User talk:Arwel Parry/archive 6

Counties again

Hi Arwel, the issue of the counties policy has recently come up again (yawn), and I though you might like to take part in the debate going on Here. You input would be much appreciated. G-Man 19:47, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Vote for Mike Garica

Please feel free to vote for me at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mike Garcia 2. -- Mike Garcia | talk 15:01, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

User:195.218.119.153

195.218.119.153 is back vandalizing footballer articles... Block him please. --DR31 _(talk) 12:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Done. He's blocked for a month. -- Arwel 13:27, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I Don't think whatever you did worked. That address is still happily vandalizing existing football articles and creating bogus articles of footballers who exist but don't currently have an entry. --GraemeL 21:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Blocked for a week again. Previous block was removed following protestation that this was an address at Dublin City Council which "couldn't have been used for vandalism". -- Arwel 21:07, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Are you back?

I am the guy who added you at the Missing Wikipedians list. - Hephaestos|§ 21:15, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Arwel, as you're probably already figured out, this is the recurring stalker dude who's been claiming to be Heph and saying that you're dead. I've blocked him for a week, but expect him back. (he's User:195.218.119.153 (talk · contribs)). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:22, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

Tube map

Okay. I'll delete it. Thanks for listing it before waiting for a response from me. Hope it brought you some satisfaction. Greaterlondoner

Michael Collins

Why did you 'revert' my edit's on the Michael Collins.Last time Ichecked Cork was in Ireland and therefore Michael Collins is an Irish person.--213.202.190.76 01:24, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

The name in the Category:Irish people line was Beresford, John, not Collins, Michael, leading to the article being mis-classified on the category page (also Terry Wogan, Gerry Adams, and Johnny Giles). -- 01:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

wicipedia

Good news. We seem to have gathered a few more Welsh-speaking contributors. Not so good news: ddraig goch20 sent me this comment: Dydw i ddim yn defnydd Wicipedia ers Awst cynnar, dw i gwele Saesneg fel "User Page, Article, Edit, History, Discussion? Beth sy'n bod gyda yr Gymraeg? What's causing the glitch? Deb 16:10, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

That's a surprise. User MediaWikidefault, which is a system user, seems to have been reverting strings in the MediaWiki namespace back to English at random for no readily apparent reason. I shall make enquiries on the tech mailing list and revert those I can find. -- Arwel 16:47, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Neil Lennon vandalism

Thank you for reverting the ongoing vandalism of the Neil Lennon article by 62.252.128.17 / 62.252.128.18. Hall Monitor 19:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Granada Television

Hi Arwel

At Talk:Granada Television there's an interesting, if strange, excursion into the alledged activities of the alledged son of Sidney Bernstein. Whilst I'm glad the contributor put this here rather than on the Granada live page, I'm wondering if it is actually potentially libellous.

If so, I don't have a clue what to do about it. Therefore I come straight to my fount of all wikiknowledge (you!) and ask for advice yet again.

Cheers

Redvers 11:53, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

- Just discovered the rather useful, if somewhat insultingly named, Clueless newbies page. Which is probably where I should put this type of question... and will do so tomorrow morning!

Redvers 19:46, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

User:203.24.137.248

I just wanted to let you know that I have blocked User:203.24.137.248 for 3 months for repeat vandalism since he did not heed your warning. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 23:49, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Birthday

User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 02:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Arwel!

What's up, Mr. Parry? I just found out tomrrow will be your 47th birthday ([1])!

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Arwel
Happy Birthday to you!

Hope you'll have a happy birthday tomorrow! And enjoy the presents you'll get and birthday cake you'll eat for your birthday! -- Mike Garcia | talk 02:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

How does one find out that kind of thing? Penblwydd hapus, Arwel. Deb 16:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, all, and diolch am y dymuniadau da! Mike found the biographical section of my website which lists a bit about me, including my birthdate. I've just treated myself to a rather nice meal in an Italian restaurant in Liverpool... -- Arwel 17:23, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

HB2U, Arwel! Redvers 19:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Belated felicitations. Do you collect banknotes? I was thinking of buying a couple of white fivers from Ebay. A genuine one and an Operation Bernhardt one and sticking them in a frame side by side and putting it up on the wall in the hall. I thought I could invite guests to guess which one is the fake. lol. Jooler 23:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks (though once you get to this age you start to regard birthdays a bit ambivalently!). No, I wouldn't describe myself as a banknote collector - sometimes notes come into my posession for a while, but I don't usually keep them long (current notes even less so!). I did manage to correctly guess which was the genuine white fiver and which was the Bernhard one in the British Museum's Money Gallery 2 or 3 years ago, but I cheated - it was obvious that the one dated after May 1945 was the genuine one! -- Arwel 23:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Foreign-born population of Great Britain, 2001

Hi Arwel. Something appears to be off in the table in your article - a link to the Olympic Stadium in Atehns appears to have crept in there, and there's something odd about the table itself - is it really meant to consist of political parties? I'd suspect vandalism, but you're the only one who's edited it. The wiki has been limping and farting over the past fw minutes; maybe something blew up when you were editing it? I'd try to fix it, but I haven't a clue what you intended to go in there! Cheers. Tonywalton  | Talk 13:59, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

And now it's put my edit in here twice. Very odd... Tonywalton  | Talk 14:01, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry - I think I hit "save" when I meant "preview", the table's OK now. -- Arwel 14:03, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Awww. I was looking forward to a list of the population of the Olympic Stadium! Tonywalton  | Talk

How dare you!!!!!

Why do you keep deleting all my comments at your talk page? 205.188.116.73 23:15, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Very easily. You are a stalker and a troll. I do not wish to have any communications with you and will remove any further thing you put on this page. I will, on the other hand, do my utmost to have you permanently barred from Wikipedia in all your incarnations, whether you use AOL proxies or not. -- Arwel 02:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome, Arwel. Let me know any time I can help. Happy editing, Antandrus (talk) 15:02, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: AOL vandals, stalkers, trolls, etc.

Hello, Arwel this is Michael (who used to be banned) again. No problem! I believe there some who does it on mine (also the user talk page you were at earlier), Danny's, Hephaestos', RickK's, Zoe's, etc. -- Mike Garcia | talk 19:45, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

The imperial council

While I was about to nominate this for deletion (on AfD), and I think it would very likely be deleted there, i don't think it fit any of the WP:CSD. Which speedy criterion did you delete it under? Please consider undeleting it and listing it on AfD. DES ^(talk) 00:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Patent nonsense. -- Arwel 00:58, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

I honestly don't think it qualified as nonsense. It was a badly formed and named article about a website used for gaming discusion. But it was comprehensible text, and i had no trouble understanding its meaning. I strongly suspect that the site would have been found non-notable on AfD, but I didn't have time to do a google check, and in any case non-notability is not a speedy criterion except for individual people. Since I was planning to list this for delettion (I actually was editing it to put the afd notice on when you deleted it) I won't bring it to WP:VFU but I really think that the WP:CSD ought to be quite strictly interpreted. Please think twice about such speedies in future. DES ^(talk) 01:17, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Science pearls

Hi,

I address you as the ambassador of your wikipedia. Please notice the above project.

This project, more than other projects, will benefit from inter-wiki cooperation. Can you post a message regarding this project at your wikipedia village pump.

Thanks for your help, APH from the English wiki

Wipe / Junk authorisation

The BBC's blue forms were definitely "Wipe / Junk authorisation" forms – obviously depending on whether the material was videotape or film, or whether the videotape was to be wiped and reused or completely destroyed. So "junking" was certainly in use by the 1960s. See Andrew Pixley, "No Further Interest", Nothing at the End of the Lane, Issue 2, Summer 2005.

English identity/Northern Ireland

Can you please explain the rationale behind the removal of the sentence about 'Republicans' from the clarification of nationalism in Northern Ireland?

Fourohfour 19:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

The sentence read: The English frequently include their neighbours in the general term "British" while the Scots, Welsh and some inhabitants of Northern Ireland (primarily Republicans), proud of their separate identities, tend to be more forward about referring to themselves by one of those more specific terms. implying that Republicans consider themselves "Northern Irish", which is untrue, they would describe themselves as "Irish". -- Arwel 21:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I see what you're getting at; fair point. In fixing one misleading sentence (re: 'Irish'), the replacement is still slightly misleading in a different way. Question is, do many people in Northern Ireland consider themselves 'Northern Irish'? It's not something I'm aware of....

Anyhow, I've made that a separate sentence; hopefully it tidies things up without getting *too* off-topic. Let me know if you think this is still vague. Cheers!

Fourohfour 10:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

The people of Ulster (Northern Ireland) are British,as Ulster is one of the 4 British nations.The use of 'Northern Ireland' is offensive to some people,especially Unionists,as it implies that Ulster is part of Ireland when it is not. - (Aidan Work 04:49, 11 November 2005 (UTC))

Category:Cardiff

Hello there boyo. I've been attacking the Category:Cardiff page cos it was very cluttered, and was thinking about having more subcategories, a la Category:London. Stuff like Category:Culture of Cardiff, Category:Sport in Cardiff and maybe later Category:Geography of Cardiff. There were some places, like Thornhill, Wales, Tiger Bay, Michaelston-super-Ely, Rhiwbina that don't claim in the article they're districts. Could you shed light on the matter or maybe give me a pointer? Thanks --Dangherous 10:36, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

- just because :-) Have a nice day! --HappyCamper 00:43, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

User:82.39.79.83 (Newcastle United)

I was going to ask you to block him for his continual edits, but it seems you already have this in hand! I note your warning to him was posted on the 20th, and he went and uploaded his change again last night. You'd think some people would get the hint... In fairness, as an anonymous user, perhaps he simply doesn't use his talk page?

He's blocked for a week, anyway! -- Arwel (talk) 20:19, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Cheers, fella. I was just about to mention he'd been at it again. You beat me to it! Mosh 20:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Frank Soo

Arwel, the rec.sports.soccer.stats group put together a list of all the wartime/victory games with their line-ups and the first one he appears in is the Wales game in 1942. They don't name their sources and I haven't been able to find a definitive answer but I think it's likely that they are correct. Perhaps a list of his international appearances would be appropriate? It's a bit difficult because none of the games Soo played in were actually official England games, the wartime and victory games not being considered that.

The problem with your East Asian terminology is that it leaves open that another type of Asian may have played for England before Soo. My OED is buried in the garage so I can't see what it has to say about that, but the online American Heritage dictionary has this to say:

--

• Asian
• 1. A native or inhabitant of Asia.
• 2. A person of Asian descent.

Usage Note: Asia is the largest of the continents with more than half the world's population. Though strictly speaking all of its inhabitants are Asians, in practice this term is applied almost exclusively to the peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia as opposed to those of Southwest Asia such as Arabs, Turks, Iranians, and Kurds who are more usually designated Middle or Near Easterners. Indonesians and Filipinos are properly termed Asian, since their island groups are considered part of the Asian continent, but not the Melanesians, Micronesians, and Polynesians of the central and southern Pacific, who are now often referred to collectively as Pacific Islanders. --

My linguistic habits have been utterly corrupted by the amount of time I've spent in the US so I'm not going to change it back but I would like to resolve the ambiguity.

btw, thanks for finding the Frank Soo info - how did you come across it? I'm an avid Luton Town fan (born and grew up there) and had not heard of him.

Bob Palin 15:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

It must be Frank Soo week or something, I was just looking on the LTFC web site at the "great players of the past" feature. Soo himself is not there but is mentioned as having brought Bernard Streton to the club. Bernard Streton led the crowd in singing Happy Birthday to my grandfather on his 80th birthday, must be that 6 degrees of separation thing working! Bob Palin 03:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Bank of Scotland

Thanks for the source you provided against the central bank claim. The user who insists that they were a central bank has not yet provided any source to back his claim, so I've reverted his edits. Astrotrain 19:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

The Bank of Scotland is one of the note-issuing trading banks.There has never been a Scots central bank. - (Aidan Work 04:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC))

62.253.245.4 vandalism

For whatever reason, your one week block for 62.253.245.4 expired early, perhaps due to a block conflict. Since they picked up their vandalism where they left off last time, I have extended the block out to two weeks from today. Hall Monitor 16:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

User:87.74.12.83

Hi Arwel, I was concerned to see you post on the above's talk page that if he was blocked for 3RR, you'd unblock him. First, it's usually best to defer to the blocking admin's judgment, unless a clear error has been made. But secondly, you should be aware that this individual is causing problems with reverting elsewhere. He reverts constantly at Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, either deleting the intro entirely or deleting the photograph. The page has already been protected once because of it. He won't discuss a compromise, won't outline exactly what his objections, simply declares it POV and deletes, as though he is the only judge of NPOV on Wikipedia. He has also started doing it at Center for Consumer Freedom. If he does get blocked for 3RR at either of those or elsewhere, I'd appreciate it very much if you would not unblock him. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 12:35, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately SlimVirgin appears to be on something of a mission. He has obvious POV views on animal rights issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Geni#SlimVirgin and he is persisting a biased view of Huntingdon Life Sciences, including an objectionable photo, which has had objections from me and other users on the article's talk page, stretching back six months. He, on the other hand, is the only one to come out in favour of this particular image, and seems to believe he is the sole judge of what is NPOV. I would suggest you be careful with what he says, as he has sadly decided to start something of a campaign against my edits, pursuing me to different parts of this site, e.g., this entry, on an article on Tony Blair, without any consideration of what as actually said. 87.74.12.83 12:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I am on no mission. This anon is a problem editor, who reverts a lot and won't compromise. Having reverted four times within 18 minutes at Tony Blair, he reported dbiv for 3RR, yet expects not to be blocked for it himself. I won't block him because I'm involved in a dispute with him elsewhere, but I hope that, if someone else does block him, Arwel will not unblock him early, as he indicated he might. That is my only purpose in posting here. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 13:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

My comment was not a blanket licence to revert, merely where it related to the particular (justifiable, in my opinion as a Labour Party branch officer) comments being deleted from the Tony Blair article four days ago. -- Arwel (talk) 13:39, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Arwel. I was concerned that you seemed to want to unblock him because you agreed with his edits, but 3RR should be enforced regardless of content; that is, we're not allowed to judge by the content whether, or for how long, to enforce 3RR. Anyway, my point was simply to let you know that this user is causing problems elsewhere with the same behavior, so you'll know it isn't an isolated incident. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 13:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Your block of 216.11.82.82

Dear Arwel. You blocked User:216.11.82.82 for a week. I support your block; indeed, one of the warnings on User talk:216.11.82.82 was written by me. However, as a fellow administrator, I am surprised that you decided to block this IP address for such a long time. I have almost no experience with blocking vandals and you seem to have lots, so I wondered whether you could please explain your decision. It is my understanding of Wikipedia:Blocking policy that the first block should generally be for 24 hours. This is particularly true for IP addresses which are shared by more people. The IP address 216.11.82.82 is used by donald.oaklandschools.net, so it seems safe to assume that it is a school computer.

I do hope that you don't take this personal. I am fairly new in this admin business, and I'm still trying to come to grips with all the relevant admin policies. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 15:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick reaction. I hadn't seen the edit to Science. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 16:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I found the £ & € signs.

I noticed much later on the £ & € signs. - (Aidan Work 07:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC))

Stwbynau sosialaidd

Sut mae Arwel,

Dwi wedi cynnig categori stwbyn ar gyfer pleidiau sosialaidd a democratiad cymdeithasol. Mae'r cynnig yn cael ei sgwrs ar y pryd a gwerthfawrogwn i eich barnau chi. Cafodd y cynnig ei gynnig (a'i sgwrs) yma. Diolch yn fawr i chi. aliceinlampyland 13:55, 30 November 2005 (UTC).

FC MTZ-RIPO

HI ! I saw your question somewhere and just wondering if you are you still looking for info about this team?

Well, the article has grown a bit, but more information is always welcome! -- Arwel (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

User talk:203.87.229.67

I guess you were right. I extended his block to 48 hours after seeing his spam on his Talk page. Owen× ☎ 01:59, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

British coins

Arwel-

I appreciate your comments and I will hold off on further edits to those articles. However, I am fully aware of the Act of Union and the differences between England, Britain, etc. I used the term "British" because, before or after the Act, England was/is a part of Great Britain, a large island that is now the major component of the nation-state known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The article titles were incorrect as they were, although my edits may have been incorrect as well. Thanks again for bringing it to my attention and I look forward to working with you on it. Paul 00:10, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

thanks!

Hey thanks for answering my question about the coins of the British Empire, from the articles you've written you seem to know a lot about stuff I am interested in, mostly Britian. --KForce 01:37, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

British Commonwealth Numismatic Wikiproject.

Arwel, Have you thought about linking your British coinage articles into the British Commonwealth Numismatic Wikiproject? You can find a link to it through my contributions page. - (Aidan Work 06:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC))

care

I'll be more careful, thank you for pointing that out to me. Andrew 22:46, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

UEFA Cup standings

It seems that UEFA isn't following its own rules when it comes to ranking its teams! See this PDF file, section 4.06, page 8, for the tiebreaker system. If two clubs are level on points and goal difference, the next tiebreaker is goals scored.

As you said, I guess we'll find out for sure when they do the draw! <g> — Dale Arnett 23:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians in Wales

I added a link here to Category:Welsh people. Is this against wiki style? Ta --Dangherous 16:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Outsiders' opinions wanted

Hi, I just though I might ask you. Currently there is a debate whether to move Partitions of Poland to Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The first one is shorter and looks like it is more commonly used. The second one is politically & historically correct. Could you voice your opinion on the talk page? Because now it's all Lithuanians and Polish who fight each other :) We need someone "unbiased." I would very much appreciate it. Renata3 12:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

User:Pock Suppet

Hi Arwel -- I've been dealing with this person as User:149.152.216.49, etc. at Transcendental meditation. You seem to know more about this than me, however. You might want to look at Talk:Transcendental_meditation#.22Comments.22_being_repeatedly_added_to_the_article as well.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 15:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Heads up! Someone is going after you on on meta.wikipedia!

An anon user is vandalizing your page on meta.wikipedia! Do something! 69.12.166.47 00:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Never mind. An admin on meta.wikipedia has already blocked the vandal on your user page on meta.wikipedia. 69.12.166.47 00:37, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Funny how the vandal shared your IP address... -- Arwel (talk) 02:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Football World Cup move

As a regular contributor to football articles you may wish to vote at talk:Football World Cup Jooler 10:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

British language

You are quite right about British being spoken up to southern Scotland - thanks for pointing that out! - 17:15, 3 January 2006 Greatgavini ^{an post}

Heads up! Someone is going after you again!

This time it's Wikipedia is Communism and he's vandalizing your user and talk page on cy.wikipedia! 69.12.166.47 01:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Damage reverted and user nuked. (Though I'd be interested to hear why someone from the same anon IP as "Heads up" above changed Arwel's user page to the word "poop" immediately beforehand.) -- cy:Defnyddiwr:Marnanel (making a rare appearance on en:)

Naming conventions for television shows (again)

I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, Wilderness!

The title sounded familiar so I looked it up. Thank you for noticing.Bjones 03:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board

I've created a fairly simple Wikipedia:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board (shortcut WP:WWNB) to try to get things started. Please have a look and consider signing on, adding it to your watchlist and helping to make sure any users with an interest in the subject know about it. Also please feel free to add things and to change anything you feel needs changing – I'm not under the impression that I own it! Rhion 20:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Hwyl

Hi. I can't do any blocking on wicipedia - there seems to be some glitch. Can you have a look, please? Deb 22:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Deb - lucky you caught me when you did! I've just been offline for a week thanks to having to look after my Mam when she's not well... Anyway, are you trying to block someone and using the drop-down menu of periods of time to block them for? I think this is the problem - when the box first appeared, I tried editing the periods into Welsh but found they didn't work, which is why I changed them back to English. Obviously someone else has tried to do it, too. Could you try putting "24 hours" or "7 days" or whatever in the "arall" box and seeing if it works? -- Arwel (talk) 23:03, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, that seems to have worked. Diolch. Hope your Mam is feeling better. Deb 23:04, 30 January 2006 (UTC)