User:BD2412/Archive 009
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AqueductHi. Instead of simply marking every instance of "aqueduct" as needing disambiguation, why not actually disaqmbiguate them yourself? Most of the time the meaning is clear, and when it is not immediately so, a small amount of research will give the answer. This would be much more helpful than simply tagging the word and leaving the work for someone else to do. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC) Give Me Your Hand (Best Song Ever)Sorry, you can't A7 a song or record. The performer has an article, so A9 would be out too. As it's a single, you could try prod. Peridon (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2013 (UTC) Rihanna articlesSorry for that, but I was really pissed of at the redirect of the article page. Currently this is active. And the real title of the album page should be only 'Good Girl Gone Bad' because it's the most notable of all. So for now you can fix the refs mistake, please. — Tomíca(T2ME) 16:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for help on Bank stress testsBTW Happy Birthday! Thanks for help on Bank stress tests. There is still some proposed deletion of the stub articles that describe the annual programs but hopefully that can be resolved. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/2011_Comprehensive_Capital_Assessment_Review_(CCAR) I saw your strong background in law and wanted to put in a plug for a law topic upgrade and perhaps an area that could capture your intellectual imagination?
Rick (talk) 19:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Intellectual Property can't (for the most part) be economically protected. I remember when Corning sued Sumitomo over blatant violation of their IP rights to single mode optical fibers. During the march to a slow and expensive, but surely thought to be "just and equitable solution" in a clear cut case, Sumitomo managed to successfully ex-appropriate via deposition every last one of Corning's top scientists daily detailed notebooks, complete with the results of years of incredibly expensive research. As Sumitomo paid their paltry fines on the IP infringement they snickered, having obtained an incredible treasure trove of Corning's expensive research for pennies on the dollar. Take a look at that stuff on Regulatory Capture, Posner and the article on Deep Capture. It all applies just as well to USPTO functioning "for the public good" as it does to banking. When the system is radically broken it needs to be fixed. Rick (talk) 05:26, 22 February 2013 (UTC) Satellite Direct disambiguation page deletion, please block Satellite Direct TV article from possible creation.I know that having information about a topic on a disambiguation page is not a very common practice, however I felt that there should be something in Wikipedia about the Satellite Direct TV marketers. Since you apparently feel otherwise, that is okay, but could you please block the Satellite Direct TV article from possible re-creation? I do not want to see those marketers attempting to use Wikipedia for their advertising purposes again. Thanks, Scott P. (talk) 20:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Happy AnniversaryHi BD2412. Congratualtions on making it to the 8 year mark. Very few Wikipedians have been here this long. The community and the project are very lucky to have dedicated editors such as yourself and I thank you for all the time and effort you have donated to the project. Your efforts benefit all of humanity and you and your family should be very proud of this accomplishment. Thank you. 64.40.54.147 (talk) 01:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC) Sex PositiveThanks for your note about the disambiguation and you prefering to keep Sex Positive for the film. I tried to revert to what you say, but couldn't achieve the reversal for some reason myself either. But I have no opposition if you want to make Sex Positive film entry the main and you know your way around. We can always make Sex Positive (disambiguation) and keep the main Sex Positive for the gripping documentary. But you should know I have done huge improvements for all those who visit the page now. This is what we had on 19 February 2013 before I intervened: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex_Positive_(film)&diff=528140238&oldid=527881460 This is what we have now after my edits of 20 February http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Positive_(film) I am so glad about it. I was watching the film just being fascinated and blown away by this Berkowitz guy.... and I was passing the changes while following the film... werldwayd (talk) 03:29, 22 February 2013 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
DisambiguationCan you please take a look at MRSA? Someone has fixed all the incoming links, but I'm sure this fairly common term will continue to attract more links if it remains as a dab page. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:31, 23 February 2013 (UTC) High water markGreat job on this article; it's worlds better than the shabby dab that was there before. Keep up the good work! --BDD (talk) 02:29, 24 February 2013 (UTC) TrotMike Cline reversed his close of your move request. We have at least a 4:2 or better vote, but maybe need more supports. Just an FYI that it's still open. Montanabw(talk) 00:53, 28 February 2013 (UTC) Soviet?Just a heads up: you might want to double check the edit summary used here and elsewhere. Zagalejo^^^ 04:22, 8 March 2013 (UTC) Would you be able to assist with "fixing" some syntax in Template:Disambiguation?
Usurpation of Charm on English Wikipedia!?!Hi Esteemed BD2412: I have just noticed a post from you on my Talk page saying that User:Charm has been usurped at "English Wikipedia". Based on what I see here, I assume you meant to tell me the account was usurped on the French Wikipedia? I shouldn't be worried about someone else trying to usurp on English Wikipedia, right? Charm ©† 21:07, 29 March 2013 (UTC) Proposal to unblock etc.Hi BD2412, thanks for that proposal to unblock Kalki. I really think unblocking him is the only sane thing to do. I got a bit carried away, and I realize that most of my comments on that page were unnecessarily counterproductive (sorry for that) hence I will try to refrain from making further remarks there. I really wish your proposal to be successful. Best regards, DanielTom (talk) 10:10, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Ilario AntoniazziDear BD2412, good morning! I onlny would like thank you for the help you gave me in this page I made yesterday. I'm not native English speaker, and I would like to know if I can ask your help again for the future. I promise: 1-2 help request each month, ok? Have a nice day and thank you again UnblockPer an AN discussion you started, I have unblocked that user. You may want to watchlist User talk:Kalki and look in on his contribs from time to time, but that's up to you. — Ched : ? 21:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
soFLY & Nius move discussionHi BD2412, I have a question for you, just to understand how it works. How come someone can move a page with no consensus asked or else, and it needs a consensus to move it back to the real name ? I just don't get it. And why does it need a consensus when the official and only name used by the artists is soFLY & Nius and not SoFly and Nius ? Thank you, Koffey (talk) 07:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Article moveHi, Self promotion needs moving to Self-promotion for the correct spelling. Can you sort that out? cheers, Rd232 talk 17:40, 18 April 2013 (UTC) CYCLE 16 ContestantsWait? AzMarie? how about in Cycle 16 made a page for Alexandria Everett or Hannah Jones too :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by GTPMF (talk • contribs) 03:32, 23 April 2013 (UTC) Chet Holifield BuildingHi there, I ended up on the Chet Holifield Federal Building page and noticed that it was listed as a courthouse of the Southern District of California. As far as I can tell, it's neither a courthouse nor in the S.D. Cal. jurisdiction, so I removed the reference. It looks like you created the page and you certainly have a lot more experience/clout around here than I do, so I wanted to give you a heads up. (As a very occasional editor, I also wanted to say thanks for the hard work you guys do.) Swsail (talk) 04:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
SorryLooks like I reverted you this morning. I can only guess I managed to press rollback whilst editing on my iPod. Sorry! Bevo74 (talk) 18:58, 28 April 2013 (UTC) EEOC members' notability?What is your feeling on (Senate-confirmed) members of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission? Are they inherently notable, do you think? I don't know if consensus ever has been reached on this subject? Curious what your thoughts are before I go and create a page or pages that might be at risk of being deleted. Thanks! Jarvishunt (talk) 20:17, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
New York villages within townsThe supreme standard for these placenames is WP:USPLACE, which I quote: If more than one place within the same county has the same name, and neither is the primary topic, specify the type of local government unit in parentheses before the comma (e.g., Callicoon (CDP), New York and Callicoon (town), New York, but not "Callicoon, New York (CDP)"). Since WP:CONLIMITED notes that localised discussions can't overturn project consensus, I'll continue moving USPLACE violations when I find them. Nyttend (talk) 12:57, 1 May 2013 (UTC) Please helpDear BD2412, could you please check the talk page of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Robinson_(bodybuilder) and help to achieve fairness in materials put on article about Robby Robinson? I would like to hear your opinion if you also support that within a couple of days an article about a famous bodybuilding legend turned out into an article about a ... I do not even have words. All the previous contributions were deleted, not only those from me, and new ones are presented so misleading that people who know Mr Robinson and his life and achievements will never believe this is an article about him. Thak you. RRWM (talk) 00:38, 2 May 2013 (UTC) succession templatesHi BD2412, I get the impression you were trying to change something in the succession templates for the CRT (Chongqing Rail Transit) system, but I'm not sure what you were trying to do. You also mentioned the LUL system, which is in London, so completely unrelated. But if you need any help, let me know, I'm very familiar with these things so perhaps I can help. Azylber (talk) 08:44, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Good work!
There is an editor who needs guidance on appropriately creating disambiguation pages and appropriately using hatnotesHello, BD2412. You may remember me from this discussion at Talk:Sexuality (disambiguation) when it was simply Talk:Sexuality. As I consider you an expert on disambiguation matters on Wikipedia, having seen you around and dealing with such matters, I am wondering if you feel that there is any way that you can help Jarble understand when to appropriately create a disambiguation page and when to appropriately add a hatnote. The editor often overtags, overlinks, adds inappropriate and/or redundant tags, links or hatnotes, and also often creates needless/redundant disambiguation pages. If you look at his talk page, you will see that he has been repeatedly advised and/or warned not to do these things. Some examples of him not seeing that there is a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC (and I am aware that this guideline was recently extensively discussed) are his edits to the Bladder page and to the Bladder (disambiguation) page (despite, that first time at the Bladder page, an editor stating in an edit summary that a primary topic was concluded), and his edits to the Sexual activity page that resulted in an overload of links being driven to it and you calling it "perhaps the most WP:DABCONCEPT page ever" before I redirected it back to where it was before. He also recently (today, May 13, in contrast to the May 14 Wikipedia time stamp of this post) redirected Sexual characteristics to Sexual characteristics (disambiguation), calling the redirect to the Sex organ article "misleading," a month after you redirected that page to the Sex organ article. The edit history of the Male genitalia page and of the Female genitalia page, including today, also show Jarble's odd interpretation of what should be a disambiguation page. Those pages redirect to Sex organ because the male genitalia and female genitalia are sex organs and that article already disambiguates the different types of sex organs; therefore, what Jarble has tried to maintain at the Male genitalia and Female genitalia pages is completely redundant, as I've stated when reverting him on those matters, but he doesn't seem to understand that. And here and here are examples of his redundant/excessive hatnotes that I've reverted at the Sex organ article. Furthermore, when he creates disambiguation pages, or wants something disambiguated, it's mostly because he's trying to have Wikipedia be more inclusive of non-human animal aspects. I don't know what else to state to him about these page/formatting issues. But because of the new notification system, the fact that I've mentioned and linked his name above, he will be aware of this message I've left you here. Flyer22 (talk) 00:53, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Amakasu clanPlease take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amakasu clan. This explains the newest changes at Amakasu clan. As context, you may want to know that I created the disambiguation page in response to a good suggestion which you can read for yourself in the AfD thread. I did post link at Talk:Amakasu clan#AfD discussion, but I guess I should have made further changes after the AfD was closed. --Ansei (talk) 15:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Efforts to impeach Barack Obama and Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theoriesBD2412, I reverted your addition of your new article Efforts to impeach Barack Obama to the "See also" section of Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, without having space in my edit summary to fully explain why. My thinking is that if you were to include a source for an effort to impeach Barack Obama which was based on doubts about his citizenship, then it would be useful to have it as a See also in the conspiracy theories article. But as long as that part, the relevant part, is only an unsourced statement, I don't see that it adds anything to what can already be read in the longer article. Linking to the longer article in Efforts to impeach Barack Obama (as you do in its text) is very appropriate, but not so much the other way around, IMO. But perhaps you're still adding references? Please don't be offended, and feel free to add it back if you disagree. Bishonen | talk 20:57, 31 May 2013 (UTC).
Partially disambiguated titlesHello BD2412. See User talk:In ictu oculi#Partially disambiguated titles. Without wanting to steer the main discussion over to IIO's page, can I ask you a similar question? Do you see the proposed new language for WP:DAB as preventing article names like Cork (city)? That example is on your user page. I see no urgency to quickly closing the discussion, but if the ratio doesn't change, it seems likely that there will be support for some kind of change in WP:DAB. There may still be some room for negotiation, because I'm unclear on whether all participants understand the proposal in the same way. For instance, Neelix and IIO are both supporters, but they seem to have different concepts. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 02:07, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
moved per CSD request?
Hi BD2412, You moved Maroon, citing "per CSD request". What does this mean? Was there a discussion or proposal or request somewhere? It is not obvious. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:29, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
National Film Award redirectsWhy change links from 'National Film Award' to 'National Film Award (India)' when it redirects right back to 'National Film Award'? BollyJeff | talk 13:44, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
To clarifyI wasn't referring to your question as "bullshit" in the SPI discussion. Rather the ridiculous quacking duck situation of DiogoTome having the same childish attitude and running straight to ANI with his first edits as his brother. No offense to you intended at all. Toddst1 (talk) 05:09, 14 June 2013 (UTC) Daniel ToméHi BD, I appreciate your entries at the DanielTom SPI page. My entries there have been for sole purpose of having the misapplied "sockpuppetry" label removed from Daniel's old account User:Daniel Tomé, out of fairness to him. Thank you for any help as I'm out of my comfort zone with the SPI processes, and there seem to be several Admins determined to work against my effort. Ok, Ihardlythinkso (talk) 17:26, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
CarbonaceousI have just restored the change of Carbonaceous to a dab page. Don't agree with that change. Although it is not very well developed at all, it is a better target for the incoming links than carbon and I think they should also be restored. SpinningSpark 19:30, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Top down legal guidance?I'm researching in the area of cross border regulation of banks, and bankruptcy resolution (or other "prop up" techniques) for the large global banks (officially the Systemically Important Financial Institutions or SIFIs). Based on long tradition with some evolution the cross border regulation of banks has been via "memorandums of understanding" between country regulators and some attempt at harmonizing banking law (Basel I, II and III accords). Basel accords are voluntarily implemented and enacted into laws and regulations in each separate country. OK that was long winded, here is the question. Were banking regulation to "go global" what legal models would it "go to school on"? As I understand it maritime law and perhaps airspace and outer space are subject to some types of international law? Are there any other international law areas that might be relevant as guiding models? What works? What hasn't? Reminds me of the international standards game and ISO. Deadly slow and highly political... Give me the scent to put me on the trail and this dog will hunt....Rick (talk) 02:01, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
VisualEditorHey BD2412 I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :). So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere. What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default. The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 28 June 2013 (UTC) Natural History MuseumI believe there is a misunderstanding on your part about the meaning of the Natural History Museum page. It was originally at Natural History Museum (disambiguation) (before the move of the article currently at Natural History Museum, London) because it was supposed to disambiguate the term "Natural History Museum" as a proper noun. What you seem to be developing would be more appropriate at Natural history museum (which currently redirects to List of natural history museums). -- tariqabjotu 02:03, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
RRsat pageHello, http://www.linkedin.com/company/rrsat/ The company would like to add a logo and some photos to it's wiki page. As you are the latest editor of the page, I thought I'd ask you first. Please contact gili.k@rrsat.com for images. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by OdiCoh (talk • contribs) Country houseThank you for fixing up country house for me. We had the issue of having articles on English country houses and Scottish country houses, but not having one on "just plain" country houses, so that country house had previously redirect to English country house, which was obviously incorrect. There was a discussion on the English country house talk page, and a disambiguation page was apparently the most easy solution, because no one wanted to return English country house back to Country house, where it had been to start with. Thanks again, though, for sorting it. RGloucester (talk) 18:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC) Just a questionI noticed that you contributed to Template: OW a long time ago and I had a question about its use. According to WP: BLANKING users are allowed to remove warnings from their talk page as I know, but once they do and the template is added are they allowed to then remove the template, or are they required to leave it there if they choose to remove the warnings, which is actually resulting in a user not being blocked. STATic message me! 05:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Clyde DuncanIf you'd checked the disambig page before deleting it, you'd see most of the incoming links where from the template footer, and virtually none of them where from articles. Most of the incoming links were to the cricketer, but I guess you know best. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 09:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Nomination of Ari Wolfe for deletionA nomination is taking place as to whether Ari Wolfe should be deleted or not. The discussion is held at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ari Wolfe and everyone is welcome to join in on the discussion. However do not remove the AfD notice on top. WisconsinBoyClevelandRocks228844 (talk) 21:25, 9 July 2013 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Juan Vasquez (drug lord)The article Juan Vasquez (drug lord) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive 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 Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing
Walter E. Hoffman United States CourthouseI notice that early on in the history of the article, you "imported" information from the GSA site. I understand that the information in the GSA article is in the public domain... but I don't believe that means it can be copied into a Wikipedia article without attriubtion:
Per: WP:Plagiarism Can you comment? 842U (talk) 15:37, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
George Thomas VanBebber versus George Thomas Van BebberArticle is currently at George Thomas VanBebber, with a redirect at George Thomas Van Bebber. I am reasonably convinced that the LATTER spelling is correct and that the FJC entry on this Judge is in error as to his name and in fact the FJC contradicts itself at his successor's entry here http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2908&cid=76&ctype=dc&instate=ks&highlight=null In addition, the ABA's evaluation of him gives his name with a space, http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/2011_build/federal_judiciary/ratings101.authcheckdam.pdf Also, this memorial biography also gives his name with a space in each of the several instances his name is mentioned within the article, http://www.10thcircuithistory.org/pdfs/VanBebber_bio.pdf Given all that, it the article should be moved to the later spelling, with a redirect from the former spelling. However, it will not let me move the article, so an administrator will have to do it. I will go ahead and correct the spelling within the article. Thanks. Safiel (talk) 18:44, 20 July 2013 (UTC) Red Dawn (2012 film)Kelapstick recently fully protected this article due to a content dispute. The crux of the matter was an editor who kept expanding the plot well beyond the limits defined by WP:FILMPLOT, would not explain his actions, and would not discuss the matter on the talk page. However, the page is now fully protected with the inordinately long and terribly written plot summary in place. It needs to be reverted to the last stable version before the edit war. Kelapstick is on vacation, so I cannot ask him to do it. Would you mind taking a look? ---The Old JacobiteThe '45 15:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC) Disambig contestAlthough you can do this, please be aware that it will not change the list of 1,000 pages used for the challenge on the Toolserver page. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:40, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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