User talk:Matt Heard/Archive 4

History of the World
I rev/del'd it after finding several sentences copied from Complete History of the World by R. J. Overy. Dougweller (talk) 05:20, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Matt (talk) 05:33, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A bit of a nightmare. I don't know what this editor thought they were doing. Probably good faith, but a mess. Dougweller (talk) 09:36, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A shame, too. It looks like User:Hadseys had been working on it incrementally for over a year. Matt (talk) 10:07, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Baltic mythologies
I have raised some questions at Talk:Latvian mythology which are I think relevant. Like I said there, I am going to have to check the reliable sources, but I am beginning to seriously question how much of this material is primarily "Latvian mythology" and how much of it is perhaps better called "Baltic mythology". By saying this, I acknowledge that there are seemingly at least one, perhaps more, Baltic new religious movements, as they are referenced in the Jones EoR as well, and that these groups might perhaps have different views as to what the earlier religions were. The article in that source on "Baltic Religion: New Religious Movements" in particular leads me to have some questions. I regret saying this, but I am a German, and I remember how Richard Wagner worked hard to help develop a specifically German identity after the formation of a common German state. I am beginning to wonder, based on the material I have seen, whether the same thing might not be happening in the Baltic states. This includes our articles on Baltic mythology, Lithuanian mythology, Estonian mythology, and Latvian mythology. I don't know that right now, but I do have that suspicion, and I think it is something I am going to have to check to verify how pronounced the historical differences between the various mythologies of the Baltic states actually are. There are instances of the same god being given different names in other areas as well, and I am not sure how much that might apply here as well. Like I said, I will check early next week, but I do think it is important to check. John Carter (talk) 23:50, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably the best reference source on "religion" in general is the Lindsay Jones Encyclopedia of Religion. Many or most of the articles relevant to Baltic mythology in that source are also available at the HighBeam Research website, and possibly elsewhere on the web as well. The article on Baltic NRMs seems to me particularly relevant to this discussion, unfortunately. I'm not sure if you have access to the HighBeam site, or whether the articles are available elsewhere, but, if you want me to forward the articles I can find to you, send me an e-mail with your address and I will have the site send them to that address. John Carter (talk) 19:34, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, John. I think that would be very helpful. Where can I find your email address? Matt (talk) 20:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. If you go to either my user page or user talk page you should find a link in the "toolbox" section, generally on the left, "E-mail this user". Hit that, and send me pretty much anything, and I will see your return e-mail address and be able to have the site send you the articles it has. John Carter (talk) 20:49, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You should have them all by now. John Carter (talk) 00:04, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'll start mining them soon. Kind regards, Matt (talk) 00:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A lot of these articles are probably too long to mine, actually. But they should establish at least a few references for a lot of content related to the topic. And, if you want, I can check for other content, like journal articles and the like, but these should be a good start. John Carter (talk) 00:55, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Matt Heard/Latvian mythology/Source mining/Archaeologia BALTICA/The Latvian Mythological Space in Scholarly Time


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 * Hello, BarkingFish. Thanks for tagging the page I accidentally created for speedy deletion. I have changed the speedy deletion tag from a "vandalism" tag to a "technical deletion" tag. I accidentally created the page when attempting to edit User:Matt Heard/Latvian mythology/Source mining/Archaeologia BALTICA/The Latvian Mythological Space in Scholarly Time by clicking on an template link. I'll remove those templates from my user page because they refer to the main article space and don't work as intended in my user space. I intended to tag the page for speedy deletion immediately, but was suddenly called away on another matter. I hope you don't mind that I removed the vandalism tag. I wasn't trying to hide any of my misdeeds, but was merely trying to identify the article as being an incorrectly created page due to a mistake in the namespace. Kind regards, Matt (talk) 22:47, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * No, they are rendered the same. But the accents need to be removed.  Generally, most people leave off spaces on talk page parameters.  If a bot edits the talk page, it will remove the spaces.  Spaces with parameters inside templates in the main article is a different story.  I see everything under the sun for parameters in the main article.  Personally, I add spaces as some templates (ie cite) can get long.
 * Now to throw you completely off balance. In the main article, DEFAULTSORT must never have spaces around the :.  There can never be a space before or after the :   Bgwhite (talk) 21:56, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. I come from a software development background where I use whitespace to increase code legibility (e.g. using "i == 0" instead of "i==0"), but I'll make sure to not include whitespace in templates in the future. Kind regards, Matt (talk) 22:03, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I too come from a software background, so I understand. You can use whitespaces in templates inside the main article.  Coding in spaces is actually preferred in infoboxes and tables.  I'm an ooooold dog.  When I started doing web pages in 1994, you wanted to remove all spaces.  You wanted to get the file size as small as you could because of how slow modems were.  That took me a bit to get used to.  Now webpages are too advanced for me and I just yell at other coders to get off my lawn.  Bgwhite (talk) 22:28, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hi I was Re-Directed to Message you from the BgWhite page which i'm assuming is you?

If my assumption is correct then you may recall putting a speedy deletion on the Mike "2of5" Martin Page which I created. I had all the permissions from Mike himself to create the page on his behalf and he did say if any proof was needed for citations then he would be more than happy to provide it.

I did try to explain that to you but the page was deleted anyway. I figured rather than keep creating the page over and over having it speedy deleted etc I'd ask you guys to help.

you mentioned a guy by the user name of Werldwayd? That knows more about music pages. I tried searching him up but didn't find his page, Hence messaging you.

If you can Help with any this please let me know asap as I'd like to get the balling rolling and get the page up & running again within the regulations of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LinnieKing (talk • contribs) 11:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, LinnieKing. I am not the person you are looking for. I have no involvement with editing or deleting Mike "2of5" Martin, but am happy to try to answer any questions you might have.


 * 1) You may have accidentally been redirected to my page because I have a  tag on User:Bgwhite's talk page. This means that User:Bgwhite and I have had a conversation on my talk page and I left a notice for him on his talk page to let him know that I had replied to him. We were discussing an article unrelated to you or Mike "2of5" Martin. You can learn more about the talkback tag here.
 * 2) I didn't nominate your article for speedy deletion. If you visit the article, it will present you with an empty box to (re-)start writing. There is also a section with a red background called "A page with this title has previously been deleted." This section gives you a basic history of why the article was deleted.
 * 3) Mike "2of5" Martin was moved to Mike Martin (American guitarist) by User:Werldwayd.
 * 4) Mike Martin (American guitarist) was deleted because it contained copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a compatible free license. (Criteria for Speedy Deletion)
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 * 6) This is the link to Werldwayd's user page. You can find him in the future by searching for "User:Werldwayd", or by searching for "Werldwayd" and clicking "Everything" to search across all Wikipedia pages.
 * 7) If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask me. I'll be happy to try to answer them or point you towards somebody who can. New editors like you are really important for helping Wikipedia grow as a useful resource.
 * Kind regards, Matt (talk) 03:25, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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Matt, your recent edit to Template:2012–13 RFU Championship Table "Removed reference tag from template." Can you tell me why you have done this? I would think that a cite for that information was necessary. Hamish59 (talk) 09:06, 26 December 2012 (UTC)