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July 2008
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Hand-coding
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Hello, Guy1890. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Masjid As-Salafi, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:
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Welcome to WikiProject Red Link Recovery
Howdy, and welcome to the project.
We're going through a quieter phase right now and have (as far as I can tell) fewer than 30 active members. There's still lots to do though; the most active general tasks seem to be Red Link Recovery Live and and Unlikely Links. If there's a particular subject area you're interested in, let me know and I'll generate some reports relevant to it for you. - TB (talk) 08:31, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
- I see that you are involved in "Red Link Recovery" which I didn't know to exist before. Please do not un-red-link names of people whose notability is assured and implied (like New York assemblymen) as you did on this page: 89th New York State Legislature. The red links are needed to respond to the "What links here" function when searching for previous tenures, and maintaining a uniform spelling of these people's names, as well as to disambiguate them from people with similar names. Kraxler (talk) 14:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
- I got rid of those links because they were apparently, somehow interfering with the Dablink bot. Plus, I'm pretty sure that no one cares about NY state assemblymen from the 1800s. If they were famous enough, they'd have Wikipedia pages by now. Guy1890 (talk) 17:33, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thank you
Thank you for fixing my footnote on Ray's Pizza! — Robert Greer (talk) 00:38, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I try & patrol the "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_missing_references_list" every now & again, and I hope that I'm doing most of those needed edits properly. They are usually pretty easy to fix. Guy1890 (talk) 00:44, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for that heads up. I've reported him to AIV. Hopefully they'll see fit to block him. KoshVorlon. We are all Kosh ... 12:19, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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Adding missing reference lists
Thank you for getting stuck into Category:Pages with missing references list! A better fix for some of these pages may be to look in the page history and simply undo the effect of a bad edit or two. Have a look at the recent history of File:Subscript superscript examples.png, Category:20th-century economists and Hydraulic action. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thanx...I'm doing the best that I can. Some of the pages that have reference errors are still beyond me at this point though. Guy1890 (talk) 22:41, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- Feel free to post examples on my talk page, and I'll see if I can spot the problems. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:26, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thanx...I'm doing the best that I can. Some of the pages that have reference errors are still beyond me at this point though. Guy1890 (talk) 22:41, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
- OK, will do from here on out. Thanx! Guy1890 (talk) 07:29, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks
Thank you for cleaning up Camila (telenovela). I did wonder if it really needs links for grandfather, village, love, married, spoiled, poverty, pregnant, affection, and theft. These seem to be "everyday words understood by most readers in context", as defined by Wikipedia:OVERLINK. Anyway, thanks, and feel free to remove any of those extra links if you agree! - Ttwaring (talk) 15:44, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Fixed some errors that, I think, were there before I started editing this page, but the rest of these links were intentional. Guy1890 (talk) 21:05, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
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- Not sure what I was exactly up to on this above page. I vaguely remember being perplexed at where some of the disambiguation links were supposed to go there. Guy1890 (talk) 01:28, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Nomination of Tia Ling for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tia Ling is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tia Ling (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Greetings. I have moved Regions of Latvia and Duke of Alburquerque back to the unfinished list on the disambig count. Links appearing to be "justified" is an improper reason for removing these, as intentional links must still be piped per WP:INTDABLINK, while these pages still show direct links, and therefore will continue to be read as errors by the system until these links are piped as required. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:18, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
- This doesn't appear to be a big deal to me, since both of the articles in question have been "tagged as WP:DABCONCEPT." I just didn't want people wasting their time trying to disambiguate terms on the list that really can't be moved around at this point. I completely agree that the two above terms should have their respective articles converted to broad-concept articles. Guy1890 (talk) 08:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
- Being tagged as WP:DABCONCEPT and being changed into concept articles are two different things. As it stands, the links to these articles will continue to show up as errors to the bots that populate the lists of ambiguous links. bd2412 T 04:22, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- This doesn't appear to be a big deal to me, since both of the articles in question have been "tagged as WP:DABCONCEPT." I just didn't want people wasting their time trying to disambiguate terms on the list that really can't be moved around at this point. I completely agree that the two above terms should have their respective articles converted to broad-concept articles. Guy1890 (talk) 08:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Article Feedback deployment
Hey Guy1890; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Lightning page revisions
Hello, I see you had interest in this page recently, so I wanted to invite you to take part in the major overhaul I have been working on. Thanks for your interest.
In reading over your user page, I see you were/are a meteorologist, which is a great thing. As you will see, I have done a lot of needed work to the page, and although there may be some minor discrepancies [within the areas I have focused/revised/wrote/edited], I believe you will find it to be a best attempt effort to be as factual as we currently understand lightning. I think you may be influential in providing references, links & sources to back what is written. Original content... maybe. However, this topic is too complex to simply pull lines from the sources throw them in where needed, and end up with an article that is both comprehensible and readable. I look forward to your input. Borealdreams (talk) 00:29, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
- I am still a meteorologist. I've been watching the page in question & more of your edits today (March 15th), and I can't find anything that you've done so far today that I disagree with. The Lightning page is on my list of pages to revise and extend in the near future, but I've been pulled in a few too many directions recently to focus on many meteorology-related pages on Wikipedia very recently...maybe by next month. All I can promise right now is to move up my timetable for editing the page in question. Lightning is not my forte in weather per say, and I've never been a fan of the theories behind lightning formation...but there is likely some info (including more recent science) that can be added to that page. As long as you don't remove much in the way of previously well-cited & scientifically-based material from the Lightning page, you won't run into much trouble from me. Good luck... Guy1890 (talk) 01:12, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks much
Thank you for your Merge suggestion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Filly Films, I agree and I've responded there. — Cirt (talk) 23:18, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I'm personally not a fan of many of the recent deletions from Wikipedia, but there does not appear to be a consensus on improving (instead of deleting) many pages that are up for deletion. I have had some limited success so far with getting some info from destined to be deleted pages merged into other pages. Good luck... Guy1890 (talk) 00:48, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
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- I did this intentionally given the context of the article. Guy1890 (talk) 21:23, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar
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The Resilient Barnstar | |
| Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? 22:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC) |
I am mainly awarding you this barnstar for this comment. Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? 22:03, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanx. What is up with that line of rhetoric from Mr. Wolfowitz? Has anyone ever provided any evidence for those kind of claims? I keep seeing these kind of comments about adult awards here & there, but I've never personally seen any evidence to support them. Guy1890 (talk) 22:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- No idea what his problem is. Hopefully this shuts him up, but if not, I'll have no choice but to open up an RfC. Erpert Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it? 07:51, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanx. What is up with that line of rhetoric from Mr. Wolfowitz? Has anyone ever provided any evidence for those kind of claims? I keep seeing these kind of comments about adult awards here & there, but I've never personally seen any evidence to support them. Guy1890 (talk) 22:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
Reply
I really appreciate your help, but yes, I speedied the article. I know that was unexpected, but upon further reflection, I would really prefer to not be involved in creating or editing an article on that topic at this time. Of course, there is nothing preventing anybody else from doing so. If you like, I would be willing to send you a list of the sources I used. --Geniac (talk) 03:40, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- That's not necessary. For the record, I really wouldn't worry about any adult article PRODs from someone like Mr. Wolfowitz in the future. He PRODs those kind of articles almost as much as he breathes in and out. ;) Guy1890 (talk) 03:48, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
April 2013
Hello, I'm Curb Chain. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Curb Chain (talk) 04:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- I re-added the info that I originally added to the article List of speed metal bands before. Within the article in question, the citation enclosed says "Please only add bands with articles to this list. New additions without articles will be deleted." It doesn't say that each item on the list needs a citation, and many lists don't have citations for every name on the list. Guy1890 (talk) 21:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- Those lists should. If the artists you have have references on their own article, you can use them for the list-article.Curb Chain (talk) 01:01, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- I understand that, but the article itself doesn't state that in order to be on this particular list that you need to have a reference for them as well as a Wikipedia page. If that's the standard that this page is operating under, then it should state that on the page, which is something that I've occasionally seen other lists do. It doesn't really matter to me. Guy1890 (talk) 01:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- That is a hidden comment and an aid to editors. Even for this article this is the exception, and not the norm, that these hidden comments exist.Curb Chain (talk) 02:16, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- I also find what you did quite pointy.Curb Chain (talk) 17:43, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- I understand that, but the article itself doesn't state that in order to be on this particular list that you need to have a reference for them as well as a Wikipedia page. If that's the standard that this page is operating under, then it should state that on the page, which is something that I've occasionally seen other lists do. It doesn't really matter to me. Guy1890 (talk) 01:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- So, you've been basically "protecting" a listing of heavy (speed) metal bands for over a year now in a genre that you think is basically the same as another genre of music? Please...this issue is now closed. Stop commenting on my talk page. Guy1890 (talk) 20:01, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 01:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
- Well, you've got a lot of nerve threatening me with a potential block given your long history here on Wikipedia Mr. Wofowitz. Your intimidation tactics are not welcome here on this page.
- Please kindly self-revert your very recent edits to the following pages: Karina Kay, Jayna Oso, Lea Lexis, Nessa Devil and Katie Kox. The links that you (twice) recently removed from those articles are a part of the list of valid External Links from the Wikipedia Pornography Project, of which I note that you are not even a member of. See: "AdultWhich aka WhichPornstar – Database listing website appearances of European and other adult models. Includes an number of models not found on Eurobabe Index. Their filmographies are considered reliable", "Excaliburfilms.com – Many performer and director biographies", and "Eurobabe Index – Database listing website appearances (and sometimes filmographies) of European adult models. Includes a number of models not found on AdultWhich. Part of the {{female adult bio}} box template. Their filmographies are considered reliable".
- I will go further to say that your well-known crusade against pornography-related articles is unwelcome here on Wikipedia. I welcome any further input from an uninvolved administrator on this issue, since it may likely result in you being blocked Mr. Wolfowitz. We could do with a break from your "I don't like it" attitude on here. All your doing here is making more work for the rest of us with your constant deletionist tone.
- In my five years on Wikipedia, I've never been blocked, but I note that you have been blocked twice for disruptive editing & editing warring in the past. I have not engaged in either activity, nor do I have any interest in doing so now or in the future. Guy1890 (talk) 02:07, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
- Mytwocents, I would avoid Excaliburfilms.com, it is a web-shop site, so its presence in EL might sound promotional or at best inopportune. Eurobabe Index and AdultWhich are two reliable database sites, so they could stay. If I could point something, for the cases I checked, AdultWhich appears to be very, very incomplete, so its removal does not appear as a serious lack in terms of informations (that does not mean it should be marked as spam). Cavarrone (talk) 13:00, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
- From what I can tell from his history here, this wouldn't be the first time that Mr. Wolfowitz has tried to enforce some phantom Wikipedia "rule" that doesn't exist. I really don't know what bee is in his bonnet now, or why he chose to troll through some of my recent edits to revert a bunch of non-controversial external links for just a handful of articles.
- In the searching that I've done so far, not all adult actors have "Excaliburfilms" entries or entries there that had any useful information on it, so I haven't always added an External Link to that site on every porn actor article that I've edited. The same thing goes for "AdultWhich", not all adult actors have existing or useful entries there. It's certainly not true that I've been "spamming" multiple articles with entries for these sites for some personal monetary gain. I've also not tried to use any of the above sites for citations in any article on Wikipedia. Guy1890 (talk) 20:07, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
- Still waiting for those self-reverts User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz. You're not going to weasel your way out of this. Those legitimate links belong back in those articles. Guy1890 (talk) 20:01, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
- So, it's been over a week, and Mr. Wolfowitz continues to happily edit away while ignoring this discussion (as I unfortunately expected). Fair warning, I guess I'll have to slowly start to re-introduce the necessary links back into many of the above articles. Guy1890 (talk) 23:42, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, this unnecessary saga continues. When I tried to make some minor edits to Nessa Devil (like moving some links around) and re-added some non-controversial links along with a link to this very discussion (which Mr. Wolfowitz continues to ignore), he reverted those edits again and made an unfounded accusation by saying in his edit summary "remove advertising links added back with deceptive edit summary". There was nothing "deceptive" about my edit summary and the links in question aren't "advertising links". Unfortunately, this kind of activity has been going on with Mr. Wolfowitz for apparently a number of years without much of any correction...more on that later after I do some more reading. Guy1890 (talk) 00:35, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
- So, it's been over a week, and Mr. Wolfowitz continues to happily edit away while ignoring this discussion (as I unfortunately expected). Fair warning, I guess I'll have to slowly start to re-introduce the necessary links back into many of the above articles. Guy1890 (talk) 23:42, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
- Still waiting for those self-reverts User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz. You're not going to weasel your way out of this. Those legitimate links belong back in those articles. Guy1890 (talk) 20:01, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
- In the searching that I've done so far, not all adult actors have "Excaliburfilms" entries or entries there that had any useful information on it, so I haven't always added an External Link to that site on every porn actor article that I've edited. The same thing goes for "AdultWhich", not all adult actors have existing or useful entries there. It's certainly not true that I've been "spamming" multiple articles with entries for these sites for some personal monetary gain. I've also not tried to use any of the above sites for citations in any article on Wikipedia. Guy1890 (talk) 20:07, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
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