User talk:Pgallert/Archive 1

Ralph Burkei
You're right, I went too fast! --Crusio (talk) 12:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Parvathipuram Utsav
It's actually Indian English. Many such articles are deleted out of Wikipedia editor systematic bias, simply because British/American/Australian/&c. editors cannot read Indian English, as you weren't able to. Sometimes the articles really are tripe. But sometimes they are articles on valid subjects that are simply in a dialect of English that many Wikipedia editors don't understand (but that 100–350 million people who have Indian English as L1/L2/L3 might &#9786;). Uncle G (talk) 17:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I would have thought that my reading comprehension at least equals that of a 12th grader. Now, of this article I cannot make any sense. Is it a historic town? Where? How big? If Indian English is what WP claims it is then I understand it perfectly well why-because me I live in an area of the world where there is a quite similar dialect spoken all over the place. But if you refer to something else and it is so fundamentally different, would it make sense to set up an Indian English Wiki? Having said that, I see that you are quite an experienced WP contributor. Do you want to say Parvathipuram Utsav has any merit, and that I should not have prodded it?--Pgallert (talk) 08:44, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The place is Parvathipuram, and no I wasn't saying that. Whatever verifiable information on Parvathipuram's annual festival that there is probably belongs in Parvathipuram.  (If the article content were verifiable, that would have meant merger, rather than deletion, of course.  See User:Uncle G/On notability.) Uncle G (talk) 16:41, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
Windhoek! My older brother Robin visited there as well as the Namib Desert three years ago and absolutely loved it. I hope to visit myself someday. But to our business. I have edited for two of my family members pages, Werner Krieglstein and Tom Krieglstein, and do not hide that fact. My name is stated clearly in my user page Dkriegls which is attached to all my edits. I mostly edit for things that mean something to me, as do most editors. However, before I even considered doing the edits for these two pages, I spent a long time getting to know the Conflict of Interest policy page as well as the Living Biography policies and the NPV. In so doing, I have edited both pages with great caution by only using directly cited sources and using almost no adjectives or statements except those lifted from verifiable and original sources. I think you will find both articles only contain info garnered from such sources and nothing more. I have engaged in discussions with other editors about Notability of each article and would be happy to discuss COI with you. Feel free to contact me about any other questions you might have, I like to think of myself as very helpful and approachable. Thank you for your Wikipedia diligence and volunteerism. —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:50, 8 December 2008 (UTC).
 * Namibia is a beautiful place, you're absolutely right. I never regretted "going into exile". - Both pages are patrolled now, and I have refreshed my knowledge of WP:COI; you're not in violation of it. However, I fear this issue will come up again and again. Every one of your edits is snatched by some SpamBot for the obvious relation of the login name to the articles' titles. Also, WP:RC patrollers will pick up every contribution of yours and have to check the pages in question. Basically I'd like to suggest three things (only my opinion, I do not have any special authority on WP):
 * Articles from *kriegl* about *kriegl* must be much better than average because they will be checked and challenged by many users. As notability is basically the main criterion this must be established crystal-clear in the first line of the respective articles. This has been achieved in case of Werner but I would rewrite the first sentence.
 * Tom's article contains a collection of notability claims for disconnected events, none of which in itself warrants an article as per WP:N. From my perspective, your point is that the multitude of events like Obama rally, 3rd runner-up in a TV show, co-founder of Swift Kick is what satisfies this guideline, but that is not what it is about! One doesn't become notable in WP by being connected to several unnotable events, not even by being connected to a notable event (Obama rally) in an unnotable manner (being a spectator, however prominent). I'd suggest you establish the notability of one of his achievements (for instance by writing an article about Swift Kick, or about APCA) and then point to this in the first line of Tom Krieglstein.
 * As every of you edits on these pages will be picked up by (and cause work for) patrollers, I suggest you edit these pages in as few edits as possible. 20 minor edits will cause 20 entries in the spam list, one will only cause one.
 * Hope this helps, Pgallert (talk) 08:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for you help! Your suggestions are great and I will take them to heart. I figure it is best for me to suggest edits on the discussion page instead of doing any edits myself. That way I step back from the ledge of COI instead of standing right on it. I probably will go ahead and reformat the references as Suntag has suggested since their ease of use is pertinent to checking my sourcing on information used in the article. All reference changes will be done in one edit (I hope, lol). Again, thank you for taking the time.Dkriegls (talk) 22:58, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Mark Libbery
I see you nominated this article for deletion? I have attempted to make some changes to improve it, but am curious why you consider it worthy of deletion.

79.79.109.229 (talk) 19:40, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * As the article is already gone I cannot see the changes you suggested. When I came across the article it was a biography that did not meet the inclusion criteria for academics. For further reasoning, please see the AFD discussion - though I did not participate in this discussion. --Pgallert (talk) 09:48, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Flagged Revs
Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template  « l | Ψrometheăn ™ | l »   (talk) 06:48, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry but this template is too importunate for my liking. --Pgallert (talk) 11:52, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

My help requests
If an article has been recreated, how do I find out how it looked before the deletion?
 * Only administrators can see deleted versions. You can ask one and though and they'll usually give you a copy. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 09:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

The undo link in the page history seems not to work for me. I tried it right now on KCNQ but got an empty page, status message "done", original article unchanged. I then reverted manually. Do I need to be admin to revert vandalism edits per undo?
 * No, anyone can use undo. The servers are going a bit flaky right now, with slowdowns and Wikimedia error message screens si it may be you just happened to have done this at a time that there were difficulties. Of course, you didn't make any edit I can see to KCNQ, but you did successfully revert KNCQ (two different articles). Is it possible that after you went to check whether your edit worked, you confused which article you had edited?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Umm, I think I confused it only in my help request, KCNQ appears as an unvisited link in my browser. Thanks for the answer, after all, it was a very bulky edit, the servers might not have wanted to serve this. This undo-wont-work happened to me before, though.--Pgallert (talk) 13:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, undo often doesn't work because intervening edits have affected the actual section you want to undo (the software can't parse this), but when that happens you don't get a blank screen marked with "done"; you get a targeted message which says "The edit could not be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits." See if you can replicate the error. Spend a few minutes at RecentChanges and I assure you, you'll find things to test it on fast. Repost the helpme (or ask at the help desk) if it happens again. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:10, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Just tried it on two fine specimen of unconstructive edits, it worked. Unfortunately, RC patrol is not an option for me, my Internet is slow, my computer is slow, and I am slow. The moment the page is loaded most of the stuff is already back to where it should be. My utmost respect to people who devote their time to this. And thanks again for the response, Pgallert (talk) 14:38, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I personally do not like RC patrol, and I also respect the effort that goes into it but it's not for me. Are you still using a regular modem dialup connection!? I don't think I could stand it. Once you graduate to a fast connection it's like taking off chains that you never really knew were that heavy. Anyway, best of luck, and if you need anything, feel free to drop by my talk page.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:10, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hookup to the service provider is not the problem but the country as such has only a single fiber link to the rest of the world, running at somewhat around 250 MBps, plus a few satellite links with bandwidth not to speak of. "Information Highway" is something else, right. Cheers and happy Christmas, Pgallert (talk) 09:22, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

We recently formed a project group, WikiProject Namibia. Who can point me to a simple howto page about design of a user box, with a Namibian flag and some appropriate text? --Pgallert (talk) 14:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Try this link.  shirulashem     (talk)   14:41, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link, but I had hoped there was an easier-to-understand description. I am particularly confused about how to name the page where the user box resides - "Create the userbox as subpage of the project page", does that mean I create Wikipedia:WikiProject/Userbox, or must there be something else than "Userbox"? And what must be done to create and populate a category of users that place this box on their pages? --Pgallert (talk) 12:57, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm so sorry for my late response. I just saw that you posted another question. I checked the project page and it looks like it was done correctly. Please let me know if you need any further help.  shirulashem     (talk)   13:02, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Whitney Casey
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 * Hi Bot ;) I was in the process of moving this page to proper capitalisation and I fear I have removed your template inadvertantly. I was just busy with page patrol. If the article cannot stay, please also remove the redirect page I produced: Whitney casey. Sorry for the extra work, when the edit conflict page was displayed it was already too late (I submitted twice due to faulty I-net connection). --Pgallert (talk) 11:20, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The copyright wasn't a problem, as the page on nichecreator.com is a copy of the Wikipedia article and you had mentioned the old title in the edit summary, but it is better to move using the "move" tab, as it keeps the page's history in one place and avoids the message from CorenSearchBot. — Snigbrook 22:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)