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Reference system
Hi.
Please avoid further reversions of the reference system until it has been discussed in the case which I am about to open.
Greetings,
— Breadbasket 17:25, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Do you disagree with the improved reference system? If yes, why? It is not a sufficient argument that it ‘is fine’.
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Betty Carter
Thank you so much Gareth! It's been a lot of fun. Make sure when you're done with your page to put the link on the Betty Carter page. I definitely want to see the finished result! Maureenkhoff365 (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Kurt Elling - Burghausen 2011
Check out this live version of "Golden Lady" [1] The vocalese is pretty good here towards the end. Kurt's playing around 200 gigs a year, can you believe it? Viriditas (talk) 11:57, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
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Kindly stay away from my article, it is under watch by some of the most senior editors on Wikipedia and because of your lack of knowledge about hip hop you put up that banner on my page and after I saved the article, it went back to the same because of that banner, there are 2 valid sources about Sanki King being the only super hip hopper in Pakistan, all my editing of 2 hours has gone down the drain. A super hip hopper is a term used for a person who has mastered all 4 elements of hip hop, talk to KRS ONE or Caddy One, they will teach you Hip Hop. Thanks - SameStruggle (talk) 23:04, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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James McGregor Stewart
Are you able to assist? You helped me before and this article is again being subjected to possible deletion. I am baffled as it is obviously notable. Any assistance would be great.==
You might wish to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender. — Richardguk (talk) 01:13, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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ACRI speedy deletion
PierreYvesLouis user answered to the speedy deletion of ACRI series of conferences :
This page should not be speedily deleted because... If you want, you can delete the link to the specific 2012 ACRI conference. But like the Saint Flour Ecole de probabilités is mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Flour,_Cantal I wanted to link to the series of ACRI conferences just to explain the acronym. May be it is better to link to the Proceeding of these conferences published in Lecture notes in computer science, Springer, like vol 6350, vol 7495, vol 5191... — Preceding unsigned comment added by PierreYvesLouis (talk • contribs) 16:23, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- I found no context or explanation in the article. It's never a bad idea to spend a long time on an article before launching it. You can do this in your sandbox. I certainly think an article on the series of conferences would be a good idea. Good luck! Gareth E Kegg (talk) 16:28, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
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Notablity
Hi. Thank you. Regarding notability, the death was due to hoax calls made by radio programmers and they were pretending as Queen Elizabeth and Prince. Again, the incident has attracted international attention, and in this angle, I think it is notable. Rayabhari (talk) 18:22, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
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MansourJE (talk) 06:07, 17 December 2012 (UTC) Hello Sir,
Ok sir, if it doesn't fulfill the requirements of Wikipedia please delete "Brain Occupation in Traditional Chinese Medicine" immediately. I agree that I did not perhaps fulfill the requirements of article which Wikipedia wants.
Thank you Sir, Mansour
MansourJE (talk) 06:24, 17 December 2012 (UTC)Hi again sir,
The article "Brain occupation in Traditional Chinese Medicine" is an old philosophy of great China which is important nowadays. If you consider it, it might be right in our nowadays life. If it misleads people, it is right to be deleted as soon as possible. I always appreciate Wikipedia and its operators and administrators. Thank you sir, Mjesfahani
Jazz standards
There's standards and then there's ones like In Your Own Sweet Way. How on earth was this missing? Interested in helping me write an article for DYK on it?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:16, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- Sure :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:51, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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- Now showing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexa Stone and the Lake of Fire after prod was declined. Peridon (talk) 13:56, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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RE: Speedy Deletion of Frederick Kantor
Hey you should check the TALK pages of pages you decide to nominate for deletion. How about a little help or adding it to a page where others can see it and work on it! (i.e. the articles that need work page). I don't know where that page is anymore, but I'm sure you do as an admin. Please help wikipedia out by adding content not destroying content. Thanks! Mar2194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- Great. Please add content to articles before you create them in future. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 01:50, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Fuck it I don't have time for this wikipedia shit right now, I have a real life to attend to at the moment. Someone should create the Frederick Kantor article though that has time. Maybe if you have enough free time to add speedy deletion tags you could do the following: 1. google "Frederick W. Kantor" 2. Read the treatise on "Information Mechanics" 3. Read the wikipedia page on "Digital Physics" 4. Note the part of that article where he is attributed as the FOUNDER of DIGITAL PHYSICS. 5. Do some more research and fill out the article. If you can't do it, I can return to it at some later point in time. Mar2194 (talk)
Oh, and I would consider Frederick Kantor to be a "forgotten thing" so maybe this article will be right up your alley! Mar2194 (talk)
- I don't consider him forgotten at all. Like you I don't have time to write articles from scratch that others have created with no content. I would caution you against edits like this [2] in the future. Wikipedia is not a breaking news source, and all information should be reliably sourced. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 02:20, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
I received an email from the Dean of the Columbia... how much more reliable can you get? Stop trolling my edits if you "don't have time" Mar2194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
And there was nothing in that edit that would be considered untrue or questionable. There was a NY-times op-ed (cited elsewhere in the article) about the letter of no confidence signed by 80% of faculty or some shit. I don't understand how you don't have time to make edits on an article yet you have time to go through my old edits and TROLL and CRITIQUE without really knowing what you're talking about. Merry Christmas. Mar2194 (talk)
Declined speedy deletion
I have declined your speedy deletion request on Kenosha County (comic strip). Since the article is about a creative work, it doesn't fall under WP:CSD#A7, which is only for people, organizations, animals, or web content. However, it may well be non-notable; if you check for sources and don't find any, feel free to prod or take it to AfD. Qwyrxian (talk) 10:14, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
THANK YOU. SOMEONE PUT THIS DUDE IN HIS PLACE. Mar2194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:52, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Carl Sandburg mistake
Actually, I was creating Categories for the new Carl Sandburg template, and left out the word "Category". That page is to be speedily deleted. Sorry. Choor monster (talk) 18:24, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- Cool. I've made a few of those in my time. There is SO much categorisation work to do on books. I recently started adding autobiographer cats to BLP's, I'll prob be doing it for the rest of my life :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 18:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- So do I consider the redirect a fix, or do I request speedy deletion? Choor monster (talk) 19:21, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- Consider it a fix. Someone might get there from google or whatnot. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- So do I consider the redirect a fix, or do I request speedy deletion? Choor monster (talk) 19:21, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. I searched everywhere on Wikipedia and couldn't find any relevant, so I thought, "why not?" and I'll create it :). -- LuK3 (Talk) 19:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- Link it from Belfast City Hall, there's already something there. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Hey Gareth, I really miss that old drinking article a lot. Wiki got a lot less fun for me when it bit the dust. Some people have no sense of humor. But I do like to think of all those famous drinkers out there, with nobody to remember them. I lift a glass to you, and Oliver Reed... thanks for the tip about Evander Berry Wall, a man I never heard of but will now admire. Cheers!
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Songs by lyricist
You have created one or more sub-categories in this scheme which I have nominated for deletion here. This nomination is only on the grounds that there is no corresponding article for the lyricist. If an editor can create a suitable article then there is no reason why the category(ies) should be deleted. Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 19:43, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
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Did you catch the article on the house, and Winner, in Saturday's Telegraph. The bedroom looked very "Hugh Hefner"!
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- Saw it online, can't believe he choose Fildes humoungous studio for his room! I do ache to see it a la 1885, candles burning as the moon highlights Wilde's visage... Gareth E Kegg (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
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The articles are really cool. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Meatballs, yum! I'd pair it with an Oregon pinot noir. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
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WikiProject Christianity Newsletter April 2013
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ICHTHUS |
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Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 357 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Thomas Cranmer, Mr.Oglesby, and Sneha Priscilla. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.
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We apologise for the hiatus in the publication of this newsletter due to unforseen circumstances leading to the wikibreak of John Carter, and so I have taken over as acting editor, and have taken this opportunity to move the publication date to the start of each month as planned, to better reflect on the previous month and look ahead to the next. This issue covers the period of time from mid-January to the end of March.
Since the last issue we have seen the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis. This has received much coverage both in the world media and on Wikipedia. While there is still much work to do, several quality articles have been written and the editors involved are thanked for their efforts.
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Church of the month
This image of the Church of Saint Ildefonso, Portugal by Poco a poco was recently promoted to Featured Image. Thank you and congratulations for the great image!
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Martin Luther King, Jr., by Khazar2, was promoted to GA status, as well Third Epistle of John by Cerebellum.
Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer by Peter I. Vardy; Marion Irvine by Giants2008; Margaret McKenna by Guerillero; Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity by Epeefleche; St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood by Peter I. Vardy; Vester Egesborg Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; Undløse Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St Martin's Church, Næstved by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St. Peter, Syburg by Gerda Arendt and Dr. Blofeld; Østre Porsgrunn Church by Strachkvas; Church of Our Saviour (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) by Nyttend; Dami Mission by Freikorp; Mechanicsburg Baptist Church by Nyttend; Acheiropoietos Monastery, by Proudbolsahye; T. Lawrason Riggs, by Gareth E Kegg; McColley's Chapel, by Mangoe; Oświęcim Chapel, by BurgererSF; Second Baptist Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio), by Nyttend; Church of the Holy Ghost, Tallinn, by Yakikaki; Old Stone Congregational Church, by Orladyl Heath Chapel, by Peter I. Vardy; St. Joseph's Church, Beijing, by Bloom6132; Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton, by Rodw; and St. Michael's Catholic Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) also by Nyttend. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!
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DYK for Juliet Pannett
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Uh, I don't know if you know by now, but this category, which you created last fall in what seems to be an apparently well-intended housekeeping effort, has now become the subject of a cultural brouhaha over here in the US (you can see the links at the CfD that was started. I can easily imagine all the other ones in Category:Women novelists by nationality becoming part of this as well, as indeed some people at the CfD are calling for a procedural close to reopen with all of them up for discussion.
Bearcat's comment, as the original writer of the guidelines page that addresses this issue, with a subsection for gender in particular, is especially pertinent.
Please try to be mindful of these issues in the future when doing this sort of thing. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 18:52, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Gareth, you wrote "I do wish I had a right of reply to Amanda Filipacchi's NYT article." at said discussion page. You actually can reply her! First, she has a Facebook account, and second she has a personal web-site which probably has contact information. I urge you to contact Filipacchi and shed the light over your motives and the whole situation. This would be the most helpful for Wikipedia' PR IMHO. Netrat (talk) 12:27, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Also, yopu wrote "I regret not starting the male category when I created the women category.". It's never too late to fix something! You should know that such category have been created yesterday BTW. Netrat (talk) 12:27, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
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Dear Mr. Kegg,
My name is Anthony Payne of Peregrine Communications, we represent Brevan Howard in a public relations capacity.
I’m contacting you with regard to one of your edits on the Brevan Howard page where you added information on LIBOR and sourced the Daily Telegraph’s piece entitled: Former RBS trader Tan Chi Min claims hedge fund asked UK bank to change Libor.
New information published in Bloomberg and Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/brevan-howard-calls-rbs-on-libor-moves-2012-12) shows that Brevan Howard’s phone call to RBS was not a request to change the rate of LIBOR – they wanted to know why the rate jumped, even after the Fed had announced unprecedented steps to boost liquidity at the end of the week, something that should have lowered the measure.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/brevan-howard-calls-rbs-on-libor-moves-2012-12#ixzz2RZhmksxJa challenge in why the rate had jumped. (As a rates house it is 100% routine for BH to ask counterparties on a regular basis where they think rates are headed).
Your entry (and your sources) gives the polar opposite impression of what is actually alleged by Tan in his unfair dismissal suit against RBS.
What Tan was actually alleging was that the way his senior management reacted to Brevan Howard asking for a call to explain the movement of rates showed that they (RBS senior management)knew what was going on at RBS, and to therefore dismiss Tan for wrongdoing was therefore unfair.
Bloomberg’s initial headline and their earlier sources were based on snippets of information in the Singapore court filing – none of which is available to the public as these proceeding are still ‘sealed’ -- in fact even the later Bloomberg information was based on a reporter seeing the sealed pleadings and making notes of them.
Your edit is extremely damaging to Brevan Howard’s reputation and is also completely incorrect, and as a result I would urge you to correct it as soon as possible.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-13/rigged-libor-with-police-nearby-shows-flaw-of-light-touch.html http://www.businessinsider.com/brevan-howard-calls-rbs-on-libor-moves-2012-12) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apayne19 (talk • contribs) 11:15, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you. This does show the need to keep pages updated. Have you contacted the Daily Telegraph? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 12:28, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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