User talk:Jan1nad

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Jan1nad! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on or by typing helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! 15:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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 * Hi, yesterday I added Israel to the list of countries that has a consumer confidence Index. why did you remove my contribution?

Globesresearch (talk) 10:56, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Hint/s
Done. In fact, any user (not just an admin) can move a page over a redirect as long as there's only one edit in the redirect's history.  Not a lot of people know that. Your edit was the second... so next time you come across this situation, there's no need for a preparatory edit, just move it! Regards, and happy editing. BencherliteTalk 13:57, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Christopher Turnor
I am happy to give you advice but you have not said what it is that you want to achieve. The article needs to be deleted to enable Christopher Turnor (judge) to be moved to Christopher Turnor. There is no article for Christopher Turnor (politician) so there is no need for disambiguation in the titles and no need for a dab page to distinguish them. After the article is moved a link could be maintained to South Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency), where the politician is mentioned, with a hatnote. But even that is not very worthwile because the article gives little more information than that he existed.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  23:11, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, you have answered the question and given me the advice. Now I understand. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 10:01, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I wanted to let you know that another user deprodded the article and I'm not going to take any further action on it (except someday I might actually make the politician article). I don't like the idea of letting redlinks hang in a disambiguation page, even if there's a second blue link, because the lack of an article effectively removes many of the checks and balances on article's accuracy, etc. But I've got no worries about your entry in this case, so I'm fine let it be. Shadowjams (talk) 03:23, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Template:Lost settlements in the United Kingdom
Just a note to say how impressed I am by the work you're doing here. Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 17:29, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I've been terrified that people will complain that I'm trying too hard.  I've tried to put the template on every page which looks as if it is probably the right one for the lost village concerned (reservoirs, C18 estates, Highland clearances and sea erosion are a clue).  The result is that a few articles are probably not getting a template when they should have one, and a few are getting the template inappropriately.  I've tried not to make too many guesses. But it's useful in that the template does show us that our most obvious gap is the Highland Clearances. I hope it will encourage some local people to fill the gap.  The project does need a lot of assistance from contributors with local knowledge. It's a fun thing to do, though, as it helps people see what lost settlements are around their own area in the UK.--Storye book (talk) 17:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Your request for rollback
Hi. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see New admin school/Rollback. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Tiptoety talk 18:32, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
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Raymond Petit
Hi, thanks for doing what you just did on the above article. I'm running out of reverts and cannot seem to get through to the guy (who would appear to be the sculptor anyway, so probably COI). He keeps inserting inappropriate images and has been doing for at least a month or so, on and off. Can you keep an eye on it? He may get bored soon! - Sitush (talk) 14:03, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you think it's time for a PROD? Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 14:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, a couple of years. I'll guarantee the huge thing he put on the bottom of the page is copyrighted, despite what he says on Commons. Oxbridge Colleges always copyright their own house journals etc - I should know, because I proof-read a couple of them. - Sitush (talk) 14:06, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably time for a PROD, yes. It is becoming a list. - Sitush (talk) 14:06, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hold off. He is now talking on the article talk page. I've replied. And, yes, it is he. - Sitush (talk) 14:27, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that, you got there ahead of me - though for some reason I could only see your comments on the talk page in edit mode - they only appeared in normal view after I did a null edit. Strange. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 14:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There are a lot of lags at the mo. Thought I'd lost a huge & very messy edit earlier but thankfully had CTRL-A'd and CTRL-C'd before hitting Save. - Sitush (talk) 14:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Abuse on my user page
Since you're around ...

... Do you know of any warning template I can use to tell off a kid who left f'ing and b'ing abuse on my user page. He didn't sign it but it's there in the history (I deleted the comments). - Sitush (talk) 14:48, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know if it helps, but I have Template messages on a shortcut. Maybe "Personal attack directed at editors"? If they do it often enough, and build up enough warning messages on the talk page, they'll simply get blocked. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 15:07, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Done. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 15:16, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Just a note
Hi, you probably don't know this, but the guidelines for speedy deletion mention that articles should not be tagged as A1 or A3 moments after creation since the new user may not have added all of his content in the first edit. (The article.) Additionally, an article having only the title of the article as its content is tagged under A3, not A1. Thanks for your work! Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:30, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I deleted the article as two hours passed and no further contributions were forthcoming (the user is also maintaining a userspace draft so there is no real loss of content). Reaper Eternal's advice is solid - per note 3 at WP:CSD, it is best practice to wait at least 10 minutes prior to tagging an article as A1 or A3. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:35, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. Jan 1 naD (talk • contrib) 09:29, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

New Antarctica stubs
Hi Jan1nad - I see you're making a few new Antarctica stubarticles (well done!)... just a heads-up that there will be a few new stub templates soon, to help reduce the huge numbers of stubs in the East and West Antarctica stub categories. Currently there are separate RossDependency-geo-stub and QueenMaudLand-geo-stub templates - a list of the others which will very likely soon be created can be seen at WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2011/June. Cheers, and keep up the good work! :) Grutness...wha?  13:41, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Grutness. I've tried assigning stubs where I can, but I don't (yet) have enough confidence that I will get them right. I hope you will understand if I use stubs that are more vague than they could be, I think this is better than being more specific, but with a higher probablility of error. And thanks for cleaning up after me. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 13:45, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Anytime :) Sure, that makes sense. I'm just going by the longitude figures where they're given. It's just a case of trying to cut the 4000-odd unsorted stubs down a little. Grutness...wha?  02:22, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Action Plan
The statement you have made into a quotation was based on this from the introduction (p. 5): "The Action Plan will embed the short, medium and long-term actions necessary to create a strong, vibrant and successful centre that supports the local community and has the ability to fully exploit the economic potential of Metrolink." The report contains several descriptive sections, followed by a SWOC analysis and the plan itself.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 21:50, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for confirming my conjecture. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 12:24, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Astrolabe Island
I noticed you recently edited the redirect at Diaz Rock. As you may have surmised, I recently merged about 7 stub articles related to Astrolabe Island into the one article Astrolabe Island, trying to follow the guidelines for merging articles. You're more than welcome to look over all that I did, and I can be an inelegant editor -- sorry. It just seemed that all the relevant info placed in one article made for better context and a more interesting article. (I also noticed your "R with possibilities" template, but any confusion over the need for a separate article was probably me skewing the page views during the editing process.) There is still a category Category:Astrolabe Island, but only b/c I couldn't figure out how to delete it -- the category is empty, I think. I hope I left those articles better than I found them. Best, Engelhardt (talk) 21:43, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I think you're doing a grand job, and you may have noticed I returned to your classification once I realised what I'd done! As for the R with possibilities it's the best way I know of marking the redirect as one to be retained in source articles, as it says in the docs: "do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page". If there is a preferred method you can recommend I'm happy to use it. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 21:50, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh -- I didn't understand that usage of the template. That's perfect.  And thanks for the kind word! Engelhardt (talk) 22:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I had to come back here to undo a link to Category:Astrolabe Island so that category remains empty, but I didn't want to do so without explaining myself. Best,  Engelhardt (talk) 00:53, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Thomas Allsop
I see it's on your to-do list. I came at it from another angle today, and have hacked away the half that was waffle. From a DNB fan's point of view it's a good one: written by George Jacob Holyoake who was not only a friend but also, according to one book, implicated in the Orsini plot as well. It probably can be reconstructed now: I see the ODNB update did very little, really, so we should end up with something superior. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Charles. I see it's been on my list for a very long time, and likely to remain there for even longer, so I'm pleased it's been done now. Thanks for the notification. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 16:45, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiThanks
Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.7.149 (talk) 21:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Greece
Dear Jan1nad I think since Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions and you try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view, both names "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and "Republic of Macedonia" should be used in order to be neutral. This is a disputed name and as such both names should appear. When you use one and not the other, one party of this dispute is disregarded. That is not a neutral point of view you are taking. I mean no offense to anyone. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.219.149.108 (talk) 11:59, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I think you're looking for WP:NCMAC. ;) Dolescum (talk) 02:41, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Lichfield Civil Parishes
Hello Jan1nad I have been working on Articles about Staffordshire villages and created Navigation templates for all the Civil Parish districts in Staffordshire as theses districts had not been covered. I realized after I had created them that one had already been created for the Litchfield District. Nothing more than a mistake. you are welcome to delete one or the other. Billhob (talk) 09:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Village/hamlet, Manor & hall
May I take you back to your post of the above heading made in Sept 2009 to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements? I think you were onto something significant which I have attempted to develop further. I would appreciate your input to the discussion I have initiated today on the above talkpage under the heading "Manorial histories". Many thanks. (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 10:44, 12 June 2013 (UTC))

Manchester meetup
Hi Jan1nad, because your name is on this notification list, I'm just letting you know that there will be a Manchester Wikimeet taking place on 25 August. Perhaps we'll see you there? Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 22:01, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but can't do that day. Enjoy yourselves!  Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 10:15, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Lillie Glacier
Hi. There is no Dennis G. Lillie page to link to, which is why it comes up in red. Regards --PinkAechFas (talk) 21:43, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I am fully aware of what red links signify. I am also aware that there is nothing wrong with leaving them as red links, in fact they are encouraged when as as in this case, he could well justify an article in his own right. Hope this helps. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 21:56, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Civil Parishes of Lichfield
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Manchester meetup 36 - 9 June 2019
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Nomination of Nattriss Point for deletion
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Galindians
FYI: - Altenmann >talk 16:14, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Is there a better way to enable this. It’s a while since I edited Wikipedia and a lot has changed. I made this change because I was looking for the Polish version of the article and was surprised that there was no language link. Jan 1 naD  (talk • contrib) 17:25, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

I dont know how it is now, but in the past bots were removing "bare" interwiki links. - Altenmann >talk