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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Jonas Ödman, De728631.

Unfortunately Alanl has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

This is thinly disguised resume and the subject has doubtful notability.

To reply, leave a comment on Alanl's talk page.

Housekeeping after Kosovo move

Hi, I had trouble finding the RM discussion for Kosovo. Talk:Kosovo#Move_discussion_in_progress said it was at Talk:Kosovo; I added a note that this had moved to Talk:Kosovo (region).

As you moved the talk page, please can you add links to Talk:Republic of Kosovo/Archive 4 and previous, at the head of Talk:Kosovo? At the moment the latter page links to the archived pages which are now at Talk:Kosovo (region).

Should you delete the redirects for each archive page Talk:Kosovo/Archive 1 to 30, and then move the archived pages from "Republic"?

I think both talk pages need {{oldmove}} or similar.

Moreover, Talk:Kosovo seems to include bot instructions to carry on archiving that page to Talk:Republic of Kosovo/Archive%. WP:RMAI includes a reminder to update this.

Hope this helps, – Fayenatic London 15:26, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Alright, I think I've now finished the required cleanup, i.e. I've moved the archive pages, deleted misleading redirects and fixed archiving instructions for the bots. Please let me know if you find anything else that needs attention. De728631 (talk) 20:16, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Ah, thanks; looks good. – Fayenatic London 21:15, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Question

Hi. I was curious. Is there any way you can protect a page? I have never asked this before from an administrator but there is persistent vandalism on the Pacific Rim (film) page by a bunch of IP numbers from California. Basically Pacific Rim was a box office flop at the US box office grossing less than $102 million on a $190 million budget and lasting just one week in the top five. I even supplied a citation from Forbes which marveled at the fact this film did so poorly in the US but so strongly overseas. And this is a legitimate factual statement. But this particular person keeps changing it to "moderately successful" over and over again and even deleting the citation that I put up. In other words replacing legit info with misinformation and removing a citation that backs that legit info up because they seem to be a fan of the film. The IP numbers are 74.85.101.4, 166.137.210.16, 166.137.210.21 . It must be the same person (the first IP number seems to be from a place of employment). Since I can't spend multiple hours a day cleaning this crap up and the moment I warn one of them a similar IP does an edit seconds later, I was wondering if it was possible for a brief lock.Giantdevilfish (talk) 17:37, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

EDIT. I just checked and it seems that some other editors have got my back reverting these edits. I hope this is enough.Giantdevilfish (talk) 17:39, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok. If it gets worse, please ask at WP:RFP. De728631 (talk) 18:34, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Afternote

Hi De728631,

I noticed you deleted the article Afternote, but I would like to know why? It was written completely objective and only facts were told. I would like to get the chance to adjust the text if you can explain what I have to adjust. I would like to add that Afternote is completely free to use. I'm wondering why an article about Facebook isn't advertising and an article about Afternote is. Can you tell me the difference?

Looking forward to your reply.

Hi there. I deleted this page not so much because it was promotional but because you did not provide any reliable sources to show why this particular brand is significant enough to have an article in an encyclopedia. Significance is the first test for our articles. As to comparing it to Facebook, I won't say that size matters but you might want to provide reliable sources that are independent of Afternote to show how this service is special in comparison to others of its kind. And I'm afraid a simple link to their website is not sufficient to back up any such claims. Another threshold for inclusion in Misplaced Pages is notability. Just because something exists it doesn't mean that we need to write about it. We need proof of repeated in-depth and independent coverage by media such as IT magazines or news. If you can provide any such sources I'm willing to restore your article at Articles for creation so you can work on it before it goes to the live article space. How about that?

By the way, when you write on a talk page like this, please sign your contributions by typing four tilde characters ~~~~. This will add your username and a timestamp for reference. De728631 (talk) 20:01, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Middle-earth

Hi there,

thank you for your invitation of last year to work on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Middle-earth. However, a cursory look at J. R. R. Tolkien's influences showed me there would be so much to do to clean up even that short page that I would rather use my time with other Tolkien-related wiki-projects. As long as authors like David Day are quoted or the so-called Tolkien-Wiki at Wikia.com are referenced there is no help for this venture, I am sorry to say. All the best, --M.Buelles (talk) 02:45, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Well, I didn't say that this project was particularly active these days. ;) And sources like Wikia shouldn't be used at all, so I think I'm going to give the "influences" a thorough checkup. But what is it with David Day? If you think he's unreliable when it comes to assessing Tolkien, please feel free to remove the relevant passages. Actually that's also why we need more input here from experts like you, namely to improve our articles step by step. De728631 (talk) 18:52, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

for this edit. I'm afraid I've found that editor hard to satisfy, and the demand that a text's title be translated was one of the things that made me walk away for a little while. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:07, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Welcome. When I meet this kind of request I always try to not only translate the title but include some relevant quotation from the original source text too. But in case of that conference speech I couldn't find anything online. I have, however, been thinking of asking you for help with the Old Swedish part, but in the end some thorough googling left with me with what I think is a good result. De728631 (talk) 12:41, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

I had translated the actual cited passage - I'm not sure why that wasn't enough. I don't know whether you've been following this saga, but after trying to explain at Talk:Kvenland and then to satisfy the large number of tags at the other article - I decided to apologise to the editor for not reaching his standard and to go do non-Finnish stuff for a while. I hope he's kinder about your efforts. Between Finnedi and him, this hobby was causing me rather too much stress. Sorry to be such a wimp, as well as again revealing the limits of my local college library. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh, right. I think I'm recalling somewhat of Finnedi's Saga from ANI. As to translated passages, Charles' title as king of the Swedes, Goths and Wends was alright, but I think there was some demand for excerpts from that Austrian source. Personally I doubt that there's anything to learn from translated titles of publications but then that's the same kind of request that uses to pop up at non-English album track lists etc. De728631 (talk) 13:11, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Hi I'm Zackdickens12 and I wanted to apologize for the image I put in my sandbox the day before yesterday. →Zackdickens12→→Talk to me!→ 07:37, 27 April 2014 (UTC)