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Comment on Nobel Prize FA
Hello! Thank you for your comment on the Nobel Prize FA. I responded to your comment and would be very glad if you could take a look. Thank you, Esuzu  ( talk  •  contribs ) 18:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  06:13, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

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Roy Kilner GAN passed
Thanks for your help in the Roy Kilner GAN. I thought you'd like to know that I passed GA for the article. –Grondemar 16:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  04:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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Another sock
Of Dr.Mukesh111:. Does exactly the same edits on Playback singer. Shahid •  Talk 2 me  20:41, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * And . Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  14:20, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Already blocked, but yes. too  YellowMonkey   ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:57, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

wording of news items
There is only so much you can say, in so few words, but I queried yours here cygnis insignis 05:30, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * what about "after winning a power struggle for the leadership of.."?
 * The problem seems to mentioning an election, which became a formality, so I suppose that is a more accurate headline. cygnis insignis 06:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I already tweaked it  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 06:12, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Re Quip
I know I know, sorry if that seemed like an overly pedantic response, but here on Wikipedia people will start to debate the politics given bait like that and I just didn't want to see that start. Also I think I was actually offended by the unflattering reference to her nose, which yes makes me a trifle thin-skinned (I'm probably overly defensive about women in public positions having their physical flaws pointed out), but that's what made me remove it. Donama (talk) 06:14, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Political correctness gone too far...  Aaroncrick  TALK 06:18, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. I didn't see the very steep nose as a fault, just something unusual  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 03:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Jessica Tovey
Can you please semi-protect? I'm sick of reverting edits saying that she is still an actress with Home and Away.  Aaroncrick  TALK 23:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. Pity about the Socceroos. I don't think Australians can play the slow game like Italy and Boycott. We should have just attacked.  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I know, I was very dissapointed. Look how much better we looked in the second-half this morning! I'm not too sure about the coach's tactics either; however, I don't know too much about soccer. Even in the first-half we were rather defensive; what did we have to lose?  Aaroncrick  TALK 02:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, almost every team likes to probe in the first half or until they get a goal, even the superpowers do that. Still, a pity about Germany and 10 men against Ghana, as Serbiam and Ghana were rather out of form in the last month or so. Germany haven't looked too good and Australia didn't start having a crack until Ghana. We were really poor in the friendlies, should have lost to NZ with 9 men but obviously our luck came in the matches that didn't count, and the Denmark and US games were also very incoherent. Then, despite the raw numbers, the qualifying campaign was poor considering the likes of UAE, Qatar and Uzbekistan, in many of those matches we were outplayed and got a goal against the run of play instead just trying to bite them, as we had better resources than them. Still I liked Verbeek's honesty in rubbishing the A-League; some of the players exploit the fact that only SBS understand football. The most obvious example was the 1-1 draw with Holland; the players went on SBS and admitted they played incoherently, and then went to the clueless Channel 7/9/10 guys, including a female journo who was not a regular sports journalist and said that it was a great result based on the fact that they managed a draw with a superpower.  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  02:28, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Pity about South Africa, too. The A-league is rubbish; I see it looks like Tasmania will get a team by 2012/13. Lol; who's going to be the next coach?—another Dutchman?  Aaroncrick  TALK 02:34, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I think Australia will qualify again regardless. Asia/NZ have 5 spots between them, which is more than South America, because FIFA want China etc to get in to get more money from 3 billion Asians. NZ are fluking it and apart from S Korea/Japan/Australia the rest of Asia is really poor, eg when Saudi and Iran got in and were bashed. The South American teams are all doing well, and with Europe a good team will not qualify if they are out of form eg Croatia, Sweden, Russia, Poland etc (in 2002 Netherlands were beaten out in their group by Portugal and Ireland), but with Asia, there is no way S Korea, Japan or Australia will get beaten by the likes of UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Uzbekistan even if they play badly, as Australia showed. Plus the last Central American always gets bashed as well, Costa Rica, T+T or Honduras. And the rankings are rubbish, eg when Australia got to 16.  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  02:49, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Stackpole/Wiener
Rob Steen's article does not cite any reference for the "sledging" claim, so I'd prefer it if there was another source found as well. Also, the incident is hardly likely to have taken place in a match versus England! Stackpole and Wiener both played for Victoria and Australia [although in different time periods]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RossRSmith (talk • contribs) 09:36, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Harvey family
Hello again, for your edits to Harvey family, this one adds a ref named "or" without the source info, and this one adds one named "omi" also without source. Could you revisit and add them? Thanks. - Salamurai (talk) 03:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Blocking a user
Hi YellowMonkey,

User:HaydowP has been creating vandalism (e.g. unsourced material, etc.)

He's gotten many warnings for photo uploads and he/she is not respond their talk page.

It's been over a year and recently uploaded a picture of 's article.

He didn't source it right because he didn't add the "purpose of use".

Can you block him/her by look at his talk page, many copyright photos have not been uploaded appropriately.

Thanx!

ATC. Talk 15:46, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Let me see  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Well spotted!
Yes, I'm surprised the length wasn't an issue. Obviously, it was all so interesting, no one noticed! :) Dougie gets away with it again. Thanks for the Tiger stuff as well, will be able to use some of that. --Sarastro1 (talk) 22:17, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Tet offensive
I've posted some questions at: Tet Offensive Talk

Please answer them. Thank you TnCom (talk) 23:43, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Could you take a look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Arjun024&diff=368886990&oldid=368853889 Thanks. --RegentsPark (talk) 10:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Also this IP 117.194.197.61. There is a suggestion that he is a sock of banned user HKelkar.--RegentsPark (talk) 21:53, 19 June 2010 (UTC)


 * There's an AN/I thread about these editors. Fences  &amp;  Windows  00:05, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, well two of the new accounts are socks. Hkelkar was in TX while 117 is in Austin but the demeanour and sense of humour/rhetorical style is a bit suspicious  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. BTW Austin is in TX. --RegentsPark (talk) 15:17, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * India!  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  00:57, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

FA nom reply
Thanks for the feedback. I made the adjustment and replied to you at Featured article candidates/Sigi Schmid/archive1.Cptnono (talk) 02:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Makes complete sense. Added a few lines.Cptnono (talk) 08:41, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems like Karanacs closed it about 36 hours later while I was away after your response  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  00:32, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah I just saw that. Would you let me know if you have any other thoughts on it? I would like to try again when appropriate. And I appreciate the criticism. It is especially helpful from someone who has already worked on getting sports related content higher in the assessment scale.Cptnono (talk) 04:22, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:06, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

oversight request
YM, another editor showed me a fairly clear case of wp:OUTING that needs oversight. It's old (from 2006) and involves an editor who is not currently active on wikipedia. See this link. I've dropped this request in your lap because I (and the other editor involved) are currently in a fairly hefty dispute (now at ArbCom) involving the editor who did the outing, and I thought it best if an independent administrator dealt with the issue. From other experiences I've had with you, you seemed like a good choice. Much as I would personally like to use this tidbit as a club to bop that editor on the head with - - I'm mostly interested in seeing the outing removed. thanks! -- Ludwigs 2 16:29, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


 * he, if you don't want to do this, say so - I'll drop it in someone else's todo list. -- Ludwigs 2  17:50, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Giving this a bump. it needs to be handled by someone, IMO, so I need a response from you whether you are going to address it.  if you are, fine; if you're not, I can ask someone else.  If you think it doesn't need to be handled, then let me know that so I can forget about it.  thanks.  -- Ludwigs 2  14:29, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Hutton
I'm having a big push on Hutton over the next few days as it's not even close to finished and I seem to have been tinkering with it for ages. If you've any stuff about Australia targeting him in '48, or anything else you had for your article on him in 48, I'd be grateful. (I've got a copy of Brightly fades the Don, BTW) Length is no object as the whole thing will need serious pruning once it's finished anyway. Then I'm probably going back to some bodyline people. Blackjack is doing Herbert Sutcliffe at the moment and using the same stuff I would have done, so it may be someone like Larwood, or possibly Bowes or Verity if I feel a little less controverial. If I do push the Bodyline stuff, the main problem will be the England team, as Australia seems fairly well covered in the main. Players like the Nawab of Pataudi, Mitchell, Brown and Paynter will be the main problems I would imagine. And I'll get round to the Woodfull-Warner one at some point too!--Sarastro1 (talk) 21:03, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've got some Arlott and Tiger; their books on 1948. I'm incorporating it into the Test articles, which were heavy on Fingo, so there are more opinions. I should upload the Hutton in 1948 now that the main one is fat. Are you going to do Yardley or any post WWII Yorkshiremen?
 * I can have a go at Yardley, but it won't be amazing! Not much on him really, just bits and pieces. Will do Appleyard sometime as well, as I have enough on him to write something decent. There are one or two others that might be OK, like Wardle or Illingworth, but no-one really in mind. I tend to prefer 20s and 30s myself. These might be some way down the road, though! --Sarastro1 (talk) 01:24, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I see that Tig'ers comments on Hutton were useful :)  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:29, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No, just tinkering with Jardine a little bit. I was looking for the verb + ing and thought I could tidy up a few other bits too. --Sarastro1 (talk) 09:58, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Tiger very useful! I've unashamedly stolen bits from your articles on the first two Tests. Couldn't quite use Tiger for the dropping as I think I need the full context of what he wrote. If you could send a photo of the relevant bits from the book at some point, I'd be grateful, but no great rush. I've got plenty on that and the last two Tests already. I'm just interested in his view. The Hutton article just keeps getting bigger! On Yardley, I've had a look what I've got and it's a bit more than I thought. I might start tinkering with it as it would be nice to have a short, simple article on the go! --Sarastro1 (talk) 22:33, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Emailing  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  04:35, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Swamilive Socks
Per this indef blocked and banned User:Swamilive has come back with a sock, User:Scottish Coke. There have been others, not sure on the names, just know it was mentioned. Could you do a rangeblock and shut Swamilive down? -  NeutralHomer •  Talk  • 06:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Just lighting this up as it was covered by another post. -  NeutralHomer •  Talk  • 07:46, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

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