User talk:Sideways713

DYK nomination of Mihály Iglói
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DYK for Ryan Gregson
Courcelles 12:03, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

User:78.148.35.241
We need to get an admin to block this guy, all of his edits have bee vandalism. Philipmj24 (talk) 17:03, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Not strictly true, actually. User:Sillyfolkboy managed to track down one (1) edit - under a previous IP - that wasn't vandalism! Sideways713 (talk) 17:09, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Hello S. Thanks for catching my edit summary and adding the correct template to the Six Weeks article. I've copied it to my handy dandy sand box for future usage. I appreciate your attention to detail and your time. Thanks again and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 01:10, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

WP Athletics in the Signpost
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Michael Brutsch AfD
I have addressed your comment about sources.--The Devil&#39;s Advocate (talk) 15:01, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Somerset College
nice tag-team:) DMacks (talk) 09:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for cleaning up my userpage. Vandals are weird. Best, JBL (talk) 20:38, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * At least this one didn't delete references. Quite the opposite, in fact :) Sideways713 (talk) 20:56, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Ha! :) --JBL (talk) 21:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you sideways for editing my corpus callosum change. I was trying to prove to my friends that wikipedia is valid. Sorry about the vandilism.

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Soviet Union
This edit of Ryulong and related edit comment is really misguided. The discussion on the talk page had resolved the issue. The fact that Ryulong reverted my edit without even leaving a note on the talk page but instead requesting protection is most improper, nor do I understand why the seconded Ryulong's request for full protection.

User:Incnis Mrsi reported the problem of IP disruption at this thread. I subsequently report the issue here and the page was semi-protected. I then reverted this disruptive IP. The book State Succession to International Responsibility by Patrick Dumberry published in 2007 summarises the current mainstream view on page 151:
 * "The question whether the break-up of the U.S.S.R. should be regarded as a case of State dissolution or rather a series of secessions is also controversial. The only non-controversial point is that the three Baltic States are regarded not as new States (and not as successor States of the U.S.S.R.) but as identical to the three Baltic States that existed before their 1940 illegal annexation by the U.S.S.R."

I think with that definitive summary we can conclude that the mainstream view is that the Baltic states were not successor states, since the author clearly states there is no controversy in that view, i.e. it is not contested in scholarly literature. Therefore, the Baltic states, which left the Soviet Union three months before it was dissolved, is improperly included as successor states in the inbox. Note that only four republics are listed as predecessors and 12 should be listed as successors, as any RS will show. --Nug (talk) 11:04, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * If all reliable sources do indeed support you, it should be easy for you to establish a talk page consensus; as of now, though, despite your claims the issue clearly hasn't been resolved. As for fully protecting the page, if there's an edit war under way involving both IPs and non-IPs then full protection is much more appropriate than semi-protection. Per WP:SEMI, semi-protection is only an appropriate reaction to edit warring "where all parties involved are unregistered or new editors", which clearly isn't the case here. And no, edit warring is not vandalism. Sideways713 (talk) 11:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeed the discussion has been dormant for nearly two weeks, indicating that no one has been able to refute the sources presented, the disruptive IP was not contributing to the discussion, User:Incnis Mrsi who initially opposed the edit in discussions finally implicitly agreed when he also reverted the IP, thereby showing that consensus has been achieved. The only other opposing editor User:GoodDay was site banned for disruptive behaviour in East European topics, and I wouldn't be surprised if this IP was him. --Nug (talk) 11:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Helping
Thanks for helping. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:45, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem :) Not sure I'd have tagged it for speedy myself, actually; an template might have been sufficient. Sideways713 (talk) 10:52, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * once again thanks for helping. A little bit goes a long way. The creator of that article is a blocked sockpuppetter [], part of a blatent attempt to use Wikipedia for promotion. Fight spam overtaking. Every little bit counts. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:57, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the link help on JB Taylor (physicist) on Oldbury Grammar School ariticle. Appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.65.97.14 (talk) 12:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Oops
Thanks for catching my error at Niels. Cheers,  Yinta n   12:13, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Waiting for the Rain
I apologize for mistaking your intent. It looked to me (after your edit) that the article included Part II in the summary but not Part I, which made me think material was still being arbitrarily removed. But I see I somehow misread the difference page. Once again, my apologies. Thanks for persisting, and for contacting me about it. ubiquity (talk) 15:26, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Eric Krenz
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Help needed: Sasural Simar Ka
I have a problem. This peron (IP 76.104.41.137) keeps adding smileys and writing in the plot something like "But she might be back you never know..." I don't want to "roll-back anymore bc the 3RR-rule. So please can you have a look? - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  22:22, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Energetically Modified Cement
I have posted a response to your comment. Kind regards Jono2013 (talk) 18:42, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

My mistakes on wikipedia,
I didn't write that, I think I got hacked, I will change my password ASAP. Btw, I'm a newcomer, Neebtoothy

A kitten for you!
Nice work on the Bill Bonthron page.

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Albert Seedman DYK issue
Thanks. That was the result of changing the sentence but not taking care of all the loose ends. Thanks for approving it! Daniel Case (talk) 22:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Archie San Romani
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DYK for Gene Venzke
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Madden DYK
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DYK for Jack Torrance (athlete)
The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Athletics event articles
Hi! I've started a discussion on how best to present results of athletics championships here. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion. SFB 18:40, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

IAAF Hall of Fame
You made contributions to the IAAF Hall of Fame section that has been removed by User:Prolog. The conversation first went to User talk:Prolog and is now moving to No original research/Noticeboard where the discussion apparently will now continue. Your participation is invited. Trackinfo (talk) 21:40, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:IAAF simple
Hi Sideways. Does Template:IAAF simple have the same result as Template:IAAF name? If so, we should probably update the name template with the simple code and redirect the now redundant Template:IAAF profile into that too. SFB 12:02, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not entirely sure what you mean or intend, but at this point I see no advantage to tampering with any of the templates.
 * IAAF simple and IAAF name are interchangeable to a limited extent: a working link should be produced by the same parameters whichever template is used, but it won't be the same link. Furthermore, IAAF name has a parameter called "name" whereas IAAF simple has one called "text" for the same purpose - confusing the two shouldn't do much damage either way since both templates automatically remove disambiguation from pagenames, but it surely wouldn't do any good.
 * IAAF profile takes entirely different parameters, and redirecting it to either of the other two would break eighty-odd profile links. Sideways713 (talk) 13:26, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

T: template redirects
Hi, you participated in Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 December 29, some of which I have relisted at Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 November_18. Please come along and share your thoughts .. ;-) John Vandenberg (chat) 15:39, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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Redirects for discussion
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DYK for Bill Sefton
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Keith Brown (pole vaulter)
Thanks from the wiki Victuallers (talk) 08:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

AfD
Was about to close it. All the pages of the socks should be deleted. They should not be removing the speedies in the first place.  Enigma msg  22:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Redirects for discussion
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ALL CAPS citations
Hey there. I just approved one of your hooks, and while I was doing it, I noticed that a lot of your citations are in all caps. Even if the title is in all caps in the newspaper itself, you should convert it out of all caps per WP:ALLCAPS. Cheers,  S ven M anguard   Wha?  18:55, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, if I ever read the ALLCAPS guideline I've completely forgotten about it. I converted all the all-caps citations in that article and will try to remember to convert headlines automatically in future. Sideways713 (talk) 19:26, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Barney Berlinger
The DYK project (nominate) 02:03, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

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Hey,

Please go to the talk page of Iran (Talk:Iran) and read the two last sections. If you agree with me about them, just write it down and say you agree.

Thank you so much. Arvid Qasemy (talk) 08:57, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

response to Calf Raises
Hi,

I created a reference instead as you suggested. The page is for an excellent article on calf raises which goes into more depth about how to do the exercise than is on the wiki page.

Thanks -- Moto4noir (talk) 20:39, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks
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Herro
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DYK for Robert Simpson (athlete)
Harrias talk 12:01, 29 January 2015 (UTC) Hello, why did you remove my edit??

Snake mackerel
Hi

I wondered why you changed my edit I was literally about to put a refrence?

Regards

Ben Benjahdrum (talk) 22:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)


 * According to the article itself, the snake mackerel had acquired at least 6 scientific names by 1860 and was used as a food in Hawaii in the time of Kamehameha I, who died in 1819; accordingly, I felt it was very unlikely the information about it being first seen by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 was accurate. A bit of Googling showed me some sources were making the more limited claim that Heyerdahl was the first to see a living snake mackerel; whether that is true, I don't know either, since it seems very unlikely it would be used as food and never seen alive. The source used for the Hawaii claim is available on Google Books, and I verified it does support the claim made; it might not be accurate, I don't know. Sideways713 (talk) 22:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Charles Beetham
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DYK for 1936 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
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Olympic Trials
Thanks for all your hard work on the footers of Olympic Trials. I wanted you to know I'm about half way to building the article on the 1968 US Olympic Trials and will be moving backward in time from there, so you don't need to duplicate my work. But this is the lead up to the Olympics, so I've got bigger fish to fry right now. Trackinfo (talk) 20:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up! When/if I get back to working on the Trials I'll probably do 1924 and 1920 next; for now, I plan to do all US team footers back to 1920 (I'm not sure if it makes any sense to have footers for pre-1920 teams, given how different the system and the role of national teams was in the early Olympics). Sideways713 (talk) 21:08, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * While there are sources, I'm not nearly as well versed on the 1920's, please have at it. I've built Olympic Trials (results) articles from 2000 backwards to 1972 and I did 1948, so my goal is to fill in the gap.  Even to 1948 includes people I've met and have even competed with, so it is much more familiar territory. Trackinfo (talk) 21:57, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Sydney McLaughlin
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Columbus Blue Jackets
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 * I was not familiar with that guideline, and will refrain from further edits of that type; though I would note that a) my edit was consistent with how the name appeared in the infobox and b) NCIH's North American clause only speaks of player names. Sideways713 (talk) 13:34, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Didn't notice that, but no diacritics policy was always used for every single person on North American ice hockey article. I suppose other teams' staff was excluded for some reason or it just was a silly mistake. – Sabbatino (talk) 16:28, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It was just worded that way cause the fights usually resulted from player names. But yes we intended it for any person name. Its really just meant to stop edit wars. Really the best course of action for most people is just leave as you find. But a few people on either side of the debate always end up edit warring so we had to make the guidance to stop the fights. -DJSasso (talk) 16:48, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * We now delete or hide diacritics on NHL franchise articles. Such compromise was required to help end the Diacritics Wars of yesteryear :) GoodDay (talk) 07:10, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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