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Juan Román Riquelme
Done. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

MindManager
Hi, Thanks for your comments about my changes to the the MindManager article. I will take these comments on-baord and as soon as I get some time I will have another go, if that is acceptable. Many thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyroneking (talk • contribs) 09:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Weeds / Weed (disambiguation)
Hi, I took a quick look at how many of the options on the dab page could actually appear in plural, and it is basically just the unwanted plant. Furthermore, a look here should convince you that almost all pages that link to Weeds actually mean to link to Weeds (TV Series), with the exception of a couple, which I will fix. eae 06:59, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


 * 1. Redirecting Weeds to Weeds (TV series) contradicts our naming conventions (because this renders the parenthetical disambiguation unnecessary). The correct course of action (assuming that Weeds should be used for this purpose) is to move the actual article to that title.
 * 2. Internal links are not the only consideration. Links to Weeds intended for Weed are relatively unlikely to exist and easy to repair, but it's likely that many readers (particularly those unfamiliar with our naming conventions) will attempt to reach the Weed article by typing "Weeds" into the search box (because plural references to the plants are extremely common).  —David Levy 07:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Please do not "move" a page by copying and pasting content. This breaks the revision history, which is required for compliance with the GFDL.  If you wish to rename the page, please follow the instructions from Requested moves (as advised above).  Thank you.  —David Levy 06:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Jimi Hendrix
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. &#10154; Hi DrNick ! 03:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello, Eaefremov, thank you for your message. I apologize if my warning you and not warning  appeared to be one-sided; it was not intended to be that way. ILike2BeAnonymous already had been issued a WP:3RR warning earlier (diff), so reminding him of the rule would have been redundant and unnecessary.  Had he continued to revert, he would have been blocked from editing with a quickness.  I don't doubt that you were making a good-faith effort to improve the article, but revert-warning over any change is not the way to do it. Constructive discussion on the talk page is best.  Still, I see where you would be upset, and will try to be more even-handed in the future.  Cheers, &#10154; Hi DrNick ! 00:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:BestofHendrix.jpg
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Public-domainness of USSR materials
Why is the option "was made in the soviet union before 19xx" no longer available when choosing licensing? Is that material not considered public domain anymore?


 * I don't know why that particular option is no longer available for licensing, but as for what falls into the public domain, see this table. You'll probably get a more informed answer to your question if you post it on Wikipedia talk:Copyrights.  SWAdair | Talk 08:47, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Smena
I completely agree. Let's move it. If you don't mind be my guest and do the honours. Even the Russian article on Smena is titled Smena (fotoapparat) and includes all Smenas. Thanks. Dr.K. (talk) 09:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Now it fits much better with the Russian article. I'll try to find a few citations as long as I can navigate through Russian websites in due course. Hopefully they will have some English sections. Goodbye for now. Dr.K. (talk) 09:49, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. You can change it as a redirect if you want. Спасибо. Take care. Dr.K. (talk) 20:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I Love Huckabees
I meant to say that reference #1 is not a blog, not reference #3.

I said that the film is *usually* pronounced I Heart Huckabees, implying that is is sometimes pronounced I Love Huckabees.

You asked for references, to show that it is sometime pronounced I Love Hucakbees all you have to do is a web serach for "I Love Huckabees" and you will find many hits showing that indeed it is sometimes pronounced this way. Any of those web hits suffice, blogs or not, as all I am trying to demonstrate is that some people pronounce it differently, and a blog is adequate fo rthis purpose.

I pronounce it I Love Huckabees, my friends pronounce it I Love Huckabees, why is that so difficult for you to accept?

Do the web search and see for yourself! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.253.117 (talk) 16:07, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * 1) Blogs don't suffice for anything on Wikipedia.  They're not adequate for any purpose here.
 * 2) I didn't erase the first reference, which isn't a blog, I erased the two that are blogs.  You should really look at the diff of an edit before using the "undo" function.
 * 3) You should really have an account on Wikipedia before you start posting on user talk pages.  That way you're not hiding behind your IP and therefore waiving your right to credibility. EAE (Holla!) 20:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Users are not required to register an account. Do not misrepresent Wikipedia's policies like this. All user's contributions are welcome, and it is highly inappropriate to insinuate otherwise in order to discredit or intimidate someone with whom you have a disagreement. Further, sources that call themselves "blogs" are sometimes adequate, if they are subject to editorial review (see the section below by riffic). --Cheeser1 (talk) 18:29, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Notice how Cheeser1 purports to give a direct order to EAE by writing: Do not misrepresent Wikipedia's policies like this. I wonder if there is a Wikipedia policy that entitles one user to give military style order to another user. Is that considered civil? Are some more equal than others? --Achim (talk) 01:20, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


 * There's actually an entire set of tools to do so: User:Black_Kite/Toolbox. Stop Wiki-stalking me. If you jump into one more situation to continue your WQA-retailation, I will report you for harassment at the ANI. --Cheeser1 (talk) 01:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

blogs as reliable sources
I replaced the link to Wired's blog with updates from the Hans Reiser trial, which is perfectly acceptable according to WP:V ''"Blogs" in this context refers to personal and group blogs. Some newspapers host interactive columns that they call blogs, and these may be acceptable as sources so long as the writers are professionals and the blog is subject to the newspaper's full editorial control. Where a news organization publishes the opinions of a professional but claims no responsibility for the opinions, the writer of the cited piece should be attributed (e.g. "Jane Smith has suggested..."). Posts left by readers may never be used as sources.'' riffic (talk) 23:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Dark Knight
Hi, just to let you know that the lead section of an article is supposed to be a mere summary of the the article content. As per WP:LEAD, facts stated in the lead do not require citations if citations for the same information exist in the main body. The facts you tagged at The Dark Knight are all properly cited. All the best, Steve  T • C 23:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Reggae Rock article
Someone took down your deletion proposal on the Reggae rock page. Check out How to list pages for deletion for a different way to nominate an article for deletion. It's a bit more complicated, but nobody will be allowed to just remove the proposal without it being debated by other editors. Spylab (talk) 13:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Black Gold (Hendrix album)
Hi there, I have been doing new page patrol and came across this article you created. It does not have any references and, as such, my inclination would be to send it to Articles for Deletion, as the subject matter is somewhat controversial; however, I thought I would ask if this just happened to be an article you started work on but never quite finished up first. If you can reference it (say in the next week or so) then we can both avoid the AFD stuff, which is an ideal situation because it would mean we had another interesting quality Wikipedia article. I'll keep an eye on the article, or feel free to touch base on my talk page if you'd like. Risker (talk) 03:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

"Lomography"
Hello. Mind popping over here? Thanks! -- Hoary (talk) 06:26, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Gorodki
Hi! I uploaded to Commons the rest of Gorodki patterns. Please have a look/use. --Begemotv2718 (talk) 21:51, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Black Gold (Hendrix album)
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Kaz's Underworld Doofus.gif
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Added sources for Lolita citations
HI, Eaefremov. I added the sources for the Lolita citations. When do you need a date retrieved? For ANY web-citation, or just for periodicals like the NYTimes? I can add these two if necessary.

Thanks,

Wickerguy —Preceding unsigned comment added by WickerGuy (talk • contribs) 18:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

California portal selected items
Hi Eaefremove. I tagged all the California portal past selected articles, biographies, and pictures with the corresponding parameters in Template:WikiProject California. (e.g.,|past-selected =, |past-biography =, |past-picture =). If I missed any, please let me know. GregManninLB (talk) 18:48, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Mindjet logo.gif)
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Mindjet
Is it possible to retrieve the last version of a page that was deleted? The page in question was Mindjet, which was deleted for allegedly not asserting its notability, which is a fair concern except that apparently nobody monitors that page besides me, and I was on vacation when the deletion went through. MindManager, the company's primary product, was similarly nominated but withstood the deletion attempt because someone added an award it won; I believe that same award makes Mindjet notable, as well as a number of other assertions of notability I'd like to add, but first I'd like to retrieve the contents of the page as it was before deletion. EAE (Holla!) 21:40, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Mindjet doesn't appear to be deleted. It looks like User:Lifebaka deleted the page back on July 3, so you might want to talk to them. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Chirps•Clams•Chowder) 22:52, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Reggae
Привет, Евгений Ефремов! Я выдвинул проект "Регги" и буду очень благодарен, если ты поддержишь: WikiProject_Council/Proposals. Как-никак, Ямайка подарила миру огромный пласт музыкальной культуры. Спасибо за внимание ;о)! --Nagasheus (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Снова привет, Евгений! WikiProject Reggae готов служить! Надо только с оцениванием статей разобраться, там махинации какие-то. В любом случае любые идеи и помощь приветствуются! Если что, стучись в аську (=. --Nagasheus (talk) 16:37, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Reggae
I saw your edit summary inquiring whether we need a "stubs to expand" section. I believe we do. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 22:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:MindManagerFluentUI.jpg)
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Speed of sound
Speed is an easily understood concept, I agree, but what you reverted wasn't wrong-- just overly complicated. Speed is distance traveled per unit time. S B Harris 21:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Help with The Wailers
Hello, I would like to move The Wailers to The Wailers (disambiguation), and then move The Wailers (reggae band) to The Wailers. "The Wailers" accurately describes only the original band (and the much lesser-known Tacoma band who can stay at The Wailers (rock band)). But because The Wailers (disambiguation) already exists, I can't make this change except by copy-paste. EAE (Holla!) 07:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I think it's perfectly OK as it is. The name really doesn't matter; for example, consider a featured article, like Genesis (band). Convention is to have such disambigs where necessary; it is reasonably likely that, one day, there will be other entities called "The Wailers" too, and hence we'd have to re-shuffle things again.


 * If you wish to appeal to move it, then you could do so by starting a discussion on Talk:The Wailers, and then posting a note on Talk:The Wailers (reggae band), Talk:The Wailers (rock band) and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music, and see what others think (ie asking them to please look in on the discussion, with a link to Talk:The Wailers).


 * For more help, you can either;


 * Leave a message on my own talk page;
 * Use a - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put , and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~ at the end;
 * Talk to us live, with this or this.


 * Best wishes,  Chzz  ►  07:21, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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Articles about human names
Hi, I note that you removed the surname template from DeMarco and added dab instead. It's not a disambiguation page; please see MOS:DABSUR.

If you are interested in cleaning up, improving and creating articles about names, please join WP:WikiProject Anthroponymy! - Fayenatic (talk) 16:44, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Here's the thing - that article is no longer just about surnames. Don Juan DeMarco is a film (it has a character with that surname, but the article linked to is about the film, not the character).  Demarco (artist) isn't a surname either, that is a stage name. EAE (Holla!) 21:56, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for those pointers. I have edited the article accordingly and trust the result is something you can agree with. - Fayenatic (talk) 13:07, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Vandal needs to be blocked
help User:Reggae.truth continuously vandalizes Reggae Rising. He/she does not communicate, does not respond to comments on the talk page, does not provide references... Not sure where to drop a dime on him properly. EAE (Holla!) 02:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * If they vandalize again, then file a report at WP:AIV. Hope this helps, Mike  moral  ♪♫  02:37, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

(EC)


 * Reported to WP:AIV, with this edit. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  02:39, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Dub/Hip-hop
Your assertion that hip-hop is not a derivative of Dub is false, and your edit to the dub page removing that information was an act of bias and ignorance. (Drn8 (talk) 13:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC))


 * Further you seem to have confused 'vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version' with regular vocals. This is in error. Vocal samples in dub re-mixes are single words or phrases heavily effected and used as sound effects, rather than full verses of lyrics. The MC usually performs live, over instrumental records. (Drn8 (talk) 13:47, 24 May 2010 (UTC))


 * " I'll leave it as-is for now"...
 * Good, that's what you should have done in the first place. You should engage in discussion before removing somene else's work to ensure consensus


 * "An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, singing, or any other sort of vocal input; all of the music is produced by musical instruments."


 * A brief vocal sample does not equal a lyric, and technically re-using a pre-recorded sample can't really be considered *VOCAL* input, however it's not that simple. Furthermore, wikipedia is not a dictionary, nor is it a source of reference.


 * "he two "references" which are supposed to back up the use of the word "instrumental" and the claim that dub is a subgenre of reggae are completely worthless. (What is "Jesus dub"? What interview with Carlos Lopez, who is he, why does his opinion matter, who interviewed him, for what publication? and in any case, an interview is a primary source.) "


 * There are perfectly good templates to use in these cases that don't involve your making unilateral decisions.


 * ". Furthermore, "instrumental subgenre of reggae" and "separate genre that involves revisions" are not mutually exclusive definitions, and they shouldn't be presented as if they were. It's true that dub was once a subgenre of reggae and nothing else, but any dub recording which can't be called reggae (I'm thinking some of Thievery Corporation's work, for example, esp. the dubs made based on their music) means dub is not strictly a subgenre of reggae, though many dub tracks certainly can be considered part of the reggae umbrella."


 * This is your viewpoint, and you are acting unilaterally on it, against the rules of wikipedia.

Drn8 (talk) 20:36, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Prisoner functionary
I'm puzzled by your comment, "did this actually save money, or did it just allow that SS personnel to be given other assignments elsewhere?" I am unable to see the distinction your question implies. If you have access to slave labor, by definition, you're saving money because you're getting free labor and don't have to hire people for that work. Your paid staff can then be assigned elsewhere.

The official website of the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial states in the very first sentence after the headline (in the reference at the end of the second sentence you questioned), "This so-called 'prisoner self-administration' allowed savings in the number of supervising staff and prevented solidarity developing among the prisoners." Are you looking for Nazi financial ledger sheets documenting the savings?

I am presuming that you also made the edits to the German nouns, since the time stamp was so close. Regarding capitalization, my understanding is that things have to make sense to the English readers who frequent here. Therefore, German nouns, unless they are proper nouns, would drop their initial caps in English texts. By the same token, German adjectives that come from proper nouns, but as adjectives in German, do not carry an initial cap, upon translation to English, would acquire an initial cap. Marrante (talk) 00:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Removal of red-linked categories
G'day Eafremov, you recently removed a number of red-linked categories for orders and decorations on the Haile Selassie I article. It is widespread practice on Wikipedia to categorise people into all of the orders and decorations that they have received, however categories have not always been created for this. Maintaining and improving the category schema for orders, decorations and medals is a significant part of my Wikipedia editing. If you encounter further biographical articles with red-linked orders, decorations or medals, rather than removing them can you drop me a message on my talk page and I will review them and raise new categories where appropriate. As an aside, I noticed you using the lapsed musician user box that I created - I'm chuffed :). Cheers, AusTerrapin (talk) 23:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Not sure what "chuffed" means but cheers :) As for the edits I made, I approached this from the point of view that the categories list on Haile Selassie I is an unmitigated disaster, and while it may be common practice to add every category for every honor received by a person, that practice clearly doesn't take into account outliers such as Haile Selassie I.  With the skin I use, the cat list takes up about 75% of the screen space when I'm looking at the top of the article.  I agree that it's useful for H.I.M. to appear on the category page itself, so that someone can browse TO Haile Selassie I from elsewhere on WP, but I posit that it is spectacularly useLESS to see a category for every honor he ever received at the top of article, especially given that there is a complete list of honors in the body.  I am not sure what the best solution is, but I guess I agree that ugly is better than inconsistent. EAE (Holla!) 06:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)


 * 'Chuffed' could be described as 'pleased' or 'very pleased'. One might be chuffed to be awarded a barnstar, but if someone was awarded something significant (eg a major national research grant, etc), a stronger term would probably be required to describe their response. Re, the article at hand, I can definitely see how it would be annoying to open an article and have the bulk of the screen taken up with categories. I uses top categories on Commons (where I also do a lot of categorisation work) but leave them at the bottom on Wikipedia. It highlights my concern with the technical operation of categories in Wikipedia. I think that what may be useful is a system which allows categories to be grouped in collapsible structures with some form of standardised grouping applicable to different categories of articles, eg biographies might have groups for bio data categories, regional categories, occupational categories, award categories, etc. In the meantime, there is no easy answer. Cheers, AusTerrapin (talk) 07:51, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Clare Quilty for deletion
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Edit summaries
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Red Link Recovery
Hello. As a Russian-speaking WikiGnome, I'd like to solicit your help in testing a new tool. For a few years now, the Red Link Recovery Project has been using the Red Link Recovery Live tool to track down and fix unnecessarily red links in articles. Recently, the tool has been expanded to work on non-English Wikipedias. A small set of suggested fixes for red-links on the Russian-language Wikipedia have been prepared and I'm hoping to interest some Russian-language speakers (such as yourself) to work through them.

If you are interested, please visit http://toolserver.org/~tb/RLRL/quick.php?lang=ru. Each time you refresh the page you'll be presented with three new suggested fixes. I'll be happy to answer any questions on the tools talk page. - TB (talk) 21:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of DJ Sep


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Wikipedia Stories Project
Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.

Since you live in Oakland, I would very much like to speak with a local editor!

I'd very much like the opportunity to interview you to tell your story, with the possibility of using it in our materials, on our community websites, or as part of this year’s fundraiser to encourage others to support Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project.

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

user:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Vgrigas (talk) 20:14, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Mindmanager icon.png)
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Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest
I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:21, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Rdiologo.png
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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. Stefan2 (talk) 14:30, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Mekanismlogo.png
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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. Stefan2 (talk) 20:58, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Removing sources
Namaste. Please do not remove properly cited sources simply because the links are no longer working as you did at Cole Beasley. Instead, please try fix or replace the links, see: WP:DEADREF. The Wayback Machine is an excellent resource to recover some dead links, see: Help:Using the Wayback Machine. Thank you. -- dsprc   [talk]  03:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Demarco (musician)


The article Demarco (musician) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Not notable. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Sole album was not released. Plethora of appearances are on non notable works.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. duffbeerforme (talk) 14:20, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:09, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)