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You appear to be using an automated tool to add biography-related templates to the talk pages of BLPa with edit summaries which declare "not a biography." This doesn't look right. . . . Hullaballoo Wolfowitz ( talk) 23:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Please be more careful when using AWB. It recently changed Tamás Hausel to Tamas Hausel. His name includes an accent. If you follow the Hungarian Mathematicians category link then you will see that the page is awash with accent. The problem with automated processes like AWB is that they have no brain. Please be careful in future; otherwise you are creating work for other people. Thank you. — Fly by Night ( talk) 23:34, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Actually, ha-ha-ha (queuing the same frightening, sinister music), it was not so much by mistake as it was by choice. I know that the rest of the banners would inherit the listas of the first one, but since people delete, add, and move around the banners all the time, it often results in a good number of screw-ups which later need to be cleaned up, again and again (OK, maybe not so much in the bio articles, where WPBIO comes first, but still). Specifying listas in all the banners prevents this problem from ever occurring, which I've always presumed to be a good thing, no? Does my "overlistassing" create any problems I am not aware of? Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 20:53 (UTC)
Well, I normally copy-paste them, which ensures that I don't screw them up, so typing-wise it doesn't really matter to me. Thanks for being vigilant though! Not many people these days would bother to point out something minor like that. See you on the pages I assess :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 21:14 (UTC)
Nah, yours is not a mistake either, it's just a different approach. I don't mind either way.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 22:11 (UTC)
Yep, sort them all by "Tekle". The names are either compounds (as in "Tekle Haymanot"), or the individual's name is Tekle & the second part is his father's name. Thanks for asking. -- llywrch ( talk) 01:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
You have been awarded the Manliness Award for helping to construct a great encyclopedia.
Keep up the great work!
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You recently contributed to Big Chuck and Lil' John. I am requesting your input on the article's discussion page at Talk:Big_Chuck_and_Lil'_John#Subject:_Hosts_or_Show.3F. Thank you. Levdr1 ( talk) 19:31, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, will keep that information in mind. -- J36miles ( talk) 22:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
looks suspiciously like a paid for bio - or self made Satu Suro 06:27, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I saw where you nominated Tone Boyle for deletion ( here). Since you are the original nominator, can you also add these two players to make it an umbrella nom, since all three articles are exactly the same and created by the same person: Anthony Hill (Basketball) and Tony Meier? Jrcla2 ( talk) 12:51, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
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Description | I'm running plugin Kingbotk. Sometimes it will add WPBS correctly, but most of the time it does not add it at all. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:01, 20 March 2011 (UTC) |
To duplicate: | Following articles added WPBS correctly:
Tsang Lap Chuen
Twinka Thiebaud
Laura Constance Netzel
Minnie Nast Following did not add WPBS at all: Patricia Jünger Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska Tsujii Takashi Dorothy James Natalia Janotha Najla Jabor Susanna Nerantzi Maria Francesca Nascinbeni |
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I moved it here since it's not a bug:
Hi, Bgwhite. I see you're doing the same kind of thing I'm doing, namely reviewing Category:Articles which may no longer need images. I noticed you deleted the photo request on Talk:Knob Lick, Missouri. Did you notice that it included a specific request, "of=the Knob Lick sign"? The page didn't have a photo of the sign, so I restored the request.
Of course, it's possible you removed it because you thought it was not a reasonable request. I can understand that. But since you didn't say that in your subject, I thought I should check with you.
-- Ken_g6 ( factors | composites) 22:36, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Just a "FYI" note; no, you didn't do anything wrong -- but maybe I did. I was working on some Ethiopian-related articles when I discovered the two names you asked me about a couple of weeks ago -- Ugaas Abdulrahman Muhumad Qani & Ugaz Abdulrahman Abd Ghani -- were actually duplicate articles! Someone didn't like the choice of the name I picked to refer to this guy, but not understanding how to move an article, he cut-n-pasted the contents of one into a new article. Next time you ask me a question about a couple of articles, be assured I'm going to also read the articles, just in case. Have a good one. -- llywrch ( talk) 21:29, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you were doing a lot of work on regular article space as well as talk pages. I have some code for the main space too if you want it. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:47, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, re this edit [1] where did you get the reference for his birthdate from, and can you add it to the article? Thanks. Eldumpo ( talk) 16:56, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I took the stub rating off of Sandra Gal earlier today and then you put it back. I think it's more than a stub but, to be honest, even with all the biographies I've edited on Wikipedia I don't pay a lot of attention to grading. Can you tell me why it's been rated as a stub and also who has the power to increase the grade of a biographical article? thanks. -- Crunch ( talk) 23:17, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
You may be interested in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Yobot_19 too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:02, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
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Bgwhite, I am pleased to award this MBE to you in recognition of your outstanding work on cleaning out Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. Completely wiping out everything in the category from "T" through the end was a very impressive accomplishment. Your work is much appreciated! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:41, 28 March 2011 (UTC) |
Hello. I've seen a few edits ike this where you've changed the "listas" parameter. Problem though. While the "Mac Y" in "X Mac Y" is a surname, and should be listed as "Mac Y, X", "mac Y" in "X mac Y" is a patronymic and should normally be listed as "X mac Y". The same would apply to X Ua/ua Y. Not sure how to handle this with AWB, but no doubt there will be something. Regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Please read my comment here carefully. Thanks. Dru of Id ( talk) 02:22, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
That is how I feel. One of the clear cases of notability is if someone is the holder of a named chair. So I note at the begining of an article on a BYU professor what named chair the guy has, and people are still impressed. Still, the one that galls me the most is the editor-in-cheif rule. Being an editor-in-cheif of a major scholarly publication makes someone notable. Thus From the beginning the article on Marie Cornwall has noted that she is editor-in-cheif of the Journal of the Sociology of Religion. No one has ever questioned that this is the case. Yet when I mention this article, I still get people telling me it is weak. True, it could use more work, but to say it is in anyway marginally notable is just wrong. I know you are not responsible for most of these issues, but whenever I bring them up with the administrator who started the crusade (I can think of no other term to describe his unremitting attacks) against my editing, he just comes back with more cutting and denigrating remarks and I am even more worked up. His dismissiveness twoards the bios of Sue Rocca, Sal Rocca, Tory Rocca and Doug Carl is just one example. Ture, these biographies could use more sources. However it is clearly stated that members of state legislatures are notable. The complaint about turning out too many articles ignores the fact that currently there is an unjustified prepondenence of articles on Democrat members of state legislatures (which Sal Rocca once was in fact) and that when I brought up this issue in a discussion the response was I should seek to rectify it by creating more articles on Republican State legislators. I would much rather create articles on scholars and Church leaders than legislators though. I have sought to find more information on James Arrington, but I am still not very convinced the article is good. I just do not have the patience to read all the way through articles on his "Farley Family Reuion", nor am I very skilled at sumarizing creative works. It might help if someone else were to do this. At times it seems all that ever happens is that people criticize my contributions. It is quite frustrating, especially when they do so in broad terms, and refuse to admit anything good. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 19:49, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. There are couple of answers here. ;) -- Lucas ( talk) 14:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I've added several links to the article of Tomomi Nishimoto and would like to know if it's OK to delete the "Wikify" template now. If not, can you give me suggestions on what else I need to do? Thanks. RUGGER ( talk) 05:41, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Excellent solution. I went ahead and did the dirty work. I added the "blue linked" Hereditary Prince. The other heirs seem to be his brothers and his sons, followed by perhaps an uncle and a cousin. Add more if you think they're justified, etc. There may be other lists like this which would benefit from similar merging. Will Beback talk 08:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for following me around and batting clean-up on the many articles I've created--the "living person" parameter is an important one! I'm not always sure how to handle it. Your help is greatly, greatly appreciated!
Therefore...
The College football Barnstar | ||
For cleaning up behind me and paying closer attention to detail than I do, specifically with the "living person" parameters for head coach articles, I gratefully award you this Barnstar! Paul McDonald ( talk) 20:55, 12 April 2011 (UTC) |
I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to a short survey. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates only 5 minutes’’’. cooldenny ( talk) 17:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Closest I found was his appearance on "I've Got a Secret" Nov 1958; I think this is IAR, but someone with access to the references I listed may find something that passes GNG other than just the sum of coverage. Dru of Id ( talk) 02:26, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Minor question, but I'm hoping to write some more Burmese articles soon and wanted to clarify, since it may be a running issue. On U Gambira, you changed the defaultsort from Gambira, U, to U Gambira and referred to WP:NAMESORT. Since U is an honorific in Burmese, I wasn't sure what do with it myself, but the examples at U Nu and U Thant suggest that "Gambira, U" would be the standard sort; my understanding is that looking for these men under U in the category list would be comparable to looking under "Mr" or "Sir." Would it be okay for me to change it back? Any guidance you can give me on how foreign names should be cat-sorted is appreciated. Thanks for the help! -- Khazar ( talk) 14:06, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please drop by Talk:H. L. Carnahan#Date of death and clarify this edit? You cite a source dated April 1 for Carnahan's death on May 31, two months afterward. I'm assuming "May" was a typo for "Mar.", but if you have access to the article in question, it would be nice to nail this down. Thanks. TJRC ( talk) 22:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
That my signature has changed. And i suggest that the articles be improved by you if you think they don't deserve citation needed. That is why i calim my user name. I's my a free world. PS don't reply on my talk page. Other dictionaries are better ( talk) 22:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite, 2 questions, can you please instruct us on how to get off the Orphan list? We cant understand why the warning has come up for the page. Also, we would like Outback Zack page to have a page to itself as its a fictional character like Tarzan or Mowgli. How do we go about having a separate page for him? Thank you Regards, Outback Zack Productions ( Krystic1 ( talk) 02:24, 6 May 2011 (UTC))
Dear Bgwhite,
Thank you for the advice its much appreciated. We'll get to work on sourcing the links and also see if we can separate the two pages. Warm regards, Outback Zack Productions ( 66.209.120.50 ( talk) 16:33, 6 May 2011 (UTC))
Happy six year WikiVersary! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:50, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing typos! Miztreated ( talk) 09:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for approving and publishing the page "Cláudio César Dias Baptista", which I created - I am a reader of Cláudio's books and I utilize his siglum "CCDB". In the top of that page there is an allert telling the page is an "Orphan". Reading that allert, I went to several pages in En Wiki where the name "Cláudio César Dias Baptista" is mentioned and transformed that name in a link to the above mentioned recent page. Please, if the links are enough, remove the allert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.13.70.63 ( talk) 12:31, 19 May 2011 (UTC) comment added by CCDB
I appreciate your input on the article. I had recently viewed the article Colorado municipalities, and found the population change section quite interesting. There is certainly other info on that article that is unnecessary, but I do believe that it is useful and interesting information, or at the very least I don't understand what makes it less relevant than something like elevation or especially median household income. The 2000 census info itself may not be current, but I feel that the growth of the city is relevant to the subject - certainly the growth rate of a city is a useful piece of information? I understand the argument that colored text is not acceptable because of color blindness. I was simply copying what was found in the Colorado municipalities article. I do not know enough about how the tables work to do it in a more acceptable way myself, but I would ask that the population change information allow to be included - if the color of the text were black then I don't think that information alone would keep it from remaining a featured list. As for the argument that the change list will become obsolete - well, I think we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it. 2010 is the most recent info we have, and it will stay relevant at least for another year. bob rulz ( talk) 16:36, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite
I hope I'm posting my post in the right place. I would like to ask you for a small favour. If you're asking yourself why, it is because I saw your username among the ones who editet the article. There's an article "Ziherman Sandor". It's about my father. I recently edited it, because it was lacking almost all the info needed, and some other info on it was just plain false. However I was unable to edit the title of the article, because I'm not yet an autoconfirmed user (hopefuly I will be soon). Why I want to edit it, is the fact, that my fathers proper name is Zicherman Sandor with a "C". Also if this is done, I guess it'll be possible to connect it with the russian/hungarian/ukranian page.
Thank you in advance.
If you're not the person I should be bothering with this, than sorry, for your time.
best regards
Z.Zoltan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzoli ( talk • contribs) 16:52, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much. One more question. At the moment the same page opens for "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandor_Ziherman" and "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandor_Zicherman" too, and while searching for the article both result come up. Will it stay like that? Or will the other, wrong result slowly disappear?
Thank you for your help once again. All the best. Cheers. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Zzoli (
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contribs) 14:05, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.0.215.67 ( talk) 22:58, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't looked at Category:Biography articles without listas parameter for a while. Congratulations on the progress you and your bot are making. Oh, and in case you didn't notice on my talk page, thanks again for reverting the vandalism to my user page. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Although you voted to delete at this AFD [2], I hope that you will take another look now that I have added references to the article. I.Casaubon ( talk) 22:22, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Please note that in Norwegian diplomatic tradition, the ambassadors are not politicians and do not depend on the support of a sitting government (like in the US?). They are more like civil servants. Some diplomats happen to be politicians as well; this is noted in each article. Geschichte ( talk) 09:16, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help cleaning up the references in the William Beebe article. I get the sense that you’re able to do this a lot more efficiently than I could, and I appreciate the amount of time you’re saving me with this.
Please let me know if you intend to convert the rest of the article’s citations to use the harvnb template. If you don’t, I might convert them myself eventually, but I’ll leave that to you if you were planning on doing it yourself. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 21:43, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Bgwhite, I just noticed this edit, in which you replaced all of the citations to Bridges (1974) with citations to Brand (1977). These are two separate sources, so by replacing all of the citations to one source with citations to another source, you’ve caused the article to be cited incorrectly. But due to conflicting intermediate edits, this edit from you also can’t be reverted. In the places where you replaced the citations to Bridges with citations to Brand, would you mind changing the source back to what it was originally? -- Captain Occam ( talk) 00:37, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
In response to your questions:
There’s only one book by Welker. Different websites list different years as the copyright date for it, which I guess is why I was inconsistent about its date when citing it. But the date listed in the book itself is 1975, so it’s probably best for that to be the date of this book given in the article.
I’ve added a source for the date of Beebe’s birth and death now.
The reason the infobox only lists a source for one of the awards that Beebe won is because the others awards are sourced when they’re mentioned in the article’s text. The Elliott Medal is mentioned and sourced in the last paragraph of the “Return to Guiana and World War I” section, the John Burroughs medal is mentioned and sourced in the last paragraph of the “Galápagos expeditions” section, and the Theodore Roosevelt Medal is mentioned and sourced in the fourth paragraph of the “Final years in Trinidad” section. But since the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Medal is not discussed anywhere in the article’s body, the only place where the source for that can go is the infobox. If you think the other awards should be sourced in the infobox in addition to the article body, you’re welcome to copy the existing refs for these awards from the article body to the infobox.
I don’t have a strong opinion about the other things you mentioned (Who to cite for the quoted citation, how to make the Fucheng reference work, or whether some of the wikilinks for Bathysphere and Trinidad should be removed.) I think you have a lot more experience than I do with the norms for formatting issues like these, so feel free to handle them in whatever way you think is best. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 06:21, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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For your wonderful work in WikiProject Biography and especially your great work for finding the appropriate |listas= value for every weird, crazy, uncommon, unique person in our world. Thanks again for your contributions!
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Regarding your edit to this article, please take note and fix the error. If it is caused by AWB, perhaps you could report it so that it can be fixed. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 10:08, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your modification of my nomination for the above referenced article. It is highly inappropriate to remove or modify other people's comments. The only time this would be acceptable is if the user has been banned from editing the relevant pages, or they are making a blatantly offensive personal attack or a defamatory comment about a living person. With all due respect, please keep these standards in mind as you participate in discussions and generally edit Wikipedia. Thank you, Cind. amuse 08:25, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Had you you seen the article Herbard VIII von Auersperg before you classed it "stub"? What is missing? -- Marschner ( talk) 18:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Just a reminder when you sort biographies of Malay people, read the hatnote, e.g.:
and sort accordingly. Thank you. - Yk3 talk · contrib 02:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, seems like you/your BOT did the recent edits on this article and inadvertently added "Category:Living people" at the end, though the subject is not a BLP because of which, seemingly it got a rating of start class too! Please remove the category and in good faith, I would highly encourage and appreciate your re-look at the quality class rating. Many thanks, in advance. Sharda Mandir ( talk) 06:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
You rated this article as a stub. I thought a stub was for tiny bare-bones articles that were essentially blurbs. Is this not a start? There is more I can write about him, but most of the articles about him are about his most recent arrest and his guilty plea. There is really just one article that gives details covering his life, so I was fairly selective about what I included. I knew this wouldn't be a very high rating, but I thought at least it would be a "start". I don't like to rate my own articles because I feel it smacks of COI and therefore lacks validity. Marrante ( talk) 11:52, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I saw you added a listas on the talk page for Danladi Abdullahi Sankara that made the sort sequence "Sankara, Danladi Abdullahi". I am not sure. The Hausa do not have family names in the western sense. They have formal names given to the child at birth (e.g. Abdullahi: servant of God) and everyday names that are also held throughout their life (e.g. Danladi: boy child born on Sunday). A name could be preceded by an honorific such as Mallam or Alhaji, and could followed by place of origin (e.g. Sankara: a village in Jigawa State) or occupation (e.g. Mai Rediyo: radio man). These descriptive additions are less stable and may be omitted. My instinct is to use the everyday name as the short form in the text, as in "Danladi was PDP candidate for...". See also Abdul One Mohammed - the number one Abdul Mohammed in the Nigerian army. What is the short form, "Abdul", "Mohammed" or "One"?
Confusing the problem, non-Hausa people tend to be inconsistent in handling Hausa names. Newspaper reporters writing in English who want a single name will avoid Abdullahi because that is clearly a given name, sometimes use Danladi and more often use Sankara. But the Electoral Commission lists this person as "Abdullahi Danladi S." and an official report of Senate proceedings lists him as "Abdullahi, Danladi S." Not sure. Is there a guideline somewhere for cultures where there is no family name? Aymatth2 ( talk) 14:17, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
You did a good detective job on this one. In fact, this is a long-term hoaxer and if you see him again (he's persistent) you can simply tag as G4 citing WP:Articles for deletion/Avinash Patra. This is about his 25th sock - see SPI case - and he has been formally site banned. Salting doesn't work because he makes minor variations in his titles.
His "books" make quite entertaining reading - sections I have checked have always been copied from somewhere. At the end of "Lord Curzon exposed", it says "This book has been written as a guide for those who are compelled to purchase a horse in the absence of skilled assistance. The author, Avinash Patra, being a veterinary surgeon, is well qualified to advise... "
He fooled quite a lot of the Indian media, including the Times of India, into accepting his Royal Wedding story; I'm surprised their fact-checking is not better. There is a Youtube clip of him holding his "invitation card" which is (needless to say) different from the genuine ones. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 09:18, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Started, then abandoned - I have to expand that one. I will try to remember to add DEFAULTSORT to any new articles. I used to do it conscientiously, then for some reason stopped. Maybe because I was not sure I was getting the sequence right, or maybe because editors like you were so helpfully cleaning up! This one is a bad example. I have not seen a name like this before, but suspect it is Marghi language, in which case I have no idea what the right sort sequence is. News reports often treat Gadzama as a surname, rightly or wrongly, so Gadzama can go first. That may well be correct...
I think my interest in Nigeria started with a TfD for a navbar that listed senators, with reason for deletion that there were only articles for two or three of the 100-odd senators and unlikely to ever be more. Yet in some ways a Nigerian senator is more powerful and influential than a US senator. I started knocking off thumbnail bios, got hooked, and got diverted into other subjects like dams, musicians, kingdoms etc. There are masses of subjects that clearly deserve articles and have excellent English-language coverage. I suppose piecing together start-class articles on Nigerian topics is an obscure hobby, but it does no harm. :~) Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:17, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Nice work--thank you. Listen, that article is a DYK waiting to happen--a nice coup for you and for the new editor. Drmies ( talk) 19:43, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
I just updated the code again per your suggestions. Im not sure if I got the merger code quite right so let me know if I need to refine it.
Let me know if you find anything else that needs fixing. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Here. Why? Is it an AWB bug or did you make the change on purpose? – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 15:39, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
You appear to be using an automated tool to add biography-related templates to the talk pages of BLPa with edit summaries which declare "not a biography." This doesn't look right. . . . Hullaballoo Wolfowitz ( talk) 23:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Please be more careful when using AWB. It recently changed Tamás Hausel to Tamas Hausel. His name includes an accent. If you follow the Hungarian Mathematicians category link then you will see that the page is awash with accent. The problem with automated processes like AWB is that they have no brain. Please be careful in future; otherwise you are creating work for other people. Thank you. — Fly by Night ( talk) 23:34, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
Actually, ha-ha-ha (queuing the same frightening, sinister music), it was not so much by mistake as it was by choice. I know that the rest of the banners would inherit the listas of the first one, but since people delete, add, and move around the banners all the time, it often results in a good number of screw-ups which later need to be cleaned up, again and again (OK, maybe not so much in the bio articles, where WPBIO comes first, but still). Specifying listas in all the banners prevents this problem from ever occurring, which I've always presumed to be a good thing, no? Does my "overlistassing" create any problems I am not aware of? Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 20:53 (UTC)
Well, I normally copy-paste them, which ensures that I don't screw them up, so typing-wise it doesn't really matter to me. Thanks for being vigilant though! Not many people these days would bother to point out something minor like that. See you on the pages I assess :) Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 21:14 (UTC)
Nah, yours is not a mistake either, it's just a different approach. I don't mind either way.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 10, 2011; 22:11 (UTC)
Yep, sort them all by "Tekle". The names are either compounds (as in "Tekle Haymanot"), or the individual's name is Tekle & the second part is his father's name. Thanks for asking. -- llywrch ( talk) 01:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
You have been awarded the Manliness Award for helping to construct a great encyclopedia.
Keep up the great work!
A Very Manly Man (
talk) 07:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
You recently contributed to Big Chuck and Lil' John. I am requesting your input on the article's discussion page at Talk:Big_Chuck_and_Lil'_John#Subject:_Hosts_or_Show.3F. Thank you. Levdr1 ( talk) 19:31, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the help, will keep that information in mind. -- J36miles ( talk) 22:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
looks suspiciously like a paid for bio - or self made Satu Suro 06:27, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I saw where you nominated Tone Boyle for deletion ( here). Since you are the original nominator, can you also add these two players to make it an umbrella nom, since all three articles are exactly the same and created by the same person: Anthony Hill (Basketball) and Tony Meier? Jrcla2 ( talk) 12:51, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Status | Not a bug/currently unresolvable |
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Description | I'm running plugin Kingbotk. Sometimes it will add WPBS correctly, but most of the time it does not add it at all. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:01, 20 March 2011 (UTC) |
To duplicate: | Following articles added WPBS correctly:
Tsang Lap Chuen
Twinka Thiebaud
Laura Constance Netzel
Minnie Nast Following did not add WPBS at all: Patricia Jünger Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska Tsujii Takashi Dorothy James Natalia Janotha Najla Jabor Susanna Nerantzi Maria Francesca Nascinbeni |
Operating system | Vista |
.NET FW Version | 4.0c |
AWB version | 5.2.0.0 svn7471 |
Workaround | |
Fixed in version |
I moved it here since it's not a bug:
Hi, Bgwhite. I see you're doing the same kind of thing I'm doing, namely reviewing Category:Articles which may no longer need images. I noticed you deleted the photo request on Talk:Knob Lick, Missouri. Did you notice that it included a specific request, "of=the Knob Lick sign"? The page didn't have a photo of the sign, so I restored the request.
Of course, it's possible you removed it because you thought it was not a reasonable request. I can understand that. But since you didn't say that in your subject, I thought I should check with you.
-- Ken_g6 ( factors | composites) 22:36, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Just a "FYI" note; no, you didn't do anything wrong -- but maybe I did. I was working on some Ethiopian-related articles when I discovered the two names you asked me about a couple of weeks ago -- Ugaas Abdulrahman Muhumad Qani & Ugaz Abdulrahman Abd Ghani -- were actually duplicate articles! Someone didn't like the choice of the name I picked to refer to this guy, but not understanding how to move an article, he cut-n-pasted the contents of one into a new article. Next time you ask me a question about a couple of articles, be assured I'm going to also read the articles, just in case. Have a good one. -- llywrch ( talk) 21:29, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you were doing a lot of work on regular article space as well as talk pages. I have some code for the main space too if you want it. -- Kumioko ( talk) 02:47, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, re this edit [1] where did you get the reference for his birthdate from, and can you add it to the article? Thanks. Eldumpo ( talk) 16:56, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I took the stub rating off of Sandra Gal earlier today and then you put it back. I think it's more than a stub but, to be honest, even with all the biographies I've edited on Wikipedia I don't pay a lot of attention to grading. Can you tell me why it's been rated as a stub and also who has the power to increase the grade of a biographical article? thanks. -- Crunch ( talk) 23:17, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
You may be interested in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Yobot_19 too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:02, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
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Bgwhite, I am pleased to award this MBE to you in recognition of your outstanding work on cleaning out Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. Completely wiping out everything in the category from "T" through the end was a very impressive accomplishment. Your work is much appreciated! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:41, 28 March 2011 (UTC) |
Hello. I've seen a few edits ike this where you've changed the "listas" parameter. Problem though. While the "Mac Y" in "X Mac Y" is a surname, and should be listed as "Mac Y, X", "mac Y" in "X mac Y" is a patronymic and should normally be listed as "X mac Y". The same would apply to X Ua/ua Y. Not sure how to handle this with AWB, but no doubt there will be something. Regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Please read my comment here carefully. Thanks. Dru of Id ( talk) 02:22, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
That is how I feel. One of the clear cases of notability is if someone is the holder of a named chair. So I note at the begining of an article on a BYU professor what named chair the guy has, and people are still impressed. Still, the one that galls me the most is the editor-in-cheif rule. Being an editor-in-cheif of a major scholarly publication makes someone notable. Thus From the beginning the article on Marie Cornwall has noted that she is editor-in-cheif of the Journal of the Sociology of Religion. No one has ever questioned that this is the case. Yet when I mention this article, I still get people telling me it is weak. True, it could use more work, but to say it is in anyway marginally notable is just wrong. I know you are not responsible for most of these issues, but whenever I bring them up with the administrator who started the crusade (I can think of no other term to describe his unremitting attacks) against my editing, he just comes back with more cutting and denigrating remarks and I am even more worked up. His dismissiveness twoards the bios of Sue Rocca, Sal Rocca, Tory Rocca and Doug Carl is just one example. Ture, these biographies could use more sources. However it is clearly stated that members of state legislatures are notable. The complaint about turning out too many articles ignores the fact that currently there is an unjustified prepondenence of articles on Democrat members of state legislatures (which Sal Rocca once was in fact) and that when I brought up this issue in a discussion the response was I should seek to rectify it by creating more articles on Republican State legislators. I would much rather create articles on scholars and Church leaders than legislators though. I have sought to find more information on James Arrington, but I am still not very convinced the article is good. I just do not have the patience to read all the way through articles on his "Farley Family Reuion", nor am I very skilled at sumarizing creative works. It might help if someone else were to do this. At times it seems all that ever happens is that people criticize my contributions. It is quite frustrating, especially when they do so in broad terms, and refuse to admit anything good. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 19:49, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. There are couple of answers here. ;) -- Lucas ( talk) 14:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. I've added several links to the article of Tomomi Nishimoto and would like to know if it's OK to delete the "Wikify" template now. If not, can you give me suggestions on what else I need to do? Thanks. RUGGER ( talk) 05:41, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Excellent solution. I went ahead and did the dirty work. I added the "blue linked" Hereditary Prince. The other heirs seem to be his brothers and his sons, followed by perhaps an uncle and a cousin. Add more if you think they're justified, etc. There may be other lists like this which would benefit from similar merging. Will Beback talk 08:08, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for following me around and batting clean-up on the many articles I've created--the "living person" parameter is an important one! I'm not always sure how to handle it. Your help is greatly, greatly appreciated!
Therefore...
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For cleaning up behind me and paying closer attention to detail than I do, specifically with the "living person" parameters for head coach articles, I gratefully award you this Barnstar! Paul McDonald ( talk) 20:55, 12 April 2011 (UTC) |
I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to a short survey. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates only 5 minutes’’’. cooldenny ( talk) 17:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Closest I found was his appearance on "I've Got a Secret" Nov 1958; I think this is IAR, but someone with access to the references I listed may find something that passes GNG other than just the sum of coverage. Dru of Id ( talk) 02:26, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Minor question, but I'm hoping to write some more Burmese articles soon and wanted to clarify, since it may be a running issue. On U Gambira, you changed the defaultsort from Gambira, U, to U Gambira and referred to WP:NAMESORT. Since U is an honorific in Burmese, I wasn't sure what do with it myself, but the examples at U Nu and U Thant suggest that "Gambira, U" would be the standard sort; my understanding is that looking for these men under U in the category list would be comparable to looking under "Mr" or "Sir." Would it be okay for me to change it back? Any guidance you can give me on how foreign names should be cat-sorted is appreciated. Thanks for the help! -- Khazar ( talk) 14:06, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please drop by Talk:H. L. Carnahan#Date of death and clarify this edit? You cite a source dated April 1 for Carnahan's death on May 31, two months afterward. I'm assuming "May" was a typo for "Mar.", but if you have access to the article in question, it would be nice to nail this down. Thanks. TJRC ( talk) 22:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
That my signature has changed. And i suggest that the articles be improved by you if you think they don't deserve citation needed. That is why i calim my user name. I's my a free world. PS don't reply on my talk page. Other dictionaries are better ( talk) 22:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite, 2 questions, can you please instruct us on how to get off the Orphan list? We cant understand why the warning has come up for the page. Also, we would like Outback Zack page to have a page to itself as its a fictional character like Tarzan or Mowgli. How do we go about having a separate page for him? Thank you Regards, Outback Zack Productions ( Krystic1 ( talk) 02:24, 6 May 2011 (UTC))
Dear Bgwhite,
Thank you for the advice its much appreciated. We'll get to work on sourcing the links and also see if we can separate the two pages. Warm regards, Outback Zack Productions ( 66.209.120.50 ( talk) 16:33, 6 May 2011 (UTC))
Happy six year WikiVersary! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:50, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing typos! Miztreated ( talk) 09:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for approving and publishing the page "Cláudio César Dias Baptista", which I created - I am a reader of Cláudio's books and I utilize his siglum "CCDB". In the top of that page there is an allert telling the page is an "Orphan". Reading that allert, I went to several pages in En Wiki where the name "Cláudio César Dias Baptista" is mentioned and transformed that name in a link to the above mentioned recent page. Please, if the links are enough, remove the allert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.13.70.63 ( talk) 12:31, 19 May 2011 (UTC) comment added by CCDB
I appreciate your input on the article. I had recently viewed the article Colorado municipalities, and found the population change section quite interesting. There is certainly other info on that article that is unnecessary, but I do believe that it is useful and interesting information, or at the very least I don't understand what makes it less relevant than something like elevation or especially median household income. The 2000 census info itself may not be current, but I feel that the growth of the city is relevant to the subject - certainly the growth rate of a city is a useful piece of information? I understand the argument that colored text is not acceptable because of color blindness. I was simply copying what was found in the Colorado municipalities article. I do not know enough about how the tables work to do it in a more acceptable way myself, but I would ask that the population change information allow to be included - if the color of the text were black then I don't think that information alone would keep it from remaining a featured list. As for the argument that the change list will become obsolete - well, I think we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it. 2010 is the most recent info we have, and it will stay relevant at least for another year. bob rulz ( talk) 16:36, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite
I hope I'm posting my post in the right place. I would like to ask you for a small favour. If you're asking yourself why, it is because I saw your username among the ones who editet the article. There's an article "Ziherman Sandor". It's about my father. I recently edited it, because it was lacking almost all the info needed, and some other info on it was just plain false. However I was unable to edit the title of the article, because I'm not yet an autoconfirmed user (hopefuly I will be soon). Why I want to edit it, is the fact, that my fathers proper name is Zicherman Sandor with a "C". Also if this is done, I guess it'll be possible to connect it with the russian/hungarian/ukranian page.
Thank you in advance.
If you're not the person I should be bothering with this, than sorry, for your time.
best regards
Z.Zoltan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzoli ( talk • contribs) 16:52, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much. One more question. At the moment the same page opens for "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandor_Ziherman" and "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandor_Zicherman" too, and while searching for the article both result come up. Will it stay like that? Or will the other, wrong result slowly disappear?
Thank you for your help once again. All the best. Cheers. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Zzoli (
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Thank you very much again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.0.215.67 ( talk) 22:58, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't looked at Category:Biography articles without listas parameter for a while. Congratulations on the progress you and your bot are making. Oh, and in case you didn't notice on my talk page, thanks again for reverting the vandalism to my user page. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Although you voted to delete at this AFD [2], I hope that you will take another look now that I have added references to the article. I.Casaubon ( talk) 22:22, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Please note that in Norwegian diplomatic tradition, the ambassadors are not politicians and do not depend on the support of a sitting government (like in the US?). They are more like civil servants. Some diplomats happen to be politicians as well; this is noted in each article. Geschichte ( talk) 09:16, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help cleaning up the references in the William Beebe article. I get the sense that you’re able to do this a lot more efficiently than I could, and I appreciate the amount of time you’re saving me with this.
Please let me know if you intend to convert the rest of the article’s citations to use the harvnb template. If you don’t, I might convert them myself eventually, but I’ll leave that to you if you were planning on doing it yourself. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 21:43, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Bgwhite, I just noticed this edit, in which you replaced all of the citations to Bridges (1974) with citations to Brand (1977). These are two separate sources, so by replacing all of the citations to one source with citations to another source, you’ve caused the article to be cited incorrectly. But due to conflicting intermediate edits, this edit from you also can’t be reverted. In the places where you replaced the citations to Bridges with citations to Brand, would you mind changing the source back to what it was originally? -- Captain Occam ( talk) 00:37, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
In response to your questions:
There’s only one book by Welker. Different websites list different years as the copyright date for it, which I guess is why I was inconsistent about its date when citing it. But the date listed in the book itself is 1975, so it’s probably best for that to be the date of this book given in the article.
I’ve added a source for the date of Beebe’s birth and death now.
The reason the infobox only lists a source for one of the awards that Beebe won is because the others awards are sourced when they’re mentioned in the article’s text. The Elliott Medal is mentioned and sourced in the last paragraph of the “Return to Guiana and World War I” section, the John Burroughs medal is mentioned and sourced in the last paragraph of the “Galápagos expeditions” section, and the Theodore Roosevelt Medal is mentioned and sourced in the fourth paragraph of the “Final years in Trinidad” section. But since the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Medal is not discussed anywhere in the article’s body, the only place where the source for that can go is the infobox. If you think the other awards should be sourced in the infobox in addition to the article body, you’re welcome to copy the existing refs for these awards from the article body to the infobox.
I don’t have a strong opinion about the other things you mentioned (Who to cite for the quoted citation, how to make the Fucheng reference work, or whether some of the wikilinks for Bathysphere and Trinidad should be removed.) I think you have a lot more experience than I do with the norms for formatting issues like these, so feel free to handle them in whatever way you think is best. -- Captain Occam ( talk) 06:21, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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For your wonderful work in WikiProject Biography and especially your great work for finding the appropriate |listas= value for every weird, crazy, uncommon, unique person in our world. Thanks again for your contributions!
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Regarding your edit to this article, please take note and fix the error. If it is caused by AWB, perhaps you could report it so that it can be fixed. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 10:08, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your modification of my nomination for the above referenced article. It is highly inappropriate to remove or modify other people's comments. The only time this would be acceptable is if the user has been banned from editing the relevant pages, or they are making a blatantly offensive personal attack or a defamatory comment about a living person. With all due respect, please keep these standards in mind as you participate in discussions and generally edit Wikipedia. Thank you, Cind. amuse 08:25, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Had you you seen the article Herbard VIII von Auersperg before you classed it "stub"? What is missing? -- Marschner ( talk) 18:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Just a reminder when you sort biographies of Malay people, read the hatnote, e.g.:
and sort accordingly. Thank you. - Yk3 talk · contrib 02:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, seems like you/your BOT did the recent edits on this article and inadvertently added "Category:Living people" at the end, though the subject is not a BLP because of which, seemingly it got a rating of start class too! Please remove the category and in good faith, I would highly encourage and appreciate your re-look at the quality class rating. Many thanks, in advance. Sharda Mandir ( talk) 06:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
You rated this article as a stub. I thought a stub was for tiny bare-bones articles that were essentially blurbs. Is this not a start? There is more I can write about him, but most of the articles about him are about his most recent arrest and his guilty plea. There is really just one article that gives details covering his life, so I was fairly selective about what I included. I knew this wouldn't be a very high rating, but I thought at least it would be a "start". I don't like to rate my own articles because I feel it smacks of COI and therefore lacks validity. Marrante ( talk) 11:52, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I saw you added a listas on the talk page for Danladi Abdullahi Sankara that made the sort sequence "Sankara, Danladi Abdullahi". I am not sure. The Hausa do not have family names in the western sense. They have formal names given to the child at birth (e.g. Abdullahi: servant of God) and everyday names that are also held throughout their life (e.g. Danladi: boy child born on Sunday). A name could be preceded by an honorific such as Mallam or Alhaji, and could followed by place of origin (e.g. Sankara: a village in Jigawa State) or occupation (e.g. Mai Rediyo: radio man). These descriptive additions are less stable and may be omitted. My instinct is to use the everyday name as the short form in the text, as in "Danladi was PDP candidate for...". See also Abdul One Mohammed - the number one Abdul Mohammed in the Nigerian army. What is the short form, "Abdul", "Mohammed" or "One"?
Confusing the problem, non-Hausa people tend to be inconsistent in handling Hausa names. Newspaper reporters writing in English who want a single name will avoid Abdullahi because that is clearly a given name, sometimes use Danladi and more often use Sankara. But the Electoral Commission lists this person as "Abdullahi Danladi S." and an official report of Senate proceedings lists him as "Abdullahi, Danladi S." Not sure. Is there a guideline somewhere for cultures where there is no family name? Aymatth2 ( talk) 14:17, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
You did a good detective job on this one. In fact, this is a long-term hoaxer and if you see him again (he's persistent) you can simply tag as G4 citing WP:Articles for deletion/Avinash Patra. This is about his 25th sock - see SPI case - and he has been formally site banned. Salting doesn't work because he makes minor variations in his titles.
His "books" make quite entertaining reading - sections I have checked have always been copied from somewhere. At the end of "Lord Curzon exposed", it says "This book has been written as a guide for those who are compelled to purchase a horse in the absence of skilled assistance. The author, Avinash Patra, being a veterinary surgeon, is well qualified to advise... "
He fooled quite a lot of the Indian media, including the Times of India, into accepting his Royal Wedding story; I'm surprised their fact-checking is not better. There is a Youtube clip of him holding his "invitation card" which is (needless to say) different from the genuine ones. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 09:18, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Started, then abandoned - I have to expand that one. I will try to remember to add DEFAULTSORT to any new articles. I used to do it conscientiously, then for some reason stopped. Maybe because I was not sure I was getting the sequence right, or maybe because editors like you were so helpfully cleaning up! This one is a bad example. I have not seen a name like this before, but suspect it is Marghi language, in which case I have no idea what the right sort sequence is. News reports often treat Gadzama as a surname, rightly or wrongly, so Gadzama can go first. That may well be correct...
I think my interest in Nigeria started with a TfD for a navbar that listed senators, with reason for deletion that there were only articles for two or three of the 100-odd senators and unlikely to ever be more. Yet in some ways a Nigerian senator is more powerful and influential than a US senator. I started knocking off thumbnail bios, got hooked, and got diverted into other subjects like dams, musicians, kingdoms etc. There are masses of subjects that clearly deserve articles and have excellent English-language coverage. I suppose piecing together start-class articles on Nigerian topics is an obscure hobby, but it does no harm. :~) Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:17, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Nice work--thank you. Listen, that article is a DYK waiting to happen--a nice coup for you and for the new editor. Drmies ( talk) 19:43, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
I just updated the code again per your suggestions. Im not sure if I got the merger code quite right so let me know if I need to refine it.
Let me know if you find anything else that needs fixing. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Here. Why? Is it an AWB bug or did you make the change on purpose? – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 15:39, 28 June 2011 (UTC)