User talk:Anthony Appleyard/2009/January-March

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Game Boy Printer histmerge request

deleted "Matthew Langton"

  • 11:45, 4 January 2009 Anthony Appleyard (Talk | contribs) deleted "Matthew Langton" ‎ (NN)
    Hello, I don't seem to understand why this has been deleted. This is my first article and I thought I had respected all the guidelines. Any additional information you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
    Anttot (talk) 17:54, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
  • FYI, it appears the article has been re-created at Matthew langton, presumably failing notability like the previous article. ~~ [ジャム][t - c] 18:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Someone moved Matthew langton to Matthew Langton, which is under AfD. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:57, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Article in New Pages; unsure of notability

  • Can you please take a look at the Movement Mgzn if you have time. I'm not sure it's notable enough but I didn't want to tag it for speedy or mark it as patrolled. Thanks. §FreeRangeFrog 06:22, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
  • I have tagged it {{db-spam}}. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:53, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Request

Themes in science fiction

See Talk:List of science fiction themes#What to include? for more discussion on this topic.
  • Hi, i noticed that a long while back you did a minor edit on
    Themes in science fiction
    . As one of very few admins to have looked at the page, could you check out the talk page and the recent reverting of edits? An editor there keeps reverting all my work to an older version, which removes all the citations and improvement templates and navbox etc.
    This editor refuses to discuss any changes on talk, and claims to have "retired" for WP, only popping up to revert this page and add uncited stuff to a few other articles, and to remove warnings for doing such from his talk page (from myself and others).

The page was already semi-protected after the editor retired to stop him using IP addresses with personal attack edit summaries there - is it possible to make him discuss changes, or block him if he continues in this vein? I cannot work on adding more cites if all my work disappears every other day! :-/. Thanks for your attention.Yobmod (talk) 09:13, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

  • Someone moved
    Themes in science fiction moved to List of science fiction themes. I have merged your and User:AKR619's last versions. Please, both of you, discuss any deletions first. Anthony Appleyard (talk
    ) 11:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  • In User talk:AKR619, I undeleted and archived the old deleted matter. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:56, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Erm, you caused the loss of all the work done on splitting subarticles out, like stock characters. What is the point of having an entirely cited subarticle, and an uncited OR list of stock characters here? And you re-added all the original research that i tagged and removed after no sources were found (over a period of months). Tagging and removal is policy, no? Discussion is impossible because AKR619 refused to post on the talk page, and admins ignore guidelines on dispute resolution :-/ Yobmod (talk) 12:48, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  • I have left a message in User talk:AKR619. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:11, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Here is a list of AKR619's edits. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Well, thanks for trying to initiate more discussion, there is now a lot more activity on the tlak page that can point the way for a consensus. It's unfortunate that this user got blocked, but i see it was for similar activity over a number of pages, and insulting the blocking admin, so seems inevitable. Thanks again for taking the time to check on the page; I already started adding cites, now that it shouldbe more stable for a while.Yobmod (talk) 08:47, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Hmm, as soon as the block expired, AKR619 has gone back to reverting without discusion. The 10 citations i added from a reliable source were therefore a waste of time, and inviting people to build a consensus doesn't seem to stop a rogue editor in any way. Could you use your admin power to force this user to abide by the consensus we built there? Every editor has said citations are needed, and certainly no-one supports removing the citation that are already there. But i am not going to continue with adding more if they will be removed - i thought WP:verify was a policy, but breaking it seems to cause no reaction from anyone! Do i have to make a loud fuss somewhere official? The article simply cannot progress in the current climate :-(.Yobmod (talk) 08:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks for helping out. I guess this must be the most annoying part of admin responsibilities! But did you see his last edits? He cited everything with a wikilink to the general Star Trek and Doctor Who page and with "If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction" (and this was after you had reverted once already). This may not count as obvious vandelism, but it definitely intended to be distuptive - there is no way that he doesn't know that this would never be reliable sources.
    And the edit summaries continue to be ponty and unincivil: "Once upon a time this article had all these things with no complaints, then Yobmod fucked it all up, well now I'm fucking it the way it was used to be". "I'm pulling a Yobmod, when most of the previous users agreed to one format, he insisted on changing it back and wouldn't slide".Yobmod (talk) 08:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Repairing moves of many templates

  • Before making a formal request, I thought I'd post here and ask advice for the best way to proceed.
A couple of days ago, a relatively new user, User:Solphusion, made good faith moves of over fifty automotive navigation templates in an effort to "standardize" the naming of them. Unfortunately, several issues arose from this, which have subsequently been discussed at the WP:CARS talk page. The general consensus was to restore them to their original locations, but unfortunately the user had made multiple moves of most of them, and redirect bots moved in before they could be undone.
At the WP:CARS talk page there's a table compiled of all the moves. Three of the templates are at improved locations: {{
Audi vehicles timeline (Europe)}}, {{Audi vehicles timeline (North America)}}, and {{Honda vehicles timeline (North America)
}}. About nine more have been reverted successfully, and are indicated in bold text. The remainder are stuck in their new locations—so that's about 40 or so which still need shifted.
What would you suggest be the best way to get these undone? Regards, --DeLarge (talk) 09:45, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Hello again—been away from the PC all weekend, so only getting around to this now. There were a few templates that had only been moved once, so after I reverted them there's only (sic) 20 which require admin assistance. I've listed them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#List of outstanding templates to be reverted to their original location.
Thanks very much for all the assistance. --DeLarge (talk) 23:15, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

NN blog

  • Dear Anthony Appleyard,
    I would like to write an entry for the art blog "Two Coats of Paint," apparently there was one but it has been deleted. I believe that whoever posted that entry was either not aware of guidelines or did not understand the blog's notability in the press. Not only has this blog been covered in magazines and newspapers, but Sharon Butler is a noted painter and critic for the Brooklyn Rail and American Prospect, as well as faculty at Eastern Connecticut University. I did not see what was deleted, so cannot respond to what was up there, but I would like to redress this.
    Sincerely, Emptyhandedseigen. 18:42, 9 January 2009 User:Emptyhandedseigen
  • If you think that this blog is notable, write a new full article about and see if it survives
    WP:NN
    .
    Please sign your articles with ~~~~ (4 tildes): that will automatically turn into the date and time and your Wikipedia signature. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:17, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Page Two Coats of Paint has been recreated and someone AfD'ed it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Two Coats of Paint. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:25, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Imperial (band) removed

  • Just wondering why my page was removed. I am in the band and sited various sites to confirm my information. I even asked on the discussion page what could be done to make it more appropriate for wikipedia after it was flagged. I am confused due to our label and labelmates having wiki pages. why hasnt theirs come down? Thanks for any assistance you may offer regarding this. Imperialrock (talk) 03:03, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  • I have undeleted it and AfD'ed it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Imperial (band). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Re LGBT episodes table

  • Can I have the version that I did in user space deleted or is it required because of the cut-and-paste?
    talk
    ) 23:07, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Please what are the exact page names of the pages involved? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  • talk
    ) 23:21, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done deleted User:Otto4711/LGBTeps. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:26, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

North Albanian Alps

  • When Vanjagenije, Nikola Smolenski and Tadija requested a move to
    Prokletije
    they had not included a source on the number of hits on Google for North Albanian Alps.
    http://www.google.hr/search?hl=en&q=North+Albanian+Alps&meta=&aq=o&oq=
    The above link produces 244.000 hits for North Albanian Alps.
    Thus I would like to request that you move the article back to North Albanian Alps title
    Also I would like to point out that even if the three users presumably had no intent to deceive, that they should be warned not to use the Wikipedia as a battleground for their countries' honour since we do not live in the 19th century any more.
    Imbris (talk) 23:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
  • See
    Talk:Prokletije and please continue this discussion there. Anthony Appleyard (talk
    ) 06:56, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

delete+redirect

Ensure
Just because they are words that are spelled or pronounced similarly does not mean they need to be included in the article, and
talk
) 23:18, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Wiben konstanten

  • Actually, it wasn't anywhere near expiring. It had been listed for about six and a half hours. You should check that you are seeing the dates on proposed deletion notices correctly. Uncle G (talk) 01:11, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
  • This was a short article in Danish about the fudge factor. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:51, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Category:Bevagna

I have had to recreate this category again, having spotted that it had been (again) deleted subsequent to being de-populated (again) by an anonymous vandal with an obscure grudge against the admirably knowledgable (sadly former) editor user:Bill Thayer. See User talk:87.6.194.103, and in particular the anon editor’s threat: ‘Or i smash your face’.

Its members (currently (

frazioni
to group them in a municipal category.

Unfortunately when the admins (user:Kimchi.sg, user: Anthony Appleyard, user: Wizardman and user:Alexf) have previously deleted this category, they have been unwittingly perpetuating these acts of vandalism by the anon bully.

Ian Spackman (talk) 10:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Anthony for such prompt action! By the way, the anon does sometimes come in under other IPs. Cheers, Ian Spackman (talk) 10:41, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

blocking

Hi, Anthony. I replied on my talk page earlier, but forgot to drop you a line here. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 02:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Vacuum Arc Remelting

What's Following Me

  • I am writing concerining the What's Following Me page that was deleted for blatant copyright infrigment. I created this page at the request of Eleanor McEvoy who wrote and owns all rights to this album. I apologise for the problems; I am fairly new to Wikipedia so I am making mistakes as I learn the process. If you could help me fix these problems I could get the page back up.
    Thanks for you help in this matter. Also, I apoligise if I posted this twice - I thought I had already written but can not find the first post.
    Editthis2662 Editthis2662 (talk) 21:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The page is What's Following Me?. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:32, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I may be misreading this, but I don't think Edit2662 is asserting ownership over the copied material. They state that McEvoy "wrote and owns all rights to this album". Additionally, there's more copyvio at Out There (Eleanor McEvoy album). Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:33, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to help me out with this. I have a couple of questions. I was actually trying to create factual and impartial articles about Eleanor McEvoy. I guess my inexperience caused me to write them in a way that seems impartial. Would you suggest that I try re-writing each article with an eye toward making them impartial. Also all of the information I used from other websites are from organizations affiliated with Eleanor. I think it would be best to just rewrite anything that came from another source. Does this seem like the best approach to you?

Sorry to take so much of your time with this, but I really want to write these articles in the proper format.

Once again, thanks for your help. Editthis2662 (talk) 01:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

One more comment for tonight - I have created a new temporary article. Could you possibly check this to see if it meets the proper guidelines. If it does, how do I make it a permanent replacement. Thanks Editthis2662 (talk) 04:39, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

What's Following Me?, part 2

Hi. :) I've removed the "hangon" tag from the article, as it isn't nominated for speedy deletion (anymore) and the "hangon" tag is placing it in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. The copyright problems procedure, of course, won't complete for seven days, which gives plenty of time for this contributor to take additional steps to verify copyright permission at the external site or through the communications committee. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:13, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I think you deserve this!

The Working Man's Barnstar
With thanks for your tireless and oft unrecognised work fixing cut and paste moves! ukexpat (talk) 21:33, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't get it

  • How come an editor with so many barnstars just ingores a message from another user? I am assuming you let it slip by unnoticed or something.. Please respond to my previous message above. Cheers,
    talk
    08:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
  • See #delete+redirect. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Deleted: Integrated Research

RE: Vettaikaaran

Remotely operated underwater vehicle

Category:FA-Class film festivals articles

Rebreather links section

There's a discussion going on at the talk page of Rebreather about the recent addition and removal of links to the page. Themfromspace (talk) 16:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Please use the talk page of the article before editing against consensus again. I have reverted your edits and will keep out the links including therebreathersite until there is a consensus on the talk page to reinsert them. Themfromspace (talk) 14:37, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Luri language/disambig

Requested Moves

Shiny things and related

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you, may you be armed with sodas 4eva.--Avant-garde a clue-hexaChord2 22:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection on mask?

  • I noticed you recently semi-protected mask indefinitely. I admit it sees some vandalism, but I personally question whether it rises to the level of needing semi-protection, particularly indefinite semi-protection. Is it possible I could talk you down from an indefinite semi to a few days or a week's worth of semi-protection? Let me know... SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done I changed its semiprotection to a week starting today. (Of its last 100 edits, most are IPA users alternating with reverts.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:50, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:08, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
And a month down the road, I'm now inclined to agree with your earlier decision about semi-ing it indefinitely. I hear crow is quite tasty these days... SchuminWeb (Talk) 20:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet

Heya ... thanks for your investigating and your effort. Regards

~~ Phoe talk ~~ 22:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Removing of Srebrenica request

  • Why have you remove the request??? The first discussion was before 2008 as the massacre was declarated as genocide! Take a look at the first 4 references of the article and please make your edit undo. --
    talk
    ) 10:56, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
  • It was missing for a few seconds while I moved it to Wikipedia:Requested moves#31 January 2009. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:58, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Sorry i was too fast. Thanks --
    talk
    ) 11:01, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Officer Ricky‎

  • It was vandalism from an now blocked user, and the information is from a source with a dubious reputation. Easily G3 vandalism. Secret account 16:20, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done: I have deleted page Officer Ricky‎. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Yatrik

Talk:Precious Quigaman

I came across a speedy for this page. It appears you forgot to put the right version on top after merging histories. Please take more care in the future. See ya! - Mgm|(talk) 11:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Christ Church (Stevensville, Maryland)

Most excellent - thanks. I think that cleans up the project quite nicely. --

Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!
15:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Yasir Iqbal Randhawa

  • Please would you consider salting this page in view of the originator's persistence? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 15:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:46, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Mogwai

With this move, you broke hundreds of links which ended up at the dab rather than the correct page, and left the band article with a redlink in the hatnote. The band article is the most popular article both on views and on incoming links - please see Talk:Mogwai#Moves for the history of the article and why the incoming links point at the band article. Black Kite 19:37, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Et in arcadia ego

Many thanks! Johnbod (talk) 22:10, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Johnbod recommends you as another adult I can come to with similar zany problems.--Wetman (talk) 00:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Yankee Stadium

  • Anthony, the disputed move is the one to
    talk
    ) 09:12, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
  • It's supposed to say "all three articles". I'm too tired to keep this up. Hopefully the status quo will be restored by the time I wake up! -
    talk
    ) 10:19, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
  • See
    Talk:Old Yankee Stadium#Move? for the rest of this discussion. Anthony Appleyard (talk
    ) 09:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Anthony, thanks for restoring the status quo. I apologize for being "difficult". I was up far too late because of a chronic illness, and I handled the stress of the situation very poorly. I finally just had to make myself log off! Thanks again. -
talk
) 18:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for RM

Thank you for your quick action on RM for J. Bonnie Newman, a woman who sudden become a US Senator (is going to) who was virtually unknown last week. Chergles (talk) 16:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Marforio and the other talking statues

  • Sorry to call Help! so soon. An editor changed
    Il Babuino as if it were a book title, and the others... No knowledgeable Wikipedia reader would find them under these titles. Preehaps not every illustration to an article needs to be given a frame like a 35mm color slide. The devil makes work for idle hands... Dealing with this with frankness would involve me in rude retorts and a Civility Tag, if the usual pattern holds.-Wetman (talk
    ) 23:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done for Pasquino and Babuino. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:29, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for heeding my plea.--Wetman (talk) 23:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Whoamg

  • I would like to protest the A3 deletion of this soft redirect. Soft redirects are not supposed to be subject to Article CSD reason deletions, but rather are subject to Redirect CSD reasons. - TexasAndroid (talk) 01:46, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
  • I have undeleted Whoamg. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:28, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Undermountain

Undermountain, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Undermountain. 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. Mattinbgn\talk
03:06, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Fairway Market

Thanks for sorting out that hist merge - that all got terribly confusing yesterday! Gonzonoir (talk) 09:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:MVC-294F from great vase court.JPG

talk
) 11:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Split (bowling)

Hi Anthony, I saw your vote at

Talk:Split_(ten_pin_bowling)#Move.3F
. I don't know if you saw my comments, and was wondering if you would reconsider - it has been relisted.

Thanks. --Born2cycle (talk) 00:04, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Jacket lapel

Talk:TNA Against All Odds (2009)

Thank-you

Hi Anthony, thanks for moving Charismatic Christianity. Colin MacLaurin (talk) 07:22, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

And thanks for moving

Parkinson's Law too. Colonel Warden (talk
) 23:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Typo redirect Vejle, Danmark

WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk
) 20:01, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

UFL History Merge

Hi

DNA section

Hi there, I removed this section I'm afraid, since in the overall view of DNA noting its use as a metaphor isn't really important enough to be noted in the main article on this molecule. Tim Vickers (talk) 22:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Aa butaneblowlamp.jpg and File:Aa irises at gauntlet.jpg

Just to let you know that I recently copied the above images that you uploaded to Wikipedia over to

WP:CSD#I8. Cheers! --Captain-tucker (talk
) 00:09, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

ASU move closure

Continued use of "Sir" in main title headers

Government of Massachusetts

Due to a bit of carelessness on my part and perhaps some weirdness with the WikiMedia software, we collided and both tried to perform the requested move of

Massachusetts government to Government of Massachusetts
. I went first but you repeated the move literally at the same time (to the minute anyway) as me. This caused a looping double redirect.

I think what happened was that you pulled up the article before I did the delete/move and then you did the delete/move again. The WikiMedia software did not check to see if what you were moving was what you had pulled up and so it just did the move again.

At first, I thought it strange that you were saying "Done" in

WP:RM
saying "I'm taking this one" which would have let others like you know that the move was being taken care of.

Just a little Wikipedia weirdness to brighten up your day.

Cheers.

--Richard (talk) 19:31, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Delete?

Help

Ballachulish railway station

Thanks for performing the requested move. –Signalhead < T > 19:53, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Move request...

  1. John Ordronaux --> John Ordronaux (privateer)
  2. John Ordronaux (disambiguation) --> John Ordronaux

Hope this makes sense, thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 04:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

  •  Done, except that I also brought the ship into the disambig. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:27, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Great thanks! – ukexpat (talk) 15:47, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
    • Ditto, thanks from me, who wrote most of the two J.O. articles. Regards, Wfm495 (talk) 17:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for doing the work for me by taking care of "shalom bayit."

talk
) 09:01, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

EA

I don't necessarily disagree with that argument -- in fact, although I followed the discussion about the proposed move, I didn't 'vote' because I wasn't sure if a strong enough case had been made for a primary meaning -- but the place for that argument is on the article's talk page. The fact that the 'votes' were "at least" even for yes indicates that there was not a consensus, which was the conclusion of another admin. My only point is that this should not have been listed on WP:RM as an uncontroversial move so soon after a completed discussion, and even though it was (wrongly) listed, I believe it shouldn't have been moved without discussion. Station1 (talk) 00:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

re:Accessing deleted pages

I replied on my talk page. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 23:26, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your help with

talk
) 03:22, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Deleted UK & Ireland SAP User Group

AfD nomination of Tim Cotterill

Tim Cotterill, an article that you have contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Esasus (talk) 00:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for taking the time to do this history merge [4] on

Lily (TV series). Regards. dissolvetalk
08:11, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Robert Nelson on mainpage

  • Robert Nelson (insurrectionist) was cut/paste to Robert Nelson over the disambiguation page. I reverted this edit and restored the original pages (no intermediate edits had occurred). However I note that the Wikipedia main page is pointing to the disambiguation page (on the right under 'On this day'). I have no idea about correcting links on the main page. In fact on double-checking there is no edit option available on the mainpage so obviously it's an admin job. I'd be grateful for your help. Thanks Tassedethe (talk) 08:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done, after ferreting through a tangle of tables and transcluded pages used as templates to find the right page to edit. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:56, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much. Tassedethe (talk) 11:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Histmerg of BootX (Apple)

  • I noticed you merged those articles for me, first off, thanks for that. I did notice that on
    Pounce!
    09:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

A. J. Burnett

  • Is this batch of moves complete? Because if so, it ended up in the wrong form.
    Allen James Burnett (which was moved improperly in the first place). The weatherman was supposed to be left as a hat note. No disambiguation page is necessary between a well-known baseball player and a local weatherman. -Dewelar (talk
    ) 18:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:20, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks! -Dewelar (talk) 18:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Redirect suppression

  • How do you move a page with the redirect suppressed? -- IRP ☎ 01:15, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  • When an administrator calls page-move, these clickable yes/no options appear on the move options page:
    • Move associated talk page
    • Leave a redirect behind
    • Move subpages of talk page (up to 100), if applicable
    • Watch this page
    Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:20, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  • I guess that means in other words: only administrators can redirect a page without the previous title redirecting to it. Am I correct? -- IRP ☎ 07:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  • If "Leave a redirect behind" does not appear, then it would seem so. The system has changed much since I became an admin. The "Leave a redirect behind" option started appearing in the last few weeks. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:32, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Why would it have to be restricted to administrators? -- IRP ☎ 07:34, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
  • That is policy decision from high-up :: I had no part in it. I have just asked about it in Wikipedia:Village pump. It is likely so that, after a page move by an inexperienced user, a redirect is always left behind, so people can easily find where the page has been moved to. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:29, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Moving without leaving a redirect behind is a feature which should rarely be used, and is used mostly in reverting vandal moves. This feature is one which couyld easily be abused, so it shouldn't be available to the general Wikipedian public. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:58, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

WWLG History merge.

  • Hi, I noticed you started on that history merge. I don't know if you're done yet but it looks like you only moved the original page but didn't restore the current page so the edits from the last 2 years are gone. Thought I'd let you know in case you thought it was completed. Thanks. RobDe68 (talk) 19:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Thanks, there may be more where that came from. I've been going through many station pages looking to see if there was an improper move when the call sign changed and if it can be undone (many can't be fixed). RobDe68 (talk) 21:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Activation-synthesis hypothesis

Hey Anthony, thanks for your work on the Activation-synthesis hypothesis article. Musicaindustrial (talk) 17:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Timeboxing

Many thanks for the speedy move of this.

talk
) 22:37, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

not exactly sure here

Robert Lacy deletion

  • well, i kinda thought the William Kittredge quote implied notablilty:

    Robert Lacy's stories are direct, honest, grace-filled, and useful. The Natural Father is that good thing, a book that both sweetens and illuminates our lives. [5]

i take it, i can retry, when he gets his novel done. pohick (talk) 15:58, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Very Very complex history merge! (Possible?)

Cetrus

  • Hello Anthony.
    If we were to link a case study about Cetrus on an independent corporation's website would this give the article credibility?
    Thanks Cetrus (talk) 23:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • What such external independent sites about Cetrus are there? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deleted page

  • A page I made for the
    2007
    , and the content that the other tournaments contained could have been placed if I had been given the opportunity. Why was only this page deleted?
    Also, I was away at the time the tag was placed and did not have time to contest the speedy deletion. KJS77 23:51, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • As "a very short article lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. See CSD A1". I have undeleted it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Kangra painting/version 2 listed at
RfD

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Kangra painting/version 2. Since you had some involvement with the Kangra painting/version 2 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Ekabhishek (talk) 11:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC) --Ekabhishek (talk) 11:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Net cutter

talk
) 11:58, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Al-Khalid tank
move

  • Hi there, I noticed you moved the article title from Al-Khalid Main Battle Tank to Al-Khalid tank. Don't you think it would be more appropriate to move it either to "Al-Khalid (tank)" or "Al-Khalid MBT"? Hj108 (talk) 19:19, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
  • See long discussion in
    Talk:Al-Khalid tank#Requested move. Anthony Appleyard (talk
    ) 20:15, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Your edits to commercial trawler

The contributions you keep making to commercial trawler are a form of harassment. If you want to contribute content to an article, please find a topic which you know something about, or at least research the topic before you add content. The contributions you have made to

talk
) 18:18, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Well just to take your latest edit, where you added a reference to this statement of yours: "The need for drying sea clothes is shown by a notice in at least one steam trawler's
talk
) 22:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of File:Aa plazmablaster 00.jpg

section I4 of the criteria for speedy deletion
, because it is an image with an unknown source or an unknown copyright status which has been tagged as such for more than 7 days, and it still lacks the necessary information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[Talk:File:Aa plazmablaster 00.jpg|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Plrk (talk) 20:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

ACTRAN article deleted by mistake?

  • Dear Anthony, you have removed the article ACTRAN saying that it was blatant advertising, if I understood correctly. I am new in editing wikipedia articles, I may have done some errors without noticing it, in which case I apologize. But I have just read the guidelines again, and IMHO this judgment is a little excessive (or maybe my page was confusing?). If some lines were falling in the blatant advertising category and should be removed from wikipedia, I am of course open to modifications (that is the way wikipedia articles can progress!). What is the procedure to undelete the page, and what modifications would you demand / ask / propose? If you think it is not acceptable to undelete this page even after modifications, I would be happy to know why. A lot of other simulation tools are detailed in wikipedia, cf List_of_finite_element_software_packages for example, and I have tried to use them as a basis for my own page. Thanks a lot for your help, time and patience, and best regards, Fred SC (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
  • I have undeleted it and AfD'ed it: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ACTRAN. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks, would you please be kind enough as to tell me, in your opinion, what the cause of the mark for deletion is? Fred SC (talk) 16:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
  • A user (not me) speedy-delete-tagged it as advertisement. I have AfD'ed it, and that will let several users' opinions be heard about whether to keep page ACTRAN. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:34, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
  • wonderful, thanks a lot, now I understand much better what happened; I have replied to the (valuable) comment of this user, and will wait for a feedback from the community, which will have the final word. I love this system. Thanks for your time and patience again, Fred SC (talk) 17:02, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Bmibaby

Any chance you could take a look at the discussion at

Wikipedia:Name#Use_standard_English_for_titles_even_if_trademarks_encourage_otherwise. Whenever I implement the changes however, I just get reverted. It is rather frustrating that he is refusing to accept the facts! Cheers Nouse4aname (talk
) 21:16, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that. We really do seem to be going around in circles with this debate. It seems to me that the debate is exhausted now, and that the evidence supports the use of the capitalised version. I can't think of any policy or guideline that would support the use of lowercase. How long should I wait before restoring to capitalisation, and what should I do if reverted? This editor is also doing a similar thing with
BMI Regional, though I think we can apply the conclusion of this debate to all three articles? Cheers Nouse4aname (talk
) 22:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey, sorry to bother you again about this, but I'm really stuck and unsure as to how to proceed with this situation. No policy or guideline has been provided to support the use of lowercase, yet my attempts to conclude the discussion go ignored. How can we resolve this matter with the least disruption? Nouse4aname (talk) 16:56, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Choke pear (plant)

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Duhaney Park Rugby Football Club

  • Why was the Duhaney Park Rugby Football Club deleted? 16:58, 21 March 2009 User:98.116.105.31
  • Please what was the exact name of this page? I have deleted no files whose names contain "Duha", at least since 31 August 2008. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:05, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

bmibaby or BMIBaby?

You have previously participated in a discussion at Talk:Bmibaby. If you care, please weigh in again at Talk:Bmibaby#Closure again. — AjaxSmack 19:00, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Would you please help again

Thanks for moving to

Traditional Chinese music. Please see Talk:Guoyue. Thanks. -Zhinanzhen (talk
) 11:51, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Choke pear (plant)

Cayley's Ω process

  • Please undo your move of
    Process wonkery should never trump content. And as for your argument that this is about reversing a bad copy-and-paste move: the correct way to do that is to do the non-copy-and-paste move that was originally intended, not just to say "it's a copy-and-paste therefore it must be undone". —David Eppstein (talk
    ) 07:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:24, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Grenada Stadiums


The Minor Barnstar
On the work you've done on merging and redirecting
Cricket National Stadium. Aaroncrick(Tassie Boy talk)
10:36, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Liverpool James Street

see reply. Simply south (talk) 22:40, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Lathallan Preparatory School

Thanks. Seems I have my work cut out for me, and understand its deletion. It is now also a secondary school. I have some other work to tend to now, but do thank you for the favor.---Flaquito (talk) 00:48, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Thomas Hampson

  • Hi there. I see you have moved the article on Thomas Hampson from
    talk
    ) 20:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Dorian Wilson

criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies
.

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Public economics

  1. the two (earlier PE & PES) cculd be history-merged, so that they could appear as one Revision history
  2. the final title would be PE.
(1)-even-as-"PSE" would be an improvement over the status quo IMO. (2) would improve on that. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 16:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate your good jedgment and timely wizardry, noted also at Talk:Public economics#Proposal to archive current contentt of Talk page in 2 weeks. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 16:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

dab page style

Hi Anthony Appleyard. I've revised two of your recent edits as they don't follow the

WP:MOSDAB suggests using See also for likely misspellings. Thanks for your valuable contributions! —EncMstr (talk
) 22:44, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Caribbean islands move

You have removed the article Inflation from Wikipedia

Editor conflict.

I was about to say: Thank you for putting it back. It was not vandalism after all.

PennySeven (talk) 19:07, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't think this is a satisfactory solution, either substantively or in terms of process. Given that the issue is obviously controversial, the correct procedure should be to restore the status quo ante before discussion about a final decision. I also find it worrying that you are intervening as an administrator while also participating as an advocate for a particular position in the discussion. JQ (talk) 21:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Unilateral move was bad form

  • Although I (of course)
    AGF, a unilateral move to a title not supported by anyone else in the middle of a RM discussion is really bad form. At a minimum, it compromises previous discussion to move since it introduces a status not present at the time those comments were made. I will notify previous discussants of the change but please wait until the full discussion period has elapsed before conducting such action. Thanks. — AjaxSmack
    23:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done OK, OK, I have put it back in Inflation Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:22, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Inflation RM

You previously participated in a discussion at

Talk:Inflation (financial)#Requested move: part 2. — AjaxSmack
23:59, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Help with managing books

Request

Thank you, Rambo's Revenge (How am I doing?) 10:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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