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Regarding Re: GANs, when shall we start? I'll be there since the Christmas day (in UTC). — Revi_talk 17:01, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

@-revi: Unfortunately this may have to wait. I have a review of my own I need to do, among many other things on and off wiki, and another wikibreak this Thursday–Sunday. I'm going to say come the new year I'll be back online in full, so let's get in touch then. Sorry for the wait. Happy holidays! — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:23, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

No problem, my school vacation ends in March. (Starting next week) — Revi 04:38, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Bumping thread. — Revi 16:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

New year is here! (KST) — Revi 16:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy 2015!! Still hours away for me. And frankly, tomorrow might be an all-recovery day :) I do have a lot of other things on my agenda but rest assured a joint review is in our near future. I very much look forward to actually being able to do free-time stuff like this! — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:29, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

No problem, just create subpage on my userspace and leave a link here (or my talkpage if archived) when you can. — Revi 05:48, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Your point is?

You left a message, then reverted it, but I can still see it. So, have I violated the three revert rule you claimed I did, or maybe then you realized that I haven't? Maybe you should check my edit history again and judge for yourself if I acted in good faith or out of spite. Before you accuse me of violating a wikipedia policy, I appreciate if you stated in clear terms the specifics of the allegation, i.e. when and how. Not just a generic "you violated the rules so now behave" message. And if this is about a particular IP user who, according to their edit history has repeatedly entered into edit wars with other editors on other pages and you're taking sides with this person.... Haleth (talk) 05:12, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

My apologies for coming across as abrupt and rude. I've seen what you did. I know it's a content dispute (very minor content in fact), and usually I would just let it go, but as you can see that person has a history of non cooperation with others and would not engage in discussion even when approached to do so on a talk page. Normally I am a lot more civil with registered users, and less so with IP users. Anyway, thank you. Haleth (talk) 05:17, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

@Haleth: Yes, thank you for realizing I was, too, acting in good-faith issuing that warning. It didn't say you violated policy in any way. It's procedural, for me at least, to let the user know about 3RR before blocking them. It became clear to me you were in fact familiar with this rule, which is why I reverted that edit to your talk page, citing don't template the regulars in my edit summary. So sorry for my part on that. I've blocked the IP for violating the three-revert rule, so it should be apparent I'm not siding with them. Next time if the IP has a history of disruption it might be easier to just report to AIV or AN/I, but surely you can see how I saw it as just another frivolous editing dispute. Finally, at least in general, I will have to state it's unfair to treat anonymous users differently. Thanks for your understanding. — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:34, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Dianne dela Fuente

How come you unprotected it so fast? The article has been subject to vandalism from this one long term problem user for years.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:14, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll look into it. I don't like page protecting when it happens so rarely. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:17, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Hes been at this for years. I've documented it here.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:10, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

This will help greatly. Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:14, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Copyrights issue

• See Marsh Mokhtari, can you suppress every revision from 02:09, 10 August 2014 to 06:00, 5 January 2015? Bladesmulti (talk) 03:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

•  Done — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:41, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks now also see Niti Aayog, all diffs(except latest two) from 05:30, 2 January 2015[1] contains the violation of copyrights.[2]-[3]-[4]-[5] Bladesmulti (talk) 05:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
• Each version of NITI Aayog requires suppression, they rip off every above website link that I have provided. Nothing more than a duplicate article of Niti Aayog, and created by a sock puppet.[6] Bladesmulti (talk) 06:08, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Bladesmulti: The newest revisions of Niti Aayog were still copyright infringement, verbatum from www.lenseye.co/2015/01/02/niti-aayog. I'm sorry but it will have to be rewritten. Thanks for the reports. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:49, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your research. Creator is now formally warned. Bladesmulti (talk) 16:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

• NITI Aayog was re-created by the same user and it is again violating copyrights.[7]-[8] User is not recognizing any violation. Bladesmulti (talk) 04:37, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

  You had every reason to assume this was a copyright violation, but checking the revision history, I have in fact confirmed the original text was written prior to that of the original alleged source. Deleting as copyright violation was my mistake... however it was easy to get confused as the revision I checked was after 2 January and was also bundled in with all the other confirmed copyright violations. The two new sources you provided I don't think share enough material to constitute as copyright violation. At any rate thanks for your concern, and apologies for any confusion on my part. — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:33, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused regarding an AfC I reviewed.

Hello. I rejected Draft:John Alexander MacWilliam because it had entire sections and paragraphs unsourced. The creator responded on my talk page under User talk:Mr. Guye#Need to understand how to fix verifiability issue with citations bringing up issues I didn't know how to deal with. This includes the fact that the article was approved by some doctors or something (possibly colleagues), and that they are wondering how to include short quotes from them. I don't know if that is even allowed per WP:NOR. Can you respond to their concerns and answer their questions? You are more experienced than I and you would be able to provide better help. --Mr. Guye (talk) 17:21, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Mr. Guye: Quotes are fine so long as the quoted person is relevant, and the quote is reliably source with an inline citation (see WP:MINREF). Whether or not other people endorsed the article is irrelevant, I think. Professors, doctors, whatever, the content still need to be verifiable. Honestly, the draft doesn't look too bad to me, though. They have sources, they're just inline with the text (which is okay except for WP:MINREF criteria). If they get the quotes sorted out I think it's probably acceptable, but I'm not the best to ask about AfC. Let me ping Anne Delong who is easily an expert in this regard. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:45, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Mr. Guye and MusikAnimal. Does the user mean quotes from those people's published works, or fresh quotes from the people directly? The latter would not be appropriate. The article already has some quotations, and they are appropriately cited. The sections actually do have citations - they're just not very specific, being located at the top of each section instead of next to the individual facts. Maybe they could be moved down next to the facts that they support The article is written more as tribute to Professor MacWilliam instead of a neutral article, and some of the flowery language will need to be replaced by plainer text. Quotes praising the subject might make this worse instead of better. Written references about him other than obituaries would be good to have, since although these have lots of information, it's usually not balanced by mention of any negative aspects of a person's life. Also some of the external links are not about the subject and should be removed. I have combined the references and hidden the URLs so that the reference section is less cluttered. Be sure to reassure the submitter that this is a good topic and that the draft will definitely be approved after some revision. Academics are used to submitting work to editors of journals, and should understand this process. —Anne Delong (talk) 19:19, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Wrong data on a wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

This page shows the debt of a country and many of them are VERY wrong.

Im from the Netherlands and our debt in 2014 was +- 450 billion euros (about 550 billion dollars)

However this page says the debt is 2.5 trillion that's 5x the real number.

Also many other country's are wrong too.

This page has the real data

http://www.statista.com/statistics/276719/national-debt-of-the-netherlands/

Change this page please or remove it because 90% is wrong 94.212.138.102 (talk) 20:00, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Hey there! I believe the data you are referring to may not be the same as what this article is intended to show, which is external debt. Moreover the data shown comes from a government agency, which may be deemed more reliable than the apparent for-profit statista. List of countries by public debt I believe is what represents national debt, but that article appears to present the data as percentages rather than currency (not really sure how that works, frankly). Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:22, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

IP hoaxer

I noticed you placed a warning on 94.173.1.240 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) after I did. This caused me to start digging through their contributions going back to at least April, some of which were still the current edit on those articles. Literally every one of their edits is either blatantly false or much more subtly so.. like changing release dates to be inaccurate, adding false categories, and so on. I have yet to find a single valid edit that can stand. I suppose this is just a heads-up to get more eyes on the situation. Looks like a long-term hoaxer or troll. --Laser brain (talk) 21:26, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Laser brain: Interesting. Some seem like they could be true, such as this where Troyer lives in the UK, and given he's big into the UK football and such that is certainly plausible. Overall though, I'd have to agree this is some sort of hoaxer or pro-UK original researcher. Weighing all of this in, and it being a static IP, I felt a disruptive editing block was justified and have gone with one week. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:43, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Good call, thanks. A lot of his edits are plausible indeed, which makes checking them even trickier. --Laser brain (talk) 21:53, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it so closely! I revert stuff like this with Huggle and would never have known this was a long-term issue. — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:58, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

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Wow... this might be my very first disambiguation notification! Guess I had the linkclassifier turned off. Thank you DPL bot! I've gone so long without your assistance, a little embarrassing even. Keep this just between you and me, yeah? Thanks :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:04, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello from MichaelF11

Musik- I removed those comments at the end of the mitigation section because they a silly and archaic- siting someones opinion in a newspaper from 1987. At that point in time Radon was not understood as it is now. Radon mitigation costs are not exorbitantly high now, in fact in my city they are quite reasonable, and are never compared to the "swine flu" ever. And saying that lowering radon levels is not wise, and not effective in lowering lung cancer risk is completely at odds with the EPA research. I am a FL Certified Radon Measurement & Mitigation Specialist. Trust me. I removed those comments as they are pointed, biased and just bad advice to anyone wanting to read facts- which is what Wiki is about. PS I did not give a reason for my edit because I screwed up in the sequence, and was not able to add my comment. Thank you. MichaelF11 (talk) 22:29, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello from Franklinb76

Please delete the wiki page on Jackson Wilcox. That page is about me and is causing unwanted attention in both my work life and personal life. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franklinb76 (talk • contribs) 07:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

@Franklinb76: What's wrong with it? I noticed there was some inappropriate content on there that I have since removed. I can ensure that doesn't happen again. Is there anything else incorrect with the article or any material that simply should not be there? The patrollers and bots kept reverting your edits because you weren't explaining why you were removing content in your edit summary. Please remember to do that, thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:02, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for the suggestions. Do check back. Ethically^Yours! 16:24, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Replied. If possible, can you mentor me? Ethically^Yours! 16:34, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Musicology question

Hello! I wish to ask your help. Please, explain me: what means this strange term (the 'Opera'-tinged vocal dynamo)? Kind regards! - 95.29.144.33 (talk) 19:57, 9 January 2015 (UTC).

Hi! I assume you came to be based on my username... While I am a big music fan I must admit I don't know too much about musicology :( Sorry I could not be of more help. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:51, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• I understood. But you can ask at your collegues, which created this article together with you (Musicology). If not difficultly. Kind regards! - 95.29.144.33 (talk) 22:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC).

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GA Cup Barnstar

	The Good Article Barnstar for the GA Cup
	You made it to Round 3! Thank-you for being part of the success for the first GA Cup! We hope to see you next year! --Dom497 (talk) 03:19, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Dom497 for your continued efforts for WP:WGA. I admire your sense of leadership and initiative to make cool things like this happen. I unfortunately got caught up in the holiday season which kept me from doing as many reviews as I would have liked to have done. However it doesn't stop here. Plenty more GA reviews ahead, namely with my pal -revi! Best — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:08, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Unlisted

I saw Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ethically Yours when it had no !votes, and decided to come back later to consider it. Much later, I looked for it and couldn't find it - even in the list of unsuccessfuls. Going via the EY user contribs, I found it, closed by you. But it's still not in the list of unsuccessfuls (chrono list, at least, that is). I've not seen one before that didn't get listed, apart from a few that were simply deleted. Is there some reason why this isn't there? Peridon (talk) 15:26, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

There is a reason, I didn't know what I was doing :/ I closed the RfA per their request, probably should have let someone else handle it! Anyway I've updated the relevant pages now. Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:02, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

I've never got up the courage to close one yet... Peridon (talk) 18:55, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Question

Is there a page I can use to suggest changes on wikipedia to the admins? I have some ideas to improve the watchlist Tetra quark ^{(don't be shy)} 17:07, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

You could try WP:VPP - Village Pump (Proposals). It's not the admins who make the decisions, BTW. Things like that are decided by consensus of all (all who visit places like VPP and bother to join in, that is...). In discussions in places like the VP, admins and non-admins are equal. Peridon (talk) 17:21, 10 January 2015 (UTC) (just a visitor)

Ditto. We unfortunately can't do anything, and frankly don't have much more pull than any other registered user. Best of luck to whatever you're after! — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:55, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

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Hello from 187.252.240.91

why do you delete my edits you fucker