Baha'i apologetics edit

Hello. I don't know if you saw, but the section you contributed to in Baha'i divisions was moved to a new page called Baha'i apologetics. It looked like they sort of glazed over your contributions which I thought were valid points. Jeff 18:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the information. That's very interesting... --KnightMove 07:17, 18 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Duel edit

Your Smithsonian duel article link doesn't seem to work--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♣ 10:37, 7 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

That's not my link, you're looking for someone else. --KnightMove (talk) 11:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Re: Edit in Reference Desk/Language edit

I have no idea how that happened. My intention was merely to add the paragraph starting "These might be simply made up examples of ...". Please accept my apologies; if anything needs reverting I'll revert it. One possibility springs to mind - I wonder if there are revisions before the one I (according to the history) made that have been oversighted. Another possibility is that the browser I was using (Safari or Firefox, I use both indiscriminately) has a bug that caused it to drop stuff from its buffer when editing a long page (this is a worrying possibility and I'll look very carefully at edit histories after editing anything big). Please be assured that I am not in the habit of randomly deleting swathes of stuff "just for fun"! Thanks for the heads-up and again, apologies. Tonywalton Talk 14:57, 30 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Such things do happen. I personally want my question at the end of the diff. to be restored (maybe best under the current day headline, for it's not archived prematurely then. But I can't really help with any advise what to do best, and how - maybe simply everything that has been deleted, including passages that have been archived yet? --KnightMove (talk) 15:25, 30 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
All put back in place now. It would probably be a good idea for you simply to re-state your question under today's section (feel free to blame my edit for meaning you had to do it twice!) With regard to your question, by the way, I'm not aware of any common idioms (in GB English, at least) with regard to revolvers up the sleeve - "nothing up my sleeve" is more applicable to sleight of hand than gangsters. Regards Tonywalton Talk 16:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Ok, thanks for your info.--KnightMove (talk) 15:04, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! edit

Thanks a bunch for noticing my small screw up there. Best regards, Captain n00dle T/C 16:52, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ah, I have just figured out the problem, they were different IP addresses, so it only reverted 1 edit, cheers Captain n00dle T/C 16:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

No problem. I think the problem was concurrence - the other IP was a few seconds ahead reverting the vandalism. --KnightMove (talk) 07:05, 18 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Troccas & Troggu edit

Hi pal,
I visited your page on the German Wiki and remembered seeing your name here anywhere, so I thought about getting in touch with you so as to ask you for a little favor. How about translating the Troccas and Troggu articles from the German Wiki ?! That would be greatly appreciated pal. I know you've probably been dealing with other things lately, but that'd be great if you could !! Perhaps a friend of yours could help translating half of one of the articles or he could take one as you take the other.
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Bekes Gáspár edit

If you are from Austria and you don't even mention Hungarian as one of the languages you know then please do not mess with the scientific spelling of Hungarian historical characters. Accent is not needed because Bekes was most probably not of Hungarian origin but Romanian and his name is not Békés (=peaceful) but Bekes according to Endre Veress (Báthory István erdélyi fejedelem és lengyel király levelezése, 1556-1580, I-II., Kolozsvár, 1944) Thanks. --Iohannesathanatos 07:48, 15 May 2010

Ok, sorry then. The spelling Békés was used in the article right from the beginning, so the situation was inconsistent and definitely wrong - otherwise I wouldn't have interfered. --KnightMove (talk) 23:45, 15 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Wrinkly grandmother... edit

Hi! I was going to correct the ja translation but saw your "thank you" on the ref. desk page. So I post my correction here. "皺だらけのあなたのお祖母さんは、料理人を埋葬したあと、山羊と遊びました。" It was very difficult to translate that "buried" without context into Japanese. And I removed "たち"/s of goats as ja does not use a plural form in most sentences. If the number of the goats were given, there was no problem. I think the corrected translation is definitely more natural. Oda Mari (talk) 08:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
P.S. Your user name in ja is 桂馬跳び or 桂馬飛び.Oda Mari (talk) 08:49, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the info. It's interesting to see how different languages are in this regard. --KnightMove (talk) 10:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

AfD of Duck face edit

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Anthony Weiner sexting scandal edit

I object to deleting the women's names from this article. They were published in the media, and some of the women followed up with public appearances, photo shoots, books, etc. to take advantage of the publicity. This type activity voids the expectation of privacy. If you want to delete, it should be on a case by case basis after research of the women's behavior. Pkeets (talk) 04:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Ok... I had made my point and don't know the details, thus I probably won't interfere in the further discussion any more. --KnightMove (talk) 09:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Porque te vas edit

I have posted a reply to your question (better late than never)--85.55.192.89 (talk) 02:31, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! --KnightMove (talk) 08:32, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Human race edit

Hello. I suggest you seek other users' comments before reverting Human race to a disambiguation page, as your edit summary indicates you intend to do. In my experience, it is not a common or accepted English usage to use the phrase "human race" as a synonym for "a race of humans." Therefore, I don't believe there would be a consensus that this phrase is ambiguous at all. Just because some words could theoretically be put together in some way that might potentially suggest a different meaning does not create an ambiguity if that combination of words is not actually used in practice. Of course, others might disagree with me, which is why I suggest you seek wider input before proceeding. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:22, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Been there, done that - I ask for your contributions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthropology#Human race(s). --KnightMove (talk) 08:52, 10 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Germini edit

Hi, I read your question on the "italian wiki-oracle" and I'll try to answer it. Basically "germini" is the conjunctive form of "germinare" (to germinate), a verbal form that does not exist in english, in the meaning: We hope it germinates = speriamo che germini. It's best known as an italian surname so the game might have taken his name from who invented it--Madowiki (talk) 09:18, 25 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much! However I think it's better to have all answers at one place, this might inspire others. Would you mind to copy the content-related part into the Oracolo? Or shall I? --KnightMove (talk) 10:31, 25 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Removal of disambiguation hatnote for Rihanna / Rhianna edit

You removed the dab hatnote from Rihanna (for the singer Rhianna) here stating "this disambiguation is rather promo for Rhianna and not necessary".

Quite honestly, I don't see this- they're both female singers, they both operate in the same field, and they have one (silent) letter different in their name; fairly strong possibility of confusion. Also, the popularity of Rihanna is quite likely to (unintentionally) increase the likelihood of people misspelling Rhianna's name in a search. I appreciate she's far less notable than Rihanna, but it seems like a pretty clear case for a dab hatnote to me. Ubcule (talk) 15:55, 24 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

I have created a section on the talk page and will transfer your request there. --KnightMove (talk) 17:57, 27 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

Rihanna edit

As a regular editor on the Rihanna article, you might want to keep a closer eye on it for a while. There's a rumour floating around, as far as I can tell, a hoax invented on 4Chan, that people are trying to push on to websites with zero, or bogus, sourcing: see [1]. The alleged CNN news item was on CNN iReport - unverified user contribution - that was rapidly removed as being in breach of their site guidelines. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 02:54, 30 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

Jackals edit

Let's just if we may stop and think about this for sec: what does "jackal" even mean?

I mean, what does it mean to say that coyotes aren't closely related to jackals when "jackal" just means "mid-sized canid" that lives the lifestyle that jackals do, regardless of lineage, relatedness, and so on?

Also, note that "coyote" is a Mexican word, originally, and that the original English word for them was "jackal", so a coyote is a jackal, too.

Don't take it from me, read the article Jackal. We could rightly say "The coyote is jackal endemic to North America"!

And coyotes are pretty closely related to the original referent of the word "jackal", Canis aureus, as Linnaeus called it, which is practically the same thing as a coyote and very different from the jackals of the Serengeti and so on. Chrisrus (talk) 23:45, 25 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

I will soon write a detailed answer, but transfer the discussion to the talk page. --KnightMove (talk) 12:30, 26 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hard edit

See my comment on the Reference Desk. You are right that hard in English, when applied to people, usually has a different meaning than hart in German. That said, we still refer to hard rock in English. That reference, though, is to the sound of the music itself (like hard surfaces) rather than to the personal qualities of the performers or listeners. Marco polo (talk) 20:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Nowotny edit

Please note the article is A-class which means, for every change you have to reference a proper source. Adding info and commenting the is taken from the website XYZ does work at this level. This may be okay if the article is a stub or start class. Everything above B-class needs inline citations. Thanks for your understanding MisterBee1966 (talk) 06:48, 9 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Have a look here no B-24 claim by Nowotny himself. MisterBee1966 (talk) 06:59, 9 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Ok, that's of course a valid objection. But then, when did Nowotny score his third (=first) aerial victory in the west, and against which aircraft? As the article states that he had had three victories in the west, but the section does not even imply he might have had a kill prior to the day of his death, I'd like to have that mentioned. --KnightMove (talk) 07:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
I found a source for this claim, it is now cited. Thanks for your effort MisterBee1966 (talk) 17:29, 9 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for yours, too. That's great work you're doing in those articles. --KnightMove (talk) 05:10, 10 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
I have been researching and working on Günther Lützow, Gordon Gollob and Herbert Ihlefeld over the past weeks. Don't hesitate to contribute, I am especially grateful for copy editing, and additions pertaining to the higher command positions they held. MisterBee1966 (talk) 05:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Honestly: I only became active in the Nowotny article, as I felt an implicit inconsistency without that kill being mentioned. I lack the competence to contribute to those articles. --KnightMove (talk) 06:38, 10 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

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wp:deny edit

For those interested in what this discussion was about, see [2], the edits before and the one after. --KnightMove (talk) 18:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

The troll is not allowed to edit. Period. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:54, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

And in what way did my restoration violate this your principle? --KnightMove (talk) 15:55, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
Because the troll is not allowed to edit, and you enabled his edits. Learn from this episode, and don't do it again. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:59, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
May I remind you of WP:PA, which you have violated with this unfounded claim - which by the way goes back to yourself, as your edit delivered the fit occasion for the troll to definitely out himself as a nazi, which btw could have been noticed before with a little sensibility? Learn from this episode, and don't do it again. --KnightMove (talk) 16:14, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
You're funny. If you don't like the removal of the troll's content, take it to the blocking admin. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:27, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
You still haven't realized that I haven't objected to the removal of the troll's content in any way. I'm done both arguing with you and about the topic. Please stay off my talk page. --KnightMove (talk) 18:00, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Bad ideas at the RD edit

It is a bad idea to start a question at the RD with "Hypothesis". You're sure to give a good reason to some self-important busybody to jump and close your discussion with (for example) "The reference desk's job is not to entertain or evaluate hypotheses" without (probably) even having read the substance of the question. This question was no less factual and no less appropriate than some others. But by prefixing "Hypothesis" to it you blew your chances. Just letting you know. Basemetal 21:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

That's not a bad hint, thank you. --KnightMove (talk) 21:21, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Norwegian names with matronyms edit

Posting here, since my reply was late, in case you didn't check back.

In Norway, it is common to wear the mother's family name as middle name, as in Aksel Lund Svindal. Questions:

  • Is there a way to distinguish this matronym from a second given name? What is the Øen in Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen? What about Kjetil André Aamodt?
  • What is the proper way to deal with this matronym in contexts where not the full name is written, e.g. in sport, when the person is primarily referred to by family name, maybe with the first name appended? Is Aksel Lund Svindal then Lund Svindal, Aksel; or Svindal, Aksel Lund; or is it best to omit the name - Svindal, Aksel? --KnightMove (talk) 19:57, 26 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Magnus Carlsen's middle name "Øen" is his mother Sigrun Øen's surname [3].
There's no simple way of distinguishing matronyms from second given names, other than knowledge about the usage of the name. In the case of Kjetil André Aamodt, "André" is common as a given name, but unusual as a surname, so it is reasonable to assume that it is a given name. Also, his mother's name is Gerd Johanne Aamodt [4].
"Svindal, Aksel Lund" is the correct way of writing the name when making an alphabetic list, unless the names are hyphenated [5]. The law that regulates Norwegian names is here: https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2002-06-07-19 . --NorwegianBlue talk 10:28, 29 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you! --KnightMove (talk) 21:55, 2 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Draft:paysafecard edit

Hi KnightMove. Alexshih asked me to have a look at the draft. I looked it over briefly and am willing to work on it more. But it ~looks like~ conflicted editing work (promotional, unsourced/badly sourced, etc) so before I work on it I wanted to ask - do you have any connection with the company? If you are not aware of the PAID policy, you are obligated to disclose if you are being paid or expect to be paid, and per the COI guideline, you should disclose if you some connection with the company. You can reply here, I will see it. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 09:27, 2 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jytdog, answers and explanations:
WP:PAID I can easily answer with "no". I do not earn anything, directly or indirectly, by working on this article, or by promoting the company, or by doing any other edits in Wikipedia. Regarding WP:COI, I can't say "no" that clearly, and I have to confess that I had better been fully aware of this guideline before, even though working on the article is my private business without financial motivation.
Anyway, for the "promotional, unsourced/badly sourced, etc" impression, I would like to clear up a few things:
  • The draft has originally been an article in main namespace, and been deleted as such. That version of the article was, regarding its main contents, certainly promotional and used internal sources mainly (I don't know details about the process of its creation). I do have invested work in removing and/or repairing this content, but I'm not done with it yet. The process is more difficult than I had expected, and one may well accuse my of having loitered, which is why I have asked Alexshih for more time.
  • So far, I have well added sources critical about paysafecard which the company, especially regarding abuse for criminal activities, about which to be talked to about much the company can hardly have an interest (see e.g. sources #2-4 and #30). I have also removed criticism, but this was arguably totally invalid content in terms of sources and neutrality (see especially this edit).
  • I am fully open to your feedback on my past edits, and what is supposed to happen next. --KnightMove (talk) 23:36, 2 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for replying and clarifying that you are not editing this for pay. Would you please disclose your connection with this company? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:39, 3 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
I am an employee of an IT personnel service provider, predominantly for software testing, and in this role I currently mainly work as an external co-worker for paysafecard. I am not hired or asked by them to work in Wikipedia, or otherwise do marketing stuff.
Apart from that, I am a normal customer of them. paysafecard has been my online payment method of choice for several purposes, especially fee-based services in online games.
My motivations to work on the article were
  • the sincere (and upright) conviction that the company is relevant, and deserves an article (in the German Wikipedia, this is out of discussion anyway),
  • the 'shock moment' when I noticed that the English article had been deleted (even though this is the company's fault, no doubt about it),
  • the occasion to finally contribute a full article to the English Wikipedia (so far, I have only created some redirects and disambiguation pages, and added rather minor contents to articles),
  • and some 'patriotic' tendency to add or support Austrian-related content (for example, I have created the disambiguation pages Dorfmeister and Niavarani to make the respective Austrian persons easier to find). --KnightMove (talk) 19:02, 3 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Jytdog: Well, I don't know what you conclude from this now. You will understand that I don't like to totally stop now. Unless you recommend something different, I'm going to continue working on the draft with shifted priority - adding external citations for contents, removing contents for which this fails (as done e.g. here), and stopping to add new content before this has made at least significant progress. --KnightMove (talk) 05:45, 6 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for the delay. So.. you are saying that paysafe is a client of the IT company you work for, and as an employee of the IT company, you have worked on the paysafe software. Is that correct? Jytdog (talk) 05:50, 6 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Yes, this is correct (apart from the name). --KnightMove (talk) 06:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for explaining. That is ~some~ COI but not horrible. Thanks for explaining.
In general, we look for people to a) disclose any COI they have; and b) not edit directly in mainspace, but instead offer content proposals. You are doing great with that, by putting the article through AfC, so no problem there.
Even more generally, please have a look at User:Jytdog/How, which I wrote to try to give new editors an overview of what our mission is, and how we realize it. There is a section there about writing a new article, that you might find helpful.
In any case, I will have a look at the draft this weekend. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 06:05, 6 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! --KnightMove (talk) 06:14, 6 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Hi Jytdog, I'm somewhat half-hearted in my further work on the draft, as I'm unsure whether it's in the right direction. Please can you give some feedback this weekend? --KnightMove (talk) 14:53, 16 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

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@Enivid: Why do you treat this link as spam? This page includes probably the most informative (and apparently independent) overview of the group history to be found on the web. --KnightMove (talk) 11:54, 10 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Disambiguation page not required (WP:2DABS). Primary topic has a hatnote to the only other use.

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Taijiro edit

Hi what makes you think this is a surname? The articles it links to show Taijiro as a first name. Mccapra (talk) 10:23, 6 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

I see, I was wrong here. I will request speedy deletion. --KnightMove (talk) 10:33, 6 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Replaceable fair use File:Topgun2.jpg edit

 

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Thanks for the explanation, which I assume to be autogenerated. Just for protocol, for readers passing by here: I did not upload the file, I have just used it in an additional article. More at the deletion request. --KnightMove (talk) 23:41, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Update: After reading and understanding all the rules you have cited, I agree that the image is probably not justified, and I will not issue an objection. --KnightMove (talk) 23:50, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Re: Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty edit

Hello Knight! As per your request on the above page's talk page: done! Go check it out and let me know if there is still something missing. Thanks! God bless! Antonio Aer Lingus, Guinness, Accenture, Bank of Ireland, err.....ok! Martin (wassup?) 04:54, 3 August, 2022 (UTC)

Superb work, now unqualified pro for DYC from my side. --KnightMove (talk) 10:10, 3 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
@AntonioMartin @KnightMove Great, I will resume the DYK review now! BTW, KnightMove: You are exempt from DYK reviews for your first 5 DYK nominations; no need for QPQ. (You can just mention that in your DYK nomination and everyone understands; there is also a tool linked from the DYK Reviewing Guide to verify this.) Cielquiparle (talk) 16:04, 3 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Very good to know, thank you. --KnightMove (talk) 05:01, 4 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Top Gun: Maverick edit

You seem to come back to this article every so often and retry the changes that have been unsuccessful. At this point, it would be best to hash it out on the article's talk page. Specifically, in this edit, the statement "Maverick meets former girlfriend Penny Benjamin, they come close again" is not coherent. They come close again? What does that mean? That's poor grammar at best.

Also, the subplot about Maverick making a promise to Rooster's mother should not be removed. It is central to the conflict between Rooster and Maverick, even if that portion is unbeknownst to Rooster. We can discuss more publicly on that talk page if needed. -- GoneIn60 (talk) 05:53, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

So be it, I go to the talk page (see you soon there). --KnightMove (talk) 08:42, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

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