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Please put new messages at the end of this page. Anthony Appleyard 08:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

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You recently deleted my posting about producers Koishii & Hush. I entered the first submission wrong and was told by Golbez that "We really require third-party links about a band, otherwise we can let any band with a myspace account make an article, and with the speed that myspace band articles are created, we really need to be swift with removing them. If there are third-party links available, please recreate the article" So I recreated it with 3rd party links and now you delete it as spam!? Please undo this decision. Thanks Tomveil2000 (talk) 14:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)


A deletion

To whom it may concern, the deleting fairy yes?

I was so hurt when I discovered that you had removed my contribution of Jay-Alaric (Sexy) Howell. I had put a , what may be suprising to you, significant amount of time and energy in researching, boardering on stalking just so that I could allow the world to look up this amazing artist. Which you deleted. I'm kind of shocked by this and would appreciate hearing your reasons as to why you would choose to delete such an up and coming artist from the internet?

Have a lovely day,
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Franjo Tudjman

  • I see that you have closed discussion on Requested Move for Franjo Tudjman with result Do not move.

May I ask you what were the arguments for that? I am asking you this because there was discussion about moving Novak Djokovic article. Discussion was absolutely the same (at one side Misplaced Pages guidelines, at other side correct spelling, vast majority of Misplaced Pages articles and no-point-in-using-ASCII arguments). But, Novak's page was moved. Regards, --Irić Igor -- Ирић Игор -- K♥S (talk) 18:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Requested Moves

  • An IP, 199.125.109.102, closed a request a day after it was listed on RM, declaring it to be speedy closed (There was annother of his I mistakingly unclosed too, due to my error, it was in the backlog section). I reverted this as RM guidelines themselves say 5 days is normal. Now the chap is whining on my talk page, was what I did incorrect? Narson (talk) 10:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Please: What is the name of the affected page, and the name that it was wanted to be moved it to? When did you list it? When did he delete it? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Oh, I didn't list it. I just noticed it got closed after a day and reverted the closure. It was Dot Com Bubble I think (Someone proposed a move to Dot Com Boom). Can't say I support the move but a day seems a bit short a time to leave a RM up for, wanted to make sure that I was correct in reverting the closure or whether a speedy close was right in that case. Narson (talk) 13:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • I did a speedy close because moving Dot-com bubble was frivolous and had no chance of gaining any support. There was no need to waste time over it. There was also a reference to an earlier discussion that I took into consideration. 199.125.109.102 (talk) 15:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • The entry "*Dot-com bubble → Dot-com boom —(Discuss)— The term bubble and boom are very different, Boom refers to rising prices and profits, while bubble refers to a collapse of prices. therefore this article refers to the boom of the late 1990's. Dwilso 23:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)" is present and correct, in the 3 April 2008 section of Misplaced Pages:Requested moves. It points to Talk:Dot-com bubble, where there is now some discussion tending towards "do not move", so it seems that User:Narson was correct in restoring the entry in Misplaced Pages:Requested moves. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
  • There has always been discussion tending toward "do not move". You will notice that I made no attempt to assert myself, but I see no valid reason for restoring the entry in RM, other than "gosh that disappeared quickly". I see that someone else agrees with me (PeterSymonds), and has also closed it early, although at this point we are getting closer to the 5 days. 199.125.109.102 (talk) 16:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Username?

moved from user talk 199.125.109.102

I have zero interest in registering a username. 199.125.109.102 (talk) 17:01, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hatlink of page Shahadah

Sakura

English M.E.T.A.S.

  • Hi Anthony, I know you're just doing your job, but I'm familiar with Misplaced Pages, and I think you made a mistake. I work for a small English school in Barcelona Spain at the moment, English M.E.T.A.S. It's a legitimate, tax-paying school, doing things legitimately different than the larger ones. There are plenty of English schools on Wiki. I know, becuase I was certified at one of them, and I'll be working for them this coming September in Vietnam (International House). The page wasn't spam. I'm not getting paid for this. I'm just adding to wiki. So I'm going to go ahead and re-create my page, hopefully with your support. Cheers. --J.Dayton (talk) 10:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
  • It still looks like an ordinary non-notable small business to me. Misplaced Pages is not a business directory. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Well I just started writing it! And why are you being so rude? Jesus.--J.Dayton (talk) 14:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Sorry. But see Misplaced Pages:Notability. I deleted it because another user had speedy-delete-tagged it as "This page may meet Misplaced Pages’s criteria for speedy deletion as an article about company, corporation, organization, or group that does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject.". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the history merge

Thank you for merging Portmanteau and Portmanteau word. - TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 11:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

categories

Thanks for the tip!

Bathrobe (talk) 02:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Question about history merges

Hi Anthony,

So I was just looking through WP:SPLICE and I noticed that you appear to be the master of the history merges. I'm in my third week or so of being an admin, and a big chunk of my work so far has involved closing AfD discussions. Although I avoided them at first, I've also started to close some discussions as merge--suffice to say, I have some questions that I'm hoping you could answer.

Now, my understanding based on what I've read is that, when performing these merges, preserving the history of the merged content to adhere to the GFDL is of paramount importance, and so in the handful of merges I've done I've gone ahead and merged the history of the two articles together. But from reading through your comments on WP:SPLICE, it seems that merging the histories of two pages edited simultaneously is a very Bad Thing, and so I was hoping you could provide some clarification. When closing AfDs as "merge", is it better to delete and redirect the original page before manually insert the text, redirect the page without deleting it and merge the text noting the source in the edit summary (thereby leaving regular editors technically able to revert it), or am I okay with what I've been doing?

And just as a note, I've only merged something like three or four articles, all the merges have been in the last few days, and the low number of revisions in the source items merged means that I could undo any damage with a minimum amount of fuss. In other words, it should be pretty easy to un-muck anything that I may have mucked up :) Thanks in advance for your help! --jonny-mt 05:12, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

  • If, e.g. someone started a page X, and someone else started a page Y, both about the same subject, and both are edited various times, and after a while they need to be merged, with X as the article and Y as a redirect to X, DO NOT merge their histories (e.g. by "delete X, move Y to X, undelete X"). That would result in X's old edits and Y's old edits being mixed regardless in one date order. During the text merge, merely do this, to note the merge:
    • Leave in X an edit comment "merged from Y".
    • When you change Y into a redirect to X, give that edit the edit comment "merged to X".
      • In both cases, perhaps plus a link in the edit comment to any discussion about the merge.
    • History merging is only to rejoin a page's history after a cut-and-paste move. In page Y, click the "watch" tab to put page Y on your watch list. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
All right, so the history merging is indeed a bad thing; I'll cut it out and try to go back and undo any damage I've done. But what about when the result of an XfD discussion is to merge the content? I know that when the result is "redirect" it actually means "delete and redirect"--is this the same for merges, or would doing so violate the GFDL? --jonny-mt 05:34, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Use cut-and-paste to add (not overwrite) the contents of page Y into page X. Sort out and tidy the result by editing page X. Change Y into a redirect to X. Do not histmerge. Note in X's and Y's edit comments what happpened. With a text merge, this dilemma happens. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Sounds good, although I have one final question. When an AfD discussion results in a consensus of merge, should I delete Page Y after adding its contents into Page X? Although not deleting it would mean that the history remains visible and thus the GFDL requirements could be easily fulfilled through comments in the edit summaries as you mentioned, it would also mean that a user unhappy with the merge would be able (technically-speaking) to revert my changing of Page Y into a redirect and continue working on the old version of the article against consensus. Is deleting Page Y before creating a new redirect with a summary of "Content was merged to Page X per consensus at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Foo" sufficient to link the two together, or do the histories of both need to be visible to satisfy the licensing requirements? --jonny-mt 06:21, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
  • If users are likely to want to type the name of Y when looking for information, then page Y better stay, as a redirect to page X. In page Y, click the "watch" tab to put page Y on your watch list. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:51, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
All right, so the history should be left visible. Sorry for all the questions, but thanks for the clarification! --jonny-mt 02:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Haribo

  • I noticed you did some work on the Haribo talk page. I also noticed that the contents of that talk page have been deleted sometime in the last 24 hours, and obviously that's not good. I either don't know how to recover it or don't have the access rights. Can you do anything about this? Thanks, ~~ DaRkAgE7 (talk) 19:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I think my memory is going bad and I'm getting it confused with another talk page. After thinking about it further, never-mind completely, everything is as is should be. :) ~~ DaRkAgE7 (talk) 06:14, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Edwin Astley rename

Hello - many thanks for renaming the Ted Astley article. It's greatly appreciated Howie ☎ 19:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Susan Mayer

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GFDL-en

  • I object to the "uncontroversial" move of GFDL-with-disclaimers to GFDL-en. The former name has the virtue of being explanatory. The latter name is vague and arguably misleading (it's not simply EN's version of the GFDL). The fact that Commons, a multi-lingual environment, has historically chosen to use a poorly descriptive name is not a good enough reason for this move. Also, I'm not at all sure what the problem would be since Commons already has a redirect at GFDL-with-disclaimers.
    In the spirit of WP:BRD, I would ask that you revert those moves and allow for a discussion of the issue. Dragons flight (talk) 00:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
  • This affects Template:GFDL-with-disclaimers and Template:GFDL-self-with-disclaimers‎. Sorry. I was obeying this edit by User:White Cat of Misplaced Pages:Requested moves#Uncontroversial proposals. I have left notes in User talk:White Cat#Move of two templates and User talk:Mark#Moves of two templates.
    Moves:
    Around 04:29, 18 April 2008 User:Mark moved them back to the ---with-disclaimers names.
    Around 04:50, 18 April 2008 User:Mark moved them back to the --en names.
    I have again moved them back to the ---with-disclaimers names.
    Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
  • I had a long talk with White Cat on IRC after blocking his bot and moving the templates back, in which he explained the rationale for moving them to this title (when free images are copied to Commons, the templates are typically kept, but the "GFDL-with-disclaimers" title is unfortunately used on various projects to mean different things, because they all have their own different sets of dislcaimers. So different titles need to be used for the different projects otherwise licensing problems develop on Commons. Since that seems to be a legitimate reason for moving the templates, I undid my moves and unblocked the bot. I also asked White Cat to provide his explanation of the moves on the talk pages of the two templates. - Mark 05:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
  • I have posted a detailed rationale on the template talk page. If it is all the same for all parties, lets continue the discussion there. -- Cat 05:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I was asked to provide an explanation.
  • All free images on all wikis will ideally be moved to commons.
  • It would be on the best interest of the common goal of the 💕 (Misplaced Pages) and free image repository (Commons) for the license templates to have identical naming.
  • Naming of license templates on commons are done with multilingualism in mind. A person editing/reviewing commons may not necessarily know any English. Preferably we avoid giving any language a priority. The -en here is the ISO code for English.
  • "with-disclaimers" is a problem not unique to English wikipedia. There were wikis that copied the en.wikipedia license template with it's emphasis on disclaimers. This can cause a possible problems when images are moved to commons because we have many flavors of the GFDL template.
-- Cat 05:10, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

So what is the plan? -- Cat 07:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I left a response at Template talk:GFDL-with-disclaimers. I understand wanting to help Commons, but we shouldn't have to harm the intelligibility of enwiki to do that, and this move makes it far less clear what the purpose of the template is. So I am still opposed to it. However, perhaps we can reach a compromise of some sort, like "GFDL-en-with-disclaimers", both here and at Commons. Dragons flight (talk) 07:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

speedy deletion

Thanks 4 deleting it. Man, you guys are fast. Nothing444 15:41, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Wood Bros. Racing

Corinthians F.C.

Thanks

... for the Augrabies Falls page move. Zaian (talk) 11:49, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Viluppuram (town)

Dear Anthony,

Thank you very much for moving page Viluppuram (city) . --Logic riches (talk) 14:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Review Request

  • Hi Anthony Appleyard. I noticed you have made a lot of edits to the helmet article. I have recently posted a new article entitled Association football headgear, which is a type of headgear/helmet worn in soccer. If you had the time and could look over my article, any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! Swanyk (talk) 01:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
  • I have tidied Association football headgear a bit. A photograph of an association football headgear would be useful, or a direct link to an external photograph image. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Thank you very much for your contributions to my article, I appreciate your input. I have been trying to decide how to add a photograph for awhile now, and did not know the best way of going about doing it since each brand has a different design, etc. I have added direct links to the two specific brands I talk about, DonJoy and Full90. Is this similar to what you meant in your suggestion? Thanks for the help! Swanyk (talk) 00:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Atomic hydrogen nonsense

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Other notable places in or near Shahada, Maharashtra

SSP to ADSP

Thanks for the move. --217.184.142.6 (talk) 21:23, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Discrete chips board

Spud gun--bad move

I have moved this discussion to Talk:Spud gun#Spud guns which are not compressed-air-powered. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:48, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

speedy or redirect

  • Lithostragigraphy. "Speedy deletion|the article has a bad name, correct name is Lithostratigraphy" I do not think that "implausible" -- the correct thing to do, per WP:CSD, is to change to a redirect. If one person makes the mistake, so will another. Please restore and change accordingly. Or send to RfD, of course. DGG (talk) 21:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
  • There are infinity possibilities for unlikely once-off typos of long names and words. It would certainly fail AfD, and I would get the flak for wasting the AfD system's time. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:36, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
right, and the very few of the infinite ones that get made get kept. it takes more resources to remove them than keep them, and it does no harm whatsoever. .DGG (talk) 04:08, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your help in the moving issue, I simply wanted to make sure I did things correctly. Thank you for pointing out the error, and the solution. Supertheman (talk) 21:36, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Line

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for moving Line (disambiguation) back to Line. I wasn't so much concerned that the mathematical concept be recognized as primary, but rather that Line not be a redirect.

Neelix (talk) 13:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars


Franjo Tuđman -renaming

Hi

It seems that discussion is gone. No any more interested people neither consensus or new arguments. I think that it should be closed now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Franjo_Tu%C4%91man&action=history --Anto (talk) 17:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Cour d'honneur

Thank you for taking care of this. --Wetman (talk) 19:24, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

He keeps refusing my moves

SplendidCRM

Critique

Sky Eats Airplane

  • Is there any way for me to work on an article over a few days without it getting deleted immediately?

i understand that the article Sky Eats Airplane has been deleted in the past for being non-notable, but seeing as they are scheduled to play in a major music festival this sumer (Warped Tour) i beleive they are Notable, and there is enough information on the band across the internet to support a brief biography of the band.

  • (just out of curiosity, how can an album from a non-notable musical group appear on wikipedia? if the album is notable on its own, doesn't that in itself make the group notable?)
    thanks for your contributions to wikipedia
    Tingrin87 (talk) 03:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
  • When you edit the information into page Warped Tour, instead of trying to again create a page Sky Eats Airplane, include some direct external links to websites neutrally describing them. Page Sky Eats Airplane has been deleted 9 times already; it would take something very notable to let it survive if created for a 10th time. Not everything related to a notable topic is notable. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
  • i understand this fully, i just find it hard to believe that one of their albums (i think it was their debut) is well-written and considered notable, yet the band itself isn't Tingrin87 (talk) 05:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Personal attacks from Slovenia

Hi

We have a problem here.

Anonymous user from Slovenia is insulting Croatia making personal attack on Croatian users and pushing his POV .

IP addresses 24.86.110.10 24.86.127.209

Moreover , he does the same thing on other articles:see here contributions: here What coud we do about it?

--Anto (talk) 19:52, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Merging the articles


OK, the pages were edited in mean time. But they should be connected. Look at this category here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Category:Cultural_assimilation

There are no such division like Germanization and Nazi Germanization , Croatization and Ustaša Croatization. So this division for italianization simply makes no sense. Fascist italianization was comitted by Italians , not by Romulans or Klingons. And it was done for "Italian resons".

And one more thing. Forced italianization did not start with Mussolini!! It dates much earlier.

--Anto (talk) 09:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanx

Thanks for the "perilous" Move. Much appreciated! --Ludvikus (talk) 16:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

New Project

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Deletion of CTHULHU FHTAGN

  • I must have made a mistake when I copied and pasted the title into Google, because I believe I was incorrect in CSD tagging the page as patent nonsense. (The fact that the title looks like one may have mashed the keyboard with the palm of one's hand didn't exactly help matters.) Just thought it was courteous to inform you of this, should the article's creator approach you incivilly. Regards, WilliamH (talk) 19:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
  • I know about the place of the alien language sentence "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" in Lovecraft's fiction. The deleted edits of page Cthulhu fhtagn were nonsense or spam promoting a religion, and nothing that belongs on Misplaced Pages. The pages Cthulhu#The Call of Cthulhu and The Call of Cthulhu explain the subject satisfactorily. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Another disruptive page move

See also User talk:Gnevin#National sport.
(after ec) You need to look up WP:CON, or even simply read the dicdef of consensus. "No one replied" means no response, it is not even remotely consensus. KillerChihuahua 22:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
You may be a admin but your also wrong , you moved a page where i had formed consensus's thus i am right and so am like your self ignoreing all rules since you did anyway and WP:3RR doesn't apply Gnevin (talk)
As per WP:RM There is no obligation to list such move requests here; discussions of page moves can always be carried out at the article's talk page without adding an entry. This page may be seen as a place to advertise move debates that would benefit from wider community input, or for users to request assistance from administrators in moving pages. this is my last comment on this issue too yourself Gnevin (talk) 16:27, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Antiaris toxicaria

Thanks for the help. --Blechnic (talk) 22:58, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

AIDS sub-pages, one more move

Head Wrightson

Many thanks for sorting out the history merge to complete the move of Head Wrightsons to Head Wrightson. I agree that the timeline format is clearer: I only sought to change the article to essay format as my understanding is that wikipedia is not supposed to be a series of lists: my apologies if you did not like the revised format Dormskirk (talk) 22:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Pettingill family deletion

Hi, I noticed that you deleted the article Pettingill family under CSD G10 - "Pages that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject or some other entity ... sometimes called "attack pages".". Now, as you deleted it, I can't check the last state of the page to see if it was purely an "attack page" or not, however, if the Pettingill family is a notable crime family, reporting on the truth in a neutral tone, fully cited, may appear negative simply because the truth is they were unpleasant criminals. Many other crime families, for instance (just as an example) the Gambino crime family have pages on here that accurately and neutrally portray their activities, which in themselves are unpleasant - "Its illicit activities include labor racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, murder for hire, solid and toxic waste dumping violations, construction, building and cement violations, fraud and wire fraud, hijacking, pier thefts and fencing." - that is simply the truth of the matter. I do believe that the Pettingill family are notable, and perhaps it would have been more appropriate to request Cleanup of the page rather than deleting it outright. This is just my opinion on the matter anyway, I'd love to hear what you think. Xmoogle (talk) 16:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Ghetto benches

Tudjman again

  • Doubtless I am worn down by conflict; but closes are supposed to pay attention to the quality of the arguments, not just their volume. Could you specify which of the opposition to this move does not fall under:
  • Likely reasons why "Tudjman" is more familiar are:
    • Most printers outside Croatia are likely to use "dj" because of difficulty producing "đ". Same as, in Icelandic names, "þ" and "ð" are sometimes rendered as "th" and dh".
    • Racism does not come into it.
    • Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:53, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Fisherman

I don't understand you. Category:Fishing industry is a subset of Category:Fishing. The term Fisherman is not just applied to commercial fishermen, it is also applied to recreational fishermen. This is all covered by the single category Category:Fishing. There is no need for Category:Fishing industry, which is redundant. --Geronimo20 (talk) 10:15, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Institute for Business Value

Anthony, you just deleted a page that i was working on for the IBM Institute for Business Value as blatant advertising. In creating it we tried to be factual, using pages such as http://en.wikipedia.org/The_Scripps_Research_Institute as an example. Are you saing that because it hs IBM on the front, there cannot be an entry because by definition, any mention of a company name is advertising? Ibvposter (talk) 15:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Hindu Temple in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Hi Mr. Appleyard,

You have recommended removal of the entry on the Hindu Temple (St. John's) stating that it is a blatant advertisement, and have also retitled it Mount Pearl Hindu Temple.

The original article was posted by me just as information to those who visit the city and look for a Hindu worship place. In November 2007, the page was tagged with an advise to include citations to establish validity of the entry. Subsequently, in early January 2008, I edited the entry to add citations. There is no intent to advertise here as this is the only Hindu temple in 1000 kilometer radius.

By the way, the revised title is not appropriate as the temple has been relocated from Mount Pearl to St. John's (two adjacent cities) in 1995. St. John's Hindu Temple would be more appropriate.

If you let me know which part of the entry appears to be an advertisement, that part could be properly edited. Thank you for your help.

Dr. R. Venkatesan Former President of the St. John's Hindu Temple —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sobhanavenkatesan (talk • contribs) 00:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help

Mr. Appleyard,

Many thanks to your quick and able help to improve the entry for St. John's Hindu Temple. As suggested by you, we will include a good photograph. Thanks again.

Venkatesan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sobhanavenkatesan (talk • contribs) 10:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Ships of Canadian Pacific Steamships

My watchlist shows that you helped solve the problem I seem to have encountered in changing the disambiguation dates which distinguish Canadian Pacific Steamships ocean liners named Empress of Britain .... Thank you. --Tenmei (talk) 02:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

spud gun

Ok thanks. Interested to hear what the major contributors have to say. Wonder why User:Mortus Est hasn't weighed in... Rracecarr (talk) 13:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

FYI : ReUser_talk:Gnevin#National_sport

Wikipedia_talk:Consensus#WP:CON Gnevin (talk) 14:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Dean Richards

A few days ago I asked you to revert the copy and paste move between Dean Richards and Dean Richards (rugby player). After that, User:Londo06 has done it again twice, once after I told him not to do it again. Can you look at it and leave him a message about it? Thanks! Chanheigeorge (talk) 18:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

So for only two people with the same name we disambiguate at the expense of an England international. I could totally understand if there were three or more, but...Londo06 08:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Move assist?

Erm, explain please.

  • Please see this section that you restored. . I removed it, and included a small comment in the "Torture" plot element. I'm doing what I can to improve WP:24. Actually, just a secret..I co-ordinate it :) Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 05:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
    Look at this,
    Torture: Jack and others employ the use of torture or threats of torture in nearly every situation in order to extract information. In most cases, the torture is justified as serving the greater good, although there is sometimes a conflict of interest in which torture is also motivated by revenge. CTU has also employed the use of hyoscine-penothal, a fictional pain-inducing drug, in time-sensitive interrogation sessions. This has been used on both agents and antagonists.
    • Is the rest really necessary, from that huge chunk of info? Was it really necessary to be in the article as such a large section? I think not, therefore, I condensed the information, and removed the large, overdetailed explanation. I want to get that to GA one day, (already done for Martha Logan, 100 edits). Please understand where I'm coming from here. Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 05:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
  • See Talk:24 (TV series)#Hyoscine-pentothal. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Replied there. Are you satisfied with the version? Steve Crossin (talk) (review) 20:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of March Information Systems

Hi.

Your speedy deletion of March Information Systems has left me somewhat at a disadvantage, as this article has been on WP for several years and I no longer have a good memory of its content. However I would have said that the company should not have any problems meeting the secondary source based notability requirements laid down in WP:CORP. For example the article .

Whether that was actually cited in the article, I have no way of knowing. But if you are prepared to reinstate the article, I will certainly add that cite. If you still feel an article is not merited, then we can go through WP:AFD. -- Chris j wood (talk) 10:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Deleted Page humanbeings

  • Why did you delete my page that I have created? I created a perfectly reasonable page I even explained what the meaning was and the reason that it was created. So why did you delete it? It took me ages to create that webpage and you nicely deleted the page for me thanks alot. (Not) Madman2008 (talk) 18:43, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • The page was Human beings scribblewiki, which I deleted at 18:18, 13 May 2008 "A7 (web): Web content; doesn't indicate importance/significance". Its page history is:
    • 18:15, 13 May 2008 . . Delicious carbuncle (896 bytes) (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD A7).)
    • 18:12, 13 May 2008 . . Madman2008 (885 bytes) (Humanbeings.scribblewiki the only wiki where you can say what you want when you what about what ever you want to say it about.)
    • 17:48, 13 May 2008 . . Booglamay (285 bytes) (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD G2). (TW))
    • 17:46, 13 May 2008 . . Madman2008 (273 bytes) (My Page)
  • Afd It then Madman2008 (talk) 21:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
  • It is spam. It has no hope of surviving an AfD. See User talk:Madman2008#Your page. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:04, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Barnstar of Diligence
For your Herculean work at Misplaced Pages:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Moonriddengirl 11:51, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Affirmative

Hi Anthony,

I would like your input on Talk:Affirmative. Thanks so much for all your help over the past while in facilitating my requests to move pages to more appropriate titles.

Neelix (talk) 12:05, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Helmet

Regarding this, I didn't reduce the size of the image gallery but the editor who did is likely referring to the box at the bottom of the page:

→Wordbuilder (talk) 15:02, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Labour India

  • Hi Anthony Appleyard, I noticed that you have moved Labour India Publications to Labour India. Don't you think that Labour India Publications Ltd. is the appropriate title as it is per the full name of the company and looks ok. I think it is always fine if we use the full name of the company. --Avinesh Jose  T  05:30, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
  • This move was per a request in : "Labour India Publications → Labour India — projected and popular name, the firm's website also sports this name — Uzhuthiran (talk) 13:04, 16 May 2008 (UTC)".
    Note that pages Labour India and Labour india have been deleted 5 times for advertizing:
    01:17, 23 October 2007 Espresso Addict (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Labour India" ‎ (Deleted perMisplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Labour india)
    11:58, 12 October 2007 Number 57 (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Labour India" ‎ (CSD G11: Blatant advertising)
    06:00, 12 October 2007 Pascal.Tesson (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Labour india" ‎ (It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person;that would equire a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11))
    09:13, 12 October 2007 Lectonar (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Labour India" ‎ (G11)
    14:10, 11 October 2007 Lectonar (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Labour India" ‎ (G11)
    Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:42, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Okay, I knew it was deleted in many occasions. That was due to lack of references and written in a poor ad style. However, it is ok in its present status (later contested drv as completely re-writeen). Additionally, the requested move doesn’t give any valuable reason as the company’s official name is Labour India Publications Ltd. But I also agree that it is well known as “Labour India”. My concern is about don’t you think that to give the full name of the company i.e Labour India Publications Ltd?. --Avinesh Jose  T  06:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Please also note that user:avineshjose is bent on removing templates from the two related articles full of incoherent sentences. Uzhuthiran (talk) 05:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU has a new format

Due to popular demand, HAU has a new look. Since the changes are so dramatic, I may have made some mistakes when translating the data. Please take a look at WP:HAU/EU and make sure your checkmarks are in the right place and feel free to add or remove some. There is a new feature, SoxBot V, a recently approved bot, automatically updates your online/offline status based on the length of time since your last edit. To allow SoxBot V to do this, you'll need to copy ] to your userpage. Obviously you are not required to add this to your userpage, however, without this, your status will always be "offline" at HAU. Thanks. Useight (talk) 17:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Auschwitz rubble

It'd be great if you can cite it. Cheers. WilliamH (talk) 18:29, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Alison#User: Yellow Bentines!

Yeh and they are starting to get big. Its people like you who prevent these bands for getting heard. And not just that they are mentioned in the Connect Festival so why cant they get a page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by YB-steph (talk • contribs) 11:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC) Please dont make me laugh yeh they are unsigned but its strange isnt it they dont want a record deal because they would rather work independly. They had an offer which they turned down because they wanted to be indepent. So please can you just leave the page allow as it isnt to harm to anyone!

OH and sorry i forgot

(YB-steph (talk) 11:28, 18 May 2008 (UTC))

James Taylor move

Speedy Deletion of Jakadocius

Alex Rodríguez

  • There is a slight complication with this move. The original page was at Alex Rodriguez, and was moved without discussion. After the move the page was edited to change "Rodriguez" to "Rodríguez". I do not think that any of this is correct -- see baseball-reference.com, ESPN, and his official site at MLB.com (the flash animation at the top even shows his signature with an Anglicised 'i'). But now that you moved the page to the suggested title, the original page has been edited to redirect again. Could you restore it to the original location? Aspie rational (talk) 19:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
  • The request to move from Alex Rodriguez to Alex Rodríguez is at this link:
"*Álex Rodríguez → Alex Rodríguez —(Discuss)— There is no accent above the 'A'. --Ksy92003 (talk) 01:57, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
**No need for admin assistance. Current article location was a recent, undiscussed move and should be reverted. Aspie rational (talk) 11:39, 18 May 2008 (UTC)"