User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive180

Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign, 1968
Thank you for your comments at Featured article candidates/Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign, 1968/archive1. Most, if not all, of your criticisms have now been addressed in the article.--William S. Saturn (talk) 23:57, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
— AustralianRupert (talk) 23:50, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

block of User:Digerateur on hold
They've been (rightfully) blocked for two months for spamming, now requesting unblock and promising that they now understand our policy on external links. Was thinking of giving out some WP:ROPE, checking with you as blocking admin. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:46, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not a problem  YellowMonkey   ( new photo poll )  03:12, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for the reply. Beeblebrox (talk) 14:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
Hi there, Just wondering why you reverted my edits on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, If you wanted to revert edit for scroll bar, then u just could have removed small code from References section, I have filled the bare reference, there wasnt any need to revert all edits. I have tagged the article for cleanup-link rot.(please leave talkback on my talkpage).  KuwarOnline  Talk 06:28, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Photo polls?
Any idea when the next photo poll will be on this page? The last time I came for CU+enforcement help, I couldn't see any new polls here...so was just wondering. :) Ncmvocalist (talk) 06:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe tomorrow. The remaining bits have died out and I had a bunhc of NSW and SA cricketers that I had uploaded, but hadn't loaded yet  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  06:42, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

MILHIST A-Class Reviews
YM, three ACRs open at the same time? Generally we have an unwritten rule of one-two maximum due to the strain on the reviewers. While I will not ask you to withdraw one, please do not do this again. -MBK004 12:24, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Noted thanks  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Sock checks
,, and  all promoting a microfinance online mag and its founder. Can you check please? cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The last three, dfinite bingo. The first one might be, but you know with these noisy IPs there are no direct hits and there was only IP used because of inactivity/one session, but on behaviour, yeah. Where's my tip, lol  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 07:41, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll vote today/tomorrow for sure :) BTW, I'm off for a couple of months and come back to see caste based crap coming into languages too (see Maharashtra). cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh and appears to be Naadapriya, as does ; IP geolocates correctly, user has the same behavior. Any technical evidence? cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  08:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:31, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And please. He's IP socking (see a few IP socks on Talk:India), and is likely the sock of some indef'd user, all POV pushing pro-Hindu. cheers. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:22, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Coming in a few minutes. I'm Tony1's FA judge of the week lol. Need to make a pompous comment :P. Have you taken a look at . What a total POV pusher, especially his AFD  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  07:26, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't see what the user was up to, but I came across the AfD and article a couple of days back, and I couldn't really believe my eyes when I read some of the keep comments. I'm left wondering when Wikipedia will implode. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  07:32, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Just the IPs on the talk. No other accts. There was talk that Hkelkar relocated from TX back to India and 117.190s I think it was, but he has a very distinctive style of talking with lots of rhetorical flourishes in the manner of a lively/eccentric science professor giving a lecture and asking rhetorical questions, whereas this guy is very bland  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 08:18, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

WSC FA IB
Quick question on The Whistler Sliding Centre and its infobox. Would it be better to change this to a motorsports venue IB rather than a general sports venue? I can do this, given that the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track can be seen more from a speed prespective. Thoughts on this? Chris (talk) 20:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think so  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  08:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I made the adjustment from IB sports venue to IB motor sports venues per request. Chris (talk) 15:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Request
Hi YM, I wonder whether you are able to do the judging of FAs, tomorrow or Sunday. Please let me know soon, since I'm on vacation from tomorrow and need to have this decided. Tony  (talk)  01:37, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I've made my submission today. I hope this is ok. I don't think any more will be promoted and the other ones almost ready for promotion don't take my fancy as the ones I've already chosen  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  08:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Tony   (talk)  08:05, 13 August 2010 (UTC) PS Who's the dude who shows when you click to edit this page?  Tony   (talk)  08:07, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Kabir Toor and in his infobox too. The banner says " Mr Kabir Toor (pictured left) says "Please vote in the photo poll on this page. Many thanks"" unless it isn't rendering for you  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 08:18, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Tooltips and collapsible text
I asked for a clarification on an FAC-related issue here. That talk page is not frequented much by users, so I'm sending out some messages in the hope that one of you can shed some light on this. Prime Blue (talk) 16:49, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Reminder
Hello yellowmonkey and thanks for your review of FC Barcelona. I've tried to address your concern, so please see if it's better now. Thanks, Sandman888 (talk) Latest FAC 08:47, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Checked  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

IIT FAR
My apologies for not responding to your post about IIT Kharagpur (as a sister article to IIT) before this. I did read your message, and have just nominated it for FAR, as it has many of the same issues. Thanks for the heads-up, I didn't realize this was also a FA before you brought it to my attention. Dana boomer (talk) 16:12, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Not a problem. I thought going through related things together would be more efficient. Glad you agree  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Tooltips and collapsible text (2nd notice)
This here really is a pressing issue given the length of the discussion – and the virtual inability to continue without having this issue clarified. Those proposed solutions would directly affect FAC candidates if they are impossible to use, so you FAC delegates are propably the only ones who can answer this. Please help. Prime Blue (talk) 22:38, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll have a look at these and the other pings, but I don't have special powers, nor do I want them for MOS anyway  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive invitation
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor at 23:25, 17 August 2010 (UTC).

Urgent and very serious BLP problem at Margaret Ayers
Hi YM,

The Margaret Ayers the article refers to is a real person. The page was started by 52zz1314, and from the beginning contained all sorts of spurious claims about this real person. Some of the edits to the article appear to have been made in good faith, but the net result so far would appear to be a clear violation of BLP policies. I am unsure of where to go to from here, and your guidance would be very much appreciated, not just for my, but for the sake of the integrity of the WP project.

--Shirt58 (talk) 10:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC) : Update - I've edited the page to remove the spurious content. Would a BOLPN incident report be the next step?--Shirt58 (talk) 11:14, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's all been sorted out. I over-reacted. Shirt58 slaps himself .--Shirt58 (talk) 12:59, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LIII (July 2010)
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:10, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Ben Paschal/archive3
I replied to your comment there, fixed the first suggestion, but I'm not an Infobox person, I suck with templates in general so ask Wizardman if there is one. Secret account 02:41, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

I replied back, if I come up with a reason why he didn't play it would be original research on my part and I don't want that. The lead already explains that he didn't start because the Yankees already had three starting outfielders by the time Paschal came. The only thing I could add is some extra stats. Secret account 17:09, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I replied, I don't think it breaches OR  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  02:58, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I replied back I need someone with New York Times archives access in order to proceed as I don't want to use game logs, I added some stats btw. Secret account 16:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Mutterings
Passed Mick, if no-one does the last Harvey, I'll have a look at towards the end of the week. Not sure about next FAC, thinking Yorkshire captaincy one. Fancy a day or two off from FAC first though! I don't have your stamina :) Not convinced about Macca yet, I think it drags badly at the end so I might stick it up for PR and let BB tear it apart a bit first. I'm still staggering towards the end of Hutton, which I really should focus on for a bit. Should have Yardley ready soon, too. --Sarastro1 (talk) 09:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Paschal FAC
I understand where you coming from, but since google took over the sporting news archives website, I have nearly nothing in sourcing, and if I come up with an excuse on why he played or didn't play other than the obvious (see my example in the FAC) it's original research. I added statistics to the article, like how many games he played. But without better sourcing than game logs I can't expand. Sorry Reply back. Secret account 21:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Viet provinces
Excellent. Yes a translation about the main highways would be useful but it would be better to condense it down more than the Vietnamese version.  Dr.  Blofeld  09:43, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Hutton
Got everything in about Len now. Very, very long! Even for me! There's still bits I want to put in and there's at least 2 articles I want to fork off to shorten it. And it needs tidying up generally, but I'm having a couple of weeks off that one as it seems to have lasted forever. Hopefully, I'll come back to it a bit fresher and knock it up to GA standard. I might do something a bit shorter now. However, if you still want to upload that Hutton in 48 article, I think the main article might just be long enough to justify it now :) --Sarastro1 (talk) 07:05, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And for what it's worth, Lennie was terrified of Macca! But so was everyone else... --Sarastro1 (talk) 07:08, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You reworded a part of Yorkshire captaincy, I think to reduce the number of "amateur"s in it. I've made a slight change to it to try and make more of the deliberate preservation of Lord's being in charge. If you get a chance, could you have a look at it as I can't decide if I'm overplaying it or underplaying it. Or if it makes sense to anyone who doesn't know much about English cricket and the "Establishment". --Sarastro1 (talk) 09:48, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's fine  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Norman Yardley now as finished as it can be. --Sarastro1 (talk) 20:57, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * DoD (Dad of Doug, Shaun Marsh is called SoS Son osf Swampy (Geoff Marsh) for GA/FA? Oracle padding always works  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I doubt DoD will go as far as FA as there is not much else to say, but will probably do GA. Yardley might have more miles in him. --Sarastro1 (talk) 07:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for 1965 South Vietnamese coup
Courcelles 18:54, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for December 1964 South Vietnamese coup
The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Congrats!

 * Thanks, this ratification process has reached new speeds  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar! Hmm... I remember your old username. I think we saw each other around on Wikipedia back in 2006.  Davtra  (talk) 07:38, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 August 2010
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Donna Nguyen
This article on the supposed "royal" seems like a vanity page. A quick search on Google didn't show anything reliable mentioning her, and all the "references" in the page don't mention her directly. DHN (talk) 00:56, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * CSD isn't going to work on that, unless it's flagrantly stupid etc so AFD it'll have to be. I looked at those photos and unless they're faked, it seems she did pose with the Australian Idol finalist, Melissa George and the modelling show winners. Still being a millionaire's daughter and meeting famous people at a party doesn't mean anything, even if she is Bao Dai's chau co, as he had quite a few kids and the monarchy doesn't have any nominal standing anymore anyway apart the odd crown prince doing some political activism  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  01:10, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Blcoked some of the socks who were all editing the page too  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Tonelli
Has three supports, does this mean you can add another now? Your swimming articles were very enjoyable, well done.  Aaroncrick  TALK 01:38, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well I can now. I didn't think they were that exciting. I'm surpised how the swimming ones suddenly went fast, as they were even slower in 2008 when FA was quicker. You'd better help patrolling the roosters then.  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I found the swimmers more interesting that cricket articles tbh.  Aaroncrick  TALK 04:59, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey lol. Hardly any prose; should probably be quick-failed. Beats me how someone with 200+ GA would nom this.  Aaroncrick  TALK 12:21, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Most sport FAC/GANs are done by people who try and trick the reviewers and sell them a lemon at every opportunity  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  01:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Any other swimming articles on the radar? :)  Aaroncrick  TALK 03:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No, none are close, but they don't take very long generally as there are only two competitions a year. I thought about John Davies (swimmer) and David Theile but I might be stuck as they are notable for law/medicine too. There's a whole book on Boy Charlton and Frank Beaurepaire, although I guess I could farm a dead-end article if I was desperate. There's a photo poll running too :) and a devil off to the grave  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  04:01, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

How is that consensus on the roosters page? What the....  Aaroncrick  TALK 04:42, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Your edits were vandalism... loL!!  Aaroncrick  TALK 04:59, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * These guys want to *leave their mark* in the same way that Nate Myles did to the Sydney Roosters  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  05:11, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Replied on the Roosters talk page. Keep up the good faith guys. Shining examples you are.--Jeff79 (talk) 06:29, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Lol, just like how you described YM's edits as vandalism.  Aaroncrick  TALK 09:12, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Look at Tony's GA topic nom... the main article is just basically tables. Getting sick of the garbage being nomed for GA from experienced editiors.  Aaroncrick  TALK 23:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Email
You got email Secret account 15:07, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Also I need help finding someone with the New York Times archives, it's hard to find a person, I added some extra content btw. Secret account 16:43, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok. was the last guy I had. I wonder how many guys in Wikimedia New York have it. If they are in NY Public libraries they will have it  YellowMonkey   ( new photo poll )  03:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Relation Perhaps?
Any relation to SmallMonkey? Where is WikiResearch? (talk) 14:59, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No,  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  01:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

August contest
Hi, YM. I'm just going through the August Military history project contest entries list and noticed that you haven't included one of your A class articles in this months' contest. September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt was promoted from a B class article to an A class article in the August scoring period and would be eligible for 15 points if you were to list it on the contest page. Additionally, you have two other ACRs up and running at the moment, do you want to include them also? Of course, they wouldn't be eligible for points unless the ACRs are successfully closed within August, but if they don't they can just be removed and put into September's contest without affecting your average. Cheers, AustralianRupert (talk) 23:23, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
 * yes I'll get to it  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  01:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

"Chucker"
Great article BTW. It's impossible to ref, but I think Wardle may have had an axe to grind. He was kept out of the England side by Tony Lock, who most people believed chucked and several thought wasn't as good as Wardle anyway. He had only just displaced Lock in the side when he switched to wrist spin when he was sacked by Yorkshire and went into a rant in the press. It's not a great stretch to believe that he wasn't too happy at the thought of dubious actions in cricket. And Johnny didn't need much incentive to go off on one. But of couse, completely impossible to ref! --Sarastro1 (talk) 09:24, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Interesting. I'm not wised up much. Have you seen the quintessential Tyke Boycott. SGGH has been preparing it for a long time although BB knows a lot about it and found lots of problems  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  02:38, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Ray Harvey
Passed as Good Article. I've given some suggestions for development, but the concerns were minor and not enough to hold up the review. Well done.  SilkTork  *YES! 10:06, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll see to it  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  02:38, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank semi-spam
Thanks for your support in my RfA, which was closed as successful. I think that's the first RfA !vote I've ever seen that sounds like a campaign statement! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 15:13, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Dewan357
Hi, this is Dewan357. User:Abecedare gratefully gave me the Standard Offer and said that I will be unblocked in September. I am just checking in to let you know because September is a few days away. Thank you (74.102.103.191 (talk) 13:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC))

Paschal FAC
I finally got access to The New York Times, but it didn't give me much, I explained why he was playing in certain situations, look at my changes. As a non-baseballer can you do me a favor and copyedit the article for me. Thanks Secret account 15:09, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  01:29, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Your massive "drive-by" tagging
It has come to my attention that for the past few days you have been massively "drive-by tagging" various articles that have been previously posted on SA/OTD – without properly detailing your reasons on those pages' respective talk pages. Numerous anonymous users have been blocked for "disruptive tag bombing" in the past, and you have already been reverted at least once, which is too many IMO. Frankly, if you were one of those anonymous IP's, you might have been blocked already.

Instead, consider this option:

Since this is another sign of your endless determination to remove any lower-graded articles from the SA/OTD pages, and only post GA's and above, perhaps it is best that you take over for me the "thankless" job of daily maintaining the main page section. And I mean all 365 templates, and the February 29 one for leap years as well.

And then after you add all those GA's and above on all those pages, feel free to take over for me:
 * Answer the endless complaints about:
 * Why is [Event X], an event that is "more important and significant" than all the others that are currently listed, not posted?
 * Why are there too many recent events on here?
 * Why are there too many [Topic X] events on here?


 * Or respond to other admins who make IAR edits, re-adding poorly-written articles just like the other day, or removing articles solely because they are "notable enough for the Main Page" regardless if it was a B-Class or higher.

It will help me out. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 20:38, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well your comments that any sub-GA has been tagged is nonsense, as only articles with larged unsourced chunks or very short have been tagged. And nothing I have done is contrary to the alleged policy of SA of giving priority to article quality, unless unsourced articles with BLP content are better than sourced ones. Personally those articles don't need a tag, as it's so obvious how bad they are, but since I've been told that some GA+ were excluded in favour of unsourced and other heavily problematic articles because they weren't tagged as such, I've complied per your request, and per the alleged policy and aim of SA to go for better options and actually use articles that aren't unsourced.  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  01:29, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Borodino
Lord knows that I am not God's gift to editing however your tag on the page left no comment whatsoever, so either add some comment to the talk page or feel free to edit the section that you find needs correcting, or remove the tag. This is useless and you are wasting both my time and yours. I don't like tag bombing but at least take the 2 seconds needed to outline what your objections are.Tirronan (talk) 05:19, 26 August 2010 (UTC)