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WP:CENT
Why did you remove it? Its a WP:VITAL article, its been in dispute for years. Giving it the widest possible coverage is useful and makes it much more likely to avoid having to go to arbitration. Besides its not as if there is anything else useful to post in its place. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- Retracting per User_talk:Yoenit#WP:CENT. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:47, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
- Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
- PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
- Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
- Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
- Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
- Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
- Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
- Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Grandiose (submissions), Stone (submissions), Eisfbnore (submissions), Canada Hky (submissions) and MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Templates to added Ironman articles
I noticed that you added {{Refimprove}} templates to the various Ironman series articles, including 2011 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. Are you challenging the race results in the article or the other content? The reason I ask is because race results are not listed in one central location or WTC results database (like, for instance, ITU events) but instead in individual race website databases or news coverage of individual events. If this is the material you're challenging, you've requested upwards of 150 to 200 new individual inline citations on material I would personally do not consider contentious or likely to be challenged (but perhaps I'm mistaken on this last point). I'm looking to avoid mindless and tedious editing to correct this as I suspect there would be no other willing participants to do the work necessary to remove the templates. Thanks. BarkeepChat/$ 18:25, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
- No I don't challenge the result on any of these pages, but someone other could do. The point is that they lack references. For example if an IP would changes names in one of the articles, than how would you know, that this is vandalism and not correcting wrong names. There is no need for inline citations, you can use the method for example on 2010–11 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 08:29, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
- I would actually prefer to avoid that style of citation as it doesn't follow any manual of style for citations that I know of (but I might be wrong), is prone to link rot, and generally appears to reflect a lack of effort on the editors part in adding complete citations. Regardless, care to help me fix this error you've helped identify? BarkeepChat/$ 03:58, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Of course I'm willing to help. You just have to place the links of results somewhere (for example there, ordered by season). Oh and I agree with you about this citation style. It's not optimal, but at least every information is referenced and they could be converted to proper citations (if somebody really wants it). Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 07:32, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I would actually prefer to avoid that style of citation as it doesn't follow any manual of style for citations that I know of (but I might be wrong), is prone to link rot, and generally appears to reflect a lack of effort on the editors part in adding complete citations. Regardless, care to help me fix this error you've helped identify? BarkeepChat/$ 03:58, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Cuetracker links removed
Hi, I provided a few links to statistics websites for snooker tournaments/players, and you removed them with reason 'not needed'. I wonder why this is, and what the difference is between my page (I own the website I posted), and the other pages that are listed in external links. My page offers a lot of statistics that the others do not, and the others actually contain broadly the same info. Please let me know what I did wrong, and how I can help the community by providing this information. All the best, Ron (Visionaire87 (talk) 21:44, 5 September 2011 (UTC))
- The problem with this external links on player articles is that: (1) If you want to add links to statistics of the current season, than you have to update them for every season. But the other external links are stable and don't need continually updating. (2) If you want add links to every season (I assume you will not stop adding dates from earlier to the website won't stop), would clutter the external links section of articles. There is also a conflict of interest for you and one could say you just added this links to promote your website. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 07:28, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. "(1) If you want to add links to statistics of the current season, than you have to update them for every season." What exactly do you mean by update for every season? I had linked to players results and statistics on the player wiki's and tournament/season stats on their wikis. If all results for the current season are logged I fail to see the stability issue you find. I also fail to see how this would be considered clutter, as you currently have links (going to WWWsnooker, WorldSnooker, ProSnookerBlog and GlobalSnooker) on several pages which show the same results as my page does, however mine does show a lot more statistics that the others do not. How do you then determine that mine is cluttering up the links, while it shows something more than the current ones there? The COI-issue I can see, however since I am not making any money from this site, and the whole reason I started it is to share information and make statistics accessible to everyone at no charge, I feel this would be very valuable to Wikipedia readers, and even from the short time the links were present could already see several wiki users clicking them (including yourself I believe based on location). I respect your opinion and decision, however I feel that I am actually offering a lot additional to the articles that I posted links in, something that would genuinely give people a source of more valuable information, which after all is what Wikipedia is all about. I await your reply with interest. Kind regards, Ron (Visionaire87 (talk) (08:25, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- It looks like you didn't carefully read, what I wrote. Firstly I sayed if you want, that the link points to the current seasons stats, than you have to update the link for at the beginning of the season and therefore this link wouldn't be stable. Secondly I said if you want to add links to every seasons stats (I assume there won't be just three seasons on the webpage). And by the way no external links section has more than one link to the same website. They would be useful if the website would have pages, where the stats for every season are present at the same time. If this would exist, than I even would be help to add such links. It's also interesting to note, that these links were only added for top players (such as Ronnie O'Sullivan or Mark Williams), and not for lesser known players (Kurt Maflin or Zhang Anda) Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 08:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I see your point, I apologize for the confusion. Regarding the season stats, for example the current season (2011/2012). The link is this. The link will stay the same, although of course the page itself would feature more information as the season progresses. Season 2010/2011 is now complete, and shows a more complete picture. I believe this would be what you mean with "pages, where the stats for every season are present at the same time". Otherwise, you might be helped by the pages on here. Also, most pages have year/season selectors on them. If this is not what you mean by that, then I must be misunderstanding, apologies for that. The reason I only added them for the main players so far, was that a) it would all be manual work, and as there is currently just under 1000 players in my database I have to start somewhere. The main players would make most people aware of the site, and would let them easily access the statistics for players they want. b) I did not want to get blocked for spamming either. It was never my intention to spam or to promote my own site, simply to provide access to what I believe is, and with more tournaments being added every day, will increasingly be, a valuable resource. (Visionaire87 (talk) 08:53, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- Not exactly. I mean for example this page shows O'Sullivan's stats for the 2011/2012 season, but it would be more useful for the Wikipedia article about him, if there was one page which would contain O'Sullivan's stats from every season present in this database (this link currently doesn't work). This would be really valuable and I would support such addition. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 09:02, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I see. The link actually shows stats and such for his all-time record (once all results from the past are added in of course), the reason it has the &year=2011 behind it is purely for the match results on the left hand side of the page. It shows stats for all-time, but not all match results on one page, as that page would become so long that it would be difficult to read. I therefore have added the Year and Main Tour Season selectors in the top left-hand corner of the page, to be able to show stats for a certain period only. So in effect, the link does what you ask, with the exception that you have to choose a time period to show match results to improve readability. Would you consider this sufficient? If not, I also have to take into account the load on the servers would be huge to display a page with not only all stats as done now, but also all match results for a player like O'Sullivan, who will have thousands of matches on his record once all is complete. Also, what of, for example, the tournament pages (for example this and its corresponding ranking page this). I would love to work out a way to add these, and am willing to work with you to achieve something that works :) (Visionaire87 (talk) 09:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- Well the readability could be maintained by creating a base page which contains the stats on the left side of the page and a selection part for the actual player on the right side of the page (where currently if you choose some time period the matches are listed). This way it would become a general player profile without problems with readability or server loading time. As for tournament pages and the corresponding ranking pages, they have very little information, which isn't currently present in the articles or references. For example the extra information in this is, that the century breaks of the qualifying rounds are at the matches in them they were compiled. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 10:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- That I won't be able to do, as I believe that while this may work for a Wikipedia link, it would be very confusing for general visitors to the site. Also, I want to combine all information on one page, which is why I created it in this way in the first place. I believe the page the way it is would stil add value to the Wiki article, as it actually does show more than the system you are suggesting, and I believe it is also less confusing. I see your point regarding the tournament pages, and will not be adding those to the wiki. Would you allow adding of the season pages, as discussed before, as they do show and link to various statistics? (Visionaire87 (talk) 10:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- Would it be possible if nor year, nor season selection was made, that it displays the matches from the current season? As for the season links they could be added, but some corrections would be beneficial. The player links should link to their results in the relevant season and not the most recent/current. For example at the 2009/2010 season the players link to their matches from the 2011, but IMO they should to the matches in the 2009/2010 season. Than Ok, as I already reinstated the link for the current season. The reason for this removal could be expanded to: info about a previous season not needed on this article. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 10:45, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Regarding the removal reason, I seem to have added the wrong link there, fair enough. I will make the correction you recommended of the player links in the season overview linking to their results for that season. I will also adjust the player page as you described, so that it defaults to the current season. So, just to be clear, if I change it so that http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/players.php?pl=18 shows Ronnie's stats for all-time, as well as his matches for the current season, I can add it to his Wiki page? I will make the corrections tonight. Thanks for working with me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Visionaire87 (talk • contribs) 11:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- If you make these changes, than I would add myself too. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 11:06, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I have made the changes we discussed, and added links to Ronnie O'Sullivan and Season 2010/2011's article. I hope this is all right with you. If so, please let me know, and I will add some more as I come across them. Please note I will not be able to add huge amounts within a short time period, as I am a bit busy at work unfortunately. Thanks for all your help! (Visionaire87 (talk) 22:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- Okay. I just added some links myself to other articles. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 22:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- It seems some guy called Sole_Soul has found it necessary to remove some of the links again. I've already tried to ask him why, no reply yet. Is there some sort of control you have over this? (Visionaire87 (talk) 08:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
- I have no control over this, but I have re-added the links, because the user removed the links without explanation. Regards, Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 08:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- Guess I'll have to leave adding links to you and others, as I'm getting too much flak from other moderators who only look at the spamming rules, and not at the actual content of the page. I unfortunately don't have time to convince them of the point you already see. Thanks for your help anyway! (Visionaire87 (talk) 15:16, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
- I have no control over this, but I have re-added the links, because the user removed the links without explanation. Regards, Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 08:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- It seems some guy called Sole_Soul has found it necessary to remove some of the links again. I've already tried to ask him why, no reply yet. Is there some sort of control you have over this? (Visionaire87 (talk) 08:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
- Okay. I just added some links myself to other articles. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 22:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I have made the changes we discussed, and added links to Ronnie O'Sullivan and Season 2010/2011's article. I hope this is all right with you. If so, please let me know, and I will add some more as I come across them. Please note I will not be able to add huge amounts within a short time period, as I am a bit busy at work unfortunately. Thanks for all your help! (Visionaire87 (talk) 22:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- If you make these changes, than I would add myself too. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 11:06, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Regarding the removal reason, I seem to have added the wrong link there, fair enough. I will make the correction you recommended of the player links in the season overview linking to their results for that season. I will also adjust the player page as you described, so that it defaults to the current season. So, just to be clear, if I change it so that http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/players.php?pl=18 shows Ronnie's stats for all-time, as well as his matches for the current season, I can add it to his Wiki page? I will make the corrections tonight. Thanks for working with me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Visionaire87 (talk • contribs) 11:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Would it be possible if nor year, nor season selection was made, that it displays the matches from the current season? As for the season links they could be added, but some corrections would be beneficial. The player links should link to their results in the relevant season and not the most recent/current. For example at the 2009/2010 season the players link to their matches from the 2011, but IMO they should to the matches in the 2009/2010 season. Than Ok, as I already reinstated the link for the current season. The reason for this removal could be expanded to: info about a previous season not needed on this article. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 10:45, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- That I won't be able to do, as I believe that while this may work for a Wikipedia link, it would be very confusing for general visitors to the site. Also, I want to combine all information on one page, which is why I created it in this way in the first place. I believe the page the way it is would stil add value to the Wiki article, as it actually does show more than the system you are suggesting, and I believe it is also less confusing. I see your point regarding the tournament pages, and will not be adding those to the wiki. Would you allow adding of the season pages, as discussed before, as they do show and link to various statistics? (Visionaire87 (talk) 10:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- Well the readability could be maintained by creating a base page which contains the stats on the left side of the page and a selection part for the actual player on the right side of the page (where currently if you choose some time period the matches are listed). This way it would become a general player profile without problems with readability or server loading time. As for tournament pages and the corresponding ranking pages, they have very little information, which isn't currently present in the articles or references. For example the extra information in this is, that the century breaks of the qualifying rounds are at the matches in them they were compiled. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 10:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I see. The link actually shows stats and such for his all-time record (once all results from the past are added in of course), the reason it has the &year=2011 behind it is purely for the match results on the left hand side of the page. It shows stats for all-time, but not all match results on one page, as that page would become so long that it would be difficult to read. I therefore have added the Year and Main Tour Season selectors in the top left-hand corner of the page, to be able to show stats for a certain period only. So in effect, the link does what you ask, with the exception that you have to choose a time period to show match results to improve readability. Would you consider this sufficient? If not, I also have to take into account the load on the servers would be huge to display a page with not only all stats as done now, but also all match results for a player like O'Sullivan, who will have thousands of matches on his record once all is complete. Also, what of, for example, the tournament pages (for example this and its corresponding ranking page this). I would love to work out a way to add these, and am willing to work with you to achieve something that works :) (Visionaire87 (talk) 09:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- Not exactly. I mean for example this page shows O'Sullivan's stats for the 2011/2012 season, but it would be more useful for the Wikipedia article about him, if there was one page which would contain O'Sullivan's stats from every season present in this database (this link currently doesn't work). This would be really valuable and I would support such addition. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 09:02, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- I see your point, I apologize for the confusion. Regarding the season stats, for example the current season (2011/2012). The link is this. The link will stay the same, although of course the page itself would feature more information as the season progresses. Season 2010/2011 is now complete, and shows a more complete picture. I believe this would be what you mean with "pages, where the stats for every season are present at the same time". Otherwise, you might be helped by the pages on here. Also, most pages have year/season selectors on them. If this is not what you mean by that, then I must be misunderstanding, apologies for that. The reason I only added them for the main players so far, was that a) it would all be manual work, and as there is currently just under 1000 players in my database I have to start somewhere. The main players would make most people aware of the site, and would let them easily access the statistics for players they want. b) I did not want to get blocked for spamming either. It was never my intention to spam or to promote my own site, simply to provide access to what I believe is, and with more tournaments being added every day, will increasingly be, a valuable resource. (Visionaire87 (talk) 08:53, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
- It looks like you didn't carefully read, what I wrote. Firstly I sayed if you want, that the link points to the current seasons stats, than you have to update the link for at the beginning of the season and therefore this link wouldn't be stable. Secondly I said if you want to add links to every seasons stats (I assume there won't be just three seasons on the webpage). And by the way no external links section has more than one link to the same website. They would be useful if the website would have pages, where the stats for every season are present at the same time. If this would exist, than I even would be help to add such links. It's also interesting to note, that these links were only added for top players (such as Ronnie O'Sullivan or Mark Williams), and not for lesser known players (Kurt Maflin or Zhang Anda) Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 08:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. "(1) If you want to add links to statistics of the current season, than you have to update them for every season." What exactly do you mean by update for every season? I had linked to players results and statistics on the player wiki's and tournament/season stats on their wikis. If all results for the current season are logged I fail to see the stability issue you find. I also fail to see how this would be considered clutter, as you currently have links (going to WWWsnooker, WorldSnooker, ProSnookerBlog and GlobalSnooker) on several pages which show the same results as my page does, however mine does show a lot more statistics that the others do not. How do you then determine that mine is cluttering up the links, while it shows something more than the current ones there? The COI-issue I can see, however since I am not making any money from this site, and the whole reason I started it is to share information and make statistics accessible to everyone at no charge, I feel this would be very valuable to Wikipedia readers, and even from the short time the links were present could already see several wiki users clicking them (including yourself I believe based on location). I respect your opinion and decision, however I feel that I am actually offering a lot additional to the articles that I posted links in, something that would genuinely give people a source of more valuable information, which after all is what Wikipedia is all about. I await your reply with interest. Kind regards, Ron (Visionaire87 (talk) (08:25, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
The Signpost: 05 September 2011
- News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive
- WikiProject report: Riding with WikiProject London Transport
- Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments 2011
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Opinion essay: The copyright crisis, and why we should care
- Arbitration report: BLP case closed; Cirt-Jayen466 nearly there; AUSC reshuffle
Mosconi Cups
I replaced history in categories with sport in categories, may be that makes more sense. Tim! (talk) 06:33, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, that makes sense. The history categories looked quite funny. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 07:55, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm impressed :)
I saw Higgins beat Bingham live on Eurosport, walked three meters to my laptop, checked my watchlist and saw you had updated already - [1]. Keep up the good work, Finn Rindahl (talk) 09:34, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 September 2011
- News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canada, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked
- WikiProject report: Politics in the Pacific: WikiProject Australian Politics
- Featured content: Wikipedians explain two new featured pictures
- Arbitration report: Ohconfucius sanctions removed, Cirt desysopped 6:5 and a call for CU/OS applications
- Technology report: What is: agile development? and new mobile site goes live
- Opinion essay: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Replace logo on M/C Partners Wikipedia page
Hi, I have been attempting (obviously unsuccessfully) to update the logo on the M/C Partners page (formerly the M/C Venture Partners page). A jpeg of the new logo is located there. Is this something I should be able to do, and I just lack the proficiency, or am I supposed to request to have this done? I am contacting you as you so kindly assisted me with previous edits to this page. Thank you, Lesliellen Lesliellen (talk) 02:33, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
- Have uploaded the picture for you, you can found it at File:MC Partners logo.jpg. BTW you can only upload files if you're account is older than 4 days and made 10 edits, but you have made only 5 edits. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 08:03, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for your assistance and the info! Lesliellen (talk) 13:03, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Template Migrations
Can you consider re-writing {{logo fur}} and {{Album cover fur}} in the way you did {{poster fur}} ? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:59, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
- I can't do that, as these pages are protected and only admins can edit them. By the way they are currently redirects but if wan't to make a requested edit, than there are the codes. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 12:11, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Template codes
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A cup of coffee for you!
For all that Image cleanup! Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:35, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
Recent photo rejection for 'The David (band)'
Hello, Yesterday I attempted to submit a photo for request in order for it to be used on an article on which I'm working called The David (band). The article is not yet saved as it is halfway done and I was just wondering if that was the reason for your rejection of the photo. Must I wait until after my article has been completed and approved by other Wikepedia editors/users before I can incorporate photos into it? Your feedback would be awesome, Jeremy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.11.244.5 (talk) 16:02, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- I have decline you upload request because, the files license wasn't clear and there was no article about this band. According to this, the picture was cropped from the back cover of the bands album titled "Another Day, Another Lifetime". As covers are presumed copyrighted, this had to be declined. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 02:23, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on image cleanup!
Even if you did unearth two pictures of me I had completely forgotten about. I just went ahead and deleted them and closed out the discussions. Embarrassed now. Cheers. -- Merope 21:25, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well I only could find those images, because Sfan00 IMG (talk · contribs) marked both pictures for renaming. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 02:30, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Moved Barnstar to User:Armbrust/My Barnstars. |
Thanks. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 07:36, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Image renaming
I was working from: Wikipedia:Database reports/Largely duplicative file names. It might be worth going through that list more directly? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:31, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- I tend to agree with you. Is there some data, how many of these files exist on en.wp? Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 07:34, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Screenshot of Windows Defender on Windows 8
Hello Armbrust. I am afraid I have to remove your recently uploaded screenshot of Windows Defender on Windows 8 since it violates most of Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy, including but not limited to #1, #8 and #10. Generally speaking, the rationale for using this non-free image is to help people distinguish it. But Windows 8 is still at pre-beta (= "Developer preview") stage, therefore very few need to visually identify the Windows Defender that comes with Windows 8 while many need to identify the current production version. NFCC #1 and #8 are also violated: Simply saying that Windows Defender in Windows 8 is almost completely similar to Microsoft Security Essentials is enough. (So, as you see, text replaces non-free image.) Fleet Command (talk) 03:41, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
- Well I don't know anything about it. I just uploaded the file at the request of 84.90.100.35 (talk) at Files for upload. If you want you can nominate it for speedy deletion too. In this case please don't notify me. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 03:46, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
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Just letting you know
I withdrew a statement that you had chosen to endorse. My explanation is here. Thanks for your endorsement, and I'm sorry for wasting it. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. Have stricken my endorsement in light of the withdrawal. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 13:45, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the housekeeping on the force-velocity redundant image.--Gciriani (talk) 19:35, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- No problem. It was found only because it's name was too similar to an other file. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 19:40, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
WP:NASCAR Newsletter (September 2011)
The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
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Article of the month – 2010 AAA 400, a good article
The 2010 AAA 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 26, 2010 at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. The 400 lap race was the twenty-eighth in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the second race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson, of the Hendrick Motorsports team. Jeff Burton finished second, and Joey Logano, who started nineteenth, clinched third. Pole position driver Jimmie Johnson maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as A. J. Allmendinger, who started in the second position on the grid, remained behind him. Fourteen laps later Allmendinger became the leader of the race. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Clint Bowyer, and Tony Stewart were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Afterward, Johnson became the leader of the race, once Allmendinger pitted because of a loose wheel. Johnson maintained the first position to lead the most laps of 191, and to win his sixth race of the season. There were four cautions and eighteen lead changes among ten different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Jimmie Johnson's sixth win in the 2010 season, and the fifty-third of his career. The result moved Johnson up to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Denny Hamlin and ten ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-five ahead of Toyota and eighty ahead of Ford, with eight races remaining in the season. A total of 88,000 people attended the race, while 3.966 million watched it on television. (More...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SimCity 4 Screenshot
All right, I've added details for the section that I believe it should be placed in. By the way, thanks for the help! :) Elemented9 (talk) 18:23, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
- File is now uploaded at File:SimCity 4 Modified Content Screenshot.jpg. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 19:06, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
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Player categories
Just a minor request: When working on a player bio, please make sure that the nationality category for the person exists, and create it (and tag its talk page) if it doesn't exist yet. E.g. Stephan Cohen was (properly) labeled with Category:French pool players, since 2009, but that category didn't exist until tonight, and as a result the WP:CUE project at large didn't even know the article existed. I also just created Category:Italian pool players, since Stefano Pelinga was categorized thus. I'm sure there are other missing categories of this sort (and perhaps some "Category:X snooker players", "Category:X carom billiards players", too), but they are hard to track down. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 06:14, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Sp33dyphil (submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:27, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Go look and edit what needs an editing.The Gypsy Vagabond Man (talk) 22:52, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- Seems everything okay, but is one line sections without the chance for expansion really needed? These are the following sections: Rotterdam, Monte Carlo Masters, London (Queens) and China Open. Didn't count the section "French Open", because it could and should be expanded. Also I don't think there is any need for subsections in the "Davis Cup" section, like the "Argentina vs Serbia". Regards, Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 14:01, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much. --Haardee (talk) 08:19, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Diana Salvatore
I'm not sure what you need to approve this article, so please let me know because Diana is about to take off career wise. (Chevy commercial link) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.34.128.149 (talk) 21:59, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well in order to accept this article, it needs reliable sources, which independent of the subject. Lets see the source currently in the article: Youtube isn't reliable, official website isn't independent, Facebook isn't reliable nor independent, IMDb isn't reliable and the High 4 Manangment website isn't independent. This means there is no third party reliable source in the submission. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 22:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you
Thank you for accepting my Files for Upload submissions. 50.50.77.182 (talk) 15:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- I thank you also for providing better quality images from these logos. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 16:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Holocaust Memorial.jpg
Hi Armbrust, Direct url to the image source added to the description section under the picture (http://www.yuriboyko.com/album/memorial#1). Best, --Yuri. (91.79.198.223 (talk) 06:27, 10 October 2011 (UTC))
- File is now uploaded. You can find it at File:Holocaust Memorial 18 September 2011.jpg. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 09:21, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Armbrust, the image was accepted and uploaded, but doesn't show up in the gallery of images or within article's body. Please explain, thx. (91.79.198.223 (talk) 09:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC))
- Well I have uploaded the image, but that doesn't mean it will be automatically added to the article. You have to add it to the article yourself. Regards, Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 09:21, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarification. BTW, if later the URL to the source on my site will change how do I update wikipedia's tag 'source'?(91.79.198.223 (talk) 10:54, 10 October 2011 (UTC))
- You click on the "[edit]" button at the end of the line with "Summary", replace the link and than click on "Save page". Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 10:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarification. BTW, if later the URL to the source on my site will change how do I update wikipedia's tag 'source'?(91.79.198.223 (talk) 10:54, 10 October 2011 (UTC))
- Well I have uploaded the image, but that doesn't mean it will be automatically added to the article. You have to add it to the article yourself. Regards, Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 09:21, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Armbrust, the image was accepted and uploaded, but doesn't show up in the gallery of images or within article's body. Please explain, thx. (91.79.198.223 (talk) 09:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC))
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Tatiana Woollaston
FYI... they changed the rules on WP:BLPPROD again. No longer do you need a reliable reference, but now all you need is any reference. So, under new rules, her website counts as a reference. Bgwhite (talk) 06:31, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 07:39, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Re: Lipkin photo
You say: "This request has been placed on hold while pending a confirmation of permission. If a response is not received within seven days, the request will be declined. Sir Armbrust" - what can I do to give you more evidence? HostDavid (talk) 10:12, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- The permission should be given to Wikipedia as a e-mail and not through a file, which could be deleted any time. You should follow the instructions given at WP:CONSENT. Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 10:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- I have asked Yvonne to send them that e-mail. Thank you very much. After she has sent the email, will she be sent a link for how to use the photo on a page?