User talk:Anthony Appleyard/2014/July-December

Latest comment: 9 years ago by NewsTeamAssemble in topic IronFX

Water-fuelled car

  • Regarding Water-Fuelled: According to this usage (http://grammarist.com/spelling/fuel/) and if most of the 'water-fueled' engines are American or of American origin, I would suggest using one 'l' in fueled instead of two. Fuelled looks strange and not how most Americans would spell it; I believe most Web usage is with one 'l'. Peace. Bwisok (talk) 15:03, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
  • I have started a move discussion. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:55, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

BRD with unilateral moves?

  • He Anthony, In this edit you removed my BRD-request to move Bali Accord back to its original at Bali Package. I am new to these procedures, so wondered what should be the proper procedure to get this move reverted per BRD? First gaining consensus on the talk page, or stating the discussion on the talk page? L.tak (talk) 22:30, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
  • I guessed that some people might oppose the move back, so I changed it into a discussed move, at Talk:Bali Accord#Requested move 03 July 2014, also listed at Wikipedia:Requested moves#July 03, 2014. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:42, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
    • Oops, I must have missed that on my watchlist... good to let the discussion run... I will adapt the statement a bit to make sure that the evaluation criterion is that there should be consensus for keeping this version... L.tak (talk) 07:13, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Free! (anime)#Comments after the move

  You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Free! (anime)#Comments after the move. Thanks. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:07, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Waiting

Pages are waiting for action at [1]. 23.236.125.203 (talk) 03:22, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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China University of Petroleum

  • Hi, Anthony Appleyard. There was a recent cut and paste merge of two China University of Petroleum articles into a single China University of Petroleum article. The result of the recent RfC was to keep it as a single article. While merger is not usually a reason for the history merge, this case is special. Originally this article was created as a single article under the current name. There was a cut and paste split and after that history of that article was merged with China University of Petroleum (Beijing). As the history of that article includes now also history of China University of Petroleum, it seems appropriate if their histories would be merged. Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 09:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
  •   Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:08, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Foreign-language articles

Hi Anthony: You deleted राजेसुल्तानपुर as G1 (as it had originally been tagged) - could I ask you please not to do that with articles in foreign languages? Foreign-language material (and even bad translations) is in fact specifically exempted at the list of speedy deletion criteria, and you had correctly tagged it as foreign and posted it at Pages needing translation into English - when someone then pointed out that it duplicated an existing article, Rajesultanpur, that was A10. (And it also qualified for the other foreign-language-related speedy deletion criterion, A2, since hi:राजेसुल्तानपुर exists - created by the same editor a bit earlier, as it happens). But it can't be both a translation candidate and gobbledygook, and I'm afraid that hastily equating the two is both losing us articles on under-represented topics and potentially putting off editors who think we auto-translate (which I've come to realize is a surprisingly common misapprehension). Thanks for understanding. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:37, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

House

  • I'm just curious why you wouldn't move the page back to the title it had been at since 2005. The onus should be on the user trying to seek a new consensus here. Calidum Talk To Me 05:13, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
  • OK, OK,   Done. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:20, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
That was fast. Thank you! Calidum Talk To Me 05:25, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Ali Pasha

  • The specific move from Ali Pasha to A.P. of Tepelena (or similar) was the subject of 2 unsuccessful move request in the past[[2]]. It appears certain that this move is a controversial one. Thus, if an editor believes that the move is justified it will be better to initiate another move request. Alexikoua (talk) 12:00, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
  • I've restored the article to the initial title, but it appears that something should be fixed with the history log [[3]]. Most probably I've did something wrong during the process.Alexikoua (talk) 12:04, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
  • That move was a cut-and-paste move, so I reverted it. I then moved Ali Pasha of Tepelena to Ali Pasha properly. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

History merge of text which was pasted over a redirect

  • Hello again, Anthony. I'd like to ask your opinion about these two pages: Beautiful (Jessica Mauboy song) and Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Beautiful (Jessica Mauboy song). It appears that one editor created a redirect in mainspace, then a second editor made a draft article, and then the first editor copied the contents of the draft, made some improvements, and pasted the result over the redirect. I am presuming that if I perform a history merge, (first deleting the AfC stuff), the edits from the draft will slide in between the original redirect and the later mainspace edits. It appears to me that this will properly attribute the edits and all will be well. However, I haven't come across this situation before; is there any reason that is a bad idea? Alternatively, should the edit creating the redirect be deleted? Thanks for any advice you care to direct my way... —Anne Delong (talk) 17:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
  • WP:Parallel histories. Best leave them as they are and put a history note in Talk:Beautiful (Jessica Mauboy song). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Well, I guess that that means that any title that has ever previouly been a redirect can't be history merged, which I find surprising. I couldn't leave the draft where it was, because it would have been deleted, so I followed the instructions in the section you linked. Here is the result: Talk:Beautiful (Jessica Mauboy song). Thanks for the help. —Anne Delong (talk) 11:53, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Looks like it could be histmerged to me... The non-trivial history of the mainspace articles starts on December 9th and the non-trivial history of the AFC page ends on November 24th (I would consider Hasteur's December 28th edit to be trivial and could be deleted). Thoughts, Anthony? Jenks24 (talk) 12:04, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

1979–1983

  • Hi - two questions. 1) How did you find consensus for "Bauhaus 1979-1983" instead of "1979-1983 (album)"? 2) would you please delete 1979–1983? I tried blanking it because there was no consensus for a dab page - most !supporters wanted it redlinked, but that's not how it works, apparently. Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 22:26, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
  • (1) Discussion had run 23 days and there was no discussion in the last 6 days. The article which is now at Bauhaus 1979–1983 started with a very long overloaded hatlink which I felt needed to be replaced by a disambig list. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:05, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
    • Yes, but why "Bauhaus 1979-1983" instead of "1979-1983 (album)", which was the original proposal. It looked to me like only 3 people favored "Bauhaus 1979-1983". What is your reason for choosing one over the other? Dohn joe (talk) 11:45, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
  • (2) I found that 1979–1983 had over 50 incoming links. (This list may shorten, after I disambiguated a link in Template:Bauhaus.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:05, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
    • Yes, but again, the discussion participants indicated that they would rather see 1979-1983 as a redlink than as a dab page. Dohn joe (talk) 11:45, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Page 1979–1983 still has many incoming links. What is the status of the apparent two albums 1979–1983 Volume 1 and 1979–1983 Volume 2? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:54, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
    • Those should point to the Bauhaus album article, wherever it winds up. Dohn joe (talk) 11:58, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Anthony - would you please answer the two questions - 1) why "Bauhaus 1979-1983" instead of "1979-1983 (album)" and 2) why not delete 1979-1983 instead of dabbing it? Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 14:36, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
  • As some pointed out in the discussion, "1979–1983" by itself primarily means a range of years, not a song or album. As regards the disambig list that I made, that is an adaptation of a long hatlink that User:In ictu oculi put at 23:01, 24 June 2014‎ in the page that was at 1979–1983 but is now at [4]. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:50, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
    • Yes, but there were two choices: 1) "Bauhaus 1979-1983" and 2) "1979-1983 (album)". You chose 1) instead of 2). 2) was the proposed title. Why did you choose 1) instead? Dohn joe (talk) 16:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Opinion seemed to be tending towards Bauhaus 1979–1983 at the end. If you want me to move it to 1979–1983 (album), I will do so, after it is discussed, as it would likely prove controversial. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:32, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Anthony, thank you for closing sorry about this.
Dohn joe - this looks again like badgering an admin after a close. During the discussion three other 1979-1983 albums came up so discussion changed to including the band name per WP:SONGDAB. If you want to conceal the name of the artist please start another RM, maybe after 6 months. In ictu oculi (talk) 20:55, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
    • Thanks Anthony - I appreciate the answer, and hope it didn't seem like "badgering". I hope you understand I was just looking for a clear explanation. As I've told you before, you do a thankless job, and I appreciate the effort you put into managing the RM backlog. Dohn joe (talk) 21:52, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

This decision was so bad it's hard to know where to start. First, every other supposed use of "1979-1983" is at best a partial title match and should not even be listed as entries on a dab page per WP:PTM ("A disambiguation page is not a search index. Do not add a link that merely contains part of the page title, or a link that includes the page title in a longer proper name, where there is no significant risk of confusion or reference"). There is no evidence whatsoever that any of those other uses are ever referenced as "1979-1983". Thus, "no significant risk of confusion or reference" (with those other uses).

Second, "Opinion seemed to be tending towards Bauhaus 1979–1983 at the end..." Seriously? So now we just go by the opinions of the last three people who happen to comment? Decisions like this do not help reduce the RM backlog - they ultimately increase it, by emboldening those who favor "more descriptive" titles to make more and more of such proposals. --В²C 18:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

  • By the way, all those bogus supposed alternate uses were added to the hatnote while the RM discussion was ongoing. That they were assumed to be valid by you and others arguably invalidates the decision. I request you reverse your decision, or at least re-open the discussion (and undo your misguided changes). --В²C 19:29, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of 1979–1983 for deletion

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 1979–1983 is suitable for inclusion. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1979–1983 . SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:12, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

The Conference of the Birds

Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 22:49, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Blocking users reported by the bot

I didn't think there was anything else necessary, except to remove the report from the queue if the bot hasn't done so, or does not appear likely to. Daniel Case (talk) 05:15, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

for moving Marine Isotopic Stage 11 to Marine Isotope Stage 11. prokaryotes (talk) 17:39, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Telangana page move

History of the Telangana movement and History of Telangana are two different pages.

Please have a look at these pages, place some of the Telangana history content back in this page and also, the History of the Telangana movement can be shifted to Telangana movement page. You can see that History of the Telangana movement and Telangana movement both have similar sections such as Telangana movement#Grievances of Telangana proponents etc.--Vin09 (talk) 05:58, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

  • This is the outcomeThe same user did it earlier too, I want you to please have a look at these pages, so that you may have examples History_of_Andhra_Pradesh (Telangana is the successor state of it). So it does have some history.--Vin09 (talk) 03:37, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Like you stated, a copy pasted content was removed, if anything was wrong please notify. Revision--Vin09 (talk) 04:15, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Winter Story (2003 Shinhwa album)

Hi Anthony, thanks, yes I know, but I didn't realize when creating the dab page that there was a previous RM on the back of that album. If you wouldn't mind putting it back to zero, I will put in a proper RM when you have done so. Following the letter of rules... In ictu oculi (talk) 08:49, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, no need, been done by another editor; it's back at starting position now and I have put a RM starting from the correct end. All the best. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:07, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Special:MergeHistory

Hello Anthony. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive263#A Wikipedia feature I just discovered today - good for history merges. Since you often do history merges, maybe you want to comment. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Just a heads up: User Hadji87 again, as admin Sphilbrick implemented Hadji87's first template request counter RM result, I've left a message on his page re the RM results, hence should be no action required from you. All the best. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:37, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

"Weird Al" Yankovicn listed at Redirects for discussion

 

I have asked for a discussion to address the redirects "Weird Al" Yankovicn and Iran Air Flight 655m. Since you created those redirects, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion. Gorobay (talk) 15:09, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Political career of Julius Caesar listed at Redirects for discussion

 

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Political career of Julius Caesar. Since you had some involvement with the Political career of Julius Caesar redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. TheChampionMan1234 02:33, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Moving St. Paul's Hospital, Hong Kong

All the Best! RM

  • You may have forgotten as it's been open so long, but you'd already participated in the RM you closed at Talk:All the Best! (here.) This needs to be resolved by someone uninvolved in the discussion. Thanks,--Cúchullain t/c 15:57, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
  • Anthony, will you please reverse that close? You were involved in the discussion.--Cúchullain t/c 23:09, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
  • I realise what you are saying, but that discussion had run for 38 days, and I am tempted to see if anybody else also objects to my closure. I have seen discussions run on and run on and create the best part of a megabyte of repetitive arguing. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:50, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
  • I don't want to harp on about this, but you got involved in the RM and then closed it according to the opinion you expressed. It would be one thing if there was a clear consensus supporting your decision, but there wasn't. The simplest thing is just to reverse yourself and let an uninvolved admin take care of it.--Cúchullain t/c 12:49, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
  •   Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:54, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Perfect. Thank you.--Cúchullain t/c 13:56, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Invalid page moves

Hi Anthony,

Sorry to bother you, but I saw that you carried out a number of page moves today which were declared as "uncontroversial technical" by Codename Lisa:

In reality, these moves were not uncontroversial at all, for several reasons: These are DOS file names and per MOS:COMPUTING#DOS (and MOS:COMPUTING#Microsoft Windows) DOS filenames must be written in all-uppercase. This reflects the established conventions used in these environments, in the documentation of these operating systems and in the majority of books on the subject over the past 35 years. DOS does not support lowercase file names in the FAT file system, and these files are stored in all-uppercase in the file system, and the system refers to them only in their all-uppercase form. In the case of CMD.EXE, we even had a move discussion just a couple of days ago which resulted in a clear consensus for CMD.EXE: Talk:CMD.EXE#Requested move 14 July 2014. Lisa was fully aware of MOS:COMPUTING as well as of this move discussion, but has announced to ignore the consensus. She even reverted the closing admin User:Jenks24 and issued several verbal attacks in the discussion and in edit summaries: Talk:CMD.EXE#In case anyone cares and User talk:Codename Lisa#Link to CMD.EXE vs. Command Prompt in COMMAND.COM. Therefore, these move requests should never have been filed as uncontroversial, that's why I ask you to please restore the previous status quo:

If Lisa really wants the article names changed for some odd reasons, she should issue proper move discussions, instead of trying to game the system by bypassing the procedure. Thanks. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 22:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Anthony. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 06:48, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Greetings, Anthony.

The CMD.EXE to Cmd.exe discussion is closed successfully. Now, is it okay to move the remaining articles as well, or do I need to start a separate discussion for each?

Fleet Command (talk) 09:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi Anthony, please restore the other articles (except for cmd.exe). I get the feeling that Lisa and Fleet in a concerted effort are violently attempting to force the lowercase forms into articles where they do not belong into, and this is really getting annoying with all their (groundless) personal attacks and aggressive editing/reverting. The move discussion was specifically about cmd.exe only, and it was only a rough consensus, and could not have succeeded at all for the other files.
cmd.exe is the only Windows NT file in the row above and it does not exist in DOS. It was a borderline case, as it is written in all-uppercase under OS/2, because Microsoft's built-in help system refers to it only in the uppercase form even today (like all commands supported by COMMAND and CMD), and because it resembles the DOS command-line interpreter COMMAND.COM in most respects. I originally chosed the uppercase form for CMD.EXE in order to achieve consistency within the DOS related articles. It just looks odd, if all DOS related articles use the uppercase forms, and just cmd.exe is written in lowercase. DOS commands and filenames are written in uppercase per MOS:COMPUTING.
AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, COMMAND.COM and LOGO.SYS are all genuine DOS files (LOGO.SYS is an MS-DOS 7.0 file), they are irrelevant for Windows NT. The DOS FAT filesystem does not support lowercase filenames, filenames are always stored in uppercase.
While a lowercase representation of the Windows NT file cmd.exe exist at least in the NTFS filesystem, it doesn't for the DOS files. DOS does not support NTFS.
Therefore, please change them back to their all-uppercase form.
--Matthiaspaul (talk) 12:05, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
You know, Anthony, I just asked you a question; a yes or no would have sufficed, ...but whatever. Fleet Command (talk) 09:19, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you again, Anthony. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 12:45, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Shree and the 2013 film

  Super job
Nice work on restoring sanity to some bad edits VasuVR (talk, contribs) 05:21, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of U5cms

The subject "CMS" is present in Wikipedia and for a encyclopaedia it is important to be complete. If you think the u5cms article does not meet the standards, please let me know how to make it better (please do not delete it). 11:14, 2 August 2014‎ User:Stemind

Speedy deletion of saMMsCRIthi Comment

Hi, you recently acted on the speedy deletion of saMMsCRIthi by A7 criterion.

What exactly does this criterion mean when it comes to events like Pulse (festival) or Spandan (JIPMER). Are only the superlatives - biggest, largest, etc - considered as significant?

I did speak in the talk page that saMMsCRIthi is the second largest such festival for medical schools in the state of Karnataka, India.

Could you please clarify the difference.

Unrelated, the db-a7 template did not let me know about the hangon template. Is that an intended omission on the template?

Hiberno Irish AfD

I nominated the article for AfD. Would it have been all right for me to go back and remove the AfD and put up the speedy delete template instead? I wasn't sure, so didn't. Thanks for the speedy delete, it was a hoax. SW3 5DL (talk) 22:23, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Swedish blue duck

Talk:Emil Lang

Hello.

You performed this page move yesterday, but I think you forgot to close the discussion, so now it looks like a RM to move the page to itself.

Regards.

HandsomeFella (talk) 12:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Radio stations

I think you've done everything right. Thanks for all your help.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 13:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

My hatnote was lost but that was an easy fix.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 13:11, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Through the Looking Glass

What? I have no idea what this response means, please clarify. Koala15 (talk) 15:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Well then move it back,and tell Bovineboy to start a requested move. That was not valid reason to move it. Koala15 (talk) 20:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks I appreciate it. Koala15 (talk) 20:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

FYI

You may be interested in knowing that SMC and I are actually collaborating to some degree on the landrace article. If we can agree on that article, there might be hope for Middle East Peace. There is still snark on both sides, but I'm actually optimistic that SMC is working in good faith. He's found some decent material. Montanabw(talk) 00:50, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Please don't create any more xxxm or xxxn redirects

Two more redirects you created were just deleted at RFD. Overwhelming consensus means these will not survive RFD, and take valuable editor time to deal with. Thanks! UnitedStatesian (talk)

Atmospheric particulate matter

  • I requested a relisting of the move request now at Talk:Atmospheric particulate matter. I see that this request was ignored, despite my right to have an article relisted for any reason, and my explanation that I was unable to participate at that time due to my commitment to Wikimania. I now request that you reverse your closure of that request and reopen it for discussion, in accordance with my right to be heard in that discussion. I really don't understand why there was such a rush to close a discussion where a relisting had been requested, and no evidence at all had been presented in favor of the proposed move. I have filed a move review, but will withdraw this if you will reopen the discussion. bd2412 T 00:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
  •   Done discussion re-opened. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:31, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
    • Thanks. bd2412 T 11:22, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

For what it's worth...

Despite the fact that you're not one of the parties to the issue, you definitely should look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Personal_attacks_by_User:Matthiaspaul as part of the issues raised there took place here. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 05:18, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Mesteñeros

Charlotte Checkers (2010–)

  • Would you please take a look at the requested move discussion concerning moving “Charlotte Checkers (2010–)” to “Charlotte Checkers”. It has been open for quite a while now, with no opposition to the suggested move. Perhaps you could close the discussion and perform the move. Cheers. 02:28, 18 August 2014‎ User:Dolovis
  • This discussion started on 8 Aug 2014, that is only 10 days ago, and in it someone made another suggestion about what to rename the files as. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:32, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
    Their is stated support for the requested move, and no stated opposition. The suggestion to otherwise rename the articles that you mention above has receive no further support. How long should the discussion be allowed to remain dormant, and what is the process to move this matter forward? Dolovis (talk) 16:41, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
  •   Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:49, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Army Family Advocacy System of Records for deletion

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Army Family Advocacy System of Records is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Army Family Advocacy System of Records until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Gbawden (talk) 12:39, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

HISTMERGE

Hello Anthony Appleyard, Please take a look at discussion HERE about a HISTMERGE of Alice in Wonderland 2 into Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass. I talked with Favre1fan93 and he agreed on merge but Mark Arsten thinks it is "a case of parallel histories". And now Mark Arsten sent me to you for the help in situation as you redirected the Alice in Wonderland 2 last time. But it was created in June 2013 and has a editing history which should be merged into the new one. --Captain Assassin! «TCG» 19:10, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

A couple of concerns

There is a request at The Teahouse for a HISTMERGE.

And I had a concern that an article I did most of the work on should be split since one company is defunct and another was formed to buy its assets. I don't feel the need to but I thought others might. There was no response to the requested move, even after I asked on the Village Pump. It might have been an appopriate policy question. Since you seem to get involved in such activities I thought you might be able to help. Thanks. — Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:59, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Twenty20 to Twenty20 (type of cricket):

  • Hi AA, can you please explain why you did this move? Was there a request, or any form of discussion? I think you've chosen an awful qualifier for the disambiguation. Twenty20 cricket (which is now a double redirect) is so much better, if it needs a disambiguating at all, which I don't think it actually does, as nothing else uses the word number contraction without a space. Please reconsider. Regards The-Pope (talk) 15:28, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
  • OK, I have reverted this move.

Upload Lorant de Bastyai

dear Mr Appleyard, I have today uploaded the revised article. I hope it meets with your approval.---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard de Bastion (talkcontribs) 18:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Recent move at Electoral district of Logan

  • Hi there. Would you mind reversing your recent move here? This isn't your fault, but it was never appropriate for RM as uncontroversial, as the move has moved it away from the naming standard for hundreds of Australian electorates. Given that the format is different for the Canadian and Australian terms I would think a hatnote would suffice, but if the proposer (and I haven't been able to find it in the history but that's probably because I don't know my way around RM) wants to suggest it they can go ahead through a proper move discussion. Frickeg (talk) 08:20, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Now being discussed at Talk:Logan (Queensland electoral district)#Move?. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:17, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

What needs to be histmerged

Anthony, referring back to this discussion, what I want is the following:

  1. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone should remain the way it is.
  2. The page above in #1 was replaced by doing a move from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sibtain 007. After the move, I did a partial restore of the history of the Sibtain page at the Mama page.
  3. I want the Sibtain page to be back the way it was before the move with all of its original history intact. Thus, if possible, I'd want to take the history from the Mama page, including the history I didn't restore, and merge it into the Sibtain page. Berean's intervening recreation of the short Sibtain page is unimportant. So, if the Sibtain page needs to be deleted before the merge, that's not a problem.

I hope that's clear. I won't be able to answer any questions until later today. I intentionally got up early so I could address any questions before I go to my regular job, and I don't edit Wikipedia when I'm at work.

After this is straightened out, I'd like to talk to you about how I should have accomplished what I wanted.

Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:53, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm off to work now. Not sure what time zone you're in (I'm in PDT). Take a look at the proposal here. Od Mishehu's recital of what happened isn't exactly right, and it's not clear to me that his solution isn't more complicated than needed. Question: after I selectively restored the revisions to the Mama page (what he calls page 2), are the revisions I didn't restore still avalable for histmerge? If so, I could just histmerge all of the revisions from the Mama page except the ones that relate only to Mama's original history back to the Sibtain page. Whether I have to delete the current Sibtain page before the histmerge, I don't know. If the answer to my question is no, i.e., the revisions I want are not available for histmerge but are available to the Mama page, then I would have to something a bit more complicated.
Again, without knowing, I'm not taking any action myself, but even though you know more than I do about how this works, I'd rather you go through what you want to do with me before doing anything so we make sure that what you see as the end result is the one I want. Hope that makes sense, and I'll check in later. Thanks again.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:21, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
(Chiming in unasked): I see this pretty similarly to Od Mishehu and his solution also is the one I'd go with, providing we've read it correctly. My questions to you, Bbb23, just to be 100% clear before anyone proceeds would be: 1) is the visible history at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone exactly as you want it, i.e. when all is said and done are those 33 edits the only ones you want to be in the history of the Mamadoutadioukone SPI? 2) Do you then want all 75 of the deleted edits currently at Mamadoutadioukone to be relocated at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sibtain 007? If the answer to both is yes, then Od Mishehu's suggestion is the way to go and here's how I would perform it:
  1. Move Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone/temp (or wherever, it's only a temporary name) without leaving a redirect.
  2. Restore everything at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone.
  3. Move Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sibtain 007 without leaving a redirect. Delete Berean Hunter's temporary creation there and leave it deleted.
  4. Move Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone/temp back to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mamadoutadioukone without leaving a redirect.
It's kind of similar to a WP:HISTSPLIT if anything. Jenks24 (talk) 15:02, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
First, many thanks to everyone. Second, Jenks24, I'm a bit confused about the 75 deleted edits number as I don't think I have any way of seeing what was left. All I can say is when I restored Mamadoutadiokone, I didn't restore the earlier edits that were specific to Sibtain. In any event, regardless of the number, when I look now at the histories of both pages, they look right, so I think what was done was successful. Last, let's assume I never did any of this, but I believe you all now know what my objective was. What would be the exact steps I should have taken to achieve that objective? Although what I did rarely comes up, so do many scenarios that are not listed at the SPI clerk procedures, and I keep notes on those scenarios in my own user space so I know what to do. The correct steps for this process would be really helpful.
Also, in trying to look at the positive side of all this, I now have all your names (heh), which gives me resources in the future if I need assistance in this area. That's invaluable.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:33, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
  • I spoke too soon, Jenks24. The Sibtain page is not correct. It has neither the "current" report, nor the history of the current report. To reiterate, I wanted Sibtain back in precisely the same state it was before I did anything. If you look at the Mamadoutadiokone page, you'll see there is an open report that began with the edits by Smartse on August 27. That report and the history starting at that point should also be at the Sibtain page. The open report at the Sibtain page is the last report that is also in the archive. That should only be in the archive (it still is as the archives weren't damaged). Can this be resolved?--Bbb23 (talk) 23:02, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
    • @Bbb23: Ah, I think I fully understand what you want know. Basically you want to duplicate the page history (or a portion thereof) so that it's in both pages. I don't think that's technically possible (if it is I've never seen it done and would have no idea how to achieve it). As far as I'm aware revision histories cannot be duplicated. So you have to choose one page or the other, you can't have it in the history of both pages. Jenks24 (talk) 08:46, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
  • You will have to put a history note in the talk page of one of the articles involved. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:58, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Okay, I'm going to finish the process, and it simply won't be perfect because of the apparent limitations of the software or of the design of the software. I am leaving Mamadoutadioukone alone because it's the way I want it. I may make a note in the open report just so others know what happened and in case I'm not the one who finishes clerking it. I will replace the open report in Sibtain (which, as I said, is a duplicate of the archive) with the open report at Mamadoutadioukone using copy/paste. I will then make a note in that report. I think it's better to have the note in the report than in the talk page because I don't think most of us look at the talk page. I'm going to do that now because I have to take off this morning and I don't want it sitting the say it is.
Thanks again for your help, and I apologize for causing such a commotion. I now know that what I wanted is not possible, and I'll adjust my future actions accordingly.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:17, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Hey Bbb23. SPI reports are essentially talk pages and most of the entries are signed in the text by the person who made them. This makes histmerge somewhat less vital -- a careful textmerge will preserve most of the things of interest. Histmerge is more necessary for articles where we want to know who is the original author of which passage. EdJohnston (talk) 16:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Assistance

Thanks very much. RGloucester 19:53, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Your edits to Exhumation of Richard III of England

  • You've been making some major undiscussed changes to Exhumation of Richard III of England today, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to revert them. I will be nominating the article for GA and subsequently FA status soon. Unfortunately the list item format you've adopted for three sections of the article isn't compliant with the relevant section of the Wikipedia manual of style, the first point of which states, "Do not use lists if a passage is read easily as plain paragraphs". GA and FA reviewers will certainly pick up on that and the format will have to be reverted back to plain paragraphs. Prioryman (talk) 12:19, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Discussion continued at Talk:Exhumation of Richard III of England#Format of timeline sections

Aquapod

Merovingian_art

  • Hi Anthony, Please revert this undiscussed moveto Merovingian_art]. The "art and architecture" pairing is a very usual pairing, & in fact this one is nearly all about architecture. Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 18:12, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
  •   Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:16, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 00:44, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Some image issues

  • Greetings! I recently transferred some PD images uploaded by you here over to Commons, and was hit with a barrage of messages requiring source and author info. The images are here, here, and here. Do you have the requisite source information? Cheers! bd2412 T 18:16, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:BD2412. The English Wikipedia originals are File:Aa_AN_WQX2_02.jpg, File:Aa_AN_WQX2_track_02.jpg, File:Aa INSS 01.jpg, where the images are shown to be of USA naval origin, and when I uploaded them (around 2006-12-03 11:30), the "upload wizard" gave them the licence {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}, which says "This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.". I am sorry if I misunderstood that statement. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:03, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Where did they come from originally? bd2412 T 18:57, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:BD2412: Likeliest off a USA armed forces web site, but I uploaded them on 3 December 2006, which was nearly 8 years ago, and I do not remember every incident in detail that long ago. Sorry. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:43, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Hi Anthony Appleyard,

A while ago, I submitted a successful move request to change the article title of the State University of Campinas from its Portuguese name to its English name, but I noticed that the title of the category page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Universidade_Estadual_de_Campinas - is still in Portuguese. Should the article move automatically transfer to the category page as well, or should I submit a new move request?

Thanks,

Michipedian (talk) 19:27, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2014 September

Consider using Template:MRV top instead. --George Ho (talk) 01:04, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Ok (glacier)

FYI I've requested Groundzero that this be reopened relisted as the only oppose was by sock of a c-banned user. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:52, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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List of PC exclusive titles

  • Thank you for your assistance with the article. I do not entirely agree with the URL it was sent to, but (List of PC games) was not available, so I don't blame you for picking that one. Is there any way we can redirect it to List of PC games if the article already existed and redirected to the page? Essentially, I want to reverse it and make the titles page point to the games one. Also, I had no idea splitting was possible. I'd love to help with the split but I've never seen an example as far as I know. The article (and a couple of related ones) have been getting very difficult to save to. Thanks, please write back to me! Wikinium (talk) 03:39, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
  • To User:Wikinium: What do you want me to do with page List of PC exclusive video games? Do you want me to move it to another name and then cut-and-paste it back to name List of PC exclusive video games?, to avoid its history getting so long that ordinary admins can't delete it or undelete it? Or what? Which are the "couple of related ones"? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:43, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
  • I'd like to see it move to List of PC games, but that's taken and would require a manual copy-paste (which may be OK). Once it's moved there, we can begin working on a split. The similar pages I mentioned are the ones listed in the "See also" section. One example would be List of PC exclusive video games, which I think should also lose "video" from the title. I'll actually try to move List of PC exclusive video games tonight. Wikinium (talk) 20:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
  • To User:Wikinium: The word "exclusive" in the article's name seems to be significant. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:13, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

American-led intervention in Iraq

You just removed my TR for this article, but it seems as if you didn't carry it out. It isn't controversial, and has been discussed. RGloucester 05:11, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much. RGloucester 05:16, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Lindsay Hartley

I guess you weren't aware of the ongoing RM, were you? --George Ho (talk) 22:41, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

WP:RM Talk:Oblasts of Ukraine

I saw you closed some WP:RM, maybe you can have a look at Talk:Oblasts of Ukraine? Derianus (talk) 16:39, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Getting It (film)

  • I requested deletion on the draft that I created. I wonder if I made a mistake. One editor said that it is not notable. Is the topic notable under WP:NFILMS and/or WP:N? --George Ho (talk) 02:07, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:George Ho: Unfortunately, I am not a habitual cinema goer, and not a habitual viewer of the sort of genre that this film is in. Do you want me to undelete this article and then let it take its chances in AfD? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:40, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
I will have the draft re-submitted for approval once you undelete it. Nevertheless, I don't know if the second time fails. By the way, it should be moved to Draft:Getting It (film) instead. --George Ho (talk) 03:38, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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Ebola dab

Greetings Anthony, the suit, while interesting, doesn't seem to fit on the dab, as it's a WP:PTM, and the resulting dab [7] was getting quite far from WP:MOSDAB. Widefox; talk 12:10, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Kerf rollback

Hi, did you use rollback to revert my edit to Kerf? I think my edit deserved at least an edit summary, now I don't know what part of my argument you disagree with. 137.43.188.71 (talk) 14:46, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't know how to do that with rigour, a crude way would be to look at google search results:
Google search:
"kerf" AND "Saw": 360,000 results.
"kerf" AND "Sanger": 63,700
"kerf" AND "College of the Redwoods": 3,030
"kerf" AND "kollam": 4,870
Google scholar:
"kerf" AND "Saw": 12,700 results.
"kerf" AND "Sanger": 66
"kerf" AND "College of the Redwoods": 6
"kerf" AND "kollam": 1
Google books:
"kerf" AND "Saw": 60,000 results.
"kerf" AND "Sanger": 170
"kerf" AND "College of the Redwoods": 138
"kerf" AND "kollam": 2
If this is accurate, it establishes a clear primary topic. Are there other uses I'm missing? Would moving the page to Kerf (disambiguation) and redirecting Kerf to the saw article be a decent compromise? 137.43.188.71 (talk) 15:18, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Article move question

Page has been moved

Hi Anthony, the discussion to move the page is here and not settled. Personally, I like the move because maybe it will just end the problem. Would you please comment on the talk page about the move you just made? I opened a section at the bottom of the talk page. We might get lucky and everybody will be happy. So don't move it back yet. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 22:06, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Anthony, you'll have to move the page back as the issue apparently is not settled, and it does seem that this move was not appropriate given that it is not uncontroversial. Even the discussion on the WP:Med project page is leaning towards use of 'outbreak,' and two editors have taken exception to the move you've made. It simply can't stand, I'm afraid. I thought your page move might sort things the easy way, but no such luck. Please move it back, asap. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 03:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Please review the discussions at the bottom of the relevant article Talk page before doing anything. Zad68 04:05, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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Thanks for handling all of my Histmerge requests that came out of copyright investigations! CrowCaw 17:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Achievement Hunter

  • If you look at the logs for the October 21st DRV list, you'll see you deleted it mistakenly as part of a histmerge. Maybe a bug in whatever script youre using? Sorry if I can't provide a link right now, in on mobile. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! ·  22:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Here ya go. I fixed it so I'm not insisting just to rub it in your face, I'm genuinely trying to help in case there's a bug with whatever semi-automates your histmerges. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! ·  13:51, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Seriously? Did you even look at the link I provided?? You deleted the October 21st DRV log. That was an obvious mistake. I'm trying to help you avoid repeating that mistake. ☺ · Salvidrim! ·  14:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Salvidrim!: Oh, that's what you meant. Likeliest a typo or a mousing error. Sorry. Sorry. I thought I was temporarily deleting a page as part of a history-merge. Sorry. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:39, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Np buddy, mistakes happen (tell me about it!), I was just wondering if you were using some sort of semi-automated tool for histmerges and it was bugging out. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! ·  14:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Jiwa / SPA / COI

Looks like an unnecessary dab to me, with several non-notable articles. Why split the merged dab when it results in two dabs without enough articles? In itself that's already odd, but also there's something odd going with the IP editor, who's using a COI edit request and may or may not have some sort of connection with the SPA (/ COI) editors of the company article listed in the dab. Widefox; talk 00:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

The odd thing was that I hadn't seen the move request. There's still two COI editors but the IP was connected via that request. Widefox; talk 10:02, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Ebola dab

  • Ebola dab [8]. Can I point you towards WP:MOSDAB. Cheers Widefox; talk 01:51, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Widefox: In one of the Ebola pages' talk page someone complained about that currently very important topic, the current West Africa Ebola epidemic, being a long way down the disambig list in page Ebola (disambiguation), so I moved it to near the start. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:48, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Where's that? Did you see the talk page Talk:Ebola (disambiguation) - pls can you participate there - where there's extensive disruption from one editor against the consensus, was it that editor complaining? I already removed the "Distinguish from" part [9] . Making that edit a second time, where User:Bkonrad undid it "...that's completely irregular" per WP:MOSDAB . May I encourage you to familiarise yourself with MOSDAB and participate in the talk, regards. Widefox; talk 09:58, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Shellshock disambiguation

Great. You may want to reuse the source from the merged stub in the main article. As long as there's a redirect or a WP:DABMENTION or something more, we can list on the dab. That needs to be done first (with a source) and then put in the dab. Widefox; talk 09:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Proper names at RMTR

  • I propose to decline all of these technical requests without prejudice to new discussion in any appropriate forum. The probability is that most of these files would wind up getting moved twice (once to restore the capitals, and once to remove them again per eventual consensus). Since Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, I don't see enough reason for the double moves. If another admin (such as yourself) thinks it is more correct to go ahead with the technical move I won't object. EdJohnston (talk) 19:59, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I sharply disagree with EdJohnston. Most of these moves were highly incorrect, and rendered proper nouns without capital letters. This entirely inappropriate. Perhaps there were some cases that might've needed to be rendered in lowercase, but these were very few. Purely by virtue of WP:BRD, if people are disputing these mass moves, then they should be reverted. It has nothing to do with bureaucracy, and everything to do with making sure that consensus approves these changes. As it stands, I oppose the vast majority of the moves carried out by DagosNavy, and I'm not the only one. RGloucester 20:22, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Can you identify a specific title where this argument applies? We could put through one or two move discussions for the most obvious cases and then consider a technical move of the rest if it appears that consensus prefers upper case in all these cases. As you know WP:BRD is an essay not a policy. EdJohnston (talk) 20:31, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
I shouldn't need to be the one to start a requested move. The longstanding titles should remain per WP:TITLECHANGES, unless consensus dictates otherwise. It isn't my job to start the RM, it is the job of the person who wants to move these articles away from their longstanding titles. It would be one thing if this was not controversial, but it clearly is. In that case, there is no justification for a mass de-capitalisation campaign. RGloucester 20:33, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
  • That seems to depend on whether any particular noun-equivalent is a proper-name or a description or both or neither. Whether the only known big riot at Xtown is the Xtown riot or the Xtown Riot seems to be a matter of personal preference and how much people go in for importance capitalizing. Long ago before I became an admin I saw a routine difference of opinion producing over a megabyte of arguing. Whichever side I obey, the other side complains at me. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 20:41, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
  • OK, I'll move the 36 articles back, and open a regular move discussion for the first one in the list. I'll wait a few minutes for any more comments. EdJohnston (talk) 20:49, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, EdJohnston. It is better to be safe than sorry. RGloucester 21:01, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
See User talk:DagosNavy#Name changes of various articles.

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Importance capitalizing

  • Hello. Where can I read more about importance capitalizing? Thanks. Hugh (talk) 23:41, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:HughD: I use the expression "importance capitalizing" to mean cases where someone capitalizes a noun because he considers that it refers to something important. For example, the same meal can be a "Roast Beef Dinner" when advertized as part of an airline flight package, and a "roast beef dinner" when described neutrally by ordinary people. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:09, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
ok, thanks Hugh (talk) 16:31, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Request to remove the semi-protection on "Oxymoron"

  • Hello, I was wondering if you could remove the semi-protection on "Oxymoron". I would like to contribute to the page, thank you for your time. Marcrower (talk) 15:43, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Marcrower
  •   Done, but the semi-protection goes back on if the vandalism comes back. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:58, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

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Merge request

Request to restore e-Zest Solutions page

Hi Anthony, I write to you regarding the deletion of e-Zest Solutions Wikipedia page. The page has been deleted as per a deletion discussion which happened in 2006. However, I would like to present some facts pertinent to the current time:

1. The article is totally different from the earlier version.
2. The article has suitable references to back up every fact presented.
3. The reasons presented in the deletion discussion do not hold true in the current context - the company as well as the facts in the article.

The company is suitable to be a part of the Wikipedia community. Request you to kindly restore the deleted page. Fasab (talk) 13:37, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

G. Flint Taylor

  • Hi Anthony - I authored the article about G. Flint Taylor, which I see you approved. A flag questioning the neutrality of the piece has been subsequently added, and I would like to address the concerns so that the flag is removed. Can you help as I have limited experience on Wikipedia. Many thanks, Carol Carolfowler1 (talk) 22:58, 29 October 2014 (UTC)carolfowler1
  • @User:Carolfowler1: Unfortunately, I live in England, and my experience of the USA civil rights scene is limited to news from abroad in the newspapers and the television news. The article awaits editing by Wikipedia members who live in the area described and know plenty about the events described. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:08, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Move at Extinct in the Wild

Hello, You've helped me with many technical moves, so I'm hoping you can clean up after a move mistake I made. I attempted to move Extinct in the Wild on my own, but accidentally did it on the talk page. I apparently can't undo the talk page move. I then tried starting a requested move for the article page, but the template thinks the move has already taken place because I am attempting to change the article page to match what is now the talk page. It's a mess and if you can use your administrative tools to fix it I would be grateful. Thank you. SchreiberBike talk 23:17, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Possible solutions are either reversing my move of the talk page, and allowing the requested move to go forward, or moving Extinct in the Wild to Extinct in the wild, which I believe is uncontroversial at this point. Thanks again, SchreiberBike talk 23:30, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Never mind. It's been fixed and the requested move will go forward. SchreiberBike talk 04:38, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Gaza beach explosion

About [11] and Talk:Gaza_beach_explosion_(2006)#Requested_move_03_November_2014.

I understand you made it into a discvussion. Still I'd expect you'd revert the last page move, clearly being a breach of correct procedure. Such behavior should not be rewarded by freezing a bad edit outcome. -DePiep (talk) 15:08, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Wait wait. So you involved yourself in the discussion ('The name "Gaza beach explosion" is neutral.')? That does not look like the independent attitude an admin should apply. -DePiep (talk) 15:17, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Move requests

  • Thank you for taking care of the move request of Slovak National Uprising. In my write up, I also mentioned getting all the rest of items in user:hmains/worklist also moved back to their original upper case. Is this something you can take care of somehow? The move request templates for handling multiples do not seem to work at all so there is not much I can do. Hmains (talk) 03:43, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Hmains: I will see what I can do, but that many, and on top of a sudden load of history-merging .... Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:50, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
  • Most of these are based on Hmains's interpretation that a description of a particular event becomes a proper name; this approach is not widely supported, and goes against the spirit of MOS:CAPS. He seems to have done a lot of unilateral undiscussed moves along this line himself, which I have been undoing. And I've opened a multi-RM to discuss the ones that Anthony already moved back. See Talk:Potato Riots. Dicklyon (talk) 04:29, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:HmainsUser:Dicklyon: It could be said that a description of something unique may become a proper-name: e.g. Mr.Qwerty's first cat's first mouse only happened once, but is not a candidate for treating as a proper-name. But that line of thought leads to importance-capitalizing and respectfulness-capitalizing, such as firms capitalizing their products in catalogs and advertisements, and one track from that leads to capitalizing all nouns, as in German, and formerly in Danish, and often in older English writing. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:10, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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Cyprus toponyms

You have made a big mistake changing the names of the Cyprus toponyms. If you only you were a Cypriot, you would know how wrong this is... Neo ^ (talk) 17:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

He changed them at my request. Nobody is opposed to using the ELOT transliteration scheme per WP:GREEK except you (see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Greek)#Placename transliteration for places in Cyprus). 213.7.147.34 (talk) 17:36, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for doing all these moves. 213.7.147.34 (talk) 17:40, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for all the good work on the moves. Same goes for the exceptional work of the IP editor. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 05:39, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Toy Story 4

  • Since Toy Story 4 was announced, I request a history undeletion of Toy Story 4 and its talk page. I also request a history merge of Toy Story 4 (2015 film) and Toy Story 4 (at one point the contents of Toy Story 4 were moved there for unexplained reasons and never moved back). SNS (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
  •   Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:02, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
I think you are aware of the policy WP:NFF? It clearly states, "Films that have not been confirmed by reliable sources to have commenced principal photography should not have their own articles, as budget issues, scripting issues and casting issues can interfere with a project well ahead of its intended filming date." In this case, Toy Story 4 has merely been announced and production is yet to begin; moreover the article has only two references. Kailash29792 (talk) 16:06, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Just FYI

Late to the party, but just a comment that you might want to be very careful about "noncontroversial" "technical" moves of animal breed articles. See [12]. There is huge drama over the animal naming stuff, mostly surrounding one person's problem with unilateral moves without consensus. Montanabw(talk) 06:38, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Nice personal attack. I've made no unilateral moves of any kind in almost four months, other than to my own user pages, and some drafts, sandboxes, etc. Even the two (and only two) direct moves of animal breed articles I've done in that time span (yesterday) are fully defensible under at least 6 different criteria, including a huge raft of recent RMs, and I did them manually just to prove the point that a usual suspect would violate WP:POINT to go after me for it futilely, which happened precisely as I predicted, and in such a heavy-handed way as to leave zero doubt in anyone's mind that it's a personal problem.

The only WP:DRAMA going on with regard to animal breed names in many months now is that generated by you and one other editor; you two just seemingly will not, no matter what, let go of your personal issues with me, and will tendentiously fight me just to fight me. You said yourself at Talk:Teeswater sheep that you were taking a position you didn't even agree with simply to oppose me for purely personality-based reasons. Just WP:MOVEON and stop using other people's talk pages to prove this is the real issue, as you've already done twice today (see similar antagonistic post at User talk:Justlettersandnumbers).

Anthony, please note that Dreadstar has repeatedly warned Montanabw against this sort of antagonism toward me (and vice versa). I've studiously avoided both Montanabw and Jlan for over a month, and they just will not relent. While I contemplate DR actions, I'm going to continue editing as normal, and following procedure as normal, and they can try to mire me in procedure all they like. I have a lot of patience for procedure. I'm running out of patience with this organized pattern of WP:TAGTEAM hostility, however, as it's directly interfering with my work here, and creating a palpably hostile, harassing environment.  — SMcCandlish ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ʌ≼  21:43, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

SMc made "no unilateral moves" because he was RESTRICTED from doing so until a week or two ago! He did, in that time, initiate dozens of RMs, and also fight others who tried to reverse all the unilateral moves he made that led to his restriction. See my comments at Wikipedia_talk:Requested_moves#Animal_breed_articles. Montanabw(talk) 04:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

  The Technical Barnstar
I remember the first time I looked at Requested moves back in 2006 or so. I got curious about the people who fulfill the requests. You were fulfilling a lot of them then. You still do that today. Every day. It's amazing. You're amazing. Just wanted to say how great you are, Anthony. Keep on rocking. Thank you. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:21, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Techweek move

  • Are you sure that was entirely uncontroversial. One min Techweek is a magazine, the next it is usurped by a double move by an arguably less well known tech conference. Just a thought. --nonsense ferret 22:23, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
  • I have reverted the move and now the plain name is the disambig page. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, I think that sounds like an entirely reasonable option. Pretty sure SEO is the only reason this change was requested. --nonsense ferret 22:31, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Les martyrs to Les Martyrs

Many thanks for your work on this.Viva-Verdi (talk) 02:46, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

The Climb (song)

  • Hi Anthony- if you're going to create a dab page, could you go ahead and create it (and fix incoming links)? Alternatively, could you ask the person who asked you to move the page to do so? Right now, we have "The Climb (song)" simply redirecting to "The Climb (Miley Cyrus song)", which is pretty silly. J Milburn (talk) 20:17, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:J Milburn: Page The Climb is already the disambig page. Page The Climb (Miley Cyrus song) has a hatlink leading to The Climb (Leiber and Stoller song) and The Climb. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:15, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
  • I have corrected links in 3 templates that linked to this song. Now to wait an age and a snail while Wikipedia gets around to flushing the relevant buffers and "What links here?" starts telling the truth again. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:24, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
This doesn't solve the problem- the issue is that it's pointless for "The Climb (song)" to redirect to "The Climb (Miley Cyrus song)"- if we're going to do that, we may as well have the article about the Miley song at "The Climb (song)", as that's the neater title. There seem to be three options- either we have a disambiguation page for all songs called "The Climb", we select the most significant song to sit at "The Climb (song)" with a hatnote to others or we redirect "The Climb (song)" to the broader dab page. J Milburn (talk) 22:49, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
I do feel it's important to emphasize again that Anthony and I were not the initiators of the moves with which you are finding fault. Just as you wouldn't expect an administrator to merge articles after closing an AfD that shows support for a merge, or to add sources themselves to an article when they come up during a deletion discussion, please allow the WP:RM process to work as intended. While Anthony redirected this one to the dab page as you asked, you could just as well have done it yourself. Your WP:RAAA at Raining Men (song) was contra consensus and actually prevents anyone from performing the further action that you suggested in your edit summary, since it would then constitute wheel warring. Dekimasuよ! 23:35, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
I admit that I didn't explore this particularly, as I was just skimming through the good article lists, updating links and the like- you'd be amazed how often people move articles claiming that there should be dab pages and then just leave them. I'm not particularly familiar with the RM process, which all seems a little bureaucratic to me- especially as it seems that it leaves these kinds of problems at least occasionally (as I've apparently stumbled upon just two today). I could have just cleaned up the issue myself, but it'd be much quicker generally to teach people who are moving irresponsibly to do so- this doesn't apply to either of you two (as you have rightly pointed out- I live and learn) but perhaps we could prevent problems like this in the future by insisting that someone go ahead and create the promised dab page/restructuring and deal with redirects. J Milburn (talk) 23:51, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply. Dekimasuよ! 00:01, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Wrestlers who have wrestled under the name Sin Cara listed at Redirects for discussion

 

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Portal talk:Nuclear technology

User_talk:TexasAndroid#redirect

Hi Anthony Appleyard, I request you to please come here and solve this problem. Thank you. Chander 04:33, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Moves Like Jagger?

Muito obrigado. —BarrelProof (talk) 07:17, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

History merge request

Take a look at Category:USAAF Glider Training Airfields. This is the first time I've seen an article in category space!

I was tempted to do a cut-and-paste job over the redirect at USAAF Glider Training Airfields, but think it would be better if it had its history merged into the redirect. Or maybe just moved over the redirect, if that can be done without messing up the category? Would you be able to help, please?

Many thanks

--NSH002 (talk) 20:07, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt response. --NSH002 (talk) 09:44, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

November 2014

  Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses. Wikipedia is not the Yellow pages. If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 15:05, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

I thought that Casualty Wiki was a source of information like many other wikis. What makes it into a business? OK, it has advertisements. Advertisements are an onmipresent nuisance like sparrows and litter. Wikipedia would have next to no external links and refs if it was forbidden to link to any site that has advertisements. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:07, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, Anthony. You are answering for me. The site is not notable and Wikipedia does not support it. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 18:04, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Black Pied Dairy

Requested at WP:RM as uncontroversial --> please have a look at Talk:Black Pied Dairy cattle#referenced name:

The SMR is referenced as German Black Pied Dairy in Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties, p 55. and Genetic Diversity of European Livestock Breeds. I do move this to that referenced titel. --PigeonIP (talk) 12:53, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

"Black Pied Dairy cattle" is very ambiguous. And where is the reference for that name? --PigeonIP (talk) 19:38, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

History merge

Hello, I recently merged two related articles, BK Chicken Fries and Coq Roq, and need a history merge of the two articles. Would you be willing to do so?

TYVM, --Jeremy (blah blahI did it!) 21:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Contested move

I see. Thank you. I'm not sure what comment to put there; I believe the observations I made in my request say everything there is to say. I will happily reply if someone chooses to disclose why they think I'm wrong, but so far nobody is doing that. Damvile (talk) 11:12, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Visakhapatnam International Airport

  • Could you please cite a source of the renaming of this airport? It hasn't been declared international yet and neither has it been renamed to Visakhapatnam International Airport. The name remains Visakhapatnam Airport. Please see this.  LeoFrank  Talk 14:12, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
  • Someone cut-and-pasted Visakhapatnam Airport to Visakhapatnam International Airport. I found and obeyed a request to history-merge that cut-and-paste move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:04, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
  • i think u r not from India .... it was same airport called Visakhapatnam Airport but Actually Visakhapatnam operated 2 international Flight to Dubai & Singapore ...upcoming international flight to Malaysia ...i've seen news paper that Airport called Visakhapatnam International Airport....so , please i request you to move back to Visakhapatnam International Airport ... Thank You 18:30, 26 November 2014‎ User:Hsuryateja
@Hsuryateja: Having one or two international flights does not 1) change the name of the airport and 2) change the status to internnational. VTZ is currently a customs airport operating a few international flights. Provide a source that states that the airport has been renamed to Visakhapatnam International Airport and has been granted international status, until then, kindly refrain from making the changes.  LeoFrank  Talk 15:46, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Kingdom of Dagbon

Sorin Virgil Oproiescu

Amir Hannan

  • I contested your proposal to delete this article. None of the speedy deletion criteria were met. I object most strongly.Rathfelder (talk) 19:21, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Rathfelder: The delete was proposed not by me but at 16:21, 30 November 2014 by User:G S Palmer, on the 2 grounds "as an article about a real person, individual animal, organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content or organized event that does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject." and "because in its current form it serves only to promote or publicise an entity, person, product, or idea, and would require a fundamental rewrite in order to become encyclopedic.". I can undelete it and start an AfD on it if you wish. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:57, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Umbrella movement

I'm sorry, but in a moment of confusion and haste, I reverted your move of "Umbrella movement" to "Umbrella Movement". I am actually happy for it to have been moved. Apologies and regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 02:03, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

two Nevada State Route moves

Both already had sections on the move, so the ones you just added are kinda redundant. Famartin (talk) 11:17, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Blues2.jpg

  • Could you explain your speedy deletion of this file? The file had {{ShadowsCommons}}, suggesting that the file on Commons was a completely different file. The file seems to be out of scope for Wikipedia, but the copyright violation rationale looks faulty. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:23, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Stefan2: I have undeleted it. But it remains orphan, i.e. nothing links to it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:48, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
    • I think that matter is better suited for the FFD discussion. I have reverted the bot which closed the discussion when you deleted the file. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:56, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Sensation

Link to the discussion next time instead of removing the move request with a useless summary. Swpbtalk 17:51, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Modular smartphone

Deletion of HeartShare Human Services of New York page

Hi Anthony, I would like you to reconsider your deletion of the HeartShare Human Services of New York page. HeartShare has been in existence since 1914. Celebrating its Centennial Anniversary, HeartShare serves nearly 29,000 New Yorkers in need annually across Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and upstate New York. After its affiliation with St. Vincent’s Services, Brooklyn, NY in March 2014, HeartShare is the third largest children services agency in New York City with a $150 million budget and over 2,300 employees. HeartShare is recognized by elected officials, celebrities and other notable individuals, including, but not limited to Rosanna Scotto, Linda Dano and Jim Kerr. With an honorary proclamation, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio declared July 14, 2014 as “HeartShare Human Services of New York” Day in NYC, a celebration of 100 years of service to the New York community. HeartShare has more than 65 program locations and three affiliates, The HeartShare School, HeartShare Wellness and HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services, some of which provide innovative programs that few other organizations in NYC offers.

The HeartShare School is a school for children with autism, 5-21, and the first school of its kind in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, when it opened its doors in 2007. HeartShare Wellness Ltd. provides comprehensive medical care customized to those diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, while mainstream physicians often do not have the skills or training to provide this care. HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services’ premiere program, The American Dream Program, offers tuition assistance to young men and women aging out of the foster care system, when government support is no longer available, aiming to break cycles of poverty, incarceration and homelessness among this group. These are just three of the many innovative and vital programs HeartShare has developed to respond to the needs of the New York community in the past 100 years: http://thetablet.org/100-years-of-heartshare-a-century-of-caring/

There are Wikipedia articles on much more minute organizations and topics.

In the future, please do not delete this article.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jreres (talkcontribs) 16:10, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Robert Taft vs. Robert A. Taft

I'm the IP editor who objected to the speedy move of this page last night. I still don't like the way that it was carried out, but in the meantime, by looking at sources I've managed to convinced myself that Robert A. Taft is indeed the better title for this person's article. I've left a comment to that effect in the move discussion you opened. I'd prefer that the discussion stay open for the normal time in case anyone else has information to share, but of course you can do as you wish since the only person currently objecting no longer objects. Sorry for the extra complications. 209.211.131.181 (talk) 17:34, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Now You See Me (HISTMERGE request)

Anthem Inc. and Anthem Inc

  • Hello. You recently moved WellPoint to Anthem Inc., which is great. Unfortunately Anthem Inc (without the period) still exists with its own history. I meant to catch this earlier, but real life interrupted, and now it's gotten messy. My first thought was to turn Anthem Inc into a redirect? I figured I should let you know about it first. Thanks Grayfell (talk) 06:27, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Grayfell: Anthem Inc. and Anthem Inc are about different companies. I have put in hatlinks between them. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:37, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Okay. Looking at the talk pages of those articles, this has been a source of confusion for a while now. The companies are very closely connected, as one originated from the other. Since the managed care article covers the insurance side of the business as part of the history section, I've proposed a merger. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 08:10, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

fixing ISNA Canada technical move request

  • Hi there...you said "did 3" technical request moves, per this diff, but it seems to me you didn't do the one I had requested. Which was, per intended consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic Society of North America Elementary School, to move that to "ISNA Canada". The AFD was closed improperly as "redirect" (to ISNA Canada), and the article was blanked with a redirect and its Talk page was also blanked with a redirect, when what was needed was for both the article and its Talk page to be moved, leaving a redirect behind. Could you finish addressing this or explain? I am guessing that you meant to make the fix but lost track in progress? --doncram 00:06, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Doncram:   Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:52, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Firearms Act 1968

 

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  • Someone (not me) removed the speedy-delete tag. The Firearms Act 1968 is important and many people want or need information about it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Roger Williams req move

"uncontroversial" move of Cabinet of France and Politics of France

  • Hello. RGloucester (talk · contribs) moved Government of France to the bizarrely-titled Political system of France, and requested as "uncontroversial" the move of Cabinet of France to Government of France. However, these moves are not only controversial, they are illogical and violate policy. In terms of controversial, the page has previously been moved, so it's clear that this is not a mere technical matter. It is also illogical, because the ruling body of France is not the "political system". Lastly, it is in flagrant violation of WP:Engvar. 'Government' means 'cabinet' only in British English, whereas it means the whole governing body in US, Canadian and Australian English. Further, both the pages on the cabinet and the entire government began life under the US English versions, so moving them (unilaterally!) to the confusing, British English-only title violates the requirement at WP:ENGVAR that the existing variety be retained, absent a consensus to the contrary (which there certainly is not!).
    • Could you please undo those moves? If he believes there is a case to be made for moving those articles, then he should actually make that case and obtain a consensus instead of unilaterally moving them. Thanks, Oreo Priest talk 10:30, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Oreo Priest:   Done. And I have reverted a recent text-merge of Politics of France (about political parties) with Political system of France. Government of France is currently a disambig page. Please discuss at Talk:Cabinet of France#Move? (6 Dec 2014). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:07, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @Oreo Priest: Do you speak French? I imagine not. That body is not a Cabinet. It is not a Cabinet in French, and it isn't one in English either. "Cabinet" means something else in French, specifically, the staff of each minister. What's more, the Government is not even equivalent of a "Cabinet". Instead, the Council of Ministers, which is a meeting of senior ministers, is equivalent to the British Cabinet. If you don't understand parliamentary systems, and if you don't speak French, you need to not work on these type of articles. "Cabinet" is a pure blatant falsity. By the way, "government" does not mean "cabinet" in British English either. "Government" refers to the Her Majesty's Government, which includes all ministers, junior and senior. "Cabinet" refers to only the senior ministers. This same exact arrangement is used in the Commonwealth realms, including Canada, Australia, and so on. The problem is that you're applying concepts that don't work in a parliamentary system to a parliamentary system. RGloucester 15:09, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

() Thank you, Anthony Appleyard. I also appreciate you taking the trouble to open a proper discussion. I will continue discussion about the merits of a possible move there and I hope RGloucester will do the same. Cheers, Oreo Priest talk 22:05, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

  • Please note, no matter what the title of this article is, it is incumbent upon the editors supporting the existence of a disambiguation page at that title to fix all incoming links, preferably before making the move, but if not, then immediately thereafter. To all involved in this dispute, please do so. Now. bd2412 T 16:35, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
I don't support the existence of a disambiguation page. I support calling the Government of France the Government of France. If "Government of France" is not going to direct editors to the body titled "Government of France", then some indication needs to be given to readers. RGloucester 17:59, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
The current situation is 500+ links going to a disambiguation page that is more likely to confuse readers than to help them. There must be some solution that keeps the links useful while the dispute is pending. bd2412 T 18:38, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
In that case, the best thing to do is to go through the links and find out whether they are referring to the broad political system or to the executive. I imagine that they are usually referring to body called the "government of France" or the "French government", not to the broad political structure of France. If that's the case, it should be redirected to the present "Cabinet of France". However, I'm going to the theatre and don't have time for such research presently. RGloucester 18:40, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Orion 1

It's a speculative article for a flight that never happened. (There used to be a whole line of speculative "Orion # is planned to be..." articles). I've now redirected it to List of Constellation missions. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Kiyoshi Shiina

Dear Sir, You deleted the article Kiyoshi Shiina [13], but a recreation was allowed under [14]. Please advise. CrazyAces489 (talk) 04:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, can you undelete the talk page. CrazyAces489 (talk) 15:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:Littlebrook Air Park

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Histmerge: sandbox

Highly appreciated. Much obliged. Thanks! RGloucester
I see to have got it slightly wrong. All edits before this one should also be attached to my sandbox, and not to that page, if you could please help out again. Thanks! RGloucester 06:56, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Millennium Gate.jpg

 

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TY!

Thank you very much, AA, for your page move of {{ER to list entry}}{{R to TV episode list entry}}! I have updated the categories and the index. Have only the best of Happy Holidays! – Paine  19:14, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Armenian transliteration

  • Hello! Thanks for adding the Armenian transliterations to articles where they were missing. I'd like to let you know that Google Translate (if that's what you're using) is really not a good tool for Armenian transliteration. I'd be glad yo help you with it, but please do not use Google Translate or similar sites, because they are not reliable. --Երևանցի talk 23:43, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Yerevantsi: I was using a program called Typecase which I wrote in Visual C++ to display and handle the Unicode characters, and also it can transcribe Armenian and Indian alphabets and Japanese kana into the Roman alphabet. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:47, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Technically, it does work. But since Armenian has a complicated script, it's best to refrain from using it. For instance, it doesn't transliterate "ու" ("u") correctly, but instead transliterates the two components of that letter: "ո" ("o") and "ւ" ("w/v"). --Երևանցի talk 00:06, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
  • @User:Yerevantsi: Thanks. I can adapt the program to handle digraphs :: it can handle digraphs when translating Japanese kana. Please, what digraphs does the Armenian alphabet have?
    • Are there any cases when a digraph is pronounced as the two separate letters? (For example, in English, "th" usually means "th" as in "the" or as in "thing", but in "hothouse" it is pronounced as "t + h".)
    • Does "ու" mean specifically "ū" (long u)?
    • Wikipedia says that Ե ե is "e", but "ye" at the start of a word. Is it also "ye" after a vowel?
    • Are there any differences between Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian in how some letters are pronounced?
Your last edits are almost all correct. Nice job!
I can't think of any cases where it is pronounced as two different letters, it's virtually always "u". I think it's just u, not long u. Yes, that's correct. Ե is "ye" at the beginning and "e" within a word.
There are major differences between Western and Eastern Armenian. You can see them here. For everything that is located or associated with the Republic of Armenia (today's Armenia) use Eastern Armenian. Western Armenian is mostly spoken in the Armenian diaspora by descendants of genocide survivors (in countries like Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, France, the US, etc.). For instance, Western Armenian would be used to transcribe the name of an Armenian church or an organization in one of those countries. --Երևանցի talk 18:06, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Creating an article with title you previously deleted Minerva Medica

Man Monis

Hi Anthony

I can see the logic for speedily moving this article, but the RM discussion was leaning towards the title Man Haron Monis, not Man Monis, I believe the former is the more commonly used name - and it appears to be more than just a middle name. Thanks!  — Amakuru (talk) 16:25, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Re vandalism master topic

Hello! Hi I agree about your vandalism issues plese stop your corruption on this wikipedia be a good admin and follow the rules and stop disruption its not okay you may lose priviliges to be an admin this is a serious issue! And you could be blocked as well! Thanks! actionfanman 01:49, 18 December 2014 User:Actionfanman

IronFX

Hi Anthony,

I initially reviewed IronFX and subsequently added it to my watchlist with the intention of revisiting to remove the promotional content, and tone it down. I saw that the page was deleted (G4), but think that with some work, it has received news since the April discussion. I don't have access to the versions previously deleted, but would kindly request access, or I can continue working on it within my user space. If you'd like to help, see my user space (it contains some of the links I found in Google News from November/December). Thank you! 13:26, 19 December 2014‎ User:NewsTeamAssemble

Hey Anthony, Thanks for the copy. I've expanded upon the Dec. 19th version I sent over to this stub (see bottom of user space). Let me know any feedback on the page. Thank you! News Team Assemble![talk?] 12:28, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Report

Hello! Could you plese block meters from the wikipedia cuase he wrote treats on my talk and I deleted them. And sorry for my massage in re master copy I meant someone else. Send reply to tell me what you did. Thanks alot! actionfanman 22:16, 19 December 2014‎ User:Actionfanman

AIV is over here and ANI is thataway. Should be good for a laugh. Meters (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Template move

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Your ANI

Would you please revisit Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Dispute between two users? You were played by a serial socker who has been harassing me, and took me to an invalid ANI without providing evidence or notifying me (or the other user). When I noticed the ANI (after the other user and his next sock had already been blocked) I politely pointed out the problems with the ANI and asked for it to be closed. You responded by providing a link Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 December 17#Template:Infobox Song Contest as justification; however, that thread has absolutely no involvement by me, and I see no participation by the other user, the master, or his various known socks. This is beyond strange now. If you made a mistake, then just say so, so that the ANI can be closed. No big deal. Leaving an improper ANI open, and worse, defending it, is a big deal. If you really think I've done something wrong then by all means take me to ANI, but properly. Tell me what you think I've done and I'll be happy to explain my actions at ANI. Meters (talk) 18:43, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

British Academy Scotland Awards

MINUSCA

Hi. I see that you have undone my page move of the MINUSCA article. The person who requested that move is most probably User:AfricaTanz who has been blocked and is now attempting yo evade his block. See: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AfricaTanz/Archive. The user has access to a multiple range of IP address (of Austin, Texas origin). I had explained myself the request page that MINUSCA has more hits than this long title. Besides, we have a precedent at the MONUSCO article. I request you to please re-consider your decision. Ali Fazal (talk) 16:32, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

My Articles and Notability Page

  • Hey, Anthony Appleyard,
    I was in the process of learning the guidelines of Wikipedia and I might know why my article: "2 Police Officers shot" was deleted; I think it was because I did not use a topic stated in Wikipedia's Notability page. I will try to remember those topics in the future. Also, I am new, so excuse any ignorance. Message me on my talk page if you have any questions or comments: Talk Page — Preceding unsigned comment added by LatestReports208 (talkcontribs) 06:34, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

WP:REFUND comment needed

Hi, because you are the deleting administrator for Irish Car Rentals, please comment on the circumstances in the undeletion request at WP:REFUND#Irish Car Rentals. I'm reluctant to overturn your deletion without your agreement, although I do think that the restoration argument has some merit. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:32, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Thank you for Irish Car Rentals. Also can you tell me how to improve the page to prevent it from getting deleted again and improve the content of the page? Highly appreciated your diligent work. Mr RD 18:09, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

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Bond 24

I request a history undeletion of Bond 24 and history merge with Spectre (2015 film). SNS (talk) 03:44, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

KNUST Library restore request

Hi Anthony,

First of all Merry Christmas, healthy and prosperous New Year 2015!

Just found out KNUST Library has been deleted by you. Per the reason for deletion WP:G5, it needs not be deleted, also it will have been great if you checked whether I was blocked or not. This conversation can give you some idea of what happened. Best. →Enock4seth (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:78.26/Elmo Tanner

 

A tag has been placed on User:78.26/Elmo Tanner, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

There's really no reason or use for this subpage

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 14:48, 31 December 2014 (UTC)