User talk:Graeme Bartlett/archive 2

Kane Christopher
Hi Graeme,

regarding today's AFC 1.3, Sunday Telegraph article was December 31 2006 and The Australian article was January 03 2007, that is all the information I have. Hope this helps. 60.240.68.43 (talk) 12:15, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Older talk is in the archive

Leftwich Award
Graeme, I noticed that you recommended for speedy deletion a proposed Wikipedia article on the Leftwich Award since its importance was not adequately addressed in the article. The Leftwich Award is important because it was envisioned and funded by H. Ross Perot to help the US Marine Corps at a time when it was having a severe problem retaining young officers after the Vietnam War. Mr. Perot (who is in Wikipedia) commissioned Felix de Weldon (also in Wikipedia) the sculptor who created the Iwo Jima Memoral (also in Wikipedia)to create a suitable trophy for this award. If you look on Mr. de Weldon's Wikipedia entry, you will note that the Leftwich Trophy is one of his creations listed on his entry. Mr. Perot and Leftwich were classmates at the US Naval Academy and close friends. Mr. Perot wanted to do something positive to improve junior officer retention for the Marine Corps and to honor his fallen classmate, LtCol Bill Leftwich who died in Vietnam while performing a heroic selfless act. For the reasons stated above, I request that you reconsider the Leftwich contribution for inclusion in Wikipedia. As a graduate of the Australian Defense College, I think this explanation will help you understand the significance of this proposed entry. Sincerely, Dirk Ahle, Colonel, USMC (retired)


 * Ok I have relented and created the article, however there are not many google hits, and I used a different spelling than what was on top of the proposed article. Also the recipients are almost all redlinked - do they deserve an article? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:09, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

< Graeme, thank you for relenting. This award is significant to the US Marine Corps. Yes I am a recipient and specifically request NOT to have an entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.162.143.5 (talk) 20:33, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Graeme,
Divine Mafa: He is a non-graduated Rhodes Scholar, (He refused to graduate under the scholarship because Cecil John Rhodes, the founder of the Rhodes scholarship was a colonialist who plundered the resources of Zimbabwe) Divine is also businessman from Zimbabwe, now residing in USA. I would be happy to give you more information on this individual. My extensive research shows that he was a professor at University of Zimbabwe and University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA for a short time. He graduated from University of Cambridge, East London. As a student he was radicalist at the University Of Zimbabwe, fighting for the landless poor blacks yet he pushed for democratic elections and empowerment of the poor and implementation of human rights for all Zimbabweans. He was a radical student activist, yet his influence transcended to the community with a populist message. His father is the founding father and one of the leaders of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe. The Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe has destroyed the economy. The country is in hyperinflation, and is in disarray. Divine Mafa will be rejoining his father’s political party with the intention of being the next generation of leadership.

Manjova. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Googlememphis (talk • contribs) 17:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

=Thank you Graeme,= to reply me so soon. I have read your instructions and will follow & come back to you soon. Accept my Best Regards-Alan Sun--Dralansun (talk) 11:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of B rhmaand Pujan
An article that you have been involved in editing, B rhmaand Pujan, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you. Anarchia (talk) 03:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Graeme, I notice that you have been working on the above article and on N aresh Sonee's article. Do you have reason to think that N aresh Sonee is anything other than a very prolific mostly self-published internet poet? The quality of his work in English seems to me to be abysmal, both poetically and argumentatively, and there are zero hits for him on google scholar or google books, which suggests that his work in English is completely ignored by the literary community. Comments? Anarchia (talk) 03:33, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Silly me for not thinking about getting someone with knowledge of India to check the article. I have put a request for comment on the WikiProject:India page. Anarchia (talk) 04:27, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Dear Anarchia
I am Alan Sun, First of all please forgive me as I am popping or approaching in to answer your good self queries without  taking your permission. I admit such is a non etiquette from my side as your letter is addressed to ‘Graeme’  and not me. However, you reserve full right to raise any sort of  objection. But if you permit I would like your good self to consider my voice too, before Graeme reply to your good self. Within couple of days I will be posting Hindi language news papers reviews and news of various news papers of india. Kindly find a Hindi reader or translator to verify my claim

Answeringall of your questions. First of all. All popular search engine like google or yahoo give strong and enough reasons to believe that ‘N aresh Sonee’ has more than 20 pages on any search engine  to his credit. By just writing ‘N aresh Sonee’ on any search window. The pages automatically appears. For instance … All below searches are related to N aresh Sonee. Just now I wrote N aresh Sonee on google   Results are ,,,,, http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=N aresh+Sonee+&btnG=Search&meta= By writing … Time God N aresh Sonee http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Time+God+N aresh+Sonee+&btnG=Search&meta= By writng… N aresh Sonee Pope http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=N aresh+Sonee+pope&btnG=Search&meta= By writing …. Gay Demand Bush Tony http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Gay+Demand+N aresh+Sonee+&btnG=Search&meta= http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Gay+Demand+N aresh+Sonee+&btnG=Search&meta= and the search comes on and on…..

Now the question is a ‘voice’ is a voice & a news is a ‘news’. You self can raise or other raise for you. Shakesphere promoted self. Many great revolutionary leaders came out with their own news papers. Such thing -Either they come from a lay man or Benedict Pope is immaterial. Writers are writers whether they are renowned or anonymous. When a media and mass reports an information. They are for mass ears and minds to think, talk and act. When a sensational issue is raised for the betterment of the world on a whole the  development or revolution  may begin from a scratch. Great concerns from a ‘no man’ from alien countries should not be under estimated. If an author ignore to care Literary Communities that does not prove he is a fellow without act or art. Some poor writers don’t have money to get register with such communities. So if they can’t effort or are unable that do not prove they are nuts.

To your second question raised - Infact, Though I am an English but has strong examples to prove  that English Literary Community give a rare third degree approach to third countries writers specially from place India where British once ruled. If it is not ego but otherwise. And if you speak about this queen’s language, you see when it comes to  US English. It hopelessly differ from UK English. That doesn’t mean that the US or third countries writers’ ‘thoughts or information have no crucial  value for Wikipedia or world.

Anarchia, The discussion may never end if we go on discussing or discouraging a non English writer of third country disqualifying his wise views which are actually novel and one of its type. Wisdom cannot be ruled out from the author in question. Poetry writing or criticizing poetry of others are two great issue need not to be debated here. I had tried once but I ended with writing none. And that promoted me to write for Sonee. He has a wonderful rhyming art of writing in self language Hindi and my mother tongue. Study on internet. On the contrary we learned people, should never ignore the fact that what all it take to learn other’s country language. Yes Anarchia it’s real hard. And this fellow I have said is a college drop out. But I have seen that in poetries he can give tuff to any English poet. Today people are appreciating Haiko and what not. Even when brilliant readers or audience don’t understand what it mean, they applaud.

Anarchia, I had have being trying to learn Hindi since nine long years but I ended no where till date. So I gave up and started improving at least my mother tongue. And that’s what we are all doing here. Giving or learning how to write or give final touch. But I am horrible in writing you know now. But I feel you greatly can understand my feeling. And that what is important. So unless one understand the rigorous pain one under go or experience while learning other’s language, one can never empathy or estimate the pain on the other side.

Dear Anarchia, leave learning other’s language but I don’t feel the shame to say that I am very bad in commanding my own language ‘my mother tongue English’. It make me hard to believe that -Graeme who once rejected and omitted my page on Sonee a year back has turned out to be an  angel  for me now. Even you.

However, till today I did never knew you & he or some one else appearing angels were editing my page. I was very happy un till now, when I came to know from your addressed letter above to Graeme. I request not to knock me out. It will take time, but certainly I am gathering his Hindi Poems which will be put and translated here with your good selves approval. It appear from my page that dear Graeme and your good self have edited and beautified, transformed  a lot by sparing or  allotting your precious time to my pages.

Anarchia, You see Needless to say Sonee is already hated by many as because the blunt issues he is raising fearlessly are enough controversial. It’s like opening a Pandora box of hatred. His life is at stake. So you will never come across Sonee’s photo anywhere. Many working behind the wikipedia itself may dislike this person if they happen to be very religious or  from LGBT cult. In future too there are many chances that such communities and cults come on this page, and would criticize Sonee’s view point or subject the matter for deletion.

Few more example I wish to be amicably debated by wise Brilliant Editors  concerned to Wikipedia and this I address to your good self  too.

For instance, 1) In Wikipedia you come on many  personal site of people who all had created their own individual name page, showing their profile etc which look more like advt. or hobby info.

2) On wikipedia seekers and searchers  get information of a Hollywood individual who selfly promote,  produce, direct, edit and act in own film and then  list them in Wikipedia. Does this self promoter or producer  require to take any university, acknowledgment as reliable source ? Needless to stamp that such people are thorough doing biz or advt.on wikipedia.Actors grow rich without noble act or cause. Unlike them Sonee is a non professionalist to promote self which wise can empathy and understand. You must have read me on his page.

3)Same reasoning of reliability goes for Messiahs and Prophets like Jesus, Ram, Mohamed, Buddha. Except one all were non English. Which reliable source can guarantee that they actually took birth ( existed)  and were magical in act/or just fairy tails floated for professionalize religions ? , Can Historiography  prove the  existence of  1000 year past-  God or God men? Can you de list  or delete Jesus from Wikipedia? posing him a poor  illiterate Shepard ? Was he from literary community , oxford, Cambridge or otherwise? But  If you still feel Literary community is essential to stamp , acknowledge  or ascertain his views. Then perhaps I can't succeed to get approval from you. However, Apart from poems or writings Sonee can be listed  for great thoughts, a global thinker, philosopher, a revolutionary etc..

3) Penguin can be a private publishers and money generator for self or other on professional term . Immaterial to big or small, poor or rich , remote or world known publishers . Should all be acknowledge as reliable sources under one eye. whether they selfly publish their work or give to some one else.

4) News Papers/Media, run by private or collective individuals big or small, famous or remotely known should they be considered as reliable source? If they provide free information. I can give add their reviews and news in Hindi of various Indian news papers. I can also provide Indian HRRD Government registration number of Sonee's book in question.

Anarchie, this Letter is scribbled to your good self urgently. Please try to understand my pain or feelings of convincing you. I apologies to debate but you see I am trying to get into Wikipedia this informative exposure since more than a year. –‘Thoughts & Guts make a revolution’. People like you and me should come forward to appreciate and encourage N aresh Sonee’s contribution to the world with a big supportive heart of wisdom or generosity. My sense or instinct says the page should come up. And You should be there on me to guide and guard this page along with Graeme for ever till you stay here. I request you. Thoughts and Acts of World should get clean up. People should know the selfless philanthropically activities N aresh Sonee is attempting or living for without any professional  self interest or gains. Only wise, nice and sane thoughts can unite and shape the world and that what Sonee is trying. Your brilliant self, & Wikipedia should help the cause. At last I request to stay on this page and help Graeme. Already you have done a lot by improving or cleaning it. True Regards. God bless you always. -AlanSun--203.194.97.33 (talk) 15:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Blacksmithing+hair answer
Thanks Graeme, your answer to my ref desk question seems spot on. Hair oil + alkaline ash could make soap. That would consume much of the oil in my hair, and also the soap would stick the the hair together. Also when I wash my hair after, the shampoo lathers as if my hair was already clean, then I need far more conditioner than normal.

Anyway, thanks for the answer, it seems to fit well with reality. --Psud (talk) 22:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


 * From Canberra - Yep. I'm happy in my anonymity, so I won't give my name, but I will say I recognise your name and if you graduated yr12 in the class of '95, I suspect I went to school with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Psud (talk • contribs) 10:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Respected Greame,Myself Alan Sun
When ever your good self find time please go to my discussion page N aresh Sonee and read my last three messages posted on dec.12 & dec.11. Thank you. Alan Sun---203.192.227.110 (talk) 06:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

=Graeme I request you once again please = There is a request on my page under deletion banner to meet clean-up operation once again after i edited a bit by including notable refernces of several indymedia or other URL's So if your goodself could,along with your genious & generous co operated editors could spare your valuable time - please do once again clean up/improve 7 guard my article so that it earn merit points for your great contribution & effective /attractive composition of English. However, un fortunately once again two editors kept it uder deletion process'banner').But recently today uder it one more banner has popped up which it's advice to clean-up'

Graeme, Very soon I will create /give/post a link of an URL on my discussion page where you can read JPEG scanneed copies photo attached filed as old - 8 to 10 Indian Hindi Language news papers original cutting copy of reviews & news on N aresh Sonee & B rhmaand Pujan. I will also add there an old official letter of 'Vice President of India & Home Minister of India Government' in Hindi language who both had confirmed on their own governmental letter head that they had  received one, one copy of B rhmaand Pujan book from N aresh Sonee & had  promised to read the same soon. Graeme, Only see that they be translated by your India Wikipedia editors experts in English to witness/verify my claim notability or reliable source. And the matter is solved once for all. Regards' Alan Sun---203.192.227.110 (talk) 08:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Such letters are sent out routinely by government officials; they are meaningless as far as establishing an author's fame or influence. -- Orange Mike  |  Talk  19:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

=Sure Graeme, I got you,= Sorry I didnt logged. as I am un well. Probably by tomorrow or day after I will give detail of non English (Hindi) news papers ' reviews & news. in few line summary, News paper name, article date of publication, it page no. etc as you adviced. Yes, additionally I am also going to post their originals scanned copy in Hindi. Iam going to create a temprory URL or temlete page That will be more satisfactory/convincing  for the future  editors also who object my case. Please hold my page by writing 'keep' as I don't know the procedure. With Regard, God bless you always. -Alan Sun---203.194.97.1 (talk) 17:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

=Help me to Re Nominate (KEEP) N aresh sonee& B rhmaand Pujan}] page= Now Greame.I have already added 3 Indian newspapers new/reviews on above as per your instructions on my talk page. Soon I expect to receive / add more. So,kindly when ever you feel free and have time to edit[[N aresh Sonee &  B rhmaand Pujan pages. Please edit, clean up improve & beautiyfy the same more. Please also see that the page sustain. But Graeme,  whenever I open these concerned  pages of my submission, the slogan ask me to re-nominate the page 2time. Please do this favor for me by re-nomitaing it, if you could.  True Regards -Alan Sun- --Dralansun (talk) 10:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Dec 18, 2007

Recently I have added 6 translation of news/reviews
On N aresh Sonee & B rhmaand Pujan ,All concerned notability / reliable sources could your goodselves witness there. News/reviews on above pages in question, please see &check if you are satisfied. Still If your goodself have any doubt or stay un convinced. Kindly spare time and read my discussion page. However if you still insisit I can add few more news/reviews and also can raise a temperory/permanent website carrying  'original scanned newspapers photos in Hindi' of news/reviews which will reflect there. I can give a permanent link in below references or below translated news, clicking on the URL any one can verify facts concerned to my wikipedia article or news/ review translated there.You will find the tranalation all accurate. I once again sincerly regards and empathy to all of your concerned doubts.Howsoever I want to satisfy/convince all of you, once for all. -truly- Alan Sun- --Dralansun (talk) 18:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank You Angel to guard the pages. --Dralansun (talk) 18:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Ezekiel H. Guti
A tag has been placed on Ezekiel H. Guti requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Jons63 (talk) 01:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Recently I have added 7 translation of news/reviews
On N aresh Sonee & B rhmaand Pujan ,All concerned notability / reliable sources could your goodselves witness there. News/reviews on above pages in question, please see &check if you are satisfied. Still If your goodself have any doubt or stay un convinced. Kindly spare time and read my discussion page. However if you still insisit I can add few more news/reviews and also can raise a temperory/permanent website carrying  'original scanned newspapers photos in Hindi' of news/reviews which will reflect there. I can give a permanent link in below references or below translated news, clicking on the URL any one can verify facts concerned to my wikipedia article or news/ review translated there.You will find the tranalation all accurate. I once again sincerly regards and empathy to all of your concerned doubts.Howsoever I want to satisfy/convince all of you, once for all. -truly- Alan Sun- Thank You 'Angel Graeme' to guard the pages. --Dralansun (talk) 12:20, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

AFC
I am trying to decline Articles_for_creation/2006-08-23 since it is a copyright violation of the source. I am being blocked from saving it as something is hitting the spam blacklist for o r k u t. c o m (spacing added to bypass spam filter). Would you decline it for me? I do find him notable, so I'll use the historicracing source plus other sources to write him an article. Thanks! I'm going to pass on the other 3 articles, although it would be reasonable for them to have articles. Royal broil 15:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks: I have done the decline - stripped the CV and the banned site. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Do know what was the problem? I had stripped out the copyvio and I still had problems. I used the find function on my browser to find the problem text and couldn't find it or figure out what was wrong. Royal broil  00:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I looked at your diff and figured it out. I wasn't even close to figuring it out. Thanks for you help. I wanted to make sure that the source listed by the requester wasn't somehow blacklisted, so I feel better now. Royal broil  01:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Those banned sites are annoying when they appear. They stop any further edits on the page, until sorted out.  At least I have never had more than one block of problem URLs on a page, then section editing of the problem would not even work. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Graeme,voilation matter
My page has been removed on N aresh Sonee due to poem voilation.see if you can debate the matter by deleting the poem in question, but hosting my article once again. as I am new to wiki i don't understand all policies. -regards- Alan Sun---Dralansun (talk) 05:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Dear Greame
Ok but if i give or create a website link on news/reviews originally published on Sonee will it be enough to prove his notability, reliability? I want to say to you- no publisher declare exact sale of books in India. Small Publishers of India unlike big publishers of world rarely disclose their sales for one or other reasons of governing laws. And Greame, when a good friend like you say to write/offer  a new subject on India philosophy , poets etc. for  wiki. In this regard, needless to say - you too had observed the experience with wikipedia people like us have. All is very difficult here. It's self torturing & humiliating to self or for the person, place thing entitled. Years of research sem waste for wiki. i shared my info going through years of research on Indian religion or global. I came across many poet or philosophers but nothing I got substantial. All were as usual poets who are nature lovers,praising sky and moon, flowers, beloved etc. Even you come across copying philosophy of one an another. 'Code name God' has copied Sonee thoughts but person like Sonee laugh and say atleast voice are getting alert and that what he need. Very soon even you will see Sonee's suggestion will be followed concerned/suggestions to LGTB. Among philosophers and poets I accidentally came across  this living  person N aresh Sonee & I learnt some unique ability is there in this person unlike other professional; poets, religious care takers or philosophers he imitate none but is standing alone against them in a cult like India where his life is at threat.

Graeme, as you have suggested me to write on others' philososophers etc.. - On what ground of guarantee or time of length a person  can again go or get involved  for a new research Graeme Should only to convince my self that I wrote/contributed  something on wikipedia- Should I leave my routine job of regular earning and do all such pain taking research for the sake of convincing myself ability in front of wiki aspiring young moody judges. I don't think they are capable, understandable, matured, reasonable enough  to justify any caliber.

Writing on Wikipedia is just like writing on sea shore sand. A smallest undecent wave may ruin all of your writings. It's like children making a fort by using sand on the beach. Yes indeed, what I felt judges on wiki are recruited for their job, even a school students contribute their article or small researches and jump on any page ‘delete or raise a objection’ But I have no complaint on them too. Today they are here tomorrow they may join some BPO, call centre or softwares company. Good luck &God bless all of them. some might even join some publishing houses or become writer or editor of newspapers or become great publishers.Who know what tomorrow has kept ?. Yes many will leave when they will paid more than wiki. Good luck to them. Meanwhile, What I have come across, Almost all on wiki projects are aspiring to become editors or writers by profession. Whereas I am satisfied with my patients. I thought of doing something senseful by sharing my views on a unique person but I failed. I believe there may be hardly any editor  in wiki who is a known person of any country, state, city or even a remote village. They have not written any book or never had any newspapers talking on them. Never dared to question the world openly. But their opinion on Sonee was their great acheivment and final. My efforts were deleted as their pleasure. No regret. But as I see some vole enters or checking editors are not matured like you. I wish you good luck on wiki as people like you are angel here but I felt very bad experience of self humiliation  on wiki. Nothing I found constructive here. No chance for good people, good voice. LGTB  or religious groups or Language, Cult bar  is ruling on heads. I have come across stubbed people who are ruling 7 rolling the roost like a snake & ladder game. They tarnish images of good people who stay honest in their approach or efforts to do contribution to uplift mankind.

There are pages on professional people like Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson who contribute nothing more than  their nakeness of absurd thoughts and acts  to uplift the society Unlike them but people like Sonee are suppressed  by rigid  [[LGTB}} or religious cult. There are strange thinkers on wiki.  No I don't feel to ever go in this hassle of dog  fight , where constantly one has to guard the page as a faithful dog of his master’s  home and see if no  other dog come to bark or bite. Spiting on each other is the game on wikipedia (misusing public donation for raising professional artists or corporate houses ) . Even when my health did’nt permitted but I watched my page 24 hours. so that someone  don’t come and spit on it. / destroy it without reasons. Wiki should replace their name . The name should be a engine where  ‘dog constantly fights for ever’ & the winner is - who can fight more consistently & cunningly. Graeme , of course , bias are there on wikipedia . And even you can’t dismiss this fact.  This  you too  will also admit. Also a school boy  can come on your page all of a sudden pull your  legs on bias acting/posing  worse than a 'big school boy'  who repeat his  class and show muscles on juniors, ragging on classmates  who are sober. Wikipedia  has become a school / college ragging centre where aspiring writers or soft tool experts want to self tag medal by writing compositions of self praise, self contributions, exhibiting self  hobbies,  creating self interested  debate etc o otherwise. Constructions of  lot of big people pages on global people are still not raised there. So many past and present pedias are missing yet.

What I felt in my process of experience with wiki- It work as a two formed gangs of angels and devils. Both are sincerely, seriously opposing each other. But I experienced only a stronger gang survive and weaker gang has no choice but to surrender. The chairpersons should change the systems of wikipedia that is the crucial need of the hour. Everyone is acting judge over one and another. I experienced, I became mad in guarding my page. My regular routine got upset. But how can I do this for ever? Well any search engine is familiar with Sonee or his work. And Graeme do you expect indymedia foolish to sustain his articles of past years.

Greame, I have no hard feeling for persons who had removed my page, But I need you to forward my voice to wikipedia chair persons. with this appeal sent to you. As wiki projects depends on donations of mass. So it should act transparently for/by/of the people. Complete democratic. Voice of people should get register. Good notable voices should not be fooled by foolish and ruled out hopelessly even when  original news/review of news papers are attached to the article. Does it show sensibility of responsibility? Is wikipedia the sand on sea shore where anyone can rub & wash. Nothing is permanent secure on wikipedia. Why professional sale of a person or his book must be the criteria of notability or reliability ? . Would wikipedi  include Mother Teresa or her work  for noble cause or if she prove her or how million her  ‘though gott sold’ by professional private penguins. Should only gimmick/ mytho fiction senseless book of children Harry Potter  info should wikipedia  exchange or expose to a seeker ? Should view of Sonee not reach the world or knowledge hungry seeker bywhat soever news? And are indymedia news or self created news are not news of notability. You mean to say – Only private press like Washington Times can declare reliability or registration of a news ? And only a news which comes from private horses mouth are news & other falls from donkey’s (indemedia’s) mouth. Is wikipedia a private? Corporate ? or free accessible Public Info property which sustain / float/fly on public funds? Is google, yahoo engine hits not enough to show notability? You see from the very start Sonee page was questioned /complained/objected for one or other reasons. However I tried to cover all lame objections of every school boy questioning or joining the debate. What I judged - The stronger gang saw that the page be removed for ever. Does a person have nothing to do in life apart from controlling his raised pages on wikipedia sand where any fool or person with bias come and delete the pain taking research of some one ? Is wikipedia source of un permanent info? Graeme, why my full pages were dismiss is my humble question to wikipedia chairpersons and not their employee. At least two line of info a character or caliber like Sonee deserves? Was there no body to keep two line on this page. Was everthing rigged by me. Is Sonee not a poet ? Is he a nonsense person with nonsense voice or view, in no news ? What these wiki people want to say or establish? A world info is parted here on wiki. A contributor does research and a foolish school boy comes and add/ delete any page. Why such nonsense wiki management entertains? And a known person like N aresh Sonee on search engines or newspapers news is fully deleted by a group of unknown persons who are ‘all unknown’ and hardly contributed nothing so great other than some compositions on wiki or self websites which any school boy is eager to display. You see LGTB community is very against of Sonee how a person of LGTB give a right judgment on Sonee? And are 5 to 10 people enough to judge N aresh Sonee’s work or name which millions of people or newspapers readers already know in India or otherwise. He has a strong presence in India. And the persons involved who deleted  his page are of course in deed ‘un notable persons by any newspapers. They are no poets, no philosophers, no reformers. They can only read and criticize others' work or contribution as public does but they can’t lead to raise constructive voice which Sonee had time & again tried to done.

Wikipedia should not deny to share info of  any happening of person, place, performance regardless to how small or big the info or notability is from past or present. A world wide view ( news) or vision coming from any remote place or people should have equal justice to get registered in wikipedia.

Anyway Graeme, I am not a bit disturbed by you. Your cause to delete my page in past was reasonable & you took all pain to guide me reinstall my page. I heartily thank you again. but yes as every good human might spell his mind so exactly I have done here. It’s not my out burst but a sane argument which if person who deleted my page should empathy if s/he is in my position. Administrators should not had cut all links so hurtingly at once urgently. You have helped me a lot as angel so I can’t ask you for more extra favors. But if your Godly instinct feel that a person like Sonee deserve two line on wikipedia info, just write for me or him. You know the subject.

Meanwhile you are in better position to debate this issue. This is not a point of insulting my writings by totally removing them. It’s also like questioning your integrity of editing and improving it which you did. Are they saying that even you are an immature editor to improve and clean-up my page? And what happen to your comment and some good people like you as Aleta who strongly supported my notability of article. Once again, if you feel raise a small page on Sonee and check your self  how difficult is to win LGTB or regid religious community. You your self will realize what does bias on a person actually mean? Do it if your God feel. All heart felt & spelt, Graeme forgive me if I have over written in loose sentiments. I opened up with you as my angel. Regards- Alan Sun --Dralansun (talk) 09:46, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Graeme, pls refix my page again
And keep it permanently under your control guarding it as you do to your other raised pages= I will keep you updating with any future devlopments. But meanwhile resummit after removing 'all inbalance content from  my article'  and repost it again balancing all nuteral point. No matter how small article you appear. But Please sustain my pages again Graeme. I will not touch the page. The page is yours from now on ward. See that such honest person who is non salebale or does have nuteral points along with a world wide view remain alive on wikipedia.My instinct beleive you can do it? give your try at least so that a voice of global interest & welfare never die and wiki also share the info. regards/ Alan Sun---Dralansun (talk) 15:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Web and Flo
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=Dear Graeme,Please loose your pressure= I dont want to pressurise you more. You have already helped me a lot. but carefully ...... read my talk page at bottom & what I have answered to Keeper76 & Aleta....... Dear Aleta, You are right. I respect you a lot for you have supported my page without knowing me. You see, Aleta, I am a human not god. it's question of creditability not only mine but also of an entity – identity  in question. I provided all the facts what so ever was demanded by wikipedian editors or opposers. But without investigating /verifying my news/reviews on Sonee, the administrator ruthlessly deleted it under influence of  4-5 people. Have they kept two lines over there on the person in question. I would had not raised my voice. Frustration & fighting for my democratic rights are two different issue. You can put me in any slot. It’s your view and mind. However, This might be an inspiration from  Sonee to me or person like Gandhi where person has to fight his  battle alone. Without dying no body can enjoy heaven. I have learnt form such people –if you  are certain to certify self  reasoning or common sense considering it  ethically right then  least care what might the world think of you. One should act and speak right. & that’s what I am doing here. Few people have label my writing as soap box, unreliable etc… God bless them. They don’t know about the person what revolution his voice is going to influence the world in future. Jesus, Kabir did not changed the world in a day. No wikipedia was there then to suppress such voices or sharing their info. Strangely Good or ridiculously bad human one day are in scripted in history. May be Jesus or Bin Laden. So my suggestion to you as a well wisher is never leave your good deed, Person like Graeme & You are rare angel breed. I can feel from my inner sense of little wisdom. I may or may not raise the page on Sonee as my mood is very upset @ present, but ever if couple of you angels feel to raise Sonee page once again any of your good selves can go contribute for the betterment of world welfare deeds. Try it. You will get a peaceful sleep. Because real angels never sleep unless they help a true person in difficulty successfully. They don’t leave the victim in middle of ocean. I am fed up putting my points clicking reading all wiki pages. I have gone mad to convince them. It’s just writing on sand. So, If your instinct feel Sonee deserve two line after reading below talk page of Graeme & Keeper76  feel free to raise a para on Sonee. That is enough for my satisfaction. Read the following links & forward my voice to the ‘Chief Arbitrator Section’ or chair persons directors who run this wiki show biz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Graeme_Bartlett#Speedy_deletion_of_Web_and_Flo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keeper76 Pls. Push my above voice to the chairperson of wikipedia Graeme & Aleta. God bless yopu always- Alan Sun- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dralansun (talk • contribs) 14:21, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Graeme, urge
It seem the debate is over on N aresh Sonee so Pls delete each and every link/ debate on him as the hits on n aresh sonee hits first on wikipedia discussion/delation page which is giving a wrong impression on seekers, readers of Sonee. Treat it as urgent please. Regards- Alan Sun --203.192.227.1 (talk) 06:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Wijerd Gerlofs Donia
I just created an article on Wijerd Gerlofs Donia, who was nephew to Grutte Pier and another who fought with him during the Peasants Revolt, and who took of the command of Pier's troops, the Arumer Black Heap, after his unvles death in 1520. If you got any information on him, then please contact me and help me expand the article. Let us help the great Fryslan project, comrade! Thanks in advanche, -The Bold Guy- (talk) 16:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I know u prefer /forced to keep out of my subject
But Graeme, I am coming up with reasons to clearify juistfy my page all who are opposing my case will be appealed again. But till then if the discussion is off on the pages in question. I plead to remove all discussion done on me on your page even. As above paras of disussion are giving wrong hits on search engines.Presntly Your (this)page is reflecting them. This has been requested by the arbitrory section of Sonee to wikipidea also. So winikpedia has helped me even & kept my debate strictly confidential. I had already thanked wikipedia judging editors in this regards.They were very understanding. Regards to you again Graeme.--Dralansun (talk) 08:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK
--Dralansun (talk) 07:07, 4 January 2008 (UTC){| class="messagebox -talk"
 * [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]
 * On 3 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with from the article Theodule Meunier, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
 * } Cheers,  Daniel  08:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * } Cheers,  Daniel  08:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

=Very soon i will need u Graeme & Aleta= you have to stay permamently there to guide me as I am gearing up to attack my pages with 'no nonsense' from my side. My page is also yours. In one of his poem, Naresh Sonee says- For human -'Trying is better than crying, Truth is better than lying, Walking is better than flying, Selling is hard than buying'  I am in the process of making a url of news / reviews photo website. I will ask you o join soon. On my personal talk page you are already added as honorable genuine generous editors of wikipedia. regards --Dralansun (talk) 07:07, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

=Iveta Apkalna= I'm not too familiar how strict the English wikipedia follows copyviolations and how to deal with them. In my opinion this article is too close to. Do, what you consider necessary, I won't follow up. best regards --Gf1961 (talk) 15:56, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It does not look like a straight copy to me. Use as a source was credited. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

RE:AFC- Lori J. Robinson
Hey, I just wanted to drop a line and let you know that I'm going to change my denial of the request for the article and instead create it. I saw you message about .mil websites, and I managed to find a disclaimer saying that the article is in public domain. If you ever disagree with something I may have done, please don't be afraid to let me know at my talk page. :) I'm always open for discussion and I'd be happy to talk things over. Happy editing! Icestorm815 (talk) 02:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

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Chipmunk physics engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2008-01-02#Chipmunk_physics_engine In the category of the open source 2D physics engine, it seems Chipmunk is the more efficient one. Though I don't think this point should appear in the article. Another point is its popularity, for exemple there are 3 bindings for other languages yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.168.181.15 (talk) 22:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I declined this Chipmunk physics engine because the article does not make any claims of importance for this software, and comfirming by other web searches that this software is hardly mentioned, implying that it is hardly used or has hardly any importance to others yet. This may change over time. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:02, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to WP:Christianity
Also I thought you might like to look at and maybe become an editor at Wikichristian http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php/Main_Page and Christianity Kathleen.wright5 22:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

=Graeme this is me= I have already added you in my project team I am seeking help from some Wiki-Indian-Project- Hindi Editors  to translate all  news-reviews on Brhmaand Pujan  & Naresh Sonee from my created site-  http://brhmaandpujan-news-reviews.tripod.com/. Your good self can also visit this link & please kindly help me out to open Naresh Sonee ‘s page with your lucky hands. Write two line on him please. I think I deserve your help & also kindly help me if some more Hindi translators comes forward to help the page grow. You should remain with my page for ever. God Bless U. --Dralansun (talk) 17:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * From this web site "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License" not a problem. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Good work

 * Wow, perfect example of what you were saying below! Tiptoety  talk 07:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Tennuvian
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=Graeme could your goodself pls spare time again?= for minor clean up or grammar check. See Eleta & other wikiIndia editors are now coming forward, helping the article grow so you too join up for basic cleanup. You are my first angel,I will rather not forget you. meanwhile, I request you once again to find time & help this stub, orphaned article grow with link-ups, cleanups, or otherwise Brhmand Pujan. Pls guide, guard, grow Brhmand Pujan article. & See what ever you can translate & add from below site which display news and reviews in Hindi from some of the leading Hindi News Papers of India
 * http://brhmaandpujan-news-reviews.tripod.com/ (For Fair Use Only)

--Dralansun (talk) 10:21, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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Rename attempt
The Friesland-project should be moved to the name Fryslan project, for the name Fryslan is our great provinces officially recognised name. We should use it more often, how else do you think we can get it "ingeburgerd"? Please man, we gotta use the name Fryslan for the project. We gotta use the name "Fryslan" more often or it will die out. -The Bold Guy- (talk) 11:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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AfC
Thanks for the work you have done to screen and approve many of my AfC submissions.

I noticed that another anonymous author submitted an article about the "Maroonbook" that got rejected. First let me say that I have nothing to do with that author. However, I am curious as to why it got rejected? The source cited by the anonymous author is the Harvard Law Review--hardly an unreliable source. Might you have rejected it for a different reason, but just used the wrong rejection template? For example, was the article unsubstantiated by the source provided, or does it contain copyvio?

Finally, just out of curiosity--I take no position one way or the other--why are some of the highway redirects in Articles for creation/2008-02-26 approved and others rejected? I am sure there is a good reason and I am just curious about it, that's all.

Please delete this comment after you've answered it. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 01:51, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The reason for declining the maroonbook was that there was no secondary source. Only a primary source.  The same organisation that produced the maroonbook also produced the reference used as a source.  Although this is probably reliablem I cannot tell if it's important enough to warrant an article.  Normally university notes for students would not be important enough. Tiptoey created a whole big block of the express Lanes redirects, but stopped for some reason.  I checked using google to see if the name existed.  In most cases the name had never been found by google, so I declined as a neologism - a new name not in use yet.  In some cases the name was used for a different highway (in another state) then I declined it for verifyability reasons.  In a couple of cases the name was used for that road, so I created the redirect. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Please see the response that I've posted on my talk page. And thank you again for reviewing my own submissions and approving those that are satisfactory. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 19:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Afc double-check
I was planning on posting an explanation of my double-checks on the afc wikiproject's talk page but since you prompted me I'll answer you first and then copy the post over there.

Anyway, back in january I was tackling some of the backlog and one time I accidently opened one of the days that had already been marked as completed, to my surprised the green ribbon that goes at the top of completed pages was missing. I decided to check the submissions and found two or three that could be accepted, which led me to believe that someone had wrongly marked that page as completed when it was not. I figured that if it had happened once it might aswell have happened twice or thrice so I decided to double check all of 2007's submissions. The result was that not only did I find other pages that were missing the green ribbon but also a few that had the ribbon but were not complete, and were clearly not mass moderated. (almost none of the 2007 pages were mass moderated).

After a while I kinda of standardized the process like this:

First I check for the green ribbon, if its missing then I review all the submissions that havent been accepted or declined. If the ribbon is there then I check which one it is, if its the standard one(Ie. not the mass moderated one) then I check the page to see if indeed all the submissions have been accepted/rejected. If the page has the mass moderated tag at the top then I assume that it was indeed mass moderated and move on.

Thats basically it, for the 2006's archives I expect most of them to have been mass moderated so the job will basically be checking for green ribbons. If you want to help ( and help is always welcome :D) thats pretty much all you have to do unless you have some suggestions. Cheers RIP-Acer (talk) 12:31, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I know, I always check to see if the submissions have been manually accepted (Ie. only with the words accepted or declined and no box) What I meant by green ribbons were the ones that go atop the page when its done: afc c
 * These were supposed to have been added by later rewiers but sometimes they were missing. Which often meant that the page was not indeed complete. RIP-Acer (talk) 12:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

nitrogenous
You answered my question on the refrance desk about nitrogenous and some of thing you said algea needed (potassium, phosphate, iron, copper, magnesium, calcium) are in food that we eat could i use food that is high in this stuff and put it in my tank (this is a seperate tank than what my fish are in so its ok if it gets dirty. And do you know what other things i could use to get the other things such as ammonia or nitrate without having to buy any thing. thanks --Sivad4991 (talk) 20:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I told my aunt about nitrogenous and see remmembered that it is also used as a cleaning product (it just smells relly bad) I was wonder if you think i could use this kind. But if the cleaning kind wont work I was wondering if I could use dog poop or pee. thanks for your help. --76.236.191.72 (talk) 20:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You can use ammonia as a cleaning product, but if it is too strong it will kill plants. It is too strong straight out of the bottle. The same applies to dog excreta, full strength it kills plants, but diluted can be a fertilizer. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood
Thank you for your emphatic and decisive support for my article on Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood. He may be "small royalty", yet he has friends in high places, and is the next in line as you rightly pointed out.- Peter Ellis - Talk 20:00, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Canberra International Airport - Recent accidents and incidents
Talk:Canberra International Airport There was a "Recent accidents and incidents" section, but I removed it because none of the incidents were recent. So, what is wanted and/or needed? Pdfpdf (talk) 06:42, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have answered on the talk:Canberra International Airport page. Wikipedia is not news but shoould include history. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. My response there too. Pdfpdf (talk) 02:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

frequentlyviewed=no doesn't work
In you added. It appears the template doesn't understand "no" but just checks for the presense of "frequentlyviewed" and adds a text. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * With the parameter the template always claims "One of the 500 most frequently viewed mathematics articles", even if the article is very rarely viewed. I think that is odd. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I also just noticed this. I've asked for clarification at Template talk:Maths rating about it. Hv (talk) 14:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I clarified it there, and changed the template code so that if "no" is specified the parameter is ignored. But really there is no reason to specify the parameter at all; the default is "no" anyway. The parameter was set for the top 500 articles using a bot, so that statistics can be collated for them. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 15:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

By the way, Graeme: when you added the maths rating template to that article, you didn't specify the class, importance, or field. Unlike other projects, the math project already has a list of mathematics articles that doesn't require tagging talk pages. The only reason to add a maths rating tag is to assign a quality, importance, and field to the article, as part of the article assessment system. So please take a second to fill in all three parameters when you add the maths rating tag. Otherwise someone else has to do the tedious job of going through and filling in the parameters that have been left blank in various articles. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 15:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

AFC drive
 WikiProject Articles for Creation Featured Article Drive WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long featured article drive! The goal of this drive is to fill the empty Category:FA-Class AFC articles category. Good articles are welcomed as well.

Awards to be won range from the AFC barnstar to... well, the AFC barnstar. The drive page is located at WikiProject Articles for creation/Featured Content Drive.

This drive was organized by Nousernamesleft. Nousernamesleft copper, not wood 03:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC).

A little reminder, since it's been quiet and I've been away a while... Nousernamesleft copper, not wood 01:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of His Imperial Highness Prince Sertan Saltan
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 * Sorry about that. Twinkle placed the warning there, not me. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 21:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the feedback on Heath v. Alabama. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 05:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Editor Review
Hi there, I saw you left a bunch of comments on my editor review so here are the answers to your questions :). First off, I had been editing as an IP for quiet a while and then I finally decided to register and account so that’s where I got all my experience from also, when I made my first article assessments, I had  this page up as well and I compared the articles to my personal opinion about their structure and the criteria outlined here. And about your second thing about my massive rollback :P


 * 13:52, 22 March 2008 (hist) (diff) Heath v. Alabama‎ (Undid revision 199984957 by Mifter (talk))
 * 13:51, 22 March 2008 (hist) (diff) m Heath v. Alabama‎ (Reverted 33 edits by 69.140.152.55 identified as vandalism to last revision by Brewcrewer. using TW)

What happened was I was patrolling recent changes and when I looked at the article, I click the twinkle button that would show the last revision, while to me the last revision looked like vandalism, so I rolled back the edits only to realize that the Anon in question was completely re-writing the article an improving it substantially in a series of smaller edits that viewed alone would appear vandalism see here the first revision is the original revision before the anon edited the second is the current revision. I hope that this answers your questions :) and if you have any more feel free to ask on my talk page, --Mifter (talk) 16:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Chino Hills Parkway → California State Route 142
Reason the redirect should be deleted: Only a short piece of Chino Hills Parkway is SR 142; it extends in both directions beyond SR 142. See a map of the road. NE2 23:44, 23 March 2008 (UTC) 75.47.156.80 (talk) 02:06, 24 March 2008 (UTC) The result is keep. --75.47.158.186 (talk) 03:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Sphagnum bog
Hi Graeme, would you like to add that detail to the Cotter River article? I can't seem to find it there and it's a good detail. Julia Rossi (talk) 07:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
 * When I find the source - it was in a newspaper, possibly the Australian or Canberra Times! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:20, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

All cool. Julia Rossi (talk) 09:43, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Taxoboxes
Not a problem! J. Spencer (talk) 14:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Nichollsia
I'm not sure. I hadn't heard of either Nichollsia until I saw the news article and was searching Yahoo! for an illustrative reconstruction of the plesiosaur. I accidentally stumbled across a document about isopods and decided to add that to Wikipedia.

Interesting that you were watching the birth of a new article! Not something you see every day! Bob (talk) 05:17, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * As far as I'm aware, the plesiosaur does not have a common name, only a scientific name. Prehistoric species (plants and animals) seem to tend not to get common names.  I'm not aware of a common name for the isopod, either.  I was only able to find a scientific name for it.  I am not going to deny the possiblity of a Nichollsia plant species/genus, as I am not a botanist. Bob (talk) 05:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Would you mind explaining what you mean by an AFC tag? Bob (talk) 05:28, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * As best I can tell from my research just now, the AFC stub should remain on the disambiguation page, since it's a way to track the development of the page. I moved it to the new page (plesiosaur), but I'll go ahead and move it back to the originial page (now disambiguation). Bob (talk) 05:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Network monitoring
It has been suggested that Deep packet capture be merged into Network monitoring. I need you to discuss this here: Talk:Network_monitoring.

Eighth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers
Good morning from the States Graeme Bartlett. I noticed you declined to create an article labeled Eighth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers submitted by 69.183.158.175 to AFC. Being brand new to this part of the project, I am unsure of the protocol for establishing an article once a decision is made. In review the piece 69.183.158.175 authored, I personally would say they did a pretty damn good job. The only thing I would add is reference material and that I was able to find. What is the procedure for establishing the article? Just cut and paste, along with adding the reference material? Of course I will credit 69.183.158.175 with all the hard work :-).  Thanks for your help.
 * Hi Shoessss, the instructions are on the top of the WP:AFC page. You are right about copy and paste into a new article with a suitable name, along with the edit summary doing the credit.  Then you do wikimarkup, and add categories, interwikilinks if any and stub markers.  On the talk page you also put the  template.  If you know of a suitable project you can add it too, but usually I let others add it in unless I am a member of the project.

Unfortunately most contributions do not have suitable references. Back in the original contribution page, change the decline into an accept - by changing the top template to and adding your acceptance notice - perhaps with a story how you liked it so much that you found the references. Let me know if you need a hand and I can fix it for you. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey Graeme Bartlett, I think I figured it out, (After blanking the whole AFC page the first time :-). Once again, thanks for all your help.  I now have a new pet project.  Take care. ShoesssS Talk 23:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply to afc unicode characters
I can see them ('heaven and earth unicode characters') in FreeSans, so what font are you using in your web browser, Bart.. lett? --72.67.104.27 (talk) 03:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Nemo writes... ...words
Hmm, wikipedia is so unsuited to comment-conversation. Oh well. Waiting for wikipedia to announce a jabber server for us all. lol. Anyway, thanks for heads up in my usertalk... I'm pretty familiar with the thumbnail syntax from my own playing with my www.thorx.net wiki. Though maybe you can assist me in finding a way to link to action= actions within a wiki link? (eg, generating the 'history' link at the top of the page, within the wikitext...? :) .../Nemo (talk) 05:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, direct URL linking is the best I've found yet too... not really quite what I wanted, but may have to do. Thanks :) .../Nemo (talk) 05:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Reference desk
Hi,

I think that it is slightly impolite it interpose your comments in to an existing thread as you did here. It can change the emphasis or even the meaning of the following comment, since the following comment now appears to have been made after your comment, when in fact it was made before. I thought the convention was to add your comment to the end of a thread. Thankyou.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  15:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I was surprised at the result here - I thought I was adding to the end - it looked that way on my edit screen. 22:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Islamic Research Academy
Hi This institution is one that is quite important in the development of Islamicjerusalem Studies. it is well recognised in the Arab World also in some UK circles. Its honory president is Sir Cyril Towsend and has had alot of support from various UK politicans for its work

There has been some publications in various languages on this organisation and its achivments are worth noting and is surley fit for an encycopedia.

Many Thanks Khalid —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.133.94.157 (talk) 16:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Khalid. from my checking out it seemed that the academy only had a few dozen students in its history and a very tiny staff.  The references that you used to support it, prove that it exists, but do not demonstrate that it is important.  We need something that is not produced by the academy itself, an independent secondary reference. If you can find some references like this you can resubmit it at WP:AFC to be considered again. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:34, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Graeme. The Academy does not have facilitate the teaching of programmes, rather it gave and still gives scholarships for students at various British Universities.  As for the references only the top one is published by the Academy, however the other two are of a sperate organisation, the Al-Maktoum Institue.  Also there are various sources in Arabic, to list one:(البعد الاكاديمي والمعرفي لبيت المقدس) publisehed by Palestine Cultural Organisation in Damascus which discusses the Achivments and future directions of the work of the Academy.  I hope thus you will reconsider the work as it is. Many Thanks. Khalid  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.133.67.11 (talk) 10:10, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

AdriaNews
Dear Graeme,

thanks for taking time to see my application for AdriaNews.

I would like to provide you now some mor information about our Magazine.

We would like to see AdriaNews at Wikipedia:

1. It is unique, no other Magazin in Europe is handling the Adria-Region that Special 2. It is a complete new concept, so is e.g the printversion a supplement to the online-magazin. Normally it is reverse. 3. More as 5ooo real readers are visiting AdriaNews a day. So it is a wellknown international Magazine 4. AdriaNews got a recognation from the European Comission for the intercultural reports. 5. AdriaNews was at founding in 1999 the first professional European-Online-Magazin. 6. Not to forget: AdriaNews-Online as well as the Printversion is free. 7. More as 25% percent of our visitors are coming from English-Speaking-Countries (aw-stat)

The printversion has startet now (may 2008) with 40.000 copies.

If you would like to have more information, please are so kind an let me know.

I hope you may accept now my application for AdriaNews.

Best wishes

Ralph

for any comments please are so kind an write back to: ralph.rieder(at)adrianews.com Thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.237.110.141 (talk) 08:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * We need to have a secondary source for this. Google only has 79 hits, For "Adria News" the results are dominated by company and personal names. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:40, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Marshall Latham Bond
Marshall Latham Bond

Dear Sir,

��My grandfather was one of two brothers who were Jack London's landlords and among of his employers during the Autumn of 1897 and the Spring of 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush.

The dog which was fictionalized as the novel's main character in "The Call of the Wild" was a St. Bernard/Collie which was one of ours. The dog was lent to Jack London by the Bonds for the performance of his work.

��The novel's opening scene is a description of our Santa Clara, California farm that London visited in 1901. The description of my grandfathers papers left at Yale written by Reference Librarians at Yale University are a reputable source. The business relationship between the brothers and their father is misdescribed hence confusion over ownership of the sledgedog. Marshall was Executive and Louis was there representing their father as Comptroller.

��I am also still in communication with Jack London's descendants the Abbotts and heirs the Shepards.

Thank You Richard Bond —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.240.206.211 (talk) 23:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Alright so you are still not getting it. The Call of the Wild was written by Jack London about my family not only was Jack London our tenant handyman he was also writing about our dog. The only known photo of the dog acknowledged by London to be the basis of the hero of his masterpiece shows my randfather's arm wrapped around it. The only known photo of London taken in the Yukon is here in front of me.

London set up the plot line so that the dog gets stolen from us off of our farm in Santa Clara. The biographers know about our relationship with London. Get ahold of the Oxford University Press edition and look at the notes. My family and our other tenants show up in several of Jack London's works. Do you want the Londons to call you and discuss the back story. There have been ten feature length movies, one TV series, one feature length cartoon and a cartoon series all based on the novel. There is another movie yet to be made regarding what prompted the author to write the novel. My grandfather's relationship across political lines was intergral to any examination of why London wrote his best known book.

Then there are other things that MLB did but none which resulted in such reknown as to be the basis of translation into sixty languages. I will be adding those with sources but first there needs to be a Wiki page. groan Thanks
 * Hi Richard, I have even read the novel myself, and created the article for his father JHB. MLB does not become famous by association.  If as you say Marshall Latham Bond had a major role, and appears in the book as a character then he may be considered important.  I will take another look at Articles for creation/2008-04-16 and see if this is supported.


 * OK I have had a look. The claim you made is that MLB owned the dog.  In the source you listed I can see that Marshall existed, and from the titles of documents that some of what you say is correct, however the statement "My grandfather's relationship across political lines was intergral to any examination of why London wrote his best known book." needs to have a supporting reference, because this sounds like the deciding factor of his importance. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Letter to Marshall Bond (Oakland, Calif.), Dec. 17, 1903. Page 3 of 4 (photocopy http://london.sonoma.edu/Documents/AddPages/I0040831.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.240.206.203 (talk) 16:28, 9 May 2008

Full text Letter from Jack London to Marshall Bond 1903

http://www.jack-london.org/05-mat-bond-jackletter_e.htm

Alright so far you have managed to elimininate Yale Unversity, Sonoma State College, University of California Berkely and the author himself as reliable sources. If Jack London can not be used as a source in saying who he wrote his own novel about that does not leave many sources that anybody but you would consider relable.

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Greek Musician Papaioannou
It looks like you created the page on the Greek Rebetika musician Papaioannou. In Greek his first name is Γιάννης which can be transliterated as Giannis (substituting the letter Gamma for G), or Yiannis, or Yannis. I'm not sure what the regular transliteration should be but the Greek "γεωγραφία" is "geography" in latin text. Perhaps there is some standard to follow. I suggest calling him Giannis as there is another Greek musician called Yiannis Papaioannou. I would change the title of the page to Giannis Papaioannou but I'm not sure how. Skopelos-Slim (talk) 12:06, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The page says Ιωάννης Παπαιωάννου which looks different to Γιάννης. Are you sure they are the same? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * They are the same. To add to the confusion see http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Yiannis_Papaioannou_(rebetika). Yet another spelling! Gail Holst in "The Road to Rembetika" refers to him as Yannis. Papaioannou's Greek recordings refer to him as Γιάννης so I guess it is a question of whether the "Γ" becomes a "G", "Y", or "I". Maybe it is something to be standardized by the Greece Wikiproject? Skopelos-Slim (talk) 09:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Also I found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Greek_to_the_Latin_Alphabet which says the "Γ" capital or "γ" small should be transliterated as g, except in the case of "greeklish" (writing Greek using Latin letters) where g or y is acceptable. I'd go with Giannis. Skopelos-Slim (talk) 09:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I've made the move to Giannis Papaioannou and linked to an existing Greek Wikipedia page. I notice that there is a discrepancy as to his birthdate. The Greek Wikipedia says it was in 1914, while Graeme's English article says 1913. Perhaps someone can clear this up. Objectivesea (talk) 17:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)