User talk:Adambro/Archive 13

Ben Wsift

Ben Swift... well it's on both the British Cycling pages(http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/roa20100102--Sky-Pro-Team-Launch-0) and on cyclingnews.com

It was notable also that Ben was absent from the published Katusha roster released a few days ago.

TL —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonylyons (talk • contribs) 10:07, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rodhullandemu

I am actively rebelling against Rodhullandemu. He is a distructive and aggressive editor who does not give people a chance to debate things. He blocks anyone he doesn't like. He enforces his opinion. This is meant to be a community encyclopaedia. If you look at his talk page you'll see many people, some established editors, who cannot understand his actions.

People like his are not good for this site. I am not a malicious person. I am expressing my right to protest fascist attitudes on a free-speech website. If you look into his history he even got in trouble over deleting anti-right wing text for his own gain.

Thanks

90.212.154.3 (talk) 15:34, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot on usage

Is it going to do that on all remaining stations? Simply south (talk) 20:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is the plan, the eventual aim is to be able to update the statistics upon release of the new data, working through Category:UK stations without latest usage statistics is serving as a way of developing and testing the bot and also identifying other issues like NR stations that lack the relevant code. Adambro (talk) 20:26, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually there are quite a few stations that are not even in the category for example those with {{Infobox London station}} (and others that shouldn't be either). Simply south (talk) 20:58, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did you actually run the bot for all stations? There are still 366 stations in Category:UK stations without latest usage statistics. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:43, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, the work wasn't completed due to real life work getting in the way. If I recall correctly, I need to do a little work to fine tune the bot and so that will be left till I have a little more free time. Adambro (talk) 15:46, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Images of the Geograph British Isles project requiring attention

And I think Category:Images of the Geograph British Isles project will be empty too by the end of this weekend. multichill (talk) 13:03, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image deletes

When you deleted File:York station zero post.jpg and File:British manual pedestrian level crossing warning sign.jpg, did you miss the {{nocommons}} templates here and here? Perhaps you'd like to undelete these files. ⇦REDVERS⇨ 08:07, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had noticed, I'd rather hoped that perhaps your position had moderated since when you added the tags back in 2008 and wouldn't insist on keeping your images here with no apparent benefit. Looking at your activity on Commons, I struggle to understand why you've formed such a strong opinion against the project. Perhaps now is the time to give Commons another chance? I would be happy to assist you with any problems that might arise there for you. I won't however, start restoring content that I've legitimately deleted here under CSD I8 simply because for whatever reason you dislike Commons since that would serve no benefit. If you want the images to be restored then I'm sure you're aware of the appropriate procedures, but you should consider whether it is in the interests of the project to do so. Adambro (talk) 09:38, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My opinion might have started to change, were it not for the fact that last week a Commons editor, stumbling across my opinions for the first time, retaliated by pointing a bot at my images in an effort to have them deleted from Wikipedia. So Commons has not changed. However, the actual point here is that the images on Commons are not correctly attributed in the method I have specified. I have no control over Commons breaking the CC licence, but I do have influence over Wikipedia, hence the {{nocommons}} tags. I ask you again to undo your out of process deletions. ⇦REDVERS⇨ 10:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure you can realise that the actions of a few Commons users cannot be considered to accurately represent the entire project. As I've said, your activity on Common seems very limited so perhaps you have been too quick to judge the project from the few interactions you've had regarding it. I would be interested to hear what led you to form your position, it isn't obvious from your activity there nor anything else I've read here. Wikipedia, like all the other WMF project, has its fair share of problems also. If you could explain what the problems with Commons are then we might be able to resolve them.

You've suggested that "the images on Commons are not correctly attributed". If you could identify exactly what the problems are with those two images I deleted then I would be happy to try to resolve them.

As I've said, I'm not prepared to restore these images, if you wish for them to be restored then you can can raise it at deletion review or similar. My "out of process deletions" were in fact completely in line with Wikipedia policies as far as I can tell. Adambro (talk) 10:48, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have repeatedly given in-depth explanations, here's one for instance. Since you won't reverse yourself from this move, reluctantly, I will reverse you myself. ⇦REDVERS⇨ 10:57, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your admin rights don't exist to reverse the decisions of other administrators. If you want content to be restored in instances like this then you should go through the proper processes. You've yet to explain why my deletions were "out of process" as you've said in restoring these images. I would appreciate if you could clarify. As far as I can tell the deletions are perfectly valid in accordance with CSD I8, restoring them seems more "out of process" than my deletion. You've also not explained in what way the two images I deleted as being on Commons are not correctly attributed there. I can't simply be expected to guess what this problem is. Please explain what the problem is so that, regardless of whether the images continue to exist here, they are properly attributed on Commons. Adambro (talk) 11:07, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have explained. The images are tagged {{nocommons}}. It is common courtesy and expected that these tags will be honoured. Otherwise, why do they exist? If you don't agree with the existence of the tag, then it is your responsibility to gauge consensus for having the tags deleted. Your tools do not give you the right to decide on consensus without first discovering what it is; they do not give you the right to delete whatever you want just because there's a different template - often placed by a bot - on the same page. If you see a bot or automatic tag on a page plus a human-added tag saying something different, it is expected of an admin to investigate rather than delete. That's where you were out of process too. Additionally, you have been told that the Commons images are not correctly attributed (ie, they are in breach of the CC licence). I don't edit at Commons and you can't force me to. But it's not beyond the whit of man to discover the attribution requirements of the images from their original upload on Flickr. Hundreds of bloggers manage to use the images and get it right, so I'd expect a Wikipedia admin to manage. However, since I'm in danger of losing my cool due to the levels of disappointment I have in your conduct, I think we should stop this discussion now, with the status quo ante restored. ⇦REDVERS⇨ 11:18, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My obligation is to follow policies. There is no policy which says I must consider protests from users who for whatever reason dislike Commons, above the policy of deleting images which exist there. Again, I'd ask that you spell out exactly what the problem with the attribution on Commons actually is. You seem to be making the suggestion that you comments on Flickr make the attribution invalid but I'd completely dismiss such a suggestion. You uploaded the images to Wikipedia and agreed to release them under the CC licence. You can't later decide to add additional conditions or expect conditions not set out at the time of upload on the image page to be enforceable. If you wish for nocommons to be respected then you can propose it is made a policy, until then all you can expect anyone to do is to note your objection and consider the appropriate action with reference to our policies. The proper process if you wished for images like these, which were deleted on the understanding that to do so complied with Wikipedia policies, to be restored would be to start a deletion review. I'm assuming the appropriate course of action for me would be to list these images at Wikipedia:Files for deletion but it would seem a bit odd to do so considering it states that speedy deletion candidates shouldn't be listed there. I supposed I could consider using {{Db-f8}} so another admin could consider whether it qualifies for deletion under CSD I8. Adambro (talk) 11:45, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify my position, I'm not that concerned about these images that I'm going to spend time arguing for their deletion at FFD. However, my points stand since sooner or later someone else is going to come along and delete them again in line with policy so this issue hasn't gone away just because I currently have better things to do with my time. Adambro (talk) 12:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever policy says, and I don't think it says anything which is wholly on point here, extensive precedent says we don't delete things tagged with {{KeepLocal}} or {{NoCommons}}. Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Filter 291

Hi Adambro. I made some changes to your filter 291; if you wouldn't mind, please take a look at it and verify it's still correct. I made these changes because we're really close to the condition limit on the filter, and every chance to save a condition keeps us away from that limit. I left some notes on why I made the changes, so as to avoid confusion. Thanks! --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 16:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your changes are appreciated. I'm certainly no expert when it comes to the abuse filter, though I think I understand it enough to not create anything too ridiculous, so any help is welcome. Adambro (talk) 16:20, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My Images in Wikimedia Commons

Hi Adambro, please could you explain to me what you are doing to my images that are stored in Wikimedia Commons and why are you changing them without asking me before hand?

Kind regards --Peter Skuce (talk) 14:50, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Peter. If you want to discuss something I'm doing on Commons you'd be better leaving me a message on my talk page there since then, if I was editing there at the time, I'd get the new message indication and be able to review your comments before making further changes, potentially which you had concerns about which I needed to address.

I make many edits to train related images on Commons, most recently involving images of First Great Western trains which I assume includes some of your images. What I've been doing is separating images of FGW trains by type to improve the way the images are categorised. Both the FGW and relevant class categories have become quite large and so it makes sense to create subcategories to organise related content in smaller groups to make it easier to find images. If this isn't what you were referring to, or if you have some specific concerns about these changes then please clarify what you are meaning. Regards. Adambro (talk) 14:59, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tomlinson

Hi Adam, please don't add citation templates to articles that have well-formed refs. See WP:CITE. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 19:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Eh? The ref was hardly what I'd call "well-formed". It was simply a long link which exceeded the width of the page. Adambro (talk) 19:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, I mean that when an article has an established ref system, templates shouldn't be added to it. So if you see a badly formed one, it should be fixed according to the system already in place. It's not a biggie, I just mentioned it for future reference. You're right that a bare URL isn't acceptable. The article's refs are in a bit of a mess because so many people have edited it. SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 21:21, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would have to admit I simply clicked edit on the relevant section and went ahead to reformat the ref to get rid of the bare URL so didn't really notice what was being used. I would have thought using the template would have been useful though since it would make it easier to maintain a consistent reference style but I suspect there have been reams written about the pros and cons and we can't actually agree. I'll bear this in mind in future since I've generally converted to use the templates oblivious of WP:CITE advising against doing so without consensus. Adambro (talk) 21:51, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GB railway stations opening/closeing bot

Hi Adambro,

I was just wondering what the currrent status on your planned bot to add opening/closeing categories for GB railway stations? Tompw (talk) (review) 19:29, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Currently suspended that project due to other real life commitments I'm afraid. Adambro (talk) 19:33, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

British Rail Class 321 Vandalism

Dear Adambro, I have spotted user 84.13.49.166 has been vandalising the article by placing incorrect data regarding train relivery, placed a large image on the page when this image already existed as a thumbnail in the gallery near the foot of the page. This user has also removed some of my work from the page without any note or reason at all. Their information is incorrect and it has affected the article as they have also used sentances with poor English and grammer. I have a copy of the above on the British Rail Class 321 talk page. --Peter Skuce (talk) 19:22, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look. Thanks for the heads up. Adambro (talk) 19:44, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inline refs WERE included

Thanks for your comments re my editing of Thomas F. Stroock. I did in fact include an inline reference.

"Serious doubt is cast on Ambasador Stroock's commitment to human rights by the book The Blindfold's Eyes, My Journey From Tortured to Truth; Orbis Books, NY 2002 by Sister Dianna Ortiz OSU. Later in the short piece, I quoted page references three times.

If this is not adequate or suitable, please let me know in detail.

thanks Opnz (talk) 03:08, 18 February 2010 (UTC) opnz[reply]

I don't recall actually commenting regarding this. Adambro (talk) 08:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Rated R Tour

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South West Trains Class 159

Hi there Adambro,

I would like to have your comments and opinons on the following:

I have today asked South West Trains the question of the brand name for the Class 159. My question was as follows: Have the Class 159 ever been known or been given the nickname ‘Wessex Turbo’ during their lives, and were they known as ‘South West Turbo’ or is it ‘South Western Turbo’? Posted by Peter Skuce 25/02/2010 Answer: The class 159 trains were introduced in 1992 and had the name Wessex Turbo. You can find this on the webpage: <http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/archive.aspx?p=2> So I do not know how or where do the branding 'South Western Turbo' came about if British Rail Network SouthEast branded the trains as 'Wessex Turbo'.

According to Enotayokel, the trains are known as 'South Western Turbo'.

Personally I am rather confused by it all, as I remember seeing the wording 'Wessex Turbo' on the bodysides of the Class 159 by the entry/exit passenger doors around 1997-98. Also I note that South West Trains management state that the trains are 'Wessex Turbo'.

Can you help?

Regards, --Peter Skuce (talk) 21:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to comment on this? --Peter Skuce (talk) 15:31, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look and comment on the talk page if I have anything to add. Adambro (talk) 16:20, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SBC Communications

Can you help me, I just finished making a page for SBC Communication in a Userspace but I can't move it due to a SBC communication page "Exists" (Not that I could find, other than the redirect. It said "Please choose another name, or use Requested moves to ask an administrator to help you with the move." Different name doesn't make sense, don't want to have this sitting around uselessly for a little while on the list figured I'd ask an administrator.

Basically Can you help me move the page? If you can Thanks if not, oh well thanks anyways.--The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 22:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've deleted the redirect and moved your page to SBC Communications. Please check whether there are any edits necessary now it is in the article namespace such as updating links. Also, I note the lead starts "SBC Communications was a former regional holding company that specialized in local ." I assume there is a missing word or two there. Regards. Adambro (talk) 08:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I fixed it, I must have done that in a rush when the free period ended and I had to get to class. I fixed it now. Many Thanks!--The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 16:10, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MyFDB.com edits from this IP address.

Please don't blanket warn against this, there is information about the addition of myfdb.com links on this page please review thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.113.130.2 (talk) 20:16, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tapuah junction stabbing

This afd in which you participated is being discussed at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 March 12.--brew crewer (yada, yada) 00:04, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey You

I do NOT appreciate you threating me telling that you will block me, it hurt me deeply. The motto was "Lets go to walmart" so I changed it to the unofficial motto, and nickname. If you have another problem with what I said, I will be contacting my senator directly and promptly addressing this matter.

Smartguyandgirl (talk) 16:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)smartguyandgirlSmartguyandgirl (talk) 16:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Favela was wrong

I believe that i was not wrong because i have studied this very hard lately and i know for a fact that favelas are igloos in iraq. Message me back.

=)

My Talk Page Link

Whoops. I copied that template originally from your talk page, so apparently I forgot to change it. I didn't know so many people use that link. Thanks for changing it. Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you. Goodvac (talk) 16:26, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Adambro (talk) 18:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of BrightHouse (retailer)

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is BrightHouse (retailer). We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

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British Rail Class 321 - Class 321/3 Relivery

Dear Adambro that was me sorry. Would it be evidence if I cite fotopic websites images? --Peter Skuce (talk) 12:48, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Class 395 names

Hi Adambro,

Agreed on citations. Unfortunately there is no record of these other than on the side of the units themselves!

When someone publishes them in full a citation will be forthcoming!

Ohrockyrocky (talk) 15:33, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found this press release with the names but not the relevant unit numbers unfortunately. Adambro (talk) 16:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Usage/LowUsage

Hi - I was wondering whether your bot is capable of looking at previous usage statistics, and working out whether usage or lowusage would be better for borderline cases? See this edit for example - your bot has used usage here, but lowusage would have been consistent with the previous entries, and made it clearer whether the figures have gone up or down this year. Just a thought. — Tivedshambo (t/c) 21:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose there are two options, format the new data according to the previous entries or bring the previous entries in line with the greater than 100,000, use "usage" standard. It is probably better to do the latter to provide both consistency within individual articles, and within articles more generally. That shouldn't be too much of a challenge to achieve. Adambro (talk) 21:57, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've been looking to see, without success, what the cut-off between lowusage and usage should be. 100,000 seems reasonable. Are you willing/able to have your bot go through and change those which are the wrong side (for any year)? If not, I might be able to do it with AWB. — Tivedshambo (t/c) 22:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll update the bot to change those where it updates the usage stats going forward. For those that have already been done or won't be changed by the bot for whatever reason that'll involve either writing another quick script to make these changes or using AWB. I'm not immediately aware of how to do this in AWB myself though. Adambro (talk) 10:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also working on adding {{increase}}, {{decrease}}, or {{steady}} as appropriate to the current and earlier periods. Adambro (talk) 12:22, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, ignoring the London stations it looks like your bot has missed a station. Has this happened elsewhere? Simply south (talk) 12:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding London stations, they aren't being done at the moment because those use a different infobox which has different parameters. Crossflatts railway station was missed because the station code wasn't present. The bot will skip articles for a variety of reasons but it will output a list of such articles for me to investigate manually so that would have been spotted eventually. Adambro (talk) 12:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Matt Fincham

Hi Adam. Just to note that the WP:PPOL states that "A page and its talk page should not both be protected at the same time", so I've unprotected it. I know it's a little irritating, but I think it may be best just to leave the talk page until this dies down. After all, one of these new users may have something useful to add. – Toon 17:26, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, fair enough, I wasn't aware of that but it doesn't surprise me. If the signal to noise ratio doesn't improve though it may be appropriate to reinstate the protection. Adambro (talk) 17:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lol. Bloody Scott Mills. I came over to protect the article after hearing it to find that you were already there - nice reflexes. – Toon 17:31, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I listen to Radio 1 enough to know that if a particular Wikipedia article gets anything beyond a trivial mention, vandalism is highly likely so will be there ready to protect it pretty promptly. Scott's comments today are probably to the more severe end of the spectrum. It seems fairly obvious from what I can see at the moment that deletion is appropriate due to the concerns highlighted. Adambro (talk) 17:37, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stop trolling. Cut that out.

Plenty of other humans on these projects do that. I won't hide it. And I'll leave if you keep trolling me. STOP IT, TROLL. EME44 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:35, 31 March 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Image

Can image Image:Sugababes2010.jpg be moved to commons?--SveroH (talk) 22:12, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Probably better not doing at the moment. See the talk page where I've raised some issues which it would be helpful to try to address first. Adambro (talk) 08:25, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ok, thanks :)--SveroH (talk) 12:12, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editing War

Adambro,

Thanks for your message - I'm still suffering from troublemakers trying to divert interested parties to a 'hate' forum where when although I'm not a member, I'm often quoted from other forums and my full name and some personal details have been posted.

I have a full time job and aircraft flight following is a hobby.

Regards

G

Allocator101 (talk) 19:57, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adambro, Thank you for fixing it. I couldn't find a email address to email you about this. Please look over the linked page to Rod's site. It setup to make money with 18 referrer links to Airnav site. via this wiki page * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirNav_Systems_RadarBox

   * http://rodb.gofreeserve.com/RadarBox/RadBox1.htm
   * http://rodb.gofreeserve.com/RadarBox/RadBox2.htm

Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising.

Adambro... Is that okay to do? Build a referrer page for the radarbox, and link it to the wiki radarbox page. ?

Allocator. Please stop trashing the RadarBox wiki page. now you have posted this on the wiki " Screenshot deleted by Wiki for 'copywrite' reasons :-( " No reason to post that on the Radarbox page. take it up with ESkog the wiki admin via another way.

Amelle Berrabah

Could you please find and 2010 or 2009 pic of Amelle please, she doesn't have a pic. :) x --Fightforthislove (talk) 19:22, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Eh?

[1] ? Prodego ^talk 14:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

opps. Sorry about that. I'm using a touch screen mobile device and hit rollback accidently. Adambro (talk) 14:19, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I could use a little help.

Okay, over on the Wikimedia Commons, I noticed there was a mass-deletion of UK Rail images. I was a moron, and pointed out some issues this presents for us and in everyone general.

Basically I'm pretty sure I just got told I got the job of transferring all of them to Wikipedia, Problem is I don't know how to do that, and this is not exactly the best moment for me to get this 'job'. Could you give me a hand, or suggest someone who could? The information is here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mattbuck under '33109 negotiates the backstreets of Weymouth'--The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 03:08, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I understand the main issue is confirming that those images were released under a free licence by the photographer. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that transferring them to Wikipedia would be a suitable solution to that problem. Whilst Wikipedia allows "fair use" for images not available under a free licence, the circumstances where fair use can be claimed are very limited and I doubt would include these images. I think the only way of rescuing these images would be to try to get clear statements submitted to OTRS from the photographers that they agree to release these images under an appropriate free licence. I'm afraid I can't help you more, but I'm busy with exam revision at the moment. Regards. Adambro (talk) 07:30, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Grand Union/Grand Northern/Grand Central

Just wanted to say thank you for tidying up the mess of the various Grand Northern/Grand Central articles - I've wanted to do it myself but found it to be a large undertaking! NRTurner (talk) 09:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

TMi cbbc page

I noticed you protected the TMi cbbc page! Thanks.

I was also getting fed up with the vandalism that others were making. I was deleting the vandalism and i should have included an edit summary.

Someone was being "creative" with the TMi guest list and kept adding guests that have never appeared on the programme. I.E: Michael Jackson: he had never appeared on this programme and some idiot thought he had filled in for the female host in 2008 when in fact it was singer Alesha Dixon who had filled in for her!

I notice that the page has now reverted to an earlier version of it.

Thanks for protecting the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.232.4 (talk) 23:21, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for the action related to account Drugring (talk · contribs). This account is likely a sock of banned User:DavidYork71, per the checkuser confirmed findings from 9 May 2010. -- Cirt (talk) 13:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Excessive editing

Hi Adambro, This other User talk:Cosmic Latte has been editing the Michael jackson page alot. It seems as though other editors have warned him already and he from his talk page has been charged with vandalism. Just bringing it to your attention. Their is a talk page to discuss editing before enacting drastic changes to articles from the best of my knowledge.

Thank you hubbletelescope2 Hubbletelescope2 (talk) 16:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kaya Scodelario

I've undone your edit concerning that band without a Wikipedia entry, don't add it again without a source. The Blue Guillemot (talk) 11:10, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you very much, I was a little confused as to how to start off here, in terms of editing and could not find any information, thanks for the links. What would you say is the best way to contribute around here? The slack (talk) 17:34, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cancellara

I reverted your additions as was presented just from Cancellara's point of view. I think we could keep as it is (perhaps correct my English, I am not mothertongue), adding Cancellara denials. Ciao and let me know. --'''Attilios''' (talk) 12:11, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I note you've now reverted yourself but I was very concerned about how it was written. It shouldn't be written from Cancellara's point of view, nor the point of view of the people who accuse him of cheating, but rather a neutral point of view. It is also preferable to us English sources where available since many editors may not understand other languages and so may find it difficult to check what has been said. As an example of the problems though, before my changes the article said "The videos pointed out by Cassani show Cancellara pushing a button". That isn't the case. The videos may suggest he is pushing a button but we can't state that he is because we don't know, he might have just been changing gear or whatever. I think the way it was written gave too much weight to the accusations. As another example, I'm not convinced that it was true to say that Cassani said any bike changes were to get fresh batteries. I think there might have been some confusion between what Cassani said and what the various YouTube videos put together by others which included clips of Cassani talking about this have said. Adambro (talk) 12:47, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

mavi marmara

My friend, you can edit everything on wikipedia. But you can not edit peoples hearts. International society see clearly how Israel commandos attacked and murdered civilians on the ship in internationel waters. You can make up the page as much as you can, no problem. If you want you can write "activists attacked poor israeli commnados by plastic chairs and sticks, israeli commandos responded to protect themselves". Nobody will believe these make ups, even you do not believe what you write. So why dont you give up this game and clearly write what had done o--Tufankaya (talk) 22:37, 6 June 2010 (UTC)n the ship. People are using wikipedia to learn, not to read israeli propoganda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tufankaya (talk • contribs) 21:50, 6 June 2010[reply]

My motivation behind my edits to this article have been to avoid it getting into too much of the detail since we have the main article, Gaza flotilla raid, which already deals with the subject in detail. By linking to that, we avoid duplicating our efforts and it keeps any disputes about what should be written in one place. This article is about the ship. The incident the ship was involved in is described in that main article. The current text provides a brief but adequate neutral summary of the incident and directs readers to the main article for more information. It is terribly ironic that I'm being accused of writing Israeli propaganda whilst at the same time there are other users who have effectively accused me of anti-semitism. I suppose that is what you get when you try to be neutral, you find yourself in the middle with both sides unhappy about you. Adambro (talk) 21:15, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Of course this article is about the ship, not about gaza flotilla raid but the reason why there is an article called Mavi Marmara is because 9 activist is killed by israeli commandos at this ship. Otherwise as I know wikipedia does not consist articles of all ships on the world. So there should be more information about the deaths rather than the former operator of the ship, etc. since all the world is talking about this ship because of these deaths. Secondly your edits (in the violent clashes that followed) give a message to the readers such as two armed group clashed. But the truth is (not my personal opinion) the passangers (which consist of activists from 32 different countries including EU parliements) were unarmed (I mean guns, not plastic chairs or sticks) and israeli commandos entered the ship from helicopters and after these "violent clashes" 9 passanger is killed by israeli soldiers. I do not know you personally so I can not blame you to make israeli propoganda, but do you really believe that violent clashes can occur between proffessional commandos and acvitists? If any israeli commando were killed I may agree with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tufankaya (talk • contribs) 21:41, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There was a clash between the Israelis and the passengers on the ship. There was violence. That makes it a violent clash. That one group had more deadly weapons than the other doesn't change anything. The exact details of the incident are covered adequately in the main article. Adambro (talk) 21:54, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My point is clear, but anyway, I gave up. I agree with you that Israeli commandos had "more deadly" weapons than Mairead Corrigan who was the passanger of the ship and owner of Nobel Peace Prize.Tufankaya (talk) 22:38, 6 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tufankaya (talk • contribs) 22:29, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just some point of views which I believe is quite relevant while discussing this area of subject. Fist of all what the Israeli armed forces did was a criminal action and clearly against international law and agreements. Do defend this action is, due to me and many others, without any reason. Of course each coin has two sides, but still Israel refuse to agree on participating in an international and objective investigation lead by the UN. I strongly believe that this action in itself clears Israels position and opinion. So after so much fact in hand, why even try to defend a criminal action, an action accepted as criminal from such an organization as United Nations... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fleurdusoleil (talk • contribs) 21:24, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're looking for a discussion forum, this isn't one. I'm not interested in discussing this incident outside the context of considering updates to articles. Adambro (talk) 21:53, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

University of Huddersfield Profile

Hello,

I am currently trying to update the Wiki profile for The University of Huddersfield with some new facts, figures and text. Following your comments and the rejection of the text that I have put together for this profile, I have re-worded some aspects. As you can appreciate, this does take quite some time to update. So please could you inform me before you remove anything so that I can make any necessary tweaks? I intend to begin re-editing this page this afternoon.

Thanks,

Ucomarketing (talk) 13:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

I hope you can get back to us on this query... We have purposely broken down all our amends into chunks so that if you disagree with the wording (because of bias of view or any other reason), you can delete that particular section of text. However, you keep on deleting all our amends - this includes facts which are now out of date.

Please can you let us know what the problem is (in more detail) - we need to update the University profile information so please help us with this task rather than just deleting all amends.

Thank you for your help.

Ucomarketing (talk) 15:22, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bot task

Hi there Adambro; I think I may have a task for AdambroBot. The talk page banner {{TrainsWikiProject}} has a parameter |stations=yes, which if present, marks the article as falling within WP:STA. Unfortunately, in a significant number of cases, this parameter has been mis-entered as |Stations=yes, which isn't recognised in the intended fashion.

The task: for all pages bearing {{TrainsWikiProject}} (I expect you know of a rule by which these are most easily found), check within that banner, and apply changes accrding to these rules:

If the parameter |Stations= is not present, do nothing and move on to the next page.
If |Stations= is present, but |stations= is not present, alter |Stations= to |stations=, retaining its existing value.
If both |Stations= and |stations= are present, check their values according to the rules of {{yesno}}:
- if |Stations= is "no", remove it whatever the value of |stations=
- if |stations= is "yes", remove |Stations= whatever its value
- if |Stations= is "yes", but |stations= is "no", alter value of |stations= to "yes" and remove |Stations=

Is that OK as a spec? If it's not within AdambroBot's area, do you know which bot would be best for the task? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You might get this done more promptly by making a request at Wikipedia:Bot requests. Whilst I don't think I'd have any problem making these changes, current real life commitments don't allow me the required time to do this work at the moment. Adambro (talk) 19:03, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done requested at WP:BOTREQ#Railway station talk pages not showing WikiProject Stations. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:40, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Chemtrail conspiracy theory

It was not an opinion it was a clear disclaimer asking people to conduct thorough research. This entire article is someone's opinion. Please refrain from policing a website that for the most part is wrong in its information, like the article in question. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adnezal (talk • contribs) 18:04, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If there are problems with that article then please raise it on the talk page. I can't promise that you'd would get very far though with that since you clearly have an agenda here but I can promise any attempts to add "disclaimers" or suchlike will be reverted. Adambro (talk) 19:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SFG

Hi Adambro,

I notice that you've been doing some great work regarding Scouting for Girls. Please consider joining the Scouting for Girls WikiProject;an effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Scouting for Girls. If you would like to participate please pop over to the project page where you can join the project and see an open list of tasks that you can help with. Thank you for your time.

Regards, Rock drum _Ba-dum^Crash 16:35, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to switch off links from a template

Dear Adambro, I am looking for an extension of the "What links here" function. In many articles there are templates, which sometimes include almost a hundred of other articles. Clicking on "What links here" delivers all of them, which are not necessarily relevant. Is there a way not to see these articles linked through a template, but only the articles with a direct link? Can this function be programmed somehow? If you don't know, could you please give me a reference on who could know it or who knows how to program such a thing with an external tool like http://stats.grok.se/ or http://toolserver.org/. Thanks a lot in advance. --Silin2005 (talk) 16:34, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Survey on gender

Hi! I'm Liria Veronesi (User:Akoha77) and, together with Paolo Massa (User:Phauly), I'm starting an empirical research on "Gender and votes in requests for adminship". For this reason, we need to know the gender of Wikipedians who were candidated to become admins.

We tried looking for the templates User:UBX/male and User:UBX/female but only 4 admins use it. We also used the API for getting the gender field in the profile but, out of 1744 admins, only around 400 have filled this field. But we would benefit from a larger coverage, i.e. possibly knowing the gender of 100% of candidates.

So, after asking for advice to 3 admins and receiving 2 positive replies (1 and 2), we decided to try to ask directly to Wikipedians.

Thus, would you be so kind to write your gender [Male / Female / Other], together with a text comment if you want, on my talk page at User_talk:Akoha77? If you prefer to send me this information privately, you can send me an email, the information will be kept confidential and never shared.

Thanks! Akoha77 (talk) 12:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This reminded me a story

Once a 4-years old boy asked his grandmother: "Granny, are you going to die one day?" "I am" - she responded. The boy continued: "Will you get buried?" "I will" she signed, but the boy was not done yet: "Will be your grave deep?" "Yes" - she said. The boy got happy and exclaimed: "Good, it is, when I am going to play with your sewing machine!" See any resemblance?

Well, you deleted it, fine, but why you called it "trolling by a disgruntled user"? More people voted to keep it than to delete it, and between them was one administrator, who BTW is much more reasonable and much more neutral than you are. The image has a great educational purpose for somebody, who wants to get educated at least.The deletion summary you wrote was nothing, but trolling. D= DX --Mbz1 (talk) 14:43, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Troll (Internet) defines a troll as "someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response". In my opinion that is exactly what you were doing with that image. There is no apparent educational value. It seems that it sarcastically calls for an "End [to] the unjust Jewish occupation of Arab land" then highlights how small Israel is compared to a number of Arab countries and also includes a number of illustrations presumably showing how Jews have been persecuted.

I referred to you as the uploader as a disgruntled user because I think that is accurate. I think this was just another response to certain other images you dislike not being deleted. It isn't the first time you've uploaded an image which seems to be to protest or air your views. Adambro (talk) 16:12, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

None of the description of a troll is applied neither to me nor to the image I uploaded. You should not have written this in your deletion comment. It is incorrect, and I consider it PA. The image was a photo montage made out of the highly valued, historical, free licensed images uploaded to Commons. If one puts a few images from the same topic together, the educational value of the resulting image could only increase. This image was not meant as a protest at all, only as an education. About educational value you have missed on my main point, but it is probably not your fault. If you consider "illustrations presumably showing how Jews have been persecuted" to be "inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages" I've nothing else to add. --Mbz1 (talk) 22:43, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I sent you email.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:36, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adambro

Hi Adambro, thanks to you I have more free time now, so I decided to look at some of my very old images, and I found a few funny ones. I'd like to share with you one. Could you please guess without looking at the file name and description what did I take an image of ? Cheers.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:19, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re-run electon

The election is a re-run as it to be run under the same regulations as a short campaign for a general election and not a by-election. A by-elecyion has a spending limit of £100,000 a GE seat has a spending limit of less based on the number of electors and a minimum value.--Lucy-marie (talk) 17:56, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You might be better making these comments on the Oldham East and Saddleworth re-run election, 2010 talk page. I wasn't expecting that we would really know these details until the Speaker's statement. I had a quick look a the RPA and I couldn't find a mention of a re-run election so I'm just wondering where the differences are documented. Adambro (talk) 18:03, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

False positive

Hey, there's a false positive I found on the Edit Filter, false positives section. Here's the link to the case. Please do fix this. Thanks! Endofskull (talk) 00:13, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help me out? Endofskull (talk) 00:14, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Farrelly

Hi

I've tried to edit the profile of Paul Farrelly MP to make his profile balanced and act against what his staff have clearly been doing to edit content and give a misleading impression of this discredited MP. However my very balanced and accurate additions have been removed by you, which is against the spirit of wikipedia. I have repeatedly made accurate and substantive changes and am very disappointed that you are consistently removing them. Please stop stifling the truth and allow these entirely, 100% accurate facts to prevail.

Yours,

Edward Robertson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.4.40 (talk) 00:13, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the above is for me? Endofskull (talk) 00:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are right 86.177.4.40 that it seems someone close to Farrelly has been removing some content from the article. I am concerned though that your edits are not really making "his profile balanced". I note that your recent edit which I reverted removed sourced content and replaced it with unsourced content. For example, you added "and has controversially employed at tax payers expense as a 'personal architectural consultant'" but you don't provide a source to back up that he has "employed at tax payers expense as a 'personal architectural consultant'" or that it was controversial. Who thinks it is controversial?

I note you also removed the statement that "Hurrell had been involved in previous altercations". Why? Adambro (talk) 07:52, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

HS2

You have delete a list that I entered.

It was there to balance the list of supporting organisations and provide links for people who wish to obtain more information. The only other mention on this long page of such organisation was to a different website which does not provide balance.

Unless you have valid reasons to the contrary, it will be restored. I will wait a few hour for your response.

Ladbroke76 (talk) 15:04, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

High Speed 2

You have decided that YesToHS2 is "insignificant"? I simply added a link to balance what appeared to be a growing list links to protest web sites. If individual protester's web sites can listed why not individual supporters. YesToHS2 is rapidly gaining support and is far from "signification", it is not for you to judge. It wasn't a shameless plug, I am concerned much more with people being given the right to put their views forward especially with regards to this subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.205.19 (talk) 22:59, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you would point out any "individual protester's web sites" that are currently listed I will happily remove them. You don't seem to have said anything to explain why I shouldn't consider YesToHS2 as insignificant. As per WP:EL, the idea isn't for Wikipedia articles to list every website related to a particular topic. Adambro (talk) 00:01, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I qoute "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject" so the following sites do no conform being that they are Protest sites. http://www.chilternsaonb.org/hs2/ (A protest group), http://www.stophs2.org Stop HS2, umbrella group for action groups opposing HS2. All articles on the yestohs2 blog are open to debate and are bases on known facts and statement. I do not use the blog for personal gain in any way, I simply use the blog to redress the balance of support for HS2 and but forward fair and reasonable arguments. the blog has also been recognised by one of the members of Greengauge21 as being an important part of the debate over HS2. You can not have two prosest sites and then disallow a site that actively supports the HS2 project. The other links are to documents and official websites which aren't supportive web sites per se —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.205.19 (talk) 10:47, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed those two now per the external links guidelines. Adambro (talk) 11:18, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's fair enough then. Will the user names and full names of the people that posted their links be going on the revisions page and subsequently on twitter also? I think I was very well constrained not deleting them myself, I know keeping the integrity of wikipedia is important. Perhaps in a few weeks I can prove you wrong, the yestohs2 has only been operating about 6 weeks but is gaining support rapidly, where as the HS2AA has been up and running for a few months if now more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.205.19 (talk) 14:52, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How do I contact an editor / resolve an edit dispute on a specific page?

Hi - got your message (possibly automatically generated). It is not obvious how you resolve a edit dispute on a specific article... thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiedit9876 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There's a tab labelled 'Discussion' for each article. That takes you to the Talk page where you can discuss edits to the article. Bondegezou (talk) 13:51, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

High speed 2 cost

I noticed that there is a small section that covers the cost. It states the full cost of £34bn, whilst this is correct for a London to Scotland railway the actual planned railway which is up for debate namely the London to Birmingham section will cost roughly £17bn, this figure also factors in overruns and risk. I think people looking to find out more about HS2 should be able to see the costs for both proposals. As I said though the proposal currently up for debate is the London to Birmingham section due for completion in 2025, only when the hybrid bill for this section has gone through will work begin on the full plans for the Leeds and Manchester spurs. In the interest of accuracy and fairness I believe it is important that this figure is included. --Chow 34 (talk) 16:25, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please take care

[2] is skating the borders of WP:OUTING. "Appears to be the site owner" would do. Guy (Help!) 11:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I was just trying to explain how the name of the site owner and the username were related to show why I'd suggested it was being added by the site owner. I've hidden the edit summary for that diff now and in future I won't go into unnecessary detail in such situations. Adambro (talk) 13:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Derwent College

I think you'll find that he is....81.145.247.90 (talk) 14:07, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help us please

Help please! We are the ones of "clique" bof the Italian Wikipedia. We are here to look for Italian speakers: how many are you? Are you available? We need to create entries very important to our encyclopedia, which shows a trend of growth really slowed down. If you want to create a few hundred entries to help, not hurt. And do not be afraid of passing digital: ours is a pure need, it isn't an advantage to overcome the other wiki. And then, you have no risk of downgrade from our language you stranger ... Thank you very much, a greeting to all!

The Italian Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.4.130.112 (talk) 14:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I made a legit edit to Roar or whatever, But that was removed, There are some idiots on the same IP doing stupid stuff right now. But that was legit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.234.44.65 (talk) 19:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your understanding!

Another victim of the Crow? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.174.110.249 (talk) 21:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Termination Rumours sooner.

Hi Adambro,

I am a serious editor in wikipedia and joined recently. I am getting to know some vague rumours saying wikipedia is heading towards its termination by march 2011, if enough money is not recovered by this year. I just like to know from you experienced guys whats going around and how this is going to affect wikipedia in big time now. If you feel so replying back here is not safer, then you can contact me through mail on my user page.

Ungal Vettu Pillai (talk) 08:24, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Were you solicited via IRC or any other media to look at the behavior of WMC? Jehochman ^Talk 16:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, I have Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents on my watchlist as I suspect many other admins do. Adambro (talk) 16:48, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very good. Thank you. In that case, it is a clean block and should stand, regardless of the poor behavior by the editors who were baiting WMC. He's responsible for his actions no matter what. Jehochman ^Talk 16:49, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

user admin

I don't know why it's coming up as user admin, as i know myself that i'm not part of the user admin, my user name is Stayg86. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stayg86 (talk • contribs) 17:34, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable sources

Do you want to know where is whole list of messages? Here on Russian Wikipedia. 89.76.176.180 (talk) 17:06, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you explain the relevance of that? Adambro (talk) 17:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Everything has been copied and translated from cyrillic into normal latin alphabet. So, I need to create other domain for website? Actually I have over 14 500 hits, I'll don't change address. 89.76.176.180 (talk) 17:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What does this have to do with anything? Adambro (talk) 17:14, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A lot. If something is on other Wikipedia, it's reliable. Very simple. 89.76.176.180 (talk) 17:20, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, it is not that simple for three reasons. Firstly, other language version of Wikipedia have slightly different policies and guidelines and so may allow sources which wouldn't be allowed on this Wikipedia. Secondly, as per the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy, "open wikis" such as another language version of Wikipedia, "are largely not acceptable". Finally, that some specific content is present on a Wikipedia site doesn't necessarily mean anything more than that one individual, or a few, have decided to add it. It isn't an endorsement that the content is reliable, just as the presence of the content you've added to UVB-76 doesn't mean the Wikipedia community accept it as reliable. Adambro (talk) 17:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Admit now that you have somewhere what's going on station. 89.76.176.180 (talk) 13:23, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I don't understand what you are asking. Could you perhaps try to explain it in another way? Adambro (talk) 14:25, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Undoing my edit

I don't appreciate your actions. Why did you undo my edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DLeeConundrum (talk • contribs) 22:54, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because we don't write Wikipedia article in such a style; "If you want to see... check out...". This is explained in more detail at WP:TONE. Articles shouldn't be like a conversation with the reader. Adambro (talk) 23:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

reply

Hello, Adambro. You have new messages at Bubba73's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Jimmy Carter UFO incident

You protected the wrong version of Jimmy Carter UFO incident This sentence "As a scientist by training, Carter did not think of it as an extraterrestrial spacecraft. However, he also dispelled the idea that it was a secret military aircraft or the planet Venus as skeptics had suggested" has two problems.

in the interview referenced, Carter says that he thinks that it was a military aircraft.
"As a scientist by training" are Carter's words and that should be made clear that he is saying that. Is is not trained as a scientist, rather as an engineer.

Thank you. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 18:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whenever an article is protected it in a content dispute it is always the wrong version, according to someone at least. You might find it interesting to look at meta:The Wrong Version which I linked in the log but don't take it too seriously. Adambro (talk) 19:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I had read that, and it said to notify the admin that he protected the wrong version. On this article, there is a consensus of several editors against one. Also, if you look at the user contributions, the other editor is a Single Purpose Account. And if you look at the edit summaries and discussion, you see that the other editor is unwilling to discuss it rationally and makes personal attacks, making it hard to AGF. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 19:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

meta:The Wrong Version is supposed to be humorous as is explained at the top. It isn't intended to be taken seriously. You make some good points regarding the other editor but it seems you are yet to try to discuss their concerns on the article's talk page. You may be right that they are "unwilling to discuss it rationally" but it doesn't seem like you've really tried yet. As for consensus here, it is hard to judge. There appeared to be a number in favour of the "Carter doubts that the object was an alien spacecraft" wording but the discussions seemed primarily about the issue I raised, how we should attribute that statement. The changes that Imagguk has made recently are slightly different and so I'm less confident there is consensus for/against regarding that. Adambro (talk) 19:39, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Team Sky 2010 jersey.gif

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Thanks for uploading File:Team Sky 2010 jersey.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 03:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

East Coast 91

Hi there

Edited the date - it was meant to read 2011, my body calender still hasn't changed! It was in the current or last RAIL magazine, can't remember which now... ACBest Dog and Bone 17:28, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

St Pancras International - naming controversy

Hello, Since you took part in this before, you might like to know that there is a revived proposal under discussion at Talk:St Pancras railway station#Requested move. -- Alarics (talk) 20:10, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nadine Dorries

"Abstinence and child sex abuse: rmv nightmaresandboners blog link. many bloggers will have written about this, unclear why that deserves mentioning specifically"

This blog is relevant because the blogger herself was a victim of childhood sexual abuse, thus her comment on Dorries remarks are rather more pertinent than any random blogger. This would have been clear to anyone actually reading this particular blog.You know it makes sense 18:46, 25 May 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toss.er live (talk • contribs)

Synthesis on Nadine Dorries' page.

I read that page on synthesis and see how my final sentence " The incident appears to be another example of the sensationalism and fear-mongering surrounding cannabis, particularly strong "skunk" strains" could fall under that definition, however, without it the text was completely objective. I didn't want to blindly revert it so I thought I'd ask. The information is certainly relevant to those seeking information about her and I feel it would be a shame not to include it. Anareon (talk) 15:15, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whilst there are sources for both the description of what Dorries said and the suggestion that "since the sixties potency has increased just ten times", there doesn't seem to be a reliable source which makes the argument that Dorries is incorrect as is the conclusion the the "Ignorance surrounding cannabis" section is clearly implying. As the no original research policy says, "If no reliable source has combined the material in this way, it is original research". We need a reliable source here which takes what Dorries said and offers a similar analysis in order to include this. Adambro (talk) 17:02, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

request for admishonship

hi! im dustbunny321 and i lov wikipedia. i just became a member and havnt really edited many things on wikipedia, but i think that i would make a great administrater, because i love making sure that people have good and trusting information.

please consider my request. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dustbunny321 (talk • contribs) 00:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hank Green page edits

You recently removed a sentence I added (yesterday in fact) about the Vlogbrother Hank Green where I added that he was '"known for "dominating little known scientific phenomena, songs about"'. I intended to return today to provide a citation, but found it had been removed. The sentence is a direct quote from his brother, John Green, in a video where Hank himself embraces the description. As I can see how it could be perceived as vandalism to those outside the Nerdfighter community, but I think the removal was without need.

I do have a user account under the name of Hedgeworth, but was unable to sign in at the time - Hedgeworth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.121.132 (talk) 00:42, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry for not providing a more comprehensive edit summary to explain the change. I've removed this again and explained why. I hope my reasoning is now clearer. I had watched the Vlogbrothers video before you'd added the quote and so I was aware of where it came from. Adambro (talk) 10:22, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

edit my update

i changed the release date of the inbetweeners movie release date to the 17th which it is the day it coming out. i just want to know hyyou changed it back to the 19th — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.151.212.47 (talk) 14:25, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is your source for the 17th? Thanks. Adambro (talk) 14:47, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

i work for Entertainment Film and the film will be release on the wednesday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.151.212.47 (talk) 00:14, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I note now that there seems to be some confusion about the date with some sources saying 17th and some saying the 19th. I'll raise this on the talk page. Regards. Adambro (talk) 10:05, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2011 Tour of Britain

Hi there. Well done for your good work on the 2011 Tour of Britain article. I've left a question about the article that you might be best placed to answer here. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Project to encourage cooperation between The National Archives and Wikipedia

Hi! As someone who's spent some time at Your Archives, I thought you might be interested - if you haven't seen it already - in a recently started GLAM project to encourage cooperation between The National Archives and Wikipedia. Ideas & participation welcome! Dsp13 (talk) 20:03, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview

Dear Adambro,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 04:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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