User talk:BarkingFish/Archives/Archive 15

Old Man Grabbycalves

Just to let you know I've added the db-hoax tag (as well as your prod) because I think that applies here, but ... I did laugh :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gonzonoir (talk • contribs)

S. Gold

10 June 2010, 17:30

I emailed permissions yesterday regarding the image, which I took myself and edited in Photoshop. Other than that, I don't know what proof you are seeking? S. Gold.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Saphiragold"

Also, how would I be able to delete previous uploaded images that are not currenly in use?

Many thanks,

S. Gold

Dear BArking Fish,

thank you for your infinite patience with my misplacing posting at the top of the page. Now I hope I'm doing it right. I'm writing because the newly published page Alessandro Ferrara doesn't get picked up by google when entering Alessandro ferrara. Is that normal, as far as you know? If not I'll investigate on my own what to do, just asking whether perhaps it takes time... Best, sanfr53 ----

WP:ANI

That's a very clear personal attack you've made by accusing me of "taking the piss", and violates the basic principle of assuming good faith. I'm considering making a Wikiquette alerts thread concerning this. Claritas § 19:32, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Tariq Khan (Doctor)

Dear barking fish, Why is the page I created Dr.Tariq Khan again up for deletion when I have put external links already to the page? What seems to be the problem?

BBC England —Preceding unsigned comment added by BBC ENGLAND (talk • contribs) 01:44, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

BBC England, the reason it is up for deletion is that the article I am viewing on Tariq Khan (Doctor) has absolutely no links in it at all, even in the last revision - it is a biography of a living person, and as such has to conform to very strict rules about what can and cannot be posted in it. It may be wise for you to see WP:BLP before you create a biography, and familiarise yourself with these rules before editing or creating the article again :) Regards, BarkingFish ^{Talk to me} | ^{My contributions} 01:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Ciara Bravo (actor)

Hello BarkingFish, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Ciara Bravo (actor) - a page you tagged - because: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. decltype (talk) 02:35, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Upon closer inspection, there was a recent deletion discussion for the subject of this article. Sorry for the message. The point about A7 still applies, though. Regards, decltype (talk) 02:37, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the contact, completely unnecessary, but thanks anyway! I'm fully conversant with CSD & their usage, and at the time I tagged that article, decltype, it consisted of one line. And that didn't make much sense either :) I tagged it accordingly with A7 because at that point, there was no assertion in the article of the subject's significance, notability or importance in any way, shape or form! Thanks again! BarkingFish ^{Talk to me} | ^{My contributions} 10:10, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, the "one-liner" did mention that she "stars on the hit TV show Big Time Rush" (emph. mine). That, along with sufficient coverage in RS or additional significant roles would make her pass the guideline for inclusion, and so would generally count as a credible claim of importance, enough to squeek past A7. Regards, decltype (talk) 12:44, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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Kudos

Regardless of the merits of the candidate, (Theleftorium RfA) moving your vote to support was a big-hearted act. →StaniStani  21:34, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Taken by satellites

re: [1]

lol! that's creeepy! aliens maybe? ;P -- œ^™ 21:42, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Alessandro Fererra

Dear Barking Fish, hang on concerning page Alessandro ferrara. The Sensibilia website has no copyright, I can have the webmaster Tonino Griffero send you apermission to use the materials concerning Alessandro ferrara ASAP. Best, sanfr53

Dear Barking Fish,

thanks for your explanation, which clarifies the issue. I contacted webmaster Tonino Griffero from Sensibilia and he fully agrees to let me use that material. I'll ask him to write a statement to that effect to you, granting use of that material for Wikipedia. will that be ok? let me know. best regards, sanfr53Dear barking Fish,

please can you respond to permission being sent? is that ok? I noticed that there just a one-line entry being published as Alessandro Ferrara. That won't do... Again, there is no problem whatsoever on the part of the Sensibilia webmaster to let us use that material, if you need a letter in writing please specify the format and tenor, will follow through. Best regards, sanfr53 ----

Dear Barking Fish,

the Webmaster of sensibilia, Tonino Griffero, has already sent a permission statement, which I reproduce here, consenting to the use of the materials. All the best, Sanfr53 ----

Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:22 PM Subject: wikipedia permission

Dear Bot Barking Fish,

I hereby affirm that I, Tonino Griffero (webmaster of www.sensibilia.it <http://www.sensibilia.it> ), am the creator of the webpage http://www.sensibilia.it/Ferrara.html <http://www.sensibilia.it/Ferrara.html> from which wikipedia user sanfr53 has drawn in order to create the proposed page named “Alessandro Ferrara”, and fully agree to release that work into the public domain.

I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.

I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.

I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

Tonino Griffero, Founder and Director of Sensibilia, and webmaster of website www.sensibilia.it <http://www.sensibilia.it> .

Rome, 29. 06. 2010

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Þorsteinn Magnússon

Found an album cover for a work involving this Icelandic musician when trying to clear a backlog of FUR issues.

As you can probably see it's currently a red-link, Any chance of de red-linking this? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:21, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

MOTD Barnstar

Removed - not wanted. BarkingFish ^{Talk to me} | ^{My contributions} 09:55, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Re

WP:NONCE - Heh. I did not know that. -Stevertigo (w | t | e) 23:46, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, you do now :) The question is, would you be so kind as to consider renaming the link, template and redirect so it's not quite so obvious to people? I'd really appreciate it. BarkingFish ^{Talk to me} | ^{My contributions} 00:21, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't think that's necessary. Keep in mind that "nonce" still has a non-slang meaning, one that is not changed by the slang usage of a similar but tangentially related idiom. -Stevertigo (w | t | e) 00:44, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

about: removed reference from article "Mother"

 Best BarkingFish

The reference at hand did not (and to my knowlegde still doesn't) support the "qoute" in the article and should henceforth either be removed, or the quote be corrected. Besides that i'm of the opinion that "and/or" would be more correct than just "or" and therefore wish that part of my edit to be rectified. I do not, btw, consider my actions as wanton "vandalism".

-Yours Truly: Arg Liten Man

You are welcome to replace the and/or in the article, that's fine - the reason you were cited for vandalism was the removal of the reference from the work. The reference was perfectly good, and valid. It may have been unintentional, but you should be aware of rules about references - if you want one removed for any reason, please discuss it on the article talk page. Thanks -- BarkingFish ^{Talk to me} | ^{My contributions} 22:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

GoogleTrans is also a website that can 'googletrans' other websites (non wikipedia stuff)

Hi there,

I reread your last post to me and saw that you wanted to be kept up to date on googletrans happenings.

There is a website that does 'googletrans' to most any site you navigate to from it.

http://www.securecottage.com/cgi-bin/reference.cgi

The website is basically a Perl script that

1) reads the web site you give to it and replaces all links within it with links to the Perl script(with a data member being the actual url in the link)

2) injects the googletrans gadget (as javascript) in the website and presents it to you from the securecottage.com website.

The effect is that on most all URLS you click to and all urls you click on after that, the googletrans effect happens. It also happens on any URL you typing into the input field (of the URL above).

Some additions:

a) in IE the cursor hover/translation effect also happens on input fields and textareas. You also have an option to 'replace text' in these fields. Since google and yahoo are sites you can navigate to from the URL above anything you type in English (for instance) could be translated into Dutch and searched through Google after that. Firefox stopped reporting the mousemove event over input fields somewhere in Firefox 3 otherwise I could support that browser as well.

b) There is a wikipedia? link on the popup. If you click on this it is easy to bring up the wikipedia article on the relevant word or adajacent words you have the cursor over. There are a lot of newspaper links in the website above that you can click to and bring up the wikipedia article on any identity or company that has a relevant wiki article. I'd like to see this on most newspaper sites but the news companies won't do it.

Good luck with your learning of Dutch. The Dutch are a small country, but not small in accomplishments.

Endo999 (talk) 01:28, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:27, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Rajesh Khanna article in wikipedia

i have provided 68 references for the article rajesh khanna in the wikipedia vizz http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajesh_Khanna&oldid=386154337. i need ur help to make it semi protected so that unregistered users do noit edit it at first place. also to my knowledge all sources are mostly from newspapers,magazines,big box office dotcoms, movie websites,interviews by stars. but some registered users like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Active_Banana are indulging in vandalism...simply editing the artcile. if at all by mistake some blog reference is there i request that these registered users be made to understand that they are facts and if at all references need to be added freshly in place of that(blog reference ) then that reference be given and not that the para /sentence e be delete.They should be given a warning that they would be blocked.

i need ur help in finding is that really there are any unrelaible source in the artcile i contributed? i know that all the 68 r relaible and if any are unrelaible then i request that as what i have submitted are all facts so new relaible source can be inserted and scentences may not be deleted. references provided by me are genuine and not bolgs. thats why iam asking for your help as if senior people go through the references , all of u would be satisfied and approve my references Shrik88music (talk) 19:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Dont mean to be rude

This discussion is moved to the proper wiki where it should be carried out. BarkingFish 13:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC) I didn´t mean to be rude but I was rude. You have my apologize in the proper place.--Wikiléptico (talk) 17:19, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Editor review

Completed an editor review, as requested, here. Thanks, VictorianMutant (talk) 22:42, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Gude from Wantok

Hi, sorry to have been out of contact for so long. Thanks for making contact earlier re tpiwiki. I've responded to CBrown's request re logo/tagline at meta and made a note at tpiwiki. Wantok (toktok) 00:34, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Greg Rust

Hi BF. Regarding your recent BLP PROD nomination of this article, I have a procedural objection. It says in the template that the hard rule on BLP articles without references only applies to those created after March 18, 2010, but this one goes all the way back to September 2007. It's not that I would miss this article, if it were to disappear, but BLP PROD may not be the way. Best, Favonian (talk) 00:34, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

spi

Hi and thanks for the intervention in general. I'm just curious because from the way you initially investigated the history records (you discovered a past restriction that expired end June 2010, while for example an active restriction of Zjaritoues remained unnoticed), someone can assume that a specific user 'informed' you off wiki, from irc perhaps. I assume that it started off wiki right?Alexikoua (talk) 09:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the contact, Alexikoua. Yes, this did start off wiki, I was alerted to a problem with the Greeks in Albania article by ZT (Zjarri) whilst working in the IRC channel for en.wikipedia @ freenode. The gist of what I got amounted to you were reverting without checking sources, back to your own version, and that you had previously been under a 1RR topic restriction applied by ARBCOM on all Balkans related subjects.

When I made the (erroneous) revert in the article, the other user I was questioning stepped in and reverted me, making the exact same edit as yourself - and you were on 2 reverts by that time. My suspicion was that as you would have been approaching a 3rd revert, that you might have been using another account to get round 3RR, which was later cleared up when the SPI team pointed out that the similarities in editing times and the different subject matter you were both editing made it practically impossible that you were socks of each other. I did not see that Zjarri was also under restriction, and subsequently another user who commented on the SPI has also been sanctioned by ARBCOM, Athenean.

It got to the stage where I wasn't prepared to intervene any further, realising that the back history to this was much too deep for me to even begin to comprehend, so I withdrew the SPI, apologised on the talk page for the misplaced revert, and backed right out. If you need anything else answering, or you need to get in touch directly, please leave another message here in a seperate heading, or email me using the links in the boxes on the left (E-mail this user). Regards BarkingFish 12:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Alexikoua, yes I reported your disruptive editing and I had every right to do that because you were deliberately ignoring the source and my interaction restriction isn't an editing restriction. I also did mention your editing restrictions as background too.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 10:49, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Zjarri: I would appreciate if you avoid trolling again and again both here and irc.Alexikoua (talk) 10:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

You were reverting Spyenson without reading the source, so asking for assistance to deal with that isn't trolling.--— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 11:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

I was commenting on your accusation above (tendentious editing).Alexikoua (talk) 11:30, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Misconception again.

What you posted is for actions taken by administrators in enforcement of a sanction, not the sanction itself. (WP:AE) SirFozzie (talk) 02:07, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Also, the original Arbitration Case was brought by Ottava Rima himself. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Ottava_Rima_restrictions. SirFozzie (talk) 02:09, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, SirFozzie. However, since someone from the Arbcom enforced the sanction, do we not have the right to overturn that admins decision? Meaning that the ban would have to be removed? BarkingFish 02:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

No, but you can request it be done as a clarification or an amendment to the Committee, however.. I'm sure (since OR has apparently asked PrivateMusings to post that) that there will be a formal request sometime after the new year, and we will review it appropriately at that time.) SirFozzie (talk) 02:21, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Your recent comments

I don't know what you are getting at with your rude remarks on the Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Spain_task_force, but in the future you should refrain from making such accusations. Sandman888 (talk) 17:40, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

For your information, my remarks are neither rude nor an accusation, they are a suspicion, and I have every right to voice such a suspicion. You are welcome to take the issue to the Wikiquette Alerts page if you feel my comments are incivil, however, I spoke with another editor to find the best way to word the issue without sounding threatening or impolite. Thank you for your comments. BarkingFish 17:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I agree with BarkingFish, Sandman's sudden crusade to get a number of football articles deleted having had a couple of his own deleted is somewhat suspect. However, all of Sadman's AFD's will get due diligence so no real problem. Let's see how they all work out. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Karen Taylor

Hi BarkingFish. I noticed you moved Karen Taylor (comedian) to Karen Taylor (comedienne). I would recommend you undo that move, as "comedienne" is considered to be a sexist term by many (see the note to that effect at the end of the comedian article.) Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 19:12, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Old MF

BarkingFish, hi. I'm replying to your recent thread at WP:WQA. It turns out that the etiquette board is useless when dealing with an editor such as Malleus. That's not the way to do it. He's had WQA threads, he's had civility blocks, he's had warnings. Those are impotent, and frankly, counterproductive.

If anyone wants to do anything about Malleus that will be meaningful, and not just pissing into the wind, then they'll have to start with an RFC/U, and it's not clear just how that would end up. Anything short of that is certainly fatuous.

The best lesson to take away from this is that these dispute resolution "procedures", such as WQA and warnings, are bad ideas when you're dealing with anyone but a rank newbie. A more human approach is more effective with most editors, i.e., just talk to them, person to person. With the minority who are like Malleus, it's even trickier. -GTBacchus^(talk) 20:51, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, however, since i have now hung this dispute up with Malleus Fatuorum, per his note at his talk page, I will not make any further comment. The information posted is duly noted. BarkingFish 20:53, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

• • Thread Baked

Category: Cancer patients

Hi, Barking Fish. I kind of hate to even bring this up, but it looks to me like the cancer patients category you have on your userpage is an article category and not one for userpages, and would therefore have to be removed from your page. So unless I've missed something, would you do so per the userpage policy? Thanks. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 08:18, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

The category specified it was for those "diagnosed and currently living with cancer" - it made no mention of the fact that it was only for articles. I fell into the category and added myself. I should have removed it ages ago, since I no longer have it, but if I had, I would leave it there. Occasional Exceptions apply. BarkingFish 13:03, 4 January 2011 (UTC)