User talk:MatthewVanitas/Archive 6

One more question
Matthew, I have one more begginner question for you after your help on the request for feedback page for my particle on familial DNA searching User:Spu2011. I'm almost done with research and have a few little items to clean up on the draft. If simply editing the page for familial DNA under DNA Profiling looks like the best option, how do I move or edit the page? I'm gathering that I'm not supposed to just delete what is already in the section and paste my work in. "Moving" the page looks like it will create a new page just for my article. Am I wrong? Thanks! Spu2011 (talk) 16:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Deleting and pasting a section is kosher, just not deleting and copy-pasting a whole article (since you lose the edit history of a whole page). If you decide replacing a section is the best bet, I advise you to to the Talk page of the destination article, give them a link to your current article and say "I propose to chop out Section X and replace it with my text".  Give folks a week or two to react to that, maybe look at the History and find some of the major contributors and let them know of your plans. If consensus supports you, or if a couple weeks go by with no reply/objections, WP:Be bold and splice out/in, but leave a very clear Edit Summary explaining what you did, and mention on Talk as well "as of X date, I did a total replace of Section X from my draft at Userspace/X for the following reasons..." Hope this helps, MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:01, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Gracias. That helps a lot. :) Spu2011 (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Coastguard Helicopter
Thanks for your help and guidance with my article... I'll keep working on it! Cheers!Edinburgh838 (talk) 15:49, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

IBS Group Holding Ltd.
Dear moderator, you have deleted IBS Group holding page from Wikipedia. By stating that it’s an advertisement, unfortunately I have to disagree with you, Mostly information posted on the Wikipedia page is neutral and talks about the company, IBS Group is big holding which includes more than 7ooo people worldwide. Please take a look at our peers pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipro ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosys. I used their pages as a pattern for writing IBS Group Holding Ltd. Page. Please explain me how do our pages differ, and how is that possible that pages which are mentioned above are allowed on Wikipedia.org, and our page is considered Advertisement. I call for your moderate sense and all the professionalism that you have to solve this problem otherwise I’ll ask you to take same actions against our peer companies. Thank you. Dmitry — Preceding unsigned comment added by DmitryIBS (talk • contribs) 07:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Help Save Valor
Thanks for all the help with proper formatting for the article Valor, it would look terrible without the hard work you put into it. It is now up for deletion however. I need users to vote save so they will keep it. Please help.

Thanks Speaker107 (talk) 14:50, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Another Thank you
Thanks Mathew for all your help on images etc. and telling me that my site was already launched--'dah'!Wendyroseberry (talk) 16:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much, Matthew -- can we all (me and those below) bake you a cake or something? ;) ha! Thanks!! Heather Grattan33 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC).

Further tweaks made...
Hi Matthew! I've made further additions to the Levenger Company page thanks to your suggestions -- it seems complete now, but do you see anything else missing? Thanks again and again!! Heather Grattan33 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:57, 12 April 2011 (UTC).

Thank You Very much
Thank you very much for your help and encouragement. It's my first contribution and I hope to get it right. Pardon my asking, how do I get rid of the blue box which state that the contribution needs reviewing? As i thought it has been duly reviewed by you? Sorry i am still very new to wiki. If you may help enlighten me. Would you suggest that I re-post on the request for review page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lizkywong (talk • contribs) 12:14, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Lizkywong (talk) 12:21, 15 April 2011 (UTC)I have tidied the references. Thanks very much! I need your guidance on one more matter. My article seems is a living person biography for a Singapore weightlifter. Her family is Wong but somehow when it was sorted under "Singapore People of Chinese Descent" it is categorised under "H" her first name. Is there anything I can do to change it so it will be sorted correctly?

Thanks again!
You're so helpful and quick, Matthew! Can you check it again and see if I've added enough? Thank you!! Heather Grattan33 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:20, 11 April 2011 (UTC).

Please contact me user:rjpsingh
I would like to improve my page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjpsingh (talk • contribs) 22:39, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Shia Islam in the Netherlands
Hi Matthews, thanking you for your constant watch and contributions for the said article Shia Islam in Netherlands. Expecting more from your side.Humaliwalay (talk) 12:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Matthew
You are quite amazing. So sorry the photo did not work. I was trying to upload from wiki commons and saw the picture there. Dee Bell at Great Ame-A157F.jpg. Thought I read everything but will sort through it again.JAZZHISTORYFAN (talk) 03:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Knife articles
Good work on the knife articles! Let me know if you need any help. I've been considering starting a Wikiproject devoted to cutlery.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 04:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Matthew,

Major cleanup, is what I'd like to see happen. It looks like you've been doing a great job on that by the way. Even though I'm a long-time collector I've gotten involved with the knife articles mostly by accident. I got involved with Microtech Knives when it was threatened with deletion. The same with the Strider Knives and Ernest Emerson articles. The others through the military project, etc. I got involved with the Sebenza and Spyderco pieces through them being linked to other articles. I guess my thought is to "improve what is already there" before creating new ones.

My primary areas of knowledge are with custom tacticals (there is no Tactical Knife article, yet...someday, though), US military blades and blade steels. As far as contributing to articles, I can do the sourcing and contribute somewhat to improving the prose. I mostly write about topics concerning reptiles, guns, and the Catholic Church.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Washtub bass
The washtub bass isn't always a monochord. Take a look through some washtub bass sites (or even our own article) and you'll see that they sometimes have more than one string. Badagnani (talk) 07:18, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

We can work on it. Some of the remaining "problem" instruments are ones that could be "either this or that," which causes problems. Badagnani (talk) 07:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not a member of the instruments project and don't follow it closely (though obviously I help out when I see there's a need, as I make and maintain a lot of world instrument articles). The number of instrument articles on WP is getting out of hand and that makes the lists of instruments particularly hard to maintain. Badagnani (talk) 07:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:String instruments
OK, the remaining instruments at Category:String instruments are the hard ones. I think we'll eventually need a Category:Lira family instruments for the remaining Renaissance/Baroque instruments in that family, but some of the other very obscure world insts. for which we have no photos and only sketchy descriptions are a bit difficult. Badagnani (talk) 22:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Also the huqin-like instruments that are not from China (which are from Vietnam, Thailand, etc.) should be in a category; it doesn't seem right to include those under "huqin," as that's a Chinese word. Badagnani (talk) 22:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

We probably also need a cat for Violin family instruments (so that the viola can have a cat to belong to, along with the violins, cellos, and double basses). Badagnani (talk) 22:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Bagpipes
Many of the bagpipes are very obscure, with little sourcing, and possibly only a handful of people still play them. I think the biggest problem is listing bagpipes that are essentially the same in construction under two or more different names. Another issue is listing instruments that don't have a bag as bagpipes, though one explanation about this is that cultures around the world are often sketchy or inaccurate in their own terminology about bagpipes, using words meaning "flute" or "oboe" to apply to bagpipes, or sometimes to all of these things. Also, some cultures seem to use the exact same name for their double reed shawms (without bag) or cylindrical-bored pipes (without bag) as for their bagpipes. I think it might be good to get photos of all of them and do something with photos like List of pasta or List of chili peppers. Badagnani (talk) 22:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Arabic bagpipes
Those are all good questions. The spelling came from kind folks at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Arab_world. The use of italics for Arabic is something the WPARAB people usually do, just because Arabic displays so small on WP, just as a way of making it more visible. I don't know the answer about the ghaita but you may be right. Arabic ghaita apparently comes from the Gothic "gait," meaning "goat," so probably when the shawm was introduced to Morocco it was called something else, like zamr, and it adopted the (wrong) name ghaita (bagpipe) over time, which had come down into North Africa from Spain. All of this is very hard to source, and the scholars who assert this don't explain how they know this when asked (I've tried). Badagnani (talk) 17:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The stick instrument category
I had to undo your sub-category thingy on the megatar site. I didnt do anything to the category of course, even thou i disagree with the name of it. The makers of the Stick, if you know anything about the history of their and later tapping instrument, would probably strongly oppose to calling the megatar a "stick instrument". And they would be very right, IMO. It would be better to have a plain two handed tapping category that then would include earlier two handed tapping instruments like the touchguitar.

User:GaryOpenhill (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 18:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Category:Antique instruments
Hey there -- If you're interested, the CFR for Category:Antique instruments is probably about to be relisted for further discussion. But it seems that you forgot to post the CFR notice on the category page, so the whole thing would be for naught unless that gets taken care of. And you might also want to respond to some of the comments that have been made in your absence. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 23:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Bagpipe removals
I would move removed text to the talk page so those statements can be evaluated and debunked, if necessary. Some wrong statements that are "out there" (such as the two sculptures found in British digs, that were formerly believed to be representations of bagpipers from the Roman era) can and probably should be debunked in the article. Badagnani (talk) 19:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Sea Shepherd
I have removed the new category "Terrorism in Iceland" from Sea Shepherd. Please be a bit more careful with that kind of thing in future. We can't just add disparaging categorisations to an article without strong reliable sources. Sea Shepherd clearly don't fit any of the common definitions of terrorism, since they commit no violence against people (and don't try to spread terror). Some governments have tried to characterise them as terrorists, but since it should be very hard for a high-profile terror organisation to get a Dutch flag for their ship we can safely assume that this was just rhetorics. If you think otherwise you will need exceptionally strong sources. I am basing this on common sense and WP:V. I will look if there is anything more specific. --Hans Adler (talk) 10:59, 28 April 2008 (UTC) PS: There may not be a policy about this, but Arbcom has ruled about a similar case, see Category talk:Pseudoscience. --Hans Adler (talk) 11:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * When you moved Terrorism in Iceland to 1986 Hvalur sinkings, a redirect was created. I have started a deletion discussion for this redirect, because it is another case of libel. So far as I know there was never any terrorism in Iceland, and in fact rarely anything very interesting happens there. So it is no wonder part of the media used somewhat extreme language. This is no excuse to describe acts by living people as terrorism when they are not. Being branded as a terrorist, even innocently, can have serious consequences nowadays. I also had to remove the category Category:Terrorism in Iceland from the article for the same reason. I have not removed the category Category:Eco-terrorism, because the word Eco-terrorism has been defined much wider, presumably because otherwise it would describe something virtually non-existent. --Hans Adler (talk) 18:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Other dulcimer-type instruments
Have I got them all here? Badagnani (talk) 20:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Never made
''Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed nuclear power reactor in the Jervis Bay Territory on the south coast of New South Wales. It would have been Australia's first nuclear power plant, and was the only proposal to have received serious consideration as of 2007. Some environmental studies and site works were completed, and two rounds of tenders were called and evaluated, but the Australian government decided not to proceed with the project''. so adding it is a bit um - sort giving something to something that never existed in the end perhaps? SatuSuro 05:51, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Fasta (Frisian)
I see you added category Mythology to this non-existent 'Fasta', as the book is a 19th century hoax, I don't think it qualifies as mythology, and have removed the mythology category and added [Category:Religious hoaxes|Religious hoaxes]. I hope you don't mind.--Doug Weller (talk) 17:48, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Islam category
Hi Matthew. In the Islam category, we are trying to reduce the number of articles that appear on the main category page. If you could therefore remove the Islam cat from At-Tawba 29, Imran (father of Maryam) and Islamic view of Ishmael, that would be very much appreciated. Thanks. MP (talk•contribs) 19:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

your category adding at Kadaververwertungsanstalt
Hi there, please be a little bit more carefull with categories. this is not wwII and not the holocaust. it's the first world war 1914-1918. thank you Sebastian scha. (talk) 14:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Maldives
Just so you know, the Maldives are not part of Africa, but Asia. You incorrectly added a stub template to Hulhudhoo (Seenu Atoll)--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 16:14, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Poignard and Poniard
Hi Matthew,

I noticed that you suggested that poignard and poniard be merged, but that the note on poignard says that it should be merged into poniard while the note on poniard says that it should be merged to poignard. You may want to decide which title would best represent the concept and change the tag accordingly. It would also be helpful to start a discussion on the appropriate talk page; a merge is unlikely to occur if no reason is given for the merge.

Happy editing,

Neelix (talk) 19:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Cutlery
Matthew! I'm trying to start a project to work on all the cutlery related articles, to get them cohesive, sourced, etc and protected from the anti-knife coalition. If you want to participate, let it be known here:--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 03:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Ministries of Afghanistan
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Preaching to the choir
I've categorized a few thousand articles so far and failed to do that for one that I started myself. Always annoying to get a warning then. Thanks. Afasmit (talk) 00:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the categorization drive, but I was wondering if it would be feasible to be more specific when categorizing. You categorized Ban Pong (town) in Category:Thailand, which is pretty much a top-level category for related articles. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

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Pistol categories
Stop what you're doing NOW. Did you have project approcal to fragment the categorization? Koalorka (talk) 00:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Will refrain from moving Semi-Auto Pistol articles purely into "by country" cats. Will stick to simply categorizing into existing forms. However, the Semi-Auto Pistols cat does need a subcategorization complex other than by-country if you don't want them simply in by-country. Otherwise the Semi-Auto page will be hundreds of articles long. Will stick to non-controversial cleanup whilst waiting for your advice on the category matter. MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:56, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You're doing it again....Koalorka (talk) 19:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I posted the suggestion for other editors, had zero responses. Have been checking in with WP:Firearms and nobody's come in with any opinions on anything.  If you have a better idea as to how the Firearms sections should be organized, by all means let me know what the goal is.  The current organization is unsatisfactory, so it does no good to simply tell someone to stop what they're doing, and then not tell them what you think would work better. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:13, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Cajun Accordion
No problem. I just uploaded some photos of my accordion. I need to work on adding specific information. Maybe a diagram showing the knobs, buttons, bellows, etc. I also didn't want to take my accordion apart to show the reeds :( Maybe, I can find my old one and do that. --Michael miceli (talk) 07:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Correct me if I'm wrong
but it looks like you are letting someone else edit with your account. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:59, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Good eye, I went back and clarified that on Talk:Ghazijahan. The "I am so-and-so" bit was from an early version of the article where the originator left his contact info in the article. I moved his contact info to the Talk page so he'd still be available but not cluttering up the main article. Went back and explained "this is not me, this is cut-n-paste info" and signed. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:20, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I get it now. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:47, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

No content in Category:Tapped stick instruments
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Wrong tagging for speedy deletion
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Reso uke
So, have you gotten that resonator uke yet?

I'd love to play with one. I can't even imagine how it would feel. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 22:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey, as it turns out, I happened into a music store in Bakersfield and lo and behold there was a dusty Johnson reso uke hanging on the wall. (Same instrument as the Ashbury and the Recording King, I think.) Wife insisted I buy it. I'm in love! It works really well with my band, though I haven't tried it when the rest of the band is amplified yet; but it's so loud it might not need any juicing. Now I crave the chance to try a Really Good resonator uke; how different is a National from a Chinese knockoff? As far as 8-string ukes go, I haven't tried one, but I'm primarily a melodic and finger-picking player, so I don't think they'd be my cuppa tea. Damn, though, those tuners on the Johnson are awful; I'm going to put in some better ones if it turns out I'm sticking with it. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 15:19, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

A resonator ukelele, that is quite awesome! Anyhow, come 2010 if you have time, let's try working on the Ghouls IPC ghetto you created. IPC is one of those things WP needs to work out policies/guidelines more, I think. Maybe comprehensive appearances/references could be added to a talk page subpage, where people really interested in that could find it, and then could be added to the article when notability of the reference is established. Шизомби (talk) 14:40, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! (and help on Categorization?)
Hi Matthew! You added a catagory to the page I put up on "Geschwister-Scholl-Platz" a couple of weeks ago. Thank you for doing that! Can you explain how to do that? I looked at the instructions and I got nowhere, and I also looked for lists of categories, again with no luck. Since you knew exactly how to do it, can you give some pointers? Thanks again! Juni0r75 (talk) 12:55, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

doh
Sorry and thanks for the catch with the cat-bagpipes mis-wiki on 83.254.157.26's talk page. Quaeler (talk) 18:05, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co.
Just wondering why you keep removing Category:Modern reenactment from this category? Your edit summary says, "Removing redundant categories", but I don't see the redundancy. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 17:19, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * What about a category (if there's not one already) for manufacturers of such reproduction weapons? cmadler (talk) 17:38, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Cutlery
Blades works for me too. I called it Cutlery in honor of a couple of twits I ran into on here a while back that were terrified of knives. Thanks for the help!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 21:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Reentrant tuning
Actually I created the reentrant tuning article before the category, and the category description page links to it. Why not have both? We have categories for the various keys of transposing instruments, for example. Andrewa (talk) 06:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Why can't we have both? I'd agree that your example of a type of motorcycle brake would be excessive use of categories, but I think Category:Fender Telecaster submodels for example is fine.

I don't see the problem with having articles in large numbers of categories. Andrewa (talk) 19:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Great Work!
Thanks very much for adding the image- it's a great photo and a perfect accompanying illustration for a variety of firearm topics. Excellent stuff! Commander Zulu (talk) 06:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Do we need all these new categories?
I noticed you've been doing a lot of recategorising work, and I was just wondering how... necessary some of the new categories could be considered? I mean, Mauser only made a couple of semi-auto handguns (The C96, the HSc, and the Model 1910 & derivatives), which doesn't really seem enough to justify having a [Category:Mauser semi-automatic pistols]. Similarly, there's a [Category:U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co.] which deals with the Colt Peacemaker reproductions produced by a company in the US. It just seems like there's a lot of over-categorisation work going on at the moment... Commander Zulu (talk) 01:26, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That makes a little more sense; can I suggest adding some red-links for guns that don't yet have articles so potential editors can see that a category will have more than two or three entries? Having said that, I'm not entirely sure organising by country is the way to go- most handguns these days appear to be American, Chinese, Italian, French, German, Swiss, or Israeli. I can see "handguns by country" categories ending up with a lot of one or two entry-countries, and I'm just not sure how that really helps anyone. Commander Zulu (talk) 01:43, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * An excellent point which is very useful. The big question would be "How to handle licensed production?", though. I mean, lots of countries use the Beretta 92 as their service pistol, and they manufacture their own variant- but it's still a Beretta M92 regardless of whether it's made in Italy, the US, or France, IMHO. Similarly, the Enfield No. 2 Mk I* was produced in limited quantities (c.350) in Australia during WWII; but I wouldn't consider it an "Australian" handgun. The various Lee-Enfield rifles were also produced in several countries, too, and let's not even start on the AK-47, FN-FAL/L1A1 SLR, or M-16. The thing is, if you don't add each country's licensed-produced version of Firearm X, you're going to have random editors adding them anyway, and if you do add them then you're going to have people removing them because "Firearm X is a Country Y design, not Country Z". I can see it being a bit of a headache unless a firm consensus is reached with everyone at WP:MILHIST and WP:GUNS to keep an eye on it... Commander Zulu (talk) 01:55, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Reply
Hey, I've replied to your question at Noticeboard for India-related topics. Mspraveen (talk) 03:41, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Machine guns of Brazil
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Your message to User:Uncle G
was accidently placed on his user page. I've moved it for you. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  17:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Polite Request re: New Articles
I really appreciate your work bringing the new gun articles over from foreign-language wikis; but can I please respectfully ask you to actually read the articles you're bringing over and see if A) They're necessary? and B) are actually any good? Mauser M712 Schnellfeuer is covered by WP:GUNS and doesn't need to exist separately; there's no new information in the article and even if there was, the M712 is a C96 variant and doesnt need it's own article. I've redirected it for now, but a lot of the articles you're bringing across are, frankly, not very good at all and need a LOT of work to turn them into something usable. I'm happy to help as best I can, but it doesn't look good for the WP:GUNS or WP:MILHIST project to have lots and lots of badly written Babel-fish translated articles for want of knoweledgeable editors who can clean them up. Commander Zulu (talk) 07:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's understandable and I didn't mean to imply you were just dumping the articles. However, things like Bergmann 1896 have almost zero information on them, and there's not a lot in my reference texts either. There are also quite a few of the Soviet guns for which I can find no information, and the articles themselves largely seem to be explanations of how the gun's action functions, which is un-necessary. Commander Zulu (talk) 08:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah
"Jaw, jaw, jaw is better than war, war, war." -- Winston Churchill. Bearian (talk) 00:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

architecture category removals
i notice you've removed "Category: architecture" from a number of articles on my watchlist. You seem to be using edit label "Removing redundant categories, article is already in subcats of those categories" whether or not it is true that the article is in any architecture categories. Could you refine your edit label if you are doing more, please?

I think these all relate to NRHP articles created with Elkman's NRHP infobox creator. There is either a glitch in the generator, or there is fault in the National Register's database for some NRHP entries. I think the infobox generator adds proper categories like "category:colonial revival architecture" or "1850 architecture" in most cases, but if an architecture field is blank or if the built date is blank, the incomplete "architecture" one gets added instead. Not sure exactly what drives it. Anyhow, it would be more helpful if you used a label that suggested to article editors they might want to form better cats using info that might be there in the NRHP infobox. Perhaps "removed vague architecture category, note there may be more precise terms in NRHP infobox". doncram (talk) 22:45, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Vempatapu Satyanarayana
thanks for notifying me, I'm always happy to help when I can. 'Satyam' is definately a notable character in the Naxal movement in Andhra Pradesh, and deserves an article. Unfortunately, I have most of my literature on Indian politics packed in boxes at the moment, will get back later with some references for the article. --Soman (talk) 13:28, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Bettina and Covet and Centanni
Hi MV. Just to let you know, I've declined these speedy-deletes. Be sure to check the article's history to see if there is an appropriate earlier version that could be reverted to. Best wishes, Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 01:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Khudabadi Sindhi Swarankar-To remove "Clean Up" tag from "Independence of India & Partition"
Dear Mr. MatthewVanitas, Hi! It is high time that I had cleaned up the heading "Independence of India & Partition". Further cleaning will vanish the essence of the subject. I request you to clean further, if you can, otherwise please remove the "Clean Up" tag and oblige. Please confirm. Thanks.201.225.88.74 (talk) 14:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

List of trademarks featuring Native Americans
Hi Matthew, I just saw your latest note in the CFD (I've replied there). I'm already adding to the list article you started. Unfortunately, another editor has taken a dim view of the poor little tyke, so you might want to lend a hand there. Cgingold (talk) 03:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Ghanese musical instruments
I see that you created this category and later blanked the page. A faster way to delete a category you've created yourself is to place db-author on the page. This tag attracts the attention of an administrator who can perform the deletion for you. Contact me if you have questions about this. Best regards, --Stepheng3 (talk) 04:23, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Various subcategories in African instruments
I don't agree with the creation of various subcategories in African instruments, because in Africa there are less instruments than in America, Europe or Asia, and these continents are not subcategorized in "East European musical instruments", etc. --Opus88888 (talk) 14:59, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * There are an enormous number of musical instruments in Africa, sometimes over 100 in each country. Badagnani (talk) 03:35, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Apache fiddle
Hi, we need an article on the Apache fiddle (made from agave or mescal stalk), if you'd like to start one. Badagnani (talk) 03:35, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for this edit. I was looking around trying to find specifically which wiki article to link to for that. :) Cirt (talk) 07:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Aliste
Uh-oh, please fix whatever geographical error I may have made, as I don't know all the various subdivisions of Spain well. Badagnani (talk) 01:00, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

How did you make Aliste (shire) so quickly? Did you translate it from es:WP? Badagnani (talk) 01:02, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, no--it looks like there are dozens of "X de Aliste"s; see http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliste. Badagnani (talk) 01:05, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Your gaita pages are great. You work hard and really enhance our musical instrument coverage. 30 pages just on Catalan instruments? Wow. Yeah, get them over here and I'll help. Badagnani (talk) 01:07, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I would be okay with having the comarca page just called Aliste, and another page Aliste (disambiguation) listing the municipalities. An alternative would be to have no disambig page and simply have the list of all the municipalities in the main Aliste comarca article. The only complication is that I think some of the ones that aren't officially called "...de Aliste" may be informally called "...de Aliste" anyway, especially if there are other municipalities elsewhere in Spain with the same name. I'll defer to you on this one. Badagnani (talk) 01:12, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Doedelzak
I should mention that I've just ordered a doedelzak, which is being made for me by Brad Angus of Vancouver, Washington (from German plum wood with black cow horn fittings). I'll be able to take good photos of it within a few weeks. Badagnani (talk) 08:09, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Good deal. Myself, I'm waiting on a kabosy from Waverly Street Ukuleles.  I like bagpipes, I just don't currently play.  I did have a set of the short-lived Zetland pipes, but that's the extent of my street-cred. MatthewVanitas (talk) 08:11, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I love the Kaiser-Lindley "World Out of Time" series which has some good kabosy. There's no photo at Zetland pipes; can you go to the pawn shop and take a couple of photos? Badagnani (talk) 08:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Just emailed the guy I sold the pipes to five years back. It's a long shot, but he might still have the set.  I believe he also turned a set of his own in the same style, so might have a one-off for pics.  It was a really neat concept, too bad it didn't go further.  Wish it'd been done with modern affordable/durable materials, since the actual idea (an easy to play/maintain pipe with single reeds in both chanter and drone, pitched in D and able to do Em to cover Celtic music) was a brilliant concept. Guess it was a marketing issue...MatthewVanitas (talk) 08:21, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Sounds very nice! I'm getting a photo of the gaita from Sanabria right now. Badagnani (talk) 08:32, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I emailed the folks running the gaita sanabresa site to ask if they'd mind our using that historical photo of a player. Is that the one you had in mind? Oh, also I found the name of the Lithuanian bagpipe (sekminių ragelis), but can't immediately find enough info for even a stub. MatthewVanitas (talk) 08:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Xeremia
I translated some more of Xeremia but wonder if you could finish it. Badagnani (talk) 06:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Bagpipes
You're doing much better than I on the very rare bagpipes, uncovering at least a dozen I had even never heard of, and I'm a big Sean Folsom fan! I can do Huemmelchen. Badagnani (talk) 07:24, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Thunder sheet
Looks like we need an article on the Thunder sheet, a percussion instrument. Badagnani (talk) 07:44, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject User Rehab
Would you be interested in joining this project? We need more editors who share a burden for rescuing promising editors who have gotten into serious trouble because of behavioral issues. IF (a fundamental condition!) they are interested in reforming and adapting to our standards of conduct, and are also willing to abide by our policies and guidelines, rather than constantly subverting them, we can offer to help them return to Wikipedia as constructive editors. Right now many if not most users who have been banned are still active here, but they are here as socks or anonymous IPs who may or may not be constructive. We should offer them a proper way to return. If you think this is a good idea, please join us. -- Abce2 | Access  Denied  01:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Rubab
The difficulties here are that; 1) articles on Sikhs, sarod etc use the word "rebab" or "rabab" but are talking about the "rubab" - all are from an Arab word that means "bowed". Therefore, although there are distinctions, as you say, things will get a lot more comprehensible if the two are merged and the differences and lineages clearly explained. Thanks for the response; I respect your work and your view but the proposal still stands and I'd be grateful if you'd continue to flag it and leave your view at the talk-page. By all means, if you feel strongly, seek further votes. Redheylin (talk) 22:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Response at Rebab. Redheylin (talk) 02:52, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ditto! Redheylin (talk) 22:38, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ditto 3 Redheylin (talk) 00:43, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of countries with alcohol prohibition
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Ukulele musicians
If you want to rename the cat Ukulele musicians as Ukulele players, why not also rename the cat Banjoists to Banjo players? I think "Banjo players" is a more common usage, though I may be wrong. Badagnani (talk) 16:07, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Deaths due to stag attacks
I have nominated deaths due to stag attacks for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 21:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Gardon (musical instrument)
We seem to need an article on the gardon, a Hungarian cello-like instrument that is struck with a stick. See this video to see it in action. Badagnani (talk) 06:47, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Gerarchia
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Muslim Thugs
Thanks for the revert. This sort of editing, by both Muslims and Sikhs, has been a persistent problem with this page. The following is from the archive discussions for the page:


 * In the past few days anonymous user 86.135.204.138 has repeatedly deleted references to the existence of Muslim Thugs.


 * For the record, here is the most relevant excerpt from contemporary records regarding the proportion of Hindu and Muslim Thugs. The source is William Sleeman, Ramaseeana (Calcutta: GH Huttman, 2 vols, 1836) vol.1 p.178; the dialogue is between Sleeman, chief of the Thuggy Department of the East India Company, and his chief informant, a Brahmin Thug named Feringeea, active for nearly 20 years, who had an unparalleled knowledge of the various Thug gangs:


 * Sleeman: "What is commonly the proportion of Musulmans to Hindoos?"
 * Feringeea: "In Oude (Avadh) nine-tenths are Musulmans. In the Dooab four-fifths were Hindoos. South of the Narbudda (Narmada) three-fourths Musulmans. In Bundelcund and Saugor one-half were Musulmans. In Rajpootana (Rajasthan) one-fouth Musulmans. In Bengal, Behar, and Orissa about half and half. This is a rough guess, since we have no rule to prescribe or ascertain them."


 * Mikedash 16:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Mikedash (talk) 09:56, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Bechonnet
There is a French bagpipe called "bechonnet" or "musette bechonnet"; I think we need an article on it. Can you check on this? Badagnani (talk) 03:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Whaling
No problem, apologies for the unnecessary revert. It came up on my watch list and I couldn't find a relevant talk page discussion (I did look). Justin talk 19:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd be interested, though I might have to break out some of my 18th Century references. I've a collection of books on whaling voyages from that period.  Justin talk 20:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Ibrahim Zakzaky
sorry, i dnt know how to reply directly on ur msg so i wrothr over here........ thnks for ur suggestion, the reference of ths artical is http://www.islamicmovement.org/biozakzaky.htm many thnks. kumayl abbas merchant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kumayl abbas merchant (talk • contribs) 20:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Image of seal hunt from 1880
I couldn't help but notice you added an image to the "seal hunting" article. Being ever so wary of arguments posed by seal hunt supporters, I am aware of the one that goes, "It's a part of our heritage", or "tradition". It "appears" that this image could represent the Canadian seal hunt, but, if you look closely, the man on the left of this image is brandishing a Finish flag. This could mean one of two things. First, the image is actually of a seal hunt in Finland but it would appear your source seems to confirm it's not. That or, it gives reason for me to start a new section in the article entitled "Seal Hunt: Proud Tradition or Modern Incarnation of Foreign Interest Exploitation". As I'm sure you may know, up until 1986 most of the sealers involved in the Canadian seal hunt were from Norway or Finland. This means that the seal hunt is not a "Canadian tradition". Just an FYI.--XB70Valyrie (talk) 19:58, 8 August 2009 (UTC)


 * 1. that could be any cross on a white field, such as the Cross of St. George. It could even be a maritime signal flag and - this will surely please you - such a flag would communicate: "Stop carrying out your intentions and watch for my signals", or possibly the number 8.
 * 2. your attempt to de-legitimise the seal hunt by pointing out that it is practiced beyond Canada is illogical and counter-productive at best. If it's not just something unique to Canada but found in several countries, then that makes it even stronger tradition, no?

User:76.120.151.113
Blocked for a month. I'll take care of mass reverting the contribs. — Jake   Wartenberg  03:27, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I've looked at a sample of the changes made by 76.120.151.113 where Category:String instruments was added to about 100 articles about string instruments, and I didn't see anything wrong with any of the ones I saw. If a few of the ones I didn't see were inappropriate, those should be undone individually. It is quite unjustified to mass revert all that work by 76.120.151.113 in my opinion. Seanwal111111 (talk) 22:18, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Absu
When you move a page to make way for a disambiguation page, can you please change all incoming links to that page to point to the new page, as otherwise it leaves a bit of a mess. I've changed the links in this case. Thanks.--Michig (talk) 07:46, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Coleridge merge
I reverted that. There are many authors with early life pages devoted to explaining the education and background. Such pages are reserved for major, major authors and for those whose biography pages are devoted also to their themes, works, and other aspects. John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Charles Darwin, etc. On Samuel Coleridge, there are two books specifically devoted to his early life, and many books that discuss his juvenilia, which are his early works. This has come up a few times before and consensus is very accepting of the pages, since they are independently notable topics and are not content forks. Ottava Rima (talk) 18:14, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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