User talk:Johnsemlak

A tag has been placed on Extralife radio, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain website, blog, forum, or other web content that does not assert the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content.

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D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7
Hi there! :)

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AfD nomination of Robert's Coffee
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AfD nomination of Illinois high school boys basketball championship
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WP:ITN/C
Could you make some comments on the MV Francop nomination? --BorgQueen (talk) 16:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Looking at it now.--Johnsemlak (talk) 16:46, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Interesting...
... mistake (I suppose). --BorgQueen (talk) 06:20, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Cubs fan?--Johnsemlak (talk) 04:08, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Paul Samuelson
I've replied to your query on WP:ITN/C. Do you have any further comments? --BorgQueen (talk) 04:05, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings
 Happy Yuletides! 

Seasons Greeting.-- '''yousaf465'  03:59, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Ted Roberts
I recommend you withdraw your nomination given the recent bombings :4 April 2010 Baghdad bombings, 3 April 2010 Baghdad shootings, 5 April 2010 Peshawar Bombing, 5 April 2010 Timergarah bombings. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (talk) 20:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

ITN for May 2010 Greek protests
-- HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   22:26, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

ITN for July 2010 Kampala attacks
-- HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   02:25, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer permission
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ITN for Roman Polanski
--BorgQueen (talk) 03:59, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

ITN for 2010 Tour de France
-- HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   01:35, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

In the news/Candidates
I'd beg you to reconsidere your vote... You voted oppose due to the articles size, i've been working on it today and it has been considerably expanded. If this helps, please vote support for its inclusion. --TIAYN (talk) 22:18, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

ITN for 2010 Istanbul bomb blast
-- HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   22:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Andy Irons
Expanded  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  02:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of 2010 Shanghai fire for deletion
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Articles for deletion/Azerbaijan–Denmark relations (2nd nomination)
Hi, I've undone your non-admin "keep" closure of this AfD per WP:NACD: "Close calls and controversial decisions are better left to an administrator." If you wish to close such AfDs, I encourage you to apply to WP:RFA. Regards,  Sandstein   08:13, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

ITN for 2010 Stockholm bombings
-- HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:22, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

ITN: January 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides
Tito xd (?!? - cool stuff) 01:38, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Rollback
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HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   19:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: ITN comment
Nope - I was able to access the main page as well as most articles on Wikipedia for the several week span when I was there. I have never seen the main page blocked but it likely has several times by now due to posting of entries and images that could be deemed 'sensitive'. Some individual articles were blocked as expected but several articles at the time (2009) were surprisingly unblocked. ~ A H  1 (TCU) 00:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

-- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 08:40, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

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I did before you did and you added the sections before discussing without anyone's opinion. Qampunen (talk) 14:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

ITN: 2011 Copa del Rey Final
--  tariq abjotu  06:34, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

ITN Templating the regulars :)
--RxS (talk) 21:36, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Skype
--RxS (talk) 03:45, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

itn
Take a chill pill with all the hyperbole buddy user:DC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.82.64.32 (talk) 16:42, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2010 Barack Obama visit to India


A tag has been placed on 2010 Barack Obama visit to India, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate,. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Nomination of 2010 Barack Obama visit to India for deletion
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Talkback
Wikireader41 (talk) 18:52, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Frank Dikötter


The article Frank Dikötter has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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July 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. You are welcome to rephrase your comment as a civil criticism of the article. Thank you. This was not called for. Mtking (talk) 03:56, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I stand by my comment.--Johnsemlak (talk) 04:01, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

ITN for Greek government debt crisis
ThaddeusB (talk) 19:23, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

ITN for 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League
--BorgQueen (talk) 06:32, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

ITNR for elections
As someone who regularly contributes to election articles: Due to recurrent discussions that lead nowhere, an open-ended discussion and proposals are invited Wikipedia talk:In the news/Recurring items/Elections for ITN on the main page as to what should be recurrent without ITNC discussionsLihaas (talk) 07:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Russia vs Ukraine (1999)


The article Russia vs Ukraine (1999) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable match, no citations of notability, fails WP:EVENT.

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Proposed deletion of Russia vs Ukraine (1999)


The article Russia vs Ukraine (1999) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
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Talkback
– Arms &amp; Hearts (talk) 21:24, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

ITN for 64th Primetime Emmy Awards
-- Spencer T♦ C 03:11, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Deviation from the source
Now, please explain exactly why you make changes that deviate from the source. Sources should be respected, not changed by editors at will. So you need to conform to what the sources say. If you keep deviating from sources, in the end you will get blocked. It will take a few discussions, but you already know that the deviation train goes to blockland. History2007 (talk) 18:07, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Several historians are cited as disagreeing with this in the article.--Johnsemlak (talk) 19:16, 24 October 2012 (UTC)


 * There are not several, and as stated there none can get an academic position, and Wikipedia needs to follow sources - as discussed there. History2007 (talk) 20:10, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

WP:3RR Notice
In this edit you have either crossed WP:3RR or are just about to. I did not count that carefully. But you are clearly due for a block if you perform another revert, so please read WP:3RR and note that it is a "bright line rule" which always results in a block, once you have been informed of it. The issue is being discussed, you must stop reverting, or be blocked. History2007 (talk) 21:01, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Ways to improve Addisleigh Park
Hi, I'm Rosscoolguy. Johnsemlak, thanks for creating Addisleigh Park!

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Unsourced claim
Just checking, did you look for sources for the claim/have reason to believe it was false, or did you just remove it because it was unsourced? (Trying to decide whether to look for a source or not) Ryan Vesey 16:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I did make a simple quick google search to try to find a source and failed; I felt at that point that it was better to remove the claim. I don't find it a particularly notable event anyway--I'm not sure it needs to be in the article at all.  But that's my opinion.--Johnsemlak (talk) 16:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

ITN credit
ThaddeusB (talk) 01:05, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

ITN for 2013–14 Ashes series
-- Spencer T♦ C 21:23, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the note. I fixed the link to Sixth Avenue (Manhattan).  Cheers.--Johnsemlak (talk) 14:36, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

ITN credit
ThaddeusB (talk) 04:11, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Eduard Shevardnadze
-- Mat ty. 007 16:20, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Garner
Hey John, great work in the updates to the Garner article. Much appreciated considering the pressure applied to post a weak and under-referenced article to the main page, right now we have a seriously improved article because of your efforts and the fact we didn't just give up at the first hurdle. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:59, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Irony
A couple years back when we were discussing the death of Phyllis Diller for ITN, you said that "if Robin Williams or Joan Rivers dies, that would be notable enough." Two years later, both of these people are dead within less than a month of one another.

Funny how that works out sometimes, isn't it? Kurtis (talk) 12:21, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for 2010 Shanghai fire
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