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Wikipedia presentations
I heard you do them? Interested in giving one to a bunch of sports historians in Adelaide. You might want to use my talk, in case I forget  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 03:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Replied at the primate enclosure. Daniel (talk) 07:54, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Replied  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 01:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

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Please revert merge of "Fucked Company" and "Philip J. Kaplan"
I can't do it because you have protected the "Philip J. Kaplan" article.

Regarding the merge, a quick search on Google News will demonstrate that Kaplan is notable for more than Fucked Company. He founded AdBrite, one of the biggest ad networks on the Internet. Kaplan also founded Tweetname.com, Fast140.com, Mobog.com, and a few other notable sites. Kaplan recently joined top venture capital firm, Charles River Ventures (CRV). Among other investments, CRV was the first investor in Twitter.

Comscore ranking of AdBrite (AdBrite ranks above YouTube in traffic) ComScore article

Wall Street Journal article about Kaplan joining CRV. Wall Street Journal article
 * This seems to be sorted now, I think. Daniel (talk) 02:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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TTT = Dead Evans
If they lose 1 minute to Katusha, they'll lose 3 to Astana, SaxoBank and Columbia  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 14:28, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh he's screwed generally. How did that corner end up being called "Australia corner" anyways? And my bet is Armstrong in yellow; I have 20 on it at 2.40, so he bloody better be! Daniel (talk) 14:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Looking good... Daniel (talk) 15:11, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ...countback...wtf... Daniel (talk) 16:26, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Well Evans will never win. I don't think he will ever convince any decent riders to submit to him. They probably don't think he's good so they would either support an Armstrong/Contador or do it for themselves. Like last year when Popo appeared to not be trying, unlike when he was with USPS/DISC/AST. If he moves to a strong team the others will probably just put the foot down and seize command.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 04:55, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * What a little whiner he is. Of course the others qould stop working as the break would be pulled back straightaway  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 03:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * As I said on fbchat to a cycling friend at the time, this had strong parallels with the Filippo Simeoni thing, at least in the sense that the breakaway were also discouraging someone from being there because their presence only encouraged the leaders to chase them down. Daniel (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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Becoming a candidate for Board Elections?
Hello Daniel,

I see that you have been monitoring the board candidate page, and thought that you may be the best moderator to contact about consideration for candidacy. How may I go about submitting myself for consideration?

Thank you very much for any help you may provide me.

Cageymickmanus (talk) 02:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Candidacies can be submitted at Board elections/2009/Candidates/en, but unfortunately you will not be able to run in this election, as you do not meet the candidate requirements listed at Board elections/2009/en. Regards, Daniel (talk) 03:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Question about board election Questions
Hi, For the question/answer period, what is the expectation for candidates regarding turnaround times? Second question: Are questions directed at specific candidates prohibited? Thanks! Adam K.--CastAStone//₵₳$↑₳₴₮ʘ№€ 15:30, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * There is only the expectations that are placed on the candidates by the voters. With regards to specific questions, you can ask them at their talk pages, etc., but only questions for all candidates will be able to be posted at Board elections/2009/Questions. Daniel (talk) 03:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's what I wanted to know!--CastAStone//₵₳$↑₳₴₮ʘ№€ 04:10, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Could you give me some background...
... on this block: User talk:Momosgarage. He's requesting an unblock. I'd like to decline it, but I do not know which other account he is supposed to be a sockpuppet of. Could you provide the connection so I can intelligently respond to his request? Thanks! --Jayron32. talk . contribs 04:01, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Jonpentium4 is also him/her. Daniel (talk) 04:30, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Knowing that does not help me resolve the problem. You appear to have blocked both accounts for being socks of each other.  If I knew the reason for the initial block, it would be helpful in responding intelligently to his request.  Thanks a bunch! --Jayron32. talk . say no to drama  20:08, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * BLP violations across both accounts, introducing inappropriate content about a non-notable person with both accounts, and using account II to revert back in the content that account I added, after account I was reverted. Daniel (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Photo remover
We could use some help with an anonymous editor who has been repeatedly deleting valid, relevant photos from Potts Point and always reverting, and is threatening to do a hatchet job on the Sydney suburb articles. Some of us have tried to reason with him but he is very unresponsive. Seems to think photos have no place no matter how relevant or how supported by the text they are. Seems to be one person with two IPs:

User:206.197.59.9, User:220.245.248.12.

Help!

Sardaka (talk) 10:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I have been having problems with over use of house images in the Potts point article. I have only removed two images that seem to be of no value. There are plenty of other images in the article so I can't see why this user would be upset over 2 images being removed. In some cases in some of the Sydney suburban articles the only text that supports these images is the address for the house in a list of addresses. Before I do anything drastic I will seek advise from the Australian Wikipedia Notice Board where if an agreement is made the removal of some of these images may be more permanent. Also there is nothing wrong with using 2 ip's especially when it is physically impossible to edit from the same computer 220.245.248.12 (talk) 21:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * To be quite honest, although I disagree with the edit warring, I really see no point in adding in random images of non-notable houses in the area. &mdash;Dark talk 10:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note that I am only referring to the Tusculum house in the photo gallery. Using a photo to illustrate the architectural designs etc. of the article is relevant, however I really do think the image of your own house is taking it quite overboard... &mdash;Dark talk 10:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean about the image of my own house. I don't own a house and certainly haven't put any images of it in any articles.

Sardaka (talk) 11:50, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * File:Tusculum.JPG - "English: home, sydney" ? &mdash;Dark talk 12:14, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

GLAM
Weather isn't about a museum?? Or are we allowed to do anything? The ACHOF is a Museum exhibit, so do the players count as "exhibits"?  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 03:37, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I was thinking it was just any Australian topic? Daniel (talk) 03:41, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Medcombot
Is the bot fully functioning? You declined the 2009 Honduran coup d'état RfM on 8 July, but it still hasn't been delisted. :-( AGK 15:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I reckon the accent on the 'e' is screwing it up :| Daniel (talk) 15:12, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that's a possibility. Shall I rename the page to a title without special characters? You could then re-decline the case. AGK 15:22, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks to Ryan for moving it. Daniel (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Honduras Mediation
The mediation was rejected but they still went on and changed the name even though the mediation clearly showed that some of us were against it. why did this happen? isn't this against wikipedias rules?EdwinCasadoBaez (talk) 19:16, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The changes of page titles should be done with consensus from the talk page. Just because mediation was rejected doesn't mean they can't move the page, if they have consensus; however, the fact that it was rejected doesn't automatically make it open-slather for page moves. I suggest you try and seek a discussion at WP:RM. Daniel (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Australia
Some joker is trying to say Aus is a world soccer power... with the quality and depth in Australia, half the team doesn't even play in a top-flight proper league and A-League is worse than 2-3rd flight in ENG/ITA/ESP... Danny Allsopp couldn't even get regular gametime in 2nd div before he came back to Aus and was one of the most prolific strikers lol  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) paid editing=POV 03:05, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * lol. Will keep an eye out. Just let me know if you need any UltimateG sockblocks in the future :) Daniel (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * At the rate A League's doing, even Daniel can play for the Mariners.. And he has two left feet. &mdash;Dark talk 03:13, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Photos
Hi Daniel. Did you notice the above debate about photos? Your views would be appreciated. More can be found on Dark's page.

Sardaka (talk) 10:02, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's so like Daniel to coerce me into taking up this issue, while he sits back, watches the cricket, and drinks martinis with the monkey :p &mdash;Dark talk 03:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Notification of arbcom discussion
Your actions have been discussed here as relevant to an ongoing arbitration case. You may wish to comment. I have linked a prior version of the page because the person who added this material reverted it and then incorporated the material by reference to the reversion, so as to make it impossible for you simply to search for your name. (Hope that's not too confusing.) Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 17:47, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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 * Your Sunday football team, eh? Shameless self-promotion. *shakes head in disgust* &mdash;Dark talk 07:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Haha totally, although a touch disappointed to see the article was deleted...oh well. Daniel (talk) 06:30, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Rather sickening how you abandoned that article for almost 3 years, before it was finally put out of its misery and deleted. If this encyclopedia was under your control, it would have shriveled up and died much as the Mariners have done since you started supporting them :) &mdash;Dark talk 10:45, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

thankee you :-)
I didn't really know how the category thing worked (re: geogre's sockpuppet template thing) - so apologies for misfiling my poor self, and any confusion that caused. It made me think about the appropriateness of having a 'category' (or rather, having entries in a 'redlinked' cat.) in this context, and on reflection I felt it was a bit rude, so I added the cat= bit of code to Utgard's page too, thus getting rid of the cat. (I think?) - thought I'd let you know... and hope you're good... you're GLAMing it up next week, right? Privatemusings (talk) 01:32, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Geogre
Daniel, why did you revert me? Some of the posts you removed contain diffs and comments that exonerate Geogre. I'm concerned that material is being removed mid-decision. As things stand, it's entirely unclear what has passed, what hasn't, and whether the Arbs have seen all the evidence. SlimVirgin talk| contribs 05:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * a) because you restored already-passed motions b) because you restored people's comments without their approval, which falsley gave the outward appearance that they'd commented on motion 4 when in fact they'd commented on motion 1-3. If you feel some of the diffs exonerate Geogre, present them as evidence in your own section for the new motion; if you want certain people's comments to be copy-pasted onto the new motion, go ask them to do it themselves. Daniel (talk) 06:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * How do you know that people were only commenting on certain motions? Most of the statements people posted were general statements, either in Geogre's favor or in opposition. You removed them without their permission, even though the Geogre case is still open. That means the diffs in his favor have disappeared i.e. the evidence has been removed before the case has closed. (Calling something a motion doesn't make it any less of a case.) The way this situation is being handled is really very muddled and almost guaranteed to lead to an unjust outcome, which will then need to be dealt with later. Prevention is better than cure, surely. SlimVirgin  talk| contribs 22:20, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

India
Since January 2008 last year, I've been fed up of the flame-fanning by sections of the media, over events involving bad behaviour by a small number of individuals, mainly for personal gain of the belligerents and perpetuated by tabloid (and some allegedly broadsheet) media. Have you ever been to an internet cricket forum and noticed the increase in us vs them rubbish since 2008? Before I only noticed Pakistanis and Indians sledging each other about issues outside of sport, but now the India v Australia one is much worse (at least on the BBC one). At the same time I see some of them cite some of the better and sourced Wikipedia cricket articles, including some GA/FAs to back up their sporting arguments. So in theory, if we develop these bilateral articles with sensible stuff, we can help to purge the sensationalist rubbish that has been drummed into a lot of people's heads by the media, who are trying to spin every cheap shot by any old criminal or cricketer seeking to get around the rules into a war.... A bit idealistic but worth a few hours in my opinion (sending to a few people)  YellowMonkey  ( cricket photo poll! ) paid editing=POV 07:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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Persian Wikiquote article

 * I've fixed it for you. That was more work than I expected; I discovered old vandalism (page blanking) which had been missed in the article's history, then at a later date, some of the original material was added back in.  So I had to revert to before the blanking, then, bit by bit, incorporate about 100 changes that had occurred since then back into the article.  You'll see the article's links work now, and it is back to its old, fuller form.  (There's a bit of a serious OR issue with this page, but it is so well established I will not even question it; it definitely deserves a place here).
 * Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 02:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * PS If you reply to me; please do it on Wikiquote.
 * PPS There was actually no problem with the linking of the alphabet, it was an artefact of the vandalism. All of the entries past the first letter of the Farsi alphabet were blanked, thus their "links" went nowhere.  As the Farsi alphabet is right-to-left, the only link that worked was the far right one, linking to the first section of the article.  Check the history to see what I mean.

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Compromise wording
I don't have any objections as far as it goes, but I think some further trimming may be in order as well. CJCurrie (talk) 07:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't disagree on that point :) Daniel (talk) 07:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Your beloved team
...has a rather pretty orange template on it. It seems the endless bureaucracy has an negative effect on your ability to promote your cruft. &mdash;Dark talk 08:19, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * :( That'll be my post-GLAM project I guess. Daniel (talk) 09:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * GLAM indeed. I would question Wikipedia's sanity if they decided to ask you to represent them in GLAM, the Australian academics would simply refuse to cooperate with such an unpatriotic albino. &mdash;Dark talk 10:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * You really need a new - and factual - insult :) Daniel (talk) 11:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Funny thing is, Danny boy, it is factual. &mdash;Dark talk 11:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * :P Daniel (talk) 11:10, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Carabinieri dispute arbitration
Hello Daniel. I notice you summarily removed my request for arbitration regarding the Carabinieri dispute. I need some help in understanding what I need to do (how to modify it) for it to be accepted. Thank you. Bibiki (talk) 12:29, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Replied at user talk page. Daniel (talk) 06:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

NCIS: Los Angeles
Per your request in your edit summary to "contact me if you have any issues, but please do not restore it" upon removal of the production company, I direct you to this page. I don't know if it's official or not. My issue: I have a source that supports previous information, but I can't restore it. BAPACop (converse) 23:24, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your patience, I was interstate and barely able to edit. To explain the background, I got a request via OTRS (#2009080310015064) to correct the production company information from someone who credibly explained that the current information was wrong. I replied indicating I'd removed the information as it was unsourced, which was an at-the-time satisfactory conclusion. When I got your message and your source, I emailed the person again, pointing out the existence of the source you provided and asking them to pursue having it changed, because I explained we simply report what other people report. I sent that email at 08/05/2009 00:20; I haven't had a response yet, but that may have simply been because of the weekend intervening.
 * If it's OK with you, I'd like to give the person I'm corresponding with another two or so days - just so that there's been sufficient weekdays to sort it out - and if I still haven't had a response by then, I'll let you know and you can restore it. Is that OK with you? Once again, I appreciate your patience and understanding with this - I hope the above explanation sheds light on why I am asking for a short delay :) Cheers, Daniel (talk) 00:13, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's okay with me, just let me know when it's settled and I can add it in! BAPACop (converse) 04:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Fantastic, thanks very much for your understanding :) Daniel (talk) 04:48, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Responded on user talk. Daniel (talk) 12:41, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Question about a Photo that is awaiting approval
Hi there,

I uploaded for a Wikipedia article about a week and a half ago and it was flagged because I used the incorrect license tag. The file is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tomwhitman2.jpg

After speaking with someone named Polly, I was able to determine the steps I needed to take to correctly tag the file and gain approval. Based on that info I submitted an email to the Wikimedia permissions email address with a forwarded email from the owner of an image that I uploaded. I added the OTRS-Pending notice to the image file, and changed the tag to the correct license. A day or so later, the warning was removed about the incorrect usage, but the pending tag remains and I have not heard back from anyone via email. I tried to contact Polly, but it seems as if she has gone away...at least that's what her talk page says. What should my next steps be? How do I know if it has been approved?

Thanks

Srtheiss (talk) 20:01, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This seems to have been handled. My apologies for not seeing it sooner. Daniel (talk) 05:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)