User talk:Noosentaal/Archive 1

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Reward for tabulating the list at List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

Hi there, as requested at the reward board I've tabulted a section for you, by my count I added 28 people from the list to the table. To make it up to the full 30 I added a couple from this section as well. Please check my work and if you're satisfied present me with my reward. Kind regards - Noosentaal^(talk) 18:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your participation in the challenge thus far; however, it appears you've only met part of the challenge, which states that citations are a must. By finding at least one citation for each alumnus, you'll meet WP:CITE and also probably learn more information to fill in (year graduated, degree earned, etc.). I don't expect you find be able to fill in all fields for all alumni, but if you locate one reliable source for each, I'm confident you'll find a lot of the information (see List of Brigham Young University alumni for an example of a FL that is comprehensive).

Anyway, it's a tough challenge, so if you no longer want to participate, then perhaps we can come up with a different arrangement so you edits here don't go unrewarded; otherwise, happy Googling :) --Eustress (talk) 21:13, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Damn, I thought that was a little too easy, well I'll see what I can do about citations. Any good tips about where to look for "reliable sources" some of the people in the section that I tabulated are a little obscure, especially for an Englishman! - Noosentaal^(talk) 11:13, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

The goal is to verify that the person attended the university. You're not always totally in the dark, as the person's Wikipedia article will sometimes have a source you can use. But to find information those sources don't have, I usually do a Google search. So for Lloyd Bentsen, a Boolean search like this yields several sources describing his career, when he graduated ('42), what degree (J.D.), etc. --Eustress (talk) 14:15, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Help

{{help}} Is the edit by 79.180.141.159 on Arabic hip hop vandalism? I wasn't sure whether to revert it or not. Cheers! Noosentaal^(talk) 15:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think it is. Feel free to ask about it on the talk page of the article, though.  GARDEN  15:17, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks for the quick reply and the second opinion. :) Noosentaal^(talk) 11:46, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl chloride

Hope you don't mind a cheeky request... You quoted "J. Jones, Amino Acid and Peptide Synthesis, 2nd edn., Oxford University Press, 2002." in this page. Would you know if there is a synthesis of Fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl chloride in that book? It would save me the time of having to get a loan out of the BL, and then probably only to find that it uses bought in FMOC-Cl! Ronhjones (talk) 23:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi there, I don't mind the cheeky request at all. I had a look at the book (hardly a difficult manoeuvre as it is still next to my computer) and it doesn't go into the synthesis of Fmoc I'm afraid. I have a paper that might be of some use to you, I haven’t read it yet but I think i'ts the first mention of the Fmoc group in the literature. The reference is "L. A. Carpino and G. Y. Han, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1972, 37, 3404-&." which can be found here if you have access to the Web of Science. If you can't find the paper or don't have access drop me another message and I'll take a look at it and see if they report the synthesis. I hope that was of some help to you! -Noosentaal^·talk· 15:13, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info - I checked JOC (we have an ACS subscrition) it has the data to make the FMOC-Cl from the alcohol with (of course) phosgene! - may have to change that, not the easist of chemicals to get hold of nowdays. Ronhjones (talk) 17:32, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, glad I could be of some help to you! Just out of curiosity, why are you trying to make it? Its a pretty standard protecting group, I wouldn't have thought it would be that expensive to buy in and would certainly be a lot easier! -Noosentaal^·talk· 12:22, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You didn't notice where I worked then on my user page... I work for Alfa Aesar (merge of Alfa, Aesar, Avocado, and Lancaster synthesis). Buy? From Aldrich - our main competitor? We try not to. Ronhjones (talk) 20:40, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

You're right, I didn't look at your user page, that makes a little more sense! Good luck making Fmoc! Let me know how you get on! If you find out anything interesting then don't forget to update the Fmoc page! -Noosentaal^·talk· 12:36, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For laboring diligently to fulfill a challenge. Cheers! —Eustress talk 02:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for all your help. I guess I will have to wait until it does become a bit more known for me to create a page.

Just one question, how do I go about getting someone or even me to create a page for the Rev Film Festival. Would I need the runner's of the event to create a website or something of that sorts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by SBeckman (talk • contribs) 10:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem, I'm glad to be able to help! With regards to the rev film festival, there would be no reason why you couldn't start a page provided that the festival was notable enough AND that you could prove its notability using suitable sources. As you aren't the organiser of the festival there wouldn't be the same issues with conflict of interest as with your film's article. I would start by finding sources, personally I would try to find a newspaper article that covered the festival. As I said before please feel free to ask me if you need help proof reading anything that you choose to create! --Noosentaal^·talk· 11:24, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Loud Quacking

Per WP:DUCK I am willing to believe that User talk:Clarkdj05 and User talk:Bardslc01 are sockpuppets.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey there, what are you basing this on? I took a look at their contributions and aside from the fact that they both vandalised the same page today I can't see much of a link. --Noosentaal^·talk· 09:27, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Looking at the contributions they both seem to know a "bethany" somehow. I'll have another look to confirm it.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

And it is also quite rare for more than one account to vandalise a page at about the same time.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:32, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

I see what you mean, well spotted! It might not be sockpuppetry though, it could just be two separate people in the same room - it is quite childish so it could well be school kids! --Noosentaal^·talk· 09:36, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Do you think a Checkuser would be good anyway? Also, I wonder about that third account Next076.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

I don't really know - I've never come across the Checkuser process before so I don't really know what the best course of action would be. My hunch is that all of these people go to school together and that they're bored - correct me if I'm wrong but I would imagine that a checkuser would find they're all using the same IP which would belong to the school. --Noosentaal^·talk· 09:46, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

The more I think about it, the more I believe you could be right. I'll leave the matter alone for now, but if they continue I will reconsider taking some action. Thank you for your co-operation.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

No problem at all - you did most of the work with the investigation! If you decide to take further action let me know, I'm always interested to follow up on what happens! --Noosentaal^·talk· 09:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Okay.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:51, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

DJs Are Not Rockstars

Since normally an article creator's blanking of a page would generate a {{G7}} tagging, especially without notability being clear (though such is not acceptable if notability claims exist), the author should not have been warned. I've taken it upon myself, though to verify the notability, since so many of the artists are already apparently notable. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:35, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Cobaltbluetony, you're quite right. I will remove the warning and apologise to Gettwisted for warning him unduly. Thanks for bringing that to my attention! --Noosentaal^·talk· 15:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Mount Barker

Dear Noosental, I noticed that you cautioned me regarding my (arguably) unconstructive edit to the page 'Mount Barker'. I do not think that an individual such as yourself, has any authority on the subject as you have not even been there. Please refrain from making unconstructive criticisms of me in the future. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.24.97.11 (talk) 11:10, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Dear 203.24.97.11, your edit to 'Mount Barker' was unconstructive - you replaced the legitimate picture of Mount Barker with a non existent file named "hillbilly.jpg" therefore I do not believe that my criticism of your editing was unconstructive. On Wikipedia everybody is equal, from professors to school children - I can't tell whether you are a world expert and you can't tell whether I have authority on the subject. If you feel that I have treated you unfairly in this matter then please feel free to elaborate further and I will explain my position more clearly. If I can help you in any other matter please feel free to ask and I will endeavour to help you. As your IP address is registered to "The University of Western Australia" may I also suggest that you create an account with Wikipedia if you are serious about editing - this gives you a name with which people can communicate and can help keep you separate from other people that may use your IP address, please see this page for more information. Regards --Noosentaal^·talk· 11:35, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

List of castlevania characters

My edits are constructive. Your reverts are unconstructive. I am trying to be constructive and also follow NPOV. Essentially either Legends needs to be categorized under legends, for people trying to look up "Legends", or it needs to be linked back to the Castlevania: Legends article (which I did through the see also section). Looking up "non-canon" is quite unclear since people looking up information on "legends" won't find it by looking up "non-canon". Legends is a better categorization heading. I even left an explanation in the talk page but people seemed to have ignored it. I don't appreciate your fanatic accusations.Draculvania (talk) 16:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Draculvania, I apologise if I reverted something constructive that you were trying to do. From where I'm sitting it looked a lot like you were just removing content from the page as vandalism. I understand that it must be frustrating to be reverted like that but please try to assume good faith in future - my accusations were far from fanatic and I am happy to admit that I was wrong, I didn't revert your edits out of spite, merely because they appeared to be vandalism. Please accept my apologies. If I can help in any way to atone for my error I would be glad to. --Noosentaal^·talk· 16:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh no problem. I forgive you, and I apologize for calling you "fanatic". There is another editor/s who keeps on reverting my edits with an IP starting with 92, who I feel must have some kind of fanboyish agenda. I'm not trying to remove the information that the game is non-canon, but just trying to make it easier to search up by giving it its own heading. I hope my explanation made more sense. .... and further explains my recent edit. I just can't see how non-canon heading can be seen as a constructive heading when people trying to look up specific information are going to have a better chance if they see the specific game they are looking for listed under the exact title.76.232.176.26 (talk) 16:49, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

RE:Thanks!

No problem, you're quite welcome. :) UntilItSleeps ^{Public PC} 16:58, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! --Caltas ^(talk) 10:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

No problems mate, glad to be of assistance! --Noosentaal^·talk· 10:08, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

???

Do you have a bot or a super fast computer or something? By the time my laptop loads the history page you've already reverted it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yutsi (talk • contribs) 17:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

I use Huggle, an anti vandalism tool - it automates most of the vandalism fighting process making it quicker and easier. I'm still nowhere near as fast as a bot though! --Noosentaal^·talk· 17:38, 3 July 2009 (UTC)