User talk:PhilKnight/Archive99

Latest comment: 6 years ago by PhilKnight in topic usernames...

Max thrilla page won't display in search bar

I can not search for this page idk why it won't pop up I search "max thrilla" and nothing. Anonymous industry writer (talk) 04:28, 15 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thank You

Just dropped by to thank you for accepting my request to change my username. Have a good week! Triple A (talk) 20:24, 26 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:AirBourbon.jpg

 

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WikiProject Investment

Hey there! I just re-launched the WikiProject Investment.

Feel free to check out the project and ping me if you have any questions.


 

I'd like to invite you to join the Investment WikiProject. There are a lot of Investment related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help get this project off the ground and a few Investment pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks!


Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 19:23, 23 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Clearing the misunderstanding

Hi,

Season's greeting,

One of the user User:संदेश हिवाळे (English spelling of the name:Sandesh Hiwale)'s User account is blocked here on en:wp. It seems he was mainly blocked for 'constantly adding honorifics', not knowing that he is on encyclopaedia, and being new not aware of the policies, in initial enthusiasm he seems to have got involved in reverts to put those honorifics back. His initials edits were mainly through mobile phone and with initial enthusiasm he did not know importance of talk page messages and either over looked or missed.

Besides during his unblock request, even when he was saying 'sorry' by mistake he seems to have tampered a template placed by another user, and that seems to have angered the user. He has approached me and another local admin on Marathi language wikipedia to inform you of misunderstanding.

He has informed us on our talk page at mr wikipedia that he has understood his mistakes and does not want to repeat them.

Our experince with him on Marathi language wikipedia has been that he is very much a well intentioned user. Even at mr-wikipedia initially he took time to come for discussions on talk pages since he used to edit from mobile phone. But subsequently over a period of time, he started interacting with the local community in constructive manner. And so far all of his communications have been polite enough, and undersigned can vouch for the same.

So even before making any further attempt for unblock request we regret the inconvinience caused before. I am sure in future he can be mentored for constructive edits. Probably what we can do is, for few more months let him write his most of proposed edits on respctive talk pages first and only after if there is no objection on article talk page or after discussing with some mentor let him include those edits in the articles.

His en wp talk page is also marked for Wikipedia:Standard offer It seems his last edits were in april month. We would like to know when again it is appropriatae for him to make an unblock request.

Thanks and warm regards

Mahitgar (talk) 09:29, 15 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks!

Hi not-Nike-Phil, thank you for your comments at my RfA. Your support is much appreciated! ansh666 20:29, 22 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Shahid Buttar

Why did you delete my article on Shahid Buttar? Were the seventeen sources I provided not enough to establish notability? Benjamin (talk) 06:20, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

There was a lack of in depth sources. PhilKnight (talk) 23:15, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hello

Again vandalism, please ban this user Kerem_öztürk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economy_of_Turkey&action=history Tutuo (talk) 21:17, 28 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Tutuo, I've blocked Kerem_öztürk (talk · contribs). PhilKnight (talk) 22:42, 29 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Skunk

I noticed as part of the CSD, you restored unsourced and unreliablably sourced information back into the article (really best to avoid doing that). In this case, we had a lot of cleanup done over at Cannabis strains to trim unsourced content, improve sourcing, and take care of the problems we had with strain/variety articles that were not notable. The content you restored had already been removed over at the parent article (in different iterations too), but it looks like someone had transferred it over to the spin off article that was nominated at some point. That's basically why it was CSD'd because none of that content was going to survive either way considering the parent article history. Maybe it's just because it's an oddball case, but is there something I missed in the CSD instructions that would apply to this instance since it was a repeat of the type of content that had been previously cleaned up at the parent article? Is it just something where not having that context would make a CSD not appropriate (and PROD or AfD a better choice)? Kingofaces43 (talk) 00:21, 30 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

It's a long standing convention that you can't {{fact}} tag an article, delete the content, then nominate it as a {{db-empty}}. The same principle applies here. Under the circumstances your best bet would be an AfD. PhilKnight (talk) 00:28, 30 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Skunk cannabis strain

That other user erroneously deleted a page that was sourced. Can you help me re add the page and are there any grounds for reporting this user for vandalism Bacardi379 (talk) 03:57, 30 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks

Thank you for clearing my autoblock. Makro (talk) 19:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Need help removing the deletion notice from Li Jian (museum curator)

The article now exists as a user page, which was what I intended to do in the first place. The deleted page was started by me in error as an article rather than as a user page.--Mitzi.humphrey 20:08, 8 December 2017 (UTC) The draft now exists as User:Mitzi.humphrey/Li Jian (art curator)-- Mitzi.humphrey 20:13, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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File:Stella_Marks,_self-portrait,_ca._1940.jpg

Hello. Please could you restore this file temporarily because I am processing ticket:2017031510001175, which licenses the image through the heirs of the artist’s estate. I want to transfer the file to Commons and then it can be deleted here. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 17:33, 26 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Green Giant, I've restored the image. PhilKnight (talk) 21:58, 26 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for the help. The file has now been transferred to Commons. Please could you delete it from Wikipedia? Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 23:35, 26 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
  Done. PhilKnight (talk) 23:44, 26 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Nathan Martinez

Hi. Any chance you could unblock the page Nathan Martinez and set it up as a redirect to Natural Born Killers copycat crimes#1990s? You were the admin who deleted it at the time nearly 10 years ago. Thanks. Inexpiable (talk) 22:48, 8 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hi Inexpiable, I've done that for you. PhilKnight (talk) 01:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thank you sir! Inexpiable (talk) 16:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

It's been a while

Hello, it's been about 3-4 years. No person blocked for that long would come up upon being unblocked apologizing to everyone that had to deal with their crap, but I have changed. And I'd start by apologizing to said people that had to deal with said crap.

I was going to post an apology on Ryulong's talk page but unfortunately he had issues of his own which led to being banned (and talk page protected).

I sincerely apologize for being of disruptance and being an immature vandal and harassing Ryulong. I REALLY mean it this time, I provoked drama and fighting and vandalized pages because I didn't get my way.

I don't know what else to say but I'm willing to start over from a different angle and actually contribute to this site. Thank you. ToQ100gou! ToQ100gou! Shupatsu Shinkou! (Unblock needed) (the chitter-chatter) 01:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

usernames...

I noticed User talk:Transwesterner -- do you really think if there's one account named Fred-in-Major-City, that there should be no accounts named SomeoneElse-in-Major-City? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 06:20, 13 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

I was just going with what the rename tool tells me. PhilKnight (talk) 00:16, 14 January 2018 (UTC)Reply