User talk:Kolbasz

notability notice for Quest of Dungeons page

Hello Kolbasz, nice meeting you. About the notability notice on the Quest of Dungeons page. Is it relevant to not enough external links to give credibility to the material written? What kind of material/links do you think would be useful? I avoid posting links directly to Microsoft Xbox One library for example as that could be assumed as marketing, but that is a reliable source maybe. Anyway thank you for your time. --Zenion.d (talk) 11:18, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

My concern was that the sources all appeared to be catalog-type listings ("this game is available for platform X") and user-submitted reviews - which do not establish notability - rather than the "significant coverage in reliable sources" which Wikipedia requires. Try to find coverage from reputable magazines or sites: reviews, development coverage, creator interviews, etc, anything goes really - as long as it deals directly with the game and comes from a reliable source. Cheers. Kolbasz (talk) 15:01, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion for Supersubmarina page

Hello Kolbasz, nice to meet you. I was starting to translate the es:Supersubmarina article as I thought it was relevant to have in English for non-Spanish speakers. --Sixstone (talk) 12:51, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi!
As soon as a page enters mainspace, it becomes subject to various rules and requirements for articles and may be speedily deleted if it does not meet them. In the case of your article, it was speedily deleted under the A7 criterion, "No indication of importance", as the article merely stated that a band by that name existed and did not indicate that it was important enough for inclusion in an encyclopedia.
I suggest you recreate it as a draft, which will let you work on it in peace until it's ready. The page "Your first article" contains helpful tips for creating articles. You can also let other editors review your draft in the Articles for Creation process to make sure that it is ready to be published as an article.
Cheers. Kolbasz (talk) 13:31, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your insights here. I will do so in that way. --Sixstone (talk) 20:06, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Thankyou for your edits in this article. International Editor Shah (talk) 16:45, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Kolbasz. You have new messages at Ayub407's talk page.
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Samsung_Galaxy_J7

copied and pasted ??????? from where ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naveencm (talk • contribs) 22:05, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The lead was apparently copied right off Samsung India's page, which is a clear copyright violation. It also reads like ad copy, because it is. Kolbasz (talk) 22:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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G1 speedy deletion tag

Thank you for the note. --Dcirovic (talk) 20:17, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Question

While I do see your point, and will follow your suggestion, I can't help but wonder what has prompted this. I hope that this isn't intrusive or out of place, but your comment did come as a bit of a shock. --"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit" -Aeneid, Book I, Line 203 (talk) 17:13, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

I was seeing multiple patrolled pages that should have been summarily tagged for speedy deletion or dealt with in other ways, and going through your contribution list I'm seeing many more. Don't take it personally - patrolling/curation is a way of making sure newly created pages conform to Wikipedia's rules and guidelines, and Wikipedia has a lot of rules and guidelines to learn. So for now, focus on helping the encyclopedia in another way, by editing it, and you'll learn them as you go along. Kolbasz (talk) 18:26, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Cantal is a department ruled by a prefect and with a prefecture or capital , its number is 15.

Hi ! Could you help me translate this , please ?

• fr:Conseil général du Puy-de-Dôme (Puy-de-Dôme General Council)
• fr:Conseil général de la Haute-Loire (Haute-Loire General Council)
• fr:Conseil général du Cantal (Cantal General Council)
• fr:Conseil général du Morbihan (Morbihan General Council)
• fr:Conseil général de la Drôme (Drôme General Council)

Thanks. Lookinland (talk) 14:39, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

France is divided in departments , each of them is ruled by a prefect nominated by the president of the republic and has a capital or prefecture.

Andrew Saul

Hi Kolbasz, How would I add these notable works:

1. books from amazon

and

2. IMDB Credits

thanks, Ananmallik1980 (talk) 12:22, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Cecil Kelley & Los Alamos

Hi, I noticed you undid the recent addition of the Cecil Kelley criticality accident to the list of civilian nuclear accidents, citing that Los Alamos was a military installation. I was not the editor who added it, but I am wondering about Los Alamos.... As I read over the article on it and review its own home page, I don't get the sense that it is really a military installation. Government, unquestionably; heavily involved in the creation of the first two nuclear weapons to ever be dropped on civilian populations, certainly; but a military installation? I am not sure I am following you there. If you are certain, then you are certain, and I will not press the point... Are you certain? KDS4444^Talk 04:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

I could have worded it better, but one of the list criteria is "To qualify as "civilian", the operation/material must be principally for non-military purposes.". Back then, Los Alamos was a pure weapons facility (and that's still its main focus, even if it has diversified), with the involved material intended for military purposes. Kolbasz (talk) 10:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

• Fair enough. KDS4444^Talk 01:40, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Serbian Institute in Washington

I don't know the subject, but I have checked that there are many pages about lobbysts.Xx236 (talk) 07:05, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Anyone can start a lobby group, so they have no inherent notability. The article isn't making any claims of significance whatsoever - it's merely saying that a group by that name exists, and what its mission statement is - so it's a clear candidate for speedy deletion under WP:A7. Kolbasz (talk) 10:22, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

A pie for you!

I wanted to thank you for your help.That was very kind of you.I hope you like pie! Yasamin77 (talk) 09:44, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Brith Christenson

You're absolutely right; I just re-read the reference and the author does indeed refer to her as "her". I should have seen that. Good pickup. DoctorJoeE ^{review transgressions}/_{talk to me!} 15:41, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Name of Chechnja page

Whilst you are correct about it not being referenced well (I often have that problem), there are pages such as "Name of Hungary" and "Name of Croatia". If this is deleted, then shouldn't those be deleted as well, or if they aren't deleted, shouldn't my page not be deleted either? -EggSalt (talk) 09:55, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Piv PivPiv

Hey, don't you dare to delete page Piv PivPiv or else you are disabled and I will report you!!!!!Sfvadsgfaegf (talk) 20:14, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Arktika 2007

Hi Kolbasz, I saw that you were nice enough to fix and edit units for some pages. Specifically, I was looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Arktika_2007&diff=713199594&oldid=696581535 And noticed that, by its statement that the mission was planned by USSR KGB along with CIA so that it was obviously false because not only are the KBG and CIA not in those research industries and not working together, the USSR did not exist at the time of this mission. Looking back, I realized that the page had been vandalized at least twice. One should be obvious by the link I embedded, and another was the change of Mike McDowell to Mike McDonald. There may be others. I suspect that there is a tool for reversing the vandalism based up user or something, but I am a novice here. I will try to fix these two cases, but there may be more that I am missing. In case there are these other tools, would you please check that I did it correctly or just fix it over my fix?

I only ever edited one wikipedia page a couple of years ago to fix something obvious. I will try to not mess it up. btw, thanks for caring about SI units. Date formats are a pet peeve of mine. If this is not the correct way to send you a message, please just delete this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truthercollector (talk • contribs) 18:21, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

@Truthercollector: Nice catch! My edit on that page was one of a whole bunch aimed at fixing all the "Artic" and "Antartic" misspellings of "Arctic" and "Antarctic" on Wikipedia, so I wasn't really looking at the content on the page - I merely checked if the word really was supposed to be "Arctic" (and not an acronym or something).

There are tools like Huggle, as well as things like rollback rights, to help you fight vandalism, but in general it gets complicated if the vandal edits aren't the most recent ones (so edits like mine on that page complicate things - oops!). When the vandalism is old and has had a bunch of constructive edits since, I find it easiest to go back and edit the first pre-vandalism revision of the page (go to the page history, click on the first unvandalized revision, and hit "edit") and manually copy over any constructive edits since (i.e. hit "Show changes" - which will then show you the changes between the current version and that old version - and copy over what isn't vandalism). In any case, you seem to have gotten all the vandalism on that page. Good job! Cheers. Kolbasz (talk) 09:13, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

thank you

..for your edits to Bath School disaster. I wanted to let you know that I have adjusted the wording back to "detonated an explosion" to describe what Kehoe constructed at the School. This usage does not appear to be incorrect - I did a search for "detonated an explosion" and found many examples with no results for a clear grammatical/usage reliable source stating that 'detonating a device' is more-preferred/-accepted over 'detonating an explosion'. What Kehoe set up at the School would probably be more clearly defined as a massive explosion of a set of relays rather than a single device. (The half of the school that wasn't destroyed was also wired to explode but the timer or timers did not not go off.) I have left your descriptor of the explosion of the car as is - that was clearly a single explosion, the trigger in this case being the gun that Kehoe & Superintendent Huyck struggled over before the car was obliterated. Shearonink (talk) 20:30, 1 May 2016 (UTC)