User talk:Rædwald

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"Hoax"
What makes you think my page is a "hoax"? I cited all available sources that I could locate in the English language for the English Wikipedia's convenience. ---The Copper Miner — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Copper Miner (talk • contribs) 01:40, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of عمرو وائل
Hi, you nominated the above article for speedy deletion as "nonsense". But the template clearly says that it does not apply to non-English articles. So just letting you know that I have removed the template. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 02:42, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

''Roger - it's been marked as A7 instead as I believe there's not enough information on him. GammaRadiator (talk) 02:48, 14 June 2016 (UTC)''

Articles for deletion/London Buses route 53
Hi, you previously contributed to a deletion discussion for London bus route 99, another similar deletion discussion is ongoing at Articles for deletion/London Buses route 53 which you may wish to give your input on.

Note: I've placed (or am in the process of placing) this notification on the talk page of anyone who took part in the original deletion discussion, as the most recent similar discussion, regardless of deletion preference, which is allowable under WP:CANVASS. The only exception being if that person has already contributed, or has indicated on their profile that they are inactive.

Thanks for your time. Jeni ( talk ) 10:31, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Wake turbulence
Hiya; I undid your edit to the Wake turbulence article. The reason is that even though the FAA considers the An-225 as being a Super, neither EUROCONTROL (or any other regulator for that matter), nor ICAO includes the Antonov. Only the A380 is included in the ICAO proposal. When I did the previous edit to the article, I added this information in the section underneath it, clearly stating the differences in use by on one hand the FAA and on the other hand ICAO. Greetings, Kthoelen (talk) 20:51, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

February 2017
Hello GammaRadiator. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know, however, that there is consensus that we shouldn't tag pages as lacking context (CSD A1) and/or content (CSD A3) moments after they are created, as you did at Gun Arvidsson. It's usually best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Tagging such pages in a very short space of time may drive away well-meaning contributors, which is not good for Wikipedia. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course still be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks. - GB fan 19:56, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi GammaRadiator. We appreciate your enthusiasm but please refrain from tagging articles for now – some maintenance tasks are not suitable for beginners. New Page Review requires significant experience, which you don't have yet. However, if you have already made at least 200 mainspace edits, you can enroll at the Counter Vandalism Academy to learn about keeping pages free of nonsense. Consider doing recent changes patrol for vandalism instead. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page. KGirlTrucker81 huh? what I've been doing 15:42, 28 February 2017 (UTC) KGirlTrucker81 huh? what I've been doing 15:42, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * User:GammaRadiator - I happen to agree that a long article in a non-Roman probably Indian script should be deleted, but there isn't consensus for speedy deletion of non-English. I disagree technically with both the G1 and the A1.  It isn't A1 because it isn't very short.  It isn't G1 because the rules for G1 exclude non-English.  I wish that there were a quick way to get rid of non-English crud.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Seconding what wrote. Please read WP:TAGBOMB. This edit by you is not an appropriate use of maintenance tags. You should not add more than 2-3 of the most relevant maintenance tags, or better yet, try to fix some of the issues yourself. Please ask if you have any questions.- MrX 01:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

And also with Asia Kate Dillon, being an actor may not sound important, but the litmus test is to pop the name into Google, and if you get some news hits, it's not an A7. See User:Ritchie333/Plain and simple guide to A7. Also, with NHS mandate, you should not tag an article as A10 if it's a plausible sounding redirect (an actual A10 might be something like "The importance of the NHS in modern society and how it affects everyone"). Now, a number of other editors have already warned you that you are making too many mistakes at New Page Patrol, so you need to acknowledge what I've just said or you may be blocked from editing to avoid further disruption. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:25, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Acknowledged. I'll have another look at the NPP tutorials. GammaRadiator (talk) 07:53, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Lists of listed buildings
I note that you have moved "Listed buildings in Kirkby Lonsdale" to "List of listed buildings in Kirkby Lonsdale". Some time ago there was a discussion amongst the editors creating such lists (I cannot draw your attention to the exact discussion, but it is somewhere in the archives) that "List of listed buildings in..." is clumsy, and the consensus achieved was that in the case of such lists it is more acceptable to use "Listed buildings in..." - and Wikipedia works on consensus. If you really want standardisation - and to go against this consensus, you have a mammoth task. If you go to my user page and open the navboxes, you will see that there are lists of listed buildings for every parish and every unparished area in Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and most of Cumbria, amounting to hundreds, maybe over a thousand lists. And these are just the ones I have created; I know that editors have created lists for other counties, using the agreed form of title. I suggest that instead of changing all these, and going against the consensus, you revert your move - and then we will have "standardisation". By the way, it is a good idea to discuss such moves before you carry them out. I suggest that you write any reply on this page, to keep the conversation in one place. Cheers. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 09:13, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Noted. I'll get it changed back to the former title in a sec. GammaRadiator (talk) 09:22, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your prompt action. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 10:48, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imperial units (2nd nomination)


A tag has been placed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imperial units (2nd nomination), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. BilCat (talk) 01:42, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Your signature
Hi there. I thought you should know that for some users (like myself) your signature renders as two blank boxes. I assume those boxes are meant to be emoji? It doesn't matter to me, I can obviously figure out how to contact you, but some users find it off-putting when editors have illegible signatures. You may wish to consider choosing emoji which are more universally supported, or changing to a text-based signature. Cheers! Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * They're both non-standard Unicode characters - can't say I noticed anything. I'll have a tat and alter as appropriate,though. ↅ𝜞 (Contact me) (See my edits) 15:57, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

multiple AFDs, not properly set up
Hi, in my opinion your multiple AFDs about train stations in Japan are not set up properly, and you should improve the situation. I happened to see in one, Articles for deletion/Sanbashi-dōri-gochōme Station, that you request someone else merge the AFDs. But you don't even list them. I see that there exist some other AFDs starting "Sanbashi-" but then there may be others that start with different names. And it is not obvious that combining AFDs is a good thing. I have seen many combined AFDs get rejected because editors point out some are different than others, and that considering all as a group is not helpful. I have also seen separate AFDs get rejected because it pisses off everyone that they were separate, not together. Anyhow I think you need to take responsibility and set it up as you want it, not tell others to do your work. That's my 2 cents. :)

At a minimum, could you please create a "see also" type list of them all and then copy-paste that list to all of them, so that other editors can navigate between the AFDs? sincerely, -- do ncr  am  20:39, 16 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, i appreciate very much that you made an effort to consolidate or link the AFDs. However it is confusing again now.  Now there exist a dozen separate AFDs each about a dozen articles.  What is needed is either ONE AFD about all 12, or 12 separate AFDs about one each (which i suggest should each link to all the other 12 AFDs). -- do  ncr  am  02:32, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Quality photographs
Hi,

you said [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Rail_Class_170&type=revision&diff=889856947&oldid=889855040 surely the titlebox image needs to be of a train in a current livery, instead of a deprecated one? ex-titlebox image moved to gallery too].

The answer is that we need the most illustrative photo.

WP:RECENTISM is a thing. We don't want to be changing the photos every few days just to get the latest shot.

THis is not a bad photo, but you can barely see the side of the unit and hence the livery that you claim it's "illustrating", and you can't tell that it's a three car unit without looking closely. It's not as illustrative as the other photos.

This shows the WMT livery much better than your photo. This begs the questino though as to why you chose your own over this one? You would be ill advised to stick your photo on the top of the article because of misguided vanity and then be precious about the whole thing.

It would make sense to have a photo of a Scotrail one since they have the biggest fleet, so that's the most typical. But we don't really have many good Scotrail photos.

Thanks for your understanding. Tony May (talk) 14:23, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Walk into any record shop
Walk into any record shop and ask for Paul Jebanasam’s Continuum and they’ll tell you it’s a great album but sorry it’s sold out. And yet you, an internet nobody, deleted his Wikipedia page as a “non-notable musician”?

Maybe do some actual constructive work, e.g. find better sources, do some research, instead of destroying stuff? Fool. HollowZephyr (talk) 11:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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