User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive74

Ottawa Senators GA review

Thank you for taking the time to review the Ottawa Senators articles. Could you update the GA 'box' templates on the Talk pages for the articles? I suppose the templates could be deleted from the talk page, or maybe they should be kept, according to the rules. Alaney2k (talk) 16:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I forgot to mention about one comment you made. The 2004-05 season is absent from the article, because the season was cancelled due to a labor dispute. Alaney2k (talk) 17:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, now wonder. Ok I will update the GA boxes. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Tết

		Happy new year
		Chúc anh và gia đình Tân xuân hạnh phúc

Magnifier (talk) 16:40, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Chúc anh năm mới an khang thịnh vượng, thành công về mọi mặt trong cuộc sống. Chúc anh sẽ dẫn đầu danh sách những thành viên viết nhiều FA và DYK nhất. Còn nhiều lời chúc nữa em muốn gửi tới anh nhưng sợ nhiều quá thì khó thành hiện thực được. :) Có lẽ anh ở Úc lâu rồi nên không cảm nhận được không khí Tết ở quê nhà và do cách biệt địa lý nên em cũng không thể chúc anh vào đúng thời điểm giao thừa. Mong rằng một ngày nào đó sẽ được gặp anh ở MEETUP ở Việt Nam. Thân. @pple complain 17:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser

Hi, I selected your name at random from the list of Arbitration Committee members, so you will have a neutral viewpoint. Can you have a look at what's going on here [1] please. I feel that the admin involved in the case may be a little too close to the subject I requested an RfCU on; certainly, the process seems to have ground to a halt. Anything you can do would be much appreciated. Thanks. Jack1956 (talk) 20:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Well it's closed now. Has that IP engaged in rude/abrasive dialogue or simply was it combative in its approach to content disputes? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Vote

User:Earthbendingmaster/Poll I like the thing on your user page. Basketball110 Clinton, Obama, McCain, Huckabee, Romney, or Paul? 00:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Montreal GA review

Thanks for your review. We're chugging away on the article.

Can you recommend two city articles which we could use as style and content exemplars? As Vancouver is a FA, that would give us a set of three to compare and contrast.

As a side note, when you point out use of "clearly" in Sports, where the article says "biggest...following...clearly belongs to hockey", that's a tough one for Montrealer's and Canadians to deal with, because, well, it just clearly does!! But yes, we need to find a better way to convey the national passion. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 04:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

It would be good if you can look up the TV figures or the grassroots player registrations and say things like "has three times as many registered players/TV audience as the next sport." Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

For modern articles which would pass in modern times, Mysore in India is one article which is an FA. Another GA in recent times is a town in England called Altrincham. Wikipedia:GA#Geography_and_places will give you a selection to look at. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Shoaib Malik

Hello! Mr. Blnguyen! I want to ask why you reverted my edits on the article Shoaib Malik twice? I am also citing the reference. If your concern is that his marriage is not confirmed by any source than please change the heading of the para, but whats the reason of deleting the whole para. Waiting for you reply! Thanks! --SMS ^Talk 09:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I read the article and I see nothing in there that says that the bride's father is upset with the marriage, when in fact the article quotes the father in law as saying that he thinks Shoaib Malik is a good person. There is nothing in there which says that the father in law is upset with Shoaib for allegedly doing any fraud. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

But Shoaib Malik is denying that Mr. Siddiqui is his father in law, so isn't it a controversy? --SMS ^Talk 08:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't see the source saying that?!?! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Marcela Agoncillo on hold

Done? Thanks for the review. Its been months there. --BritandBeyonce (talk) 06:02, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Yup. Well done. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Tết

Chúc mừng năm mới! I visited Vietnam in the summer of 2006 on some family business (đám giỗ bà nội). In that trip, I also went sightseeing in Hanoi and met some Wikipedians in Hanoi, Hoi An, and Saigon (around 6 in total). It wasn't an organized event, I just put my contact info in the my userpage and people started calling me and we made plans to meet up for lunch or to go to a museum. There were several organized meetups in Hanoi and HCMC among vi Wikipedians several months ago; I think the biggest one had about 15 attendees. Where did you hear about our meetups? DHN (talk) 07:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh I just went to Wikipedia:Meetup, saw that there was one in HCMC with a photo. Then I clicked on the photo and followed my nose and ended up on the Vi.wiki meetup page and saw you on there. I was pleasantly surprised. I didn't know that a wiki of 30k articles would be enough to sustain meetups. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Although vi.wiki has 30k articles, it has 60k registered users, 160k pages in total, and more than a million edits, much larger than many wikis much larger than it. At vi.wiki we try to improve quality, not quantity - I think vi.wiki has the largest average article size and fewer than 500 bot-created articles (366 for days of the year and 60 for the sexagenary cycle). DHN (talk) 07:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

That's great. I noted that it had about the third highest depth of all time, but I couldn't find where there was a listing of average article size. From checking around the iw for the Districts of Vietnam, most of them seemed very impressive. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:02, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Raja

Blnguyen: You were an involved admin wrt User:Wiki Raja. A discussion thread on WP:ANI has been started, and please feel free to provide your inputs for the discussion. Thank you, - KNM ^Talk 18:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Happy Lunar New Year

Cảm ơn lời chúc của bạn. Chúc bạn năm mới sức khỏe tốt, thành công trong cuộc sống và hạnh phúc. Mong bạn tiếp tục mang văn hóa Việt Nam ra thế giới nhiều hơn nữa.Genghiskhanviet (talk) 08:29, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

.: RFA thanks :.

Thanks for supporting me! My RfA passed with a final tally of 5 neutrals, 1 oppose and 148 supports, a turnout I couldn't have dreamed of. I'm going to do everything I can to help out the community, help with sysop tasks, and of course, contribute to the encyclopedia. If you ever need a hand with something, feel free to give a shout! Cheers! Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 17:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Any chance you could post the update? I've got it ready, and it's a couple of hours late. Gatoclass (talk) 04:12, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Oops, looks like someone just posted it. Thanks anyhow :) Gatoclass (talk) 04:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Ichisada Miyazaki tagged for copyvio

Howdy, the article Ichisada Miyazaki was tagged as a copyright violation of the main reference. I don't think you were previously informed, so I thought I would let you know. JackSchmidt (talk) 05:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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DYK!

On 4 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Xa Loi Pagoda, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congrats! Plus the coveted pictured slot, too! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Request for Review

I've got a couple of College football articles (2007 ACC Championship Game, 2008 Orange Bowl) up for FAC or nearly there, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to read through them and let me know which areas — from the point of view of someone completely unfamiliar with American football — are unclear or difficult to understand. I'd really appreciate that, as it seems to be the primary objection from the two people who have thus far objected to the first FAC. Thanks. JKBrooks85 (talk) 05:53, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I know you're fairly busy, but I did see that you took at least a cursory glance through the first. Any glaring problems? JKBrooks85 (talk) 11:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I did eventually. All in all it looks pretty good. However, the picture captions are hard to understand. Is there some obvious way to identify the player in the photos. I presume that since you didn't explicit identify the player, I suppose he must be the odd one out standing behind the line. But I am not sure and that could be clarified. Apart from that it is probably alright except it could do with a copyedit probably. Secondly, have you been interpreting the match and putting personal comments in there? Because, I took as a random sample, and looked at the description of the closing game where it was talking about doing hail marys and long throws/passes, and the attached source only gave a sparse description of two fumbles and 35yds, rather than analysing the chance of a touchdown or discussing possible tactics of scoring and their viability. It would be good if there was a news source describing the tactical options that were available to the teams at that stage, or at least a reference from a textbook or something saying that from 35yds a touchdown would be unlikely unless some fluke happened. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch for taking the time to read through the article. I'll see what I can dig up citation-wise, and I'll work on the captions as well. I can probably clear those up a little more. I did see that you left a comment in the code. I tried to address that, but I wasn't quite sure what you meant. I don't think I understood what you were asking for. JKBrooks85 (talk) 11:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I meant that in a cricket article, when I say "took 3/61" I would normally link to cricket score like "3/61" so that a person can see that it means 3 wickets were captured and 61 runs were conceded. I think that a lot of people woul dnot understand what "18 for 27" means. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Block this IP address

Hi! I think this IP address 125.164.255.116 must be BLOCK as soon as possible. For what? Because this user always vandalize the profiles of non-Indonesian beauty queens and much higher height for Indonesian contestants without any sources!

Thank you so much!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 09:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

This person is barely active. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hello could you please tell me the reason for reverting the Belgaum wikipedia page , please do let me know if the information is not adding any value to the page i would be glad to remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strydon (talk • contribs) 09:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I think you should look at featured articles on cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata to see how to write things. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

One Pillar Pagoda DYK

On 8 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article One Pillar Pagoda, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Carnatic music

Naadapriya has continued with disruptive edits to push POV and vandalize articles (despite warnings), including in the article Music of Karnataka, and once in another article via book-advertising. He fails to observe that there is no consensus by other editors when it comes to his proposals for Carnatic music and continues trying to push his Kannada/Karnataka (or should I say Knataka) POV on other users talk pages. Furthermore, his contributions (since his arrival at Wikipedia) have been non-constructive towards improving the encyclopedia. I request he be blocked so that further disruptive edits and pov-pushing on others talk pages will no longer be an issue for members of Wikipedia. Thanks - Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

This article has now been taken hostage by the above editor, as well as User: Sarvagnya and User: Dineshkannambadi, who repeatedly remove referenced material (from verifiable sources) as can be seen here and here. The users who have engaged in this edit-warring also fail to demonstrate how these verifiable references are unreliable - Professor Sambamurthy is a prominent author of Carnatic music publications, having worked closely with exponents of Carnatic music, such as Ambi Dikshithar (ggrandson of Muthuswami Dikshitar of the Trinity of Carnatic music) and Carnatica.net is operated by prominent musicans S. Sowmya and K. N. Shashikiran. They have wrongly dismissed these as being false and self-produced on the talk page and in their edit summaries. Therefore, unless I have missed something in the verifiability policy that would mean that the references provided were invalid, these edits are POV-based, disruptive and could be considered as blatant vandalism as the references are valid. The editors have not produced valid references (let alone any references at all) to rebutt what is being said, nor have they made any positive contributions towards actually improving this article, even now.

In the case that I had missed something in the verifiability policy, sufficient time was not given to find other verifiable sources to further back up what is being said. I have continued trying to improve the article, whilst keeping the referenced material, and there was a clear demonstration that I was adding more references and further editing the sentences in question, yet the passage was still being removed repeatedly. Now, I cannot make any further reverts/edits as this would result in furious edit-warring and violating the 3RR rule. These editors (on the other hand) have managed to avoid violating this rule as there is more than one user supporting the POV-based position. In effect, they are able to assert ownership over the article.

Please help. Ncmvocalist (talk) 08:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

In addition to the above, specifically on this article's talk page, Naadapriya has (yet again) misrepresented certain events that have taken place, such as the circumstances surrounding the reason why his WP:POVFORK was deleted. Although he hasn't mentioned your name, by referring to the 'admn' that deleted his WP:POVFORK, he clearly means you, and has become incivil regarding your decisions as an administrator - this is both inappropriate to post on an article talk page, and unsettling to read here, especially knowing how this would be wrongly perceived by others. Ncmvocalist (talk) 13:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

This seems like it is too complex for me. Perhaps a person with more of an Indian background will understand the issues better as I am a bit busy to learn about a new thing at the moment. Personally I am not too concerned what Naadapriya is saying about me at this stage. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Please vote!

Hi! Please join us here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lianga13#Bingo.21

Thank so much!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 12:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Yep, it's them, per my checkuser. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Andover F.C. GA review

Hi. Many thanks for your comments. You raised some interesting points and I shall look into addressing them as soon as possible. Cheers, B e t t i a^{t a l k}  09:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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Care to explain this edit? Relata refero (talk) 12:53, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, he didn't give a reason for his deletion. If it was removal of vandalism then good. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

A little request!

Hi!

Please help me to add Lianga13 with his/her multiple accounts into WP:RFCU because I don't know how to do that and I am not an admin! So please help me, OK? Block that account for a year at least! Thank so much!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lianga13#Bingo.21

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 06:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hm, can you ask another person to block. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

GA review of Judges of the International Criminal Court

Hi Blnguyen, thanks for taking the time to review Judges of the International Criminal Court. If you're interested, I've left a detailed response here. All the best, Sideshow Bob Roberts (talk) 14:03, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah ok. You'll be glad to know that I have a self-imposed policy of not reviewing the same article twice, so you'll not need to worry about me in future. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Jackp

Can you can your CU-privileged eyes over the request I made of Rebecca here. She seems to have gone AWOL. If I need to raise a RFCU to ascertain a decent range block then let me know... Thanks --Stephen 00:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Well his known IP address is 203.57.68.20 and quite a few of them were on that one. The other IPS are too noisy and would affect too many people. Also, per IP correlation, Xanthoxyl (talk · contribs) and PaulxSA (talk · contribs) appear to be him. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks --Stephen 09:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Your Username

I want to draw your attention to the Signature of the User:AjitParkash which you can find here on my talk page. Its really confusing, because first i was reply to you at your talk page for that comment at my talk page! --SMS ^Talk 20:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Thanks for putting Michiko Maeda up on the DYK page, Blnguyen! I notice a typo though: "that Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress..." should read "that Michiko Maeda was the first Japanese actress..." Cheers! Dekkappai (talk) 00:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Oops-- no, you're right! Sorry! Dekkappai (talk) 00:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Hu Blnguyen! Do you think it's fair to fail the Zinta article because the reviews are from Indian newspapers? I tried my best to add NYT reviews as the reviewer asked me to, but there are no other reviews describing her film performances (the NYT usually do not discuss performances). The one I found, makes its presence on the article. I also have two reviews from Variety. But he still asks for it. I can't see the point. She is an Indian actor, not an American, and using reviews by critics from Indian sources (leading websites and newspapers), is an obvious act.

Apart from this, when I tried to address all the reliability issues (back in the FAC), especially reviews etc., I looked for reviews from mainly newspapers, and when I found them, I did an analysis to prove that the reviews on the page represent the majority view (even though new FAs, like Reese Witherspoon contain only positive reviews, except for one).

Please tell me your opinion on the matter. I did my best to address neutrality, reliability issues. One reviewer already gave it a review (see talk page) and conluded that it's definitely a GA, but now it fails because of some unexplained reasons which are not even supported by the WP:WIAGA criteria. That's so unfair.

Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 06:46, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

It's good to put NYT and BBC if they exist but if they don't then it isn't actionable. As for the Witherspoon, a workout on the talk page might be in order. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Christian spamlinks?

Hi! Please visit my last edits in "Demographics" of Japan about Religions in Japan. Do you think it was Christian spamlinks? Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Japan#Christian_spamlinks

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 14:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

OMG

		The Running Man Barnstar
		For all those great shots of the Indian cricket team! ~ Riana ⁂ 02:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Way better than my crap, lol. :) ~ Riana ⁂ 02:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

You meet get on your feet and run them down so you can get close to them? Or were they running away from you. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Hear hear! Excellent uploads, man. :) Nishkid64 (talk) 03:16, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

User talk:SGGH

Thanks for the vandal dusting! SGGH ^speak! 09:59, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Request unlock of John Howard article

Hello Blnguyen. I request the John Howard article be unlocked. You have in the past been involved in the content of this article. Also, it's an article with multiple active participants (not just 2), so locking penalises others. Regards, Lester 13:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to see Lester acknowledge that after two days of talk, there is no consensus for his preferred addition before unlocking, otherwise he's liable to sneak it back in when he thinks he can get away with it, as he has done before with his copra plantation tale. --Pete (talk) 17:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

That's true but I have not participated in the debates about Aboriginal issues at all. How's the argument about the stolen generation? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

GA review of Faith Leech

I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on.Ealdgyth | Talk 16:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:F1 Newsletter Issue 1

Hey, this is the first edition of the WP F1 newsletter. If you want to keep getting it, please talk back on my talk page.

Enjoy!LB22 (talk) 11:17, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

The WikiProject Formula One Newsletter Year I - Issue 1 - February 2008
"So to avoid any confusion, here is the order: Hakkinen leads and is yet to stop. Coulthard leads and is yet to stop..." - Murray Walker
From the editor Hello, Reader! Welcome to our first monthly Formula 1 WP Newsletter. This is to give you the best source of information, right in your user talk page. We hope that you find this newsletter useful, and please leave me a message on this newsletter in my talk page. All that is left to say is, I hope that you enjoy the read! Enjoy! --LB22 (talk) 21:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
News We are delighted to have a new user, ESPImperium, who joined on January 28 2008. Our current Improvement Drive is Juan Manuel Fangio. Wanted Articles include Roland Bruynseraede and Erich Zakowski.	We need a few users to help me with this newsletter. If you are interested, please leave me a message on my talk page or sign up on the "Contributors" list of the central newsletter page. Current contributors - LB22 (talk · contribs) Diniz (talk · contribs) Other areas where you can help - Keep up some of the great facts in the "Did You Know" section of the Formula One portal! Remember, yours may be put in next Wednesday! Help out with the articles in Category:Formula One stubs. Selected Image -
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Have a shirt....

You seem to crop up everywhere, and though while I like to think I am the one of the biggest cricket fans in the universe, I think you beat me by far! So in recognition of this, have a shirt! SGGH ^speak! 12:04, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Your welcome, and the next one will hopefully be Operation Castor SGGH ^speak! 00:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

GAN Reviewer of the Week

		The Good Article Medal of Merit
		Congratulations, I have chosen you as my GAN Reviewer of the Week for the week ending 16th February 2008. Epbr123 (talk) 18:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Well deserved! dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 07:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)