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Popeye the Sailor (Warner DVD series)

Despite your verdict that the article Popeye the Sailor (Warner DVD series) should be kept, User talk:FuriousFreddy went ahead and created a redirect to the Popeye article. Can you talk to him? Steelbeard1 (talk) 11:50, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I merely followed the suggestion of Girolamo Savonarola (talk · contribs), the lead coordinator for WikiProject Flms, which has jurisdiction over these articles. His comments from the afd:

"Merge to Popeye article - the series is notable, the DVD series is manifestly not. Creating article pages for every boxset and repackaging of content is not appropriate; relevant information should be merged to the appropriate topics. Also note that AfD precendent with regard to DVD sets has generally been to merge to the main topic, and the existence of other articles is considered an "argument to avoid in deletion discussions". Some of us in WikiProject Films have already identified these other articles for upcoming merges or AfDs as appropriate."

This basically means that the article would very likely be nominated again for AfD or, merged without a nomination, especially seeing as how it duplicates content in Popeye#Home video, and is otherwise not up to quality as it is. --FuriousFreddy (talk) 14:33, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

No editor has "jurisdiction" over an article, even if they are the coordinator of a Wikiproject. However, although it seemed that the AfD did generate a consensus to keep the article, merging it was also a viable option. So, I'm not opposed to it being merged, if that's what the Wikiproject has agreed on. –Juliancolton 15:10, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Short Storm

I've left some comments at your FAC. They are comments rather than an oppose - I know you are not making a pointy nomination, but you surely realise it will attract attention as a test case. Anyway, I wanted to let you know I probably won't be around much for the next few days, so don't be surprised or offended if I don't follow-up on any responses. Yomangani 17:52, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Ken Fogarty

Hey there, I noticed you making a bunch of reverts on Ken Fogarty, and being that the vandalized revisions contain personal information, I was wondering if you could delete the revisions and then place a request at WP:RFO for them to be Oversighted, I would do it myself but being that your an administrator, you can delete the revisions by deleting the page and then not restoring the revisions that have personal information in them; which is better than me just filing an RFO and waiting for it to be filed while the diffs are still publicly accessible, which according to WP:RFO if possible is to be avoided favoring deletion and then oversight rather than just requesting the Oversight while the diffs are still publicly available :). Thanks and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 02:18, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

who loves short shorts?

• .. you're probably too young to remember that commercial... although I think it may actually have been "who wears short shorts?"
• Anyhow, I won't be reviewing the article we've talked about... partly 'cause I'm really really busy, but also partly 'cause I've publicly staked out a position against short shorts. Best of luck. Ling.Nut 04:30, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm old enough to remember it. Which makes me about 9875093274092387542 years older than the average wikipedian, and I'm only 29!! // roux   06:50, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Heh, I'm too young to remember the commercial itself, but I've heard of that. Regarding the article, thanks for letting me know. –Juliancolton 15:00, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I have no idea why this is being discussed, but if anyone is interested, the song Short Shorts was a hit for the Royal Teens in the 1950s before it became the them of the Nair commercial that Marcella Free developed twenty years later. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:17, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, interesting. :-) –Juliancolton 21:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

2001 AHS Timeline

I'm glad it's finally ready for A-Class. I'll be submitting it to WP:WPTC/A within the hour, after I tell Cyclonebiskit the news. --Dylan620 (Home • yadda yadda yadda • Ooooohh!) 00:24, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll keep that in mind. --Dylan620 (Home • yadda yadda yadda • Ooooohh!) 00:31, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Reminder

Heres the reminder, as requested, can you please copyedit History of Sunderland A.F.C. if you get some time. Cheers. Sunderland06 (talk) 19:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Remember your post RfA promise

Good! Now remember your promise to full protect Cancun and speedy delete any hurricanes as a thank you. If I get wet, I'm going to put you up for recall for being an OMG!Rouge admin StarM 21:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

sounds like a plan :) StarM 22:57, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Thx!

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DYK for Tropical Storm Olivia (2006)

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Primate at FAC

Hello! As a previous reviewer of Primate at FAC it would be great if you could have another look at the article. The nomination has been restarted, and any comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jack (talk) 17:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Erick (2007)

I was going to post this at WT:FAC, but I didn't want to add to the drama, so I thought I'd drop it here instead. I wanted to tell you that the article is certainly not boring. If nothing else, it's too short—and yes, well-written—to be that. But what did cross my mind was that were I to review Erick I'm not sure I could support its promotion—for entirely different reasons. I'm just not 100% convinced that this particular tropical cyclone article satisfies the general notability guideline. As the guideline states, "it takes more than just a short burst of news reports about a single event or topic to constitute evidence of sufficient notability." I'm aware that tropical cyclones receive coverage outside the regular news sources, by tracking agencies, in journals and studies and the like, but for me the lasting and in-depth coverage of Erick simply isn't there. What we do have is "a short burst of reports" dated almost exclusively from the period of the cyclone's activity. And with its having an entirely benign influence on human affairs, is further significant coverage in sources able to demonstrate its notability likely to appear? I know that WP:WPTC has agreed that each cyclone is deserving of its own article, but to be fair, individual Wikiproject practice is not always the best judge of these things (I mean, just look at how almost every member of Wikiproject Saw (yes, Saw!) came out to !vote to keep the article on Saw VI, only days after the fifth film's release). Please don't take this personally; I'm not about to nominate it for AfD or anything similarly-pointy, but I am genuinely interested in your view on this. All the best, Steve 22:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Merging

Well, I didn't oppose, because I'm not sure it's a sufficiently good reason to oppose. I have no complaints about the article; I've not read it with a copyeditor's eye yet, but I'm prepared to believe it meets most or all of the FA criteria. So my comment was intended as part of the discussion there about whether or not the article "should" be merged. I don't quite see how one can argue "should", at the moment; that is, as you just said at WT:FAC, a question of article presentation, whereas FAC is concerned with the article as it stands.

Perhaps it would have been better to place the comment on the article's talk page? Certainly that's where a merge discussion would take place. It seemed more sensible to put the comment on the FAC, where ongoing discussion is happening.

As to why it should be merged: to be honest, I think I've changed my mind on this since my own failed short article FAC, but here's my argument as it stands today: I feel that a reader is not worse off if they find the information they seek embedded in a more general article. A separable topic that is only worthy of a very short treatment doesn't do the reader any favours by residing in a separate article. There are minor kings of Wessex, for example, such as Ceol of Wessex, who I think should be treated either in the history section of the Wessex article, or possibly in a new Minor Anglo-Saxon kings article or something similar.

I'd be interested in your views too; I'll be watching the FAC and WT:FAC so no need to respond to me on user talk if you'll be duplicating comments there. Mike Christie (talk) 02:27, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Country outlines

We are getting closer to completion.

Dinobot has joined the team, and is filling in some of the blanks on these pages (population so far, and soon will move on to size, and other entries where feasible). This is and will continue to save us many man hours of manual editing. Woohoo!

I'm about to host races between pairs of opponents. The first race sort of fell flat - the partipants had no imagination and let their time zone difference get them down. The next race will take time zones into account. Details, details. Jeesh.  :) By the way, Penubag is working on an award for the winners of these. Should be good.

User:Zlerman has joined the team, and is working on Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The project keeps growing, as it turns up problems in country coverage, such as chaotic article naming, screwed up data formatting, etc. Current branching out includes creating redirects for country adjectivals, changing country cuising titles to the adjectival form, and fixing the formatting of CIA demographic data.

Speaking of country adjectivals...

Whats up!!!?

The Transhumanist    03:36, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Good to know that we're getting people (and bots) interested in this project.

Erm, well, I've finished adding adjectives to the articles themselves, but the whole redirect bit is slightly confusing (and controversial, apparently). I can't find your previous post in my talk page archives, so could you briefly let me know what the heck I'm supposed to be doing? :) Thanks. –Juliancolton 03:43, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for adding the adjectivals to the country outlines. Nicely done.

But we moved on to another task, remember? There's a slight problem with the links that needs fixing. Most of them redirect to the corresponding country article.

I've replaced about 100 of them with redirects. I've also been editing existing dabs. I've also moved a page or three.

None of the replacements have been reverted to their redirect versions. So you'll be concentrating on replacing the remaining redirects only. They're non-controversial.

Let me worry about the rest (revisions of existing dabs and page moves) - they get resolved on a case-by-case basis.

To create a country adjectival dab, use {{subst:dp cadj|adjectival|country name}}.

That'll create a rough draft. You'll need to correct each one after you create it, as the template does not fit most situations perfectly. Countries can be very eccentric.  :)

For example, the template says there is no language by that name. You'll need to check via google for any language or dialect by that name.

The list of adjectivals can be found at User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox20#table of country adjectives.

I think we left off in the Ks or Ls. I started the Ns, but got sidetracked. (You know how that goes).  :)

Good luck, have fun, and...

Thank you!

The outlines wouldn't have gotten this far without your help.

The Transhumanist    01:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

The Transhumanist    01:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Alright, I'll get started right away. –Juliancolton 02:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Like this? –Juliancolton 02:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/The breathing dead

I see that you recently closed this AfD as Delete, just wanted to make sure that you knew that during the AfD User:Rockfang moved the original article The breathing dead to The Breathing Dead. Here is the move diff and his AfD comment diff . The capitalized article with the AfD notice still exists: The Breathing Dead. --Captain-tucker (talk) 08:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

User:Daniel got it.--Rockfang (talk) 08:47, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

And Frantic100, recreated it 40 minutes later, now it's tagged for CSD--Captain-tucker (talk) 09:53, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Final?...update? ;) It was deleted again.--Rockfang (talk) 12:18, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. –Juliancolton 14:35, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: IRC

Actually, I'm heading off the computer now, so I won't be on till later. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured topic candidates/30 Rock (season 2)

Thank you for reviewing any 30 Rock related GANs. Now, there is something else you can do, but it only really requires one word. ;) Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 04:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. I had no idea about WP:Canvassing, although you could say my message is short and neutral (as you acknowledged, one word could be support or oppose). Anyways, thanks. Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 22:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Sam Kellaway

You deleted the page Sam Kellaway as I was busy putting a talk item attached to it.

The name Sam Kellaway has already been regarded as 'notable' on the page Surnames 'Kellaway'. It is listed as one of 8 notable people who have the name Kellaway. All but 6 of those names have a link to a biographical page. I was trying to link a page to that particular reference that is already in the system. At least the person who originally drew up that surname page beleived the poet Sam Kellaway was notable and the reference was not removed.

My poetry pen name is 'Sam Kellaway'

If I have completely misunderstand this process perhaps you can explain how I can achieve the objective.

Regards

Normkelway (talk) 17:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

AIV note

Re: your note, the report was malformed - shouldn't have had "User:" in it. Even so, the IP address barely ever edited so I declined the block. —Wknight94 (talk) 17:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Some crazy idea I've had for a while

Have you ever thought that it would be a good idea to try to rehabilitate banned users? --Dylan620 _Contribs 21:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hi there. So, can you get to posting those questions on my Admin coaching page when you get around to it? I'd appreciate it. Thank you. V D on a public PC (talk) 15:32, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Y Questions answered. V D on a public PC (talk) 19:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

O_o Nice reply xD. So when you have the time, please bring on the next wave of questions. V D on a public PC (talk) 19:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

my username

Its just a joke. Don't take it too seriously. Thedevilsvanndal122 (talk) 23:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy Xmas

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		Well done, Julian. Xmas has come early... I see your "front door" is already decorated. So many articles still to do! Thanks from me and the wiki. Victuallers (talk) 16:28, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for your careful consideration at my successful RfA. Please let me know on my talk page if you have any suggestions for me. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 17:48, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Congrats :D

Congrats on your successful nomination of Christmas 1994 nor'easter! Cyclonebiskit (talk) 23:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Nevada

The picture on the main page...did we want that one or the one of her sunk at Pearl Harbor? The latter would be to emphasize the Pearl Harbor connection...I dunno. I just noticed it and I thought the I'd ask you. :) Cheers! —Ed 17 02:39, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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I hope you're not jewish too...lol.SimonKSK 18:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

You just lost the game! Delcaring this on other's user talk spaces makes them lose the game as well!

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