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Nokia 6300

As you took the photo of the Nokia 6300, I'm assuming you own that phone. If so, could you please tell me the limit for the amount of messages it can hold? Thank you :) --Tahren B 12:30, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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Manic Street Preachers

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I have a question. What are Geneva stripes? « D Trebbien (talk) 03:53 2008 January 3 (UTC)

It is a traditional way of decorating a watch movement Racklever (talk) 18:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Yard-O-Led

I have nominated Yard-O-Led, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yard-O-Led. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Deiz talk 07:10, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Racklever, as you'll note on the AfD page, the page is a copyright violation and will therefore be deleted again. Please don't add / re-add references to this company in any more articles. Thanks, Deiz talk 09:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Automatic patrolling of tagged pages at New Page patrol

Hi there. There is a suggestion to get a bot to patrol any New Page that an editor has tagged for CSD, AfD, etc. As someone who patrols a lot, your opinion is particularly welcomed. --GedUK  10:04, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I've declined this speedy as though the page was certainly negative it was not unsourced. ϢereSpielChequers 09:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you reverted my changes to the above page, but did not give a reason in the edit summary. I've started a section on the talk page (under "Recent revert") giving my reasons for the change and would appreciate your feedback, thanks - 198.240.128.75 (talk) 18:59, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Please read carefully WP:CSD#A7, the article you tagged didn't fitted any of those very specific criterias. Snowolf How can I help? 17:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer

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Merge discussion for Check It Out (Nicki Minaj song)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Check It Out (Nicki Minaj song), has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Yvesnimmo (talk) 01:35, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the reviewing of unassessed articles from Category:Unassessed cycling articles! I will have a run through in a few days of potential articles that have been missed from the tagging routine... Thanks again! SeveroTC 18:43, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi!
You might want to have a look at Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations/Darius_Dhlomo. User:Uncle G's major work 'bot is blanking pages with suspected copyvios, and you may have inadvertently added them back in.
Oo-roo! --Shirt58 (talk) 07:27, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I am going through the list of blanked articles and unblanking those without copyright violations.Racklever (talk) 07:33, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Oops! Apologies - my mistake. (Possibly might have been a good idea to include that in the edit summary, though.)--Shirt58 (talk) 08:13, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Templates

You took interest in my short, table articles for Masters Decathlon World Record holders. They are taking a lot of heat because either I don't understand how to make a table within a table conform to WP standards, or these other editors are so frantic to delete articles that they don't look at how I am using these. The one sensible suggestion was to convert them to a template like Template:William Murray M55 World Record Score (though I think that changes the color background and unnecessarily draws attention to them). Obviously I don't know how this works or how the final edit will react through WP formatting. Other than the bold column identifiers, I am pretty close to the results I wish to present this data.

I asked the other editor for a how to on this, I got no reply. I'm guessing you are an administrator or at least understand the higher levels of editing. Please read one of these talk pages. See how I'm using this to align columns of specific data that needs to fit into a huge table. Look for the {{: symbols in Masters Athletics World Records to see how these pages are used to do that. If converting the pages to another form will stop the complaints and conform to policy, please go ahead and make the conversions to whatever the edit space needs to be. Trackinfo (talk) 09:17, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Help!

Thanks with the help with my new John Keasler article. Might I ask for some additional help? I have inadvertently allowed the title to be "John keasler" with a lower-case "k." How do I fix that? Miss Ivonne (talk) 21:38, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

I just moved the article Racklever (talk) 21:41, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are so fast!!! Miss Ivonne (talk) 21:42, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Pawnee Bill Ranch

Thank you for this: Racklever (talk | contribs) (3,312 bytes) (clean up, added uncategorised tag using AWB) (undo) Tintle (talk) 22:35, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Gregor Brandmüller

You recently edited Gregor Brandmüller. I have no problem with your edits, but perhap you can look into why it added extra (unnecessary and visually less pleasing) whitespace between the references text, and the stub text. There was before your edit one empty line, and now there appear to be two. If possible, I would prefer this to be one line only. Perhaps you can check whether this happened with this edit only (in which case, never mind), or whether this regulary happens with your current AWB settings. Fram (talk) 11:32, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

I am using the default settings for AWB version 5.1.0.0 Racklever (talk) 11:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Assistance

Dear friend One of my articleLionel Wendt is nominated to copy right violations. I re wrote few times, but it is not work. I really appreciate if you can assist me to protect this article.Talk:Lionel Wendt/Temp. --Wipeouting (talk) 10:16, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Chain rule

Hi there! Another user suspects that the whole Alexander Chain article might be a hoax, and so far I'm leaning to agree. In the meanwhile, I was wondering if you added this sentence based solely on that article, or if you have a reliable source to back it up. If you do have a source, I'd greatly appreciate if you could share what it is. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2010; 18:25 (UTC)

I can't find any references on the Internet so I now think that the article must be a hoax Racklever (talk) 20:14, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Had to check. :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 20, 2010; 21:00 (UTC)
I have zapped it. Most detected hoaxers just fade away, but this one actually asked why it was deleted. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

"Cleanup"

This is not cleanup. The edit was about maintenance, not "content and style". It was a warranted edit, but it is not cleanup. Geschichte (talk) 09:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Rampant Editing

I understand you are trying to help, but you need to look at articles before you just edit them. If you had actually looked at it you would see that Lands of Hope is still in the process of being edited and created. That is why it's still an orphan. It was also not very pretty due to that too. I'd suggest letting articles sit and be a few days unedited before doing any automated cleanup. Enlormn (talk) 21:02, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I am checking a large number of new articles using a tool called AutoWikiBrowser. Please remember that you do not own the article and that Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Racklever (talk) 21:13, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
I understand that, it's just that your edit was useless, and essentially spam. It's the equivalent of walking into a building that has only been framed and complaining about how drafty it is. It's a waste of everyone's time. Enlormn (talk) 21:53, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Categorising Acts of Parliament

Hi, in categorising Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 etc you might like to note that there are separate categories by year, so the appropriate category here was Category: United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1949. Thanks. PamD (talk) 22:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikified?

Racklever, I followed the link, but could not make out what this means? I recently created the Bell Game (California) page for the Rivalry Football game between Apple Valley and Victor Valley. I am in the process of creating the Axe Game for Victor Valley and Barstow. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Hawarren (talk) 21:04, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

It means that you should link words such as football to other articles Racklever (talk) 21:17, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Theodor Berger add to category

Racklever - much appreciated, but it looks like Berger has been added to Category: Austrian Composers under T for Theodor instead of B for Berger. I would correct it myself but I can't figure out how... Thanks. JALee (talk) 04:36, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I have just added the DEFAULTSORT template which will fix this. Racklever (talk) 08:06, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Please slow down

When using AWB you are still expected to add human intelligence to the programme's powers. You labelled Gawley as a stub, and uncategorised, and an orphan. In fact it is obvious, if you look at it, that it is a disambiguation page. The fact that it starts off "Gawley may refer to" is a good clue. The only appropriate tag to add was {{dab}}. Please be more careful. Thanks. PamD (talk) 22:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

It was a orphan and still is. You put it in a category by adding {{dab}} Racklever (talk) 22:11, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Albert Muis, cleanup etc.

Hello Racklever,

Thanks a lot for your clean up. I will try to load up several pictures from flickr during next week.

Greatings from the South of France. Sincerly Jurgen Borgers--82.255.158.57 (talk) 18:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Boardman Bikes is an advertisement

The Boardman Bikes article is *not* encyclopedic. The entire article is just a copy-pasta'd company profile. I have marked the article for deletion on these grounds, and would appreciate it if you didn't revert the changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.202.222.246 (talk) 11:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

The article does not need deleting since the objectionable passage has been removed. It is well referenced and is about a notable bicycle manufacturer. Racklever (talk) 12:18, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

On your clean-up patrol..

... do you check the edit histories? Nero (Musicians) was tagged by you, the 4th edit in its history. The first edit was by a new user, the second edit was by User:CorenSerchBot tagging it as a WP:COPYVIO of http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/artist/1459, and the third edit, by the original author, simply removed the tag. You clearly do good work, but can I ask (which is perhaps inappropriate in a voluntary project where people do as they like, etc...) that you at least look through the history of new articles to check CSB hasn't tagged them, and pos do a bit of google checking to ensure that new articles aren't copied from elsewhere.

Best, Bigger digger (talk) 21:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Tariq Ahmad

Hi you've created a new article called Tariq Ahmad. There already exists an article on him, see Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad. Secondly you've mistakenly given the wrong reference of another member of house of lord Nazir Ahmed. Thanks. Please sort this out!!! Peaceworld111 (talk) 23:31, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I have now changed my article to a redirect. Racklever (talk) 00:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Racklever's Talk Page

Yale Publishing Course

Hi. Thanks for taking a look at the Yale Publishing Course page. I followed your guidelines and added links from other Wikipedia pages. LRuth108 (talk) 22:50, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

China Carbon Forum

Hi Racklever, many thanks for your comments on China Carbon Forum, that's very helpful. We'll be improving the page in the coming weeks. Best, UNguyinChina (talk) 01:01, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Linking to References

Dear Racklever, I am new in wiki, so I thought you as an experienced editor could help me. There are some references in a few articles that I would like to link to an article I wrote. How can I edit reflists? Thank you in advance. DrPhosphorus (talk) 23:10, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Citing_sources Racklever (talk) 21:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey mate, you tagged this article with a 'orphan' tag but heaps of articles link to it, just curious. Thanks TimGirling (talk) 02:26, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

The links are from user space so it is still an orphan Racklever (talk) 09:57, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
User space??? TimGirling (talk) 21:46, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
The only links to Charles Jeffries are not from wikipedia articles Racklever (talk) 23:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
That's what puzzles me, if you look at the article there is over 15 links to other wiki articles! TimGirling (talk) 23:42, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
There are no links FROM other articles to it Racklever (talk) 23:51, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Aha! Get ya. Thanks for persisting. TimGirling (talk) 23:53, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Why did you remove the wikify tag from Snapdragon records without wikifying? Corvus cornixtalk 19:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

It contains many links to other articles so AutoWikiBrowser considers it wikified Racklever (talk) 20:16, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Unless it's properly wikified, it isn't. Corvus cornixtalk 21:49, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

check again now its modiefed UCE&T Multan

check again now its modiefed UCE&T Multan and remove the tags thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Engr.Shahzad (talkcontribs) 22:42, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

You could add the article to the List of educational institutions in Multan to stop it being an orphan Racklever (talk) 08:58, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

2011 Tour Down Under

Hello, Racklever. You have new messages at Talk:2011 Tour Down Under.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Replied on talk page Racklever (talk) 15:42, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

January 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Crookes radiometer, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Dicklyon (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I did not add or remove any information from the article, I just reverted the removal of a correct paragraph Racklever (talk) 17:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Ken Klaasen

Hello Racklever. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ken Klaasen, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A fictional character, not a real person. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 01:08, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I PRODded it instead. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 01:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank-you for the references and for correcting the page I started. I will look the articles over before I start a new page, like I should have done in the first place...lol... Again, thank-you for help and I look forward to posting future contributions.(Mystere485 (talk) 04:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC))

Hello Racklever,

I noticed you marked an article as a stub using the {{stub}} template. Did you know that there are thousands of stub types that you can use to clarify what type of stub the article is? Properly categorizing stubs is important to the Wikipedia community because it helps various WikiProjects to identify articles that need expansion.

If you have questions about stub sorting, don't hesitate to ask! There is a wealth of stub information on the stub sorting WikiProject, and hundreds of stub sorters. Thanks! --Unscented (talk) 22:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I know Racklever (talk) 23:44, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup help, I appreciate it!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:31, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

New article advice

Hello,

I am the new Wikipedia contributor who posted the article titled Andrew Johnston, Film and TV Critic. Since you noted that it was an orphan I have worked to correct that and have made links to it from three other articles so far. I have also added more information in the text as well as through external links which further serve to establish notability. I would appreciate your help with removing the orphan tag.

Thanks very much.

MarthaSGO (talk) 20:44, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Tag now removed Racklever (talk) 23:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Mizinga Melu

Hello, I have counted at least twenty (20) English Wikipedia articles that link are cited in the narrative, in the infobox and in the "see also" section. Please review the article again and kindly remove the orphan tag. Thank you. Fsmatovu (talk) 00:34, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

There is one article that now links to Mizinga Melu so I have removed the orphan tag. Racklever (talk) 09:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Gorgi Popstefanov Article

Hi,

I noticed you renamed the article "Gorgi Popstefanov" to "Gorgi Pop Stefanov." I created this article because I am familiar with this person. His last name is actually one word "Popstefanov." If you Google search his name, every search result will show it as one word. That particular page you sourced mispelled it. Can you please change the name back to its originial title? I tried to change it back myself but there doesn't seem to be a move tab anymore. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrlite (talkcontribs) 17:06, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

On second thought, it seems that while his name in English is spelled "Gorgi Popstefanov," his name in Macedonian media is spelled "Gorgy Pop Stefanov." Perhaps you can use the English version for the article title, but make reference to the other spelling. For example, "also spelled Gorgy Pop Stefanov..."Adrlite (talk) 17:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I took care of this. Sorry for the long winded prose! Thanks. Adrlite (talk) 17:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion converted to PROD: Malcolm McLean (politian)

Hello Racklever. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on Malcolm McLean (politian) to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe CSD applies to the page in question. Thank you. (talk) 11:50, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

WP Cycling in the Signpost

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Cycling for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Other editors will also have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 23:49, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

"Java and Flash are two separate technologies"

But the fact that they were both dropped at once is not notable to be expressed on the article? ViperSnake151  Talk  22:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

They are two completely unrelated features so each should have their own bullet points. 18:15, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

"Typical and atypical MILC cameras"

Hi, Racklever. I partially reverted your edit in the wiki about MILCs, because sensor size IS relevant. In fact the article begins by stating that MILCs "typically" have a large sensor ...!! For the same reason, though, I accepted your edit regarding Leica rangefinders. Their large sensor IS typical, after all. So I agree the only reason of their "atypicity" is their viewfinder (... and their price!). Marcus MarcusGR (talk) 18:43, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Each has a different size sensor so there is no such thing as a typical MILC Racklever (talk) 19:53, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Felicita Frai

I've just seen your HOTCAT edit to Felicita Frai. Do you think she belongs in Italian painters? The article says she was Czech. TheMadBaron (talk) 22:04, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, now corrected Racklever (talk) 22:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

It's interesting, but rather sad, to see that you and 3 other editors (as well as a bot) edited this stub without realising it should have been redirected to the long-established article at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore! 85.211.13.188 (talk) 13:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank You
Thank you for im proving Bagpipes From Baghdad Can you please join my group. Just go to GH200 my user page and there a link to the Changers and I want you to check it out and join please. GH200 (talk) 17:09, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

The article Jon Miquel Toral Harper has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

non notable player = not yet played professionally for first team / does not satisfy GNG

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Anna und Bernhard Blume

Anna and Bernhard Blume are a couple. Bernhard died, Anna lives, that tells me "living=yes", no? It's still a bio of one living person. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

You are correct. The page is currently in the category "2011 deaths" which I used as a filter to set "living=no". Racklever (talk) 09:12, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!

You might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well all by itself. For those it can;t do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually. Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), bit, if not, just open the page yourself and choose soemthing appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! Pesky (talkstalk!) 09:22, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice Racklever (talk) 09:23, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Anon comment

Hey I saw your edit to the Anna Maria Calhoun page. Its a work in progress for a school project, thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.127.19.155 (talk) 23:52, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Anna Maria Calhoun

Hey I saw your edit on the Anna Maria Calhoun page. I am working on it for a school project, and I am new to wiki. Thanks for helping me out! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patdarat78 (talkcontribs) 23:54, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Gratuitous article tagging

Please read WP:OVERLINK, and please identify one single missing link in this article if you wish to tag it as needing wikilinks.[1] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:57, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

The important tag added was "uncategorised". [2] The "wikify" tag was just a side effect of using AutoWikiBrowser. Racklever (talk) 08:28, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
The gratuitous "Wikify" tag defaced the article-- you shouldn't be doing that, FYI. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

wikify Booster pump

Hi Racklever. Could you be a bit more specific about what you have in mind for wikification of Booster pump? Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

It has some links to other articles now so I have removed the tag. Racklever (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
OK Peter (Southwood) (talk): 19:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Racklever, I notice that you've edited the Alfred Higgs article, and added a '1931 deaths' category, is this correct? Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 20:23, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, I have reverted my edit. Racklever (talk) 20:27, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
No worries, I thought you'd found some data, that I'd not found. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 21:04, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Indophobia in Pakistan

An article that you have been involved in editing, Indophobia in Pakistan, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. lTopGunl (talk) 22:54, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Garmen municipality

Hello, Have you noticed the "under construction" banner on the top of the article and the temporary link to another article.You should. And what have you cleaned up in a template? There are no categories,because the article is not ready,so it is no use for the readers to access it.Drjmarkov (talk) 13:00, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

If you don't want other people to edit an article before it is complete you can create it in your Sandbox. Racklever (talk) 13:11, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
I have nothing against editing, if it is an edit.I am against people, who pretend doing something useful, like adding uncategorized banner for example to an article, that is obviously in construction.If somebody adds something useful I would be pleased of course, that is why it is not in my sandbox and for just a coincidence I know about it.Drjmarkov (talk) 14:19, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I guess because I'm just an IP address, the immediate answer is to revert, right? If you had paid more attention, you would have noticed that the individual I reverted was introducing material into the article that was not WP:MOS compliant and, in doing so, was simply railroading over constructive changes. Here is Parihar's obituary, found at Deaths in October 2011. 68.60.176.218 (talk) 01:18, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

I reverted because you did not add a reference. It is standard practice to add one if you change an article to say someone is dead.Racklever (talk) 09:19, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Erroneous AWB edits

Please fix your AWB settings. On Umar Cheema and Troy Blacklaws, you added an inapplicable external link, incorrect Persondata, an incorrect DEFAULTSORT, and incorrect categories. Also, in many edits such as one to Wena Poon, you use an incorrect edit summary. MANdARAX  XAЯAbИAM 21:42, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

All my AWB settings are default so I am not sure what happened. Racklever (talk) 08:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea what settings (codepages?) you are using, but this reference description is wrong. Vlsergey (talk) 10:36, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

I am using a tool called Relinks which usually automatically fills in the correct description. In this case it didn't. Racklever (talk) 10:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Many thanks for helping out with the citation in the John Gower (Wisconsin politician) article. It gets frustrating when you miss a letter, number, space, etc. I find it easier just to write the citation out instead of linking to the internet. Thank you-RFD (talk) 21:16, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you for contributing on my article of Joseph Schooling.Without your help my article would have been a mess,and that mess would have probably been deleted within 10 days.I thought my first article was doomed,but thanks to you it wasn't.Your help is much appreciated Rabidolphinz 10:12, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi,Racklever,thanks a lot to remind me with tagging uncategorized article Umr-e-Lahaasil Ka Haasil. I had forgot to add the category,now I have done,again thanks.Ehsan Sehgal (talk) 14:56, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

why not add a category instead of defacing the article with a huge textbox?

Take all of an extra second to add category: Inorganic compounds

TCO (talk) 17:51, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Please remember that most Wikipedia users are not chemists so would have no idea what category to put your articles in. --- Racklever (talk) 17:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Seasons greetings

Hi Racklever, thanks for all the work you've been doing on the death anomalies. ϢereSpielChequers 23:38, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

South Indian Film Industry

Please check this forwarded message at User talk:MThekkumthala

  • 1. POV, Each indian film industry is individual in its own terms and have individual articles in wikipedia.
  • 2. There is no single south indian film industry, Hindi film is also a part of revenue generation.
  • 3. The gross revenues of each Indian film industry varies each year, Hindi Film Revenue in 2011 is higher.
  • 4. There is no notability for this article, Instead it creates confusion and it not feasible to shift all the references and information from Cinema of India article.
  • 5. Please obey the three revert rule.
  • 6. The information in south indian film industry article is already provided in cinema of india article, please check it.

(GarylawyerNFA (talk) 10:08, 1 January 2012 (UTC)).

Intrawikis

Hi Racklever, I'm afraid when you find an intrawiki error it doesn't work just fixing things at our end, those oh so helpful bots will rebuild the links unless they've all gone. If you come across another one and don't fancy editing the Arabic, Tamil or even more exotic sister projects feel free to drop me a note, I now have edits in more languages than we have the death anomaly project running in, including several languages where I don't know enough words to order a beer. Also I have got a userpage that promotes the death anomalies project and I slap it up on every wikipedia where I've fixed a death anomaly. ϢereSpielChequers 19:47, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Will do, Thanks -- Racklever (talk) 21:24, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Come Help Edit!

I'd be happy if you'd contribute more to the Lego Ninjago: The Series article. Your original help was great, thanks. I posted some suggestions on the discussion page as well.

If you want you can watch more episodes of the series on youtube. I believe a user named XmasToys has several uploaded.

Mike44456 (talk) 04:23, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

orphan tags

You put (correctly:) orphan tags on the GBFTE page, am I allowed to remove these tags from the page myself - as it now has 4 linking articles? or does an an administrator have to verify this? Alonella (talk) 21:58, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

You are allowed to remove the tags yourself. -- Racklever (talk) 06:46, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Persondata

I've noticed you adding alot of persondata to articles. It's nice to know somebody is stupid smart enough to do it just like me. Could you start adding info to the "Short description" field. There is a tracking category for it. I don't know, adding it seems like a good idea, but if it is actually used is a different story. Bgwhite (talk) 06:24, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Ken_Charlton_(rugby_league)

Hi Racklever, i'm very sorry, but i don't know how to use wiki to edit pages, but i found you are the one who has helped add to the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Charlton_(rugby_league). I am his grandson, i'm sure that counts for naught given the anonymity of the internet. But I was hoping you update it or help me update it based of these two sites http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/ken-charlton/summary.html and http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=978930&search_type=simple&showInd=true and also the additional information in the cited source http://thebulldogs.com.au/sportal.php?page=player&id=124 . The first mentioned has DOB, place of birth etc. and the Second site is for a medal of recognition he received for contribution to sports.

Many Regards, Motism (talk) 14:34, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

I have updated the article. He is currently listed as English; is this correct ? --- Racklever (talk) 15:08, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

No he is Australian born, Auburn NSW. Here is a site stating it http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=5377771 And thank you for this, very much appreciated. Motism (talk) 15:26, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


You moved Gordon Thomas (cyclist) to the "Possibly living people" category, but the second reference indicates clearly that he is still alive, so I have reverted your edit. 174.63.80.194 (talk) 18:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Obit

Hi. About this edition, please check article talkpage, reference desk and no:Village Pump. Obituary don´t match this person. Thanks. --Andreateletrabajo (talk) 10:38, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

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Adding categories

Hi. Could you please be more careful when adding BLP categories to individuals? I've had to clean up several mistakes now where people with sourced deaths in their article (such as Ben Ellis (footballer)) were placed in Category:Possibly living people and others (such as Gordon Thomas (cyclist), which was brought up above by an IP, weird) who had references to being alive were taken out of Category:Living people. Please remember that, even when tool-assisted, you are still responsible for your edits. Thank you. Canadian Paul 16:43, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

The rule is that a reliable source is required before listing someone as dead. Om articles such as Ben Ellis (footballer) were there is no reliable source either Category:Possibly living people or Category:Living people should be used. - Racklever (talk) 16:55, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
There was a reliable source in that article noting his death and you still added him to Category:Possibly living people. My point is that you need to pay attention to the article itself before you add the category. Canadian Paul 17:01, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a similar question with respect to Natalee Holloway, this diff. Natalee Holloway has been declared dead; the IP whom you effectively reverted seems to have been quite right in removing the category. Perhaps also it would be wise to be a bit more clear when edit summaries are used. And this is a FA, her death is sourced in the article.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:51, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Racklever!

The League of Crafty Guitarists has recorded via Discipline Global Mobile.

Cheers,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:52, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean by this??

What does this template means:::----

Well Madanmohan-jiu Temple has been added to a sub-category topic in Samta which is also written with the same name and shows Madanmohan-jiu Temple as the main page. Please leave me a Talkback template. --Jagadhatri২০১২ 04:35, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates --Racklever (talk) 07:51, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

sort keys

FYI... In Chinese articles like Feng Zhuoyi, DEFAULTSORT=Feng, Zhuoyi
Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese names have their surname first. If you are unsure about a name, consult WP:NAMESORT for some help or ask me on my talk page.

Also, please add info in the "short description" field. Somebody (ie me or waacats) has to come right behind you and add it. Also, if the talk page is missing, could you add WikiProject Biography to biography articles... somebody has to come right behind you again. I like to fill out as much information that I can so people don't have to revisit the article again and again. Bgwhite (talk) 23:22, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Forgot.... Music bands are considered a BLP. So, the "BLP unreferenced" tag applies. On the talk page, "living=yes" if any band member is still alive. Bgwhite (talk) 06:08, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I have just checked WP:BLP and it does not say this. Racklever (talk) 09:03, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Correct. Articles on Music bands are not themselves BLPs, though they often containing some biographical information on living people. The BLPunsourced and RefimproveBLP templates are only for articles that are Biographies of Living People. However the BLP policy applies to any biographical information about identifiable living people anywhere on wiki. ϢereSpielChequers 09:14, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Per WP:BLPGROUP, groups can be counted as living biographies and music bands have been deemed to fall under this provision. Also, if a musician is not notable outside a band, they are only to be mentioned on the band's article... Therefore a person's biography may only be on the band's article.
I see you were trying to "beat me" at potential biographies of dead people. I normally always do this category irregardless if you have done it or not because of so many things that need to be changed. BLP=yes should be removed from WikiProjectBannerShell. Sometimes the person is not actually dead, so I revert your "living=no" to "living=yes". Death date is applied to the article, but not the infobox or persondata. work-group or class hasn't been applied on the talk page. As I stated above, I like to fill out as much information that I can so people don't have to revisit the article again and again. I keep learning new little things to do all the time (aka, my tiny brain actually remembers something). You really need to start using WP:AWB, makes things go alot faster... I have two windows open, one for the article and another for the talk page. Bgwhite (talk) 07:36, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Pentax K-01

Hi, please be sure to validate information that you are removing. Pentax K-01 doesn't have the aperture ring, which by definition makes it hte crippled mount. Thanks. tendim (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 7 April 2012 (UTC).

The term "Crippled mount" is not used by Pentax or in either of the two references provided. The use of the term is misleading as old lenses can still be used in stop-down mode. --Racklever (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Pentax K-01

Hi, please be sure to validate information that you are removing. Pentax K-01 doesn't have the aperture ring, which by definition makes it hte crippled mount. Thanks. tendim (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 7 April 2012 (UTC).

The term "Crippled mount" is not used by Pentax or in either of the two references provided. The use of the term is misleading as old lenses can still be used in stop-down mode. --Racklever (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Pentax K-01

Hi, please be sure to validate information that you are removing. Pentax K-01 doesn't have the aperture ring, which by definition makes it hte crippled mount. Thanks. tendim (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 7 April 2012 (UTC).

The term "Crippled mount" is not used by Pentax or in either of the two references provided. The use of the term is misleading as old lenses can still be used in stop-down mode. --Racklever (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Pentax K-01

Hi, please be sure to validate information that you are removing. Pentax K-01 doesn't have the aperture ring, which by definition makes it hte crippled mount. Thanks. tendim (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 7 April 2012 (UTC).

The term "Crippled mount" is not used by Pentax or in either of the two references provided. The use of the term is misleading as old lenses can still be used in stop-down mode. --Racklever (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)