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If you know that Anoplotherium is an even-toed ungulate, why don't you put that in the article, and cite a source for it?
And if you don't know, why are you stub-sorting it that way? Gene Nygaard (talk) 02:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Re your FFD closure of File:Thomas Youngblood at Monsters of Rock 2007 in Zaragoza, Spain.jpg: you were faster than me here :-) Unfortunately this appears to be a copyvio. The same file was also uploaded as File:Thomas Younblood at MOR 2007.jpg, where the uploader declared it to be somebody else's work ("Author= Francisco Serralvo") [1]. This uploader has a checkered upload history [2] and had several images from similar sources deleted as copyvios.
What do we do next; would you be prepared to just change your closure, or would you prefer a new process? Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed that you recently deleted the redirect The word 'fuck'. The reason this redirect existed is because it was the original location for the article now found at fuck: the article was created on 26 December, 2001 but only moved to its present location (by me) on 8 April 2003. It is quite possible that other websites linked to that original article location; those links will now be broken.
When I edited here regularly (some years ago), it was normal to keep redirects such as this one in order to avoid external broken links. Is there now a general policy to delete them, and if so, why? I ask because I am not sure what is gained by the deletion, but can see that something is potentially lost. Regards--Camembert (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Per your closure of the basketball head coaches CfD, I've copied the list of categories to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual. There's no bot currently that can handle multiple merge targets, is there? I'll try to help out some if it has to be done manually. It might be a good idea to talk to the bot ops, though – it does seem like an operation that should be handled by bots. Regards, Jafeluv (talk) 10:09, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
I saw you deleted it because you thought it was a college team. They were actually a pro team and is now the LA Lakers. Please revert accordingly.--Levineps (talk) 05:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I added some of the Filipino cats from my nomination to process. I didn't realise you were still working on them—I thought you might have missed them or been called away by something. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
You should not have deleted http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alva_noe&action=edit&redlink=1 See german http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva_No%C3%AB Also see numerous references to this philosopher's name on other English Wikipedia pages Alva Noe's page should be restored. Sorry if this is not the right way to format my request Warrbo (talk) 18:42, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, thanks for your note to me as well as helping me remove the "Unbeatables III" page so that I could do the move for that pair. As you can tell, I'm a little confused with the DB-move as its the 1st time I'm using it. So if I actually want the page moved back to Unbeatables, and with Masters of the Double Skies as the redirect page, I should be using the db-move template on the Unbeatables page as it is now (since it is currently the empty redirect page)? Zhanzhao (talk) 16:17, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
You are being notified because you participated in a previous Afd regarding this article, either at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Argentina–Singapore_relations or at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philippines–Romania relations, and you deserve a chance to weigh in on this article once again. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 00:00, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
User:Jeffrey O. Gustafson/pt. Thank you. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 16:52, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've come across this website which appears to have some info on SS Stettin in Hebrew (I think). The number of 5270090 is an IMO Number, not a Lloyd's register number. What I'm particularly looking for is a yard number (1511?), speed (9½ knots?), launch date and date of completion. Does this website have any of that info? Mjroots (talk) 23:20, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I saw this edit. Could you please explain to me what it is for? I read the text on Template:Pollutedcat, but did not uderstand. And frankly, I am not happy with the idea of adding things to maintenance categories. So I would be happy if you could explain to be the reason for that template and how it works. Debresser (talk) 10:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people
As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:
Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I've just noticed that there was a message on my User page saying that there was a message for me on your page on 26 January, but I can't see it. Opbeith (talk) 23:16, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks It's good to get constructive criticism. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:27, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if im replying on the right section of your page or not but I am curious as to why you deleted MY page. It was not a public page, it was under my own name.
I think you want me to copy this into here 08:57, 4 March 2010 Od Mishehu (talk | contribs) deleted "User:Redsox42311/Shaycarl" (Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Redsox42311/Shaycarl) This discussion
I read why it was deleted and you said it was an article which had been deleted 10 previous times. Well maybe it has, but I didn't do that, other people may have tried to add it as a public article. So when I talked with user:PMDrive1061 he told me that I could put it under my page as a sandbox. So I did. I'm not a pro on wikipedia, so its difficult to create the articles and it takes time and now that is completely gone, I will have to start from scratch again. So I'm wondering if you can give my anymore information, and also, why didn't I know about that talk about (Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Redsox42311/Shaycarl)
From reading the talk, it seems like the page was public, so that was a problem about notability, but I thought the whole point of putting it on there was because it didn't have notability. Is there any way to work on an article which is private, because other wise, it seems near impossible to just put up an article from scratch without being able to slowly work on it before it goes public.
Thanks, Redsox42311 (talk) -18:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Also, is there another area where you can create things like this to work on, or another site that you can work on a page. Since wikipedia uses a different code for creating articles, is there someplace to make an article and store it there while you are working on it, either on wikipedia or an external site. Thanks, Redsox42311 (talk) 8:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
I thought I did some work on it a couple weeks ago. Is the personal sandbox, where I had the article? Redsox42311 (talk) 5:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Ok sorry Redsox42311 (talk) 23:06, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Od Mishseu
I dunno if you had noticed, but the discussion at CfD March 13 of your proposal to rename Category:Requests for unblock is turning into a pile-on oppose. (That's life: what seems like a good idea isn't always seen that way by others.)
Anyway, if I hadn't commented my self, I'd close the discussion early per WP:SNOW. Some other admin may do that, but if not I wanted to suggested that since the proposal is going nowhere you might like to withdraw the nom by self-closing the discussion. No pressure, just a suggestion.
Best wishes, --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:56, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:AN#Review of indefinite rangeblocks. I realize you just tweaked the block, figured you might want to lend any input anyway. –xenotalk 17:30, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
I am curious why the Talk:Fishkill Supply Depot page was deleted when the article page Fishkill Supply Depot remains? I have never seen this before and I would like to learn the rationale for deleting a talk page while its article page remains. Seems to me the thing to do might have been to just remove whatever text was deemed as unworthy on the talk page and not delete it. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 23:36, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
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Awarded to Od Mishehu for his quiet, but devoted work in finding and relisting old FFD nominations which have bee erroneously removed by a bug in twinkle. Keep up the good work!! -FASTILY(TALK) 23:04, 22 March 2010 (UTC) |
PrincessofLlyr (talk) 20:36, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Do you plan to move the documentation of Cfd to Cfd full as well, or will you make new documentation? Debresser (talk) 05:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Od Mishehu
I have been meaning to post a quick msg to you to congratulate you on the heroic number of CFD closures you have been doing lately. Great work!
But instead I'm posting because I set out to fix a mix-up over soft-redirects, but have created another one :( First my confession on what happened, then a suggestion for a solution.
I was checking WP:CFD/W to check that no categories had been merged onto soft redirects, and found that this was just what had happened to the CfD Feb 25 renaming of Category:Black and white films to Category:Black-and-white films, so I fixed that. So far so good.
I then thought that it would be a good idea to check the various sportspeople-by-century categories, and found that some of the Feb 25 Martial artists categories had been merged to Category:Martial artists, which was a soft-redirect to Category:Martial arts practitioners ... so, thinking that the bot was moving all the practitioners to artists, I copied the text of Category:Martial arts practitioners to Category:Martial artists, making it a proper category.
That was my mistake, doubly so, because a) Feb 25 Martial artists had set the soft redirect as a merge target, and b) the wider renaming of Category:Martial arts practitioners to Category:Martial artists is still open for discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_2#Martial_artists. So I had jumped too soon.
However, the categories which had been merged into Category:Martial artists all seem to have been container categories ... so the only contents of the category currently is Category:Irish martial artists, which is a consequence of me again not checking for redirects when adding ((fooian fooers)) to that category. I'm going to leave Category:Irish martial artists, because it'll sort itself out in two days once the renaming is complete (there's 100% support so far for the renaming), and the bot doesn't handle ((fooian fooers)). Does that sound OK?
Anyway ... the wider issue here is that Cydebot evidently doesn't check whether its merge or rename target is a soft redirect.
That could have been a big problem with the renaming of Category:Black and white films to Category:Black-and-white films, because if a soft-redirect-patrolling bot had found them, 11,000 pages would have been moved back again ... but it's a wider problem, because I can envisage all sorts of unintended consequences arising from this sort of thing.
Obviously, part of the solution is for a CFD nominator not to repeat my mistake of listing a soft redirect as a merge target, but with a large group nomination it's too easy for that to happen. (I usually check very carefully, but some slip through).
I'm also wary of throwing responsibility for this sort of check onto the CFD closer: there is too much to do when closing, and it seems like an unfair burden. So I thought of asking Cyde to see if the bot could be easily tweaked to simply ignore any moves or merges to soft redirects. That way they would simply be stuck on the queue, and those of us monitoring WP:CFD/W would eventually check and spot the problem.
What do you think of that? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Just figured I should drop you a note to keep you up to date on the latest Cydebot update. See User talk:Cyde#CFD and soft redirects for the details on the change. --Cyde Weys 19:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
I have removed the ((ffd)) tag you placed on File:Adrienne Papp.jpg. I did this because you didn't create a discussion for this image, and I can find no evidence of the reason. If you still think it should be deleted, feel free to renominate it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:03, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Can you please E-mail me my password for User:A1DF67 again? That password doesn't work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.166.182 (talk) 05:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Twinkle does that sometimes (I'm more careful to check these days.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:44, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I have created the La Haye Global University for Journalism and Media since all other not recognized universities from the Netherlands have their own English Wikipedia pages. I see no reason for ostracizing this organization from Wikipedia, since formally it does not differ from the other three non-recognized Dutch universities which have their own Wikipedia page. I have clearly stated that this university is not recognized by the Dutch state, this was not an attack, but rendering true and verifiable information. If I were a student seeking admission at a certain university, first thing I would want to know about it were if such university is accreditted or not, if it is recognized or not by the state wherein it lies. Its page has been already deleted, but perhaps we could agree upon a version of this page which could be published within the English Wikipedia. Please say what I should include inside this page. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:32, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
...for catching that. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 11:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I disagree with your assessment of the application of CSD A7 to Aboitiz Football Cup. It seems to me that a sports competition could be classed as an organisation, and would therefore be eligible for deletion under CSD A7. Thoughts? – PeeJay 13:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Sometimes, Twinkle does not complete CfDs, such as at Category:Politicians from Åland, which was intended to be part of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_16#.C3.85land. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:41, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
You are not allowed to solely change otheruses4 with about and this is because this is a very minor edit. Page layout is serious stuff
— Magioladitis (talk) 23:21, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
I hope these explanations help you understand why it's not a good idea to bypass redirects. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Just letting you know that this editor undid the redirects for Image for Windows, BootIt Next Generation and TeraByte Unlimited resulting from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TeraByte Unlimited, apparently applying the "whoever has most time their hands, wins" wikirule. Pcap ping 23:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Od Mishehu, I was just about redirecting CASBAA to Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia, but then recognized, that you had deleted CASBAA in september 2009. So you may now want to take a second look? Best, Mentalmoses (talk) 17:23, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Just curious: Do you want to handle all these "populated places" renames by yourself (+ bot), or would you like help? If the latter, let me know. If the former, I'll just add my support when needed.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks I had some problems with Twinkle. At the time, I had just installed it--but I know better know. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:52, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
You are receiving this note because of your participation in WT:Revision deletion#Community consultation, which is referred to in Wikipedia:VPR#Proposal to turn on revision deletion immediately (despite some lingering concerns). –xenotalk 14:15, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I've made some changes to Cydebot that should address the deletion summary issue (specifically, the lack of a correct link to the per-day discussion page in some instances). Please keep your eyes peeled for any remaining issues. More information is here. --Cyde Weys 21:50, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Ping ... I've responded on my talk page to the issue of Cydebot having some hiccups over night. --Cyde Weys 14:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this was my first attempt to close two stub discussions (April 11 and April 13). Hopefully I followed all the steps. Let me know if I missed something so I don't repeat the same mistake again. Closing TFDs is much easier. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:17, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
You can give him IPBE. J.delanoygabsadds 17:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Greetings! I see you have recently created one or more new stub templates or categories. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, it is recommended that new stub types be proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. This helps to reach consensus about whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it is otherwise correctly formatted, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies. Your new stub type is currently listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries, where comments are welcome as to any rationale for this stub type. Please, in future, consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature. Dawynn (talk) 14:54, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm asking the people in the Consensus? section of the "Populated places" discussion about a key point that has created some division in this giant nomination. When you were reaching this consensus, did you think "Cities and towns" categories (not "Cities, towns, and villages") should have been part of the changes? If you have an opinion on this, please comment at the nomination.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
...sadly, they were dashed when I saw what you were actually suggesting here! Regards, BencherliteTalk 13:32, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
You are correct in that the category was deleted at CFD a couple of years ago. One of the jokes of having the category on one's userpage is that it is a redlinked page. Could you please revert your removal of it from several people's user page? Thank you, NW (Talk) 13:52, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Could you specify why you relisted this? To me it's more like a not controversial thing. -DePiep (talk) 23:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)