User talk:Haukurth

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• Archive 12

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	This was not as bad of an AN/I report as you made it out to be. I appreciate that you stood up for your convictions while trying to keep the project civil. Obviously, not all blocks are going to be ringers. Please, keep up the good work! –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:12, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that was very sweet. <3 Haukur (talk) 20:34, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so very glad to have been the catalyst that brought such a nice couple together. EEng 03:13, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Stained glass Penda

If you don't have any joy with your email to the cathedral, drop me a line and I'll buy it and send on to you. Best of luck! ——SerialNumber54129 08:56, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reminding me and for your generous offer! I just sent them a nice e-mail now, I'll let you know if they reply. Haukur (talk) 09:17, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I still haven't heard back. I guess they could be understaffed this time of year. Haukur (talk) 11:06, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mad Mike AfD

Jeez, is there any way to alienate most of the human race he didn't follow? He's marginal, but on the notable side of marginal (but not for the IMDb listing; heck, I'm in the IMDb), and I have said so. And I'm a SJW, Quaker social democrat and proud friend of lots of GLBT folks, as well as an avid reader and reviewer (ask Toni or Eric) of Baen books. People are complicated. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:45, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Hoyt apparently waiting for a simple consensus to close was asking too much

You know what? You do whatever needs to be done, I'm washing my hands of it. I tried to ask for a simple consensus of what the next step was and even that apparently is too much to ask while someone is coming in accusing me of "targeting conservative authors" or some bullshit they're doing coordinated straight from [1] [2]. 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 16:24, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AfD can be pretty upsetting and I hope we can come up with some way to make these discussions less confrontational. I do think there are legitimate concerns with the Hoyt article and hopefully people will continue working on it. The article talk page might be the most appropriate venue for now. I had forgotten (or never knew) that according to Wikipedia:Peer_review/guidelines "Articles must be free of major cleanup banners" before being taken there. So the first thing to do would be to see if the cleanup banner that is there now is justified and, if so, what could be done about it. But if you want to take a break from this now that's very understandable. Haukur (talk) 16:31, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I just requested protection for two pages after it looks like Williamson's off-wiki harassment campaign attempted to dishonestly suggest one of them to keep up this "waah they are attacking conservative authors" bullshit. Oh and been called a "dog-fellators at Wikipee" by Williamson today too so there's that. 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 16:43, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

<3 Haukur (talk) 16:44, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok nope, done. [3]. That plus being called a "dog fellator", I quit. 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 16:48, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know now, I am saddened to see that you weren't really interested in honest discussions, especially so by your encouraging Edgar181 to cast aspersions at me. [4]. Especially after the numerous slurs that were thrown at me in the AFDs, the fact that someone tried to call my workplace to harass me, and knowing that someone already "investigated" me and I'm no sockpuppet. [5]. 6YearsTillRetirement (talk) 05:20, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how I encouraged any such thing. I have never called you a sockpuppet or, as far as I can see, said anything negative at all about you. I am saddened to hear about someone calling your workplace. Haukur (talk) 06:52, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your hard work

I wanted to thank you for not joining the delete bandwagon on at least Michael Z. Williamson, but instead working hard to improve the article. I'm still thoroughly convinced that it was the first of a purge of conservative SF authors, and happy that the article was ultimately kept. I hope that, contrary to the suggestion at the end of the no consensus ruling, that this sleeping dog is finally left to lie. The work you've done goes a long way toward that end. Thanks. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 11:03, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'll respond further at your talk page. Haukur (talk) 11:29, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you even more for the work on Tom Kratman. You have done Wikipedia a great service. My hope is that the flurry of deletions will die down and we can all go back to doing more productive things. Should the occasion ever arise, I owe you a bottle of your favorite potable. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 02:34, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Come visit Iceland and drinks are on me :) Haukur (talk) 10:25, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Could you lend a hand?

Please see if there is anything you can provide to help resolve this discussion. Thanks. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 22:53, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I read it and added the page to my watchlist but don't think I have anything to add at the moment. I agree with you that the key point for us is what third party reliable sources are doing. Haukur (talk) 23:13, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You've got mail

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Here

Wow! You're amazing! Should I send you my address? Or do you want to make use of this yourself? :) Haukur (talk) 12:30, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's all yours  :) don't get your hopes up, it's not very big! Yes, please do so. ——SerialNumber54129 12:32, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

I see that you retracted your !Vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosemary Crossley. You should know that at this moment there is no evidence that Rosemary Crossly is notable for anything other than promoting facilitated communication and working with people who use it. One editor keeps making the claim that she is notable for other things, but hasn't backed it up with sources. I don't know if this changes anything, but I thought it was relevant. --Wikiman2718 (talk) 14:16, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pistols at dawn

My German's a little rusty but I think at this point I'm supposed to challenge you to pistols at dawn. EEng 17:12, 12 August 2019 (UTC) P.S. I would appreciate your not saying I threatened you with guns.[reply]

I've totally lost the plot here. German? Guns? Haukur (talk) 17:39, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's a deadpan joke. You say something in French, I say, "Sorry, my German's a little rusty". Ha ha ha ha. It's partly a way of diverting attention from the fact that I can't understand a word of French. EEng 03:54, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I see, I probably should have figured. But despite this little hiccup I give us a collective A for this duelling exchange. Very decent "friendly banter don't block" stuff. For what it's worth the Nostradamus quote means "They will be equal in nature but very different in faith." I thought this was apposite but it isn't really that apposite and I let my fondness for this quote lead me astray. I give myself a C+ here at best. Haukur (talk) 10:52, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But can I assume you will be wearing your breeches of civility? Haukur (talk) 23:51, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've been meaning to complement you on that one. EEng 03:54, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I was pretty happy with this one too as a little tribute to your style of humor. Haukur (talk) 10:52, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

One of my several styles. You only see the one I use on Wikipedia. EEng 22:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Charity

Merlin working on the sources for Phineas Gage.

I'll show some charity when with the RfC ending with six weeks' work by ten editors being restored i.e. this edit [6] is reverted. As far as E.C. goes, search Talk:Moors murders for the word oneupmanship (not oneupsmanship – he spelled it wrong), and also see my posts near the beginning, and the end, of the thread here [7].

BTW, if you want to see my idea of real research and careful sourcing, see Phineas Gage or Widener Library (the latter being, BTW, where I got all the sources). EEng 03:54, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is like a dispatch from some alternate universe Wikipedia. What mighty sourcerer came up with this system? Haukur (talk) 10:52, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean the format of the reference callouts, like this[B2]: 5 , and the alphabetized bibliography grouped as For general readers etc., that was me and the matchless Mirokado -- see Talk:Phineas_Gage/Archive_7#Together_again!. If you mean the meticulous research and sourcing, that was me. An important topic like M.M.s deserves that level of attention. EEng 00:27, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the electric chair. It's actually interesting to compare this with the duelling guns. I thought the guns were fine. They're so quaint and cute and remote from any present reality that the message can't be taken as genuinely threatening or distressing. I'm happy to play along and even add more 18th century claptrap. But the chair just feels gross and sad and the image is too graphic for my tastes.

On the other hand, I feel there could be a lot of comedic potential in a routine where I am continually hatching new schemes to get you blocked and you always manage to nimbly escape at the last second. Haukur (talk) 10:52, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Here I wanted to insert an image of The Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, but I couldn't find a free one. <BEEP BEEP!> EEng 22:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the post on WP:RX

Sent the email. Also, "You are very lucky that this is still here," the librarian told me, "we've been throwing away this sort of thing" - is that sort of material really so unpopular? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:22, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I gathered that "just abstracts" were felt to be useless, I don't know. Seemed like a very information dense slab of paper to me.

The University of Iceland is supposedly decent on geology but sadly this was the only one of your requests that I was able to find. Haukur (talk) 20:46, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Received, thanks. It's probably a problem because an University of Iceland will probably cover Iceland's volcanoes first, not the American ones. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:44, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Greenland

Far be it from me, as you obviously rank about 1000x higher on the WP food chain than I do, but I agree with Shemtov 613, who inserted the report about President Trump's interest in buying Greenland into the Greenland WP article. According to the WSJ article, the US made two prior attempts to buy the island from Denmark, once in 1867, and the other in the 1950s. I certainly think this is all worth reporting. One paragraph or so relating all that information would make up a tiny percentage of the Greenland article, and I would think that this is certainly relevant information, especially if one includes the part about Denmark apparently tiring of spending significant sums there. Vcuttolo (talk) 07:27, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Don't feel you have to show me deference here but I'd be happy to discuss my thinking on this. By inserting a sentence on Trump's idea into the end of the history section it makes it sound like this is the most significant thing that happened in Greenlandic history for the last 10 years. And it really is not, this is just some little idea that will go nowhere and affect nothing. At this stage it feels to me like WP:NOTNEWS applies, along with WP:UNDUE.

It's true that this is an idea that has been pursued with more seriousness in the past and there would be nothing wrong with writing about that. There's probably even enough material for a separate article on Attempts by the United States to purchase Greenland and it would be fine to deal with Trump's version of this there. Haukur (talk) 07:55, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've discussed this further elsewhere but for the sake of clarity I wanted to add a note here that Denmark–United States relations seems like a good place for this to me and a separate article probably isn't needed at this stage. Haukur (talk) 22:48, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Smörgåsbord

Thank you for your thanks. Is there an Icelandic spelling of the word? Bishonen | talk 10:46, 3 September 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Sadly, I don't think so! We have hlaðborð but that can also be used for buffet more generally. Haukur (talk) 11:00, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For julbord we say jólahlaðborð. Haukur (talk) 11:01, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jólahlaðborð? That's a beautiful word. I hope there's lutfisk on the borð. Or hákarl, perhaps? Bishonen | talk 11:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC).[reply]

There'll certainly be hákarl on the þorrahlaðborð. I'm partial to it myself. For strongly smelling fish around Yule you might have to settle for fermented skate on Thorlac's mass. Haukur (talk) 11:21, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. As a Harvard freshman I was taught that Yule men stink, and finally I know why. EEng 16:24, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I tried hákarl when I hitchhiked in Iceland in my youth (early 19th century). For me, the description sounded quite mouth-watering — I'm very partial to the ammonia flavour of salmiak liquorice and aged gorgonzola. Ammonia's good. But hákarl, disappointingly, I found horrible. 😝 Apparently I'm not as hardcore as I like to think. Bishonen | talk 11:10, 4 September 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Gilles Chiasson

The deletion of a Broadway actor's article, even after conducting WP:BEFORE, could be controversial. Please go to WP:AfD. Bearian (talk) 19:11, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for de-proding it, I think I was moving too quickly here. Haukur (talk) 20:07, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Million Award

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Taking Tiberius to FA

Hey Haukurth,

Would you like to do as The Rambling Man has suggested and take Tiberius to FA once it passes GA? I think it has a decent shot at passing. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 14:21, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, we could do that. While on the subject, I still kind of think we should rename the article since 'David' is used much more by the sources than 'Tiberius'. For a while I liked David Tiberius but I don't think there's any primary source that actually calls him that so maybe that's a bit misleading (as I think you already pointed out). But David (son of Heraclius) might work. Haukur (talk) 14:24, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Generally speaking, the imperial name always takes priority, even if they only hold the title for a few days. I'm not strongly vested in David vs. Tiberius, but it would break a lot of precedent. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 16:15, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Stallman Edit Revert

You reverted my Stallman edit and cited the reliable sources page. I cited The Verge. The Verge is listed as a reliable source. All 3 other sources I cited were primary sources, ie, direct accounts either from Stallman or his coworkers, and one would think inherently reliable.

Surely, this was a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.24.39.178 (talk) 21:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is possible that there are or will be secondary sources of adequate quality for Wikipedia to mention this event. But we can't do original research to draw novel conclusions or tie together information from two sources.

As for the Vice source, note how misleading and sensationalist it is: Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'. The actual quote is not on "Epstein Victims" in general but on one particular person. And he wasn't saying that she was actually willing but that "the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing" because of Epstein's coercion. Now, this may still be a dumb thing to say but it's a very different thing than that Vice headline says. Haukur (talk) 21:39, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Narsaq stick

On 17 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Narsaq stick, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Narsaq stick was the first Viking Age runic artifact discovered in Greenland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Narsaq stick. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Narsaq stick), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Max Mata

Is it possible to keep this deleted page as a user subpage of User:Mrsmiis / ... (the creator); or mine if I can not request it on behalf of others. It would make it much easier to recreate the page when the notabilty is reached. Thank you. Pelmeen10 (talk) 20:47, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, does User:Pelmeen10/Max Mata look right? Haukur (talk) 20:55, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - cheers Pelmeen10 and Haukur! Mrsmiis (talk) 01:23, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Was the deletion of my name from the list of "List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas" appropriate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_writers_from_peoples_indigenous_to_the_Americas&curid=363722&diff=917135154&oldid=916789883

I am still a citizen of the federally recognized Cherokee Nation, and I am still an author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Day_in_North_American_Indian_History

I cannot change it because of Wikipedia's COI.

Phil Konstantin (talk) 21:18, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, part of the inclusion criterion for a list like that will typically be that an article exists. A redirect might not cut it. But I confess I'm not familiar with this particular list. Haukur (talk) 23:08, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

For saying it and saying it well on Fram's RfA2. The only thing missing was some Hans Zimmer background music to you speaking it with passion. DBigXrayᗙ 05:19, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I love berries! Haukur (talk) 09:13, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A beer for you!

Thank you for being a voice of reason throughout the recent constitutional crisis and ensuing RfA. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:32, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated. Thank you likewise. Haukur (talk) 09:13, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

TERF

Your section at the article was accidentally deleted. I would have reverted it back, but another editor replied to the editor that deleted it so I thought it was best just to copy it back in.[8] Can you just check it to make sure I haven't inadvertently changed anything. Regards AIRcorn (talk) 00:57, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, thank you! Haukur (talk) 08:28, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Backlog Drive Barnstar

		The Invisible Barnstar
		Thanks for your participation in the September 2019 GA Backlog drive. Your 2 reviews made a difference, as did your willingness to review a particularly old nomination. The work of editors like you helped bring down the unreviewed backlog by over 35%. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:42, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It was fun to participate in, thanks for coordinating it! Haukur (talk) 20:16, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Using sources that are not verifiable by most readers

Re this Citation bot edit: you should use the WP:CITEBUNDLE format illustrated in the article's Talk page. All these subscription-only and signup-only sources are detrimental to the quality of articles. Wikipedia is intended for use by the general public. Readers should not be forced to spend $ or create user names in order to verify information provided with cited sources. Pyxis Solitary (yak) 13:51, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I do mean to add links to the pdf pages you found, I'm sorry that I haven't gotten around to it yet. Haukur (talk) 13:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Haukurth, Pyxis Solitary: Offline sources are usable. Online sources that are not freely available are also usable, and in fact, are often the most reliable. If you have issues to access an academic paper, you can request a copy at WP:RX. Other editors with access to academic databases can send a copy by email. There is also The Wikipedia Library where you can request an account for some databases that have a partnership with Wikipedia. If you have any issue accessing a source, I'm happy to help. Best, --MarioGom (talk) 14:37, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I was about to say something similar -- see WP:SOURCEACCESS. EEng 14:42, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter what I can do. What matters is what the general Wikipedia reader can do. You really believe that every Wikipedia reader is aware of WP:RX? I have found many sources that at first come up as unaccessible by digging more for them. That's how I found the uploaded .pdf of the source in question (which is not an academic paper). If a non pay-only or member-only source can be found, we should avoid imposing hurdles upon readers. This isn't an encyclopedia for academics. Pyxis Solitary (yak) 14:58, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pyxis Solitary: I understand your point and it is a pity that not all reliable sources are freely available online. But if we really followed your suggestion strictly, Wikipedia would not have many of its good and featured articles. Be it a biography such as Fred Keenor or a topic such as Female genital mutilation. Many articles about current events can be sourced from online newspapers, but for many others, it is often not possible to increase the quality of the article without resorting to reliable sources that are not freely available online. In any case, this is a well-established policy (WP:SOURCEACCESS). --MarioGom (talk) 15:26, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I know that medical, scientific, philosophical, technical, educational, economic, or mathematical sources are often found behind a pay wall or "free" membership; but if the article subject is social, cultural, literary, arts, business, or history chances are that there exists an abundance of accessible online sources. It's my belief, and it's how I edit, that making Wikipedia convenient for the average reader is better. Pyxis Solitary (yak) 05:31, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that sources that are offline or behind subscriptions are okay. But I assume we also agree that it's better to provide an accessible version if one is available. The particular issue here was replacing a ProQuest link with links to openly accessible PDF files. Pyxis Solitary suggested a WP:CITEBUNDLE, which would work, but doing the entire thing in triplicate has its drawbacks. The way I did it just now definitely isn't perfect either.[9] How would you do this, EEng? Haukur (talk) 17:24, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Traveling, tiny screen. Ping me if I don’t get back to you when I return to civilization in 3 days. EEng 17:56, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the three separate pdfs for individual pages make for an awkward situation; I don't know of any way to feed those into the cite template machinery, so what you've done already may be the best it's gonna be. Just to be clear, whether a source is available on line or not, or requirs payment or subscription or not, is absolutely irrelevant. In fact, part of Wikipedia's function is to make otherwise inaccessible knowledge freely available, and to deprecate offline or pay sources would work completely contrary to that goal. But once a source has been selected, we should link to any free, legal online copy, if one's available. EEng 08:00, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking into it, I appreciate it. And I agree that making inaccessible knowledge available is good, you put it well. Haukur (talk) 09:05, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Of course providing an online version is preferable. If offline, it is desirable to add a quote in the reference. Depending on how much of the publication is relevant, maybe you can link only to the relevant page? --MarioGom (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Dispute

Since you are not interested in a discussion (deleting my comment) I am going to file a formal dispute against you. Carlduff (talk) 19:03, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is now at WP:ANI. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:46, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Message from User:The Rambling Man

TRM has been in touch with me offwiki. He's taking a wikibreak at least and is considering retiring altogether. He asked me to let you know that unfortunately he won't be able to help you with your GA review as promised. I haven't done a GA review before but I'm experienced at FA and confident I can read up, so if you'd like me as an inadequate replacement for TRM's expertise, please do ask. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:49, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone deserves a break it is TRM. Thanks for offering to help with Tiberius (son of Heraclius), I'd be delighted to work with you on a GA review. Or, if you think the article looks ready for FAC we could take it there directly. Haukur (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Old Norse and Roman ruler

Thank you for quality articles such as Narsaq stick, Tiberius (son of Heraclius) and Camille Bacon-Smith, performed in collaboration, for reviweing, for service from 2003, and admin services, for a minimal informative usr page, for remembering, - user from Iceland, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2328 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:08, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That was sweet of you, thank you! Haukur (talk) 16:40, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:The Weapon (novel)

Hi, I noticed that you made some substantial edits to Draft:The Weapon (novel) so as a courtesy I'm letting you know it has been deleted under CSD criterion G13. As an admin I'm sure you know how to get it refunded if you want to work on it some more :) --kingboyk (talk) 14:10, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Roger that! Haukur (talk) 21:23, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:David (son of Heraclius)/GA1

Haukurth, it looks like this review may be complete now; Dweller seems to be satisfied with it, and the page move that they requested has been done (from Tiberius, I think it was). As you were the original reviewer, do you feel comfortable closing it now? If not, I'll asked Dweller to do it. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:16, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so sorry for neglecting this for so long. I'll try to give it a read-through tomorrow and see if I have anything to add. Thank you for reminding me. Haukur (talk) 00:27, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's been another couple of weeks. Hope you are well, and able to get to this soon. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:37, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Haukurth, I saw that you made a brief edit to the article page yesterday. I'm hoping that you can conclude the review right away; we've gotten to the point that the GA nominations page can't handle the sheer number of nominations on it, which is causing transclusion problems. Thank you for the gift of your time. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:04, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Rig veda Authorship

@Haukurth: regarding removal of authorship information as a wp:undue on following text

" The text is supposed to be derived entirely & only out of Intuition & spiritual experiences and not by logical reasoning as there is no claim of authorship by any writers but the writer always referring to the text as being inspired revelation or via Intuition and beyond, making it very difficult to add a logical flow to the meaning often making the text incomprehensible to understand. "

Regarding authorship "claimed" by Rishis if thats what you meant, they themselves have written they are not the authors of the text but only composers would it be interesting add this also in lead to make it neutral ?

it is not only Aurobindo but also two western authors with similar claims, can it be reworded ?

I know as a Admin you have your handsfull, I would be really happy if we can collaborate in editing this article :)

--Shrikanthv (talk) 08:12, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contacting me! I would certainly like to work on the article if I can find the time. I suggest we focus discussion on the article talk page. Haukur (talk) 11:29, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Niloy Rashid Jaki

Hi,

Did you make this edit? That vote was actually left by an impostor, not the real Fish and karate. Adam9007 (talk) 19:05, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thanks for fixing that. I see I got taken in. Haukur (talk) 19:08, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not exactly infallible either; I thought you were another sock before I realised that you had genuinely made a mistake! Adam9007 (talk) 19:14, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was far too hasty - I figured the socking action in that AfD was on the keep side and it didn't occur to me to check for impersonation. Will be more careful next time... Haukur (talk) 19:35, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is the real me confirming it wasn’t me. Fish+Karate 21:16, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's all right there in the log. I hope the troll at least got a laugh out of my idiocy. Haukur (talk) 21:44, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you're not the only one who fell for it... Adam9007 (talk) 03:12, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, at least I'm in good company :P ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:59, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

language discussion

Hello Haukur, I’m sorry I can’t add this to the Ref Desk page at the moment, but in case it’s helpful am posting here. Have you thought of looking through Gatschet’s other poor glosses to get a feel for how he mishears Spanish words? So for example, if he tends to hear a /k/ sound in Spanish as a /g/, then a word he clearly spells with g might actually mean a word spelled with q. That would be another angle for figuring out what word he intended here – and might even shed some light on the r-v situation. 70.67.193.176 (talk) 00:02, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That is indeed a sensible approach and I have been trying to get a feel for Gatschet's abilities and working methods. The guy was recording languages at breakneck speed - though apparently he was a shy person whose skills were a better fit for philological work.[10] Anyway, the particular problem I brought up seems to have been solved by Amble's suggestion that the word was 'braguero'. Maybe Gatschet misheard it or maybe there was some local pronunciation without the 'b'. In any case, it's just one letter distant from 'raguero' and it can refer to a strap worn around the loins. Haukur (talk) 00:19, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, so glad you got a good outcome! I'm sure there's another paper in Gatschet's ability to hear sounds accurately and what that might mean for the accuracy of his Cotoname phonology :) 70.67.193.176 (talk) 16:06, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I saw you were the primary author of Ásatrúarfélagið. Since you are both knowledgeable about the subject and know Icelandic, I thought I could try to ask you for help with the article on Jörmundur Ingi Hansen. I've recently expanded it and think it's close to GA level, but it's largely based on sources in Icelandic, a language I have a limited understanding of. I would be very grateful if you could help by taking a look at the sources (they're all online newspaper articles, none is particularly long) and see if I have understood everything correctly. What I'm most unsure of are some terms in "Early life and education" and "Professional career", and the nature of the Reykjavíkurgoðorð splinter group. There may be other errors as well, and if you have some other criticisms that would also be very welcome. And thank you for your work on Ásatrúarfélagið and other articles! Ffranc (talk) 13:38, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Nice to see :) I'm extremely busy at work this week but I'll see if I can help when I can. Haukur (talk) 08:20, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. There's no hurry. Ffranc (talk) 12:57, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Himnastigi ?

Hi, I am a bit curious : you took a picture of the Jacob's Ladder from Bath abbay in 2006 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himnastigi.jpg) and named the file "Himnastigi". Is it the icelandic word for Jacob's Ladder ? Or is it a poetic name ? I'm asking because Bára Gísladóttir, an icelandic composer, named one of her musical work like this. Zeroheure (talk) 17:54, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The word means 'ladder to heaven' and is sometimes used for Jacob's Ladder. Haukur (talk) 21:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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1. How do I deal with users like this[11] who blatantly vandalize and where giving 4 warnings obviously isnt going to help? As I understand it I cannot simply rollback their changes again and again because I would be autoblocked for edit warring. Fachidiot (talk) 16:12, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's fine to roll back blatant vandalism like this as often as needed. Haukur (talk) 23:19, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Haukurth,

I was wondering if you had any interest in co-nominating Martinus (son of Heraclius) for FAC; while small, it's very well put together, and I think it stands a shot at passing. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 03:45, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Iazyges! I appreciate the offer but maybe it's best if you go it alone. I do not feel I contributed so much here. I wish you the best of luck. Haukur (talk) 16:28, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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@Aszx5000: I guess I could flip that switch. But having someone check things over is nice too - I had forgotten to include a short description so thanks for adding that! Haukur (talk) 05:19, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delighted to do so, but the WP:NPP queues are long so it all helps :) thanks. Aszx5000 (talk) 09:28, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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criticism of poor lead writing

Hello! I just ended up reading by chance your criticism of lead writing in contemporary famous people. I couldn't agree more. I've found myself struggling to make K-pop pages more interesting to read recently, the leads are especially atrocious, devoted of any concept, context, let alone criticism. I was wondering if you developed more of your thoughts on the matter somewhere else, so that I could link to it when needed. Thanks! Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 10:29, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What a neat message to receive! Yes, I see you're wrestling with the same problem over on NewJeans. The lead is full of dry data about charting and sales with little to tell us what's actually special or interesting about this group. It's as if the intended reader is some music industry executive evaluating a business proposition. There is plenty of juicier stuff in the body of the article which is being left out. Why does this happen? I guess one reason is the one you are encountering – some of the interesting critical reactions are more subjective so might meet more resistance from those that disagree with them. But it's a shame, the lead does not need to be so boring. I've never written an essay on this but I'd encourage you to do so. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section is mostly good stuff and says a good lead "cultivates interest in reading on". But one possible issue with the guideline is its heavy emphasis on 'establishing notability'. For a marginally notable topic it may be important to mention awards or charting or whatever in the lead to establish notability. But this doesn't need to bleed over into drowning every lead section in this sort of data, even where the notability of the act could not possibly be questioned. Haukur (talk) 17:03, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your answer!

Writing an essay could be an idea, but at the same time I am not sure that the culprit is the emphasis for notability. I have recently rewrote the lead on The Pirate Bay, and in that case... the issue was establishing notability! That page went on for 20 years without it. At the same time I tried to raise multiple times in multiple kpop talk pages the issues of leads being full of nothing, nobody really tried to justify it by saying that you need notability, they just go quiet and use other arguments if you try to add stuff.

I feel like the current MOS is good enough, it's just that people don't follow it. The lead reflects how people approach the page. Either wanting to hide notability, or filling it with promotional material, or avoid controversy, or criticism, or just make it plain boring to avoid *anything*. You commenting about Taylor Swift prooved to me that some of these conteporary artists get a worst (best?) treatement than politicians do.

You are right to notice that the NewJeans page actually has interesting stuff described into the article. Take the Blackpink page for comparison, that is almost only promotional material, prizes and such. Even their most famous producer Teddy is *never* mentioned. I like to look at the lead of Stanley Kubrick, for example, to remind myself how good it can be :) Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 21:49, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're so right! Stanley Kubrick is a terrific example of good lead writing. The whole thing is readable and engaging and really gives you a sense for Kubrick as an artist and as a human being. Imagine how easy it would be to rewrite this as a litany of awards and box office statistics and how much worse that would be. Yet, that is sadly typical. Take Steven Spielberg for a boring lead about an interesting guy. Haukur (talk) 00:28, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Terrible, it's basically his filmography plus awards. Can an essay directly reference wikipedia pages as "bad exemples"? Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 14:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why not! Another option might be comparing an engaging version and a dull version of a lead about the same person. Haukur (talk) 20:10, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a good idea. I've also read the MOS specific to the biography of living persons, and it basically only says formatting stuff, it's a shame. I guess than developing that would find significant opposition? For me it is quite obvious that a lead should NOT be a list of prizes and releases. Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 20:46, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Opinions do definitely differ as I found out when I brought this up back then, see the conversation here: User_talk:Iridescent/Archive_35#Taylor_Swift But I very much agree that a lead should be actual prose and not a list of films or songs or whatever the person has done. And awards and such can be pretty boring and uninformative as well. To take the Spielberg lead again, it ends like this: "In 2013, Time listed him as one of the 100 most influential people,[8] and in 2023, Spielberg was the recipient of the first ever Time 100 Impact Award in the U.S.[9]" There's something almost demeaning about this. I feel like Spielberg is more interesting and important than some list made up on Time one day. What are his movies like? Why are they such a big deal? What kind of guy is he? There's a lot of stuff to talk about! Haukur (talk) 22:16, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That discussion is troubling. Iridescent seems to imply that since Swift is known to be famous, the lead should only talk about her being famous. The result, involuntary if you want, sounds to me like an effective way of censoring any other information, let alone controversy, that could find its spot on lead. There is nothing wrong in having even two of the four paragraphs dedicated to her success, but if the body has more content, and it usually have as you noted, it's concerning that nothing else can find a spot.

This topic should definetelly be trated in MOS:BIO, or the whole concept of a lead becomes instantly useless as soon as a party as sufficient resources to spam promotional material in the cultural sphere, rendering any other insight and analysis irrelevant. Should I try to raise the issue on the talk page there? Is this something that can find a consensus of some kind in your opinion? Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 10:12, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since this discussion I've found myself in two discussions where users explicitelly used "notability" as a way to censors controversy on the body of pages. Not even on lead.

Since I didn't got an answer on the talk page of MOS:BIO I think that the best solution would be to be bold, write a new section there and see how it goes. Cinemaandpolitics (talk) 17:38, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping! Benjamin (talk) 09:47, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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