User talk:T. Anthony/Archive 10

For a dose of criticism of Wikipedia

Here's another on the world of Wikigroaning. Granted a problem with this is that it goes by length and an article being longer doesn't really mean Wikipedia deems it "more important." I'm feeling more charitable now than when I first did this, but Wikipedia does have its quirky interests. To wit.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:42, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

A recent one got my attention so I'm redoing this.

• Selina Meyer of Veep is a good article and its size is 17,147 bytes. Mohammad Hamid Ansari, current Vice President of India which is the largest democracy, has had a "needs additional citations" deal for two years and is 12,634 bytes. Two actual former Vice President of the United States, Daniel D. Tompkins and Charles W. Fairbanks, also have shorter articles than her.

• Then there's maybe fictional actor Troy McClure, featured, versus Oscar nominated Arthur Kennedy whose article is rated "Low-importance."

• Featured Khan Noonien Singh versus the smaller "B-class, Mid-importance" not-quite-good article Ögedei Khan.

This is more because it's fun. Pop-culture is something Wikipedia can do that actual historians might not. So some of the "serious" ones it would make sense not to use Wikipedia--T. Anthony (talk) 12:30, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Selected stub-class core articles

• Diary of a Country Priest
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
• Locarno International Film Festival
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)
• Ordet
• Wild Strawberries (film)
• The Leopard (film)
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Nanook of the North

--T. Anthony (talk) 09:33, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Return of the Return of red-linked world in the news

Kennedy-Brownback Act passes.[2]--T. Anthony (talk) 02:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Joan Tardà/Joan Tardà i Coma's d:q3754732 anti-monarchy sentiments cause consternation.[3]--T. Anthony (talk) 05:46, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Patrick Buisson d:Q1654394 talks about a certain segment of France that profited off the Nazi occupation.[4]--T. Anthony (talk) 08:39, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

CEDICE Libertad d:Q16545791 profiled on Forbes's site.--T. Anthony (talk) 05:17, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Ayaka Shiomura d:Q11428744 jeered in sexist incident and that gets noticed.[5]--T. Anthony (talk) 03:20, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Also in Japan an emotional outburst by politician Ryutaro Nonomura is getting Internet attention.[6][7]--T. Anthony (talk) 19:33, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania

I made some changes to your additions to Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. You added Robert Craddock as a native of the borough. I looked his info up and he is from Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh). This I fixed. The addition of the Rockwell fellow seems to be correct. Lawrenceville in Tioga County is very near Elmira, New York which is the area that Rockwell represented. Dincher (talk) 19:23, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Oops! I got into a thing last night of looking through various counties, I worried I overdid it. Anyway thanks.--T. Anthony (talk) 21:57, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. It's an easy mistake to make. Dincher (talk) 02:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Anthony Wilson

Has your situation changed? Enigma ^message 22:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I must've forgot all about that. Let me see if I can start something on him.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:48, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

I started it off, if anyone wants they can improve it.--T. Anthony (talk) 01:09, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

character

I made some suggestions at [8]. Follow up there if needed, please. DGG (talk) 03:44, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Long marriages of notable non-actors

I'm largely limiting myself to dancers, singers, or artists who had marriages that lasted 55 years or more. It seems surprisingly common for politicians, doctors, engineers, or scientists to have long marriages.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:21, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

• Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright, nearly 74 years, married from October 30 1937 to his death in September 2011. [9]
• Pete Seeger and Toshi Seeger, nearly 70 years, married from July 20 1943 to her death on July 9, 2013.[10]
• Doc Williams and Chickie Williams, 68 years, married from 1939 to her death in November 18, 2007.[11]
• Leo Ornstein and Pauline Mallet-Prevost, 67 years, married from 1918 to 1986[12]

Redirection as deletion

I've seen this before, but I don't know for certain what's best here. Essentially an article starts getting minimal attention and someone redirects it. They may not redirect it to anything it has anything to do with, but it serves the purpose of dissolving it. Or a name is a redirect to someone with a similar name when there's actually a notable person with the exact name.--T. Anthony (talk) 13:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I see your point above. However, I just undid a restore of Anti-Australian sentiment. It is a pretty appalling article, that I once suggested should be sent to AfD. At least as a redirect, it can be salvageable when someone gets the necessary RS and applies a good dose of NPOV. Obviously I'm sceptical of it being a reasonable article, not a distillation of media beatups of isolated incidents. Hope this is okay. cygnis insignis 16:24, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Not really. It'll effectively never be an article that way. Fine though, but it should not be to Anglophobia and I will be insistent on that. So instead I switched it to being a redirect to Foreign relations of Australia.--T. Anthony (talk) 16:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I was just worrying about that target, your is much better. Cheers, cygnis insignis 16:41, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Okey-dokey then. Sorry if I was snappish.--T. Anthony (talk) 02:30, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't think you were. And you saw an uncontroversial improvement and made that edit. My position is that it was a product of a rabble rouser's disruption to Australian society. I have a prejudice regarding an unfortunate episode in my nation's history, which is why I asked that someone else take it to AfD. Well met and cheers, cygnis insignis 14:51, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, T. Anthony. I hope you are feeling well. I do not know where you live, but if it is anywhere near where I live, I hope you will go outside some and enjoy a sunny day. Best regards, Nick Graves (talk) 19:11, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I am somewhat guarded, to people online, about where I live. And that includes people I've known online for 8-9 years so don't take offense. Anyway I'm supposed to be off, during the week, for Lent but I seem to still check in on Mondays and Tuesdays.

As to the main point I'm actually feeling a good deal better.--T. Anthony (talk) 03:06, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Fatou Niang Siga

Hi T. Antony, I've just declined a speedy on your article Fatou Niang Siga. ϢereSpielChequers 16:26, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Neoconservatism and paleoconservatism

Well, it took almost two years, but somone (me) has finally gotten around to making an attempt to answer your question at Talk:Neoconservatism and paleoconservatism. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 17:06, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Jacques Delisse

Hi, do you have a source for Jacques Delisse? The article seems to just barely state notability and without a source, I will probably prod it.--TM 17:07, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I saw it on the French "good articles." After starting it I wondered if it was notable enough for English as there's few English language sources. Looking him up further the main sources I'm finding are that he was Vice-President of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, but that's a French source too. Oh well.--T. Anthony (talk) 19:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

There is no need for English language sources. I've put in the French ones. Sources in English are preferred when available, but sources in any language are perfectly acceptable in the English Wikipedia. If there are both, and the ones in another language are better than the English ones, both should be included See {WP:RS

Henri Storck

Thanks for your work on Henri Storck. As reviewing admin, I too am going through this batch of nominations [13], and finding references for all or almost all in the French Wikipedia versions of the article--Storck for example has two honorary doctorates for his work. I gather you too know French, so you might want to check for that also. I am adding references from the French articles, sometimes translating the appropriate part, but usually not, in order to get them in quickly. DGG (talk) 14:43, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Alas I only took one full semester of French. (It was going to be two semesters, but the second I did at home through a tutor and it got messed up. Oddly I took a full year of Chinese, but I seem to have retained less of it) I'm surprised how much I learned/remembered from that, I can almost follow some French sites, but actually I don't really know French. Although working on Wikipedia has maybe improved/revived my ability to read a bit of it.--T. Anthony (talk) 22:24, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Note

As it's my birthday I will not be creating any articles from my lists. I do not plan to work on Wikipedia at all this weekend as I believe tomorrow is additionally Mother's Day.--T. Anthony (talk) 12:42, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Tales of long-term vandalism

Tim Burchett, which lasted for weeks. At least I assume it's vandalism. Otherwise the Tennessee river has a band of pirates being led by an amateur UFOlogist.--T. Anthony (talk) 05:38, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

"Mae Jemison was the first female African-American astronaut to land on the moon" in the Jordan Jemison article from its beginning in March 2009.--T. Anthony (talk) 11:53, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Although it was in for nearly four years I suspect that "Did a scienctific study of scarecrows! (scaring birds)", in the Robert Boyd (physicist) article, was vandalism added by the anonymous User:193.35.132.4.--T. Anthony (talk) 03:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

A Deletion Discussion of an Irish Catholic Category

is being discussed at [14]--Epeefleche (talk) 07:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

UCKG controversies that often get deleted from the article

Belgian Parliament Inquiry

A 1997 Belgian Parliament Inquiry Committee on Sects labeled the UCKG as a dangerous cult. The report further alleged that "[The Church] pretends that the Kingdom of God is down here and that it can offer a solution to every possible problem, depression, unemployment, family and financial problems. In fact, [the UCKG] apparently seems to be a truly criminal association, whose only purpose is enriching." The Belgian report itself generated controversy for varied reasons and the Parliament ultimately rejected most of it.

The "Kicking of the Saint"

Main article: Kicking of the saint

The most serious controversy involving the UCKG in Brazil is the episode known as the "Kicking of the Saint." In the early hours of October 12, 1995 - a holiday in honor of national Catholic patron Our Lady of Aparecida - UCKG's bishop Sergio von Helde expressed his objection to icon worship on the UCKG-owned Record TV. See the main article for more on this issue.

On Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

Hi! Ive seen your posts in Talk:Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Im having a similar problem, now with an user reverting any kind of criticism. According to the Dispute Resolution policy, we would need a third party opinion on the case, would you mind commenting on the last few days of the article's history? Thanks in advance Argentino (talk/cont.) 22:24, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I'll think about it. I'm kind of less active than I once was though and trying to do other things in my real life.--T. Anthony (talk) 23:00, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Winding down

I may have created my last article for a time. Hence I'm delinking to the red-lists and such. I'm not necessarily quitting Wikipedia though. I just think from now on if I do stuff it'll be more about improving what I've already created and categorizing uncategorized articles. Also I might work on removing vandalism when found as a kind of penance. I had other things in mind too, but forget what they were. Anyway I think I've done enough for awhile so am winding down as the title states. Feel free to still pay attention to the red-lists even if I plan to ignore them. See ya later.--T. Anthony (talk) 07:04, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Question

I have just revisited William Olaf Stapledon's page and discovered that the photograph which was there when last I visited, is no more. How has this come to be? I cannot see any reference to this change. Thanks for any light you may direct my way. William Bjornson.

When pictures are removed it's often a matter of there not being proper rights to them. Although on occasion it's a vandalism issue. I'll check. On another matter if you wish to communicate with me upi should press the "discussion" tab and talk here. It is generally inadvisable to try to discuss on the user page.--T. Anthony (talk) 08:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

2010 Winter Olympians

Although I intended to quit making articles I've started doing some on Winter Olympians. It's kind of fun, but the only ones I plan to add to User:T. Anthony/Articles I have created are the ones that win something or have some particular notice. I'm sort-of making them "quick and dirty" so they're not just great articles. If any of them gain notice though they'll hopefully expand. I intend to do some with the Paralympians too. I imagine there are still several medal-winning Paralympians without articles.--T. Anthony (talk) 01:48, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Ethnic categories

Hi, I meant to alert you to the discussion but just saw you found it. Best wishes Hekerui (talk) 10:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Yeah I feel a bit sneaky about it. I think I may have been adding subcategories in hopes the whole thing dies. However if it lives I guess that could be okay with me too as I suppose it's interesting in a way.--T. Anthony (talk) 10:20, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Players

I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 23:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Alas I do not know much about volleyball. I think I was trying to do something with women's sports or something and that's why I did some. Still I may look over the ones you mentioned.--T. Anthony (talk) 16:40, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Joseph Lockard Martin Jr,

I don't understand why Lock Martin is being repeatedly deleted from the 'Tallest Actor' section of this article. I have edited him in at least three times. I ask you since you seem to be taking ownership of this content and that is admirable. I have included IMDB cites referencing his film career and his height (7'. 7"). If I have erred in the addition of this information then someone should 'pick-up-the-ball' and run with it instead of simply removing important, relevant and factual data.

M. BodwayMarsbodway (talk) 20:08, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

There's some debate on his "true height" but I imagine the main issue might be that the lists have a tendency to get unexplained deletions or fictitious additions. I might look at it in a second, thanks for the attention.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:43, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

AfD

AfDs are supposed to go on their own page. You piggybacked on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/HEMA_(Hookers,_Escorts_and_Masseurs_Association) Gigs (talk) 06:26, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

By accident. I tried to fix it, but I don't remember how. D'oh! I hopefully got it right this time.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:33, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks right now. Have you tried WP:TWINKLE? AfDs are a real hassle without it. Gigs (talk) 17:07, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

It's a mystery

Mystery and crime writers, fiction or not, also seem to be somewhat poorly covered on English Wikipedia. Possibly due to mysteries being more popular with women and older people. So here's the following.

• Donald McNutt Douglass - Edgar Award winner and an architect. (German)
• E. Richard Johnson - Edgar Award winner from Wisconsin. (German)
• John Lawrence Reynolds - Arthur Ellis Award winner. (French)
• Caroline Roe/Medora Sale - Arthur Ellis Award winner.[15][16] (French)

Hey

While you're moving articles around heres some more:

• List of converts to Christianity from Atheism
• List of converts to Atheism from Christianity
• List of converts to Judaism from Atheism
• List of converts to Islam from Atheism
• List of converts to Atheism from Islam

and lastly, don't forget to edit the template to reflect your changes:

Thanks for the help! Ncboy2010 (talk) 12:49, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay now that I'm back from Lent I have to say I'm not entirely thrilled with the changes you made. It seems to gut the original list and also the agnostics who became Muslim or Christian or Jewish or Hindu are kind of nowhere now. I'll need to think on it.--T. Anthony (talk) 23:01, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

The To-Do list

Changing it up a bit.

• Ádám Bodor - Award-winning Transylvania writer.
• Coroatá - A Brazilian city.
• Sigitas Geda - Lithuanian poet and activist.
• Leena Lander - Finnish author.
• Djibril Tamsir Niane - West African literary figure. (Because I owned something by him I think)

Erling Trondsen

Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: Erling Trondsen. The community has decided that all new biographies of living persons must contain a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article as per our verifiability policy. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:10, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

I know, but the references I found were mostly in Norwegian, exempting one which may or may not have been about this Erling, and I can't read Norwegian. He did win 20 Paralympic medals so that seems notable. I'll try again for a reference.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:44, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Mali BLPs

Hi I found an article in Le Journal du Mali which features several BLPs you created: Oumar Kone, Mamadou Soumare, Fatoumata Samassekou, Rahamatou Drame. I added the newspaper article as a source, and also changed the ledes to give names French-African accents. Hope this is okay. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:34, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like it's fine. I like creating articles, but I'm not that great at really making them into something so I'm happy when others expand them.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:28, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rachel Morris (cyclist)

Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Neat, feel bad for her though.--T. Anthony (talk) 22:35, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Good Job on Ram Thakur clean up

Liked your clean up of the Ram Thakur article. Keep up the good work.I am tempted to request your clean up of other articles too.

• sids 06:13, 28 October 2012 (UTC)User talk:Sidsahu

Thanks. I don't know how I even landed on it, and it likely needs more work, but nice to be noticed.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:57, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Claim of page creation

I'm not sure what it means to be a page creator. I noticed that you are named as the Creator of Rowland Brown. Does that mean that you created the stub? I have been working on it for a year. The original information was incorrect and incomplete, based on a single source. I am pretty much finished with the article and am in the midst of providing all of the sources. Thanks for whatever it is you contributed. BrownPearl (talk) 05:24, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

It means I started the English language article, yes. I can rename that "User:T. Anthony/Articles I have created" to "Articles I have started" if it's really important to you, but I don't think that should be necessary. I try to acknowledge that many articles I've started were mostly done by others. Rowland Brown being an example. However my contribution does seem to have been so little I've removed his name from my list.--T. Anthony (talk) 06:36, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Guðmundur Andri Thorsson

Thanks for creating this article. It's been tagged for notability for 5 years now. Could you look it over, see if you think it meets WP:NOTABILITY and see if you can improve it? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 20:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not finding much right now, I may look again. I guess if anyone wants to prod it or AfD it they can.--T. Anthony (talk) 00:30, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Markus Rehm

Hi. Don't you tink, that such an "article" is respectless for the athlete? You've showed the IPC-Link. There's written about his World records, about his title at the WCH. At the german Wikipedia article are shown some more of his success. So you can't say, there's nothing to find. But this what you have written - sorry - is not really helpfull for a reader (reader who actually want to know more about him know he won gold at the Paralympics - so the only information in the article should help which reader?). And there will be nobody come to rescue something. As an author you have a responsibility for the article and his quality. And quality should go over quantity. Marcus Cyron (talk) 18:27, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I'm doing a good deal of Paralympic articles. Maybe sometimes I've not done a good enough job of them. I want them to expand. I want others to care. I don't speak German though, I linked to a German site for those like you who do, but I'll work on the article. And if you or any German-speaking Wikipedian wish to expand it I'd be quite happy!--T. Anthony (talk) 21:13, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Anthony, ignore him, this user has been leaving similar messages around various editors created paralympic BLP stubs. Thanks for Võ Thanh Tùng, though London 2012 site seems to have managed to mangle every single Vietnamese athlete's name - probably their team coach's fault. I have created the stubs for the other 9. Cheers. And happy editing! In ictu oculi (talk) 04:53, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

That makes me feel better. Still it did inspire me to try to be a bit more detailed when I start a Paralympian article so he did some good. Problem is I do find it hard to find stuff on most Paralympians outside the British Commonwealth. Part of this is that I don't know any other languages except for a smattering of French and Chinese. Although yeah I did think he was a tad too harsh/judgmental with it and was tempted to be a bit annoyed. (If he'd just been "it's nice your doing these, but I think the quality and detail could be better" I might have gotten the message to be more detailed without feeling quite so annoyed) I've kind of avoided doing any Germans since he posted.--T. Anthony (talk) 05:09, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Well he got at Lugnuts (I sent him a cheeseburger) and Edgar2007 and probably others. Ignore it. WP works on teamwork. Some contribute one thing, others another. Mine is languages, so I restrict myself to getting the spellings right, though I do like to find some local stories as well have done that for Czech and Cuban paralympic athletes in the past. Right now with 2012 in full swing, there isn't time to nose around the Lithuanian newspapers aided by Google translate! You keep doing what you're doing. Kudos! In ictu oculi (talk) 05:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Deletion review for Category:Actresses

I have asked for a deletion review of Category:Actresses. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:16, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Notification of RM

Hello T. Anthony.

See this: Talk:Allison Jones (skier).

Cheers.

HandsomeFella (talk) 13:02, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Deletion debates of John R. Hunting

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John R. Hunting was kind of weird because it lasted almost three weeks and had virtually no responses in either direction. Not sure if I've been linked to one like that before, but if so I think it was a rare thing. Anyway it survived due to no consensus and so I removed much of the sections about it.--T. Anthony (talk) 19:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Created a new "red-link" list

Called User:T. Anthony/From Simple English. Basically stuff I find in Simple, but don't feel like doing here on my own. Either because it's models, don't care about that, or laziness. Some might not be notable enough. I may or may not keep it around. I haven't done a red-link list in nearly five years, it seems, so it's maybe a surprise.--T. Anthony (talk) 10:46, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Great list ;) I'm working from the other side - simple:User:Osiris/work/interwikis#Could be translated. I've sent quite a few to be deleted, but the translation section I'm slowly working on. Osiris (talk) 17:50, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! It was something of an odd idea. Used to I'd just make articles myself that I saw from Simple, if they seemed notable, but then I became less involved in article creation. Thanks for the help, etc.--T. Anthony (talk) 20:43, 22 June 2013 (UTC)