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Found some bot tasks for you! Search/replaces for "Demographics of" articles

Here are a bunch of search/replaces you can do in AWB all in the same pass on the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country demographics articles. Pick just one to submit to the bot approvals group.  :) Then complete the rest once you've got bot approval. But test some of these first before writing your request for approval!

During your "manual" test runs, set AWB to skip articles that do not include the text "CIA World Factbook demographic statistics".

Turn general wikifixes on, because there are a lot of blank lines in these articles.

Here are the search/replaces:

A bunch of these pages have links in their headings. Those need to be replaced, as follows:

  1. Replace "=Population=" with "=Population="
  2. Replace "=Population growth rate=" with "=Population growth rate="
  3. Replace "=Birth rate=" with "=Birth rate="
  4. Replace "=Death rate=" with "=Death rate="
  5. Replace "=Death rate=" with "=Death rate="
  6. Replace "=Net migration rate=" with "=Net migration rate="
  7. Replace "=Net migration rate=" with "=Net migration rate="
  8. Replace "=Net migration rate=" with "=Net migration rate="
  9. Replace "=Infant mortality rate=" with "=Infant mortality rate="
  10. Replace "=Infant mortality rate=" with "=Infant mortality rate="
  11. Replace "=Life expectancy at birth=" with "=Life expectancy at birth="
  12. Replace "=Total fertility rate=" with "=Total fertility rate="
  13. Replace "=Total fertility rate=" with "=Total fertility rate="
  14. Replace "=Nationality=" with "=Nationality="
  15. Replace "=Ethnic groups=" with "=Ethnic groups="
  16. Replace "=Religions=" with "=Religions="
  17. Replace "=Literacy=" with "=Literacy="
  18. Replace "=Annual population growth rate=" with "=Annual population growth rate="
  19. Replace "=Sex ratio=" with "=Sex ratios="
  20. Replace "=Human sex ratios=" with "=Sex ratios="
  21. Replace "=Sex ratio=" with "=Sex ratios="
  22. Replace "=HIV/AIDS=" with "=HIV/AIDS="

Some pages lack the headings and have the semi-colon no-level heading instead. So those need to be replaced:

  1. Replace "; Population:" with "===Population==="
  2. Replace "; Age structure:" with "===Age structure==="
  3. Replace "; Population growth rate:" with "===Population growth rate==="
  4. Replace "; Birth rate:" with "===Birth rate==="
  5. Replace "; Death rate:" with "===Death rate==="
  6. Replace "; Net migration rate:" with "===Net migration rate==="
  7. Replace "; Infant mortality rate:" with "===Infant mortality==="
  8. Replace "; Life expectancy at birth:" with "===Life expectancy==="
  9. Replace "; Total fertility rate:" with "===Total fertility==="
  10. Replace "; Nationality:" with "===Nationality==="
  11. Replace "; Ethnic groups:" with "===Ethnic groups==="
  12. Replace "; Religions:" with "===Religions==="
  13. Replace "; Languages:" with "===Languages==="

There are many more search/replaces, but this is enough for now.

If you have any questions, of course, fire away!

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    00:50, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Will do, thanks for the list. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


Hmm, these appear to be done already. JCbot (talk) 18:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
You mean you didn't check? Why not?
They are still there. It doesn't appear that any of them have been fixed.
Try again on "=Population=", to see if AWB is having a problem with the equals signs. It should catch the match on Demographics of American Samoa (and there are others).
Whatever the problem is, please figure out what it is, so that we can verify it and bring it to the attention of the AWB programmers if needed. The Transhumanist    18:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I see what I was doing wrong. Although, out of all the above tasks, AWB found 5 edits, so I'm still a bit unsure whether I'm doing it correctly. JCbot (talk) 20:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Please, check your work. You should be suspicious when your bot finds no (or very few) changes to make. Earlier, you incorrectly stated that the changes had already been made. Therefore, before making such reports, you should verify that they are accurate! What actually happened was that AWB failed to change them. Please tinker with it some more and figure out how to get the task done.

Here are the demographics pages with links in their CIA stat headings (I was working on this list while you were finding the 5 you mentioned above, so it may not be entirely accurate):

The following pages have semi-colon headings with links in them (the second batch of search/replaces posted above):

A bunch more pages have headings screwed up in other ways.

I've added below some more search/replaces to handle the additional problems I've found.

Some more search/replaces for you

On the same demographics of articles as being discussed above, please:

replace: ;Population:
with: ===Population===
replace ;Age structure:
with: ===Age structure===
replace ;Population growth rate:
with: ===Population growth rate===
replace ;Birth rate:
with: ===Birth rate===
replace ;Death rate:
with: ===Death rate===
replace ;Net migration rate:
with: ===Net migration rate===
replace ;Sex ratio:
with: ===Sex ratio===
replace ;Infant mortality rate:
with: ===Infant mortality rate===
replace ;Life expectancy at birth:
with: ===Life expectancy at birth===
replace ;Total fertility rate:
with: ===Total fertility rate===
replace ;Nationality:
with: ===Nationality===
replace ;Ethnic groups:
with: ===Ethnic groups===
replace ;Religions:
with: ===Religions===
replace ;Languages:
with: ===Languages===
replace ;Literacy:
with: ===Literacy===


replace: Population:

with: ===Population===
replace: Age structure:
with: ===Age structure===
replace: Population growth rate:
with: ===Population growth rate===
replace: Birth rate:
with: ===Birth rate===
replace: Death rate:
with: ===Death rate===
replace: Net migration rate:
with: ===Net migration rate===
replace: Sex ratio:
with: ===Sex ratio===
replace: Infant mortality rate:
with: ===Infant mortality rate===
replace: Life expectancy at birth:
with: ===Life expectancy at birth===
replace: Total fertility rate:
with: ===Total fertility rate===
replace: Nationality:
with: ===Nationality===
replace: Ethnic groups:
with: ===Ethnic groups===
replace: Religions:
with: ===Religions===
replace: Languages:
with: ===Languages===
replace: Literacy:
with: ===Literacy===


replace: Population:
with: ===Population===
replace: Birth rate:
with: ===Birth rate===
replace: Death rate:
with: ===Death rate===
replace: Net migration rate:
with: ===Net migration rate===
replace: Sex ratio:
with: ===Sex ratio===
replace: Infant mortality rate:
with: ===Infant mortality rate===
replace: Life expectancy at birth:
with: ===Life expectancy at birth===
replace: Total fertility rate:
with: ===Total fertility rate===
replace: Literacy:
with: ===Literacy===


replace: ===Net migration rate===
with: ===Net migration rate===


Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    20:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:CM!

Project logo Hello, Juliancolton!

We're delighted you've started contributing to this collaborative effort! Classical music is an active, medium-sized project with more than 9,000 articles.

We have a discussion page linked to the main project page where you may sign in. Please take part in our forum! The scope of the project is vast: nearly 1,000 years of history, numerous countries, and many languages. Some music editors use reference books such the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, or the German Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. These are helpful for checking facts and providing the essential references required on Wikipedia. We would greatly appreciate your collaboration in adding sources from these books. However if you don't have access to books, there are still many other ways you can contribute to the project: copyediting, compiling lists of recordings, picture and sound clip researching, etc.

We hope you have a great time on the Classical music Project. Please don't hesitate to ask us if you have any questions! We are always available here at your convenience.

Best regards!

This welcome was sent by La Pianista at 06:05, February 15, 2009 (UTC)

03:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

The 404

Ok, listen to this. The 404 page is being deleted for not having appropriate references, well the Buzz Out Loud has only has one external (from CNET) reference, and it doesn't load up, so... there are no external references. So if The 404 is deleted for no external sources, the Buzz Out loud should be deleted with it. Also the person who deleted it before (Feydey) said something that sparked my interest "P.S. I read somewhere that there are only 5 or maybe 6 people who actually get the 404 'cast. Bummer.". There is a problem with that, as I write (Thursday, February 2009 at 8:05 Central Time) The 404 is #22 on the top Technology podcasts. So... there is a reference http://i39.tinypic.com/2hrn3nq.jpg that is not from Cnet. If you want, look it up yourself. But please, let the podcast live. 03:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Here you go :)

VX would like to nominate you to become a bureaucrat. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#About RfB to see what this process entails, and then contact VX to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Juliancolton . If you accept the nomination, you must formally state and sign your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

03:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

17:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC) The Helpful Bot 17:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia:Editor review/Juliancolton_3

Hi Julian, I need your help to add a page properly using the editing features. I added a page, which you deleted, Trasharella. But, I was not good at using the functions of the page to create links, which led to you deleting it because I did not provide enough information to back up the qualifications of the page. Thank you. User: Foxytrouble

Cheers, — Jake Wartenberg 20:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Im contacting you about my RfA close

Do you think I might be able to apply later


Please Reply --MyspaceMan12 (talk) 20:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Editing scripts

You can find the necessary code when viewing User:Animum/Sandbox. Copy the code into your monobook file (or onto another ".js" page, which you then import into your monobook), and enjoy. —Animum (talk) 21:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:

Delievered by SoxBot II (talk) at 08:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Whoa...

Could you pleas assess this (Or have somebody else assess it) whenever you get the time? Thanks. UntilItSleeps PublicPC 15:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Like, what class would that be in, start class? Sorry, loo lazy to log in at the moment :P... (UntilItSleeps PublicPC [logged out])204.113.205.110 (talk) 19:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry bout that, I was working on an electronic's assignment at the time of that last posting, and hadn't thought of logging in while I was making the edit until I was about to press the "Save page" button, so I figured, 'meh, I'll just append to that and save it.' I've also reworded that request... My Adderal hadn't yet taken effect at the time of that posting, so I was a little giddy... UntilItSleeps PublicPC 20:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I have a concern that even though a page was deleted for review, the name of the person remains in the historical text. When searching for the name on google, the derogatory text associated with the name appears. I would like to know how to remove the reference to the name entirely from the article. If the name can be removed I will drop the issue. If it cannot, I want to know how to proceed with identifying the user and proceed with civil penalties against the person who made the posting. I can forward the specific information on the page to edit but do not want to post the link here.

Thank you. Hlesan (talk) 15:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Boletus pinophilus

Hi, just letting you know I have passed the article. I think there is still work to be done, but enough improvements have been made for it to be considered a good article. J Milburn (talk) 21:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVI (February 2009)

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Pékin Fine Arts

I thought you might like to know that it's just appeared in DYK on the main page: "... that in the first Gulf Art Fair in 2007, the Pékin Fine Arts gallery exhibited a Mini Cooper car painted with coloured spots by Damien Hirst?" Ty 01:12, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


Protection

You had approved semi-protection on Mumps but it apparently was never put into effect. Could you see about that? Thanks.--192.77.126.50 (talk) 01:25, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Here's the link to it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=next&oldid=273354945 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.77.126.50 (talk) 03:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Unless, of course, I misunderstand what that block means. --192.77.126.50 (talk) 03:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Archiving live message threads

My task message disappeared! I thought that task was still in-process, making that message thread live. How come it has been archived???

I came back to add to it.

The Transhumanist    17:25, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Interim edits dumped in article merge

Hi Julian. I think when you merged the Museum of Bad Art article to my sandbox draft it forgot the edits Malleus and I made in between the shift and your merge. There were some copy edits we both made, and I uploaded an image. --Moni3 (talk) 03:02, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I responded to the purging issue on my page, but left it thinking it's just my wonky laptop or something. But what is weirder is that File:MOBA Somerville Theater gallery.jpg shows up as orphaned. I do not know what is going on. --Moni3 (talk) 04:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Motto of the Day Free Ice Cream Day!

By Imperial Decree of His Divine Majesty, our Most Sublime Padishah God-Emperor, Car'a'carn, Editor-in-Chief, etc. (may he live for ever) of the Dominion of the Motto of the Day, every Thursday is Free Ice Cream Day throughout the the Realm. Therefore, our glorious ruler (may he live for ever) has caused to be delivered to you by the Ministry of Frozen or Otherwise Cold Desert Treats this ice cream treat (which may include gelato, depending on one's interpretation of the picture). Let it be eaten without delay, lest the heat of the servers melt it. Let it not drip onto the Article Namespace, lest you suffer the Death of a Thousand Edits for allowing unencyclopedic melted desert treat to get into the wiki. Nutiketaiel (talk) 15:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Reliable source for climate data

Hi Julian. I'm looking for a reliable source for climate statistics, and thought you might be able to help. I used Weatherbase.com for weather data for Hillsboro, Oregon, but the RS question has arisen at FAC. I'm hoping that you might be able to suggest a source that clearly meets the RS requirements. Thanks in advance for any advice. Finetooth (talk) 17:40, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Problem solved. The Weather Channel is an acceptable source for the kind of city data I needed. Finetooth (talk) 19:27, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Rollback

Sorry, I thought I hit AGF. Cyclonebiskit 23:41, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

If you don't have it already...

You may wish to add importScript('User:Splarka/sysopdectector.js'); to your monobook.js. :) //roux   05:45, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Good idea,  Done. Thanks. :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 05:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
You're welcome :) No more blocking admins, mmkay? ;) Also, GO ENJOY YOUR VACATION YOU SILLPYPERSON. //roux   06:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Admin Coaching (Again)

*sigh* Remember a list of the administrators whom you recommended to me? Well, it appears that all three are either on vacation or too busy. :/ Could you give me another list to whom I may ask? Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 16:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Another move request

Please move List of Governors-General of Belize to Governor-General of Belize.

(It's an article, not a list).

The Transhumanist    23:07, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

What happened to the Outline of Bermuda????!

Previously, I requested:

Please move Topic outline of Bermuda to List of Bermuda-related topics, over redirect. And then redirect "Topic outline of Bermuda" to "Outline of Bermuda".
It appears to belong to, and shares the formatting/layout of, this set: User:The Transhumanist/Country-related topics list set
Compare with Outline of Bermuda, which is the one for the set we've been working on.
The Transhumanist    01:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

But something went wrong. You moved "Topic outline of Bermuda" to "Outline of Bermuda" which is exactly the opposite of what I requested. I had previously moved Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge/Drafts/Outline of Bermuda (the outline draft we created for Bermuda) to Outline of Bermuda, and it is gone! Vanished! I can't find it anywhere!

Could you restore it please? And move the imposter to the set it belongs to (that is, to "List of Bermuda-related topics").

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    19:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


P.S.: Note that I renamed the whole set we were working on to "Outline of". We're no longer using "Topic outline of" for the country outlines. Sorry for the confusion - I'm running late on our newsletter.  :) The Transhumanist    19:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


P.P.S.: By the way, the few pages that are currently named "Topic outline of" are from the "List of x-related topics" set - they got renamed by somebody, but don't belong to the country outline set. Please do not rename them to "Outline of". Thank you. I'll get back to you on these later. The Transhumanist    19:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Call to action

Alarm! Alarm!

We've been working on the country outline drafts for a year now.

Therefore, I've moved them to article space.

All of them.

It's time to finish them up!

The only accuracy problem they have are the government branches sections.

Those need to be completed right away.

I've been working on them and will continue to do so...

But, this task needs everybody working on it now.

Please click on some outlines and fix the government branches sections.

The Transhumanist    01:02, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Spammy user pages

I think most admins (at least, I am) are willing to block nearly all promotional accounts

Sorry, I wasn't intending to imply otherwise, just that I thought griping about the work caused by backlog was utterly misplaced and that no one was forcing him to deal with it. --Calton | Talk 11:49, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Nominations for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #24

The January–February issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. Jason Rees (talk) 01:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Country outlines project update - 2009/03/08

Things have been slowing down again, so it's time for a big push...

We've gone live

This project needed a shot in the arm. Also, its draft pages have been littering Wikipedia's categories for months. The time seemed right to move all the country outline drafts to article space.

WHAT???

Well, the drafts had been sitting in Wikipedia space for a year.

WHAT???

Development has been moving at a snail's pace and we could use the help of the Wikipedia community at large (who are more likely to find these if they are in article space).

WHAT???

Yes, we've gone live.  :)

This puts pressure on us to get the blatantly incomplete elements of these outlines done. The only glaring problem is the government branches sections. These need to be corrected ASAP.

I've mentioned THE GOVERNMENT BRANCHES SECTIONS many times to many people over the past year, but the problem just doesn't seem to have been taken seriously. So let me put it another way:

HELP!!! I need your help on this now. Almost all the countries have a government with an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch. The links for these branches need to be completed for each country outline:

Here's a convenient list you can use WP:LINKY on to access and edit these quickly. Please copy the list's link to the top of your talk page so that you can access it easily.

If you spot any standardization in links, and ways we can automate parts of this process, or for groups of countries that have links in common, please let me know!

Administrative support for outlines

There has been growing pressure on me to write up the administrative pages for outlines - their instructions, guidelines, etc. Therefore, I'm now in the process of composing these. Fortunately, it is mostly a matter of gathering material from messages I've written to you guys over the past year. Still, this is taking up most of my time, and I will be buried in these for the foreseeable future.

Traffic control

The next big task after the government branches sections are cleaned up is link support for the outlines.

There's quite a list of links and notices that need to be put in place around Wikipedia, providing access to them to readers, and alerting editors to the need to develop and maintain these pages. This will keep our bot people very busy (and happy).

But the most important thing right now is to get the government branches sections completed. So please, put your bots aside, roll up your shirt sleeves, and start typing.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    02:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

guidelines for posting on wikipedia

Hi Julian -

An info page on our organization was submitted to Wikipedia - which you rejected as too "markety".

Can you please suggest an appropriate format one of our members can use to submit an information page on the BPCouncil community?

The BPCouncil provides valuable information and tools to the brand protection and IP professionals - which one of our members wanted to share with others via Wikipedia, thus the submission of the info page.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

````

Neither you nor your members can submit information about your organisation here because you have a huge conflict of interest. Your previous article read like an advertisement. Wikipedia has a strict neutral point of view policy. Look at articles like BAE Systems for an example of neutral writing; it was was not written by employees, but by some random people who had heard of the company. Wikipedia also has strict referencing rules. Subjects that have not recieved significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, such as newspapers, books and trustworthy websites, are not permitted an article because the material in them cannot be backed up. Look at the references section of BAE systems; it atributes all major points realible sources.--Pattont/c 11:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your clarification. ` ` ` ` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.0.220.104 (talk) 14:54, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for unprotection

Thanks for protecting my talk page. I decided to stay on wiki for probably a few more weeks, so could you do me a favor and lift the block. - Rockyobody (talk) 17:48, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. - Rockyobody (talk) 17:54, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion request

I'm transferring current FPs to Commons and need some of the WP files deleted, so I can call the Commons versions. Then I can re-add the WP FP and POTD templates. Mind deleting this, this, this, this, this, this, and this? Let me know if there's any problems. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 19:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009

This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:

Delivered by §hepBot (Disable) at 23:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Rhena Schweitzer

Thanks for fixing Rhena Schweitzer on Template:Did you know/Queue/1. Could you please add creator credit for me on that article? Tx Bongomatic 04:45, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

thanks

thank you — Ched ~ (yes?) 18:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

ManagePro

Hi, we just put up a page for the product ManagePro and it looks like you deleted it citing blatant advertising. I tried to model it on other similar products, so I'm a bit confused about what you want. Could you point me to a project management software company page that you like so I know how to edit and then tell me how to get access to edit and retry the page?

Thanks

Rodney Brim [email protected]68.116.39.69 (talk) 20:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Scripts for renaming pages

See User talk:Sj#Scripts?.

The Transhumanist    22:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the update

Thanks for the update. I'll be able to help with some of that, but I don't think I'll have time to do the government branches until I get on a calmer schedule. In the meantime, I'll search for somebody who's familiar with government-related topics and has some time to help us. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Time is relative - whatever time you could donate would be very helpful. Besides, it is very easy editing (the info is already on Wikipedia, mostly in the "Politics of" articles, and completing the outline sections is mostly a matter of copying and pasting links from there). If you start out at just one outline per day, you'll find you'll quickly pick up speed. Something you'll notice is that many countries' governments are structured identically, and so the task becomes very familiar very fast. It's quite repetitive (easy). Jump on in, the water's fine.  :) The Transhumanist    23:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UCL Human Rights Review

Why was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UCL Human Rights Review relisted? 3 editors indicated they thought the article should be deleted. One unsigned anon IP took the WP:OSE approach. What was the thinking behind relisting?--Rtphokie (talk) 00:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

You did it again :)

Double close --Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Heh, well at least I know my decision wasn't crazy. :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Anne Veski

I noticed that you reverted the page move made by another editor from Anne Veski to my original (and incorrect) page title Anne veski. The subject is a person, and thus the first and last names must be capitalized. I have restored the page title to the correct format: Anne Veski. I would like to ask that it remain this way for the sake of correctness. I saw no signs of vandalism on the part of the user who made the first page redirect, and I have thanked him for the page move on both the article discussion page and on his user talk page. --Ericdn (talk) 01:41, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:Great minds

Yeah, but I had an additional rationale, so my mind's better :P --Der Wohltempierte Fuchs (talk) 01:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Your IRC Channel

Can I please be unbanned? Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 02:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

And now you guys ban me just because you THINK I took NocturneNoir's password. I don't even know how to change them. Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza 01:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

AFD Closing for List of countries with their first Major League Baseball player

I'm not criticizing, but I was surprised to see this discussion closed with a decision of "no consensus." I know we don't simply count votes, but 10 editors supported keeping the list, compared with 5 (including the nominator) favoring deletion. And my (admittedly biased) reading of the arguments was that the keep arguments, which emphasized the referencing and usefulness of the information in the list, were quite a bit stronger than the deletion arguments.

What motivated me to post this note, though, was your closing comment that "'it's interesting' isn't a valid reason to keep the article." For lists, however, I've noted that many (perhaps most) deletion discussions seem to revolve around this very issue. No one was claiming that the list was indiscriminate information, that it was unverifiable, or that it was original research or non-neutral. It was simply a case where those arguing for deletion were saying, "This isn't very interesting" (at least I assume that's what they meant with the one-word comment, "Listcruft") and those arguing for keeping it were saying, "Yes it is." I guess I'm wondering how to respond with a better argument for keeping when the main argument for deletion seems to be "It's not interesting." In other words, how can we raise the level of debates about lists? Do you have any thoughts? BRMo (talk) 03:59, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

IMO the key argument for deletion was not "not interesting" but "there is no significant public interest". One keep !voter asserted that there was some, but if so, it should have been trivially easy to provide evidence such as newspaper coverage. Since none was forthcoming I feel the weight of argument lay with the delete side. Benefix (talk) 19:53, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

... for protecting our Space. :-) DVdm (talk) 16:45, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

NPW

Cheers. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 17:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Yes indeedy. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 18:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Name

I capitalized this artist name. However an Ip address keeps reverting it saying it has to be lowercase. I found this, and it says "Some individuals do not want their personal names capitalized. In such cases, Wikipedia articles may use lower case variants of personal names if they have regular and established use in reliable third-party sources." This is referring to the article not the content in the article. However, it is never said by the artist herself that she wants her name lowercase, it was just a move made by her label. Also, in English-language sources (that are included in the page) they have her name capitalized but the ip is basically saying since her official site has it lowercase it must be lowercase. I want to know which is correct the name being lowercase or capitalized.

You can answer here. ~Moon~月と暁~Sunrise~ 19:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Outline of knowledge project update - 2009/03/11

Allow me to shift focus for the moment from the country outline project to outlines in general...

Where's the Outline of knowledge project headed?

It's growing fast, so fast that it is catching up to portals.

I just stumbled on to a subset of 50 more outlines (one for the history of each state of the United States), and have added them to the top of the outline. Buaidh has been busy - it's nice to meet another fanatic outliner.  :)

That brings the total number of outlines in article space to about 450.

It won't be long before there are more outlines than portals (which number about 600).

How long before outlines outnumber portals?

Four months, tops.

Then what?

I don't know. Do you have any ideas?

Of course the set will continue to grow. Which branch of knowledge should we tackle next?

And...

Perhaps we should push for Main page coverage?

Need for traffic analysis

We need to begin taking a deeper look at outlines and how they are integrated into (linked to from other pages on) Wikipedia, to optimize their usefulness.

The Traffic counter is useful for monitoring page traffic on Wikipedia.

Though I'm not sure exactly what it measures. Do you know?

What interests me most is the difference between outline traffic and portal traffic. Use the above counter on various portals and the corresponding outlines, to see what I mean.

Is the traffic volume of portals related to the structure of their links?

Where is portal traffic coming from? Can the answer be found in "What links here"?

And what about the portal menu bar at the top of every portal page? Does that account for the huge number of hits the main portal list gets each month?

I also wonder how much of the traffic comes from the Main page. Is there any way to tell?

If you have any ideas on this subject and how we should proceed, please visit my talk page and let me know!

And if you know of any other traffic analysis tools that we could make use of, please let me know!

The Transhumanist    19:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I have a question for you. What exactly is the point of these articles? The titles are terrible ("outline of..."??), they're largely mirrors of the main country articles and/or "List of X topics" articles or templates, and they're basically just portals in another form. Why not just, oh I dunno, work on the portals? //roux   19:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Sapphic's comment

Julian, is it possible to have the comment struck/refactored? It is quite over the top. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, disregard this. Greg has asked that the comment not be struck. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:43, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I wanted it struck too, but Greg sent me an email saying not to have it struck. I can email the text to you, although the what he says is quite...savory. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:56, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
You may want to peruse this. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thanks for all the quick copyedits on most of the articles I've worked on. It's about time you get this one :P Cyclonebiskit 00:32, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Anipple

Remember how you posted a {{user-uaa|wt}}? Well, all his contributions are vandalism, thus indicating a vandalism-only account. The only reason I'm not taking this to AIV is because he's already mentioned in the UAA, so I thought it safer to keep it within a refined zone. Can you block him? Thoughts? Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 00:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

More UAA...

User:GNAA_USA and User:King_Mudkipz are obvious socks of the banned User:GNAA Mudkipz. Please ban. Thoughts? Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 01:04, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for being so prompt with your responses! :) Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 01:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Possible Sockpuppets

Hello! Once again...this time not from WP:UAA! Rather, two "users", [2] and [3] have been vandalising identical articles. However, not only does the evidence not warant a formal Sockpuppet investigation, but also there are only two offenders...so far. Consequently, I would like you to keep an eye out on the related articles for further signs of trouble, which will allow me to open up a formal case and consequently, a hardblock to avoid more vandals. Again, thanks! Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 01:49, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

They might even be related to the Grawp case which has suddenly popped up again...</musing> Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 01:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Last time I bother you before I retire for the night; Khwaps bears an uncanny resemblance to Grawp. Could you watch him for me? Good night! Cheers. Imperat§ r(Talk) 01:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hi! Would you like to admin coach me? I saw that you were available. Thanks! MathCool10 Sign here! 02:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Please block NOW

This user is creating many accounts revealing the person information of users.

User:Fly on Shit

KJS77 03:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry? That account hasn't edited since July. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 03:14, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes, but it's still making new accounts. See the user creation log...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20090312030906&type=newusers&month=&year=

KJS77 03:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, whoops, didn't see that. Already blocked by another admin. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 03:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. KJS77 03:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Help by reviewing an article

Hey Julian, I was wondering if you could review the Spokane article and post any problems, concerns, or ideas on how to improve its quality on the articles' Talk page. Ive been working very hard for months on this article, and Im thinking of possibly re-submitting it for FAC someday-maybe soon (after/if it it reaches A-class first). Anyway, if your up to it, notify me so I can stop looking for reviewers. Thanks a bunch, Anon134 (talk) 03:43, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Email

You've got mail. JoshuaZ (talk) 05:03, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Aduri

  1. I ask you that you re-consider the closure as no-consensus. !vote-wise delete is ahead, but reading the !votes and looking at the sources it is clear that the argument for deletion as per WP:NF was stronger. There was exactly one good argument to keep, and it was User:MichaelQSchmidt's argument. But even he recognized it as "weak", and really the sources he provided wer enot osurces of notability, not existence. It should have been closed as delete, as it really doesn't meet the criteria for notability that apply.
  2. Since you closed the original AfD, and it was submitted for relisting, I think you should have refrained from closing the second AfD. No biggie, its not like I am upset or anything, but I think it was not a good judgement. Just something to think about.--Cerejota (talk) 07:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

More deletion requests

Sorry, I'm on a rampage. Mind deleting some more for me? This, this and this. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 03:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

One more. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 03:43, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
One more (user's permission). ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 05:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Few more: this, this, and this. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 22:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Few more: this, this, this, this. TY. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 02:36, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

I'm going to start with your userpage if that's ok? 91.108.203.43 (talk) 17:44, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. Maybe you'll be blocked if you're lucky. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 17:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
I'd rather not be blocked tbh. Where's the fun in that?!? 91.108.203.43 (talk) 17:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks re rollback

Appreciated. Have a nice day. I just need a nice relaxing rollback and delete afternoon. Hipocrite (talk) 18:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Request for further info on deletion of 'fractal catalytic model' article

Hi Julian I'm disappointed at the deletion of the article 'fractal catalytic model' but of course go along with the consensus. Were the publications and so on I listed in the deletion debate not sufficent to establish sufficent notability? If these references were included in the actual wikipedia article would this help? And is it worth perhaps trying again with suitable mods? Thanks very much for your time.

DerryTaylor (talk) 19:32, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Userfy Great Clips

Please userfy Great Clips, which you speedy deleted, to my userspace. I intend to resurrect it as a stub. Thank you. KuyaBriBriTalk 19:43, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

UAA -- my goof

Sorry, I thought that the wrong reporting templates had been used -- I was completely mistaken. – ukexpat (talk) 19:57, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Trips for Kids International page

Julian, Trips for Kids is a 21-year-old, established, respected non-profit, operating 69+ chapters in the US and Canada. TFK has nothing to gain by being in Wikipedia. I attempted to post a page after several people asked why we weren't listed. I am baffled. One of our chapters - Metro DC - has had a Wikipedia page for some time. TFK has no detractors whose alternate viewpoint must be included. This allegation of "blatant advertising" seems wrongheaded to me. I protested the speedy deletion, but have received no word from anyone. I'd really appreciate your advice. Thanks B1kekid (talk) 20:09, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Trips for Kids International

Julian, Thanks for getting back to me. I respectfully disagree with your and Wikipedia's opinion, but you are The Decider. Since it's important for newsworthy information - especially information about non-profits trying to help disadvantaged kids - to be available to everyone, it's a shame that Wikipedia makes it so difficult. Could it be that your justifiable zeal about protecting the site from self-serving posts has gotten in the way of constructive reviewing? B1kekid (talk) 20:46, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Geography outlines project update - 2009/03/12

I needed a rest from countries...

The states of the United States

So I switched over to states. United States.

I've added outlines for all 50 to the Outline of knowledge.

How?

The main activity in creating these was using LINKY to execute advanced Google searches on all 50 states at the same time (do a single search on google, then on a Wikipedia user page create a list of state links, then search replace the front and back bracket pairs with the parts of the google search url that come before and after the state's name, respectively - once you have a list of searches, you can easily modify it with search/replaces. WikEd works great for this. The page I've been using for Linky loads is User:The Transhumanist/Google state searches - but I used it for more than just google searches: check the history to see the various link sets and google search sets I used for linky loads). The search strings "in x" and "of x" reveal a lot about a state. But the magic is in Firefox's tab navigation keys (Ctrl-W) and (Ctrl-tab), which provide a bird's eye view of the coverage of the whole set of subjects. Flipping between the search results for each state using the tab keys, you quickly notice the common titles ("Governor of x", for instance).

As I found common titles, I added them to Template:Outline U.S. State.

Besides Google searching, I used Linky to open all state articles at the same time, to look over their headings (those usually expand into stand-alone articles), and I added the main ones to the outline as well.

Using Linky again, I opened all the lists on the list of lists by state, to look for those with state subheadings. The outlines contain section links to the few of those I found.

When I couldn't stand building the template anymore, I used it to create 50 outlines! That was fun. It's like they appeared out of nowhere.

Further development

The region section contains temporary links - I knew that subset of links would get at least some matches, so I figured that would be better than nothing. I'll swap those out with an accurate list of regions for each state as I find the time. Feel free to jump in and help - I'm not greedy.  :)

The standard links I used for the government branches sections matched almost all the states, except for a few in the legislative section. It won't take me long to finish fixing these - there are only a handful left.

There are fewer fill-in items on these outlines compared to those for countries. So these will be much faster to complete. And there's only 50 pages, which makes passes go by very quickly (less than an hour for most passes).

One nice side-effect of doing passes on these outlines is that you naturally memorize the 50 states (forward and backward, if you reverse your passes to alleviate monotony).  :)

That brings the total number of outlines on Wikipedia to about 500

Which puts us within 100 titles of portals.

Further coverage of geography

Political divisions lend themselves to rapid outline development because of common titles.

Other sets that are begging for creation include:

  • the constituent countries of the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland)
  • the provinces of Canada
  • the provinces of France
  • other sets of subdivisions that have extensive coverage on Wikipedia
  • the major cities of the world (those with lots of articles about them)

That last item on the list above looks especially juicy. My mouth is watering.

Cities are pretty fun. So far I've only completed two of them (because they happened to be city-states and were included in the set of country outlines we've been working on): Outline of Macau and Outline of Vatican City. I especially enjoyed outlining Vatican City, because WP:COMMONS had lots of pictures to choose from.

Though cities in general will probably require the building of a new template.

The Transhumanist    00:14, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canadian soccer players with multiple nationalities

Hi Julian, you have recently relisted this debate for a more thorough consensus - however, I believe that consensus is established; there are three delete votes (excluding my own as nominator), one merge, and a 'comment' which, if you read it, actually appears to be another delete vote...regards, GiantSnowman 00:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

No worries - I wasn't trying to criticise you or anything like that, just wondered why the AfD hadn't been closed is all. Cheers, GiantSnowman 00:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the rollback

And that was fast! - EronTalk 04:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

VPC

Please do take part at VPC. Even one additional regular user will be a breath of fresh air to what may be a dying project. ~ ωαdεstεr16♣TC♣ 05:47, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

your assistance please...

You closed the article Joshua Colangelo-Bryan. Can you clarify for me -- afd run for five days, right? I returned to this article to make some improvements. Yes, I know it had run for four days, with little or no work on my part. But I was very busy, because the guy who nominated this article nominated twelve other articles at the same time.

I realize that more opinions would have been very unlikely in the final day. So why would I want to add more material? I continue to believe Colangelo-Bryan merits coverage. He has been very widely quoted in the English-language middle-eastern press. He has spoken widely about letting one of his clients have some privacy for a washroom break, only to find the guy had tried to hang himself in the washroom.

I am not going to request you relist the article. But I would like you to userify it for me. If you will agree to this, could you please userify the full history to User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/rescue/Joshua Colangelo-Bryan? Geo Swan (talk) 09:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Account creation

Would you know how I could gain access to the account creation interface? I put in my request and followed the steps but as far as I could tell, none of the WP:ACC admins have been on including X!.

Also as a side note, what is your opinion of non-mainspace April Fools jokes? I Grave Rob§talk♥stalk§ 14:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Tenaha, Texas

Hi I know there was a lot of vandalism on the Tenaha, Texas page, but was protection required? I dont want to get into a big fight about this, I know your doing your job, but i am worried that semi-protection in this case could be viewed as a way of stopping debate. Best of luck The Isiah (talk) 15:58, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

references

I been having problems on how o do footnotes for references. could you give me a hand? The Isiah (talk) 16:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much. Cheers Kyle1278 (talk) 16:49, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't want to create a new section for this, but thanks for trusting me with NPWatcher. I won't abuse it. =) Antivenin 18:22, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Smile!

Acalamari has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend, Go on smile! Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

You're welcome! Acalamari 17:21, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Possible issues of copy/paste and sockpuppetry

Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at Talk:Great Clips. Thank you. KuyaBriBriTalk 18:43, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Frequently used idea and approved areas

The Frequently used idea are needs updating seriously and now the future of the approved area is questioned. Please see the discussions at Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Help with FUI and Approved area discussion. Simply south (talk) 20:23, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for your support, even when I didn't necessarily deserve it. :) I have found that "RfA" is short for "Request for Arrows". :) This has been a hard but useful experience (useful experiences often are hard) and whether I ever accept a nomination again or not, I'm willing to address the cautions of the sincere Opposers and try to do better. Lots of arrows coming at me, and I get the point. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 02:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

NOT VANDALISM

I was asking a question on someone´s user page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.41.120.101 (talk) 02:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC) Hardly vandalism, it´s a question about someone´s user page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.41.120.101 (talk) 03:00, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Yelling in all caps didn't seem like a good-faith contribution, sorry. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 03:08, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Orion_P._Howe

Check out this 2nd para, the US Naval Academy says he graduated in 1870 but General Sherman says he flunked out. What to do? Also, I nom'd it for DYK and if you could lengthen it just a tad, that'd be great. — Rlevse • Talk • 03:58, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. My guess is since he was apparently there 5 years span, way longer than normal then and even now, he dropped out and went back. I can't imagine the USNA official site knowingly listing someone as a grad who really didn't graduate. — Rlevse • Talk • 04:07, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
See stuff I added, this is quite interesting, also my talk and article talk. Found date they moved to IL. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

List of rock epics

Thank you for deleting that wikipedia article. I appreciate that. Back when I was a wikipedia newbie in April 2007 and a few months after that, I enjoyed editing the page, with a total count of 23 edits. However, I had determined that the list was total bull, and my last two edits of that page were me tagging the page for speedy deletion. I didn't know about the 5-day deletion policy back then. I'm glad that it's deleted. Although the only downside is the fact that my edit count decreased, that downside is perfectly accepted. BTC 04:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Why did you decline? Tiptoety and PeterSymmonds asked me to apply on a later date because they said I applied too early and they said they would approve on a later date. Syjytg (talk) 15:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I know you dont trust me but can you please give me the benefit of the doubt? After all, you can remove it easily if I use it inappopriately. Syjytg (talk) 10:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I would appreciate a response, thank you. Syjytg (talk) 16:07, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

C-Class

I loved your opinion on the adding of the C-Class to the Military History WikiProject (mostly because we share the same opinion, we don't want it :) I am glad to see that members of the WikiProject are coming out to show their support or opposition of this proposal, thanks for all you do! Have a Great Day! Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 04:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh your opinion isn't crazy :) And if our opinion is crazy... then... we'll just call it revolutionary :) Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 14:57, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Review request

Can you look at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 2007–08 South Pacific cyclone season/archive1. I don't think it is up to the standard of other FL timelines. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Whenever you do look at this, can you check out the last sentence of the lead? I can't quite understand what it means: "The JTWC storms are referred to numerically, to avoid confusion, as the JTWC sometimes recognises a storm at a different intensity compared to RSMC Nadi and TCWC Wellington." Dabomb87 (talk) 17:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD Closures

I'm sorry to see you ignore the rule that AFDs shall run no less than five days, closing AfDs early; specifically the two Guantanamo-related deletions you made simultaneously without even waiting for their minimum discussion time to run through. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 00:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

The discussions went through four days and some spare hours -- it doesn't look very good, that's all I'm saying. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 00:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
That is more of a guideline. We are not really clock watchers here at Wikipedia. We just try to use good sense. The text you linked even says "usually no less than five days", "usually" being the key word. Chillum 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes. The consensus was also clear. There's no reason to nitpick, especially when the guideline makes no specific requirements. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 00:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

e-mail

I have just replied to your e-mail. :) — Aitias // discussion 01:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

E-mail

I've sent one. Best wishes. Acalamari 01:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Non-Vandalism Flagged As Vandalism

User: Yarnalgo flagged my deletion as vandalism and rolled back the change. It was not an act of vandalism. I removed a "parody" section from an article on Nexus:_The_Kingdom_of_the_Winds. The "Sa San Massacre" never took place and is an in-joke aimed at players of the game. There is already a comment from another user in the Talk section of the Nexus article that notes that the Sa San Massacre is parody and was previously removed. 118.208.207.226 (talk) 01:53, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Unblock help

Hi Julian, I blocked Revolutionaryspirits (talk · contribs) for 3RR (originally for 31 hours) and then unblocked about half an hour later (Awadewit asked me to, and Revolutionaryspirits is a new user). Anyway, Revolutionaryspirits says s/he is still blocked, so I suspect an IP autoblock, but can't find the problem. I don't do many blocks and even fewer unblocks, so would you mind checking what I did wrong? Thanks in advance, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:54, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much, I will let the user know the autoblock is lifted, and sorry to bother you. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Beilein

Your decision not to redirect the redundant material resulting from this ill-advised split beffuddles me. All the other admins for his AFDs have redirected them. People are already trying to redirect the redundant page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 03:57, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

  1. I was calling your attention to the fact that Coaching record of John Beilein‎ should have been redirected because thats how all the other splits by this guy are handled by other admins.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:04, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
    Are you watching the page that has been redirected against your decision.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
  2. I was calling your attention to the fact that since it obviously should be redirected it has been by an editor.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:04, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Sasquatch2 blocking

I left a comment on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Sasquatch2 regarding your blocks of Sasquatch2's accounts. There is an IP address that may or may not need to be blocked. —Fiziker t c 04:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Never mind. Saw your block. —Fiziker t c 04:57, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for all the work you do at Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention. Chillum 05:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Sloatsburg thanks

You're welcome. Funny you should like that dam article ... I had commended it to Mitch since I had added it as a source to Sloatsburg (Metro-North station), which he got to GA. Daniel Case (talk) 05:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandal

I contacted you earlier about vandalism on the Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds page. Thanks for your advice, I will be sure to add reasons for deletion in all further editing I do.

I am concerned that my earlier revisions have been reverted once again by another user, User:Int3rnaut, who appears to have been repeatedly inserting false information into the Nexus article since at least last October. Specifically:

  • The Sa San Massacre - an alleged real-world protest and riot culminating in multiple deaths and injuries - has no hits in Google news under any of the key words related to the story (Santa Clara, Kru Interactive, Rick Jordan, Office Max)and has been noted by another person on the discussion page as a "parody", not an actual incident.
  • The reference to "OH HOW SO CUTE" does not reveal any reason why it should be listed in the controversy section, and does not appear to have any place in any encyclopaedia article. It's a description of fan videos that exist on YouTube.
  • Much of the information this person added under the Setting subheadings is nonsensical in a manner that would be obvious even to those unfamiliar with the game. An example: "...several clans swear their loyalty to Emperor SenShi, however these clans no longer exist as swearing is against the TOA.".

I believe the User:Int3rnaut account shows a history of edits and changes that do not appear to have been made in good faith. Being new to Wikipedia myself, I'm not sure whose attention to bring this to, and I hope you can help by reviewing the account yourself, or by pointing me in the direction of the correct person.

Thanks for your time.

118.208.207.226 (talk) 07:42, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion review for "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes

An editor has asked for a deletion review of "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Stifle (talk) 11:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Admin coaching

I think you forgot all about this? Techman224Talk 02:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Where are those questions? Techman224Talk 17:08, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Nicholas Chan

Like to request for your advise on what would be needed to provide justification for overturning deletion of article as this is the first article deletion appeal I am doing and would appreciate advise on what to do. Thanks. Ncknight (talk) 18:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2009_March_14#Nicholas_Chan

Sources have been updated for the DRV. Appreciate your review, thank you. Ncknight (talk) 06:51, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiCup Newsletter

16:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC) The Helpful Bot 16:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Geography WikiProject update - 03/15/2009

The award images are complete!

After months of toil and attention to detail, Penubag has completed the set of images for this WikiProject's awards!

There are five race ribbons:

There's an engraved medallion:

And by far the hardest to create, a golden trophy:

If you have any ideas about awards these images can be placed upon, and how to award them (to show appreciation and to attract participants), please let me know.

And be sure to pop by Penubag's talk page to let him know what you think of his graphics artistry.

The Transhumanist    21:28, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

per the discussion at WT:RFA

Per the discussion at WT:RFA, I have decided to block you for apparently being underaged (although I would have never guessed that.)... ;-)---I'm Spartacus! NO! I'm Spartacus! 07:19, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Aitias

Your composure during your differences with User:Aitias was very professional and I agree with everything you said. Keep up the good work. :) Aaroncrick(Tassie Boy talk) 05:28, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Thats cool, Aaroncrick(Tassie Boy talk) 23:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of redirect

Hi -- following deletion of Economics of Indigence Culture and Behavior-Protecting America's Abused Children, may I suggest also deletion of a redirect the author created that pointed to the now deleted page: Protecting America's Abused Children. Perhaps a separate AfD is required, but I'd be surprised. thanks, Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

NPP Process

I read your reply "NPP takes a few seconds per article. All you have to do is decide whether it needs to be speedily deleted, and if not, you move on" at the recent RfA. Thanks for that. I'm not sure that's all it should take—we can discuss that another day—but that's not what this editor was doing.
If you review what s/he says in Mike R's section Arbitrary oppose reason #54: Not Enough New Page Patrol, s/he is clearly in considerable distress about the backlog, saying "we're only keeping up with flagged newpages because of ME PERSONALLY PUTTING A HUGE AMOUNT OF EFFORT INTO IT" and that "It was suggested to me that if I oppose RfAs on the grounds of the candidate not having done sufficient (or any) NPP, it might draw some attention to the phenomenon."
When I saw this ed's Oppose in the RfA I questioned the pace of patrol-marking (e.g. 21 articles in one minute at 03:45, 16 March 2009). The editor has now explained (on my talk page) that "I am able to quickly patrol large numbers of pages by the use of several cunningly-devised software scripts. They enable me to mark-as-patrolled all articles created by a given username. If someone has created +30 articles and a random sampling of 5 are all valid, then it is reasonable to conclude that the rest will be likewise." IMO it isn't a good thing if an editor feels so personally responsible for the new pages backlog on Wikipedia that s/he implements this sort of "automatically accept new pages from known editors" model behind the scenes ...especially one who claims to be engaged to "the most glorious gorgeous geek" and should have better things to do than patrol new pages here.
You're an admin and more experienced in this area than I am—can you keep a compassionate eye on this editor? Thanks - Pointillist (talk) 22:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


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