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Updating an article about your self on wikipedia
Hi there

Thank you for your mail with the info regarding getting started on Wikipedia. The reason I got on and created an account was to update a page that is already on Wikipedia about myself, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. I do not know who created the page initially, but would like to keep it up to date. I do not have a problem with my updates being proof read by anyone, the main aim is to make sure the page is reflective of my work and current since people searching for me find it first.

how can I go about archiving this

Thank you

regards PumlaGobodo-Madikizela (talk) 10:20, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Linda Valori
Excuse me. Why the article "Linda Valori" has been restored to the old version? The old version contains a lot of false information. The deleted version is simply the official version contained in Wikipedia Italy. Thank you.--Enrico Pupi (talk) 11:17, 18 August 2013 (UTC)


 * You presumably mean this edit? Please note that the changes had too many issues such as pov, invalid deletions, and unexplained revisions. The attempted changes replaced an article with a minimal number of references with an article which not only contained no references, but deleted other useful material such as the persondata and the categories. Therefore the revisions left the article in much worse shape than the existing version. However, it is agreed that "false information" or unreferenced content should be removed from the article and replaced by content which can be traced to references (that is, verifiable). Having reliable sources helps Wikipedia editors find out if articles contain "false information". Dl2000 (talk) 01:37, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Dear D12000 I can guarantee that the version of Enrico Pupi is the official. It's not 'just return false and fraudulent information on my life. I'm Linda. The real story is in Italian wikipedia. Please you can not write false things about me. I'm writing from my company Leart 'production.Please you can not write false things about me! This current description was taken up and denounced!Linda Valori --Linda Valori (talk) 09:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

the version of the newspaper 'was removed and reported in the past!is not right!Check my videos on the web and my information .... true!Please.... --Linda Valori (talk) 09:27, 19 August 2013 (UTC) This is true version : http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28cantante%29 --Linda Valori (talk) 09:39, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Dear D12000 please restore my version (the reference is on wikipedia Italy, more real than this reference). Linda in person is waiting for your confirmation. Thanks.--Enrico Pupi (talk) 11:00, 19 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Please note the following:
 * 1. Another editor wrote the previous version you object to; I only restored it because your version introduced more problems with respect to Wikipedia policy
 * 2. Article rewrite was done tonight which removed much unsupported information. Content should now be limited to what could be referenced (see WP:V)
 * 3. The Italian page is lacking in references, so much of the material cannot yet be included on the English Wikipedia, due to policies and practices such as WP:BLP, WP:CITE
 * 4. Please read Wikipedia policies and practices such as WP:BLP, WP:CITE and especially WP:COI, preferably before editing and commenting further on this subject.
 * Dl2000 (talk) 03:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Dear Dl2000. "Italian musician and producer Tony Renis noted that Valori's voice was comparable to that of pop singer Anastacia" this is a personal and not objective view by Tony Renis, however, taken from an article by Repubblica.it that has been much criticized in italia for the false information. the parts of the article published on wiki Italy, not suited to the Statute of the encyclopedia, have already been removed. therefore what is currently contained in the article "Linda Values" on wiki Italy is confirmed. The objective and truthful content must be downloaded from this page. the correct year under the image of "linda" is 2013 not 2003! Thanks for update and refer to a wiki page in Italian. --Enrico Pupi (talk) 11:27, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Dear Dl2000, the italian wiki article is now ok as U can see. U can translate it? or I translate? U let me know. TKS.--Enrico Pupi (talk) 09:42, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Canadian dollar
There is a discussion over at the Canadian MOS about how to identify Canadian currency - please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles. I am alerting you to the discussion as you helped draft the current wording in the MOS. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:01, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

DoB - Chris Oyakhilome
I have restored the DoB for Chris Oyakhilome. The date is based on inquiries about this person. Though you have said no citation, please appreciate there are several examples of other BLP where references were not given for DoB and it can be difficult to provide one, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rewaj (talk • contribs) 03:42, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry to disagree here. I have reverted. The difficulty in providing dob cite does not obviate the obligation to provide one for a BLP. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 09:11, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Jessie J & Cheryl Cole
Hi, can you rename the section "2012:The Voice" for "2012-2013: The Voice"? Thanks. 2.31.120.83 (talk) 15:36, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * ... and I have already mention what should be changed in Cheryl Cole in here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cheryl_Cole#wax_figure.2C_... - "wax figure..." if you can do it I would really appreciate that 2.31.120.83 (talk) 15:46, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Page on Hemu
You had visited page to do some editing on caste of Hemu by birth. Lot of information has appeared on talk page but one senior editor Sitush is adament on not removing the wrong facts. He is ignoring genuine references and supporting half-baked, factually wrong references. This makes the creditability of page doubtful also. Please help.Sudhirkbhargava (talk) 05:34, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Use Indian English tag
Hi, how do we convert an article from UK/US english to Indian english. Can you please help me with some templates or formats. Also let me know when does the need arises to convert the article to Indian english? Wasif (talk) 14:46, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 8)
I notice you corrected my editorial error in thinking that Wikipedia preferred the Month:Day: Year Format.

Recently I did a lot of (obviously unnecessary) minor editing changing all the dates in Misha B and her three singles Home Run, Do You Think of Me and Here's to Everything (Ooh La La) to that Month:day:Year format. Maybe I should change them all back ...is the a quick way to do that?Bodney (talk) 23:32, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia editors for US articles (except military) prefer the mdy date format, most of the rest use dmy (or some may not be conscious, and will use both). Your error is understandable, and fortunately because it's a common problem, there is an easy fix. Your articles have all been aligned to dmy with some additional fixes. Have a good day! --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:34, 13 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much. Bodney (talk) 01:50, 13 September 2013 (UTC)


 * And thanks to Ohconfucius for stepping in while I was on several hours wikibreak. The scripts mentioned are indeed recommended to help unify formats and other article elements. The X Factor article was unified based on it being a UK subject, therefore the US-oriented mdy conventions are not normally applied. Dl2000 (talk) 03:11, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Makes lots of sense to me :) ...I am a UK editor (writing about a UK artist) but who got confused about a (erroneous) preferred date format which I did not like. Love those scripts. Bodney (talk) 08:58, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Andy Hobsbawm
Hey DI2000, I re-wrote the Andy Hobsbawm page to clean up the flags. It was the first Wiki project that I've taken on and I thought everything was completed according to the guidelines. I noticed that you added a GB tag to the article. I assume this means that the reference dates should be in the British style and I was wondering if this is applicable on all articles. I just wanted to clear this up before I begin working on any other projects. Thanks for your insight. News Team Assemble [!!!]  04:51, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, all the spelling in an article about a British subject should be British spelling and all dates should be dmy. I'd just add that WP:MOSNUM allows for reference dates to be uniformly yyyy-mm-dd, if you're that way inclined, although some (like me) would prefer them to be dmy throughout. There's no need to be too strict in applying the formats, as this is a job that would otherwise be fastidious if it were not for automation. My advice would be to load up the scripts so that each conversion takes a second. Or you may tag an article with use dmy dates and/or use British English, and I or Dl2000 or someone else will come around eventually to straighten out the formats. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 08:34, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clearing this up. I'll try to keep this in mind when I come across British subjects for proper format of their dates and spelling. News Team Assemble  [!!!]  02:18, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * And thanks to Ohconfucius for replying while I was busy. Indeed, WP:TIES is applicable on many national topics. As for flags, some are cleanup flags which can be removed once the specified issues are resolved e.g. referencing improvements, cleanup, WP:NPOV, etc, then there are tags which should remain with the article even after conformance e.g. Use British English, Use dmy dates, etc. Each tag should have a documentation section to indicate the appropriate treatment. Hope this helps. Dl2000 (talk) 03:07, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Clarify
Hello! You have posted something on my talk page about deviating from MOS in an article. Can you make it more clear about what is the issue with the article? -- Sriram Vikram (talk) 05:30, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I suspect the comments relate to this edit, where you changed use dmy dates to use mdy dates, and altered a number of date formats also to mdy. This appears to be in violation of Wikipedia's convention for articles pertaining to India, which use the 'dmy' format (see also Date format by country). It's also, incidentally, contrary to respect for the format determined by the first major contributor in all other cases where WP:TIES does not apply. The article should therefore stay as 'dmy'. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 07:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Am sorry about that. I was working on an article when a seasoned wikipedian tagged that page with 'use mdy date'. So I thought mdy was the normal format used in wiki and changed it. -- Sriram Vikram (talk) 08:02, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Just getting back on line for the reply... Ohconfucius has indeed fully replied on the specific MOS issue. However, the Wikipedia Manual of Style contains many topics to assist you with your article work and you may wish to take some time to review the various parts of the MOS. Happy editing... Dl2000 (talk) 21:32, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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Date formatting in titles of publications
Hello. Re this edit to Jimmy Bissett... Please could you point me towards the piece of MoS that says we're supposed to change titles of publications, or, as here, titles of chapters within publications, to follow WP date formatting rules. Doesn't seem likely to me. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 06:40, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That edit was restored. I missed the chapter parameter, thinking it was a publication date field, a situation that seems rare in practice. Will try to keep a closer watch on chapter parameters in the future. Dl2000 (talk) 02:19, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 06:06, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:EngvarB
Someone has nominated Template:EngvarB for deletion. You might like to add your views to the discussion. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 10:45, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

John Gieve
I see you deleted my contribution on this.

For the record, the fact that something went badly wrong during the tenure of office whose job it was to stop that thing going wrong, and on an enormous scale, seems to me to be a relevant biog. fact. You know, if someone is officially in charge of a dam and the dam bursts, isnt that kind of relevant? But there seems a great wish among the owners of Wiki to protect establishment figures like G. from any criticism, however well justified.

However, do not disturb yourself to reply to this message. I find Wiki far being the genuinely open, participatory system that it affects to be. I have found several times that the shadowy, self elected Wiki police come along and delete postings in ways that seem to me unjustified and there is no way ordinary folk can resist or appeal against such deletions. Well, amuse yourself, I shan't edit Wiki ever again. Unraed (talk) 16:51, 29 September 2013 (UTC)unraed


 *  [ citation still needed ]  Dl2000 (talk) 17:37, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Bieler Tagblatt
Hi Dl2000. Please explain your re-addition. There are no dates in the article, just years. --Leyo 21:05, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Please don't remove the dates maintenance template even though you may not see the point of it. Although there are currently no dates in the article, that does not preclude there being dates in the article at some point in the future. The template acts as a time stamp in the maintenance of all articles. Tagging will allow programmed maintenance of date formats going forward. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:04, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * A maintenance template just for the potential case of a future problem? Are you joking? --Leyo 11:23, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * In a sense, yes. No joke. This is the manual tagging phase, a prelude to the automatic maintenance phase. Sure that some articles may never have dates, but it'll be far simpler to aim to manually tag 100% of articles than leaving 2% untagged just because they don't have dates for now. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 14:15, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Category:Use dmy dates from October 2013: This system of tagging/categorisation is used as a status monitor of all articles that use dd mm yyyy date formats, and not as a clean up.
 * The above article does not fulfill this criterion. In addition, the name of the template does not reflect the purpose you describe. --Leyo 18:36, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Just getting back after a few days of other activities... first, there are frequent cases where editors remove the date tag when removing another maintenance tag such as no footnotes, so the deletion of the dates tag could be assumed an accident that was part of the other edits, especially considering that the edit summary only indicated "ref". Also some editors are not aware that some templates such as use dmy dates are not issue templates and so are not removed, even if the article is consistent. Although dates may not currently be on the article, there may have been dates in the article in the past, but removed for various reasons e.g. deleting a ref due to deadlink, even though this is discouraged at WP:DEADLINK. Anyway, the template was restored because there was no stated justification for removing it, although removing no footnotes was obviously appropriate due to the added ref. Dl2000 (talk) 21:24, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Accidents such as the suspected false removal of the discussed tag do not happen to users with a six-digit amount of edits in Wikimedia projects like the two of us very often. ;-) BTW: The tag was added in a [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bieler_Tagblatt&diff=507670785&oldid=476600807 large edit]. --Leyo 22:48, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

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Date formatting style revert
Per your revision of a article for a Canadian made film, I ask you to clarify your reason based on this excerpt from the style guide:

Choice of format

''All the dates in a given article should have the same format (day-month or month-day). However, for citations, see Wikipedia:Citing sources#Citation style. These requirements do not apply to dates in quotations or titles.''

Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the more common date format for that country (month-day for the US, except in military usage; day-month for most others; articles related to Canada may use either consistently).

The above clearly states that a article to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the more common date format. Which for Canada is a mix of ISO and dmy for short dates and mdy for long dates. I fail to see why so many editors think the ISO format is hard to comprehend, when it was designed and adopted to avoid confusing short date formats like dmy and mdy.Helmboy (talk) 03:51, 19 October 2013 (UTC)


 * The article is of a Canadian subject, and can indeed in theory be in either dmy or mdy format, per WP:MOSNUM. According to you, Canada uses "a mix of ISO and dmy for short dates and mdy for long dates". However, our convention is a usage that is deemed and not necessarily the one that you claim to be de facto. The use of yyyy-mm-dd dates within the reference section is not at issue as their use is not a requirement. It's not relevant in any event because dmy dates have been used from the beginning. And when there is a disagreement as to the format to adopt in cases such as this where national ties does not apply, we defer to the format used by the first major contributor (see the earliest version available). --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 04:19, 19 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Helmboy, further to Ohconfucius, it would be best to give MOS:DATE a more careful re-reading. Your statement about Canada being a mix of ISO/dmy/mdy, besides being unverifiable, is directly contradicted by this excerpt from the MoS you've quoted above: "articles related to Canada may use either format consistently" Also note the acceptable formats table at WP:DATESNO where ISO is not the only listed valid reference format. Again, a bit more time reading through the MoS should clarify things. Dl2000 (talk) 05:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC)


 * For proof on what is used in Canada, please read the article referenced in the summary of the edit that you reverted - Date and time notation in Canada. And it still alludes me as to why certain people, organizations and governments refuse to make the move to a clearer and easier to understand short date format!?  But then the US still mostly use non-metric redefined imperial measurements and the UK still use imperial miles.  I mean no one's asking you to change your preferred Christian (dd Mmm yyyy) or business (Mmm dd, yyyy) derived long date format!  PS, if Wikipedia can use ISO short dates in markup, why are a number of editors so stubborn to standardize on all article's short dates to ISO short dates for the sake of logic and conformity.  Talk about confusing to a reader who reads articles from different sources.Helmboy (talk) 10:18, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Golden Eagle Airlines
I find it very frustrating that Wikipedia allows changes to its site with unverified information. I would like to point out that I have tried a few times to correct the references over the years but there seems to be someone that wants to have fun at your expense by adding aircraft to the company that are not operated. Seemingly there are very small minds out there that get a kick out of changing things and having a laugh at other peoples expense!

The company Golden Eagle Airlines finished operations in the north of WA in June 2013 by handing back the company RPT AOC. The company has NOT gone into liquidation or made insolvent, it just ceased business. I am sure you are interested in portraying TRUTH when it is pointed out and hope that you will act professionally in the response to this message. Thank you Wikiyourkidding (talk) 05:29, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Badr Hari changes I made
Hello DI2000, thanks for your nice way of reminding me :) The case with the sentence I removed from Badr Haris page is as following: He is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion (2007—2008)[5] and K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 finalist

"...is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion (2007-2008)[5]..."

This is unfortunately not true. I also read the reference [5], but this is only an article of a dutch magazine. It says "Politie zoekt K1-kampioen" meaning: "Police is searching for K1 champion"

Whatever, he never was K1 Heavyweight champion. In 2007 Semmy Schilt won against Peter Aerts and became 2007 K-1 Heavyweight champion. In 2008, Badr Hari was finalist and fought against Remy Bonjasky, however he kicked Remy Bonjasky illegaly and was disqualified. In 2009 he was again finalist and lost against Semmy Schilt.

Thank you for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by RnBandCrunk (talk • contribs) 07:02, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

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Roman Šmucler page
Hello,

I'm writting you due to my changes on Roman Smulcer's page here on Wikipedia. The page had contained uncertain information and it was easier for me to write the whole new article than update the old one. Information which I used were taken from official sources, so there is no uncertainity now.

Sincerely

Tomas Pejcha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomas.pejcha (talk • contribs) 12:30, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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en-IN
Hi, ignoring MOSTIES for a moment, is there any other reason why you keep doing things like this? There is, for example, no Indian English dictionary or work of grammar and there is a long tradition of using British English because it was the darn Brits who introduced the language to that country (and they only left in 1947). There have been some discussions about this particular type of tagging and they've never really come out strongly for or against ... but it is irksome. - Sitush (talk) 00:04, 9 November 2013 (UTC)


 * There are in fact some dictionaries and usage works involving Indian English (Oxford U Press, Sound System, INDUS/Harper Collins, etc). There is the Indian English article, although it does indicate some uncertainties regarding general English usage patterns in India. Perhaps if consensus is available, EngvarB could be preferable to Use Indian English? However, MOS:TIES does have consensus, and keeping track of English variants is a reasonable logical conclusion from that; not sure why it would be irksome to support that. Dl2000 (talk) 01:52, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

David Moyes
The Dithering Davie was not a nickname generally prescribed to Moyes by Everton fans, it was a criticism raised over some specific incidents where transfer dealings were drawn out & protracted. The reference to this in the article is almost certainly mischievous. RoyalBlueStuey (talk) 12:51, 11 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Discussion should continue at the article's talk page. Dl2000 (talk) 04:51, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

dmy
Hi, regarding this, I don't think the article contains dmy dates at this point, but I wanted to check with you in case I'm not fully understanding the template's use/purpose. Thanks! &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 03:30, 14 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Another editor set up the tag some time ago. It was restored since it is a type of tag which should not be normally deleted without MoS reason. If the article doesn't have the format "at this point", then changes may have been made since the tag was applied which might be contrary to MOS:DATE. The article also doesn't seem to have a strong national tie (e.g. US) that would warrant conversion to mdy. You could check with the tagging editor and/or article talk. Dl2000 (talk) 04:10, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah it appears to have been originally introduced here but as far as I can tell there were no extended dates (beyond year) of any kind in the article then or since, at least until I started working on it this week LOL. I'm fine with leaving the template there though if you think it serves a purpose, I'm just getting back into regular editing after a couple of years away and I honestly had not seen that template before. Thanks!&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 04:43, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It was introduced a few years ago, probably about the time you ceased to be active on the project. It's a part of WP:DATESPROJECT. In addition, you might like to check out the template documentation. People seem to misunderstand what it's about notwithstanding and I'd welcome comments on how to improve its clarity. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 04:58, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The documentation seems perfectly clear, I think I was more confused because I'm wasn't sure why the article in question was tagged at all because it didn't include any extended dates. But it is about a literary genre and discusses an international selection of authors (though I think most are American at this point) so I suppose it was a preemptive move? The thing is, I overhauled the article and added over 23 citations this week (before that there were none) using the American date format since I'm American. Will this tag make a bot come along and change all of those to dmy? I have no problem with that in an of itself, but I'm not sure to which nation the article should have strongest ties. Maybe when I'm through I'll tally up the authors and see who wins LOL.&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 18:11, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * There is probably no strong national tie in the article in MOS:DATE parlance. Maybe check with Tony1 who did the original tagging - he might support removing the tag or perhaps indicate if he noticed a date pattern earlier in the article development. I can let this one go and get on with things, especially if you both (and maybe Ohconfucius) achieve a consensus. Dl2000 (talk) 00:17, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Bukhari Comment
Hi, thanks for looking at the article about Bukhari. You are absolutely right, 9 hours is 'several' :-) Editing from Australia is a little more complicated because of the time difference from the Americas and Europe. 8 of the 9 hours is probably overnight for me. This was the first time I had used the 'GOCE in use' tag and it was because someone else said they didn't realise I was doing a major copyedit and I should use it. All very confusing. Just wanted to say sorry for any inconvenience caused by the tag. Any suggestions accepted with gratitude :-) Kind regards, Myrtle. Myrtlegroggins (talk) 11:36, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * Noted - also, the vandalism was added by different IP addresses, which probably doesn't help matters, and rollback would also only have taken out one of those edits. Dl2000 (talk) 05:31, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

SIAE Italian Corporation
Hi, I've just seen that you've just removed the redirect on the article "Italian Society of Authors and Publishers"

ow we have two articles with the same content:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Society_of_Authors_and_Publishers

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siae

The proper and original name is Società Italiana degli Autori e degli Editori (SIAE), and everybody in Italy know this Statutary corporation with its acronym SIAE (nobody knows what Italian_Society_of_Authors_and_Publishers stands for).

SIAE is the correct name for the article, let mw know what you think about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumbodoren (talk • contribs) 14:35, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually, article namings should follow Wikipedia guidelines such as WP:NC and WP:MOS, not arbitrary notions of what "everybody in Italy know". Now SIAE seems a reasonable title, but it should probably have some further discussion before fixing the article title. WP:RM would be the appropriate place to raise any special page move requests. Dl2000 (talk) 04:34, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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Aden Flint
My entry was correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.71.89.170 (talk) 21:43, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

datefix2
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Death of Neil Robson
This is verifiable from Tasmanian newspapers but unfortunately people now have to pay for content. There was a reference on Google and it may have been appropriate for you to have done a google search before removing the date of death. I'm not criticizing you, as I realize you are probably busy in your role as a page patroller and did not have the time to check. There are entries on the Tributes page, which has to be paid for after a certain time. The online newspaper Tasmanian Times has a reference by the President of the Proportional Representation Society of Australia, and it is a very nice obituary, but it is at the bottom of another article. This is referenced, as you requested. Tasmania is a small island, and although Robson is a very significant figure he has not been a parliamentarian for some years and people forget. The Launceston Examiner ran details of his death on page 2 the following day, but because of a pay wall it is not possible to access it. Do you have similar problems in Canada? Robson is a significant but unrecognized figure in Australian politics in that "Robson Rotation," where the names of candidates are rotated on ballot papers, is named after him. Robson Rotation (and there is an entry to it in Wikipedia) is used in the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmanian elections.121.220.122.81 (talk) 10:07, 19 December 2013 (UTC)


 * For the previous edit, as my reverting edit summary indicated, there was no reference or explanation provided, and I did a news search for which "no obit found" at that time, although sources did become accessible since then and the obit sourcing is now in order. Claims of death do need to be supported by a source (WP:V, WP:BLP), and offline or inaccessible sources can be considered acceptable (WP:RS, WP:DEADLINK). Newspaper paywalls seem to be a problem globally. Dl2000 (talk) 22:52, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Uefa Financial Fair Play Regulations
Thanks a bunch for your completely pointless deletion of my recent addition to this article. There seemed to be a temporary fault which prevented me from adding the reference and I was intending on going back to add it later. Your remark that this was likely to get me thrown off Wikipedia was completely unnecessary & if you had bothered to check you would have seen that I not only started this article but have contributed a large amount of its content, which has been added to by others. You really need to be a bit less bombastic in your comments as this is very negative and makes people not want to contribute. Try reading some of the guidance and ask yourself if you are really the sort of person the project is looking for Thanks--Godwhale (talk) 08:52, 20 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Unfortunate you feel this way, but WP:V is policy and it is not pointless to apply that, especially 20 hours afterwards. Also not sure what sort of "fault" could possibly allow addition of prose text but prevent addition of reference text. Anyway, if you have the refs handy, you can try again, noting to keep prose compatible with other policies like WP:NPOV. Meanhile, would something like this more on the positive and less on the bombastic side? Dl2000 (talk) 05:29, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Tami Chynn
You have GOT to be joking. I only rearranged the already existing information to fit with the standard layout of artist pages. I did not add nor delete a single thing. Since you want to pointlessly delete and undo perfectly reasonable changes, learn how to build a page yourself. Absolutely ridiculous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FaceOffTournament (talk • contribs) 05:13, 21 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Your revision took out three references (from 29 to 26), so there was more than a rearrangement going on. An edit summary might also have helped. Dl2000 (talk) 05:37, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

And you really undid the changes instead of simply adding those (mostly unneeded) references back yourself? You're a complete genius. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FaceOffTournament (talk • contribs) 05:39, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Change
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Request for moving page Bollywood films grossing above 100 crore to original name "Bollywood 100 Crore Club"
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I request you to remove the page Bollywood 100 Crore Club/Bollywood films grossing above 100 crore from your merger proposal since according to the latest discussions (see end part) a complete makeover to the article has been proposed and the new structure can be seen here. It contains no list of films or actress and is a proper encyclopaedic article on what Bollywood 100 Crore Club actually is nothing else. Since the above mentioned article is part of both and AFD and a merger proposal, it will be difficult or unwise to make such large changes. So I request you to remove Bollywood 100 Crore Club from the list of mergers since you are the proposer. Please reply. Regards. - Jayadevp  13  03:15, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina Mladenovic's residence is Porrentruy, Switzerland. This is confirmed on the official WTA website. Stop harassing me and check yourself before threatening others, dude. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prosenjiit (talk • contribs) 04:32, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The official WTA website also indicated her residence is Paris. Deleting references and changing content without explanation is not an effective way to resolve such contradictions, especially on a WP:BLP. However, will leave any further discussion on this to Talk:Kristina Mladenovic. Dl2000 (talk) 05:22, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Hannah Led is me change
Hi I made the changes as it is important that my wiki reflects what I'm currently doing. I understand what you're saying about dates. I don't know who started the page but the facts were out of date. Can you help with one thing? How do I make the new page come up when you google my name? As it currently has in google on right hand side of the page the old one 'she appeared in a topless scene' It is very important to me that this no longer comes up as it is not professional and irrelevant to that TV program as I was 17 at the time of filming. I have lost the Alton from my professional name so was hoping to change that on wiki also. Can you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gosh280490 (talk • contribs) 10:16, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

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Paul Du Toit death
Hi DI2000, you removed my edit on the death of Paul Du Toit due to not providing a reference. Paul was a personal friend and died two days ago, hence I heard about his death. The only online reference I could point you to to corroborate this would be Paul's personal Facebook page, which you can see here is filled with tributes from his friends and family https://www.facebook.com/planetpaul?fref=ts&ref=br_tf I don't feel it is appropriate to post his private facebook page as a reference, but I'm sure you can acknowledge by looking there that Paul has in fact died. Please could you reinstate my edit, where the only things I changed were adding his date of death, and changing "is" to "was".

Paul Du Toit death
Hi DI2000, you removed my edit on the death of Paul Du Toit due to not providing a reference. Paul was a personal friend and died two days ago, hence I heard about his death. The only online reference I could point you to to corroborate this would be Paul's personal Facebook page, which you can see here is filled with tributes from his friends and family https://www.facebook.com/planetpaul?fref=ts&ref=br_tf I don't feel it is appropriate to post his private facebook page as a reference, but I'm sure you can acknowledge by looking there that Paul has in fact died. Please could you reinstate my edit, where the only things I changed were adding his date of death, and changing "is" to "was". DaveDuarte (talk) 18:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I've reinstated the date of death, based on an Art South Africa announcement (Twitter/Facebook), and a compelling variety of tributes to him on such sites as Facebook and Twitter. For Wikipedia purposes, we need to have reliable sources such as obituaries from media outlets. Facebook and Twitter postings are often considered less reliable sources. Proper referencing is needed because unfortunately there are occasional cases where a false death report is entered e.g. Bertrand Meyer. Finally, my condolences. Dl2000 (talk) 22:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Please check references for page "James Bryce, 1sst Viscount Bryce" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.74.196 (talk) 09:02, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

RE: Maria Charles Please do not add or change content, as you did to Maria Charles, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 03:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC) I understand Savolya (talk) 04:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

date formats
Thanks for reverting them—it comes through echo, of course, and I go back and correct. I'm surprised I'm getting so many wrong ... this is not normal. Tony  (talk)  09:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Actually your batting average seems very good, and any format misfires actually seem somewhat rare from what I'm seeing, probably only one or two I noticed in 2014 so far. Not to worry much, there is probably no one on WP who has ever batter 100% on their edits. All the best... Dl2000 (talk) 04:01, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Nikos Sideris
Hi, about 10 references have been added, I wonder why you pointed "further sources needed". Have a look here too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nikos_Sideris --Spiros71 (talk) 10:07, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * OK, references and potential referencing is noted - it was just that the References section only shows three citations, all of which are shown on one paragraph, therefore some more work could be done such as converting parts of the external links section into citations for the Reference section. Dl2000 (talk) 04:08, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Does the imdb page count as enough to support name change from Lederer-Alton to Lederer? As seen here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2881332/ Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gosh280490 (talk • contribs) 18:08, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Phillip silverstone
I edited the content you replaced on my page because it was I accurate, old, irrelevant and very badly written. Please leave the content as it is — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.34.71 (talk) 02:17, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Unsourced information in articles on tennis players
Hi DI2000, you've reprimanded User Prosenjit, and I've added something in the same vein (regarding Arina Rodionova). Now he writes on my talk page that I should stop harassing him. Apparently he has no idea whatsoever how Wikipedia works. If you have time, could you please take a look on my talk page and on his and my edits on Arina Rodionova and give me some advice? --Bernardoni (talk) 14:37, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Arina Rodionova
Everything I've added to "Arina Rodionova" has been confirmed by multiple sources. It's people like you that make Wikipedia unreliable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prosenjiit (talk • contribs) 18:20, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

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Jindalee Operational Radar Network copyright violation template removal
Hello, I removed the template, because I checked the Duplicate Detector report and it's empty apart from the template itself, which means that there are no matches between the article's text and the book... at least, not anymore. What I see is:

"Downloaded document from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network (109787 characters, 3125 words) Downloaded document from http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qM0uxPH8RasC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=180+degree+JORN+laverton&source=bl&ots=46i7DxALw4&sig=EAPxPAmszJdjNBJhy4VLA9yZSaE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HIfSUrzoAYmAiQfEkYDwCA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=180%20degree%20JORN%20laverton&f=false (59703 characters, 214 words) Total match candidates found: 10 (before eliminating redundant matches)

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find in a library all sellers 0 reviews write review http books google com au books about the armed forces html id qm0uxph8rasc the armed forces (6 words, 30 characters)

Matching phrases found: 1"

Have you checked it and found it not like this? Or you did not read that it says: "....article or section may have been copied and pasted from http books google com au books id..." and clearly refers to the template itself? And, since you assumed bad faith of me, I wonder what I should assume of you... "tagvand?". I will revert you. Heracletus (talk) 04:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The duplicate detector actually starts with this disclaimer:

Warning: Duplication Detector may in some cases give no results or incomplete results. This does not necessarily indicate copying has not occurred. Manually examine the source document to verify.


 * So... manually examining the Google book page (which is in image form, not easily compared with text content)... the book page starts with "As a consequence..." at the top. The 4th para of Jindalee Operational Radar Network section also starts with the same phrase and mostly matches from there, apart from a few formattings. So, have you manually checked it (as the Duplicate Detector clearly advises) and found it not like this? Dl2000 (talk) 04:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)


 * You are right. I was wrong. Sorry. Usually the duplicate detector does a good job with online material, however, as this is a book and its pages are provided in that google form, it can probably not access them. Again, you're right and I reverted. Heracletus (talk) 13:31, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there,

So I'm not sure what is going on here, but I work for Damian McGillicuddy and nothing on that page was copyrighed? I posted a few links relating to the topic at hand, all of that was hand-written by me, so I'd love to know why my stuff was removed.

Little bit annoyed in all fairness.

Danielclarke90 (talk) 01:18, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

== You wrote: Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Jonathan Self. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 23:06, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

My reply: There is nothing controversial about the fact that Jonathan Self and his third wife, Marianne Van Pelt, are currently married. The NYT article referenced (which you read) states: "'I’d come home when I met Jonathan, but also like I was undertaking a grand adventure,' Ms. Van Pelt wrote in an e-mail message just after the event. 'We’ve just said our vows in the strange little registry office in Gibraltar — we both cried!' The NYT article makes clear that there was a celebration of their marriage where they first met, not that a marriage service was performed. The detail about the meeting is in the referenced article and is superfluous to the article, since it is sufficient to note that Mr. Self has had two previous marriages and is currently married to Mrs. Van Pelt, with their domicile in Ireland. Please specify what you consider sufficient documentation of Mr. Self's marital status before performing further edits on this article. Please do not edit the article without confirming the status of the references provided, or providing other citations. JCvP 23:32, 22 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvpwiki (talk • contribs)

Thanks
You wrote: Not suggesting at all that Self and Van Pelt have split, nor does the current version of the article. Mention of a divorce or other sepasration would indeed require another reference. However, there were a few problems with the text you were restoring. For example, on what basis could they have a celebration at Grand Central in July 2009 when the available reference (NYT) was published months earlier (in January 2009)? Also, you were restoring a statement that they were living at Dromberg House, Ireland - this is not mentioned in the NYT article, which instead indicated they were living in Millbrook, NY as of September 2007. Generally, you need to ensure that details are accurately supported by references, especially under the WP:BLP policy. Meanwhile, names and details of previous spouses and children could be restored provided that new references are found to support these (they weren't mentioned in the NYT piece). Dl2000 (talk) 00:01, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

My reply: Thank you for your good corrections and for spurring me to strip out unnecessary and imprecise detail. As you suggest, I will seek additional documentation for unreferenced family configurations, which were provided by the subject when he wrote about himself to create the article. Whether or not he and his present wife become divorced is in the realm of possibility rather than fact and seems superfluous until it becomes a fact. People split and reconcile now and then, without being tracked in Wikipedia, and thus that detail seems superfluous to an article of this size and minor notability. Thank you again for improving the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jvpwiki (talk • contribs) 00:20, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

"Template damage"
Hi,

I'm curious about this edit, which restored some inappropriate bold to the article (Visual Display Unit doesn't actually point at that article, so it shouldn't be bolded, and in any case bolding outside of the lead is very rarely appropriate). Can you elaborate? My inclination is to move those bolded definitions to the lead where they belong, de-bolding the one which isn't a link target. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 08:26, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Your point is indeed valid, the terms should not be in bold after checking with MOS:BOLD, my bad. Therefore Computer terminal was corrected accordingly and quotations restored. Dl2000 (talk) 03:11, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

restore changes on artist page -
Hi, could you please restore the changes made to Felix Riebl wiki page today on the 1st of March 2014. These changes are valid and come from the artist's management. If you require further proofs, please ask before restoring pages to its older & inaccurate content. Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Digital2social (talk • contribs) 02:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC) Digital2social (talk) 07:30, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

why is the page now redirected?
Hi DI2000, I'm not quite sure why this is happening. A page that I updated this morning, twice, has now been removed and redirected to another page. The info on the page worked on this morning are accurate, how come Wikipedia's contributors have permissions to delete/remove/redirect them? Digital2social (talk) 06:17, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

page re:edited
I have restored the page and added references, let me know if this is ok to keep or if more is needed. Thanks very much Kind regards. Digital2social (talk) 06:46, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

inappropriate content on a wiki page: how do you change it if you are not allowed to do so.
What if the content put on wikipedia is not accurate and that the person under the name this content is written under wants to remove the content? We are not talking "promotion", we are talking about having wikipedia being accurate about the info it displays, especially when it is under someone's name. This can cause serious prejudice when the info cited in a wiki page is no accurate. thanks for letting me know. Digital2social (talk) 22:49, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

back to an accepted older version until further Wiki Help is received to deal with privacy issues.
Hi DI2000, I've contacted wiki help and would appreciate you stop harassing this page. The content in the page needs to be updated for valid reason, not for promotion reason (as per what you have judged it to be, and wrongly so) Freedom of expression is important, and accuracy of content is equally important especially when under someone's name. The older version was obviously meeting wiki requirements as it has been live for years - telling us now it wasn't would be rather strange. We shall seek further assistance from more experience wiki volunteers at their help centre so that the content of that page can soon respect the privacy of this individual. kind regards. Digital2social (talk) 23:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Andy Kim
Birthdate was updated and Picture removed per Andy Kim. He has no idea who started this page, would rather not have it on Wikipedia and would like to have it removed ESPECIALLY when his edits are not allowed. We can check further on how to do this. I am not an editor of Wikipedia nor do I wish to be but you MUST honor what the Artist wants done on a page that describes only him. Thank you... BetBytes (talk) 02:05, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Style changes
I've already reached out to the community for consistency on the WP:MMABOX. Feedback would be appreciated to the discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mixed_martial_arts#Further_standardization_of_WP:MMABOX. Once it's finalized I'll make sure that all of them do follow the standard. Thank you for your assistance.Dstrange (talk) 03:12, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Damian McGillicuddy edits.
Hey there,

I've made some recent edits regarding your last removal because of Copyright etc, etc.

I'm just wondering if the new edits that I've made are correct as I have no linked in anything that is not already linked in the article and what not.

Would love some insight on this as I'm new to Wikipedia and would love to get this information out there.

Danielclarke90 (talk) 10:57, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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MOS discussion
Please can you cease adding Indian English pending the outcome of the discussion here. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 22:30, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

March 18, 2014
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Timeline of the 2014 Crimean crisis. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism. Thank you.


 * In this article, a little more than half of the dates were in format mm/dd, and the other half was in British format (dd/mm). It took me a lot of effort to change the dates to have uniform formats.  According to Wikipedia Manual of Style, it is important to have consistent date formatting.  For example, you can not have "March 6" in a title, and "6 March" in the article body text.  If you really want to revert this, then do the effort to modify ALL the dates.  For more information: MOS:DATEFORMAT and MOS:DATEUNIFY.  Thank you! Cmoibenlepro (talk) 04:35, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Umm.. you need to be less selective in your reading of the MoS. A title or quotation of "March 6" is supposed to be rendered as is (per WP:MOSNUM, WP:MOSQUOTE), while other date formats can be in the body text. So, no, title and quotation dates should not force the body text to be formatted accordingly (what would happen if different titles have different formats?) Or maybe I missed a part where Crimea is now getting annexed to the US where WP:STRONGNAT would justify the format changes you were making to the Crimea articles. Dl2000 (talk) 01:11, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Srđa Popović
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Label collective update
Hello, I am getting in touch with you because we just received notice that you had reverted our sweeping changes to an article about 'Insurgence Records'. Yes, we are the subject of this article and indeed that is reflected in the name on our account. If I may explain the intentions behind the alteration of the article...

The Insurgence Records project has been offline for quite some time. We are beginning anew. The wiki article about us was written by colleagues, but it is badly out of date and the individuals responsible for initially posting it are no longer in orbit with what we are about. The material was replaced by something much more rudimentary because we intend to build this article back up slowly and with the appropriate resources so as to contribute a more realistic picture of who we are. Of course we encourage others to write about us, but the main thing we saw with this article was a disjointed attempt, including spelling mistakes, links that no longer exist (website has moved, myspace is something no one bothers with anymore), etc.

Thank you in advance for taking time out to read this. We appreciate your vigilance regarding random deletions, but can assure you in this particular case, we are acting on good faith and merely seek to build an an updated foundation from which others may more accurately base their links and commentary on. As it currently stands, this wiki gets spanned to Google in a search on us and only serves to unduly date us.

Kind Regards, DaveInsurgence Records (talk) 05:11, 12 April 2014 (UTC)


 * You need to read and understand the WP:COI guideline first. Dl2000 (talk) 03:50, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Buddhism by country
Recently, a "new user" has removed again the tags and added totally unreliable claims such as "North Korea is 90% Buddhist, South Korea is 70%" and "Buddhism is the largest religion in the world". The article is in a really really bad state... to support the "1 billion Buddhists" big number it pretends that other religions are "Buddhist" or subsumed under "Buddhism". It needs to be rewritten entirely according to real sources. The worst thing is that the same packaged lies have been copied on other Wikipedias.--87.5.77.207 (talk) 14:52, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

See also this discussion. Unfortunately it has remained unresolved.--87.5.77.207 (talk) 14:56, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Format drift?
In the edit summary of you use the term format drift. What does that mean here? --Lambiam 01:00, 16 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Sort of a WP version of fixing clock drift, unifying things back after various edits e.g. better to get the references added than to get every presentation detail right. Dl2000 (talk) 04:21, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Re: April 2014
Dear Dl2000,

Could you please be so kind as to inform me which part of my addition to the article on the Juno Awards you were refering to?(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Simohnjon#April_2014) To my knowledge the only part which could possibly be an issue is the list of awawrd winners? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simohnjon (talk • contribs) 17:38, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

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The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
Hi there,

I did completely update the page on The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos, and I apologise if the coding I've done is rubbish. I'm completely new to Wikipedia editing, and have tried very hard to get this one page updated. I have spend days of research at my local library, to get my information correct, and I just want it to be online.

Ideally I would have had just contacted whoever created the page, and maybe ask for their help, but I couldn't find any way to do that. I can only just manage basic HTML, and I have found wiki coding extremely difficult and frustrating. I have already tried various tutorial pages and have not made much sense of them. I am somewhat miffed that there is not an easier way to do wiki editing - maybe with the help of some user friendly interface. I had to resort to using Word 2007 and try and get it converted, but even then I still had to spend many hours trying to tweak the coding.

So sorry to moan, but I really don't have much spare time, and this TV show is one I am extremely passionate about. I feel I am discriminated against because I'm not a coder.

If anyone wishes to help me, please do get in touch :)

Many thanks

Alan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xanthein (talk • contribs) 21:12, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

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Re April 2014 & JUNO's
Hi Dl2000

I've edited the original source to include a copyright notice and have also added a reference to the wiki page. I've read through the copyright information pages and I think this should be ok now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simohnjon (talk • contribs) 15:57, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Hello Dl2000 You made some changes on this page which was good. I consider you to kindly watch this page. Some people are trying to vandalize it.

I hope you will do it. Namo Buddhay!!

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Renaming account
How I can change the name of my account Edson Luque?, In Spanish as EduLin17Xever register me and change my name to Edson Luque, just want to do it in English Wikipedia.

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UEFA FFP
Why do you keep rolling back my changes to the FFP page, currently it is nothing more than a propoganda piece for UEFA I add a little truth to it but you change it.??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.234.22.45 (talk) 02:20, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * a train in India, and celebrating two New Year’s parties in one day in two different countries which he accomplished in 2013 in Tonga.

May 2014
Hi, how to report repeated vandalism to admin. A user with id : 117.201.217.121 is doing repeated removal of tags and changing population info in Guntur page almost very often. You have warned him before also on this page User talk:117.201.217.121.--Vin09 (talk) 04:59, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi

Thank you for your comments.

Am I therefore correct in assuming that IMDB is NOT an acceptable source for Wiki? I got my information from: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3368920/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Please advise.

Thank you. Tescotea (talk) 06:31, 15 May 2014 (UTC)


 * See WP:RS. Dl2000 (talk) 21:58, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

changes to Mike Parsons (Barchester Healthcare) page
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Composite gear housing
Thanks for your help in getting the intro in the proper form. I did not know where to ask for help, so I left comments there and hoped that someone was watching the page for edits. I guess all we can do is make incremental improvements.

I have been mainly interested in how Wikipedia interacts with the rest of the web, and only recently started to edit. I see some systemic issues, but not sure how to address them yet. Are there pages on Wikipedia that need help? There is quite a backlog on submitted articles. RC711 (talk) 01:41, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Rod Stewart's "Young Turks"
When I saw the text on Rod Stewart's "Young Turks" that said

"... The lyrics, written by Stewart, concern a boy who has left his hometown with his pregnant girlfriend ..."

I knew that the lyrics cannot necessarily construe that conclusion. Curiously the reference for that text is http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1501, which says instead

"... This tells the story of Billy, a kid who leaves his hometown and gets his girlfriend pregnant ..."

Evidently these two quotes disagree with each other about whether the boy (Billy) gets the girl (Patti) pregnant before or after leaving his hometown. While it's evident from the lyric "... Patti gave birth to a ten-pound baby boy ..." that Patti had become pregnant, it's not evident from either the lyrics or the video when or where Patti became pregnant. Regardless, neither of the two aforementioned statements finds justification from the lyrics.

The text and the disagreeing reference made correction difficult. Scouring both the lyrics and the official video, I claim that the best conclusion about Billy and Patti is the interpolation that I said, namely,

"... The lyrics, written by Stewart, concern a boy and his girlfriend, who have left their respective homes to travel to Los Angeles ..."

with "Los Angeles" coming from the video. One may substitute "another town" or "another city" for "Los Angeles" if relying purely on the lyrics. Other variants are also possible.

You be the judge as to whether I have taken unnecessary liberties. I don't think that I have.107.184.33.158 (talk) 00:54, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

I couldn't cite any relevant reference about how Patti became pregnant because I have never found any. I think the lyricists intended to keep those specifics unstated. Yet the sentence in question needed correction because it was baseless. However, it would have been clumsy to explain anywhere all the reasoning that went into such a brief correction. So I attempted to interpolate while keeping the Songfacts reference, which someone else, not I, had introduced. I have never had any objection to Songfacts, at least for the present case, being declared unreliable.107.184.33.158 (talk) 03:02, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * There have been questions about the reliability of Songfacts raised at WP:RSN. Regardless, further discussion should be done at Talk:Young Turks (song), not here. Dl2000 (talk) 03:18, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Your edits on Phil Vincent
Gooday. I am working incrementally on Phil Vincent and you have made changes characteriSed as "restore from template damage" here. This article had only 3 old references cited as 2008 (one being a typo as 2006 - I checked the article's instigation as 2008), and as I often/usually paste-in contributions I have made to previous articles - either as a basis or actual prose - it is most unnatural for me to use this format "Use dmy dates|date=September 2010". Often I don't notice, and often previous editors have badly-formatted their contributions in any case, often missing entirely the date citations are applied (I always add a date irrespective if there is no 'online' URL, as I feel it's better to have a full summary for future editors to easily check when refs have been retro-applied, and in case sections get shifted around. As I don't want to go through changing what's now 10 refs I have added (and not finished with this and other associated articles) would you at you convenience change the date format to Metric, to your satisfaction? Other bits of code such as "df=yes|" and changing 'Image' to 'File' are beyond my comprehension. Alternatively, I can leave mixed date format. Thanks,--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 11:45, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ No worries, not too difficult to unify. Dl2000 (talk) 13:41, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

UFO
Hi, I would appreciate it if you didn't revert all my edits without at least being given the chance to explain I have added heavy metal as all of there albums could be classed as heavy metal and non of the genres on any of UFOs albums are referenced at present moment. Lukejordan02 (talk) 22:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Khoury article
Hello there, the format that I reverted to, was the original format until somebody came along and changed it. Moreover Khoury greatly respected the Americans and was lauded by them during the formation of the United Nations. George Al-Shami (talk) 03:06, 5 June 2014 (UTC)


 * The article format had generally been in place for the past 4-5 years and the subject has no strong ties to the US himself. However, will avoid further formatting work on the article pending any discussion at Talk:Fares al-Khoury and/or further investigation. Dl2000 (talk) 03:17, 5 June 2014 (UTC)


 * What's there to discuss? You invoked WP:DATERET, and now that you saw that the original format was in the M/d/year format, now you're changing your tune by saying that your preferred format had been in place for 4-5 years. Come on, man that's a cheap point, the other format had been in place for 4-5 years too, not to mention it was the original format to begin with. Look, your recent edit is in violation of WP:DATERET, I can discuss this with you to kingdom come, it's not going to change anything; Concede the point and move on. George Al-Shami (talk) 04:01, 5 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Have reverted the article to your previous edit. Although it is debatable whether the article style had significantly evolved since earlier US style, it is an unproductive debate at this point so have now changed my tune on this. Further discussions on this by anyone should move to Talk:Fares al-Khoury. Dl2000 (talk) 21:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Edits to Public holidays in Singapore
Aren't Public holidays in the United Kingdom, Public holidays in the United States, Public holidays in Taiwan, Public holidays in Canada, Public holidays in Japan and so on the so-called "calendar or schedule"? HYH.124 (talk) 12:23, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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