User talk:Warofdreams/2011

St Peters, barton-on-humber
Hi - thanks for adding the 'deadlink' tag. I'm new to editing!

Please can you advise if that is the preferred way to deal with links that are broken and where there is no equivilent material to point to ie to put in a deadline tag rather than to delete the reference? I've come across quite a dead links over the past couple of days and although I am trying to fix as many as possible, there are some where the page that was referred to no longer exists (and I can't find anything esle that does the job as well). FGLawson (talk) 13:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice! - I'll proceed like that then. FGLawson (talk) 15:44, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Featherstone RUFC
Hi, I notice that you have made contributions to the Featherstone article. The current rugby league club, Featherstone Rovers, wasn't founded until 1902, and appears to have no links to the earlier rugby union club. However, I have contributed to an article about James "Jimmy" Metcalfe, and I have found details of him playing for Yorkshire in 1896/7 while playing at Featherstone (rugby union), would you have any information about the rugby union club of the 1800s in Featherstone. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 13:10, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for the link. It's interesting to see, November 1882 "Referee beaten up by twenty youths after leaving ground"... the trouble with young people today!!!. Best regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 10:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Arno Funke for deletion
The article Arno Funke is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Arno Funke 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 good 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. -- Cirt (talk) 13:46, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Checkweighman
Thanks for the work on the present upgrades to Welsh political figures. I never understood that checkweighman was a job for just one person. I now know why it was seen as such an important role. Thanks. FruitMonkey (talk) 17:25, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Charles Lapworth (journalist)
Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Barnsley Central
'lo

My bad on that one, misunderstood what the edit was doing. Consider my wrists duly slapped :) doktorb wordsdeeds 18:12, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Diosso
I've begun expanding this...♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:58, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Derby
Hi W-O-Ds. I'm hoping to persuade you to attend this. I attended the event last year at the British Museum and was so impressed that Ive been working with Derby Museum to put on a similar event. Wikimedia UK have agreed to fund. Usually these events are in London, so do take the opportunity to spread the word to other "locals". Be good to meet Victuallers (talk) 14:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC) That would be brill Victuallers (talk) 23:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sheffield Attercliffe by-election, 1909
Hello! Your submission of Sheffield Attercliffe by-election, 1909 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Peter I. Vardy (talk) 18:05, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

re: 1869
Thanks, and I found a much better source for that hook. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 21:57, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Sheffield Attercliffe by-election, 1909
Thanks from the DYK Project and Victuallers (talk) 16:03, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Succession boxes in multi-member seats?
Do you know if there has been any past discussion on the issue of putting succession boxes in for members elected in multi-member seats? This seems fine to me in single member seats but problematic in multi-member seats since it's often pure original research to say which of the newly elected members replaced the outgoing members. An editor raised it here and has a reasonable point. Valenciano (talk) 00:25, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I've opened a discussion here. Valenciano (talk) 16:32, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

History of Socialism
I was planning to use Tony Benn's Arguments for socialism as a major source, since he covers a broad range of influences including Christian socialism. Nev whom you exchanged comments with on this does not seem to be an active user anymore. The page generally had been fairly dormant for a long time it seems. Just thought I'd page you in as I'm experiencing a wave of enthusiasm! cheers Kathybramley (talk) 16:54, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Revising a page
Hi - you helped me once before, can I ask your help again please? I think I've got the hang of making minor edits now and would like to have a go at something more adventurous by making a major revision to a page. What is the best proceedure for doing this? Presumably I have to put the draft text up to ask for comments, but there is soooo much information in the help pages that I am now confused! Thanks FGLawson (talk) 08:05, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Frank Smith (UK politician)
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   16:04, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

user preference
Do me the courtesy of explaining your changes BEFORE you make them. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 18:06, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the information you posted on my page. As I suspected, what you cite is a 'general rule' which allows the use of discretion - 'Sometimes a picture may benefit from a size other than the default'. In the case we're discussing the picture comes out impossibly small. I should mention too that I have a smaller screen and use a slightly larger print size than standard, so discretion is in order. To demand that the rule should be observed in all cases seemed pedantic, hence my rather abrupt request above. Even among WP administrators I have observed cases that verge on bullying - towards others, that is. So far I've been lucky! Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 11:09, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

help
Three things which I hope you can help with as I've been messing around trying to fix them with the preview button and haven't been able to resolve. Firstly I added new fields to the infobox of Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 2011 for last night's results but they're not showing up and I don't want to update the infoboxes for the other regions until I know what the problem is there. Secondly for reasons which I again can't follow the text in the middle of the Valencia City Council elections page becomes small type, dunno why? Finally as agreed at Talk:Brian_Wilson_(Green_Party_politician) this page should be moved but when I tried myself it wasn't possible as the target page Brian Wilson (Northern Ireland politician) is already a redirect and I can't do anything there without copying and pasting the text. Thanks, Valenciano (talk) 09:48, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Jack W Smith
Hi there,

I've recently found your article about my great grandfather, John 'Jack' W Smith and was wondering what further information you may have about him? My mother is currently looking up the family's history and is keen to find out what she can.

Regards R Smith — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smithr11 (talk • contribs) 16:08, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Ken Gibson
I believe you are indeed correct about Gibson having been the UVF's de facto leader in the 1970s. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion of an article. He now has one: Ken Gibson (loyalist). Would you happen to know the year he died?--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:20, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

User name
Hi 'WoD'. This is just a heads up to a suspect spamlink username IE:- Armaitus, which I think is probably 85.189.110.228 himself. Note the Anon IP's talkpage and edits to Castle Hill, Huddersfield. I suspect that the user page Armaitus has been set up purely to act as a redirect to his facebook page. Richard Harvey (talk) 16:10, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Red Hand Commando
I notice you've created a category for members. Well done for that but I was actually looking for your opinion on the relevant article. It's under the title Red Hand Commandos but in all the sources I have seen (as well as all the murals around Belfast) it is never pluralised. I was going to go ahead and move the article to Red Hand Commando but I wanted to see what interested editors thought before going ahead and making the change. Thanks. Keresaspa (talk) 17:50, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

UOJComm (talk) 01:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade
Hello, you might be interested in the new article I created: UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade. It's a bit confusing as they were officially stood down by the Brigade Staff in 1996, but a permutation of the brigade seemed to continue anyway. Brigadier Richard Jameson was shot dead by the LVF in 2000.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:57, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for review
Thank you for reviewing Samuel Gilbert Scott. Gildir (talk) 20:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: LibDems at Inverclyde
D'oh, of course. It was too early in the morning for me to recognise "Social and Liberal Democrats" as being the same thing ;) doktorb wordsdeeds 11:24, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Old Bank House
Eesh - thanks for that. I've been trying to weed the list as I go, but unfortunately I miss one or two now and again. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:01, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Merger year for NGA
Within the article on the NGA you amended the year that it merged with SOGAT from 1992 to 1990.

However the article on SOGAT states 'In 1992, SOGAT '82 merged with ...' And the article on the union that formed from the merger, GPMU, states 'The Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU) was a trade union ... between 1992 and 2005.'

The UNITE website http://www.unitetheunion.org/about_us/history/history_of_gpmu.aspx states its 1991!

Which is it?

Mavisp (talk) 15:07, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

From Nemonoman
From your contribs list I see you're a heck of a contributor. I'm not a big fan of speedy deletes, as I have turned several very stubby entries into legitimate articles, and might never have thought to create the article in the first place. I think the speedy delete goes against the best and highest use of Wikipedia, and if an experienced editor is the page creator, I think it is practically an insult. Thanks for the nice factoid in Roller Derby, which I have moved to the lead paragraph. --Nemonoman (talk) 17:38, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Now more thanks for your adds to Blue Ridge Rollergirls! Looks much more official, thanks to you.--Nemonoman (talk) 17:23, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Roller Derby World Cup
Hi there! Well done on jumping in on Roller Derby World Cup. I was hoping someone else would. I expect that as we get closer to it we'll more likey to find mainstream news stories for sourcing stuff, so that it's not all DNN. Being on "the ground floor" in Toronto, as it were, I'm keeping my eyes and ears peeled for sources, but having built nearly all of Toronto Roller Derby myself, was waiting for other contributors to jump in on this one. Great job on the chart. I'm also hoping that the article may get expended enough to qualify for a 5x expansion, to allow it to be nominated for submission to the Did you Know? section on the main page, but don't have the time to do so myself right now. Echoedmyron (talk) 16:59, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, I had noticed that, good job. It got Roller Derby World Cup 690 views that day, too! Echoedmyron (talk) 13:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The Toronto Star is going to be providing coverage of the event, and has already published a teaser article today on their website: I plan on mining some of this for the Toronto Roller Derby article, but thought you might want to have a looksee for Roller Derby World Cup. I'm told this article should be on the front page of the print edition tomorrow, and that the same reporter will be attending the event and filing updates - it will be nice to have a "real" news source so we don't have to go to DNN for everything. Echoedmyron (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
 * And another thing: do you think there's any way to do a quick 5X expansion on the Derby News Network article to get a DYK nomination in time for next week that could also mention World Cup? Wish I'd thought of this sooner - I'm too busy this week! Echoedmyron (talk) 16:23, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
Echoedmyron (talk) 15:48, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Suzy Hotrod
BTW - I shared the Suzy Hotrod article on her fan page today on facebook, like "isn't this neat", and whoever moderates the page (Suzy herself? I don't know) responded saying that they thought it wasn't accurate. I offered to step in and help out if there's anything in particular that they felt was wrong, and explained in brief how guidelines for BLPs work for sourcing and info. Have not heard back from them yet, so don't know what they felt was inaccurate, but thought I would give you a heads up about that. I won't have time today or this evening to look into the cited references, but it may turn out that something appears in print yet was reported incorrectly, who knows. If I get a response through facebook - I invited them to send me a private message to discuss further - would I be able to steer them towards your talk page, if they felt there was something that needed urgent attention? Echoedmyron (talk) 18:42, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, absolutely. It's pieced together from ESPN, newspaper articles and the GGRD website, so there's a reasonable chance that one or more of them included something which wasn't accurate.  I know, too, that there's a lot which is missing, because it isn't covered in any of the reliable sources which I've found.  This is always a problem with writing biographies on Wikipedia!  I'd be really happy to remove or correct anything in there which is inaccurate. Warofdreams talk 19:03, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Will do. I actually just had a look during my lunch and found that indeed, everything you've put in is backed up by the references. So perhaps something was reported incorrectly, or maybe it's more that the info presented seems to have undue weight due to lacking other information which had no sources. (Maybe for example there turns out to be an objection to the weight/height specs, but they are listed on the ESPN article...) I'll see if next time I have more time for extensive googling if I can come up with additional things to add to flesh it out, a usable image, etc. And will pass on to you anything if I do hear back from Suzy or whoever posted that comment. Echoedmyron (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

WFTDA Championships
Just wanted to let you know that I saw that you created the new article WFTDA Championships--However, I noticed there are some holes that may need filling: the references in the article do not follow Wikipedia guidelines. There is a tutorial on formatting citations at Referencing.It would be great if you could also improve the related article Tucson Roller Derby. Jipinghe (talk) 18:20, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

List of roller derby associations
You rock. And roll. --Nemonoman (talk) 15:44, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks back. I thought I'd get a DYK hit with "they do synchronized yoga on skates during warmups". But I didn't make the grade. The DYK effort looks to me like yet another Wiki-Cult, and you need to learn the passwords or you don't get in. Anyway, I'm working with Sugar MagMaulYa (play on Sugar Magnolia, a popular tree in the Southern US), who is the PR rep for the team (when she's not animal wrangling, going to grad school or skating), and she's got the actual newspaper clippings, I think. I'll expand and try another DYK. Anyway -- thanks for helping me keep a cool head. And thanks for your righteous expansion of the stubs I've created!!--Nemonoman (talk) 17:44, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

WFTDA maps
Hi War. (Or is it "hi Dreams") Since you're so gung-ho on the roller derby articles, I thought I would ask you about the maps that are on the WFTDA region articles. Now that there are member leagues outside the United States - Canada, the UK, and Apprentice leagues in Europe and down under - it would appear that the current maps, which are based solely on the US, are no longer appropriate. In the future the WFTDA does intend to create separate regions for outside the US they say, but until then, what do you think about modifying the maps? Where it would get tricky would be say, the North Central currently has teams in Ontario, but not the rest of Canada, so it may only be necessary to add Ontario to the mix for that one, British Columbia for the West region. The East region has Montreal, so add Quebec (and once Rideau Valley in Ottawa gets in, eastern Ontario), and there's London, and will presumably gain others in Europe - having a map that has all of North America AND Europe would be clunky. And who knows where Australia might get slotted in, although I guess the West. So - would it be best for consistency to create world maps, that might only have small sections of the US colored in (like the South Central, which for now is strictly US but would presumably gain teams from South America should any join)? That seems like a large map with relatively little of note on it. Or maybe each map would be mainly the continental US, with the additions of Canadian provinces and any overseas nations that have members? I'm willing to take a stab at creating the maps when I have time, but thought I would ask for your thoughts first. Cheers. Echoedmyron (talk) 13:46, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:46, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

dyk nom
hi. thanks for the feedback. i have replied now. --Soman (talk) 06:18, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Julie Glass
The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Sun State Roller Derby League
Sun State Roller Derby League is up for deletion. Can you look for sources related to the article that might help with a WP:GNG issue? --LauraHale (talk) 10:50, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Ignore that. Found a half hour documentry about the league that aired on ABC. That should help with WP:GNG since they clearly aren't WP:ONEVENT like Kim Duthie. If you could help by doing a SPAG on that, or even possibly improving it enough to get it up to DYK, that would be awesome.--LauraHale (talk) 11:19, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Listed buildings in Sheffield S6
Nice work on Listed buildings in Sheffield S6, I've only just seen it. You missed the link to King Edward VII Orthopaedic Hospital, Sheffield so I've put it in. As a resident of S6 I'll hopefully make some of the red links "live" in the future. Mick Knapton (talk) 12:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Romsey Town Rollerbillies
I have asked that the Romsey Town Rollerbillies be restored at Deletion review/Log/2011 October 26 where I hope you will consider commenting. In the mean time, I have placed it in the WP:INCUBATOR and believe it is ready for return to main article space. However, I continue to add sources. Dualus (talk) 00:01, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, and for restoring the mention in the UKRDA template. I can not agree with your opinion that the original AfD was valid for the reasons I have stated clearly at DRV. As a victim of female-on-male domestic violence, I am very unhappy with the amount of glorification of violence which I have seen while perusing sources about the sport, and I doubt I will ever attend a bout. I note that the incubator WP:GRADUATION policy allows any editor who has not edited the article to return it to article space. Dualus (talk) 15:39, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Pirate City Rollers
Hi Warofdreams, I'll do my best to add to it if I can find some referenceable content. Thanks for the encouragement! NeonXenon (talk) 03:50, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ronnie Robinson (roller derby)
Thanks for supporting the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 12:04, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

World Cup pool drawings
If you didn't know - today at 5pm EST there will be a live airing of the pool assignments for the roller derby world cup on DNN. Ought to lead to some writeups on DNN and elsewhere, as the event format takes shape. If you're around, you can watch the drawings here: http://www.derbynewsnetwork.com/live/events/2011/11/world_cup_preliminary_pool_draw Echoedmyron (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem! I figured you might want to build a bracket chart! But seeing as that bracket won't get created until during the tournament, there's at least this grouping. I'm hearing that three teams are already considered "seeded" - I assume to ensure that they don't play each other in the knockout round - and while they haven't announced yet who they are, I imagine it will be the US, Canada and I guess England, but I could be wrong. It would make sense to have three teams get automatic byes - that leaves a group of ten, and then the ten will reduce to five, which then rejoin the other 3 to make eight, which then reduce to 4, and then to the final two.  But three byes out of 4 groups... Group A with four countries means they each are guaranteed three games plus the elimination round, whereas the other groups of 3 each will have two guaranteed bouts.  But overall it ensures a minimum of 3 or 4 bouts per country - I don't think you'd want to travel all this way for fewer than that. Echoedmyron (talk) 23:35, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * They stated during that draw that the USA, Canada and Germany were the seeds and that they were among those arriving in time for Thursday - I guessed this meant that the seeding was only for the purposes of ensuring they went into separate groups for this draw (and it worked well, as England are in the other group, and although Australia for some reason wasn't seeded above Germany, they've ended up in the same group). I'll take a look at incorporating this into the article tomorrow, if time permits. Warofdreams talk 23:39, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah - I wasn't able to watch at work (no sound on my computer here) so I missed that detail. I'm hoping at some point that we'll start to see more press from more "mainstream" media, so we don't have to keep citing DNN. Echoedmyron (talk) 00:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the assist!
Thanks for providing the review link for Roller Derby Team New Zealand. I lost it somehow. I've added a few more references and submitted it for review. Just hope it doesn't languish at the bottom of the review list for too long. (hint hint) :-) StumpyNZ (talk) 23:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I see you've published it now - thanks again! Now to figure out why I couldn't get my image to upload the first time. StumpyNZ (talk) 04:23, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

RecentChangesCamp 2012
Hi. :) RecentChangesCamp 2012 is going to happen in Canberra from 20-22 January 2012. :) As you've done a lot of excellent work in Australian sport roller derby, it would be really great to see you there. :) If you know any leagues, it would be awesome if you could invite them… especially if they have their own wikis on places like Wikia, PB Works, or their own wiki install somewhere. :)  Would love to get a few derby folks in person to discuss wiki work we're doing. :) --LauraHale (talk)


 * Huh. For some reason, I thought you were Australian. :)  My poor brain. :)  Any contacts that could point them at the event would be great.  Kiwis would also be awesome to see.  The university that hosts it is the University of Canberra, and I have ties to the National Institute of Sport.  So there will be other sport people there even if the current list looks small. :) --LauraHale (talk) 01:58, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Uffa - John Speed.JPG
This file is lacking source details for the scan or photograph (rather than the original), for example, if you took the scan or photograph yourself or if this image is lifted from a website or other source. This is required for it to be used in a Good Article I am currently reviewing. Thanks! Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 19:24, 30 December 2011 (UTC)