User talk:Arbitrarily0/Archive/2014

DYK nom

Hi Arbitrarily0. Thanks for your comments at Template:Did you know nominations/Legal education in Alaska. I revised the article[1] based on your comments to be more in line with the language of the source. I also added an ALT2 which is in the article and (I believe) supported by footnote 182 in this source. -- Jreferee (talk) 15:22, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Jreferee. Sorry for the delayed reply. Good work on the article - glad it worked out. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:16, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Wisely article

Arbitrarily0, I think the Wisely article is about ready to go. It is still in my sandbox for now. I'd love if you could look to make sure it is not to much like an advertisement or too promotional. Thanks! Michael Barera (talk) 02:20, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Michael. I made some changes, and left my rationale at User talk:Michael Barera/Sandbox. The sandbox talk page should be moved into the article space along with the article. Excellent work on the article - it is succinct and informational. Have a nice weekend, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:14, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Arbitrarily0. I really appreciate your help on this one! Michael Barera (talk) 02:11, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Update: I've moved the article to the mainspace and nominated it at DYK. Due to your contributions to the article while it was still in my sandbox, which I greatly appreciate, I have listed you as "Author 2" on the nomination page. If you disagree with this decision, feel free to remove your name from the nomination. I just felt that adding your name was the best way to acknowledge your contributions to the article. Thanks again for all your help, and take care! Michael Barera (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Mathew Ahmann

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

questions about journalism wiki project

Hello,

I am a new Wikipeida user and I noticed that you are apart of the journalism wiki Project. I recently joined this project and I was wondering what would be the best way for me to contribute to this project as I will be working on it for class ?

thanks Jsomani (talk) 20:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Jsomani. I am not actively involved in WikiProject Journalism, but consider checking out Wikipedia:WikiProject Journalism#To Do, or ask how you can help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Journalism. Remember, contributing to any article related to journalism will in turn be a contribution to WikiProject Journalism. I hope this helps. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 14:18, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Re talk page comment

I am making more of these for a knot guide I'm putting together elsewhere, though they're not animated. What do you have in mind?

P.S. I've actually been editing Wikipedia longer than you have, though I'm not nearly as prolific. 96.61.58.122 (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Excellent. Mostly, I just wanted to salute you for your work! I am also glad that you are using Wikimedia Commons. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you with the wiki-side of the process. Best regards, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:41, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Restarting Highlight Industries Page

Hello Arbitrarily0,

I know there was a discussion a couple of years ago regarding Highlight Industries' page on Wikipedia, resulting in deletion. The company would like to revisit having a page. I have been compiling information and articles on Highlight and building an outline for a potential article/page, and upon creating an account and attempting to start an article I was asked to contact you about revisiting this idea. I'd love to get your input on the matter, and figure out what steps I need to take next for submitting information, etc. Thanks for your time!

Karebear7 (talk) 15:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello Karebear7! Do you have a copy of the draft of the article? I am most interested to see if the article demonstrates the notability criteria outlined at Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:43, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Personal wiki

To be honest, I'm surprised anyone looks at my user page. My edits of late are generally inconsequential.

My personal wiki began on Linux using the MySQL database. It was probably Fedora Core back then. This is a standard configuration and there are many online tutorials that will walk you through the process.

Eventually I set up my own home network server under FreeBSD (using the ZFS file system) and switched my wiki to use the PostgreSQL database, which runs a bit again the grain. This is all great technology, but it requires fairly significant chops. I don't recommend my current configuration to non-professionals.

There are also options just to have your wiki hosted in the cloud, or to use an existing cloud service such as Evernote (I've never used this myself0.

The good thing with MediaWiki is that once you get it set up, you can go years without doing much maintenance. However, there are many bits and pieces to mess with during installation if you want all the usual features (image uploads, thumbnails, etc.)

The other side is that an empty wiki can become highly disorganized very quickly. There's a knack to creating the appropriate page names such that you can naturally find them again, and so that your notes cleave on natural boundaries.

I created a template called "up" which I put at the top of many pages to give my wiki some hierarchical structure.

For example, I've recently taken a shine to freethinking, by which I mean the philosophical root system I've long taken for granted. It's hard to keep all the philosophers and eras organized in my head, so I have many of them grouped under an umbrella page named Age of Enlightenment. This page itself doesn't mean anything to me, but having it there prevents me from inadvertently covering the same material in pages with subtly different names.

Wikipedia is less hierarchical and makes more use of categories for this kind of thing. But your own mind is not like that, trust me. You need at least a few eyeballs stacked into a pyramid to keep your coverage straight.

Creating pages with the names of people is A Good Thing. People are fixed reference points. Ideas are not.

For example, create a page called [[Roger Ebert]]. Create a separate page for [[symbolism]]. Create a third page [[Roger Ebert on symbolism in the movies]] and make sure this last page prominently links upward to a fourth page [[symbolism in the movies]] which links upward to the vapid umbrella page [[symbolism]]. Now you can find your way around in your own idea cloud, plus add more linkages as they come to you without having to wrestle an existing page in half.

The problem with hierarchy is that it taps on the taxonomic reflex arc until the hierarchy starts to seem more important than the actual content (we've all experienced this on committees). But really, with a wiki the main thing is just to keep accumulating more asphalt (primary pages) and from time to time you paint some coloured lines and lane markers to help maintain your bearings.

This all works for me because I'm fundamentally a lateral thinker. One of the stated goals of Getting Things Done is to organize yourself so that you never have to think the same thought twice. For me, this is exactly backwards. My wiki exists so that I can think the same thoughts over and over and over again, but spaced out in time and coming at it each time from a different direction.

So you can see that I use my wiki primary to achieve spaced repetition. It's a fairly heavy commitment where I amass all my little ideas over the long term. I also make heavy use of a voice recorder when there are too many ideas coming at me too fast to stitch into my wiki. Sometimes I'll just put a link in my wiki to a voice recorder file stored elsewhere on my server. Other times I'll go back and explode the recording into all the separate tendrils.

That covers two or three sides of the elephant. If you wish to refine your question, ping me again on my user page. — MaxEnt 23:21, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, MaxEnt, for your extremely thorough response! This is very helpful, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:41, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

File:37th_Chess_Olympiad_participants.PNG

Hi Arbitrarily0. Pls could you to correct your map of the 37th Chess Olympiad 2006 - Austria did take part in both the open and women's division (77th and 58th place, respectively). --KnightMove (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks KnightMove. I have corrected this. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:45, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you (Michigan Wikipedians)

Thank you for your note about the Michigan Wikipedians. I'm no longer in Ann Arbor, but maybe I'll still be able to attend an event someday. And I am interested in what the group does. Best wishes! - CocoaZen (talk) 19:03, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks CocoaZen! Please watch Wikipedia talk:Michigan Wikipedians for any updates. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Restoring Luc Courchesne article

Some 5 years ago I added a paragraph to an existing article about Montréal videographer Luc Courchesne on English Wikipedia. I also added more or less the same content on a similar page on the French counterpart of Wikipedia at [2].

A few months later I was shocked to discover that someone had deleted the English version of the article for the following reason: "Article about a real person, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject". I could argue that the person in question was deemed sufficiently important to have had an article written about him before I came along, and he deserved even more recognition after I had added a paragraph that mentioned that he had captured on video a very significant piece of history on the morning of September 11, 2001, something almost equivalent to the Zapruder video of the JFK assassination. Was it precisely because of the sensitive matter of 9/11 that the article was deleted? I'll probably never know for sure but I strongly suspect it.

Anyway, I later discovered that for some reason you took it upon yourself to restore the article on 17 May 2010, as can be seen here: [3]. It says that "41 revisions restored" but I can't locate the original article. Was your restoration attempt unsuccessful, and if so why? Oclupak (talk) 22:24, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi Oclupak! This article goes beyond my memory, but it has now for a while existed, with all its past revisions, at User:Panoramedia/Luc Courchesne. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 23:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Arbitrarily0. I hadn't thought of looking at the history. Now by going back through time I can see the article as I remembered it upon my last intervention, at 19:26, 24 May 2009‎, using my IP address which was, at the time, 66.130.132.148. I guess it was soon after that that I registered under the pseudonym Oclupak.

I can now see that it was an editor named Dan Murphy who took the initiative of removing most of the content of the article on 20 January 2010 at 13:05, followed by a request for speedy deletion by Ridernyc some 4 hours later.

However, missing in the history is the intervention of Malik Shabazz at 20:35, on 20 January 2010. He's the one who deleted the article, as can be seen here : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luc_Courchesne&action=edit&redlink=1

So, thank you again for having shown me how to have access to those old revisions. Would it be too much to ask if you could restore the article with all the pertinent information as it was before it was deleted for no valid reason, in my humble opinion? As you are an administrator, you may be much more experimented than I am with the technicalities involved. Thanks in advance. Oclupak (talk) 20:36, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Greetings again! It is fine that the article is restored to its former state, as long as the article content is amended to comply with Wikipedia's policy for biographies of living person. All information in the article must be verifiable (established by secondary sources) and neutral. There is nothing clearly wrong with this version of the article, except that it is missing references. With references, it can be restored. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 02:36, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Request for granting rollback rights

Through this I would like to request you for granting me rollback right for my username. I will use this right to fight obvious vandalism! I am appealing here since in past I had faced several vandalism even on my talk page and userpage!. If possible please grant me this right. Thank you! CutestPenguin • Talk 15:01, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Okay - use it wisely! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for granting me this, right! Surly I will use it wisely. CutestPenguin • Talk 16:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Aagadu - protection required

admin assistance is needed. Lot of disruption and vandalism is going on Aagadu. Please protect the article for 24 hrs Bewakoofian (talk) 19:51, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Greetings Bewakoofian. I see that this has been handled. In the future, you may find the most immediate response by using Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Cheers, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:32, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Vilayet of the Archipelago

The title Vilayet of the Archipelago (moved on Aug 11, 2011) seems rather peculiar.It is certainly non-Turkish and I doubt if the western sources used that name. Is it really sourced or is it a product of imputation ? Thanks Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 19:08, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Nedim. You can find some past discussion about it at Talk:Vilayet of the Archipelago. I am not familiar with the topic, but if you think there is a better title, I would follow the directions at Wikipedia:Requested moves for proposing it. Let me know if there is a way I can help, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:36, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Userfication Requests

I would like to have these articles userfied:

• Tiny Kong (deleted 2005 revision)
• DK Isles (not the redirect)
• Donkey Kong Island (obviously not the redirect)
• Manky Kong
• Krusha
• Klaptrap

I'll let you know when I find more articles that I'd like userfied, please. 2005-Fan (talk) 18:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi 2005-fan. DK Isles contained only the content "where are the 4 bonuses in the swoopy salvo level?". These others are now in your subpages. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:29, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Wow, thank you very much. Will you be around for when I make userfication requess again? :) 2005-Fan (talk) 22:26, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Userfication Request 2: Please Reply :)

Sorry to bother you again, but I found some more pages (mostly DK-related) that would be good for userfication:

• Fungi Forest
• Gruntilda's Lair
• KAOS (Donkey Kong)
• Klubba (deleted revisions)
• Kremling (all deleted revisions; not to be confused with Kremlings article)
• Kremlings (deleted revisions)
• Kerozene (deleted revisions)
• Kremling Krew (deleted revisions)
• Kudgel
• Nintendo NSider Forums
• Nintendopedia
• Pipsy (deleted revisions)
• Rattly the Rattlesnake
• Snapjaw
• Spiral Mountain
• Super Mario Wiki

It took me effort to track these down. And please reply, as I was waiting for eight days for one. 2005-Fan (talk) 20:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi 2005-Fan! Unfortunately userfication can be a time-consuming process - apologies for the delay! Feel free to refer other administrators here. Since there are so many, however, can you please explain how the userfication of these pages is to the benefit of Wikipedia, or some other cause? Cheers, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 18:18, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, the information is not exactly Wikipedia material, but it is informative & can be archived for being historic wiki articles. It also can be information for other articles & moved to more appropriate wikis. Some information on those deleted articles may have never been put on the appropriate wiki.

So how do I request userfication for the above pages? 2005-Fan (talk) 23:30, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

2005-Fan - since it is not clear how restoring these pages to the userspace will benefit the project, I probably should not restore them all. If, however, you want them for your personal use, I can email them to you. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:50, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. How do I privately share my email with you? 2005-Fan (talk) 20:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

At what do you mean by "benefits the project"? The articles can easily be for entertainment. May I please have the revived articles for personal use in preferably a ZIP file from a temporary link or such? 2005-Fan (talk) 17:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Okay, so can you please email me copies of the deleted articles? I just specified my email in the preferences. 2005-Fan (talk) 22:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks 2005-Fan, will be able to do so within the next couple days. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:40, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi 2005-Fan, I have emailed you the content of these pages. Best regards and happy Thanksgiving, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 22:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

I thanked you in my email reply. As for Super Mario Wiki's article, it was deleted nine times. Given how it was deleted that many times, I think it should have userficationfor each revision to be seen & looked at. Thoughts? 2005-Fan (talk) 16:07, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

You are welcome! I have sent you, in a new email, the only version of Super Mario Wiki that had substantial content. It was deleted many other times with content such as only the phrase "a wiki of mario" or "Wiki of Mario. Thus, Mariowiki.". Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 18:48, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Hey, it's me again. Do you have the time to check these deleted articles for any substantial information? See, these articles might contain information that every other wiki lack (this is a rare instance, however). And yeah, I'm a Rareware fan. :)

• Banjo-Kazooie DS
• DK Island
• Freezeezy Peak
• Fungi Forest
• Gloomy Galleon
• Gruntilda's Lair
• Grunty's Lair
• Jiggy
• Kongo Jungle

That should do it for now. My email's open for replies. :) 2005-Fan (talk) 00:41, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi 2005-Fan! Only a few of these were relevant; I have emailed them. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I should probably not offer to research any more of these, but I hope this has been helpful. Best regards, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 21:27, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, mate. Please don't think of me as greedy. I just think Wikipedia has hidden substantial content that could benefit other projects. In rare instances it can have information that doesn't belong on its appropriate wiki.

Oh, pardon me but I realized that I already requested Gruntilda's Lair as an article. Oh well. You may find some incomplete Wikipedia revisions of articles on the Wayback Machine to save time in finding out if it's worth restoring. 2005-Fan (talk) 02:05, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Page reverted

Hello,

I have searched in vain for the good path to get administrator’s help for the following issue and so I decided to send this request to some including you.

I have considerably expanded the article Guerrilla filmmaking and took care in referencing it as far as I could (over 90 links to trustful sources). I am an experienced editor of Wikipedia. For my surprise, the article was reverted by user CIRT to a preceding stub version mainly consisting of a very narrow list of films. Many important contents were removed. Self promotional vandalism seems to be the reason of such intervention, sustained by acute threats. I do not intend to respond with helpless and inconsequent arguments and the time I have to dedicate to Wikipedia is quite limited.

I’d be happy if you could pay some attention to this occurrence and let you decide whatever you think is reasonable.

My best,

Tertulius (User talk:Tertulius) 04,29, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Greetings Tertulius. I see that this issue has been brought up on your talk page; please let me know if you need further help. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:41, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Scott Pickens for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Scott Pickens is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Pickens until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 12:47, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Mellowed Fillmore. I will keep an eye on the discussion. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:42, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Evolution Day (2011 AfD)

Back in 2011 you commented on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evolution Day: "Although this article has been with us since 2005, I had great difficulty finding sources that would verify that this is indeed a recognized 'day'."

After doing a recent web search, I found evidence that the term had been used at least as early as 1996, in TES (magazine): [4] If this is a good enough source that would have gotten you to vote "Keep" had we known of it at the time, would you mind putting a comment to that effect on User_talk:Postdlf#Evolution_Day? Thanks! -- Limulus (talk) 09:43, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Greetings Limulus! I do not think this source would put me over the edge. It gives the date of the day (and indeed, few would disagree with this), but it gives no additional information about the subject on which an article could subsist. Multiple sources that provide in-depth focus on the subject would clearly establish notability. Please keep me posted, and happy Thanksgiving! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 21:12, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to discussion

Hi Arbitrarilyo! I saw you worked on "List of most popular websites", so I'd like to ask you to join the discussion about implementation of the bot which would display direct visits number to each particular site in the web-sites info box next to alexa ranking index. Would you please advance your idea on my suggestion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_website. (Implementation of web measurement bot in website infobox) Thank you Noamsp (talk) 15:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello Noamsp. Thank you for informing me. Unfortunately I am inclined to agree with the other respondents there, that the Alexa rankings are sufficient for infoboxes. Such information, however, might be more appropriate on List of most popular websites, where it can readily be compared. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)