User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive14

Zazz

Blnguyen, I thought having two Articles written about it would make the "multiple non-trivial published works" The two being the MX article & the APC one. It has thoes and thus should pass WP:CORP Did i miss something? Feedyourfeet 23:19, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Blnguyen? Feedyourfeet 12:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

The Tale of Kieu

Wonderful...wonderful! Thanks so much :-) --HappyCamper 01:16, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

User:DHN replaced it, as it was not of the best quality. :o especially with my southern accent not particular being associated with eloquence. A northern or central accent is preferred. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Pronounciation of Duong Trieu Vu

I like the idea of a pronounciation sound file for a Vietnamese name. Do we have one for Nguyen, which I assume is your surname? Kimchi.sg 10:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I cannot find the Duong Trieu Vu picture (Image:DuongTrieuvu.jpg) anywhere on [1] and it was not being used to illustrate a music video, so I tagged it with {{nsd}} and {{nrd}}. Do you think it's worth it to ask DTV to release one of his images under a free license? Kimchi.sg 10:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

yeah, the pic should be deleted and I should get a Nguyen pronounciation.Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

{{CongratulationsEurovision}}

Sorry I made that template in midle of the night! I will correct it now!--Alexandru Busa 09:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd still say that the Ruslana entry is misleading as all the songs were selected irrespective of what the artist's attitude to appearing was, and I don't think that she was selected and refused her song also. Blnguyen | rant-line 02:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello BigHaz. Can you look at this template that User:Alexandru Busa created please? I think that Alexandru is a big Ruslana fan judging by his contribs and the POV is shown in this template. AFAIK, the 14 most popular songs were selected irrespective of whether the artist was dead (Domenico Modugno), in seclusion/refused (ABBA and France Gall), so I feel that Alexandru gives us the impression that Ruslana snubbed the show when she was in fact not selected for the show. I feel she should not be there as she was not even selected and I think the template gives us the false impression that she was...unless I'm wrong and she was selected and refused them permission to use her song...Blnguyen | rant-line 02:55, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

It certainly looks that way to me. A reading of the article would of course show that Ruslana wasn't involved in the show, but the template itself seems a trifle POV as written. I'd make the following changes to it:

• Not all the "participants" participated anyway - Nicole, Celine and Cliff were physically not there (Celine didn't even do a prerecorded message as far as I remember) and Domenico is of course dead and thus couldn't do anything
• The middle category should be reworded to something less ungainly in English - I know what it means and so do you, but the average punter probably won't
• The final category is superfluous - France Gall and ABBA are already mentioned and Ruslana wasn't involved at all. If all non-participants are eligible for that list (they shouldn't be, but the presence of one of them suggests that they could be), we'd have one of the largest templates in history.
  

If Alexandru does have proof that Ruslana was selected but turned them down (I can't find any with a quick skim around the net, and it seems odd since she then appeared at Best of Eurovision AFAIK), then we'd need that category to cover every winner - and possibly every participant who was selected but turned them down. I don't know about you, but I'd be hoping there was a central repository of names on this one if we went down that road. BigHaz 03:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello again,

I know from sure sources that Svante Stockhelius called Ruslana and invited her to perform some seconds of her song playback (like Helena paparizou and Sertab Erener) but she refused because she wanted to perform her entire song LIVE. If you saw Congratulations maybe you remember that they didn't show a video with Ruslana like they showed with all the winners of ESC. Do you remember that petition of Ruslana's fans??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandru Busa (talk • contribs)

Sorry if I'm jumping the gun here, but I just saw the comments that Alexandru (presumably) left on your page here about the sources to do with Svante inviting Ruslana to give her permission for some of her song to be performed. In order to pre-empt you asking me if I know anything about it, which I rather thought you might, here's my take on it:

• Obviously if these sources can be cited, they trump anything I say here
• As far as the petition he mentions, I've certainly never heard anything about it and I keep my ear relatively close to the ground when it comes to the ESC. Certainly in the leadup to the special, I never heard anything about a petition about this or that thing.
• I have the special on tape and will re-watch it at some point to confirm my suspicions, but certainly as broadcast in Oz it didn't have this montage of winners he mentions.
• Even if what Alexandru claims is in fact true, there's the world of difference between having a few seconds of the song played as part of a montage and having the song played with full orchestra and dancers as one of the 14 greatest entries. If we want to identify every single performer featured in a montage, I guess we could, but it'd be a massive template. As currently written, there is a strong implication that Ruslana was in fact named in this top 14 - which can only be POV if the only issue up for debate is whether or not she had her song played briefly in a montage. BigHaz 11:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Svante (in his capacity as the EBU chief - his smiling face turns up at least in the final of the ESC2004, can't think of any other appearances) may have been responsible for signing off on the final vote counts and things, but I doubt he has the power to invite or uninvite performers. BigHaz 01:13, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Blnguyen, could you please update DYK, it's not been changed in 22 hours. Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 15:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to leave you waiting HighwayCello, but I'm not here on weekends. I'll try better on weekdays. Sorry, Blnguyen | rant-line 01:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

What I meant was, I think that since there a lot of male users on Wikipedia, it may seem to them that they are superior. Apologies if I'm justing speculating, but dealing with real life I've founding that you tend to get 10 or so sexist idiots per dozen. Sorry, Highway ^{Return to Oz...} 06:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On 22 July, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Diva (song), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

-- Grue  19:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Does this mean that the article has already appeared on DYK or will appear later? DYK's the next part of this site I'm trying to get the hang of. As far as nominating it goes, I'll have to remember that for future reference. I've been a little reserved about the idea, since I always take the view that whatever I write might be interesting to me but is deadly boring to everyone else. BigHaz 01:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't have to be that interesting, I originally only looked for counterinutitve or bizarre facts, but I saw that most of the suggestion were not of the unusual category. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Truyện Kiều recitation

I listened to your recitation and had several problems with it. Firstly, it's done by a male in a Southern accent, not very apt for this poem. However, what made it unacceptable to me was that it sounded like somebody was just reading the poem word-by-word, and was not pausing at the right places (it sounded like you recorded each word individually, then pieced them together). I feel that leaving that clip there will give the reader a bad impression of the poem. DHN 01:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, sorry, that was me, and yes, unfortunately, I would like to be able to speak English, Vietnamese and French in the proper orthodox accents, which I can't do. Also I did record it continuously, but I don't think I understood the trhythm properly. Should I proceed with the recitations for the people, towns and provinces, etc?:(. Blnguyen | rant-line 01:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I think sound clips pronouncing Vientamese names and concepts are fine, since they are intended to help the reader with the correct pronunciation and don't need to have the proper cadence. DHN 02:35, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I listened to some of them. They are acceptable except for Battle of Dien Bien Phu, which is mispronounced as Bien Dien Phu. You also overwrote my clip for Thich Quang Duc, which can be found at commons. DHN 04:03, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

is probably meant to be Vo Nguyen Giap. DHN 04:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

North Carolina Tigers

Why do you keep deleting this article ? --Rulesfan 04:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

He did it probably because of this. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Zazz on deletion review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Zazz. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. Feedyourfeet 08:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Possible revert war brewing on 2002 Gujarat Violence

User Hornplease is trying to make POV edits aggressively. It's not a problem yet but could degenerate into a revert war. I have provided reasons for my previous edits (to which I have reverted) on his talk page [2], but I believe that he will refuse to listen. For the record, I state that my edits are completely impartial and are meant to balance the POV of users Hornplease and LKAdvani.Netaji 19:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm sure that message was helpful. Please note that my responses are never to revert, but to attempt to meet some of Subhash Bose's more reasonable concerns. But of course you know that. BL, if you have time, could you hop over to M. Karunanidhi, have a look at

the history, and tell me if I'm doing anything wrong? Hornplease 19:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Converts to Hinduism

User:Bakasuprman has been making a few edits repeatedly that are very difficult. In particular, he has edited the 'converts to Hinduism' category to include Andre Beteille, which he has repeatedly reinsterted without citation; and Tillakaratne Dilshan, who converted to Buddhism. When I have pointed out that conversion to Buddhism is not the same as conversion to Hinduism, and that he should justify his edits on the talk page before he reinserts them, he continues to revert without further explanation. Can something be done? Hornplease 22:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Use of abusive terminology Paki variant Pak

User Subhash Bose has been testing the limits of civility.In the section below he uses the word Pak very similar to the derogatory word Paki to name some users including me.[3] You might want to see what Paki means [4] His contention would be to say that he wrote Pak and not Paki but the way it has been used repeatedly is clear.Secondly, I dont belong to that nationality - to be ascribed one , this is a racist slur and in the UK could possibly land one into prison.I condemn the leeway accorded to him to continually harass other editors . Also, I have strong reasons to suspect Bakasuprman and Subhash Bose to be sock Puppets or acting in concert. Lkadvani 15:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

You're on Wikibreak?

You haven't edited since 25 July (Tuesday), and I thought this is a bit unusual since you're always around on weekdays. Hope all is well and you'll be back soon. Regards, Kimchi.sg 05:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from Yanksox

Hey, YellowMonkey/Archive14, thanks for supporting my RfA, with a tally of 104/4/7... I am now an admin!!! I was and still am very flattered by all the kind comments that I recieved, I will also take into account the comments about how I could improve. I guarantee I will try my best to further assist Wikipedia with the mop. Feel free to drop in and say hi or if you need anything. Again, thank you so much! Yanksox 07:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Article search failed

I have created an article for King Georges Road in Sydney but it only shows up in my contributions. When I search on Wikipedia I am told there is still no article under that name. I am new to this. Is there a delay before new articles appear?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Angela26 (talk • contribs)

Yes, there is a delay for new articles. The search database only updates every few hours. I am not sure of th exact time but it could be up to 24 hours before your article makes it into the search database. It isn't a problem. Ansell 04:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

There may be a longer delay. Some of my new pages on google took a few weeks, while others only took a few days, so there may be some unreliability there. Blnguyen | rant-line 03:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Explanation

Dear Sir, I never made any changes in the article regarding Indian state of Meghalaya. I never even read a Wiki! article regarding it. Please look into the matter.

Perhaps you are using a shared IP. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 03:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

speedies

Hey, can you help me process/delete these articles that i tagged as speedies?

• Devliock
• Laura C. Monteiro
• Next Door Nikki
• Palmetto Family Council
• Singapore wine club
• WFA Wrestling

Thanks, JianLi 01:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I got some more:

• Avalanche Music Group Incorporated
• Halo CMT
• I.V. Hilliard
• Medical Imaging Informatics Group, Trivandrum
• Music Mogul
• Spazimoto Corp.
• Googlefart

JianLi 01:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Blnguyen
Enjoy this tasty shortcake and thank you for the nice message while I was on vacation. Dakota ~

Note that after receiving this cake, I fell ill and took an enforced wikibreak for a week due to illness. I'm sure that there was nothing more tha a coincidence. :D Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Yay! So great to see you again, dear B!

Eat it slowly! :)

My beloved B is back!!! This is by far the BEST news I've had in the whole week!!! :) Look what I've kept for you, dear - a piece of cake from my birthday! It's so great to see you again, you were ill, I see, how are you now? *incredible hugs* Phaedriel ♥ The Wiki Soundtrack!♪ - 01:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch for your kind note regarding my admin promotion anniversary, dear Blnguyen! I hope this message finds you well again; I was starting to wonder where you'd gone. :) Kind regards, Sango123 03:58, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Get well soon! Glad to see that you're back again. :) - Mailer Diablo 10:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi there, it's great to see you back on Wikipedia again. :) While your contribs on the BSB mainpage will of course be missed, one does not of course have to be a member to hand out the awards. You are still a very kind wikipedian who hands out plenty of awards, and wether or not you are a member of some project, the result is the same. Again, welcome back! See you around -- Banes 08:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Many thanks for the link, since random page wasn't turning out enough results, I'll give that a try. :)

assistance needed

take a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:St_Christopher_Iba_Mar_Diop_College_of_Medicine#ODA

No matter what links you post, SPike immediatedly removes them,citing bias or whatever he wants to say.

He refuses to allow govt agency links to be added to the post.

any ideas on how to get him to allow views he doesn't agree with?--Azskeptic 00:25, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Azskeptic is a self proclaimed consumer advocate for nothing less than Medical Education and has tried to sabotage as you can see by negative postings here and on valuemd.com, the college of SCIMD, for some unknown reason. However, Azskeptic has no known affiliation with a health education/services association and doesn't have any known medical, health or even sciences education or professional background. He is as i said before a self proclaimed consumer advocate, (I wish to be explained what this bakwas means once)... I hope you understand and get to the heart of the matter before assisting him. Jai Hind.--Vtak 02:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Unblock

Thank you BL! michael ^talk 01:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding "Polemic"

I will do as you ask. Provided:

I am allowed to remove baseless accusations of Islamophobia made by Disinterested made in the following section.

here Since I did not direct anything at him personally. I will delete both from my talk page for now, but ol'Disinterested will try to force-revert. Therefore, I request that you watch my talk page for vandalism on his part. Thanks.Netaji 01:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Mỹ Sơn

Can you translate the Veitnamese[[vi:Thánh địa Mỹ Sơn ]] to English for the my son article? --D-Boy 09:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I will try to. I'll possibly need dictionary help for this one....Blnguyen | rant-line 02:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I saw that your name on the Indian wikiprojects. Your userpage said you knew vietnamese. So I thought I'd ask if you could translate since it was sort of Indian and vietnamese related. If there are any other Hindu temples in Vietnam articles, please translate the. If you want, you could also expand Champa. Hinduism in Vietnam could also use an expansion.

Welcome to WikiProject Hinduism

WikiProject Hinduism — a collaborative effort to improve articles about Hinduism Discussion board — a page for centralised Hinduism-related discussion Notice board — contains the latest Hinduism-related announcements Hindu Wikipedians — Wikipedians who have identified themselves as Hindus Portal — a portal linking to key Hinduism-related articles, images, and categories Workgroups — projects with a more specific scopes For more links, go to the project's navigation template.

--D-Boy 03:32, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, Indian military history task force has been setup if you want to join.--D-Boy 03:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice work on the translation. Interesting stuff!--D-Boy 05:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks Blnguyen ... we're having real problems with the two university IP's at the moment :( -- PageantUpdater • talk | contribs | esperanza 05:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Plz see to it

Plz follow this link and take appropriate admin action.I think you are already familiar with these people [5].Holy | Warrior 08:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Advance notification: Request for later arbitration

Hi,

I'm writing to you because you have been objective and unbiased in many matters on wikipedia in the past and I trust your judgement. I believe that I am being harassed by an admin who is abusing his powers to make POV edits on the articles on Michael Witzel and the California Hindu Textbook Controversy (he has admitted that he is a student researching such issues and so has a partisan bias on this matter). He has threatened me with blocks and bans and, based on his past history, may do so very soon. Right now, he has only made empty threats in my talk page, so i's not a problem. However, if he blocks me, then I request you to arbitrate this issue. I am informing you in advance because I will not be able to contact you if I am blocked by this admin. His name is dbachman and his user page is : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dbachmann.

The threats are on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Subhash_bose#Michael_Witzel

His accusations are baseless as all my edits are directly quoted from references I have cited.

If this potentially volatile situation comes to a head, I request you to be a neutral third party arbitrator on this matter. Thank you.Netaji 23:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Update. He has made another veiled threat as of this time on the Michael Witzel talk page.Netaji 07:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

The heading says it all, really. I try my best. Stifle (talk) 02:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks for the star. I haven't been doing it for a while because it's not the most fun job on Wikipedia but I may return to it now. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Felix Eldridge

Thank you for the notice. That's all I ask for. User:Zoe|(talk) 03:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Shooting stars!

I'm quite curious to know which edits you noticed, but I must admit - that was a very nice surprise - thank you! :-) --HappyCamper 03:19, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I used the deletion log to find people and then searched their personal records. Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Userpage reversion

Ay, thanks for the fix. I didn't even see it :) Teke 04:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar thanks

Many thanks for the barnstar—only the second I've received with respect to actual Wiki work!

I was especially happy to create the golf, ice hockey, and tennis portals, inasmuch as they permitted me blank slates on which to foist my obsessive and perfectionist tendencies, which tendencies don't auger well a Wikipedian in any case—how else to explain that, instead of going to the gym as I ought, I edit portals for hours and hours (which editing, incidentally, does not improve one's abs; who knew?)? Thanks once more, and, as should go without saying, many compliments on your continued work at Portal:Swimming.  :) Joe 05:40, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: your message

Re your message: You're welcome. I'm always happy to help out a busy admin who always seems to be there when a user block is needed. By the way, your user page photo is one of my favorites. -- Gogo Dodo 06:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Yet another barnstar "thank you"

Thank you for this Editor's Barnstar. Conscious 07:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

And thank you for mine, too; it's much appreciated. ×Meegs 11:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Try433

I think there's been a mistake: this guy was simply correcting a mislabelled image on my user page -- when I changed the image this morning, I forgot to change the caption. A mistake on my part, and a good-faith attempt to fix it on his. Please lift the block, as he didn't do anything wrong here. --Calton | Talk 07:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much!

Blnguyen, thank you very much for awarding me the Spoken article barnstar! It was a nice surprise when I woke up this morning! SergeantBolt 09:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

And thank you for my barnstar too! :D The JPS^{talk to me} 11:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Shire of Mundaring Suburbs

Koongamia is a locality in Swan and Mundaring shires (check a Perth Metro map) but is not in this list. And MUndaring Weir is no longer designated as a separate locality from Mundaring, as far as I can tell :) Also Mundaring shire has placed expensive signs last month at the border of each with "Locality of xxx" so the suburb label does not correlate _exactly_ any more. Hope you can help :) SatuSuro 12:01, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll fix it up.Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for that, It would be appreciated :) SatuSuro 06:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Editor's Barnstar

Thanks for the recognition. It is appreciated. Now - off to delete more undocumented images! -Nv8200p talk 13:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me also! I appreciate it greatly. :) --Fang Aili ^talk 13:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

SRK pictures

Hello, BInguyen, about the SRK pics: the Dilwale-Dulhania-Le-Jayenge-picture was the same one I loaded up (and provided with a fair use rationale), but User:Mana.ustad just turned it around, aka mirrored it. S/he did the same to the Kank picture (you can see it on SRk's tatoo on the arm -> Mana's pictures had the letters Victory mirrored). I have no idea why anyone would do that. I included the un-mirorred pictures again and provided the Kank-picture with a fair use rationale. Also, I added the picture of Khan, smoking, because it illustrates that he didn't keep his promise and, well, it's a free pic. --Plumcouch 16:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Do you really think it's fair to block him?

Hi, regarding your block of Bakasuprman I was wondering whether it may be too hasty. He seems to have offerred an explanation as to his earlier "sockpuppetry" on his talk page. Perhaps a reduced time block would be better. I'll keep an eye on him and discourage him from messing up articles with unsubstantiated POV edits (he has been known to do that, I'll admit). I request you to reconsider the punitive measures against him. Thank you.Netaji 23:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd have to say that I feel that creating a sockpuppet to launch personal attacks is not a good idea - adn because he didn't use it to team up and "cheat" I only gave 72 hours. Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hope ...

... to see you in Denmark sometime! Daen 23:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Me too, although I unfortunately missed/failed an opportunity in 2000, I still want to go there.Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey!

...Thank you! Appreciate that: 21,000 vandalism reverts and counting. Rah! (I love your category of deletes, btw!) Antandrus (talk) 03:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me too, dear Blnguyen, for my first Editor's Barnstar... and for the 160th vandalism revert to my userpage earlier! :) Cheers, Sango123 03:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Spell Check

Your recent contributions to Wikipedia are very much appreciated. However, please take a moment to look over your contributions for spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors before submitting them in final. This will help lessen the amount of copyediting work that fellow Wikipedians need to do, and will help improve the overall appearance of Wikipedia. This is not meant to be a disciplinary message, but merely a friendly request. Thank you!

Feedyourfeet 04:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Feedyourfeet. can you point me to the examples so I can have a look? Most of my article edits in the last week were reverts, aside from Kumar Sangakkara and Brendan Taylor and My Son. forgive me but I am often slack in the WP and talk spaces as these are not the real articles, and there is a lot that need to be done. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 05:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You've got to be kidding me. Feedyourfeet, this is also a friendly request: {{sofixit}}. Only I doubt there's much to fix -- Samir धर्म 05:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

It was just in the AFD that i noticed, I was going to fix it but i stoped becouse of this {{Notyours}} Feedyourfeet 07:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You need to copyedit what Blnguyen wrote in an AfD? (see notice above where it says that it will lessen the amount of copyediting work that fellow Wikipedians need to do). -- Samir धर्म 14:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

In regards to external links to 'personal' photo galleries

I think it is a bit unfair that you took away the links that I had put up, considering that there are tons of links to so-called personal websites that have pictures up of various cities, places, and personalities. I want to *share* my pictures with people. Wikipedia is a good outlet for that, considering that I'm not asking for money. Additionally, I linked the places where I have taken photographs of to Wikipedia's site so that people could get more information on the particular place at hand.

If Wikipedia is going to forbid the use of external links to 'personal websites' then I will make it my mission to go through various pages and delete every single link in accordance with what you had told me about 'spam'. Of course, if I understood you correctly, that is.

Please let me know what you decide, since you feel that I am providing Wikipedia with spam and not content that is useful enough for people who can't actually go out and see the various places and sights in the world.

Dustintau 05:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Replied on userpage.Blnguyen | rant-line 05:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Then please tell me this:

Why are there tons of links to personal sites on Wikipedia? You did not answer my question the first time, so I am asking again in regards to external links being put up.

If external links for self-publicizing aren't allowed, that's understandable. However, such links do exist on Wikipedia. Additionally, there are links to commercial websites on cities and other places as well; why are they allowed? Again, why isn't a link to a free gallery allowed?

You try to share something with the world -- something valid, interesting, and useful only to have it shot down.

Dustintau 06:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Request for explanation behind Joey Greco lock

Request for explanation behind Joey Greco lock; please head to Talk:Joey Greco 74.132.209.231 06:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Regarding this business with Borntorebel on Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America

Does this Borntorebel guy want a mediator? I will be happy to solicit a third party mediation over the content dispute. How's about it Blnguyen? Care to decide what parts stay and what parts go? Being a neutral observer, you check out the refs cited by both versions and decide for yourself. Or shall we go through the formal process of mediation? I'd be willing to do that if he would (I put it up on his discussion page also).Netaji 06:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I am not willing to make a "decision" on what stays or goes, I can only moderate the forum and make suggestions.Blnguyen | rant-line 05:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Melbourne Page

Hi - i noticed that in your revert of peacock terms in the Melbourne page, there appears to be an addition about a "militant fudge packers union". Um - what's the story with that addition? It appears to be yours. If i am mistaken, please explain. Cheers. --Merbabu 07:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Er, sorry, looks like I reverted to the wrong version, which also so contained some vandalism. Sorry. hopefully I don't get a reputation as a vandal.Blnguyen | rant-line 08:01, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

ha ha, yes. although i checked the preceding edits, i clearly missed that the "offending edit" was contained in another vandal's edit. As you say you must have reverted to the wrong edit. It did seem a tad out of character. --Merbabu 08:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: my WT:RFA post

Yep, that was definitely humor. szyslak (t, c, e) 08:16, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Ghirla-stalking illusion

My edits of articles Ghirla and I take an interest in are but a fraction of my overall editcount here. I have a dynamic IP address, never really cared to open an account and gather trophies, staying true to the "Anyone Can Edit" concept. Regards. Truthseeker 85.5 08:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

User:Rain74

Not to speak out of turn, since this user's been doing some very useful stuff (adding in information about national finals and things on the song articles), but he also has a tendency to recategorise articles as "[country] Eurovision songs" or "Eurovision songs of [year]", marking the edits as minor. If this is the new project standard - which it may be, although there's no discussion on the project page itself and the user in question doesn't seem to be a member anyway - then I'll adapt. As it is, though, it's serving to muck up my counts of song articles which gets me mightily suspicious that someone might have deleted one or two (in the event, of course, someone had deleted one, but that's neither here nor there). BigHaz 10:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Peter Francis Vozzo

Why was this deleted? this is a legitimate profile of an Adelaide University hypersonic vehicle team member. Vozzo is also one of a select few to attain 45/45 in the IB.

JAKJ - —Preceding unsigned comment added by JAKJ (talk • contribs)

I'm sorry I don't agree because his claim to fame is getting a "7" in 6 subjects, which involves ranking in the top 7% roughly in any given subject. For example see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aleksei Boiko - the only Australian ever to win a gold medal at the Asian Physics Olympiad does not get an article. Also, working on an undergrad project, does not earn you a wikipedia article in my judgement- please read WP:BIO for an guideline. You may want to go to WP:AWNB and see what other Australians think about this. Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 05:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

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Dear Blnguyen, thank you so much for your kind words, your support and your trust in me. My Request for Adminship is finally over, and the support and appreciation that the community has gifted me will stick in my mind as long as I live. I have no way to properly express how grateful I am to you for all you've done for me, and all I can tell you is, I'll try not to disappoint you nor anyone else with my use of the buttons... and if I mess up, make sure to come here and give me a good yell! :) Seriously, tho, if you ever need my help, either for admin-related stuff or in any other way, you'll always be welcome to message me, and I promise I'll try my very best.
Your congratulations note has moved me no end, dear B. I was worried about your absence, considering your recent stress, and seeing you return was an enormous joy. I hope your illness is completely over - you were sorely missed. Once again thank you - for everything you've done for me, and everything you are :)

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I'm in full health now, thanks.Blnguyen | rant-line 05:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Spoken barnstar

Thanks a lot for the barnstar! I am greatly honoured; really, I should get around to doing more spoken articles, and probably will in the near future. Once again, thank you very much, and best regards, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 04:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)