User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive120

North Vietnamese military leader
This article mentions a Nguyen Van Tai, a colonel in the North Vietnamese security service who led insurgent operations in the south during the conflict. According to the article, he recently published a memoir, but the article doesn't say whether it was in English or Vietnamese. I assume Vietnamese. Is there enough information out there to start an article on this guy or on any of the operations he was involved in? Cla68 (talk) 00:01, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I haven't heard of this guy, although I don't know much about the Vietnam War only SV from 1955-1965 basically, and mostly politics at that. I did find two hits on google books, one by Snepp, and another guy, so he is notable, whether there are enough decent sources to do anything decent, well ton That Dinh had dozens of hits on gbooks but most of them didn't amount to much as I already put everything in the top 90 hits in the article excluding repeat snippets etc.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 02:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Got it. Thanks. Cla68 (talk) 04:24, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Were you thuinking of writing about the VC?  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:51, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * If I do, probably nothing much more than starting stubs right now. My "to do" list is long enough to keep me busy for awhile. Cla68 (talk) 01:59, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

1 comment 1 complaint
You might wanna rmv the exact numbers from your comment, as it makes the deductive process rather straightforward. My complaint is that your talk page takes a longish while to load... time to archive, perhaps. :-) Ling.Nut (talk&mdash;WP:3IAR) 02:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Archived. Sure the WBFAN thins is fine. lol  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 02:13, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Userpage
Why don't you have one? Tschravic (talk) 07:52, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Pakistan
Under what pretext did you remove the semi-protection of the article Pakistan? Your actions have already resulted in the increase of vandals on that high-risk article. --→ Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 01:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You fail to answer my question and instead put a protection on my page without a request? --→ Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 00:43, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes to stop a banned user from editing. You know he is banned  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Ricky Ponting
I don't understand the reason for this edit that you made at Ricky Ponting. According to the instructions for Infobox cricketer biography, the "living" field should equal "true" if the cricketer is alive, as you can see at the template example. This allows for automatic calculation of age, avoiding the necessity to update the individual's age each year. --AussieLegend (talk) 01:25, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry that was a mistake  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:28, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I actually thought that you may not be aware of that feature in the template. Cheers. --AussieLegend (talk) 06:43, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fountain of Time/archive2
Since you participated in the discussion at WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Fountain of Time, you might want to comment at Featured article candidates/Fountain of Time/archive2.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Noted  YellowMonkey   ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Article Qamishli
Assyrian (Assyria) just relegins (Christian) it’s not nation

We know as a Arab people there are no nation called Assyrian it’s false name, we know there are few hundred Christians living in Qamishli ,and they came from Greece and Turkey as asylums and  Syrian government give hem full right in Syria ,and most of them they went to Europe and America, Canada .we never hearted about Assyrian in Qamishli ,maybe a few people left in Qamishli not more than 200 people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.84.9 (talk) 12:50, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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Unblock request of Internet Scholar
Hello YellowMonkey. , whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards,  Sandstein   16:54, 4 May 2009 (UTC) Comment: It's not quite clear whether this sockpuppet has been used abusively, as required for a block per WP:SOCK. Thanks,  Sandstein   16:54, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's appropriate to split his edits like that so that he can spread the reverts around and give an incomplete history of his editing on the same topic. I think it's pertinent if someone edits wars that people know that they have a history on a sister article, so to speak, which is the case here. The sock is one IDed on the userpage. CU confrimed and he confessed anyway.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 05:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Doug Ring in 1948
I think you meant to tell me that Ring is at PR, not FAC. We have a slight backlog there at the momemt, so don't be surprised if it's a few days before Doug gets picked up. I assure you he will be. Brianboulton (talk) 08:34, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * yep, thanks  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 03:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Silly Hilditch.... again
It wouldn't surprise me if Lee plays the first ashes test and gets smashed all round the place. Boony needs to speak up and get off he lazy ass for once, or at least another selector does. When Boony retired, he worked at a bank here in Launceston, Tasmania and he did jack all, just sat at the back eating lol! From what I've seen and heard he's a fairly laid back sorta bloke and wouldn't want to make a big drama. What I'm trying to say is, we need selectors that are prepared to stand up to Hildich and voice their opinions. Maybe they are currently doing so, but are being shut down. Reliable sources tell me both Boony and Cox have been unhappy with the selections of late, as word of mouth gets around quickly in Tassie.

It's disappointing that Gayle has only just arrived in London for the first test. As captain you would think he could do better. But I suppose he's West Indian! It's going to be very cold for them over in England considering it's only late spring.  Aaroncrick (Tassie Boy talk) 10:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I must admit I laughed when I read CobaltBlueTony's reply especially "calling someone a "silly hilditch" -- which, I have to confess, I have no idea what that means." I think "silly hilditch" might have a chance of catching on as a mild insult to describe someone (like Andrew H) who is confused, vacillitory, prone to random judgements and generally woolly headed. It certainly describes the Chairman of Selectors to a "T" -- Mattinbgn\talk 07:43, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey
First, congrats on finally restoring the userpage, or maybe recreating would be a better word. Shahrukh's team has lost it, hasn't it? I don't really understand how it works, I mean, how they conclude who the winners are. The team which has the most wins or what?


 * Two points for a win, 1 for draw/tie/no result. If equal on points they use net run rate. Top four go to semifinals. 1st v 4th, 2 v 3. Then they get in the final. Yes, I think Punjab are stuffed now that James Hopes has been ruled out.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! '') 01:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

What did you think about Main Hoon Na? Let me guess: silly, long, partly funny...? :) Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  08:10, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Funny a bit silly and over the top. Expecially Amrita Rao and Zayed Khan... oh well  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Hehehe LOL!!! Well said. That's exactly what I thought of it. Thanks for the explanation. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  10:33, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes I see
Hey! I see, nothing is consistent out there, so it's a bit frustrating. "a couple of wins over two hopeless teams" - which teams? Shahid •  Talk 2 me  07:31, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore. Bangalore is especially hopeless  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:46, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

1948 tour
I think I have O'Reilly's Cricket Conquest. Not very sure, will check and reply (it is at my parents' place on the other side of India). Tintin 11:13, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It might be in my library  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:46, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Books on the 1948 tour
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. TBH, I don't really know about any books on the 1948 tour that are much good. Farewell to cricket is a start I guess. Brightly fades the Don by Fingleton is another. After that, I am drawing a bit of a blank. Newspapers from the 50th anniversary in 1998 may have something (not sure what the 'tiser will have). Unlike modern days, it doesn't seem every man and his dog felt the need to publish a tour diary!

Very busy this week at work and at home, but work on Claggy will start again shortly. Great work as always on the IPL on your blog. Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 08:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks. Yes Mallett is pretty slack with accuracy, but a good raconteur and analyst. He says "Gauhati" instead Guwahati and got a few venues mixed up in his 69-70 tour of India in the Walters book.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately people only read teh article when I criticise KRR. Then all the Bengalis turn up!  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Satyashodak
Is it possible he is a sock of a banned user? Mitsube (talk) 07:20, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * No but he has another account  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team refs
I changed the reference system for the article because I saw the way it was handled before was disliked in the FA review. Perhaps you want to put that system into your other, similar articles to avoid the long strings of references. And also, your talk page nearly crashes my PC :( Best wishes Hekerui (talk) 15:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

CU
I don't know if I'm interpreting the samspade and geolocate result correctly. Does this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/69.148.16.137 look like the same person as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/209.30.128.209 Because it sure does to me. Dan (talk) 01:24, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

I should point out, that first IP address posting from Ekky's location is the one falsely calling himself "Will in China", as he confirms at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Thelema/Rabelais/talk&diff=next&oldid=282243475. And I've checked those user-location tools enough now to remove all my doubt. Dan (talk) 21:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

User:Truthbody also looks suspicious to me, though that one could definitely be a different person. Dan (talk) 17:24, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Vassyana has IDed WiC apparently, so Nishkid tells me. Very convenient for me.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 03:25, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

It's all good. 76.213.248.180 has done nothing much yet but looks mighty suspicious from a technical standpoint. Dan (talk) 05:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

1949 Wisden
I'll have a go, but I'm away from books for the next 48 hours. Will try when I get back (small chance I may return a bit earlier). Johnlp (talk) 07:10, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, unlikely to be back for any length of time until Tuesday next... RL gets in the way. Johnlp (talk) 22:34, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you still need this? Am kind of back in harness and can do if you need. But I have the impression you may have it sorted. Johnlp (talk) 20:11, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * yes please  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 03:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * In my contribs list are a couple of trial images to see if they're good enough resolution for you to use. It would probably be easier for me to email the others to you. If you send me an email (I have email enabled through WP) then I'll reply attaching as many as I can fit on across as many emails as it needs. I may not get around to this until the weekend (though my Saturday ticket for Lord's is looking very worthless!). Johnlp (talk) 20:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Very visible  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ping me an email, then, and I'll do the deed. Uploading them on here is fraught with danger, as the copyright vulturebots are already circling over the two I did upload. (Quite rightly too, I should add.) Johnlp (talk) 07:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Sure  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Request
Hello Mr YellowMonkey.

Would you mind adding (some) sentence(s) which regard to Vo Tanh into the article Gia Long? I don't know how to do it because the current article's paragraphs are too closed.--Amore Mio (talk) 05:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure I'll do it. Your articles will be on DYK soon, well done. I've just copyedited it and tweaked a few things so that long ndashes are used for number ranges instead of simple hyphens and the cites are all the same format. Also in English, "," is used for thousands, millions and billions rather than "."  YellowMonkey   ( cricket calendar poll! ) 05:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Are you planning to write more on teh Tay Son- Nguyen war?  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 05:24, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * First, thank for your help.
 * Yes, this is my dream but I should learn more before I were capable to make it true. I planned to write about the whole civil war, including Tay Son-Nguyen lords, Tay Son-Le&Trinh, foreign inventions...
 * FYI, about the scholars whose books I used:


 * Phan Khoang was the Head of Department of History, University of Literature of Saigon (Republic of Vietnam). He is well-known in western academic world.
 * Ta Chi Dai Truong is also a famous pre-1975 scholar. One of his book, Lịch sử nội chiến Việt Nam 1771-1802, brought him a lot of trouble but it was republished again in Vietnam in 2007. University of Michigan still holds one copy of this book
 * Huynh Minh is also a well-known pre-1975 history-reseacher. Some of his book became the references in this book.
 * --Amore Mio (talk) 14:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * thanks for the book. Do people get in trouble for reading his "reactionary" works?  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 03:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know much about it and my lecturers always evaded to answer or talked around when I asked them about it. But as far as I know, everyone are free to read, free to use it as reference or do anything they want as long as you don't drag the government's things into the topic. The censorship, particularly in history study, is existent but not as strict as it used to be (for example, new version of historical textbook stopped calling Gia Long "reactionary feudal ruler"). Moreover, I still could find some pre-1975 books in state-libraries and old-book stores. --Amore Mio (talk) 04:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I have just added them into the contest. Thank for your guide.--Amore Mio (talk) 09:25, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * All good  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, I have just changed all infoboxes.--Amore Mio (talk) 05:28, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I added some citations from book to the article Thich Quang Duc, feel free to revert if they are unnesesary.--Amore Mio (talk) 15:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * thanks, excellent  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your copy-editing. Without your help, the three articles couldn't be qualified for DYK.--Amore Mio (talk) 08:56, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank for your care. I just planned to break for a short time. I will be back soon after the exams are finished (in about 3-4 weeks).--Amore Mio (talk) 05:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Happy Vesak!
Blessings are coming your way too, my friend. Thanks so much for thinking of me and sending your fine photo.



John Hill (talk) 08:05, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Happy Vesak to you too! Mitsube (talk) 16:23, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie
I saw some of your loverly article writings and am wondering if you could help copyedit when User:JamieS93 doesn't since he goes back and forth, just make things run faster!

Thanx and please respond back on my talk page!

ATC. Talk 11:31, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Sino-Indian War
Hi I have looked at the article. It has a terrible Anti India bias. Neville Maxwell is a well known Indophobe and wrote his book in a highly biased fashion. Luckily TIME covered the events pretty well and in much more neutral fashion. you might want to look at these links if you are interested. User:Wikireader41/References. Thanx. Wikireader41 (talk) 00:23, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, not surprising from Xingdong  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, have you ever noticed that this Sino-Indian War is actually terribley anti China bias. Xingdong (talk) 02:57, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Mattisse
Sir, I have been in contact with Mattisse regarding the above arbitration. Mattisse has indicated that it may be necessary to present evidence regarding a previous matter in which you were able to identify several sock puppets who were hounding them. Mattisse indicates that they find the matter to be still at least somewhat grating to this day. I was wondering whether you would be willing to present some evidence regarding that matter should the case develop in such a way that such evidence is indicated. Thank you for your attention in this matter. John Carter (talk) 00:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, the arb Vassyana knows about it, I gave him a rundown on it a few weeks ago. He blocked more socks of sure I can answer any questions as desired.  YellowMonkey   ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Regarding reverting of my recent edits
You seem to be highly ignorant about Maratha history and I would like to advise you to concentrate on your Cricket and leave the History part on us. On what basis did you revert all my edits? I’m not biased and don’t have a non-neutral point of view, trust me on that. Can you kindly enlist the facts mentioned in the article by me, which you found inaccurate? I would like to know why didn’t you just write ridiculous personal POV instead of what has been written. Are you trying to suggest anything? It’s very unethical. With the language that you are using I will be compelled into complaining to Wikipedia if you continue with such talk.Kesangh (talk) 08:56, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Question
Hi there. Regarding this edit, is it normal to delist articles before their review is complete? There seems to be a discrepancy now because some of these article's talk pages (e.g. Talk:Ben Gurion International Airport) still proclaim that they are featured articles, but they are not listed on WP:FA. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh no, it's because the bot does the star-removing, talk page readjustments and colouring off of the FAR review. There is sometimes a lag of up to a day or two.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Xaghan
received a message from the above user claiming to be totally innocent. While that's not by any means a new excuse, he would like clarification about what led to the block, claiming to have stuck to one account and has done no wrongdoing. Just for your info. :) Thanks, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:03, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it is clearly a meatpuppet or throwaway sock from an internet forum. I think if you look at it's contribs you will agree.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

sockblock tag?
Could you add to User talk:Teckgeek, or add some notice there? It's confusing to people when there is no notice at all in the talk page.

Also, as an aside, he created a few of wikiprojects with a very narrow scope. Some of those got other participants, but other had no participants apart from himself. I suppose that they are not speedable? Should I send the lot to MfD or should I try to get participants for them?

--Enric Naval (talk) 09:38, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * WikiProject_Military_history/Pakistani_military_history_task_force
 * WikiProject_Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas
 * WikiProject_North-West_Frontier_Province
 * WikiProject Balochistan (Pakistan)
 * WikiProject_Punjab_(Pakistan)
 * I guess ask about the Pak military one, as he owns the whole joint. I've notified him. The others could be speediable as a creation of a banned user  YellowMonkey   ( cricket calendar poll! ) 01:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)