User talk:CapitalR/Archive 5

CfD nomination of Category:United States Senators by seniority

Category:United States Senators by seniority, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 13:11, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

{{navbox}} base code issue

Hi,

I see you're the main contributor to the {{navbox}} codebase. Could you have a look at the issue described here and see if it's something which could be fixed centrally in the {[tl|navbox}} template logic? Cheers! Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:37, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Simpler navbox markup

Hi, I was wondering whether navboxes would be doable with only one table. Was there some particular reason why that was not possible, or is it just that no one tried it yet? I'd appreciate if you could comment on it here. --Tgr (talk) 11:51, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Joe the Plumber edit request

On February 27th, I requested that five words be removed from the Joe the Plumber article. User:TheRedPenOfDoom endorsed that request that same day. Twelve days later, the requested edits have not been made.

On March 9th, User:Ism schism requested ~100 words be added, in the form of a new paragraph, and, without waiting for anyone else to endorse the proposal, you added them. A day later.

My question is... why? If there's a reason that my edits ought not be included please do let them be known. TerraFrost 17:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I check edit requests only every once in a while. I just happened to see that latest edit request and it looked reasonable, so I made it. I do not check the Joe the Plumber article on a regular basis, nor did I ever see your edit request. --CapitalR (talk) 17:49, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

It looks like you made a suggestion for the five words to be removed, but did not specifically provide what you wished the edit to be (i.e. give exact before and after text), nor did you make an {{editprotected}} request. As some helpful advice for the future, doing those two things on protected pages will greatly increase the chances of a change actually being made. The edit that I did end up making did both of those things, which is why it got done so quickly. --CapitalR (talk) 18:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

User:TheRedPenOfDoom added {{editproduct}} [1], however, it looks like it was removed [2].

Anyway, I appreciate the advice and will keep it in mind next time an issue like this arises - thanks! TerraFrost 04:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Southern Nazarene University

Template:Southern Nazarene University has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Aepoutre (talk) 16:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Template for the Governors of Iowa Territory

Is it possible to create a template for the Governors of Iowa Territory or added their names to the existing template for the Governors of Iowa?Many thanks for your help-RFD (talk) 21:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

• I added them to the {{Governors of Iowa}} template and transcluded the template on the relevant pages. Hope that helps. --CapitalR (talk) 22:48, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks-RFD (talk) 22:56, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Capital District

I noticed you had done some work on Template:Capital District and that some of your contributions revolve around the Capital District. I wonder if you'd be interested in joining WikiProject Capital District; we could always use the help! ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 05:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Thread you may be interested in

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:Hopiakuta. Enigma^msg 00:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I'll keep an eye on it (though it looks like it has been resolved with a block). --CapitalR (talk) 01:09, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

It was unblocked, but Xeno will be mentoring it. Enigma^msg 05:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Christian Bale

Thanks for deleting some of the screencaps per my request on the talk page. However, you missed a couple - the image of Bale with Nigel Havers and the image of him as the new Batman. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 14:23, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, the last two images are not technically screen-shots, but are promotional images released by the studios. In the copyright box on the image pages, it says "It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate: the person(s), product, event, or subject in question." Thus, it seems it might be allowed for them to be on the Christian Bale page, but I am not sure, which is why I did not delete them. The Batman image does have a Non-free Use Rational on it for the Christian Bale article. I'm going to refer this to an admin who knows more than I do on the subject to get a better opinion. Anyways, thanks for helping take down the other images, which clearly didn't belong. --CapitalR (talk) 20:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

OK and thanks for the heads up about your question at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content. I have commented there. – ukexpat (talk) 21:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

-- IRP ☎ 02:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Subpage deletion

Thank you for deleting that test subpage. If I had simply blanked it, would that have also triggered a deletion? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:30, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, not a problem. I deleted it because it showed up in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion due to the deletion tag you added to it. I wouldn't have known about it if you had just blanked it, but there might be others who use scripts to look for such pages. --CapitalR (talk) 04:32, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I have another one.[3] If I were an admin :'( then I could have done it myself. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:34, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Send over as many as you need, I'm always happy to help. --CapitalR (talk) 04:40, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm fresh out of things to delete just now. :( Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 04:42, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Platewq

Hello... FYI, I have changed the block on User:Platewq back to an indefinite hard block. He is yet another sockpuppet of the permanently banned user Serafin|, as characterized by the references to Copernicus and Poland. If you see this sort of behaviour, the procedure is to immediately block and then tag the account with "{{sockpuppet|Serafin|blocked}}. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about this. --Ckatz^chat_spy 00:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. --CapitalR (talk) 00:56, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Your protected edits

Thanks for making the requested changes to Template:Lc and Template:Lf, but you dropped the category links in both cases.

That is, prior to the </noinclude>, please add back

[[Category:Internal link templates|Lc]]

and

[[Category:Internal link templates|Lf]]

respectively.

Mark Hurd (talk) 07:31, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

They were already in the category because the category was added by the doc page. I see, however, that the default sort is not correct for them, which may be why you want them manually placed in the category again (but that can probably be fixed on the doc page category code). Did you still want me to re-add them to the category? --CapitalR (talk) 07:34, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, no I will look at adjusting Template:Ln/doc. I will also have to adjust all my non-protected edits :-( Mark Hurd (talk) 08:01, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry about the double categorization much. I'll look into the doc page also to see if I can make it work. --CapitalR (talk) 08:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Deleting a template

Howdy. When you delete a template, could you please check to see if it listed on this page? Thanks.--Rockfang (talk) 20:46, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

• Ah, my bad. Someone speedy-ed it and I saw there were no links left in the article space so I deleted it. I'll keep an eye on that page in the future. --CapitalR (talk) 21:10, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

What would have been the correct deletion rationale instead of "G6: Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup"? Here is a link to the debate for convenience: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 March 10#Template:IT giants. ~ Paul^T+/_C 23:09, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that template deletion was just completely messed up on my part. I'll look into undeleting and redeleting with the correct summary. --CapitalR (talk) 23:32, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

There we go, now it has the proper link in its deletion reason. It looks like it had the proper reason (along with the link) in its db tag, but also had the G6 reason listed, so it was copied incorrectly into the deletion form. Basically that was just one big fubar deletion; sorry for the inconvenience. --CapitalR (talk) 23:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Navy Oilers

Thanks for fixing my page - I really did not know how to do it.

I edited tag on my photo uploads. I also put some text on the T2, not all oilers section but can't edit the reference list.

I also edited the External Links a little. thanks again. Vern Bouwman Navyoiler (talk) 16:37, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

HipSoft

Could you look at HipSoft ? This is my sons company. I have made a couple changes but am not sure they will help. He does need to add information about each game in his Games list. Navyoiler (talk) 03:38, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Not a problem. I'll take a look tonight to see how I can help clean up the article. --CapitalR (talk) 21:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

RfA Thankspam

Thanks to everyone who took the time and trouble to take part in my RfA whether support, oppose or neutral. All comments are valued and will be considered carefully in the coming weeks. Feel free to add more advice on my talk page if you think I need it. SpinningSpark 22:31, 16 April 2009 (UTC) In case you're wondering, the image is a smiley, just a little more aesthetic, but not as serious as the Mona Lisa

Nonsense?!

wtf? How am i nonsense?--Disco Steven Lua (talk) 02:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Creating a pointless RFA is basically nonsense. Granted, the rest of your article edits were mostly vandalism. --CapitalR (talk) 04:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello, CapitalR! I thought it was wise/appropriate of you to indent Disco Steve's opposing vote on TheDJ's RfA. For the sake of consistency, you may wish to take similar action to his opposing vote on Markhurd's RfA. Best wishes! GreenGourd (talk) 14:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Yup, I agree. Considering he was blocked by another admin for abusing RfA and vandalism, I commented out his vote there also. --CapitalR (talk) 15:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with File:Westborough Town Hall Small.jpg

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Templates with the most transclusions

Done. Sorry for the delay. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 07:44, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, much appreciated. And welcome back! --CapitalR (talk) 18:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:911ct supporters

Template:911ct supporters has been nominated for deletion by Ice Cold Beer. As this TfD nomination includes objections to the same list of people that is currently in use in Template:911ct, I am inviting you to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. (I am sending this message to you as a current or former editor of Template:911ct, following the guideline on multiple messages.) Regards —  Cs32en  08:32, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Would like to add Trunk Archive

Hello, Previously the Trunk Archive page was deleted for "blatant advertising." I would like to resubmit a page with sources that is strictly informational. Trunk Archive is the image licensing agency that represents the work of a few photographers listed on Wikipedia. Please discuss with me if any of the new information added is inappropriate or should be revised. Thank you! Photoagent (talk) 19:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Help!

Hi CapitalR, I'm an administrator on the Gan Wikipedia(gan:), I find you are a main editor of Template:Navbox on English Wikipedia. So could you please help us to resolve the problem with the same template on the Gan Wikipedia? Ours cannot be hidden when demanded. Thank you.--Symane TALK 15:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Symane, did you put all of the Navbox javascript from MediaWiki:Common.js into the equivalent page on your wiki? You need all of the code related to collapsible tables. I took a quick look on your wiki but couldn't even find MediaWiki:Common.js. --CapitalR (talk) 21:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

gan:MediaWiki:Common.js has been created since, but it seems it changes nothing even I modified it several times, once copied from English Wikipedia, once copied from Cantonese Wikipedia. Could you please take a look at this page again? Thanks. --Symane TALK 22:34, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

WOOHOO, it works now! Sorry for interrupting and thanks very much! XD --Symane TALK 23:01, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Help

Hello. I am trying to recreate the Navbox code on another Wiki site I manage and I am having trouble understanding how to use the conditional statements. Is there a site I can go to to find help with this sort of thing? I realize this type of situation is asked a lot of you, but you seem to be the technical expert.--TParis00ap (talk) 17:38, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I think the following two pages will be of help to you: [4] and [5]. --CapitalR (talk) 18:38, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, thats exactly what I needed. I appreciate your help!--TParis00ap (talk) 21:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Floating Table of Contents left

Hello. This message is not in reference to a specific article, but you seem to be one of the coding experts on Wikipedia so I thought you might be able to answer me. I asked another WikiAdmin and they weren't able to answer the question. The question: Why is it that the table of contents is not floated left in articles so a gap is not left in the article between the table of contents and the infobox?

{| align="left"
|__TOC__
|}

I do this on other Wiki-based sites and I think it looks great but I dont see it being used here. It is described on this WikiMedia page. Is there a community consensus against this or is it just not a well known tool? Thanks, v/r--TParis00ap (talk) 17:30, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you give me an example of a page that this would be useful on? Also, what browser are you using? I've never noticed any problems with gaps between TOCs and infoboxes. Perhaps a screenshot would best help illustrate what the problem is so I can understand better. Thanks, --CapitalR (talk) 18:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey, please see Alien_vs._Predator_(film) and then take a look at User:TParis00ap/TOCExample. Do you see what I mean? Is there a reason nobody does this?--TParis00ap (talk) 20:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, now I see what you're talking about. Personally, I think it looks ugly, unprofessional, and squashed, making it harder to read, which is why I imagine we don't do that be default. I can see problems when images are placed at the top of articles; they would be crammed next to the TOC making it look even worse. It's also a problem for people with small screens (especially for articles with wide TOCs) as it would squash the lead paragraph between the TOC and an infobox/image to the point of possibly making it unreadable. I guess you can try to take this to the village pump if you want, but I would personally be against your proposal. Sorry. --CapitalR (talk) 20:18, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Well I am sure it's been brought up there before, I was just wondering how others might of felt. On other wiki's, I have the problem your talking about, but I tend to move stuff around until it looks right. I just fiddle with it a little bit. But anyway, thanks for the quick response.--TParis00ap (talk) 20:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Template help

Hello! I've seen you have created some templates in this wiki. Could you help me make one in the lojban wiki. What I want is the template to recieve a single argument. That the code is {{na gendra|some text here}} so that the template (when collapsed) shows the superscripted text "na gendra". And when it is clicked on, it shows to the right (as normal text) the text "some text here".

I would appreciate very much your help for this matter. It would help me a lot to correcting errors in the lojban wiki.

P.S. You can look at Lojban if you are curious. --Homo logos (talk) 18:03, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

In order to do something like that, you'll need to have some accompanying JavaScript in the MediaWiki:Common.js file. Unfortunately, I don't know much about JavaScript, so I can't be of much help to you. You might try asking around on the discussion page for Common.js to see if any of them can give you a hand. Good luck, --CapitalR (talk) 12:54, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Problems with template:convert and doc pages. Again.

I see that you were able to fix {{convert}} last March. Its back. There have been no edits to the template or any of the sub-templates since yours. I've made some comments at Template talk:Convert. There is a sandbox in my user space that I'll leave up until no one seems interested. Just to let you know. –droll [chat]

That's different. Somebody used an <H1> and your TOC is messed up. –droll [chat]

Template question

Can you explain the use of all the colors in Template:Ciorbea Cabinet? WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:15, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I really don't know anything about that template or its color scheme. My edits were merely formatting of the template code, not the actual content. Sorry I can't help more. --CapitalR (talk) 08:59, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Edit I made?

I'm confused I don't even know who that person is, i never edit wikipedia. what's going on? :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.186.120.171 (talk) 12:06, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. When you use Wikipedia without logging in, all edits are tracked through your IP address. Your IP address, however, often changes over time, as it is assigned to you by your internet provider. Thus, it appears a malicious edit was made from your IP address a while ago, and that IP address has since been randomly reassigned to you. Don't worry about it, and feel free to clear the comments on that page since you are no longer that person. --CapitalR (talk) 19:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Evolution of mammals

The {{clade}}s were OK for earliest cladograms, but I used ASCII art for the 2 in Evolution of mammals#Evolution of major groups of living mammals because {{clade}}s in that section would have the reader scrolling every which way. Is there a better alternative? --Philcha (talk) 13:12, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

• Ah, yeah, my screen doesn't require me to horizontal scroll those clades -- but I see your point now. I actually made my way to that article because I was interested in the topic, but had a very hard time interpreting the ASCII versions of the trees, which is why I decided to clade them. Perhaps the giant tree (the 2nd to last one) can be split up somehow into two trees to make it easier to read? If you decide to revert it back to ASCII I'll fully understand that too. --CapitalR (talk) 19:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Portland Clinic

The Portland Clinic is Oregon’s oldest multi specialty clinic. The company is expanding; it just added a 5th location due to this there should be factual information online. Please let me know how I could make the page more credible. Could you please reinstate the Portland Clinic page?

Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emjolson (talk • contribs) 17:44, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

• Hi, I deleted that page because the article amounted to little more than an advertisement for the clinic. Unfortunately, the clinic does not appear to be notable beyond being a small business, and thus likely does not merit having its own page on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and should not be used for advertising or promotional purposes. Please see Wikipedia:Advertising for more information. If you think the article is notable and worthy of being in an encyclopedia, then you can rewrite it and add references, and then try to recreate the page (though it is quite likely that someone else will delete it for the same reason). --CapitalR (talk) 18:56, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Harsh Snehanshu

I prodded Harsh Snehanshu, an article you moved from an incorrect capitalization to a correct one. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 08:59, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

• Yeah, I considered speedy deleting it but decided to let it stand for a little while longer. I have no problems with it being deleted. --CapitalR (talk) 09:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

StakePoint

You quickly surpressed the page about this Project Management Softare initiative.

Please notice that the 86000 lines of code which presents my initiative were longer to write then it took you to delete this project.

Secondly there are very few free desktop software Project Management tools available with a truly interactive Gantt GUI (GanttProject, KPlato, Open Workbench, OpenProj and non of these are truly multiuser.

Not a single free software tool is currently available allowing it to be integrated with standard relational databases over multiple SQL dialects (The backbones of current entreprise software and data).

As far as I know all currently avalable products use blokking of a part of the databse before allowing the modifications of relations or a using a single threated web tool (MS-Project Server, OPX Planview etc). StakePoint is unique in its way to deal with a concurrent data model.

Notice that you do have articles about defunct software or even software that normally blocks whenever you enter more then 20 tasks.

I didn't even have the time to improve my article and it was allready removed, and you appearently did not even download and try the software to make your decision.

Some explanation would be very welcome.

Regards,

MaartenMostert (talk) 11:14, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

• Hi, first, thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, all newcomers are welcome. Unfortunately, that page did not appear to meet the requirements for Wikipedia:Notability and appeared to violate Wikipedia:Spam. Please do not take this personally, as many pages are deleted for such reasons. If you feel that the article should exist and meets the requirements on those pages, then feel free to recreate it, but please add 3rd party proper references to prove that it is notable and verifiable. Just because your software project has 86000 lines of code doesn't mean that it merits an encyclopedia article (I'm also involved in professional software development, and my company has neither an article about itself, nor any of its products). Thanks, and I'll be happy to help answer further questions from you. --CapitalR (talk) 11:22, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

User:930913 page deleted by you

I made that page and the talk page to redirect to my page since it is my usual username. Since some sites, including Wikipedia demand an initial letter, a930913 is the username I use. Given that nobody else can have the username 930913, I took that to forward to my page. I'll note that down after the redirect, anything else I should do to stop it from being deleted? 930913/A930913(Congratulate/Complaints) 00:42, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, yeah, sometimes we delete user pages under the name of unregistered users to ensure that content stays in each user's own userspace. However, since yours isn't a viable username anyways, I now don't see any good reason to delete it. Your redirect is fine with me. --CapitalR (talk) 02:16, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Navigation boxes in yi WP

I am looking for some help and you seem to be an expert in the area. In the yi Wikipedia the navigation boxes have lost their hide/show button. (The hide/show button does appear when viewing the page without logging in!) Would you be kind enough to see if you can solve the problem? --Redaktor (talk) 09:40, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

• At a quick glance (which is the best I can do since I don't speak Yiddish), it looks like you're missing the JavaScript necessary to power the show/hide functionality. You need to edit the MediaWiki:Common.js file on your wiki, and copy in the code from English Wikipedia's Common.js pertaining to Navframes (it's clearly labeled in the section "/** Dynamic Navigation Bars (experimental) ***"). You'll also need the function "hasClass", which is in the same file. Just tack on all that code at the end of the Yiddish Common.js. Once you make the edit (which requires admin access or else I'd do it), clear your browser's cache and refresh the navigation box page to see if it worked. --CapitalR (talk) 21:32, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Many thanks, that is most helpful. I shall follow it through—I have admin access. --Redaktor (talk) 08:15, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

• • I implemented the changes, but it has made no obvious difference. What I do notice though—not necessarily related—is that Mediawiki:Monobook.js has ceased to function! --Redaktor (talk) 11:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
    • Hmmm, I just spent a while trying to figure this out. First, it looks like I forgot to tell you to make a minor change to the code. Change the relevant lines to this:

var NavigationBarHide = '[באַהאַלטן]';
var NavigationBarShow = '[ווײַזן]';

Before it was looking for variables that weren't defined in your wiki's JavaScript file.

• That seems to have fixed it. Many thanks for getting it working. Just one more point. In the English WP, the hide/show button is displayed on the right—at the end of the line; Since Yiddish is an rtl language, I would like the hide/show button to be on the left. Can you figure out how that is done? Thanks again. --Redaktor (talk) 14:04, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

• Glad to hear that it's all working now. It still seems to look a little funny on my browser, but it might be some right-to-left settings that need adjusting. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to fix the problem of moving the show/hide button, as I'm not really that great with HTML/CSS. You might try asking at MediaWiki talk:Common.js. ==CapitalR (talk) 21:32, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for your help so far. Will take further at MediaWiki talk:Common.js as you suggest. --Redaktor (talk) 21:37, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Table of contents changes

I have been changing the Table of Contents to wrap around the text because there is an immense amount of blank white space in articles with many words. What is the resolution of your computer? Before changing anything, I made sure to find an average computer resolution that is frequently used around my area, 1152 x 864.

Sunny (talk) 12:28, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

I have various resolutions on different computers, but my browser is about 1000-1200 pixels wide usually. However, note that your TOC changes also caused overlapping formatting in some cases, including the TOC overlapping with the edit buttons, and the section break lines, which was rather ugly. Don't worry about the whitespace issue; that's the standard look for Wikipedia articles, and it really is fine. Besides, most of the pages you changed had tiny tables of contents, and the whitespace saved was minimal, and the bizarre formatting it caused wasn't really worth it. Consistency is always important, and your changes made for an inconsistent look across articles. --CapitalR (talk) 17:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:ConstellationsByBartsch

Template:ConstellationsByBartsch has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Be welcome. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 09:14, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Discount Tire Centers

what exact words is causing the deletion of Discount Tire Centers? User talk:LakersFanKB24

There's likely a number of reasons it is getting deleted. First, there are no reliable references. Please see WP:Verifiability and WP:References for more information. Second, in earlier versions it was talking about services the company provided, sounding more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia article (don't forget that Wikipedia is the latter). Finally, the article lacked sufficient content (excluding the advertisement part) to really merit an article, which is why it ended up being deleted. If you want it to stick around, it needs references, and it needs more content. Also note that companies are not notable by default, and so there is no guarantee about being able to create an article on any given company. --CapitalR (talk) 19:29, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Discount Tire Centers

Discount Tire Centers you unprotected this to see if it goes anywere :) however it is again tagged for deletion, any thoughts on how to proceed? mark nutley (talk) 19:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

• Feel free to make up your mind about whether to delete it. The reason I unprotected was because the author appeared to be making a legitimate attempt to fix up the article and put a hangon tag on it, so I was going to let it go another hour or two to see if it got better. However, I'm in no way condoning its existence and there's a good chance it will end up being deleted again. --CapitalR (talk) 19:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

• I was the one who ended up tagging it again based on the author removing the db tag. I'm attempting to discuss the situation with him on the article's talk page and his talk page. Still waiting for a reply. All together, he was probably bit too hard. I'm going to do a little work and see if I can flesh things out a bit. OlYeller^Talktome 19:38, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Maybe we should userfy and I can work with him on it there. OlYeller^Talktome 19:39, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

I think it may just have a bit of notability at least as a sponsor, i`ll go add a few refs mark nutley (talk) 19:41, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I tried to find as many refs as I could and posted them on the talk page. Not surprisingly, there are quite a few companies that have a similar name or share the name (including the company that sponsors a race car). As of now, there's one reference but it's not really significant coverage. The author is back now and removing speedy tags and changing content without comment. The buzzards are circling so we might want to put a nail in this one before things get out of hand. OlYeller^Talktome 20:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I tend to agree that he was bit too hard (and I'll accept my fair share of responsibility), which is why I unprotected and tried to give a little advice (see the above section). I just wikified it to help out. I think I'll let another admin make the decision as to whether to delete it or remove the speedy tag (as 3rd party opinions are good, and I'm going to be busy for a while). --CapitalR (talk) 20:42, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Surprise! It's back again as Discount Tire and Service Centers. OlYeller^Talktome 18:22, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Rewrite a page deleted by you, would you please review it?

Hello, CaptialR, My page "Compare++" is deleted by you because it broke some rules below: "22:58, 13 May 2010 CapitalR (talk | contribs) deleted "Compare++" ‎ (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content): G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.coodesoft.com/features.html)".

Now, I updated and placed the content in my user page User:Liuxin4335. Would you please help me review it? And can I move the article into main namespace?

Thanks, Liuxin4335 (talk) 05:57, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

• Hi there, So when it comes to new articles, you need to keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a means for self-promotion or advertising of your products. That page is written more like an ad (with the feature list), and not so much like an actual article. I'm still not convinced that page is notable enough to merit existence, because it's a new tool without any external references. Please read WP:Notable, WP:Verifiability, and WP:References for more information. Lastly, note that just because pages exist about other comparison tools doesn't mean that yours automatically merits existence. Verifiability, notability, and references are key components to having new articles last. Let me know if you still need any help with it. --CapitalR (talk) 07:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your review. Your modification is very helpful. Once there are external references, I will update the article.Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liuxin4335 (talk • contribs) 09:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello. I just wanted to thank you very much for having solved something that I understood was a very tedious task, which was to put in right order, with the correspondent edit histories together, for the Rafael Barreto article, now, rightfully, a disambiguation page. Thank you once again, and I send you best regards, FkpCascais (talk) 05:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Not a problem. I've done plenty of history merges, and it's not too tedious, so I don't mind. Always glad to help. --CapitalR (talk) 05:23, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

List of improvised weapons

I just wanted to drop you and note and say thank you for carrying out the history merge for this article - much appreciated! - Ahunt (talk) 12:33, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. --CapitalR (talk) 21:27, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for reposting the article.

Hello, Greetings of the day.

I had created a page with the title 'Aviral Mediratta' but it has been deleted by you. It gives a message "A7: Article about a real person, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject. I wrote an article for a Photographer who is well know for his photographs and has been honored twice by Shari Academy. Shari Academy is one of the best Photography Institute and also serves as training center for Canon. Could you please guide me for making it a perfect source so that it can fulfill the criteria of notability.

Thanks, Ankush P —Preceding unsigned comment added by AnkushPkm (talk • contribs) 21:12, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, you may want to read WP:Notability and WP:Verifiability for more information on what's necessary in new pages for them to stay. Frankly, I think you'll have a hard time establishing the notability of this particular subject (he doesn't appear notable to me). If you can add some additional third party references from reliable sources, then there is a chance that the page can stay. Note that Wikipedia is not a place for self-promotion or advertising, which is what that page appears to be doing. --CapitalR (talk) 21:27, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

AnkushPkm (talk) 03:04, 7 June 2010 (UTC)Ok, I heard that soon there would be a couple of media releases of his art work. Once I would get a copy of it, I would add up in the article. I would even bring out some more facts about the photographer from different sources and would even provide the link for the same. Thanks, Ankush P -- AnkushPkm

help

Hi - I see you are online - would you mind helping me out with this request? thanks --Joopercoopers (talk) 11:00, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Please

Return Lady Mildred to the avenues of the Wikipedia. She only wishes to be seen and known by others. People have the right to believe whatever they want! >:( TehPiGuy —Preceding undated comment added 17:59, 7 June 2010 (UTC).

I must say that it was one of the more amusing articles I've come across lately, but alas, I had to delete it anyways. You might want to try uncyclopedia...they might think it's funny and keep it. --CapitalR (talk) 18:41, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

The Black Hollies

Last night I started a page for the band The Black Hollies, which mentioned that it had been Speedy Deleted three years ago; at that time they only had one album out and might not have been notable outside of northern New Jersey. But after three years, two more albums (particularly Softly Towards The Light and the single "Gloomy Monday Morning", which has been played on national radio and mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine), I think they're worthy of a wikipedia page now. My only gripe is there are more merits to debate about this article than many others in the Speedy Deletion category, yet was nominated immediately after its creation, deleted less than 2 hours later after my immediate {hangon} justification, and the talk page removed 5 hours after that. No offense but how come articles with several category violations like Prashant Sahu are "under review", deserving a "Talk page" of whether there are any merits and an article for an increasingly prominent band still under development is kicked to the curb at creation? Jonny99 (talk) 19:52, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to recreate the article with proper 3rd party references from reliable sources. I saw in your article that there really were no reliable sources in there. You mention that Rolling Stone talks about the band, but the link was to a record label's website, not Rolling Stone's site. Also, being available on Amazon is not evidence of mainstream success; you'll need a reference for that. If you can add an additional reference or two, just recreate the page and see how it goes (I'll let another admin have a look at it to get a new opinion). As for other pages not getting deleted, usually an admin will clear out the category of all speedy deletion requests every few hours, so it all depends when someone comes by. --CapitalR (talk) 20:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks CapitalR, I'll give that a try. Jonny99 (talk) 21:41, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Android devices (Australia)

Hi there, I note that you deleted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices_(Australia)

You are correct that the information is also in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices, however the Android mobile phone operating system is experiencing explosive growth, and that page is already becoming difficult to maintain particularly due to country-specific differences, as seen in the Name, Carrier and Notes columns. The present complexity of the table is becoming a barrier to editing, and these columns are by no means containing complete information. So I propose to retain the core list of devices on that page, but to have the Carrier and Notes information split off to country-specific pages.

I hope you will reconsider the deletion or help me with suggestions on how this growth could be better managed. Thank you Mykro (talk) 00:06, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi Mykro. Please feel free to try to recreate the article. When I read through it, it appeared to me to add little to the List of Android devices article, and didn't look like it would ever be all that different. If you can make it a unique article and add appropriate references, and make it so that there is significantly more than what's in the existing article, then there is a good chance it will stay. I usually refrain from making a decision on the same article more than once when it comes to speedy deletion in order to get more opinions, so it'll be up to another admin to have a look and decide. Also keep in mind that if there is an Australia article for Android devices, then that may imply that there should be articles for each country; given that, is that too much information spread across too many pages that could better be organized in a single (i.e. the existing) article? Perhaps you might consider trying to incorporate the Australia relevant information into the existing article? Just a thought. --CapitalR (talk) 10:27, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Stomz Stavros

Capital,

could I please request the article I wrote on Stomz Stavros that you deleted? Please send to me. I not even going to ask why it was deleted, because the rules and guidelines here are so convoluted and confusing, I find I don't care why. Just to be clear however, I am publishing an online comic book, and a print version. I own a VFX and ScFI web entertainment business and therefore distribute content for public consumption. There are many other entries on this site having to do with comic books and comic book characters. I, apparently, incorrectly assumed it was appropriate to post my own IPs.

Thank you in advance for sending the article I wrote.

Rob--RobKing21 (talk) 14:47, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi Rob. I posted the text for the deleted article on your talk page. The article was deleted because it failed WP:Notability, and because it lacked any references from reliable sources. --CapitalR (talk) 15:40, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Advice

Confused as to why the following article was deleted sighting A7 as the reason. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth_Mburu-Bowie&action=edit&redlink=1 Previous article had existed but was a simple redirect to the Pipettes page. I have a few questions that could help me understand your decision and action better. I would appreciate it if you could help me comprehend your reasoning.

• Shouldn't the article exist for 7 days before deletion? The note shows that you deleted it just a few hours after it was created. Why?
• Other former members of the band have not had their pages deleted despite not making any further contribution to the music world. Is this because the first line of their pages had this line in it "best known as being a member of the Pipettes"? If you felt as though she didn't merit her own biography then reverting the page to it's original state where it redirected to the Pipettes page would have been apreciated. As it currently stands, the lack of information is extremely confusing and has created a gap of information that makes more sense filled in, than deleted.
  • • I believe the person in question is just about to embark on their first major solo release, as she is no longer part of the Pipettes, it would be beneficial to the chronicling of british music, her career and that of the Pipettes to establish a separate page.

• Could you also help me understand the following. According to the deletion protocol on Wikipedia, the administrator is encouraged to contact the creator of the article. I would have appreciated this before you decided to remove the entry from Wikipedia.
  • It also suggests that you propose deletion before removing the information. Are proposing and deleting the same thing or am I completely misunderstanding the rules of Wiki?

I also feel that this can be rectified if I but take the time to familiarize myself with Wikipedia's technical requirements do you have any suggestions for tutorials that I should watch or information that I should include? Kind regards & many thanks People are (talk) 23:36, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, to be honest, I've delete hundreds of articles in the past week and only vaguely remember this case. I've undeleted it so you can have a chance to improve it and add references. I generally only perform speedy deletions, and I felt this one fell into the A7 category because it provided no 3rd party references. Myspace and her own blog hardly constitute reliable, 3rd party sources, and the pitchfork.com link was broken. On closer inspection now, this article should not have been deleted and was an error on my part (in fact, I rarely delete articles without a deletion tag on them already, so I'm not too sure why or how I came across this page; however it happened, it was an error). Note that if you want the article to not get re-deleted (now that I've undeleted it) you'll need to add some reliable sources to establish notability. I believe that I ended up deleting this one as part of a batch of numerous bands and band members that lacked sources; this one, however, looks like it might actually make for a legitimate article (unlike the vast majority of articles I deleted), so I hope you're able to improve it. Sorry for any confusion and frustration! --CapitalR (talk) 00:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and as far as your questions go: generally if an article looks like it may have a chance at survival, then I'll contact the author and hope that they can improve it. If an article looks like it has no chance, then I'll generally just delete it (I often delete hundreds of pages in a day, so contacting each author individually is not always viable; besides, unlike your article, most articles I delete are pure vandalism or nonsense). Your article seems to have been a mistake on my part and should likely not have been deleted in the first place. Proposing deletion and actually deleting an article are two different things (anyone can propose deletion with a deletion tag, but only admins can perform a deletion). You're doing the best thing possible when a case like this comes up: just contact the admin and usually things can get worked out. --CapitalR (talk) 00:23, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

The Passage (novel)

Why did you delete this (The_Passage_(2010_novel)) page under CSD A7? This book is not an "individual", "animal", "organization" or "web content". It is one of the most anticipated books of the summer.

Here are several links to justify its relevance and noteworthiness: 1) http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/06/15/apocalypse-wow-with-big-buzz-around-his-dark-new-novel-and-a-movie-deal-under-his-belt-justin-cronin-is-lits-latest-unlikely-celebrity/

2)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/08/AR2010060804591.html

3) http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/06/04/author_goes_vampire/

A cursory glance at any of these three reviews will show that it has garnered (mostly) gushing praise from many reputable sources. It is also slated for adaptation into a movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.157.70.19 (talk) 16:46, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, please do feel free to recreate the article with those references. Without them, however, the article does not assert notability by giving such reliable sources. It would be great if you could recreate it, add in those references, and make it a real article. Note that hundreds of articles are deleted every day for not asserting significance, so please do not take this deletion personally. Let me know if you need help adding in the references. Oh, and it was deleted with that message because it was the closest that matched (i.e., the significance of the subject was not asserted). --CapitalR (talk) 19:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

"Shower beer"

I noticed you deleted the "shower beer" page. I am not the person who created it--I just found the deletion page while Googling the term. I can understand why you would jump straight to a G3, but I just thought I'd let you know that I've heard the term my entire life, and it gets 25k hits on Google. That certainly doesn't make it widespread enough to get an article, but I feel it bears further examination (and at least isn't a blatant hoax). Just an FYI...

Regards,

Whind Soull (talk) 21:47, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

re File:Herostratus defcon maritime 5.jpg

On June 10 you deleted File:Herostratus defcon maritime 5.jpg, but this breaks the maritime defcon template. For some reason I am unable to undelete this file and pick up the link (I am not experienced with undeleting images and I get a "action failed" response) or find the link by hand. Could you please take care of this, thanks. Herostratus (talk) 05:55, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

• There we go, I undeleted it. There weren't any problems in the undeletion process; not sure what was going on before. --CapitalR (talk) 06:39, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

King Baby Studio

Hi there - on June 10 you deleted "King Baby Studio," which is a popular and innovative jewelry line owned and designed by Mitchell Binder, who was featured on MTV's Hired! and has been designing jewelry since the age of 15. I wanted to see if you would please undelete or at least let me know how to improve the article so it won't be deleted.

Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by AmericanRebel123 (talk • contribs) 18:17, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of improvised weapons

An article that you have been involved in editing, List of improvised weapons, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of improvised weapons. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ahunt (talk) 22:06, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Use of Template:Japanese Episode List

Can I use Template:Japanese Episode List for my wiki that I run? I will credit Wikipedia for allowing me to use it and credit Wikipedia for creating it as well. So can I use Template:Japanese Episode List? Yutaka Hisujiya (talk) 18:12, 17 August 2010 (UTC)Yutaka Hisujiya

Hi, I'd just go ahead and use the code if you want; the Wikipedia reference will be fine. Note that this template appears to have a number of other template dependencies, so it may be a complex process to properly migrate it to your wiki. --CapitalR (talk) 12:12, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Outline of Judaism

I'm not at all clear why this was deleted, but could you please restore it to my user space? Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 01:20, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

• The article was nothing more than a collection of links and did not add substantive content on the topic. I've undeleted it and moved it to User:Viriditas/Outline of Judaism per your request. --CapitalR (talk) 10:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:Treehouse of Horror

Please weigh in on Template talk:Treehouse of Horror#Inclusion of episode segments, so we can generate a consensus. Thanks, Fixblor (talk) 08:51, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Latin Church/Rite

In view of other work that I have seen you do, may I draw your attention to Latin Church, which I think ought to have been a moving/renaming of Latin Rite, but was instead a copy-and-paste-and-change job, resulting, among other things, in a duplication of the Talk page. Esoglou (talk) 11:14, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

• That was a somewhat messy one, but I performed this history merge. Some of the history was placed at Latin Church/Old version as it overlapped with the main history. --CapitalR (talk) 17:40, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

C. Peter Wagner

Please see Talk:C. Peter Wagner PPdd (talk) 01:52, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

• Hi PPdd -- I replied there. --CapitalR (talk) 02:02, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

DB replication lag

You are causing a lot of problems with watchlist lag. Please wait for all slave servers to catch up in between your delete/merge operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb

Or if that's too complicated, wait a few minutes in between each one. -- Tim Starling (talk) 02:34, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

When there was no response to this, I desysopped you as an emergency measure. -- Tim Starling (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, that was a major error on my part. I was just working on the other half of my screen and didn't check for messages for an extended period of time. I just modified the script to periodically check for talk page messages and automatically pause when one comes in. Many apologies for the database problems, and I take full responsibility for my own dumb actions. I'll leave it up to you as to whether to reinstate me, and whether I can continue running the script (at a much reduced rate of course).--CapitalR (talk) 03:18, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about the replication lag API query -- I didn't know about it until now. My script was previous incurring a delay after deletes/undeletes proportional to the number of revisions that were affected (10ms per revision) and after page moves. I think the main problem was that I had two instances of the program going at once (I started a second one in my debugger to try to track down a lingering bug). The two versions going at once were likely causing deletes and undeletes too close to one another contributing to the lag. --CapitalR (talk) 05:32, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Slow down

All those histmerges you're doing, they're putting a huge strain on the servers. Recent Changes and the watchlists are lagging bad.

Please slow down. Thank you. DS (talk) 02:34, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

You have now been blocked; anyone home? Ironholds (talk) 02:42, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

You'll notice that I've blocked you. This is because you did not pay attention when you were asked to stop doing so many histmerges so fast. Seriously, there's been some discussion about whether we should desysop you. If you unblock yourself, then you will be desysopped. I really don't want that to happen. All you have to do is be open to conversation. DS (talk) 02:44, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

If CapitalR is blocked, can somebody else please fix whatever Capital R accidentally did, as discussed at Talk:C. Peter Wagner? PPdd (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi again, I still don't think that there's anything wrong with that page. The history looks all in order now, and it's not a stub. Perhaps you need to purge the page? --CapitalR (talk) 04:41, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Just to let you know, you have been emergency desysopped by Tim Starling. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 02:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I just cut the rate by a factor of 3. Let me know if it's still too fast and I'll be happy to add more lag between edits. I've kept an eye on the watchlists and already slowed it down some when I noticed lag earlier. Sorry it took me long to respond -- I've been running the script for a long time without anyone complaining so I hadn't been checking up on my talk page as much as I should have been. If you reinstate me I can either run the script purely during off-peak hours, and with a reduced rate. If you don't reinstate me, I'll be happy to provide the code publicly so that someone else can continue the work (of course, that person should learn from this and not run it so quickly). --CapitalR (talk) 03:07, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

• The greater problem here is that you've been running an unauthorised admin bot. I think this may be ArbCom's remit now. Ironholds (talk) 03:21, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Hi Ironholds, yes I take full responsibility for that. However, I read through the bot policy yesterday and thought I was acting within limits. It says that automated tools can be run, so long as the admin babysits it. A major error on my part was not checking for talk messages -- which mainly happened because I had been babysitting the script for many hours without comment, so I thought it was okay (ironically, I had been checking for talk messages nearly every minute for the first 10 hours the script was running, but then got complacent). Feel free to Arbcom me, but frankly I don't have the time to deal with it and would rather just not be resysopped. The tool was very, very well tested, and I'm not aware of it causing page errors; the database problem was the only issue. I also think it was doing useful work, as history merges help get copyrights correct. Anyways, I think that if I am resysopped by Tim, then I'll opt for an official bot approval; otherwise, I'll hope that someone else takes my script and finishes off the work (with approval and at a slower rate). Thanks, --CapitalR (talk) 03:28, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
• Tim can resysop if he wants to. Otherwise, resysop can also be handled by ArbCom procedure. ArbCom members were aware of Tim's actions before and after the desysop. As the bot has moved beyond testing, the bot should be run from a separate account and be approved by the bot approvals group. See WP:ADMINBOT. --John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:26, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
• Since the immediate problem has been addressed, I've undone the emergency block. --KFP (contact | edits) 03:48, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks, though I don't think I'll be doing any editing for a while! --CapitalR (talk) 03:54, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
    • And TimStarling has resysopped you :) NW (Talk) 05:03, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
      • Thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to apologize to him for the inconvenience once my auto-block wears off tomorrow night. --CapitalR (talk) 05:12, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
        • I've lifted the autoblock. Recommended first stop is WP:BRFA. Cheers, John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:28, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
          • Yup, that's for sure. I think I'm just going to take the rest of the night off to let the dust settle, and I'll put in a BRFA later this week. --CapitalR (talk) 05:56, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Powered exoskeletons

Can you point me at a page that will explain what you're doing with the history merges? I implemented the result of the AfD on Powered exoskeletons in fiction, and I was wondering if there was more to it than simply setting up a redirect. It appears there was, and I'm curious to know if what you're doing is done on all such AfD merges. Mike Christie (talk – library) 02:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mike, That article may not be a good candidate for a history merge. History merges are needed when someone copies old text into a new article instead of using the 'move' button. Since 'Powered exoskeletons' was not created entirely from 'Powered exoskeletons in fiction', it's not a candidate, even though some of the history is shared in parts of the article. Normally I'd be happy to help perform a history merge for you, but (see above), I got myself desysopped a few minutes ago (for good reason). --CapitalR (talk) 03:22, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

CapitalR histmerged Powered exoskelleton, which looks fine to me. I was confused for a minute when I saw the temporary deletion on my watchlist – I also assumed that it had something to do with the AfD merger. Flatscan (talk) 05:21, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Right, it was Powered exoskelleton that got histmerged in. Unfortunately, I don't think that Powered exoskeletons in fiction is a good candidate to be histmerged into Powered exoskeleton. --CapitalR (talk) 05:27, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I agree that the articles' parallel histories disqualify them from histmerging. They're on my list for adding {{copied}}s. Flatscan (talk) 05:35, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Black nationalism

Hi, CapitalR. According to the history page, you recently made two edits to Black nationalism, one changing the text to "see ethnic nationalism or romantic nationalism" and one apparently restoring the article (writing "rollback to complete history merge"). But for some reason the article still just says "see ethnic nationalism or romantic nationalism." Is the text of the article hidden somehow? Tribal Jam (talk) 05:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

• Hi there. The article looks fine to me -- it is likely just a caching problem. I've just purged the page, but you may need to do it again yourself if it's still not working. Sometimes Wikipedia just gets confused and leaves up older versions of the page for a short period of time. Let me know if you're still having trouble with it and I can try some other tricks to get it to update itself. --CapitalR (talk) 06:03, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
  • Yeah, that did the trick. I'd never heard of purging the page before; thanks for the tip. Tribal Jam (talk) 00:35, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Please approve the photo which has been placed under discussion in the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Bharati_Tirtha. Please find the permission below which I got from Sringeri Sharada Peetham. fromWebmaster, Sringeri Sharada Peetham <info@sringeri.net> toSriram <asksriramjobs@gmail.com> dateWed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:54 PM subjectRe: [General] Updation of Wikipedia entry from Swamiji hide details 4:54 PM (3 hours ago) Sri Gurubhyo Namaha Namaste Sir we welcome you to update the wiki entry with a photo from the official website Regards, The Webmaster www.sringeri.net Sri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri. Asksriram (talk) 14:56, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

History merge

I noticed the history merge here. I was wondering if it is possible to tell which revisions were which, and where they were located before the history merge? Carcharoth (talk) 01:05, 16 March 2011 (UTC)