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Nomination for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the articles Andrew Brown (chess player) should be deleted. SyG (talk) 15:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

I've moved James Morris to your userspace here: User:Garybekker/James Morris (chess player). WP:GNG and WP:ATHLETE would be the places to review notability guidelines. No chess player notability guideline exists to my knowledge, so if you believe that your article meets WP:GNG, please feel free to bring up the deletion at WP:DRV -- Samir 03:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Australian Female Players
Hello Gary. Found your article about Katrin: User:Garybekker/Katrin Aladjova. --Gereon K. (talk) 08:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

By the way, other Australian chess players that I wrote about and don't have an article on en.wikipedia are de:Irina Berezina, de:George Michelakis, de:Laura Moylan and de:Narelle Szuveges. Cheers, --Gereon K. (talk) 09:38, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Another one: de:Narelle Kellner. --Gereon K. (talk) 12:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * and de:Emma Guo. --Gereon K. (talk) 11:43, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Gereon, I will try to write some additional articles, and try to help you with any German articles about Australian players you wish to write. Unfortunately, now that work is busy again, I will only have very limited time.

Garybekker (talk) 03:58, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Liste australischer Schachspieler
Dear chess friend, I wrote a list of Australian chess players at de:Liste australischer Schachspieler. Maybe you could find out the birth year of Carin Craig, Chris Fenwick and Lynda Pope (1952 or 1953?). With best regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 23:21, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Danke Gereon, Ich werde was ich kann herausfinden. Guten Rutsch! :-)

Garybekker (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Gereon,

I don't know the others, but the birth date for Lynda Pope is 19 April 1953. I obtained this from the official ACF historian & archivist, Paul Dunn. :-)

Garybekker (talk) 02:06, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

James Morris
Dear Gary, why don't you publish your article about James Morris? I mean, he is an International Master and should be notable for en.wikipedia. Best regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 14:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Gereon, sadly until James Morris becomes a GM, represents Australia in an Olympiad, or wins a major international tournament, he does not meet the "notability" guidelines. I'm hoping to publish the article next year.

Garybekker (talk) 04:22, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

I have now added this to the Wikipedia Deletion Review for Dec 3, 2013.

Garybekker (talk) 05:44, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Update: James Morris participated in the 2018 Olympiad for Australia in the open section.211.27.126.189 (talk) 05:36, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Alex Jule
Hi Gary. I wrote this one for you: de:Alexandra Jule. Best regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 21:09, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Great work. I will have a very difficult time keeping up with you Gereon! ;-)
 * Hopefully I will have a chance to meet with you next year on my way to the Olympiad. :-) -- Garybekker (talk) 06:11, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The next Olympiad will be in Norway from 1st to 14th of August, 2014. I will be in London in the first two weeks of August. If you fly through London I would be very happy to have the chance to meet you. Otherwise I'm living in Germany quite far from Tromsø (3000 km). :) --Gereon K. (talk) 07:11, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know you live in Germany. Just send me a message on Facebook with details, and I will try to visit you in Germany. I might also fly through London just before the Olympiad, so I really do hope we can meet in person. :-) -- Garybekker (talk) 09:03, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Greetings
Hi there. Thanks for reminding me of those two, now ancient, articles that I created. Sadly, they both need a lot of updating, but were great fun to research at the time. Of course, it was very much about filling the vast void in those days, and so some of the content and sourcing also left a lot to be desired.

However, I note that your own body of work suffers no such deficiencies! Some excellent contributions to date and I look forward to seeing several of the articles that you have marked for future creation.

I guess you may know Manuel Weeks. A lot of chess people in the UK were saddened when he had to leave us a few years ago, due to what sounded like a devastating personal tragedy - I met him very briefly at Liverpool. Can you confirm he is okay and/or give him our best wishes? Thanks again. Brittle heaven (talk) 00:45, 31 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your very kind words about my small contributions to Wikipedia! :-)


 * I am good friends with Manuel and can confirm that he has been doing great in recent years, is still living in London, and will marry the German girl Brigitta, I introduced him to in Sydney many years ago, in August 2014! I will happily pass on your regards, but should I say from Brittleheaven or ...?


 * Thanks for your enormous contribution of so many wonderful chess articles on Wikipedia, and have an absolutely great New Year!! :-)


 * Garybekker (talk) 04:21, 31 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry - it took me a while to get back here. Alas, my meeting with Manuel was all too brief to record - it was more of a 'UK chess community best wishes' I was passing on. But if he is still living in London, then he is probably still in contact with those 'chess organizers' who spoke highly of his work. Good to hear he is doing well. Thanks again, and may your New Year be happy also. Brittle heaven (talk) 12:19, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Emma Guo
Hi Gary. Thanks a lot for the Emma Guo article. There are two pieces of information that I was not aware of - that Canberra is her actual birthplace and that she changed from UoC to ANU. Did you ask her or where is this information from? Best wishes, --Gereon K. (talk) 00:25, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * You are most welcome. She sent me a biographical information sheet directly. ;-)
 * Happy New Year! Garybekker (talk) 00:39, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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James Morris
My apologies for being remiss about your message from last November. Should there be any change in the subject of the article such that you believe that the notability is better established, my suggestion would be to re-create the article as a new article. Best regards. Samir 07:21, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Chess articles
Hi Gary, I think I met you at Queenstown 2006 (rather not use my real name on wikipedia). You're doing some good work on chess articles for Australian, New Zealand and female players but they're slipping under the radar. When you create an article, it would be good if you could add to the article's talk page, and add the wikilink to the index of chess articles. The index helps people to keep track of and improve wikipedia chess articles. Thanks for your work. MaxBrowne (talk) 10:20, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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Birthyears
Hi Gary. A happy new year to you. de:Liste australischer Schachspieler requires the birth years of a couple of Australian chess players (Clive Barnett, Ralph Basden, Carin Craig, Chris Fenwick, John Paul Fenwick, Veronica Henri, Stefan Lazare, Paul Ma, Bruce Oates, Viggo Pedersen, Lynda Pope, Boglarka Remenyi and Tim Runting). Do you have a sourece resp. can you find out which year they were born? Best regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 12:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh, I've seen now that you already sent me the birthdate of Lynda Pope. I'll write an article about her then. :-) --Gereon K. (talk) 12:28, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Elena Sedina
Hi Gary, on Elena Sedina you included the sentence: In January 2005 she scored 8.5/11 to win the Australian Open Chess Championship in Mount Buller, Victoria, becoming the first woman to ever do so. However, I found a ref. where the tournament summary outlines 9 rounds (see article). Therefor, I have changed '8.5/11' into '8.5/9'. Best regards, Bob.v.R (talk) 14:53, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic530.html#22 indicates this was an 11 round tournament. Garybekker (talk) 16:53, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Max Fuller
I think the article should be entitled Max Fuller not Maxwell Fuller. See my comments at Talk:Maxwell Fuller. Adpete (talk) 04:54, 20 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Garybekker (talk) 16:53, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

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