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Proposed deletion of Battle of Kock (1944)


The article Battle of Kock (1944) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No references, no claim of notability, sub-stub. See talk.

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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. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 18:02, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Dropped you a reply at Talk:Battle of Kock (1944).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 21:42, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Now at Articles for deletion/Battle of Kock (1944).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 19:48, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Re
It's an offshoot of a problem that was most evident in human and animal longevity articles. The most relevant sections are here and here. One issue with using flags is that they can be misleading. For example, read the sentence, "Hideki Matsui is a baseball player in the 🇺🇸"; true, but Matsui is and considers himself Japanese. He only plays in the US because we have better baseball, he doesn't refer to himself as an American; sticking an American flag next to his name could lead people to think that he now considers himself to be an American. Similar things can happen with war veterans; Ernest Hemingway fought in the Spanish Civil War with Spanish forces, but was himself American. The other issue, which is far more pointed in longevity articles but still an issue here, is that nationality isn't always important. In the case of (just for fun) the war between the Red and White armies in the USSR, it doesn't really matter whether the White Army soldier was British, Russian, or American, it's more important to emphasize that the soldier fought for the Mensheviks. A final small point that's worth noting is that flag icons take up a considerable amount of bandwidth because they're transcluded onto pages; the List of living supercentenarians article, before all the flag icons were removed, took my computer a lot longer to load than it does now. Even though we aren't usually supposed to worry about performance, one of the exceptions is if you notice a change, and you can confirm that it's something specific causing it. I hope that helps. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 15:37, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The best place to take it up would be WT:MOSFLAG. Perhaps I'm just jaded from the rather arduous battleground that is longevity-related topics (there was an arbitration case that closed in February), so you may want to start a discussion there.  I'm watching that page already, so if you do start something I'll jump in.  The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 22:44, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... this actually seems like something that WP:3O would be good for; I've had success using it in the past. I'll be away from my computer for a couple hours, so if you haven't set something up already I will. The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 01:48, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXV, July 2011
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Userboxes
My userboxes are located at this page. Feel free to take a look at the code and some old revisions in the page history if you want. -- Σ talk contribs  01:58, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :) Goldblooded (talk) 15:34, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Mexico Casino fire
Hello, I redirected Mexican casino fire 2011 (which you created) to 2011 Monterrey casino attack (which was created approximately 6 hours earlier). With articles like this, it can be tough to determine if there is an article yet (and which name it is under) so you may wish to check Special:NewPages in the future. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 06:16, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Georges monnet.jpg
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Article lead
The article lead should summarize the article in a concise manner, not saying anything the referenced content does not support. While it's true that at least the French Air Force was underfunded (the Navy is more debatable), this is a peripheral issue at best and doesn't need to be in the lead. Usually the lead is the last thing to write, as it is supported by the body of the article, so improvements should focus on the main content first, followed up by improvements to the lead.  Acroterion   (talk)   20:47, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
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 * If it's a free-use image then why did you tag it as a non-free historical image? → Σ talk contribs  04:09, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

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простите?
Кто вы? Я не говорю по английски, и я не внести изменения. Вы должны иметь не тому человеку. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.222.136.171 (talk) 18:55, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Anti-vandalism
Generally it's advised to put one of the official user-warning templates (such as uw-vandalism1) on the talk page of a vandal - the numbers increase for the severity of the vandalism and the previous number of warnings received - for obvious bad-faith vandalism, you can skip straight to uw-vandalism4im. If the user vandalises after the final warning, you can put their name up at WP:AIV and an administrator will intervene.

Oh yeah, you should read the relevant guideline on identifying vandalism before actually working on destroying it.

Twinkle has all those features in a menu, to help speed things up. Thanks, → Σ  τ  c. 19:58, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

New page patrolling
I'm going to trust that you've read WP:NPP and know when to not apply A7, but I suggest you take a look at WP:FIELD while patrolling new pages - there's much more to CSD than is explained by Twinkle. Good luck in your patrolling, → Σ  τ  c. 22:22, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * You may also be interested in the discussions going on at MediaWiki; they're improving the system of new page patrolling. You'll need to either create a new account there, or create a Unified WMF Login. → Σ  τ  c . 07:30, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, they use LiquidThreads there, making comments on a page with LiquidThreads enabled is completely different from a standard talk page. → Σ  τ  c . 07:31, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy tagging
Thanks for patrolling new pages - a thankless task without which Wikipedia would soon become useless. I have deleted Vocibo, which you tagged, but WP:CSD wasn't the right tag to use - that is only for "Pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish". If you can tell what it's about, it's not a G1. This was about an on-line game, so the right tag was db-web. It was probably promotional enough for db-spam, but if an article fails WP:CSD and well as WP:CSD it's better to use an A7 tag, otherwise the author is liable to take out a few glowing adjectives and post it again. It's worth reading the definitions in WP:CSD carefully; also, there is good advice from an experienced admin at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Keep up the good work! Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:35, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

AIV report of 217.28.13.71
There's a time limit in which one can be blocked for vandalism. Six months is way beyond that. Please take that into consideration next time, thanks :)  Kwsn  (Ni!)  14:27, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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Edit warring notice
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Block
Thank you Fox for showing mercy, and i will assure you your decision will not be in vain :)

However, it appears i dont seem to be able to edit yet and it says im still blocked? Goldblooded (talk) 14:05, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I think its because it was an IP block, not just on my account. Goldblooded (talk) 14:09, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Paste the message you receive when trying to edit? &mdash; Joseph Fox 14:32, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Sure, a white box appears with this message in it:

You are currently unable to edit pages on Wikipedia due to an autoblock affecting your IP address.

This is because someone using this internet address or shared proxy server was blocked. The ability of all users on this IP address to edit pages has been automatically suspended to prevent abuse by the blocked party. Innocent users are sometimes caught in an autoblock. It may be the case that you have done nothing wrong.

A user of this IP address was blocked by Spartaz for the following reason (see our blocking policy):

Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Goldblooded". The reason given for Goldblooded's block is: "Violation of the three-revert rule". This block has been set to expire: 11:53, 9 October 2011.

Note that you have not been blocked from editing directly. Most likely your computer is on a shared network with other people

Goldblooded (talk) 14:42, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Please email me your IP address and I'll see what's going on here. &mdash; Joseph Fox 14:55, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Not reblocking
Just to reassure you that while I disagree with the summary unblock without discussion there is no likelihood of the block being reimposed unless you misbehave again. I certainly have no intention to reblock you. Spartaz Humbug! 16:03, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 16:16, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Red Empire


The article Red Empire has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * WP:NEO and more akin to a dictionary definition than an encyclopedia article.

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WP:NPP and WP:BITE
Hi, I've just started to do a bit of WP:NPP and had a look at some recently patrolled articles by other editors. I found that you'd CSD'd Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day as "unsalvageably incoherent". It wasn't: I've salvaged it and left a friendlier message on the editor's talk page. It was that editor's first edit, and I hope s/he (odds on that it's a young "she", an under-represented group of editors) will stay around and learn to use their shift key and improve their editing. Please don't tag for deletion so hastily. Thanks. Pam D  15:10, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * You CSDed it after it had been up three minutes?!? That's funny. You not Goldblooded, you're Coldblooded! LOL. It did look pretty bad, though. – Lionel (talk) 23:33, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Regarding that constructive criticism thing
One of my previous mentees got rather a lot of flack for trying to keep criticism on another page. You'll have to be careful on how you handle it. <font color="#000">WormTT &middot; &#32;(talk) 15:17, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Sonny Bill Williams
Hi Goldblooded,

Can you let me know what your objection was to my edit there about off-field controversies? My version was more accurate in representing the sources, and I added mention of his leaving the Bulldogs because this was probably the episode that has caused the most controversy in his career. I'm not sure why you referred to WP:NEUTRAL - could you explain? Thanks. BiggerAristotle (talk) 21:11, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I've replied to your reply at my talk page. Thanks. BiggerAristotle (talk) 22:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Your user page
The edit summary explained the reasons I made that removal.

Here's some useful reading for you : WP:Userpages, WP:DTTR

Plutonium27 16:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * We give editors a lot of leeway with user pages. If it's not offensive, inflammatory or promotional, better to leave it alone.– Lionel (talk) 03:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)