User talk:Ukexpat/Archive 2

Deletion Nominations

I am trying to nominate (and re-nominate in some cases) deletion for articles of people related to Barack Obama that are noty notable. There is already some support for deletion. Please consider weighing in on the talk pages of these articles: Barack Obama, Sr., Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and Sarah Obama. These are all biographies. ObamaGirlMachine (talk) 03:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Chilliwack Bruins

I am going to definitely create a page for the BCJHL team, I'll try to do one for the PJHL team if I have time.

(Merrittcentennials (talk) 00:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC))

Peer review request

Hi Ukexpat, I've submitted an article for peer review, and read that editors are "strongly encouraged to seek out other Wikipedians for comment". I've had a look at the volunteers page and you stood out because 1) you're a copyeditor and 2) you're British! The article is on the Sindy doll, and I thought that as you're from Britain, you may have at least heard of the doll, and you can ensure the article is written in British English. (It's currently in Australian English, which I hope is close enough to British for few mistakes in that regard!) No worries if you don't have time or aren't interested. :) The peer review is here. Thanks, Somno (talk) 08:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Vectropy

I have expanded the Vectropy page to hopefully better meet the requirements. I apologize for my repeated unsatisfactory edits, I am relatively new to Wikipedia and thought I'd add this as it seems to be gaining popularity in the upcoming WPF/Silverlight developments. The article is now substantially more detailed than many similar ones (e.g. a large number of other graphics editors in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphics_software_stubs). I hope the new page meets your expectations.

Thanks! Trucelan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trucelan (talk • contribs) 20:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Sincere thanks

...for this!Prashanthns (talk) 23:59, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Anteater Edit You Undid

You've reverted an edit I made to this:

"Anteaters are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua[1] commonly known for eating ants and termites.[2] The name is also colloquially applied to the aardvark, the numbat, the echidna, and the pangolin. Together with the sloths, they comprise the order Pilosa."

That phrasing can be misunderstood as including aardvark, numbat, echidna, pangolin in Pilosa.

My edit corrected that potential confusion without changing any factual information -- only prose presentation -- so your reversion seems to be an odd thing to do etiquette-wise and not providing any factual correction or other benefit.

Switching back. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.216.16.147 (talk) 04:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.216.16.147 (talk) 04:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanx!

Thanks!

did you post that on my talkpage as a reply to my village pump question?

cause that's just what i meant! nicely-prompt reply too!

& wun'tcha kno it - i'm a ukexpat meself! tried for cambridg tho...but they dint want me!

anyway - that template was of great help - thank you again - i'm bookmarking you as a permanent friend of mine!

Ta!

A. Aryadne (talk) 15:07, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

That was my younger brother, he was logged in as me, sorry about that. Torakuro (talk) 16:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

report on vandalism

hey ive been getting these reports on vandalism when i havent been on wikipedia for like a few weeks, ive never edited a page before in my life and i just keep on getting these messages of vandalism is there anything i can do to prevent them from coming? thank you

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Archiving setup

Good news: it looks fine. Automatic archiving of all topics inactive for >7 days will be automatically archived to User talk:Ukexpat/Archive 1 and then to subsequently numbered pages once the previous one reaches 250K in size. You already have the archive box, so everything should be set up perfectly; just wait for MiszaBot III's cycle to begin, and everything should be done automatically! (Unless you have so many old topics that you cause it to break, of course...) haz (talk) 13:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Anteater edit reversion

Thanks...

Black African English people

A deleted this category as it is basically rubbihs. It needs completing or deleting all together, it should include all people listed in the List of black Britons article, as these are all of Black African descent. There are millions of black people in the UK, and hundreds if not thousands of famous ones with Wikipedia articles.

Explain this to me

How is improving Carolina Kostner's article vandalism?

speedy delete

You marked easylearning for speedy deletion as spam or advertising. The program is recognised by the UN Global Compact Initiative so is not simply a product, but is delivering education to developing countries. The wikipedia E-learning page lists many similar companies, although none seemingly with the same objective as easylearning, under the Proprietary subhead. I would argue easylearning, as a program with clear social responsibilty elements, is also worthy of inclusion. I have reworded in case it sounded too advertisement-like and added UNIDO and UNGC links. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtm1969 (talk • contribs) 21:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

why are people trying to intimidate me not to make edits on wikipedia for. from mr james. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.160.198 (talk) 00:58, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Speedy deletion of Park Resorts

You recently contacted me about the speedy deletion of the aforementioned article. I have no attachment to this article and I see no reason why I'd want to prevent its deletion. The article had been hijacked by Park Resorts employees, so became biased. I believe another editor has reverted the article to the last unbiased revision, so it may now not be considered criteria for deletion. I don't often deal with the deletion system so I'm not sure whether to tag the now-reverted version or let it be deleted, which it had long deserved. Regards /Marbles (talk) 21:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. Much appreciated! ——Ryan | t • c 17:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

hi fag jk sorry bout that edit —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.66.200.83 (talk) 17:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Ryan Pope

Heh, sorry about that. For some reason I thought I was editing the page for his brother, Rob. Rwiggum (talk) 20:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

USCNS/21 Navbox

I like the Navbox, I agree with deleting the existing table and replacing it with the Navbox. Subsequently i think you should place the navbox onto the other articles listed to make everything uniform. Escully21 (talk) 01:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

UCC Greenawalds Day Nursery

What makes a preschool notable? Jerwinch (talk) 14:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC) Thanks for the clarification :-) Jerwinch (talk) 14:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

USCNS/21 Navbox

I added your navbox to the 'see also' section; I think it looks really nice...tell me me what you think. Escully21 (talk) 19:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for Peer Review help

Thank you for you work as a peer review volunteer. Since March, there has been a concerted effort to make sure all peer review requests get some response. Requests that have gone three days or longer without a substantial response are listed at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog. I have three requests to help this continue.

1) If you are asked to do a peer review, please ask the person who made the request to also do a review, preferably of a request that has not yet had feedback. This is fairly simple, but helps. For example when I review requests on the backlog list, I close with Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, ...

2) While there are several people who help with the backlog, lately I have been doing up to 3 or 4 peer reviews a day and can not keep this up much longer. We need help. Since there are now well over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, if each volunteer reviewed just one PR request without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog. To help spread out the load, I suggest those willing pick a day of the month and do a review that day (for example, my first edit was on the 8th, so I could pick the 8th). Please pick a peer review request with no responses yet, if possible off the backlog list. If you want, leave a note on my talk page as to which day you picked and I will remind you each month.

3) I have made some proposals to add some limits to peer review requests at Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. The idea is to prevent any one user from overly burdening the process. These seem fairly reasonable (one PR request per editor per day, only four total PR requests per editor at a time, PR requests with cleanup banners can be delisted (like GAN quick fail), and wait two weeks to relist a PR request after it is archived), but have gotten no feedback in one week. If you have any thoughts on these, please weigh in.

Thanks again for your help and in advance for any assistance with the backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome.

You're quite welcome. And thank you for mentioning it. Doczilla _STOMP! 20:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for the message and looking at my article. Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner about it. I don't mind the new box at all and frankly it looks much better. Brasf87 (talk) 14:00, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

BMF AG

I don't a agree with the delation about BMF AG, because this article is linked with other lifts manufacturers like Montaval, Poma, Doppelmayr, Lift Engineering. If this companies appears in Wikipedia, BMF should appear to be complete. I deletde the commercial lines in the article. Thanks,

PSchibli (talk) 14:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Why are you deleting two articles

I can't see the point in deleting these two articles, they are both strong, popular companies internationally and there are no other pages about them on wikipedia. Falcon-eagle2008 —Preceding comment was added at 14:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Odysseus

OK really? how was that vandalism. I read the odyssey in depth and I find that what I said was completely true. I do not understand how you consider that "vandalism". PLease reply asap with an answer. Delawarecanoe45 (talk) 19:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with her or him. So much of theese articles are biased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.214.253 (talk) 22:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Tim Beckham

And this is why I should never attempt to evaluate any sports related article: I apparently have no idea about notability or non-notability in these areas. Thanks for the link to the guidelines at Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball which is pretty clear. In light of them, I think you are right about qualifying for SD. I was busy looking at the sources, not at the baseline guideline recommendations. I'm going to close the AfD and speedy it. My mistake and sorry to make you have to do the AfD route. Cheers, Pigman☿ 00:32, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for tagging the 163.153.134.19 user page regarding the recent disruptive edits. The district has reported that they have identified the student involved and has taken appropriate action. --NERIC-Security (talk) 16:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

re vandalism

What vandalism have I committed? I don't understand. When is it acceptable to remove unreferenced material and when is it not allowed? I'm really unsure, because I try to follow the behavior of distinguished editors on this site and I see all sort of unreferenced material removed. Maybe you can clear that up for me. Capitalist Shrugged (talk) 17:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

thank you for clearing that up Capitalist Shrugged (talk) 18:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh oh someone is making a lot of mistakes and not learning from them! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.214.253 (talk) 22:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

my article

i just said on the article about FOB's guitarist that he recorded the beat it cover with them, how is that unconstructive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaron 1993 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Edit

Greetings,

I am a little stumped as to why adding a genuine link [external resource] to a forum set up to discuss fuel prices are being deemed as vandalism.

Care to explain?

Richard18:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

Hey, no problem. Also, I think you deserve this:

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		For the impressive amount of vandalism you've reverted. I've been running into you all day. Keep up the great work! Thingg⊕⊗ 21:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm using it too. That's what makes it so annoying when I run into you... (If only I'd hit that button 0.0002 seconds earlier.... ;) ) Thingg^⊕⊗ 21:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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Euphoria

Thank you for your heads up on cigs and euphoria. You are a gentleman and scholar.--68.33.89.79 (talk) 04:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

mother

It says that his mother died and that his mother raised him after that. i think someone made amistake and was suposed to put that his father died —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.94.157 (talk) 04:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean unconstructive? I was leaving that because those are pure lies, so in other words they're unconstructive and need to be removed... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.63.2.236 (talk) 05:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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Churches of Christ (non-institutional)

Can I inquire why you restored vandalism on the churches of Christ (non-institutional) page on 5/31? Thanks. Jdb1972 (talk) 19:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

what the hell

i added a defintion of owned and u deleted u stupid gypsy fool im helping wikipedofile by doing this and u just delete it u idiot fool!

many angry moments, haxxor84.68.71.16 (talk) 20:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

chhheeeeeeeeese??

i hope u like cheeeeeeeeeeeeese?84.68.71.16 (talk) 20:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Gunsan

I just want to explain that I changed the spelling of the link "hae" to "hoe" and then to "hoe (dish)" to correct the link as the korean raw fish dish is known as "hoe", not hae. I do not mean to cause any vandalism! Sorry, but I'm not an active editor of Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.189.18 (talk) 03:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008

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Richard Stern / Lazydork

Hello, I recently attempted to delete the entry dedicated to myself for personal privacy reasons. I am also no longer notable in the sense first contemplated by the creator of the site; in fact, I'm no longer notable at all in the public domain. Please feel free to contact me at ricky@lazydork.com re: this issue. Thank you.

Hi there,

I'm contesting the "speedy deletion" of the European Newspaper Publishers Association website.

You claim it "promotes" an entity, when the page is designed only to inform. We are a non-profit trade association, not seeking revenues but have created this page, modelled on the World Association of Newspapers page (of which we are a member) to highlight our industry and activities.

Please let me know what information justifies its supposed "speedy deletion", all the statistics are true and verifiable.

Best,

Simon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Summersso (talk • contribs) 14:05, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi there,

I'm contesting the "speedy deletion" of the European Newspaper Publishers Association website.

You claim it "promotes" an entity, when the page is designed only to inform. We are a non-profit trade association, not seeking revenues but have created this page, modelled on the World Association of Newspapers page (of which we are a member) to highlight our industry and activities.

Please let me know what information justifies its supposed "speedy deletion", all the statistics are true and verifiable.

Best,

Simon

Summersso (talk) 14:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

bad

bad bad bad ukexpat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.255.240.10 (talk) 19:29, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: June 2008

Apologies for the inconvenience, kind sir. I was simply committing a few acts of vandalism to demonstrate the problems posed by people using anonymous free proxy servers. -- 69.20.56.18 (talk) 19:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

come on it was funny

come on it was funny. have a heart. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.240.219 (talk) 20:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

uhh sry i just thought that the fact that it was also made in to a DVD should be metioned —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.245.247.26 (talk) 04:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Ukexpat

Wow, I never saw so many little wikiwidgets describing various aspects of a user as on your page.

Then again, I haven't looked at many user pages, since I spend most of my time on Wikipedia trying to improve articles I come across.

By the way, I'm American, but totally agree with the British (English?) (U.K.?) custom of placing commas and period *outside* of close-quotes -- unless logic dictates otherwise. (Your wikiwidget for this, however, shows a question mark following a close-quote, and to the best of my knowledge this is a typical American custom as well -- just in case you were wondering.)

Noticed your username because I was reading the article about bdelloid animals, after reading Olivia Judson's typically terrific article about same in the New York Times. (In case you're interested, see http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/the-weird-sisters/index.html .)Daqu (talk) 05:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

How I came to your user talk page

After reading that O. Judson article about bdelloid rotifers, I read the Wikipedia article on Bdelloidea, and noticed your name listed on its history page.Daqu (talk) 16:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

First harrogate Trains

I think you were wrong to list this. There are several other proposed TOCs similar to this on Wiki, and they all have right of place. There is enough for the article to be kept. Btline (talk) 19:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I knew that would be your reply. But in this case "the other stuff" is valid. But I agree - wait for the decision. I expect it will be keep for the reasons I have given. Btline (talk) 19:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Welcome

Erm, sorry about that! Yes, I did intend to give that message to another user - sorry for the mistake. CrazyChemGuy (talk) 00:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Review help for Anekantavada

I can see that you are a copy editor. Hence I request your assistance to make this article as a featured article. Users, Alastair Haines (talk · contribs), Qmwne235 (talk · contribs) Ruhrfisch (talk · contribs) have made a lot of improvements, but I still need more assistance which would be appreciated. Anekantavada is the most important principle of Jain philosophy and I hope it will be the first article on Jainism to qualify as FA. Thanks.--Anish (talk) 11:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)--Anish (talk) 11:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks got your message !!!--Anish (talk) 15:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Copy-edit

Hi, I noticed that you said you were listed at WP:PRV and willing to copy-edit articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to help me out ? I have put the Doggystyle article up for FAC and it has been requested that it receives a copy-edit before it can pass as a FA. A partial list of what has to be changed is at the FAC page, but I think the article would need a complete copy-edit to ensure it has good grammer and that the prose flows well. I personally don't know what to look for, so I would really appreciate your help. Can you help me out ? Please get back to me soon :) - Guerilla In Tha Mist (talk) 15:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's great ! Thanks for the quick reply. - Guerilla In Tha Mist (talk) 16:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The ARBAY Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For the swift removal of vandalism. Thankyou !!

why do you keep taking my iced coffee message off wikipedia. He has never had one. go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer%27s_Union_Iced_Coffee and then see where they are made. NOT IM AMERICA! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.160.139.40 (talk) 21:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

EDIT

What I have attempted to do is modify the writer's obvious slant with corrections first, and later deletion. This is the people's resource not some biased extremeist site. I have as much right to delete lies and obvious slant as he did to write the garbage in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgia Clay (talk • contribs) 21:23, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Stop deleting Radu Catrina!

read the page discussion ffs, before you quickly delete something. i added a hangon notice and explained it's purpose.00:52, 6 June 2008 Theradu123 (talk) 01:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

error

I was reverting an article because of vandalism and you sent me a message stateing I was doing the vandalism??

I'm guessing this is common when a two or more peole submit the same edit and are using something like huggle?

Mushroom —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueLint (talk • contribs) 01:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Huggle issue

Yeah, it seems there is a contention issue when two people revert the same article at the same time. Not too much of a bother as long as nothing nasty gets hung on my user name..

BlueLint (talk) 02:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

minor chamges?

Hi. The changes you made to Fareham article were not minor. Maybe you need to uncheck the 'mark as minor by default' option 09:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC) CanOfWorms (talk) 10:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC) I was assuming good faith, that's why I thought you might have the 'mark as minor by default' checked. I have been caught by that one myself CanOfWorms (talk) 15:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I am really not sure, how one can contribute to Wikipedia. Please advise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moviejini (talk • contribs) 11:42, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ukexpat,

Thanks for your input on the 'Lost in a Garden of Clouds' questions. I didn't realise the band's own assessment/recommendations/praise couldn't be counted. Your explanation makes perfect sense and is easy to work with. I'll seek out some other references if possible. Hope you didn't mind me leaving you this message on your User Page, and would it be possible to ask your advice sometime again? I promise I'm not a stalker!

Thanks,

Theblako (talk) 14:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

WHY DO YOU WANT TO DELETE OUT OF DOOR ACADEMY? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ItunesFan (talk • contribs) 20:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated

redirected to character's main article, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 21:45, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

YES SIR,

I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO HAVE AN ENTRY ON THIS GREAT SITE! I AM PROUD OF SOME THE ATHLETIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS I HAVE ATTAINED AND WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE THEM POSTED FOR THE WORLD TO SEE ON WIKIPEDIA. I AM BRAND NEW TO THIS SITE AND I SET UP MY ENTRY TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME. I THOUGHT I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT, BUT I GUESS I MUST HAVE MADE A MISTAKE SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY BECAUSE I WAS JUST NOTIFIED WHEN I LOGGED IN THAT THE ACCOUNT I JUST CREATED WAS FLAGGED FOR SPEEDY DELETION. IF YOU COULD GET BACK TO ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT I COULD DO TO MAKE MY WIKIPEDIA CORRECT SO IT COULD STAY IT WOULD MAKE MY DAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

--Jaderocker (talk) 22:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

YES SIR,

I WAS JUST TRYING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ASPECTS OF NOTIBILITY FOR WIKIPEDIA.........WELL, THE ENRTY I LEFT ON THE SMALL PAGE I SET UP ABOUT THE 1998 2ND PLACE FINISH AT THE AMERICAN NATIONALS MADE ME THE 2ND BEST JUNIOR BODYBUILDER IN THE USA FOR THAT FEDERATION OF THAT YEAR. I WOULD REALLY BE HONORED TO HAVE A PLACE HERE ON WIKIPEDIA.....LOOK AT THE REFERENCE TO MUSCLEMEMORY.COM.....I WAS THE REAL DEAL.....JUST WANNA BE PART OF THIS GREAT ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA! THANKS AGAIN!--Jaderocker (talk) 22:09, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

False warnings

Keep them to yourself, there's a good lad. Red Hugh (talk) 19:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Destiny's Sales

why change sales to 100 million, That is false. also do not have any reliable source.

the real sales are between 50 and 60 million .. I have reliable sources.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4087228.stm http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17909

why inflating sales???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.72.236.175 (talk) 20:18, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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Congrats!

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		I award you this barnstar for reverting all those vandals and beating me most of the time. Keep it up! -- SchfiftyThree 01:21, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Cecil Rhodes

"Whilst is perfectly OK in Brit English" - It's perfectly OK in Oz english too. ;-) Pdfpdf (talk) 03:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
(Probably NZ english as well ...)

Greetings

What-ho, Expat, trust all is well with you. Good to see that you're still active - keep up the good work! Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 16:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

On deletion of Fly Communications article

I'm trying to get the article on Fly Communications published.

I appreciate the idea that Wikipedia is not the place to advertise. However, how does one walk the fine line to report on progress in successful techniques of advertising. I think this kind of progress has important intellectual value, just as the recognition of how our individual tastes for "nostalgia" are cultivated ... yes, it only seems like advertisers use this "nostaglia" theory, but it does reflect something inherent in human nature. Likewise, the firm has successfully combined these two conflicting approaches (direct marketing, which involves a call-to-action, and branding, which involves an emotional connection). And I believe that Fly was one of the first firms to combine these successfully.

Thus, I believe it is worthy of publication.

Regarding, the idea that the article in question is "advertising" something, this is not the case. The article does not "advertise" any product or service, but the article is about the advertising industry and a company that has pioneered a particular approach.

An easy way to demonstrate that this article is NOT advertising is to pretend the article were about a firm that were to pioneer the combination of baking soda (used by bakers) and vinegar (used by salad chefs) to produce a chemical result that could be used with childrens' Science Fair projects illustrating volcanoes and their lava flow. The fact that is has become popular does not diminish the experimentation and success with combining features of separate disciplines (bakers vs. salad chefs).

Considering that the article is not intended to advertise, what kind of improvements do you suggest to make it suitable? Clearly, Wikipedia has articles on companies and other companies in the advertising industry ... maybe a little explanation of improvement would help me make the article suitable to Wikipedia standards.

FYI, I am reachable at [personal info removed by User:Ukexpat]. Thanks in advance for your suggestions and help.

Farance (talk) 16:59, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Got your message on the sandbox, and I will ask other editors/admins for advice. Also, thanks for the tip on personal data (phone number).

I really appreciate your taking the time to respond to me and give me some helpful suggestions.

Farance (talk) 18:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not vadilizing i'm making it better —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.180.30.135 (talk) 03:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

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June Newsletter, Issue VIII

Delivered on June 12, 2008 by Polishname. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add two *s by your username on the Project Mainpage.

No fair hearing on speedy deletion of Nova Development

You deleted Nova Development, with no opportunity for a fair hearing.

Another party had moved for deletion --on an earlier ocassion.

I performed exhaustive effort in composing the article, from varied resources. That party had re-instated my article.

Yet, you have executed a speedy delete on the article. This is an abuse of power, and it is an apparent circumnaventing of the standard rules for deletion.

I will try to get redress (restoration) of the article via arbitrators.Dogru144 (talk) 00:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Xbox live

Im sorry, removing vandalism messages from annon's about themselves is vandalism? Metagraph comment 03:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Its ok, i realised that after i left the comment as well. Its annoying i know! Happy editing, Metagraph comment 03:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Freddie and the trojan horse article deletion

why are you deleting my article? there is an entire category of 2008 singles with several hundred entries. you going to delete all of those as well?

22:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)smwheat

re snow leopard trust page

Hi you left a note on this article to say it needed more sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications (3 June). That has now been done, can you have a look to see if you can now remove the comment? If you feel it still needs more 3rd party sources let me know. Sibyllenoras (talk) 13:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

re user page sibyllenoras snow leopard trust

Hi thanks for making the update for the snow leopard trust page - re deleting the user page stuff - I don't know how to do that - can you please help? Sibyllenoras (talk) 13:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

re user page sibyllenoras snow leopard trust

thanks so much!! I had no idea all that content on the article was there, I must have put that up when I did my very first upload ;-)

you're doing a great job of all this helping and editing - people like u are making the wikipedia a great place - thanks, Sibyllenoras (talk) 13:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I have done something wrong here but I have only stated fact and it is a very serious problem two which wyeth and the FDA have "Never" done any research on and based on my own and others I've spoken to regarding to high a dosage of Effexor XR's being prescribed by ,I dont know how many doctors around the world probably contibutes to half the suiceds that take place by People that are on this medication!!!

I have been researching this drug now for 5 years and Venlofaxine is the most deadliest of SSRI's in "All" the antidepresents in the world today..

I only want to let people know ,if they do some research as to why they feel so depressed when thiey've been taking them for the initial 2 week body execptance period that they aren't suffering from depression by thier own means but rather by the Effexors as they are taking to high a dose ...Doctors will Not admitt to this,My own phycision agrees with me as do many chemists i've spoken with and it coincides with research that has been done around the worl especially in Europe but as for western Countries ,we dont seem to care what happens to patients ..

Thats all I was trying to do ...Be informative and hopefully it would encourage others to look a bit more aswell and possibly add more light to them ..

Again i'm very sorry ,,you can scap my membership ,if you so wish,But I shouldn't have expected anything less as in general ,people just dont want to know the truth, do they .. Again ,many thanks Stuart Haynes —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stu963 (talk • contribs) 16:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

CAMICO Mutual Insurance

You tagged CAMICO Mutual Insurance for speedy deletion as blatant spam. I decided that the company was notable and that the article should be rewritten to make it less like an advertisement. Often a bad article about a notable topic can be salvaged. I see that the article is now being actively worked on by the original author. --Eastmain (talk) 18:32, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

The GlobalVote

Hello,

I noticed that you nominated the GlobalVote page for speedily deletion because of advertising. However, the page was not meant to be an advertisement for anything. The GlobalVote page that I created was just a description of the organization itself along with the global resolutions that the organization posted. The GlobalVote is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. I have seen other wikipedia pages with descriptions of other nonprofit organizations (i.e. Lawyers Alliance for New York) that have not been deleted, so I do not understand why the GlobalVote page was deleted. Can anything be done in order for the page not to be deleted? Globalvote (talk) 18:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Aa lava

cheers m8. I wasn't certain were to put it so I thought I would type it up and leave it to the experts to sort it out. Cheers once again. Sergeant Expert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sergeant Expert (talk • contribs) 08:35, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Anekantavad promoted to GA...thanks for help!!!

Anekantavada has been promoted as a Good article. Your contributions have immensely helped improved this article. Thanks for all your help. I hope you will help me out to make this as a featured article. I also intend to work on other Jainism related articles and am counting on your expertise. Thanks! --Anish (talk) 19:49, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

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Christopher Whyte

You have marked the article about this author with the tag "unreferenced". But the sources of all information are explicitly given at the links' section. As far as I could realise from Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability, attribution is required for direct quotes and for material that is challenged or likely to be challenged. There's nothing to be challenged in this article, nor direct quotes - only biographical facts which could be easily found at both sources given, one self-published and the other independent and reliable. What kind of references you want to be added to the article? Andrei Romanenko (talk) 09:54, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Doggystyle Copy-edit

Thanks man. The FAC failed, so there's no rush to get it done, although I would like to put it back up sometime in the near future. How bad is the page ? I get the feeling that it will never be good enough. Anyway, thanks again. - Guerilla In Tha Mist (talk) 18:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

My user page

Part of my info box with the boxing info isn't showing. Can you please fix it?(Planecrash111 (talk) 18:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC))

Double Gammas

Greetings, You have added a notability for fiction tag to the Double Gammas entry. While the notability part is straight forward, the criteria for a fan award as a fictional construct is obscure. MartinSFSA (talk) 14:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the thank you, but there is still a tag requesting the entry meet the notability guideline for fiction. MartinSFSA (talk) 15:59, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please--it passes notability, but I can't concieve of it meeting notability for fiction! MartinSFSA (talk) 16:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

having problems uploading Snow Leopard Trust logo

Hi UKexpat I've tried many times to upload this logo Image:ISLT Logo 72 dpi.jpg onto the Snow Leopard Trust page - no luck. I have permission from the trust to do it, but it just doesn't seem to work. Can you help please? You've helped me on this page before and wld really appreciate it :-) thanksSibyllenoras (talk) 11:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Howard Webb

Look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pdfpdf#cheater_Howard_Webb and don't undo "controversial". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.175.191.128 (talk) 16:17, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mysteria Film Group

An article that you have been involved in editing, Mysteria Film Group, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mysteria Film Group. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? TheRealFennShysa (talk) 17:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Evan M. Whidden

I added categories and two books to Evan M. Whidden You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan M. Whidden. --Eastmain (talk) 15:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Christopher Miles

I did not remove the speedy deletion template from this article, this confusion occurred because somebody deleted this article before I had the chance to put on the hangon template. Please give us a reasonable chance, say about 24 hours, to get this article into shape before deciding whether it is encyclopedic. PatGallacher (talk) 01:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Expected films

well, so much for getting an edit conflict. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 02:01, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

European Audiovisual Observatory

Hi there, I think you added some comments to our article on the Observatory. I have of course taken these into account and improved the article. The 'advert' words have been removed and a link to the Observatory's site was in fact already posted. Can you let me know if this is satisfactory and, if possible and pertinent, remove the comments at the top of the page? Cheers alison Hindhaugh

New West Realty

hey, i was just wondering what you find in my article as blatant advertising? I will make the correct edits. Thank you. Thetomsterrr (talk) 15:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I am trying to write an article about Mort Fertel. He is important in his field because he has a completely seperate system from most marriage counselors. He has saved thousands of marriages and is endorsed by Dr. stephen covey who is listed on wikipedia as well. This article is NOT MEANT TO BE AN ADVERTISEMENT but it got flagged. How should I change it so it will be approved? Also, can I add his picture?

Mortfertel (talk) 17:59, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

MY ENTRY

YES SIR......I'M SORRY TO INCONVENIENCE YOU IN ANY WAY. I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE EVEN THE SMALLEST REFERENCE OF ME TO BE MENTIONED ON THIS GREAT WEB SITE! YES, I DID COMPETE NATIONALLY AS A BODYBUILDER, AND ALMOST SIGN 2 PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING CONTRACTS WITH THE HELP OF MY PERSONAL FRIEND BRUTUS "THE BARBER" BEEFCAKE. BUT IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO GIVE ME SOME ADVICE ON HOW I COULD LINK MY NAME ON WIKIPEDIA TO WWW.MUSCLEMEMORY.COM WOULD MEAN THE WORLD TO ME!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

JOHN QUINLANJaderocker (talk) 03:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Please delete any reference to the Melted Metal Web Radio listing on Wikipedia

Dear Ukexepat:

If you will, please delete any reference to Melted Metal Web Radio on 'any' Wikipedia (English) page. My deep concerns are that search engines will pick up 'your' deletion comments.

To be clear, I am requesting that all links to historical information, including this note, are no longer made available, on Wikipedia, to any internet query. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at: [deleted]

Best, William H. Wilkins [deleted e-mail] Networknoir (talk) 03:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

you are a supporter of the english football and cricket team so thats probably why you deleted the big fash

You are a joke for speedy deleting my favourite artist right now.

Fash is one hell of a guy, and has a record deal and radio airplay. i dont get you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thebigfash (talk • contribs) 11:25, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Prospect Research

Donorresearch (talk) 16:47, 20 June 2008 (UTC)Donorresearch (talk) 16:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I would like to ask, humbly and very nicely, that you consider removing your deletion request for the Prospect Research article. This is my first attempt and I am trying very hard to learn a whole new language and set of rules. The original nominator for deletion used Baltant Advertising as a reason. No company information is in the article and I am consciously trying to keep this from being commercial.

The prospect research industry is made up, predominately, of full-time employees of non-profit organizations around the world.

Specific references to coverage of the profession include:

Media coverage: 1) Finding that millionaire next door: using research to find the donors (Non-profit Times May 1, 2007)

2) Prospect research and personal solicitations.- Fund Raising Management Feb 1, 1990

3) Web Offers an Outlet For Charitable Impulses - New York Times - Dec 2, 1996

Books: 1) Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits (Paperback) by Cecilia Hogan (Author)Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (June 1, 2003)

2) Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online by Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Pamela M. Gignac, and Christopher Carnie (Hardcover - April 21, 2006)

3) Targeting the Powerful: International Prospect Research by Vanessa Hack (Hardcover - Mar 1, 2000)

Notes

• Profile of the GlobalVote within e-Civicus (p.5) [1]
• Example of a current event on the GlobalVote [2]
• The GlobalVote's Frequently Asked Questions [3]

--Ouain (talk) 18:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response. 1st, I am not Mort Fertel. I chose that username because I intended to write about him. 2nd, I have read the rules on advertising, conflicts of interests etc. and am still not sure how this applies. I am not writing an advertisement or resume. Also, see John Gottman - I wanted to write something similar to that. What is different about his page and mine? Also, is there someone who can help me write this article so that it can stay on wikipedia?

i just left you a message about Mort Fertel and forgot to sign...

Mortfertel (talk) 18:44, 20 June 2008

First Response Team of America

What, you couldn't wait 15 seconds for me to put in notability? You are way too twitchy dude. --Marcwiki9 (talk) 21:27, 20 June 2008 (UTC) I just read your user page. There is lots of references to proper English. I may need to improve my usage of language. Perhaps I can improve it a bit :) Why, you coundn't wait 15 seconds for me to put in notability? You are too twitchy, my good man. :) --Marcwiki9 (talk) 00:54, 21 June 2008 (UTC) But seriously, dude, take at look at these words from the speedy deletion page "Contributors sometimes create articles over several edits, so try to avoid deleting a page too soon after its creation if it appears incomplete." It seems to me that you nom for speedy about 15 seconds after I created the page. That would be a vio of the spirit of the speedy deletion system. If you are sitting around waiting for new pages to tag for speedy, then you should at least wait a couple of hours for the page to be finished. Why did you tag it so fast? --Marcwiki9 (talk) 02:58, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

use of swearing on Wikipedia

The word ,Gh*ts' was used on a Wikipedia page, the use of Swearing is not aloud on Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.246.56 (talk) 14:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Russel Brand

I was only adding the fact that he was a sex addict. Why have you changed it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Opc100 (talk • contribs) 21:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Global Grover

Hi, please make sure you look for edit summaries before reverting. If you can source any part of Global Grover, please feel free to do so. Most of the information is fan-submitted and requires a viewing of over 30 or so Sesame episodes. It makes more sense to include the sourced material on the main Grover article. Thanks! 72.93.75.172 (talk) 21:30, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I was trying to be bold. Please weigh in on the talk page. Thanks. 72.93.75.172 (talk) 21:36, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

what you at son removing my edit?i have tried my best.82.152.43.165 (talk) 00:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

edit

How am I vandalizing?? I am using real quotes relating to RuPaul 69.159.41.170 (talk) 01:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC) Rory

edit

How do I put sources because these are true 69.159.41.170 (talk) 02:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC) Rory

Edit on Page : Roti Canai

Erm, hello...

I just want to ask. How come it should be proof, not poof?

I am a Malaysia and I roti canai is one of my favorites. It will really "poff" when fried. Please clarify? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.48.208.209 (talk) 02:35, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Re : Proof

Thank you Uxepart! You are great! I wish to give you a barnstar for helping me, but I don't know how to do one... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.50.228.27 (talk) 08:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

mKR edits

Thank you. I would have said something before, but I just now got the point where I can navigate all the links and see what you did. Rhmccullough (talk) 18:28, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Rüştü Reçber article

I didn't know if omitting the Euro 2008 stuff, when reverting recent vandalism occurrences, was intentional. I think it was not intentional, and tried to rescue it. Please check my edits (I may have missed some English nuances). Thanks. JTMnen (talk) 19:44, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Great! Thanks!JTMnen (talk) 20:28, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Dutch American Vandalism

I believe you are the one guilty of vandalism, my dear sir. Do you have proof that Eddie Van Halen in not a virtuoso electric badass? I have found considerable evidence illustrating that he is in fact a virtuoso electric badass. Until you can prove otherwise I will have to ask you to refrain from any further acts of vandalism to the Dutch American page. Thank you75.174.60.219 (talk) 02:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sxfZIaJfJ4

I will take your silence as recognition of gross wrongdoing on your part. I accept your apology. 75.174.60.219 (talk) 03:10, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Apology accepted!!!75.174.69.17 (talk) 20:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

speedy delete about the global vote

Dear Ukepat,

I would like to offer my edits to the speedy deleted page of the GlobalVote, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Globalvote

I think I made the description to look like more a non-profit organization instead of a business advertisement. Below is the text, if that should help.

Thanks, Wayne ...

The GlobalVote, based in New York, NY with an office in the Netherlands, is a [non-profit organization] which aims to gather the opinions of the international online community on the most urgent and latest international issues and to educate and inform the online voting community about these pertinent issues.

The GlobalVote's primary initiative involves the international community, grouped by their nationality, voting on resolutions. Each voting result will be applied to four varied voting procedures, including proportional representation and the voting procedures of the U.N. Security Council.

New Messages

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You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Prata (Minas Gerais)

Dear Sir, I was working at Prata´s page in English as a favour to my boss who is a person born and very participative in Prata´s politics, economy, society and life. He called me today to ask what had happened to the page cause the articles had disappeared. Well, now I know what happened and I won´t discuss about it. I just need the page done (and this was what I was trying to do, in spite of the rare time I had to work on it and unexperience in these kind of thing)as it is in portuguese (You may see the references looking for Prata(Minas Gerais)in portuguese language as I had done). For instance I won´t work on it cause I´m very upset with the disappearance of the work I´ve made up to last friday. I thank you if you can contribute constructing the page again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katia Teixeira (talk • contribs) 19:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Pam St. Clement probs with my initial revert

Hi, bit of a mix up on the reverts with this one. I think I've got the right one now. Per this diff. Very confusing with all these anon. IP addresses having a go at it today!

Cheers, Nk.sheridan   Talk 21:50, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Wale

I'm trying to edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wale_%28rapper%29

it's supposed to say: He grew up on Peabody Street in Northwest DC and moved to Largo, Maryland as a teenager

Here is the reference for it http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101900655_3.html

and here is the text from The Wash Post: His family, from the Yoruba ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, arrived here in 1979 from Austria, moving around the metro area, starting in Northwest Washington, near Georgia Avenue and Peabody Street, with stints around Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Wale is the baby of the family, the youngest of two boys. (His brother, Alvin, lives in New York, where he works for a record label.) King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and Kool and the Gang provided the soundtrack to their lives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.41.28.89 (talk) 22:08, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello 24.41.28.89, you had some problems with the layout, so it looked like vandalism what you had done. I modified it so it looks better. --Cyfal (talk) 22:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello. This concerns the Glenn Watkins page. The problem with having "is the" in front of "Earl V. Moore Professor Emeritus of Music History and Musicology" is that Glenn isn't the only "Earl V. Moore Professor Emeritus" at Michigan. I'm not a regular Wikipedian, but I do write for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (plus I am a former student of Glenn's, which is why I decided to clean-up his page). This isn't a big problem, but I thought you might want to consider how the change reads. Thanks----

Glenn Watkins page

Sorry, I didn't give my previous message a heading (I'm new at this). Even though I added the four tildes, my IP address didn't come up. Just look at the IP addresses in the series of recent changes (last few days) to the Watkins page, and you'll find me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.160.137 (talk) 22:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Watkins edit

Thanks for the revert. I blanked the talk page thinking that's what I was supposed to do, because the entry was no longer a stub, nor does it follow a Wikipedia template (it hasn't since someone dumped his U Michigan bio directly onto the page)--it now looks like something from EB, except for the books section, which they do in a paragraph rather than bulleted form (I prefer the bullets). I suppose I misread the "stub" instruction page . . .

If you want to do musicologists, you might want to keep track of the Susan McClary entry. It has suffered from vandalism of a hurtful, personal nature. I don't have my own Wiki page yet, but one is surely coming, and I think I'll tag myself for lack of notability, quick deletion, and all those other good things to avoid getting smeared. As academics, when students google us the Wikipedia page pops right up, and you really don't want potential students seeing some of these "edits." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.160.137 (talk) 03:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Couple Questions For You..................

I just logged into my account and looked in my contributions section and noticed a "request for speedy deletion" in there. I am going to send this same message to user Iridescent (if I can figure out how to find his talk page as I am new to wikipedia). It was Iridescent who stepped up and said the entry about me is far from a speedy deletion article so it would be locked in here on wikipedia and I'm pretty sure it was you who fixed up the article in the proper format for me.....which I was very thankful for.....as noted in the email I sent both of you. It would mean the world to me to have this issue corrected as it was by user Iridescent before. I also received your email (I think it was you) about adding additional materials....references etc. Just started doing that today for the first time, since I never paid any attentioin to this stuff until now...wish I did. Off the top of my head I appeared in the video, "Body of Work" that was shown on MSNBC about women in wrestling featuring April Hunter. I didn't have any speaking parts but I was shown close up doing pushups, walking around, drills, and being around the ring. You can view this close up photo of me from MSNBC on my myspace page in the pro wrestling album....the pic with the official MSNBC logo in the bottom of it. I don't know where one would place that information on my page. I'll try to brainstorm and think of some other videos etc.

Thank You So Much My Friend, Jaderocker (talk) 15:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I hope the other editor may edit the page again. Thanks for your cooperation. Katia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katia Teixeira (talk • contribs) 16:19, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

About Prata, Minas Gerais

Dear Sir,

I was reading the talks and I realize that there was a lack about the reason of the edit I´d made. So, I´d like to explain the importance of having the page Prata, Minas Gerais at Wikipedia in english (as it is in portuguese and two other languages). The importance of the municipality is specially caused by the discovery of fossils of the dinosaur named Maxakalisaurus topai at that region in 2006, largely published at the world wide web, and still remains many other discoveries such as paintings and bones dated from the earlier centuries. I´d like to let you know that I don´t even know personally the region (everything I could learn about it was from notices, pictures and internet - all very safe)as I live in Rio de Janeiro. But as I told you before, my boss was born there and still is a very participative person who has all interest in the improvement of that region and is putting on his efforts and heart in order to the development of that region. I thank you again for your cooperation. best wishes, Katia Teixeira (talk) 20:11, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Hidal Tinav

What's wrong with the Hidal Tinav page?

Smuckers (talk) 20:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

how?

how was that unconstructive

i was adding my name —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimzzza95 (talk • contribs) 02:47, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

that wsnt un constructive ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimzzza95 (talk • contribs) 02:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

why

Why did genius 4th power get banned so quickly? —Preceding unsigned comment added by I'm Smarter (talk • contribs) 03:07, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

hi

what about reverting that block/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by I'm Smarter (talk • contribs) 03:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Referencing new research

Hello there,

I am very new to this. In fact this article on Colin Hampden-White is my first! How do I reference research on a person when the research I have been doing is interviewing people who have worked with Colin Hampden-White and are reliable and whose positions within the media are significant, such as the picture editor of the Financial Times Jamie Hann?

There is very little out there as a reference to him at this stage as he is becoming well known as people buy his work as an artist. Is a shortlist of some of his more important commissions worth putting up? He is also having two solo exhibitions in the autumn (dates tba). I presume they need to have been, before they are listed on here?

How do I list original research, such as dates he studied at university, or in the future his marriage, (he is getting married at Westminster Abbey with a reception at the house of lords on the 20th of September this year)?

Any advice would be most helpful.

--79.75.6.193 (talk) 08:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for the help. I have Scotsman and FT articles with Colin Hampden-White's photography which can be scanned and added as a jpeg, but other than that there is no direct record, especially online, of employment. The articles are online, but without the photography. This is a common problem with articles online, they have very little photography.

There is a mass of printed work by Colin Hampden-White, should I simply reference publications, articles and dates of articles? Can I simply list the publications in which he has been published?

Where the information has been sought by word of mouth, what would constitute a reliable reference? I mean, the picture editor of the FT is hardly likely to lie. After all, information and facts in biographies which are referenced and quoted have to come from somewhere or information collected from someone. How is this type of information is placed in an article, or is it simply left with no reference?

Again, any help is very greatly appreciated.

--Colari (talk) 15:29, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the direction and suggestions - I will add some website links to the references. I read that in some of the guidelines and actually forgot to go back and do that. I Appreciate your guidance. Oaklandishgirl (talk) 16:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Sir, As you asked me to do here are the translation I´ve done for Prata you can also have more information about the dinosaur looking for "maxakalisaurus topai" in wikipedia or google. You´ll able to see the size of that discovery in many languages. I must thank you again. In fact, today I was ordered to redo the page again and I`m very glad to have you helping me.

Prata – Minas Gerais

Prata is a Brazilian municipal district located in the State of Minas Gerais. The city (bigger local authority in territorial extension of the Mineiro Triângulo) is situated to the edges of the BR-153 (Transbrasiliana), in the geographical centre of that important region. With the latitude of 19°18 ' 27 " south and longitude of 48°55 ' 22 " west, being to an altitude of 631 meters.

Prata´s predominant climate is the semi-wet tropical, with summer rains and winter drought. The tropical climate of altitude is present in the divisor of waters between the rivers Tejuco and of the Prata, in the east of the municipal district, where the altitudes exceed the 800 m. The middle annual Temperature in the city is of 24ºC, least of 7ºC in the autumn and maxim of 40ºC in the spring. Middle annual Pluviosidade of 1.500mm.

Relief and Vegetation

The relief is sedimentary Plateau middling dissected in most, residual reliefs to west and fluvial plain to east. Maximum altitude: 866 m - local: Plain of the Silver (I exalt east of the municipal district in the boundary with Veríssimo). Minimum altitude: 492 m - local: Rio Verde or Feio (he/she spies with Campina Verde). The vegetation is the Savannah and tropical forest.

Economical activities: Livestock (bovine, pig), Agriculture (cane of sugar, orange, soy and pineapple), Industry (dairy products, nutritious, chemistry, wood for pencil production, transformation), reforestation (pinus, eucalyptus and rubber tree).

In this municipal district there were located fossils of the biggest dinosaur found in Brazil, what lived there are more than 80 million years in the region of Serra da Boa Vista, distant one around 40 km of Prata, which scientific name was called of Maxakalisaurus topai,after popular vote, it is known as DINOPRATA, the retort of the titanossauro (got on resin), with around 13 meters of length, is exposed in the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro since the 28 of August of 2006.

Brasão Bandeira

Hino

Fundação 15 de novembro de 1873

Gentílico pratense

Prefeito(a) Luis Roberto Santos Vilela (DEM)

Localização

19° 18' 25" S 48° 55' 26" O

Estado Minas Gerais

Mesorregião Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba

Microrregião Uberlândia

Municípios limítrofes Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, Monte Alegre de Minas, Campina Verde, Comendador Gomes, Campo Florido e Verissímo Distância até a capital 640 quilômetros

Características geográficas Área 4.856,626 km²

População 25.511 hab. IBGE/abril-2007

Densidade 5,25 hab./km²

Altitude 631 metros

Clima tropical e tropical de altitude Aw e Cwa

Fuso horário UTC-3

Indicadores IDH 0,769 PNUD/2000

PIB R$ 261.461.000,00 IBGE/2005

PIB per capita R$ 11.412,00 IBGE/2005 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katia Teixeira (talk • contribs) 19:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)