User talk:Academic Challenger/Archive10

Autorads

It's definitely a sock account of someone; I've seen many accounts use this exact same method of posting, but I'm not sure who is the puppeteer. HalfShadow 22:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recall initiated against MBisanz

Brrryce (talk · contribs) has instigated an administrator recall request against MBisanz (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), alleging that his deletion of African Americans in Davenport, Iowa (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore) constituted an abuse of his admin tools. I have been asked to clerk this process, and am posting this notice here pursuant to MBisanz's recall policy. This policy stipulates that if five administrators meeting specified criteria endorse the recall request within 48 hours, MBisanz will either resign adminship or initiate a reconfirmation RFA. As I am posting this notice at a number of locations, I would suggest that all discussion be centralized at User talk:MBisanz/Recall. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandals

In connection with User talk:69.130.146.64 can you also watch User talk:68.108.250.105? I am wondering if it's the same person. --Kleinzach 05:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He's just vandalized my user page as well. --Kleinzach 05:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Aleksandr Chikvaidze

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Aleksandr Chikvaidze, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Has been unsourced for 3 months, fails the sourcing requirement at WP:BLP

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Kevin (talk) 11:43, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admin Coaching

I saw that you were listed in the Coaches for reconfirmation section of the admin coaching status page. Could you please update your status, and if you are still interested, drop me a note on my talk page? Thanks, Genius101Guestbook 13:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Special Barnstar
You're a really good general contributer to Wikipedia! Keep up the good work! Advanceforward (talk) 12:44, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Specific request for translation

Hello, I picked your username out of recent contributors who are listed at Spanish to english translation. There is a current discussion at Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents regarding a spanish speaking user uploading copyrighted material in bulk. Rather than simply block the user (which I would do if I was sure the multiple warnings had been received clearly), I would like to be able to establish some contact before escalating the situation. Could you post a message at User talk:MRDU08 explaining our copyright policy and the situation he or she is in? I think that the most recent message left could serve as a good template. Thanks in advance for any help you can render. Protonk (talk) 21:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Carolina Francessa De Cinca

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Carolina Francessa De Cinca, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

No assertion of notability give, none found; not mentioned in Francisco Coronado & unreferenced -> possibly untrue/WP:HOAX

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. ThaddeusB (talk) 21:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of designated terrorist organizations

Hi Academic Challenger. Could you please explain why my edits are being reverted here: List of designated terrorist organizations? Am I doing something against WP rules? Thank you for help! Chippolona (talk) 12:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for getting back. Appreciate it. But doesn't inclusion in reports about terrorism mean that the US government designated ASALA as terrorist in the 1990s? In that case, ASALA could be listed as an organization, recognized as terrorist in the US (not in other countries). Chippolona (talk) 07:33, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Good luck on your finals! Chippolona (talk) 12:57, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EXCLAIM PROD mentions your 2006 deletion of Exclaim

I want to let you known I cited your deletion of Exclaim back on 2 December 2006 as part of the reason for a PROD of EXCLAIM, an article about the same topic as the one you deleted. 67.100.222.181 (talk) 06:10, 21 May 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Saw you removed the PROD, noting "This is a much better article than that spam version a couple years ago, and while possibly it should be taken to AFD, I do see some notability"...fair enough. I changed the redirect for "Exclaim" to Exclaim! since all but one existing use of Exclaim was to that magazine. 67.100.125.164 (talk) 11:49, 21 May 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Admin Coaching Tyw7

I would like to have you to be my admin coach. I have ran for 4 failed RFAs. I have been for Wikipedia for over a year. If you would be interested in coaching me, that would be great! --Tyw7‍ ‍‍ (Talk ● Contributions) Leading Innovations >>> 15:38, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admin Coaching

Hey Academic Challenger, I was just wondering if you would be available to coach a new coachee. Please let me know if you can or cannot. Thanks, OtisJimmyOne 21:45, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the coachee and would really appreciate your coaching. OtisJimmyOne 02:05, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Much Appreciated. OtisJimmyOne 04:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bulgarians

Hi Challenger, new research tracing Bulgarian history to X century BC has dismissed the nomadic origin of Bulgarians. The first Kingdom was founded in Pamir/Hindokush and was called Balgara with capital Balg (also known as Bactra) in ca VI. BC. This state existed to ab. VI century AD. Parallel to Old Great Bulgaria. The exodus has been a long process due to invasion of the mongols the Bulgarians left their states to found several states subsequently: Old Great Bulgaria, Volga Bulgaria, etc. They have never been a nomadic tribe, because they had cities (Balhara was called the state of the thousand cities). They have been constantly fighting off nomadic invasion by their states. If you have any questions, write on gergana30@yahoo.de and I will provide you with all sources. We must look for the truth and be precise as possible. As you want to challenge common views, you can help dismiss the turkic and nomadic theories about the origin of Bulgarians, which are not only wrong, but have done a lot of damage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gergana30 (talk • contribs) 08:47, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look at the Map!!

Hi Challenger, have a look at this map! This shows the origin and movement of the Bulgarian Nation from Pamir (Balhara) to Old GReat Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria. http://www.protobulgarians.com/ http://www.protobulgarians.com/Statii%20ot%20drugi%20avtori/Tambura%20bulgariya.htm Look at the map, it shows the states the Bulgarians have been creating since X BC. They have never been nomadic, because they had a Calendar, similar to the Chinese, which was completely unknown to the nomads. They have left their flourishing kingdoms to survive the mongol attacs. I dont know if you read bulgarian, but look - you have all sources available on the origin of Bulgarians on the net! Gergana30 (talk) 09:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look at the Calendar!

http://tangra-bg.org/eng/calendar.htm Hi Challenger, here is the link to the Bulgarian Calendar, which proves that the Bulgarians were a highly sophisticated civilisation and have never been nomadic. They fourded their first country in Central Asia, on the Silk road, where they contributed for the exchange of knowlede and wealth between the East and West, becoming one of the greatest empires themselves. They have been fighting off nomadic attacs, just like Rome, India and China. The first records of a Bulgarians are 5000 years BC! They have contributed greatly to the cultural and material wealth of Europe. To call Bulgarians nomads is not only wrong and will be refuted persistently, but it is damaging for the cultural heritage of Europe! Gergana30 (talk) 10:03, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Editors

The evidence that the Bulgarians have never been nomads is enormous. We have to support the truth. You can supply whatever evidence you want, but one single fact: the Calendar refutes the nomadic theory! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gergana30 (talk • contribs) 10:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

you have to help the truth!

since you are assuming responsibility for the article, and you wrote it, you must correct it with the evidence. It is wrong, damaging and vandalism of European history. We have to write that the Bulgarians have never been nomads, because this is the evidence. Just one evidence: the Bulgarian Calendar refutes the nomadic theory no matter how many pseudo-scientists supply "evidence". The editors must do that.Gergana30 (talk) 10:12, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

can you help me add a map

I dont know how to do it. give me an e-mail address to send it to you. I have now made the corrections that reflect the truth. Can you please mediate with the other editors not to vandalise history here. Because nobody is going to tolerate it.Gergana30 (talk) 10:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Intercession needed

Please refer to User talk:Giraffedata. Even though numerous editors have objected to his obsessive removal of the gramatically acceptable term "consists of" from hundreds of articles, he defiantly continues to do so. Your assistance here is appreciated. Contributions/209.247.22.164 (talk) 16:23, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

UAA

I understand your comments about user:PPLSI however I still feel this is not just a spam account (which they are) but it is a corporate named account with the abbreviation of the company and they have admitted they are affiliated with the company. Isn't this a violation of WP:U? Thanks    7   talk | Δ |   04:32, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:PPLSI again

This user just added a link to the "Press Room" of the parent company's website. I gave 'em a 31-hour block, but I am beginning to doubt whether they understand or are willing to abide by our basic concept of NPOV and avoiding COI. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:44, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A diffculty

The User:Porturology is deleting my article of Pokemon Indigo. It is used by +500,000 persons of world. Please teach him —Preceding unsigned comment added by TZX Master (talk • contribs) 13:04, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A enemey

Someone is making me the sockpuppet ofAsadaleem12@hotmail.com. If, he has the proof then he should to me talk page and give me the proof. Please ask that user the proof of this talk--TZX Master (talk) 11:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Yes, I'm that someone and I'm proud to be that someone, who made TZX Master, a sockpuppet. Yes, I've a proof that this user is a sockpuppet of the famous sockpuppet of Wikipedia, Asadaleem12@hotmail.com. I placed the tag because the sockpuppeteer himself claims that he is currently editing in Wikipedia by the name of TZX Master and he even did editing in the sockpuppetter's page. He removed his name from the list of the sockpuppets, because he knew that if he got caught, he would be blocked and he could not do vandalism in Wikipedia. Recently, many of his articles were deleted because he did vandalism in his articles. Check out the history of TZX Master's userpage, where he is time by time removing the tag placed on his userpage.--Hell With Arun (talk) 11:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is this type of prooof. Come on my talk page--119.152.6.18 (talk) 11:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I can exactly tell you that this IP address is being used by this newest vandal on Wikipedia, TZX Master. When the sockpuppeteer himself claims that TZX Master is his newest account and you see, that whatever I'm editing in his talkpage, he is removing quickly, so no one can read it and he cannot get caught. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hell With Arun (talk • contribs) 11:45, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User talk talk

I would appreciate if you undelete my pages. Wiki is stressfull enough at the best of times; its good every so often to mess around and just be loose, I see no problem with that. Ta. Ceoil (talk) 09:04, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

O I see you just posted. Its a long running in joke between us 3. Thanks for geing good about it. Ceoil (talk) 09:08, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

block of User talk:80.0.56.82

I suggest an unblock as I think the edits were good faith by a new user. Lack of understanding of our policies with insufficient coaching is more our problem than his. --NrDg 14:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Block of Kosova2008

FYI I modified this block (increased it to 1 week) after noticing this edit. Prodego talk 17:07, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Victorian Archiutecture

Hi Academic Challenger/Archive10! An article you have been concerned with has many issues and urgently needs improving. If you can help with these issues please see Talk:Victorian architecture, address the different points if you can, and leave any comments there.--Kudpung (talk) 01:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blockee at it again

In regards to this block, the user is at it again, unfortunately. Drmies (talk) 02:39, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Aristophanes68 (talk) 23:19, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya

The Administrator's Barnstar
For dealing with my reports to AIV so efficiently. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 22:15, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IP at AIV

174.3.103.39 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

It might be a shared IP. In any case, since you won't block, I intend to continue to revert any question of his that has my name in the section heading, on the grounds of WP:DENY. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 04:25, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If this nonsense continues or accelerates, I'll take a broader look at the edits from that IP. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 04:30, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It accelerated, and all of a sudden there was a minor swarm of admins ready to take him down. He be chillin' for the next 2 weeks. It's unfortunate if a legitimate user got caught in that net, but that's the way things go sometimes. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 05:29, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I had looked at a few other edits and they seemed normal enough, if perhaps innocuous. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 05:38, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

refs

hello, sorry to bother you, but i didn't know who to ask this.

what's going on with this edit? why does that "code" appear when the reference's added?

thank you!--camr nag 18:48, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

apparently it has no solution given the current template. thank you for your help. bye.--camr nag 21:28, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lip789

Thank you for taking care of the block of Lip789 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). By the time I noticed my mistake with the AIV decline, you had already blocked the vandal. Thanks again, — Kralizec! (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for IP 24.140.8.236

I very much appreciate you blocking this editor. I spent an unusual amount of time tracking down what they had done, and was not looking forward to watching them for days until they made another edit where they were definitely altering factual information. Also, their changes were time-consuming to check and to correct. Again, thank you. Piano non troppo (talk) 06:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back

Just noticed you were back. Welcome back. Mkdwtalk 02:04, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Abuse log

Hi. I noticed your edit summary here. Remember to check the abuse log. Mr.Z-bot reports blatant abuse log violations like fixed-position vandalism and obvious sockpuppet behavior. Just so you know.... Wknight94 talk 11:48, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request assistance

Dear Mr. Academic Challenge:

I red your profile, and I noticed that, of course, you are interested in academic articles and you speak spanish. So I was wondering if you can help me with this.

I'm interested in writing an article about the high school that I attended. It's an Aeronautic school located in Buenos Aires, it depends directly from the Argentinean Air Force. About 200 technicians graduate every year, the school was founded in 1957 it got above 1000 students. The school got its own hangar with about 7 planes 2 helicopters and a ultra-light plane along with different kind of engines, landing gears, measurement instruments, etc. It also has another career Avionics Technician which is about the electronics of the plane.

So what do you think? I can really use your help, by just reading it and telling me whats right, what's wrong, what to change, etc. Since it will be my first publication I want to start with the right foot.

Looking forward for your answer Guido. --Guidote2 (talk) 05:54, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

School's name

Dear Mr. Academic Challenger:

First of all, thank you for getting back to me so fast, and thank you for your help.

The school's official name it's "Escuela de Educación Técnica Número 7 - Taller Regional Quilmes" which it's abbreviated "EET Nº7 - TRQ", but the school it's best known for it's pseudonym "IMPA". I believe there isn't an article on wikipedia about it, although all I did was search it.

The school's website is http://www.impatrq.esc.edu.ar/.

Please let me know when I can send you the draft.

Best Regards, Guido --Guidote2 (talk) 19:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

School's number & Draft

Dear Mr. Academic Challenger:

In Argentina non-private schools have a unique number and belong to a unique category(technical, commerce, or other public type) and they have also a name. for example this one is number 7 in the technical category and it's name is "Taller Regional Quilmes". The number is associated to the location of the school(I think... I'm not sure).

I'll send you the draft during the weekend. Once again thank you for everything

Best regards, Guido --Guidote2 (talk) 05:59, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sock Puppets

As far as I know , working as a team is considered a sockpuppet . You may also want to give this piece of advice to sock puppet ABCe2, Zhang He & Jaret

Could you please spell our names right? Sorry, Abce2|From the top!Arg! 05:48, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And link properly. The links are taking me to articles. - Zhang He (talk) 06:09, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a coincidence though that Zhang He and Javert actually are users that named themselves after real articles. Academic Challenger (talk) 06:17, 2 September 2009 (UTC) (Aka Jean Valjean[reply]

I was originally Eugene Krabs when I registered in December 2008, but requested to be renamed a couple or few months ago. Don't really remember when it was. I do know that I was officially renamed July 15th, 2009, though. - Zhang He (talk) 06:23, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User Sampedranocatracho

You blocked this user earlier this month for violating the WP:3RR rules on the Honduras page. Today I find this user defaced my user page with some childish garbage about being a castro lover and chavez fan. What is the appropriate way to deal with this kind of defacement? Thanks for any advice.

Rsheptak (talk) 00:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I'm sorry I should have told you, I've been really busy with midterms and all. I finished the article, I only have to translate it. If I can I'll send you the draft over the weekend, if not let me know when you'll be available.

Thanks for your help, Guido

Admin Coaching

Hello. I was wondering if you would like to take me on as an admin coach. I was previously coached by User:Useight, but I retired before I could finish. I have become active since then, and I feel that I still have more to learn. Cheers.--LAAFansign review 17:30, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing your contributions again, I am seeking a highly active editing coach. Consider this question retracted.--LAAFansign review 01:50, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Draft

Just to you know, i've send you the draft. Again Thanks for everything --Guidote2 (talk) 03:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism by 170.185.169.19

Hi Mr. Challenger! Twice I reported 170.185.169.19 at WP:AIV only to have no action taken, yet no explanation provided. I went through all of the versions of the AIV page from my second report to the deletion of the report, and there was never one of those little explanations as to why a block was not going to be placed. I realize that the IP address is for an educational institution, but I understand that in those circumstances a {{schoolblock}} is usually applied. I realize that I am new to AIV, but I try not to file a report until the offender hits Level 4 or Level 4im. Did I do something wrong with this one? Thanks! (P.S. Please respond here as I will have your page watchlisted. Thanks!) — SpikeToronto (talk) 08:12, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Protect page

Please protect Magyar Televízió. And don't believe 121.x.x.x--125.25.75.111 (talk) 09:45, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Adjust redirect page

Hello I am not sure if this is the way I should contact you since I am new but I was wondering if you could edit the redirect page Raptor Jesus to Raptor Jesus(meme) as it now has its own page. Thank you very much

A name that needs a change

Dear administrator; I read an article Islamic Emirate of Waziristan related to Waziristan, Paksitan. It is written that this is an organization but no such organization exists, althoug ther are others. From where does the name Islamic emirate of waziristan come from?? If it is a group as mentioned then no group ever used this name. It is not mentioned in any sources out of the ones provided. The name should be changed or merged with Waziristan. It also wrongly points to other language articles on waziristan (arabic eg) which is not correct as the original article Waziristan also points to the same. Despite lot of time after this objection and no proof provided from any source, the name of the article has not been changed or merged with the original article on waziristan. I request administrators to take action.

I write to you because no decision has been taken since long time even though this has been discussed on the discussion page.

Salman —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.172.125.141 (talk) 15:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Equatorial Guinea would benefit from your input

You have been invited to join the WikiProject Equatorial Guinea, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Africa. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

Centiimbo

User:Jake Wartenberg/centijimbo Just thought it was funny. Mkdwtalk 02:39, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

University Of Atlanta

PLease help with this page it is out of control and I need help....A B has a personal intrest in Hurting the University of Atlant and Im not sure what it is. He is not letting anyone add info or edit with facts that have reffrences. I need some help. I called the US Department of Education to see if these shools are the same as well as calling the State of Ga and was told by both that they were diffrent schools. A B will not let this info be changed. Barrington and UNiversity of Atlanta are two dirrent Schools owned by the same company Barrington was closed down.--Supercopone (talk) 03:35, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Long time, no speak! Just wanted to drop you a note to say hello and see how you are! Hope you're having a happy holiday season, my friend..! Dreadstar ☥ 09:39, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AIV

Removing inappropriate entries does not necessarily relieve any admin of taking action on his or her own behalf, specifically in relation to 69.228.251.134 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). I put that report there because I didn't want to go through the drama of WP:ANI, or risk my adminship by blocking him myself. Thanks. Rodhullandemu 01:40, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Langley Flying School

An article that you have been involved in editing, Langley Flying School, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Langley Flying School. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Ahunt (talk) 02:17, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Night of Silence

The article Night of Silence has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no third party content found indicating WP:N notability, only minor passing references in local papers listing the song in concert agenda

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.86.226.12 (talk) 17:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you removed the PROD with the summary "extremely notable" song, however, you failed to add any of the third party sources that are required to meet the Wikipedia definition of notable. Please provide those sources or return the PROD notice. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.86.226.20 (talk) 08:10, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
So, do you have any sources to add to the article to verify your claim of "extremely notable"? I had done a search and found none that qualified. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.86.226.13 (talk) 05:21, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Juan Manuel Rodriguez (writer)#Requested move

Hi, Academic Challenger. Since you are one of the translators listed at Wikipedia:Translators available#Spanish-to-English, could you help us at Talk:Juan Manuel Rodriguez (writer)#Requested move? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 19:28, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Academic Challenger! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 129 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 14 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

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48. Alda Bandeira
49. Hérard Abraham
50. Walter Huddleston
51. Ung Huot
52. Mohammad Ghous
53. Ohn Gyaw
54. Michel Gbezera-Bria
55. Filipe Bole
56. Anastase Gasana
57. Tom Butime
58. Ronnie Shikapwasha
59. Kalombo Mwansa
60. Harold Lovell
61. Eugen Bejinariu
62. Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail
63. Belaid Abdessalam
64. Mate Granić
65. Muratbek Imanaliyev
66. Hasan Hasanov
67. Tom Ikimi
68. Abdelbaki Hermassi
69. Ferenc Somogyi
70. Hans Brunhart
71. Stanisław Kania
72. Mahmoud Hammoud
73. Petrus Compton
74. Hani al-Mulki
75. Sultan Ali Keshtmand
76. James Fitz-Allen Mitchell
77. Fabio Berardi
78. Roberto Raschi
79. Anil Gayan
80. Monie Captan
81. Victor Gbeho
82. Yury Yarov
83. Ahmed Benbitour
84. Sodiq Safoyev
85. Moshe Arens
86. Samuel Lewis Navarro
87. John Kaputin
88. Maatia Toafa
89. Vilayat Guliyev
90. Jorge Briz Abularach
91. Sebastian Anefal
92. Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun
93. Luis Ernesto Derbez
94. Knowlson Gift
95. Dominique Vian
96. Delia Albert
97. Ilinka Mitreva
98. Raymond Ramazani Baya
99. Antoine Ghonda
100. Mustafa Osman Ismail
101. Dragan Mikerević
102. Hor Namhong
103. Charles Goerens
104. Kolouei O'Brien
105. Pierre Frogier
106. Daniel Constantin
107. Robert Woonton
108. Nelson Oduber
109. Orlando Smith
110. William Alexander Scott
111. John Osborne (politician)
112. Jules Wijdenbosch
113. Jamiruddin Sircar
114. Osbourne Fleming
115. Peter Johnstone
116. Etienne Ys
117. Muhammad ibn Mubarak ibn Hamad Al Khalifah
118. Hari Kostov
119. Lee Hun Jai
120. Roger Abiut
121. Marino Riccardi
122. Paolo Bollini
123. Danilo Medina
124. Kamal Ganzouri
125. Ted Schwinden
126. Petar Stoyanov
127. John V. Evans
128. Phil Batt

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 21:48, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great meeting today

Hi Academic Challenger, great meeting you today. Always a pleasure to meet fellow Wikipedians (especially those that go back to 2003!) in person. Hope to cross paths again. -- Fuzheado | Talk 01:51, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Translators Available Spanish-to-English

Hi, I notice you on the list of Translators Available Spanish-to-English

I have been working alot on various article related to FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. One of most resent (last October) people place on the list is Eduardo Ravelo. I think this article would benefit a translation into Spanish, as he heads the Barrio Azteca gang operating out of Juarez, Mexico and is a Mexican national. However, I do not know any Spanish so I am not able to request a translation to Spanish on Spanish Wikipedia as directed to do so by Wikipedia:Translation (see "Are you in the right place?" box Item #2). Would you be willing to help me out getting it listed as "request a translation into spanish"?:--ARTEST4ECHO talk 22:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Admin Coaching: Reconfirmation

I was looking through the coaches at Wikipedia:Admin_coaching/Status and saw that there are a lot under "reconfirmation".

Could you let me know if you are still interesting in being involved with Admin Coaching, or if you would prefer to have your name removed from the "reconfirmation" list and placed on the "retired" list. If you want to be involved, could you please move your entry from "Reconfirmation" to "Active" and indicate how many students you would be willing to have (obviously, if you are actively coaching at the moment, then please indicate this!)

If I do not hear from you within a week, I will assume that you would like to have your name removed from the list of coaches and moved to the retired list.

Regards, -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 16:00, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Save wikipedia

hello sir,from last 2 months an administrator spaceman spiff is blocking my account,whenever i make any new account she block it.sheis using his rights in a wrong way.i was simply edited indian epic article first.she blocked me because she cannot see improved indian epic articles.she made a trick that she blocked my 1 account and after it whenever i made any new account she blocked it for sockpupettry.she now doesn'tallow me to talk on discussion page,this is not fair we all give donation to wikipedia not for giving admin priviledge s to user like spaceman,wikipedia is for all not for her only —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.240.111.235 (talk) 10:23, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Fabio Berardi

The article Fabio Berardi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Completely unreferenced since May 2007.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 12:23, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pakish listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Pakish. Since you had some involvement with the Pakish redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Green Giant (talk) 02:38, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Survey on gender

Hi! I'm Liria Veronesi (User:Akoha77) and, together with Paolo Massa (User:Phauly), I'm starting an empirical research on "Gender and votes in requests for adminship". For this reason, we need to know the gender of Wikipedians who were candidated to become admins.

We tried looking for the templates User:UBX/male and User:UBX/female but only 4 admins use it. We also used the API for getting the gender field in the profile but, out of 1744 admins, only around 400 have filled this field. But we would benefit from a larger coverage, i.e. possibly knowing the gender of 100% of candidates.

So, after asking for advice to 3 admins and receiving 2 positive replies (1 and 2), we decided to try to ask directly to Wikipedians.

Thus, would you be so kind to write your gender [Male / Female / Other], together with a text comment if you want, on my talk page at User_talk:Akoha77? If you prefer to send me this information privately, you can send me an email, the information will be kept confidential and never shared.

Thanks! Akoha77 (talk) 12:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A ?uestion

Do you know how many fingers I'm holding up?? ~

United States Roman Catholic bishops

Hi- More of the United States Roman Catholic bishops have articles. There are a few that do not have any articles. One needs to look at the diferent dioceses, etc., to see who or who has not any articles. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 15:05, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Academic Challenger/Archive10! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 21:43, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US National Archives collaboration

 United States National Archives WikiProject
Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts.

There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's "Exceptional Claims" Policy

A number of established doctorate professors did extensive studies. I wish to elucidate the scientific/medical studies that took place as well as their conclusions resulting from those studies, but a Wikipedia user flagged me for this.
If I were to plainly state that those established experts failed to find a scientific explanation for their observations, would that be the equivalent of asserting an exceptional claim--subjecting and limiting me to Wikipedia's exceptional claims policy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by COice6 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
COice6 (talk) 20:14, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

How do you make a complaint if you suspect someone is a lobbyer like Biggleswiki? --188.238.49.122 (talk) 13:03, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

?86.26.74.7 (talk) 14:36, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

胡志颖

I'm concerned with the deletion of the above referenced article. The edit summary merely stated "Chinese language, not encyclopedic". An article in a foreign language is not an appropriate rationale in accordance with our deletion policy. The appropriate response would have been to tag the article with {{notenglish}} tag and alert the creator with the need to translate the article within two weeks. You additionally indicated that the article was "not encyclopedic". However, this is an article about a world-renowned Chinese artist who has exhibited on an international basis. The subject is highly notable, meeting the topical notability guidelines for artists. He is also professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. Clearly, this article was inappropriately deleted. I am requesting that you revisit your actions and approach with the article creator. We certainly don't want to confuse new editors while additionally upholding actions that conflict with our deletion policy. I appreciate your time. Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 09:51, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Still looking for a response here. Is it possible that there may have been some changes to the deletion policy since you became an administrator or were last active in editing here? Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 11:47, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HI!

Oh boy it's been a long time! It's awesome to see you around again. I'm also slogging through grad school presently. I'm glad to see things are going well in your life. Thank you again for all your advice when I was getting started; I will certainty keep you in mind in the future and feel free to ask me for anything. MBisanz talk 16:13, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey!

It's great to hear from you! Glad you're back...! Everything is going pretty well for me, just busy in RL....as are most of us! Drop by and say hi anytime and let mw know if there's anything I can do to lend you a hand! Dreadstar ☥ 20:37, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Of User Page

May I ask why you thought it necessary to delete one of my user pages?Flaviusvulso (talk) 03:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview

Dear Academic Challenger,


My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

  • Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
  • Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
  • All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
  • All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
  • The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.


Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 18:03, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can't put online my article

I tried more than once but my article is always deleted. I don't do any advertisement, I just share some informations. Even more, Opti-time Company has also a page like mine, but it's not considered as a "spam".

It would be nice to tell me what I need to do ?

  • It's ok, I'm going to rewrite it according another company (like Microsoft).

Regards

Philippe G — Preceding unsigned comment added by British-msm (talk • contribs) 10:38, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
I dont understand why you are saying that my wikipedia post is an advert. Its not an advert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_architectural_plan_local_authority_approval 

A4architect (talk) 09:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
learn to tolerate the need for the world to get information in a fair manner. Refrain from selective wikipedia publishing of info. A4architect (talk) 09:40, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

I want to thank you for creating the articles about Freedom Scientific and JAWS (screen reader). I used to work at Freedom Scientific, mostly on software development of OpenBook. Your contributions to Wikipedia, as a low-vision user, are humbling to me as someone with very good vision. Thank you! Nutson11 (talk) 15:30, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sexual disorders listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Sexual disorders. Since you had some involvement with the Sexual disorders redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Robbiecee2 (talk) 06:01, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Nomination of List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JamboQueen (talk • contribs) 16:51, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your input is requested

Greetings, Academic Challenger/Archive10! If we have not met, I'm AutomaticStrikeout. I've come here to ask you to take part in the survey at User:AutomaticStrikeout/Are admins interested in a RfB?. I am trying to gauge the general level of interest that administrators have in running for cratship, as well as pinpoint the factors that affect that interest level. Your input will be appreciated. Happy editing, AutomaticStrikeout (T • C • Sign AAPT) 01:31, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

kindly suggest me how i create a page for my website chhathpuja.co

when i created, someone was abused that its a personal and by speedy deletion was removed.

chhathpuja.co is a very spiritual site and zee news channel also covered it. see video for more details. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwBVmFirpqQ

need a favor kindly check and suggest what i do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mishra.sujata26 (talk • contribs) 05:33, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]