Hi ... many tx for the DYK notice for DYK for Wilson's Arch (Jerusalem).
Quick question .. all others I ever received, I believe, had this neat little click-tab, to check how many hits the dyk had. That is handy, as over time it helps one who does not want to have to search for an old DYK's stats on the DYK day. This one, however, seems to be missing that. Just wondering ...
You're welcome. I had a look back and I think it's because you nominated the article but didn't write it. I believe the bot that sends out these messages only puts those links on for the article creators, so the link will be on his/her talk page rather than yours. It's just the way the templates work... Cheers, BigDom08:18, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ahah -- that would explain why I never saw it before. Though I fail to see the rationale underlying the bot difference. Nevertheless ... I won't worry over it. Many tx for taking the time to figure it out, and respond.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:23, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello again.. I read all the pear review comments and you mentioned bits about personal life, well for the past 2 weeks iv'e been looking and I cant find a thing. Just wondered if you could help me out with it abit. Also I think I could expand abit on Stalybridge but there isnt much more to realy write about after that. Thanks, –LiamTaylor– 17:54, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On the WP:Football discussion you mentioned that Man City had 150,000+ views more than the seasons article. Please could you tell me where I can find page-views for wiki articles? TheBigJagielka (talk) 13:16, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Of course. If you go on any article and click the "View history" tab, there will be an external link fairly near the top of the page that says "Page view statistics". There's also a few other links, such as number of page watchers etc. If you click the link it will tell you the number of page views for the last 30 days or for each month and there's a chart to show the number of views each day. Hope this helps, BigDom (talk) 13:28, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Historical newspapers
Hello. For a few months, I have online access via a library to a selection of 19th century newspapers, hence the frantic creation of season articles before said access runs out. If there's anything specific you'd like me to look up or verify (not whole articles, please :-) feel free to ask. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:37, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I might be coming to you when my access runs out, then. Be warned, the runs aren't all complete. I've just discovered a four-year gap 1896-1899 inclusive in the Birmingham Daily Post, which really doesn't help. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 21:51, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
DYK - Rewards and Fairies
I have expanded and reformatted the article (April 17). I would appreciate it if you have time to review it again. Thanks Dabbler (talk) 13:09, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete
Hi, thank you for your correction, I always learn from my mistakes (which I seem to make a lot of) and I will Afd it see what happens. Cheers, –LiamTaylor– 14:13, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for reviewing the article. I particularly like the proposed ALT1 hook and have added references to support it. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 22:34, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Parmo
Good call, Dom, removing the section on the 'poisoned parmo' film.
There's no evidence I can see on the www to substantiate that the film exists, let alone that it has any noteworthy significance. Nice one.
Guffydrawers (talk) 08:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Dom. We're on a bit of a drive to reference every term in the page at the moment. Once that's done, my guess is that we'll wait for the DYK to pass, and then start talking seriously about inclusion/exclusion criteria. Anyway, I've come a bit unstuck with scrimmage, not least because this lot show up everywhere I look. I don't suppose you have an offline ref we could use by any chance? —WFC— 04:13, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This is a bit of a tricky one. I could provide hundreds of newspaper articles where the term is used, but none that specifically say what it means. For example from The Times, 1 Nov 1880: "A fierce scrimmage carried on in front of the Eton posts and out of this a goal was kicked." There are loads more like that, but I'll keep looking through them and see if there's anything more useful. BigDom06:36, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Harry Hooper (footballer born 1910) and 1936 FA Cup Final
Hi there,
Just wanted to say sorry for elbowing my way into your hook at DYK. I saw the article on the 1936 FA Cup Final and thought I could help out by expanding it past it's single line. Ended up finding much more information than expected, and used the access I have to the Times archive to put in a match description. Miyagawa(talk)12:08, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I hadn't even realised you had hijacked my hook until I saw this post! I like what you've done and I'm very happy to have the double hook, just remember to add the DYK credit template to the hook so you don't miss out (if you haven't done it already). Cheers, BigDom21:54, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Harry Hooper (footballer born 1910)
DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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Thanks for that, glad to know my work is appreciated! I'm just trying to clean up articles and sort out dashes at the minute, as well as converting infoboxes whenever AWB picks it up (it doesn't always work, which is slightly odd) - but AWB can't change to the new parameters, so I'm doing that manually whenever I can be bothered! Thanks again, GiantSnowman16:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As the closer of this AfD, please note there was another article nominated in the same AfD. Could you please also delete. Thanks LibStar (talk) 11:53, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, don't know how you managed to do it, but you somehow deleted ClubOranje's comment from this TfD while adding your own - I have restored it. Regards, GiantSnowman13:21, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! You were the administrator who closed the TFD nomination of this template as delete. I just finished converting all transclusions of {{Infobox Landskap}} to {{Infobox settlement}}. However, I'm wondering: should the template be deprecated (as it is several years old, which means it may break older revisions), or should it be deleted? Thanks in advance, HeyMid (contribs) 23:04, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That's a very good question and to be honest I don't know the proper answer. Even though the old revisions would not look right if it was deleted, the relevant information would still be there in the edit window of any revision. Also, the template naturally wasn't used on that many pages so it wouldn't be a massive problem. After looking for an hour or so this morning, I'm pretty sure that there is no "official" advice regarding this, so I think I will delete it for now and if another administrator wants to undelete it in the future, they can do. Cheers, BigDom08:29, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Just to let you know I have full protected the AfD page and anon blocked (1 week) the IP user who keeps blanking it and interfering with other school articles (spam for Bryson). --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:46, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi! Sorry I posted a deletion review request. I didn't know I could just ask you here. Then, by all means, just restore and relist it, I'll correct it a but. There's no need to overturn the decision. After all, there was a vote that stated clearly that the person doesn't have any lasting impact. Who knew that the voter didn't actually know anything.
Yep, it's me. I mainly stick to English stuff and football on here, but I noticed that there was very little Luxembourgish vocabulary on Wiktionary so I've been trying my best to add some words today using the little of the language I know. Cheers for the note, BigDom21:18, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Found more than I thought I would in my books, so went ahead and created Bob Lord (football chairman). A bit more material and it could be a candidate for DYK if there's a suitably engaging hook. I've still got some bits to add about his roles at the Football League, and his anti-semitic outburst in 1974. Oldelpaso (talk) 21:54, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've been away over the weekend so haven't had chance to add anything yet. Just had a look through and what you've done seems good, I'll have a look through my books later and see if there's anything else I can add. Cheers, BigDom14:29, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey, could I ask you to provide the Career statistics references for
Peter Swan (footballer born 1966) in his Burnley days please? If you have them. I took the stats from the Burnley season articles. Am trying to get the article up to GA status. Cheers!--EchetusXe11:39, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply
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You recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Respiratory Care Foundation, with a keep result. In the process, you appear to have deleted a large chunk of the discussion, including a number of guideline-based arguments by myself and Vanadus which argued for deletion. I'd be grateful if you could explain the rationale behind your excision of this text (and also your decision to close; I'll admit to a degree of bias since I was arguing for deletion, but I don't see any policy-based rebuttal to the deletion arguments put forward).
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Washington Post article
This is on me and "anonymous (street meat)" thank you and regards,
Are you trying to say that you want me to restore a version of the article to your userspace, so you can use this reference to improve it? If that's what you want, I'll happily do it. BigDom01:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Big -- I'm sorry to have been so brief -- I'm editing my new film. I appreciate any help you can offer!
No problem, I've restored the article as it was when it was deleted to User:Migdiachinea/Anonymous (Street Meat). I don't have time to help you do any writing or finding references though, sorry. When you think it might be up to a decent standard just message me and I'll have a look over it. Cheers, BigDom16:55, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've got a question about that same deleted article Anonymous (Street Meat). I remember that it had an image of an eye in the info box. Could you look at the deleted version to see what the file name was? Since it was the promotional image for her short film, I'd like to use that image on the article Migdia Chinea Varela where it mentions the film. I searched for the image on Commons but can't find it without the title. Cloveapple (talk) 19:01, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for you kind words. To be honest, regarding Nelson, it is a question of what to leave out, not what to put in! There is plenty more in the sources but I thought we had enough for now. There's a bit more I would like to squeeze in somewhere as well. With a bit of luck, this will eventually head to FAC. Cheers. --Sarastro1 (talk) 19:23, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, definitely worth a look! And if anything else turns up on other West Indian league cricketers, please let me know as I'm on a bit of a hunt at the moment for early West Indian Test cricketers. And if you get lucky, if there are any "local" articles about Constantine, that would be great. --Sarastro1 (talk) 19:58, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ernie Robinson
Hi. The information I've got of the player is taken from this: <ref>{{Cite book
| last1 = Jarred
| first1 = Martin
| last2 = Windross
| first2 = Dave
| title = Citizens and Minstermen, A Who's Who of York City FC 1922–1997
| publisher = Citizen Publications
| year = 1997
| page = 147
| isbn = 0953100502 }}</ref>. This says he made nine Midland League appearances (and none in any other competitions). And in case your sources have not recorded these, he died in Vancouver in 1991 and was 5 ft 9.5 in. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 18:56, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Willie Irvine for things which need to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:48, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply
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I saw that you created the article for William Tait (footballer), who played for Newton Heath (Manchester United), Now I was wondered if you sure his first name is actually William and if he is the same person who played for Newton Heath. I tried searching MUFC database and none actually knew his first name. nor any major info on that case. if you could shed some light on the issue it would be amazing. Thank you. – HonorTheKing (talk)05:19, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for asking. I think that I initially created the article from Michael Joyce's Football League Players' Records which simply lists him as "Tait, W" (5 apps, 4 gls) and lists his other clubs as Newton Heath, West Manchester and Ardwick. When I acquired the Burnley FC history book (the one that's referenced in the article) it gave his name as "William Tait" and showed that he had scored 5 goals rather than 4 so that's where the article title and the infobox stats come from. The book confirms that he was signed from Newton Heath in August 1888. Indeed, after the second match of the 1888–89 season the local newspaper (from where the book takes its information) states that a hat-trick, the first ever scored in the Football League, was scored by a William Tait. According to the book Tait left Burnley in Oct 1888, but it says nothing about his career thereafter. Hope this helps, BigDom10:30, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the information. I know as a fact that he signed in Newton Heath in late 1888, and scored twice in November 1888 in the Football Alliance, but now I also understand that he played in Newton Heath prior to that before joining Burnley, so maybe a short loan or short spell?, but never the less he most be the same player. Thank you so much. now I know his first name!, . – HonorTheKing (talk)11:04, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Arthur Bell (footballer)
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