User talk:SGGH/Archive 2009/May

SGGH on BBC 606
Heh "YellowMonkeyPundit" doesn't seem to be able to spark much of a discussion there. I think I need to be more of a troll to get a run. I bet nobody reads my blog :(  YellowMonkey  ( click here to choose Australia's next top model! ) 01:40, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

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AfC news
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Deletion review for Hemant Punoo
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Hemant Punoo. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Candidate new article review
I have drafted a candidate new article on educational publisher Curriculum Associates. The draft is posted on my talk page: frankatca. The article is factual, NPOV, and has citation references. I am unclear as to what else it needs in the way of improvement before I post it. Your comments and suggestions for improvement are solicited. Tnank you. Frank E. Ferguson Frankatca (talk) 18:45, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

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Keith Johnson (cricket administrator)
Hi. It's good that you're helping to tidy up some of the more fringe articles in the Invincibles push. And I know you work very fast. But can you be a bit careful, please, about ensuring you don't change meanings in some of the rewording? There were a couple of instances in this article. It wasn't the collapse of a Test that led to Johnson's giving up cricket administrative roles, but the collapse of the Barnes trial. And Johnson wasn't appointed as manager of the Australian Services team in 1945 by Hassett (nor does Wisden say that); I suspect, but don't know for certain, that Hassett's appointment as captain (which was a bit controversial as he was junior in services rank to several other players) may have been a result of Johnson's appointment, rather than the other way around. Actually, the real need on this article and on others in the Invincibles list that haven't quite made it yet to GA or FA status (Loxton etc) is for extra information, and not so much changing around what is already there. If you could find out Johnson's full birthdate, or what his career outside cricket was, for instance... Kind regards. Johnlp (talk) 15:45, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Request
My old friend, how are you? I have a special request. You know that I'm not for nominating my articles for "FA" nor "GA"'s, but someone nominated my Black history of Puerto Rico for FAC, see:Featured article candidates/Black history in Puerto Rico. I won't object to that, however the article is in need of a complete copyedit and some fixes. I feel like a blind man trying to organize a dark room. I thought about you and your excellent work and I was wondering if you could help me and those who nominated the article with the copyediting and whatever you believe needs fixing. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 19:33, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm doing fine. I hope that you are also. The "First Indochina War" will be your dissertation project, I know that you will do a great job. In regard to the "Black history of Puerto Rico", feel free to do and make whatever changes or edits that you believe need be done. I have complete trust in your judgement my friend. Tony the Marine (talk) 21:21, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Allen Stanford
I noticed that you edited the Allen Stanford article with the statement that Stanford has been arrested. I do not see a citation for that claim. Is this true? What are you using for your claim? Please advise.--InaMaka (talk) 19:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If he has been charged by a law enforcement agency, he has to have been arrested. I can change it to charge to fit the sources exactly. SGGH ping! 21:09, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No, not necessarily. People are indicted or charged all the time without being arrested.  I already changed the wording to "charged."  As of this evening, Allen Stanford has not been arrested.  A charge or an indictment does not necessarily mean arrest.  Let's just leave the wording, for right now, at "charged" because that is what the situation is, not arrested.  Besides, he might not be arrested as such if he chooses to turn himself in to a law enforcement agency.  Or he might play the dual citizenship angle and attempt to fight extradition to the U.S.  Right now, we just don't know and it is better to be right side of BLP.--InaMaka (talk) 03:05, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Edgar Smith
SGGH, I am the author of the Edgar Smith article you relied upon completely to write your article, without even referencing my name. While writing that article, I went to libraries and got articles from microfilm. I wrote to William F. Buckley. I wrote to Edgar Smith. I interviewed the California prosecutor and the son of the NJ prosecutor. I bought old magazines and books from e-Bay. I bought newspaper articles from internet digital archives. I did all this to write an entertaining, accurate true story, not to write something you could crib from and then dismissively describe as being biased and not NPOV. It's not my job to be NPOV. It's my job to do the work, do the research, and then back up my arguments. If you want original news articles, please email the editor at crimemagazine, he will email me, and I'll send you a Lexis-Nexis of Edgar Smith articles. Both crimemagazine and my articles in it have been referenced by other Wiki articles.Lonalee (talk) 04:55, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and a request
Thanks for signing up at Peer review/volunteers and for your work doing reviews. It is now just over a year since the last peer review was archived with no repsonse after 14 (or more) days, something we all can be proud of. There is a new Peer review user box to track the backlog (peer reviews at least 4 days old with no substantial response), which can be found here. To include it on your user or talk page, please add. Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 04:13, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Dave Greg
Working on it, but the account of the Sydney riot is confused by the NSW reference at the start of the paragraph. Why's it there? --Dweller (talk) 13:50, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

A-Class discussion
Hi, we're starting the discussion on A-Class here today, thanks for signing up! I hope you can present your views. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 07:36, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Braddles FAC
Got restarted.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 04:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Ireland naming question
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Australia and the American Civil War‎;
Hi SGGH

Can you copyedit the lead of Australia and the American Civil War‎? It mentions Australia in almost every sentence and I think this is bad style. Wandalstouring (talk) 09:43, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do. SGGH ping! 19:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Nominations for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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David choi
I am trying to recreate the page for David Choi. His page has been deleted several times for a few different reasons. ONe being that the page was blatant advertising. Another because the page didn't have enough sources to back of the information and the facts were thought to be false. Anoth time it was deleted because it was felt he was not a person of value to be placed on the wiki. I have reasearched him and put together alot of facts regarding him. As far as his worth, I think I have put enough things and sources to back them up to prove that. I wanted to message you because since you are one of the people who has deleted his page in the past I was hoping that you might find time to look over the page and see that it is accurate, and well written. This is also my first Wiki page and I read the rules, and formatting information over MANY times before creating the page. Please feel free to make me aware of any issues with the page, as I would like to adhear to all of the rules of the site, while being able share information about this artist. When I created the page I did not capatolize the last name. When I went to move it I noticed the long history of deletion and the fact that the David Choi page was blocked. I do not wish to step on any toes in this situation but I am new to WP and do not know the proper procedures for unblocking a page. If my newly created page is even worthy of being left up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am leaving this message for everyone on the deletion log of the page, not for redundancy but I do not wish to offend/upset anyone who feels this page should have been deleted in the past. Thanks, Chip MileHighCFI (talk) 01:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Keith Johnson
Since you listed it on your userpage, I've put this on GAN and WP:MHR A-class review.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 08:18, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Adminship Anniversary
'''Wishing User: a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee!  Little  Mountain  5  review! 19:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXXVII (March 2009)
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Restoring copyvio file
Why did you restore this copyvio image Gnevin (talk)
 * Sorry I just assumed you added back. Can you remove it again ? Gnevin (talk) 13:35, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry the image deleted was . Very similar titles Gnevin (talk) 13:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No it's the exact same image and as such copyvio. Gnevin (talk) 13:40, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Leonard Hussey
I'm glad to see someone is working on the Hussey article. I'm a bit stretched at the moment, but in a few days I'll come back and be pleased to give it the once-over. Brianboulton (talk) 21:15, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * A couple of quick thoughts: Shackleton's book South has multiple mentions of Hussey on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition. This is available on-line via Project Gutenberg. Another ebook is which has lots about Hussey's role in the Shackleton-Rowett expedition. I'm not at all sure, however,  that the image of Hussey is PD in the USA; it isn't from Shackleton's book and there is no information that it was published anywhere before 1923.  If necessary an image of Hussey can be cropped from the Weddell Sea party group photo, as was done with Harry McNish. Brianboulton (talk) 18:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The "List of..." article is not one of mine. Other images used there are questionable. This will only really become an issue if/when your article is in some formal review process. It may be worth pinging one of the regular WP image reviewers, such as User:Jappalang, and asking his opinion of your Hussey picture which, I agree, is much to be preferred. Brianboulton (talk) 10:38, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

As a younster I participated in many "Shackleton-Hussey" competitions; these were overnight events run by Rickmansworth and Chorleywood Scouts comprising orienteering around a circular route and undertaking a variety of challenges at checkpoints en route. I recall the event was inaugurated by Hussey, who if I recall correctly, was a one-time resident of Chorleywood and inspired by the events of the Endurance expedition. The arduousness of the S-H competition was such that younger Scouts were not allowed to participate, but demand from them was such that a junior version, named Nimrod after another S-H expedition, was instituted. A quick google (to check my mind isn't playing tricks) revealed this confirmation, which also explains the link to Ralph Gullett, whose name I vaguely recall from my youth. The S-H competion struck me as a fitting tribute to both gentlemen, and is perhaps worthy of a footnote in the article. -- Timberframe (talk) 21:10, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Saggers
Since you wrote the main article, the daughter is now at FAC>  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 06:10, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ronnie H as well  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 04:31, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

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Final Resolution
Thank you for passing Final Resolution (2005)!-- Will C  21:43, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Just a courtesy note - there is some discussion of the passing of this article at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations. I actually do not think the seven minutes is the issue per se, despite the section heading, but you may wish to comment. Cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 12:10, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Boycott
The FAC has been archived by Sandy. Bring it to PR and I'll be happy to help you tweak it into shape. Brianboulton (talk) 13:21, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll try and look later tonight. Brianboulton (talk) 17:51, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry I couldn't get back to it before it was archived. Hopefully after a good peer review, the article will be better prepared for the FAC process. You also might want to consider a good article nomination in the future, where a reviewer can give further input.  Giants2008  ( 17-14 ) 22:42, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I would do if the GAC system was not so slow and poorly functioning. SGGH ping! 15:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Chin up! Brianboulton is one of the toughest guys out there and he likes cricket. Cricket articles will be well polished when they do pass.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 03:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

See?
... Red Gown 09:12, 20 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Red Gown (talk • contribs)

Much better. Red Gownsqueak at me! 09:22, 20 May 2009 (UTC) Now? Red Gown squeak at me! (quietly) 09:28, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Template your face :P Red Gown squeak at me! (quietly) 09:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Fulham F.C. GAR
Fulham F.C. has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. Mattythewhite (talk) 20:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Review Request
Hey their SGGH :), I was just looking over some of the articles that I have written and I was wondering if you could take a look at the article FBI Buffalo Field Office and if you could give me some feedback on how I could improve the article in order to get it up to GA/FA status. Thanks and All the Best :), Mifter (talk) 20:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)