Just wanted to say your the only one with any intelligence on here recently someone has erased the article Mikoyan LMFS i was just wondering if you can make a page linking it to a page on the Fifth Generation fighter Jet Being built by Russia the LMFS you can find tons of information on it just right on google Mikoyan LMFS globalsecruity thanks so much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LMFS ( talk • contribs) 02:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I've only tagged a photo once, and that was years ago for my entry on Chung Keng Quee, my great grand father. That one was from a very old source and someone helped me with the tag.
I now have a problem with the picture for Ong Hock Thye, former Chief Justice of Malaya (1968-1973), my uncle. I got the pic from my cousin, the daughter of the late Chief Justice who knows exactly where it's going -- I had asked her for a pic for my Wiki entry on her dad. The pic would have been taken in 1968 upon his elevation to Chief Justice.
I've tried looking at the picture tag page but have come away more confused than ever.
Help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jefferyseow ( talk • contribs)
Can anyone tell me what is the correct tag for something that was outside the United States and before 1975. I think that there is something in copyright that says if it was outside the USA and before 1975 it is in the public domain ie no need for copyright permission. Yes or no? As for proof that the pis is before that date, please see my uncles date of birth and date of death in my Wiki essay.
Does any of this make any sense?
As to Malaysia's Copyright act of 1987 --- the act was made in 1987. Part 1 (Preliminary) Section 2 (Extent of application) Subsection [1] Subject to this section and section 59A and regulations made under section 59A, this Act shall apply in relation to works made before the commencement of this Act as it applies in relation to works made after the commencement of this Act: Provided that this section shall not be construed as reviving any copyrights which had expired before the commencement of this Act.
And finally, and this one I really do not understand, is that anything we commission does not belong to us? I mean, say I go to a Professional Photo studio for the purpose of having a proper pic done for use example in my Passport, or a press release that I am handing out... and later on the photographer can sue me? Doesn't copyright refer to creative work? And isn't something I commission and pay for, different from that?
The Copyright act of 1987 grants creators/owners private property rights to control the use of their works in Malaysia including via broadcast and public performance. It follows that the buying of a cassette/CD does not give the buyer an automatic right to broadcast or play the same in public unless consent or licence is first obtained from the copyright owner. But if, for example, I go to a recording studio with my band and we record something and get a CD out of that. Am I the copyright owner? Or the studio whose facilities I made use of?
Malaysia's Copyright Act of 1987 Part IV - Ownership and Assignment of Copyright. Section 26. First ownership of copyright. Subsection [1] Copyright conferred by section 10 shall vest initially in the author. Subsection [2] Notwithstanding subsection [6] of section 27, where a work (a) is commissioned by a person who is not the suthor's employer under a contract or service of apprenticeshi; or (b) not having been so commissioned, is made in the course of the author's employment, the copyright shall be deemed to be transferred to the person who commissioned the work or the author's employer, subject to any agreement between the parties excluding or limiting such transfer.
Look at the pic. Is that a creative work or art? No. It's something you or I would go to a photo studio, pay the guy money i.e. commission him to take a photo for us with full knowledge that we are going to go out and use it in any way we wish.
Because we bought it.
No? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jefferyseow ( talk • contribs)
But I just highlighted the relevant portion of the Copyright act which shows that "Notwithstanding subsection [6] of section 27, where a work (a) is commissioned by a person who is not the suthor's employer under a contract or service of apprenticeshi; or (b) not having been so commissioned, is made in the course of the author's employment, the copyright shall be deemed to be transferred to the person who commissioned the work or the author's employer, subject to any agreement between the parties excluding or limiting such transfer." That's Malaysian law. The copyright rests with my dead uncle who commissioned the work. Sigh. No one seems to be hearing me. I give up. -- Jefferyseow|Jefferyseow ( talk)
Hi, please don't forget that you promised in June to add sources about the band to Orangutang. - Fayenatic (talk) 17:28, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I thought I detected a stench from that account--thanks for blocking it. His edits were a problem, but marginal enough to make me hesitant to block based on what I knew at the time. 75.181.10.227 ( talk) 21:09, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi! some time ago you removed a proposal for deletion in an article ( Salyut UFO sighting), stating that there was media coverage about it. If you check the link you put in the comment, you'll see that the UFO thing was a practical joke on metallic foil debris, and then the rest of the story was made up by ufologists.
I keep my opinion on that the article should be deleted due to it being a made up story, having no references and being an orphan article.
Regards, Guido.scalise ( talk) 14:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Just want to make sure that the string isn't affected.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 03:17, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like you to look over the block you made to this user. From my perspective, this looks far more like an old established user steamrolling a new user rather than a bona fide case of disruptive posting. Trusilver 01:36, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
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For your exemplary work in creating and improving the WebCiteBOT. Blargh29 ( talk) 05:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC) |
FYI, subject to finding a suitable mentor, and other terms set out on their talk page, the Ban Appeals Subcommittee has decided to provisionally unblock this user. If you are interesting in helping with mentoring, can you please mention this on their talk page? Many thanks, Roger Davies talk 12:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm still answering the questions... and note that you have tossed in a few with some interesting twists. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 19:24, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hope Assignment3 does not disappoint. I learned a lot in completing it. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 03:20, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
We're in imminent danger of having another 23000 dead links to geocities.com. We need your help to recruit an army to attack the problem in only one week. Please see my detailed request. Sorry for the double post to the BOT page, I'm hoping to catch you today to see if what we need is even possible. Thanks! -- UncleDouggie ( talk) 05:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I reverted all of Gotham City's GA reviews and I need some help deleting his bogus reviews. See the ANI thread. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 22:25, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Re your block of User:Bali ultimate - is this really a valid reason? Given that page histories and versions are available indefinitely I assumed that editing the page in question would be normal practice, even if there is a current AN/I discussion. pablo hablo. 23:54, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you provide you opinion on this matter? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 01:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
You're an admin, right? I just tagged Wikipedia:Linkrot for db-g6 speedy delete. I think we have consensus. Maybe you can delete it?-- Blargh29 ( talk) 01:50, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the sig...see, I'm often wrong! Frmatt ( talk) 01:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
A well-meaning editor created an article for Kirti Chakra (film) and under that name it went to AfD. I began to research it in thinking to improve it, and discovered that the film already had a much better article under the title Kirtichakra. I wrote the nominator about this and he has not come across this type of duplication before [1]. As the AfD is a moot excersize that need not continue, is there a procedure where it might be early closed as not being neccessary? And then setting a simple redirect from the well-meaning stub name to the actual complete article? I though to do a bold non-admin close myself, but I've already commented at the AfD. Might you look in? MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 07:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello ThaddeusB, many thanks for the emu article. Best Regards Burmeister ( talk) 15:58, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
In relation to your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request#AllAfrica.com, you should know that AllAfrica.com doesn't have original content, I believe, but rather simply reprint articles from other media companies. If you search for the article names, you can often find the original publisher of the content (if the original publisher publishes online). If you need some help, let me know and I can possibly help you to search for articles. -- Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 11:32, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
RE: Wikipedia_talk:Article_Rescue_Squadron#Exporting_articles_to_other_wikis
Two very distinct questions please:
Thanks. Ikip ( talk) 13:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
One of my fans doing research on me for a paper he is writing on up-and-coming Speculative Fiction writers for college emailed me to say the Wikipedia.org pages about me had been deleted on the basis I was not noteworthy enough for this amateurish e-publication. Interesting.
I didn't realize having 14 YA novels published, developing and writing the Universal Monsters series, and developing a fantasy series for Working Partners, LTD. were not noteworthy
Then again, I'm a professional writer and not someone who fully understands the workings of noteworthy stuff as defined by high school graduates. I just write and do my best to entertain. Perhaps those who "research" to determine Wikipedia.org "noteworthies" need a refresher course in research skills.
Thank you for helping me understand this unique concept. I referred the researcher writing the essay on me to other sources as well as gave him a personal interview.
Good luck in your bourgeois endeavors.
All the best, Larry Mike Garmon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.233.176.65 ( talk) 00:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm new to Wikipedia so I thought I'd start with a simple page about my local mall to feel things out. When I look at the Village Mall page I created it suggests that I include Inline Citations...how do I do that? I read over the Help section about Inline Citations but didn't really "get it." I'd appreciate your help a lot, once I've mastered the mall's page I plan on creating others! Thanks for your help! TerriKnight ( talk) 16:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
This is a cool fact.<ref>[http://www.example.com News article]</ref>
Taking a sentence from the
Village Mall article and one of its sources (I didn't check if the source actually back the claim), you could write something like: The mall has a gross leasable area of 527,000 square feet.<ref>[http://web2.sys-con.com/node/1057878 Web2Journal.com Article]</ref>
. The stuff in between the "ref" tags will appear as a footnote where ever you put {{reflist}}
(normally as the first line in the references section).
ThaddeusB - Do you mind looking at my page and telling me if I configured that correctly? I appreciate your help and time.
TerriKnight (
talk)
18:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Many, many thanks! TerriKnight ( talk) 20:31, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I have expanded the Wikipedia:Linkrot to a decent length. Would you take a look at it before I go any further? Also, we are going to have to figure out where this page exists in the Wikipedia cosmology, as compared to WP:DEADREF.-- Blargh29 ( talk) 19:40, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I have completed a major rewrite of Wikipedia:Linkrot, an essay that you commented on in the past. Would you be interested in reviewing it for grammar, comprehensiveness, and clarity? In the next few days, I will place notices of the rewrite at the Village Pump and maybe the signpost.-- Blargh29 ( talk) 05:03, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
A discussion about whether of not the infobox books template should include outside linkage from the OCLC number is posted here. You are being notified because you posted in a discussion at infobox books about this template functionality. Please stop be and include your input into the issue at the link. Thanks. -- 69.226.106.109 ( talk) 06:52, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, do you think you might comment at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/userfication? I tried to sketch a system that might address some of the concerns you raised on userfication, so far with no feedback on that despite it being on WP:CENT. :( Rd232 talk 18:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I've done considerable work on Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Reed Cowan and wish it to be evaluated for possible return to mainspace. He has numerous awards and nominations as a TV journalist that push at bringing him in per WP:ANYBIO. And even if some feel regional Emmy Awards are not notable, that the "regions" being covered represent such a large portion of the US, is indicative that their notability as awards is reasonable to presume and easier to source. Further, and since the death of his son, Cowan is a newsman who is now making the news. He is now himself the subject of news coverage as an activist and filmmaker, thus allowing him to exceeds the requirements of WP:GNG. Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 22:24, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on Heather Harmon. I agree with your argument. This is only the first out of 7 days for discussion on this. I would appreciate your opinion later on in the discussion. -- Stillwaterising ( talk) 22:28, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you patrol the Proposed deletion page. So I went and looked around. I found Medallion of Merit prodded, so I propose it be merged to Phi Sigma Kappa as a reasonble solution to put the information where it has context. Then I came across a real quandary. I found that an anonymous IP had prodded Wonder Camp with the explanation "This charity isn't notable. Google News and Books searches show nothing if one looks with "Skin Disease" or any of the names of the people listed in the article". But in my own doing a search with the actual name "Wonder Camp", as well as a search for the founder, I found all sorts of stuff... so I added a list of potential sources to the talk page, deprodded, and moved it to the correct title. Then I decided not to simply leave it as I found it and so did some cleanup, expansion, and sourcing, turning THIS into THIS before coming to yourtalk page. Do many anonymous IP prodders make such claims about unsuccessful searches when searches are actually quite fruitful? Sigh. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 03:58, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
This diff shows how a move often breaks references. I have myself created articles in a sandbox and moved then to mainspace only to discovver that many of the cites were damaged in the move... Example 1, Example 2
Now, while this does not happen every time I've moved from sandbox to mainspace, why does cite breakage happen at all? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
I just created {{ IUCNlink}}. The documentation might need a little more depth, but at least it works. Ucucha 02:59, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
How dare you accuse me of sockpuppetry you stupid idiot? Kingroodney ( talk) 07:34, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Janet Allison. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Power.corrupts ( talk) 12:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the, er, warning, but the guy is yet another obvious sockpuppet of the permabanned yet ever prolific user:Art Dominique, whose sole purpose of being here consists of doing what he is doing (same mindless edit, disregarding everyone else's opinion). You may want to review this talk archive, the various sockpuppetry cases for background information, or just ask the other regulars at the article page. He was a significant threat in the olden days, but now is mostly a household pest. -- Illythr ( talk) 16:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
You made the argument: You are comparing a website to a person. According to policy, entertainers are explicitly notable based on part on their popularity ("cult following"). No such criteria exists for websites. That is the crucial difference here. --ThaddeusB (talk) 13:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
My response is: I would like the argue that Ideepthroat.com's popularity is almost entirely due to Heather's presence on the site. While there were occasionally other women (and of course her husband Jim), Heather is the undeniably the star attraction and therefore fans of the website are by proxy fans of Heather Harmon. -Stillwaterising (talk) 16:53, 8 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stillwaterising ( talk • contribs)
Hi ThaddeusB! I imagine you probably get some angry notes asking you to undelete pages, so I want to preface this by assuring you I am a friendly commenter and, when in doubt, please put a friendly spin on your interpretation of all the following sentences. (I am new to this collaboration thing, so sorry in advance if I mess anything up, but at least I signed with a timestamp!)
Could you please un-delete the Lozenge and Hampshire wikipedia page? It's HERE Apparently, it was deleted because it failed to demonstrate the "...achievements, impact or historical significance" of the Lozenge and Hampshire browser-based point and click adventure game (which is no-longer online).
While I respect the fact that the moving party generally bears the burden of proof, I feel that I have a slight amount of unfair bias to overcome in establishing the significance of a browser-based game that was never aggressively marketed and distributed commercially. Sometimes, the measure of something's worth is not in the money it makes, but rather in the impact it has and its innate quality, and, that being said, despite the inherent difficulty of establishing said characteristics, there were several cited references in the original page to websites, blogs, and internet records which demonstrate the popularity and the appeal of this browser-based game and indicating people's sorrow that it is currently offline.
Moreover, a new site has recently come to my attention which calls attention to the enduring popularity of this game. the site is at the url here. It is called the Lozenge and Hampshire Preservation Society.
For your convenience, after the text of this comment is the text of the Lozenge and Hampshire wikipedia entry as it existed prior to deletion (recovered from this site-- this site
Thanks for your consideration!
-- Sirbennet ( talk) 22:49, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Lozenge and Hampshire
Lozenge and Hampshire is a browser-based adventure game [2] series for all ages.
The game series was created by James Evans and was hosted at the site http://www.frontiernet.net/~adani/lozenge/mystery [3] . While the site is no longer in operation, it can still be found using the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, although the games are no longer playable [4] .
Series Description
Here is a description of the series, taken from the Lozenge and Hampshire Fan Forum [5] :
Randolph Lozenge and Archibald Hampshire, the RGDs (Really Good Detectives) solve mysteries from their flat in Baker Street, owned by Mrs. Bunson. Accompanied by PC Fudge and assigned their missions by Inspector Bungham, they've encountered everything from a foreign chef to a murderous Santa! However, they always keep their cool, and, depite the eccentricity of their universe, they continue to solve any case that crosses their path. The characters and setting are inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Fact|date=October 2007 Despite being offline for several years, the series is missed for its droll sense of humor and solid adventure gameplay.Fact|date=October 2007 Its current absence from the Internet is discussed in online forums [6] .
List of Lozenge and Hampshire games:
The Case of the Dead Person
The Case of the Curious Odor
The Case of the Baronial Stiff [7]
External links
The Wayback Machine Internet Archive of Lozenge and Hampshire's Homepage:
Forums discussing the games and game sites listing them:
Hello, email me Michal.Manas@tiscali.cz the source, please. Thank you. -- Snek01 ( talk) 15:48, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Cheers Thaddeus. Please take a look at the newer version, and my related text on the Talk:Continuation War page. In the newer version a sub-header was given for the last portion of the segment, where the Soviet offensive is discussed. There hasn't been opponents, Thaddeus - not in writing anyway. May we leave it there, unless someone opposes and explains their reason for opposing on the talk page ? I believe this version is more agreeable to all, because no longer are we suggesting to alter the segment's main header. Thanks. Boris Novikov ( talk) 06:18, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Thaddeus. Regarding that copyright discussion a couple weeks ago, an editor has tagged the Chesty Morgan article as a violation, because it was imported from Boobpedia. I was the significant author of the original BP article, as can be checked at that project, and the BP version was finished a couple weeks before I imported it here. My understanding is that this permits me to share the work with BP. Perhaps you can clarify over here? : Talk:Chesty Morgan Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 20:34, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
As evaluated, I am seriously having my anger and depression get ahold of me. I am a big mouthy, cheating idiot to most people, so I may as well just ignore this situation entirely. Works much better than arguing crap about someone who hates my guts for a stupid article writing belief.Mitch32( A fortune in fabulous articles can be yours!) 01:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Thaddues, I am genuinely perplexed why Hesperian and you seem don't consider Shot Info and Basket of puppies to be "actually neutral editors" with respect to the Australian Vaccination Network article. I must admit that I am unfamiliar with both the article subject and the involved editors; so can you tell me the backstory, since there is nothing in the current history (that I can see) that supports this assumption. Abecedare ( talk) 05:40, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I
re-read the deleted parts of the article, and don't see the "horrible bias". The content Hesperian pointed out at ANI is actually sourced to
this secondary source later in the article. Parts of the article rely on primary sources and borderline synthesis (an understandable newbie error by
User:Exazonk), but other sections like "AVN Comments on Swine Flu", "AVN Comments on Swine Flu" etc are well sourced and neutrally written.
Of course the article would have been reverted back if it had been protected; in fact, it should be from the current unsourced and biased version and then the problematic sections can be culled and improved. Can anyone argue that,
"The organisation provides a vital community information service by critically examining and questioning the validity of the position of the powerful, lucrative and self-regulated phamaceutical, medical and scientific establishment, in their production, aggressive marketing and sale of vaccines for an ever increasing range of diseases under the deceptive guise of "evidence based medicine" and a "peer review" system which is seriously compromised by entrenched ideological and financial conflicts of interest."
is less biased (or even "equally bad") version ? Abecedare ( talk) 06:45, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Ignore my above rant. I just realized a more productive direction; I'll create a sourced stub based on the earlier version and then ask for unprotection if it looks ok (should have thought of this earlier instead of discussing meta-issues!) Cheers. Abecedare ( talk) 06:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Can you take a look here when you are back online ? Abecedare ( talk) 15:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
I've been participating in the discussion about unblocking this user ( User talk:Ahmadbatebi). A couple questions and a comment:
-- ThaddeusB ( talk) 06:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. If you really think the situation is unfortunate, why don't you also leave a comforting note for Ahmadbatebi? I think having 3 users instead of 2 standing by him would help. Being an Iranian political prisoner, as Ahmad Batebi was, is a serious matter, and so is having one's own biography become a WP article. Batebi is not the only living person whose WP biography page was abusively vandalized--as a former notable Wikipedian, I can attest that mine also was. -- AFriedman ( talk) 06:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I like AFriedman's idea. Perhaps another useful place to leave a comforting note might be the talk page of the Ahmad Batebi article. Unfortunately, it looks like this talk page was extensively vandalized by banned user Joaj and his various confirmed sockpuppets. One big problem on this talk page is that Joaj etc. makes insulting comments about the subject of the article (not just the wikipedians involved in updating the page). There are some nasty comments on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Mazahery page as well. Is is possible for Wikipedia to fix this by deleting the libelous postings? Thanks, CordeliaNaismith ( talk) 08:04, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
It may be worth contacting him by e-mail if this is enabled as having been blocked for so long he might not be logging into his Wikipedia account. Mjroots ( talk) 20:58, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I unresolved it since it's clearly not resolved; if it's to be moved away from ANI to WT:NEWT it would be better to shift the thread as a whole to that page so as not to split the discussion (because this will inevitably re-appear at ANI anyway). Black Kite 22:32, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
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For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:19, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations! That's a very nice award. -- AFriedman ( talk) 21:38, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey ThaddeusB :). Since we've both offered to write a bot to take over from CSDWarnBot, we need to figure out which one of use should actually write it. It doesn't really bother me, one way or the other, but my code is pretty much done. Let me know how you feel :) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 08:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thad, Thanks for taking the time to explain about the AVN article, that was very nice of you. I am new at editing wiki. Relying mainly on secondary sources rather than primary ones is really tough for me to get my head around but I will try. I'm a virologist (which explains my interest in this topic). Nothing we do in research can cite secondary sources, and most of the time the media garble the outcomes of research.
I've noticed that a lot of other articles mainly concerned with science and/or medicine cite primary sources, usually in reputable, peer-reviewed journals. I wonder if there is something to be said for these wiki articles perhaps being better served by including both primary and secondary sources? Regardless, I will try my best to stay inside the wiki rules.
Thanks for writing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greengiantjolly ( talk • contribs) 20:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Thaddeus, thanks for adding my name to the AVN DYK credits. The article is shaping up well, and does a good job of presenting the facts neutrally. Abecedare ( talk) 21:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
I am trying to withdraw now from Wikipedia as media interest grows in my forthcoming book on the controversial topic of bullfighting (a subject on which I try to be impartial, inciting anger on both sides). As a result, I closed my userpage and blanked my talk page. However, I notice someone has vandalised the page about me, Alexander Fiske-Harrison, with information which is untrue, and, more importantly, unsourced. In the spirit of my withdrawal, and the avoidance of COI, please could you revert this. -- Fiskeharrison ( talk) 21:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Little confused about your removal of the references to the No Compulsory Vaccination Blog, citing that they are the views of Dorey not the AVN, but then you added a link to the blog as an external link?
As you pointed out, the blog is now hosted in-house, and so most certainly an official AVN view. Also the older hosted blog states "The Australian Vaccination Network, Australia's nationwide pro-information and pro-choice vaccination organisation, has established this blog". Seems to me that the views on this blog are those of the AVN, and therefore appropriate to be included in the article.
You also removed the line "The AVN presents information restricted to an anti-vaccination viewpoint". Again, this is an accurate and referenced piece of information. Any reason why was it removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruiser-Aust ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi mate. OK with part 2, but the blog article I linked to (Flue not biggest danger, it's the vaccine), is a David Icke Article. No original research required. Here's the link to the original Icke article: [8]. As you can see, the AVN blog quotes it verbatim: [9] Cruiser-Aust 03:39, 20 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruiser-Aust ( talk • contribs)
for fixing all those IUCN links! (And good luck with correcting the wrong IDs.) Ucucha 12:53, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the positive comments you left on my talk page regarding my edits to Ethan Peck. (Sorry, I never know whether to reply here or there!) I really appreciated the feedback. That is the first time I've 'overhauled' an article/stub and was a little nervous about doing so. Thanks again. Logical Fuzz ( talk) 02:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for deleting that ill considered sub-page I made. -- allen四 names 04:08, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi ThaddeusB, An anonymous user at IP: 83.170.113.97 has posted an uncivil comment on the talk page of the article on Ahmad Batebi. From this user's talk page, it looks like they have previously been using their account primarily to vandalize the page on Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Would you be willing to look into this? Thanks, CordeliaNaismith ( talk) 02:32, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
You deleted this article because he was not a professional athlete but this is not the case he was a profesional in Cyprus during the 2008 season and is a profesional soccer player with Barnet FC see http://www.barnetfc.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10431~49853,00.html
Please reinstate this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deefaulds ( talk • contribs) 19:03, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Will someone please tell me what is going on??
I got a Rapid Delete notice for Curtis Grubb for some reason unknown to me. I objected with a hangon, as instructed, and left a note on the Curtis Grubb talk page. Apparently you have reversed the RD notice because my hangon is gone.
Please help me understand! LynnSGrubb ( talk) 06:10, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello ThaddeusB. I'm currently discussing what to include in the Nigahiga article here with Laudak, with whom you talked to earlier this month. We are currently discussing whether or not YouTube and its videos are reliable (primary) sources. May you please take a look? Thank you. Regards, Airplaneman talk 06:11, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the appreciation. Since I do a lot of college athletes, at the point when their notability has become clear, this situation happens. Michigan has a very enthusiastic fan base and not all of them are expert at WP. Thus, many articles get created without properly establishing notability. I do my best to create the most encyclopedic article possible for athletes who have clear notability or a little bit prior to clear notability. It is great to be noticed for it. I always accept Tigers on my user page as a sign of appreciation.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:30, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
You deleted the Violent Acres entry in August. I disagree with this decision. It's a well enough known blog to have a wiki entry. It has thousands of followers and gets hundreds of thousands of hits per month. I've seen several of its articles on the front page of digg.
I understand that you can't just put up any person's blog on wikipedia, but Violent Acres is a legit, well-known blog with hundreds of entries, not just some guy's rant about the poor service at Taco Bell. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I ask you to visit the blog and reconsider.
Please note that I am not in any way affiliated with Violent Acres. I just really love the blog. It's easily my favorite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.93.163.33 ( talk) 21:57, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
How about a uniform policy on Removing and Deleting? Human error must be eliminated! How about a shooting at dawn!? Seriously, though, and all joking aside, do you need an input to this valuble article page? How valuble is it? Well the witness of Pilate to The Christ has got to be of immence value where someone is looking for independant witness of the existance of Jesus including: Pliny and Pliny the Younger. I have not looked if there is an article page here, and too, Jonathan.
MacOfJesus ( talk) 09:16, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, you'd helped me in the past so I'm hoping you can help again on two completely different topics :-)
1) A user coming from the IP 86.6.75.106 has so far done nothing but vandalism, and I don't know what the correct procedure is for reporting that IP or getting any investigation done on that IP. Can you do something or recommend anything?
2) The Ad-Aware article seems extremely like it was copied from marketing material or website, especially with the "versions summary" table. There is already an "advertisement" warning box on the page, but I know that it's way beyond my abilities to fix. How would I get someone to try to fix this article, do I just leave it alone and trust that someone else will come along and work on it, or do you think it's ok to leave it as it is?
Thanks, Shymian ( talk) 11:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your help sorting out marginal articles into incubation and assisting editors and the encyclopedia with patience and grace. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 19:15, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I would like a copy of that article (I was going to work on it, but hadn't found the time). Or if you could, possibly put it in a subpage for me? Thank you, fetch comms ☛ 00:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
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By my calculation, you have expanded the actual article text by nearly 10x. You should go for a DYK! Bongo matic 02:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
It was here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MirankerAD/RNA_Tertiary_Structure Do you think that you can move it over? Articles should really be in the main namespace and not in user spaces. At least that was my interpretation of wiki policy. Thanks! Article finder ( talk) 04:26, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thaddeus,
Unfortunately, rather than providing the requested sources for his POV, my opponent appears to try keeping out the fact-based information simply by trying to block opposition, using tactics that should not be tolerated in Wikipedia.
The user check correctly showed that I have no relation to the accounts compared. Thus, I wish to now show who really is behind at least the "madly" behaving Kingroodney account, and why (I did not check in detail the contributions of the other accounts compared).
I stand, that the Kingroodney account was established by user Illythr, in the sole purpose of getting me blocked for sock-puppetry (perhaps other users too).
For protection of innocent Wikipedia contributors, I hereby request a user check to verify this connection between Illythr and Kingroodney. Thank you kindly, Thaddeus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boris Novikov ( talk • contribs) 07:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Unable to resist bacon's temptations, rogue editors have kicked off the Bacon Challenge 2010 before the New Year even starts! This is a fun and collegial event and all are welcome. There are many non-pork articles for editors who enjoy some sizzle, but object to or don't like messing with pig products. This year's event also includes a Bacon WikiCup 2010 for those who may want to keep score and enjoy engaging in friendly competition. Given the critical importance of this subject matter, I know you will want to participate, so remember to sign up today and get started A.S.A.P. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 19:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Good afternoon,
I sent a talk message to Singerlarity42 explaning the information that was posted. I'm the Manager/publicist for "The Hip Hop Chef", Cooking Tyrone, if you need any information I can be reached at 410-500-2267 or theofficialpublicist@gmail.com. Tyrone Jones has the name "The Hip Hop Chef", Cooking Tyrone Trademarked, I'm the person that developed his website. I have all Permission to post any information about him. If you need to reach out to him also I can give you his information.
Thanks in advance,
Chast Fleming, Gemini Business Develpment & PR Firm
Thank you,
I've changed the wording but it is still the same information. I will be submitting the information shortly. Let me know what if it is O.K. Please! I do have the permission to use the information. If you need to contact the Chef please let me know.
Cheate Fleming Gemini Business Development & PR Firm —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Hip Hop Chef ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for your support for the article.
The singer is very popular and quite notable in Bangladesh. But unfortunately the article was "Prod-attacked" by an inexperienced user of wikipedia and fortunately saved by an established user of wikipedia. But *unfortunately* once again the established user was attacked with so many "Prod-attacks" suddenly at a time for his own articles that he created. Certainly those were not co-incidents and clear enough who run those bad WP-politics. I expect Wikipedia policy makers would notice this and make the environment of wikipedia more decent for gentle contributors.
The above note is also added to the talk page of the article. -- Amarbangla ( talk) 06:34, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Got your note. I, too, thought the concept was pretty unusual and intriguing -- not something I'd ever heard of. The hook is currently in queue to go on the main page tomorrow. At the request of another editor, I did, however, demote it from the lead spot to the #2 spot. Frankly, the picture was not the greatest image for the hook (though it did look quite appetizing). Cbl62 ( talk) 01:42, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I note that User:Fastily seems to have used some of your test questions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Basket of Puppies 2. Looking over the RFA, I would have some different answers. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 05:27, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 18:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
hi, i wanted to thank you for getting involved in the ridiculous situation about ron thal's page being deleted. i was getting very frustrated by those 2 people who seem to be admins but admit that they don't know policy and even gave me wrong advice so i ended up embarassing myself on here. it was enough to make me want to leave until you seemed to take notice and tried explaining why the delete was wrong. anyway i wanted to remind you that he hasnt replied since you posted last on his talk page and was hoping you could really get somewhere on this issue. thanks. Aisha9152 ( talk) 05:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
here's the collateral aftermath of me having fun making frivolous edits
on this, the most serious of social experiments.
http://en.wikiversity.org/?title=Topic:Turing_Programming_Language&action=history
have fun encouraging old-new Wikipedia editors, it's certainly fun for me.
many thanks, don't bite the newcomers;), almost noon, Manhattan time.
Materialscientist ( talk) 18:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Thaddeus,
Kacey Jones has a wikipedia page that was set up and running by someone unknown and some of the pertinent information on that page is either out and out wrong or misleading. She has asked me to contact you to find out if she can go in and correct the misleading info without it reverting back to the original text and also she'd like to upload a photo onto the page that is a black and white photo located in the wiki commons.
Please reply to info@airplayspecialists.com with any info you might be able to give us.
Many Thanks,
Abby Montgomery Kacey Jones
Zamalama8 ( talk) 19:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Was I supposed to answer you here?
If so sorry. My answer is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:24.84.210.36&redirect=no Gatorinvancouver ( talk) 23:20, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
hey there thaddeusb, I made a script to retrieve the top editor for a page with a unreferenced BLP Page. The format is a dictionary. Im going to make the list tonight, then make a script to add a message to a user's talk page. I don't include a way to remove inactive users, how would i determine if they are inactive? anyways i figured you would appreciate a nice format for your bot to work from. Here is an example
{'User:Tim':['Page1','Page2'],'User:ThaddeusB':['Page 3','Page4']}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim1357 ( talk • contribs)
Per the discussion at AI and UKrail, I've created an article on the SECR PMVs. I seem to have made a slight booboo in that I didn't put "Wikipedia:" in the title. Does this really matter, or should it be moved. Will let you sort this one out. Mjroots ( talk) 16:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey ThaddeusB I noticed that you have a lot on your plate, and so I have been trying to take care of some of your tasks. Anyways, I scripted a BLP notification bot, and wanted your input. See discussion here Tim1357 ( talk) 18:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
What's the "legality" of deleting pages that have sat in the Incubator for a month without improvement? If the article meets speedy criteria, no problem; if it was sent there from AfD as an alternative to deletion on promise of improvement which hasn't happened, I guess it could be regarded as under suspended sentence; but what about one like WP:Article Incubator/Taakatism, which I rescued from a {{db-g3}} because I didn't think it was an actual hoax (implying intent to deceive) but was rather WP:NFT. I incubated it, explained to the author about reliable independent sources, and not greatly to my surprise nothing has happened to it except one typo correction. What should happen when its month is up? Do we need a new speedy "Article still unsuitable for mainspace after a month in the Incubator, and with no prospect of improvement"?
I apologise if all this has been discussed somewhere that I haven't seen.
(I see, by the way, that Aisha has added to the Bumblefoot article, and I'm inclined to return it to the mainspace. I have asked Spike's opinion - I guess you would be agreeable?)
Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Valhalla Vineyards, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valhalla Vineyards. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Agne Cheese/ Wine 16:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to get this project up and running again! Tim1357 ( talk) 00:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick note, there's a new bot dump for the journal database bot to go through. Would be nice to get an update list. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia#Presentation tweak Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Any progress? The current journal dump is getting quite old... Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:23, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Im not sure if you knew this, but Geocities is shutting down. A lot of people are woried about all of the dead links that are going to be created. Seeing as you have significant expertise in this area, I'd like to see what you have to say. The discussion is at Wikipedia:VPPR#When GeoCities shuts down, how should we handle links to its sites? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim1357 ( talk • contribs)
...here. It's a bot to assist Wikiproject Intertranswiki, so your advice has been specifically requested Fritzpoll ( talk) 12:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Your assistance in the process would also be much appreciated!! Drawing up this missing directory is going to take some time even at bot rate! Himalayan 13:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
In case I wasn't clear before, feel free to use the template. In fact, I'm glad you guys have gotten that project started. Good luck, and I will be sure to put the concept to the test. ;-) - Stevertigo ( w | t | e) 05:52, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
MoS prefers US to USA. Rich Farmbrough, 02:03, 13 October 2009 (UTC).
Hello! It seems like DeadLinkBOT ( contribs) has stopped running? Do we need a replacement for it? I would be willing to script up a bot to take its' place. Let me know. Nice speaking with you, Matthew Yeager 17:38, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
"http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc([0-9]+).html"
[10] and the old locations on ietf.org: "http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc([0-9]+).html"
"http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc([0-9]+).txt"
"http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc([0-9]+).txt"
[11] These should be updated to point to: "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc$number"
"http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/"
to "http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/"
[12] and then in May 2006 and August of 2006 to point to "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc(number)"
[13]
[14] but we still have a lot of manually created links in all sorts of namespaces that point to the old locations.Thanks to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center deciding to change their website around completely we in the Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones have a lot of links which need pointing to their new homes. Anyway i was wondering if youre bot would be able to do it at all? Thanks Jason Rees ( talk) 00:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Do you expect to get all 30,000 done before the deadline? MBisanz talk 17:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, again, I hope you're enjoying the summer.
In case you haven't noticed, GeoCities archives have become a hotly-debated topic at the External Links and Administrators' Noticeboards:
Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard#External links and references to former GeoCities sites
I hope no one's laboriously re-inventing wheels you've already put on the Infobahn. —— Shakescene ( talk) 21:14, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey there thaddeusB,
I did some research on the wayback machine, to help with that bot I've been pestering you about. Like you said, the bot would have to find an archived version that is at least close to the date it was accessed, so here is my solution.
Let us assume that the range for deviation from the access-date is 4 months.
And lets have example.com be our example dead link.
Also, the accessdate for that is July, 2008.
Because we have a range of four monthes, (2 months in either direction) our date range (in yyyymm format) would be.
200805 and 200809
So, in the wayback url, type the following
web.archive.org/web/200805-200809/example.com
this would produce the archived version closest to the center of the provided range. If no archive exists in the provided range, then it returns "no archive".
This, of course, works if there is an "accessdate" parameter given. If it is not given, you can query wikiblame, which gives the accesdate.
Use the following url, replacing pagename with the page's name, and linkname with the link's name.
http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php? project=wikipedia&article=pagename&needle=linkname&lang=en&limit=2000&ignorefirst=0& offjahr=2009&offmon=10&offtag=26&searchmethod=int&order=asc
the page will produce a statement "insertion found between (datestamp) and (datestamp), which can then be substituted for the accessdate. Whew, and thats all i got. I might have just spent a lot of time telling you things you already knew, but I thought that was a good way to work through the problems you listed in the bot request i originally made. tell me what you think. Tim1357 ( talk) 21:15, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
There's a concentration of other free sites where GeoCities hosts were being encouraged to migrate (see my discussions in the archives of WP:Village Pump (proposals) derived from the GeoCities article in Wikipedia and the GeoCities home page: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/close-07.html ), so at some point, some kind of search-and-locate operation may be called for. Much of this will have to be done by humans, but is there any way that a 'bot could automate part of the search? —— Shakescene ( talk) 00:42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
It's possible this problem has been brought up and is being addressed somewhere, but I wasn't sure where. And seeing as how you've developed a bot for the correcting dead links, I figured you'd be a good place to start in getting it resolved. With CourtTV's change to 'TruTV', they made sweeping changes to their domain as well. As a result, just about every unarchived link, external or reference, to CourtTV sources has been rendered useless (they now redirect to TruTV's redirect page).
For example, several references on this page, this page, and an External Link here. No doubt this affects countless other pages covering notable trials and/or criminals. I haven't figured out which of the two links on that redirect page lead to the archived documents generally being referenced, so I'm not sure if the repair process could be automated. Is this something your bot could be configured to fix?
That being asked, I notice
this page was created with every CourtTV reference archived, but I can't tell if it was done as a result of this issue or if it was just someone maintaining
best practice citation habit.
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K10wnsta (
talk)
19:40, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I just wrote Wikipedia:Using WebCite. You want to check it out?-- Blargh29 ( talk) 01:53, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Would like your input here please. Note: This is a draft, to be kept in my namespace until the editor is off their block and their new contributions can be reviewed. Frmatt ( talk) 07:08, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
This may not make a whole lot of sense. Abyssal suggested that I contact you about a bot you were working on to automate "filing in tables" on arthropod invertebrates. Here is the text of his message to me...
"Actually, come to think of it, maybe you should talk to User:ThaddeusB before continuing. We were collaborating on a bot that would fill in the tables automatically from the PBDB, but it fell into development hell. Should it continue it may render your work unnecessary. You should tell him your plans and ask him if any future work on the bot would effect your planned editing. Filling in a lot of data manually would be an unfortunate waste of effort if it ends up getting overwritten by the database-harvesting bot. Abyssal (talk) 00:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)"
I have only entered a small amount of info in the list of eurypterids, which is what he was referring to. I am presently entering species descriptive information from the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology onto the pages on each individual genus. As the source I am working from is a non-digital paper source, I doubt that a bot will affect that work. As for the name and date info that I have entered onto the species lists, if that could be automated, more power to you. My input was minimal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Digthepast ( talk • contribs) 18:55, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey there!
Just a reminder to generate the list of dead links.
This reminds me - a really need to generate that list... Yes, I will output two lists - a complete alphabetical one & a separate list with the most "popular" dead links. I'll make finally finishing the program the make this list my top priority for the next week.--ThaddeusB (talk) 8:28 pm, 4 October 2009, Sunday (1 month, 21 days ago) (UTC−4)
Thanks again for taking the time to do that! Tim1357 ( talk) 19:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if you're still interested in saving regularly the statistics as we had disucssed here. Cenarium ( talk) 14:38, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is sometimes seen as a rather harsh environment for newcomers. I am currently working on an essay that might better ease newcomers into the family. Any input for Newcomer's guide to guidelines will be most welcome. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 05:39, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello my friend! Union Avenue Historic Commercial District needs a bit of copy editing and you do clean things up so well. I would like to see it be nominated for the featured article but it's needs a buit more fleshing out. Can you please guide me? Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 06:23, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi! A couple of months back, you created this 'bot to work with National Register of Historic Places historic district categories. (THANKS!) From User:The Auto-categorizing Robot/Logs/NRHP Index, it appears that the categorizing work began, but then stopped. This task is still needed (see Template talk:Infobox_nrhp#Problem with autocategorization to Category:Historic districts in the United States for the latest expressions of concern). Was there a problem with the 'bot or the task design that someone else could help out with? -- Orlady ( talk) 21:25, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
[outdent] I see that real life has been interfering with your wiki-life lately. I hope things are getting sorted out for you. Is there anything anyone else can do to help with this 'bot process? -- Orlady ( talk) 00:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Due to time-sensitivity, thought you should be advised of this notice/discussion -- Cybercobra (talk) 04:08, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
About this comment.
Why?
Someone who is obviously connected to the company is intent on making sure we have an article on their product. No-one else is showing any interest in the article. Surely if the product really was notable we would have some actual contributions from editors who do not have a COI?
What is the message we are trying to send to people intent on spamming us? "Just keep trying!" The article has been deleted multiple times now as spam. AlistairMcMillan ( talk) 14:03, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
If you want more of the fine foods meme this new article is mighty skimpy. Otherwise, you're welcome to help out on the Tacoma, Washington architecture subjects I've uncovered (see top of my user page article list...) or to do your own thing. :) Anyway, great job on that article you fixed up. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 07:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Thaddeus. I wonder whether I could bother you with a special request for a bit complicated WebCiting (that needs a bit of coding)? We at WP:DW have a problem (read here for details) that Outpost Gallifrey, a website that hosted many reviews currently linked from 150+ articles, has been shut down. Those reviews have been cached at web.archive.org here but that service is always very slow. Would it be possible to submit all those links under the "reviews"-header (if archived) to WebCite using an adapted version of your bot's code and then add them to the articles in which they are used in? The tricky part here would be that the links are already "rotten" and there would be a difference between the link to archive (e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20071001000119/www.gallifreyone.com/review.php?id=bbcp-69) and the link in the article (e.g. http://www.gallifreyone.com/review.php?id=bbcp-69). Regards So Why 11:36, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia_talk:Article_Rescue_Squadron#Listing_the_articles_with_rescue_tag:_Fritzpoll_and.2For_Thaddeus_can_you_create_the_bot.3F Ikip 18:18, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it ready yet? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 02:49, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Opinion sought about User:MichaelQSchmidt/sandbox/Kevin Rockett. I believe even at this stage the subject meets Wikipedia:Notability (academics). I am ready to turn it loose and let others join in on the fun. What'cha think? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:39, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator/Admin Recall. Best Wishes for the Holidays, Jusdafax 07:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to say your the only one with any intelligence on here recently someone has erased the article Mikoyan LMFS i was just wondering if you can make a page linking it to a page on the Fifth Generation fighter Jet Being built by Russia the LMFS you can find tons of information on it just right on google Mikoyan LMFS globalsecruity thanks so much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LMFS ( talk • contribs) 02:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
I've only tagged a photo once, and that was years ago for my entry on Chung Keng Quee, my great grand father. That one was from a very old source and someone helped me with the tag.
I now have a problem with the picture for Ong Hock Thye, former Chief Justice of Malaya (1968-1973), my uncle. I got the pic from my cousin, the daughter of the late Chief Justice who knows exactly where it's going -- I had asked her for a pic for my Wiki entry on her dad. The pic would have been taken in 1968 upon his elevation to Chief Justice.
I've tried looking at the picture tag page but have come away more confused than ever.
Help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jefferyseow ( talk • contribs)
Can anyone tell me what is the correct tag for something that was outside the United States and before 1975. I think that there is something in copyright that says if it was outside the USA and before 1975 it is in the public domain ie no need for copyright permission. Yes or no? As for proof that the pis is before that date, please see my uncles date of birth and date of death in my Wiki essay.
Does any of this make any sense?
As to Malaysia's Copyright act of 1987 --- the act was made in 1987. Part 1 (Preliminary) Section 2 (Extent of application) Subsection [1] Subject to this section and section 59A and regulations made under section 59A, this Act shall apply in relation to works made before the commencement of this Act as it applies in relation to works made after the commencement of this Act: Provided that this section shall not be construed as reviving any copyrights which had expired before the commencement of this Act.
And finally, and this one I really do not understand, is that anything we commission does not belong to us? I mean, say I go to a Professional Photo studio for the purpose of having a proper pic done for use example in my Passport, or a press release that I am handing out... and later on the photographer can sue me? Doesn't copyright refer to creative work? And isn't something I commission and pay for, different from that?
The Copyright act of 1987 grants creators/owners private property rights to control the use of their works in Malaysia including via broadcast and public performance. It follows that the buying of a cassette/CD does not give the buyer an automatic right to broadcast or play the same in public unless consent or licence is first obtained from the copyright owner. But if, for example, I go to a recording studio with my band and we record something and get a CD out of that. Am I the copyright owner? Or the studio whose facilities I made use of?
Malaysia's Copyright Act of 1987 Part IV - Ownership and Assignment of Copyright. Section 26. First ownership of copyright. Subsection [1] Copyright conferred by section 10 shall vest initially in the author. Subsection [2] Notwithstanding subsection [6] of section 27, where a work (a) is commissioned by a person who is not the suthor's employer under a contract or service of apprenticeshi; or (b) not having been so commissioned, is made in the course of the author's employment, the copyright shall be deemed to be transferred to the person who commissioned the work or the author's employer, subject to any agreement between the parties excluding or limiting such transfer.
Look at the pic. Is that a creative work or art? No. It's something you or I would go to a photo studio, pay the guy money i.e. commission him to take a photo for us with full knowledge that we are going to go out and use it in any way we wish.
Because we bought it.
No? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jefferyseow ( talk • contribs)
But I just highlighted the relevant portion of the Copyright act which shows that "Notwithstanding subsection [6] of section 27, where a work (a) is commissioned by a person who is not the suthor's employer under a contract or service of apprenticeshi; or (b) not having been so commissioned, is made in the course of the author's employment, the copyright shall be deemed to be transferred to the person who commissioned the work or the author's employer, subject to any agreement between the parties excluding or limiting such transfer." That's Malaysian law. The copyright rests with my dead uncle who commissioned the work. Sigh. No one seems to be hearing me. I give up. -- Jefferyseow|Jefferyseow ( talk)
Hi, please don't forget that you promised in June to add sources about the band to Orangutang. - Fayenatic (talk) 17:28, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I thought I detected a stench from that account--thanks for blocking it. His edits were a problem, but marginal enough to make me hesitant to block based on what I knew at the time. 75.181.10.227 ( talk) 21:09, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi! some time ago you removed a proposal for deletion in an article ( Salyut UFO sighting), stating that there was media coverage about it. If you check the link you put in the comment, you'll see that the UFO thing was a practical joke on metallic foil debris, and then the rest of the story was made up by ufologists.
I keep my opinion on that the article should be deleted due to it being a made up story, having no references and being an orphan article.
Regards, Guido.scalise ( talk) 14:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Just want to make sure that the string isn't affected.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 03:17, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like you to look over the block you made to this user. From my perspective, this looks far more like an old established user steamrolling a new user rather than a bona fide case of disruptive posting. Trusilver 01:36, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
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FYI, subject to finding a suitable mentor, and other terms set out on their talk page, the Ban Appeals Subcommittee has decided to provisionally unblock this user. If you are interesting in helping with mentoring, can you please mention this on their talk page? Many thanks, Roger Davies talk 12:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm still answering the questions... and note that you have tossed in a few with some interesting twists. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 19:24, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hope Assignment3 does not disappoint. I learned a lot in completing it. MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 03:20, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
We're in imminent danger of having another 23000 dead links to geocities.com. We need your help to recruit an army to attack the problem in only one week. Please see my detailed request. Sorry for the double post to the BOT page, I'm hoping to catch you today to see if what we need is even possible. Thanks! -- UncleDouggie ( talk) 05:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I reverted all of Gotham City's GA reviews and I need some help deleting his bogus reviews. See the ANI thread. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 22:25, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Re your block of User:Bali ultimate - is this really a valid reason? Given that page histories and versions are available indefinitely I assumed that editing the page in question would be normal practice, even if there is a current AN/I discussion. pablo hablo. 23:54, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you provide you opinion on this matter? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 01:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
You're an admin, right? I just tagged Wikipedia:Linkrot for db-g6 speedy delete. I think we have consensus. Maybe you can delete it?-- Blargh29 ( talk) 01:50, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the sig...see, I'm often wrong! Frmatt ( talk) 01:41, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
A well-meaning editor created an article for Kirti Chakra (film) and under that name it went to AfD. I began to research it in thinking to improve it, and discovered that the film already had a much better article under the title Kirtichakra. I wrote the nominator about this and he has not come across this type of duplication before [1]. As the AfD is a moot excersize that need not continue, is there a procedure where it might be early closed as not being neccessary? And then setting a simple redirect from the well-meaning stub name to the actual complete article? I though to do a bold non-admin close myself, but I've already commented at the AfD. Might you look in? MichaelQSchmidt ( talk) 07:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello ThaddeusB, many thanks for the emu article. Best Regards Burmeister ( talk) 15:58, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
In relation to your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request#AllAfrica.com, you should know that AllAfrica.com doesn't have original content, I believe, but rather simply reprint articles from other media companies. If you search for the article names, you can often find the original publisher of the content (if the original publisher publishes online). If you need some help, let me know and I can possibly help you to search for articles. -- Russavia I'm chanting as we speak 11:32, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
RE: Wikipedia_talk:Article_Rescue_Squadron#Exporting_articles_to_other_wikis
Two very distinct questions please:
Thanks. Ikip ( talk) 13:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
One of my fans doing research on me for a paper he is writing on up-and-coming Speculative Fiction writers for college emailed me to say the Wikipedia.org pages about me had been deleted on the basis I was not noteworthy enough for this amateurish e-publication. Interesting.
I didn't realize having 14 YA novels published, developing and writing the Universal Monsters series, and developing a fantasy series for Working Partners, LTD. were not noteworthy
Then again, I'm a professional writer and not someone who fully understands the workings of noteworthy stuff as defined by high school graduates. I just write and do my best to entertain. Perhaps those who "research" to determine Wikipedia.org "noteworthies" need a refresher course in research skills.
Thank you for helping me understand this unique concept. I referred the researcher writing the essay on me to other sources as well as gave him a personal interview.
Good luck in your bourgeois endeavors.
All the best, Larry Mike Garmon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.233.176.65 ( talk) 00:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm new to Wikipedia so I thought I'd start with a simple page about my local mall to feel things out. When I look at the Village Mall page I created it suggests that I include Inline Citations...how do I do that? I read over the Help section about Inline Citations but didn't really "get it." I'd appreciate your help a lot, once I've mastered the mall's page I plan on creating others! Thanks for your help! TerriKnight ( talk) 16:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
This is a cool fact.<ref>[http://www.example.com News article]</ref>
Taking a sentence from the
Village Mall article and one of its sources (I didn't check if the source actually back the claim), you could write something like: The mall has a gross leasable area of 527,000 square feet.<ref>[http://web2.sys-con.com/node/1057878 Web2Journal.com Article]</ref>
. The stuff in between the "ref" tags will appear as a footnote where ever you put {{reflist}}
(normally as the first line in the references section).
ThaddeusB - Do you mind looking at my page and telling me if I configured that correctly? I appreciate your help and time.
TerriKnight (
talk)
18:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Many, many thanks! TerriKnight ( talk) 20:31, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I have expanded the Wikipedia:Linkrot to a decent length. Would you take a look at it before I go any further? Also, we are going to have to figure out where this page exists in the Wikipedia cosmology, as compared to WP:DEADREF.-- Blargh29 ( talk) 19:40, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I have completed a major rewrite of Wikipedia:Linkrot, an essay that you commented on in the past. Would you be interested in reviewing it for grammar, comprehensiveness, and clarity? In the next few days, I will place notices of the rewrite at the Village Pump and maybe the signpost.-- Blargh29 ( talk) 05:03, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
A discussion about whether of not the infobox books template should include outside linkage from the OCLC number is posted here. You are being notified because you posted in a discussion at infobox books about this template functionality. Please stop be and include your input into the issue at the link. Thanks. -- 69.226.106.109 ( talk) 06:52, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, do you think you might comment at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/userfication? I tried to sketch a system that might address some of the concerns you raised on userfication, so far with no feedback on that despite it being on WP:CENT. :( Rd232 talk 18:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I've done considerable work on Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Reed Cowan and wish it to be evaluated for possible return to mainspace. He has numerous awards and nominations as a TV journalist that push at bringing him in per WP:ANYBIO. And even if some feel regional Emmy Awards are not notable, that the "regions" being covered represent such a large portion of the US, is indicative that their notability as awards is reasonable to presume and easier to source. Further, and since the death of his son, Cowan is a newsman who is now making the news. He is now himself the subject of news coverage as an activist and filmmaker, thus allowing him to exceeds the requirements of WP:GNG. Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 22:24, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on Heather Harmon. I agree with your argument. This is only the first out of 7 days for discussion on this. I would appreciate your opinion later on in the discussion. -- Stillwaterising ( talk) 22:28, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you patrol the Proposed deletion page. So I went and looked around. I found Medallion of Merit prodded, so I propose it be merged to Phi Sigma Kappa as a reasonble solution to put the information where it has context. Then I came across a real quandary. I found that an anonymous IP had prodded Wonder Camp with the explanation "This charity isn't notable. Google News and Books searches show nothing if one looks with "Skin Disease" or any of the names of the people listed in the article". But in my own doing a search with the actual name "Wonder Camp", as well as a search for the founder, I found all sorts of stuff... so I added a list of potential sources to the talk page, deprodded, and moved it to the correct title. Then I decided not to simply leave it as I found it and so did some cleanup, expansion, and sourcing, turning THIS into THIS before coming to yourtalk page. Do many anonymous IP prodders make such claims about unsuccessful searches when searches are actually quite fruitful? Sigh. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 03:58, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
This diff shows how a move often breaks references. I have myself created articles in a sandbox and moved then to mainspace only to discovver that many of the cites were damaged in the move... Example 1, Example 2
Now, while this does not happen every time I've moved from sandbox to mainspace, why does cite breakage happen at all? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
I just created {{ IUCNlink}}. The documentation might need a little more depth, but at least it works. Ucucha 02:59, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
How dare you accuse me of sockpuppetry you stupid idiot? Kingroodney ( talk) 07:34, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Janet Allison. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Power.corrupts ( talk) 12:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the, er, warning, but the guy is yet another obvious sockpuppet of the permabanned yet ever prolific user:Art Dominique, whose sole purpose of being here consists of doing what he is doing (same mindless edit, disregarding everyone else's opinion). You may want to review this talk archive, the various sockpuppetry cases for background information, or just ask the other regulars at the article page. He was a significant threat in the olden days, but now is mostly a household pest. -- Illythr ( talk) 16:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
You made the argument: You are comparing a website to a person. According to policy, entertainers are explicitly notable based on part on their popularity ("cult following"). No such criteria exists for websites. That is the crucial difference here. --ThaddeusB (talk) 13:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
My response is: I would like the argue that Ideepthroat.com's popularity is almost entirely due to Heather's presence on the site. While there were occasionally other women (and of course her husband Jim), Heather is the undeniably the star attraction and therefore fans of the website are by proxy fans of Heather Harmon. -Stillwaterising (talk) 16:53, 8 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stillwaterising ( talk • contribs)
Hi ThaddeusB! I imagine you probably get some angry notes asking you to undelete pages, so I want to preface this by assuring you I am a friendly commenter and, when in doubt, please put a friendly spin on your interpretation of all the following sentences. (I am new to this collaboration thing, so sorry in advance if I mess anything up, but at least I signed with a timestamp!)
Could you please un-delete the Lozenge and Hampshire wikipedia page? It's HERE Apparently, it was deleted because it failed to demonstrate the "...achievements, impact or historical significance" of the Lozenge and Hampshire browser-based point and click adventure game (which is no-longer online).
While I respect the fact that the moving party generally bears the burden of proof, I feel that I have a slight amount of unfair bias to overcome in establishing the significance of a browser-based game that was never aggressively marketed and distributed commercially. Sometimes, the measure of something's worth is not in the money it makes, but rather in the impact it has and its innate quality, and, that being said, despite the inherent difficulty of establishing said characteristics, there were several cited references in the original page to websites, blogs, and internet records which demonstrate the popularity and the appeal of this browser-based game and indicating people's sorrow that it is currently offline.
Moreover, a new site has recently come to my attention which calls attention to the enduring popularity of this game. the site is at the url here. It is called the Lozenge and Hampshire Preservation Society.
For your convenience, after the text of this comment is the text of the Lozenge and Hampshire wikipedia entry as it existed prior to deletion (recovered from this site-- this site
Thanks for your consideration!
-- Sirbennet ( talk) 22:49, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Lozenge and Hampshire
Lozenge and Hampshire is a browser-based adventure game [2] series for all ages.
The game series was created by James Evans and was hosted at the site http://www.frontiernet.net/~adani/lozenge/mystery [3] . While the site is no longer in operation, it can still be found using the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, although the games are no longer playable [4] .
Series Description
Here is a description of the series, taken from the Lozenge and Hampshire Fan Forum [5] :
Randolph Lozenge and Archibald Hampshire, the RGDs (Really Good Detectives) solve mysteries from their flat in Baker Street, owned by Mrs. Bunson. Accompanied by PC Fudge and assigned their missions by Inspector Bungham, they've encountered everything from a foreign chef to a murderous Santa! However, they always keep their cool, and, depite the eccentricity of their universe, they continue to solve any case that crosses their path. The characters and setting are inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Fact|date=October 2007 Despite being offline for several years, the series is missed for its droll sense of humor and solid adventure gameplay.Fact|date=October 2007 Its current absence from the Internet is discussed in online forums [6] .
List of Lozenge and Hampshire games:
The Case of the Dead Person
The Case of the Curious Odor
The Case of the Baronial Stiff [7]
External links
The Wayback Machine Internet Archive of Lozenge and Hampshire's Homepage:
Forums discussing the games and game sites listing them:
Hello, email me Michal.Manas@tiscali.cz the source, please. Thank you. -- Snek01 ( talk) 15:48, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Cheers Thaddeus. Please take a look at the newer version, and my related text on the Talk:Continuation War page. In the newer version a sub-header was given for the last portion of the segment, where the Soviet offensive is discussed. There hasn't been opponents, Thaddeus - not in writing anyway. May we leave it there, unless someone opposes and explains their reason for opposing on the talk page ? I believe this version is more agreeable to all, because no longer are we suggesting to alter the segment's main header. Thanks. Boris Novikov ( talk) 06:18, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Thaddeus. Regarding that copyright discussion a couple weeks ago, an editor has tagged the Chesty Morgan article as a violation, because it was imported from Boobpedia. I was the significant author of the original BP article, as can be checked at that project, and the BP version was finished a couple weeks before I imported it here. My understanding is that this permits me to share the work with BP. Perhaps you can clarify over here? : Talk:Chesty Morgan Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 20:34, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
As evaluated, I am seriously having my anger and depression get ahold of me. I am a big mouthy, cheating idiot to most people, so I may as well just ignore this situation entirely. Works much better than arguing crap about someone who hates my guts for a stupid article writing belief.Mitch32( A fortune in fabulous articles can be yours!) 01:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Thaddues, I am genuinely perplexed why Hesperian and you seem don't consider Shot Info and Basket of puppies to be "actually neutral editors" with respect to the Australian Vaccination Network article. I must admit that I am unfamiliar with both the article subject and the involved editors; so can you tell me the backstory, since there is nothing in the current history (that I can see) that supports this assumption. Abecedare ( talk) 05:40, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I
re-read the deleted parts of the article, and don't see the "horrible bias". The content Hesperian pointed out at ANI is actually sourced to
this secondary source later in the article. Parts of the article rely on primary sources and borderline synthesis (an understandable newbie error by
User:Exazonk), but other sections like "AVN Comments on Swine Flu", "AVN Comments on Swine Flu" etc are well sourced and neutrally written.
Of course the article would have been reverted back if it had been protected; in fact, it should be from the current unsourced and biased version and then the problematic sections can be culled and improved. Can anyone argue that,
"The organisation provides a vital community information service by critically examining and questioning the validity of the position of the powerful, lucrative and self-regulated phamaceutical, medical and scientific establishment, in their production, aggressive marketing and sale of vaccines for an ever increasing range of diseases under the deceptive guise of "evidence based medicine" and a "peer review" system which is seriously compromised by entrenched ideological and financial conflicts of interest."
is less biased (or even "equally bad") version ? Abecedare ( talk) 06:45, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Ignore my above rant. I just realized a more productive direction; I'll create a sourced stub based on the earlier version and then ask for unprotection if it looks ok (should have thought of this earlier instead of discussing meta-issues!) Cheers. Abecedare ( talk) 06:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Can you take a look here when you are back online ? Abecedare ( talk) 15:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
I've been participating in the discussion about unblocking this user ( User talk:Ahmadbatebi). A couple questions and a comment:
-- ThaddeusB ( talk) 06:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. If you really think the situation is unfortunate, why don't you also leave a comforting note for Ahmadbatebi? I think having 3 users instead of 2 standing by him would help. Being an Iranian political prisoner, as Ahmad Batebi was, is a serious matter, and so is having one's own biography become a WP article. Batebi is not the only living person whose WP biography page was abusively vandalized--as a former notable Wikipedian, I can attest that mine also was. -- AFriedman ( talk) 06:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I like AFriedman's idea. Perhaps another useful place to leave a comforting note might be the talk page of the Ahmad Batebi article. Unfortunately, it looks like this talk page was extensively vandalized by banned user Joaj and his various confirmed sockpuppets. One big problem on this talk page is that Joaj etc. makes insulting comments about the subject of the article (not just the wikipedians involved in updating the page). There are some nasty comments on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Mazahery page as well. Is is possible for Wikipedia to fix this by deleting the libelous postings? Thanks, CordeliaNaismith ( talk) 08:04, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
It may be worth contacting him by e-mail if this is enabled as having been blocked for so long he might not be logging into his Wikipedia account. Mjroots ( talk) 20:58, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I unresolved it since it's clearly not resolved; if it's to be moved away from ANI to WT:NEWT it would be better to shift the thread as a whole to that page so as not to split the discussion (because this will inevitably re-appear at ANI anyway). Black Kite 22:32, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
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For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:19, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations! That's a very nice award. -- AFriedman ( talk) 21:38, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey ThaddeusB :). Since we've both offered to write a bot to take over from CSDWarnBot, we need to figure out which one of use should actually write it. It doesn't really bother me, one way or the other, but my code is pretty much done. Let me know how you feel :) - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 08:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thad, Thanks for taking the time to explain about the AVN article, that was very nice of you. I am new at editing wiki. Relying mainly on secondary sources rather than primary ones is really tough for me to get my head around but I will try. I'm a virologist (which explains my interest in this topic). Nothing we do in research can cite secondary sources, and most of the time the media garble the outcomes of research.
I've noticed that a lot of other articles mainly concerned with science and/or medicine cite primary sources, usually in reputable, peer-reviewed journals. I wonder if there is something to be said for these wiki articles perhaps being better served by including both primary and secondary sources? Regardless, I will try my best to stay inside the wiki rules.
Thanks for writing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greengiantjolly ( talk • contribs) 20:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 12:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Thaddeus, thanks for adding my name to the AVN DYK credits. The article is shaping up well, and does a good job of presenting the facts neutrally. Abecedare ( talk) 21:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
I am trying to withdraw now from Wikipedia as media interest grows in my forthcoming book on the controversial topic of bullfighting (a subject on which I try to be impartial, inciting anger on both sides). As a result, I closed my userpage and blanked my talk page. However, I notice someone has vandalised the page about me, Alexander Fiske-Harrison, with information which is untrue, and, more importantly, unsourced. In the spirit of my withdrawal, and the avoidance of COI, please could you revert this. -- Fiskeharrison ( talk) 21:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Little confused about your removal of the references to the No Compulsory Vaccination Blog, citing that they are the views of Dorey not the AVN, but then you added a link to the blog as an external link?
As you pointed out, the blog is now hosted in-house, and so most certainly an official AVN view. Also the older hosted blog states "The Australian Vaccination Network, Australia's nationwide pro-information and pro-choice vaccination organisation, has established this blog". Seems to me that the views on this blog are those of the AVN, and therefore appropriate to be included in the article.
You also removed the line "The AVN presents information restricted to an anti-vaccination viewpoint". Again, this is an accurate and referenced piece of information. Any reason why was it removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruiser-Aust ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi mate. OK with part 2, but the blog article I linked to (Flue not biggest danger, it's the vaccine), is a David Icke Article. No original research required. Here's the link to the original Icke article: [8]. As you can see, the AVN blog quotes it verbatim: [9] Cruiser-Aust 03:39, 20 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruiser-Aust ( talk • contribs)
for fixing all those IUCN links! (And good luck with correcting the wrong IDs.) Ucucha 12:53, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the positive comments you left on my talk page regarding my edits to Ethan Peck. (Sorry, I never know whether to reply here or there!) I really appreciated the feedback. That is the first time I've 'overhauled' an article/stub and was a little nervous about doing so. Thanks again. Logical Fuzz ( talk) 02:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for deleting that ill considered sub-page I made. -- allen四 names 04:08, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi ThaddeusB, An anonymous user at IP: 83.170.113.97 has posted an uncivil comment on the talk page of the article on Ahmad Batebi. From this user's talk page, it looks like they have previously been using their account primarily to vandalize the page on Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Would you be willing to look into this? Thanks, CordeliaNaismith ( talk) 02:32, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
You deleted this article because he was not a professional athlete but this is not the case he was a profesional in Cyprus during the 2008 season and is a profesional soccer player with Barnet FC see http://www.barnetfc.com/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10431~49853,00.html
Please reinstate this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deefaulds ( talk • contribs) 19:03, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Will someone please tell me what is going on??
I got a Rapid Delete notice for Curtis Grubb for some reason unknown to me. I objected with a hangon, as instructed, and left a note on the Curtis Grubb talk page. Apparently you have reversed the RD notice because my hangon is gone.
Please help me understand! LynnSGrubb ( talk) 06:10, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello ThaddeusB. I'm currently discussing what to include in the Nigahiga article here with Laudak, with whom you talked to earlier this month. We are currently discussing whether or not YouTube and its videos are reliable (primary) sources. May you please take a look? Thank you. Regards, Airplaneman talk 06:11, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the appreciation. Since I do a lot of college athletes, at the point when their notability has become clear, this situation happens. Michigan has a very enthusiastic fan base and not all of them are expert at WP. Thus, many articles get created without properly establishing notability. I do my best to create the most encyclopedic article possible for athletes who have clear notability or a little bit prior to clear notability. It is great to be noticed for it. I always accept Tigers on my user page as a sign of appreciation.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:30, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
You deleted the Violent Acres entry in August. I disagree with this decision. It's a well enough known blog to have a wiki entry. It has thousands of followers and gets hundreds of thousands of hits per month. I've seen several of its articles on the front page of digg.
I understand that you can't just put up any person's blog on wikipedia, but Violent Acres is a legit, well-known blog with hundreds of entries, not just some guy's rant about the poor service at Taco Bell. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I ask you to visit the blog and reconsider.
Please note that I am not in any way affiliated with Violent Acres. I just really love the blog. It's easily my favorite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.93.163.33 ( talk) 21:57, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
How about a uniform policy on Removing and Deleting? Human error must be eliminated! How about a shooting at dawn!? Seriously, though, and all joking aside, do you need an input to this valuble article page? How valuble is it? Well the witness of Pilate to The Christ has got to be of immence value where someone is looking for independant witness of the existance of Jesus including: Pliny and Pliny the Younger. I have not looked if there is an article page here, and too, Jonathan.
MacOfJesus ( talk) 09:16, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, you'd helped me in the past so I'm hoping you can help again on two completely different topics :-)
1) A user coming from the IP 86.6.75.106 has so far done nothing but vandalism, and I don't know what the correct procedure is for reporting that IP or getting any investigation done on that IP. Can you do something or recommend anything?
2) The Ad-Aware article seems extremely like it was copied from marketing material or website, especially with the "versions summary" table. There is already an "advertisement" warning box on the page, but I know that it's way beyond my abilities to fix. How would I get someone to try to fix this article, do I just leave it alone and trust that someone else will come along and work on it, or do you think it's ok to leave it as it is?
Thanks, Shymian ( talk) 11:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your help sorting out marginal articles into incubation and assisting editors and the encyclopedia with patience and grace. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 19:15, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I would like a copy of that article (I was going to work on it, but hadn't found the time). Or if you could, possibly put it in a subpage for me? Thank you, fetch comms ☛ 00:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
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By my calculation, you have expanded the actual article text by nearly 10x. You should go for a DYK! Bongo matic 02:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
It was here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MirankerAD/RNA_Tertiary_Structure Do you think that you can move it over? Articles should really be in the main namespace and not in user spaces. At least that was my interpretation of wiki policy. Thanks! Article finder ( talk) 04:26, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thaddeus,
Unfortunately, rather than providing the requested sources for his POV, my opponent appears to try keeping out the fact-based information simply by trying to block opposition, using tactics that should not be tolerated in Wikipedia.
The user check correctly showed that I have no relation to the accounts compared. Thus, I wish to now show who really is behind at least the "madly" behaving Kingroodney account, and why (I did not check in detail the contributions of the other accounts compared).
I stand, that the Kingroodney account was established by user Illythr, in the sole purpose of getting me blocked for sock-puppetry (perhaps other users too).
For protection of innocent Wikipedia contributors, I hereby request a user check to verify this connection between Illythr and Kingroodney. Thank you kindly, Thaddeus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boris Novikov ( talk • contribs) 07:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Unable to resist bacon's temptations, rogue editors have kicked off the Bacon Challenge 2010 before the New Year even starts! This is a fun and collegial event and all are welcome. There are many non-pork articles for editors who enjoy some sizzle, but object to or don't like messing with pig products. This year's event also includes a Bacon WikiCup 2010 for those who may want to keep score and enjoy engaging in friendly competition. Given the critical importance of this subject matter, I know you will want to participate, so remember to sign up today and get started A.S.A.P. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 19:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Good afternoon,
I sent a talk message to Singerlarity42 explaning the information that was posted. I'm the Manager/publicist for "The Hip Hop Chef", Cooking Tyrone, if you need any information I can be reached at 410-500-2267 or theofficialpublicist@gmail.com. Tyrone Jones has the name "The Hip Hop Chef", Cooking Tyrone Trademarked, I'm the person that developed his website. I have all Permission to post any information about him. If you need to reach out to him also I can give you his information.
Thanks in advance,
Chast Fleming, Gemini Business Develpment & PR Firm
Thank you,
I've changed the wording but it is still the same information. I will be submitting the information shortly. Let me know what if it is O.K. Please! I do have the permission to use the information. If you need to contact the Chef please let me know.
Cheate Fleming Gemini Business Development & PR Firm —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Hip Hop Chef ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for your support for the article.
The singer is very popular and quite notable in Bangladesh. But unfortunately the article was "Prod-attacked" by an inexperienced user of wikipedia and fortunately saved by an established user of wikipedia. But *unfortunately* once again the established user was attacked with so many "Prod-attacks" suddenly at a time for his own articles that he created. Certainly those were not co-incidents and clear enough who run those bad WP-politics. I expect Wikipedia policy makers would notice this and make the environment of wikipedia more decent for gentle contributors.
The above note is also added to the talk page of the article. -- Amarbangla ( talk) 06:34, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
Got your note. I, too, thought the concept was pretty unusual and intriguing -- not something I'd ever heard of. The hook is currently in queue to go on the main page tomorrow. At the request of another editor, I did, however, demote it from the lead spot to the #2 spot. Frankly, the picture was not the greatest image for the hook (though it did look quite appetizing). Cbl62 ( talk) 01:42, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I note that User:Fastily seems to have used some of your test questions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Basket of Puppies 2. Looking over the RFA, I would have some different answers. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 05:27, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 18:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
hi, i wanted to thank you for getting involved in the ridiculous situation about ron thal's page being deleted. i was getting very frustrated by those 2 people who seem to be admins but admit that they don't know policy and even gave me wrong advice so i ended up embarassing myself on here. it was enough to make me want to leave until you seemed to take notice and tried explaining why the delete was wrong. anyway i wanted to remind you that he hasnt replied since you posted last on his talk page and was hoping you could really get somewhere on this issue. thanks. Aisha9152 ( talk) 05:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
here's the collateral aftermath of me having fun making frivolous edits
on this, the most serious of social experiments.
http://en.wikiversity.org/?title=Topic:Turing_Programming_Language&action=history
have fun encouraging old-new Wikipedia editors, it's certainly fun for me.
many thanks, don't bite the newcomers;), almost noon, Manhattan time.
Materialscientist ( talk) 18:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Thaddeus,
Kacey Jones has a wikipedia page that was set up and running by someone unknown and some of the pertinent information on that page is either out and out wrong or misleading. She has asked me to contact you to find out if she can go in and correct the misleading info without it reverting back to the original text and also she'd like to upload a photo onto the page that is a black and white photo located in the wiki commons.
Please reply to info@airplayspecialists.com with any info you might be able to give us.
Many Thanks,
Abby Montgomery Kacey Jones
Zamalama8 ( talk) 19:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Was I supposed to answer you here?
If so sorry. My answer is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:24.84.210.36&redirect=no Gatorinvancouver ( talk) 23:20, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
hey there thaddeusb, I made a script to retrieve the top editor for a page with a unreferenced BLP Page. The format is a dictionary. Im going to make the list tonight, then make a script to add a message to a user's talk page. I don't include a way to remove inactive users, how would i determine if they are inactive? anyways i figured you would appreciate a nice format for your bot to work from. Here is an example
{'User:Tim':['Page1','Page2'],'User:ThaddeusB':['Page 3','Page4']}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim1357 ( talk • contribs)
Per the discussion at AI and UKrail, I've created an article on the SECR PMVs. I seem to have made a slight booboo in that I didn't put "Wikipedia:" in the title. Does this really matter, or should it be moved. Will let you sort this one out. Mjroots ( talk) 16:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Hey ThaddeusB I noticed that you have a lot on your plate, and so I have been trying to take care of some of your tasks. Anyways, I scripted a BLP notification bot, and wanted your input. See discussion here Tim1357 ( talk) 18:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
What's the "legality" of deleting pages that have sat in the Incubator for a month without improvement? If the article meets speedy criteria, no problem; if it was sent there from AfD as an alternative to deletion on promise of improvement which hasn't happened, I guess it could be regarded as under suspended sentence; but what about one like WP:Article Incubator/Taakatism, which I rescued from a {{db-g3}} because I didn't think it was an actual hoax (implying intent to deceive) but was rather WP:NFT. I incubated it, explained to the author about reliable independent sources, and not greatly to my surprise nothing has happened to it except one typo correction. What should happen when its month is up? Do we need a new speedy "Article still unsuitable for mainspace after a month in the Incubator, and with no prospect of improvement"?
I apologise if all this has been discussed somewhere that I haven't seen.
(I see, by the way, that Aisha has added to the Bumblefoot article, and I'm inclined to return it to the mainspace. I have asked Spike's opinion - I guess you would be agreeable?)
Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Valhalla Vineyards, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valhalla Vineyards. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Agne Cheese/ Wine 16:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to get this project up and running again! Tim1357 ( talk) 00:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick note, there's a new bot dump for the journal database bot to go through. Would be nice to get an update list. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia#Presentation tweak Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Any progress? The current journal dump is getting quite old... Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:23, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
Im not sure if you knew this, but Geocities is shutting down. A lot of people are woried about all of the dead links that are going to be created. Seeing as you have significant expertise in this area, I'd like to see what you have to say. The discussion is at Wikipedia:VPPR#When GeoCities shuts down, how should we handle links to its sites? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim1357 ( talk • contribs)
...here. It's a bot to assist Wikiproject Intertranswiki, so your advice has been specifically requested Fritzpoll ( talk) 12:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Your assistance in the process would also be much appreciated!! Drawing up this missing directory is going to take some time even at bot rate! Himalayan 13:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
In case I wasn't clear before, feel free to use the template. In fact, I'm glad you guys have gotten that project started. Good luck, and I will be sure to put the concept to the test. ;-) - Stevertigo ( w | t | e) 05:52, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
MoS prefers US to USA. Rich Farmbrough, 02:03, 13 October 2009 (UTC).
Hello! It seems like DeadLinkBOT ( contribs) has stopped running? Do we need a replacement for it? I would be willing to script up a bot to take its' place. Let me know. Nice speaking with you, Matthew Yeager 17:38, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
"http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc([0-9]+).html"
[10] and the old locations on ietf.org: "http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc([0-9]+).html"
"http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc([0-9]+).txt"
"http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc([0-9]+).txt"
[11] These should be updated to point to: "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc$number"
"http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/"
to "http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/"
[12] and then in May 2006 and August of 2006 to point to "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc(number)"
[13]
[14] but we still have a lot of manually created links in all sorts of namespaces that point to the old locations.Thanks to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center deciding to change their website around completely we in the Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones have a lot of links which need pointing to their new homes. Anyway i was wondering if youre bot would be able to do it at all? Thanks Jason Rees ( talk) 00:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Do you expect to get all 30,000 done before the deadline? MBisanz talk 17:15, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, again, I hope you're enjoying the summer.
In case you haven't noticed, GeoCities archives have become a hotly-debated topic at the External Links and Administrators' Noticeboards:
Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard#External links and references to former GeoCities sites
I hope no one's laboriously re-inventing wheels you've already put on the Infobahn. —— Shakescene ( talk) 21:14, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey there thaddeusB,
I did some research on the wayback machine, to help with that bot I've been pestering you about. Like you said, the bot would have to find an archived version that is at least close to the date it was accessed, so here is my solution.
Let us assume that the range for deviation from the access-date is 4 months.
And lets have example.com be our example dead link.
Also, the accessdate for that is July, 2008.
Because we have a range of four monthes, (2 months in either direction) our date range (in yyyymm format) would be.
200805 and 200809
So, in the wayback url, type the following
web.archive.org/web/200805-200809/example.com
this would produce the archived version closest to the center of the provided range. If no archive exists in the provided range, then it returns "no archive".
This, of course, works if there is an "accessdate" parameter given. If it is not given, you can query wikiblame, which gives the accesdate.
Use the following url, replacing pagename with the page's name, and linkname with the link's name.
http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php? project=wikipedia&article=pagename&needle=linkname&lang=en&limit=2000&ignorefirst=0& offjahr=2009&offmon=10&offtag=26&searchmethod=int&order=asc
the page will produce a statement "insertion found between (datestamp) and (datestamp), which can then be substituted for the accessdate. Whew, and thats all i got. I might have just spent a lot of time telling you things you already knew, but I thought that was a good way to work through the problems you listed in the bot request i originally made. tell me what you think. Tim1357 ( talk) 21:15, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
There's a concentration of other free sites where GeoCities hosts were being encouraged to migrate (see my discussions in the archives of WP:Village Pump (proposals) derived from the GeoCities article in Wikipedia and the GeoCities home page: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/close-07.html ), so at some point, some kind of search-and-locate operation may be called for. Much of this will have to be done by humans, but is there any way that a 'bot could automate part of the search? —— Shakescene ( talk) 00:42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
It's possible this problem has been brought up and is being addressed somewhere, but I wasn't sure where. And seeing as how you've developed a bot for the correcting dead links, I figured you'd be a good place to start in getting it resolved. With CourtTV's change to 'TruTV', they made sweeping changes to their domain as well. As a result, just about every unarchived link, external or reference, to CourtTV sources has been rendered useless (they now redirect to TruTV's redirect page).
For example, several references on this page, this page, and an External Link here. No doubt this affects countless other pages covering notable trials and/or criminals. I haven't figured out which of the two links on that redirect page lead to the archived documents generally being referenced, so I'm not sure if the repair process could be automated. Is this something your bot could be configured to fix?
That being asked, I notice
this page was created with every CourtTV reference archived, but I can't tell if it was done as a result of this issue or if it was just someone maintaining
best practice citation habit.
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K10wnsta (
talk)
19:40, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I just wrote Wikipedia:Using WebCite. You want to check it out?-- Blargh29 ( talk) 01:53, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Would like your input here please. Note: This is a draft, to be kept in my namespace until the editor is off their block and their new contributions can be reviewed. Frmatt ( talk) 07:08, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
This may not make a whole lot of sense. Abyssal suggested that I contact you about a bot you were working on to automate "filing in tables" on arthropod invertebrates. Here is the text of his message to me...
"Actually, come to think of it, maybe you should talk to User:ThaddeusB before continuing. We were collaborating on a bot that would fill in the tables automatically from the PBDB, but it fell into development hell. Should it continue it may render your work unnecessary. You should tell him your plans and ask him if any future work on the bot would effect your planned editing. Filling in a lot of data manually would be an unfortunate waste of effort if it ends up getting overwritten by the database-harvesting bot. Abyssal (talk) 00:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)"
I have only entered a small amount of info in the list of eurypterids, which is what he was referring to. I am presently entering species descriptive information from the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology onto the pages on each individual genus. As the source I am working from is a non-digital paper source, I doubt that a bot will affect that work. As for the name and date info that I have entered onto the species lists, if that could be automated, more power to you. My input was minimal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Digthepast ( talk • contribs) 18:55, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey there!
Just a reminder to generate the list of dead links.
This reminds me - a really need to generate that list... Yes, I will output two lists - a complete alphabetical one & a separate list with the most "popular" dead links. I'll make finally finishing the program the make this list my top priority for the next week.--ThaddeusB (talk) 8:28 pm, 4 October 2009, Sunday (1 month, 21 days ago) (UTC−4)
Thanks again for taking the time to do that! Tim1357 ( talk) 19:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I wonder if you're still interested in saving regularly the statistics as we had disucssed here. Cenarium ( talk) 14:38, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is sometimes seen as a rather harsh environment for newcomers. I am currently working on an essay that might better ease newcomers into the family. Any input for Newcomer's guide to guidelines will be most welcome. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 05:39, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello my friend! Union Avenue Historic Commercial District needs a bit of copy editing and you do clean things up so well. I would like to see it be nominated for the featured article but it's needs a buit more fleshing out. Can you please guide me? Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 06:23, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi! A couple of months back, you created this 'bot to work with National Register of Historic Places historic district categories. (THANKS!) From User:The Auto-categorizing Robot/Logs/NRHP Index, it appears that the categorizing work began, but then stopped. This task is still needed (see Template talk:Infobox_nrhp#Problem with autocategorization to Category:Historic districts in the United States for the latest expressions of concern). Was there a problem with the 'bot or the task design that someone else could help out with? -- Orlady ( talk) 21:25, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
[outdent] I see that real life has been interfering with your wiki-life lately. I hope things are getting sorted out for you. Is there anything anyone else can do to help with this 'bot process? -- Orlady ( talk) 00:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Due to time-sensitivity, thought you should be advised of this notice/discussion -- Cybercobra (talk) 04:08, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
About this comment.
Why?
Someone who is obviously connected to the company is intent on making sure we have an article on their product. No-one else is showing any interest in the article. Surely if the product really was notable we would have some actual contributions from editors who do not have a COI?
What is the message we are trying to send to people intent on spamming us? "Just keep trying!" The article has been deleted multiple times now as spam. AlistairMcMillan ( talk) 14:03, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
If you want more of the fine foods meme this new article is mighty skimpy. Otherwise, you're welcome to help out on the Tacoma, Washington architecture subjects I've uncovered (see top of my user page article list...) or to do your own thing. :) Anyway, great job on that article you fixed up. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 07:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Thaddeus. I wonder whether I could bother you with a special request for a bit complicated WebCiting (that needs a bit of coding)? We at WP:DW have a problem (read here for details) that Outpost Gallifrey, a website that hosted many reviews currently linked from 150+ articles, has been shut down. Those reviews have been cached at web.archive.org here but that service is always very slow. Would it be possible to submit all those links under the "reviews"-header (if archived) to WebCite using an adapted version of your bot's code and then add them to the articles in which they are used in? The tricky part here would be that the links are already "rotten" and there would be a difference between the link to archive (e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20071001000119/www.gallifreyone.com/review.php?id=bbcp-69) and the link in the article (e.g. http://www.gallifreyone.com/review.php?id=bbcp-69). Regards So Why 11:36, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia_talk:Article_Rescue_Squadron#Listing_the_articles_with_rescue_tag:_Fritzpoll_and.2For_Thaddeus_can_you_create_the_bot.3F Ikip 18:18, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
Is it ready yet? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 02:49, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Opinion sought about User:MichaelQSchmidt/sandbox/Kevin Rockett. I believe even at this stage the subject meets Wikipedia:Notability (academics). I am ready to turn it loose and let others join in on the fun. What'cha think? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 00:39, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at Wikipedia:WikiProject Administrator/Admin Recall. Best Wishes for the Holidays, Jusdafax 07:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)