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WT:RM#The new technical request archiving process

This discussion involves archiving technical move requests. --George Ho (talk) 10:42, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Air Safaris (Defunct)

Re User talk:Anthony Appleyard/2012/January-June#Air Safaris (Defunct).

You archive your talk page very quickly! The point I am making is that under RM procedures if a move is made and is then reverted, it is up to the initiator of the first move to put in a request to move the page to his/her preferred name. Your revert of a legitimate revert (made under WP:RM "If the page has recently been moved without discussion, then you may revert the move"), has placed the onus the other way around and it is now up to the person who wanted the status quo to gain a consensus to move it back to the original name. This is a reversal of the usual procedure, and hence my request. -- PBS (talk) 13:23, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

I know that, but I think that the solution that fits the RM process best would be to move it back and then initiate another move request. Failing that then I think you should leave a message on the talk page in the discussion section, that a failure to reach consensus will result in a move back to the original title. If neither of these things are done, then it has given first move advantage the the editor who move the page, something that the rules at WP:RM have been developed to stop. -- PBS (talk) 15:10, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Protected name-space moves

  • How do we deal with page-move situations such as Qurban Ali(Journlist) → Qurban Ali (which is a "protected" name-space)? I suspect this situation may require further admin attention or investigation, but without being able to template the protected name-space, I'm somewhat at a loss with ideas of what to do with it. Bringing it to your attention seems to make the most sense.  -- WikHead (talk) 05:19, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Page Qurban Ali is a deleted article about someone non-notable; someone protected it to prevent re-creation. I have made page Qurban Ali into a disambig page. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:34, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
    • Thank you for looking after this Anthony. I really had no way of knowing whether the new journalist article had anything to do with the A7 issues that led to protection of that name-space, it was however something that was holding up the typo correction in the new page title. I'm 100% satisfied with your solution. Regards,  -- WikHead (talk) 15:22, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Liquid breathing#Removal of "redundant text" from the Partial liquid ventilation section

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Liquid breathing#Removal of "redundant text" from the Partial liquid ventilation section. Peaceray (talk) 05:54, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Page move

Requested moves help

Hi Anthony Appleyard, I need a bit of help on requested moves, so in seeing that you often help out there I've come to ask you. Anyway, the other day a user e-mailed me asking about a page move, so I passed them on to requested moves. However, when they added their request the bot removed it, and after I had restored the request earlier today the bot removed it again. What's the problem here? Thanks! Acalamari 09:07, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It can be tough for new users to understand, but they need to start the RM at the talk page in question, by using {{requested move}}, and the bot will list it automatically. Nominations should be added to the RM list manually or they will be removed by the bot. I've started a RM at Talk:Bügsküll. Jenks24 (talk) 09:40, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. :) Acalamari 14:54, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

question about merging and merging order

Hi Anthony, thank you for your help with sorting out the Golden set (tennis) page.

Quick question: did you take a look at the discussion on the talk page? I'm asking because I don't really understand the rationale here, as to why the page was merged as opposed to delete+move. It was a new article written from scratch, to which I then added the "see also" section from a deleted version.

And if you reckon it was necessary to do a merge, then I don't understand why you merged Golden set (tennis) into Golden set, instead of merging Golden set into Golden set (tennis) and then moving the article. In my opinion that would have made more sense, being that the only bit taken from a deleted version of Golden set was the see also section, which is smaller than the main part of the new article. Of course I'm aware of my lack of experience here, so I want to understand the rationale. Thanks in advance for taking the time to explain. Azylber (talk) 12:06, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, first of all thank you for your quick reply. I can see that the fact that there was no WP:Parallel histories makes the merging easy. But I still don't understand these 2 things:
1) why is a merge necessary? The old article had been discarded years ago, and the new article was written from scratch, borrowing only the "see also" section from an old revision of the old article before it was discarded.
2) if you still think a merge is necessary, then why merge the old one into the new, as opposed to the other way around? The new one only contains one minor little section from a discarded revision of the old one!!
I hope I've managed to express my point clearly this time. I know this is not very important in the grand scheme of things, so please don't answer if you don't have time. But of course I would appreciate an answer. Thank you very much again! Azylber (talk) 16:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but I'm not talking about the name. But don't worry about it. Azylber (talk) 06:12, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

One Direction's second album

This discussion has been moved to Talk:One Direction's second studio album#Queried move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:42, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

What just happened, exactly?

  • My watchlist, and several article histories are currently a bit of a mess with articles being deleted and created all over the place, and moved to some very strange places. As someone said on my talkpage, the net result is for everything to be exactly the same. May I ask a) why this needed doing? My understanding of the histmerg thing is that it is unnecessary if the same person wrote the text and added it to an article, and I wrote everything that has been moved around. What was the point? And b) why these articles came to your attention? No problem or anything, I just find it a little odd and probably not necessary. Oh, and I'm sure that the Rae article had an image last time I looked. As it is fair use, it really should have been put back which I have now done. Cheers. Sarastro1 (talk) 16:21, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Actually, just found a partial answer to b), looking at George Dewhurst, but other questions still stand! Sarastro1 (talk) 16:29, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
  • I found that the edit history of User:Sarastro1/Sandbox4 contained the early parts of the edit histories of several pages; several times, User:Sarastro1/Sandbox4 was cut-and-pasted to some other page and then blanked, and another article on another topic was started in it. I felt it advisable to re-unite all these split edit histories: George Dewhurst (cricketer), Malcolm Jardine, George Headley, Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer), Ernest Rae. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

ILO histmerge

PTE General

Decompression (diving) nomination for A-class

Hi Anthony, I think Decompression (diving) is up to A-class, Please take a look if you have the time and comment on article talk page. Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:34, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Josh Hall hist merge needed

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Vivek Rai/Ram Kishore Shukla

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Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Vietnamese)#RfC_on_spelling

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Vietnamese)#RfC_on_spelling. KarlB (talk) 13:49, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Inter Milan move

  • I have no particular interest in Vietnamese, and I have never been in or near Vietnam. The above message about Vietnamese is signed "[[User:Karl.brown|KarlB]] ([[User talk:Karl.brown|talk]]) 13:49, 22 July 2012 (UTC)", but it was inserted at 13:49, 22 July 2012‎ by User:Obiwankenobi, according to page User talk:Anthony Appleyard's edit history. I have heard of internet links that get a different IPA number every time they are switched on. Or is the user User:118.68.129.247 (and similar) using various internet access points in Ho Chi Minh City; are there internet cafes there? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:24, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
It's just a rename; the name was usurped by me (now done), and was just completed recently. That may explain the confusing edit/sig history - sorry about that.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 03:43, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Anthony, sorry, my note was too short. The fact that Karl B (who is not from Vietnam) is contacting you must be because somewhere, years back you expressed an opinion in a Vietnamese diacritics RM. Looks like simply he forgot to sign.
No, the issue with Talk:Inter Milan is unrelated to Karl B's message - other than a Vietnam IP made the edit that obscured the previous RM, just before a new RM was launched. On its own it wouldn't be anything - but there are several RMs with these sort of edits immediately prior to a new RM.
  • 8 June 113.161.68.190 (talk · contribs)
    • 14:19, 8 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+219)‎ . . Talk:Inter Milan ‎ (Add archiving, 90 days)
    • 06:08, 8 June 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+311)‎ . . Talk:Lady Trieu ‎ (Add archiving)
That is the issue - the RM Wesley Mouse and yourself closed was conducted without being able to see the original RM, which in itself wasn't so bad, but why was it done by an IP? I imagine the registration is just the Vietnam post office. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:56, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm afraid there's another one Talk:Praha_hlavní_nádraží#IP_set_up_of_MiszaBot_Talk.2FRM_Archiving_prior_to_RM but in this case the article wasn't moved. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:15, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
FYI the Inter Milan RM has been included at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kauffner In ictu oculi (talk) 02:30, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Question about Critics Adult Film Association fix

  • Hi; thanks for addressing my screw-up so quickly! I have a couple of questions though (and I'm not questioning what you've done; I'm just trying to understand because I'm new and don't want to make more mistakes). 1) I do realize to be grammatically correct, the apostrophe should be in the title (which is why I had it there in the first place). But when the association doesn't spell it that way, so we add the apostrophe anyway? I had assumed we wouldn't, because if we did account for bad grammar then, for example, eBay would be EBay in our title. 2) The CAFA page still says it's an orphan page because no other articles link to it. However, that's not the case, there are a few other articles in Wikipedia that have Critics Adult Film Association as a link, but they're still in red. Does it take a while for those links to recognize that a redirect exists? Or is something still wrong? Thanks again...
    Pumik9 (talk) 00:38, 23 July 2012 (UTC)Pumik9
  • These links look OK now. See discussion in Talk:Critics' Adult Film Association#Move?. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:21, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Why am I not "autoconfirmed"?

Anthony, I have been a Wikipedian for many years and I have had many hundreds (if not thousands) of edits (see my User page). I wanted to edit the Jet engine article ... but was denied access because the article is now semi-protected and I am supposedly not "autoconfirmed". Why am I not autoconfirmed??

By the way, I wanted to edit the "Thrust" subsection of the Jet engine article which is incomprehensible and does not use the same parameter symbols that most of the other WP articles of that genre use. In fact, the symbols used in that subsection differ completely from those used by NASA. For example, that "Thrust" section uses "S" instead of "F" as the symbol for "Force". As another example, it use "c" instead of "ve" as the symbol for the jet exhaust velocity.

Please explain why I am not autoconfirmed and can you get me to be autoconfirmed as soon as possible? Thanks, mbeychok (talk) 21:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

The problem seems to have resolved itself. I can now edit that Jet engine article. mbeychok (talk) 02:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

The Key to Time

discuss 4

after you removed my requests, where did you open the discussion? Frietjes (talk) 16:51, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

never mind, I found it at template talk:All-Ireland Winning Team 1958. I was expecting to find a discussion on the actual RM page. Frietjes (talk) 16:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Dutch Golden Age painting

Many thanks! Johnbod (talk) 13:40, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

AJ Lee / April Jeanette / etc.

There is a circular mess of redirects... where is the actual article? — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 22:30, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Oh. What a tangled web we weave. Here is the talk page: Talk:April Jeanette. Marcus Qwertyus 01:50, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

I think you must have inadvertently deleted the actual article and its history, perhaps you or some other admin can resurrect it:

21:33, 2 August 2012 Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) deleted page April Jeanette (G6: Deleted to make way for move)
21:31, 2 August 2012 Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) deleted page April Jeanette (G6: Deleted to make way for move)

— P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:17, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

I have requested it to be undeleted WP:UND but maybe you can do it sooner. If you bring it back maybe you can rename it like requested (see the Talk page). Wrestling0101 (talk) 03:55, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Gears of War: Judgment

Usurping

Evening Anthony.

While this may seem moot after your recent history merge at Gears of War: Judgment, I'm interested in your rationale why the usurping of the title was invalid? After considering the following:

All though not much it known about this video game at the current time but we do know that it's supposed to be a new beginning for a spin off series of the original Gears of War series. It also has been leaked that Gears of War 4 is supposed to be linked with the release of Bulletstorm 2.

I determined that the history of the article was manifestly non-encyclopaedic and trivial, specifically unreferenced rumour, and opted to relocate it pending any dispute. Rather than transposing it to a sandbox, an apt location was probably Gears of war: judgment, although I didn't consider that at the time. Since none of the other editors engaged in any substantive attempt to develop the Gears of War: Judgment article, I didn't believe that the usurp was controversial, although perhaps the move to the sandbox was. Anyway, perhaps you could elaborate on my miscomprehension of WP:UPT policy, and the absence of discussion prior to the decision. Thanks, Mephistophelian (talk) 15:31, 6 August 2012 (UTC).

  • There seem to be 2 sorts of this "usurping":-
    1. E.g. Someone wrote an article about a racehorse called Qwerty, and someone else pushes it aside and writes an article with the same name about a pop music band called Qwerty.
    2. Someone writes an article about something, and someone else writes another article, as a new start and not taking text from the old article, with the same name about the same subject.
    Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:37, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

AfD-notice

Nomination of Anthropophilia in animals‎ for deletion

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Prehistoric Portugal

  • Hi. You rejected my request to move my draft for Prehistoric Portugal to the mainspace because "This subject is already covered at length in page Prehistoric Iberia.". There reason I was creating the article was because, if you look at the Prehistoric Iberia, most of it is not about Prehistoric Portugal. Understandably, most of the article is about the territory that is now Spain, since most of the Iberian Peninsula is part of Spain. That means there is very little about the prehistory of waht is now Portugal in that article, and if I were to expand it to give it as much atention as Spain's prehistory it would be undue weight. Olher than that, there are plenty of reliable sources about the prehistory of Portugal to create an article.--Cattus talk 18:21, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
  •  Done moved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:34, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you.--Cattus talk 21:38, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

WT:DRN

Possible sneaky vandalism

Mini cockup

Unprotection of Carl Linnaeus

Hello, it's been more than one year. Can we try unprotection please?

Thanks 220.246.157.2 (talk) 07:53, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Simba (rhinoceros) for deletion

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Tiago André Coelho Lopes

Hi there AA, AL from Portugal here,

can you tell me why did you have a change of heart in this footballer's article (moving the page then reverting yourself)? Plus, as you removed my request from the proper area, can you tell me please where does that leave us?

Attentively, keep up the good work - --AL (talk) 14:30, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Duck eats frog

This makes it clear that we should avoid linking to videos of uncertain copyright status. I think that the video is of dubious value anyway, we have a poor quality clip of an unnamed duck species eating a frog. Coupled with that is unreferenced text which implies that this is standard behaviour for most of the duck species. I'm not going to war on this, if you think the video adds to the article and doesn't infringe our external links policy, just put the link back Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:37, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Urgently need your help to move article

Hi Anthony Appleyard, sorry to bother you. I really urgently please need your help. As you are a administrator, I need your help to "Move" the article Tinchy Stryder to the article Kwasi Danquah III for me, so that the article history will be intacted. I have already listed on Wikipedia:Requested moves a long time ago but it has not been processed. MarkMysoe (talk) 09:09, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

MarkMysoe's request was not processed because he entered it directly at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Current discussions and the RMCD bot promptly overwrote it. I've taken care of this and copied the request to talk:Tinchy Stryder#Requested move. Wbm1058 (talk) 13:47, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Thomas Whitfield disambiguation

Thanks a lot for your kind support, Anthony. —Mayeenul Islam (TALK) 09:06, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

We are having a move situation in this article. We seem to be in full agreement that it should be split but an editor moved it the wrong way. Anyways we will definitely need an an administrator for this article to be moved to part one so I was thinking of notifying you about the situation. Jhenderson 777 17:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Scum Lake listed at Redirects for discussion

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The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)

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Steven Zhang's Fellowship Slideshow

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--The Olive Branch 18:49, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Rabiola - Developments

Hi there AA, AL here,

several other users have weighed in in the article's talkpage, and all the inputs were positive. Do you think you can accommodate in the view of that? Thanks in advance, keep it up --AL (talk) 20:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Front of the Class

Allright, I just corrected the faulty move. There was a book that was well known long before the film, the (two) articles state as much, the film article was correctly titled as the film article. Perhaps someday I'll write the book article, but not today. Perhaps you could keep an eye on that user's moves, since I see he now has file mover rights in spite of similar errors. Thanks again, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:07, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

GoldeneEye Cut & Paste

Thanks for reverting those vandalisms on my user page

I have dealt with that individual [or group thereof] before. I will want to send you an e-mail later with more details. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 21:49, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Page history lost on a dab

Article proposed for Deletion

Booker move

Die Young

Thanks :) Sionk (talk) 22:33, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Improper move

Hassaniya Arabic () listed at Redirects for discussion

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Windows Phone 7 move not uncontroversial

Proposed deletion of Charlie Mulgrew (Gaelic footballer)

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Page move request for Octopussy

That's great—many thanks indeed. - SchroCat (^ • @) 07:47, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Pexco, LLC

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I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Pexco, LLC should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pexco, LLC .

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Thanks, Batard0 (talk) 04:09, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate move

Friendly reminder

Please check talk pages for an on going RM discussion before doing "uncontroversial" move requests. While everyone agrees that Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport (used a minus sign) was patently wrong it probably would have been better to wait until the RM was closed. On the other hand, that RM has been open for a month and can probably be closed - but I would caution that while it seems to me uncontroversial to use hyphen, the "uncontroversial" request was to use an en dash,[4] and this question is the subject of both an open RfC and discussion on the WP:MOS talk page. While it is true that the editor who moved the article in 2011 intended to use an endash, that was an undiscussed and clearly controversial move. It was moved "per WP:ENDASH",[5] (see edit summary at left) but it is argued that it should be moved back, "per WP:HYPHEN". I will admit that I also considered submitting an uncontroversial move to fix the minus sign, but rejected the idea. At the very least I would have posted the suggestion and asked for agreement before proceeding, something that was not done.

I am definitely not suggesting that it be moved back to a minus sign! Apteva (talk) 06:28, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for helping clean up the mess I made when I was trying to get the article into mainspace, I just wasn't thinking as clear as I should have been. I appreciate your time on that! Insomesia (talk) 20:57, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Internet storage request fell through the cracks?

Thank you!! Jojalozzo 22:33, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Three-Lobed Burning Eye history merge

RM

Some page history not visible

Typo.

Um

Possibly unfree File:Aa filton near Bristol UK 1935.jpg

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Ol Pejeta Conservancy

Ok, thanks for the explanation. Calathan (talk)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Aa before birmingham uk airport.jpg

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A barnstar for you

The Working Man's Barnstar
In appreciation of the endless, quiet but essential work you do without dramas on Wikipedia – Epipelagic (talk) 22:07, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Moving the article to "Siege of Baniyas"

  • Sorry for any confusion, but there's actually no discussion going on about moving the article. The article gets very little views. Me and another editor are probably the only ones knowing about this move proposal. I've tried multiple methods to get this article moved, which in the end probably just caused more confusion. To conclude, please help move the article and merge the histories if they are affected. -- FutureTrillionaire (talk) 22:41, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:42, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Saihu

3MB problem

Nomination for deletion of Template:RMinc

Template:RMinc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:11, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Help at Dutch East Indies

Can you see that page and find out why the text "Category:Former colonies|Dutch East Indies, Dutch Empire" is there? I can't find it, thank you. Silvergoat (talk) 21:09, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

That text is inserted by the call of the template Template:Infobox former country. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I have raised the matter in Template talk:Infobox former country#Programming fault. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:13, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
They cured the bug in the template. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:05, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you a lot. Silvergoat (talk) 15:28, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Jacob (Lost)/redirects listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jacob (Lost)/redirects. Since you had some involvement with the Jacob (Lost)/redirects redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Thryduulf (talk) 10:01, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks

Thanks for moving Tecun Uman, all the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 08:30, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Thank you for your hard work at WP:RM. Silvergoat (talk) 20:58, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Rugby union in Ivory Coast

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Ivory Coast

FYI

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fungi#Thielaviopsis_fraxinea_.2F_Chalara_fraxinea. SmartSE (talk) 20:52, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Bond 23 & Skyfall

Huh?

I Need You to Unlock a Page for Me

Chalara fraxinea

Hi. I think Chalara fraxinea deserves a WP:DYK nomination (something perhaps like "... that ash dieback started in Poland and has spread throughout Europe, causing the loss of most of Denmark's ash trees?"). I just tried to nominate it myself but I find the process too troublesome to use. Might you want to nominate it yourself?--A bit iffy (talk) 15:34, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Amber Koter-Puline/sandbox

Hello, I nominated Amber Koter-Puline/sandbox for deletion as it is empty and per Wikipedia:Subpages#Disallowed_uses. Please fix the article/delete the article/move the article somwhere if you would like to. -- Cheers, Riley Huntley 15:56, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

RFC bot's RFC/RM tagging bug

Hi there. I noticed that you were also trying to resolve User:RFC bot's bug of posting {{Requested move/dated}} on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Politics, government, and law.[8] As you probably know, this was the result of a user also wanting to advertise his RM discussion on RFC. I would like to let you know that I think I found a work around: It was only when I listed {{RFC}} after {{Requested move/dated}} [9] that both User:RMCD bot and User:RFC bot apparently ignored each other's tag, and made the appropriate corrections.[10][11] Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:29, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Star Wars Episode VII

Histmerge request

The Beatles moves

Almoravid Caliphate?

  • Hi. You recently moved the page "Almoravid dynasty" to "Almoravid Caliphate" and mentioned in the log that it was an "uncontroversial move" at RM. I couldn't find that RM request. But to the point: Almoravids were emphatically not a Caliphate. A "Caliphate" is a state ruled by a "Caliph". Almoravids were never ruled by a caliph and made a point of emphasizing that. Walrasiad (talk) 08:33, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
  • It is listed here. It was called for by User:Khestwol at 22:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

Hello, Anthony. You moved Inauguration of Barack Obama as "uncontroversial" and created a disambiguation page at the old title. But this was not "uncontroversial" because it violated WP:FIXDABLINKS --

A code of honor for creating disambiguation pages is to fix all resulting mis-directed links.
Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

I think that WP:WikiProject Disambiguation would really appreciate it if you would refuse move requests that involve creating a disambiguation page, unless the person requesting it demonstrates that it will not create any misdirected links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I know you slave away almost single-handedly at WP:RM and 99% of the time you get it right, so I hate to over-emphasize the 1% that causes a problem. Thanks for all you do on behalf of Wikipedia! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:38, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Tim Ball history, thanks

Thanks for your prompt response re this. As a consequence, we seem to be moving towards an amicable resolution of this contentious MfD. [Knocks on wood]. Best regards, Pete Tillman (talk) 16:51, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Dachau liberation reprisals

  • Re your comment here: If there is some technical detail that the participants didn't know about and that you do - like how to close the discussion? - I am unclear why you didn't just go ahead and do that action. The name's been chosen, consensus has spoken, none of the page-move participants have posted on that page since October 27th, I thought the discussion was over. The article and its talkpage have been on my watchlist for ages (popped up on new edits when I was young around here), both are targets for all sorts of intermittent drive-by edits and vandalism. Personally, I find your implication offensive, that the (technically?) open page-move discussion was somehow not letting people 'mourn their dead in peace' - you really don't know anything at all about me. Shearonink (talk) 16:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
  •  Done: someone moved it to Dachau liberation reprisals, so I left it like that and closed the discussion. Sorry if I offended anyone. I have read plenty about the Holocaust, and I have visited Auschwitz, and to me like many such matters are emotive. Sorry. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Dish Mexico

Thanks for that histmerge, now something more difficult

Thanks for merging the histories of Mark 18 Torpedo and Mark 18 torpedo. Sorry about that... I was still a noob back then when I performed the copy/paste move.

Now for a more complicated histmerge:

On December 21, 2008, I changed the Traynor page from being an article about a brand of guitar amplifiers to being a disambiguation page. I copied the old guitar amp text over to Yorkville Sound (the brand owner and founder), but after a while I had a change of heart and I created the Traynor Amplifiers article, pasting the old text into that namespace. I think there should be a history merge of the old part of Traynor with Traynor Amplifiers. The history of the newer dab page should be retained at the dab page, starting from December 21, 2008.

Thanks in advance for your attention! Binksternet (talk) 23:46, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks, really. Binksternet (talk) 06:16, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Breakfast (Australian TV program)/version 2

Proposed deletion of List of names similar to Mick

The article List of names similar to Mick has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

pointless list; places that need this list should list the elements directly

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

WP7 redirect to Windows Phone page

Hi I've finished editing the Windows Phone 7 page, but when I type in "Windows Phone 7" in some searches it still automatically redirects to "Windows Phone". May you remove the redirect now that the Windows Phone 7 page has been completed? Thanks Gamer9832 (talk) 21:40, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

When you type in "Windows Phone 7" into the "Search" bar at the top it still redirects to Windows Phone. Gamer9832 (talk) 08:23, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, I was able to fix it. Gamer9832 (talk) 08:28, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Therons

Hello, just thought you'd like to know that the above article you created has been proposed for deletion by another editor.

Thank you.Rotten regard Softnow 01:29, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Steinkjer

  • This is regarding your deletion of Steinkjer (town) with the rationale "the same as Steinkjer". Presumably you read the talk page and noticed that the speedy was contested. I am uncertain if you investigated the claim made by the nominator that the municipality of Steinkjer and the town of Steinkjer are the same. The municipality is a large area (ca. 1600 km2) which has a multitude of larger and smaller villages throughout it. One of these is the town of Steinkjer. These happen to have the same name (yes, the municipality is named for the town). That does not mean that they "are the same". The scope difference of the articles is a similar confusion as to that of New York State and New York City, although at a smaller scale (I chose this example as it presumably one that you are familiar with). If either of the Steinkjer articles were expanded to a decent length, they would evolve into significantly different scopes. Either way, using speedy deletion for such an article is a suboptimal line of action as it evident that it is not a clear consensus for deletion. Arsenikk (talk) 23:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
  • I have undeleted it. It was speedy delete nominated at 18:17, 23 November 2012‎ by User:Steve.rusyn. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:37, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Favour required

4G Wifi

  • Dear Sir you have deleted my page and listed it as a hoax.
    My page is no joke sir.

It provides information. Which countries currently have 4G Wifi Networks and which companies provide these networks. The information has been researched and is not biased to any one supplier. The page will also be helpful to anyone researching 4G wifi global suppliers. And defines what 4G Wifi actually is. Please can you explain which part or why you think that this page was a hoax and I ask with respect for you to reverse your decision to delete this Wikipedia page.

Međugorje/Medugorje

  • Hi. You recently moved the page as "uncontroversial" despite it being obvious that there is some sort of disagreement taking place. Would you mind moving it back so a proper discussion can take place? Thanks. Jempoc (talk) 04:10, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
  • I found a quantity of query about religious apparitions at Međugorje/Medugorje. I have started a move discussion at Talk:Međugorje#Move?. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:25, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
    Hello Anthony - I explained myself in the original request you carried out. If Jempoc hadn't made those edits to the article and talkpage, I would have been able to revert per WP:BRD. I've also contested Jempoc's request, with a bit more explanation. I know you do a thankless job; I'm sorry to be a part of any extra difficulty. Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 06:47, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Sock

Knowing you, and knowing what I do of Materialscientist, I think the accusation is absurd. The IP's other edits were unambiguous vandalism and trolling too. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:37, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

From Noon till Three vs. From Dusk Till Dawn

The Miracle (1912 film)

Thank you for moving my edit history so promptly. > MinorProphet (talk) 08:19, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Kangdong

Kangdong (village) is the same as Gangdong-myeon, Gyeongju. Sawol (talk) 11:28, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Suncheon/Sunchon

Another administrator's Barnstar for you

The Admin's Barnstar
Your nearly single-handed work responding to WP:RM/TR technical requests in a timely manner is truly appreciated! – Wbm1058 (talk) 15:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

History merge request

Pardon me if this isn't the proper place for this request, but since you just did a related histmerge, thought I'd mention it here.

– thanks, Wbm1058 (talk) 15:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

"into" is not always a preposition

Hi Anthony. You made a statement at Talk:He's Just Not That into You (film), which I contradict with some little reasoning. I'd appreciated if you would review and comment. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 10:39, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

B.o.B/redirects listed at Redirects for discussion

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Talkback

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Toʻylar muborak

TNEB Limited

Hi, Anthony Appleyard. I am little bit confused about your close of TNEB Limited move request and removal of the history merge tag. I agree that this issue is complicated. TNEB Limited and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board were merged last summer by overall consensus, opposed by only now blocked creator of these articles. It was only recently when a new editor started to recreate separate articles doing it mainly by copy-paste moves. Meanwhile Tamil Nadu Electricity Board was moved to TNEB as a compromise (being acronym of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and being the name of TNEB Limited according to the WP:NCCORP), but again, this was contested by the above-mentioned editor. However, he/she seems to agree now to have only one article instead of two. My understanding about this is that:

  • There have been a number of copy-paste moves and for article history, the history merge is needed.
  • There are different views what the article's name should be (TNEB versus TNEB Limited). Therefore it was listed under WP:RM to have more broader discussion what the correct name should be.
    • As you speedily closed the move request discussion as also removed the history merge tag, I would like to ask how you suggest to proceed this issue because the current state with these articles is not satisfactory. Beagel (talk) 14:10, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

London Stone

Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 07:49, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Man Booker Prize -> Booker Prize

Surprised that an admin with eight years editing experience would use "I live near there" as an excuse for adding unreferenced material to Wikipedia. I've tagged the section as unreferenced rather than remove it this time, but I do wonder how long a section on progress would stay on the page anyway seeing as it becomes out of date so quickly. Skyscrapercity.com is usually the place for progress updates. Cheers. Del♉sion23 (talk) 16:54, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Requesting move

Massive Article Moves of Washington Ballot Measures w/o Mention on Talk Pages

I was surprised to see that you had recently performed several moves of articles about Washington ballot measures without having noticed any discussion of those moves on the pages for the articles, but rather at the more obscure WP:RM. I would ask that you please revert those until the matters can be discussed on the various individual pages because I believe that all of these moves violate WP:AT in that they break consistency with other ballot measures across Wikipedia.

Although I see what you are trying to do, I am strongly in favor of including parenthetic years for all US ballot measure articles as a matter of consistency, whether a state re-uses numbers or not. The basic title format of State + Type + Number + (Parenthetical year) provides maximal information very concisely: California Proposition 13 (1978), Oregon Ballot Measure 9 (1992), Washington Referendum 71 (2009), Washington Initiative 502 (2011), and Colorado Amendment 64 (2012). Redirects such as Proposition 13 can easily be established for famous items or from year-to-year, with those easily converted do disambiguation pages as needed should similar titles be WP:Notable. The State + Type + Number + (Parenthetical year) format is well established for many states, if not most, and this seems to me the simplest, soundest, most comprehensive and least ambiguous solution. This article, with its previous parenthetical year number, was consistent with long-established practice across all of Wikipedia. The permanent article should include the year number, with redirects such as Initiative 502 created or changed as necessary.

If you could please undo these moves and open discussion of any future moves up on the page of the article in question, I would much appreciate it and the opportunity to discuss this on an article by article basis. On that basis I believe the key principle of consistency across articles as set at WP:AT is key. Rorybowman (talk) 07:15, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Final Fantasy XIV

GU (food)

No problem. =) I only noticed it because the talk page was listed as an orphaned talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 09:16, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Solomon Adeni

Hi Anthony, thanks. I followed this pretty much by chance as I was about to leave a note of thanks for Ed. This is only the 2nd time I have used WP:RM/TR, the first that a Disney (artist) to (animator) a few days ago. Mainly to experience how this alternative to db-G6 (which I have never used) works. It seems to me that WP:TR is less problem-bound than db-G6 in 2 respects - (i) it displays the TR on WP:RM for all and sundry to see. (ii) it doesn't erase/hide the history, including the identity of the requestor. the request is highly visible both in requestor's edit history and in article history. It is interesting to see Ed's question because it suggests that not even experienced admins are clear from the guidance on WP:RM about how to exercise WP:BRD with locked moves, and also whether TR or db-G6 is more appropriate. This is all old news to you of course, but I want to just check that my take on this is broadly correct. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:57, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Ansell

Ansell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Ansell (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Some revisions are in the wrong pages. --George Ho (talk) 07:39, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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Histmerge

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Talkback

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My slipup in technical move?

Proposal for Category:Latin stubs

Hi, Anthony. Hope you are doing fine. Please, be so kind and take a look at this proposal. Thank you! Regards, --Fabio Descalzi, aka Fadesga (talk) 13:14, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Healthcare in the Republic of Georgia

Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)

NEOchrome

Thanks for sorting out the history on this article! All the best, Ubcule (talk) 00:05, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Terminator Salvation

2012 Constitution of Egypt moves

Hi. I do not appreciate you starting a move request for 2012 Constitution of Egypt under my name, then dragging over comments I made on another page onto that request. That's blatant impersonation. The comments I made that you pasted in were specifically for the technical move I was requested. I removed the fake request you made, and created a new request based on what I actually do want to say in a standard move request. I know that you commented earlier on the request you pretended was mine, so I'm just writing to let you know that you can remake your argument on the new one. Trinitresque (talk) 07:45, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

The Howard School

Thanks for that. By doing all the renames & disambiguation in addition to the requested history merge you took it to where I was going next and saved me the job! --Bob Re-born (talk) 23:08, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

A Move Request

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