above also illustrates why it is so important to make clear that it was Hollingsworth who “conceived, finance and produced” the first Mandela event, as was indeed the case. If these words do not appear, then who did conceive, finance and produce this event? The article does not say. The implication that is left is that it must somehow have been a combination of the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and the Hollingsworth was merely commissioned to do the work. Indeed, many people have in subsequent years drawn exactly this erroneous conclusion. The fact that it is untrue is quite clear from the referenced statements from those involved at the time.
I do not understand why you have reversed my attempt to reorder the four events in bullet points. I was merely putting these into the correct chronological order – The Wall (1990), Guitar Legends (1991), The Great Music Experience (1994) and Moscow (1997). Why is the present (and reinstated) order preferable to this?
All the best
Wireless1917
Wireless1917 ( talk) 11:39, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Have you had a chance to have a further look at this?
Best
Wireless1917 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wireless1917 ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Thanks for this.
This is exactly the point. In most cases he IS the head of the global campaign. Look at my comment above about the first Mandela initiative. Hollingsworth conceived the whole campaign, arranged the finance and then produced it (and I mean the whole campaign and not just the live event at the end). He wasnt "hired" by anyone, as the references from the ANC and the AAM make clear. They benefitted from the campaign in lots of ways. But it wasnt their idea and they didnt pay anything towards it.
Best regards
Wireless1917
Wireless1917 ( talk) 06:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Further to the final sentence above, far from being paid by the ANC and the AAM, Tony Hollingsworth was able to use the surplus from the campaign he had conceived and organised to pay US$5 million to six Southern African charities selected by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, who at the time was president of the AAM. The figure is mentioned in Mike Terry's letter of 18th January 2003 which is referenced in Peter Elman's article.
Best regards
Wireless1917
Wireless1917 ( talk) 12:19, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Your "hidden comment" on Idk has given me an idea. What you have done is, IMHO, much better done via edit comments. And I did something very similar with a different group of pages a while back. Check out Girlfriend, and then click Edit, for an example of these in use. Then check out Template:Editnotices/Girlfriend and Template:Romeo notice for the guts of the notices. I'm thinking something similar could/should be done with your notice as a starting point. Set up a central template for the actual text (like Romeo Notice), and then install the template as a notice on any slang wiktionary soft redirect that regularly gets dicdefs added. Will this stop them, no. But any wanna-be dicdef adder who sees it and stops is one less revert that we have to do. - TexasAndroid ( talk) 14:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
these lists deserve notes on the prisons. Could you please tell whether you will add them or how I should add them? Kind regards, Sarcelles ( talk) 17:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. Weatherlover819 ( talk) 06:40, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Just created Template:JapanEmpireNavbox to aid in the navigation of Empire of Japan related articles. Please check for inconsistencies and add contributions of your own. Thanks. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 09:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I hope you'll be taking part in Bacon Challenge 2009 user:ChildofMidnight/Baconchallenge2009. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 21:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my recent RfA, which was unable pass with a final tally of (45/39/9). I plan on addressing the concerns raised and working to improve in the next several months. Hopefully, if/when I have another RfA I will win your support. Special thanks go to MBisanz, GT5162, and MC10 for nominating me. Thanks again, - down load ׀ sign! 01:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC) | ![]() |
— LinguistAtLarge • Talk 18:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I finally found an article subject that you are passionate and determined about. If only I had had had had had had had had had had known sooner, I would have tortured you with it earlier. I think it should be merged to word games or word usage. Or maybe transwikied? Gosh this is fun. :) ChildofMidnight ( talk) 00:13, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Congrats on main page! Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 00:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Am I supposed to reply here or on my user talk? If there, then I replied here: User talk:Essetra. (How does one make the display different from the link?) Essetra ( talk) 02:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
South Korea. Note that the
three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the
three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a
consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue
dispute resolution.
rʨanaɢ
Cherry Blossom OK (
talk)
06:07, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
and i'm not violate 3rr rule, techniclally. [2] this is not revert. this is development of article. Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 06:08, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
According to WP:LEDE.
According to WP:LEDE, it is not porper that remove current status info, and filled history section. i already said, history section is duplicated information. Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 06:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
not all users support its claim. baeksu is not spport your claim. and it is not a proper reason that its sourced material must be deleted. Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 06:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I will do my very best to live up to the ideals of Wikipedia in the years to come. Davidelit ( talk) 14:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for editing my user page, and helping me learn a bit more about IPA and phonology. It is appreciated :-) 나비Fly Talk/ Contributions 09:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I got rather tied and English is not my best skill.
I guess it is time for you to SPI file on the old friend living in London. Wondergirls = 86.148.181.54 = the returned editor.-- Caspian blue 15:21, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Response to User_talk:DavidDCM#Copyvio.
Hello Rjanag,
thank you for your response! At first I just noticed that the "terminology" paragraph was a 1:1 copypaste of one of the essays I linked to in my deletion request. But when digging further into the article I realized that almost every paragraph was at least partially copypasted from the various sources. Your suggestion to go through the article step-by-step also came to my mind, but that would be extremely time-consuming because of the length of the article and the vast number of potential sources. Thus I thought it might be more efficient to delete the thing and let it start it all over again. Nonetheless I'll follow your administratorial rule, and as a first step remove the obvious copyvio paragraphs. -- DavidDCM ( talk) 15:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag,
I had created the image, which was posted on 4chan.org. It is arguable that the work from which it was derived (the background image) is, in fact, copyrighted. Since, I can not gain clearance on that, I suppose it is fact that I can not claim copyleft. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigflavor ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Is there anything that can and should be done about User:Dalejenkins signature and about his habit of erasing his talk page after every comment? -- SGBailey ( talk) 07:28, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
To keep up the DYK RfA trend, I've started a (B)RfA for DYKHousekeepingBot :P The code's all written and it could start running as soon as it's approved. It relies on your handy template for the file tagging, so when you're ready, we can move it to template namespace. The bot worked very well on a dry run, creating usable archives and a table for WP:DYKSTATS from the page hits. I learned a bit of the history of DYK too – here is the first bot edit to update DYK! Shubinator ( talk) 14:58, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed that {{ dyktalk}} is fully protected. Could you add the views parameter? What you suggested here is fine. The bot just got approved for trial, so I'll be revving it up within the hour. Keep your fingers crossed. Actually, keep your fingers ready to block the bot if it goes haywire (j/k, I've got literally 3 ways of taking it down). Shubinator ( talk) 16:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Just finished the first real run for the bot. It ran for 4 hours before it stopped because of a problem with the connection to Wikipedia. Looks like there's one bug with archiving, and maybe one with file detection, but overall it went well. The archives are easy to clean up (the first one's here btw). Oh, and your DYKfuture page showed 328/188/1516 near the start of the run...we'll see where it ends up. Shubinator ( talk) 23:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
South Korea. Note that the
three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the
three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a
consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue
dispute resolution.
Meandmylefthand (
talk)
15:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I will report you to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring if you do one more revert within 24 hours. Thanks. Meandmylefthand ( talk) 15:20, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Meandmylefthand has reported you at the edit war board. Note that this was shortly after you suspected him of being a sock. 月 (Moon) と 暁 (Sunrise) 16:05, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
— Ed (Talk • Contribs) 06:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
At least when I last checked a minute ago, the AfD page for Hotshot (game) didn't exist.-- The Legendary Sky Attacker 01:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I've pointed User:Stetsonharry some resources to help avoid potential issues in the future. He truly did not realize he was plagiarizing and is working to try to understand what went wrong here and how he can avoid these problems in the future. I hope you can see that he is acting completely in good faith, and will join me in helping him learn from this experience. -- Collectonian ( talk · contribs) 02:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch. With Aurora, Illinois, being so much more famous than its counterpart in Indiana I had to stop myself from typing "Illinois" more than once while writing the article. I guess I should have stopped myself one more time. - Dravecky ( talk) 14:24, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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An AfD for this article, which you participated in, was recently closed as "no consensus." I have request a deletion review here [4]. Bali ultimate ( talk) 16:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Rjanag,
May I request you to please revisit the above article to review the tag, since another expert on the subject has edited it?-- Nvvchar ( talk) 09:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
See this edit that I have removed over a 100 (!) links. There is no justification at all for restoring the {{ Overlinked}} template. If there are a few links that in your opinion should have been removed, which I have missed or deemed usefull, just go ahead. Debresser ( talk) 11:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Since you recently edited Fortune cookie, I want to make you aware of some side discussion that's begun on my talk page here. Best, CliffC ( talk) 22:06, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Ron Garretson hook, the fine should be $25,000 instead of ,000. It's a bot bug. Shubinator ( talk) 21:11, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
The bot's hitting some bumps because of the vandalism and background noise on DYK before it was protected in 2005. Two files, File:Mtvernon1.jpg and File:Mount vernon stamp.JPG, were on DYK, so the bot tagged them. Problem is, they weren't part of a legitimate DYK ( 1, 2). Could you delete the two pages? Shubinator ( talk) 22:57, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Nice to see you have returned. Hopefully the break wasn't too stressful. :) \ Backslash Forwardslash / { talk} 23:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
"If you find or contribute to an article meeting the good article criteria, you can nominate it on the good article nominations page..." (emhphasis mine) I believe it meets the Good article criteria. If you don't feel free to fail the nomination. Powers T 13:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
This has nothing to do with the other thing. =) This closure seems to be in violation of policy; if you merged content, you should keep a redirect with the edit history for attribution purposes, right? Powers T 16:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for contacting me about your edit, redirecting Chanteuse to its Wiktionary entry. In retrospect, that would’ve been a much simpler solution that requesting it for deletion, and it makes more sense as well! Thank you for your contribution. ARTICHOKE-BOY (Talk) 20:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. Auntieruth55 ( talk) 23:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC) and thanks for the reminder on the editing summaries. I try, but then forget. -- Auntieruth55 ( talk) 23:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
The bulk of primary historical information available comes from the church's own archival historical record. Why is this unacceptable to use as a source of information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crixxx ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I was afraid of that. Thank you for letting me know. The Flash {talk} 01:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip, but I actually the example listed at the top, which caused confusion with "Example.png" (especially since some templates require the omission of File:/Image:. -- Bobak ( talk) 23:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about rushing to conclusions. I tend to crack down very hard on what I view as unproductive vandalism-only accounts, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Did you know there's a whole field of inactive, unused accounts whose only purpose is to abuse a userpage to promote vandalism that would normally be reverted in articles? just a little insignificant 00:44, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag, Hello, I ask for your help. Yesterday, some new editor edited Joseon Dynasty but inserted this, "Korea was client state according to Japan, China, and some Western view" in the first sentence of the intro. Chinese scholars and some Westerns think both Korea and Japan were vassal states of China. However, the concept differs from Western's feudal concept. It is for better trades. Japan was also a vassal state of China until Ming Dynasty, and Korea had considered Japan a much inferior state filled with pirates and savages such as Wae or Wako but, are the notion mentioned in the intro? I think the new editor grossly violates Npov, and UNDUE. So I want you to watch the article, because many Chinese and Japanese editors disrupt the article in order to add their Chinese-centered view and Japanese WW2-era delusion. If more administrators keep watching the article, socks/ povpushers will be decreased. please help me. -- Historiographer ( talk) 13:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
The protection was based on what seemed to be a long history of ip vandalism, but in my opinion it was borderline as to whether the long term blp issues merited the semi protection or not, so I leaned on the side of caution due to it being a blp. So long as your happy that the page is watched enough not to result in any damage then im happy with your call to unprotect. :-) Seddσn talk| WikimediaUK 15:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I changed it cause the picture of the miracle on the Han river does not mean anything but it just looks like a chart. And, the picture I put was not just a pretty picture. They were symbols of South Korea and the miracle on the Han river. Han river of course and 63 building, Banpo bridge are iconic landmarks. And why do you talk to me as if you are in dominant situation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamberikore ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't really understand what you want from me. But, I don't think I need to discuss about this if I replaced your favorite picture of the miracle on the Han river. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamberikore ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
This issue is being acted on now. I figured I was posting it in the wrong way (and in the wrong place!), so feel free to delete my report about User:James von Brunn. :D -- Joseph.nobles ( talk) 19:14, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for all your support with Tang Tuyet Minh, although I will still be surprised if it is accepted for DYK. Kauffner ( talk) 03:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag,
Per this edit, no worries on your comment on my standing! I normally sit to edit wp anyway...
Also, can you give a simple pronunciation for your name? I can't read/understand IPA so need baby-speak. Or you can continue to be thought of as R-janag! Bigger digger ( talk) 06:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Seriously i know her and her family. please remove the dubious tag. one of her official representative requested me to move the page to "Suman Ranganath". i moved the page on march, see [5]. her official website is http://sumanranganath.com/ (now defunct, it is expired on may). "Ranganathan" is a name credited in her tamil films (because Ranganathan is surname which most commonly used by tamils.) see this timesofindia source which mention her name as "Suman Ranganath" which is cleary not a dubious name. Mugur Chandra ( talk) 14:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
One last request, modify the lead sentence to "Suman Ranganath" or "Suman Ranganathan" ... and remove the dubious tag. Mugur Chandra ( talk) 14:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Is there a method of putting a DYK nom on hold? This is my first attempt, I can see that you have many questions, some of which I have failed to answer in my second response. I can answer them but it threatens to consume more space than may be normal on the DYK talk, so let me know how you want to proceed and I will be accommodating. Sswonk ( talk) 00:34, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
When you have time, please go to commons:File talk:Flag of the Republic of China.svg have a look, you will find out how silly people can be, can't even tell the difference between Black and Blue Arilang talk 01:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
I think this is right. right?
Oh come on, was that really vandalizing? I was merely adding flavor to an argument. Ya know how you try to make a point, but you want to drive it home, so you say something like "cry me a river." See? No need to be a bully about it. Don't cry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.145.220 ( talk) 07:33, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag: I've returned my link to the article on the Voynich Manuscript (with slight shortening of description):
For one thing, my optical theory (proposing that the some of the Voynich cylinders are optical devices, such as microscopes) is not "self-published". My theory first appeared in Renaissance Magazine (Issue #53, March 2007). The website is an addendum to that, including further research and implications on the subject.
In addition, my theory appears in two other published books, the Claudio Foti book, "Codice Voynich", and "Fiona: Mysteries & Curiousities of Literary Fraud & Folly", Volume I, edited by W.J. Elvin ( ISBN 978-1440461552). By contrast, many of the links which are left (and which I think should be left, I am not arguing against their being there) are references to self-published books, and stand-alone websites. One of the major books on the subject, a very valuable resource, with a very controversial theory, is completely self-published at the author's expense. This is common in this particular field, I only point it out, again, because mine is one of the few theories in the last few years which is not self-published.
As for "pseudo-science", well by that standard, "we" all are. Experts in the fields of botany, astronomy, history, and on and on, all disagree with one another. They cite countless arguments, each backed up by "solid science", which absolutely shoot down the other theories. They cannot all be correct, they cannot all be correct science. The trouble is, we do not know which "science" to trust, or which known sciences or histories do apply to the Voynich problem. I do not, they do not. But the basis of my theory are sound, whether or not it turns out they apply in this case. The history of optics in the early 17th century, for one thing. The fascination with ancient mysterious cipher works, hermetic works, the Utopian societies, are all well established in the time frame I propose, by the people I propose influenced it. And there are precedents and co-incidents to my theory, in the time I propose. My theory is completely based on known sciences and histories, nothing had to be imagined or invented, except, as for everyone else's theory, the Voynich's possible place in it.
Don't be fooled by the momentum of the status-quo of Voynich research. It has been wrong twice longer than I have been alive... the answer has been sought in this traditional research, and the purveyors of these traditional views have not come one inch closer to any hope of an answer. The field needs other input, mine and others, to open new areas of possibilities. Yes, as long as they are based on what is known... and what is scientific and reasonable. Remember, all we know is that it is on vellum, and appeared to history about 1622. Everything else, and everyone else, is in the same boat as I am.
Anyway, I've looked carefully over the WP:EL rules since Dreamguy removed my link a few weeks ago, and I feel that my link meets all the criteria. If you have a specific point on that list you feel I do not meet, we can argue it in the appropriate forum... I'm sorry I do not know all the procedures, this whole area of wikipedia is somewhat unfamiliar to me... but we can both make our case before the appropriate authorities, if you still disagree. If not, please leave the link there. I not only feel it strictly follows the rules, it actually follows them better than most of the links remaining (which nonetheless, should remain). Thanks for your time, Rich SantaColoma. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.4.192 ( talk) 12:07, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the article. But please check the the AFD you wrote, the information is completely wrong. -- Morning ( talk) 15:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
You deleted my draft at my request, but little did I know that I need the page history, can you please get them? Gsmgm ( talk) 15:37, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag, strictly speaking you're right, the "disputed" tag is for articles. If you really dislike my use of the "disputed" tag I can create and apply a tag that says "the validity of this section of the guideline / policy is disputed" - i.e. a section-level version of the "disputed policy / guideline" tag. The points is that "under discussion" is misleadingly bland, since: the majority of current contributors disagree with the current wording's deletionist implications; reasonable evidence has been presented that NOTPLOT is not a legitimate guideline because it never gained any sort of consensus. -- Philcha ( talk) 21:06, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Regarding the above user and the warning I issued, the warning was issued using Huggle. In this this instance I did not use {{ subst:uw-vandalism4}} but rather used Huggle to issue a warning. My recollection was that I warned for editing tests, but upon reviewing it, I may have clicked the button accidentally when trying to drag down to editing tests. Incidentally I always make an effort to match the violation to the warning whether it be neutral point of view, spam, page blanking, vandalism, or editing tests. Thanks. HarlandQPitt ( talk) 06:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Personally I think it is important to reduce the amount of images, however I do believe that removing the 4 high quality images and leaving an extremely low-quality image is a flawed idea. As we know, the 5th character in the E3 screenshot has little information for a full profile such as Lightning, Snow, Oerba and Sazh. Removing the E3 would only be minor, where as removing the 4 renditions of the Fully Profiled main characters would damage a lot of work as well as the ability to allow people to fully alalyse the characters, where as the E3 shot is poor and only shows the characters faces where as the 4 pictures show their full renditions. If you feelthe size of the Image gallery containing the 4 images and links to the larger images of the 4 Main "Stated" characters of FFXIII, please reply stating the the size of the gallery is too big, as this is easily changable.
The Cosmo 19:42, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
P.S. from a different perspective, What makes you think the quality of the E3 screenshot is more acceptable than links to 4 fully-fledged images, the gallery can be made smaller to seem more barable if you wish. The whole idea of these images is for reference, the E3 screenshot is poor where as the 4 individual Pngs give an Entire prespective. The buety of the individual images is that the gallery on the Main article can be as small as we like while still giving a link to the Fully Sized ones, the E3 screenshot is the same size as it is on the Main article. Plus the images in the gallery are not technically free licensed, they are used for promotional reasons, such as being publisised with information about the game, such as wikipedia articles. The Cosmo 19:42, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Let me Explain The Cosmo 21:11, 14 June 2009 (UTC) It was you who put it up for deletion, the person who did before you did not see the correct license tag 1st. The Cosmo 21:25, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I have now stated it's reason to exist, it exists to give reference to the 5th character who has been shown within the E3 FFXIII Trailer of 2009, not much information is known, and thats why it's a very minor picture, if you would like me to reduce it's resolution then please leave me a message. The image itself gives Visual information about the character, and if that isn't evidential enough, the paragraph written next to the image gives instant reference to the image. I had not yet finished adding the image to the article since I began to get countless claims from people who snap at instant changes. But I got there as I do and as many do. The Cosmo 21:25, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry is I ever sounded rude,
I know you do not particularly like me very much, but can you please stop removing my gallery, It has a reason to exist. All of this was resolved on my talk page with a good friend who has the same position as you. The Cosmo 21:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag: Thanks for the note, have commented. Would you mind readding the deletion notices on the new file? I don't want to breach 3RR. J Milburn ( talk) 21:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
When will we come to a consensus, considering that my 5th image was created by me using Square-Enix content from a promotional video. And I may edit the licensing tags on the other 4 from promotional to Non-Free 3D art as I originally intended to until being given advice from another wikipedia user to make it Promotional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by XCosmoX ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
OK I apologise about the 3 revert rule, but deleting the images is a bit hasty at this moment in time, plus, I would like to know who will be the person who deletes them if it comes to that. I am Able to explain in as much detail as you like. To the Talk page! The Cosmo 22:01, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
You have not answered my question on the FFXIII talk page. The Cosmo 22:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
I have just written a new section to our discussion on FFXIII talk page, but I am currently having edit conflicts, Thank you for deleting the NORA 5th Character file as requested, I will now supply reasons for existance on the talk page once I am able to submit the new content. The Cosmo 22:27, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Please respond to my reply on the FFXIII talk page
Could you also specify a valid reason for why they are up for why you reverted my revision of using Text Based links rather than the Unapproved galleries? Thisis no longer making much sense as the Text Based links have nothing to do with the Section we have been discussing the use of the gallery on upon the talk page apart from the fact Text Based links have been proposed.
I feel that you are more dead set on deleting the images than helping towards a compromised solution.
The Cosmo
01:56, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, I have not seen any speedy deletion tags placed on the files, nor any links to a new discussion page.
The Cosmo
No free equivalent.
Not as of yet, the game itself will be copyrighted for many years.
Respect for commercial opportunities. It is being used for an identicle purpose as to its original marketing role.
Minimal usage.
I wouldn't say less quality would convey the level of information these can, but of course this is one of the questioned.
The solution is within reason, by keeping the images uploaded within acceptable guidelines, such as the compromised Text Based links the fact that the images are large or because there are a few of them is within reason of that, they are individual pictures, for individual characters.
Minimal extent of use.
Same applies here as for Minimal Use. With the exception of that the license permits high resolution use.
Previous publication.
Within an extremely vast amount of internet resources and various other media.
Content
To a scientific analytical degree.
Media-specific policy
Yes, all of this was completed on submission.
One-article minimum
Yes, well, they were until they were removed by the person in question.
Significance
This has been discussed, their significance is to give complete visual reference as well as text based reference.
Restrictions on location.
Yes they were in an article, maybe NO_GALLERY would have been a better solution?
Image description page.
Yes the Files included all of the criteria for this.
The Cosmo
02:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Then wikipedia should'nt really bother with Non-Free images at all.
The Cosmo
02:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Please Notify me if you prefer deleting them earlier than requested, this is good practice to avoid misconduct.
The Cosmo
14:30, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi
The edits I made were entirely factual. What sort of verification do you need? 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 18:11, 11 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 17:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Just found this he is on record. http://www.veganfitness.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18674 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 01:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, I believe you have categories for vegans? I think it would be worth adding him to these to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 01:41, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I think that you broke Template:ffd2, see Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2009_June_15, the first entry has a section title with the link just like all the entries for June 14, but the ones below have a broken title instead of having no link. I think that I have fixed it, and new entries on the list should appear like you intended. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 05:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I thought this might interest you. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:29, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I saw you deleted File:Hazrat Ali, Afghan politician.jpg entering WP:CSD#G7 in the deletion log -- that is "good faith request by author" -- correct?
I don't believe I actually requested deletion. I thought I was requesting input from others as to whether it should be deleted. Am I missing something? Geo Swan ( talk) 17:42, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Final Fantasy XIII. Note that the
three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the
three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a
consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue
dispute resolution. —
HelloAnnyong
(say whaaat?!)
04:22, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Leave everthiing the way it is for now, I will be offline for a while to get some sleep. I will notify you when I'm online again. BTW, you don't have PSN by any chance?
Speak to you later, and please leave everything for now.
The Cosmo
04:58, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Since I know you love removing suspicious files, here is a treat for you to delete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FFXIII_Characters*.png
Don't thank me. This image is no longer required on wikipedia (or never was under circumstances).
The Cosmo 16:45, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Please add the images information to XCosmoX/Image data as you have done with the previous 4. You may delete now. Be sure to refer to the FFXIII talk page to see the current discussions progress.
The Cosmo
17:05, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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dude it looks reliable to me. Besides couldnt we have discussed it on the talk page first? The Isiah ( talk) 07:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have nominated Ottawa language for Featured Article on June 5th, at Ottawa language. So far there has been very little feedback, and I have the impression that language-related articles don't fare all that well at FA. I think the content is of high quality and it meets the FA criteria, but one of the reviewers has indicated it needs copyediting. I appreciated your work for the Good Article review - would you be willing to take a run through and either copyedit or make suggestions? Or suggest someone else who would be willing/able to copyedit? Thanks. Jomeara421 ( talk) 04:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi
you added a commnet in Jan 2009 about cleaning up the Aphasiology article. If you could do that in the very near future I may help me sort a few issues with regard the dyslexia project. There are two existing articles which seem to overlap dyslexia and aphsia Alexia (acquired dyslexia) and Alexia without agraphia. I have very little knowledge of Aphasia but we seem to have adopted these two articlew into the dyslexia project, so could you help define how Aphasia contrbutes to these types of Dyslexia
dolfrog ( talk) 19:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hmm... I see your point. I met David a good while ago and we discussed the condition. So I know my edit is factual. He is also happy with it being public knowledge. But that is the only reference I can find. Not sure how to get around this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 01:45, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The vegan one is pretty easy though. He has mentioned it quite a few times in interviews ect. He was up for an award as 'Vegan of the year 2008' as well.
I'm new to creating pages on wikipedia. You just deleted my addition "Ottawa Ukraina". I was trying to put information on there for my local soccer team, and grabbed the information from our website. I cited where the information came from at the bottom of my page, but i guess that wasn't good enough. What do i need on there so that if i copy an article from my website, my wikipage won't get deleted?
Acousinspanchuk ( talk) 16:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
So if you could help me out with that, it'd be most appreciated. Tenk you veddy much. -- Wack'd Talk to me! • Admire my handiwork! 00:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK [7], [8], [9]. I also published that work under the free license, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike. For reference please see my website http://kallar.weebly.com.
I have also send mail to wikipedia for copyleft statement.
I would like to start that article again please tell me if it is against laws of wikipedia, also help me to improve that article.
Thank you, Rajnwiki ( talk) 16:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
If you are interested in this discussion, please leave some comments.
commons:File talk:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Arilang talk 22:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi All
I have added some new sections below which have come from various talk pages in recent days but all realted in some way to the dyslexia project. So I have added them all below, in the hope that we can all begin to add our own input as one person working alone can cause also sorts of problems as can be seen above. I will post a copy of this to all who I think may wish to the new begining of the Dyslexia project and a copy will appear on your individual discussion pages ( I hope you do not mind). The oringinal copy of this can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dyslexiathe talk page of the main project article you will see revise project template, the changes on the tamplate is the addition of a Project pages section, which includes the orinal project pages and the new STAGE TWO page which is hopefuly the new starting point. the STAGE TWO page has the dyslexia article as it is now. And we can tinker with it without changing the actual article itself and discuss and issue we may have before making further changes to the article itself.
dolfrog ( talk) 21:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so very much Rjanag. I'm greatly grateful for all the support, help, and assistance you've offered me in my RfA. Of course you know that this adds you to the short list of people I can bother with silly questions don't you? (I'm probably going to have to have an "opt-out" program for that ... lol. Thank you though, I really appreciate it. ;) — Ched : ? 01:59, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that you have a slight redesign for you Linguistic Barnstar. Also, can you please comment on the other barnstars, Biography Barnstar, World War Barnstar and Children's Literature Barnstar as well? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards. Thank you very much for your attention. Kayau ( talk) 07:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand why you have reverted my request for citations in Grammatical aspect.
You say that term "HAVE+EN" refers to constructions such as "have eaten"; that's clear enough, in fact it's the only example that the article gives.
But, as far as I know, it's also perfectly equivalent to any verb used in the present perfect, including regular ones that make their participle with -ed, such as "have talked". Or is there something special about strong verbs that have participles in -en? If so, then that's not at all clear in the article.
The article never mentions those two terms again, so it's not using them as "utility terms" to tag things later in the text: it's actually claiming they're widespread linguistic terms. Google doesn't confirm that.
LjL ( talk) 13:39, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
(or "HAVE +ED")
to the article. But HAVE +EN is a perfectly fine description of perfect or experiential aspect and should probably remain--to be honest, I think it helps a non-linguistic reader understand what's being talked about, by giving a concrete example.
rʨanaɢ
talk/
contribs
13:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Thanks! – Clockwork Soul 14:54, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you! P|^|C ( talk) 09:16, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Good edits and additions to WP:ABELINCOLN!-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 04:37, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you reverted this edit I made to The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. I understand that the correct spelling of the name is "McNinja", but sort keys don't always use the correct spellings. One of the places where they don't is names that start with "Mc" or "Mac": see the last bullet item here for the explanation. I'll admit that I don't like this particular practice,
And don't feel bad -- I did the same thing before I learned about this, and I'm sure many more people will, too! -- Auntof6 ( talk) 06:34, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Politzer! Please have a look on my comment. -- Reiner Stoppok ( talk) 22:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Do you really think this solves the problems of my criticism? -- Reiner Stoppok ( talk) 18:56, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello, per m:Meta:Requests for deletion#User:Zhoroscop I've speedy deleted his page and added the new domain to the global blacklist. I wonder if it is possible to speedy delete his page locally or I have to open an MxD for this. I think the case is pretty clear that this user is using the WMF projects as a venue to self-promote and as a personal webhost. Best regards and thanks for reporting. — df| 08:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC) If it is possible to leave me a {{ talkback}} on my page I will be grateful. I'm not so active on enwiki as I would like to be... :( — df| 08:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
{{
delete}}
and wait... (I did that in april) F.Y.I. the account has been globally locked, there are more details at
m:WM:SBL#User:Zhoroscop again if you like to see. Best regards, —
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11:02, 26 June 2009 (UTC)Two-year-old 'world's youngest smoker' - Yahoo!7 News -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 10:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for looking at my account unblock. I have made a new request could you possibly look at it again? Tanks Wes
That comment is addressed to both of you, although I consider you more disruptive. Two reverts is not unusual, although they should be clearly labeled, feel free to cite me on that. Trying to get your content opponent blocked with wikilawyering is quite disruptive, please don't try such tricks in the future. It's good that you are both talking on article's talk, and it's good that you started the discussion; please assume good faith and try to reach a consensus that way. You are both experienced and respected editors and I hope you can work out your issues peacefully. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:00, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Well, sorry if I caused any trouble to the South Korea article, but as you notice from my username I am obsessed with Korean Dramas and I know my stuff. Thus, the show is called Autumn Tale/A Tale of Autumn etc. , but not Autumn Fairy Tale.
Again, I am very sorry, but I hope you understand.
PS I just joined wikipedia three weeks ago, so I'm new to this stuff.
Addicted-to-kdramas ( talk) 02:59, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks :) jjmihai 09:28, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
I spotted you tag this article on my watchlist, and have jumped in and improved the article as much as I can, but sourcing it appears to be difficult, whoever added that information has probably got it from an offline source. The abbey section shouldn't be too hard to source, but I'm uncertain about the history section, should we remove it? I'll expand the article to other aspects of the settlement as and when I find bits and pieces (I have absolutely no connection with this place, I just have most UK places on my watchlist!). Thanks Jenuk1985 | Talk 20:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Any chance you can add a city in Canada to Template:Did you know/Queue/LocalUpdateTimes? I'm not familiar enough with the code to try it myself. We must be getting very close to Canada Day, we have lots of special occasion hooks, but nobody seems to have done much yet. Gatoclass ( talk) 13:16, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
{{Template:Did you know/Queue/LocalUpdateTimes |customname=Toronto |customshift=-5 hours}}
Hello, I thought you might be a good person to ask about this. Some recent DYKs seem to have been commonly viewed yet they are not on this list. Here, here, here, here and here are some examples of what I mean. Maybe I am not reading it correctly but are they good enough? Will they be added if they are or is it OK to add them myself or is someone else supposed to do it? I am just curious and am not sure who controls the list so thought I would ask who I should tell about this. -- can dle • wicke 21:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
The refs look fine. I couldn't find any obvious errors, everything looks ready. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 05:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, just a note to let you know I modified your block of Fhue ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to indefinite. I'm not questioning your block, but there's a pretty big wp:username issue that it took me a moment to perceive. Toddst1 ( talk) 13:22, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question for you regarding DYK hook. The required hook length should not be over 200 characters, but does it include "*...that" or "(pictured)?" ?-- Caspian blue 23:21, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
[[Example|this example]]
). The easiest way to count is to paste the hook into
this counter.Hey Rjanag, I thought you may be interested in this:
{{User:MiszaBot/config
|maxarchivesize = 125K
|counter = 6
|minthreadsleft = 0
|minthreadstoarchive = 0
|algo = old(48h)
|archive = User talk:Rjanag/Archive%(counter)d
}}
Just add it to the top of your page and it'll save much time. :) \
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06:11, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing the 3RR complaint. I trust I can come to you if edit warring continues. RafaelRGarcia ( talk) 06:33, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
As to "Since the reverting has stopped, I see no reason to block anyone"- The reverting stopped because I didn't want to break the 3rr rule. Apparently that was error, because you now tell us, in effect, that 3rr is merely advisory: it won't be enforced if it would "prevent [the editor violating the rule] from participating in the discussion." The practical effect, whether you think you're endorsing it or not, is that the version preferred by an editor who broke the rules trumps objections to it made by those who make a good faith effort to stay within the rules. What is the process to appeal your call? - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 16:52, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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But is Jimmy Wales the fouder of Wikipedia? Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
That is what I have been trying to tell him, but he keeps accusing me trolling. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
He just did the same thing to your comment. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:37, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I was just about to say that I now see his point. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:42, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Ok, again I'm really sorry. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
If there is consensus to include something, but not consensus on how it ought to be included, there isn't consensus on its inclusion. Let me put the question in more functional terms: in what circumstances, or after what period of time, will I not incur a 3RR or "edit warring" block for reinserting the quote?
Just saying "when there's consensus" isn't an answer. Without some quantification of what constitutes sufficient consensus, your claim that I am "free to put the quote back in if that is what the consensus becomes" starts to look like the Obama rhetorical strategy of saying you're for doing X in principle, but then setting up so many caveats and obstacles to doing X that doing X is, in practical terms, impossible. You suggest getting additional opinions, but (mindfull of WP:CANVAS) I have used the 3d opinion process several times before, and it is a crapshoot whether one gets from it little input or no input at all. Weeks can go by before we get additional input.
And even if/when additional input that supports inclusion is forthcoming, you still leave me in an untenable situation. What is the threshold is for having achieved "consensus"? Without knowing where the line is, no matter how many more users endorse my position, I still can't risk putting the material back, lest you block me, citing your decision about Garcia's 3RR violation. The practical upshot is not that "[h]e gets 'the last word' for a day or so while we discuss things at the talk page," but rather, that "[h]e gets 'the last word'" for the indefinite future, unless someone else, by sheer chance or by my ( inappropriate) request, inserts the same quote.
It doesn't stop there, either. It isn't clear how broadly your warning sweeps: am I on notice for any reverts (or anything that can be so characterized) at Clarence Thomas, or just for the sections at issue in yesterday's controversy? By imposing this amorphous standard that maximizes your discretion, you have effectively issued me a topic ban on Clarence Thomas for having the temerity to report someone for breaking the rules and lacking the courtesy to violate them myself.
Lastly, it is grossly inappropriate that this issue is being brushed under the rug at a talk page. It amounts to an allegation of administrator misconduct, and whether I'm in the wrong or you are, this is an issue that ought to be aired at AN or one of its sub-boards. Since talk pages are not private fora, I am therefore boldly copying your comment and my response to a subsection of the AN debate.- Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 21:50, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Since you weren't notified, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Complaint_about_an_administrator.27s_actions. If I were you I wouldn't respond. Shubinator ( talk) 22:24, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the sig guidance. - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 02:45, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
In the AN/I thread about you doubt is being expressed about whether you realize that telling editors to "go fuck themselves" is unacceptable behaviour. I myself believe that you are aware of this and have all intentions of not repeating that behaviour, but other editors are less sure. You might want to clarify your stance however just to remove any possibilities of stains on your integrity. ·Maunus·ƛ· 02:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I realize that coming from me it will mean virtually nothing, but I have weighed in at the same thread to oppose a block. - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 03:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
"Sorry, girls, but this photo isn't a poster, and this article isn't your bedroom wall..."
= win.
Pandacomics ( talk) 13:41, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about using this page like this to message you, I couldn't find a forum page but would like to raise some points. Since you were listed as an active user it looked like the best place to raise questions.
1) There are several languages listed on the main page. Why isn't Mandarin listed among them? 2) Mandarin should be listed among them as it is one of 6 International languages used at the U.N.. Also Mandarin represents a user base of possibly 2 billion, why has no effort to translate been done? 3) Hindi should also be listed among them as it contains 1.2 Billion users, why has no effort to translate been done either? 4) It has been years since Wikipedia's presence on the internet. These two critical languages should be featured by now. But they are not. Meanwhile all major European languages with far less users are featured. Is this intentional or a geo-politically motivated statement of some sort?
Other than that, no problems with Wikipedia for now, it is a very informative and helpful tool which is mostly accurate. Keep it up! But address these issues!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.50.38.158 ( talk)
Hi Rjanag. Thank you for the concern about my username, but I can't imagine how it would be seen as an attack. Could you clarify? Linguistixuck ( talk) 01:10, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi again, can you move one of the preparations to queue five so I can do another queue please? I'm on a roll! :D -- can dle • wicke 03:28, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
A bomb and bus set fired....some violence against the civilian,don't you mind categorize it to terrorist incident?-- Ksyrie( Talkie talkie) 11:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
hey, you're faster than I am... riots/crimes, etc. Good job :P Seb az86556 ( talk) 12:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
ok, you take over, I'm getting tired. Seb az86556 ( talk) 13:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Is it too early as I have reviewed a Dracula-related one? -- can dle • wicke 00:33, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
hi again... still on that Urumqi-article, eh? I'm not familiar with with Chinese... Simplified/Traditional -- why does one date have only 2009, the other only 7.05? Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Interesting. Thx Seb az86556 ( talk) 05:44, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
somebody opened the "terrorism"-debate in a separate string again, was removed for trolling, yells (bold print) and all that. I was trying to tell him/her to join the ongoing discussion to no avail... any advice? thanks. Seb az86556 ( talk) 10:07, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
back to real editing, shall we :) here's a snippet from the Urumqi article/Causes (2nd paragraph)
...chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, said in a televised speech on the morning of 6 July that the movement came after a conflict between Uygur and...
"Movement"? I have no idea what that word refers to. Is that even sensible English? Fix it if you can, 'cause I don't even know what it's supposed to mean. thanks. Seb az86556 ( talk) 11:18, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Makes sense now. Seb az86556 ( talk) 20:37, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. In particular, for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. ¡Muchas gracias! - Minkus ( talk) 12:15, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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I modified the Psycho Donuts article because I thought 'massive head trauma' should not be referred to as a mental illness. (One could argue that it is the cause of some mental illnesses but is that sort of like saying that a car crash is a type of a broken leg?)
Anyway, if you agree with me, you may wish to change the DYK entry, which contains the most explicit reference to MHT as a mental illness.
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Prep areas have been full for about 24 hours. Can you move them to Queues 3 and 4 so I can do some more to avoid a panic tomorrow? -- can dle • wicke 00:02, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
What do you think? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 00:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello,Rjanag! I am very glad to receive your message. It is not me who changed the paragraph a lot. But I think we'd better pay more attention to the other two users. Perhaps they are in a war now. It is not very good for wiki. Best wishes! -- Sadmovie ( talk) 20:38, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Will you please investigate this a little bit more. I know your busy, but its an easy case by looking at the talk. Osprey9713 ( talk) 20:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye on it. If images come back, I will revert and join the discussion. Feel free to message me if I'm being slow. J Milburn ( talk) 22:13, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Please watch it with the personal attacks -- while that's not as bad as the ones CH was tossing back at you, it's still quite a bit over the line.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 01:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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For keeping July 2009 Ürümqi riots as accurate and NPOV as possible, especially when the POV-pushers from both sides descended. |
I thought I left another message on your talk page back on the 6th, but looking now it seems to have not saved. Anyway, thank you much for the barnstar, and you deserve one for the excellent work on the riot page - you've been keeping everything running quite smoothly, in spite of your language classes. I can't imagine how little sleep you're getting right now. I'm doing language classes too, at Indiana's summer program. I'm currently in the Central Eurasian Studies department there, finishing up an MA degree. Where were your working as a research assistant (and where are you studying Uighur)? Otebig ( talk) 02:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
You are terrible!
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
damn, you're fast again. awesome Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
User WhiteTrashTalk is vandalizing your Userpage Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've filed a case for Joseon Dynasty at Mediation Cabal: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-07-09/Joseon Dynasty. You might want to chip in your 2 won. Jpatokal ( talk) 06:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
In these two edits [12] [13] you restored comments that were removed by editors after a brief discussion at the talk page, and you didn't provide any rationale for why you are restoring them. If you didn't already know, there is a discussion at Talk:July 2009 Ürümqi riots#Spoiled like pandas? about this stuff. Please leave a comment there rather than continuing to revert; reverting without discussion is often considered edit warring. Thank you, rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 03:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Look at the Xinjiang-article and tell me what you think -- someone just added about a huge passage (UNSOURCED) and called it "brief history".... and squeezed it in before the actual history-part. thanks! Seb az86556 ( talk) 18:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
July 2009 Urumqi Riots Sorry, me again. "First Time Again" seems like a sockpuppet of "Oooh75" which seems like a sockpuppet, too. If there's a petition to block him/her -- I'll sign it.:P Seb az86556 ( talk) 18:48, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes. I am new and this is the first time I am trying to edit. I do not know every rule of Wikipedia yet. Thank you for helping me out. What I do not understand here is why the numbers can not be shown and why you (may be one other person) can put it out the way you like but we can not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by First time again ( talk • contribs) 18:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for my first Barn Star. Jim101 ( talk) 20:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Shí ałdo' shiBarn Star áłtséhígíí baa ahéé' nisin (...and since you wrote an article about Navajo Slash-L, you go ahead and figure out what that mean :)...) Seb az86556 ( talk) 20:27, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
alright *sigh*...
=I am also thankful for my first Barn Star :)
Seb az86556 ( talk) 20:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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The page is already the focus of a major dispute and mediation is being sought. But User:Historiographer not I started the edit-warring, why didn't you warn him? This was what you did. Why didn't you do so this time but helped User:Historiographer? -- Apollo Augustus Koo ( talk) 04:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
We need somebody with knowledge of Chinese history: Xinjiang, section 1.7
Hi Rjanag. Thanks for your advice about my 'editing gap' on my talk page. User:Backslash Forwardslash has kindly offered to put up a nomination for adminship, so I'll find out what other editors think! (I'm not sure whether it was my Wikibirthday, but I'm fairly sure I've bumped into you somewhere on WP; unfortunately I can't pinpoint the place either!)-- Kateshort forbob 10:32, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
please give your input on Qiuzheyun's edits, specifically continued insertion of the word "terrorism" ino July 5 Urumqi riots article. Seb az86556 ( talk) 10:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
ok. I'll put for discussion. - Qiuzheyun ( talk) 11:16, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
ok. Thanks. - Qiuzheyun ( talk) 11:29, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Mate, you're "famous": [14] ChinaHistorian's attempting to spread hate specifically against you (using your name), despite the fact that his page has zero views, and zero followers. He's just had a short rant about you on another site, which may be against your privacy rights. Although this can be laughable, isn't WP:CANVASSING a big no-no in WP policy? I guess this may constitute off-Wiki "hate speech"; you reckon further action should be taken? -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 05:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Somebody vandalized the East Turkestan article by copy-pasting, ad verbatim, the entire content of the Xinjiang-article into it, leaving reference-links that have no reflist. I have no idea how to revert this or fix it. Look at it it you can. thanks! Seb az86556 ( talk) 08:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
May restore to June 25? [15] how would I do that? Seb az86556 ( talk) 08:39, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
...and thanks. I'm not sure how you managed to get that edit in just a moment after mine. I dislike ugly main page mistakes, and was being fiercely pummeled with WMF errors for about 12 minutes before I could make the revert. :S Jamie ☆ S93 15:38, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you load queues 5 and 6? The preps are full, the queues are empty, and the bot will update in two hours. Shubinator ( talk) 02:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes it's been one year and I am very happy that I joined this wonderful project, thank you very much.
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Before I make any moves and upset too many people, I thought I would seek your advice. I noticed your interest in Neurolinguistics, and i was wondering whether any of the dyslexia project articles could be included in the Category:Neurolinguistics or Category:Linguistics or other possible related categories. dolfrog ( talk) 17:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Our disagreement the other day revolved around edit warring. 3RR was not the issue, you advised. With that in mind, I would appreciate it if you could take a look at this at ANI. I'll oversimplify for brevity, so I apologize in advance if any details you later find important are left out.
Three weeks ago, I proposed a merger, placing appropriate tags. Only one person spoke against it, while there was myself and three users who had spoken at RFD in support of merger. No one else spoke up, even after I posed requests at WP:3O and WP:RFC.
I thought that silence amounted to consent, or at least indifference. But I wasn't sure, so I thought I'd ask at the content noticeboard. I did so, and was told that yes, there was consensus. See WP:CNB#Consensus and the merger of Bristol Indymedia into Indymedia. Accordingly, I merged the articles and redirected the donor article to the recipient article. I also explained my reasons for concluding consensus existed on the talk page.
That lone holdout I mentioned? He reverted my edit. His edit summary implied that he had not read the talk page and understood that consensus, so I reverted his revert, once. He has now reverted it again, a second time. [16] With your admonition in mind, I have not reverted him a second time, and have instead raised the issue at ANI, at the link given above. Could you take a look, please?- Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 23:59, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello! Can you please stop adding unprotected images to the DYK queues? We've had quite a few reach the main page before anyone noticed. (Please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Unprotected images.) Thank you! — David Levy 05:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
your special friend is back... Kadeer-article this time... HELP!!!! :P Seb az86556 ( talk) 17:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Can't we find some way to block him...? it's really getting annoying. Seb az86556 ( talk) 17:39, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I've raised an issue at WQA that tangentially involves you. I want to be clear that I am not reporting you, and in notifying you, I do not mean to imply any kind of reporting of you. I am not suggesting you did anything wrong this week or last week.
With that disclaimer up front, one issue that was lost in the crush last night was a question I had asked about whether Jez had edit warred under the standard you relied on to warn me last week, and accordingly, whether he ought to be warned now. As I said, I am not questioning your judgment - that would be ungracious, among other things: after all, you got involved at my request - in not warning Jez. I think the issue just got lost amid all the other stuff. I'd still like that looked at - not necessarily by you, I'm not asking you to do more legwork, it's just that good wikiquette requires that I should notify you since you were involved. [18] - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 18:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Re your last message on my talk page: dude, he demanded that I raise the issue at ANI, twice, having threatened to do so himself. How I'm being criticized for doing so is beyond me. WQA is an attempt to compromise, to avoid disrupting ANI.
I am worried about individual editors, because as I said above, I am increasingly convinced that we odn't take rules seriously, and that users are mistreated by unequal treatment. If the fate of a request for admin intervention depends purely on the personal proclivities of the first admin to respond, and if any user, even one involved in the debate, can declare a thread at ANI closed, which is the power he's claiming, there is no due process here worth spit. Users have to be able to rely on the rules. They have to be able to trust the admins to behave fairly and evenhandedly, to treat like situations alike. I have no idea where to take these concerns, but they have to be addressed somewhere, and if they can't be addressed systemically, then what choice do I have but to address them one-by-one as they arise, small-bore as they are? Sometimes I get to thinking that I should just file an RFA myself and deal with these issues from that perch. - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 19:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
When I saw you reverted my "the" to "who is the" on July 2009 Ürümqi riots I thought how funny would it be to revert your edit and say Bring It! in my edit summary. That made me laugh enough to inhale some iced coffee, so I thought I'd share it with you :-) Fuzbaby ( talk) 02:05, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
By the way, I ran into your name when I saw your moving this here User talk:Danglingdiagnosis/Involuntary health consequences. Now that made me laugh too! Fuzbaby ( talk) 01:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
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In appreciation of your sterling efforts to expand & delete content, mediate or otherwise impose a sense of reality and balance in the frenetic July 2009 Ürümqi riots as it unfolds. Ohconfucius ( talk) 04:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC) |
If you have a constructive and accurate comment to make on my behaviour feel free to make it at my talk page. Please do not make insinuations of sockpuppetry, meat puppetry or other forms of abuse unless you are prepared to make them openly to me and the whole community in the appropriate forum. Groomtech ( talk) 06:37, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Think you can add about 4k worth of text to that? Haha, it should be easy enough to expand that for tonight/tomorrow if you are feeling energetic. :D Ottava Rima ( talk) 15:57, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
I've restored the Improperly Capitalized Page, since it is the one linked, and fixed the redirect. No prejudice to re-deletion once the links are updated, but it should probably be done by someone who isn't also opposing the proposed policy, to avoid any appearance of impropriety. – xeno talk 21:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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Awarded for exemplary common sense in moving a flawed proposal to the user talkpage. Jezhotwells ( talk) 21:24, 13 July 2009 (UTC) |
Hey, thanks very much for that, my first barnstar! :D Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't ignoring you - I really should check my talk page more. As for the DYK, I'm quite happy with that nomination and have nothing to add to that. Thanks! User:Midway ( talk), 01:04, 14 July (UTC)
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It was a mistake-I misread the last sentence-that was a little unclear-my apologizes-thanks- RFD ( talk) 19:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry that i didn't respond to your messages for a while. I'm having a hard time editing the references the right way, I don't know how to set them up right. I don't want to ruin the page or make it a bad article but the fact that I can't fix the citations right is negatively effecting the page. So if could, could you try to help me fix the references or show me how to because I'm very confused on how to do them correctly. Sorry for any trouble that I have caused you or the articles page. - Ashley92995
Thanks for the example on how to create a good reference, I think I understand how to do it now, I just edited and corrected all of the refs in Albas Charites and Politics section in the her personal life section, so if you could review it and tell me if I did it right it would be helpful.
What if i revert my edits that I've recently done to Alba's careen section, could you leave other edits, because I agree a majority of my edits aren't to very important to the article (adding non-major things), but some are, so If I remove things that are unnessisary on my own, and you review the page after I'm done and like it can you leave my other of my edits alone, or you can tell me what you don't like and I'll remove it.
Im going to re-edit and undue a majority of my edits, If you like the way the page is when I'm done could you not un-due my other edits.
Hi
Just been adding a few wiki links to the Dyslexia : Orthography article including the Linguistics and i noticed the large lists in the See Also section under the heading of Branches and fields. Would this Navigation Navbox code help, it is only an outline but you could copy and paste the real lists of articles from the linguistics article
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I hope it can be useful dolfrog ( talk) 03:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
But it it would not be practical to add your {{ Linguistics}} at the bottom of an article with other similar navigation bars. We could add the new type of bar say to the bottom of the Dyslexia : Orthography above the "Dialects and accents of English by continent" nav bar dolfrog ( talk) 03:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
The film 21st Century Punk Rock Volume #1 is my own work and I own all the copyrights. I have signed papers giving me permission for all the content on that film and my website to the film is located at http://21st.punkrockdemo.com . The film is released and distributed through Attic Tan Records and is available everywhere that sells dvd. Is there a way the article can be restored?
Punkrockdemo ( talk) 05:11, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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Q1: Why isn't this event categorised as "terrorism"?
A1: Wikipedia operates under the consensus policy. Numerous editors have agreed not to label the incident as such since there are no reliable, verifiable sources categorising it in that manner. Q2: Why isn't this event categorised as a "pogrom"?
A2: In English usage, the word "pogrom" refers to attackes committed by the majority against a minority, and evokes notions of attacks against Jews. Q3: Why isn't there a mention of the ethnicity of victims in the lead or in the infobox?
A3: The information is included in the body of the article. Giving such information in the lead or in the infobox was considered inflammatory. |
Hi Rjanag,
I apologize for any misunderstandings. I work for PNAS and have been advised to update the cover image roughly every month. I will refrain from uploading the images with incorrect licensing claims. How do you suggest I upload the images? Are you suggesting I can only upload one image as "fair use"? Is that our limit?
Please send along further details. Apologies, again, for the confusion.
Smohin ( talk) 21:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you add {{DYKbotdo|~~~}} to queue 6? The bot's stalled because it isn't there. (Oh, and queue 1 too.) Shubinator ( talk) 23:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
By the way, it looks like you were missing a closing " on the font size here :) Shubinator ( talk) 00:10, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag -- Many thanks for the birthday greeting you left on my Talk page! Having become distracted with other activities, I hadn't even realized that it was my Wiki Birthday until I read your message. Think I will have to have concoct a special cappuccino to celebrate the occasion :-) Polaris999 ( talk) 19:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
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To Rjanag, for doing a great service to South Korea and many others. Excellent work! South Bay ( talk) 07:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC) |
I was rather concerned that you have been fiddling with my user and talk pages. I was under the impression that these are my spaces and that, so long as I don't put anything nasty on them about other Wikipedians, there is no need for anyone else to touch my user page at least. So, I would ask, politely, that you please leave them alone in future. Thankyou.-- Beehold ( talk) 18:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
=Version 1= =Version 2=
Hi, thanks for your feedback.
I've added some explanation to Market transition payment. It's by no means perfect, but it does explain what these payments actually are, so I hope it's at least stub-worthy.
At Market sharing quota, I did some research, and it terms out that this is a technical term in Canada. This wasn't immediately clear because I used lower case letters in the name. To clarify this, I moved the article to "Marketing Sharing Quota" and added a Google Books source supporting the notion. (However, if this still makes you uncomfortable, you could move it to Marketing Sharing Quota (Canada).
Appreciate the feedback. Agradman talk/ contribs 19:48, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes,I now understand your view. Thanks! Hossain Akhtar Chowdhury ( talk) 04:10, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
The page in question was deleted as part of a broad WP:POINT campaign by User:TTN, and the article should stand on its own as the main character's machine, based on the standards set by other fictional series. 68.228.105.90 ( talk) 14:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Sadly, the repeated deletion of this and other articles is an example of the willful ignorance and bias against Wikipedia articles on mecha, and the strong Western bias of the fiction standards. 68.228.105.90 ( talk) 14:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I wasn't picking a fight, I was simply responding to his posting on my own talk page. And although I restored the first warning I gave him out of ignorance, the second warning was a new warning in response to his escalation of personal attacks. I'm not harassing anyone here. 68.228.105.90 ( talk) 15:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
How is my page Diabolical Exploits inappropriate. you have band pages with much less information and they are not significant in any way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darklight179 ( talk • contribs) 19:21, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
okay, i apologise and will read the guidelines before creating another article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darklight179 ( talk • contribs) 19:36, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
As I mentioned on the Talk:July 2009 Ürümqi riots, nominating an article does not require a consult with major contributors, there are no policy mentioning that. -- 98.154.26.247 ( talk) 00:12, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
The term sovereign state is disputable clearly, why can't I change it to a POV term like kingdom? And this time, I hung a NOPV template, is that OK? Thanks. -- Apollo Augustus Koo ( talk) 02:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
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Well, what have we here...? I guess this one's for you. Seb az86556 ( talk) 03:48, 20 July 2009 (UTC) |
(The Helping Hand Barnstar is to be awarded to users who frequently help new users.)
Hi, can I have a copy of this page please? My sister must have somehow got on Wikipedia, found how to make a page and made it. From here it looks like an attack page, as my sister hates La Roux.
Just to let you know, I am a trusted editor, and wouldn't dream of making such a page. Thanks! Eurovision 2009 and 2010 Sasha Son Sakis Rouvas 16:34, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I would really support two articles, one for "Xinjiang AR", one for the cultural region... but I guess if I just re-direct the whole shebang, I'll piss off a lot of people... what should the "cultural region" be called? " East Turkestan"(article already exists)? "Xinjiang" ??? (I've learned that's "Chinese-imperialist-speak" for "new frontier/manifest destiny/kill-the-natives" in some people's ears) Right now, it's a confusing mess, esp. to someone who doesn't know much about it... there are something like 4 or 5 competing articles... Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:14, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
{{
main|History of Xinjiang}}
for the more in-depth history), as well as info on geography and culture (note: much of the information on geography is already available at
Dzungaria and
Tarim Basin, geographical regions which roughly correspond to the northern and southern halves of Xinjiang, respectively). The new
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region article, like the
Tibet Autonomous Region article, should have most of the history stuff removed (to be sent to the history article) and it should focus more on contemporary stuff—government, economy, demographics, and of course issues of separatism. An
East Turkestan article could be maintained, but it should be a small article about the term "East Turkestan" itself and its association with separatism; the top of the article should have a dablink saying something along the lines of "for the region sometimes known as East Turkestan, see
Xinjiang or
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region". Most importantly, the new
Xinjiang article should have a section close to the beginning explaining the naming dispute.Thank you for the article recommendation. I'm so nerdy I might just read it. What I know mostly comes from a textbook by Victoria Fromkin and of course "Language Instinct". Liguisxack ( talk) 06:09, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
BTW, thank you *ever* so much for fixing by template! And apologies for hte sectioning screw up. Liguisxack ( talk) 06:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hmm, lemme check my sources but if I can't find it, I'll email you. BTW, I thought you might appreciate this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_grammarnazi:No —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liguisxack ( talk • contribs) 06:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for wishing me dude, I myself wasn't technically aware lol, Cheers! (SUDUSER) 85 11:40, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the birthday wishes. That is very thoughtful. Have a great day! Maple Leaf ( talk) 13:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
That's not quite correct -- I discussed at edit summaries at reversions and w/warning on user's talk page, and other editor who reverted Yank10 also discussed at his edit summary today as well.-- Ethelh ( talk) 18:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I and Wknight made substantive comments both in edit summaries and (in my case) on user's talk page. See for example the below edit summaries (emphasis added) by Wknight94 noting: "Agree with Ethelh that most of this is worth keeping," and by met that "this is what the press is talking about, is therefore notable, and is sourced," and note on user's talk page in which I wrote: "The inline references are appropriate, support the text, and comport with Wikipedia guidelines" (the response I received on the talk page that I wrote it on was simply a deletion of my comment). This user seems to simply dislike the material and the use of inline citations reporting it.
Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Chris Davis, you will be blocked from editing. The inline references are appropriate, support the text, and comport with Wikipedia guidelines.--Ethelh (talk) 15:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC) -- Ethelh ( talk) 18:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I will try yet again. May I put the info back in, at the same time as I start the discussion? Also, Betty Logan, with who I have had problems before, is wikistalking me -- see her last edit on my page -- what would you suggest I do in that regard?-- Ethelh ( talk) 19:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
The war continues. This user has a long history of edit warring and sockpuppetry, and seems to have no concept of the problem with his actions. I request all registered accounts be indefinitely blocked. Vicenarian ( T · C) 19:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Wonder if you are interested in this article I just posted. I seem to remember your interest in homeless issues. -- Moni3 ( talk) 23:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if I can bother you with this... over the past few days, I have re-written Transkei - which was a mere stub w/o refs - and need some opinion on "accessibillity" from someone who (probably) has only remote knowledge of the topic. Seb az86556 ( talk) 02:31, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
it seems 李氏朝鮮( Ri Dynasty) or 'kingdom of Joseon'(조선국) used more popular in Asia.
please check kr wiki, use 조선 (Joseon); ja wikiuse 李氏朝鮮( Ri Dynasty) or Joseon Dynasty; zh wiki,use 李氏朝鲜( Ri Dynasty) or 'kingdom of Joseon'(조선국). thanks. Gzhao ( talk) 01:31, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
i agree with you,조선왕조 (朝鮮王朝)used more often than 李氏朝鮮( Ri Dynasty) now, but i want to know where is 대조선국 (大朝鮮國) 'Kingdom of Great Joseon' come from? Gzhao ( talk) 02:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thanks, i posted my question in the talk page. i found someone added "great" 2007. [21] Gzhao ( talk) 02:14, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Thanks for your feedback. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and still learning how to properly edit articles, so I'm very open to criticism.
With that being said, I think condensing the reviews for The Linguists makes a lot of sense. I'll mess around with the review section and see if I can make it flow better. And don't worry about changing any of my edits; if you feel something I write can be improved, by all means, go right ahead and do it. Thanks, Lemminginstinct ( talk) 15:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I've tried to give out more VC information and some external links, but, as he is a living person, there are no other people's work which can show you how important he is. Iyawon ( talk) 16:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent.
I have had this discussion with another user, but I am keen to get as much feedback and input as I can. I entirely accept your helpful criticisms of the Luke Heron article. I am doing my best to address your points. As a new user I am finding it all rather intimidating, but likewise it is good that one can rely on the strength, quality and integrity of the information as there are so many checks and processes involved.
I have cut the piece back to its bear bones. The bottom line is that I want to develop an entire section on celebrity type investors. Those that do the circuits and TV etc as a means of advancing the concept of retail venture capital. I wanted to start with 5 or 6 investors that are redefining or creating new areas of investment. I have no wish to promote any personality or profile, though I entirely accept under the definitions of wiki that my previous efforts were borderline at best. I have cut the piece back to its bear bones and will now develop it further - I am hoping that other UK based wiki-people (with more experience than me) can help develop this fascinating area into a hive of encyclopedic information for the benefit of us all.
In the meantime, I would genuinely appreciate any help and advice that you can offer me in respect to both my first effort (I have cut it back significantly, but it obviously needs building up) and any future efforts. In short, I clearly require mentoring and would be very grateful if you could lend just a little time to pen a few words of advice. Again, I am enormously grateful for any and all input. I have a genuine passion for this space and I would love to help develop it. ( MyraSendak ( talk) 16:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC))
MyraSendak ( talk) 16:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your input, I really value it. I have taken up your suggestion of requesting a mentor (hopefully I will find one). I hope that the article does not get deleted and I will keep adding to it backing it up with suitable independent references. I think you idea about celebrity investors is a good one and I will try my best with that also. Thanks once again, I really appreciate your help and input. ( MyraSendak ( talk) 20:18, 23 July 2009 (UTC))
Hi -- Stellaland passed DYK and is on hold in special occasion-area for July 26 :) TA-DA! :P Seb az86556 ( talk) 14:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I used to have the rollback permission, although I didn't actually know that because I didn't realize there was such a thing. I'm not actually sure how I got the permission; I think it showed up about the same time I got twinkle. Anyway, I didn't realize it was a special permission and that there were strict rules associated with its use. Recently I noticed I no longer had the permission - I suspect an admin revoked it due to an edit war a little over 3 weeks ago regarding how locations are presented in sports-related articles. Having just today discovered and read the Wikipedia:ROLLBACK article, I agree that the admin who revoked the privileges was on solid ground to do so. But, now that I've read the article, I will try to avoid repeating those abuses of rollback. So I'm wondering if you might be persuaded to reinstate the privilege. Readin ( talk) 02:06, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
in an ANI discussion, where an editor, Ethelh seems to be saying that you warned user:Betty Logan against wikistalking. See [22] and the new subsection I started below it. Dougweller ( talk) 13:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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So I've embarked on this journey to check in with all the articles relating to the History of Southern Africa, and I found a really cool mess: Zululand... Zulu Kingdom... started messing around on it until it dawned on me that it's a double entry... "Zululand"'s lead describes the geographical region, but the entire body of the article describes the "Zulu Kingdom" (historical state).
I've already placed a merge-tag on both articles and fused the infoboxes, but judging from the edit-history, no-one gives a darn anyways (which means I'd probably run into little opposition trying to merge the two). Moreover, each article only has 3 ref's on the list.
Question: How do I start? (Painstakingly bring one up to standard, then delete the other and redirect? Ultimately, "Zululand" would probably need a disambiguation: Zulu Kingdom, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu)
Thanks! Seb az86556 ( talk) 03:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, a message for you there !, have a good day. Yug (talk) 13:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I agree with you here and would have gone through the entire article, but I was called away. BTW, I don't see why her parents' first names are necessary--or did you leave then in as a peace offering? Drmies ( talk) 19:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
(UTC)
If you disagree with 30 or 5 or another number, feel free to suggest another number.
I hope you are not just being argumentative. User F203 ( talk) 23:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
This is a disruptive perma-blocked editor, editing from shifting proxies, who is just here to cause us problems. Merge them if you want, but don't give them any idea that they've got anything productive to say. Better still, revert and remove it. I'm just blocking every IP it comes from. Black Kite 00:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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Pleas have a look when you have time.
User:Arilang1234/Sandbox/Black jails Arilang talk 13:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
hahaha thanks alot! ive enjoyed my first year on wikipedia alot!!!Sepulwiki 13:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I need your help. I added tags to Alexz Johnson the only user who edits it removed because he does not see "multiple issues". I know the tags I added are valid I'm just look for a third opinion so we can avoid a edit war. So, if you can just take a look and tell me if the claims are valid it'll be a great help. Also good luck on your RfA, I voted for you. ;) 月 (Moon) と 暁 (Sunrise) 20:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey do you feel like copy editing List of number-one singles of 2008 (Japan) for me? You don't have to if you haven't got the time or if you just don't want to. I find it annoying that I'm asking you to sopy edit articles for me all the time... 月 (Moon) と 暁 (Sunrise) 00:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, Rjanag, it is official. At this time of writing, your RfA stands at 99 editors in support and only one in opposition (and it's DougTech). You are about to hit WP:100. You really deserve it, too — you're one of the most polite and helpful editors I've seen around. You'll make an excellent administrator. Master&Expert ( Talk) 21:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag. I was making a submission at WP:PNT and I noticed an article that you may be able to assist with. 水至清则无鱼 人至察则无徒 needs translation, and given it is likely Chinese (Which type, I don't know) I figured you may be able to provide a better translation than the machine generated one that is accompanying it currently. ∗ \ / ( ⁂) 06:29, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Nice thought thanks. I love the lotus photo - are they indigenous to the area (i.e. hope they are not weeds)? Granitethighs ( talk) 03:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi
Sorry about the confusion - we just want to set up a page for The Big Issue in Australia. Can you assist with this??????
Danielle Bombardieri dbombardieri@bigissue,org.au —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Big Issue ( talk • contribs) 04:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Good job--- I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 13:43, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Any material that I've written which I've reposted from my Bob Feldman 68 blogsite onto the Wikipedia alternative enyclopedia, which I originally wrote for Downtown in the 1990s (before Wikipedia existed as a reference source) is now considered public domain (since I don't believe in the philosophical concept of copyrighting or privatizing access to information.
So there really wouldn't be any legal basis for deleting the more detailed historical information I recently posted to Wikipedia's entry for Parade magazine's and Vogue's history. Feel free to restore any of the material from my Bob Feldman 68 blog site that you think might interest your Wikipedia readers to your encyclopedia's Parade and Vogue, since none of this material is copyrighted and all of the material is public domain, since Downtown is now a defunct publication and the rights reverted to me and the public.
all the best, bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.35.66 ( talk) 16:00, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag,
If you're not going to delete from your encyclopedia all the inaccurate unverifiable material from the corporate web sites that you're currently allowing to be posted as a wikipedia listing (Vogue, for example, began as a weekly fashion magazine, not as a "biweekly" magazine as your wikipedia entry states, etc.), then it doesn't seem editorially ethical to automatically delete the more accurately researched historical material that comes from anti-corporate, public domain blogs and bloggers/writers from your wikipedia listings. Also, the more you block information from being added to your encyclopedia by dissident anti-corporate writers, the less credible become the mission claims that wikipedia might make to its readers and foundation funders about it being some kind of equal access, "alternative" type of encyclopedia.
So my impression is that by retaining the sketchy, misleading wikipedia historical listings you now have for Parade and Vogue in your encyclopedia and blocking the more detailed historical material from a public domain, anti-corporate blog site from being added for wikipedia users, you're not really giving most wikipedia users the alternative encyclopedia that they want. And I don' think it makes any sense to edit wikipedia material so that wikipedia starts to function more as just an historical publicity shield for corporate entities like the Newhouse media conglomerate.
all the best, bob —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.35.66 ( talk) 13:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle ( talk) 13:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
For the birthday message, I will have to give you one now! :) Andy ( talk) 19:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome to Wikipedia... I would follow Andy's example and welcome you too, but... Nabifly ( talk) 07:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
I here by award Rjanag this barnstar for moving comments from the editor review to my talk page and doing such a great job on wikipedia. |
Congrats
Staffwaterboy Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments 00:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag,
I have now changed all of the Various Artists with links to without using AWB
From,
Limideen
12:57, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I see from [1] that you have started recently on the CSD patrol just today. Good luck. You will probably get some feedback from users on this too. Have you rescued anything? The last one I rescued was Noemi Letizia. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 13:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I though you didn't want to be an admin. Hda3ku ( talk) 22:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Leaving a red AfD flag on a "deleted" bio page of a living person is not a deletion of the article at all. Instead, it creates a very negative image of that person when people visit the URL. It implicitly represents a judgment and a disqualification and thus impugns the excellent reputation of the individual. For the sake of fairness and neutrality Wikipedia must adopt and implement a policy that differentiates between a living person and an impersonal subject matter when installing templates that might cast aspersions. Wikipedia choses not to include a biographical article about a living person in the encyclopedia that is fine, but out of respect and commitment to neutrality, you should remove and blank any red flags and tags and all references to deletion, in order to preserve the individual's good name and standing in contemporary society. I intend to bring this matter before the appropriate admins, stewards and policy wonks. Meanwhile I would appreciate that YOU STOP re-deleting a bio page until the courtesy blanking issue is further explored by specialized Biography Project admins. - CulturalUniverse Wikipédien aux pieds nus 23:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag. If you have a moment, would you step in and enjoy a world of Nirvana? I nominated a Chinese food article to DYK under the name of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, but the current title is at "Fo tiao qiang" as a result of some editors' edit warring. I want to secure my nom by moving to the intriguing but mysterious name (to readers). Would you comment at Talk:Fo_tiao_qiang#Move to where?? Thanks.-- Caspian blue 00:52, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Please check Black jails and add contents when you can. Arilang talk 07:12, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
I've responded to your question in Talk:Spray-on condom#Question. Chzz ► 08:33, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
If you have a spare moment and are interested, I was wondering if you would be willing to peer review this article I am working on. Thanks! Awadewit ( talk) 14:00, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
...For the wiki-bday greetings, didn't even think about it, honestly :D Also, congrats on passing your RFA! umrguy 42 00:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
If it's not an obnoxious 鬼子 question, how would you spell in Latin alphabet / pronounce in English " 军阀 "?
Thanks. --
201.37.230.43 (
talk)
15:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Congrats on your well-deserved success at RfA!
As for the Time Traveler's Wife peer review, once an article is on the backlog the regular reviewers who work on the backlog use the {{ doing}} template to avoid duplication of effort (most things on the backlog get only one review, but we are always glad when they get more comments). I am delighted you took the time to make such a detailed review of the article - I had read most of it when Awadewit first posted it at PR (I do the semi-automated PRs as AZPR) and so knew I had a few things to say about it. I will make some more comments later today. Thanks for the review and for all you do on WP and especially at DYK, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 15:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Reviewers Award | |
Thank you for your careful and thorough review of The Time Traveler's Wife – your thoughtful advice is very welcome. Awadewit ( talk) 04:32, 9 May 2009 (UTC) |
Te felicito por haber aventurado borrar mis paginas con BLUEBOY, pero tengo todos los derechos de copia, por si no lo sabias!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by ÆR ( talk • contribs) 04:54, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that the if statements for DYK credits on creators' talk pages aren't substituted, which results in a mess of code. (The current system uses Ameliorate!'s DYKmake and DYKnom, which rely on {{ UpdatedDYK}} and {{ UpdatedDYKNom}}.) I was thinking of adding the subst: statements to {{ UpdatedDYK}} and {{ UpdatedDYKNom}}. There's one hitch though: there are a few dozen user talk pages that have the un-substituted templates (see here and here). If we subst: the statements, the code will show on those templates. So what should we do? There are a few options: 1) Nothing, 2) make the change and do nothing to the user talk archives and hope they don't notice, 3) go into the user talk archives and substitute the templates, then make the change, 4) make new {{ UpdatedDYK}} and {{ UpdatedDYKNom}} copies that substitute the if statements. Shubinator ( talk) 21:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>
to {UpdatedDYK} and {UpdatedDYKnom} and go in and manually substitute the templates on the people's talk pages (or ask someone with AWB to do it...as an admin I'm supposed to be able to use AWB now, but I've been having trouble getting it installed and I've been too lazy to deal with it once and for all). I tried things out
in my sandbox and it's as you predicted: without subst'ing {UpdatedDYK} it makes a mess, but once you subst it (even if you do it after the fact) everything becomes right again.
rʨanaɢ
talk/
contribs
22:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for not coming back to clarify
my neutral at your RfA; I was real-life busy. I believe
User:Flaming/RFA#Neutral sums it up. If this were someone else's talk page, I would probably go into more detail, because I like to talk about RfA candidates in third person... but that really isn't an option here, since you're the second person. Well, have a nice time with the tools ^^ DON'T BLOCK ME pl0x
flaming
lawyer
22:53, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
I have noticed that you have reversed a number of changes that I made a few days ago to the entry for Tony Hollingsworth. The explanation for many of the reversals is, I gather, that I have used “peacock” terms that do not actually add any information. Having spent nearly 30 years as a professional journalist, working for titles such as the Financial Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, I also have a certain antipathy to this kind of wrtiting. But I would argue that this term in not applicable in these instances.
It seems to me that there is a very large difference between organising a live music concert and organising the types of global cause-related campaigns that are being described here, and hence in the roles and responsibilities of the person in charge.
The first instance involves assessing the likely live demand for a particular performer, booking them into an appropriate venue, providing a certain amount of advertising and then selling at most a few thousand tickets (which is not easy).
The second requires all of the same skills but a lot of others on top. It involves starting with the cause one is trying to promote – such as the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa or helping the world’s disadvantaged children – and then designing a campaign to achieve this.
This means not only coming up with the original concept, but also working with all of the worldwide media outlets involved – television, radio, web, mobile and print – to design a campaign that will maximise coverage including a television audience of several hundred million people. Plus working with sponsors, advertisers, film and television rights buyers and venue promotors to raise the finance to achieve this. So while the campaign might culminate in a live event which forms the basis of a global broadcast event, this live event forms only a small part of the process. And the arrangement of the particular artists who are taking part in the event actually comes quite late in the day, rather than at the beginning.
It is quite clear from Tony Hollingsworth’s biography that while he started his career organising the first type of activity, he has spent the last 20 years on the second, and it is appropriate that he should be described as such.
The above also illustrates why it is so important to make clear that it was Hollingsworth who “conceived, finance and produced” the first Mandela event, as was indeed the case. If these words do not appear, then who did conceive, finance and produce this event? The article does not say. The implication that is left is that it must somehow have been a combination of the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and the Hollingsworth was merely commissioned to do the work. Indeed, many people have in subsequent years drawn exactly this erroneous conclusion. The fact that it is untrue is quite clear from the referenced statements from those involved at the time.
I do not understand why you have reversed my attempt to reorder the four events in bullet points. I was merely putting these into the correct chronological order – The Wall (1990), Guitar Legends (1991), The Great Music Experience (1994) and Moscow (1997). Why is the present (and reinstated) order preferable to this?
All the best
Wireless1917
Wireless1917 ( talk) 11:39, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Have you had a chance to have a further look at this?
Best
Wireless1917 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wireless1917 ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Thanks for this.
This is exactly the point. In most cases he IS the head of the global campaign. Look at my comment above about the first Mandela initiative. Hollingsworth conceived the whole campaign, arranged the finance and then produced it (and I mean the whole campaign and not just the live event at the end). He wasnt "hired" by anyone, as the references from the ANC and the AAM make clear. They benefitted from the campaign in lots of ways. But it wasnt their idea and they didnt pay anything towards it.
Best regards
Wireless1917
Wireless1917 ( talk) 06:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Further to the final sentence above, far from being paid by the ANC and the AAM, Tony Hollingsworth was able to use the surplus from the campaign he had conceived and organised to pay US$5 million to six Southern African charities selected by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, who at the time was president of the AAM. The figure is mentioned in Mike Terry's letter of 18th January 2003 which is referenced in Peter Elman's article.
Best regards
Wireless1917
Wireless1917 ( talk) 12:19, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Your "hidden comment" on Idk has given me an idea. What you have done is, IMHO, much better done via edit comments. And I did something very similar with a different group of pages a while back. Check out Girlfriend, and then click Edit, for an example of these in use. Then check out Template:Editnotices/Girlfriend and Template:Romeo notice for the guts of the notices. I'm thinking something similar could/should be done with your notice as a starting point. Set up a central template for the actual text (like Romeo Notice), and then install the template as a notice on any slang wiktionary soft redirect that regularly gets dicdefs added. Will this stop them, no. But any wanna-be dicdef adder who sees it and stops is one less revert that we have to do. - TexasAndroid ( talk) 14:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
these lists deserve notes on the prisons. Could you please tell whether you will add them or how I should add them? Kind regards, Sarcelles ( talk) 17:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. Weatherlover819 ( talk) 06:40, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Just created Template:JapanEmpireNavbox to aid in the navigation of Empire of Japan related articles. Please check for inconsistencies and add contributions of your own. Thanks. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 09:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I hope you'll be taking part in Bacon Challenge 2009 user:ChildofMidnight/Baconchallenge2009. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 21:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in my recent RfA, which was unable pass with a final tally of (45/39/9). I plan on addressing the concerns raised and working to improve in the next several months. Hopefully, if/when I have another RfA I will win your support. Special thanks go to MBisanz, GT5162, and MC10 for nominating me. Thanks again, - down load ׀ sign! 01:27, 13 May 2009 (UTC) | ![]() |
— LinguistAtLarge • Talk 18:21, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I finally found an article subject that you are passionate and determined about. If only I had had had had had had had had had had known sooner, I would have tortured you with it earlier. I think it should be merged to word games or word usage. Or maybe transwikied? Gosh this is fun. :) ChildofMidnight ( talk) 00:13, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Congrats on main page! Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 00:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Am I supposed to reply here or on my user talk? If there, then I replied here: User talk:Essetra. (How does one make the display different from the link?) Essetra ( talk) 02:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
South Korea. Note that the
three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the
three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a
consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue
dispute resolution.
rʨanaɢ
Cherry Blossom OK (
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06:07, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
and i'm not violate 3rr rule, techniclally. [2] this is not revert. this is development of article. Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 06:08, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
According to WP:LEDE.
According to WP:LEDE, it is not porper that remove current status info, and filled history section. i already said, history section is duplicated information. Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 06:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
not all users support its claim. baeksu is not spport your claim. and it is not a proper reason that its sourced material must be deleted. Cherry Blossom OK ( talk) 06:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I will do my very best to live up to the ideals of Wikipedia in the years to come. Davidelit ( talk) 14:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for editing my user page, and helping me learn a bit more about IPA and phonology. It is appreciated :-) 나비Fly Talk/ Contributions 09:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry I got rather tied and English is not my best skill.
I guess it is time for you to SPI file on the old friend living in London. Wondergirls = 86.148.181.54 = the returned editor.-- Caspian blue 15:21, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Response to User_talk:DavidDCM#Copyvio.
Hello Rjanag,
thank you for your response! At first I just noticed that the "terminology" paragraph was a 1:1 copypaste of one of the essays I linked to in my deletion request. But when digging further into the article I realized that almost every paragraph was at least partially copypasted from the various sources. Your suggestion to go through the article step-by-step also came to my mind, but that would be extremely time-consuming because of the length of the article and the vast number of potential sources. Thus I thought it might be more efficient to delete the thing and let it start it all over again. Nonetheless I'll follow your administratorial rule, and as a first step remove the obvious copyvio paragraphs. -- DavidDCM ( talk) 15:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag,
I had created the image, which was posted on 4chan.org. It is arguable that the work from which it was derived (the background image) is, in fact, copyrighted. Since, I can not gain clearance on that, I suppose it is fact that I can not claim copyleft. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigflavor ( talk • contribs) 21:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Is there anything that can and should be done about User:Dalejenkins signature and about his habit of erasing his talk page after every comment? -- SGBailey ( talk) 07:28, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
To keep up the DYK RfA trend, I've started a (B)RfA for DYKHousekeepingBot :P The code's all written and it could start running as soon as it's approved. It relies on your handy template for the file tagging, so when you're ready, we can move it to template namespace. The bot worked very well on a dry run, creating usable archives and a table for WP:DYKSTATS from the page hits. I learned a bit of the history of DYK too – here is the first bot edit to update DYK! Shubinator ( talk) 14:58, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed that {{ dyktalk}} is fully protected. Could you add the views parameter? What you suggested here is fine. The bot just got approved for trial, so I'll be revving it up within the hour. Keep your fingers crossed. Actually, keep your fingers ready to block the bot if it goes haywire (j/k, I've got literally 3 ways of taking it down). Shubinator ( talk) 16:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Just finished the first real run for the bot. It ran for 4 hours before it stopped because of a problem with the connection to Wikipedia. Looks like there's one bug with archiving, and maybe one with file detection, but overall it went well. The archives are easy to clean up (the first one's here btw). Oh, and your DYKfuture page showed 328/188/1516 near the start of the run...we'll see where it ends up. Shubinator ( talk) 23:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
South Korea. Note that the
three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the
three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a
consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue
dispute resolution.
Meandmylefthand (
talk)
15:14, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
I will report you to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring if you do one more revert within 24 hours. Thanks. Meandmylefthand ( talk) 15:20, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Meandmylefthand has reported you at the edit war board. Note that this was shortly after you suspected him of being a sock. 月 (Moon) と 暁 (Sunrise) 16:05, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
— Ed (Talk • Contribs) 06:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
At least when I last checked a minute ago, the AfD page for Hotshot (game) didn't exist.-- The Legendary Sky Attacker 01:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I've pointed User:Stetsonharry some resources to help avoid potential issues in the future. He truly did not realize he was plagiarizing and is working to try to understand what went wrong here and how he can avoid these problems in the future. I hope you can see that he is acting completely in good faith, and will join me in helping him learn from this experience. -- Collectonian ( talk · contribs) 02:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch. With Aurora, Illinois, being so much more famous than its counterpart in Indiana I had to stop myself from typing "Illinois" more than once while writing the article. I guess I should have stopped myself one more time. - Dravecky ( talk) 14:24, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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An AfD for this article, which you participated in, was recently closed as "no consensus." I have request a deletion review here [4]. Bali ultimate ( talk) 16:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Rjanag,
May I request you to please revisit the above article to review the tag, since another expert on the subject has edited it?-- Nvvchar ( talk) 09:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
See this edit that I have removed over a 100 (!) links. There is no justification at all for restoring the {{ Overlinked}} template. If there are a few links that in your opinion should have been removed, which I have missed or deemed usefull, just go ahead. Debresser ( talk) 11:40, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Since you recently edited Fortune cookie, I want to make you aware of some side discussion that's begun on my talk page here. Best, CliffC ( talk) 22:06, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Ron Garretson hook, the fine should be $25,000 instead of ,000. It's a bot bug. Shubinator ( talk) 21:11, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
The bot's hitting some bumps because of the vandalism and background noise on DYK before it was protected in 2005. Two files, File:Mtvernon1.jpg and File:Mount vernon stamp.JPG, were on DYK, so the bot tagged them. Problem is, they weren't part of a legitimate DYK ( 1, 2). Could you delete the two pages? Shubinator ( talk) 22:57, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Nice to see you have returned. Hopefully the break wasn't too stressful. :) \ Backslash Forwardslash / { talk} 23:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
"If you find or contribute to an article meeting the good article criteria, you can nominate it on the good article nominations page..." (emhphasis mine) I believe it meets the Good article criteria. If you don't feel free to fail the nomination. Powers T 13:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
This has nothing to do with the other thing. =) This closure seems to be in violation of policy; if you merged content, you should keep a redirect with the edit history for attribution purposes, right? Powers T 16:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for contacting me about your edit, redirecting Chanteuse to its Wiktionary entry. In retrospect, that would’ve been a much simpler solution that requesting it for deletion, and it makes more sense as well! Thank you for your contribution. ARTICHOKE-BOY (Talk) 20:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. Auntieruth55 ( talk) 23:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC) and thanks for the reminder on the editing summaries. I try, but then forget. -- Auntieruth55 ( talk) 23:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
The bulk of primary historical information available comes from the church's own archival historical record. Why is this unacceptable to use as a source of information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crixxx ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I was afraid of that. Thank you for letting me know. The Flash {talk} 01:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip, but I actually the example listed at the top, which caused confusion with "Example.png" (especially since some templates require the omission of File:/Image:. -- Bobak ( talk) 23:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about rushing to conclusions. I tend to crack down very hard on what I view as unproductive vandalism-only accounts, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Did you know there's a whole field of inactive, unused accounts whose only purpose is to abuse a userpage to promote vandalism that would normally be reverted in articles? just a little insignificant 00:44, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag, Hello, I ask for your help. Yesterday, some new editor edited Joseon Dynasty but inserted this, "Korea was client state according to Japan, China, and some Western view" in the first sentence of the intro. Chinese scholars and some Westerns think both Korea and Japan were vassal states of China. However, the concept differs from Western's feudal concept. It is for better trades. Japan was also a vassal state of China until Ming Dynasty, and Korea had considered Japan a much inferior state filled with pirates and savages such as Wae or Wako but, are the notion mentioned in the intro? I think the new editor grossly violates Npov, and UNDUE. So I want you to watch the article, because many Chinese and Japanese editors disrupt the article in order to add their Chinese-centered view and Japanese WW2-era delusion. If more administrators keep watching the article, socks/ povpushers will be decreased. please help me. -- Historiographer ( talk) 13:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
The protection was based on what seemed to be a long history of ip vandalism, but in my opinion it was borderline as to whether the long term blp issues merited the semi protection or not, so I leaned on the side of caution due to it being a blp. So long as your happy that the page is watched enough not to result in any damage then im happy with your call to unprotect. :-) Seddσn talk| WikimediaUK 15:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I changed it cause the picture of the miracle on the Han river does not mean anything but it just looks like a chart. And, the picture I put was not just a pretty picture. They were symbols of South Korea and the miracle on the Han river. Han river of course and 63 building, Banpo bridge are iconic landmarks. And why do you talk to me as if you are in dominant situation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamberikore ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't really understand what you want from me. But, I don't think I need to discuss about this if I replaced your favorite picture of the miracle on the Han river. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamberikore ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
This issue is being acted on now. I figured I was posting it in the wrong way (and in the wrong place!), so feel free to delete my report about User:James von Brunn. :D -- Joseph.nobles ( talk) 19:14, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for all your support with Tang Tuyet Minh, although I will still be surprised if it is accepted for DYK. Kauffner ( talk) 03:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag,
Per this edit, no worries on your comment on my standing! I normally sit to edit wp anyway...
Also, can you give a simple pronunciation for your name? I can't read/understand IPA so need baby-speak. Or you can continue to be thought of as R-janag! Bigger digger ( talk) 06:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Seriously i know her and her family. please remove the dubious tag. one of her official representative requested me to move the page to "Suman Ranganath". i moved the page on march, see [5]. her official website is http://sumanranganath.com/ (now defunct, it is expired on may). "Ranganathan" is a name credited in her tamil films (because Ranganathan is surname which most commonly used by tamils.) see this timesofindia source which mention her name as "Suman Ranganath" which is cleary not a dubious name. Mugur Chandra ( talk) 14:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
One last request, modify the lead sentence to "Suman Ranganath" or "Suman Ranganathan" ... and remove the dubious tag. Mugur Chandra ( talk) 14:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Is there a method of putting a DYK nom on hold? This is my first attempt, I can see that you have many questions, some of which I have failed to answer in my second response. I can answer them but it threatens to consume more space than may be normal on the DYK talk, so let me know how you want to proceed and I will be accommodating. Sswonk ( talk) 00:34, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
When you have time, please go to commons:File talk:Flag of the Republic of China.svg have a look, you will find out how silly people can be, can't even tell the difference between Black and Blue Arilang talk 01:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
I think this is right. right?
Oh come on, was that really vandalizing? I was merely adding flavor to an argument. Ya know how you try to make a point, but you want to drive it home, so you say something like "cry me a river." See? No need to be a bully about it. Don't cry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.145.220 ( talk) 07:33, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag: I've returned my link to the article on the Voynich Manuscript (with slight shortening of description):
For one thing, my optical theory (proposing that the some of the Voynich cylinders are optical devices, such as microscopes) is not "self-published". My theory first appeared in Renaissance Magazine (Issue #53, March 2007). The website is an addendum to that, including further research and implications on the subject.
In addition, my theory appears in two other published books, the Claudio Foti book, "Codice Voynich", and "Fiona: Mysteries & Curiousities of Literary Fraud & Folly", Volume I, edited by W.J. Elvin ( ISBN 978-1440461552). By contrast, many of the links which are left (and which I think should be left, I am not arguing against their being there) are references to self-published books, and stand-alone websites. One of the major books on the subject, a very valuable resource, with a very controversial theory, is completely self-published at the author's expense. This is common in this particular field, I only point it out, again, because mine is one of the few theories in the last few years which is not self-published.
As for "pseudo-science", well by that standard, "we" all are. Experts in the fields of botany, astronomy, history, and on and on, all disagree with one another. They cite countless arguments, each backed up by "solid science", which absolutely shoot down the other theories. They cannot all be correct, they cannot all be correct science. The trouble is, we do not know which "science" to trust, or which known sciences or histories do apply to the Voynich problem. I do not, they do not. But the basis of my theory are sound, whether or not it turns out they apply in this case. The history of optics in the early 17th century, for one thing. The fascination with ancient mysterious cipher works, hermetic works, the Utopian societies, are all well established in the time frame I propose, by the people I propose influenced it. And there are precedents and co-incidents to my theory, in the time I propose. My theory is completely based on known sciences and histories, nothing had to be imagined or invented, except, as for everyone else's theory, the Voynich's possible place in it.
Don't be fooled by the momentum of the status-quo of Voynich research. It has been wrong twice longer than I have been alive... the answer has been sought in this traditional research, and the purveyors of these traditional views have not come one inch closer to any hope of an answer. The field needs other input, mine and others, to open new areas of possibilities. Yes, as long as they are based on what is known... and what is scientific and reasonable. Remember, all we know is that it is on vellum, and appeared to history about 1622. Everything else, and everyone else, is in the same boat as I am.
Anyway, I've looked carefully over the WP:EL rules since Dreamguy removed my link a few weeks ago, and I feel that my link meets all the criteria. If you have a specific point on that list you feel I do not meet, we can argue it in the appropriate forum... I'm sorry I do not know all the procedures, this whole area of wikipedia is somewhat unfamiliar to me... but we can both make our case before the appropriate authorities, if you still disagree. If not, please leave the link there. I not only feel it strictly follows the rules, it actually follows them better than most of the links remaining (which nonetheless, should remain). Thanks for your time, Rich SantaColoma. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.4.192 ( talk) 12:07, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the article. But please check the the AFD you wrote, the information is completely wrong. -- Morning ( talk) 15:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
You deleted my draft at my request, but little did I know that I need the page history, can you please get them? Gsmgm ( talk) 15:37, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag, strictly speaking you're right, the "disputed" tag is for articles. If you really dislike my use of the "disputed" tag I can create and apply a tag that says "the validity of this section of the guideline / policy is disputed" - i.e. a section-level version of the "disputed policy / guideline" tag. The points is that "under discussion" is misleadingly bland, since: the majority of current contributors disagree with the current wording's deletionist implications; reasonable evidence has been presented that NOTPLOT is not a legitimate guideline because it never gained any sort of consensus. -- Philcha ( talk) 21:06, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Regarding the above user and the warning I issued, the warning was issued using Huggle. In this this instance I did not use {{ subst:uw-vandalism4}} but rather used Huggle to issue a warning. My recollection was that I warned for editing tests, but upon reviewing it, I may have clicked the button accidentally when trying to drag down to editing tests. Incidentally I always make an effort to match the violation to the warning whether it be neutral point of view, spam, page blanking, vandalism, or editing tests. Thanks. HarlandQPitt ( talk) 06:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Personally I think it is important to reduce the amount of images, however I do believe that removing the 4 high quality images and leaving an extremely low-quality image is a flawed idea. As we know, the 5th character in the E3 screenshot has little information for a full profile such as Lightning, Snow, Oerba and Sazh. Removing the E3 would only be minor, where as removing the 4 renditions of the Fully Profiled main characters would damage a lot of work as well as the ability to allow people to fully alalyse the characters, where as the E3 shot is poor and only shows the characters faces where as the 4 pictures show their full renditions. If you feelthe size of the Image gallery containing the 4 images and links to the larger images of the 4 Main "Stated" characters of FFXIII, please reply stating the the size of the gallery is too big, as this is easily changable.
The Cosmo 19:42, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
P.S. from a different perspective, What makes you think the quality of the E3 screenshot is more acceptable than links to 4 fully-fledged images, the gallery can be made smaller to seem more barable if you wish. The whole idea of these images is for reference, the E3 screenshot is poor where as the 4 individual Pngs give an Entire prespective. The buety of the individual images is that the gallery on the Main article can be as small as we like while still giving a link to the Fully Sized ones, the E3 screenshot is the same size as it is on the Main article. Plus the images in the gallery are not technically free licensed, they are used for promotional reasons, such as being publisised with information about the game, such as wikipedia articles. The Cosmo 19:42, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Let me Explain The Cosmo 21:11, 14 June 2009 (UTC) It was you who put it up for deletion, the person who did before you did not see the correct license tag 1st. The Cosmo 21:25, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I have now stated it's reason to exist, it exists to give reference to the 5th character who has been shown within the E3 FFXIII Trailer of 2009, not much information is known, and thats why it's a very minor picture, if you would like me to reduce it's resolution then please leave me a message. The image itself gives Visual information about the character, and if that isn't evidential enough, the paragraph written next to the image gives instant reference to the image. I had not yet finished adding the image to the article since I began to get countless claims from people who snap at instant changes. But I got there as I do and as many do. The Cosmo 21:25, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry is I ever sounded rude,
I know you do not particularly like me very much, but can you please stop removing my gallery, It has a reason to exist. All of this was resolved on my talk page with a good friend who has the same position as you. The Cosmo 21:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Rjanag: Thanks for the note, have commented. Would you mind readding the deletion notices on the new file? I don't want to breach 3RR. J Milburn ( talk) 21:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
When will we come to a consensus, considering that my 5th image was created by me using Square-Enix content from a promotional video. And I may edit the licensing tags on the other 4 from promotional to Non-Free 3D art as I originally intended to until being given advice from another wikipedia user to make it Promotional. —Preceding unsigned comment added by XCosmoX ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
OK I apologise about the 3 revert rule, but deleting the images is a bit hasty at this moment in time, plus, I would like to know who will be the person who deletes them if it comes to that. I am Able to explain in as much detail as you like. To the Talk page! The Cosmo 22:01, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
You have not answered my question on the FFXIII talk page. The Cosmo 22:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
I have just written a new section to our discussion on FFXIII talk page, but I am currently having edit conflicts, Thank you for deleting the NORA 5th Character file as requested, I will now supply reasons for existance on the talk page once I am able to submit the new content. The Cosmo 22:27, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Please respond to my reply on the FFXIII talk page
Could you also specify a valid reason for why they are up for why you reverted my revision of using Text Based links rather than the Unapproved galleries? Thisis no longer making much sense as the Text Based links have nothing to do with the Section we have been discussing the use of the gallery on upon the talk page apart from the fact Text Based links have been proposed.
I feel that you are more dead set on deleting the images than helping towards a compromised solution.
The Cosmo
01:56, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, I have not seen any speedy deletion tags placed on the files, nor any links to a new discussion page.
The Cosmo
No free equivalent.
Not as of yet, the game itself will be copyrighted for many years.
Respect for commercial opportunities. It is being used for an identicle purpose as to its original marketing role.
Minimal usage.
I wouldn't say less quality would convey the level of information these can, but of course this is one of the questioned.
The solution is within reason, by keeping the images uploaded within acceptable guidelines, such as the compromised Text Based links the fact that the images are large or because there are a few of them is within reason of that, they are individual pictures, for individual characters.
Minimal extent of use.
Same applies here as for Minimal Use. With the exception of that the license permits high resolution use.
Previous publication.
Within an extremely vast amount of internet resources and various other media.
Content
To a scientific analytical degree.
Media-specific policy
Yes, all of this was completed on submission.
One-article minimum
Yes, well, they were until they were removed by the person in question.
Significance
This has been discussed, their significance is to give complete visual reference as well as text based reference.
Restrictions on location.
Yes they were in an article, maybe NO_GALLERY would have been a better solution?
Image description page.
Yes the Files included all of the criteria for this.
The Cosmo
02:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Then wikipedia should'nt really bother with Non-Free images at all.
The Cosmo
02:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Please Notify me if you prefer deleting them earlier than requested, this is good practice to avoid misconduct.
The Cosmo
14:30, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi
The edits I made were entirely factual. What sort of verification do you need? 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 18:11, 11 June 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 17:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Just found this he is on record. http://www.veganfitness.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18674 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 01:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Also, I believe you have categories for vegans? I think it would be worth adding him to these to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 01:41, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I think that you broke Template:ffd2, see Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2009_June_15, the first entry has a section title with the link just like all the entries for June 14, but the ones below have a broken title instead of having no link. I think that I have fixed it, and new entries on the list should appear like you intended. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 05:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I thought this might interest you. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:29, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I saw you deleted File:Hazrat Ali, Afghan politician.jpg entering WP:CSD#G7 in the deletion log -- that is "good faith request by author" -- correct?
I don't believe I actually requested deletion. I thought I was requesting input from others as to whether it should be deleted. Am I missing something? Geo Swan ( talk) 17:42, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Final Fantasy XIII. Note that the
three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the
three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be
blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a
consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue
dispute resolution. —
HelloAnnyong
(say whaaat?!)
04:22, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Leave everthiing the way it is for now, I will be offline for a while to get some sleep. I will notify you when I'm online again. BTW, you don't have PSN by any chance?
Speak to you later, and please leave everything for now.
The Cosmo
04:58, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Since I know you love removing suspicious files, here is a treat for you to delete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FFXIII_Characters*.png
Don't thank me. This image is no longer required on wikipedia (or never was under circumstances).
The Cosmo 16:45, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Please add the images information to XCosmoX/Image data as you have done with the previous 4. You may delete now. Be sure to refer to the FFXIII talk page to see the current discussions progress.
The Cosmo
17:05, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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dude it looks reliable to me. Besides couldnt we have discussed it on the talk page first? The Isiah ( talk) 07:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have nominated Ottawa language for Featured Article on June 5th, at Ottawa language. So far there has been very little feedback, and I have the impression that language-related articles don't fare all that well at FA. I think the content is of high quality and it meets the FA criteria, but one of the reviewers has indicated it needs copyediting. I appreciated your work for the Good Article review - would you be willing to take a run through and either copyedit or make suggestions? Or suggest someone else who would be willing/able to copyedit? Thanks. Jomeara421 ( talk) 04:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi
you added a commnet in Jan 2009 about cleaning up the Aphasiology article. If you could do that in the very near future I may help me sort a few issues with regard the dyslexia project. There are two existing articles which seem to overlap dyslexia and aphsia Alexia (acquired dyslexia) and Alexia without agraphia. I have very little knowledge of Aphasia but we seem to have adopted these two articlew into the dyslexia project, so could you help define how Aphasia contrbutes to these types of Dyslexia
dolfrog ( talk) 19:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hmm... I see your point. I met David a good while ago and we discussed the condition. So I know my edit is factual. He is also happy with it being public knowledge. But that is the only reference I can find. Not sure how to get around this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.254.189 ( talk) 01:45, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The vegan one is pretty easy though. He has mentioned it quite a few times in interviews ect. He was up for an award as 'Vegan of the year 2008' as well.
I'm new to creating pages on wikipedia. You just deleted my addition "Ottawa Ukraina". I was trying to put information on there for my local soccer team, and grabbed the information from our website. I cited where the information came from at the bottom of my page, but i guess that wasn't good enough. What do i need on there so that if i copy an article from my website, my wikipage won't get deleted?
Acousinspanchuk ( talk) 16:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
So if you could help me out with that, it'd be most appreciated. Tenk you veddy much. -- Wack'd Talk to me! • Admire my handiwork! 00:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK [7], [8], [9]. I also published that work under the free license, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike. For reference please see my website http://kallar.weebly.com.
I have also send mail to wikipedia for copyleft statement.
I would like to start that article again please tell me if it is against laws of wikipedia, also help me to improve that article.
Thank you, Rajnwiki ( talk) 16:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
If you are interested in this discussion, please leave some comments.
commons:File talk:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Arilang talk 22:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi All
I have added some new sections below which have come from various talk pages in recent days but all realted in some way to the dyslexia project. So I have added them all below, in the hope that we can all begin to add our own input as one person working alone can cause also sorts of problems as can be seen above. I will post a copy of this to all who I think may wish to the new begining of the Dyslexia project and a copy will appear on your individual discussion pages ( I hope you do not mind). The oringinal copy of this can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dyslexiathe talk page of the main project article you will see revise project template, the changes on the tamplate is the addition of a Project pages section, which includes the orinal project pages and the new STAGE TWO page which is hopefuly the new starting point. the STAGE TWO page has the dyslexia article as it is now. And we can tinker with it without changing the actual article itself and discuss and issue we may have before making further changes to the article itself.
dolfrog ( talk) 21:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so very much Rjanag. I'm greatly grateful for all the support, help, and assistance you've offered me in my RfA. Of course you know that this adds you to the short list of people I can bother with silly questions don't you? (I'm probably going to have to have an "opt-out" program for that ... lol. Thank you though, I really appreciate it. ;) — Ched : ? 01:59, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that you have a slight redesign for you Linguistic Barnstar. Also, can you please comment on the other barnstars, Biography Barnstar, World War Barnstar and Children's Literature Barnstar as well? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards. Thank you very much for your attention. Kayau ( talk) 07:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand why you have reverted my request for citations in Grammatical aspect.
You say that term "HAVE+EN" refers to constructions such as "have eaten"; that's clear enough, in fact it's the only example that the article gives.
But, as far as I know, it's also perfectly equivalent to any verb used in the present perfect, including regular ones that make their participle with -ed, such as "have talked". Or is there something special about strong verbs that have participles in -en? If so, then that's not at all clear in the article.
The article never mentions those two terms again, so it's not using them as "utility terms" to tag things later in the text: it's actually claiming they're widespread linguistic terms. Google doesn't confirm that.
LjL ( talk) 13:39, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
(or "HAVE +ED")
to the article. But HAVE +EN is a perfectly fine description of perfect or experiential aspect and should probably remain--to be honest, I think it helps a non-linguistic reader understand what's being talked about, by giving a concrete example.
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13:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Thanks! – Clockwork Soul 14:54, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you! P|^|C ( talk) 09:16, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Good edits and additions to WP:ABELINCOLN!-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 04:37, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you reverted this edit I made to The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. I understand that the correct spelling of the name is "McNinja", but sort keys don't always use the correct spellings. One of the places where they don't is names that start with "Mc" or "Mac": see the last bullet item here for the explanation. I'll admit that I don't like this particular practice,
And don't feel bad -- I did the same thing before I learned about this, and I'm sure many more people will, too! -- Auntof6 ( talk) 06:34, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Politzer! Please have a look on my comment. -- Reiner Stoppok ( talk) 22:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Do you really think this solves the problems of my criticism? -- Reiner Stoppok ( talk) 18:56, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello, per m:Meta:Requests for deletion#User:Zhoroscop I've speedy deleted his page and added the new domain to the global blacklist. I wonder if it is possible to speedy delete his page locally or I have to open an MxD for this. I think the case is pretty clear that this user is using the WMF projects as a venue to self-promote and as a personal webhost. Best regards and thanks for reporting. — df| 08:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC) If it is possible to leave me a {{ talkback}} on my page I will be grateful. I'm not so active on enwiki as I would like to be... :( — df| 08:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
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and wait... (I did that in april) F.Y.I. the account has been globally locked, there are more details at
m:WM:SBL#User:Zhoroscop again if you like to see. Best regards, —
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11:02, 26 June 2009 (UTC)Two-year-old 'world's youngest smoker' - Yahoo!7 News -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 10:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
Thanks for looking at my account unblock. I have made a new request could you possibly look at it again? Tanks Wes
That comment is addressed to both of you, although I consider you more disruptive. Two reverts is not unusual, although they should be clearly labeled, feel free to cite me on that. Trying to get your content opponent blocked with wikilawyering is quite disruptive, please don't try such tricks in the future. It's good that you are both talking on article's talk, and it's good that you started the discussion; please assume good faith and try to reach a consensus that way. You are both experienced and respected editors and I hope you can work out your issues peacefully. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:00, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Well, sorry if I caused any trouble to the South Korea article, but as you notice from my username I am obsessed with Korean Dramas and I know my stuff. Thus, the show is called Autumn Tale/A Tale of Autumn etc. , but not Autumn Fairy Tale.
Again, I am very sorry, but I hope you understand.
PS I just joined wikipedia three weeks ago, so I'm new to this stuff.
Addicted-to-kdramas ( talk) 02:59, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks :) jjmihai 09:28, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
I spotted you tag this article on my watchlist, and have jumped in and improved the article as much as I can, but sourcing it appears to be difficult, whoever added that information has probably got it from an offline source. The abbey section shouldn't be too hard to source, but I'm uncertain about the history section, should we remove it? I'll expand the article to other aspects of the settlement as and when I find bits and pieces (I have absolutely no connection with this place, I just have most UK places on my watchlist!). Thanks Jenuk1985 | Talk 20:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Any chance you can add a city in Canada to Template:Did you know/Queue/LocalUpdateTimes? I'm not familiar enough with the code to try it myself. We must be getting very close to Canada Day, we have lots of special occasion hooks, but nobody seems to have done much yet. Gatoclass ( talk) 13:16, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
{{Template:Did you know/Queue/LocalUpdateTimes |customname=Toronto |customshift=-5 hours}}
Hello, I thought you might be a good person to ask about this. Some recent DYKs seem to have been commonly viewed yet they are not on this list. Here, here, here, here and here are some examples of what I mean. Maybe I am not reading it correctly but are they good enough? Will they be added if they are or is it OK to add them myself or is someone else supposed to do it? I am just curious and am not sure who controls the list so thought I would ask who I should tell about this. -- can dle • wicke 21:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
The refs look fine. I couldn't find any obvious errors, everything looks ready. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 05:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, just a note to let you know I modified your block of Fhue ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) to indefinite. I'm not questioning your block, but there's a pretty big wp:username issue that it took me a moment to perceive. Toddst1 ( talk) 13:22, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question for you regarding DYK hook. The required hook length should not be over 200 characters, but does it include "*...that" or "(pictured)?" ?-- Caspian blue 23:21, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
[[Example|this example]]
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this counter.Hey Rjanag, I thought you may be interested in this:
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Just add it to the top of your page and it'll save much time. :) \
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06:11, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing the 3RR complaint. I trust I can come to you if edit warring continues. RafaelRGarcia ( talk) 06:33, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
As to "Since the reverting has stopped, I see no reason to block anyone"- The reverting stopped because I didn't want to break the 3rr rule. Apparently that was error, because you now tell us, in effect, that 3rr is merely advisory: it won't be enforced if it would "prevent [the editor violating the rule] from participating in the discussion." The practical effect, whether you think you're endorsing it or not, is that the version preferred by an editor who broke the rules trumps objections to it made by those who make a good faith effort to stay within the rules. What is the process to appeal your call? - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 16:52, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
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But is Jimmy Wales the fouder of Wikipedia? Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
That is what I have been trying to tell him, but he keeps accusing me trolling. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
He just did the same thing to your comment. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:37, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I was just about to say that I now see his point. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:42, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Ok, again I'm really sorry. Abce2| Free Lemonade Only 25 cents! 18:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
If there is consensus to include something, but not consensus on how it ought to be included, there isn't consensus on its inclusion. Let me put the question in more functional terms: in what circumstances, or after what period of time, will I not incur a 3RR or "edit warring" block for reinserting the quote?
Just saying "when there's consensus" isn't an answer. Without some quantification of what constitutes sufficient consensus, your claim that I am "free to put the quote back in if that is what the consensus becomes" starts to look like the Obama rhetorical strategy of saying you're for doing X in principle, but then setting up so many caveats and obstacles to doing X that doing X is, in practical terms, impossible. You suggest getting additional opinions, but (mindfull of WP:CANVAS) I have used the 3d opinion process several times before, and it is a crapshoot whether one gets from it little input or no input at all. Weeks can go by before we get additional input.
And even if/when additional input that supports inclusion is forthcoming, you still leave me in an untenable situation. What is the threshold is for having achieved "consensus"? Without knowing where the line is, no matter how many more users endorse my position, I still can't risk putting the material back, lest you block me, citing your decision about Garcia's 3RR violation. The practical upshot is not that "[h]e gets 'the last word' for a day or so while we discuss things at the talk page," but rather, that "[h]e gets 'the last word'" for the indefinite future, unless someone else, by sheer chance or by my ( inappropriate) request, inserts the same quote.
It doesn't stop there, either. It isn't clear how broadly your warning sweeps: am I on notice for any reverts (or anything that can be so characterized) at Clarence Thomas, or just for the sections at issue in yesterday's controversy? By imposing this amorphous standard that maximizes your discretion, you have effectively issued me a topic ban on Clarence Thomas for having the temerity to report someone for breaking the rules and lacking the courtesy to violate them myself.
Lastly, it is grossly inappropriate that this issue is being brushed under the rug at a talk page. It amounts to an allegation of administrator misconduct, and whether I'm in the wrong or you are, this is an issue that ought to be aired at AN or one of its sub-boards. Since talk pages are not private fora, I am therefore boldly copying your comment and my response to a subsection of the AN debate.- Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 21:50, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Since you weren't notified, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Complaint_about_an_administrator.27s_actions. If I were you I wouldn't respond. Shubinator ( talk) 22:24, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the sig guidance. - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 02:45, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
In the AN/I thread about you doubt is being expressed about whether you realize that telling editors to "go fuck themselves" is unacceptable behaviour. I myself believe that you are aware of this and have all intentions of not repeating that behaviour, but other editors are less sure. You might want to clarify your stance however just to remove any possibilities of stains on your integrity. ·Maunus·ƛ· 02:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I realize that coming from me it will mean virtually nothing, but I have weighed in at the same thread to oppose a block. - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 03:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
"Sorry, girls, but this photo isn't a poster, and this article isn't your bedroom wall..."
= win.
Pandacomics ( talk) 13:41, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about using this page like this to message you, I couldn't find a forum page but would like to raise some points. Since you were listed as an active user it looked like the best place to raise questions.
1) There are several languages listed on the main page. Why isn't Mandarin listed among them? 2) Mandarin should be listed among them as it is one of 6 International languages used at the U.N.. Also Mandarin represents a user base of possibly 2 billion, why has no effort to translate been done? 3) Hindi should also be listed among them as it contains 1.2 Billion users, why has no effort to translate been done either? 4) It has been years since Wikipedia's presence on the internet. These two critical languages should be featured by now. But they are not. Meanwhile all major European languages with far less users are featured. Is this intentional or a geo-politically motivated statement of some sort?
Other than that, no problems with Wikipedia for now, it is a very informative and helpful tool which is mostly accurate. Keep it up! But address these issues!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.50.38.158 ( talk)
Hi Rjanag. Thank you for the concern about my username, but I can't imagine how it would be seen as an attack. Could you clarify? Linguistixuck ( talk) 01:10, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi again, can you move one of the preparations to queue five so I can do another queue please? I'm on a roll! :D -- can dle • wicke 03:28, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
A bomb and bus set fired....some violence against the civilian,don't you mind categorize it to terrorist incident?-- Ksyrie( Talkie talkie) 11:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
hey, you're faster than I am... riots/crimes, etc. Good job :P Seb az86556 ( talk) 12:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
ok, you take over, I'm getting tired. Seb az86556 ( talk) 13:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Is it too early as I have reviewed a Dracula-related one? -- can dle • wicke 00:33, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
hi again... still on that Urumqi-article, eh? I'm not familiar with with Chinese... Simplified/Traditional -- why does one date have only 2009, the other only 7.05? Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Interesting. Thx Seb az86556 ( talk) 05:44, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
somebody opened the "terrorism"-debate in a separate string again, was removed for trolling, yells (bold print) and all that. I was trying to tell him/her to join the ongoing discussion to no avail... any advice? thanks. Seb az86556 ( talk) 10:07, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
back to real editing, shall we :) here's a snippet from the Urumqi article/Causes (2nd paragraph)
...chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, said in a televised speech on the morning of 6 July that the movement came after a conflict between Uygur and...
"Movement"? I have no idea what that word refers to. Is that even sensible English? Fix it if you can, 'cause I don't even know what it's supposed to mean. thanks. Seb az86556 ( talk) 11:18, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Makes sense now. Seb az86556 ( talk) 20:37, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. In particular, for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. ¡Muchas gracias! - Minkus ( talk) 12:15, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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I modified the Psycho Donuts article because I thought 'massive head trauma' should not be referred to as a mental illness. (One could argue that it is the cause of some mental illnesses but is that sort of like saying that a car crash is a type of a broken leg?)
Anyway, if you agree with me, you may wish to change the DYK entry, which contains the most explicit reference to MHT as a mental illness.
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Prep areas have been full for about 24 hours. Can you move them to Queues 3 and 4 so I can do some more to avoid a panic tomorrow? -- can dle • wicke 00:02, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
What do you think? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 00:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello,Rjanag! I am very glad to receive your message. It is not me who changed the paragraph a lot. But I think we'd better pay more attention to the other two users. Perhaps they are in a war now. It is not very good for wiki. Best wishes! -- Sadmovie ( talk) 20:38, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Will you please investigate this a little bit more. I know your busy, but its an easy case by looking at the talk. Osprey9713 ( talk) 20:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye on it. If images come back, I will revert and join the discussion. Feel free to message me if I'm being slow. J Milburn ( talk) 22:13, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Please watch it with the personal attacks -- while that's not as bad as the ones CH was tossing back at you, it's still quite a bit over the line.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 01:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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For keeping July 2009 Ürümqi riots as accurate and NPOV as possible, especially when the POV-pushers from both sides descended. |
I thought I left another message on your talk page back on the 6th, but looking now it seems to have not saved. Anyway, thank you much for the barnstar, and you deserve one for the excellent work on the riot page - you've been keeping everything running quite smoothly, in spite of your language classes. I can't imagine how little sleep you're getting right now. I'm doing language classes too, at Indiana's summer program. I'm currently in the Central Eurasian Studies department there, finishing up an MA degree. Where were your working as a research assistant (and where are you studying Uighur)? Otebig ( talk) 02:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
You are terrible!
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damn, you're fast again. awesome Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
User WhiteTrashTalk is vandalizing your Userpage Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've filed a case for Joseon Dynasty at Mediation Cabal: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-07-09/Joseon Dynasty. You might want to chip in your 2 won. Jpatokal ( talk) 06:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
In these two edits [12] [13] you restored comments that were removed by editors after a brief discussion at the talk page, and you didn't provide any rationale for why you are restoring them. If you didn't already know, there is a discussion at Talk:July 2009 Ürümqi riots#Spoiled like pandas? about this stuff. Please leave a comment there rather than continuing to revert; reverting without discussion is often considered edit warring. Thank you, rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 03:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Look at the Xinjiang-article and tell me what you think -- someone just added about a huge passage (UNSOURCED) and called it "brief history".... and squeezed it in before the actual history-part. thanks! Seb az86556 ( talk) 18:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
July 2009 Urumqi Riots Sorry, me again. "First Time Again" seems like a sockpuppet of "Oooh75" which seems like a sockpuppet, too. If there's a petition to block him/her -- I'll sign it.:P Seb az86556 ( talk) 18:48, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes. I am new and this is the first time I am trying to edit. I do not know every rule of Wikipedia yet. Thank you for helping me out. What I do not understand here is why the numbers can not be shown and why you (may be one other person) can put it out the way you like but we can not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by First time again ( talk • contribs) 18:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for my first Barn Star. Jim101 ( talk) 20:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Shí ałdo' shiBarn Star áłtséhígíí baa ahéé' nisin (...and since you wrote an article about Navajo Slash-L, you go ahead and figure out what that mean :)...) Seb az86556 ( talk) 20:27, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
alright *sigh*...
=I am also thankful for my first Barn Star :)
Seb az86556 ( talk) 20:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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The page is already the focus of a major dispute and mediation is being sought. But User:Historiographer not I started the edit-warring, why didn't you warn him? This was what you did. Why didn't you do so this time but helped User:Historiographer? -- Apollo Augustus Koo ( talk) 04:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
We need somebody with knowledge of Chinese history: Xinjiang, section 1.7
Hi Rjanag. Thanks for your advice about my 'editing gap' on my talk page. User:Backslash Forwardslash has kindly offered to put up a nomination for adminship, so I'll find out what other editors think! (I'm not sure whether it was my Wikibirthday, but I'm fairly sure I've bumped into you somewhere on WP; unfortunately I can't pinpoint the place either!)-- Kateshort forbob 10:32, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
please give your input on Qiuzheyun's edits, specifically continued insertion of the word "terrorism" ino July 5 Urumqi riots article. Seb az86556 ( talk) 10:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
ok. I'll put for discussion. - Qiuzheyun ( talk) 11:16, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
ok. Thanks. - Qiuzheyun ( talk) 11:29, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Mate, you're "famous": [14] ChinaHistorian's attempting to spread hate specifically against you (using your name), despite the fact that his page has zero views, and zero followers. He's just had a short rant about you on another site, which may be against your privacy rights. Although this can be laughable, isn't WP:CANVASSING a big no-no in WP policy? I guess this may constitute off-Wiki "hate speech"; you reckon further action should be taken? -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 05:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Somebody vandalized the East Turkestan article by copy-pasting, ad verbatim, the entire content of the Xinjiang-article into it, leaving reference-links that have no reflist. I have no idea how to revert this or fix it. Look at it it you can. thanks! Seb az86556 ( talk) 08:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
May restore to June 25? [15] how would I do that? Seb az86556 ( talk) 08:39, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
...and thanks. I'm not sure how you managed to get that edit in just a moment after mine. I dislike ugly main page mistakes, and was being fiercely pummeled with WMF errors for about 12 minutes before I could make the revert. :S Jamie ☆ S93 15:38, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you load queues 5 and 6? The preps are full, the queues are empty, and the bot will update in two hours. Shubinator ( talk) 02:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes it's been one year and I am very happy that I joined this wonderful project, thank you very much.
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Before I make any moves and upset too many people, I thought I would seek your advice. I noticed your interest in Neurolinguistics, and i was wondering whether any of the dyslexia project articles could be included in the Category:Neurolinguistics or Category:Linguistics or other possible related categories. dolfrog ( talk) 17:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Our disagreement the other day revolved around edit warring. 3RR was not the issue, you advised. With that in mind, I would appreciate it if you could take a look at this at ANI. I'll oversimplify for brevity, so I apologize in advance if any details you later find important are left out.
Three weeks ago, I proposed a merger, placing appropriate tags. Only one person spoke against it, while there was myself and three users who had spoken at RFD in support of merger. No one else spoke up, even after I posed requests at WP:3O and WP:RFC.
I thought that silence amounted to consent, or at least indifference. But I wasn't sure, so I thought I'd ask at the content noticeboard. I did so, and was told that yes, there was consensus. See WP:CNB#Consensus and the merger of Bristol Indymedia into Indymedia. Accordingly, I merged the articles and redirected the donor article to the recipient article. I also explained my reasons for concluding consensus existed on the talk page.
That lone holdout I mentioned? He reverted my edit. His edit summary implied that he had not read the talk page and understood that consensus, so I reverted his revert, once. He has now reverted it again, a second time. [16] With your admonition in mind, I have not reverted him a second time, and have instead raised the issue at ANI, at the link given above. Could you take a look, please?- Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 23:59, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello! Can you please stop adding unprotected images to the DYK queues? We've had quite a few reach the main page before anyone noticed. (Please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Unprotected images.) Thank you! — David Levy 05:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
your special friend is back... Kadeer-article this time... HELP!!!! :P Seb az86556 ( talk) 17:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Can't we find some way to block him...? it's really getting annoying. Seb az86556 ( talk) 17:39, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
I've raised an issue at WQA that tangentially involves you. I want to be clear that I am not reporting you, and in notifying you, I do not mean to imply any kind of reporting of you. I am not suggesting you did anything wrong this week or last week.
With that disclaimer up front, one issue that was lost in the crush last night was a question I had asked about whether Jez had edit warred under the standard you relied on to warn me last week, and accordingly, whether he ought to be warned now. As I said, I am not questioning your judgment - that would be ungracious, among other things: after all, you got involved at my request - in not warning Jez. I think the issue just got lost amid all the other stuff. I'd still like that looked at - not necessarily by you, I'm not asking you to do more legwork, it's just that good wikiquette requires that I should notify you since you were involved. [18] - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 18:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Re your last message on my talk page: dude, he demanded that I raise the issue at ANI, twice, having threatened to do so himself. How I'm being criticized for doing so is beyond me. WQA is an attempt to compromise, to avoid disrupting ANI.
I am worried about individual editors, because as I said above, I am increasingly convinced that we odn't take rules seriously, and that users are mistreated by unequal treatment. If the fate of a request for admin intervention depends purely on the personal proclivities of the first admin to respond, and if any user, even one involved in the debate, can declare a thread at ANI closed, which is the power he's claiming, there is no due process here worth spit. Users have to be able to rely on the rules. They have to be able to trust the admins to behave fairly and evenhandedly, to treat like situations alike. I have no idea where to take these concerns, but they have to be addressed somewhere, and if they can't be addressed systemically, then what choice do I have but to address them one-by-one as they arise, small-bore as they are? Sometimes I get to thinking that I should just file an RFA myself and deal with these issues from that perch. - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 19:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
When I saw you reverted my "the" to "who is the" on July 2009 Ürümqi riots I thought how funny would it be to revert your edit and say Bring It! in my edit summary. That made me laugh enough to inhale some iced coffee, so I thought I'd share it with you :-) Fuzbaby ( talk) 02:05, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
By the way, I ran into your name when I saw your moving this here User talk:Danglingdiagnosis/Involuntary health consequences. Now that made me laugh too! Fuzbaby ( talk) 01:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
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In appreciation of your sterling efforts to expand & delete content, mediate or otherwise impose a sense of reality and balance in the frenetic July 2009 Ürümqi riots as it unfolds. Ohconfucius ( talk) 04:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC) |
If you have a constructive and accurate comment to make on my behaviour feel free to make it at my talk page. Please do not make insinuations of sockpuppetry, meat puppetry or other forms of abuse unless you are prepared to make them openly to me and the whole community in the appropriate forum. Groomtech ( talk) 06:37, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Think you can add about 4k worth of text to that? Haha, it should be easy enough to expand that for tonight/tomorrow if you are feeling energetic. :D Ottava Rima ( talk) 15:57, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
I've restored the Improperly Capitalized Page, since it is the one linked, and fixed the redirect. No prejudice to re-deletion once the links are updated, but it should probably be done by someone who isn't also opposing the proposed policy, to avoid any appearance of impropriety. – xeno talk 21:18, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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Awarded for exemplary common sense in moving a flawed proposal to the user talkpage. Jezhotwells ( talk) 21:24, 13 July 2009 (UTC) |
Hey, thanks very much for that, my first barnstar! :D Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't ignoring you - I really should check my talk page more. As for the DYK, I'm quite happy with that nomination and have nothing to add to that. Thanks! User:Midway ( talk), 01:04, 14 July (UTC)
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It was a mistake-I misread the last sentence-that was a little unclear-my apologizes-thanks- RFD ( talk) 19:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry that i didn't respond to your messages for a while. I'm having a hard time editing the references the right way, I don't know how to set them up right. I don't want to ruin the page or make it a bad article but the fact that I can't fix the citations right is negatively effecting the page. So if could, could you try to help me fix the references or show me how to because I'm very confused on how to do them correctly. Sorry for any trouble that I have caused you or the articles page. - Ashley92995
Thanks for the example on how to create a good reference, I think I understand how to do it now, I just edited and corrected all of the refs in Albas Charites and Politics section in the her personal life section, so if you could review it and tell me if I did it right it would be helpful.
What if i revert my edits that I've recently done to Alba's careen section, could you leave other edits, because I agree a majority of my edits aren't to very important to the article (adding non-major things), but some are, so If I remove things that are unnessisary on my own, and you review the page after I'm done and like it can you leave my other of my edits alone, or you can tell me what you don't like and I'll remove it.
Im going to re-edit and undue a majority of my edits, If you like the way the page is when I'm done could you not un-due my other edits.
Hi
Just been adding a few wiki links to the Dyslexia : Orthography article including the Linguistics and i noticed the large lists in the See Also section under the heading of Branches and fields. Would this Navigation Navbox code help, it is only an outline but you could copy and paste the real lists of articles from the linguistics article
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I hope it can be useful dolfrog ( talk) 03:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
But it it would not be practical to add your {{ Linguistics}} at the bottom of an article with other similar navigation bars. We could add the new type of bar say to the bottom of the Dyslexia : Orthography above the "Dialects and accents of English by continent" nav bar dolfrog ( talk) 03:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
The film 21st Century Punk Rock Volume #1 is my own work and I own all the copyrights. I have signed papers giving me permission for all the content on that film and my website to the film is located at http://21st.punkrockdemo.com . The film is released and distributed through Attic Tan Records and is available everywhere that sells dvd. Is there a way the article can be restored?
Punkrockdemo ( talk) 05:11, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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Q1: Why isn't this event categorised as "terrorism"?
A1: Wikipedia operates under the consensus policy. Numerous editors have agreed not to label the incident as such since there are no reliable, verifiable sources categorising it in that manner. Q2: Why isn't this event categorised as a "pogrom"?
A2: In English usage, the word "pogrom" refers to attackes committed by the majority against a minority, and evokes notions of attacks against Jews. Q3: Why isn't there a mention of the ethnicity of victims in the lead or in the infobox?
A3: The information is included in the body of the article. Giving such information in the lead or in the infobox was considered inflammatory. |
Hi Rjanag,
I apologize for any misunderstandings. I work for PNAS and have been advised to update the cover image roughly every month. I will refrain from uploading the images with incorrect licensing claims. How do you suggest I upload the images? Are you suggesting I can only upload one image as "fair use"? Is that our limit?
Please send along further details. Apologies, again, for the confusion.
Smohin ( talk) 21:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you add {{DYKbotdo|~~~}} to queue 6? The bot's stalled because it isn't there. (Oh, and queue 1 too.) Shubinator ( talk) 23:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
By the way, it looks like you were missing a closing " on the font size here :) Shubinator ( talk) 00:10, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag -- Many thanks for the birthday greeting you left on my Talk page! Having become distracted with other activities, I hadn't even realized that it was my Wiki Birthday until I read your message. Think I will have to have concoct a special cappuccino to celebrate the occasion :-) Polaris999 ( talk) 19:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
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To Rjanag, for doing a great service to South Korea and many others. Excellent work! South Bay ( talk) 07:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC) |
I was rather concerned that you have been fiddling with my user and talk pages. I was under the impression that these are my spaces and that, so long as I don't put anything nasty on them about other Wikipedians, there is no need for anyone else to touch my user page at least. So, I would ask, politely, that you please leave them alone in future. Thankyou.-- Beehold ( talk) 18:33, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
=Version 1= =Version 2=
Hi, thanks for your feedback.
I've added some explanation to Market transition payment. It's by no means perfect, but it does explain what these payments actually are, so I hope it's at least stub-worthy.
At Market sharing quota, I did some research, and it terms out that this is a technical term in Canada. This wasn't immediately clear because I used lower case letters in the name. To clarify this, I moved the article to "Marketing Sharing Quota" and added a Google Books source supporting the notion. (However, if this still makes you uncomfortable, you could move it to Marketing Sharing Quota (Canada).
Appreciate the feedback. Agradman talk/ contribs 19:48, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Yes,I now understand your view. Thanks! Hossain Akhtar Chowdhury ( talk) 04:10, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
The page in question was deleted as part of a broad WP:POINT campaign by User:TTN, and the article should stand on its own as the main character's machine, based on the standards set by other fictional series. 68.228.105.90 ( talk) 14:22, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Sadly, the repeated deletion of this and other articles is an example of the willful ignorance and bias against Wikipedia articles on mecha, and the strong Western bias of the fiction standards. 68.228.105.90 ( talk) 14:54, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I wasn't picking a fight, I was simply responding to his posting on my own talk page. And although I restored the first warning I gave him out of ignorance, the second warning was a new warning in response to his escalation of personal attacks. I'm not harassing anyone here. 68.228.105.90 ( talk) 15:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
How is my page Diabolical Exploits inappropriate. you have band pages with much less information and they are not significant in any way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darklight179 ( talk • contribs) 19:21, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
okay, i apologise and will read the guidelines before creating another article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darklight179 ( talk • contribs) 19:36, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
As I mentioned on the Talk:July 2009 Ürümqi riots, nominating an article does not require a consult with major contributors, there are no policy mentioning that. -- 98.154.26.247 ( talk) 00:12, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
The term sovereign state is disputable clearly, why can't I change it to a POV term like kingdom? And this time, I hung a NOPV template, is that OK? Thanks. -- Apollo Augustus Koo ( talk) 02:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
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Well, what have we here...? I guess this one's for you. Seb az86556 ( talk) 03:48, 20 July 2009 (UTC) |
(The Helping Hand Barnstar is to be awarded to users who frequently help new users.)
Hi, can I have a copy of this page please? My sister must have somehow got on Wikipedia, found how to make a page and made it. From here it looks like an attack page, as my sister hates La Roux.
Just to let you know, I am a trusted editor, and wouldn't dream of making such a page. Thanks! Eurovision 2009 and 2010 Sasha Son Sakis Rouvas 16:34, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I would really support two articles, one for "Xinjiang AR", one for the cultural region... but I guess if I just re-direct the whole shebang, I'll piss off a lot of people... what should the "cultural region" be called? " East Turkestan"(article already exists)? "Xinjiang" ??? (I've learned that's "Chinese-imperialist-speak" for "new frontier/manifest destiny/kill-the-natives" in some people's ears) Right now, it's a confusing mess, esp. to someone who doesn't know much about it... there are something like 4 or 5 competing articles... Seb az86556 ( talk) 04:14, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
{{
main|History of Xinjiang}}
for the more in-depth history), as well as info on geography and culture (note: much of the information on geography is already available at
Dzungaria and
Tarim Basin, geographical regions which roughly correspond to the northern and southern halves of Xinjiang, respectively). The new
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region article, like the
Tibet Autonomous Region article, should have most of the history stuff removed (to be sent to the history article) and it should focus more on contemporary stuff—government, economy, demographics, and of course issues of separatism. An
East Turkestan article could be maintained, but it should be a small article about the term "East Turkestan" itself and its association with separatism; the top of the article should have a dablink saying something along the lines of "for the region sometimes known as East Turkestan, see
Xinjiang or
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region". Most importantly, the new
Xinjiang article should have a section close to the beginning explaining the naming dispute.Thank you for the article recommendation. I'm so nerdy I might just read it. What I know mostly comes from a textbook by Victoria Fromkin and of course "Language Instinct". Liguisxack ( talk) 06:09, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
BTW, thank you *ever* so much for fixing by template! And apologies for hte sectioning screw up. Liguisxack ( talk) 06:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hmm, lemme check my sources but if I can't find it, I'll email you. BTW, I thought you might appreciate this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_grammarnazi:No —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liguisxack ( talk • contribs) 06:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for wishing me dude, I myself wasn't technically aware lol, Cheers! (SUDUSER) 85 11:40, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the birthday wishes. That is very thoughtful. Have a great day! Maple Leaf ( talk) 13:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
That's not quite correct -- I discussed at edit summaries at reversions and w/warning on user's talk page, and other editor who reverted Yank10 also discussed at his edit summary today as well.-- Ethelh ( talk) 18:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I and Wknight made substantive comments both in edit summaries and (in my case) on user's talk page. See for example the below edit summaries (emphasis added) by Wknight94 noting: "Agree with Ethelh that most of this is worth keeping," and by met that "this is what the press is talking about, is therefore notable, and is sourced," and note on user's talk page in which I wrote: "The inline references are appropriate, support the text, and comport with Wikipedia guidelines" (the response I received on the talk page that I wrote it on was simply a deletion of my comment). This user seems to simply dislike the material and the use of inline citations reporting it.
Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Chris Davis, you will be blocked from editing. The inline references are appropriate, support the text, and comport with Wikipedia guidelines.--Ethelh (talk) 15:36, 21 July 2009 (UTC) -- Ethelh ( talk) 18:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I will try yet again. May I put the info back in, at the same time as I start the discussion? Also, Betty Logan, with who I have had problems before, is wikistalking me -- see her last edit on my page -- what would you suggest I do in that regard?-- Ethelh ( talk) 19:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
The war continues. This user has a long history of edit warring and sockpuppetry, and seems to have no concept of the problem with his actions. I request all registered accounts be indefinitely blocked. Vicenarian ( T · C) 19:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Wonder if you are interested in this article I just posted. I seem to remember your interest in homeless issues. -- Moni3 ( talk) 23:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if I can bother you with this... over the past few days, I have re-written Transkei - which was a mere stub w/o refs - and need some opinion on "accessibillity" from someone who (probably) has only remote knowledge of the topic. Seb az86556 ( talk) 02:31, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
it seems 李氏朝鮮( Ri Dynasty) or 'kingdom of Joseon'(조선국) used more popular in Asia.
please check kr wiki, use 조선 (Joseon); ja wikiuse 李氏朝鮮( Ri Dynasty) or Joseon Dynasty; zh wiki,use 李氏朝鲜( Ri Dynasty) or 'kingdom of Joseon'(조선국). thanks. Gzhao ( talk) 01:31, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
i agree with you,조선왕조 (朝鮮王朝)used more often than 李氏朝鮮( Ri Dynasty) now, but i want to know where is 대조선국 (大朝鮮國) 'Kingdom of Great Joseon' come from? Gzhao ( talk) 02:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thanks, i posted my question in the talk page. i found someone added "great" 2007. [21] Gzhao ( talk) 02:14, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Thanks for your feedback. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and still learning how to properly edit articles, so I'm very open to criticism.
With that being said, I think condensing the reviews for The Linguists makes a lot of sense. I'll mess around with the review section and see if I can make it flow better. And don't worry about changing any of my edits; if you feel something I write can be improved, by all means, go right ahead and do it. Thanks, Lemminginstinct ( talk) 15:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I've tried to give out more VC information and some external links, but, as he is a living person, there are no other people's work which can show you how important he is. Iyawon ( talk) 16:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent.
I have had this discussion with another user, but I am keen to get as much feedback and input as I can. I entirely accept your helpful criticisms of the Luke Heron article. I am doing my best to address your points. As a new user I am finding it all rather intimidating, but likewise it is good that one can rely on the strength, quality and integrity of the information as there are so many checks and processes involved.
I have cut the piece back to its bear bones. The bottom line is that I want to develop an entire section on celebrity type investors. Those that do the circuits and TV etc as a means of advancing the concept of retail venture capital. I wanted to start with 5 or 6 investors that are redefining or creating new areas of investment. I have no wish to promote any personality or profile, though I entirely accept under the definitions of wiki that my previous efforts were borderline at best. I have cut the piece back to its bear bones and will now develop it further - I am hoping that other UK based wiki-people (with more experience than me) can help develop this fascinating area into a hive of encyclopedic information for the benefit of us all.
In the meantime, I would genuinely appreciate any help and advice that you can offer me in respect to both my first effort (I have cut it back significantly, but it obviously needs building up) and any future efforts. In short, I clearly require mentoring and would be very grateful if you could lend just a little time to pen a few words of advice. Again, I am enormously grateful for any and all input. I have a genuine passion for this space and I would love to help develop it. ( MyraSendak ( talk) 16:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC))
MyraSendak ( talk) 16:40, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your input, I really value it. I have taken up your suggestion of requesting a mentor (hopefully I will find one). I hope that the article does not get deleted and I will keep adding to it backing it up with suitable independent references. I think you idea about celebrity investors is a good one and I will try my best with that also. Thanks once again, I really appreciate your help and input. ( MyraSendak ( talk) 20:18, 23 July 2009 (UTC))
Hi -- Stellaland passed DYK and is on hold in special occasion-area for July 26 :) TA-DA! :P Seb az86556 ( talk) 14:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I used to have the rollback permission, although I didn't actually know that because I didn't realize there was such a thing. I'm not actually sure how I got the permission; I think it showed up about the same time I got twinkle. Anyway, I didn't realize it was a special permission and that there were strict rules associated with its use. Recently I noticed I no longer had the permission - I suspect an admin revoked it due to an edit war a little over 3 weeks ago regarding how locations are presented in sports-related articles. Having just today discovered and read the Wikipedia:ROLLBACK article, I agree that the admin who revoked the privileges was on solid ground to do so. But, now that I've read the article, I will try to avoid repeating those abuses of rollback. So I'm wondering if you might be persuaded to reinstate the privilege. Readin ( talk) 02:06, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
in an ANI discussion, where an editor, Ethelh seems to be saying that you warned user:Betty Logan against wikistalking. See [22] and the new subsection I started below it. Dougweller ( talk) 13:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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So I've embarked on this journey to check in with all the articles relating to the History of Southern Africa, and I found a really cool mess: Zululand... Zulu Kingdom... started messing around on it until it dawned on me that it's a double entry... "Zululand"'s lead describes the geographical region, but the entire body of the article describes the "Zulu Kingdom" (historical state).
I've already placed a merge-tag on both articles and fused the infoboxes, but judging from the edit-history, no-one gives a darn anyways (which means I'd probably run into little opposition trying to merge the two). Moreover, each article only has 3 ref's on the list.
Question: How do I start? (Painstakingly bring one up to standard, then delete the other and redirect? Ultimately, "Zululand" would probably need a disambiguation: Zulu Kingdom, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu)
Thanks! Seb az86556 ( talk) 03:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, a message for you there !, have a good day. Yug (talk) 13:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I agree with you here and would have gone through the entire article, but I was called away. BTW, I don't see why her parents' first names are necessary--or did you leave then in as a peace offering? Drmies ( talk) 19:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
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If you disagree with 30 or 5 or another number, feel free to suggest another number.
I hope you are not just being argumentative. User F203 ( talk) 23:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
This is a disruptive perma-blocked editor, editing from shifting proxies, who is just here to cause us problems. Merge them if you want, but don't give them any idea that they've got anything productive to say. Better still, revert and remove it. I'm just blocking every IP it comes from. Black Kite 00:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)