User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive60

2007 Malaysian Grand Prix
Hi, I was wondering if you could re-review 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix for us on the FAC page as the article is getting very little comments at the moment. Thanks Davnel03 12:55, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Noted thankyou,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

FA's
I know that some of my own FA's have barely passed, but I wish dearly that there was a new category of editor (writer, perhaps?) who had extensive knowledge / qualifications and could veto poor FA's. It's a democracy of fools over there! Michael talk 07:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well Sandy and Tony are the tough ones but they only seem to check the MOS and prose. You can pass heaps of things with black holes. Even with the Ahmedabad one heaps of the Indian FA writers (some with multiple and 10+ FAs) let the unsourced bits through anyway. As far as the content goes, it's possible to pass almost anything....(or lack thereof). Adam Gilchrist was passing rather handsomely until I stepped in and insisted that a few black holes be rectified.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 08:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, and he doesn't care about your comments even though they're valid (thanking you because you're so kind), so nothing will get changed. It's easy to be polite when your deck of cards means you'll win the game, eh? Michael talk 07:19, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Group swarming is a serious problem; any group, of any kind of type, can simply amass people to throw support votes in. This is especially dangerous when it comes to users who all contributed to it or its associated Wikiproject. It's interesting that the Indian editors let something defective through, as I'm usually very impressed with what they've done around here... the 'brothers in arms' mentality is a deficit to the encyclopedia. Michael talk 08:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately even the most experienced FA writers seem to put too much emphasis on prose and MOS imho. Although even if you have a strong writing contingent, there will always be some project members who don't write so much themselves and thus tend to support very liberally as they don't put such a high price on an FA.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 08:41, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Idiocy can come in sweet, sweet, beautiful words, can't it? But, hmm—any solutions or ideas? Anything we could throw around (assuming you're interested)? Michael talk 08:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK - Cable 243
Sorry, there ya go, toss that in your banana bucket! Thanks for all the hard work you do for DYK. IvoShandor 08:21, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I also had to self update, if you could add one for John Giles Adams to my page I would be grateful. IvoShandor 16:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Wizardman beat me.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Thích Quảng Đức
Your expansion of the article is awesome. Well done. -- !! ?? 09:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I'm glad that you enjoyed Thich Quang Duc. It is part of the Ngo Dinh Diem era work I have been doing at User:Blnguyen/Contributions. I'm always on the lookup for copyeditors to help me prepare FACs and I hear that you are quite famous and skilled at copyediting. Seeing as the article seemed to be interesting to you, I wonder if you would be willing when I polish of the lead and a bit more of the aftermath?? Kind regards,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 03:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Image source
I just converted Image:Thich Quang Duc.gif into Image:Thich Quang Duc.png, since the GIF version had some aliasing problems when scaled down. However, I note that you haven't specified a source for the image — could you please fix that? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:18, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, of course. Thanks for the reminder.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I have a question !
Hi. Thanks for telling me about the 3 revert rule. I didn't know about it. I'd like to know something though; why do you people always revert my articles eventhough I quote credible sources? Also, England psychologically lost the game due to the jelly bean thing. And, who scientifically proved that Ganguly was the bad-boy of cricket (Sledging article)? With all due respect to your contributions, I think your edits SLANT the articles in favour of a particular set of people. It seems that the whole truth is being censored on purpose. All coins have two sides. Then why are you people supressing one side of the story eventhough I add credible sources as proof? Why can't we have a HEALTHY debate, coz I don't wanna play "edit-edit". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by C.ronaldo3006 (talk • contribs).
 * Indeed you have provided credible sources. But the main issue here that me and the other folks are citing is WP:N. We don't feel that these incidents has passed the test of time yet to know if they are important enough examples to be used. We do not know that England lost because of the jellybean. We do know that Zaheer Khan said that the jellybeans fired him up and cited that as being a big performance. The batsmen had already got a 280 run lead when this incident happened. Your edit asserted it as fact that the game was decided by teh beans. This cannot be shown. I did not say that Ganguly was the bad boy. It simply noted that the Australian media demonised (wrongly in my opinion, it was just jingoistic barracking per all sport newspapers) - that instance and Ranatunga for instance are quite notable because they riled the Australians, won and it was still talked of years later..... We do not know yet if the jellybean thing will still be talked about during the next series between India and England, but whenever India play Australia, Ganguly's brinkmanship is always noted. Thanks,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK failure
I didn't get spammed for James M. Strode, think you could add that to my page? IvoShandor 07:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh I was a bit busy, so just updated it and went away to do the notices later. But Peta stepped in and did them....except for this one I think....  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 07:15, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it's not a big deal, I just keep them on a user page so I can go back through and look at them, saying to myself, "I wrote that too!" Haha. IvoShandor 07:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I confusedly thought the above conversation was about the the following update (which I assume you were also postponing the notifications for). Anyhow, I left all the notifications for the 8:58 UTC update.--ragesoss 16:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks Ragesoss. I needed to catch a bus so I only did the move.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 04:48, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

My plan
Based upon the discussion and kind words offered by you and others my plan is to do these things:
 * Edit less than normal, for awhile anyway.
 * Contribute less to discussion pages in the WP namespace, (save those discussions I am involved in currently)
 * Try not to let Wikipedia upset me so much (which it does at times and my edits reflect it, i.e. I become rather hostile towards some people)
 * Try to remember just how shitty of a school Northern Illinois University is, and that the president there is more likely to have graduated from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College than anywhere else.

IvoShandor 07:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Question on DYK rules
Your expertise on DYK rules may help in answering my question here. Thanks -- ¿Amar៛ Talk to me / My edits08:09, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Just a heads-up
You accidentally deleted the Eimear Quinn article earlier :) Chwe ch  17:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: DYK Medal
Thanks for the medal -- ¿Amar៛ Talk to me / My edits02:56, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!
It's so great to get positive feedback. Thanks for that and the opportunity to participate in DYK. Looking forward to making more such entries. T i a m a t  08:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

DYK medal
Thanks for the very cool DYK medal. It's nice to know that my work is appreciated outside my home WikiProject. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 11:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

RE CMH
As to gaining access to images from the U.S. Army's Center of Military History, all I can say is that it is a crapshoot. The repository of the Army's media images seems to be extremely lax in allowing access over the internet (as you can probably tell). Most of the images I possess came from personal visits in graduate school doing research on Vietnam era activities. Their internet offerings can be extremely frustrating. For example, a current gander at their site reveals a whole series of pictures taken during Operation MacArthur (the Battle of Dak To). I now happen to be in the process of editing an article on Wiki covering the battle. Unfortunately, none of them are quite useful. Thus are the vicissitudes of current internet deployment (as far as the U.S. Military goes). RM Gillespie 06:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Pave reversion
Thank you for the clean-up. :) --Moonriddengirl 02:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, CheckUser confirms that this user is likely a sockpuppet of. Dmcdevit·t 02:05, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Newsletter
The August one hasn't come out yet; or do you mean the July one? We had some problems with that, due to our bot-master being on vacation. ;-) Kirill 02:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Please avoid 3RR
Please avoid deleting any more info on the John Howard page, to avoid 3RR. You know all about that.Lester2 05:59, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm well aware thanks,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi there
Thought I should let you know that I've protected Gautama Buddha after a request at RFPP. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
I am  wikifying / creating   articles related to certain neglected aspects of Indian history, and it is a good news that these topics are receiving attention, as fron you. -Vinay_Jha 12:52, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Almost Forgot To Tell You
Thanks for the usertalk revert. :) You have no idea how much I'm tired of fecal vandals. :P -WarthogDemon 06:29, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Mocedades.jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:Mocedades.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 13:31, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I rm it myself but forgot to acutally delted. duh.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XVIII (August 2007)
Delivered by grafikbot 15:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

You've got mail
Hi Blnguyen, I've just sent you an e-mail. Your review would be deeply appreciated.Proabivouac 02:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Noted,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Peter Roskam
Not too sure what's going on at Peter Roskam but seems like a pretty big edit war. -WarthogDemon 05:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Locked.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Why no action on Arrow740?
Hi - For my edification, why no action on Arrow740? The vandalism seemed obvious (user was removing multiple valid edits with no reason) and persistent (it happened many times). They were warned, but the user deleted the warning. Also, how else do you suggest I handle this? Thanks. Guanxi 06:35, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * This sock has all the signs of HE. He's at the CAIR article where he's used multiple socks before, he's ignoring 3RR, and he's harassing Blnguyen. He needs to be blocked. Arrow740 06:42, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Rene Reinmann
I have nominated Rene Reinmann for deletion. (see Articles for deletion/Rene Reinmann.) I consider it an attack page at a non-notable Tallinn City Council member, failing WP:BLP. I should have nominated the article earlier, but for the last two months I have refrained from editing anything that User:Digwuren might be involved with. Placing this attack on the front page in the WP:DYK section is however a step too far. I request that the article be removed from DYK, unless a speedy decision is reached at the AfD. -- Petri Krohn 05:56, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Please give this member a talking-to
An edit MixMaster_μ did to a talk contribution of mine —Preceding unsigned comment added by NRen2k5 (talk • contribs) 07:04, August 30, 2007 (UTC)
 * He seems to have gone away again.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Motion
Hi Blnguyen. Could you please review and vote on the Requests for arbitration motion, which is sort of stagnant right now? Thanks. Picaroon (t) 19:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks like I am late.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, thanks for the message you left along with the DYK template. Sorry took me a while to get back. Been kept very busy in the Talk:India page.Rueben lys 01:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Requesting unprotection for Falun Gong
Hello Blnguyen, could you unprotect all Falun Gong related articles? After a couple of months of absence, I believe that I can help resolve the current problems. Thanks. &#10004; Olaf Stephanos &#9997;  12:10, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Unprotected.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Friendy chat
You know, I just realized that it was you who awarded me the DYK Medal. That was a true surprise. In regard to your comments on the Hispanic Americans in World War II FAC, I have to admit that at first glance I was too blind to see exactly what you meant, but you where right. There were a lot of suspect references and it was too romanticed and so on. I'm not making excuses, but my health has limited my activities here and I guess I just couldn't think straight.

However, I have taken your concerns very seriously and revamped and made a complete overhual (re-wretten and copyedited) of the article. All of the referencing concerns have been taken care of as witnessed by users: Mattisse, AnonEMouse and SandyGeorgia all of which are experienced FAC editors and neutral.

I hope that you reconsider your oppose and even if you don't, it has been a pleasure interacting with the person who awarded me the DYK. Cheers! Tony the Marine 04:24, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That's fine, there is no problem. I was away for most of last week but saw that it was passed in the meantime. I haven't looked back at the article but you put a lot of work into it in good faith so you should take pride in that and enjoy the moment regardless of what me or any other opposers might have thought about it.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK History
Hi Blnguyen. Please take a look at Recent additions 146/history and let me know whether any changes need to be made to the instructions or the table data output. Rick and I have a running discussion about this at discussion. -- Jreferee  (Talk) 20:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yup.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Tran Van Don
Hi, could you add diacritics at Tran Van Don? Badagnani 01:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Also Huynh Van Cao. Badagnani 01:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Imperial triple crown jewels


Your Imperial Majesty, I am honoured to present you with the imperial crown jewels of Wikipedia editing. May you wear them well.

P.S. You may like to add your contributions to the list on User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle so you can justify the reward. :) GizzaDiscuss  &#169; 07:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Wow, seems big, Congrats and thanks a lot for your commitment towards Wikipedia. Gnanapiti 15:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Monkey
Looks like he's blowing his nose on a page ripped from the book. --Dweller 15:58, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

List of critics of Islam
Hello Blnguyen. Why did you delete List of critics of Islam? The article could have been improved. There are people who wants to know about the critics of Islam and why certain people criticize Islam. The list can be very useful to someone who is doing research on Islam. And, I respect Islam.

And, by the way, I am a big fan of cricket. I hope Sachin will score hundred today. Thank you. RS1900 08:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, he made 90 something and got out.... Anyway, the deletion debate is here at Articles_for_deletion/List_of_critics_of_Islam and feel free to ask questions about it.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Kannada Telugu stuff
Sir, this web page continues to hang around and is in some ways the bone of conflict thats still on going. After you helped to clean up the Telugu script page by removing unsourced images etc, the contents of this web page has made it to the Andhra Pradesh article where another edit war is in the offing. user:Kumarrao is back questioning the opinion of more than 10 historians (I think 15 historians) on the Chalukya page ( I have reverted both the article and talk page to prevent trolling). I have explained to him time and again that one web page by an Engineering student cant hold sway against many historians per WP:UNDUE, but this does seem to have any effect. I do not believe he is going to let go of this web page that easily because this is the only source he has to help his theory. Another source he quotes frequently is a pdf file by Durga Prasad which goes something like this " Like the Kadambas and Chutus, from the Muruturu grant it is clear that the Chalukyas were natives of this region". The author clearly does not say what region and as such the Kadambas and Chutus are natives to the Karnataka region and ruled from Banavasi. This issue needs to be resolved quickly.thanksDineshkannambadi 16:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It seems as though the issue with the Adluri home-made website has died down. But we shall see.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I have seen your comment that I have certain agenda. I would like to know what it is. Regarding the webpage of Adluri, I am ready to accept that it is a personal webpage and will not satisfy WP:RS. In the same vein, can you advise User:Dineshkannambadi who complained to you, to refrain from citing personal and webpages such as www.kamat.com, www.ourkarnataka.com, vedambooks.com (which advertises books), newspaper articles etc. Please see, for instance: Karnataka, History of Karnataka, Chalukyas etc in which the above user cited such references. All the articles written by this user have more than 90% citations from a few sources such as a book written by S. U. Kamath, ourkarnataka.com etc. He occasionally sprinkles books by Nilakanta Sastri and Thapar. Please spend some time to analyse these articles and decide whom to advise. I keep trust in you.Kumarrao 07:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I would say that people have pointed to you that Adluri is an engineer who is doing this as a hobby and is not a published linguistics researcher. I believe that Kamat is simply a mirror of the website of a historian so as long as what appears on the website has also been replicated in proper books, then that is fine. As for ourkarnataka I was told that it was there to give an online version of what is already in the book. If it isn't then that may be problem..  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm at pains to understand why you seem overtly enthusiastic in blocking me, despite my apology note to you sometime back. Neither, do I understand what interest you have in supporting (may not be openly) some gang of editors. Do correct me if I'm wrong. -- Altruism T a l k - Contribs. 12:06, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, the WP:3RR does say that 4R in 24 hours is not a golden fence, so by doing 4R in 24 hours and 7 minutes it would be viewed as a cynical move. This can be viewed as disruptive expecially when a large consensus on the talk page believes that you are persistently reinserting unacceptable sources. since you are outnumbered, you cannot outrevert yourself to victory to reverting over and over, especially at "maximum quota" tends to be viewed as disruptive.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

is a checkuser confirmed sockpuppet of. --Deskana (talky) 01:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Buddhist deletions
You're in a much better position to know than I am about what the Buddhism project considers within its scope. Personally, all the articles I listed fall within at least one of the subcats of Category:Buddhism, including the ones you removed from the project. Personally, were it me, I would restore them. All those individuals are, after all, Buddhists. They may not be the highest priority articles for the project, but they do tend to make the project's numbers look better, which can help. Anyway, the decision is yours. I think I've added the banner to all the articles on the WikiProject Buddhism/Articles page, so I'm more or less done with the assessments now. I am now off to trying to assess all the other religion projects, because most of the projects don't do many assessments on their own. It is my intention to contribute a bit more to the projects when the assessments are done, if nothing else to doing a little to improve the 1.0 selections. Good luck with the project until then. John Carter 01:21, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I don't tend to think we list sportspeople and celebrities under their respective religious projects unless they partake in public religious activiity.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Tibet edit war
As I have said, go to the discussion page and we are going to work this out. Don't behave like a kid. (WannabeAmatureHistorian 03:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC))
 * Well, you are pushing POV and did 4 reverts.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Rượu đế
Can you add to Rượu đế? Badagnani 10:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I do nor consume alcohol and am ignorant of how this type of alcohol operates or what its characteristics are.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)