User talk:Jared Preston/Archive 1

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Selam

Selam , Türk karşıtı kullanıcı Khoikhoi ingilizce wikipedia'da adminlik için şansını deniyor.Daha fazla türk gelirse bunu engelleyebiliriz. Oyunu burdan kullanabilirsin Teşekkürler. (85.97.143.5 18:31, 26 March 2006 (UTC))

Please use article move

Please use article move rather than to create completely new article with right diacritics and then copying the text. Using move preserves the history of the page.

Right now Plzeň's history length is /1/ and all old information is lost. I would like if you can ask some administrator to delete Plzeň page and then move Plzen to new name. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 28 June 2005 22:56 (UTC)

It's more about history of the article that is lost, not talk. Plzen is third largest city in the Czech Republic a got quite a few edits in it. An clean move would be much welcomed.. Pavel Vozenilek 30 June 2005 02:08 (UTC)

Benno Möhlmann

I have announced your new stub at Portal:Germany/New article announcements#New stubs. Please add all other articles related to Germany that you create there. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 16:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit counting

I need help running one of the back-up edit counters since neither Kate's nor Interiot's tools are working these days. I've read stuff about java script but don't know what it is. Is there no simple way of finding out how many edits a user has without counting them all on the contributions page? – Jared Preston 07:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello there. There appear to be two main non-toolserver editcounters at the moment: Interiot's Javascript-based tool (User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js) and Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool. The former is easy to install - refer to http://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/Tool2/ for full instructions. The latter, I haven't tried, but it's a Java (not Javascript) based solution so it should be easy to install if you have Java already. Hope this helps. If you need any more help, feel free to ask your question again, and add {{helpme}} to this page again so we know to check back. Cheers, Tangotango 07:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that. If you continue to have problems, you might want to contact Interiot, the author of the tool. As for the difference between Javascript and Java, if you're interested, the JavaScript article provides a little insight as to what Javascript is. Java is more like Javascript's big brother, and it can be used to program complete programs that don't necessarily need to run inside a browser, like Javascript. Anyway, apparently the toolserver problem is being fixed, which should mean that the original edit counter will be back online before too long. Good luck, Tangotango 08:29, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! ;) - Tangotango 08:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey Jared, many thanks for the barnstar! I'm really flattered, especially since it's the first time I've received one. I'll be sure to proudly display it on my user page :) Once again, thank you, and happy editing!! -- Tangotango 08:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad too :) I'm sorry, I prefer to keep my online identity separate from my real life one. It's nothing personal, I just prefer it that way. But don't let that detract from our acquaintanceship! Cheers, Tangotango 09:12, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I am male, actually. As you point out, the obsession with trains sort of gives it away, doesn't it ;) I am impressed with your language ability, btw. I was quite surprised when you thanked me in Japanese. :) -- Tangotango 09:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Football AID 16 April - 22 April

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

Ukrainian Premier League has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Re: Barnstar

The counter isn't working in IE or Firefox? If it's Firefox, then try pressing cntrl+F5. Can you see the box or just a bunch of code when you view the page? As for the paper, I read a national paper, The Washington Post. I gave up on The New York Times after finding six grammatical errors in the cover story the first time I picked it up. Grr.... --M@thwiz2020 20:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Go to the edit tool and push cntrl+F5 to refresh it. Then look. I just added something to warn users of IE. You used to be a proof-reader? I think I would make an excellent editor. The only thing I hate about the Washington Post is that it gives biased coverage to Palestine over Israel. And the only thing I like about Bush is that he's the first President to support Israel. Other than that, I love the Post and hate Bush. --M@thwiz2020 21:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of proof reading, go to this Post article. There's a correction at the top. Guess who submitted it? Yup, me. (I also corrected their figure for one year, but they didn't put that in the correction.) I sent something in to Free for All, the Post's correction column, but they didn't put it there - they just published it online (and without a name, something which is in Free for All columns). I'm not only a math whiz but a science whiz too. Oh, and I made my corrections from background knowledge only, no Internet/Wikipedia help :) --M@thwiz2020 22:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Mozilla Firefox

I can see that you've been reading up on Firefox. In this edit, thank you for formatting that note into a statistic. However, regarding your citation needed note, if you follow the link that says "market adoption" and then click on the "20%", it takes you to a map showing that Finland's Firefox share is 38.4%. Is this enough, or should it be cited anyways? It's your call - either cite it or remove the tag. Happy editing! --M@thwiz2020 19:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that! --M@thwiz2020 19:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I know some French, but I'm too lazy to try to translate it. Enter Google! (Applause.) (By the way, I love Google and hate Microsoft - live with it.) Google's translation of the page can be found here. I'll use Google's translator to try to converse with people on the Finnish wikipedia. --M@thwiz2020 20:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Where'd you get that? Google doesn't have a Finish translator?!?!? Anyways, I messaged an admin on the Finnish wikipedia who seems to speak English and was active just one hour ago and asked him/her to respond on my talk page. I hope he/she does! I love seeing that new messages indicator, it makes me feel so good. --M@thwiz2020 20:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Same thing. I just wanted someone else's perspective on the Finnish use of Firefox. --M@thwiz2020 20:32, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

User:Cool Cat/In many languages...

Thank you for the German, Hungarian, Lithuanian translations --Cat out 15:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, no problems. I speak German, and the Hungarian and Lithuanian versions I checked with friends. I'll update once I can guarantee what it is in other languages too! Jared Preston 15:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Impresive. Can you also add a litteral translation back to english? --Cat out 15:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, they all mean "cool". At least the German certainly does! *lol* I have another for you to add (I'm not too sure on how you want it all formatted so I'll leave it here at your disposal) and that's Czech: Hustá kočka. That also literally means "cool cat", but hustá, hustý also means "dense". Hustota is Czech for "density". Jared Preston 20:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

PS: In Slovak I've been told that "cool cat" is "cool mačka", they don't appear to have their own word for cool... Jared Preston 20:10, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Many languages dont have an equavalent to "cool", so we need aproximations ;). --Cat out 20:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Paul Klee

Of course Klee was of German nationality; he even served in the German army during World War I. The anon had it right. I'm not sure about the "lost German citizenship" part, though; he fled Germany after the Nazis came to power, but whether he lost his German citizenship, I don't know. I only know that he applied twice for Swiss citizenship after his return to Berne (first time denied because he didn't fulfill the conditions (at least 5 (I think) years resident in Switzerland), second time would have been granted, but he died before his application had been handled). Check the extlinks, in particular the "Zentrum Paul Klee". Maybe you'd like to correct your edit there yourself? Lupo 08:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

You wrote: However, it is arguable he ever held German citizenship. He would have only had an Aufenthaltserlaubnis, not Bürgerschaft.

Sorry, that doesn't make sense. As the child of a German father, he was German. Why else would he have served in the German army?

Furthermore, you write: He did qualify for German citizenship through parentage, but, as you correctly point out, was handed to him too late. It was granted on July 5, but he had died 6 days previously.

That doesn't make sense at all. He applied for Swiss citizenship after he had returned to Berne in 1933, and his second application there was handled too slowly. As the son of a German father and a Swiss mother, German and Swiss are the only possibilities. If he had been Swiss, he wouldn't have needed to apply for Swiss citizenship. Therefore, he was German. Q.E.D.

Finally, I don't see any vandalism in that IP's contibution. Lupo 18:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Not to continue arguing, but it took me some time to actually find explicit statements about this issue. Here are just two results from a Google search for +"paul klee" +"deutscher staatsbürger": "Max Beckmann ist nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Zeitgenossen von Paul Klee und wie dieser deutscher Staatsbürger...", Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland, and "...erhält Klee als deutscher Staatsbürger einen Einberufungsbefehl...", Franz-Marc Gymnasium, Markt Schwaben, Germany. Also of interest is Ein Schweizer ohne roten Pass, Scientific archive of the Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland and the Swissinfo Special on Paul Klee. (I agree that in everything but the passport, he was Swiss, even if he deplored the provincial atmosphere in Berne.) Lupo 14:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Languages

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 16:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Franziska Weisz

Hello Jared! I've just noticed that you created an article about Austrian actress Franziska Weisz months before I did. Well, I did this for the German Wikipedia, de:Franziska Weisz. Franziska answered my mail to her two days ago, so I could correct the article and add some missing credits, especially her exact birth date wich I found nowhere registered. So if you are a fan of her and are interested in updating your English article: Be sure that the information in my article is 100 % correct because she had a look over it herself. I would be glad if you do that because my English skills are almost worth to nothing and in no way suitable to write English Wiki-articles. All the best for you and bye --Mutunus.tutunus 11:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC) You can contact me here.

Copyright problems for Alexander Bonde

Hi! You created a page about Alexander Bonde that looks like a blatant copyright violation, as it is copied from his homepage that does not give a free license. What's the deal? --Poeloq 07:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, should have checked first, but it was quite late then already ;) I reverted the article back to your version. --Poeloq 10:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

GMX

Hi Jared, could you explain your neutrality issues regarding the GMX article to a layman? Thx, Ondundozonananandana, 6 August 2007

London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 02:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Lindenpark

Hi,

In order for a business to remain listed at Wikipedia, it must meet the requirements of WP:CORP. This guideline is designed to prevent establishments from using Wikipedia to promote themselves. This particular article fell far short of that guideline, and was deleted speedily for failing to assert notability. Your statement regarding the website of the fine, world-renowned city of Potsdam was not contained in the article, and would help support its notability. In general, if you are interested in the long-term viability of this article, find more sources and add more content. When was the club founded? When has it been mentioned in the news? Why is it famous? These are important questions. Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 15:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Jared Preston! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | watch Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | watch

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 03:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

yes

		The Hidden Page Barnstar
		I award you one for finding User:Trekphiler's page for people who always think that "new message" bar is real. Aren't you glad you checked your mail? Trekphiler (talk) 00:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC) (My system's been down, or I'd have given this sooner.) Have two for me, cobber. Trekphiler (talk) 21:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Minor edits

Hello. I noticed that you marked your recent edit to June 11 as a minor edit. Looking at your contribs it seems that you mark most of your edits as minor. Keep in mind that edits should only be marked as minor if they are truly minor edits (no substantive addition or subtraction of content). Have a look at WP:MINOR for details. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 18:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

OK buddy. I just thought it was "minor" as I hadn't written a paragraph of text, nor contributed significantly to the article. Thanks for the wiki link though, I appreciate it. Jared Preston (talk) 19:33, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

Wikimedia UK logo

Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Newspaper

Hi, can you tell the name of some English language newspapers published in Germany. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 14:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'll have to get back to you on that one. Jared Preston (talk) 14:36, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

can you check this article?

I started to writean article about Ghent Tram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent_Tram actually I am translating it from Russian Version.

• can you please help me with it?

GK tramrunner (talk) 03:10, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

politician stubs

Hello, I found about 20 stubs on german conservative MP's which you first created and then asked to have them speedily deleted. Why the latter? IMHO those were perfectly good stubs. -- Seelefant (talk) 13:29, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for the belated answer. here is an explanation of what happened (click "show" to expand the text). Most of these articles were deleted with a comment that it went by your request. More can be found on this old talk page version of another user. So some articles were rescued, and I enhanced them a little with content from de.WP. Were they really bot-created as user:nuclearwarfare told me? Also, I wonder whether more articles were deleted then the ones mentioned in that discussion. Regards -- Seelefant (talk) 13:07, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Hi, after reading one of your articles at newpage patrol I was surprised to see that an editor whose been here since 2005 hadn't been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 15:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Userbox suggestion

Hi, and thanks for your remarks about the userboxes I posted. I have had a go at the blood group userbox as you suggested - please have a look here, and let me know what you think. Please feel free to edit it if it's not to your liking. I can produce the rest of the range once the colour scheme etc. is sorted. Cheers. Gilo ö 21:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Lateral internal sphincterotomy

Thanks again for the kind words regarding the blood group userboxes; I was surprised that this had not been covered before. I have had a look at the sphincterotomy article, and it did seem a bit fragmented. I have done some expanding, which has hopefully improved it a little; I will have a look for more info tomorrow. I will also reply to your message later. Cheers. Gilo ö 02:50, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Your rollback request

Hello Jared Preston, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 17:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks! Jared Preston (talk) 17:52, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

IP Talk Pages

Hi. I saw you reverted the blanking of User talk:89.195.75.39. Per WP:REMOVED, deleting the warnings is permissible and taken as indication that the editor has read and acknowledged the warnings. Regads. -- Whpq (talk) 13:33, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. However, I do believe actions speak louder than words, and seeing that the last four of the IP's five mainspace edits were vandalism, that shows to me that the editor has taken no action other than to sneekily blank the warnings. How about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia as an acknowledgement? Jared Preston (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't completely agree with WP:REMOVED as IP addresses get reassigned so there isn't any real ownership of such a user talk page as there would be with a registered editor. But there hasn't been any additional vandalism since the page blanking. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 16:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

My IP address seems to change every 5 minutes or so, haha! Maybe one day, who knows, only registered users will be able to edit. That might be interesting! Jared Preston (talk) 17:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Robert Scholl (footballer)

Hi, I'm working my way through unreferenced German footballers and found Robert Scholl (footballer). I'm afraid that he he also not notable (at best playing in Oberliga according to the sources I found). As you created the article and most other contributions were done by bots, do you want do a speedy deletion or should I propose it for deletion? --Jaellee (talk) 13:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Vielen Dank! --Jaellee (talk) 19:18, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Robert Scholl

On February 17, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Robert Scholl, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 06:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Some footballers with questionable notability

Hi, sorry to bother you again, but I found some articles about footballers with questionable notability: Benjamin Griesert, Johann Gajda, Manuel Greil, Timo Hampf, and Norbert Lemcke. As you created them, could you please have a look at these articles? --Jaellee (talk) 17:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Ich beziehe mich da immer auf WP:FOOTYN#Player notability. Danach dürften DFB-Pokal-Spiele keine Rolle spielen, wenn der Verein, für den man spielt, kein Profi-Verein ist. Aber ich kann auch auf Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football nochmal nachfragen.

Zu Johann Gajda habe ich was auf transfermarkt.de gefunden: [1], was nicht auf eine Spielerkarriere hinweist. Dann gibt's noch das PDF hier, in dem steht, dass er als Spieler nur bei Hertha BSC war, und als Trainer u. a. bei Olympiacos F.C., aber vermutlich wohl auch nur als Assistenztrainer (konnte jedenfalls nichts dazu finden). Die anderen Trainerjobs waren auch nur bei niederklassigeren Vereinen. Da fussballdaten.de Johann Gajda auch nicht kennt, vermute ich mal dass er bei Hertha auch nur in der 2. oder 3. Mannschaft gespielt hat. --Jaellee (talk) 10:33, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Johann Gajda

The page seems to suggest that he played for Hertha BSC and Olympiakos, which would suggest notability. Admittedly I can't find any ref for this, but I figured he deserves the benefit of the doubt. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 12:53, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

I Want It That Way

HI! This hapenned long ago but i still think i have to talk to you about this. I don't know why you kept reverting my edits on 'I Want it That Way'. Some person had changed all the chart positions and for just changing it back, you kept reverting my edits and finally got me banned. If you don't know what I'm talking about look at the revision history of 'I Want It That Way. Of course, now someone else had already changed back the chart positions long ago. -203.101.45.224 —Preceding undated comment added 12:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC).

First of all, I didn't get you banned. Your apparent disruptive behaviour attracted attention from a number of other editors. You do appear to be inept when it comes to edit summaries. If every single one of your edits to that article, just like the others, were undoing vandalism, then why didn't you point it out? My knowledge of the Backstreet Boys is admittedly limited, so if I did make a faux pas in any of their related articles, please accept my apologies. When a vandalism patroller sees dozens of anonymous edits to the same article, and in your case, related articles – changing statistics and facts and without an edit summary – it is incredibly difficult to differentiate fact from fiction. I recommend you sign up, start afresh, read the welcome page, use edit summaries, and win back some of that lost trust. I would also ask you to sign your comments with four tildes, add your comment to the bottom of talk pages, this may only be wikiquette, but can be infuriating to other users – and it does seem you want to take an active role in this project. Please use the preview button too. I'd also suggest you talk to all the other editors who have warned you on your talk page, because I am not the only one who found your edits suspicious (either) at the time (or since then). Good luck! Jared Preston (talk) 13:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

German railway articles

Hi Jared, Many thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I see you have an interest in German railways (amongst other things). Please would you add new articles to the Rail transport in Germany task force page and consider adding yourself to the hardy band of contributors (you may as well get the credit for all your hard work!). Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: Dzięki

Hi! Thanks for your suggestion. My userpage was not created by me and that's why there was such a typo. DK4]]$4 ^(Contribs) 18:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Herbst (footballer)

On March 18, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Thomas Herbst (footballer), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Tennis Borussia Berlin

Thanks. Wiggy! (talk) 00:32, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Werderaner Wachtelberg

Hello Jared Preston, wäre das de:Werderaner Wachtelberg etwas für Dich? Gruß -- Beaverbear (talk) 08:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Ist das eine offizielle Einladung? ;-) Jared Preston (talk) 08:16, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Kann man drüber reden ;-( ich habe einfach gesehen, Du interessierst dich für unsere Gegend und meine Englischkenntnisse reichen für eine vernünftige Übersetzung nicht aus. Der Artikel könnte möglicherweise einige User im Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine interessieren. Gruß aus der bereits eröffneten Weintiene. -- Beaverbear (talk) 10:46, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

 Done Jared Preston (talk) 14:19, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

DSDS

Has there been any comfirmation on next DSDS? Kingjeff (talk) 23:23, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of. Jared Preston (talk) 23:38, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Anyways, if there is, the new page will be created by September. Kingjeff (talk) 01:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Northwest Airlines Flight 5

On April 20, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Northwest Airlines Flight 5, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Marivana Viscuso

Hello Jared and thanks for your notes on my page Marivana Viscuso. The page can be removed because it was made for commercial purpose, and before I knew that was forbidden on wikipedia. Thanks for your help and quietly remove the page. User talk:Ciappi-horse —Preceding undated comment added 12:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC).

The BLP needn't be removed if it is reliably sourced. If notability can be established, any citation would help! Jared Preston (talk) 12:41, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I added some references from the Miami Herald newspaper and from the Spanish-language Nuevo Herald. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 14:31, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that, buddy! Jared Preston (talk) 17:48, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Florian Boss

He is a friend of mine that is on their youth team and expected to play next year. Since they will be promoted from the fith division to the fourth division they need a deeper squad and he has been added to the full first-team squad. Sorry I don't know of any "sources" but he was a foregin-exchange student at my high school and we became good friends. He is now back living in Marburg and playing for VfB Marburg. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rupert1904 (talk • contribs) 16:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Munich

Hello,

You are invited to join WikiProject Munich!

There are a lot of things to do in this project. From creating new articles to finetuning articles into featured article status.

How can you help?

• You can join a Task Force.
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• You can help expand articles currently in the Stub-class and Start-class.
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• Since original research is against Wikipedia policy, you can research topics to expand. This means you don't need to know anything about Munich.
• You can help expand stubs and start-class articles and help finetune other articles into Featured article status.

A WikiProject of this nature is very broad. Munich has a rich history in sports, culture, politics along with many more topics. Feel free to help out in your area of interest.

If you want to check the project out you can click the link above. If you want to join the project, you can sign up here.

If you have any questions feel free to contact myself or any other member of the project.

Kingjeff (talk) 14:56, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Template:Talk header

Hi, I see you place this template on a lot of talk pages. Please only place this template when it is needed. It shouldn't be on every talk page one encounters. For instance on Talk:Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 it makes sense but it's use on Talk:Christian Träsch is unnecessary. Garion96 (talk) 13:59, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm aware it's not a necessity for every talkpage, but don't think there's any harm in adding it whilst I'm already assessing articles for WikiProjects. It is a good reminder to sign your posts and tops off the banners on the top of the page quite nicely. I'm sorry you don't like it. Jared Preston (talk) 14:29, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I do hope you will stop though. This was first discussed on the template's talk and consensus was reached that this template should only be used when needed. That's why there is a message on the template itself stating "This template should be used only when needed. There is no need to add this template to every talk page." Garion96 (talk) 15:24, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

I can't change consensus, but in an effort to defend my edits adding the template to the discussion pages I have done already, I don't believe it's any more harmful than having the BLP template at the top of discussions on BLPs acting as a reminder of the talk page guidelines. Maybe this could be looked at in the future. Overuse is, however, not quite the same as "every talk page". I'm sorry I've pissed you off by having added this to Christian Träsch's discussion page, or indeed any others where you feel it is not required, whilst updating the banners. In no way did I ever think that adding this non-offensive template would be destructive. Just like you, I'm doing my best for Wikipedia with my contributions. I see you have reworded your previous message and don't want you to be angry at me or be in any lousier mood than you should be on this fine Saturday afternoon. Assume good faith in my edits and I will use the template less. Jared Preston (talk) 16:14, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: Arne Friedrich

[2] This DPA article from the Financial Times Deutschland is my basis for the edit I made. The article states that Friedrich did not receive an offer from Hertha to renew his contract, which means he will be leaving the club. I hope this clears things up. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:15, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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"Satellite" edit war

Hi there. Just wanted to say thanks for your resilience in the recent hilarious edit war (larv ouh, larv) ;). Janfrie1988 (talk) 14:32, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Bitte schön! Und was für eine widerliche Aussprache! ;-) Jared Preston (talk) 15:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Thomas Gottschalk

I heard he will be on Deutschland sucht den Superstar. Do you know what roll he will be on DSDS? Kingjeff (talk) 01:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it was serious; but if the Bild only produced credible, quality journalism, then this article might be worth a read. Jared Preston (talk) 07:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

here is RTL's link. Kingjeff (talk) 16:59, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

That's more or less a verbatim copy of the Bild article, or vice-versa. It says he would be a presenter, but nothing has yet been set in stone. Do you not speak German? Jared Preston (talk) 17:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't speak German. When I used an online translator, it wasn't 100% clear on every single word. Kingjeff (talk) 17:22, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I see. No problemo. Actually I didn't think that either Gottschalk or Bohlen were particularly well-known outside Germany... The last paragraph says: "How and when Gottschalk will appear on DSDS isn't known, but Bohlen is certain about one thing: "Good presenters are always needed - he won't make a fool of himself." And whilst gambling bets are bets of honour, Gottschalk could well be...." The whole thing stems back to the last episode of Wetten, dass..? when Bohlen asked Gottschalk when he would come on one of his shows, seeing that Bohlen had come to Gottschalk's shows on a number of previous occasions. I watched the episode, but didn't think much of it at the time. Jared Preston (talk) 17:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I really didn't know Thomas Gottschalk until I heard about him maybe coming to DSDS. I think I've seen him a couple times before. I only know Dieter because I follow DSDS since it started to go on Clipfish. Kingjeff (talk) 18:28, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, Clipfish is good for that. I watched some of the Supertalent highlights there too. Where abouts are you from then? Do you have no better version of Pop Idol? ;-) Jared Preston (talk) 18:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I am from Canada. Canada doesn't have X Factor or Canada's Got Talent and Canadian Idol's last season was season 6 in 2008. I thought Canadian Idol was terrible compared to American Idol and DSDS. Kingjeff (talk) 18:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Hehehe... You're definitely the first Canadian I've had the pleasure to know who likes DSDS. I'm glad Germany is good for one thing... ;-) But hey, my favourite programme is Mayday. We should set up a mutual fanclub or big up German-Canadian relations! How about an exchange-programme like Erasmus? Jared Preston (talk) 19:07, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

That's a great idea. We could probably set up some kind of fan page here on facebook for the mutual fanclub idea. Kingjeff (talk) 00:11, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

With you being a person from Hesse, I think you will like this. Kingjeff (talk) 01:27, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

I'd never heard that before. When are you going to start Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Season 8)? ;-) Jared Preston (talk) 16:27, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

DSDS venue

Do you know if there is any name for the venue for the liveshows? Kingjeff (talk) 16:35, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

I can't find anything about Season 8 apart from that the castings may begin in September this year... Jared Preston (talk) 16:58, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

I just heard a rumour that Nina Eichinger won't be back. Kingjeff (talk) 17:09, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Probably not, but nothing confirmed yet. Jared Preston (talk) 18:06, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

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Holger Badstuber

Natürlich gewinnt Deutschland! Was sonst? (-: --Jaellee (talk) 22:02, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Fighting vandalism

No, I was not really aware that such a feature exists. I was recently granted Reviewer permissions (which I have only used once, so far). I think after the World Cup I have time to study Twinkle and to apply for Pollback. --Jaellee (talk) 22:13, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Thomas Müller

There is page on Wikipedia on Serbian language about Thomas Müller, just it was saved minut or so latter.----László (talk) 23:54, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Yep, saw that after you had reverted me. I changed the interwiki link to avoid the foreign redirect. Cheers! Jared Preston (talk) 23:56, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Ministerpräsident

Voting has started here. Kingjeff (talk) 03:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Second round of voting has started. Kingjeff (talk) 14:00, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Paul the Octopus

I hope his 20% failure rate shows up. Kingjeff (talk) 14:26, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

DSDS 8

Is Quotenmeter.de a reliable source? Kingjeff (talk) 20:37, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

According to the German Wikipedia article, Quotenmeter's statistics are at least verified by the IVW. As for how reliable the website is with news/gossip, I don't have an opinion. Jared Preston (talk) 20:55, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:COMMONNAME

Hey there, I noticed you moving some football-related pages to their German (Berlin Cup) or official names (FSV Budissa Bautzen). Please be aware that wikipedia has a policy to adopt the most common English name for its articles. In the case of the Landespokal competition in Berlin, I doubt that anyone looking for such a competition (on en:wp) would look for "Berliner Landespokal". Please keep this in mind before moving other pages. Also, it might be sensible to propose such moves on the articles' talk pages in the future, so as to invite a larger pool of opinion on the matter. Madcynic (talk) 20:40, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, there has been a number of discussions about the naming of the DFB-Pokal for example, and seeing as the Berliner Landespokal is a local competition with no common English name (being speculative), I can't see where the problem is. Pokal is used in the English language for German cup competitions, and this is a German cup competition. I don't know how many people are "looking for such a competition", seeing as it's a pretty obscure regional Pokal, but it hadn't been updated for years so I chose to do that whilst naming the articles as others have been. In this instance, there is a redirect (and redirects don't hurt), and I even wrote the general "English: Berlin Cup" for anyone who could be confused. I'm currently working on the Brandenburger Landespokal; apart from simply calling it "The Brandenburg Cup", I can't see where there's a common English name for that either. As for FSV Budissa Bautzen, I'm going by the name used on their official website – and one wouldn't take the FSV out of 1. FSV Mainz 05, so why pick on Bautzen? Jared Preston (talk) 20:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

PS: By the way, I see you are the one for having started the said article in the first place. Darf ich sagen wie dankbar ich überhaupt bin, dass du das schon gemacht hast? Da war sonst für mich jede Menge zu übersetzen gewesen, hätte ich den Artikel angelegt, und ich weiß gar nicht, ob ich das alleine geschafft hätte. Vielleicht können wir ja künftig bei deutschen Fußballwettbewerben zusammen arbeiten. Ich möchte vor allem keinen Streit hier mit irgendjemandem! Beste Grüße – Jared Preston (talk) 21:06, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

No worries about starting arguments, and you're welcome ;-) You may be right about the cup thing, but I believe that using a generic English name as the article title would be preferable, as it (imho) increases accessibility of the information. The German Cup is different inasmuch as there is enough news coverage in English-language media so as to suggest that indeed DFB-Pokal may be the Common name of the competition.

As for Budissa Bautzen - the diff between Budissa and Mainz is that there is a distinct name item in the former club (Budissa) that is lacking for Mainz. Also, there maybe a common name for Mainz established, but from a first look, I think it might be FSV Mainz 05 (bbc) or Mainz 05 (bundesliga.de/en). Anyway, naming conventions for clubs are a difficult field, and I just wanted to point that out - hence my suggestion of first discussing such moves on the talk pages. Madcynic (talk) 23:05, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

PS You may also want to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Notability for the criteria under which football clubs are notable enough. That will save you the trouble of deletion discussions. This will also help you show notability in the article itself. As it stands now, I'd have difficulty to see how FSV Union Fürstenwalde are notable under these criteria. (Just trying to help) Madcynic (talk) 23:18, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Well I think we'll have to agree that it's a grey area. Recently I've been making many edits to German football-related articles, I've put up a number of XfD's to get things sorted out, but with things such as the Berliner Landespokal, I didn't expect anyone would have much of an (unbiased) opinion. I just wanted the Verbandspokalwettbewerbe to follow the same naming convention as the DFB-Pokal and others. I've added the Brandenburgischer Landespokal and Bremer Pokal tonight, maybe you'll have a look. I, personally, think they're fine with the German-language names. My project for some time already has been to do the other Pokale too. Your edits, I see, have been great. Between the both us, I am sure we can keep all of the lower-league articles up to date. Let me know if there's anything you want doing, OK? FSV Union Fürstenwalde shouldn't be a problem in a deletion discussion since they've taken part in the FDGB-Pokal, deeming it notable under the criteria you quoted. If you like, I will mention that in the article too. Ich muss jetzt ins Bett, also gute Nacht und bis die Tage, Kollege! Jared Preston (talk) 23:28, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Blau-Weiß Berlin

Hi, now that Blau-Weiß Berlin is a disambig, could you help fix the links that now point to a disambig per WP:FIXDABLINKS? Thanks, --JaGa^talk 13:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done Jared Preston (talk) 16:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Fantastic! Thanks! --JaGa^talk 10:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Ivica Grlic

He did play for Bayern Munich Amateure - he's listed in the 1994/95 Kicker Sonderheft. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 16:47, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

And here [3] ArtVandelay13 (talk) 16:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Well spotted. I'll have a look. Jared Preston (talk) 16:51, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Ivica Grlić's three appearances for FC Bayern München II –  Done Jared Preston (talk) 16:59, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

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addition of Berlin blog

Hello Jared Preston -- I wonder please why you have removed the link to Rory's Berlin blog? This official Goethe Institut blog has been running for two years, has good solid readership and has just been nominated for the Erasmus EuroMedia Award 2010. Would you consider restoring the link please? all the best, Happytrail Happytrail (talk) 06:53, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I thought it was enough that the blog is linked to from his biography. I was going by Wikipedia:External links, but if you still think the link belongs to the Berlin article, then go ahead and re-add it. Jared Preston (talk) 13:10, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Peter Endrulat

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

GA

Hello. Actually, this was the first time I've found a sensible use for HotCat. As to your GA, thanks for asking, but I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person. I've never reviewed one, and the last thing you want with your first submission is a virgin reviewer. At first glance, I wondered if you had enough prose, but that's probably just me: my GAs were on subjects I was really interested in, so my problem was managing to stop before I'd written a book... You may find that you get a more comprehensive review from a non-football editor.

If you haven't already, you could check the criteria for which bits of the MoS you're supposed to comply with. Looks like there's a bit of a backlog at GAN, so it might be worth listing it for peer review while you're waiting, say on the PR nom that you're looking for comments to help it get through GA. And ask nicely at the footy project talk page for people to visit the PR, there must be people there more helpful and/or knowledgeable than me. One thing I wondered, was/is that the norm in German league tables for the points column to show points against as well as points for? it's not something I've come across. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:13, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't mind having a virgin look over my work, haha. But I fully understand your concern and thank you for your speedy reply. It would, in my own opinion, be quite hard to write more about the game without going off on a complete tangent. And as you will see, most of the articles I've created are rather short. I'm a bit of a stub-meister to be honest, allowing others to write content. This was one of the exceptions, and I really enjoyed writing that page. As for the league table, yes, that was the norm in Germany up until the introduction of the 3-point-rule. I've seen this in other sports and personally think it's strange, but there we go. If you click on citation 12, you will see the link to the final league table of the 1977–78 Fußball-Bundesliga. The Wikipedia season article doesn't show this, but it is only a case of having someone add it at some time. I'm just not sure if it's possible to show "points against" by using {{Fb cl header}}. All the best! Jared Preston (talk) 18:31, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund

The article Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a reassessment. Brad78 (talk) 16:10, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith

I would like to know why you reverted my edits to the entry for the book which was, in error, written as if was the film entry? There is already a an entry for the film and I was correcting what was totally incorrect! Could you explain to me why you reverted my edits without citing a reason?? (24.62.126.170 (talk) 23:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC))

You are quite right. I was concerned that you had deleted so much text, and in this instance, not added the article into any other categories. I've tried to clean this up now. Please cast your eye over both articles to check that everything is OK now. Jared Preston (talk) 11:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, the page looks very good now. I appreciate that you reviewed and corrected the entries. (24.62.126.170 (talk) 20:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC))

Good stuff. Have you considered signing in for your own account here? Have a look at: Wikipedia:Why create an account? – Jared Preston (talk) 21:24, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks; List of ACW Generals article vandalism reverted

Thanks for noting and reverting the deletion of two sections from the introductory article on the list of Civil War generals. I see that the IP address from which the deletions originated has been blocked on several occasions already. I need to revise this article both for clarity and to account for the split of the lists of Union and Confederate generals into separate lists. Because of the unexpected uncertainty about which officers should be included or not, and why, and because certain information is common to or related to all or most of the generals, I think a somewhat longer than usual introduction to the lists is valuable in this case. Keeping all of this in one article produced a very long article and the lists are still lengthy by necessity. While some editing is needed, wholesale deletion of these sections - especially in view of the spin off of the lists - does not seem appropriate. Since I left a note on the talk page that some editing would be forthcoming, I do not think that deletion was appropriate even if someone legitimately thought the material did not add anything to the article. Also, these details have sources listed so I think they could not be deleted as erroneous. Because of the past history of vandalism by this IP address, however, I think that a good faith editing effort probably was not being made in this case. Thanks, again. Donner60 (talk) 01:31, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

I quite agree, an IP removing such a huge section, without leaving an edit summary to explain his anonymous deletion, having already been blocked half a dozen times – it's a bit hard to assume good faith. Good luck with your work there! Jared Preston (talk) 11:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Berlin

I know that the cities were officially separate, but they functioned as one, and people could move pretty freely until the wall came up, so it's hard to in which sector people were born in prior to that - a family may have moved between 1949 and 1961, or have lived in Zehlendorf but the child be born in hospital in Köpenick, to give a hypothetical example. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 18:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

That's not even hypothetical, you're quite right there. As with Woythe, I can't remember now if I found out in which part of Berlin he was born, so I have simply reverted this information to "Berlin, Germany" – and with this, I don't think either of us should have a problem. Jared Preston (talk) 18:08, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

WPFOOTY discussion

Hi there JARED, VASCO from Portugal here,

Thanks for you inputs at the "German club names" discussion. I have written some more stuff there, please have a look and comment (especially in the first paragraph of my latest entry, about your "Stuttgart" example), if you please.

Attentively, have a nice weekend - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 23:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Tennis Borussia Berlin players

Hey,

You may find this page [4] of use in compiling the list and the player articles: there may be some players and stats that aren't listed elsewhere. There'll also be a few players in the A-Z pages here [5] that aren't on that page. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 21:36, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much! Jared Preston (talk) 21:39, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Geza Silberer

Hi Jared! I've started a page on this writer (better known as Sil-Vara) and, having no German to speak of, have gone about as far as I can. I've had a go at translating book and play titles but as I don't know a lustspiel from a komoedie kept them as hidden comments. The hidden links to Karl Kraus might be interesting and I reckon Neuen Freien Presse would make a useful article. Is this your sort of thing? --Doug butler (talk) 21:41, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

The Neue Freie Presse article exists already. Jared Preston (talk) 22:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Jim Towers

Probably confusion based on one of those books that lists only the seasons a player was at a club, as opposed to actual dates. I'll change it.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Rea Garvey

As per WP:MUSIC "Note that members of notable bands are redirected to the band's article, not given individual articles, unless they have demonstrated individual notability for activity independent of the band, such as solo releases." There is no need for an AfD. The article fails WP:GNG and the individual fails WP:MUSIC. Unless reliable sources can be found to establish individual notability independent of the band, then a redirect is entirely appropriate for this article. Nouse4aname (talk) 12:33, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for help. --Exorcist Z (talk) 15:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Tennis Borussia Berlin

The reason I reduced the League positions table on the Tennis Borussia Berlin is that it looks absolutly horrible when viewed on the small screen of a laptop as it is badly squashed. You may be editing on a wider screen and therefore not notice it. This goes for many similar tables on German football articles. As you insist on keeping all that information thats already in List of Tennis Borussia Berlin seasons, I've merged it to three columns. Its' still not ideal for small screens but a lot better now. Hope you can accept the compromise, have fun, Calistemon (talk) 13:49, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'm good with that. Thanks for your co-operation and letting me know. Jared Preston (talk) 20:20, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

2009–10 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

Further to the thread I posted on the above at [6] and the changes you subsequently made to the article by adding "archive" to the url, I clicked on the home games of Spartak Trnava, Sligo Rovers and Buducnost in the 1st qual rnd, 1st leg, and in each case it says match report is not available. Any ideas on where they've gone? Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 10:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm not a regular user of uefa.com, but I'm pretty sure the match reports had already vanished upon the archiving of the URLs. I seem to remember not being able to see any reports upon changing the links last month. Jared Preston (talk) 11:10, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for response. I have raised another post at Footy [7] to see if we can bottom out this issue. Eldumpo (talk) 19:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Too-speedy speedy tagging

Hi. Thank you for patrolling new pages, but a word of advice: it is a mistake to tag a new article with either A1 no context or A3 no content too soon after they are created - allow at least 10-15 minutes. New users often start (though they shouldn't) by just putting in a repetition of the title, or a few words, and then clicking "Save page" and pausing to admire the result and think what to do next. It is alarming and WP:BITEy if a speedy notice pops up immediately. There was an instance just now with MET Laboratories, Inc.: the author put in one word, 3 minutes later you tagged it A3, then he replaced everything with 1 kb + of article; in doing that he removed the speedy tag, so the SDPatrolBot promptly reverted him, he put it in again, the bot reverted him again, he gave up in despair and blanked it, the bot tagged it G7. Another newbie who thinks Wikipedia is unfriendly. In this case he has a copy in user space, so I hope he has not gone for ever. I will explain to him what happened and give him some advice; but, as I said, before tagging A1 and A3 best to give a newbie some time. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

You are right John, it was a bit bitey after only a few minutes. Quite similar to my own introduction to Wikipedia back in 2005. And yes, Wikipedia is very unfriendly to newbies; but I don't know if there is much to do about that other than to relax the rules even more so than they are at the moment. As proven in the "Brickalighter" post below, I'm not the best speedy tagger, but generally I get it right, and on NPP you do find the odd real gem or at the very least something salvageable from time to time. You posted a very friendly note on this user's talk page and I really appreciate your time given to explain what happened to me – and of course to him. Since the weekend I have been trying my best to be not so speedy in speedy tagging. I will, if you don't mind, come back to you in the future should I have any questions – you definitely seem to be one of the better admins around here! Jared Preston (talk) 15:16, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the barnstar on my talk page, and yes, you are welcome to ask advice any time. There is good advice for speedy taggers at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Some new pages need to be tagged quickly - attacks, for instance - and very often it's clear that a page is not going anywhere - "Tommy is in 5th grade and is cool" and the like. A1 and A3 in particular are the ones where people tend to be too quick on the trigger. If you see one that someone else has tagged too quickly, there is a useful template {{hasty}} to add.

As far as being less user-unfriendly goes, one useful step is to add {{welcome}} or {{firstarticle}} or {{welcome-spam}} before an initial speedy notice, so as to give some links to explain things. For an obvious NN autobiography, consider moving it to the user page (tagging the resulting redirect {{db-r2}}), and if that's not appropriate there is a template {{userfy}} which tells them about their user page while pointing out that WP is not Myspace. What I would like is some means of telling newbies before they set up an account about a few of the things that Wikipedia is not: I am unhappy that every morning I have to block three or four "User:XYZcompany" accounts who think that their user page is the place for a copy of their promotional website. JohnCD (talk) 22:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Map

I want to download a map of participants JESC 2011, as I do (I'm not admin)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Russianmen (talk • contribs) 15:18, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Puppykicker514

I'm unclear — why did you tag this for deletion? As far as I can tell, the user has only been blocked at this account, and we permit people to edit their user talk pages when they're blocked. Nyttend (talk) 21:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

I'd support a deletion at MFD (be sure to tell me if you take it there), but this simply isn't within any of the speedy criteria. Nyttend (talk) 21:19, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Brickalighter

I can see why you tagged this as a hoax, but I don't think it quite fits that - a hoax implies intent to deceive, or at least should fail the test "could anybody possibly take this seriously?" but this guy has really made up his new word/philosophy/whatever and wants to tell the world about it. It fails WP:V and WP:OR, but it isn't speediable, so I have PRODded it. From time to time people (including me) have proposed a new speedy for "blatantly made up one day", but it never gets agreement. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your input. Good tagging! Jared Preston (talk) 15:00, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Great gallery

Just wanted to say you have a great gallery. I enjoyed looking through it. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:54, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

That's very kind of you, thanks. I've uploaded a few more pics since your message last week so feel free to look back some time. Jared Preston (talk) 18:44, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Undo

why did you uno my editions in following articles?

• Emine Sevgi Özdamar
• Sevim Dağdelen‎
• Cemil Mengi‎

related "given name" articles are linked to them and they should be linked back. --Polysynaptic (talk) 15:43, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Why should they be linked back? Is this a WP:BIOG guideline I've missed? Apart from the names of a few Turkish people, I haven't seen this sort of linking on any other biography. Jared Preston (talk) 18:44, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

League templates

Just a friendly request. When you update templates like Template:NOFV-Oberliga Süd, could you make sure the template is attached to the clubs that play in the league in the current season and remove it from the promoted/relegated clubs? It would help greatly and save me from rechecking them all. Thank you, Calistemon (talk) 00:36, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Metadata (WP:Persondata)

Hi! Jahn Regensburg is one of my interests (guess where I live) and I'm always glad to see a new article about a Jahn player.

Some time ago, I saw someone changing the names in WP:Persondata and had a look at the page. One example there uses ã:

|ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Magalhães, Fernão de (Portuguese); Magallanes, Fernando de (Spanish)

As diacritics are not mentioned at all (neither in the positive or negative sense), I concluded that there is no reason not to use the names with diacritics. I don't think that there are technical problems, because the German Wikipedia uses them. --Jaellee (talk) 17:04, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Vincelord

I would like to know you removed the people i listed as being born on September 12th, was it because they weren't notable enough.Vincelord (talk) 13:54, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Your additions appear to be poorly formatted, with either information missing or with a link to a disambiguation page; or you add someone like Liam Gallagher, despite his infobox and the text introduction showing he was born on 21 September. I can only assume you made a mistake there, so please take care when adding dates. Jared Preston (talk) 16:04, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

July 7

I would like to know why you removed the formation of the Australian Navy Cadets from the July 7 page? Did i write it incorrectly? Nford24 (talk) 19:05, 26 August 2011 (AEST)

We use the present tense, and not the past tense for notable events. Please also read: Wikipedia:Days of the year#What is notable. Jared Preston (talk) 16:55, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Сила

привет, Jared. Can you visit my talk page one more time? --Алый Король (talk) 06:55, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

 Готово. Jared Preston (talk) 14:43, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

RIP Steve

Such a sad edit to have to make. Sort of a Wikipedia death certificate. --J Clear (talk) 23:02, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

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Notability of Emre Anuk

Given that you created this article, I was hoping you could clear up why think it's notable. At first glance anyways, it does not appear to meet general notability, and Mr. Anuk has not played in a fully pro league. Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:40, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

There are no flies on you; wer rastet, der rostet! Jared Preston (talk) 16:55, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean by that. Sir Sputnik (talk) 03:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

2011–12 Hessenliga

Just wondering, are you planning a 2011–12 Hessenliga article? I'm going to slowly update the Hesse club articles, time permitting, and if you are, I will leave a link in the recent seasons section, even if it stays red for a while. If not, I will just leave it unlinked. Keep well, Calistemon (talk) 02:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Sure thing, I'll make a start in the next few days. Thanks for asking. Jared Preston (talk) 20:20, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

SpVgg 1922 Hadamar

Done! Thanks for pointing it out, must have been half asleep when I did it. Calistemon (talk) 16:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

"kicker style"

Thanks for the tip Jared, i'll keep it mind! :) --Vasco Amaral (talk) 23:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for putting the speedy renaming templates on fr me, I missed that in the fine print of the instructions! Calistemon (talk) 05:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

No worries. In fact, I only realised yesterday afternoon that the whole process can be done automatically with Twinkle. You just choose which criteria fits for the move and type the rationale, press submit, and the move gets listed on top of the category as well as at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy. Thank you too for your good arguments in support for the move over at Talk:3. Fußball-Liga. Jared Preston (talk) 05:20, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

It was long overdue and a uniform naming convention will make it much easier should any new league articles be created. It was good to see that the move got good support from the people that took an interesst. There is a lot more articles that still require renaming but once the categories for them have been moved that becomes logical and won't be controversial anymore (I hope) and shouldn't need further discussions or move requests. It all should fall in line, in an ideal world. Calistemon (talk) 05:27, 21 December 2011 (UTC)