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India v West Indies ODIs

What should be done about the match reports now?? They are terribly worded in their current version and way too lengthy containing all sorts of unnecessary stuffs!! What should we do next in context to this??? Cricket246 (talk) 15:53, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

May I advise you to read the source (sports-reference.com for example [1]) and actually use it when creating your stubs, rather than go for their total number. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 05:21, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

@Materialscientist: - feel free to expand the article at any time. Oh, you have. So what's the issue? Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:57, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
The issue is that some editors, you included, don't seem to read the single, short reference that they use to create a stub article, and apparently compete against each other in the number of those templated stubs. I know, we are all volunteers, and do what we like to, but I though experienced contributors like you could do better. Sure, I can expand your stubs, and I do, but frankly I'm getting tired of this attitude to expanding Wikipedia. Materialscientist (talk) 07:27, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
@Materialscientist: well thanks for the lack of good faith. I do read each and every source (you say I don't - this is not true). "we are all volunteers" - nailed it in one. I volunteer my time to what I like doing, and bowing to your demands of what should be in article is not one of them. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:30, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
Daniel Riedo - created by the great Materialscientist. One of many articles like this. And he has the nerve to tell me what to do. You couldn't make that shit up. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:12, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Sagan

Hi man, been a long time! He didn't even touch Cav, if you see on slomo. And why did they go from 30 secs docking to 80 points to out? Call me a conspiracy theorist, but they don't like him. Kittel better watch his behind, he's winning too much :D They want Demare to win and in green. I'll watch some mountain stages, but I lost all interest in the flatter stages. Cheers! Mattsnow81 (Talk) 05:22, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Template deletion

Well done for listing all those templates. I've been around here a long time, but I don't have a clue how to do it, and was hoping someone community-minded would come along and do it for me! Johnlp (talk) 09:54, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

No problem! It's a bit long-winded, but I just copied my edit history into Excel, then constructed the text into the format needed with a formula. I'll add the others shortly. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 10:02, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Question on film award sources

Hi Lugnuts, in many cases of past film festival awards, the most "reliable" sources I find are from the very organization that gave the awards. This may sound silly, but I am not sure if such sources are considered independent and therefore reliable, or even secondary. Of course it would be nice to have access to press releases of the times, but they are not alawys easy to locate online and I am not close to any library that would help. I have no intention of pushing the Cannes awards series to GAs :) , but still I wonder where we stand. Hoverfish Talk 23:48, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

@Hoverfish: - It's quite the opposite. If the official website has all the details, then that should be used as the main source to say X film won Y award. Take a look at 88th Academy Awards, for example. A Featured List, with the awards (ref #17) being sourced directly from the AMPAS website. Of course, you'll need other sources to expand on the coverage, etc. Hope that helps. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:45, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, Lugnuts. this takes away the doubt I had. And yes, for supporting coverage or other side events, surely other sources are neeed. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 00:55, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Eduardo Risso article

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with this article on artist Risso (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Risso). I added a new picture to his infobox and suddenly the article has a template of "Expression error: Unexpected < operator" at the top, which I don't know how to fix. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.30.185.112 (talk) 09:49, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 12:55, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Question

You do realize that ther are others as well who like to contrbute and make edits. You can allow them also. I do believe wikipedia is a free site and not under some ownership. Correct me if I am wrong. Ankur

That is not a question. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:15, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Ok let me re phrase. Not a question but still the thing remains. Could you allow other users to also contrbute. Not everyone has interests in vast majority of fields as you have so they would like to be useful in fields of there interest.

You are free to contribute. I'm not stopping anyone. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:22, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Hey is Á'tour also now included in international cricket? I see South Africa A tri-series being there. I guess it woulld be better if we don't keep that / such tours. next thing you know under 19's are also there.

Can the South Africa A Series be removed?

No. It's a List A/first-class series. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 08:55, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
So are we going to include all England Lions tours now ?

Kindly check the link below. No mention of SL Series. http://cricket.co.za/news/16578/CSA-announces-Bangladesh-Itinerary-for-action-packed-2017-18-season

Input appreciated

Hi Lugnuts, I am presently gathering notes to help me focus on introducing a project-wide discussion on film categorization. Betty Logan also expressed the view that we should have such a discussion. You know far better than me the main problems that our key members face in relation to categorization. I am focusing on general needs by going through archived discussions on categorization and past CFDs. If you wish to help me by adding your points, or commenting on mine, your input in User talk:Hoverfish/Sandbox will be most appreciated. Note that all of the items I am gathering do not have to be brought up, but rather I gather them to evaluate what is worth mentioning and how. Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 21:29, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Hoverfish - I will take a look at this during the week. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 12:09, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Mustang

Hi, I see you have reverted the change I mande to the article about the Mustang (film) page. I've added some comments on the Talk page to explain the changes I think are needed. Regards, Piano beat (talk) 09:40, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Cast section and character descriptions of Die Hard 2

There's an argument on Die Hard 2 about the cast section and character descriptions. A lot of film articles have character descriptions which I feel are very necessary, but that version of the cast section has been switched back and reverted by TheOldJacobite and Deloop82. It is on this section of the article's talk page. BattleshipMan (talk) 15:39, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:12 Monkeys#"doesn't need refs". Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:48, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

I've not seen this film, but I have seen Planet of the Apes, if that helps at all. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:21, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

About sortable tables

Hi Lugnuts, I have written to you before about the use of tables in the awards articles. As I said, I'd rather we just kept them as lists, except for the table for the top prize of the Festival, but let's say their sortable property might come handy to the readers. But how? All the tabulated Berlin awards and the recent ones in Cannes have no sort keys. So if you sort by director they get sorted by first name and if by title, all the articles are on the way. I am determined to put correct sortkeys in all the tables in Cannes, but I think it would be fair if the person who makes them takes the time to place all the appropriate sortkeys in the English and in the Original titles and in all the names. I don't want anyone to bow to my demands, but I just don't feel its fair to make sortable tables where the sorting button doesn;t sort correctly. What do you think? Thanks. Hoverfish Talk 02:57, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Hoverfish. Agree that if it starts off with the correct sort, then it's easier to keep that style as the article grows, rather than adding it in after. It's a lot of work to do the latter, and it only really gets addressed if a) someone puts the time aside to do this or b) the article is up for FA/FL nom. One of the many thankless tasks on here! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:23, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
I took the highlights off the articles. Since I started working on this series and before I move to the other awards, I keep trying to see what has been done in the later years and go with the grain. But I do see that some things have taken an incorrect course. If all these tables is how WP Film editors like, I won't be the partypooper, but I do mean to correct some things that are going wrong. And I try discussing, so any opposition is most welcome. Hoverfish Talk 20:12, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Per IRC request

Flight Time is not always the most clear with his talk page responses. "Per IRC request" means that Flight Time received a request via WP:IRC to make a change to the article, and so he did. It's an unfortunate way to edit because it takes the collaboration process outside of the view of most Wikipedia editors, but it is not unheard of. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks - that's a bit more info. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 13:28, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Just wondering, shouldn't the flag be the flag of Northern Rhodesia, to reflect the article name? Can you change this? Thanks. Keep up the great work. Cacrats (talk) 18:32, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

@Cacrats: - Thanks! Hmmm, not sure on this. The article for Flag of Northern Rhodesia shows an overlap of use in 1964, so I don't know which side of that split it falls. Also, I'm not 100% sure how the flags work in the Olympic infoboxes. Leave it with me - I'll take a look. Maybe also drop a note at WT:OLY too. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:35, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi to you both, according to the official report in la84.org, independence occured on the final day of the games, so the new flag of Zambia was used in the closing ceremony, most sites including Sports-Reference have the athletes as Zambian not Northern Rhodesian, so should the page be called Zambia at the 1964 Summer Olympics, with an explanation in the first paragraph? to avoid future confusion Iantheimp (talk) 09:48, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I think since most, if not all, athletes from the country competed in Tokyo while the country was still called Northern Rhodesia (before October 24, 1964) I think the name should remain the same. True, Trevor Haynes carried the new Zambian flag at the closing ceremony, but that is just an interesting bit of trivia. Cacrats (talk) 17:00, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
Good enough - thanks both. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:35, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Edit summaries

I have noticed that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! Gertanis (talk) 15:33, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@Gertanis: - get back to me when this is mandatory. Until then, I will not be using edit summaries, so tough shit. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 16:11, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Class list or start?

Hi, until and including 2010 the Cannes articles are tagged as class=list. From 2011 on they are tagged as class=start /C. In other film festivals I see this is either way (List / Start). I am wondering if there is a criterion for this, like if they have a verbose lead or something. Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 10:49, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

I've always gone with a list to begin with (IE, this is a list of films at X festival). If it then gets expanded with a big lead section, etc, then some editors swap it to start. But it could be easier to get an article like this to a WP:FL status rather than a WP:FA, if that was the end goal. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 11:42, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

The article Emma White (cyclist) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This is almost worthy of CSD. One sentence isn't even a stub.

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Wikipedia

Is Wikipedia a drug for you? I see your name daily? I'm a novice.Eschoryii (talk) 14:49, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm drug-free, but not one of these individuals. Although I do get a high from seeing snowflakes getting upset, which is only offset with injecting herion into a wound in my arm. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 15:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Glutsun, any chance of a review of subject list at FLC? I have a couple more cricket lists up my sleeve that I'm hoping you could look over in the next few weeks... Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:42, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey Rambles - good to hear from you and glad to see you're still about. Yes, be happy to take a look at this at some point in the next few days. Anything else in a similar vein, just drop me a note here. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:44, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
Kewl, my sandbox has a couple of cricket lists in the "good to go" section which I'd appreciate either an informal review, tweaks or at least your preparedness when it comes to FLC review? Cheers muchly. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:45, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
I love the play of your name by Rambling Man to Glutsun :D Saw you recently at BN. Hope you (and The Rambling Man) have been doing well. See you around. Lourdes 23:35, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
@The Rambling Man: - I've made a handful of updates - hope they're OK. Please double-check the image I added. I don't really know much about all that free/non-free nonsense TBH. @Lourdes: - BN?! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:29, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
WP:BN :) Lourdes 01:35, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Oh yes, that brewery! Reminds me of the Robot Council of the Elders. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:56, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Cheer Slugnut, I've popped another cricket-related FLC onto the stack, once you've supported the Oz HoF (nudge nudge, wink wink), you can go get stuck into that one. It's kind of cute. Like you. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:27, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Ahh, shucks. Being a bit thick right now - I can't see the other FLC. Please post the link here and I'll take a look. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:33, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Walter Lawrence Trophy/archive1. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:16, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Metre and meters?

Hey I don't appreciate calling my revert "rude" in the Mona Sulaiman and honestly a bad faith comment on your part. Perhaps you find my revert as too WP:BOLD.

But still I want to understand your rationale more please. You say it should be "metre" instead of "meter" as per MOS:RETAIN because the original athletics events article uses the "metre" spelling. MOS:RETAIN I believe refers to the article itself and not to the article linked. In that case all articles discussing association football players of the United States would be using football instead of "soccer". Or is it an athletics thing that "metre" is to be used even in countries where "meter" is the more prevalent spelling. I honestly don't know if this is the case.

Again I'm sorry if the revert came as rude.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 23:57, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

"Hey I don't appreciate calling my revert "rude"" - Well it was. It's spelt metre, not the other way. As per the article it links to. We're not talking about "soccer" either, so that's a red herring. Don't rude revert again. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:42, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
Never my intention to be rude but again sorry if it came of as rude. Now back to the topic at hand. But I want to point out that "metre" is spelt as "meter" in some parts of the world. Same for "centre" is alternatively spelt as "center". As per MOS:TIES since the article talks about a Filipino athlete, it would be more appropriate to use "meter".Hariboneagle927 (talk) 13:02, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Can you write an article for me

Person Name is Anurag Choudhary 47.8.9.88 (talk) 19:29, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Anyone watching my talkpage (who cares), this is a WP:SOCK of blocked user User:Ancy025. They've already asked me about this before. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:35, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
(edit conflict) @47.8.9.88: (talk page stalker) no matter how many times you remove CSD templates or hound users to do your work for you, this guy isn't going to get an article because he's simply not notable enough. Please stop before you get blocked for disruptive editing. DrStrauss talk 19:37, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Lugnuts, how are you? I just want to express that your comment here might be counterproductive if the community was to start a RFC to change the rules on inactivity. Would you mind to retract the comment? Regards, Alex ShihTalk 06:54, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

A clear case of WP:INVOLVED. I've asked this user questions in that thread, which they chose to ignore/dodge, and then closes it while pinging me, which reaks of "look, I can do this, and there's nothing you can do about it". Clearly the wrong thing to do. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:56, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Oh, surprise, surprise, that editor reverted it. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:58, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Maybe just focus on starting an RFC? I would hate to see a legitimate question being undermined by NPA. Alex ShihTalk 07:03, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
And waste everyone's time? The herd has already closed ranks. Fuck 'em. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:04, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Mostly done with Cannes series

Hi, I'm mostly done with the Cannes series. In a few days I'll be taking a wikivacation for a month or so. Then I plan to start working on other film awards, so if you wish to take a look at the Cannes series and let me know if everything looks in order, I would appreciate it. Thank you for your feedback. Hoverfish Talk 14:45, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Cheers HF and thanks for your work. I'll take a look over this week at some point. Enjoy your wikivacation! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:41, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Question

I've come across a new user, User:Undaporiyal, whose edit history so far has consisted of creating three separate identically-scoped categories for Category:Mobile Phone Movies, Category:Smartphone Feature Films and Category:Cell Phone Cinemas (all of which I've already nominated for deletion), and adding a couple of individual films to Category:Lists of documentary films (which I've already reverted). But this is all giving me flashbacks to an editor that we've previously blocked in the past for weird and nonsensical edits pertaining to Indian film, such as creating lists of Indian films grouped by characteristics we very much don't need lists of. I think you and I have talked about that editor in the past, but damned if I can remember or locate their name so I can investigate whether there's enough evidence to run a sockcheck or not — so I wanted to ask if you can remember who I'm thinking of. Bearcat (talk) 01:30, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

@Bearcat: - this does sound familar. Leave it with me, if I can find anything, I'll drop you a note. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 08:53, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
No worries. I found it a few minutes ago by searching for my own username in the SPI archives to determine which case reports I'd commented on in the past — the case I was thinking of is User:Padmalakshmisx. After reviewing their historical patterns, however, I'm not sure there's sufficient evidence to warrant a sockcheck yet — Undaporiyal should probably still be monitored for a while just in case stronger evidence emerges, but so far I'm not seeing compelling evidence of an edit pattern I could deem more consistent with Padmalakshmisx than with "generic clueless newbie". Bearcat (talk) 15:33, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
BTW, I was wondering, what about this diff: [2] is any of it in line with the article or worth keeping? I mean, "Mache du Film" is like saying anything could be included. I placed "The Fly" it in its own little corner but I see it's from a banned sock... Hoverfish Talk 01:32, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

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arbitration

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Another crybaby who said they're done with WP, but crawls back. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:09, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

New FLC nom

Hi Lugnuts, this is my new nomination at FLC. Please have a look, your input is highly appreciated. Regards, Khadar Khani (talk) 12:39, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Sahara4u. I've had a look and can't find any obvious issues - dropped a note on the FLC nom page. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

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Is it still the school holidays? Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:29, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Just saw this. Well, what a relief you weren't instantly permabanned and anon given an account and immediately sysopped, Lugnuts. I'm sure you were on the edge of your seat. Ribbet32 (talk) 22:43, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Relief indeed. Do you know how many sleepless nights this has given me? Zero. Phew! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:37, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations on your 30,000th creation :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 17:47, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I did wonder why that article was the target of the above. A victim of my own success. :D Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:49, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

My dear friend;) I am surprised that an experienced user like you does not know that it is incorrect to do "rollback" when you have the doubt that the news can be true, you do not take it away, but you need ask for the citation, otherwise the behavior is considered incorrect. --Kasper2006 (talk) 09:40, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

I am surprised that an experienced user like you doesn't know that the WP:BURDEN is with you cite everything you add. Double-check and mate. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:42, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Lugnuts. I noticed that Epitonic Records is pretty much a WP:REDIRECT to Victoria Records (2000). Someone - quite possibly me - might tag it for speedy deletion, too. I've googled "Epitonic Records" as hard as I can, and all I could turn up was a website that dubiously offered supposedly free MP3 downloads, that for WP:ADMINACCT reasons I can't link here. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 10:10, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. Both of these can go. The former I created a long time ago, mainly when I was clearing up the mess of record label articles, spliting out many into stubs. I've done a few searches this morning, but didn't find anything to help save its sorry ass. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 10:30, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

A case request in which you had been involved has been declined

Dear Lugnuts/Archive 43,

On behalf of the arbitration committee, I would like to inform you that the case request named "topic-banning Supermann from all pages related to film for one year" (in which you had been listed as involved party) has been declined. The committee concluded that has no jurisdiction on the issues involved in this case, and that therefore cannot be accepted.

Sincerely, Kostas20142 (talk) 16:29, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Great news. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:23, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Years in film

Hi, I see you removed the link to years in film at the lead of 2013 Cannes. I did this all over the series not knowing I shouldn't. If so I will remove it from all the years of the series asap. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 09:11, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Yes, they're mainly discouraged, per WP:EGG. He said EGG! Like a bird's EGG! I hate hens! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:25, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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Jesus wept. That editor really is a credit to the project. Thanks for the notification. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 13:12, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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Deletion discussion about Mohamed Riad

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

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Yo

Given two ANI threads in the past two weeks, I figure you're going to be banned soon and I better show my appreciation while I still can. Ribbet32 (talk) 22:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar
For maintaining List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and other film articles. Ribbet32 (talk) 22:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Ribbet32! Ahh, ANI. The last refuge of the damned. Or idiots who don't know the serious nature of BLP violations. Get your pitchforks, people. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:09, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Very minimal articles

Christian Wägli also competed in the 800 metres, even finishing fifth. Why not mention that? Geschichte (talk) 08:51, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Because we're volunteers here, and I don't have to? You're more than welcome to add it. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 08:54, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
And it's not like you create articles for Fathi Aboud and Menno Vloon and just add lazy cn tags to BLPs. Oh wait. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 08:56, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

German submissions

I was just looking over the List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film article and realized the East Germany section needs to be split off to a separate article, so that West German and German nominations flow together, while East German submissions stay separate. This is kind of similar to how we have the Soviet and Russian submissions articles. What do you think? Jmj713 (talk) 18:40, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi. On a personal level, I'd keep it in one list for a couple of reasons. It's a little different to the Soviet one, as the USSR became more than a dozen other countries. Also, this is a Featured List, so someone got it to that standard, and no doubt several people were involved in reviewing it. If some of those people are still active, then ask their thoughts first. I'm not opposed to spliting it, as such, but I'd support it staying as one article more so, if that makes sense. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 18:44, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
I understand, and I agree. Just wondering is all. But what spurred it was looking at List of countries by number of Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and realizing we have three Germanies listed here. How does the Academy view these three countries officially, do you know? If as three entities, then a split may be in order but I'm rather ambivalent about it, would just like to ultimately have the number of articles for submitting countries match the overall number of the submitting countries. Jmj713 (talk) 18:51, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure how the Academy views/lists them TBH. Their history section just lists the five films for each category in each year, and for the FLF subs, the country afterwards. I don't think they have a list of each country - their site isn't that good at detailing ALL of the submissons! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I know this barnstar might have no importance in front of the humongous content creation work you have done especially your contribution to Wikiproject:Cricket. I was really shocked to see your content creation record over 39877 articles ! Despite getting more than 300 plus articles getting deleted you didn't got deterred. You brought the phrase "The power of creation is more than destruction in reality". God Bless you I strongly suggest you to apply for WP:RFA, your years of experience and great contributions makes you admin worthy undoubtedly, Regards Anoptimistix "Message Me" 06:31, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

I have nominated you for adminship

Not interested. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:42, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
I respect your decision, but still giving an advice reconsider it, you are really a great contributor. Anyway Happy editing

Anoptimistix "Message Me" 07:51, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Sorry

Just wanted to apologise for my comments at WT:CRIC recently. They were unfair to you, and I completely apologise. I was a bit frustrated with how things had been done, and had spent most of my morning trying to sort out the articles that shouldn't really have been included in the mass move, which wasn't your fault at all. You are completely right that a whole batch of article by this editor have been well sub-standard. I've had a run through some of them with AWB to try and fix the first class / first-class, Twentytwenty / Twenty20 problems and similar. You do great work here with your own article creations, and for me to suggest that you aren't willing to take action was unwarranted. Sorry. Harrias talk 07:54, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

@Harrias: - thanks for this, much appreciated. Apologies for myself too - sometimes I'm not the best at keeping my frustrations civil (that's not to say I was uncivil, for any TPS vultures). Thanks for doing some basic clean-up work. I've tackled a few myself. I guess the bottom line is that no real harm was done to anyone or any article. Thanks again. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 08:05, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of LGBT history in Albania for deletion

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 10:54, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Deleted editions

Thank you very much for deleting my editions to a few athletes pages. Perhaps you would like to question this whole page too.--EskoG-67 (talk) 19:34, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Anytime! Maybe you'd like to read WP:BLP and WP:BURDEN. And most of that page is unsourced, but don't let that stop you from adding any old dross. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:35, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For its editions in List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and in the lists of previous years. Brazuka! (talk) 17:17, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks Brazuka! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:18, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

So sorry!

I accidentally reverted something in your user space. Fat finger syndrome on a tablet. I was asked if I wanted to revert/rollback, I chose 'no', but for some reason it continued with the reversion anyway. Sorry for any confusion or inconvenience. -- ψλ 18:21, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Jerry Mandy for deletion

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

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

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Hi! You partially reverted my edit, saying "this is the standard for all international tour articles". I accepted most, but still I am confused on ESPNcricinfo things. If we open the wiki-link and website for it, it shows un-italic title without any space in it, then why we sometimes use ESPN Cricinfo (italic and space, with either upper-case Cric or both C & Info or all cricinfo lower-case; or just written an older name Cricinfo) in pages? Also, for external link I used Template:Cricinfo, which you maybe didn't notice. Plus re-removing some infobox spaces as tooooooo many are loooooooking bad, and we know that either one or hundred in code they remain invisible in article. Also, why one ref has been repeated for two joined sentences, that I think is unnecessaey repitition. Well, I am bringing back my edits but that efn+Notelist, but before it I hope for your kind reply and response, Thanks! M. Billoo 09:22, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I just didn't understand this edit by you, can you please explain what kind of spacing is this? As I earlier asked why too much? Neither all parameters' space are balanced, nor the above parameters are balanced with any other. So what's that!? Please explain.

I know, and I said too what you said, "nothing wrong with this infobox", neither was after my edit on reducing the spaces. See above, "we know that either one or hundred [spaces] in code they remain invisible in article".

You seem to may be angry on other user's edits. Please calm down, those 113+ bytes could have been saved.😂😜 Thanks! M. Billoo 16:26, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

It's the standard infobox for tours and doesn't need fixing (as it's not broken). You've obviously got too much time on your hands if your counting the bytes. Go find something productive to do, rather than worry about spaces. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 16:29, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
Why are you again teaching that infobox is not broken with or without many spaces like I don't know, I know it too already. Please calm down, I wasn't counting the bytes myslef and why would I? It is already mentioned on every edit. I don't know why are you talking about which standard; or see Template:Infobox cricket tour, there is more space count than you gave here. Either match all parameters' spaces or just keep it with only one space. "All parameters are not balanced here as-you-know-better". M. Billoo 00:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

The article Farhan Khan has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 07:19, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

@My name is not dave: - thanks for the note. Looks like a article hijack from what was originally a disambig page. I've restored the disambig page. Let me know if that's an issue. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:22, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
Ah right, I see. No worries! My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 07:23, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Lugnuts, after adding a little to the three matches you may nominate the article at DYK! Rgards, Khadar Khani (talk) 13:47, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Claudia Verdino

Dear , claudia vas competed in Two races in budapest 2017 200 IM & 200 backstroke How can i put one picture?

Thanks a lot

Evelyne28 (talk) 11:00, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

U 19 match

But the tournament exist. So it can be published on wikipedia Aditya tamhankar (talk) 10:55, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

No, see the previous AfD, the notability guidelines I've linked to and the bit of my note on your talkpage about these tournaments are not just notable for existing. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 10:57, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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Cricketers

Hi, I saw your message on my page and will be more careful in future. I saw substantial reason to create a page for Mickey Edwards due to his fame in subfielding for Australia, he is quite popular over here and is soon to play a List A match next week. I created Tom Rogers as an experiment to test Wikipedia as I am new, he is also expected to play soon, but in future I will be more careful about not creating pages too early. Aussiespinnersfanpage (talk) 09:32, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Ok sorry. If they play a match in time (say next week), will the page still be deleted? Aussiespinnersfanpage (talk) 09:37, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Ok thank you haha! Aussiespinnersfanpage (talk) 09:46, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Sure thing, I will stop adding that information. I'm trying to add sourcing to some points but I'm still trying to get my head around it, sorry Aussiespinnersfanpage (talk) 08:53, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

If I source information such as "he was offered a South Australia contract for 2017-18" can I add it? Aussiespinnersfanpage (talk) 08:59, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Everyone's slow on the uptake

I do confess thinking of you when I wrote this this evening, wondering why nobody else was helping out at WP:RFPP. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:17, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

When you've got a job to do, do it well. You've got to give the other admins heeeelllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!! Chuckle. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Maybe we should update the block template to be more like Sheriff J W Pepper : "By the powers invested in me by this encyclopedia, I hereby do block this account and all those sockpuppets within .... And that means you, smartass!" Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:07, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
You call my brother-in-law, Billy Bob! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 12:11, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Saggy!

Yeah, how awesome! Sweet revenge for the Tour. The last 3-4 km were especially stressful since the power gave out. I was semi-sleeping through the first 200 km, just put the stream on and went back to a semi-coma since it started at 5 AM here! I'm happy you wrote to me man. Who was your favorite? Mattsnow81 (Talk) 13:36, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

"Fuck AWB"

Would you consider removing this from the top of your talk page? It's rather polemical. Some editors misuse AWB, and we rather quickly take care of them when they do; I removed AWB access from that particular editor in the past due to misuse. The vast majority of AWB users do a lot of good with it (especially so for bots that use AWB for maintenance tasks that would take humans thousands of hours to perform). This is a request, not a demand, but I do hope you'll consider it. ~ Rob13Talk 12:31, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Lara Aklouk

Warning icon Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Lara Aklouk, you may be blocked from editing. WingbackSortino (talk) 06:55, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Looks like you're the one doing the vandalism with IP-jumping socking. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:56, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Todd Boekelheide Entry

Lugnuts: I'm sorry about using IMDb for cites/references for Todd Boekelheide and completely understand why this popular but UGC website is forbidden. I have replaced all IMDb cites with more authoritative references and even removed the link to Boekelheide's IMDb page under "External Links". Live and learn... Scribblerman (talk) 17:07, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Nice work! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Whew! Scribblerman (talk) 18:00, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Re: King of the Dancehall (film)

Hi, Might I ask for the reason why you removed the"Summary" section of the page? The page is a stub. Putting a summary there would be necessary to upgrade its status (and I'm quite sure you're aware of that), and even if I haven't quite figured out the summary layout, someone else could have done it in my stead. Please reply soon. BulbAtop (talk) 17:09, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Pointless having a completly blank section. Someone else wouldn't be so lazy and actually attempt to write something. So there. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC)