User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive92

RFK assassination FAC
Just wanted to say thanks for sorting out the refs and dashes - I was looking to do it today, went in, and found you'd done it! Thanks very much Fritzpoll (talk) 09:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:22, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Australia tagging
- 08:01, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Moondyne wants the cats themselves to be tagged... Please see my talk page... requesting your inputs --  Tinu  Cherian  - 15:36, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Noted, thanks.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Amateur radio in India
Hi Blnguyen, could you have another look at the FAC? As far as the source is concerned, I had put up a comment on WP:RS/N but just received one response there. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm watching proceedings.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 04:17, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Your comment at Talk:John Howard
Hi. I would appreciate if you would revisit Talk:John Howard and clarify your remark A more obvious matter is that some useless editors need to be booted off. Tensions are running high on that talk page (nothing unusual about that) and your remark does not help. It would seem to breach WP:NPA and calls into question who the some useless editors are - is it me? is it him? ... if you have a complaint about an editor, please ensure you have made sure that you have brought it up with that editor - privately by email if you believe that appropriate. Otherwise please raise it at RfC/U or somewhere. As an arbitrator I am sure you are more familiar with escalation processes than I am.--Matilda talk 01:21, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No, it's not you and if I thought an arbitration case would be useful I would have already started one.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Cham
Do the Cham people speak Tamil? Anwar (talk) 11:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No. I see the article says that they do but I think it means Cham people who have immigrated to Malaysia. I don't see the point of that, because lots of different Asians have immigrated to another country and that would mean that they would also speak all the European languages. As mother tongue, they only speak Cham. Else we can say that Chinese people speak Spanish or French or whatever because they have moved to France/Spain.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 09:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:Mspraveen
Thanks for the CU check and your note. Much appreciated. We cannot let our best editors leave over mistakes such as these. I still await to hear what Sam has to say about this. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 02:35, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Per Ganeshk, thank you. Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Smiley.svg|25px]] Thank you! Your actions in doing the CU check is greatly appreciated. Best regards, Mspraveen (talk) 14:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Abhinav Bindra
Compared to the article before he won the Olympics gold, Abhinav Bindra's wikipage has seen a major revamp. Would there be anything that will qualify for DYKs?
 * First Indian Individial Gold medallist?
 * Rewarded close to Rs 2 million ($500,000)
 * Is the current world & olympic championship title holder

--192.8.222.82 (talk) 07:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well the facts are all interesting enough so as long as the article readable prose has wuintupled, it will be ok.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Your comment at this diff...
"Who's she?" Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought you were Australian? She was in Neighbours... ;) I don't know if they're still dating, but I remember a couple of years ago Riewoldt took her to the Brownlow, and her outfit was terrible. Somno (talk) 13:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, I don't watch neighbours thank goodness.....How unaustralian eh? lol.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't watch Neighbours either, but even worse than that, I don't watch cricket! One day I'll be deported to Antarctica for being so un-Australian. ;) Somno (talk) 13:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Nicktropolis reassessment
I've improved it dramatically, but I was really just wondering if it has a standing chance to be a GA. Thx! Jonathan talk - contribs - review me! 21:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit busy at the moment.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * K. Sorry! [[Image:Face-smile.svg|20px]] Jonathan talk - contribs - review me! 16:51, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:Iowa ships
Hi

could you quickly fix the MoS issues of Iowa class battleship so it remains a featured article? Thank you Wandalstouring (talk) 18:21, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll look.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:12, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Working on it. I had one final today, but the next one is tommorrow, and studying for it has occupied most of my free time the last few days. Thanks for the help in the interm though, I apciciate it very much. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:28, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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Hit wicket
Sir, You have Removed my Edits, but i Don't think you have done a right thing. you see i Edited that info under Recent dismissals, Recent Dismissals doesn't need any Strange incidents, it only need Recent dismissals Right? Bharath (talk) 14:55, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's true, although I am tempted to simply remove the recent incidents because it seems to be turning the article into a "breaking news" seection and Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a newspaper.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

ACG
As you commented on the previous A-Class review, would you like to comment on the new one? It is located here. -- Cheers mate! C YCLONIC W HIRLWIND talk 01:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Noted thanks,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Aussie flag
Alright, fair enough. I am going to try and get "Australian flags" from Prime Minister Rudd so I can try and help improve the article. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I already have the Australian Flags handbook from the Aus govt and cited everything that was possibly covered in the book. Same for Kwan's book. So I have to look elsewhere for the rest.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Peter Birkhäuser - external link
Could you please explain what is the problem with the external link I'm adding? I'm new contributing to Wikipedia so I may not be aware if I'm breaking a rule. However, this is my field of study and I don't think the information I'm including is erroneous.

I'd really appreciate if you provide some explanation to prevent any further misunderstanding. Thank you!

LM —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leemelk (talk • contribs) 07:34, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've reverted myself. It was a mistake on my part.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:57, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

User: Atul Aarohi
Hello Blnguyen, thanks for your prompt actions. I wasn't sure what the next steps could be here and I was wondering if he could just be warned once on his talk page so that he gets the picture. Mspraveen (talk) 08:11, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 20:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear Bln, please help!
Sorry for bothering so much... This is an issue here...

Please look what is doing on the Bollywood article (and on other articles). I'm shocked. He removes info, replaces the first paragraph with some nonsense sourced to a source which does not even back up the claim. He's been reverted many times the past few days by different editors, has been warned, but it doesn't help. He also keeps Harassing me, messaging me a warning which he himself had received previously and reverting me on my own talk page...

Second, and very important too, is the Shahrukh Khan article. keeps adding a so-called controversies section. Khan's been part of so many controversies, much more than those mentioned by him. It is being filled with unsourced fangush and my edits are being reverted. One editor keeps adding non-notable controversies, I try to explain him why they are not good. The actor's been part of many controversies, and selecting only three is POV. This new section looks like a fansite, in addition to being poorly sourced (only one controversy is sourced, the one which rather belongs to the Om Shanti Om film article) and terribly written. I can't get that. Now it has been tagged with many tags, and I can't remove the section because I will be reverted. Another editor removed the sentence (with a discussion on the TP), but he too was reverted. What else can be done?

I'm just back on here for a while, I was not active for quite some days... I'm soon leaving Wikipedia, it will be very sad to see these articles look like this, as if all my efforts were thrown at my face. Regards, Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  18:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Why are you leaving? RL? The first guy is blocked now, and I've talked to the second guy.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Do you think unlocking the Bollywood article so soon was a good idea? It is likely to continue to be reverted by the user Coming President and I don't see any indication that he has been spoken to by yourself  ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 15:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey friend Bln! I'm not at all leaving because of this; I'm leaving because of some personal issues. Real life circumstances force me to. But I'm still on WP. I have a month or two, although I will not be as regular as before ):
 * ''Yeah, RL...at least it wasn't a law and order problem on-WP that caused everyone to go nuts. 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know - seems to have reassigning IP. He had created an account -, which was also blocked.
 * Another thing - could you please keep an eye on the SRK article when you're here? There has been a lot of recent activity on this page, not always is it good. Most of the edits are unconstructive and can be easily considered hidden vandalism. One editor for instance removed entire sourced paragraphs, which contain important and notable information. I tried to come towards him, and although he once reverted all my edits (including other modifications), I think we have come to a common language as of now (not sure though). seems to be ignoring our warnings. Many editors revert his continuous edits, including Universal Hero, Gananapiti, Mspraveen and myself, but he's at the same. I'm just not as active to follow it consistently. My really best regards, and thanks for everything.  Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  20:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, I don't read the ToI or anything and haven't watched any Bollywood things for a while, so I'm rather out of touch with the happenings in Mumbai that drive these Wikipedia articles, so I don't really know unless the tone of hte article is wrong or it is explicit personal commentary. Plus only a minority of the articles on my watchlist are Indian but the majority of my reverts are about Indian articles....nobody bothers to patrol them.....:(...I'll look at HF again. I see another admin moved it back to semi-p, which is what I should have done.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * blocked for BLP.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

C K Nayudu
Dear Bingo, I observe that you have completely reverted the edits that I made to the Nayudu article. What prompted you, I am at a loss to understand. May be you hadn't time to go thru' the entire section. Seeing, as I do, that you are an honest administrator, I would like to ask how could I contest your edits.213.130.121.43 (talk) 05:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)OoOpS 05:18, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm I was surprised why you excised a lot of information without giving a reason. The same for Gavaskar, where you removed some sourced info but just said "copyediting". 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanx for your reply. But, you did not answer my question. I have reverted your edits in Gavaskar. The info that I had removed, from the lead section, tells why Gavaskar did not make a good captain (There were no references given, either). Since that topic is discussed elsewhere, why so much info in the lead? I believe, in your hurry, you are simply reverting all the edits with out going in to the details, the one complaint I have against you. I implore you to go thru the earlier reversions as well.OoOpS 05:33, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Copyedit
Hi, I was looking through the list of people willing to copyedit articles and came across your name. I was hoping you would be willing to copyedit the article Harry Murray for me? I have currently nominated it for GA, and have been informed that it should pass, and that I should enlist the help of a copyeditor as there is a possibility that it could be good enough for A or FA class. I personally am not terribly experienced with writing decent articles, and if the article does pass GA it would be a first for me. If you are too busy or don't feel like copyediting the article then I completely understand; it is up to you. Thanks, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 11:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * In principle, I'll have a look at it eventually, if I get time between cleaning up the flurry of messy edits and vandalism to all the Olympic swimming articles.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * For prose it looks fine for GA and A, easily. Of course if you want to go for FAC it might need some more copyediting, but you can launch a GA/A review now and it should pass pretty easily. Although I would suggest removing some of the full date links because they aren't required and sometimes crowd out the page.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 09:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the time to have a look. As I stated above, I have already nominated it for GA; I'm just waiting for someone willing to assess the article. Whenever you do get the time, would you please be able to give the article a copyedit for FA? If you don't have the time, or don't feel like doing so then you don't have to. Thank you once again, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 11:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure. I don't do GA reviews on Australian articles anymore, unless it is to fail them, because I tried to rally everyone last year to help make it to 100 Aussie GAs so I felt I would be tempted to make soft reviews for the sake of the milestone. But sure, I'll copyedit it.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol, fair enough. Thanks mate, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 02:38, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Done now, and that was fairly hard to copyedit, because I thought it was well written and didn't have anything much that could be obviously improved. I think you could've gone striaght to FAC and done a copyedit on the run. You've been doing heaps of great work on Australian military articles. Well done,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you Blnguyen, you have been a great help. As a thank you, I would like to present you with this barnstar:

Medal tally
There's only one table you need to worry about ... Moondyne 09:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * An absolute classic, and as the son of a Kiwi - although a proud Australian I can only concur with Moondyne! :-) -- Mattinbgn\talk 13:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * QLD up to 7 gold now, and all the women's swimming relay teams were straight QLDers........
 * Getting clouted by England now :(, especially the cycling team - UK have won about 6/7 of the track events so far and Australia is now getting beaten by NZ in the teams pursuit :(. Maybe it might be good to lose so that they'll pump more funding because somehow I think the pollies have fallen asleep, or they think that just because the rest of the world is hopeless and is going backwards at cricket that Olympic medals are easy to come by, which they are not, judging by the amount to teams that are now going strong in swimming relays and the fact that everyone is now going full pelt in the heats and risking false starts on all the changeovers.... Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Splat.... Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Canberra
Looking though the edit history, you are the one adding references mentioning Fitzgerald, Gillespie, Sparke, Wigmore and many other authors, but the full details of their works are not listed on the article. I guess you missed a bit. ;-) Wongm (talk) 11:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for reminding me.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * done, I hope I didn't miss anything.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Cats

 * Hi Darwinek. I saw that you readded "Chinese swimmers" to Liu Zige even though she is already in "Olympic swimmers of China" which is a subcat, and that you did a similar thing for some other swimmers. You know that this is redundant don't you?  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 02:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello. It is not, for one reason. With the sportspeople categories, we do not subcategorize by events. This is unwritten convention used there in ALL sports, at least all Olympic ones. And in this manner we have "French footballers", "French international footballers" and "Olympic footballers of France" in all related articles. This applies for all similar categories. The reason is simple, Olympic Games are just one of the events in which sportspeople compete. That's why it is common there to have this "holy trinity" categories in all articles, i.e. "Chinese swimmers", "Olympic swimmers of China", "Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics" for example. - Darwinek (talk) 08:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I think that people must be doing it wrong then, as the fact that a person competes in the Olympics for a certain country means that they must be registered/have a passport of that country, because it has always been the case that people who are in "Australian Test cricketers" are not also put in "Australian cricketers" because all people who represent Australia in Test cricket must obviously be cricketers who have Australian registrations. Obviously the categorisation by country and by Olympic year do not overlap. I don't see how not having "Chinese swimmers" implies that they do not swim under a Chinese registration outside of the Olympics.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 08:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note that Category:Olympic swimmers of China is listed as a subset of Category:Chinese swimmers.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket '') 08:28, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No no, you completely misunderstood this. As an experienced categorizer I know it is a subcat of the basic swimmers category, but I am also a member of Olympics WikiProject and many other sport ones and that's the convention here which is in use in, I dare say, tens of thousands articles. The citizenship has nothing to do with this. We just don't subcategorize sportspeople (of the Olympic sports) by the competition in which they compete. It is aimed at transparency and common sense. New editors will easily find desired articles that way. That's why Michael Phelps is in category American swimmers, and that's why the same convention is used throughout the WP. Per common sense.
 * I will give you one example. Imagine category "Italian athletes", which is designed for track and field. Then imagine subcats "Olympic athletes of Italy", "Italian athletes at the World Championships", "Italian athletes at the World Indoor Championships", "Italian athletes at the European Championships", "Italian athletes at the European Indoor Championships". And now imagine you subcategorize with it and exclude basic category. Then imagine an editor searching for certain article who visits empty "Italian athletes" category and is supposed to spend his next 5 minutes going into each subcat to find his desired article. See what I am talking about? Not the citizenship issue, but the competition (and its multiplicity) issue. - Darwinek (talk) 08:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ''Is this policy documented anywhere? My interpretation of WP:CAT and WP:SUBCAT is that the articles should not be in the parent category (So, not in if in  (where it is a subcat of the former) -- ratarsed (talk) 08:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ''I agree with User:Blnguyen and User:Ratarsed and have also asked User:Darwinek to show me where a consensus was reached to categorize athletes in a parent category of a specific category of theirs'. Still waiting.--Appraiser (talk) 13:24, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ''For the record, the practice is documented in WP:SUBCAT (look for the toll bridges in New York example, which I missed on my other read throughs and is fairly analogous), thanks to the people over at WikiProject Olympics for clearing it up... -- ratarsed (talk) 10:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks. It is a nice surprise. :) - Darwinek (talk) 19:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I also want to thank you, because you gave me my first ever award !! I'm flattered :) Amanda  T / C  22:26, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

National War Memorial and endashes
Thanks again for fixing up my punctuation — I'm getting better though, now I just have to remember to use them for page and date ranges. :) - Bilby (talk) 04:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a problem and excellent work again...I see that someone has decided to give one of my corny pictures a run in the article! Amusing!  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi! :-) I've mailed you. Kindly have a look at it. Thanks - Ravichandar My coffee shop 22:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, this is Simon.
The pictures I am using are allowed and I believe that I put the websites and other additonal information that I needed to put.

Do you think there is anything I need to change?

Simonsaysabc123 (talk) 02:09, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you have written permission from Messrs Hansen, Peirsol and Lezak (or their representatives)? Because this needs to be supplied.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes i do have permission. dear jesus, you are very annoying, but anyway, im not using wikipedia anymore because of anoying peopel like you!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Simonsaysabc123 (talk • contribs) 10:34, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Double Check
Can I ask a favor? User:77.12.206.190 is asking for an unblock, claiming a dynamic ISP adress. I watched the guy hit twenty articles in vandalism streak before getting block, so I turned it downed, but I didn;t exactly follow the dynamic isp arguement. COuld you look at it and see if it is in fact a legit reason for unblocking? TomStar81 (Talk) 09:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I seem to be too late.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Srirangam99
Sir, just to let you know, this user is back to removing cited information from a FA, Chola Dynasty.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 12:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've already edited that article a bit so I think I'll abstain...He can't win anyway if he's outnumbered about 10-1.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:32, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * He added info as well, as far as I can see.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 05:37, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Bill Brown
You're kidding, right? I've barely begun with Miller! Hope you're well. --Dweller (talk) 09:02, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Not at all. I think it just needs a look over for oddities, rather than copyediting, which would have been the main roadblock.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look when I can. The RfB? Well, I'm still waiting for the pile-on oppose cabal to show up. Nice work with the unprotect on Bradman, btw. I laughed at your edit summary. --Dweller (talk) 08:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

FAC
I wanted to note that, in response to your concern here, I went through the page and completed this. I added "pp" when there were multiple pages, spaced out the ones that were not spaced, and corrected a few other issues. Ottava Rima (talk) 00:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I see. There are still some others.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

O/S request
Could you remove the private info added in this revision please?
 * Done.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Disley Tunnel
Since you added the Disley Tunnel hook after the update, please do the credit notification for the entry yourself. Thanks. --BorgQueen (talk) 08:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks,  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)