User talk:Newportm/Archives/2009

U r Rollbacker

I have just granted you rollback rights. Please have a read over WP:ROLLBACK and remember that rollback is only for use against obvious vandalism. Please use it that way (it can be taken away by any admin at a moment's notice). Best of luck and thanks for volunteering! :-) wadester16 22:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Liverpool F.C. current kits

Can you please sort these out? (Unsigned post by User:DaytonaMike at approx 18:25, 26 June 2009 signed for him by Newportm (talk) 20:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC))

It's good practice to sign your posts on talk pages such as this one. You do that by inserting ~~~~ after your comment. I encourage you to dig in to Wikipedia and help make a difference. I don't know much about Liverpool F.C. although I did have the huge pleasure of seeing them play Manchester United in Wembley Stadium for the 1977 FA Cup Final Match! I will never forget it. Newportm (talk) 18:30, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Yu-Gi-Oh

Removed talkback template; replied on User talk:DKqwerty Newportm (talk) 05:05, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

BITE!

All I was doing was pointing out this edit: [[1]] why must you violate WP:BITE?Editor437 (talk) 05:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

In fact, in the reverted post, what you were referring to was unclear, unreferenced, and unsigned. However, in this one, you have clarified in a very helpful way. So let me say now, thanks for your helpful, signed edit with a link to what you're talking about. Newportm (talk) 05:36, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Michigan J. Frog

This is not vandalism! That is his real name! Go to Jay Cocks and see for yourself! 24.79.137.132 (talk) 19:38, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I did the same thing to this editor, he's right, we're wrong. :/ - superβεεcat  19:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

I have already rolled back my edit and posted my apology on talk. Thanks for the heads up. I suspect this will not be the last of this. I'm going to look into whether it's possible to update the Huggle filter for this one...I'm going to mark the page as patrolled now. Newportm (talk) 19:44, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

For reference, also see comments at Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback#Michigan J. Frog Newportm (talk) 16:27, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

RE:

Your welcome, anytime:-)I'll keep a watch on to see if he comes back. If he does, he'll face the awesome fury of Huggle:-)SchnitzelMannGreek. 02:30, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Have no fear, he's been blocked for I reported him. Vandals should know...don't do the crime if you can't spend the time;)SchnitzelMannGreek. 02:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Your NPWatcher application

Dear Newportm,

Thank you for applying for NPWatcher! You've been approved to use it. Before you run the program, please check the changelog on the application page to see if there is a newer release (or just add the main page (here) to your watchlist). Report any bugs or feature suggestion here. If you need help, feel free to contact me or join #wikimedia-npw.

Jamie^☆S93 15:38, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Newportm (talk) 16:26, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the userpage revert :) Gpia7r (talk) 14:50, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Request

Hi. I’m looking to add free-licensed photographs to the articles of the various seasons of MTV’s The Real World, so I’m contacting editors whom it appears may live in or near those cities. Do you live in or near Diamond Head, Hawaii, and if so, would you be able to take some high-quality pics of the Hawaii residence, and upload them here if I give you the location? If not, do you know anyone who can? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 05:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

You are on the right track! But no, I am a couple thousand miles away from Diamond Head. You might check other active members of WikiProject Hawaii for help. I appreciate how challenging it is to get non-copyvio images posted on here. Good luck. Newportm (talk) 06:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, but I think I'll stick to the Diamond Head article's History, at least at first. Logically, I think I'll more likely find someone who lives near DH there than if I look at the Hawaii Project. :-) Nightscream (talk) 12:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I wasn't aware that the project page gave locations of editors. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 18:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Merlin Blencowe

I reverted your edit on this article as the author of the article blanked the page it now is G7 on the speedy delete criteria, best. BigDunc 20:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Good work on that patent nonsense. Thank you for the follow up and keep up the good editing! Newportm (talk) 20:47, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, but...

Hey there,

Thanks for the welcome! Don't know how automated your welcome is, so posting here in case it is of any use to you. I think I accidentally logged out. Deliberately writing this from the anonymous IP.

So, welcome unnecessary in my case but it is nice to see we are still welcoming people to Wikipedia. I must admit I was wondering where my preferences had gone. Best wishes User:SimonTrew AKA 81.102.134.214 (talk) 23:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. When I saw someone from an IP login using solid edit summaries, doing good work, I thought I should not miss the opportunity to make sure (s)he was properly welcomed aboard. I did that using the Friendly "gadget" available through "My preferences;" I modified the "canned" welcome with a note about the edit. I was never really welcomed to the project, but I think it is a nice touch. Glad it brought you a smile. Newportm (talk) 00:08, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for defending my user page

Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my user page, not once, but twice! Thank you. [mad pierrot][t c] 00:05, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

We vandalism patrollers have to defend each other from the vandals; happy to help out. Newportm (talk) 00:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Using profanity.

This section is in response to my post, "Using profanity instead of facts suggests your point is weak. Facts speak for themselves," on User talk:76.254.69.167 about this edit (diff) –Newportm (talk) 06:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC):

Wikipedia isn't censored. Using Profanity show's I'm mad. Fuck and Shit have articles, they are appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.69.167 (talk) 06:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry that you're encountering some frustration. If you're feeling less than cool, calm, and collected, why not come back to the article later. Don't let it get you down. Newportm (talk) 06:39, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I will be made until the real building's name is changed. It's like someone changing the name of your grandfather. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.254.69.167 (talk) 06:42, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I understand. I live in California, which used to be part of Mexico, or Indian country, depending on how far back you want to reach. I suppose there are people who will always consider it to be the Sears Tower, regardless of what the new occupants want to name it. Newportm (talk) 06:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Checkers

Did you know that you made an illegal move on my checkerboard? Men can only move 1 space, unless they jump over an opponents piece. You might want to try that again. I'm gonna revert back to your revision so you can try again, even though Acbe2 has moved... since Abce2 mistakenly moved one of my pieces when he took a turn... Until It Sleeps ^{Wake me} 18:54, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

GEEZ! I can't even play checkers right! Thanks for the heads up. I'll go move...:) Newportm (talk) 19:16, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Alfa Romeo (yacht)

On July 18, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alfa Romeo (yacht), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

User:Candlewicke 05:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Reply

No, this. It is always best if you copy it from the history of the DYK template itself. --BorgQueen (talk) 14:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I looked there, but I didn't see it; it's possible that I may have needed to purge the cached page before looking. Newportm (talk) 16:16, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Editor 173.2.3.63 writes

Lol 4chan says they have an anti bot and are going to ddos then edit EVERYTHING —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.3.63 (talk) 00:51, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Anti-vandalism thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my page. But...how do you know it wasn't true? Lololol. Best Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 06:32, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

It was an easy call. I reverted the edit (diff) because it was just another unreferenced claim. Newportm (talk) 18:45, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Re:Thanks for the Talk page revert

You're welcome! :-) At least three hours vandalizing, of course. I spent three hours already using Huggle to revert the vandalism by those silly trolls who think WP is a place to mess up. Chevy Impala 2009 03:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

What Constitutes Vandalism?

I work for a company with a page in wiki, and wanted to edit the page to display the proper headquarters city for the company. After making the edit it was immediately reverted by someone. Yet your rules clearly state that changes should only be reverted when it is "obvious vandalism". I am trying to understand how I am supposed to go about making a legitimate change without having someone revert the change for some unknown reason? Kenhealy1 (talk) 03:51, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your help Kenhealy1 (talk) 03:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help; thank you for asking. In your most recently reverted edit on the page (diff), you added the location, but gave no substantiating citation for the edit. An edit with a citation (showing relevant line only) might look something like this:

| headquarters = [[San Francisco, CA]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pillsburylaw.com/index.cfm?pageid=3|title=Pillsbury > About Us > Offices|work=Pllsbury web site|publisher=Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP|language=en-us|accessdate=2009-07-23}}</ref>

With the <ref> in place, someone will be able to refer to the citation to substantiate the claim, to see whether the edit is factual. That said, the footer at page bottom on that web page suggests the firm is headquartered in New York, not in San Francisco. The source I cited suggests that the reversion of the firm location edit was valid. When facts do not align with claims, this can also be a valid reason to revert an edit. As for vandalism, it is simply, easily, effectively reverted out-of-hand. On your talk page, I already made note of the conflict of interest issue and provided resources for you to read up on how that is viewed on Wikipedia. Good editing. Don't hesitate to ask for help. Thanks for your contributions. Newportm (talk) 04:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Jonas brothers

I deleted it cause it had nothing to do with acting King007ofrock (talk) 03:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)King007ofrock —Preceding unsigned comment added by King007ofrock (talk • contribs) 03:13, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for Age of Sail Heritage Centre fix+

Thank you very much for the fix and redirects on the Age of Sail Heritage Centre article. This piece still needs lots of work but it is improving - I don't work there but have visited and it is pleasing to see a nice little community museum in an somewhat remote part of Nova Scotia emerge into the wiki world. Letterofmarque (talk) 04:10, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Your welcome

I'm happy to help and if theirs anything else you need let me know.Kingcouey (talk) 22:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Turtles all the way down

Not a sox fan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.127.225.205 (talk) 05:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Ascribing new words to a direct quotation of somebody defeats the quotation, so I reverted (diff). Newportm (talk) 22:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

History of terrorism

read the talk page and its archive, Haberstr is a known vandal and pov pusher on the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LSG280709 (talk • contribs) 05:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. Newportm (talk) 22:27, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Wrong Jim Johnson

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that you put the death on the wrong man's article :) It was Jim Johnson (American football) who died, not Jimmy Johnson (American football coach). At Jimmy Johnson, we have 6 similar named people who were involved with football (5 pros, 1 college), so it's easy to get confused. Cheers! Apparition^{11 Complaints}/Mistakes 23:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your informed catch! Newportm (talk) 23:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I thought it was him at first, so I watchlisted that article because I knew that someone else would think that, too :) Apparition^{11 Complaints}/Mistakes 23:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Krystopher Kolanos

Wikipedia, i am sorry for the edits i made and it will not happen again —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.81.4.205 (talk) 02:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Please help out with some constructive edits and make this a better place. Newportm (talk) 04:23, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

George Blumenthal

Hi, Denice Denton's suicide is well documented, including on her own Wikipedia entry. Her suicide is an established fact, documented by hundreds of newspaper articles. I think insisting on a citation is unreasonable. We cannot have a citation for every word, or even every sentence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.27.97.206 (talk) 23:29, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

You write about my reversion (diff) of your edit saved with no clarifying or provoking edit summary. Your note above helps me understand that your edit is reasonable. Thanks for restoring your edit and for providing the solid edit summary (diff) as well.  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 04:12, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Dance in Kiribati

Hi Newportm,

I apologize, but I do not understand what your message on my talk page means. Is there a problem with the template on the Dance in Kiribati article? It seems to be working fine to me. Agreed, most of the links are red links, but the same is true if the template linked to "Dance of Kiribati" and similar. Also, as users have reminded me in the past, Wikipedia loves red links. Is that your only concern? Please let me know if I have misunderstood your message.

Neelix (talk) 01:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

What you're doing, moving all articles named "X" in "Y" just means extra homework on the navigation template. This (diff) edit shows that the Oceania topic template became mostly red links when it got changed to {{Oceania topic|Dance in}} from {{Oceania topic|Dance of}}. So once all the pages get moved from "X" of "Y" to "X" in "Y", they become blue again. The Wikipedia loves red links issue is not the story; many of these articles or relevant sections exist. That's why those links were mostly blue before. Now that User:Funandtrvl is creating redirects for all of them, they are turning blue again...because those articles exist. But why not just move them all instead of creating new layers of redirects?  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 20:55, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi-I double-checked the Dance in Kiribati template and the only link it inhibited was for Rotuma, so I created a redirect for it under: Dance in Rotuma, then the template works. I've been setting up a few more re-directs, but haven't gotten thru the list yet. For example, I'm not sure which dance would be the nat'l dance of Samoa, since there seems to be several possibilities. Can you help? Thanks. --Funandtrvl (talk) 03:45, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

The only one I found I linked to in Template:Culture of Oceania; it's called the siva.  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 20:55, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for including Rotuma, Funandtrvl! It's not necessary that the "Dance by country" articles be about a singular national dance; any dance originating, developing, or popular in the country should be included on a well-developed "Dance by country" article. If there are several possibilities for Samoa, they should all be treated on its dance article. Neelix (talk) 10:40, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I guess the Oceania topic template will work like that if you intend to rename all of the articles. Note that Template:Oceania topic is not just used for dance in Oceania. It's also used for sport, music, etc. Are you going to move all of them from "X" of "Y" to "X" in "Y" naming style? Here is the complete list of what that template links to, and how: list.  –Newportm (talk • contribs) 20:34, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

You don't have to rename the articles, you just have to create a redirect page that is consistent with the prefix in the template. --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:56, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I didn't move the pages, because some of the redirects are to sections, meaning that they are "redirects with possibilites". In other words, the section about "dance" or "traditional dances" needs to be expanded before it can be a separate article. --Funandtrvl (talk) 21:10, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. In the case of redirecting to sections, there is no need to move an article. Articles named "Dance of x", however, should be renamed "Dance in x". This is not so that the navbox will work properly but so that the article titles will be consistent. If there is no semantic difference signified by article title differences, then those title differences should not exist. Neelix (talk) 21:22, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Alfa-Romeo-2-yacht.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Alfa-Romeo-2-yacht.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

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You say "Uploader received email confirmation from the business media representative and will send it to any OTRS representative on request." I assume this means confirmation that the image is free to be used by anybody for any purpose; if so, why don't you just forward it to OTRS, and tag the photo as completely free rather than just as fair use? -- Zsero (talk) 08:15, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

What Zsero said. And I hope you'll accept my humble apologies for not having read the page closely enough. Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:22, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

No harm done; just happy I checked my messages. The only reason I tagged it with "fair use" was due to the depiction of the Alfa Romeo car name in its stylized form on the yacht's sail. I am certain that Alfa Romeo is unwilling to let another manufacturer sell cars called "Alfa Romeo," and I didn't know what else to do about it. I still have the email from 7/06/2009 if someone from OTRS wants me to forward it; I just need to know to whom to send it. I have forwarded the email to OTRS just now. –Newportm (talk • contribs) 23:48, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Resolved

 – Replaced fair-use-only image with licensed image found at File:Alfa-Romeo-2-First-Sail.jpg –Newportm (talk • contribs) 06:34, 17 December 2009 (UTC)