User talk:Ringbang/Archive 1

Proposed deletion of Hyman Wright


The article Hyman Wright has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Proposed deletion of Creative Beading


The article Creative Beading has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * non-notable magazine.

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Nomination of Creative Beading for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Creative Beading is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Creative Beading until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 03:30, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Question about a variety of sweet potato
Here is a question I left a couple of days ago on the talk page of the List of sweet potato cultivars article:
 * Today at the San Francisco Civic Center Farmer's market, I bought some sweet potatoes that were described to me as being "Hawaiian sweet potatoes". They are light tan with rough skin on the outside and the flesh inside is purple.  I cooked one tonight for dinner and it was delicious!  What is the technical name for this variety of sweet potato?  Keraunos (talk) 09:48, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for answering my question so promptly and so completely. However, there was one thing I was wondering about.  In the List of sweet potato cultivars article, you put that an Ayamurasaki sweet potato has an outer skin that is colored sangria, which is a dark red color.  However, the sweet potato that I bought had a light tan outer skin which was very bumpy.  Are there different varieties of Ayamurasaki sweet potatoes with different colors of outer skins?   Keraunos (talk) 20:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Plant collaboration of the month
Hello: I've noticed your contributions to plant-related articles, so if you're interested, check out:

From: Northamerica1000(talk) 01:39, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Ann Dunnigan for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ann Dunnigan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ann Dunnigan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Dawn Bard (talk) 16:16, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit of Acinetobacter
You added a bogus DOI citation. It is just the first half, no slash. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 16:09, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bead&Button


The article Bead&Button has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable magazine - no evidence of significant coverage in independent sources, which would be required to meet WP's notability guidelines.

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Disambiguation Pages
Hi there,

I notice that you added alternate uses of the word "View" to the View article in this revision.

However, in this case such alternate uses are already covered via the View (disambiguation) page and the View article itself only covers the most common meaning of the word. (This is what the line saying
 * For other uses, see View (disambiguation).

at the top of the page is for.)

If you're interested, the Disambiguation article explains more.

Hope this helps. All the best, Ubcule (talk) 21:08, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages
Dear Author/Ringbang

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Artificial insemination. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 12:22, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Natural farming
An article that you have been involved in editing, Natural farming, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Nirvana2013 (talk) 06:44, 30 July 2012 (UTC) Nirvana2013 (talk) 06:44, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Pimsleur hyphen
What source(s) did you use to determine that the article should be entitled Pimsleur language-learning system rather than Pimsleur language learning system? The first source in the article says "the results became the Pimsleur Language Learning Method" and none of the others appear to refer to it by any similar name, with or without a hyphen. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:13, 2 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your conscientious oversight of this article! The following is my reasoning and justification for this change.


 * First, in this context, language-learning is a compound modifier. In addition to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, various authorities (such as the Chicago Manual of Style), publications (such as National Geographic), and educational institutions encourage linking terms in a compound modifier with either a hyphen or an en dash, excepting a few special cases.


 * In the noun phrase in question, a hyphen distinguishes the phrase from an alternative reading, such as Pimsleur language learning-system.


 * But isn't Pimsleur Language Learning System a trademarked brand? Evidently, no; it seems to be neither. I could find neither Pimsleur Language Learning System nor Pimsleur Method in a catch-all search of the USPTO database.


 * I'm aware that Pimsleur's copy-writers use the phrase Pimsleur language learning system in the scripts for some of their products. However, the only instance of this phrase I found on pimsleur.com was in a reciprocal link to the Wikipedia article.


 * As for Pimsleur method, Pimsleur applies the trademark symbol to this noun phrase in at least two places on their website: In the heading of this page, and in this page's hyperlink to the previous page. My query of the USPTO database didn't validate this claim to trademark. Moreover, Pimsleur's own treatment is inconsistent. In other places, they either do not use the trademark symbol at all in Pimsleur method, or render it as Pimsleur&reg; method (which is consistent with the trademark filings I found). Based on these findings, I think Pimsleur method may be the most appropriate title for this article. Ringbang (talk) 20:47, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry for disappearing, I forgot to check back here. I had noticed that the unhyphenated form of the title was grammatically incorrect, but had not bothered to do anything with it earlier because it was the term used on the pimsleur.com page. Since we don't necessarily care about the official name though, I'm inclined to agree with you that the straightforward "Pimsleur method" may be the best place for it. If you think it might be controversial we can go ahead and start a topic on the talk page in case anyone else wants to weigh in, otherwise I'll probably move it there later today or tomorrow. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:38, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. "Pimsleur method" seems to be the preferred term in primary and secondary sources. Ringbang (talk) 08:58, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Category:Television programmes by FilmFair
Category:Television programmes by FilmFair, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 16:04, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

BitTorrent clients
While I see that the use of the client term has diminished with recent edits to the Comparison of BitTorrent clients page (thanks!), it still features prominently both in the page title and the software own names. So, I've restored the “misnomer” note reverted in 517603048.

— Ivan Shmakov (talk) 15:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks; good idea. Ringbang (talk) 06:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen
Hey Ringbang, wanna help improving (and saving!) this article a little bit? --Hydao (talk) 20:37, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Ringbang (talk) 06:29, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ;) --Hydao (talk) 14:34, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ringbang, should I add these two games into the See also section?
 * Nuclear War (video game)
 * Spitting Image (video game) --Hydao (talk) 11:59, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Forget.
Forget about it, the games only have Mikhail Gorbachev as a character. Btw, I'm playing all the Ultraman games from the Family Computer (I think there are four games and none of them have a English Wiki page) and guess what, few days ago I saw this: http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/ultraman-club-kaijuu-dai-kessen-nes.html ... If I create the page(s) in the future here on Wikipedia, will you give a hand? :) I think there is the Japanese Wiki article too. But lemme play the games first, never played them before. Cheers. --Hydao (talk) 02:38, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Connects
Hello Ringbang,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Connects for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Cdtew (talk) 03:21, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Nair
Please can you explain why you have retagged Gough's quotation in the lead section of Nair. It is now attributed to her in the sentence and the source is cited. It seems unnecessary to footnote right on the quote when the context is clear (a view that has been supported, btw, by people involved with FAC). - Sitush (talk) 17:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Unmount


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A kitten for you!
Nice work on the Magical Tree page!

Sulfurboy (talk) 10:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC) 

gvnayr.
Ringbang, if you want to say "thank you" (being nice or polite), you should say it to those editors/contributors from MobyGames, for example. And not to because he is a major pain for everyone. --46.50.111.185 (talk) 01:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

May 2013
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