User talk:Daniel Case/Archive 14 8/3/2010-7/6/2011

Oversight image
Images were removed in this edit; perhaps you could talk with Dominic. Nyttend (talk) 19:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

NRHP-listed but non-contributing
I've found another NRHP listing that's within a historic district but not a contributing property: the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, which sits almost at the center of the Nicholasville Historic District (National Register of Historic Places listings in Jessamine County, Kentucky). The NR database lists the memorial as an object, but the database says that there are no contributing objects in the district. Oddly enough, it says that there aren't any noncontributing objects in the district, so they may have forgotten about it entirely; the district was listed thirteen years before the memorial. Nyttend (talk) 23:05, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The later application had nothing about which to forget, because the memorial nomination was later than the district nomination. Most likely the district nominators didn't see the memorial as important enough to consider it.  I wonder how one chooses whether or not to include an average object in a list of non-contributing properties; for example, one district includes a tree stump as a contributing property, but presumably most district nominations don't include a list of non-contributing trees.  Nyttend (talk) 02:11, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know. Neither the memorial form nor the HD form have names.  Both were parts of MPSes: Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS and Jessamine County MRA respectively.  However, the MPSs were prepared by Joseph Brent and Kenneth Gibbs respectively.  Nyttend (talk) 02:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * First page of the Monuments MPS form says that Brent was the Historic Sites Data Coordinator for the Kentucky Heritage Council (Kentucky's SHPO), while the sixth page of the Jessamine County MRA says that Gibbs was an architectural historian for the Kentucky Heritage Council. Nyttend (talk) 04:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it is interesting to read the various styles. Sometimes you get a mix; the form for the William Lawrence House was written by this guy, so it's very professionally done, but as he was a member of the law practice that owned the house, his interest in the house was obvious.  Similarly, the MPS form for the Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio TR was put together by an architectural historian who was a member of one of the churches in the nomination, so she's rather enthusiastic despite being the professional.  Nyttend (talk) 05:01, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, quite funny; the "lovely white pine panelling" and the "beautiful mantels" are interesting, as is the "provacative dichotemy" [sic] between the "120 year old farm on the one side of the highway and a huge multi-million dollar shopping mall on the other side". By the way, your link is rotten; late last year, the Pennsylvania SHPO took down the ARCH website; if you've not previously downloaded the form, you'll have to get it at https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H001746_01H.pdf.  If you ever need a Pennsylvania nomination form but have trouble accessing the new CRGIS system, check this page and contact the user who downloaded the form.  Nyttend (talk) 05:19, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mount Albion Cemetery
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 06:02, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for William V. N. Barlow House
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 00:02, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK Query
Hello! Your submission of Alternative Center for Excellence at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 23:52, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ignore this, I'm obviously overdue for sleep. The reference for the hook is fine! GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 23:55, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Orleans County Courthouse Historic District
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 12:04, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U.S. Post Office (Albion, New York)
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 12:04, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

trunkarchive.com
Hi, Daniel. I noticed you blocked User:Trunkarchive. I suspect this user's activities formed part of a concerted promotional effort on the part of trunkarchive.com, a media-licensing company, to create bio articles on as many of the photographers in their stable as possible. Here are the other accounts, neither currently active, who may have been involved:



Photofan76's contributions consist almost entirely of creating articles about photographers represented by trunkarchive.com. Several were deleted (see User talk:PhotoFan76), but a good many have survived. Perhaps some are speediable G11 or A7. Those that are not I could conceivably bulk-nominate to AfD -- with the exception of any that meet WP:CREATIVE. Even those that remain should probably have the ELs to trunkarchive.com removed under WP:ELNO 5: "Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services"

I've also added trunkarchive.com to the list of proposed additions at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

Does this seem like a reasonable course of action? -- Rrburke (talk) 11:51, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, Daniel. Thanks for your reply. I could sort through the list of articles created and suggest some that might be G11 or A7 if you were interested in speedying them. Many appear to be orphans with only the single contributor. My opinion is that the purpose of all of them is promotional, but to be prudent I'll try to subtract those which might satisfy WP:CREATIVE.


 * You could add trunkarchive.com to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist as only admins can edit the list.


 * Photofan76 and Photoarchive appear to be inactive, so there is probably not much point in blocking them even if there were a strong case for doing so, which there might not be: despite the whiff of sock odour, the evidence is possibly inconclusive. Of course, these accounts may come back to life now that User:Trunkarchive has been blocked.


 * See also, incidentally, Special:Contributions/74.8.187.218, which, like trunkarchive.com [209.255.196.66], is a Paetec IP and has been active as recently as July 27.


 * Cheers. -- Rrburke (talk) 14:22, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Will do. Incidentally, 74.8.187.218 resolves to gateway.trunkarchive.com, so that's one (non-)mystery solved. Thanks again. -- Rrburke (talk) 14:30, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your's and Rrburke's help on the trunkarchive.com problem. I've blacklisted the domain but there's still the problem of all the potentially spammy articles. I've made a list at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist (permanent link) . If you're so inclined, could you look at some of these and tag them as necessary for clean-up or deletion? (Markup my list as you do these). Thanks! --A. B. (talk • contribs) 20:07, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That's my job. I'm just taking forever to get around to it. -- Rrburke (talk) 21:40, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * There are a lot of these articles, Rrburke, and it's not just your job. Stop agonizing about it!! We're all in this together. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 22:09, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Reformed Church in America not Dutch?
What's the justification for this category change? Sorry I only got around to noticing it due to someone else's diffusion. Is the Reformed Church in America a completely separate entity from the Dutch Reformed Church? We categorize the former under the latter. Daniel Case (talk) 15:44, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The Reformed Church in America (RCA) broke from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1819. The separation was not like the American Episcopal church under the Anglican Communion but a true split as an stand-alone church.  Therefore, the church in Kingston is now an RCA church but used to be a Dutch Reformed prior to 1819.  (The mother Dutch Reformed Church no longer exists so, really, there are no current Dutch Reformed churches anywhere.)


 * I put the RCA cat under the Dutch Refomred one because of the historical connection and because many RCA churches are still referred to coloquially as "Dutch Reformed". Based on your question though, this is just causing confusion so I updated the cats.RevelationDirect (talk) 03:31, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * All depends on the way you use "Dutch Reformed"; the CRC and URC can be spoken of (and often are) as "Dutch Reformed", because they're Reformed and they're primarily Dutch, even though they're not organically connected to any churches in the Netherlands. Nyttend (talk) 04:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)


 * We agree, all three are definitely Reformed and often referred to informally as "Dutch Reformed". While the Reformation in Holland had many threads, the church lineage would go something like this:  Roman Catholicism->Lutheranism->Calvinism->Dutch Reformed Church->Reformed Church in America->Christian Reformed Church in North America->United Reformed Churches in North America.  Both the RCA website and the CRC one reject being labelled as "Dutch" by asserting their ethnic diversity, although this may be more about their aspirations of recruiting other ethnicities than their current diversity in members.


 * I find Cats work better when you have a bright line to distinguish applicability: is this church formally tied to the Dutch Reformed Church or no?  But, other approaches would not be invalid here as there is definitely some ambiguity about what can less formally be called Dutch Reformed.RevelationDirect (talk) 07:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Adding articles to NRHP front page
I saw where you were having trouble adding a new article to the front page of WP:NRHP. You are correct in that you have to link to the actual article title and not a redirect. You can however pipelink the title though. From the explanatory text just above the list:
 * Make sure to list the actual title of the article and not a redirect, or the rating template will not function correctly. If you would like to make the link show a different title, simply add a second title (as in a pipelink) to the template.

Thanks!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 17:49, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for Orleans Co
Hi ... just thought I'd drop a thanks for filling out and expanding considerably the various Orleans Co NRHP stubs I created a while back. It's fun for me to see the pics added and articles expanded so professionally. FYI ... I too have degrees in Geography from SUNY-Buffalo (BA, 1986), Univ of Washington (MA, 1988). Nice to see another Geographer in the Wikibiz.--Pubdog (talk) 01:05, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of North Main-Bank Streets Historic District
Hello! Your submission of North Main-Bank Streets Historic District at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! NortyNort (Holla) 09:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I also reviewed the Cobblestone Historic District NOM too and had a few comments. Either one is great but the reference for the original hook is another article. --NortyNort (Holla) 09:38, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Tousley-Church House at DYK
I have a minor problem with the hook for this -- unfortunately, I can't verify the article as my computer seems incapable of reading the new format used by the National Register of Historic Places. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:50, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

unblock request
has an unblock request pending. It seems rather thoughtful and it's not clear that she intends to be a vandal - her one edit doesn't seem malicious to me. Perhaps clumsy. She might do with a new username though. Can you take a look? Toddst1 (talk) 11:38, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

TB (talkback, not tuberculosis)
- Dank (push to talk) 14:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet!
Hi Daniel, thanks for blocking that IP I reported earlier. Unfortunately, he seems to have found himself another IP to operate from. If you could also block User:68.219.249.183, that'd be helpful. – PeeJay 17:28, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Another has cropped up at User:68.219.32.99. I think you'll agree this is getting ridiculous, so would you mind semi-protecting 1968 Intercontinental Cup for me? – PeeJay 17:53, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

suspect sock case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:218.186.8.254 hi have you a link to the details to this case, or any user names? Off2riorob (talk) 19:27, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 21:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks a lot for your help of blocking sock puppet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Vrammycowboy

But could u please revert his edits in Azerbaijani articles--NovaSkola (talk) 21:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for North Main-Bank Streets Historic District
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DYK for Tousley-Church House
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DYK for Cobblestone Historic District
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DYK for Alternative Center for Excellence
Courcelles 00:02, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Question about Downtown Albany Historic District
Do you know why Albany City Hall was excluded from this historic district? Based on page 35, it looks like it was done intentionally, however the building is from 1883 and would seem to me to be just as valid an inclusion considering many of the contributing properties on Pearl Street are from the 1920s. I'm just confused, I guess?  upstate NYer  01:45, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

ct contest
Hey, thanks for note updating me on ur trip, etc. i look fwd to seeing great pics of Aspen, eventually! i wonder if you'd be willing to sign up for the CT wikiproject photo contest, which has just been extended to Aug 31. All your recently added CT photos would count. It'd just be nice to have u supporting the activity there, which has been picking up some steam, if u could take a few minutes to sign up and list your already-uploaded pics. I'm gonna try for an "honorable mention" myself, cause i don't think i can meet the quota for the really big prize promised. Cheers, --doncram (talk) 18:03, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Medina Armory
Hello! Your submission of Medina Armory at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 09:08, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jackson Blood Cobblestone House
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Summer 2010 USRD newsletter

 * — JCbot (talk) 02:08, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for United States Post Office (Middleport, New York)
The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U.S. Post Office (Medina, New York)
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Ugg boots
I recommend participation by fashion editors on the Ugg boots article. This is fashion footwear worn by such celebrities as Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Hudson, Jessica Simpson and Oprah Winfrey. In most of the world it's a well-recognized designer brand, but in Australia and New Zealand, it's considered a "generic term." Please help. Phoenix and Winslow (talk) 15:53, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Servoss House
The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Servoss House
Nice one! What a great article. Perfect DYK. Cheers, DBaK (talk) 08:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome. It really was a pleasure to read, and I learnt something, and this is all good! :) Cheers DBaK (talk) 16:49, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Medina Armory
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DYK for Main Street Historic District (Danbury, Connecticut)
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Holding pen
I'm coming here, because you were the admin making the call on CERI-Administration and Tpizzle20. The former edited after your message on their talk page and created CERI – European Centre for Italian Research; the latter made two more edits after your message, but didn't respond to it. Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 10:42, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Southland Corp. v. Keating
Hello, your nomination of Southland Corp. v. Keating at DYK was reviewed and comments provided. --NortyNort (Holla) 11:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

My email
Hi Daniel, may I please ask you, if you've got my email from 10 days ago, in which I asked to oversight some outing? I'll check on your response here. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:29, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Daniel, maybe you could kindly explain to me what I have done wrong, and why you never acted on my email, and now ignoring my message? Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 11:08, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Deletion log
Hi there. I noticed this in my watchlist: (Deletion log); 15:49. . Daniel Case (talk | contribs) changed revision visibility of User talk:Anna Frodesiak: removed content for 1 revision (Non-public identifying or personal information)

Strange. Was it vandalism? Could you email it to me? Thanks for catching it, whatever it was. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:58, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Southland Corp. v. Keating
-- Cirt (talk) 06:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Your input requested
Albany, New York is a current featured article candidate. Your input and a review would be appreciated as I try to get this to the Main Page! All comments, criticisms, praise, etc. are welcome!  upstate NYer  23:28, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note that I've done some significant trimming of the article (including removing images); this is ongoing to quell the page size issues (which, btw—and of course this isn't your fault—but being stuck because of technical limitations is really disheartening). It's 2010, damn it! :)  upstate NYer  20:02, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Unblock request of QDeveloper
Hello Daniel Case. , whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, -- <font color="#307D7E">Phantom <font color="#55CAFA">Steve /<font color="#008000">talk &#124;<font color="#000080">contribs \ 21:03, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Cornwall Central School District logo.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Cornwall Central School District logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk  03:48, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

LOBC
Hey. Regarding List of breakout characters, I'm not trying to be mean or anything by reverting that person's edit again. It's just that several of us have worked hard to maintain quality and proper policy on that page (yourself included). I get irked when someone comes along and tries to take the easy approach in cases like this, and I certainly don't stand for them abusing the Undo function while ignoring policy. I'm semi-retired, but I wanted to help keep the page up to its current standard for now. -- James26 (talk) 21:04, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

History
Just wanted to point out a common mistake- I believe you meant Hudson, New York not Kingston, New York when you listed early NY cities... NY and Albany became cities through their respective Dongan Charter in the same year only about 6 months apart, then Hudson 1785, then Schenectady in 1798. Im not too knowledgeable about Kingston but I believe it wasnt until the 1870s that it became a city... it's actually a very common misperception about Kingston being on par in age with the older communities and Hudson being forgotten, I think it might be because of the comparable size, the bigger city is just normally thought of as being older. But poor little Hudson is the one with the distinction of being the third city. And as you can see from the date this would have been through the state of NY as opposed to the province, but still under a charter (I think) as opposed to any general incorporation law.Camelbinky (talk) 00:32, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * From some very quick and preliminary research using some sources at Timeline of town creation in New York's Capital District I believe that Kingston was began as a land patent in 1667 making it very old as far as settlement goes, then in 1702 it was granted a government under the name of township (perhaps, not quite clear on responsibilities or official name sources differ, but there was some sort of government), then there may have been a time when all of Ulster County became divided into precincts (1760s? it was definitely pre-Revolution) and I assume Kingston would have been one of them. Then it became a town in 1788 when all districts (Albany and Montgomery county's names), precincts (Ulster County), townships (Washington County, Westchester County, Suffolk County), other sub-county municipalities were redrawn and given equal name and responsibilities as towns as we know them today. In 1805 a hamlet in the town became the village of Kingston, and in 1849 Rondout did as well. So short answer- yes Kingston had municipal government stretching back pre-Revolution, just not the kind of independence of action associated with being a city.Camelbinky (talk) 15:23, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ulster, New York is the article title for the town of Ulster in Ulster County. According to it Ulster was formed from the town of Kingston in 1879. The county itself of course is one of the original 10 or 12 counties (depending on if you count the counties that were given up to Massachussetts) created in the mid-1600s. I'm actually, slowly, working on two articles, one for the counties of NY and one for all the towns and cities of NY in the same manor I did for Timeline of town creation in New York's Capital District. The town one is probably going to have to be, for size purposes, broken up by region something along the lines of- Long Island, former-NYC towns, Mid-Hudson Valley, Southern Tier, North Country, Central NY, Finger Lakes, Western NY, and "whatever you call the Rochester area". I think you've inspired me enough for me to start with the Mid-Hudson Valley today in a sandbox, User:Camelbinky/towntimeline if you want to keep up on it and help. I know from doing the NYCD timeline that sources can very and it takes awhile to get it right and it's good to have a second pair of eyes point out inconsistencies in dates and track down what is correct.Camelbinky (talk) 19:43, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you, I may need further assistance in breaking down the counties into regions that make sense. As it stands since the four towns that made up what is now the Bronx are in the Mid-Hudson Valley because they were in Westchester County at the time and "descended" from other Westchester Counties. The Nassau County, New York towns will be descended from Queens County, New York towns, so I seem to have two options- 1) just lump Kings County, New York and Queens in with the Long Island page, leave the Bronx with the Mid-Hudson Valley, and then decide later what to do with Manhattan and Richmond County, New York. or 2) put the Suffolk County, New York and Nassau County along with the five of NYC and Westchester County all together. I just dont want to insult Westchester County readers if they are lumped "Downstate" or "Metro NYC" or some title like that instead of having it in the Mid-Hudson page. Any ideas?Camelbinky (talk) 18:05, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Main Street Historic District (Medina, New York)
-- Cirt (talk) 06:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Charles Ives House
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 * Congratulations - I like his music very much. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 21:44, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

History merge question
Hi Daniel, I offered to do a history merge on 10 articles - see User_talk:Ruhrfisch, but after reading History merge I am thinking just making the others into redirects and putting a note on the talk page of the new main article would work better. What do you think? Also are you still thinking of hiking at Ricketts Glen? Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 21:44, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input. I just did merge redirects. RGSP can be lovely in the fall, and there is usually more water in Kitchen Creek from rain, so the falls are nicer. My email is enabled if you are interested - weekends are about the only time I could make it. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 03:55, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Bratislava?
First off, I want to be clear that I'm not trying to offend you... but Bratislava? Reading the FA version, it is clear this is an old FA that should no longer be. I 100% guarantee you that if that went through a fresh FAC (having never before seen a star) it would be shot down very quickly. Where do I begin? The intro is far too short and does no justice for a city of its age and stature in European politics and history. "Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two other countries" has no place being the third sentence of the entire article. It's trivia! Geography has a great panorama. Too bad it's not in the current version. History: An image of coins is not all that helpful to the article; a map from the early days would be. You asked me for history on border changes. I ask why you currently praise an article that is lacking that information. What happened between 1948 and 1989? Anything exciting? City: Good to know that Europe's thinnest building is in the city; if you're going to bring up this fact, you have to quell the curiosity and give the width measurement; there isn't even a wikilink to help you find out. Castles and houses offer much-too-much in the line of details on specific structures. Include in a large subsection maybe, but as separate entities it just clutters the TOC and makes the subsections themselves look much too meager. Parks and lakes isn't bad; nice image caption info. Demographics leaves one wanting on some (any!) info related to religion affiliations. It's slavic; are they Catholic? Protestant? Eastern Orthodox? I have no idea, and was unable to learn which! Government was reasonably interesting; the mayor's city board seems unnecessary, but hey, if it works for them. Economy was the only section that left me satisfied, but the image's caption reads "High-rise buildings at Nivy, one of Bratislava's main business districts", begging the response, "Uh-huh, and?" Performing arts wasn't bad, but more than half of it was history. You support the story in history; why do you support the division between the complete history here? Museums and galleries produces no real complaints except for the fact that the image caption references something not brought up in prose. Media lacks in local information, and the term "seat" is misused throughout the article, when in fact the writer really means "headquarters"; this section has one of those examples. Sport has two paragraphs comprised of two sentences or less; this is a common problem throughout the article. Education and science is only named such so that an entire third of the section can be spent talking about (gosh!) how the city has no planetarium or observatory. Who cares? How about some info about where their primary and secondary students go to school? Is it part of a national system? A state system? Are there many private schools? Do the public ones fair well? That section is—with no exaggeration—dismal, and should have killed the FAC in its tracks. Transport: meh, nothing special. Where's the engaging, even brilliant, prose of a professional standard?

This is a prime example of an article that was passed during a time when FA was really in its infancy (many more strides have been made—quality-wise—since this article's nom than between the start of FAs and then). Much more is expected of an article today. You mention how so many city articles have lost their stars; it's because they were bad, and people finally realized it. NYC, even the passed version, left the reader wanting for so much more. This is especially true if you want to know about local details, which this article has very little of (not even a mention of the local newspaper, really?) You argue complete and compact, I argue skeletal and disappointing. I wish it (for the sake of future nominators and for the sake of our readers that want real information) that you do not use this article as your gold standard, because it is worth as much as a pound of dirt and should clearly not retain its star. I'm actually somewhat ashamed that this is considered one of Wikipedia's best works, but that Albany cannot be in its fuller, more rewarding (to the reader) state. If I weren't so interested in adding content, I'd quickly be FARing this article and delisting it.  upstate NYer  02:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, WP:SIZERULE, which I brought up many times myself, clearly states that an article at 60kB or less in prose (Albany is at 57kB) doesn't outright need trimming. That guideline was clearly on my side.  upstate NYer  02:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I was actually coming here with a list of my own on what I found lacking on Bratislava, most and more has been covered by UpstateNYer, but two I must touch on- I didnt quite see what this Eastern European capital ever had happen in it that comes to par with what just one scientist Joseph Henry discovered/invented in Albany, so I maintain that this sub-national capital is more important on the history of the world stage than this national capital which has only been so for about 2 decades and never in its history a capital before that, unless you count a NAZI puppet state in the '40s.
 * Second- No alt-text for the images in Bratislava automatically makes that articles size seem smaller, add complete alt-text for the blind (which I think all FA should have if not required) and see how large it suddenly becomes.Camelbinky (talk) 03:01, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Blah, alt text is one of my pet peeves and is way ove -    . I think it's more important for images in an article to have clean, concise, and well-thought out image page descriptions (with links, good cats, essentially information to lead to other good, related content!), but nobody would ever take that on (it's too easy to use a bot to check for presence of alt text, even if it does affect, what, 3% of readers? And if you have a browser that does not allow for images, that's your own fault).  upstate  NYer  03:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for John Shelp Cobblestone House
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 06:04, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Holding pen again
I'm coming here, because you were the admin making the call on Sehenfux and WalkerWebadmin. It's been more than a week and I was leaning towards removing both of those reports as stale, as neither user has ever edited again after your message (or, at least, I can see no edits); however, there's a bit of discussion going on, so I'd feel more comfortamble letting you sort things out. Regards. Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 21:32, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Cattaraugus County pics, and a possibility
Congratulations on getting the Cattaraugus County list fully illustrated (belatedly). As you can see it jibes nicely with the now fully-illustrated Orleans County list, which I have begun taking the steps to prepare for a peer review and eventual FLC.

One suggestion, though. Instead of my own pic for the Albion post office, I used one taken by a Flickr user who, months ago at my request, had changed the licensing on his images to allow us to use them, because it was in better conditions (see my pics for Albion's historic districts and you'll understand that it was raining at the time, so I much preferred the blue sky he got). He's taken a very nice picture of the Little Valley post office ... maybe we could use that instead? Daniel Case (talk) 13:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, much better than mine. Please go ahead and replace mine with the Flickr. Glad you could convince him to change licensing.  Don't know if you've ever looked at DougTone, but he has some great pics, is constantly adding, and has correct licensing.  Congrats again on Orleans Co!  Forgot that you'd already hit the Genesee Co sites and added some on my recent trip back from Bflo.  Please feel free to replace as needed.  Best wishes--Pubdog (talk) 22:49, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Went through the New York post offices and New Deal murals set. Pulled and uploaded to Wikipedia all the photos with appropriate licensing.--Pubdog (talk) 21:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Very unfortunate on his licensing with NC because he has a lot of great pics. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.--Pubdog (talk) 23:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Constr. Corp.
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 00:03, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

FYI usernames containing "bot"
FYI. – xeno <sup style="color:black;">talk 13:15, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Just to make sure
Have you also disabled autoblock on the user "Materialscientists" yet? If not, I don't know if the changed username of "4th state of matter" will be able to edit, and since that user is not blocked, the autoblock could lead to issues. <font color="#0000FF">mechamind <font color="#009900">9 <font color="#FF0000">0 03:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

DD for DC
I'm nudging this in your general direction. You're better placed to make this decision, I think. Uncle G (talk) 20:32, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/CCI
 * User talk:Uncle G (2nd section)
 * User talk:Uncle G (2nd section)

IP Block
--Kalarickan (talk) 15:08, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

--Kalarickan (talk) 15:08, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

--Kalarickan (talk) 15:08, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Hudson Valley town timeline
Thought you might be interested in looking over Timeline of town creation in the Hudson Valley.Camelbinky (talk) 17:27, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for New Hempstead Presbyterian Church
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 12:02, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for H. R. Stevens House
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 18:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Richard William Aguirre Page
Hello Daniel, I was trying to get assistance in reversing the deletion of the Richard William Aguirre page. Mr. Aguirre was the runner up to Jerry Brown in the Democratic Primary and is a very notable person in the California Democratic Party. Richard Aguirre is as notable as 95% of the other political figures that have been accepted by wikipedia. Any help that you could be would be very appreciated. thank you for your time. Sdpolitics (talk) 07:38, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mount Pleasant (Indian Falls, New York)
The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for North Main Street School
The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places listings in Genesee County, New York
Congrats on completing pics for National Register of Historic Places listings in Genesee County, New York! Glad I could play a part in it.--Pubdog (talk) 22:12, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

NY Post Offices
In re: what's done, most of the New York post offices on the page U.S. Post Office are also NRHP. Did you have in mind to have a separate list (with pics) for the MPS?--Pubdog (talk) 10:47, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Editor pasting/reverting to old pages
Hi there. I recently reverted to edits by, where s/he reverted Jorge Pallo and Constance Marie to old versions of the page. I just thought I'd let you know since I can see from the IP's talk page that you have blocked him/her twice before for this behavior. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 03:35, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * And I did it again. They'll sit for a month now. Daniel Case (talk) 16:51, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Alexander Classical School
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U.S. Post Office (Spring Valley, New York)
The DYK project (nominate) 06:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey Daniel, thanks for the late welcome back in August, I haven't been spending a lot of time around here but I have consistently been popping in since I came back. You know, checking the watchlist for vandalism and nonsense, and even creating a bit of content here and there too. Even while I was gone I saw a bunch of your NY NRHP articles on DYK, even without clicking I knew they were yours. Anyway, thanks for the welcome back and I dare say: Wikistress Level = ZERO! I found my happy medium. Happy editing. IvoShandor (talk) 18:45, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District
-- Cirt (talk) 18:02, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U.S. Post Office (Pearl River, New York)
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 12:02, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia NYC Meetup Sat Oct 16
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Thanks again
Hi Daniel! Thanks again for coming down to the city for the fundraiser on Thursday. It was really great to meet you, and I'm sure I'll be seeing you again. In the meantime, if you ever need anything from me (personally or from the communtiy dept. at the Foundation), please don't hesitate to get in touch. All the best, Steven Walling at work 16:27, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Edward Salyer House
The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

My AIV report of User:Aariix3
My description of this editor's previous reason for being banned may have been mis-summarised (the false claims of original photography were posted as part of hois false claims about public transport systems), but his posting of today included a photo which he claims is one that he took of the Quito metro. Which on the face of it is fine, except that there is, as yet, no Quito metro system. The photo therefore carries a false claim as to its subject, in which case, given his history, there can be mno confidence about his claim to be the photographer. He has in the past claimed copyright pictures to be his own work. Kevin McE (talk) 20:42, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Promotional usernames
In the grand scope of things, this isn't that big of an issue, but as a RC monitor, I'd like to get it cleared up: On the noticeboard for the reporting of inappropriate names, you questioned the reporting of one name that appeared promotional as the name of a company on the basis that no connection to the company had been demonstrated. However, WP:ORGNAME says "A username that is the name of a company or group implies the intent to promote this group. Accordingly, such usernames may be indefinitely blocked", so does a connection need to be demonstrated before reporting? Kansan (talk) 16:10, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Nableezy
Your help and advice is requested. I edit a Disputed page: Israel Occupied Territories I gave my reason which another editor had already posted. Nableezy is reverting my posts without discussion. Thank you.Unicorn76 (talk) 21:27, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Keeney House
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 00:02, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Online Video Streaming
Hello, Daniel. I was wondering why you unblocked this user but left the block notice on his talkpage anyway? I'm a little confused, and so I'd be happy if you cleared it up. Thanks :| TelCo  NaSp  Ve :|  10:11, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Houses at 208-218 East 78th Street
Thanks for your detailed note; I'll reply to each comment in turn: In case you wonder, this was part of a project that Acroterion and I have discussed; we think that it would help to have a bot go through the architecture by year categories and put American buildings into newly-created "[year] architecture in the United States" categories. You can see the "Subdivide architecture categories" section of Bot requests for details. Since a bot that does exactly what I'm asking wouldn't do anything with articles in the decade architecture categories, I decided to create the decades in the USA categories and separate out the ones that didn't belong there. Nyttend (talk) 21:38, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * State and country name are part of the location, so it helps to name them. The first NR-listed FA that I checked, New Orleans Mint, links to the state; it doesn't link to the country, but it includes "United States Mint" in the first sentence, so the country would be redundant
 * I'm wary of those date ranges, since often it seems that the early date is the actual construction date and the later one is a date when they were heavily modified or something like that, but not really constructed. I misunderstood these two districts to have been built all at the same time, not over a five-year span of time.
 * No comment on the last.
 * I only checked one FA before, but entirely by accident I just now wandered onto Chicago Board of Trade Building, which links separately to Chicago and Illinois and United States in the first sentence. Nyttend (talk) 21:50, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * However, they're parts of the location; it's entirely within the context and thus very relevant. As far as the overlinking issue, you'll notice that featured articles such as Kent, Ohio (promoted just last month) link to the state and county, even though both are also linked in the infobox.  As far as naming: I meant to say "link", not "name"; sorry for not saying what I meant.  And as far as the date ranges, I meant to say "I'm not complaining", since I understood from your first comment that they were built in different years; I was attempting to remark about a situation that's come up with other pages, at which someone added different dates for expansions or renovations, rather than for different years of construction of different buildings.  Another possibility — what would you think of multiple "[year] architecture" categories, with one per building?  I've done that with St. Sebastian's Catholic Church (Sebastian, Ohio), for example, since the church and rectory weren't built in the same year.  Nyttend (talk) 00:20, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * By the way, you must have the wrong user about date-delinking; Tony hasn't edited since 2003, and he only has eight total edits. Nyttend (talk) 00:21, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * As I say, FAs such as the Chicago Board of Trade also link in the way that I'm advocating. Nyttend (talk) 00:58, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah
Hey, you recently declined this IP's unblock request. That's me, I'm just curious as to why the range block doesn't fall over to this account. Shouldn't it? I had put the template there, because I had thought it would fall over to my account, and wasn't sure if I would have been able to edit from there, and naturally, panicked. Sactage (talk) 13:54, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Michael Salyer Stone House
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — <b style="color:#060;">Rlevse</b> • Talk  • 12:02, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

219.89.225.4
The above anon whom you blocked seems to continue to harass me, now on their user talk page. I'm not bawling my eyes out about it, but this user clearly has no intention of contributing constructively. Should I revert this, or what? Adabow (talk · contribs) 07:42, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Cheers. Adabow (talk · contribs) 07:50, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Oatka Creek
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for using my LeRoy pic in the article! It was a beautiful morning and the water just sparkled.--Pubdog (talk) 00:10, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Link advice
I'm expanding the article on the Montgomery Saltbox Houses near Cincinnati; they were built by some of the city's original settlers, who migrated from Montgomery, New York in 1795. Do you suggest that I link to the town or the village in the article? I'm leaning toward the town, since the village hadn't yet incorporated in 1795, but I suspect that there was a hamlet of Montgomery before incorporation in 1810. Nyttend (talk) 00:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input; your advice has been followed. Nyttend (talk) 12:20, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikiplayer13
(Also posted at User talk:FisherQueen) The last thing I want to do is exonerate Wikiplayer13 (I've mentioned elsewhere that the net effects of his edits have been negative.) However I do feel I should clarify that the edits in question did not occur while the user was logged in, they were made by 212.219.57.60 (talk) (see WP:AN/I). At minimum, the editor has thus admitted to having used the same computer from which the edits were made. It is puzzling why the user would imply a compromised account, when there's really no indication that anything like this has occurred - again, the edits were made from an IP address. But he's the one making that claim. Also note that another IP associated with this account, 82.46.89.207 (talk), has previously vandalized our user pages when faced with various disagreements (for example,, , , ). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:19, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. I'm a little concerned that the suggestion (at WP:GOTHACKED, not by you) to create a new account effectively allows the user to continue without having addressed any (long-standing) behavioral concerns (the user had received a final warning prior to the edits in question). Thanks again, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Makes sense, thanks again. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:43, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Not blocked
You put a block template on the talk page of user 216.100.93.234, but they are still able to edit. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  20:27, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

BTW, user 76.91.153.74 is this same person, and their edits are equally disruptive. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  20:44, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

OK, if you check the recent history, they've started the same pattern again, using the two different IPs to edit war. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  02:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

They seem to have a penchant for Paul McCartney and Moody Blues-related articles; a quick browse of their edits will give you some idea of the task ahead of you!

I think they may just give up and go away, but if not, I guess the long process of sprotting the articles will be necessary. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  14:27, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Fall 2010 USRD newsletter

 * — JCbot (talk) 01:17, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

TFA clarification
I left a clarification on this at User talk:Rlevse, but I'm wondering, why the jab at FAC? There are only a handful of content reviewers who understand image policy, we have to badger them for feedback, and the situation at GA and PR is no better (in fact, only a handful of editors are doing most of PR). Sandy Georgia (Talk) 05:49, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of U.S. Post Office (Le Roy, New York)
Hello, your nomination of U.S. Post Office (Le Roy, New York) at DYK was reviewed and comments provided. --NortyNort (Holla) 08:34, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Sprotting McCartney articles?
Our friend's first edit after his block expired was this. Maybe you could start by sprotting this one only and see what effect it has. This one is making a lot of unnecessary work for a lot of people here. Thanks. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  23:23, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

User:BangladeshPride
User:BangladeshPride has resorted to removal of image soon after comming from block and just after presenting his view on discussion without waiting for replies by other editors 1st edit 2nd edit 3rd edit 4th edit, Earlier undiscussed persistent removal of image 1st removal 2nd removal, was blocked for similar tendentious and disruptive edits on same article earlier 1st block 2nd block 3rd block. Please have a look.--UplinkAnsh (talk) 17:47, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for U.S. Post Office (Le Roy, New York)
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jacob P. Perry House
Courcelles 18:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

The socking IP again
Check his contribs and talk page. He just won't stop. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  14:38, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Architecture question
Thanks for the cleanup at Oliver Filley House. I see you've added it to WikiProject Architecture. I've created some other articles about NRHP sites, such as Nathaniel Holcomb III House. Is it fair to say that any NRHP building should be added to that project or are the criteria more narrow?-- SPhilbrick  T  17:48, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Politicalfolkmusic block
Hi, i'd like to inquire about the specifics of the block against User talk:Politicalfolkmusic. I don't know this editor, and haven't been asked to intervene. I simply am interested in the articles that were edited. I checked out the target website, and it could be argued that this is a useful link for the related articles. It provides lyrics in a format (downloadable PDF) that isn't available elsewhere on the web, as far as i know.

So, was it simply a block for self-promotion, or were there other issues? If it was purely for self-promotion, then i submit that,
 * the quality of the destination link should be considered, in addition to the fact of self-promotion, and
 * a block of any sort, let alone of indefinite duration, is a severe penalty for good faith edits that happened to be self-promotion.

thanks, Richard Myers (talk) 21:30, 31 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I share Richard Myer's concerns about this block. I fail to see a basis for it. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 22:21, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response, but I still believe the block was executed with insufficient consideration of the circumstances, and especially with insufficient pursuit of other, preferred remedies. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 03:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Agree with JasonAQuest. Richard Myers (talk) 12:19, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

And once again...
...he's editing with the other IP now, and the pattern is still the same:, ,. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  19:32, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK Issue
I regret to report that I pulled your recent hook out of the prep area for sourcing issues on the hook. I'm sure you can sort things out. See Template_talk:Did_you_know. --Orlady (talk) 01:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot
Thanks for blocking that vandal. Good work you're doing here. -- James26 (talk) 16:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Potential trouble brewing

 * Hello Daniel, could I ask you to come take a look at Articles for deletion/Qantas Flight 32? This AfD is fast degenerating into a general melee due to the persistent unruly comments, edits and remarks passed by some newly registered users and IP editors. Worst part of it is that these people, who kept popping out from nowhere, are not even regular members of the aviation task force. Could you temp semi-protect this article because I for one am very afraid of another consensus/vote fraud by these new users. Thanks. -- <i style="font-family:Rage Italic; font-size:large; color:green;">Dave</i> ♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫® 19:44, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Nice block
Daniel, thanks for blocking Jainastrologypraveen. There's a farm there: please see Sockpuppet investigations/Astrologist praveen. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 04:52, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm sorry I just took ten minutes of your life that you'll never get back. Drmies (talk) 05:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Le Roy House and Union Free School
Orlady (talk) 18:03, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Benjamin Franklin Gates House
In Bflo for a couple days. I was able to re-fully illustrate Cattaraugus, Buffalo, and Niagara county lists. Will see Wed morning whether time permits to swing by Benjamin Franklin Gates House in Orleans Co. Can't make any promises at this point. It's a little off the beaten track.--Pubdog (talk) 12:24, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Notification
As you participated in the ban discussion of SkagitRiverQueen, you are being notified of this Proposal to amend ban on SRQ imposed at ANI: from 1 year to indef. Ncmvocalist (talk) 07:06, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for United States Post Office-Lenox Hill Station
The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

(Censored name)
I was careful - that's why I didn't delete my post at UAA but added a comment. I didn't want it to get kept in the history if no-one noticed I'd been there. I'd gone in to report it before I went in to find out what it had been up to. Kill it first, then see about a tidy-up... I work backwards through the new accounts edits, picking out the bits missed by others - which is why I'm sometimes on older info till I get into a page. Peridon (talk) 14:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Machpelah Cemetery (Le Roy, New York)
Hello! Your submission of Machpelah Cemetery (Le Roy, New York) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:33, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Declined AIV report, can you clarify for me.
I'm a little confused by the decline reason you gave here for declining my AIV report on User:Grayssake. His final warning was at 04:58, 13 November 2010 according to his talk page and at 20:58, 12 November 2010 according to the history of said page (a discrepancy I've never understood). Meanwhile he has another 20 non constructive edits after that edit (I realize that may just be the page the reverter was on when they dropped the warning and a bunch may have been reverted at once), the last of which is dated 06:49, 13 November 2010. Either way that's after his warning. Am I misreading the timestamps? I've marked your page to watch until you have a chance to reply so no need to talkback me. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me to clear this up. Millahnna (talk) 16:15, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You're right, I got a little confused into think the last warning had been issued this morning (for some reason user preferences only affect the timestamps on the page and not the history pages, which always remain on Greenwich time which I'm at present five hours behind). I had meant to decline on the grounds that there had been no edits by the user in over an hour, but upon further review following your message I decided to block for 24 hours). Daniel Case (talk) 16:32, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * A double thanks then. Guy has been driving us WP:FILM peeps crazy and now I finally know why I see two different timestamps for things.  Heh.  Millahnna (talk) 16:50, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to add my note of thanks for taking the time to double check the edits of Grayssake. S/he has been making genre changes and creating hoax articles almost from the time that they started editing. They should have had more warnings but had gotten away with things until last night. Hopefully, they will want to change their ways and become a productive editor - only time will tell. Thanks again for your efforts and time. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 16:55, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

You are both welcome. Daniel Case (talk) 17:35, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Machpelah Cemetery (Le Roy, New York)
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

The Devil's Tree
Hey,

Thanks for your input! I've always been an editor who was interested in more esoteric subjects such as gambling or the paranormal, I feel a lot of these articles have been improperly deleted due to an inherent bias from the nominator. If you notice the other editors who voted delete has a history of bias against paranormal articles, both of whom are self proclaimed rational skeptics. When it comes to the AfD of Devil's Tree, its improper deletion couldn't be further fact. I think you and Theornamentalist did an excellent job in remaining neutral and adhering to the rule of WP:V. I am quite confused as to how this AfD favored deletion (should have been no consensus at worst). For topics involving the paranormal primary sources tend to focus on heresay, NJ.com and the Courier Post are seperate independent non-trivial sources. Theornamentalist more than addressed the issues the nominator brought. I was going to ask the admin to undelete and renominate I was hoping you could help me in this process. <font color="DarkSlateGray">Valoem <font color="Black">talk  19:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador
Hi Daniel, I've responded to your message on my talk page. Thanks! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 01:38, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Rowhouses at 322-344 East 69th Street
Materialscientist (talk) 12:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

For encyclopedic photo content

 * I appreciate your appreciation of my appreciation. Appreciatively. :) IvoShandor (talk) 07:15, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Marion Steam Shovel (Le Roy, New York)
Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Apologies
I blocked User:Wallstreetjournall and then saw your note on UAA. Please unblock in case you wish (I've left a copy of this note on ceranthor's talk). Kind regards.  Wifione    <sub style="font-size: 60%">....... <sup style="margin-left:-3ex"> Leave a message  05:37, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

previously blocked IP continues to vandalize
Hi Daniel. The IP, user:202.174.156.68 which you already blocked once continue to vandalize articles. (Ketabtoon (talk) 04:53, 27 November 2010 (UTC))

DYK for Ontario v. Quon
Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Indef block of Cryingwind - "Your username is the only reason for this block" - appreciation
Hi Daniel. I really do appreciate your confidence in my good judgement: see the block notice for User talk:Cryingwind. I do hope the editor comes back under a more appropriate username, and continues to improve the project with us. Thanks again. --Shirt58 (talk) 10:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4
Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.

A particular highlight for the wiki crowd will be 'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968', and the accompanying "WikiPop" project, with specially-created Wikipedia articles on the artists displayed on iPads in the gallery.

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Block
Next time you want to block me do not block my user page.Sheodred (talk) 15:09, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Wanted to make sure you saw this...
 upstate NYer  00:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Very cool ...thanks for posting--Pubdog (talk) 01:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Kingsbridge Armory
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for First Hungarian Reformed Church of New York
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

NRHP talk
Hi --- I encourage you to take a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. Cheers--Pubdog (talk) 00:18, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

202.174.156.68
The IP continues to vandalize topics after several warnings, block and reverts. It is nothing but a vandal IP. (Ketabtoon (talk) 04:17, 13 December 2010 (UTC))

uw-ublock
I wonder if there's a way I could convince you to look at a user's contributions before using uw-ublock? Almost every day, I run across editors that were promoting their own businesses and organizations, but were blocked (often by you) with the message, "Your username is the only reason for this block". This might save time for you, but it wastes time for those of us on unblock patrol, when we have to explain to those users that the username is indeed not the only reason for the block. --jpgordon:==( o ) 16:20, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know you Case, and I don't know why I still have Gordon watchlisted, but your impressive edit summary may have a deleterious psychological effect on breakfast for various Wikipedians.Anythingyouwant (talk) 08:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Redirect deletion
Hey, I was wondering if you could just delete the redirect. I've written an article for it (User:Gyrobo/New Paltz Railroad Station) and want to preserve the edit history, but don't have the ability to overwrite it. --Gyrobo (talk) 22:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Gyrobo (talk) 02:58, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Farmertedmustgo
I intended my note to be a final warning, but good block - as I'm now noticing another account that might be a sock. See, with a deleted article about a Farmer named Ted, deleted as a hoax - and now sudden interest in Agrizoophobia. Worth filing a report, you think? Best, UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 15:52, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 16:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Woodlawn (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Materialscientist (talk) 18:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Holland Land Office
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

The Lovely Bones
I'm not going to revert your change because it's not worth it, but you miss my point. The issue in the plot is what's accurate. We are saying something about what the detective thinks. My memory of the movie is that the detective, after finding the bloody hat, thought that this was evidence that Susie had been killed. For us to go further than that and use the word "murdered" is unnecessary and potentially inaccurate. We know, of course, that Susie was murdered, but that's not the point - it's trying to find the most accurate representation of what we think the detective is thinking (unless, of course, he actually used the word "murdered" - I don't remember that, but I don't have a phonographic memory :-) ). The plot originally used the word "killed" and someone changed it to "murdered" - I just changed it back to the more neutral term.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:19, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Genesee County Courthouse
Hello! Your submission of Genesee County Courthouse at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Thelmadatter (talk) 02:19, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Genesee County Courthouse
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Jeepday (talk) 18:27, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Rail trail update
I finished writing the section on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail's route, put in a request for a route map, and moved some information into Rosendale trestle and La Stazione. I tried to avoid inserting refs in the middle of sentences, but where the sources are offline, I really thought it would help for verification in some instances. I've also thought about what you said, and I decided I still want to pursue an A-class review. I've participated in some FACs for the last few months and come away with a bad impression of the process. I have no desire to quibble over minor punctuation and sentence structure, go a month without feedback, and then be asked to come back with confirmation that all images from the 19th century are in the public domain. I'd prefer to have editors from relevant projects with an interest in the material determine that the article is really, really good. --Gyrobo (talk) 01:37, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Brace Mountain
Merry Christmas and thanks for your contribution Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Other WPHV editors
I was just wondering, which WPHV editors are still active? The only way to get La Stazione to GA status would be to verify the source materials at the Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz, and that would be a huge burden for anyone not living in the Hudson Valley. A lot of the editors listed as project members stopped editing years ago. --Gyrobo (talk) 02:38, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
Season's Greetings! --The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Genesee County Courthouse Historic District
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 20:05, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Batavian Clubhouse
Can't seem to locate reference for original hook, but believe ALT2 is more intriguing. Comments?Djflem (talk) 16:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Adding DYK images
Always forget to drop this note. Please use

Please don't use because |right has to be manually removed later (it breaks the main-page DYK section when viewed with internet explorer). Please don't add images above the subsection of your nom because when the nom is promoted, its subsection is emptied leaving a stray image. Happy New Year and cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 02:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Batavia Club
Victuallers (talk) 03:11, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Username warnings
I noticed you warned about violation of the username policy due to inclusion of the term "barf". I have seen you give such a warning before for the same word, and I am puzzled as to how "barf" violates WP:U. It is a colloquial term for vomit or vomiting, as I see it, and I don't know how that could be seen as offensive. I'm just trying to help keep the amount of stuff in CAT:UAA to a minimum, as it was ridiculously full until a few days ago. See also WP:AN. Thanks, — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Russian
Hi Daniel Case! Thank you for approving my hook on Polad Bülbüloğlu. Just wanted to note that the Russian word for "approved" is "одобренно" or "утверждено" :) I think what you had in mind was "пpoвepено", which means "checked". Thanks again, Ynhockey (Talk) 23:33, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Waterbury Union Station
Hello. Please see my comments at T:TDYK; I have concerns about the fact that this DYK nominee is largely based on a single source. –Grondemar 05:14, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

71.250.186.58
He/she is at it again, adding deliberate misinformation to List of Days of our Lives cast members. Thanks. Rm994 (talk) 18:16, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Waterbury Union Station
The DYK project (nominate) 12:01, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

400 DYKs!

 * You are very welcome - wonder if it would be worth raising the question of why there is no 500 DYK award on the DYK talk page. Ruhrfisch <sub style="color:green;">&gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 22:21, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

ping
Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Did you get it? Regards.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:21, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Animal conspiracy theories involving Israel
Hi Daniel, I was wondering about these deletions. Mbz1 has already posted that website onwiki, and has uploaded images to the Commons and linked to it. Also, was it necessary to remove 28 revisions? SlimVirgin talk| contribs 09:39, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * First I'd like to apologize to Daniel for putting him in a difficult situation. I am really sorry about this.


 * Yes, SV, you are right, the link to my website was released by me to wikipedia, and is used in the description field of some of my images, but I would not like it (my website that has my full name in it) to be assoiated with that deletion request.


 * Daniel, if you believe my request to be invalid,then restore the over-sighted comments please, but I personally believe that the deletion request has more than enough trolling already, and nothing bad would happen, if some of the comments are over-sighted. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:17, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I too was wondering if Mbz1 had mentioned in her request to you that she herself had posted the link to the same URL, that exact image on her website, for example here, in a diff giving a stirring account of support she had received in the past from the image's creator. betsythedevine (talk) 14:28, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Winter 2010 USRD newsletter


JCbot (talk) 01:01, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for First Presbyterian Church (Batavia, New York)
The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Florida Justice Institute
Literally six minutes after you blocked, shows up and introduced the same information contained in FloridaJusticeInstitute's edit. Turns out it was a copyvio of the institute's About Us page. I've already started an Sockpuppet investigations/FloridaJusticeInstitute, but thought I'd let you know as well. If you do get to this and block before the checkusers get to it, let it run--hoping to catch any more socks as well. Blueboy96 19:49, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Downtown Waterbury
Hi. Thanks for starting and expanding the Downtown Waterbury Historic District article. What are your thoughts on including the already existing Waterbury Municipal Center Complex article as that older district is completely contained within the newer Downtown Waterbury district? My editorial opinion is that combining the older, smaller district and discussing it in the context of the newer, larger district makes for a more wholistic view of the historical development of the downtown Waterbury area. But since you're the one working on the article, I think the final decision should be left to your judgment. Thanks again. --Polaron | Talk 22:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

New WikiProject Novels initiative
We have begun a new initiative at the WikiProject Novels: an improvement drive. As a member listed here, you are being notified. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Novels/Collaboration for more details. Also I would like to remind you to keep an eye on the project talk page at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels. Thanks, Sadads (talk) 02:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Oldest FA
Australia appears to be the oldest FA in that it was originally created before any other article that currently has FA status. I've not looked into when Australia got its FA. If you think Bob Dylan got its FA first you are probably right, but that's not what I was talking about. Don't think twice about the misunderstanding, though. It's alright. --FormerIP (talk) 19:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Input requested on Talk:New Paltz railroad station
Since you were the one who first helped me clear the way for the La Stazione article to be moved to article space, I thought you'd like to participate in the ongoing discussion regarding its name change to New Paltz railroad station. In a nutshell, my points about WP:COMMONNAME have been completely ignored, and it's been repeatedly conjectured that I'm biased and have written a promotional piece solely because of the article's name. The article has since been moved without comment (not even a "moved per consensus" tagline). Could you please weigh in here? --Gyrobo (talk) 02:45, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

174.28.41.201 and Jeopardy! think music
Already reported to ANI a few weeks ago. Nothing happened. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 02:56, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Page protection
Can we get an admin at WP:RPP? <font face="Comic Sans MS"> Baseball Watcher Lets Chat  03:12, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind <font face="Comic Sans MS"> Baseball Watcher Lets Chat  04:17, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Gay icon
I think it was you who redacted the revision since you also blocked the author. However, the IP who edited afterward is now attributed with adding the content, since I had to undo after an intervening edit. Would you mind redacting that revision too? Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:53, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

IP Block
Thanks for noticing my req. infact its a dynamic IP block by a global steward, I have requested in meta and it clear now...--<font face="zapfino" color="blue"> ...Captain...... <font face="Papyrus" color="black" >Tälk tö me...   05:05, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Downtown Waterbury Historic District
Hello! Your submission of Downtown Waterbury Historic District at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! -RHM22 (talk) 22:53, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Sorry to bother you, but I have a very small concern with your DYK nomination. When you find time, please give it a check over at the nominations page for more details. Thanks!-RHM22 (talk) 03:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

FYI User:KeithNagy10
I've requested oversight on the user page- WP:CHILD issues (you did the block). No need to reply,,, Skier Dude  ( talk ) 04:35, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Downtown Waterbury Historic District
HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   00:04, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Webcite tool
This tool may be helpful if you're still wanting to use webcite for Ontario v. Quon.--Chaser (talk) 03:50, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors
I saw the quality of your contributions at DYK and clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador, Sadads (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Unblock request from 76.116.228.175
I have seen the unblock request at User talk:76.116.228.175, and also the blocking admin's response. It seems to me that the explanation given makes perfect sense, and after several years the user can be given another chance. I would be very much inclined to unblock. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Here's the Clay Shirky essay I mentioned
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculative-post-on-the-idea-of-algorithmic-authority/

--ragesoss (talk) 17:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

User who you recently blocked
For personal reasons I do not want to mention his name but I have decided to write a professional letter to the user who you blocked so I can see what was the reasoning for his vandalisim and see if he can edit constructively in the future if he is unblocked.

--Thebirdlover (talk) 05:19, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Quick page name questions
Following the naming issue over La Stazione, I have two other possible moves that I'd like to ask you about: --Gyrobo (talk) 23:14, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) All Saints' Chapel (Rosendale, New York) &rarr; Rosendale Library, the church has been a library for many decades now
 * 2) Newburgh (city), New York &rarr; Newburgh, New York, none of the other cities (Poughkeepsie, Kingston) have to differentiate themselves from their respective towns. Let's put Newburgh where it should have been five years ago; as a non-admin, I can't make this move.

Would you consider taking this on?
So I took the history section of Albany, New York and pasted it over at History of Albany, New York. Previously, User:Camelbinky had included a very detailed history of the city there, so, in the style of History of New York City, I broke that content up into eras (see template at right). Would you consider cutting down the history section at Albany, New York to something you think would be more likely to pass an FAC? While I'm not thrilled with trimming much, I'll do what I must. I figured you'd be a good place to start. Let me know if you'd consider it. Thanks!  upstate NYer  01:07, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Richmond Memorial Library
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   12:03, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

re: Marion Shovel (Le Roy, New York)
Hi Daniel. I replaced the reference for the reasons you stated in your question to me - "the latter is in PDF format and easier for most readers to review". The previous reference took over one minute to load a java script reader and then opened the exact same document but in lower resolution. I don't see any reason for favoring a New York state resource over a federal one, especially when the state uses such an unfriendly access system. Both the state and the federal government are equally authoritative on this matter, but one published the information in a way that loads much more quickly than the other, is in a more readily accessible format and displays in higher resolution. Additionally, because the NPS source is in PDF format, I was able to create an archive of the document using webcite.org see.

Regarding the "one source" idea, I feel it is obvious that any article is more authoritative and credible when it can reference multiple, high quality sources. The article we are discussing has only one high quality source, (the nomination document), one dead link and one working link that references a web site that I do not believe ranks very highly as a reputable source. Clearly, we should try to do better. The one source justification is especially lame considering that even the general information about the history of the company uses the NPS document as a reference. Other good sources on the general history of the company are available online via general web search or by searching google books. The main Marion Power Shovel (the company) article is seriously lacking in references (and has other problems). As I complete more research I plan to update that article with more credible, third party references. References that can be used in support of the Le Roy shovel article will be added there as well.

"nomination documents are often the only reliable source available" Baloney! Certainly when someone wrote the NPS nomination document, they were referencing historical documentation? The nominations are not written by hearsay. Although the documents and records that informed the creation of the nomination document may not be available -online-, they are out there. To be verifiable, Wikipedia sources don't have to be online, they just need to exist. While the NPS nomination may be the only good -online- source of information about the shovel, that document is most certainly not the only source of available information. The fact that you and I can't or won't make the necessary trip to Le Roy (or where ever the research takes us) to find and inspect the printed historical records isn't a justification for citing just one source. The "one source" notice is a fair one, letting readers and editors know that more research can be done and needs to be done in support of this article.

The Le Roy steam shovel article is an example of a well written article that would benefit from more referencing more quality sources. I hope that you would support all efforts to improve the article, especially those that help to strengthen the credibility of the article by referencing a number of good quality, third party sources. Ch Th Jo (talk) 17:57, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * "We have not yet found a way to deal with such secondary-source issues in our citation requirements." What you've labeled as a "secondary source" is actually a primary source, if I understand you correctly (maybe "original" is a better term for this discussion?). However, if you can't access the primary/original source (because its a paper record in New York, for example) I can't recommend citing it. Ideally, you should track down all of the primary sources, read them, and synthesize a WP article. (As it is you/we are creating a synthesis of a synthesis and that's not wrong, bad or unethical necessarily, but its much less than ideal. Trying to infer what the original source said and the context was based solely on what's in the nomination document is asking for problems.) Writing a really solid article sometimes (often?) can't be accomplished using only online sources and the Marion Shovel article is a pretty good example of why. All the pertinent paper records are located in NY, not reproduced on line and would require a decent amount of time to track down and read. That could be expensive and time consuming for someone who doesn't live in the area. That's inconvenient, but not a very good excuse for defending having just one source as being O.K.


 * "Someone might question their reliability, or verifiability, given that many sources used for local history are often old, out-of-print books only available in one local library or historical society somewhere." Let them. WP is very clear that sources do -not- have to be online. In the case of this article, old company and government records and/or out of print commercial books are probably the best source of information since they were created in real time, not by some historian trying to re-create the past by inference. "I'd rather have an online source any reader can review." I agree with you that online sources are useful because they are easy to check, however 'easy to check' is not part of verifiability. (The Vatican Secret Library is given as an example of a place with many valid, yet very hard to check sources.)


 * "using a citation method that is to me too closely associated with plagiarism laundering is morally questionable" There is nothing wrong with one citation method over another. You aren't guilty of plagiarism unless you plagiarize. I can understand why you want to avoid certain things that knuckleheads might use against you (even if they are demonstrably wrong or are just being trolls). I generally try to -not- let the trouble makers of the world set the rules, but I acknowledge that in the WP community you have to sometimes pick your battles so you don't waste time dealing with fools.


 * "If you can find more information on the history of the company..." I have found the info, but have to work on the prose and the citations. I'll work on both the company and the NY shovel articles. You can remove the tag now if you wish. I still feel that this article and all articles need more than one source. I feel that a reader accessing the article should be warned up front that the article cites only one source. Regardless of circumstances and whatever justifications you make, the reader deserves that warning. I have done my part by adding the tag and look to you to question whether removing it is really in service of the readers.


 * The Marion Shovel NY article is pretty good in many ways, but it can never be considered best in class until one of us makes a trip and does the research. You and others have done well with what you have to work with, but there's no getting around the fact that the article cites only one source. The 'one source' used in this article is probably pretty safe, reliable and trustworthy, but getting something listed on the NRHP sometimes gets people emotional and there is always the possibility that judgments were made and conclusions were drawn that we might not agree with if we had the original/primary documents in front of us. Ch Th Jo (talk) 00:12, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Lyanaz unblock request
Hello Daniel. I notice you reviewed this unblock request, and that the original blocker, KrakatoaKatie is inactive due to illness. She imposed a hardblock for one year. I found that I could not activate this IP as a proxy on port 443 and did not see the usual Google hits suggesting the IP,, is an open proxy. The IP got three hits on spam blacklists, one from 79 days ago. I don't find evidence that this is the common IP for all of the Indian Institute of Management. My guess is it's a public terminal at a university. Would you be OK with my reducing the block to anon-only? I would leave a note for Katie so she can check it again when she returns to Wikipedia. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Response to question concerning unblock request
JamesBWatson (talk) 11:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for O'Connor v. Ortega
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:05, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Possible mistaken identity
Hi Daniel Case: is it possible your comment accompanying this block was intended to refer to this user's edit ? Thanks, JNW (talk) 18:23, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Confusion
In this edit, you removed an AIV case as "a blocked account", but the account shows no sign of ever being blocked. <font color="#21421E" face="Papyrus">Wuh <font color="#CC7722" face="Papyrus">Wuz <font color="#AA0022" face="Papyrus">Dat 18:39, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

About Beadpoop and WP:UAA
Definitely Hebrew. Looks like it was someone's autobiography.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

CSD notification
Please don't forget to notify the creator of an article when you nominate for CSD, e.g. ROSE Pakistan-- SPhilbrick  T  18:34, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I noticed you could have deleted it on your own, but I agree, a second pair of eyes in some cases is a good thing. -- SPhilbrick  T  20:36, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Australian Air League vandalism
Hi Daniel, you recently oversighted some vandalism on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Air_League - thanks very much for that. I did notice though that there are two edits still visible in history (cur | prev) 09:15, 21 January 2011 211.30.216.238 (talk) (26,798 bytes) (undo)

(cur | prev) 17:28, 20 January 2011 211.30.216.238 (talk) (26,410 bytes) (→Operations and Significant Personnel)

Can you please oversight these too? Once again - thanks for your assistance - Brian GrinterBgrinter (talk) 09:45, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Addition - Australian Air League
Daniel - thank you for your response. While the section you highlight does have a source, there are also several paragraphs still visible in history that do name and slander people without source| such as here. Is it possible to remove at least those from history? Bgrinter (talk) 21:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

User:ThayerPublicLibrary
U says "Unambiguous use of a name or URL of a company, group or product as a username is not permitted". How is this ambiguous? --Hammersoft (talk) 19:04, 3 February 2011 (UTC) (we can keep conversation in one place)
 * It may not be permitted, but there are different ways of dealing with that. We don't have to go and block on sight, especially with no edits (save, IMO, for accounts that clearly indicate group and promotional use, like "Consolidated Amalgamated Marketing Department"). We can see if this user edits, and then if they try to promote the library then we block them. If not, if they edit articles about, say, gardening, we can go to their talk page, ask if they have any connection with that institution, and suggest they change their name. Daniel Case (talk) 19:08, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point. It's an obvious violation. I don't mean to discourage editors, but this is blatantly inappropriate. I left a message for them at User_talk:ThayerPublicLibrary to that effect. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I do. I have long considered WP:ORGNAME to be far too restrictive and shortsighted. Policies don't edit Wikipedia, people do. I made my positions on this very clear at the long RFC we had on this issue last year. They haven't changed. Daniel Case (talk) 19:18, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok now you have me confused. At that RfC (thanks for the link!) the apparent consensus was to "oppose allowing users to use company names". Isn't your action therefore in contradiction to that RfC? I'm left quite confused here. The policy seems unequivocal, yet you denied the block. In another case that I just reported for User:TheKarcherGroup, that account was blocked. I understand your position that policies don't edit Wikipedia, and we (I'm inferring you're saying this) should be kind to new editors. But, this different application of policy leaves me wondering what the heck we're supposed to do? Not report and ignore it? Then we're left with situations like that at User talk:Perada; a user that edited for two years, introduced copyright violations and was editing in conflict of interest and representing a group. Another case; User talk:Itvitn; editing for two years, obvious COI editing, and still representing the group. It would be helpful if there was uniform application of the policy, and the RfC seems to be pretty clear as to what we should be doing in these case. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The RfC never really, to me, came to a consensus (and I got tired of it near the end and decided I could more productively spend time editing. Too many issues that Thparkth, myself and other editors raised were left unaddressed. So what should we do? Yes, certainly report it, but remember that UAA is not "Requests for Blocks" anymore than AIV is. All it is is a place to bring a possible violation of policy to administrators' attention. Differences of opinion about how to best address it are certainly welcome. Daniel Case (talk) 19:35, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * If you disagree with the consensus that was created there, why operate against it? There's many things I disagree with here. I don't operate against consensus though. I of course recognize that UAA isn't a request for blocks. But there are blatant cases, and the policy is clear. If you're not willing to apply the consensus, perhaps you shouldn't patrol UAA. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The consensus is that we shouldn't ignore those reports; it isn't that we block on sight in every single case. I respond to them. Most of the other admins who patrol UAA accept this as my approach, and I'm not alone in it. And I accept theirs. Really, ask yourself ... what if that user never edits at all (as indeed, the vast majority of many new accounts don't)? What damage would be done to the project? Daniel Case (talk) 19:43, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * We disagree. Thanks for your time, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:47, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK Rules Query
Regarding the Grand Hotel (New Ulm, Minnesota) dyk nom, was wondering if you could give your thoughts there (as this is just my second review after the new rules req nominators to review other noms came into effect in Jan). There seems to be some misunderstanding of the rules either on my part or on the part of the nominator - could you pl give your views (being active at dyk I thought your input would give some good insight). Thanks, Around The Globe  सत्यमेव जयते 08:49, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels Collaboration for February
Thank you everyone who participated in the January Collaboration, it was quite a success with 5 new C class articles, 3 stub kills and several articles were removed from our backlogs. In support of the Great Backlog Drive, the WikiProject Novels Collaboration for February is going to help remove backlog candidates in the backlogs related to WikiProject Novels. Please join us, and help us wikify, reference, clean up plot sections and generally improve Novels content, Sadads (talk) 22:12, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

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St. James' Episcopal Church (Batavia, New York)
Hi - I was trying to review this article for DYK, but the first reference produces an error message - "Microsoft VBScript runtime  error '800a000d'   Type mismatch: 'Rst'  /hpimaging/hp_view.asp, line 26" Can you cehck it out? Cheers. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 17:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply - I have tried to follow this link (and others to the "National Register of Historic Places" website with no success. Both my PC and laptop have JavaScript installed. Any more ideas?   Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 21:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I've just had a quick look and it's all fine now (without installing any new software), so I guess there was a problem their end. --  Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 11:42, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Chicago
These appear to be the same user, who's been trying to post that info for a number of weeks now, so I doubt a 48-hour block is going to be much of a deterrent. But at least it might send the message that he's being watched. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:02, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
FYI & see archived items. Kudpung (talk) 05:03, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Another outburst like that  and I  think we may  have to consider a more formal line of approach. Kudpung (talk) 11:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like he took care of things for us. Daniel Case (talk) 15:45, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Will do; we shall see what the SPI turns up. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 16:56, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Timneu22 (talk • contribs)

As you say, you may be correct. You obviously have more experience with dealing with outings, given your permissions. I assume your comments on the SPI are not to be taken as indication that you are making the response to my request for oversight? Syrthiss (talk) 18:21, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware you had made a request. In any event, I believe WP:OUTING was meant primarily to target apropos-of-nothing-whatsoever disclosures of private information, not those which might necessarily arise in the course of an SPI. Daniel Case (talk) 18:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Re: this edit; my NPP activity has nothing to do with your off-base SPI. Further, my NPP actions have consequences? Of course! And I did nothing but help Wikipedia. The Blade knows that, and so do a few other editors with whom I routinely chat. You have done nothing productive here by running me off the project and revealing personal information. It is you who should be investigated for your poor, poor behavior as an administrator. You need to know that. You think I WP:BITE newcomers who create crap articles? Well you run off seasoned Wikipedians who donate their time. &mdash; Timneu22 &middot; &#32; talk 19:11, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * "my NPP activity has nothing to do with your off-base SPI" Not directly, but it did lead to JN466 discovering the article about you, which you seem to have been aware of at a time when you had been editing long enough to have forfeited the presumption that you might not be aware of policy in that area, specifically that you might want to have disclosed the relationship by putting Connected contributor on the talk page. As far as the other things you're saying, I think I know how you feel quite well ... you've said it several times already. As noted elsewhere, it is your apparent inability to admit you might have done something that, on hindsight, you could have done differently. We all make mistakes; that's (unfortunately) one of the ways we learn. I've had a few edits I'd like to have back too. Just accept that you aren't perfect, think about what you could do to avoid the same mistake again, pick yourself up and move on. Daniel Case (talk) 19:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Re your e-mail; I obviously won't go into detail about it, but suffice to say that I understand where you're coming from, and I wouldn't have wanted you to rush to any sort of judgement. There's no rush here, so I want to know what was going on before we start acting on what happened. I think AGF applies, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks so. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 21:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * And I just see this now, and you're telling me I should have said Connected contributor somewhere. Sure, if I knew that template existed maybe that was necessary. Come on man, your efforts are tiring. &mdash; Timneu22 &middot; &#32; talk 10:42, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Any five-year member of the community knows that, after a certain point, ignorance of policy is no excuse. As such, though, it isn't a cardinal sin, just something to correct. Daniel Case (talk) 17:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Timneu22
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Timneu22 has been moved to a new page, apparently it should not have been on the user's talk page, and the comments you made there removed to the talk page of the RFC. Please add any comments you with to make in appropriate form at Requests for comment/Timneu22. User:Fred Bauder Talk 03:24, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Kandazburg
Hi Daniel, thanks for your note. I've left my thoughts publicly at User talk:Kandazburg. They appear to be denying the obvious, and could always just go back to the original account. I could be wrong, but it does look clear. - Peripitus (Talk) 08:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for St. James' Episcopal Church (Batavia, New York)
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Elton Hotel
Materialscientist (talk) 06:04, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

I have altered one of your comments
To let you know, I've altered one of your comments in an AFD per. I took the step of doing this as a non admin because no one seemed to react to the request on the ANI thread one way or t'other. I'm notifying you so you can decide what to do, if anything. Cheers, Egg Centric (talk) 12:23, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Acspsg
I don't remember anything in particular about Acspsg. I think he was just being childish, probably because he was one. I don't think unblocking him will be a big problem, although I can't say I understand why he'd want that name back instead of making a new account. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 06:05, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Cyrius & Daniel just to add - it's cos an admin blocked my IP indefinitely, so I can't create a new account. Thanks.The ACSian (talk) 13:52, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Aariix3
Could you take a look at Aariix3's most recent contributions (especially the additions of new population figures to Ecuador and other articles) to see if this is the same behavior that caused you to block xyr for three months staring from October last year? Xyr edits to Ecuador (the one I noticed)—struck me as odd; he used a non-reliable source, but then didn't even put the information listed in that source, instead using what looked like to me to be totally different numbers. I can't tell if xe's just making mistakes, or deliberately introducing factual errors... 04:58, 16 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I messed up the name; it's (two i's).  Qwyrxian (talk) 05:40, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Case citations
Your law articles are very good, and I'm glad to see others working on the neglected area of law on wikipedia. In fact, its only because your content is so good that I bother to comment about your citations (if the article is really bad, I just look the other way). I notice that your case citations do not conform to any system of citation known to me, least of all the Bluebook, which is the dominant style guide for U.S. legal scholarship. I'm interested to know how you've been formatting citations to actual decisions and what your rationale is. Savidan 17:10, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I've made your citations more or less conform with the Bluebook in O'Connor v. Ortega. If you're willing and interested to follow this citation style, and have questions, I'd be glad to advise further. Savidan 17:35, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Stay tuned. I plan to write a proposed manual of style for U.S. legal citations in a month or so.  I've already decided that there are parts of the Bluebook that won't work on Wikipedia because the Bluebook assumes finality, while Wikipedia is a constant work-in-progress (e.g., supras, infras, hereinafters, and id. will be messed up if a later editor inserts a new source anywhere in the article; I've decided the first three should never be used and id. should only be used where the source is in the same footnote; provides an effective substitute in most instances).  There are other parts of the Bluebook that won't work for an online source with no hierarchical editorial control (e.g. online sources, the format for which doesn't matter much because the reader can just click and go to the original).  I am only proposing that Bluebook be used for U.S. (and U.S. state) cases, statutes, legislative materials, and administrative regulations.  I myself also use it for books and law review articles, but I won't lose sleep if others prefer to use their own citation style for these.
 * As for DYK reviewers, I think they fail to realize this is an inherent problem in any system of citation. However, I think using some system of case citation is inevitable (citing these as [Justice as author], [year], [page #] would be so much worse), and it's best to pick the most common off-wiki citation style. Savidan 18:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The guideline you link is not much help. It says nothing about the format; it just says to use some template.  Moreover, it assumes there can be one citation style for the law of every country (objectively false).  Savidan 18:47, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Connick v. Myers
Thanks for brightening February on DYK Victuallers (talk) 06:05, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Seigenthaler
Thanks for writing that up. A bit of Wikipedia history I had never heard. Pfly (talk) 09:17, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yea, before my time. Plus, I mostly ignore the larger ("political"?) issues on Wikipedia, preferring to focus on content. Only in the last couple of years have I begun to pay a little attention to the larger picture around here. Someone should write a good in-depth history book about Wikipedia. Hmm, probably someone already has.


 * But hey, you worked at the Williamsville Mill?? Wow—not only is that right in my old neighborhood but the mill is such a unique and special place. Must have been interesting to work there. I took some tours as a kid and it seemed like the place had an endless series of basements, increasingly dungeon-like (or so it seemed to me as a little kid). I spent more days over more years I can recall tromping around the base of the mill, down where its foundations meet Glen Park. An old friend just posted a photo of Glen Falls raging in flood last week after a major snowmelt. I grew up mostly on South Ellicott Street (plus on Eagle Street for a bit), mere blocks away. Went to Academy School, Mill Middle, South High. Had jobs as a teen at Santora's Pizza and Sorrentino's. I haven't been back there for years now, but one thing I always remember about the mill was the excellent apple cider made there every autumn. Maybe it is nostalgia clouding my memory, but I've never found cider that seems anywhere near as tasty. I hear they pasteurize it these days (by law I think), but back in the 80s they didn't, unless my memory is totally shot. I recall many friends letting the mill's cider go hard. Some even made a kind of apple jack from it. Did you grow up in Williamsville or the area? There's a fun, slightly dormant Facebook group an old friend made called I grew up on South Ellicott Street—though it developed into a place for people from the general area to chat about old times and learn about the many stories, etc. Maybe worth checking out if you have roots near the mill! I believe the photos posted there are viewable by anyone (there are lots and lots of photos). ...sometimes the world seems very small. Wow. ...the Episcopal Church is the one on Cayuga Rd at Milton, right? Fairly close to Island Park? Pfly (talk) 18:01, 22 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I see I should have read your user page more closely before writing, but I'm about to catch a plane. But a quick scan makes it look like you were there while getting your master's at UB? English degree? My father was an English professor at UB until retiring in the late 90s. Perhaps before your time, and even if not it is a large department. But, by chance maybe you came across a Prof. Richard Fly. I went to UB too, but earlier—1987 to Dec 1992. My BA was in music, so I spent a lot of time in Baird Hall & Slee, right next door to Clemens. The Center for the Arts didn't exist back then. Ack, gotta catch my plane, cya! Pfly (talk) 18:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

PRUNIT
Are you sure about the block? I can't see much spam he posted. Petrb (talk) 15:57, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

User 74.92.27.193
Since you blocked Special:Contributions/74.92.27.193 on the 18th of November, 2010, that IP has made 15 more disruptive edits, all reverted by bots or users. That IP was later blocked on the 21st of January 2011. In all, the user has ignored 11 warnings or blockages to make 31 disruptive edits, all reverted by bots or users, and has made no constructive edits at all, other than a promise to not do it again, after which came the majority of vandalism: 26 more disruptive edits. Copy of this notice sent to User:HJ Mitchell, the second administrator to block. Anarchangel (talk) 03:23, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of You Just Don't Understand
Hello! Your submission of You Just Don't Understand at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:55, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Raining
I have just read your unblock-decline comment at User talk:85.12.88.17. I liked it. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:24, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination review of Nepal Transport Service
Hi Daniel, I just wanted to let you know that I looked at this DYK nomination, but I came to a different conclusion. It was only introduced into the article space on 20 Feb after the author worked on it in his user space. This should make it eligible. If you agree, you may want to pop back over there, since you've already reviewed the rest of the criteria. Thanks! Cmprince (talk) 16:47, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism and Warnings
Hi Daniel - I recently noticed that you had denied my report to WP:AIV due to the reported user not being sufficiently warned. I was hoping if you could please elaborate? I feel that the user is a fairly strong example of an active vandalism-only account, in which the user had been adding blatantly false information to articles (among other unconstructive edits), and had created two articles that consisted of attacks. Per WP:VAND, wouldn't immediate blockage without warning be the best solution to prevent further disruption in this scenario? ~<i style="color:#07517C;">Super</i> Hamster  Talk Contribs 04:59, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for You Just Don't Understand
The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

User:Mine's the scientist
I see that you declined to act on an AIV report on Mine's the scientist, commenting "Earlier edits were OK; only in the last couple of hours did they turn unacceptable and then stop. Remember that we usually warn people before blocking them." I have blocked the user, and, since this was overturning an administrative decision of yours, I feel I owe you the courtesy of explaining why. The first thing that struck me was that the editor's first few edits did not look remotely like the work of someone who had little or no previous experience of editing Wikipedia. I also noticed that these first few edits were perfectly constructive, but very minor, in several cases quite trivial. Then, after precisely ten such edits and 4 days plus some minutes after the account was created, the editor started making disruptive edits on articles which were semi-protected, so that autoconfirmation was required in order to do so. In my opinion that all adds up to enough evidence to decide that there is a quite calculated plan to establish a vandalism-only account and get round protection, enough, in my opinion, to justify an indefinite block. If you disagree please feel free to unblock, but in that case I trust you will let me know. (I would not be surprised if a search through the edit history of the articles would revel similar edits by one or more IPs before semiprotection, but I haven't bothered to check.) JamesBWatson (talk) 21:52, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Batavia Cemetery
Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Two Glen Cove Post Offices on NRHP?
The "Glen Cove Post Office" that's listed as the new registry on National Register of Historic Places listings in Oyster Bay (town), New York, is actully the headquarters of the Smiros & Smiros architectural firm. Unless the currently listed post office on 2 Glen Cove Avenue is a replacement for the building at 51 Glen Street, something isn't right here. DanTD (talk) 15:48, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I really wasn't planning to add an article of any kind there, but this fact should be mentioned on the existing United States Post Office (Glen Cove, New York) article. DanTD (talk) 15:56, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for John Kendrick House
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Yeah, it was tough. Thanks for the barnstar; that's not what I was in it for, but it never hurts to get a little something now and then. We had our disagreement, but I think your overall work is excellent. I especially want to thank you for being a steady hand at UAA; I'm convinced that some people are actively trying to be offended when they report there. Thanks again!! The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 19:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Report
I'm pretty sure is a new sock puppet of, who was recently blocked by you. Shahid •  Talk 2 me  21:19, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You may want to make a CU check. First, he clearly is not new to Wikipedia. His edits related to Rajesh Khanna are pretty clear, and his other edits on other articles reflect what other editors used to do on the Rajesh Khanna page. Sounds confusing, but as I said, I'm pretty sure it's a SP. Please do make a check. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  21:40, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * He was confirmed to be a sock by MuZemike. Thanks, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  22:49, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for United States v. Payner
Gatoclass (talk) 02:02, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Another great article. I've made some minor bluebook edits here.  If you want clarification on any of these, I am happy to explain. Savidan 03:23, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Mumbai
Hiya,

Need your guidance once more. Iv been trying to change some images on the Mumbai article for the last few days. Iv been reverted a few times, however when I put a few notes on the discussion page theres hardly been a response. Wondering how to take this forward. Cheers, Around The Globe  सत्यमेव जयते 07:40, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

IP Block Exempt
Thanks very much for the IP block exempt. My editing had been disrupted several times but now you have solved the problem. Thanks, again. 149AFK (talk) 09:50, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Help wanted/needed
Hi Daniel, I remember you answering my first user-report, and really, I could use some help, for I;m at the end of my Latin (well, so to speak). The case (no referrence to your surname intended ;)) is this: I have reported User:Bokiluis for the second time, as he has, since the first report and a second warning on his talk page, made new edits. Below, in small, you can find both the conversation on the AIAV page, and the reason why I am seeking your help.  *  - Everything involving Diana Ross is peacocked, unsourced, and POV. His edits are reversed by other users on several pages, but it's getting tiring to clean up his mess. Asked him to stop, and be constructive, but that, obviously (as can be seen here), didn't help. Warned him a second time, still nothing. User won't discuss, in fact, there's no respons whatsoever. Was on this page earlier, but at that moment there was no real vandalism. Should I wait until I have warned him a third time, or is this enough to block this user (temporarily)? Robster1983 (talk) 20:52, 7 March 2011 (UTC) **I see that you have also put this on ANI which is a better board than this one for non simple vandalism cases. Theresa Knott &#124; Sort that Knee! 22:02, 7 March 2011 (UTC) ***Yes, and they referred me to RFC. That was, however, before aforementioned user made several new 'contributions'. Also, I'm getting nowhere if being referred to another wiki-department all the time. If someone can point me towards the right wiki-board to adress this, then I would be content with whatever the outcome is. Although your advice is well-meant, I can't help but feeling sort of helpless and lost right now. I really hope you can understand my frustration with this. Robster1983 (talk) 22:14, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I really hope you can help in any way, for I don't seem to get anywhere. Best regards, Robster1983 (talk) 22:43, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind (for now); I suddenly had the luminous idea to ask Theresa for help, as she was the latest to respond to be (at least it took me several minutes to think of that, and not hours, or days even ;)). You're more than welcome, though, to share your thoughts on this all, if you want to. Robster1983 (talk) 22:53, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Stephen browett
Regarding your hasty tag for this article, User:Farrvintners‎ is a company owned by the article subject, it might be him editing under his own company name. Phearson (talk) 15:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC) Also, see Stephen Browett (deleted) Phearson (talk) 15:48, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

more lasting than brass
Your work on Waterbury Municipal Center Complex, as usual, is quite fine. Just watching about that Horace quote, "QUID AERE PERENNIUS", from page 21 of the NRHP nom, which you seem to want to quote, but don't. In the article, searching on Horace, gets you to "Gilbert had apparently added the Horace quote on his own, perhaps as a joke" but you don't explain what is "the Horace quote". Perhaps you meant to develop some more there? -- do ncr  am  17:16, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

P:HUDSON nom
Just wanted to let you know, I nominated P:HUDSON for featured portal. Most of the selected pictures are yours, so I was wondering if you had any problems with any of the captions, or if you had more that you want to see in rotation. --Gyrobo (talk) 21:28, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Aspen City Hall
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   02:23, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Waterbury Municipal Center Complex
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   10:12, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of La Fave Block
Hello! Your submission of La Fave Block at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:13, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Blocking controversial user name User:Diaconia
Diaconia does not refer to a specific entity but rather is a generic term suggesting a user with an interest in ecclesiology. It is not promotional in nature, nor is it corporate. This particular blocking seems like a newcomer bite. Would you kindly undo it? -- ke4roh (talk) 17:26, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clear explanation on my talk page. Good call. -- ke4roh (talk) 01:04, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for La Fave Block
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   08:02, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Waters v. Churchill
The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

timesaver
Rebecca Shearing helpfully reposted with the speedy tags already in place. Not laughing. Really not. -- Rrburke (talk) 15:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Pity, that, in a way. OTOH, since the article was created by her record label and contains such memorable passages as "she felt the time was right to be signed and take her music to the next level," there's a case to be made that it's really just spam. -- Rrburke (talk) 16:37, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Perk10
Hi. Regarding the recent unblocking of "per discussion on talk page": the user of this account has made little secret of the fact that they have already evaded their indefinite block through the illegitimate use of an alternative account,  (now indeffed). Conveniently, no mention of this blatant disregard for proper Wikipedia policy was made on Perk10's talk page, but I am curious how this unblocking is justified. Furthermore, 's "reasoning" for granting the unblock appears to me to be far from convincing when it contains frankly bizarre statements that have rather little to do with the actual situation, such as "... the term "votestacking" is rather misleading in a WP:MfD discussion, where votes are not counted, and hence users cannot be expected to abide by illogical things being implied by such misleading terms" and "Some users fail to understand that blocking is not applied only to a username (to lose the reputation associated with that username) but a block applies to all edit-access, including as IP edits." <font color="#D40000">Super <font color="#FF2000">Mario <font color="#FF8C00">Man  15:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Bank Street Historic District (Waterbury, Connecticut)
Hello! Your submission of Bank Street Historic District (Waterbury, Connecticut) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Valfontis (talk) 22:22, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

User:Wetsoap
Sorry to disturb you. Can you remind this user on his actions? He not only did he revert valid reverts, but also left behind an insult on my talk page. Thanks. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 15:20, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to have him blocked now rather than wait? He also inserted an insult into a well-meaning anon's talk page . - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 15:35, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Silver Horns of the Highland Stag
Please see Cheers,  Chzz  ►  16:53, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Newburgh city seal.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Newburgh city seal.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sswonk (talk) 14:04, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

FYI regarding the removal of this image, I have replaced it with a color PNG in the infobox, orphaning this version. See recent file history diffs for other details. Best, Sswonk (talk) 14:06, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Clinton Avenue Historic District (Albany, New York)
Hey Daniel, I am still struggling with my translation from this article into German. I actually did start it when i x-lated the article of the Kingston Stockade but messed up that time both towns because in bothe cases there's a Clinton Avenue and when typing in Clinton Avenue into google maps for better understanding the district borders Google showed Albany what I didn't see a first, so I had a hard time, since in both cases there was also the Broadway and the US 9, so I took me a while wondering. :D

However now I took up again on the Albany article and there's the following paragraph which somehow is corrupted. Could you fix it, please?
 * Its boundaries were precisely drawn to reflect the mostlyWhat? follow the rear lot lines along both side of Clinton Avenue. There are extrusions taking in some sections of side streets where similar housing was built.

TIA. --Matthiasb (talk) 06:24, 2 April 2011 (UTC)


 * And yet another question. You did use the word stockyard which into German has to different translations. It can mean a place to storage freight or a yard with cattle. I don't see which one is meant but the reference to Chicago suggest that cattle might be meant. --Matthiasb (talk) 11:52, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying. --Matthiasb (talk) 14:28, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Wallkill Valley Rail Trail assistance
Hello again, I was hoping you'd have time for some input on something. I finally nominated Wallkill Valley Rail Trail for FAC, and one of the reviewers is claiming that I didn't act on the points you brought up at Talk:Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. There's no easy way to say this, but could you please involve yourself in something that only tangentially concerns you? --Gyrobo (talk) 23:16, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Dutch Reformed Church and Monument videos
Actually, this was something that came out of continuing work with Gabriel, see Commons:Wikipedia Video and Education. I'm just glad I could finally help out a little on the Hudson Valley articles! And Berlin was great, and a whole international chapters crowd sent you their regards :)--Pharos (talk) 00:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Bank Street Historic District (Waterbury, Connecticut)
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs
The DYK project (nominate) 00:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film
The DYK project (nominate) 00:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Quantity of Books v. Kansas
The DYK project (nominate) 00:07, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Marcus v. Search Warrant
The DYK project (nominate) 00:07, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Your block review on User talk:Charlie wilkes
Please reconsider your statements lumping anyone supporting the unblock of Charlie Wilkes as equivalent to a Scientology cultist. It just reinforces the perception that Wikipedia administrators are biased in regards to certain articles and are simply looking for excuses to permanently ban editors who don't support their views. We need to welcome new users. Not send them packing because the first article they are involved with happens to be controversial. --Footwarrior (talk) 15:09, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

New Batavia Cemetery Pics
Thanks for the kind compliment on the added pics. See also System File:Phineas L. Tracy Obelisk Apr 11.JPG and File:David Ellicott Evans Monument Apr 11.JPG or a couple more!--Pubdog (talk) 18:26, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Wheeler Opera House
The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

User:Ludvikus
Please see User talk:Ludvikus -- PBS (talk) 18:28, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Stoner v. California
The DYK project (nominate) 12:06, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Stoner v. California
I pulled your hook because I could find no mention of the fact in the article, per the DYK criteria. Can you please point me towards a source? <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 14:25, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm? Potter Stewart wrote the opinion, that said the police couldn't rely on a hotel clerk's permission to search a robbery suspect's room. You can click on the links to the opinion and verify those facts. So I chose to make several marijuana-related puns out of that and have the hook run on April 20 ... so what? Daniel Case (talk) 15:45, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * For some reason, I imagined quotation marks around a phrase that included the word "bud", and Justice Potter clearly didn't write that phrase. So my bad. I'm not a huge fan of the hook; it seems out-of-line when compared to the rest of our main page. But what's done is done. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 19:02, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Apparent block evasion at Nicole Kidman article
First, thank you for your efforts thus far -- I know how tiresome this sort of work can be for admins.

User:DeadSend4, aside from being uncivil, indeed borderline abusive, at his latest talk-page comments here, is apparently attempting to evade  his block (See Nicole Kidman history here) through anon IP 24.92.19.152, which, despite this being its one-and-only edit, makes the same wholesale reversion that DeadSend4 has been making.

Another of the multiple editors he is warring with, User:Crohnie, also noted this at the above talk-page post. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Mancusi v. DeForte
Materialscientist (talk) 06:04, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Block review
Is this user really a vandal? Despite the rollbacking of all their edits, I don't actually see any indisputable vandalism, certainly nothing that warrants a block for vandalism. If I'm missing something, feel free to let me know.

On an unrelated note, you really should have a talk page for IPs. Regards,  <font face="Old English Text MT">Swarm  <font face="old english text mt">X 00:17, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: For your consideration
First off, I think you meant WP:DENY, or maybe you didn't. Meanwhile, I learned that vandals vandalize Wikipedia because they wish to get a reaction, or maybe a serious effect of some sort (possibly a shrine dedicated to them, like Jaraxle Artemis). Giving them the reaction encourages vandalism, and the common vandal is weak against the secret weapons: Twinkle and Huggle. Upon locating the position of a vandal, one is advised to vaporise its deconstructive edits, call backup, and ignore it.

More on this summary if requested. --43?9enter ☭msg☭contribs 03:12, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * "The vandal in question retaliated on other pages". Is it a coincidence that those other pages (mainly userboxes and topicons) were all transcluded to my userpage (don't worry, I subst'd them right afterward)? And that it seems to be a way (I unwillingly add that it's effective) to evade the semiprotection on my userspace? And I will bait them no longer. --43?9enter ☭msg☭contribs 00:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Just wanted to say "thanks" really for the Wedding dress of Kate Middleton stuff. It's completely bizarre to suddenly have things I did on here in good faith 6 years ago suddenly used against me in a debate about an unrelated article. I guess that just proves my naivety regarding my user page, but regardless, I really appreciated your thoughtful contributions. -Kez (talk) 14:41, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

The AfD thing
Hey Daniel,

Re my comments on the AfD thing, I've apologised to Kez already - and all I can say is that I was almost certainly having one of 'those days' - you know the sort where the brain goes off on one, and we say / write things that we wouldn't normally do? That was really definitely out of character for me, and I hope I've straightened things out ok with Kez. I do take his point that the userbox was a six-years-old thing - but I had no way of knowing that other than going and checking through his user page history, nor did I have any way of knowing that it reflected his thoughts as a young teenager, rather than his current viewpoint,neither of which (I know) constitutes 'a defence', but hopefully 'mitigating circumstances'. It was the bizarreness of the combination of the 'inclusionist' box, and the 'Royalty and Nobility Barnstar' (which I don't think I mentioned, having reined in my insanity somewhat), and the choice of that particular article as a nomination.

Apologies to you, too, if I irritated or upset you. There's always some spill-over between WikiLife and Real Life, and I suspect that this may also have contributed. Do, please, be assured that it was pretty out-of-character for me; and I shall (attempt to) be on my guard against letting the SnarkMonster Within off its lead again! All the best, Pesky  ( talk ) 08:22, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Oops :)
Hi, Daniel. I'm afraid you seem to have inadvertently malformatted a quote with your reformatting here. I imagine you thought that the blockquote was being used decoratively, but in fact that entire run of content was copied verbatim from the source. Removing the formatting put the content in violation of WP:NFC. That could be fixed by restoring the quotation, but I've pulled the material, as it wasn't really a suitable quote to begin with. There's nothing transformative about it. I'll talk to the contributor about that, but I just thought I'd let you know what happened here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:40, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Brand Building
The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Collins Block
The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Harley Baldwin
The DYK project (nominate) 18:05, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Suits
Now it was very tough to make an article on a Pink suit seem credible! But I hope I've managed it with Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I think I'm done for female clothing now..... ♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:28, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

OK one more Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley. Now that's enough. I think I've covered the most notable... Back to rather eh more masculine topics now. I've proved to myself anyway I can write about fashion, which I admittedly know little about! ♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:13, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Esopus Creek source question
Hi Daniel, I just have a quick question about Esopus Creek. A new editor has an issue with what one of the sources is saying. Since this user seems to be making a sincere effort to resolve this (they registered after I templated them following an anonymous removal), I was hoping you'd weigh in with your expertise on the subject. --Gyrobo (talk) 19:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Re: User:Lpkids2006 sockpuppets
Thanks for your swift action in blocking this vandal. I would also like to seek assistance on blocking the other sockpuppets created by this vandal and hoping that this article, created by one of his active socks, can be speedy deleted. I have listed in WP:SPI all of the active sockpuppets of Lpkids2006 and their corresponding evidences. Kindly assist. Thanks. -WayKurat (talk) 13:18, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination (Pitkin County Courthouse)
Hello! Your submission of Pitkin County Courthouse at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! -- Health Researcher (talk) 19:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Again. I think the article is fine, as the hook about Charlie Sheen, but the other two hooks are problematic. cmadler (talk) 12:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Engine Company 2 Fire Station
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Unblock decline
Best unblock decline ever. 28bytes (talk) 09:57, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Brownhole69
Daniel, I took liberty to reblock indefinitely, per this, combined with other edits. Will revert my block if you do mind, otherwise happy editing. Materialscientist (talk) 04:17, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You once more reminded me this: every day on wikipedia I find (accidentally) that if I thought more, looked further, I would find something I didn't think about when I was making my edit. :-) Materialscientist (talk) 05:40, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for House at 36 Forest Street
The DYK project (nominate) 18:02, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Vandal
Hi, User_talk:174.55.89.17 seems intent on continually adding in that piece of absolute nonsense into the Dino-Riders article, and having previously blocked them for the persistent vandalism, could you warn them again or give them a longer punishment or something? Mabuska (talk) 23:12, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

IP user continues bad behavior
Hi Daniel Case, I just wanted to bring to your attention that the IP user you blocked, 65.35.249.125, came back and made the same problematic edits here. Thanks! NYyankees51 (talk) 21:17, 8 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Never mind, someone else took care of it. Thanks! NYyankees51 (talk) 22:22, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for The Red Onion
Thank you from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Duplicate entry in Refrences and External links
Daniel,

Upon further review of Peekskill (Metro-North station), I noticed that a link to the MTA's page about the station was listed in both references and external links (it was the same link in each). My first instinct is to simply remove the duplicate link from the external links section and keep it in references. Is this correct or is it fine to have the same link in both.

If I did delete it from external links, should I delete the whole section entirely (since this is the only link there)?

Thanks, Rogerthat94 (talk) 03:39, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Help with architectural description
Could you help me out by writing an architectural description for Depot Town, similar (though probably not as detailed) to what you did on Pitkin County Courthouse? There are some photos on Commons at commons:Category:Depot Town, and a lot of the area is also visible on Google Street View. I'll be heading over that way this afternoon to take more pictures, so if there are specific buildings or elements that you think it would help to get a better shot of, I can do that and probably have them on Commons tonight. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 13:33, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It doesn't need to be so detailed, and it's a small area. Perhaps brief individual descriptions of the Thompson Block (which may eventually get its own article) and the Mill Works Building, then most of the buildings on Cross Street are rowhouse-type buildings with first-floor storefronts that could be described collectively. Then there are some newer (but in some cases, still historic by US standards) single-story buildings toward the west end of the block. I just don't know the right terms to write a description myself, though if I'm given a term & definition, I can verify that it's applicable (e.g., I had to look up almost every term in the Pitkin Courthouse description to verify it), plus I don't really know which features might be worth noting and which are more run-of-the-mill. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 15:18, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. If you'd like to see any additional photos, either of buildings/parts of buildings that aren't already photographed, or close-ups on any details, just let me know. cmadler (talk) 19:33, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Pitkin County Courthouse
The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Chapel Hill Bible Church
Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar (re DYK for Pitkin County Courthouse), and thanks for your patience and persistence! Sorry I was a tad slow on the uptake - in the past I've edited a bunch of potentially controversial articles, so I sometimes forget that certain topics can be on the noncontroversial end of the spectrum! -- Health Researcher (talk) 00:20, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

ANI
FYI, your block is under discussion at WP:ANI. Myself and another editor have suggested that it might be a little on the lenient side. HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   15:52, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter, Spring 2011

 * —Rschen7754bot (talk) 02:03, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Ski Lift No. 1
That's an interesting article you created on Ski Lift No. 1. I wouldn't have suspected that a simple chairlift could have made it to the National Register, but being that it spurred the development of Aspen, it makes a lot of sense that it got onto the National Register.

Also, it's nice to see a well fleshed-out article appearing at WP:NRHP, unlike all the two-sentence stubs and four-paragraph arguments that seem to be the norm there. Keep up the good work. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 18:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * As far as scuba diving in upstate New York goes, I doubt that I'll make it out there any time soon. I haven't even made it out to the rest of the Great Lakes yet, besides the north shore of Lake Superior.  I'm sure there are plenty of shipwrecks in Wisconsin, Michigan, and other nearby states that I'd end up taking photos of first, but even at that, I haven't had the time for any long dive excursions lately.  If you're looking for photos of some shipwrecks in your area, you might want to call a scuba dive shop that has divers who go out to those wrecks, and see if they'd be willing to take photos for Wikipedia.  I bet you'd be able to find someone who could share their interest in local wrecks.  --Elkman (Elkspeak) 19:00, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Croton North Railroad Station
Hello! Your submission of Croton North Railroad Station at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! OCNative (talk) 09:49, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Nerd2o6
Apologies, I missed your note on AIV about this particular user and I've blocked indef. I was looking at a older version at my watchlist before you had noted - I could undo the block if you really wanted, but IMO it'd be pretty pointless, the 3 edits were IMO blatant vandalism. Connormah (talk) 03:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Vaublock
Seriously, that people come up with names like that. Am I getting old? "What is this world coming to?" Thanks for that block! Drmies (talk) 14:46, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Review request
Could you take a look at Empire State? It's short. But as far as my research tells me, it's as complete as it can be. There's almost nothing known about one of the more famous state nicknames in history. Let me know what you think. Could this go on to GA? FA?  upstate NYer  15:44, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Croton North Railroad Station
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

email
Hi Daniel,. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 05:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

questionable blocking
Hey, my watchlist has seen alot of activity recently, notably on Northern Ireland related issues. Always the same thing. And I see Homebirdni has been accused of being a sock puppet again. Why is it always the same people pointing the finger, I think you need to review that case again. Looking at the evidence and Homebird has already said this but some of the evidence is very funny. Like the punctuation before his signing. Both Northern Counties and Highking contributed and they both sign off with ' --'. Does this mean they are socks? no, well who knows, and also he spelt 'chinesse' wrong. Could be a typo as 'e' and 's' are beside each other on the keyboard. Hardly substantial evidence. If you are a school teacher and you see 1 boy getting picked on by 4 boys. Do you suspend the 1 boy for 'not being able to play well with others'. Well no, and certainly not in a sockpuppet case but in this case you have. What sort of evidence would satisfy you because the evidence against is weak. I understand that admins are very busy so you can only really take a look at a glance, but if you look at every post made, you would probably think again. Maybe do a checkuser on facto/homebird/and that random ip and maybe do a checkuser on highking and northerncounties, as these 2 users also sign off the same and seem to share the same opinion. worth checking Afterlife10 (talk) 11:34, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ski Lift No. 1
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Concern
I have been watching User talk:Flying Fische and saw this response to an unblock request. Frankly I thought your comment was inappropriate. Sergeant Cribb (talk) 19:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I hope that FF will be able to return to productive editing.  Sergeant Cribb (talk) 06:16, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

New NR nominations?
Do you know how to get PDFs of nominations for newly-listed properties in New York? I'm trying to find complete addresses for the Wallabout Historic District in Brooklyn and the University Park Historic District in Buffalo; the addresses given on our lists are followed by ... on the recent listings pages. If I put either name into http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_basic.asp and click "Results", I get a result of "No Records Found". Nyttend (talk) 13:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Vote (X) for Change
Re. (apparently),

See Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

(Just letting you know)  Chzz  ► 08:54, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
I'm editing under a different account now, I haven't departed.. Tibetan Prayer <font size="-4"><font color="#C5B358">᧾ 10:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Photos sir?
Your business is beginning to get to you. I need the Pine Island, Southfields photos sir. :) <FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="-1" COLOR="red">Mitch</FONT>32(Can someone turn on the damn air conditioning?) 04:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

User:Pis 2you
Is the username User:Pis 2you in breach of the username policy ? Mtking (talk) 08:36, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Dedi
Hello!^^ User:Hersfold recommended me to contact any administrator for requesting help whenever I feel to present the article "Dedi" for the Did-you-know-page. The article Dedi is about an egyptian magician and my first bigger project. I have worked really hard for translation and studying the literatures. Now I wish to present my work to the public. But, different to my works in german Wikipedia I yet don`t know exactly how to manage the presentation here. Would you help me out? It would be a GREAT favor you would do to me. Do you have questions about the article? Please don`t hesitate to set questions on my discussion page. Best regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 17:10, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Putt-Putt
The guy you just blocked did lots of unconstructive edits to the page putt-putt (series). Revert them.--1966batfan (talk) 03:05, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar
DId I not thankyou for the barnstar? Sorry! Thanks for that! I am active as Tibetan Prayer now, Blofeld is ill at the moment..♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:26, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Unprotect Frank Wiafe Danquah
Hi Daniel,

Can you unprotected (desalt) Frank Wiafe Danquah? Since 2007 Frank has now played first team matched for Ferencváros and since moved to Waasland-Beveren and are viable for an article. Documentation:. Keallu (talk) 09:48, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Perp walk‎ article
Daniel, you appear to have been doing some sincere and dedicated research for the Perp walk‎ article, which I applaud, but it seems that we have an edit conflict over the use of a "Notes" section when a "References" section is also used within the same article. You recently posted an additional 'note' after I previously removed the 'Notes' section as unneeded in my opinion. My action caused your latest "note" to become a broken reference and mess up the page. I would like to discuss with you and work together with you so we can do what we can to avoid breaking the article further. I am still concerned by your usage of 'notes' within the article but I would prefer we "un-break" the article first so it is readable and then discuss our issues later. Cheers, Veriss (talk) 05:33, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Acting in good faith, and lacking response from you, I restored the 'Notes' section in the article so the article is no longer broken and your most recent note displays properly until we can have a chat. Sincerely, Veriss (talk) 05:48, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Nomorerainplease
Thanks for your message on my talk page, which I have answered there. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:25, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

User:Nochicomsubversion
Could you please enlighten me how the Username is a "blatant violation of our username policy" ? I just don't get this one. Mlpearc  powwow  20:51, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd be interested in knowing too, I'm not seeing anything that blatantly violates the username policy, and if it's not obviously a violation to us (as in wikipedians), how do you think a newbie is going to see the so-called blatant violation. Seems very bitey to me, unless there's a decent explanation forthcoming, which I'd love to see sent to the blocked user too. <font face="Verdana">&#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  20:56, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * "Chicom" is a disparaging term for someone from the People's Republic of China (as opposed to Overseas Chinese and those from the rest of Greater China, who aren't, in effect, "coms"). Since a username like "lynchalln1gg3rz666" or "j3wsdid911" would be promptly blocked, I believe that the blocking of this user is just as necessary. As the original tagger and reporter, I may have used the wrong term(s) to describe the problem: "username containing a disparaging, charged term against a group of people" probably would have been a better way of saying it. If a username suggested an Islamic "subversion" (e.g. "User:Nosandni*ggersubversion") or a Mexican "subversion" (e.g. "User:Nospi*csubversion") (asterisks added to prevent triggering edit filter), wouldn't these users be banned as well? "Subversion" in a username in itself should be a red flag for potential misuse, as evident by this vandal edit. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 03:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, your explanation certainly sheds a different light on your actions. I see your point . Thank you, (Lesson #2 today)  Mlpearc   powwow  04:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Veriss (talk) 07:28, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Unblock request of Hard4me
, whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. I have looked at quite a few of the editor's edits, and it does not look like vandalism to me, though there may be examples I have missed. The user name will have to be changed if there is to be an unblock, but the thing which gives me greatest pause is the comments from EdJohnston and you about about "sock suspicions". I haven't seen anything about those suspicions anywhere else: can you clarify? (I will ask EdJohnston too.) JamesBWatson (talk) 19:10, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

File:Dominique Strauss-Kahn perp walk.jpg listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Dominique Strauss-Kahn perp walk.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Mosmof (talk) 04:36, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Perp walk
Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Mentioned in discussion
You may wish to comment in a discussion in which you were mentioned at WT:NRHP. Thanks. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK Jaime Areizaga-Soto
I wrote a new, more interesting hook. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 12:16, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

--Shrike (talk) 16:20, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Jmemanagement
Thank you for blocking Jmemanagement; they had just vandalized James Morrison twice, I didn't realize why they hadn't returned until I saw both that user and an anon IP pushing the edits were both blocked. MartinSFSA (talk) 11:35, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Uploading an e-mailed photo
Hi Daniel, I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and I have a question: I noticed wasn't actually created by you, but it was emailed to you by the creator. If the creator tells you it's OK, is it possible to upload things to Wikipedia/Commons without fair use or anything? Thanks. Delaywaves  talk  14:30, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Is the OTRS thing as complicated as I think it is? I'm sure the email can't just say, "Sure, upload my images." Delaywaves  talk  00:10, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I see... still maybe more complicated than I would feel like doing, but thanks for letting me know. Delaywaves  talk  21:15, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Charcuterie DYK
Responded. Silver seren C 05:48, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Aaron Copland House
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Aspen Community Church
The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Downtown Ossining Historic District
Hi bud ... glad to see you're making liberal use of Dougtone's Flickr pics for the Downtown Ossining Historic District. Great resource for all that is good in NYS .. .cheers --Pubdog (talk) 01:04, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Riede's City Bakery
The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for First Baptist Church of Ossining
The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Return of the Socking IP
Same person, same editing pattern. <font color="#006600">R <font color="#0D8147">ad <font color="#009966">io <font color="#009999">pa <font color="#1E99CC">th <font color="#67B2DE ">y  •talk•  02:27, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Username Issue
Hi Daniel--

I wanted to get your opinion as I noticed you are an admin in WP: UAA.

A user noted that my username, I Jethrobot looks like a bot name and is in violation based on what is written at Username_policy. While I can change my username if I am specifically asked to, I made this account in 2006 before policies about -bot related usernames were around (also, it feels a little strange to nominate my own username for a violation). My contributions are by no means extensive for a five-year account, but I did spend a lot of time working in the Nintendo Video Games WikiProject when I started and have recently been working hard in WP: AfD. I have no record of vandalism and have tried to avoid edit wars or other poor editing / discussion behavior.

If possible, I would like to retain my name under the grandfather clause mentioned in Username_policy. Otherwise, if this is not possible, I will certainly change my username to something else, though I would like to retain my contribution history.

Thanks, --I Jethrobot (talk) 03:07, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Please block ip
hello,

please block indefinitely; it is a vandalism-only account. He recently vandalized. He is possibly the same user as the three ip-addresses, see. The same type of articles and the same type of vandalism. Thank you.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ Share– a– Power[citation needed] 10:11, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Request to quote
Hey Daniel, I was wondering if I could quote you on my user page with your comment at the bottom of User talk:Dbpjmuf, would that be ok? -- DQ  (t)   (e)  02:01, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Downtown Ossining Historic District
Apologies - as I rarely frequent DYK, I wasn't aware that the etiquette was to notify someone if there was a problem. Anyway I've now marked it as good to go. Cheers, Number   5  7  09:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Third County Courthouse
Hello. I noticed you recently added NRHP info to Third County Courthouse. Although there's no reason it shouldn't be, I suspect it may not be on the NRHP. I wanted to double check before removing any info though, because I might be wrong. In the past, this building has been confused with the current Richmond County Courthouse, which is on the NRHP. Station1 (talk) 16:03, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Downtown Ossining Historic District
Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Block of IP
Hello, Daniel. You beat me to blocking 88.159.112.114 by about a minute. Personally, I would have blocked for longer, even though it is the first block for this IP. The troublesome editing pattern has been going on since 9 May, so a 24 hour block may not be very effective. I shall keep a watch, with a view to blocking for longer if it starts up again. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:32, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I have replied to your message on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:57, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Usernames for administrator attention
I've mentioned your name here; please comment! -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:07, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Request your opinion as an uninvolved editor
There is an ongoing discussion at WikiProject Mixed martial arts as to whether or not adding an upcoming MMA fight to a fighter's fight record table violates Wikipedia's WP:CRYSTAL policy. Could you give an opinion?--Phospheros (talk) 05:15, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Notice
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Daniel Case. Thank you. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:54, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

block on 92.8.84.0/23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:92.8.85.15 - what does "Sole edit was this request." mean? Please note, that the block on "92.8.84.0/23" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/92.8.84.0/23) has blocked all IPs in a range on the UK ISP AOL/TalkTalk. This is not advisable as it means hundreds of innocent people will be affected. Removing this block would surely be wise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by H2005uk (talk • contribs) 09:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

27.3.18.100
Revoke his talk page access please? He's not using it correctly. Island Monkey talk the talk 16:40, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Previously blocked sock
Daniel; you have resonded on the relevant talk page to this []; before I block the IP I need confirmation that (obviously) you did not make the request, and that it comes in all probability from the blocked editor. I assumed that you did not block because of previous involvement. --<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 19:25, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Heads up
Def choad responded. Cheers,  ceran  thor 22:29, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

User:Cloudsense
Hi. I blocked this user even though you declined to block at WP:UAA. I saw you deleted CloudSense which was not spam, but Fastily deleted Cloudsense with a lowercase "S" that was spam. If you disagree, you are welcome to revert.--v/r - TP 20:52, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

FYI-unblock
I unblocked, whom you had blocked on 29 June 2011. My reasoning can be found at the end of the usertalk page and you should feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. &mdash; Scientizzle 21:24, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Ameriie
Hi, I was wondering if you could help with the Ameriie article again. I noticed that you blocked indefinitely for disruptive editing. Now is making the exact same edits to the Ameriie article, so I suspect that the IP user set up that username. I'd really appreciate your input as the user is again removing references and other content (and inserting false information) without any explanation whatsoever. Thanks. 86.185.39.37 (talk) 18:37, 28 October 2011 (UTC)