Nobullman

Swansea cork ferries

Hello Nobullman. User:Pastor Theo 'speedy deleted' the Swansea cork ferries article and I followed this by deleting up the broken redirects to that article and unlinking the links to the broken redirects.

You've prompted me to have another look at this and it seems that User:Swans797 redirected the article Swansea Cork Ferry, which I now see was a substantial article before it was redirected, to the new (and obviously insufficient) Swansea cork ferries article. What I'll do is restore Swansea Cork Ferry back the point before User:Swans797 redirected it and put back the links to it. Is that OK?

Thanks for raising this with me. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:27, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I think I've caught everything so that we're back to where we were before Swansea Cork Ferry was redirected to Swansea cork ferries. Let me know if I can help you with anything else. Kind regards, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

You can report the user if they keep doing this. Otherwise, yeah, it's just up to us to revert until they get bored. Katharineamy (talk) 23:16, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

We are now at least getting some discussion with the user restoring the article (on their talk page). They've made a legal point so I've started a thread at ANI as although I'm reasonbly sure it is not relevant I feel it would be good to get someone with more experience to look at it. I definitely think the redirect is useful so doon't want to go down the route of deleting it again - at the moment I've reverted back to a redirect. We'll see where the discussion goes but if it keeps up I suspect we may have to ask for a ban. Dpmuk (talk) 11:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

• Ah, I see there's been some eyes on the article. That's good. Let's hope it's stable now. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

• With respect to the latest edit I think we have to assume good faith although it has set alarm bells ringing, given that it's their only edit, so I'm also planning on keeping my eye on it. Dpmuk (talk) 08:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

• • Nope. Although last time I think we had to assime good faith I think now there's definitely something dodgy going on. I'm just heading out so don't have time to do anything now and maybe not to tomorrow evening but if noone else has done anything by then I'll probably do something. Dpmuk (talk) 07:31, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

As you may be aware from my talk page message I've largely retired from Wikipedia due to a fundamental disagreement over how it's run (but not with it's aims). This whole situation is now really quite messy as User:Kavs8 appears to have copied and pasted from one article to another without proper attribution and that breaks wikipedia licensing requirements. However new information has now been added at Fastnet so it's not as simple as deleting that page. I'll try and have a look at it all in the next couple of days although I'm quite busy at the moment. I suspect this may need administrator attention to fix. It may be quicker to post here Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen, although that's quite specific and probably won't sort all of your concerns. A post at WP:EA may also find someone that's willing to sort it out quicker than waiting for me. Dpmuk (talk) 22:33, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

FYI: I recently made some changes to tidy up the Fastnet Line article (as it now is). I don't claim any expertise and have no opinion on the larger points you raise. The purpose of this message is to tell you that Kavs8 reverted my edits a couple of times, then sent me an ill-tempered message about my "unacceptable" changes. I responded yesterday, but haven't heard from him. I was going to reinstate my changes which arguably improve the article as I found it, but will refrain if you are taking any action. I've just checked and see other people have intervened and improved things to some extent, though I prefer my own version (as you'd expect!). If you do anything, you may find my changes are still relevant and worth including. I don't know if you've tried a dialogue with Kavs8 - it might be difficult. Best wishes Pol098 (talk) 13:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)