User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive106

re: Dispute
Hi YellowMonkey. I have partially replied to your query here, but I'll add some occurences of our disputes here. Talk:Francis Hassett/References is the example I was referring to when he was adding OR medals and references that violated WP:VER, and it ended up quite heated. Another (Talk:Neville Howse) where I disputed the entitlement to a medal, he disputed it (angrily) and it ended up that I was right (after another heated debate). Another calling me wrong about a person not being entitled to a certain medal when it turned out I was right there also. These are only a few examples I can think of, and I'm not here to say that "it's all his fault, here's the proof", just give you some examples that we have had a few arguments in the past. I know that in a few instances (Hassett's for example) I have not behaved well, but I'm just sick of it all and having a lot of my edits questioned. The main reason, also, that I was ticked off over the VC see also thing was that it was like I had just told a child who was doing the wrong thing (I'm not calling Anotherclown a child, of course, just the comparision works here) that he was in fact doing wrong, and then Pdf coming along and saying to the child keep doing it. Abraham, B.S. (talk) 05:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey
For sure, I will have a look through! Not sure if Notorious is out yet in Australia, but if you are bored, go and see it; it'll explain my not-so-subtle nickname for you. Hope things are well dude -- Samir 05:12, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No, I see it is rated R, which seems a bit strong for my generally serene nature. And I don't like rap culture at all, that's the other thing.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

You
I still feel immensely beholden to you for tracking down the sock puppets that had been after me for seven months (Starwood arbitration, to refresh your memory). I would do more in copy editing your articles if cricket were not so over my head. I know you are a wonderful wikiperson. And, I want to thank you again for what you did for me, though I'm sure that was not your motivation. I think it was you, who made the sardonic remarks in relation to one of the sockpuppets who had claimed  to be a waitress in Dublin, but was now suddenly in a car traveling to Austin, Texas, sharing a laptop with another sockpuppet, as an explanation for the overlapping edits. Thank you again. Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 05:23, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * They've been coming back periodically too.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you spotted the posts by User:Dan and User:Coldmachine here- my eyes now can't find them for some reason lol. Anyway, Dan meant Special:Contributions/86.69.135.61, I think he missed the 1 off the end.  I'm not sure about User:Will in China, he edits on some Satanism articles where you don't usually see Ek, he also has used TOR.  I think he's not altogether new though. :) Sticky Parkin 18:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

GeorgeNotBungle
I suspect is a sock of. Please check. -- KnowledgeHegemony talk 18:45, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Different countries, not the same user. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:21, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * blocked them for disruption anyway.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: GAN
Oops, I forgot to reply to you to thank you for pointing out the problem which you saw in the articles. :) I am not really fussed if they pass GAN or not, but I figured if they're already close to that level they may as well get the right rating. And if they're not, then, meh, I did my best on them. - Mark 04:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * They should do, and the only thing that will happen is that the reviewer might ask for some little tweaks.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Military career of Keith Miller
Hello, have you noticed that the Australian War Memorial's online collection database has about a dozen good quality PD photos of Keith Miller playing with the RAAF team in 1945? Nick-D (talk) 07:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, I guess we have the all clear for PD now don't we?  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

random
You should probably try to get Buddhist crisis a featured topic. Nergaal (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Gee that might take a while. If so, I'm not going to edit those articles on the US officials as they were secondary players, mostly.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * For potentially long topics it is a good idea to post a query at Wikipedia talk:Featured topic questions so you know ahead of time pretty much what would you need to include in a topic. Nergaal (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

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Re: Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
Thank you for the clarification. :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  23:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think my informal check showed about 260 footnotes including repeats for 14 k of prose. I think that might be some record.... YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoa, that is indeed a lot! As far as I know, only one article has an amount higher than that. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  23:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I just wonder if there is not some workaround that could show all of the links in the one note for each occurance of the vast list of notes. It would not make the notes section much smaller but have the article text a little more reasonable (i.e. something like:

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except expanded for up to 10 to 15 links in the one note). The notes section would be messy, but better the notes section look a litle untidy as opposed to looong lists of citations trailing text in the article itself. Just a thought, and I have no idea if it would work in a practical sense. Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 00:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar
Not to take anything away from modern batsmen, but imagine how much Sir Don would have averaged if he feasted on teams like Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, West Indies and New Zealand on flat pitches and with much improved protection! Also many of the grounds are a lot smaller and roped in even more. Aaroncrick (talk) 06:11, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * There is hope! Haha  Aaroncrick  ( Tassie Talk ) 07:45, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Tour Down Under
Were you there yesterday? I snapped them all!  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 01:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Well done! When you have them loaded up, please send me the link. Which location(s) were you at?
 * No, I wasn't there - I was busy being domestic, clearing gutters and putting in fireproof metal gutter-guard. (The plastic stuff is much easier to work with, but not very useful in a fire - it makes me wonder about plastic rainwater tanks ... )
 * BTW: 2009 Tour Down Under only mentions 20-25 Jan - perhaps you may wish to add a "pre-event" section?
 * Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 01:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * At Rymill Park. They got all the teams to line up on stage and that made it relatively easy although the blazing sun and the sunshade made an odd effect where their faces were relatively dark and their torsos and jerseys were glary so that was quite annoying. The race proper starts tomorrow. This was like the prologue and didn't count for anything. I take it you like in the hills where there is a fire danger? Take care for you and your family. I can't say I was in much danger yesterday, except the middle-aged man standing next to me in the second row wanted more than 30 cm radius of room (which nobody had, I had a news cameraman perching his stuff on my head at one point) and he kept on sticking out his elbows and jabbing me in the ribs trying to be get rid of me and mumbling his displeasure.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 02:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Replied on my page. Pdfpdf (talk) 02:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even think of going - I should have. :) I'll need to remember to try and attend big events too, and grab what photos I can. But yours look great. :) - Bilby (talk) 07:03, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * By-the-way: How/when did you wrap up the previous poll, what was/were the result(s), and how did you / are you going to use the results? Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 08:54, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I switched the photos to the majority verdict where there was a result and not an inconclusive one, IIRC, or maybe I forgot to.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

pics
Hey, I noticed your invitation to vote on some talkpage somewhere and decided to crash. Wonder how it feels to have a perpetual orange bar at the top of your pages. Do you have any pics of the better sex? Voting on dudes is less titillating, and I come to WP to get titillated :-) -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 04:31, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, on my 2008 Australian Olympic poll back in October,  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I concur that the Olympic poll was considerably more titillating. (Not withstanding this young lady.)
 * YellowMonkey: Do you have any more pictures of her? Pdfpdf (talk) 00:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Ron Halcombe
I'll get to reviewing it tomorrow. I signed up for several at the same time, which was probably dumb since it slowed me down. since the article's not too lengthy it shouldn't take too much time (the other one I'm reviewing is 100kb+). Wizardman 05:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks again!  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948/GA1
Comments and observations made. Another great article - though I have concerns about focus.  SilkTork  *YES! 19:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Barnes

 * I've replied for Barnes as well.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 03:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Passed.  SilkTork  *YES! 19:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Keith Miller with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
I've passed this article for GA. Congrats! I left a few suggestions for improvement if you plan to bring it to FAC, on the review page. Ealdgyth - Talk 04:32, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Islamic Inventions
Hello. Sorry, saw your entry on my talk page just now. Do not know about any other articles such as these two, but I have seen that user now for over a year copying and pasting badly researched and consistently one-sided material in all kinds of articles. He has over 40,000 edits, so you know...I think his consistent misquotation and overinterpretation of sources has brought POV to a new level in Wikipedia, because people tend to believe in assertions more if thez are backed up by a footnote. They are less prone to assume that the information is taken out of context or subtly modified to suit fix preconceptions. Thats why it has been so hard to come this new method. It needs hundreds of footnotes to be checked and most third party observers do not have the time, nor the interest to completely rewrite articles which were written wrongly from the scratch. A case in point is Talk:Inventions of the Islamic Golden Age. The net result is that, while many believe the article to be POV and have tried to improve it, many dubious assertions are still there and spread their message.

PS: Just checked again Timeline of historic inventions. It is hard to find a single uncontested invention there. Too many lists just lack information to the contrary. Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 12:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes I know. The only feasible way of stopping "devotee" POV is to have some guy tagging them all day, and the number of "devotees" of anything far outweighs the number of any would-be obssessive opponent.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 23:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Exactly my thoughts - and my experience. It is very difficult to come by this mass production of NPOV articles and entries. I feel this begins to affect Wikipedia. A more rigorous application of deleting policy may have a deterring effect. I find it frustating when people vote for keep, but then nothing ever happens in improving these articles, what needs a HUGE amount of time and patience. Better delete and give somebody other a new chance to do it better from the outset. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 16:33, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi YellowMonkey, I picked up on this discussion through the two related afds. I'm currently looking into one particular source used in one of the islamic science afd articles, and over 100 other articles, which seems to follow this same trend of non-neutral/revisionist history of invention: "Rocket Technology in Turkish history". I've posted it on the sources discussion board (Reliable_sources/Noticeboard) and wonder how to approach cleaning up an unreliable source that has been used in so many articles. Dialectric (talk) 15:34, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note, I'll have a look.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Spinnaker Gybe
Good idea. I would have been harsher, but I'd been following what he was doing for a while now; if he made some excuse I was going to get harsher. But, fortunately, that's all dealt with now. Back to being productive! Skinny87 (talk) 07:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * thanks for blocking him. I will definitely know to be more "hardline" in the future. Cam (Chat) 23:20, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S. - America did "lose" the Vietnam War, that sounds like a weird dispute already ;)

"Soapboxing account"
I was wondering what you meant by this in your block of User:Spinnaker gybe. I am not familiar with that as a valid blocking reason and I am unclear as to how this user was being disruptive. I am not going to unblock without consulting with you, but my current feeling is that this user should be unblocked. Please let me know. Andre (talk) 01:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed a few other examples of this block reason in your recent contribution history. It seems that in several instances you have blocked users who have only ever edited talk pages. How this is disruptive I fail to understand, and certainly an indefinite block with no warnings is a gross abuse of admin powers and an example of newbie biting. Andre (talk) 01:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Cross posted to Administrators' noticeboard. Andre (talk) 01:50, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You can see the comments right above on this page and also my posts to   and WT:MHCOORD following a request for people to look at the WWI article.  YellowMonkey   ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Just because some others seem to agree with you doesn't mean that you don't have to cite an appropriate part of the blocking policy. I don't think seeming to know too much about past and policy is a fair reason to block someone indefinitely. "I think you should be more cynical with some folks" -- this is the very opposite of AGF. Andre (talk) 06:23, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Err, that's does pass AGF, which doesn't extend to ten days of ranting.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 03:26, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Since when is ranting or extensive discussion a block reason? Andre (talk) 19:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * WP:DE  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

IP vandal 202.37.68.x
Thanks for range-blocking this character. Nick-D (talk) 09:43, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 03:26, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The idiot is back and editing from 118.92.x addresses. Would it be possible to implement a similar anon-only block for 118.92.x for a week or so to send a message, or is this too broad? The 118.92.x addresses they've used are:
 * (today)
 * (18 January)
 * (December)
 * (3 November)
 * (17 September)
 * (13 September)
 * (29 August)
 * (22 August)
 * (2 July - admitted posting incorrect info at: )
 * There are also some 118.93 addresses, but these are much less frequent. Nick-D (talk) 06:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I blocked the 118.92.131.0/24 but the others are too spread out and there are a lot of people on that range, including many proper editors.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Kingdom of Mysore
Sir, I just want you to be aware that lots of tags are being thrown around by PManderson and Fowler, and edits are being proposed by Fowler without prior discussion, after loosing their case at FAR. If this continues, please do lock up the article to help these users come to the discussion board. Some of the discussions on theri talk pages, after the FAR closed, seemed to be inclined toward their taking an aggressive stand and making edits without discussions.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 16:41, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: ownership of article Sindhi people
Hey, you had stopped by this article after a Rfc I posted. I'm dealing with at least one stubborn editor who is not only jealously guarding the article against edits by non-Sindhis (her words), refuses to respond to requests for discussion. I don't want to move arbitration just yet, but I can't find any precedent for a situation where one party refuses to talk. Any help would be appreciated.

Gamesmaster G-9 (talk) 01:53, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you ask at WT:INB to get more input for yourself? The reverts are very large and seem hard to follow.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 01:24, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi YellowMonkey, I can see you have protected the Sindhi People page, but why have you saved it with Gamesmaster9's last edit. His edits make no sense and he does not site any references, alot of his edits need citation, my edits provided references and was well sourced I hope you can revert

-Skatergirl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.22.198 (talk) 13:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Alright YellowMonkey, give me one chance and I will and I will present evidence and gather consensus to support my view. -Skatergirl —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skatergal (talk • contribs) 18:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, you haven't been discussing. In GMG's last revert, he split it up and explained his viewpoint one by one.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:21, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Cricket edits
Are there any articles you recommend i do some editing to?  Aaroncrick  ( Tassie Talk ) 12:06, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Invincibles Advert has quite a few. Some of the articles still have big holes in them. Hassett, Loxton and the main article in my opinion. I guess that's the main one because we are doing OK on the progress. Maybe we should rally the troops for another push. Also I went to the nets on Sunday. Got some photos. Should be uploading them soon.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 02:09, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Can't wait to see the photos, and thanks for the edits on York Park. Many (Most!) of the photos on cricket players have been taken by you! Sorry couldn't haven't been able to reply on your talk page, because the internet here has gone slow and your talk page won't fully load. =)  Aaroncrick  ( Tassie Talk ) 08:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh, too many cycling photos.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 03:26, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Loads after about 30 seconds! ;) Will be fine at the start of next month when we get more internet usage (Slow as dial up now).  Aaroncrick   ( Tassie Talk ) 04:08, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the my mistakes on Ricky Ponting. ;) The heat is obviously getting to me, lol. I've never really edited a cricket article, only local tassie stuff because there isn't much action on articles down here. I gathered I might do some editing on Ricky because he's not exactly your favorite player. Although he is mine along with Tendulkar, but hey I do come from good old Launnie!  Aaroncrick  ( Tassie Talk ) 10:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * He's a great player, but true I find him a bit annoying sometimes.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:21, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikinews
One of your pictures appears in an (as yet unpublished) Wikinews article: Wikinews Shorts: January 26 Sprinter Allan Davis wins the Tour Down Under --InfantGorilla (talk) 13:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for that. You might have noticed the stack of photos that I took that are listed right on my talk page and on commons that I took at the start of the TDU. They might be of some use to you. I don't know if you write WNews articles but South Africa beat Australia in their ODI series yesterday and that was on Australia Day. I went to the training session on Jan 25 and took some photos to upload.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't normally leave talkback messages, but since you are new to Wikinews and I love your gallery so much: I replied at n:User talk:InfantGorilla. --InfantGorilla (talk) 11:00, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, uploaded.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 03:26, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Great! I picked Hashim Amla as he scored 80. However the article has reached a road block before publication (see n:Talk:Australia celebrates Australia Day 2009). I am busy in real life, but anyone can help. --InfantGorilla (talk) 08:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that seems to be fixed now.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Mike Young
Cheers for the photo, I didn't have a free one of him. When did you get it?  JRA _ Westy Qld2  Talk 08:41, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I went to Adelaide Oval and took a pile of photos of Australia and South Africa. They're on my commons account, all of them.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Lock on Sindhi people
Thanks for that. Maybe now we can have a civilised a discussion. Gamesmaster G-9 (talk) 05:44, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK help?
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cricket --Dweller (talk) 17:10, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Replied.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 00:21, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

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