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I am not interested in playing a game, whereby I constantly explain to you that there are very few if any links to link the Assyrians. I took photographs of the Chaldean Priest and the Church, and I am an Assyrian of Britain, why would I make this up? Give it some time, stop obsessing about this small article; let it grow out of its stubby length and then perhaps when they're notable enough they might have more citations.
I have seen your edits and you have been careless enough to remove referenced information. If you want to keep playing this remove and add game, fine. Gabr- el 17:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Cordless Larry. Eugene2x ( talk · contribs) files WP:Requests for comment/User conduct on Badagnani ( talk · contribs). Since you've known him for his AfD conduct, your input on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Badagnani would appreciated. Thanks.-- Caspian blue 01:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
When you come across a page with uncited content, the appropriate thing to do is to look for sources. If you cannot find them, then you can nominate the page for deletion. If you are sure it won't be contested, use Prod--otherwise, AfD. DGG ( talk) 07:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Larry - very belated thanks for undeleting the Political Quarterly entry. Apologies for the length of time that has elapsed, but the fact is that I only recently discovered the article had been restored, and then I completely failed to find how to send you a message on Wikipedia. (I have to say that I've been in the business for 25 years and can figure out most stuff, but Wikipedia's interface has me beat - why doesn't it just have comment boxes like every other Web 2 site?)
But I digress, thanks for doing an excellent edit on the PQ article and adding significant facts that I'd omitted to keep the size down. Please thank Geo Swan too, as it was his message that alerted me to the restoration. As for my PC Pro article, I don't think it was *too* harsh, and you know as well as I that ALL publicity is good publicity!
All the best Dick Pountain —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afonka Bida ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have left a comment on the talk page of Peruvians in the United Kingdom which I have attempted to expand. Thanks Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 19:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the tips. But as you may of may not be aware the information posted is correct. I an unaware if you have any actual knowledge on the subject or are just removing it because you believe it to be incorrect. If so I would suggest that do some research on the topic before making deconstructive reverts as you did, which is not in the spirit of this project. There are other ways to question the legitimatacy of the section for example by post a citation request until the source can be found. Thank you. PMK1 ( talk) 23:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Do you expect a sourced tag for every single sentence made? Or every single statistic? I added as many sources as i deemed necessary. I am sure that the article as a whole meets WP:V. PMK1 ( talk) 22:09, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I'm sorry for leaving you all of sudden, I kinda got bored. Anyway, I've seen what you did and I'm not agreeing with it. The problem with relying on the UK census alone is that, they haven't seem to have figured out how to define most of the ethnicities living and would probably exclude certain ethnic groups. The country-of-origin thing is fine but the problem there is that it excludes British Tamils (not from a single country) and Montserratians (Montserrat is not a country). I suggest let's keep it inclusive and do a ethnicity+country thing ad just wait for the 2011 census.-- 23prootie ( talk) 00:24, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Cordless Larry. I was wondering if you had an opportunity yet to see this new template? It's of that ethnicity-defining type that characterized the edits of our old friend Stevvvv4444, and which were repeatedly deleted. Looks like we may have yet another alternate account on our hands. Let me know what you think. Middayexpress ( talk) 13:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
You must have the wrong IP address. I never edited that page. 212.2.172.178 ( talk) 19:37, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I was looking around the SF talk pages - I do believe it was your message that I had looked at and then started creating it. I think it is better to create seperate team pages and not have them included in the football teams article itself as it clutters it up. I have already noticed that some people do not like that their football team has SF related info on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roadblocker ( talk • contribs) 18:13, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
[1] -- Epeefleche ( talk) 16:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi
The career of Branimir Glavaš has many episodes. His conviction (which is still not validated) does not make the essence of his biography and it is not what makes him notable. So ,that kind of introduction is misleading. Even Hitler has better introduction. -- Añtó| Àntó ( talk) 15:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
excuse me for not beeing specific... I do not know proper legal terms .His conviction needs to be verified by the 2nd degree court. Then He might be put in jail.
The leading paragraph about Hitler does not mention his "tribute" for Holocaust and other things. Glavaü is convicted for the death of couple people. ("commanders responsibility").His role before the conviction is much more famous.--
Añtó| Àntó (
talk) 15:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I disagree that it is "major" event. The big one-YES-but not crucial for his biography. He is first of army general and politician. Yes, he can still appeal on this verdict.... that is still pending.-- Añtó| Àntó ( talk) 15:06, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I posted uncategorised links for the article in my discussion page. Also added some into article external links section. Kasaalan ( talk) 12:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I disagree with one of the comments you made, I believe this rivalry and the images to accompany it are certainly relevant to the article. With such strong patriotism to Argentina, it really is great that there haven't been any large scale riots or other such events amongst Argentines in the UK. Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 18:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of UK Swedish - a page you tagged - because: redirect created as result of AFD; use WP:RFD. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. So Why 20:31, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for you edit to my talk page. I wondered why it was putting my page in those cats. I note you add a leading colon. Beganlocal ( talk) 21:01, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with the reference marks. I am new here, but there were so many reference marks in one small sentence, that I was not able to solve this problem myself. Thanks again. Best wishes. -- Zara-arush ( talk) 23:16, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
BorgQueen ( talk) 18:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of this article until you pointed it out, which shows it is definitely isolated. It is a seizeable community and saying this, there is definitely room for improvement and expansion, but whether or not it is worth it is the question. Much of this information could be included in the article Afghans in the United Kingdom. There aren't seperate articles from British Indian for the Punjabi, Gujarati, Parsi etc communities in the UK. Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 13:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to Chew Stoke. You removed the citations in the lead - I only added these because on 2 August another editor added "citation needed" tags to the population figure & the info re commuting - do you think these will be added again?— Rod talk 10:38, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Dear Cordless Larry,
You have nominated Quality Videos of ISAF Afghanistan Operations with Embedded Reporters - Listed by Member Country, an article that I created, for deletion.
Apparently, you do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion.
You have made the following statement to justify deletion:
"This article has been created solely as a list of external links to videos, contrary to WP:NOTLINK. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:22, 22 August 2009 (UTC)"
I believe you above statement is incorrect. The site I created is not "solely" a list of external links. It contains many references to other wikipedia sites. See discussion below.
Below is the text from WP:NOTLINK:
"Wikipedia is not a ... repository of links ... Policy shortcuts: WP:NOTLINK ... Wikipedia is neither a mirror nor a repository of links, images, or media files.[2] Wikipedia articles are not: 1. Mere collections of external links or Internet directories. There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. On articles about topics with many fansites, for example, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate. See Wikipedia:External links for some guidelines. ..."
The site I created is NOT a "Mere collections of external links". In addition to containing external links the site references many related wikipedia sites. This interelation of the external links along with the wikipedia content create product that is very useful and unique. This type of site could not be created without being part of wikipedia.
If a decision is made to delete my site then I believe that the WP:NOTLINK policy is being too narrowly interpreted and I would like to know the procedure for changing the WP:NOTLINK policy to make it more pragmatic and reasonable.
I look forward to hearing your response.
Best regards, Mfstelmach ( talk) 19:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry - I trashed some refs, didn't I? My apologies. 4u1e ( talk) 14:32, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, regardless of what the BBC do, Wikipedia uses people's names as they are spelt in their home countries, including all diacritics - thus we have Marc Gené, Kimi Räikkönen, Sébastien Buemi. Why the BBC would choose to just leave them out, I have no idea. Bretonbanquet ( talk) 14:43, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
You're right. It was 14,000 and I changed it to 9-10,000 (according to the source for England - there was no source pointing 14,000 Ethnic Macedonians in UK). I think we should leave only the official data (1,285) and move the other as a note, explaining that this is only for England and that it's according to the Macedonian MFA. -- StanProg ( talk) 07:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Agreed, the continent-level articles seem like overkill --- no need to be reproducing the same data table and list of links in multiple locations. An extra "continent" column could be added to the table in Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom if others feel there's a real need for it.
The recent profusion of templates also worries me; there must be about 20 different presentations, like:
At minimum, I think groups #1 and #2 are also introducing an unnecessary layer of complexity here. cab ( talk) 08:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the links you left on my discussion page. Best regards, Mfstelmach ( talk) 00:36, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, sector times are sometimes not the easiest thing to provide sources for. During the race, one can follow the live timing screens and it's clear who is recording the fastest sector times, but this information is lost after the race and no link can be provided to it. Badoer actually recorded the fastest first sector four laps in succession, but I can't find any link to it now. The Japanese site is the only one I can find to show fastest sector times, and is therefore invaluable! Bretonbanquet ( talk) 13:28, 31 August 2009 (UTC) And in the first reference, they refer to the times "going purple", which is what happens on the timing screens when a driver records the fastest sector of the race thus far - the times are recorded in purple as opposed to the usual green or white. Bretonbanquet ( talk) 13:35, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Good catch - it looks like the original author on Flickr misidentified the driver, and I didn't check it carefully enough. Sorry about the deprecated link on my talk page; I forgot to update it when my username was changed earlier this year.-- Midgrid (talk) 16:42, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Damn, that was quick haha! I was just adding the very same reference myself, but it resulted in an edit conflict. Good work. Hayden120 ( talk) 09:35, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
You placed the following tag on the Operation MAR LEWE article:
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
general notability guideline. (September 2009) |
Please explain your notability concerns in detail on the talk page of Operation MAR LEWE. Operation MAR LEWE is a NATO ISAF operation in which British Army soldiers were killed. It seems strange to question notability of this NATO operation. Maybe you used the notability tag by accident. Is there another tag you meant to use? Citizen-of-wiki ( talk) 05:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
All I can say is Doh! lol, have to fix them all, other people can help too you know!! P.S Archive your talk page, it's getting far too long. Govvy ( talk) 18:01, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I was trying to get some consistency with how to display the publisher of internet articles, for the BBC, I use just BBC Sport, I thought when you put just Tottenham Hotspur down, it doesn't really tell you if it is from an official source or not, so stating it's Tottenham Hotspur Official Website makes more sense to me and for the those that don't really know. Govvy ( talk) 18:40, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
I noticed the template that you placed at the top of the article, and I am willing to comply. As for the single source goes, the content of that source comes from many other places, would citing these individual sources eliminate the current problem? Thanks Soccafanatic7 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:53, 5 October 2009 (UTC).
I am just writing to you concerning the changes you have made to well probably all of the UK ethnic group articles. I do not understand that after months of discussion about which figures should be included you have simply gone and removed them after the 2008 country of birth data was released. This is basically the same as the 2001 census, but more u to date. Yes, this is good that we now have more recent reliable estimates, but they STILL do not include British born ethnic minorities belonging to those groups. In some cases British-born individuals outnumber their foreign-born descendants, and I know with the Nigerian British article, a figure of 800,000 to 3 million may be a bit high but it certainly needs to be included in the infobox so people get an idea about the true numbers. You seemed to be happy with including such figures in the infobox before were they have included British-born descendants so why have things changed now that the number of immigrants from the certain countries have changed??? Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 18:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Because you recently commented on the discussion at Talk:Written Roads, you may be interested in commenting at the AfD of its parent article. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Shells (folk band) (2nd nomination). rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 17:13, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
They are from the 2008 source with country of birth statistics for the UK as a whole. i have referenced the article now and chnaged 2007 to 2008. Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 12:23, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You added a "globalize" template to Census tract, indicating that it needs to be expanded beyond its current focus on the U.S. and Canada. Do you know of other countries that define and use the term "census tract"? I don't (but I'm no expert on this), and I suspect that the article lead section might need to be revised to specify that this is a term used in the U.S. and Canada. -- Orlady ( talk) 21:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Personally I don't think they are worth bothering with, and I would object to someone converting from one style to another (either way), but I have no objections if someone likes to use them and converts one of mine if that is the usual style on an article page. -- PBS ( talk) 14:30, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
It didn't really explain who he is, what he generally covers and what his own centric may be. Hes not actually an academic as such, but rather a university professor. I've found a reference from University of Southampton, giving a bit of context. - Yorkshirian ( talk) 14:32, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Then you delete British Serbs. -- Imbris ( talk) 03:51, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is List of cities by GDP. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and " What Wikipedia is not").
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Hi Larry, I see you've edited the John Harold Hewitt page a lot. I think the page should be at John Hewitt (poet) not John Harold Hewitt. Per WP:COMMONNAME, he doesn't seem to have used Harold. Harold was added by whoever moved the page from John Hewitt back in 2007, to disambiguate it from the other Hewitts. What do you think? Stu ’Bout ye! 13:17, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Ged UK 13:40, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, they are used by his blog readers as well - my general feeling is that that is how he is referred to by friends and readers. But you are right they do need referencing. How do you reference a podcast or a blog entry? Hmm... Help needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Supervidin ( talk • contribs) 11:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I think the best thing to do is ignore this talkpage excess he will get tired of doing this after a while when we don't respond. I don't think a template over the whole article is really all that useful, maybe some inline tagging of specifics. Polargeo ( talk) 22:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
happy new year ;) --JackNassar 15:46, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I stopped by to bosnian war topic today and I noticed that some old numbers were missing. On the talk page I didn't wnat to get too involved, but I figured that a source was missing. Do look into the link that I posted - perhaps that can help. Cheers, ( LAz17 ( talk) 07:31, 4 January 2010 (UTC)).
why don't u wanna let me change????
i am adding the most official and usefull information about Rawabi from Rawabi itself! —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs) 14:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
whats is your problem??? i am not promoting any promotionnal purposes!!!!! I am just correcting the information and adding the most official and updated infor about Rawabi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also need your help in categorizing the page and adding pictures and maps! --JackNassar 15:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)--JackNassar 15:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
well....sorry for the inconvience... i am still new to wikipedia, and do not know how it exactly works. Anyways, I work for Bayti, the owner of Rawabi, and was asked to edit this page!
so why do not we just cooperate together and make this page better! as I wanna make Rawabi's page as official as any other city and wanna also add maps and pictures. Thanks for ur kind understanding and help
--JackNassar 11:03, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I will keep the information as neutral as I can. If you want, I can send it to ur email address first, and then add it on Rawabi's page. As for the maps and pictures, I wanna add a map of Rawabi's location and some other pictures, where u can also find them on rawabi.ps whats ur email address? --JackNassar 11:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)-- I will keep the information as neutral as I can. If you want, I can send it to ur email address first, and then add it on Rawabi's page. As for the maps and pictures, I wanna add a map of Rawabi's location and some other pictures, where u can also find them on rawabi.ps --JackNassar 08:16, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
hey, i re-edit the text and would like to share it with u in order to be able to add it the Rawabi's page, and I wanna also create another page in Arabic. Can you send me ur email address? thx--JackNassar 09:20, 15 December 2009 (UTC) --JackNassar 09:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs)
sorry for that.
please send me an email at: nassar2005@gmail.com in order to send u the material that i would like to add. thanks--JackNassar 11:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding
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hey Larry, whats up? shall we move to the next phase?--JackNassar 08:04, 5 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs)
This is the research article from the ICTY [ [3]]. Laz has said he wishes to create a separate article on this. User talk:Polargeo#reply. Regards Polargeo ( talk) 11:52, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Larry, that's right, I was really just cleaning the article of a random comment that belonged in the discussion (if anywhere) and am afraid I have no news to offer about the shark. Best wishes Flapdragon ( talk) 23:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, please find below some articles published about Rawabi in the past few days, please add to Rawabi's page whatever you find appropriate. Thanks!
How Israel put the brakes on another Palestinian dream January 16, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-israel-put-the-brakes-on-another-palestinian-dream-1869535.html
Rawabi is building dreams brick by brick By Wafa Amr January 16, 2010 http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/rawabi-is-building-dreams-brick-by-brick-1.568687
The Washington Post – DC, US http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011200495.html --JackNassar 14:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs)
Hi, Larry. I'm wondering what you are planning to use the conversion template for. Does that one suit your purposes, if you didn't know that 20 cwt equals either one long ton or one short ton?
I think most people clicking on a link to "long hundredweight", or entering "long hundredweight" in the "Go/Search" box, will be more interested in why the "long" in there than anything else. At least those with some familiarity with English units will, but much of the world isn't really familiar with even the more common ones.
Did you happen to see where the conversion template {{ CwtQtrLb to kg}} you were considering using sends the readers who click on the link for the long hundredweight, when it uses its "lk=on" parameter? Not to any of the places we've talked about, if you click on the link here.
You've maybe already seen that there are lots of conversion templates at Category:Conversion templates to find the one you mentioned.
Of course, that other behemoth of a conversion template, {{ convert}} which uses roughly a million template pages to make itself work (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it does use well over 1,000 template pages), can if you figure it out, do some of those conversions as well:
This one links to "hundredweight" Be forewarned that this overly complex template has a number of problems, the biggest of which is that it is a trap waiting to spring on unwary users and give them results they never intended. It has an extremely steep learning curve, in order to be able to use it well.
Here's one way that template can bite you in the ass. Note that you can often convert things like feet and inches, or pounds and ounces. So probably long tons and long cwt as well?
Those work, in various combinations.
I already know I can get
So lets try to convert 3 tons 13 cwt (long variety) to kilograms, all together, like we do with pounds and ounces:
Ouch! Where's that "t" come from? I asked for kilograms. Why such strange precision in the result? Why doesn't the 13 cwt even affect the conversion?
Of course, on the edit page, these black boxes only show you the input value, not the output value. If you screw up real bad, you might get a big red error message on the article page after you save it. But that isn't the case here; it just doesn't give you what should logically be expected. It sneaks up and bites you in the ass instead, giving an error that might well go undetected. Gene Nygaard ( talk) 13:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I have nominated Bosnian Royal Family article for deletion. The reason for this can be found in this discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bosnian Royal Family. Related discussions have been taking place here and here. Your opinion is requested because you are a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bosnia and Herzegovina, and therefore you may be interested in the discussion. Regards, Surtsicna ( talk) 22:56, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted this edit that you made to User talk:Mfstelmach since that page is a redirect, not a user talk page any longer. Cordless Larry ( talk) 10:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your wonderful dilegence in catching this mistake. I am updating the list of editors now. Ikip 16:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
about my BBC world premier. (To be seen by me and mine in a month or two). I was wondering how far into my 15 minutes of fame this would take me (I used up about 6 minutes in a 1966 adventure there) and I figure that I have about 47 seconds left. Glad to spend it with you. Einar Carptrash ( talk) 00:04, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
This 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. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | → | Archive 10 |
I am not interested in playing a game, whereby I constantly explain to you that there are very few if any links to link the Assyrians. I took photographs of the Chaldean Priest and the Church, and I am an Assyrian of Britain, why would I make this up? Give it some time, stop obsessing about this small article; let it grow out of its stubby length and then perhaps when they're notable enough they might have more citations.
I have seen your edits and you have been careless enough to remove referenced information. If you want to keep playing this remove and add game, fine. Gabr- el 17:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Cordless Larry. Eugene2x ( talk · contribs) files WP:Requests for comment/User conduct on Badagnani ( talk · contribs). Since you've known him for his AfD conduct, your input on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Badagnani would appreciated. Thanks.-- Caspian blue 01:50, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
When you come across a page with uncited content, the appropriate thing to do is to look for sources. If you cannot find them, then you can nominate the page for deletion. If you are sure it won't be contested, use Prod--otherwise, AfD. DGG ( talk) 07:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Larry - very belated thanks for undeleting the Political Quarterly entry. Apologies for the length of time that has elapsed, but the fact is that I only recently discovered the article had been restored, and then I completely failed to find how to send you a message on Wikipedia. (I have to say that I've been in the business for 25 years and can figure out most stuff, but Wikipedia's interface has me beat - why doesn't it just have comment boxes like every other Web 2 site?)
But I digress, thanks for doing an excellent edit on the PQ article and adding significant facts that I'd omitted to keep the size down. Please thank Geo Swan too, as it was his message that alerted me to the restoration. As for my PC Pro article, I don't think it was *too* harsh, and you know as well as I that ALL publicity is good publicity!
All the best Dick Pountain —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afonka Bida ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have left a comment on the talk page of Peruvians in the United Kingdom which I have attempted to expand. Thanks Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 19:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the tips. But as you may of may not be aware the information posted is correct. I an unaware if you have any actual knowledge on the subject or are just removing it because you believe it to be incorrect. If so I would suggest that do some research on the topic before making deconstructive reverts as you did, which is not in the spirit of this project. There are other ways to question the legitimatacy of the section for example by post a citation request until the source can be found. Thank you. PMK1 ( talk) 23:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Do you expect a sourced tag for every single sentence made? Or every single statistic? I added as many sources as i deemed necessary. I am sure that the article as a whole meets WP:V. PMK1 ( talk) 22:09, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I'm sorry for leaving you all of sudden, I kinda got bored. Anyway, I've seen what you did and I'm not agreeing with it. The problem with relying on the UK census alone is that, they haven't seem to have figured out how to define most of the ethnicities living and would probably exclude certain ethnic groups. The country-of-origin thing is fine but the problem there is that it excludes British Tamils (not from a single country) and Montserratians (Montserrat is not a country). I suggest let's keep it inclusive and do a ethnicity+country thing ad just wait for the 2011 census.-- 23prootie ( talk) 00:24, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Cordless Larry. I was wondering if you had an opportunity yet to see this new template? It's of that ethnicity-defining type that characterized the edits of our old friend Stevvvv4444, and which were repeatedly deleted. Looks like we may have yet another alternate account on our hands. Let me know what you think. Middayexpress ( talk) 13:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
You must have the wrong IP address. I never edited that page. 212.2.172.178 ( talk) 19:37, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I was looking around the SF talk pages - I do believe it was your message that I had looked at and then started creating it. I think it is better to create seperate team pages and not have them included in the football teams article itself as it clutters it up. I have already noticed that some people do not like that their football team has SF related info on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roadblocker ( talk • contribs) 18:13, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
[1] -- Epeefleche ( talk) 16:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi
The career of Branimir Glavaš has many episodes. His conviction (which is still not validated) does not make the essence of his biography and it is not what makes him notable. So ,that kind of introduction is misleading. Even Hitler has better introduction. -- Añtó| Àntó ( talk) 15:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
excuse me for not beeing specific... I do not know proper legal terms .His conviction needs to be verified by the 2nd degree court. Then He might be put in jail.
The leading paragraph about Hitler does not mention his "tribute" for Holocaust and other things. Glavaü is convicted for the death of couple people. ("commanders responsibility").His role before the conviction is much more famous.--
Añtó| Àntó (
talk) 15:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I disagree that it is "major" event. The big one-YES-but not crucial for his biography. He is first of army general and politician. Yes, he can still appeal on this verdict.... that is still pending.-- Añtó| Àntó ( talk) 15:06, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I posted uncategorised links for the article in my discussion page. Also added some into article external links section. Kasaalan ( talk) 12:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I disagree with one of the comments you made, I believe this rivalry and the images to accompany it are certainly relevant to the article. With such strong patriotism to Argentina, it really is great that there haven't been any large scale riots or other such events amongst Argentines in the UK. Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 18:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Cordless Larry, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of UK Swedish - a page you tagged - because: redirect created as result of AFD; use WP:RFD. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. So Why 20:31, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for you edit to my talk page. I wondered why it was putting my page in those cats. I note you add a leading colon. Beganlocal ( talk) 21:01, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with the reference marks. I am new here, but there were so many reference marks in one small sentence, that I was not able to solve this problem myself. Thanks again. Best wishes. -- Zara-arush ( talk) 23:16, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
BorgQueen ( talk) 18:09, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of this article until you pointed it out, which shows it is definitely isolated. It is a seizeable community and saying this, there is definitely room for improvement and expansion, but whether or not it is worth it is the question. Much of this information could be included in the article Afghans in the United Kingdom. There aren't seperate articles from British Indian for the Punjabi, Gujarati, Parsi etc communities in the UK. Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 13:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your edits to Chew Stoke. You removed the citations in the lead - I only added these because on 2 August another editor added "citation needed" tags to the population figure & the info re commuting - do you think these will be added again?— Rod talk 10:38, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Dear Cordless Larry,
You have nominated Quality Videos of ISAF Afghanistan Operations with Embedded Reporters - Listed by Member Country, an article that I created, for deletion.
Apparently, you do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion.
You have made the following statement to justify deletion:
"This article has been created solely as a list of external links to videos, contrary to WP:NOTLINK. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:22, 22 August 2009 (UTC)"
I believe you above statement is incorrect. The site I created is not "solely" a list of external links. It contains many references to other wikipedia sites. See discussion below.
Below is the text from WP:NOTLINK:
"Wikipedia is not a ... repository of links ... Policy shortcuts: WP:NOTLINK ... Wikipedia is neither a mirror nor a repository of links, images, or media files.[2] Wikipedia articles are not: 1. Mere collections of external links or Internet directories. There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. On articles about topics with many fansites, for example, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate. See Wikipedia:External links for some guidelines. ..."
The site I created is NOT a "Mere collections of external links". In addition to containing external links the site references many related wikipedia sites. This interelation of the external links along with the wikipedia content create product that is very useful and unique. This type of site could not be created without being part of wikipedia.
If a decision is made to delete my site then I believe that the WP:NOTLINK policy is being too narrowly interpreted and I would like to know the procedure for changing the WP:NOTLINK policy to make it more pragmatic and reasonable.
I look forward to hearing your response.
Best regards, Mfstelmach ( talk) 19:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry - I trashed some refs, didn't I? My apologies. 4u1e ( talk) 14:32, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, regardless of what the BBC do, Wikipedia uses people's names as they are spelt in their home countries, including all diacritics - thus we have Marc Gené, Kimi Räikkönen, Sébastien Buemi. Why the BBC would choose to just leave them out, I have no idea. Bretonbanquet ( talk) 14:43, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
You're right. It was 14,000 and I changed it to 9-10,000 (according to the source for England - there was no source pointing 14,000 Ethnic Macedonians in UK). I think we should leave only the official data (1,285) and move the other as a note, explaining that this is only for England and that it's according to the Macedonian MFA. -- StanProg ( talk) 07:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Agreed, the continent-level articles seem like overkill --- no need to be reproducing the same data table and list of links in multiple locations. An extra "continent" column could be added to the table in Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom if others feel there's a real need for it.
The recent profusion of templates also worries me; there must be about 20 different presentations, like:
At minimum, I think groups #1 and #2 are also introducing an unnecessary layer of complexity here. cab ( talk) 08:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the links you left on my discussion page. Best regards, Mfstelmach ( talk) 00:36, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, sector times are sometimes not the easiest thing to provide sources for. During the race, one can follow the live timing screens and it's clear who is recording the fastest sector times, but this information is lost after the race and no link can be provided to it. Badoer actually recorded the fastest first sector four laps in succession, but I can't find any link to it now. The Japanese site is the only one I can find to show fastest sector times, and is therefore invaluable! Bretonbanquet ( talk) 13:28, 31 August 2009 (UTC) And in the first reference, they refer to the times "going purple", which is what happens on the timing screens when a driver records the fastest sector of the race thus far - the times are recorded in purple as opposed to the usual green or white. Bretonbanquet ( talk) 13:35, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Good catch - it looks like the original author on Flickr misidentified the driver, and I didn't check it carefully enough. Sorry about the deprecated link on my talk page; I forgot to update it when my username was changed earlier this year.-- Midgrid (talk) 16:42, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Damn, that was quick haha! I was just adding the very same reference myself, but it resulted in an edit conflict. Good work. Hayden120 ( talk) 09:35, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
You placed the following tag on the Operation MAR LEWE article:
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
general notability guideline. (September 2009) |
Please explain your notability concerns in detail on the talk page of Operation MAR LEWE. Operation MAR LEWE is a NATO ISAF operation in which British Army soldiers were killed. It seems strange to question notability of this NATO operation. Maybe you used the notability tag by accident. Is there another tag you meant to use? Citizen-of-wiki ( talk) 05:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
All I can say is Doh! lol, have to fix them all, other people can help too you know!! P.S Archive your talk page, it's getting far too long. Govvy ( talk) 18:01, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I was trying to get some consistency with how to display the publisher of internet articles, for the BBC, I use just BBC Sport, I thought when you put just Tottenham Hotspur down, it doesn't really tell you if it is from an official source or not, so stating it's Tottenham Hotspur Official Website makes more sense to me and for the those that don't really know. Govvy ( talk) 18:40, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
I noticed the template that you placed at the top of the article, and I am willing to comply. As for the single source goes, the content of that source comes from many other places, would citing these individual sources eliminate the current problem? Thanks Soccafanatic7 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:53, 5 October 2009 (UTC).
I am just writing to you concerning the changes you have made to well probably all of the UK ethnic group articles. I do not understand that after months of discussion about which figures should be included you have simply gone and removed them after the 2008 country of birth data was released. This is basically the same as the 2001 census, but more u to date. Yes, this is good that we now have more recent reliable estimates, but they STILL do not include British born ethnic minorities belonging to those groups. In some cases British-born individuals outnumber their foreign-born descendants, and I know with the Nigerian British article, a figure of 800,000 to 3 million may be a bit high but it certainly needs to be included in the infobox so people get an idea about the true numbers. You seemed to be happy with including such figures in the infobox before were they have included British-born descendants so why have things changed now that the number of immigrants from the certain countries have changed??? Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 18:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
Because you recently commented on the discussion at Talk:Written Roads, you may be interested in commenting at the AfD of its parent article. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Shells (folk band) (2nd nomination). rʨanaɢ talk/ contribs 17:13, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
They are from the 2008 source with country of birth statistics for the UK as a whole. i have referenced the article now and chnaged 2007 to 2008. Stevvvv4444 ( talk) 12:23, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You added a "globalize" template to Census tract, indicating that it needs to be expanded beyond its current focus on the U.S. and Canada. Do you know of other countries that define and use the term "census tract"? I don't (but I'm no expert on this), and I suspect that the article lead section might need to be revised to specify that this is a term used in the U.S. and Canada. -- Orlady ( talk) 21:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Personally I don't think they are worth bothering with, and I would object to someone converting from one style to another (either way), but I have no objections if someone likes to use them and converts one of mine if that is the usual style on an article page. -- PBS ( talk) 14:30, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
It didn't really explain who he is, what he generally covers and what his own centric may be. Hes not actually an academic as such, but rather a university professor. I've found a reference from University of Southampton, giving a bit of context. - Yorkshirian ( talk) 14:32, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Then you delete British Serbs. -- Imbris ( talk) 03:51, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Larry, I see you've edited the John Harold Hewitt page a lot. I think the page should be at John Hewitt (poet) not John Harold Hewitt. Per WP:COMMONNAME, he doesn't seem to have used Harold. Harold was added by whoever moved the page from John Hewitt back in 2007, to disambiguate it from the other Hewitts. What do you think? Stu ’Bout ye! 13:17, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Ged UK 13:40, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Well, they are used by his blog readers as well - my general feeling is that that is how he is referred to by friends and readers. But you are right they do need referencing. How do you reference a podcast or a blog entry? Hmm... Help needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Supervidin ( talk • contribs) 11:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I think the best thing to do is ignore this talkpage excess he will get tired of doing this after a while when we don't respond. I don't think a template over the whole article is really all that useful, maybe some inline tagging of specifics. Polargeo ( talk) 22:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
happy new year ;) --JackNassar 15:46, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I stopped by to bosnian war topic today and I noticed that some old numbers were missing. On the talk page I didn't wnat to get too involved, but I figured that a source was missing. Do look into the link that I posted - perhaps that can help. Cheers, ( LAz17 ( talk) 07:31, 4 January 2010 (UTC)).
why don't u wanna let me change????
i am adding the most official and usefull information about Rawabi from Rawabi itself! —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs) 14:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
whats is your problem??? i am not promoting any promotionnal purposes!!!!! I am just correcting the information and adding the most official and updated infor about Rawabi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also need your help in categorizing the page and adding pictures and maps! --JackNassar 15:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)--JackNassar 15:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
well....sorry for the inconvience... i am still new to wikipedia, and do not know how it exactly works. Anyways, I work for Bayti, the owner of Rawabi, and was asked to edit this page!
so why do not we just cooperate together and make this page better! as I wanna make Rawabi's page as official as any other city and wanna also add maps and pictures. Thanks for ur kind understanding and help
--JackNassar 11:03, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I will keep the information as neutral as I can. If you want, I can send it to ur email address first, and then add it on Rawabi's page. As for the maps and pictures, I wanna add a map of Rawabi's location and some other pictures, where u can also find them on rawabi.ps whats ur email address? --JackNassar 11:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)-- I will keep the information as neutral as I can. If you want, I can send it to ur email address first, and then add it on Rawabi's page. As for the maps and pictures, I wanna add a map of Rawabi's location and some other pictures, where u can also find them on rawabi.ps --JackNassar 08:16, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
hey, i re-edit the text and would like to share it with u in order to be able to add it the Rawabi's page, and I wanna also create another page in Arabic. Can you send me ur email address? thx--JackNassar 09:20, 15 December 2009 (UTC) --JackNassar 09:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs)
sorry for that.
please send me an email at: nassar2005@gmail.com in order to send u the material that i would like to add. thanks--JackNassar 11:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding
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hey Larry, whats up? shall we move to the next phase?--JackNassar 08:04, 5 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs)
This is the research article from the ICTY [ [3]]. Laz has said he wishes to create a separate article on this. User talk:Polargeo#reply. Regards Polargeo ( talk) 11:52, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Larry, that's right, I was really just cleaning the article of a random comment that belonged in the discussion (if anywhere) and am afraid I have no news to offer about the shark. Best wishes Flapdragon ( talk) 23:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, please find below some articles published about Rawabi in the past few days, please add to Rawabi's page whatever you find appropriate. Thanks!
How Israel put the brakes on another Palestinian dream January 16, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-israel-put-the-brakes-on-another-palestinian-dream-1869535.html
Rawabi is building dreams brick by brick By Wafa Amr January 16, 2010 http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/rawabi-is-building-dreams-brick-by-brick-1.568687
The Washington Post – DC, US http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011200495.html --JackNassar 14:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackNassar ( talk • contribs)
Hi, Larry. I'm wondering what you are planning to use the conversion template for. Does that one suit your purposes, if you didn't know that 20 cwt equals either one long ton or one short ton?
I think most people clicking on a link to "long hundredweight", or entering "long hundredweight" in the "Go/Search" box, will be more interested in why the "long" in there than anything else. At least those with some familiarity with English units will, but much of the world isn't really familiar with even the more common ones.
Did you happen to see where the conversion template {{ CwtQtrLb to kg}} you were considering using sends the readers who click on the link for the long hundredweight, when it uses its "lk=on" parameter? Not to any of the places we've talked about, if you click on the link here.
You've maybe already seen that there are lots of conversion templates at Category:Conversion templates to find the one you mentioned.
Of course, that other behemoth of a conversion template, {{ convert}} which uses roughly a million template pages to make itself work (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it does use well over 1,000 template pages), can if you figure it out, do some of those conversions as well:
This one links to "hundredweight" Be forewarned that this overly complex template has a number of problems, the biggest of which is that it is a trap waiting to spring on unwary users and give them results they never intended. It has an extremely steep learning curve, in order to be able to use it well.
Here's one way that template can bite you in the ass. Note that you can often convert things like feet and inches, or pounds and ounces. So probably long tons and long cwt as well?
Those work, in various combinations.
I already know I can get
So lets try to convert 3 tons 13 cwt (long variety) to kilograms, all together, like we do with pounds and ounces:
Ouch! Where's that "t" come from? I asked for kilograms. Why such strange precision in the result? Why doesn't the 13 cwt even affect the conversion?
Of course, on the edit page, these black boxes only show you the input value, not the output value. If you screw up real bad, you might get a big red error message on the article page after you save it. But that isn't the case here; it just doesn't give you what should logically be expected. It sneaks up and bites you in the ass instead, giving an error that might well go undetected. Gene Nygaard ( talk) 13:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I have nominated Bosnian Royal Family article for deletion. The reason for this can be found in this discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bosnian Royal Family. Related discussions have been taking place here and here. Your opinion is requested because you are a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bosnia and Herzegovina, and therefore you may be interested in the discussion. Regards, Surtsicna ( talk) 22:56, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted this edit that you made to User talk:Mfstelmach since that page is a redirect, not a user talk page any longer. Cordless Larry ( talk) 10:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your wonderful dilegence in catching this mistake. I am updating the list of editors now. Ikip 16:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
about my BBC world premier. (To be seen by me and mine in a month or two). I was wondering how far into my 15 minutes of fame this would take me (I used up about 6 minutes in a 1966 adventure there) and I figure that I have about 47 seconds left. Glad to spend it with you. Einar Carptrash ( talk) 00:04, 31 January 2010 (UTC)