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Death of Charlotte Shaw

I've reviewed the article here and placed it on hold. There are no real issues, so it shouldn't take long to pass. --Sarastro1 (talk) 20:11, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Much obliged. I shall venture over there a little later. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:21, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

ITN/C

Hey. I nominated the Man Booker International Prize at ITN/C a few days ago and I've just finished working on the article, but I suddenly thought that it might be too late to post it, what do you think? - JuneGloom Talk 22:58, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

It seems BorgQueen has just posted it. The rule of theumb is that it's not too late until it's older than the odlest item currently on the template, so it looks like you were just in time. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:04, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
So she has, hurrah! That makes up for my Cannes mistake earlier, did you see it? I didn't realise someone else had already nominted it. Thank you. :) - JuneGloom Talk 23:20, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Any time. :) No, I didn't. I've only been maintaining a token level of activity the last few days (I've had my grandmother down and I've had other real life stuff to take care of) but I should have more time to catch up on ITN and the rest of my to-do list in the week. I think all the regulars have done that at some point—it was quite common before we changed the format to use the TOC. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Camille Horiot

Hello, I've just edited the above article (recent changes patrol). However, on reading the article I think it's possible it shouldn't be there - the subject is 16 years old, not notable and there isn't a corresponding article in the French wikipedia. I'm sorry to bother you but I'm not sure what to do. Can you help? Denisarona (talk) 10:33, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

It has a claim of significance good enough for A7 so you can't speedy it (unless it's a hoax). If you think deletion is in order, you'll have to use WP:PROD or WP:AFD. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:24, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
It now seems to have disappeared. Denisarona (talk) 20:12, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Yes, it seems I didn't investigate thoroughly enough. The claim of significance was that she was featured on a blue-linked (so presumably notable) website, which would have got her past A7. However, Mike Rosoft determined that the website fell under CSD A7 and speedied that article, leaving our friend without a leg to stand on, so he deleted her article as well. And that's why idiot admins shouldn't take things at face value! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:20, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
No problems, thanks for the help & you do yourself a disservice with the 'idiot admin' link!! Denisarona (talk) 06:58, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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Connormah (talk) 04:57, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Death of Charlotte Shaw

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Death of Charlotte Shaw

I've passed the article. However, I'm not sure it's in the right section. Although I think sports and recreation is probably the right area, it seems a little odd to begin with, and I put it in miscellaneous sports but feel free to move it to somewhere better if you have another idea. --Sarastro1 (talk) 20:06, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I wasn't sure where to put it either. I initially filed it under misc. and someone else changed it to sports and recreation. I might drop a note on WT:GA or somewhere. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:58, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Socratic barnstar

 The Socratic Barnstar

Without saying whether I agree with your specific comment or with many things you say in community discussions, I must commend your sardonically blunt remark here. It really did make me laugh aloud. I wish that more participants in community discussion had your oratory ability :). Regards, AGK [•] 21:38, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I guess the faceless, monolothic ArbCom is an easy target, and perhaps I should cut them some more slack (I voted to put most of the there!) but my frustration with the incumbent Committee isn't much of a secret. Now, a gentleman who keeps his own opinions so close to his chest either doesn't want to offend somebody by taking a side, or is planning a bid to get himself onto ArbCom come December... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:22, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
I am firmly in the former camp. IRL would simply not forgive me for the 2-3 hours spent on Wikipedia per day :). Also, the current ArbCom are pretty good IMV—and certainly better than what we could, and have, had in previous years! AGK [•] 08:36, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
They could be a lot worse, I suppose. They haven't made any truly disastrous decisions, but they do seem to be shying away from a big or controversial decision that might make a meaningful difference. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Weird entry on talk page, allegedly by you

This diff shows a comment on PMDrive's talk page which is allegedly by you but was subsequently auto-signed by Sinebot or similar. Seems weird to me, although I know nothing about the context. Has someone copy/pasted your sig into a message of their own? - Sitush (talk) 00:34, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Forget it. Just blocked as vandal-only. - Sitush (talk) 00:40, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Well, they say imitation is the highest form of flattery... :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:52, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
... and apparently the quickest way to get "flattened" on WP! Blocked for vandal-only after just one contribution. - Sitush (talk) 11:57, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Oh, I'd bet good money on it being a sock of banned user. The only doubt is over which one! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:59, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

File unprotection request

Hey. Would you be able to take the protection off File:Palestine recognitions only.png, since the dispute was resolved (or at least stopped) a fair while ago? If it's any evidence, the file File:Palestine relations.png, which is also in the article and was subject to the same dispute, has remained stable. Cheers, Night w2 (talk) 14:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. Unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Night w2 (talk) 15:09, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Peer Review

I have reopened up the article Walt Disney for peer review over here. I noticed you are a volunteer over at peer review and was hoping that you could provide some time and energy to take a look at the article and provide feedback. Thank you. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

As interested as I am, and as much as I would like to see the article on the Main Page as the featured article one day, I'm really not sure you're going to get much out of the PR. I can tell just by scrolling through it that it has serious issues that would result in a quick-fail at GAN, never mind FAC. The biggest problem is the referencing: you have huge chunks (and entire sections) of unsourced or almost unsourced text. There's nothing PR can do for you until the referencing is sorted out. There are other issues, but they're mostly superficial and addressing them is a waste of time until it's nearly ready for GAN. I'd be glad to get my teeth into it to give it the final push towards GA, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to respectfully decline until the referencing is improved. Sorry to disappoint. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:34, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Nope, no disappointment at all. It is a point in a good direction. Thanks again Tiggerjay (talk) 00:52, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

History Merge?

Hi HJ - can you perform a histmerge on User:Connormah/William L. Walsh and William L Walsh, the mainspace article, just so I don't screw anything up (never done one before) - also, if you have time, could you help in writing a lead for the article? (gonna try for GA possibly) Thanks. Connormah (talk) 03:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Done. That was simple because the target didn't have much recenet history, so it doesn't make a mess. Oh, I went to William L. Walsh (with the dot), since the spelling without the dot is a red link (which I'll redirect to the dot while I'm thinking about it). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:08, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, much appreciated. Gotta read up on how to do that in the future, I guess, haha. Connormah (talk) 18:58, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
No problem. It's not normally tricky. If you're just merging a sandbox and an article, move the sandbox and then tick the box to delete the existing article. Then all you have to do is restore the deleted revisions. It can get a bit more tricky when there are lots of edits involved, but the principle is to get all the history in one place. The rest can be sorted without admin tools. I'll see what i can do about that lead of yours later on, but I'm in the middle of revamping a British general atm. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

ANI

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been tangentially involved (I'm using one of your blocks as an example). The thread is Block of User:Omer123hussain.The discussion is about the topic User:Omer123hussain. Thank you. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 18:20, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Northolt crest

Thanks for your note. I reduced it to that size as that's the size used in the infobox but I'll upload it again as 200px. Harrison49 (talk) 22:05, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

In response to your email

1) Apologies - my overly agresive SPAM filter blocked it. 2) No - it's your high ground "better than you" approach that catches my snark. You're an admin on Wikipedia - woope-do (so am I! waheeyyy!!). You seem to think it gives you some kind of "status" - I disagree. It gives you neither status in real life nor status on this website. Try and pull back the arrogance, and perhaps you won't catch my (and indeed others) dismissive attitude. You're surely a nice chap and to be fair much (most) of your commentary is very valid. But the arrogance and one-upmanship seeps through it.

By the way, the host of boiling in your face templated bollocks and pictures of LOLcats when I click the edit link on your talk is about as much evidence as I need that you really need to stop taking yourself and your "position" quite so seriously. Pedro :  Chat  21:12, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Airazor page

Hi, I don't know if you remember but you oversaw a deletion review of a page for the fictional character Airazor a while back. It was borderline from keep or merge, but you went with merger. I was working on it in my userspace, adding sources and the like, and rewriting the introduction. I was wondering if maybe the page could get another shot. Thanks! User:Mathewignash/Airazor Mathewignash (talk) 21:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

The name doesn't ring a bell. Any chance of a link to the AfD/DRV/whatever forum I was involved in? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:17, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Sure, here you go: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Airazor, as you can see the article was borderline, with some KEEP and some DELETE, you went with a MERGE. I added lots of sources to the article and cleaned it up in my userspace, so I was hoping it might justify it going to KEEP. Let me know if you have any questions. Mathewignash (talk) 12:20, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll look at this later today. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:22, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
I might also point out that the first DELETE vote was from a guy who was later discovered to be a sock puppet, so you might want to discount his opinion.Mathewignash (talk) 12:23, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
I have to say, from a glance at the version in your userspace, I have some reservations about this going back into mainspace. Why can't it be covered adequately in the list article to which it was merged? And, if it does merit a standalone article, the sourcing will need to be addressed. I can't judge the offline sources, but none of the online sources look like reliable, high quality, secondary sources to me. If you haven't already, it might be worth your while contacting J Milburn (talk · contribs), the nominator, and seeking his comments. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:06, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't really see that helping. He's a bit of a anti-Transformer deleter, who wouldn't want the article back. Mathewignash (talk) 22:46, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
There are a few of those, but it might be that they area response to what they perceive as a desire to create articles on every aspect of Transformers, regardless of its notability outside the Transformers worls. It was the same with Pokemon and I'm sure there are plenty of other examples. Still, I'm not convinced this particualr character merits a standalone article and it would take quite a bit more reliable sourcing to convince me. Alternatively, if you think it's ready for mainspace and I'm being unfair, I won't be offnded if you take it to DRV. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:02, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
DRV is pretty heavy anti-fictional characters these days from what I've seen. I'll keep an eye open for more sources, and maybe ask again later if I find a couple good one. See, a half year or so ago a couple guys went on a Transformers deletion spree/, I tried to archive the ones I thought might be worth keeping, and add sources whenever I find them. Maybe they will be up to notability some time. Lacking that, I'm working on fully merging the info to the other pages. Thanks. Mathewignash (talk) 23:45, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
I remember being vaguely aware of it from seeing a lot of AfDs and subsequent DRVs on Trnasformers-related subjects. Maybe not all those subjects warranted their own articles. Maybe those separating the wheat from the chaff went a little too far. I don't know, though I can guess there'll be people who say the "deletion spree" didn;t go far enough. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with going into detail in a broad list article (and it can always be split alphabetically if it becomes too long). I'll be happy to have another look at Airazorif you can find some more, decent sources. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:57, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
What I found frustrating is the inconsistancy from one deletion review to the next. Someone would AfD several cast members of a TV show, all with pretty equal coverage and sources. Some would be keeps, some merges, some deleted, seemingly based on who arrived to vote that day, and the wims of the admin closing the debate. For instance one of the 5 dinobots was deleted, two of the 6 Constructicons were deleted. It was pretty random. For the cast of the Beast Wars TV show, Airazor, Blackarachnia, Tigatron and Tigerhawk got deleted, but the rest of the cast are still there. I don't know the reasoning behind that, but if I complain too loudly, I'm sure someone will renominate the other cast members for deletion again. At the time there was also a rash of sock puppet nominations and votes. I'm told that sock puppets nominating deletions doesn't matter if one "good faith" delete vote was cast, but there are dozens of deletion nominations done by sock puppeteers, then voted for by the "deletion patrol", claiming they didn't know it was a sock puppet who did the AfD. Mathewignash (talk) 00:26, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Such is the way with Wikipedia and its model of volunteers forming consensus and other volunteers evaluating the consensus. We all have our own opinions as well as real lives which mean we can't participate in every AfD (whether we want a 50k article on everything connected to Transformers or to remove the articles from the face of the Earth). If you have ten different AfDs on similar subjects, it's entirely possible that ten different admins will close them and the result will appear entirely random. As for the socking, I don't know what happened there, but sock nominators are often not discovered to be socks until the AfD is well underway (and sometimes long after it's closed. I guess you could go through and try to merge some that were deleted for consistency's sake. I can email or userfy anything you need. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:45, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

PROD

Would you mind either restoring the article on Good News Unlimited or userfying it somewhere so I can look at it? If there was a decent article on it, I would like to take it and make it better. If its hopeless, then, although I think it would be notable, I don't have the time for it. bW 01:29, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Anmd as if by magic, the red link turns blue! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:34, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks HJ. Taking a look at it, there doesn't seem to be much to salvage. I won't disagree with deleting it the way it currently stands, although if I get a chance I would like to write a more complete article on it. bW 01:51, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
The way it is currently written seems somewhat promotional to me.   ArcAngel   (talk) ) 02:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
I've re-deleted it since nobody now seems to want to contest the PROD. Not strictly the way it should be done, but it can just be treated as if the PROD wasn't contested. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:32, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Sarah777

Hi HJM. I wanted to say that I really respect the offer you have made there. I have made a suggestion over there that I would like you to give serious consideration to. Again, hats off to you for revisiting this. --John (talk) 03:30, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Well it's all up to her now. If she's happy with your suggestion, I'll unblock her, but I won't deny that it's a leap of faith. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:36, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for that, I hope you won't regret it. --John (talk) 19:46, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Good news, thanks to you both. RashersTierney (talk) 20:11, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, HJ Mitchell. You have new messages at AustralianRupert's talk page.
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— AustralianRupert (talk) 06:53, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

May I ask for your advise please?

Hi HJ, there is a new user that has started as IP. All, but two of its contributions, were directly related either to an article I wrote or to an article discussed at my talk page and the articles mentioned in one of those. Its very second contributions was made at AfD for the article I wrote: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abraham Reuel. All together it made 13 edits on AfD and on the article discussed in this AfD. Later on the user created an account User:Westbankfainting. Once again all contributions of this account have been directly related to either to an article I wrote or to an article discussed at my talk page and the articles mentioned in one of those. The user keeps attacking my English and my writing skills even after it repeatedly was asked to stop. The latest attack was made at DYK nomination of my new article.

So, to sum it:

  1. There was an IP, that later created an account, which second contribution was made on a low profile AfD for the article I wrote. So far neither IP nor the account contributed to any other AfD.
  2. All, but 2 contributions of both IP and the account have been made only on the articles, DYK nominations, AfD that either are directly connected to me, or were discussed at my talk page.

The question is: should I assume a good faith towards that IP/user, or you also find it too much to be just a coincidence? Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

I've blocked the account (I daresay you and I both have our suspicions as to the user's previous identity). If IP and account are the same person, the autoblock should get the IP. I might ask a CU to investigate, though he's probably clever enough that CU wouldn't be of much use. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Whole wheat bread

Hi, can you block the IP attacking the above article? Denisarona (talk) 18:25, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

AIV probably would have been a better bet at the time, but they haven't edited in over an hour, so it could be that they've got bored or they've switched to another IP. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

RAF Eastcote 1945.png

I hope you don't mind me asking for your help but I was hoping you could help with a potential problem with one of my uploads. File:RAF Eastcote 1945.png has been added to Files for deletion on a source issue (it was created by myself from a screenshot of Google Earth's historical imagery function). The image would not be replaceable, hence a fair use image being used to illustrate the RAF Eastcote article. This is similar to File:RAF West Ruislip.png which I remember you closed the discussion for after it was nominated for speedy deletion. What are your thoughts on the image? Harrison49 (talk) 21:21, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

FfD is rigged very heavily in favour of the nominator (unlike AfD, which defaults to keep), but your one possible defence on the replaceability issue would be that the site has changed hugely or that the subject of the photo no longer exists (if that's the case, as it was with the other image you reference) and so it would be impossible to find or create an alternative. Still, since text is apparently sufficient replacement for images, you'll have to argue that words can't describe it as well as a picture. But basically, you'd be wasting your breath and might as well salp a {{db-author}} on it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:39, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Request

Hi HJ, could you please block User:Fridae'sDoom Public, User:Fridae'sDoom Sock, User:Doom'sFridae, User:Doomsdae'sFri, User:-Fridae'sDoom-, User:Fridae'sDom, User:Fridae'sDooom, User:Fridae'sDoomBot and User:Ancapp because I no longer have control over these accounts and could you block User:StatusTemplate as that's a placeholder account I created for {{StatusTemplate}}. Thanks in advance —James (Talk • Contribs) • 12:24pm • 02:24, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

All indeffed. Please be more careful about creating alternate accounts in the future, AA. Courcelles 02:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Will do, thanks Courcelles :) —James (Talk • Contribs) • 12:37pm • 02:37, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I second Courcelles. And I thought I had a big colelction of accounts! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
I've used the same email for all of them this time. Yeah I created them all due to ongoing threats of impersonation and real life harassment. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 2:07pm • 04:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Re: Email

Thanks, much appreciated. Connormah (talk) 21:44, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Check email. Connormah (talk) 22:08, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Bastun

Could you check out Bastun's warring(?) edit on the Conkers article? He never edited this before but reverted an edit, clearly in response to a discussion on my page. Sarah777 (talk) 23:29, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Imagine how mad you get when you see pro-British POV pushing, and multiply that by a big number. That's how amd it makes me to see a children's passtime used as a battleground over twelve letters that most people don't give a shit about! It's insanity! Let me see if ArbCom will let me do anything about it... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Word of caution; check his edit-comment reference. He is supported by a discussion on this - my beef was that he piled in never having edited this article before, obviously based on my talk page comments. You are right of course; but Arbcom should surely rule against warring on twelve letters in either direction? Sarah777 (talk) 23:48, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
So I see. I'm not sure there's much I can do. I can caution him or ask him not to do it again, but that's likely to create more problems than it solves. Of course, edit warring for whatever reason is the wrong approach to tkae to a dispute. Surely there's a way of phrasing that opening without using the term "British Isles"? I think most Brits really couldn't care less and most inhabitants of the isles outisde the UK would prefer not to be called "British". But saying that, I've seen edit wars over much pettier things. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:00, 30 May 2011 (UTC)


I realise that most British people are indifferent to this issue and there was a rather simple text avoiding the term till Bastun and an IP decided to insert and then re-insert the term. As I have edited the article several times (being interested in trees in general) I imagine I was being watched both on my edit record and my talk-page. I just wonder what other esoteric articles I have edited into which someone might find it opportune to insert the term I can't mention (!) Sarah777 (talk) 00:36, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Ah, Sarah. You're reporting me to an admin. Without letting me know. And after having removed my explanation of my edit from your talk page. Well that's... something.

HJ - you can see my explanation in the diff removed by Sarah, linked above. I don't know if you're aware, but there's a project/task force that looks after the inclusion/exclusion of the 'BI' term in articles, and - believe it or not - it's inclusion in Conkers was the subject of protracted discussion. Yes, I was curious and looked at the article after it came up on Sarah's talk page. I was also curious enough to click on the link at the bottom of Talk:Conkers. Where it was clear what the decision had been. So I re-incuded it, back to the consensus version. Yes, maybe my timing wasn't the best, but then Sarah's "true colours" response, within hours of coming off this particular block, wasn't the best of responses, either. I've asked her to remove it, as has her mentor, so we'll see. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 14:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Regardless of whatever bad blood is between the pair of you, this is silly. I'm sure you can find a way to describe a children's game without including a term which so inflames some people and the rest of the world is indifferent about. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
So... censor articles? Gotcha. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 15:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Who said anything about censorship? Why use a term that you know is controversial when there are more accurate ways of describing it? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:46, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I may not like the term myself (but I'm capable of NPOV editing), and it's highly unpopular in some circles - but I fail to see how it's inaccurate. I take it you're familiar with WP:BITASK? BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 17:26, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I was WP:BOLD. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 20:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Harrier

Hi

Just to let you know I have finished the copy-edit on the Hawker Siddeley Harrier article.

I would say that it seems like it doesn't really know if it is an overview or a main article, some sections are sparse in detail while others go into perhaps too much. Overall it is a good read, well written and has all the pertinent points in it. There were a few small problems with US and UK English variants, but overall most were easily overcome (unlike the use of "however", a word I would personally only recommend using once per article lol).

Good luck with the A-class review :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 18:26, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the copy-edit, and for the comments. It's been having something of an identity crisis lately as parts of it have been split off into daughter articles, but I'll pass it on to the main author. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

[1] Gah, I have no idea how we managed to miss this for....heaven only knows how long. Thanks! Risker (talk) 23:58, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I thought it was odd that the template said it was blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Westbankfainting reason for block

At User talk:Westbankfainting, you listed the reason for blocking the user as being an attack-only account. I suggest changing your reasoning to the user having taken part in personal attacks. I cannot see how you arrived at the conclusion that the user was attacking Mbz1 from the very beginning, forming the account expressly to attack Mbz1. Binksternet (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

They haven't made a single edit, excepting edits to their talk page, that wasn't an attack on Mbz1 or an article written by her. They clearly have a very old axe to grind with Mbz1 and the account (which I'm as certain as I can possibly be without CU data isn't their first) was clearly created for no other reason than to take a pop at Mbz1, so I'm afraid I stand by the block. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:01, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I respect that you are standing by your block, as I do not have any inkling of previous history between these two, but I cannot accept that positive changes made to articles which were started by Mbz1 count as attacks or harassment. About that notional old history, was the person previously bothering Mbz1 known to be from Lodi, California, the location of the IP address? Binksternet (talk) 20:32, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
And this 'new' user comes out of the blue, and just happens to pick articles related to a controversial topic area and one particular editor? Then they miraculously find DYK (while still only having a handful of edits) and, lo and behold, the first (and only) article they pick to comment to comment on is by that same editor, and they proceed to attack this user, whom they've supposedly only just come across. And I'm a monkey's uncle. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
It's also just simply not true that "they haven't made a single edit, excepting edits to their talk page, that wasn't an attack on Mbz1 or an article written by her." No question of interpretation or rightness or wrongness. It's just incorrect. Even the user's name is in reference to an article on which he did significant content work which was not started or ever worked on by Mbz1. (I mean, unless you know something the rest of us don't about Broccolo's identity.) Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:38, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
On that, you're correct, and I've stricken that part of my comment. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:47, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
(edit conflict)Amended to add that if the user is known to be a sock of a banned user (and I think I know who you're referring to), then yes, a ban is obviously merited, but these back-channels (no ANI? no SPI?) and smokescreen block rationales are a weird and wrong way to go about it. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:48, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
If every single edit of the account (like, 100%), refers to some edit of Mbz in one way or another, and the account chooses not to explain where they came from, then that is taking it too far. Don't you agree? The account should explain that it plans to edit somewhere else, then it can get unblocked. That's my opinion. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
That would be taking it too far if that was what the user had been doing, but it's not. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
It's not a smokescreen. I'm certain this isn't their first account, I'm just not certain which of the several likely candidates is the master. Whoever they are, their conduct clearly merited a block, so I used the most obvious reason for the block (ie harassment). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Heh, you're running into the same problem that so many of us have noticed in the I/P topic area - that it's riddled with socks, but it's not always obvious who the sockmaster is. :P I still ask you to consider the request I made at WBF's talk page, where some of us are discussing the block - describing the account as used only for harassment is clearly false and may make it more difficult for the user to get unblocked in the future if he chooses to improve his behavior, so would you replace it with a more accurate one? As I said, I'm sensitive to the concern that he's a sock of a banned user but we don't know which one - but until a procedure is put in place for dealing with that situation, we should treat him the way we treat any other user, and 1. block based only on the behavior of the account in question, not of other accounts only suspected to be linked 2. go through the normal channels if a connection is suspected. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
I've removed the "-only account" from the block log for the purpose of avoiding endless discussion on whether that was the only purpose of the account, but I remain certain the account is somebody's sock and that that somebody is blocked or banned. That's not the tricky part; the part is that the master could be one of any number of editors. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:38, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Sean Hoyland, Ohiostandard and I have mentioned a few ideas (both publicly and via e-mail) for dealing with the problem of socks with no obvious sockmaster. Do you think it's worth starting a community-wide discussion? (Psst, also, the block notice at WBF's talk page still says harassment-only.) Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 08:12, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Copyvio revdel request

Could I get a copyvio revdel of this diff as it violates this copyright? Fifelfoo (talk) 03:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Gone. Do you think semi-protection is necessary? There seem to be a few problems, but a few days apart. If we were still allowed to use pending changes, that would be ideal, but alas... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:13, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Advice

Hello. Thank you for your advice on Ctj's talk page. I was a little unsure as on other sites only people with authority are allowed to give warnings, and I specifically asked because I installed Twinkle today and the option was available. I'll be sure to always warn anybody when I'm supposed to, and I shall report them there if they persist. Again, thanks for the help! --Another Type of Zombie talk 14:57, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

No problem. We allow anyone to give warnings to vandals/spammers/etc because nobody really has authority here, and limiting it to a certain group would just create a lot of work! Oh, and don't feel obliged to go through levels 1, 2, 3 and 4—it's quite alright to start at level 2 or 3 if the edit is clearly vandalism, or even a 4im if the edit is really serious (like libel or really disgusting vandalism). If you give it a couple of weeks with Twinkle to gain a little experience, I can give you rollback, which gives you access to some of the more powerful scripts. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:12, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
I'll be sure to do that. I'll work with Twinkle for a few more weeks and I'll certainly be patrolling recent changes my newer users and IP's. I'll be sure to try to grow my experience with anti-vandalism, and when I'll contact you if I personally feel ready. Also, thanks so much for your help; it's very appreciated! --Another Type of Zombie talk 18:21, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Raj_Kiran_(actor)

Hi, could you please RevDel this revision? I believe it is threatening to the subject.--v/r - TP 19:53, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

I just deleted the whole article. Even without those revisions, it's clearly a negative and completely unsourced BLP, which qualifies it for G10. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:01, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Works for me, thanks.--v/r - TP 18:13, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Bring back the soapdish!

Per Catfish Jim's request I've started a petition here: User talk:Catfish Jim/Petition. Who knows if we get the 20 signatures he might consider it! :) —James (Talk • Contribs) • 4:24pm • 06:24, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Rouge admin needed

Hi HJ.

Our old friend Mare96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) aka 95.180.18.56 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is back, in form of 89.216.210.26 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). I've reported the pest numerous times at AIV or ANI, and the most I'd get from them was a 1-day block or "engage in dispute resolution". Yeah, right, for someone whose only post on a talk page was "fuck you I'll write what I want". Since you have been so kind to rougely block 95.180.18.56 for 3 months, I would ask you to repeat a similar approach at 89.216.210.26, which also seems to be static. {{anonblock}} is probably unnecessary, since he'll just make a short-lived account and continue, as last time.

Oh, why is persistence the only virtue of some people? No such user (talk) 06:40, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Looks like Prodego (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) beat me to it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:03, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

inre Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Keltz

You nominated the article in January 2010 and I agreed that at that time the topic was premature. Now that 15 months have gone by, I wish to return a far improved version to mainspace. I invite you to visit User:MichaelQSchmidt/Jonathan Keltz, and ofer any comments you might wish at User talk:MichaelQSchmidt/Jonathan Keltz#Comments:. Best, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 08:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. I remember you asked me about this a while ago. I have no objection to its return to mainspace. He appears to have got a bit more coverage and featured in a few notable films, even if there's not ever so much to say about him. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:14, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Glad you remember :) as it has been a while. Now that we have a decent basis for an article, I expect it now to grow more over times and through regular editing. Thank you and best regards, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 18:11, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Peer review: From Dust

Hi Harry,

If free, I'd appreciate a review of the prose, formatting, and referencing on From Dust. Alternatively, if you know of another volunteer who would be willing to help, I'd be grateful for suggestions. A review was requested a few days ago, but went stale. Thanks, Mephtalk 01:33, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I'll have a look and maybe massage a bit of the prose (but not now, it's nearly 3am!), but I can't promise much more than that. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:45, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Quick service!

Hey HJ, thanks for the super fast confirmation! Cheers! – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 02:23, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. I was browsing for something easy and yours was the first non-spam email I came to. But if you send in more of those, feel free to drop me a line in advance and I'll save you the wait. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:48, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
I may take you up on that :) – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 02:55, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi HJ. I noticed red link is no longer a red link, which seems (IMO) to be an undesirable change, as there are some 800+ pages that link to red link, presumably intending to show an actual red link. I asked User:Mike Rosoft about that, but since you changed the protection settings recently too I thought I would ask your thoughts on it as well. 28bytes (talk) 05:06, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Never mind! MR "reddened" it again. 28bytes (talk) 05:35, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
There was some thought that an encyclopaedia article could be written on the subject of red links, but the recent effort seems to have been more about turning the red link blue, which is undesirable if that's the only purpose. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:17, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Message

Can you check who placed a warning message on my talk page? - I cannot explain to them if I don't know who they are. Many thanks. Denisarona (talk) 06:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

It's ok - message left by Anon, now traced. Denisarona (talk) 06:52, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

OTRS request

moved to Commons:User talk:HJ Mitchell#OTRS request. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:59, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXIII, May 2011

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Page notice

Thanks again for your help above (and now elsewhere)! I noticed on your talk page notice that "(even if I did something...." is missing a close parenth :) – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 23:34, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

No problem, and thanks! I've fixed it now. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:38, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Imperial triple crown jewels

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial triple crown jewels upon HJ Mitchell for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Thank you for your majestic contributions to the project! – SMasters (talk) 11:06, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Redirecting on Commons

Hi HJ, the way you tried to redirect File:JSharkey.JPG doesn't work because the image still exists in the place. On Commons, only after a move (or if the image is deleted) a redirect will make sense. Instead such an image is marked as a duplicate and will be dealt with by an admin. Best regards Hekerui (talk) 19:10, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Notifying original user of image deletion

Hi HJ, I noticed that you correctly deleted an image of Haley Reinhart here but you appear to have forgotten to notify the uploading user (Quenquen411) letting them know WHY the file was deleted. This user appears to be very new and not well versed in wiki rules and regulations. Robman94 (talk) 19:35, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Block request

User:Noisetier has requested an indef block for himself to prevent him editing Wikipedia. Since you are listed as an admin willing to consider such requests, I'm passing this request to you. Gatoclass (talk) 04:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I confirm this request.
Could you please take care of this ?
Rgds, Noisetier (talk) 05:46, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
After studying this process, I understand that I have to provide some explanations :
  • 2 years of block at least seems appropriate for me but feel free to set this to what you consider the most appropriated
  • I know that I could not refrain from editing some topics that I should not so blocking me will help if not cure me :-)
  • I'd prefer to keep my email access but my talk page can be blocked. I just want to avoid wp:en but will go on working on wp:fr and I suggest contributors to contact me there or by email if possible
  • At the same time, given my talk page is blocked tome, I would like this is fully protected.
  • I agree that my account is blocked infinitely if I would breach this in any way.
If you think I comply with the principle, would you mind informing me by email ?
Many thanks. Noisetier (talk) 17:26, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Sunset Marquis

[2].You deleted this as a CSD G11 despite the article surviving two AFDs. I would like to look at the deleted content. Could you restore it? Gimmetoo (talk) 23:44, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

I've restored it. This was the deleted version. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:26, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Yes, that version had problems, but there was good content prior to it [3]. Anyway, thanks. Gimmetoo (talk) 22:39, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, HJ Mitchell. You have new messages at Strikerforce's talk page.
Message added 04:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

This is not a conversation that we already have underway, but rather one where I think you may be able to assist and editor who has asked me a question that I don't know the specific answer for. I have referenced you, specifically, in my reply to the editor. StrikerforceTalk Review me! 04:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Admin

I am interested in becoming an administrator. I have read all the guides and I know where to apply but do you think I'm ready? (Please leave talk back message) kthxbye. Puffin Lets talk! 12:08, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Nadia Ali good article nomination

Hey there, I happened to come across your page and noticed you're a good article reviewer. I have been working on the Nadia Ali article, which just went through a peer review and I think is ready for a Good Article status. Could you please have a look at it and post comments to see whether it is ready for a reassessment? Thanks! Hassan514 (talk) 05:50, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

I had a quick scroll through to look at the basics, like a ref at the end of each paragraph and no dodgy-looking sources, that kind of thing. I would say it should make GA. I shouldn't think there are any issues that couldn't be fixed within a week or so. Unfortunately, I don;t have time to review it at the minute, but I'd suggest nominating it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:11, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. I have nominated it for GA. Hopefully there won't be too many issues Hassan514 (talk) 07:54, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Forgot one

Please also revdelete this, which is before you removed the PAs.Jasper Deng (talk) 02:31, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Ugh. Thanks for pointing it out. Gone. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:33, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this one should probably be RevDel'd as well. —mc10 (t/c) 05:43, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Also done. Thanks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:42, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/MickMacNee opened

An arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/MickMacNee. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/MickMacNee/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 1, 2011, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/MickMacNee/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 11:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi HJ. I just wanted to drop by here and thank you again for the co-nomination. I'm very grateful for the kind words and support you offered. Best, 28bytes (talk) 15:34, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

You're more than welcome, my friend. I'm glad it succeeded. Not that there was any doubt, and quite right too! ;) I'm sure you'll make a damn good admin, but you know where I am if you need anything. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you sir. Don't be surprised if I drop by asking how something works. 28bytes (talk) 15:42, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
There's no shame in it. I don't think any admin got the hang of it straight away. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:45, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Tajik's reviewer rights

This is a minor issue, but would you mind removing Tajik's reviewer rights, as the account is currently indef-blocked because the user switched to using Lysozym for editing, and "permanently deactivated" Tajik? Thanks. —mc10 (t/c) 23:37, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Why? If the account is blocked, the reviewer right is useless anyway... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:51, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
for reverting vandalism on my userpage and just about every page linked to from my userpage. E♴(talk) 01:36, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I used a script to revert it all in one click, but the gesture is appreciated. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:51, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Email

Did you receive my email requesting a deleted article?--Chaser (talk) 03:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, it found its way into my spam folder. I've retrieved it and sent you what you needed. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:50, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you.--Chaser (talk) 16:43, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

UFC 140

In response to your comment, "it seems to me that you're edit-warring against multiple editors to remove one passage from the article. Please stop it, or you'll be blocked."- It seems that there is a single user who is using different IPs to remove content from the article for no apparent reason and I am simple stopping it. Looking at the history of the article you will see that other members of WP:MMA have also removed similar (vandalism) edits from IPs. This is a problem in most upcoming UFC events (see UFC 133 for example).(Justinsane15 (talk) 19:33, 16 June 2011 (UTC))

Just to follow up- I have looked up the "multiple editors" that have been vandalising the page and they are all from Greensborough, North Carolina, United States which seems to confirm my suspicion that there is one editor using multiple IPs that is doing the vandalism to the page.(Justinsane15 (talk) 19:45, 17 June 2011 (UTC))
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