User talk:Thryduulf/archive8

Sources for Types of Gestures

Hello. I hope we can count on your assistance in adding reliable sources to Types of gestures. As you pointed out, "Yes it needs more citations." I have located a few sources, but many hands make light work. Cnilep (talk) 20:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Acknowledged {{talkback|WP:HD}} Thryduulf (talk) 10:12, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

DumbBOT

It wasn't the + character, at least not it alone: the article Reason_-_C++_Library was dealt with correctly. Maybe the problem was the + at the end of the name. I'm running the bot again, but it looks likes it got it right this time. Tizio 16:53, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Wait, that article shouldn't be there at all. I'll check all this tomorrow. Tizio 17:06, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Instinctive Computing

Sir,

Please email me your reason to delete my entry for Instinctive Computing. I am the original author of Instinctive Computing. There is NO any copyright issues whatever.

Thanks,

Yang Cai

[email address removed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ycai (talk • contribs) 00:58, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

AFD

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anton Michael Actually it was not created in error, but it looks like I might have screwed up something. If you could restore it, I'll fix the errors Corpx (talk) 20:58, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Frank Duckworth AfD and Tony Lewis (mathematician)

Hi Thryduulf,
Thanks indeed for your wise words. As you said, no-one has made specific comment on Tony Lewis (mathematician). However, if the result of the WP:AfD is Merge, it would then appear no proper process would have been applied to the Tony Lewis article. I will follow your advice, and withdraw the tacked-on AFD, start a new one, prominently link the...
Ooops! There seems to me no particular policy on how to withdraw an AfD, or more probably not one that I can find. Your help needed - again!
--Shirt58 (talk) 10:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Gold cell

Sorry, hadn't realised there were other blank cells, I didn't realise you could play the game by skipping cells. 84.92.54.229 (talk) 08:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

List of fictional deer

I know it's somewhat silly, but I thought you might be interested to see what I've done with the article "List of fictional deer", which you helped to save from "nominated for deletion". Ironically, I had nothing to do with the article until then. I hope you enjoy it. --AuthorityTam (talk) 20:49, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

other uses query

Please see my reply to your query in Template talk:Otheruses4#This article is about USE1 for USE2 see PAGE2 and PAGE3. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  04:55, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Met

Hello, I thought you might want to contribute to the discussion linked above. Thanks, Boleyn3 (talk) 13:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Hottest 100 AfDs

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with your conclusions there, the only two editors who outright advocated deletion were yourself and the nominator. There were also plenty of longstanding Wikipedians who jumped in and said to keep, including former arb Rebecca, and well known users including User:Orderinchaos, User:Canley, User:The-Pope and User:Chuq among others. While there were some SPAs involved, their opinions were valid and if having this article inspires a few new users to register and start contributing, then we're doing well. Essentially, I cannot see any way that a consensus could have been formed at the point where I closed the argument to delete, the very worst that could have happened would be a no-consensus, and that would have had the same effect.

As far as argument on a policy basis goes, I found the argument of User:Joshua_mckinney and User:Canley to be persuasive, and not really adequately refuted. In fact, the whole nomination seems to be hinged on the idea that just because Triple J posted the list on their website, it's copyrighted, which I find a bit disingenous, since the website was clearly not the source of the list.

I hope this addresses your concerns, and I will be happy to answer any followup questions that you might have. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:18, 12 July 2009 (UTC).

Delsorting to Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people

The Living People section of deletion sorting is currently closed while it's fate is debated here. You continue to mark debates as having been sorted to the LP sort, when they have not given the closure. I would like to ask you to please discontinue these incorrect taggings for now, as they give a false impression of where the debates have actually been listed. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Illunge flarous

Probably doesn't matter, but the G3 link didn't get the close brackets, not sure if that's something I'm allowed to fix. Thanks for closing it as Speedy, pretty dumb bit of vandalism that had been around for too long! Шизомби (talk) 23:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

thanks

Thank you for putting my "Sport Tractor" request for reinstatement into the correct place. "...I knew it was somewhere, I just couldn't get through the jargon which Wiki folks use to insert that request." I sincerely thank you. I think if I'm turned down for this simple request, I'll then know that Wiki is for the more popular mass accepted definitions.

Thanks again. Sanderrl (talk) 21:54, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

NXg

You had proposed a merger to The Hindu; there were a couple of other mergers too. I've done the others, but didn't do this one since this will result in the need for a hatnote to the North Cross Railway station (see Talk:The Hindu). It's a distraction on the Hindu article, so I propose taking this to AfD, especially since there isn't any substantial content worth merging, and also the fact that the only content in the article is outdated - NXg is no longer a supplement, it's an online only edition. Let me know if you have any objections. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 18:54, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NXg -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 19:12, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your support!

Thanks for your support in the reservation of the public housing estates in Hong Kong. Ricky@36 (talk) 04:03, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Westbury-on-Trym

Thanks for your intervention on that one! Skinsmoke (talk) 20:56, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

Are you a DLR passenger service agent (PSA)? And can you please help me out with getting this article to GA class? Please reply on my talkpage or at least leave a talkback template. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 00:50, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Because of the opened DLR control panel taken from the driver seat. Only a PSA have the keys to open that control pannel. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 02:04, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

{{talkback|Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/British_Virgin_Islands_records_in_athletics}} ~Excesses~ (talk) 14:02, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Acknowledged. Thryduulf (talk) 14:15, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Timeline of hip hop

Genius! 84.92.54.229 (talk) 10:52, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Loudspeaker manufacturers

Just noticed your edits on the lists of loudspeaker manufacturers, you changed the countries on a number of brands to countries where the brand may have originated in rather than where they are currently located, for instance Quad is a brand owned by IAG and has been so for 15 years or so, they are a Chinese company, their design department is in China and so is all manufacturing. How are they a UK based company and if not why did you change the listing? reiknir (talk) 20:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

New WP:AIRCRASH

Unrelated to LH288, please see talk page for Q re mid-air collisions. Mjroots (talk) 17:38, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Unusual articles

• Exploding tree (AfD discussion)

The last time that someone made such a statement at AFD, in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Navel lint, we got exploding trousers out of it. Uncle G (talk) 17:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I have responded to a post you made

I have responded to a post you made at our colleague's page: User_talk:BrownHairedGirl#Please_stop. Chillum 00:03, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Chechen Republic of Ichikeria football team - AfD

I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but I taking a look at the user page of the user who put this up for deletion, they state that they are from Moscow. Is it possible to take that into consideration? It's not unknown for people to change articles on here to favour a political view - this is an example of what I mean. Hammersfan, 24/09/09, 14.01 BST

Unwanted interference

Please stay off my page, thanks. Sarah777 (talk) 19:20, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Double jeopardy at User talk:Nono64

You blocked Nono64 for continuing to make disputed page moves despite prior blocks, but he made no such moves after his only block for that issue. His last page move was at 14:30, September 20, 2009 and he was last blocked, specifically for that page move, at 20:59, September 21, 2009. He has made no other page moves since that block, so it seems you blocked him a second time for something he already "served his time" for, and he has not shown any repeat behavior at this end. Unless you have some sort of second reason for the block, I think we have a compelling case for an unblock here. Please advise. --Jayron32 20:06, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

It's all good man; we all make mistakes. The important thing is fixing it. Anyhoo, carry on. Via con dios... --Jayron32 02:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

M50 dab

Please note that per the IMOS (current settlement) when it isn't necessary to dab Ireland from NI, policy is to make the pipe read "Ireland". Please do not revert without imforming yourself of the appropriate conventions. Sarah777 (talk) 15:21, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Thryduulf, I really hoped that after you had acknowledged that you had wrongly used your admin powers wrt to M18 motorway, that you would exercise some restraint in related issues. That doesn't seem to be the case. :(

You threatened Sarah with a block after you had move-warred with her at M18 motorway, and then protected the page at your preferred location, despite being involved. You were kind enough to apologise to me, but so far as I am aware, you have not apologised to Sarah.

And despite your acknowledgements of having acted wrongly, you are piling in to the substantive debates on M18 etc, without even having the courtesy to lift the page protection which you acknowldge you had applied inappropriately. Each contribution your make there merely underlines how deeply inappropriate it was for you to threaten other editors as you did.

And now you have reverted an edit of Sarah's because you wrongly presumed some things about names of the Irish state, and hadn't informed yourself about the compromises which have been painfully reached to reflect the different approaches to the name of the Irish state. This is ahighly contentious issue where arbcom is heavily involved, and your disregard of the conventions is not a wise idea.

At this point, your pursuit of Sarah is starting to look like harrassment piled onto the abuse of admin powers, and an admin should know better than to do that. Please back off, and concentrate your energies on areas where you are better able to distinguish between your role as an admin and your role as an editor. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:03, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Your recent protection of M18 motorway

This is irrelevant to if you are really "right" or not by trying to keep the page at its stable location; since you are involved in the dispute at hand, it looks really improper for you to protect the page at all. Please, get another administrator to do it to avoid accusations of impropriety. --Rschen7754 (T C) 17:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Enlisting AfD discussions

Hi Thryduulf, I wonder if it would be possible to include three AfD nominations in other deletion discussion... don't know who would be the right person to speak to? For example psyced is not listed in software. Coolsmile is possibly France related, and QIP Russian related. Cheers! 83.254.210.47 (talk) 11:10, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick answer! :) 83.254.210.47 (talk) 11:22, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Imonggo deletions

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imonggo Inc - POS Software Company quickly ended in the speedy deletion of that article, but Imonggo POS Software was included in the nomination and remains. Is it the same/similar to the deleted one? The prose appears to be different but likely qualifies under the same criteria. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 16:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

• Now deleted per WP:CSD#G11 like the other one. Thanks for the heads up. Thryduulf (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

"Imonggo deletions" Investigation

It's been closed. Thank you. --- JohnWiҚi²⁰⁰⁸ 01:40, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Thryduulf. You have new messages at UltraMagnus's talk page.
Message added 17:05, 15 October 2009 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

UltraMagnus^speak 17:05, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Jonathan Gleich (2nd nomination)

Hi! As someone who contributed to Articles for deletion/Jonathan Gleich and/or the deletion review of that AFD, I thought you might be interested in the discussion at Articles for deletion/Jonathan Gleich (2nd nomination).

Note: this is going out to all registered editors with talk pages who commented on either page, not just to those on the Delete/Endorse or Keep/Overturn side.

Thank you. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 22:18, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

AN/I

Hey, can you please remember to inform someone if you make a complaint against them as you did here? Thanks. --John (talk) 03:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Deliberate crash of an airliner

Would the deliberate crash of an airliner for research purposes be sufficiently notable. It's a bit WP:CRYSTAL at the moment, but Channel 4 in the UK are involed in such a project. Mjroots (talk) 08:40, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Replied at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Notability#Deliberate crash of an airliner Thryduulf (talk) 09:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Transport Tycoon Merger

I would like to request that you reconsider your opinion of Talk:Transport_Tycoon#Merger_Proposal because I have rewritten the OpenTTD article and am interested in knowing whether any of the objective reasons for supporting the merger are still standing. 85.149.88.77 (talk) 14:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:SB/WA/AA

Could you start game 2? Simply south (talk) 23:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Why not? Anyway although i started the game it was intended for anyone. Someone had finished it and so i didn't want to be the one who started the next one. Simply south (talk) 11:45, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Hipster Grifter

Go ahead and delete the fucking article. I don't give a fuck. Stop bothering me. Faethon Ghost (talk) 23:12, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

That article was deleted in July 2009 by user:Brandon as a redirect to an article that was deleted following an AfD in which I had no involvement. I don't understand why you have felt the need to leave such an offensively worded message on my talk page. Thryduulf (talk) 10:18, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

I've issued a uw-npa4 for that! Mjroots (talk) 08:59, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Railway accidents criteria

The discussion at Talk:List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom#Formal proposal is bringing forward some good suggestions. That discussion is proper to WP:UKRail. The list of level crossing accidents is a worldwide list, so that discussion isn't really that relevant. I'm not going to amend my proposals as other editors have already voted based on what I wrote, but I think it is clear that scenarios not specifically mentioned can be looked at on a case-by-case basis.

Worldwide, what is needed is something similar to WP:AIRCRASH. So, what do you think of drafting a set of criteria for railway accidents - WP:RAILCRASH? Once drafted, this can be posted at WT:TWP so that consensus can be reached as to notability criteria. Mjroots (talk) 08:59, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Decided I'd do it myself. Discussion at WT:RAILCRASH please. Mjroots (talk) 10:22, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy

I have expanded Shyam Sundar Chakravarthy with references. The reason the subject is not getting search hits is a spelling issue : Shyam Sundar Chakravarthi or Shyam Sundar Chakravarty get a number of GBooks hits.--Sodabottle (talk) 16:22, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

House nigger

I just wanted to affirmatively let you know that I've bluelinked this as a redirect to House slave. It is a painfully ugly term (so is "slave"), but this is the historical meaning, and it was actually a redirect to Slavery in the United States prior to being hijacked as an odious attack on the President of the United States. I think it is a plausible redirect that happens to be a terribly offensive term as well, and I don't think the offensiveness is a reason to avoid the term in this case. In any case, I'm letting you know so that you have every opportunity to disagree with me about this; if you don't, you also might consider protecting the redirect so it doesn't become something unsupportable again. Thanks for reading. — Gavia immer (talk) 05:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Replying to myself here - I've just noticed that List of ethnic slurs lists the derived insult from one African-American to another, which comes from the sense above; I'm not actually certain which is the best target, but it should exist as a redirect to one of the two senses. — Gavia immer (talk) 05:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

House slave seems a fair target to me. If you aren't sure I suggest you start a discussion on one of the target pages talk pages about it with a link from the other. I'll not protect it right now but it is on my watchlist, and I suggest you watchlist it as well. If it is vandalised then we can revert and protect it (or WP:RFPP it if you aren't an admin). Thryduulf (talk) 10:36, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but yes, whenever I edit such a potentially radioactive term it goes on my watchlist permanently. It's an unfortunate fact that bad-faith edits like the original problem here do happen. — Gavia immer (talk) 16:37, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for closing the "Snowpocalypse" rfd, by the way. Appreciate it.
— V = I * R (Talk • Contribs) 22:45, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Gibnews.net

Moved to Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Gibnews.net. Thryduulf (talk) 13:40, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

Two points. (1) I'm not trying to sidestep anything. Another editor asked me to "go away for a bit" because of the "sheer amount I had posted" so I did not want to add to that "sheer amount" if my comment was directed only towards you. You can't win in this place. (2) I fail to see where I have made any personal attacks. Point them out or retract that, please. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 13:58, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

I did not say you had made any personal attacks. I said some of your comments were heading in that direction and advised you to be careful that you did not go further. All comments about people are to some degree personal, some more so than others. There is a line beyond which such comments are clearly and undoubtedly personal attacks, you have not (in the comments I have seen) crossed that line. As one approaches the line, there is a grey area in which comments may be interpreted as personal attacks by some people and not by others, depending on such things as how sensitive they are about a certain subject or history of interaction with the person making the comments, etc. Some of your comments are on the edge of this grey area, in my opinion. Thryduulf (talk) 15:36, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 14#User:Spjayswal67/Ambarish Srivastava

Hi, Thryduulf. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 11#Ambarish Srivastava, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 14#User:Spjayswal67/Ambarish Srivastava. Cunard (talk) 08:51, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electric Retard (2nd nomination)

Hi, Thryduulf. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 February 7, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electric Retard (2nd nomination). Cunard (talk) 11:23, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Email

Thryduulf, I have sent you an email via the Wikipedia email feature. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 23:50, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Short and distort RfD

I've checked the two proposed options for the redirect (the sections in question are virtually identical, with one a little better sourced than the other). At the discussion I offer a third option: a stub article, to which I can link with {{main}} hatnotes from the two suggested (yet similar) sections. I'd be glad to stubify the redirect, but not while the RfD is open. If you like my third option (and wish me to follow through on the suggestion), please let me know when you close the discussion. B.Wind (talk) 01:44, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

cfcuk

Hi

Thank you for your comments regardiong the cfcuk fanzine.

I must say however that I feel that several of the comments made lead me to think that those (including yourself) endorsing the delete also did not read the full AfD debate, prefering to read the reasons for deletion rather than both them and the reasons not to as follows; [[1]]

As I have stated, I feel that I have put valid points forward to 'save' the article from deletion but it seems - judging from the comments that follow, you may not have not fully read the above link. "Endorse. The consensus at the AfD was clear that the lack of significant coverage in reliable sources means that the fanzine does not meet the general notability guidelines. The only apprent claims to notability presented in the AfD were 1. archival at the British Library - as noted, the British Library archive a copy of all publications, regardless of notability. This is not therefore an indicator of whether a publication is notable or not. 2. uniquely low cover price - this claim was not only a very weak (as noted) but it was also refuted. Could not have been closed any other way. Thryduulf (talk) 19:38, 21 February 2010 (UTC)"

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blueblagger (talk • contribs) 11:03, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Robert M. Isaac.jpg

The text was restored, but the image is missing, please help! --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 12:52, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

There was one revision that wasn't restored, which is odd given that I explicitly selected all the revisions to be restored. Anyway, it appears to be sorted now. Thryduulf (talk) 12:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 23:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Digital download

Thanks for oldrfd-ing that - I forgot. JohnCD (talk) 22:54, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

No problem. I don't always remember myself, so I can hardly chastise others for the same failing! Thryduulf (talk) 02:01, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

List of Homer Simpson's jobs

You recently closed this RfD discussion as "delete all". However, one of the redirects, List of Homer Simpson's jobs, was a redirect from a merge (see diff), and it appears that this was not noticed by any of the participants in the discussion. Since the edit summary of the edit that carried out the merge did not include the names of the content's authors, the page history of the redirect needs to be kept for proper attribution under the GFDL.

Would you object to undeleting that particular redirect (none of the others contained significant page history, as far as I could tell) on this basis? -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 01:36, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I have no objection, although it would probably be best after undeletion to move this to a different title that is not likely to be nominated again (WP:Merge and delete allows this). I am not going to do this now though as I'm too tired (after several cockups I no longer use my admin tools when I'm not fully awake). Another admin should be happy to do this on request if you point them here so they can see I have no objection. You might also be wise to put a note on the talk page of the RfD. Thryduulf (talk) 03:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I undeleted the redirect, noted the action at the RfD (in the section, rather than the talk page, since people might not read the talk page), and documented the merge on the talk pages of the article and redirect. I can't think of a proper alternate name for the redirect, so I've left that for now; the redirect does, however, now indicate that it is a {{R from merge}}, so hopefully that will deter future nominations. Perhaps as an added precaution it could be protected... Thanks, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 17:38, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. I also added {{Copied}} to their Talk pages. Flatscan (talk) 05:50, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Template

Hi, you are quite right. In my haste, I had not been consistent. But Britain and Great Britain refer to the same thing do they not - the major island of the United Kingdom containing the majority of England, Scotland and Wales? Welshleprechaun (talk) 18:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

UK Roads

I am leaving you this message as I have deduced that you make semi-regular edits to UK road related articles. As the UK Roads WikiProject is largely inactive these days, it is necessary to contact editors individually.

There is currently a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style (exit lists)#United Kingdom regarding junction lists used in UK road articles. Your input in the discussion would be welcome. Jeni ^(talk) 02:20, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

There seems to be uncertainty in regards to your stance on the location of the junction number col on the exit lists, would you mind clarifying this on the talk page please? Jeni ^(talk) 18:11, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

The Redirect Barnstar

		The Redirect Barnstar
		For all the work put into contributing at Redirects for Discussion and maintaining the navigational parts of the project. Quiet background work that very few see, yet it has a great effect on the projects readers! Thanks for your work in the area, Taelus (talk) 23:22, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the userification. The deleted article is a lot less extensive than I remembered.

The father of the GI who Waruch accused, and who Waruch testified against, participated in some editing of the article on his son, and related articles. Can I just confirm that you didn't find a Talk:Jeffrey Waruch? If there was one could you userify it too?

Thanks again! Geo Swan (talk) 15:15, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I appreciate you checking. Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 16:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

☺ word association

Thanks amigo, I've been entertained by plenty of your additions as well ! User:Kymacpherson aka 66.69.254.50 (talk) 20:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics - Men's 4x400 metre relay

You must have been distracted when you put on the template for the RfDs - I've just removed the {{rfd}} tags on the series. If you closed a good number of discussions at about the same time you closed this one, it might be a good idea to double-check to play it safe. See you at RfD! 147.70.242.54 (talk) 17:44, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Request

Hi. Not sure if you saw this [2] (see last diff paragraph) but I would appreciate it if you acknowledge there that I did ask you if you were willing to see the evidence and that you declined. You will also recall that I told you, in the same email, that I had approached Tsdby Lives, and he too had declined. Therefore I hope you agree that your claim that I did not put up is not true. As I stated on the ArbCom page, I did not put up in public precisely because I was abiding by our policies on releasing personal information. I also challenge your statement that I was told to "put up or shut up" - can you provide a diff for that? (You haven't provided any diffs at all). BTW, I would like permission to forward my email conversation with you if necessary to ArbCom - are you OK with that? The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 23:13, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

To help you, as I have them to hand, here are the relevant threads:

• I post on WP:ANI after legal threats against me re gibnews.net
• Gibnews takes gibnews.net to RSN
• I take gibnews.net to COIN (you in fact were the one that drew my attention to the existence of this page!)
• I take gibnet.com (not gibnews.net) to RSN, someone suggests Spam Blacklist
• I take gibnet.com to spam blacklist
• Final thread on ANI which led to ArbCom

Again, I fail to see the "put up or shut up" request, but I may have missed it as there is a lot there. Thanks. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 23:47, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you...

... for watching my back at RfD. B.Wind (talk) 05:29, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Lifeguard

Re this edit - the normal UK term for this piece of railway hardware is "guard iron". The purpose is to knock small inanimate objects such as stones and branches out of the way; the term "lifeguard" would certainly be a misnomer since any person or animal hit by one of these would be severely injured, if not killed outright. They have been fitted to most British locomotives since at least the 1840s; E.L. Ahrons, in The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825–1925 (1927) shows them on drawings of most engines from about 1840 on, and on p.39 he states "The following year [1839], W. Hawthorn brought out a "railway engine protector" to clear the rails from obstructions". --Redrose64 (talk) 19:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

• I'm sure I've seen them referred to as lifeguards in one of the RAIB reports, I'll have a look when I have time. As for the term "lifeguard" I presume that it is designed to guard the life of those on the train, not those hit by them - if you've not be shoved out the way by the obstacle deflector/pilot then I don't think there is any hope for you - lifeguard or not. You could add the "guard iron" term to Wiktionary's wikt:lifeguard entry as a synonym and then as it's noun entry as I don't think it's there already. Thryduulf (talk) 09:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Zaon_Flight_Systems

I found the deleted article in question and posted a follow up. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:31, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

• Well done. I tried other capitalisations, but there was nothing their either. How did you find it at that title? Thryduulf (talk) 09:03, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

• I did a search for "Zaon. This pointed me to Portable Collision Avoidance System which had a red link to the correct article. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:41, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination)

Hi, Thryduulf. Because you participated in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 January 18#Richard Tylman, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Tylman (4th nomination). Cunard (talk) 02:10, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gibraltar

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following is a summary of the remedies enacted:

• Any uninvolved administrator may, in his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor editing Gibraltar or other articles concerning the history, people, or political status of Gibraltar if, after a warning, that editor repeatedly or seriously violates the behavioral standards or editorial processes of Wikipedia in connection with these articles.
• Discretionary sanctions imposed under the provisions of this decision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard (currently the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard) or the Arbitration Committee.
• Gibnews (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing the Gibraltar article and other articles concerning the history, people, and political status of Gibraltar, broadly construed, for one year. Should Gibnews return to editing relating to Gibraltar following this period, he is reminded to edit in accordance with the principles discussed in this decision and will be subject to the discretionary sanctions remedy should he fail to do so.
• Gibnews is strongly warned that nationally or ethnically offensive comments are prohibited on Wikipedia and that substantial sanctions, up to a ban from the site, will be imposed without further warning in the event of further violations.
• Justin A Kuntz (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing Gibraltar and other articles concerning the history, people, and political status of Gibraltar, broadly construed, for three months. Should Justin A Kuntz return to editing relating to Gibraltar following this period, he is reminded to edit in accordance with the principles discussed in this decision and will be subject to the discretionary sanctions remedy should he fail to do so.
• Ecemaml (talk · contribs) is admonished for having, at times, assumed bad faith and edited tendentiously concerning the history and political status of Gibraltar.
• Editors are reminded that when editing in subject areas of bitter and long-standing real-world conflict, it is all the more important to comply with Wikipedia policies such as assuming good faith of all editors including those on the other side of the real-world dispute, writing with a neutral point of view, remaining civil and avoiding personal attacks, utilizing reliable sources for contentious or disputed assertions, and resorting to dispute resolution where necessary.
• Any editor who is closely associated with a particular source or website relating to the subject of Gibraltar or any other article is reminded to avoid editing that could be seen as an actual or apparent attempt to promote that source or website or to give it undue weight over other sources or website in an article's references or links. To avoid even the appearance of impropriety, it may be best in these circumstances to mention the existence of the source or website on the talkpage, and allow the decision whether to include it in the article to made by others.

For the Arbitration Committee, ---- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 23:05, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

List of aircraft by tail number

I've commented at the talk page re the organisation of the article. Mjroots (talk) 11:30, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

"Anti-pedophile activism" Article Nominated for Deletion

You have previously edited or commented on the article entitled "Anti-pedophile activism." It has now been nominated for deletion. If you'd like to follow or contribute to the AfD process, please visit the page created for this purpose: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-pedophile activism. Your input would be appreciated. ~ Homologeo (talk) 15:40, 29 May 2010 (UTC).

WP:AIRCRASH

I've propsed an addition to this guideline, see talk page. Mjroots (talk) 21:47, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Word Association?

Did I miss a discussion about deleting the Word Association pages? I thought we were done with that issue years ago. — Michael J 03:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I didn't think there was any discussion. That can't be proper procedure. — Michael J 00:11, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, it appears someone is listening. The variants are back, but the main game is still MIA. — Michael J 20:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

AfD on Robert L. Rooks

You know, maybe you should let someone, anyone, chime in before closing an AfD, like this one. I wouldn't have nominated it if I was sure it deserved inclusion, and I think my request for comment should mean something - rather than killing the discussion before anyone has had a chance. AfD is not about showing the nominator he's wrong or right, it's about discussion and making a decision.

Speedy keep should be on a legitimate policy basis (like proposing to delete Barack Obama), not because a nominator didn't explain himself well. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 01:14, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

RE: Gordon Brown's favourite cookie

It was most definitely an R3. What the creator of the redirect says isn't necessarily the truth.  狐 FOX  19:36, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

It's an implausible misnomer, in that it's not called this. Look, I don't know why this even showed up at RFD, it's just a regular prank redirect which needs to be killed.  狐 FOX  22:45, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Ugh. Do whatever the fuck you like.  狐 FOX  23:11, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the oh so necessary DRV.  狐 FOX  23:28, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Thryduulf. Thank you for your sentiment of principle, but I agree with DGG this may be moot on a practical level. KimChee (talk) 05:58, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

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Are you not familiar with WP:IAR? Denying the speedy and letting it crawl through RFD seems like process for the sake of process. And that's no good. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 02:04, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my mistake

on Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 January 10.

I don't know how I managed that.

ChrisHodgesUK (talk) 15:34, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Coheed and Cambria

Seems like process for the sake of process (i.e., removing the speedy). Either way, I've killed all the transclusions so it can be deleted. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 23:55, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of bus routes in Downham Market

It was a tough close, admittedly, since as you said neither side really had a compelling argument. In situations such as that though, the burden falls on those kept to prove it's encyclopedic (proof beyond, of course, merely saying it is), rather than those who think it isn't, simply because you can't prove a negative. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:28, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Naming convention

The wording looks fine to me. States the facts without suggesting it should remain as it is or be changed. Make the request, I say. Will also need another bot run in future to remove the edit notes once the issue is decided. Mjroots (talk) 15:20, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Talk:British Rail Class 70 (diesel)

Hi Thryduulf, could you just check your latest comment at Talk:British Rail Class 70 (diesel), as I guess you didn't really mean to say PowerHaul (locomitve). Also note the "(diesel)" in the title name (British Rail Class 70 is a DAB page due to the old British Rail Class 70 (electric) locos).

User Sf5xeplus (talk · contribs) hasn't been very active since I last posted there, so I'll hold fire with the formal {{split}} procedure, at least for the moment. Tim PF (talk) 12:56, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Arbitration Enforcement sanction handling

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Arbitration Enforcement sanction handling/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Arbitration Enforcement sanction handling/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, NW (Talk) 01:30, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Talk:British Rail Class 486

Thanks for making the correction. The documentation isn't particularly clear on syntax… Useddenim (talk) 16:02, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Help:Merging#Full-content paste merger list item 8.: I figured out from=source and to=destination, but diff=permanent diff… well, that's just out there. Useddenim (talk) 03:18, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank-you for helping me keeping List of bus route in .... . I am starting a project to include all the Suffolk bus routes in one page. Would that page get deleted ? Wilbysuffolk (talk) 17:57, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Lists of bus routes

Hi there, I have seen your support for the listf bus routes created by me and my friend. I was hoping that maybe you would be able to support me with the lists of bus routesin Lowestoft and Peterborough, which keep being proded by Charlesdrakew. thanks '''Adam mugliston''' (talk) 18:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

Did you know that your photo of the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway was used in the current issue of Heritage Railway magazine? You are credited as the photographer.("Cliff Railway on the market". Heritage Railway (148). Horncastle: Mortons Media Ltd: p31. 17 March – 13 April 2011. {{cite journal}}: |page= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: date format (link)). Mjroots (talk) 08:41, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Mark Goddard (driver)

Why did I need to list it at RFD? The RFD tag was already there before I edited the page. Nyttend (talk) 20:37, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

No complaints; I was just confused :-) Nyttend (talk) 03:55, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

I just checked WhatLinksHere for the link and found that it had been taken to RFD on 21 January 2010, and you were the one who closed the discussion...weird how this works out! Nyttend (talk) 03:56, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiConference UK 2011: will you be coming?

Hello. Thanks for expressing an interest in attending WikiConference UK 2011 in Bristol this coming Saturday (16 April). If you you will be coming, please could you register (if you haven't already) so that we can ensure we have enough catering, printed material and badges to go around? You can officially register at http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/ . Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:22, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Saba Wahid & Tom Urquhart

I appreciate any help you can give me as an administrator to prevent the deletion of the following pages Saba Wahid and Tom Urquhart. The co-host a daily, live, primetime lifestyle show on Dubai One in the Middle East. This broadcasts directly to 16 countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, and is available around the world on Arab Sat. The media industry in the middle east is still developing and culturally people dont blog so much and review tv. PLus most of the television is in Arabic - therefore there are not a lot of english references to it.Having said that, the show is extremely well known and so are the presenters. And help you can give me to navigate through the wiki laws would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.200.64.52 (talk) 16:10, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Article CelsiusPro

Hi Thryduulf, I noticed that the article about CelsiusPro was deleted. I understand that, CelsiusPro being a company, there was doubt about it being informative and noteworthy. To my opinion, what they do and offer is unique and new, and definitely worthy being mentioned, especially seeing lots of company pages that are much more generic. It would be great if you could give me some advice on how i could prevent deletion, I'd love to rewrite the article. Do you happen to have the file still available? Thanks! Best regards, Rosannevdw, April 18 2011, 14:41 —Preceding undated comment added 12:42, 18 April 2011 (UTC).

Thanks for your help Thryduulf, it's very much appreciated! I've reworked some phrases and refs. Could you maybe tell me if there's a way to test the article CelsiusPro, to make sure it won't get deleted again when i put it back up? Thanks! - Rosannevdw (talk) 06:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

{{talkback}} Acknowledged. Thryduulf (talk)

Invitation to take part in a study

I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me.cooldenny (talk) 01:40, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Help and a question

Hi there,

Thank you for your mail, I need a bit of help on how to create/edit and use tables in articles, that's of course if you can help me. Also may I ask are you the one that placed a citation needed tag on my M275 contribution? Thanks again, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatmotorwayguy (talk • contribs) 13:35, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you and a query

Just to say thanks for the help, I've found what I wanted, thanks again. Also your citation tag, I feel is not needed as references at the bottom (for example the CBRD page) of the M275 article confirm my contribution. I'm sorry if my answer still doesn't solve the issue, if not please explain it further. - Thatmotorwayguy (talk) 15:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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TC

TC has been blocked as a suspected sock of Tobias Conradi. See new proposal for a category tree at WT:TWP#Track gauge categories, part 2. Mjroots (talk) 09:28, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Regular Show

You might wanna take a look at J.G. Quintel. The same crap's being added there, including an unsourced DoB and full name. Two of the animators on Formspring said even THEY don't know what J.G. stands for, so I'm sure he's not gonna tell it to us either. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 18:48, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Saw your note...

...over at User:RHaworth#Jonathan Keltz.

I would like you to take a look at User:MichaelQSchmidt/Jonathan Keltz. There was an article about this fellow that was sent to AFD in January 2010,[3] and as I myself commented back then, I felt that while the fellow might be seen to meet WP:ENT, there was simply not enough reliable coverage at that time upon which to build a decent BLP. That has changed. In the intervening 14 months, the fellow has received growing coverage and recognition he lacked originally. And with the new coverage, available only since the deletion,[4] I feel it benefits the project to have this new version of the article return to mainspace to further grow and be expanded. I see no cause for a DRV, as there was no flaw in the reasoning for deletion of the original article... but my effort is not exactly the same as the article that was deleted, due to actor's career and coverage not sitting still over the last 14 months. As time and circumstance and coverage have changed (he met WP:ENT and now meets WP:GNG), I seek your approval in its return AND in it not being speedied as a G4 recreation. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:19, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Just an additional note: RHaworth gave his blessing to an return to mainspace,[5] and sent me a link to the version he speedied, which I then found in a google cache.[6] I can well understand his deletion of that earlier version. Yikes. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 05:26, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

List of Regular Show episodes

I keep seeing anons making strange and un-constructive edits to this article. Can you permanently semi-protect it?--King-9 (talk) 00:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)