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User talk:Alexf/Archive 3
Gianluca CurciHi Alexf. Thanks for your warning about Gianluca Curci page. But please explain me why it was unconstructive. It was career statistics of that soccer player. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solar-Poseidon (talk • contribs) 16:13, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for unsigned comment. So if I remove negative goals it'll be correct? --Solar-Poseidon 20:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Missed on 2008Thanks for getting the extra spam I missed on 2008. Maybe they'll learn someday. Nah. Doubt it. Happy wiking. Alexf(Talk/Contribs) 16:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
DudeUser talk:81.158.211.115 I already got my warning for that. I hate the mindless drones on Wikipedia who are too stupid to check the page they're editing before they slap on a template. 81.158.211.115 20:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC) VandalismYou may wish to review Wikipedia:Vandalism. You left this vandalism warning for this edit. That in no way constitutes vandalism. Vandalism warning should only be given for true vandalism and not content disputes. You should also not be jumping right to a level 4 warning unless the vandalism is severe. Please let me know if you have questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 00:12, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Almirante Brown.gifThanks for uploading Image:Almirante Brown.gif. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page. If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 07:22, 27 October 2007 (UTC) Notability consensus at WP:FootyHi, It seems that we are staggering towards some kind of notability consensus at WP:Footy, I don't like the non-players, but the caveat seems to be a fair compromise to me. Please offer your opinion, kind regards, King of the North East (T/C) 00:43, 8 November 2007 (UTC) in regards to Kuban Krasnodarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_in_Russian_Football#First_Division Kuban promotion source for you ^^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Premier_League_2007 ^^^ relegation source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.24.94 (talk) 04:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC) No need to tell me about the source. It needs to be in the article, that's all. -- Alexf(Talk/Contribs) 18:20, 25 November 2007 (UTC juninho pagedont cancelled juninho page stop stop stop to cancel
we have insert reliable sources!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.59.70.70 (talk) 12:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Kaka' pageHi Alexf Thanks for pointing me to the sandbox. I will use that in the future before editing any article. Sorry for doing the experimentation in the article itself Shaonghosh1 (talk) 23:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC) Arsenal triumphI saw you revert the bitter musing of some Mexican on the Arsenal page, did you see the final? The first leg was spectacular, 114,000 in the Azteca Stadium and Arsenal took about 114 fans. They won 2-3 with some awful defending from America, I don't know how the referee sending off Castiglione (Arsenal's captain) fits into the "great CONMEBOL conspiracy". Arsenal completely dominated the 2nd leg, I think America only had about 2 shots on target, Davino should have been sent off long before he was, and Castroman getting sent off after 1 minute on the pitch as a substitute was well funny. Overall it was America's sieve like defence that cost them, nothing to do with the refereeing, which was quirky but generally pretty good, which is normal for South American referees. America simply should have won with players like Cabanas and Insua on the pitch, but then "on paper" River Plate were the better team in the SF, Chivas in the QF, Goias in the RO16, & San Lorenzo in the preliminary round. Anyway I hope you're going to give us a hand with the chaos when the transfer window opens, I'm gunna need it, 20 navboxes, 20 current squads and who knows how many player articles to update. --All the best as always, see you around, King of the NorthEast 00:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Here are the highlights if you are interested: --King of the NorthEast 10:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Pele's real nameAlex, appart from quoting his civil register, which can be easily consulted by anyone, do you think quoting the movie Pelé Eterno, a biography authorized by Pelé himself, would be enough? I could cite the minute during which it is shown his name as Edison and not Edson. --Tonyjeff (talk) 09:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Fabregas's heightSorry for rectifying Cesc Fabragas's height without citing a source. I believe this is the 5th or 6th time that I'm attempting to get his height information accurate. I discussed this issue multiple times or the Cesc Fabregas's discussion page. You should take a look at it.For some reason someone keeps switching his height back to 5'11 which is totally absurde. If you are a football (soccer) fan, then you should know that Fabregas is nowhere around 5'11. He is in fact 5'9" and this can be seen on his ESPN profile. So please help me solve this issue because I had enough of people who give us wrong information. National Route 9 (Argentina)Alexf, I'm sending you this message because you translated several articles about argentine routes to English. After some work, now the article es:Ruta Nacional 9 (Argentina) is a Good Article in the Spanish Wikipedia, so maybe you want to translate it. Please notice that es:Ruta Nacional 7 (Argentina) is a Featured Article and its equivalent in English is a mini-stub. Best regards, --Alpertron (talk) 14:20, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
CurrencyI've never uploaded currency related pictures before but I reckon this template {{Non-free currency}} and {{self}} to show that you created it. then a fair use rationale for each page the image appears on. Fair-use rationale{{[[Template:Non-free media rationale |Non-free media rationale ]]}}
football templatesis there a template to say you support man u Zanramon (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
Mercy Otis Warrenyou wrote me regarding vandalism on Mercy Otis Warren's wiki, but I have never navigated to nor edited that page. 75.62.2.38 (talk) 01:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Victor ValdésAs January 1st 2008 Víctor Valdés has never played with the spanish A national team, so what you have recovered is FALSE. "Supply reliable sources" about 1 internationallity for Victor Valdés in the Spanish A national team. I'll be expecting. And Catalonia is a non UEFA sanctioned, but it's a national team. So it can be included. --81.39.4.52 (talk) 16:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Flags in InfoboxesAs you can see on the talk page of Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Players there is a "one flag only" subcategory in which it is discussed. It is common sense that pictures - and thereby flags - are more memorable than text for a lot of people. Therefore, a single flag next to the birthplace is acceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maracana (talk • contribs) 00:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
sorrysiento muito que machuco sua página —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zanramon (talk • contribs) 03:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC) San Fernando, Buenos AiresHi Alexf, most partidos of Greater Buenos Aires have individual cities and towns and i'm working on filling in "quality data" for several Cities in Buenos Aires Province and categorising them as "Cities in Buenos Aires Province". I'm also filling in Barios of Buenos Aires city amongst other articles, regards Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 19:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hernan Crespohey can you please explain what I did wrong?
BhaalThis is directed at me; see [1] --Jack Merridew 13:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC) FlagsHi, just a quick question: you've been deleting flagicons from a number of infoboxes from articles on my watchlist (cycling articles), but I don't understand what part of the guidelines you are quoting. Your edit summary links to Wikipedia:FLAGS#Not for use in locations of birth and death, but this talks about implied nationality. In this particular infobox, it is displaying nationality, so I'm a little bit confused. Regards, SeveroTC 21:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC) CastromanI saw the guy undo yr edit, I went to check the reference but I couldn't see any text, didn't know if it was a problem with my computer which is a right piece of sh*t (I can only use it in safe mode at the moment because it killed the monitor yesterday and doesn't like the new one) or whether the content of the article has been deleted. So I left it alone, I'll undo his edit if you confirm the reference is blank. Regards King of the NorthEast 16:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC) AdminHi. I just wondered if you've considered becoming an admin. You seem experienced enough, so I'd be happy to nominate you if you're interested. Regards. Epbr123 (talk) 19:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Let me know once you've answered the questions on your RfA page and I'll get the nomination started. Try to make your answers as thorough as possible. You can see how others have answered them at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Good luck. Epbr123 (talk) 20:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC) Archive boxI am attempting to make a new archive box, in which there is no
Request for AdminshipYou've got a new question off me, Alexf. Feel free to answer it if you want. Solumeiras 17 January 2008, UTC I've been looking through some of your contribs to see if I can find anything to help me decide how to vote in your RfA. I like how you look up IP addresses. I wouldn't have thought of doing that. I like how you look through the contribs of a vandal and revert other stuff they've done I wasn't aware of the "needsource" or similar template that you're using; now I know and might use it sometimes. I have some concerns. I notice that you sometimes put progressively sterner user-warning templates on the talk page of the same user in consecutive minutes. I would think that a couple of minutes at least should be allowed for the user to notice and respond to the "you have new messages" banner. Also, in some of those cases, the user was not editing close to that time -- your warnings were about earlier edits. When you revert older vandalsim edits, you need to remember that that's what you're doing and not put user-warning templates as if it was recent vandalism. (a) This edit: You placed warning templates on the talk page of this anon IP (87.236.232.231 (talk · contribs)) at 11:23, 11:24 and 11:25 (UTC) on Jan. 12, (3 progressively sterner warnings in 3 consecutive minutes), but the user wasn't editing at that time (no edits between 10:53 and 14:35.) (b) And This edit: (Re 195.229.236.211 (talk · contribs); Another user had already posted a warning after the user's most recent previous edit at 14:01 on Jan. 12. you placed warning templates at 14:10 and 14:11, marked "final warning", but they were apparently related to edits the user had done earlier, before the previous warning on the page just before your edits. (c) On that same user's talk page, if you scroll up you see that you posted warnings a few days earlier, on January 9 at 11:10, 11:13 and 11:14, about pages Talk:Javier Zanetti, George Eliot and Bangamau. This time the user was actually editing during that time, so maybe that's OK, though they're still quite close in time. However, the user was editing Royal Rumble, as can be seen in the user contribs, not the three pages you mention in the warnings, which the user had been editing at earlier dates/times; the edit to George Eliot was nearly 3 days earlier. (more about (c)) Among the edits you seemed to be criticizing at that time, i.e. your actions of Jan. 9 around 11:10 which may have been warning about earlier edits by the user, in this edit, (George Eliot (hist), 195.229.236.211 (talk · contribs)) you say "rvv" in the edit summary, but the user may have merely been unfamiliar with wikitext. The edits to Royal Rumble by this user also appear to me to be good-faith edits (3 edits from 11:09 to 11:13, Jan. 9); the user is apparently trying to find a link that works (having learned about double square brackets by that time, apparently). The edit to Bangarmau was merely "unsourced". (more about (c)) So perhaps there was only one vandalism edit by this user (07:03, 9 January 2008 Talk:Javier Zanetti (←Replaced page with ' == زانيتي ابراهيموفتش ==')) for your three warnings. You may not have been aware that, for example, your warning about edits to George Eliot was posted nearly 3 days after the alleged vandalism occurred. In cases (a) and (c) above, the two users were blocked after the next edits after your strings of warnings including "final warning". I think probably they should not have been blocked at that time and probably would not have been without your warnings. In cases like this there is the possibility that some users could have been persuaded to become productive editors but are now afraid to edit Wikipedia, thinking that any changes they try to do only harm it or get them blocked. this web page suggest that "Mick" at least, if not "Ultra Magnus", is a nickname for Stephen McManus, so the second "v" in your "rvv" edit summary seems unjustified. Re this edit: "Incan empire" gets 40,000 google hits. It may be wrong; it may need to be reverted; but the second "v" in your "rvv" edit summary may be unjustified. You can revert vandalism without calling it vandalism -- nothing wrong with that. But when there's doubt, it's better to err on the side of not using the v-word. To encourage you to be more careful, I'd like to draw your attention to the case of User talk:Ggggggggggggggg12, (a case you were not involved in), if you have time to look at it, where a potentially highly valuable contributor was lost to the project because of well-meaning application (or misapplication) or rules during the user's early experience with the wiki. I've been more careful myself after reading about it. I would tend to use the gentler warning templates (test1 rather than test2) more often, but I see you do use test1 or equivalent sometimes, so that's good. I realize that when doing a large amount of vandal-correcting there may be some mistakes. It's also important to continually learn from them and try to reduce your error rate, and I hope my comments are useful for that purpose. Thank you for correcting all that vandalism. --Coppertwig (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Would be nice if you joined. Good luck on your RFA... looks like it's gonna come through. :) · AndonicO Hail! 22:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Help with Nery Castillo articleHi, I was wondering if you be able to help me with the Nery Castillo article, I have nominated it for good article status after doing a series of edits. User:Oldelpaso then helped by providing some comments and edits to help improve it's chances. However the one remaining thing that needs some help/cleanup is the Olympiacos section. The only substantial references I can find for this are in Spanish. My spanish is very basic and while I can guess at which references may be verifying a subject I cannot verify them. I am going to attempt to re-write that section of the article this weekend, If I posted a set of links on the talk page that I think work as sources could you review them and tell me what works and what doesn't. My spanish is probably at es-1 level. Thanks Pbradbury (talk) 21:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
You are now an administratorCongratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions, get in touch on my talk page. WjBscribe 01:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
RfACongrats Dlohcierekim 02:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Admin Question.Well, I've "Ctrl-F"'d through the past 1000 edits on AIV, and I can't find "Alexf" or "72.1.206.118" (both would turn up in the helperbot edit summary). The logical explanation would be that someone removed the report before the AIV helperbot did (else... the cabal did it ;) ). · AndonicO Hail! 20:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
National ParksI've been working with other people on organizing attractions like museums, arboreta, aquaria, etc. by state, in order to create a better consistency for people to search by state for categories, and for Visitor attractions by state. I have no problem keeping things in both the national and by state level, although it is inconsistent to keep only a few national parks at the upper level and not all. There are already 4 lists of National parks: * List of areas in the United States National Park System * List of United States National Parks by state * List of United States National Parks by date established * List of the United States National Park System official units I will just try to make sure that all the national parks are also represented in their state pages. Some states had no pages before but do have national parks in their states. Jllm06 (talk) 02:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Alex,
Simon nelsonHi, you may have seen this guys activities on your watchlist, I have some concerns about edits such as unsourced changes to player statistics, removal of youth clubs & years, putting loan in italics (see the multiple requests not to on his talk page, removal of youth club & years youth clubs and years, youth clubs etc, his talk page features multiple warnings and requests to follow the MOS. Perhaps you can take a look at the situation. Regards, King of the NorthEast 22:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
My RfA
NPWatcherSorry to bug you but could please approve me for NPW? Thank you Compwhiz II(Talk)(Contribs) 03:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Cheersfor the BS, King of the NorthEast 15:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC) RFA I have removed your speedy delete tag from the article- being a member of such a notable band, plus performing with other notable musicians, is an assertion of notability. Feel free to take it to AfD. J Milburn (talk) 19:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Argentine Railway CompaniesMany thanks for the barnstar which is much appreciated! It's a massive task trying to unravel the history of the railways of Argentina but is certainly very addictive!! Best regards, David David(Talk • Contribs) 00:43, 27 January 2008 (UTC) UserboxHi. I see you transcluded my user box. I just want to advise you that I have tweaked the phrasing. Bovlb (talk) 03:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Thank youI appreciate your quick blocking the vandal. The anon did seem to provoke me so I would engage in edit warring with him, but with your help, the anon might have a time to reflect his conduct. Thank you again.--Appletrees (talk) 16:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Problem with warning templatesI want to run this thought by some of the admins who monitor AIV before I present it more widely. When we revert vandalism by someone who already received a level 4 warning, any other warnings make it seem like, "Oh, we didn't really mean it when we said that was your last warning," like the parent who says, "This is the last time I'm going to tell you" five times before taking action. What about something like this:[2]. I'd like some feedback on this as a possible template for non-admins to use when they revert past a level 4 warning. Thanks. Doczilla (talk) 10:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Unless this is a hoax, I can't really understand why you would think it's speediable material. --Dweller (talk) 14:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, I've fixed the article. He is notable, but the material included hoaxes. Re TWINKLE, you'll find it works (better/at all) with Firefox, rather than IE. --Dweller (talk) 14:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
VandalismI'm trying to report vandalism, not sure how to do it. Anyways I saw your name on the list so I thought I would inform you. The vandal is User:Deacon_of_Pndapetzim. Here was his comment on the edit summary. "turn into dab page ... this page just duplicates previous pages, and carries the misleading implication that anything called "Great Britain" has a legal existence." He page blanked and turned List of Roman Catholic dioceses of Great Britain into a disambiguation. The user then proceeded to empty the entire category, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_Catholic_dioceses_in_Great_Britain which was subsequently deleted. I have finally reverted all the vandalism and restored the Category. This was all done 5 days ago, and I just now saw the vandalism. Benkenobi18 (talk) 02:26, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
re User:Amythystdragon blockIt was a bit of a hunch, and I may be wrong in which case... the editor will continue and get indef blocked next time. However, I noted that the first comment of their talkpage was that an article they created, "Animals of finland", was being deleted. Since they were vandalising Fauna of Finland I reasoned that they were upset by having their article deleted - and were taking it out on the existing one. I am gambling that after a period of reflection they might regret their reaction, and they may decide to start contributing - after all, this is an editor who created an account and created a fairly ambitious article. If I'm right then WP may yet get a great contributor, and if I'm wrong then an indef block is delayed by a day. Thanks for asking. I hope this explains things. LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
CaveatOf course, since it is covered by GDFL (whatever) anyway... I would comment that I have taken a lot of criticism about it - so you may need to defend it. I always say that I do not intend ever to disclose information, but am allowing myself the ability to do so if absolutely necessary. I suggest that if you feel you are getting to much heat then remove it. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
ThanksThank you very much for blocking 70.81.138.145. This editor apparently has something against me and it all started from a talk page where I apparently made a comment he/she didn't agree with. From then on, I've had nonsense posted on my talk page and my user page was vandalized. This user will likely keep vandalizing once the 48 hour block is lifted just to let you know. The user is very persistent, however so I am I, and I won't hesitate to report any vandalism from this address again. Again, thank you for blocking the user, keep up the good work. Lets hope the user grows up within 48 hours (however unlikely :D) Milonica (talk) 22:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
User:SpentsuchIs requesting unblock and promising to be good. I am inclined to do so, and to leave a note that further vandalism will return the block for good. Does such a probation meet with your approval? Since you were the blocking admin, I thought it prudent to ask your opinion. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 04:11, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
User:SquiggleslashToo quick and too trusting. You blocked this user based on the word of User:Jdchamp31 who had already been warned by me twice for posting frivolous WP:AIV and WP:3RR requests. To the best of my knowledge, User:Squiggleslash has never vandalized anything except for removing harassing messages from his own talk page. I really suggest you look over the full edit history of both of these individuals and then unblock and apologize. Trusilver 17:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Notability of footballersHi, you contributed to the discussion about football notability criteria in November, so you will be delighted/appalled that I have restarted the discussion here. Please give your opinion so that we can move towards formalising the criteria. Regards, King of the NorthEast 15:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC) Roman Catholic Dioceses of Great BritainThe Category has again been vandalised. Could I get some admin help here to deal with the Deacon of Pndapetzim? 05:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC) Benkenobi18 (talk) 05:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC) RE:UnblockingHi. Please see this, somehow. Thanks. El_C 10:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Persistent vandalI have been looking through the contributions of User:Pararubbas hepersistently deletes categories references and other information. Maybe you can keep an eye on it too. King of the NorthEast 17:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
ANDREA PIRLOk, the only reason i put that on there is because everybody keeps switching his international goals from 7 to 6 ... he has 7 international goals, its on the figc website, if you don't believe me check it out for yourself, but don't tell me thats vandalism when its 100% accurate --216.26.217.244 (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
External LinksObviously my desire to link the character actors that played part in the Rifleman series for further recognition was a no-no. I have no intention of trying to boost ratings of any particular website. But while I have your "ear", can you explain to me how the external links on The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, Jonny Crawford, entries may remain there ? The author of those links has blatantly coppied most of this information from a website I am very close to. If you would like further proof I will be glad to take this private with you to prove the plagurisms. Moehunt 2-9-08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moehunt (talk • contribs) 04:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Sarsanda A tag has been placed on Sarsanda requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding
ANDREA PIRLO (continued)Hello Alexf, I don't know how to go about this, but the people who kept changing pirlo's stats (both domestic and international) are doing it again. I know now I'm not allowed to place a protection icon on the page, but I don't feel like reverting the changes every hour. Not sure what to do. Thanks!--216.26.217.244 (talk) 23:51, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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