User talk:DuncanHill/Archives/2009/February

Re: Wikicleaner
The link to Georgia was my fault, not Wikicleaner's. I'll more than likely not do that again. I don't see a problem with changing a link to a redirect when the anchor text isn't reflective of the correct name. For example, Charlie & Co. instead of Charlie and Co. and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? instead of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. --Geniac (talk) 13:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
I apologise for interfering with the Categories: better to understand first and then get something else sorted out.Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 20:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Geoff Connor
Duncan, thank you very much for your assistance with my article and for moving it to my userspace. That's where I thought it was, which goes to prove how much I have to learn. I appreciate your kind offer to bring problems or questions I might have to you, I will definitely be taking you up on that as I continue to tune my article. Cheers. --Wombatjack (talk) 02:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

MfD on Deceased Wikipedians
There is a discussion on deleting Deceased Wikipedians. Since you've been involved in the page before, I hope you will consider commenting at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians (2nd nomination). Best, --SouthernNights (talk) 01:19, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 01:27, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Another one...
I created Poster Boy (artist), and moved Poster Boy today. I have no idea what categories might be best here, or if I did things right in creating the disambiguation page at the main Poster Boy page. I would really appreciate your help. H2O Shipper 23:37, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's the same guy. sigh I have never seen Poster Boy called "PosterBoy" in any reliable source, so I never even thought to check that for an existing article. Sorry about that. H2O Shipper 23:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought you were an admin. I don't really have any on speed dial if you're not one... :) Would you mind digging up someone to do it? H2O Shipper 23:52, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all the work. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you aren't an admin. I could have sworn you did an admin-only move for me earlier. H2O Shipper 21:40, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Why do you say you'll never be an admin? I don't know you well enough to be certain, but you seem friendly and helpful, which are two quite important aspects of administrating, no? Have you had some kind of run-in with important people that would keep you from being one? Or are you just not interested in it? H2O Shipper 15:52, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Helston Town Band
I just noticed the tag I had placed on this article was declined, and appropriately. I had tagged the article when it was a one line stub without looking at how new it was. Apologies for the inconvenience. :) &raquo; \ / (⁂) 13:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

You have mail
I can't check mine from here, but I'll try to this evening. H2O Shipper 19:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Dibble Iceberg Tongue
Wow, good job. Usually I Google titles that hint at notability, even with nonsensical content. That got by me. Never would have guessed there was such a thing. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  01:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it starts with, "dibble iceberg tongue is a very cute feature on our planet." Goes downhill from there. Eats salami. Guarded by adorable kittens. etc. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  02:01, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a good one. One of my favorites is Eunice (genus), originally tagged as nonsense. I thought it was an attack till I Googled and found out it really is a worm. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  02:13, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Mogwai
Hi there. I moved this article a while back - the history can be seen at Talk:Mogwai. The problem was that the original Mogwai article was about the band, and was only later moved. Unfortunately, that left 200+ links pointing at an article which was nothing to do with the band. So the obvious thing was to move the band article back to the primary name and fix the links that were incorrect. The stats show that the band article is certainly the most looked for, even though they are overestimating the views of the other uses (because prior to the move anyone typing "Mogwai" into the search engine ended up at the fictional character page in error). I have - or at least had, at the point of fixing - ensured that any links looking for other uses than the band are correctly directed. There wouldn't be a problem with the dab page being at Mogwai but that'd still leave 350+ incoming links to the band article to fix. If you want to do that, feel free :) Black Kite 17:34, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I notice that you've started to "unfix" the links. If you notice, every single articlespace link was correct.  Now, you've ended up with the situation that we have 30-odd that point to the band article, and 340 that don't!  I have reverted these to make the links consistent.  This would be best discussed at the talkpage now. Black Kite 17:40, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I notice that when you moved the articles to the names you wanted them to be at, you also went around "fixed redirects" - which you should not do per WP:R2D & Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects. You have fixed a position which makes it much harder for editors in the future to check if incoming links are correct, and which I do not think you had consensus to do. Still, you're an admin which means that you can do what you want. I won't bother with this subject again. DuncanHill (talk) 17:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

No, that doesn't mean I can do what I want. The articlespace redirects, however, are all correct. But look at the pagestats. They show that the band article is by far the most looked for, as can be seen here.

December 2008: ''at this point "Mogwai" was about the Chinese character and the Gremlins character, but a lot of the band article links linked here by mistake, which inflates the total. Regardless...'' January 2009: after the pages were moved ("Mogwai" is now about the band) Black Kite 18:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Mogwai page views - 23,585
 * Mogwai (band) page views - 29,272
 * Mogwai page views - 28,989
 * Mogwai (Chinese culture) page views - 1,946
 * Mogwai (Gremlins) page views - 5,911

Like I said, not bothered anymore, but please refrain from fixing any more redirects - it does (very often) make dabbing or coping with new articles very difficult indeed, and has no performance benefits. DuncanHill (talk)

An email I just received
"I would like to apologize to the community for the "Lex Luthor" disruption and to open up talks with the community to apologize for my other actions. I have been an intellectual pretzel, making excellent contributions on the one hand and then being quite disruptive on the other hand. I would like to make amends for that. I propose that we begin a discussion and that we discuss my return under the account User:BillDeanCarter."

-- This e-mail was sent by user "An Argento Fan" on the English Wikipedia to user "DuncanHill". It has been automatically delivered and the Wikimedia Foundation cannot be held responsible for its contents.

Clinton confirmation vote template
Hello, I just wanted to thank you for your work on that template with correcting the Senator links! Spinach Monster (talk) 22:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Speaking Of Which
I was wondering if I could get your input on Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet. I've worked hard on it and i'd appreciate someone else's two cents, positive or negative. Spinach Monster (talk) 03:05, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: This
Hi Duncan, I wasn't aware that that was frowned upon personally. Is there a policy where it states that a user cannot do that? Thanks in advance for patching up my ignorance! :-) Scarian  Call me Pat!  22:45, 10 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Okie dokie. Thanks very much for the response! Scarian  Call me Pat!  00:05, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

My talk page
Hi. Actually, to be on the safe side, I'd like to keep them deleted. I'd be leaving a whole lot of very unpleasant vandalism from a very unpleasant group of vandals open to public view. If you take a look at the stuff from January, you'll see what I mean. I just don't want to encourage those coordinated attackers more than absolutely necessary. Thanks for understanding. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:41, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Under any other circumstances, I would absolutely agree with you and I was going to roll back the edits...until I saw the attacks which I were unaware of until I looked at the history. Those hit a bit too close to home for my taste as you can see. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that's different. I'll see if I can roll back the earlier edits. I just hope that the bot archives them. Thanks for the tip. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

They should all be there. I just went and clobbered some stuff from a couple of months ago. Everything else was undeleted, or so I thought. I'll check. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, the problem is with the pagemove history. You have two archives User talk:PMDrive1061/Archive 1 and User talk:PMDrive1061/Archive1, and one of them at least was created by a pagemove from your usertalk page, so the histopry will have been moved with it too. Will copy to your talk page when it reappears again! DuncanHill (talk) 00:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Dunc, you rock. Thanks for the assist. Please feel free to fix the page however you deem necessary. PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for catching my Georgia mistake at 4-H. Oops, I mean Georgia! user:j   (aka justen)   23:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Miss England
Hi

Rather than make someone else do the work, would it not have been as easy to simply put the correct link in. Yelverton, Devon

Thanks--Chaosdruid (talk) 15:32, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, after reading previous comment I was very brusque, for which I apologise, in my defence, I was in the middle of replying to someone calling me a liar at the time.


 * It's here - "1960 - Birth of Carolyn Seaward in Devonshire, England; Miss United Kingdom (1979)."
 * and - Carolyn Seaward Overview. Date of Birth: 20 December 1960, Devon, England, UK more. Trivia: Measurements: 35C-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) more...
 * plus this one, shes the third interviewee - the interviewer announces her as "she's 18 and from Devon"

--Chaosdruid (talk) 16:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Really?
I noticed this.. it's certainly true that I've sometimes looked the other way when a blocked/banned editor comes back and doesn't stir up trouble, but threatening editors who questioned this?? Did that really happen? I don't remember doing anything like that. Friday (talk) 15:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * TOAT threatened me by email. I'm sure you remember that. DuncanHill (talk) 16:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Victoria, Australia, again
Many thanks for correcting my "Victoria" entry in the Penny Ramsey article. Last month I promised you I'd be more careful, me bad. Sorry. Roaming27 (talk) 02:02, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

You maybe interested in the Article Rescue Squadron


I notice that you are part of Category:Inclusionist_Wikipedians. I would like you to consider joining the Article Rescue Squadron. Rescue Squadron members are focused on rescuing articles for deletion, that might otherwise be lost forever. I think you will find our project matches your vision of Wikipedia.

Ikip (talk) 01:05, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Image size problem
Fixed the problem, the variable should have been width, not image_width. Personally I liked the oversized headframe picture!--kelapstick (talk) 17:01, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

AN/I
Your AN/I comments are unhelpful. Please stay on topic, or don't comment. Friday (talk) 16:12, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * They were on topic (I assume you mean my comments at AN, not AN/I, on the hidden pages fiasco), and, I believe, helpful. Your comment here, on the other hand, I believe to be profoundly unhelpful. DuncanHill (talk) 16:15, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Your user categories
My sincere apologies, Duncan. I thought I was doing the right thing. You have to admit it does look like vandalism, red links and all; but I won't trouble you again. -- JackofOz (talk) 18:26, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm ok. It's not for me to tell you how you should have your user page, but I can't help feeling that including red-linked categories with somewhat unorthodox content is almost inviting someone whose heart's in the right place to come along and remove them, to save you the trouble.  Most user pages are vandalised from to time; mine certainly has been.  But, often, the first I'm aware of it is when I see it turn up on my watchlist and I realise it was vandalised while I was in bed, and while I was still in bed, one of my friends reverted it for me.  That's the only thing I had in mind.  But perhaps it would have been better if I'd checked the page history first.   That's a lesson for the future.  Cheers.  --  JackofOz (talk) 00:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Sir Charles Fox was not a colleague of Casey Jones
I only used "and railroad engineer" because that was the phrase used on the dab page to describe him. Nonetheless, your point is a good one, and I've changed it to "(civil and railway engineer)" instead. Thanks for the heads-up. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Heyo
Thank you for your note, I believe I cleared up the misunderstanding in my latest edit to the Arbcom page.  Jaakobou Chalk Talk  20:29, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Edward Long Fox
Thanks for drawing my attention to the Edward Long Fox article. Vernon White '''. . . Talk''' 09:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Just want to say "Thank You"
Your recent edit of the Terry Nichols article is greatly appreciated. I can assure you, I would have missed that link discepancy you fixed. Kentholke (talk) 17:20, 28 February 2009 (UTC)