User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive150

India v SL
Following this? Ahmedabad's probably got the worst curator in India, and that's saying a lot. Reading through the commentary, looks like Dravid's getting back some of his 2002/03 magic. And Tendulkar got another nightwatchman for four overs. The Jayawardanes were played good, not against the best attack though. - Spaceman  Spiff  23:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * A little, although India's bowlers do get demoralised more easily than Australia's and probably a few other countries. Still, pretty slack batting for India to allow themselves to be in this position, although the Indian commentators do tend to get rather carried away with India's attack each time they put in a good performance. To get a team to win 50+ of matches you need at least two bowlers who average <= 25 regularly. Still, at least wickets came more often for both sides than at GA/FA  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 23:45, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * GA seems to have quite a few drive by noms too, Kannada literature in the Kingdom of Mysore which I'm reviewing is one, nominator hasn't contributed and isn't available to answer questions; Foreign relations of India is another. Wastes everyone's time, and reviewers (like me) don't want to take up more than one at a time, so it clogs the system too. - Spaceman  Spiff  04:31, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * We can go sweeping to amuse ourselves. There are a lot of dubious current GAs. (and FAs for FAR)  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 07:19, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Bit like Les Burdett's pitches at the Adelaide Oval. If the BBCI want to keep interest in Tests, why would they have such a pitch? Maybe they wanted to see SRT score runs? Mishra even has his highest Test score.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 04:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Another Gambhir century. I wonder how the famous batsmen of the 1930s, Ponsford, Bradman, Hutton and Hammond would enjoy themselves on these pitches  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 07:19, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * In the morning session I did not see a SL fielder stop the ball on the boundary with their hand. They either left it (no joke, sometimes they didn't even bother to chase - some have even decided they're injured) or stopped it with their foot. Murali isn't even getting much turn - amazing for a 5th day pitch. Herath was just bowling balls that went straight through.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 07:25, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Very boring end. Sangakarra wanted to finish the match but Tendulkar refused as he was on 86. SL then bowled very wide outside off and packed the off-side - even bowling a couple of wides in protest. Then Herath bowled outside leg. Tendulkar had to walk across and balls a metre wide of off.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 10:56, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Horrible game and Tendulkar's not doing much good with his antics. Asking for a night watchman on this pitch! He's always wanted to play for milestones, so I guess this game was as good as any to complete a century instead of going off the field. On a different note, Burdett tends to be consistent, while at Ahmedabad, the last game was a pretty vile green top (at least by Indian standards), this game it's a dead pitch - Spaceman  Spiff  14:41, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Well Adelaide is never as slow as these ultra claycourts they have here or in 2006 in Ind/Pak in Faisalabad and Lahore. In one of those matches the batsman decided to reverse sweep, and had enough time to change his mind and get back on his feet. I wonder why people don't criticise SRT more for his very obvious interest in achieving personal milestones, even moreso than Steve Waugh and it's about as obvious as Ganguly's fake injuries on a green pitch. In one ODI in 2001, Australia needed one run to win with lots of time left, but Mark Waugh needed four runs, and he was hitting balls into teh outfielding and not running, until he could get a hit for four! It would have been funny if the bowler deliberately bowled a big wide  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 22:09, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * For all Ponting's faults I couldn't imagine him doing this. You could tell the Lankans wern't happy with Tendulkar (even some of the commentators), if it was say Ponting or an Australian they would have been ridiculed, nothing will be said because it's Tendulkar.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 22:15, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, if the BCCI condone this they should hopefully schedule more Tests if they are worried that Ponting will catch up on SRT's Test runs and centuries. At least the records in Tests are worth more than ODIs, since SRT already has an unassailable lead there anyway  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 22:22, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Juding by the very undetailed description on cricinfo ball by ball, there were totally bored as well  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 22:23, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This is why I like Dravid the most of the big three. Least milestone driven of them, although a touch too sensitive. Just remembering the ruckus SRT caused at Multan when Dravid declared (quite sensibly, if I might add) when he was wasting time on 194.- Spaceman  Spiff  22:28, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * In 1994/95 Hick was on 98, played a maiden, and Athers declared on him. Lol! Hayden was right in saying that Tendulkar and some others played slow once they got to 90, although when his career was on the line at The Oval he scored 100 from about 250 when Australia needed to win in 2005. Sehwag the best! lol. Plus Tendulkar gets pampered too much by everyone saying all this stuff that he gets better and better when it is clear as day that he is nothing like the player in 1996-99 who would just maul good length balls on off stump by driving anything off the back foot eg he took about 25 runs off two MCGrath overs in the Adelaid Test in 1999 (then got sawn off by the umpire, or the mauling of Warne in 1998). All the players have increased their averages about 30% in the last 10 years and Tendulkar hasn't. And taking away the centuries he's bashed against Bangladesh in 2004/07 his record in the last 7 years is just like any other normal world-leading batsman. When Ian Thorpe stopped breaking world records and only won in a normal way, everyone started criticising him for losing his hunger, except in SRT's case everyone says he is better than ever even with more batting benefits. If a swimmer didn't speed up 2% with the new suits they would be ridiculed. This is ridiculous.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 22:36, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ponting's average has dropped from 60 in 06/07 Ashes to 55.88. Murali has averaged about 32 (bar Bangladesh) with the ball since the begining of 2007. Article  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 22:52, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It is a bit crazy, I remember Manjrekar said something like SRT is no longer the same player or something and ended up apologizing a couple of days later. But most of the Indian players over the past three decades have played for personal milestones. Gavaskar is the classic example. Exceptions were pretty few -- Srikkanth, Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag among the more successful ones, and Dhoni looks like he's it, but perhaps not enough to go by. - Spaceman  Spiff  04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

AFL articles
Would you mind blocking ? Don't need a repeat of the Brian incident.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 03:08, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Eavesdropped. Blocked for 31h. Could you just stand for an RFA already ? Abecedare (talk) 03:27, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I was hoping the editor would become bored or communicate, but obviously not. Edits appear to be straight copies from Footy Wire articles.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 03:37, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

By78 = V.Chowla ?!`
Wouldn't have guessed that. The former seems to be a pro-China POV pusher on Sino-Indian articles, (usually battling User:Vedant and User:GSMR), while Chowla appeared to be a pro-India POV pusher on an overlapping set of articles. Anyway, glad I don't have to deal with this disruption, i.e., till the next avatar pops up. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 01:55, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It was a productive thing reading your talk. Chowla seems to have attracted Nangparbat so the pages can be id'ed and locked too  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 02:23, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Alt
I may be incorrect but I've seen others at FAC say that alt text shouldn't specify in proper nouns.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 22:00, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No, you're right  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 22:09, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Socking from banned user
I've been able to handle Naadapriya's accounts on my own for about a year (blocked here, and later banned by the community ). However, he has returned under a number of IPs again and his disruption is getting out of hand (eg;, , , ). Could you please handle them? Ncmvocalist (talk) 11:44, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Blocked two ranges  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 08:45, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Cheers, muchly. Ncmvocalist (talk) 15:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, he's found another . Cheers, Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:06, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Done  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 16:32, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Ton That Dinh
We've been over this before, but I can't remember how to alphabetized these names at WP:FA, and the hatnote only leaves me more confused :) Could you please let me know (and if you think of it, give me a reminder on future noms)?  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 19:12, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Vietnamese names just go in order from left to right: Ton, That, Dinh  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 21:17, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to remember that :) I think I've made a mess of all of them at WP:FA, including the categories.  Could you review all of the Vietnamese warfare/history articles at FA to get them in the right place?  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 21:35, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * all rectified wrt ordering  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 20:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Essendon Football Club honours
What else do you think needs fixing?  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 21:46, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Dunno, seems to be only a select range of honours. Do they have a a hall of fame? Most matches as captain or most matches? Most finals? most premierships by a player?  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 08:45, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

List title
I created List of centuries in women's Test cricket. Not too happy with the title, and wondering what would be a better title to take this to FLC (I'll be done with the lead tomorrow). I can think of the following: Which one would you (and Aaron) suggest? cheers. - Spaceman  Spiff  01:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * List of women's Test cricket centuries
 * List of century scores in women's Test cricket
 * The incumbent or the first alt is ok.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 04:46, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Seem to have started a WP Cric FL spree with Ponting. Good work on women's cricket. Not too bothered, Alt 1 possibly?  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 05:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, will keep at current title for now, and move to Alt 1 if there's any strong opinion; I'll redirect alt 1. - Spaceman  Spiff  05:39, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

From WikiProject Military history

 * Thanks  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 20:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Republic of Ireland vs France (2010 FIFA World Cup Play-Off)
If this gets deleted like it looked like it would at the start, it might prove a problem for articles on a specific cricket match.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 05:06, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is very representative because people are very worked up and voting on what they think of Henry, rather than whether the general game is notable enough as is. Personally, people taking advantage of referees is very normal in all ball sports. As for the feedback sections on Australian websites, typical of pro-rugby or AFL people to pretend that rule-breaking behind the umpire's back only happens in soccer. Lol.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 20:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * But AFL is better than soccer. Soccer is better than Rugby however :)
 * Trimed.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 20:03, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It'll be fine.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 20:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I've come to the conclusion that Ponting in 2005, 06/07 and 2009 Ashes series are notable for articles, along with World Cup and the Indian 08 series. Hopefully people don't start creating Mitchell Johnson with the Australian Cricket Team ... blah blah as that's no notable at all. Still doubt we could get Ponting's article below 130k by the time his career is finished but we'll have ago. If we shorten it too much it will just be a bunch of stats, which will be very dry and boring.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 03:38, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Those will be fine. I mean, they all have 4+ Tests, and Ponting normally does well and if he doesn't he'll get pilloried so lots of info either way. Luckily in the old days all the tours were 5 Tests + at least 5 FC, even on the dreaded tours of hte subcontinent they tried to avoid.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 03:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * At least on the England ones there are ODI's.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 03:54, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Mishra and Ishant dropped for Sree and Ojha. Interesting  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 04:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Very interesting. Wonder how Sreesanth will go? I thought that international grounds had to have boundary boards beyond the rope? Fair chunks (15%?)of the University Ground is without a board. Past the rope it roles onto the grass banks or concrete in front of a small stand. How it has become a Test venue has me beat. Capacity of 6,000, lot smaller than North Sydney Oval even!  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 04:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Boundar boards? From what I recall they played ODIs at the school ovals of St Peter's College, Adelaide and Prince Alfred College and there is no fence there, I wouldn't be surprised if they just put cones there without a rope.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 07:26, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ojha might do well, Mishra seems to be an easy target for the Lankans. Sehwag dropped in the first over and then a maiden to him! - Spaceman  Spiff  04:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Not on pay tv this time. Would be better to watch than NZL and Pak in front of about 1000-2000.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 04:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * But the Pak NZ have wrapped up for the day. Do they show Pak/NZ reruns instead of this. Fox can be annoying like that. I heard they sometimes don't put Ind/pak on. Ridiculous, but they usually give preference to games involving at least one Anglo-Saxon team for whatever reason. Viru hasn't woken up yet.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 05:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Not watching either, just following on cricinfo, 80 bucks for the Test+ODI package and 70 for ODI only. If they had a Test only package for 20, I'd have been watching. At least now, the strike rates of Viru and Gambhir are close enough. Huge gap a while ago. - Spaceman  Spiff  05:22, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 141 runs in 19 overs. T20 in ballet mode... geeee.... YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 07:08, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Fox usually only show matches in South Africa, England and New Zealand. They showed the India V South Africa two Test series in 2004, but that's about it other than Australian series. Silly! Must be anther flat wicket.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 07:31, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Sehwag drilled one straight to cover. Good catch - not a bad crowd in.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 07:43, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thus ends the run of 150+ centuries. Gambhir made 4 in a row. Really should have made it about 7 by now expect a few soft dismissals after passing 50. Average moving towards 60 ....  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 08:19, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks to be a high scorer, my money's on an SL follow on after a huge Indian innings, with Ojha and Bhajji coming good. Wonder if Dravid might get a double. - Spaceman  Spiff  18:55, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Well if India make 750 and Sri Lanka 500, it might not be a food idea to follow on after 120-150 overs in the field...Still, Foreign relations of India is so bad, so I speedied it. Undue weight on random countries, unsourced, etc  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 00:12, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like the pitch will start aiding spin later today, so an Indian score of 650 odd is what I was looking at, and about 350-400 for SL, so might not be a bad follow-on option. Green Park wickets wear out at random, so hard to say. I was going to quick fail the Foreign relations article but saw that someone else had assigned themselves as the reviewer. I would have done work on Kannada literature in the Kingdom of Mysore but there are some points that RegentsPark and Fowler brought up on the FA that have to be addressed, I don't have the books and not at my local libraries, so I can't do much.- Spaceman  Spiff  00:38, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Binned Hazara people as well. Unfortunately the backlog is mainly on pop music and films which I don't know about. Having said that I don't think karma works on GAC/FAC reviewing  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 00:40, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The only way he could've got out today, a bleeding run out. Likely to be a good test for Yuvraj today, three spinners! - Spaceman  Spiff  05:44, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Haha, Murali is getting smashed. Really don't like him, probably because he's a better bowler than Warnie :( Mendis has been worked out.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 08:38, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like I got the India score right. Maybe I should've bet on the game! - Spaceman  Spiff  17:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Was the collapse becuase of pitch deterioration or the tailenders not having a good time?  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 23:36, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, the pitch appears to have deteriorated, but I don't think the Indian tail not wagging has anything to do with it. Should help Ojha and Harbhajan today. - Spaceman  Spiff  03:34, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, a missed catch. Sreesanth can be good when he gets it right  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 04:49, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Ah, the Bill Lawry effect. The rotund monkey opens his trap and a wicket falls. Someone did a newspaper article saying that on the Channel Nine commentators, Lawry was 30% more likely to make a wicket fall, per unit time.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 04:52, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Could've been 4 if Dhoni reacted quick enough. Looks like the decision to pick Sreesanth paid off, though it's always a roll of dice with him. I didn't know about the Lawry effect, he normally doesn't do the Indian channel rounds and that's what gets picked in the US. I just hope I don't have to read commentary that says DMPD Jayawardene takes a single and HAPW Jayawardene gets on strike! - Spaceman  Spiff  04:57, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Lawry's a classic for corny cliches, but he's turned into a classic a la Murray Walker with his infectious style adn enthusiasm. The Asian cliche machine commentators are very annoying.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 07:57, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Heads up
Today's featured article/November 27, 2009. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:19, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'd known and should probably check it for more junk.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 02:28, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Re Grenouille vert's contribs, I think I got them all. I'm turning in for tonight, but if there are any others, I'll be happy to run the scripts on them when I can. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:56, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 04:49, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Abidreh
This user, who was blocked by VirtualSteve over the summer (well, winter for you) is requesting a third chance. Since he had made some ethnic attacks on you, Steve suggested I run it by you. Any thoughts? Daniel Case (talk) 14:24, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't worry about being trash talked. Only the state of the article counts.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 23:36, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * So are you OK with an unblock or not? Daniel Case (talk) 04:54, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It's fine, although a reblock is also likely  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 04:57, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If it happens, he doesn't get out again. Daniel Case (talk) 05:09, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Four Award

 * congrats! Ealdgyth - Talk 16:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Ealdgyth. I must say I am too lazy to nominate myself  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) (Invincibles Featured topic drive:one left) 23:36, 25 November 2009 (UTC)