User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive52

DYK Aluminaut
I got your message. I will review the article ASAP and let you know when I have improved the references as best I can. Portions of my work on it came from the existing WP articles on Alvin (DSV-2) and Reynolds Metals Company, and they weren't well-referenced, so this will be a bit more challenging than it might at first appear, but other article improvements may be the result, so I reckon it is all good. Thanks. Mark, Vaoverland 14:43, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

With assistance from User:No1lakersfan (another member of WikiProject Virgina with whom I collaborate online), the references have been added. While we haven't found an image of Aluminaut which we can use in WP, we also located and added a US Govt image of the recovered Hydrogen bomb. I hope this will now be a good candidate for DYK, as it is an interesting piece of history. Please let me know if you see more with it that needs to be done. Thanks. Mark Vaoverland 01:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is good and will be on display soon. Thanks for your hard work.Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 02:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the headsup on improving the article and inspiring me (and my collab friend). If you get a chnace, could you drop me an email address at mine? I have 2 brief items of interest. Please flag the subject line ALUMINAUT to get my attention. Thanks, Mark Vaoverland 04:48, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK Pappu Kalani
Thanks for your comment on WP:BLP re: the Pappu Kalani article. I went through it and found the following murders are mentioned:


 * 1) Blitz editor Narayan. References 5 moved from prev sentence, another ref (existing) linked. #Rajwani murder attempt: Already had a ref
 * 2) Dudhichand Kalani murder: Already had ref
 * 3) Reprisal killings - 22 murders in 1990 - already had ref
 * 4) Bhateja brother murders: Already had 2 refs on 2 sentences
 * 5) Maruti Jadhav / Anna Shetty murders: Had 1 ref, added another for inditement
 * 6) Rajwani murder: Ref was on following sentence linking Kalani to the murder, now put on both sentences.

Other contentious material, such as charges of intimidation have also been referenced. The JJ Hospital shootout has also been referenced.

The article is quite dense with references (17 references for a 14K article), and I think it fully meets the BLP guidelines. Thanks for your comment, I think the article is stronger after this re-visit. mukerjee (talk) 16:05, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thankyou for your hard work Mukerjee, the article is certainly very interesting and now that every thing is in order, it is enjoying its rightful moment in the sun. Thanks for your persistence. Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 02:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your good wishes. - P.K.Niyogi 02:19, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK is fun!
I'd offer to help with a bit more than just adding even more to the already long list of suggestions, but things are a bit too hectic here. Perhaps once classes are done I'll be able to, but in the meantime, it makes for a perfectly good quick break when I need one. And besides, trivia's always fun!

If you get really desperate for a hand, though, let me know and I'll see if I can scrape together some time. -Bbik 03:19, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello
How you doing? --Dweller 11:38, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Good. I sent you an email. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 09:05, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks. Delighted you're back. Are you waiting for hard disk failure, or are you going to share the wealth!?! --Dweller 09:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, due to DYK restrictions, I will release them one at a day, otherwise there would be some kind of diplomatic incident about alleged Anglophiles, and in particular one alleged Anglophile trying to launch trans-Atlantic cultural attacks. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Its been a whole year...
...since vandals, trolls and POV pushers met their arch-nemesis. Kudos to one of Wikipedia's finest administrators on his admin-anniversary. From the guy who made it all happen ;) Cheers --Srikeit 03:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Wow! I though you have been admin for a much longer time. You have been superb in your first year as admin. Keep it up! GizzaChat  &#169; 04:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Congratulations for being a one-year old admin! It's the time of year your rougeness matured... but please don't block me! Cheerio, Tangotango (talk) 05:02, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * A great year. You should be proud of all of your accomplishments here. -- Samir 06:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * =/ You're old (or, at least, you've been here way longer than I).  XD  Happy one year of adminship and merry unbirthday.  ShadowHalo 10:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow! Congratulations on a great and exceptional year. All the best,  An as  talk? 13:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! Its been a remarkable wiki year for you! &mdash; Lost (talk) 14:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Congratulations from me too. D. Recorder 06:29, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Disappointed
In the article State terrorism in Sri Lanka, you edit patterns which is contrary to the talk page tag which says that it is a controversial subject so please achieve consensus before making major changes is very disappointing. I can understand a tom, dick or harry indulge in such edit patterns but an admin should set the example for others to follow wikipedia rules and expectations. For example your personal opinion that Tamilnet is a blog is totally not acceptable to other wikipedians as well as reputable sources such as BBC, CNN and a number of research papers that is totally in disagreement with your personal opinion.. For example in an AFD this is what another wikipedian said about such comments. Comment: Yes. While recognizing that the Sri Lankan-Tamil civil war is a longstanding and viciously contested dispute, I decline to take notice of pissing matches between the various factions as to which source is supposedly discredited by its alleged adherence to one side or another. Fox TV is commonly presumed to be a biased mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues, but I don't think you'd get very far claiming it doesn't qualify as a reliable source on that count. RGTraynor 17:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC) Just think about the above comment. Infact I am ready to follow wiki process of taking this difference of opinion step by step all the way to arbitration to stop this vicious cycle of edits and counter edits with snide remarks. What ever the wiki community thinks will be final. Thanks Taprobanus 13:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I am strongly of the belief that Tamilnet, a random tripod website etc, do not count as RS. Google videos etc are not RS. I didn't remove anything from proper third party reputable sources. And Green Left Weekly is not an international activist group, it is a fringe Australian leftist newspaper. And it says allegations....then it shouldn't be categorised as fact. And things can't be presented as fact when they are claimed by a partisan organisation. I am confident that my edits are in line with WP:RS. Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 02:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I will stick with Tamilnet, I am willing to take it to mediation and all the way to arbitration are you ready? I also have to apologize because I am using you as a guinea pig to resolve this vexing issue. I was waiting for some one to remove it (as no one has dared to do it before) so that I can initiate the wiki process to resolve this conflict. So you like it or not I am going drag you all the way till we resolve it. I am OK with ANY decision, what I am not OK is with a vicious edit wars of reverting and counter reverting. Thanks for your help in this matter Taprobanus 14:09, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I am ready for a debate yes. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/TingMing/Proposed decision
Hi, sorry to bother you, but it would be great if you would take some time to review the /Evidence and Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/TingMing/Proposed decision. Some of us, including me, have responded to your reasons for objection with more details and explanations. Thanks,  Vic  226說 06:32, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, I've been a bit busy but I will look. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Elim Bible Institute's AfD
You closed this AfD with a delete result, but it is quite obvious to me that there is no consensus. Not counting the obvious single-purpose account, it was 3:3 keep to delete, and, at least in my opinion, the keep camp gave fair rationale. How is it that articles like this are kept, but this article was not? Two print sources were given, and the school is not a diploma mill, as you asserted in the closing comment (it's been around since 1924...hardly a diploma mill by modern standards). It would seem that most theological institutions are not accredited.

If this discussion does not yield the results I seek, I will probably put the article up for DRV. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 08:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The four references given were all from the school's website and not RS. Am I missing something? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

LTTE-Sinhalese stuff
Hi Fayssal. I know that protection isn't an endorsement of the content, but I must say I am a bit depressed that stuff sourced from random blogs, tripod websites, google videos and partisan sources will be on display for seven days....As for discussing, I did put explanations in the edit summaries, and certainly am not a single topic editor (Tamil or Sinhalese) wrt this dispute. Thanks, Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 03:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Blnguyen and happy birthday. I really dislike protecting when edit warring occurs but would people discuss while articles are free to be edited? I doubt that. I invite all parties to join discussions even at the AN/I (due to the nature of the conflict) in order to get more feedback. This issue of LTTE-Sinhalese has to be sorted out and i'll be commenting at the AN/I as well. Cheers. -- FayssalF  - Wiki me up®  16:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I usually put a comment in the edit summary and then take it to the talk page from there, and I would have done so. But I will comment where necessary. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

RE:Protecting Falun Gong
Jesus Christ! I protect one article and get 3 people yelling at me on my talk page. Just so you know, it was a request on RPP that lead me to protect the article. I'm sorry if I've disrupted something or something. -Royalguard11 (Talk·Review Me!) 23:10, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No, it's not a big deal, just a philosophical thing about allowing a banned user to shut down a few articles. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Not a new article and not a former stub but expanded 5-fold
Would this qualify for DYK? TIA, --Irpen 06:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, and replied on your userpage. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks-DYK
Thanks for the thanks and for putting the Heurtley House on DYK (if it was indeed you), very important piece of architecture that people should know about, which is why I nominated it even though it was a bit short. And thanks for your many contributions too. : ) IvoShandor 07:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again
Thanks for the barnstar, it's nice to be recognized sometimes. :) IvoShandor 08:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

GA review
Kalyan 13:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Good work. Very readable article. Tintin 15:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I relooked at the article and made a few more additional comments. Once resolved, i think the article is a good GA material. Kalyan 09:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. It is a rather intresting bio, with all his idiosyncracies. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Tamilnet
Hi, I don't know if you've already seen this. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. Tamilnet can be considered an RS. Thanks. Lotlil 01:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * No, this has not been proven. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

RfC
Just wanted to let you know that I opened an RfC on myself in response to the concerns raised during my RfA over my actions in the Gary Weiss dispute. The RfC is located here and I welcome any comments or questions you may have. CLA 12:21, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Noted. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks!!! Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 03:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Well cool!
Thanks for the update on Chief Yellow Horse, I feel special!! :-) // Tecmobowl 03:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

WP:AC activity
I hate to bother you with this, but do you have any further information on Flcelloguy's move to inactive, including how long he'll be away, before I move him and recalculate the majority in the cases? Thanks, Newyorkbrad 04:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no clue where he is or what he is up to because I have not seen him on the email list at all for about a month now. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

FLC
hi., can you please provide your vote and feedback on the current FLC of Indian national cricket captains as well as move it to FLC in case it receives your Support vote. Thanks. Kalyan 13:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, I will look. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

SMG
Haven't done a proper read or fact-check, but have some general cribs. Shall I post them here ? Tintin 06:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Why not? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Mainly, the amount of statistics and scores should be cut down and more substance added. Score-based articles may be okay for lesser cricketers but for Gavaskar I guess there should be enough documentation around (one autob and two autobiographical works plus more than three biographies on him ). Re. the missing things, take for instance the occasions when he lost the captaincy :


 * Despite this, he was stripped of the captaincy when India toured England in 1979 for a four Test tour. 

The general view of this is that SMG and Kirmani (who was replaced by Bharat Reddy ) were sacked from the captaincy and the team respectively because they were talking with Packer. I think SMG has denied it, not very sure. (Also seem to remember (not sure again) that the official reason was that Venkatraghavan was selected as the captain because he had experience in cricket in England and in one day cricket, but no one gives any credence to it).


 * Having secured the series 2-0, Gavaskar was stripped of the captaincy for the drawn Sixth Test.

What happened here was that, there was a WI tour planned in March 1980. Since there had been too much cricket that season, SMG wanted it to be postponed by two weeks. BCCI refused. So SMG refused to tour and since Viswanath was expected to be the captain, he stood down for the last two matches of the season to give him practice. In the end, WICB was not interested in a Gavaskar-less team and the tour was scrapped.


 * the series ended 1-2, and with a poor display of 140 runs at 17.5, Gavaskar was again axed as captain. 

SMG captained India to a win in the WCC in Australia and then retired on his own (he had announced his intention to retire before the WCC began).

More context should be provided around the events. Mihir Bose should be useful for a lot of this. Tintin 06:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that I was wondering about the politics and such and why these gaps happened. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:56, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

User_talk:Blnguyen/Cricket organising
Crossposted from above page ''Gosh! What an ambitious list! Given the ones that you have "done" to date, I very much look forward to the rest. Hopefully the WP:CRIC crowd can polish a few up to FA standards.

''I hope your hard drive is backed up... -- ALoan (Talk) 14:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Well my old hard drive crashed in March....but I also have the stuff on another computer as well....But Fingleton and Woodfull are already GAs and have a solid basis. I think some of the others would do as well in due time. But Image:Blnguyen disb topic.jpg shows a cricket addiction problem and that was the data before I came back! But hopefully we can get some FAs yet. Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 05:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Flight feathers
Delayed response, wish I knew stuff about animals :( -- Samir 06:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi
Hi! Saw the Image:IndiaFA.JPG. Moreover two FAs are in FARC. The whole scenario is poor. Are you guys preparing the newsletter?--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It is indeed quite unfortunate that we may have negative FA growth this month if those two articles are taken down. At the moment I am not preparing the newsletter but Gizza said on Lost's page that he was willing to do so. To be honest, I am wondering whether I should resign from the WP:INDIA project given the recent events. I should probably do an activity level investigation to see how many people have stopped writing in the past two months due to some infighting. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Happy Blnguyen's Day!

 * Do you mind if I partake of a share from the banana bucket? Good job, and good luck to the studying ape of yours!  bibliomaniac 1  5  An age old question... 03:34, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Happy Blnguyen´s day from me too! ♠  Tom   @  s   Bat   22:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Barn star
This barn star from you is a special one. The orange-white-green stripes made my heart leap with joy. Thanks and nice to hear from you. I saw some baloons, its never too belated, happy birthday from a co-Geminian.Dineshkannambadi 02:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I noticed on the WP:India page, participant number 100 is Vishu123, a banned sock of Sarvabhaum. Should we all that to remain or remove it?Dineshkannambadi 02:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't really think it's necessary. It's not like it is a vote/discussion or something. But it doesn't really matter either way.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Ha ha
Thanks for the bananas. Believe me, I live on bananas most of the time when I get too lazy to cook :) Anyway, here's a bunch of Mysore rasa baaLe haNNu for the Aussie monkey :) Sarvagnya 02:41, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you Bl. Nice to hear from you. Hope things are fine with you.
 * Very interesting to see that, today is Blnguyen's Day! :) Wish you a very happy Blnguyen's Day. - KNM Talk 03:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I probably don't have the time to write the next newsletter. I had originally only wanted to write a couple of section but I'm too buy for even that now. You can pass this along to Lost. Happy Blnguyen's Day btw. I don't see another Blnguyen's day in the near future. :) GizzaChat  &#169; 07:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Umm? :)
From your post to my talk page: An entry from Piotrus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? :) An entry form my userpage? I think there is a tiny mistake there somewhere :) Btw, many thanks for your work with DYK updates and information to nominators/creators! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

DYK and Guto Puw
Thanks for commenting on my suggested tag for the article - in light of your thoughts, I have created a stub for Stereo Type (Puw), a redirect from Stereo Type and added a entry to Stereotype. Oh, and re-wikilinked the tag accordingly! Hope this helps the article's chances in the busy world of DYK. Yours, Bencherlite 22:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

re, constantly removing my links
In my defence, none of the links i have posted have been inapropriate!! My link on 'Sun Wukong' pointed to my NON COMMERCIAL, NON PROFIT MAKING AND HOPEFULLY INFORMATIVE site which has a page/pages/references to Sun Wukong, likewise for Zhu Bajie, likewise for Sha Wujing, and so on.. Besides which, my links ARE NOT misleading - i clearly state the name of my site and what can be found on the other end of the link, giving the person reading the page a choice of whether to click on it or not. I can't make them follow the link, but if they do it's because they wanted to, and if they wanted to why shouldn't it be there? Why would you want to limit their options Mr Admin' dude? What happened to free speech/movement/information?? May i suggest, if you don't want links on the 'Tripitaka' (or any other page) pointing to 'Tripitaka not what YOU deem apropriate' pages, you be more specific with the page titles.

ThankYOU. custurd

I wouldn't class 'my' website as personal, for i am not really Monkey! I figure, as ALL linked websites are created by someone, they're all personal anyway, so strictly speaking - there should be NO links allowed? I would class mine as a fansite, i don't see anything in 'the guide of contradictions' about not allowing fansites. But seriously, it matters not what i think, i'm at your mercy, at the end of the day.

Custurd 20:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I am of the opinion that it does not conform to WP:EL. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Charles Macartney, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 23:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

POV review
Hello User Blnguyen,

I am contacting you as I had requested a pov review of the Indo greek article (map in particular) but the administration has not responded. User phg deleted that status while I was away, but I reinstated it. So far four other users have complained about the accuracy of this article (windy city dude, vastu, pavanapuram, and mahitgar). Just to bring you upto speed

1. user vastu negotiated a settlement with user phg. user phg violated it after vastu left. 2. user sponsianus provided two maps (1 that even he admitted was inaccurate, and they other in contrast to the author's other maps and stated views). 3. users phg and sponsianus refused to negotiate in spite of repeated entreaties[] 4. current indo greek article is 75% or more based on colonial scholar W.W. Tarn. 5. both indian and european scholars (modern) have remarked on the high degree of uncertainty surrounding the indo greeks 6. accurate oxford map was rejected by users phg and sponsianus on specious grounds

Please assist in commencing the administration review. Thank you.

Best Regards,

Devanampriya 00:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Can you tell me which map is which? and link to this discussion. I am a bit perplexed by the large volume. And also the article is an FA, which means that it is supposed to be good. Did you ask the other people who reviewed this article and those who follow Indian history if there is anything to be done? I guess if you think it is seriously POV, you could ask for the FA status to be reivewed. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Blnguyen, I have a problem concerning plagiarism. I wrote the Rajendrasinhji Jadeja page referring to a number of online sources, including the Bharat Rakshak website, which at that time had a very small entry regarding this person. That website has since been "updated" based upon the Wikipedia page, (read especially the 3rd paragraph of this, but also the rest of it), and I am flattered, except that the page claims copyright on its contents!! Someone could easily claim that I committed copyvio and start deleting content or even nominate for deletion, which would be very unfair. What do you think I could do about this? In the past, I have myself nominated pages like Piru Singh and Jadu Nath Singh for being copy-paste from this very website (genuine copyvio cases, repeatedly recreated by the Rajput troll) and now I seem set to face the same accusation! ImpuMozhi 01:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh I am not very good with these copyright things. As you see in User:Blnguyen/Times of India, they plagiarised my stuff but this is obvious, since by checking the timestamps on the article, they were all written before Sept 2006 when the ToI made them in preparation for the DLF series. However in this case, it says at the top of BR that it was last updated on April 25. I guess it shows that you are in the right, but once they update it again, the Jadeja page will no longer be "new" and you won't know when it was created. But WP:FORKS is a place where you could find beter people on this issue who cane oganise copyright issues for you. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Being a long standing member on BR, I can only say that BR, being a non-commercial entity, enforces its copyrights only to ensure that due credit is given. There is/are no restriction(s) on using BR material as long as you cite the actual source.

Harvey family
Nice work. &mdash;Moondyne 14:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Cricket stuff from your hard drive
What's happening? Lost track of it. --Dweller 14:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Blnguyen/Cricket organising for all the action. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:13, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

thich
Usually they do have sections of "in popular culture" on pages of people. However I dont think they mention Thich by name Baka man  00:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but it's not a good practice for a proper article, like trivia sections. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:13, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks !
I had almost forgot what it was like to get a barnstar :) The delays are because of because of lack of time but I will get to all of them eventually. Tintin 01:33, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * That's what you get for writing...........no barnstars. A disproportionately low amount of my barnstars are for editing compared to the time I actually spend writing. Although I am sure you know that anyway. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:13, 7 June 2007 (UTC)