User talk:JavierMC/Archives/2008/September

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2008 South Ossetia war

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Please stop anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western reverts of Banach

Resulted in Banach article being semi-protected for 3 months and 3RR filed against me declined, see #3RR filing [diff]
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Please stop anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western reverts of Banach. You are in violation of 3RR and you are hereby warned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.190.247 (talk) 23:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC) This was due to editor making contributions to an article without providing WP:CITE, in no way am I anti-Ukrainian, Western, or any other country, nationality, race, sex, age, orientation, etc. --«JavierMC»|Talk 23:40, 14 September 2008 (UTC) Fair warning, he's now reported you to WP:3RR. Good luck! Dayewalker (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

"I Kissed A Girl" (Barf)

Replied at User_talk:Christopedia#September_2008

Not constructive? Looks like a blatant attempt to recruit young girls into the homosexual lifestyle. It is at least trying to normalize and legitimize that type of unnatural behavior. Christopedia (talk) 05:57, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I understand, thankyou. Christopedia (talk) 06:06, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hakka

Replied at User_talk:147.243.216.4#Hakka

Hi, was there any reason to remove this from the Hakka page?

• • Datuk Peter Lo Sui Yin (Longchuan, Guangdong), Chief Minister of Sabah, 1965-67 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.243.216.4 (talk) 06:37, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Patent nonsense

Replied at User_talk:Neil916#Trent_from_Punchy

I removed the speedy deletion tag you added to the Trent from Punchy article. While the notability of the subject is certainly questionable and I have made no attempt to investigate any of the claims in the article, it doesn't appear to rise to the level of patent nonsense. Perhaps AFD would be a better venue? Neil916 (Talk) 06:48, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Advice about Dreamhost

Replied at:
User_talk:Max.NYC.Black#Advice_about_Dreamhost
Talk:DreamHost#Neutral_third_party_view

Hi Javier, thanks for welcoming me to Wiki. I'm having a prob right off the bat, I hope you can give me advice. Are there Wiki mercenaries or something? I reviewed the history of Dreamhost and see that there is an editor determined to undo edits. He did a few of mine, a few of an earlier editor. Our edits are clean and substantiated. The other editor is just knocking them out with legitimate sounding summaries, but the last one was not only an opinion but also slanted. Thank you!! Max.NYC.Black (talk) 00:25, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

List of Family Guy episodes

Replied at User_talk:Ravave#List_of_Family_Guy_episodes

Espero que no te importe si te hablo en Español, he visto en tu userpage que tienes unos conocimientos a nivel nativo, Acabo de ver la reversión que hicistes en este articulo, te diré que se trata de una IP que no hace mas que borrar información referenciada sobre dos capitulos (él obviamente se piensa que son fan-fics) sin ni siquiera discutir los cambios, ya es su segundo bloqueo por guerra de ediciones. ¿Podrias sugerir que semi-protegieran el articulo?. --Ravave (talk) 06:51, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, muchas gracias desde España --Ravave (talk) 09:41, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much from Spain --Ravave (talk) 09:41, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Please don't remove the external links

Replied at User_talk:Danielspencer2#External_Link_Cassie

You said I added an inappropriate external link to Cassie's wikipedia entry. YouTube links are allowed. Here is a list of wikipedia articles with YouTube links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_cent

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

I am going to add the YouTube link back to cassie's page so please don't remove it.

Danielspencer2 (talk) 02:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

You said this:

"I went and looked at the Cassie Youtube page and can see how it definitely looks official"

It is the official one. if you go to Cassie's official myspace(which is on wikipedia) and click on her blog titled "WORLD PREMIERE "Official Girl" Music Video! " and view the youtube url, you will see it takes you to http://www.youtube.com/user/sassiecassie123 which is her official youtube.Danielspencer2 (talk) 04:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

You said this:

"Using Myspace page to verify that a Youtube page is valid is the same. Myspace and Youtube both do not verify that the person establishing an account is actually who they say they are. See what I'm trying to say? It's better to find pages that are verifiable as belonging to the person they are referring"

Alot of singers like Cassie have official websites and they list their myspace urls on their website. Danielspencer2 (talk) 05:08, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

You said this:

Here's a thought for you. If you go to Cassie's "official website" you will see that it is a hosted website where people register and post information of any kind that they want. Wouldn't you think that she could afford to buy here own domain name and register it, instead of being hosted on an "anybody can be hosted here site"? I'm just trying to let you know that some sites may claim to be official, when in fact they are more than likely simply fan sites

Ok thanks for that. But that is cassie's official website. If you go to the badboy record label site which cassie is signed to here:

http://www.badboyonline.com/artist.php?artId=920372

You will see her lovecassie.com website and myspace are listed there(near the top right hand side) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielspencer2 (talk • contribs) 05:22, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

What's that one for?

Replied at User_talk:59.95.107.198#re:how

That one -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A59.95.107.198&diff=238296348&oldid=238296055

Which edit of mine is responsible for that warning? -59.95.107.198 (talk) 05:11, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Somers Town

Reply to User_talk:JNW#Somers_Town.2C_London_edits_by_IP_77.101.173.160

I did notice your reversion; at the same moment I was leaving a comment on the article's talk page. Your contributions are appreciated. Cheers, JNW (talk) 04:36, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Why did you revert me?

Replied at User_talk:Meco#Revert_on_Lehman_Brothers

You reverted my addition of a navbox to the Lehman Brothers‎ article together with a number of anonymous edits. Why? (If you respond on my talk page, please copy the original entry or refer to this discussion by linking to it and summarizing its content.) __meco (talk) 09:00, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Arapahoe High School

Replied at User talk:Ducks828#Aprahoe_High_School

How does putting the captains on there have no value? So it does when the 2007 tennis captains are? Here is the value: a student logs on and is curious who the captains of there football team are. So there you go. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducks828 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

My previous answer was incorrect

I completely revised my response to your post at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content. Sorry for giving an incorrect answer. —teb728 t c 09:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Smuckerbob et al.

OK, fair enough. In the future, if something like that happens, you should make a note that he and someone else are the same person, because that fact was not immediately obvious to me. All I saw was some kid playing around, and who was reported to AIV after two warnings, which IMO, was a little harsh. If I had known that he had already been warned as an IP, I would not have unblocked him.

Based on your usual accuracy of reports at AIV, I assumed that some glitch had made Huggle report him early, so I made a mental note of it and I was going to tell you if something like that happened again. But that doesn't really matter, because as you said, the reports are now stale. I still think it was some bored kid messing around. I wonder if the fact that I actually blocked him for a short time made him realize that even if he wasn't serious, we are.

Anyways, thanks for your note. It's always better for me if someone questions my actions, because that best way I know to learn. I'll look at the page history for stuff like that in the future if I think my block may have been unwarranted. Keep up the good work with your vandal-fighting. Cheers! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 12:38, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Your NPWatcher application

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the Spanish title of a book

Hi Javier,

the Spanish title of a (reference or source) book should be written as published, if you want to find the book again. Hence I wrote El arbitraje del Beagle y la actitud argentina and not El arbitraje del Beagle y la actitud Argentina.

Also, in this case "argentina" is an adjective and "actitud argentina" is not a proper name, so "a" instead of "A".

Thank you for all others corrections and proposals.

Best regards, --Keysanger (talk) 11:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

(P.S.: ¿Que tal mi inglés?. ¡Por lo menos tu entendiste el artículo!)

Your English is fine my friend. As to the capitalization of Argentina, in English, a proper noun should be capitalized, however it may be used grammatically, when the noun relates to people or geographical place names. But, if used like in bread board, steak knife, etc. the noun is not capitalized. Other examples are "Irish coffee", "Swiss cheese", "Japanese car", "Mississippi River water", "quiche Lorraine", and "Bowie knife".--«JavierMC»|Talk 15:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Andrea González

Can you delete the article Andrea González, please? I have performed this article, but it is duplicated (Andrea González Romo). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bress4 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

I redirected it for you, hope that works.--«JavierMC»|Talk 00:30, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Ben Thornton

There's a bot that does that cleanup stuff.  :) Corvus cornix_talk 01:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm bored LOL --«JavierMC»|Talk 01:52, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

ANI

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

I assume I know what this is about. Note serialcomma started a section yesterday, plus one at 3RR and was given the conclusion that he shouldn't have been inciting, and that he needed to let it go. It was not a serious question, atleast not the part two, just a mere clamour for attention. Grsz^talk 00:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh no, it wasn't specifically directed at your comments, it was more to the fact that it was closed previously with a statement that the reported user apologized and rephrased his remarks. Deleting the remarks, yet adding the diffs to no purpose except what appeared as an attempt to keep the flames stoked, is hardly apologetic and rephrasing. Svernon19 should have known what he was doing and known what the effect would be by adding the diffs. The whole thing was pathetic and could have been taken care of faster. But my personal view of it's handling is subjective at best.--«JavierMC»|Talk 00:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, makes sense. The problem with the diffs was in 3RR, serialcomma dragged in a bunch of irrelevant diffs. He was the first one to replace an attack with a diff to it, but didn't like it when somebody else did the same. Svernon was uncivil, but there was no reason to drag this on when nothing more was going to happen. Grsz^talk 02:55, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

thanks for failing to assume good faith by saying i was 'merely clamoring for attention' and that my question was not serious. you are wrong. i legitimately wanted the attack removed, and i legitimately thought he violated 3rr, even if i added the diffs incorrectly. your attitude on the 3RR page and the ANI thread is not conducive to the type of collaboration that this project requires, and i personally found your words towards me to be continually repulsive and grossly uncivil. i was asking for help, and you told me "there was no attack. You lose" please just move on and leave me alone. thanks. and fyi, the diffs i linked to were attacks on me that i chose to allow to remain by linking to them. the diffs that svernon19 linked to were attacks on me that i did not want to remain. see the difference? it's a question of courtesy and consent. (sorry to javiermc for adding this to your talk page) bye Theserialcomma (talk) 05:20, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

No, if you feel that one is too hurtful to remain, you should remove them all. That way it's clear what you are trying to do and it doesn't look like you are picking and choosing. Grsz^talk 12:59, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

i was specifically told to STOP edit warring, so telling me to remove them all would contribute to edit warring, right? i didn't want to get blocked because he did something wrong, so i brought it to the admins' attention until the attacks were removed. i wish you would stop making claims about my intentions, or what i should have done, and just forget about it. My honest advice to you, if you care, is next time you are patrolling 3RR or any admin board that could potentially help someone, and someone is complaining about being personally attacked, and there is any possibility that they are actually distraught over the situation, regardless of what your clamoring-for-attention-detector tells you, maybe you could try not responding at all if your answer might make the person feel worse. Being called a bad human, creepy, and a stalker, and then being told that such words were not a personal attack, that i "lost" to "get over it" and that i was "clamoring for attention", was not the highlight of my wikipedia experience. Just assume i'm telling the truth here. not everyone is trying to win one over on you, trick you, clamor for attention, or start drama. some people just don't want irrelevant personal attacks on an article talk page, and don't want to be banned for edit warring to remove the personal attacks when some outside editors claim they aren't attacks and to stop edit warring. that is all. Theserialcomma (talk) 18:42, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

(unindent) OK my friends, lets stop this here. The situation has been handled and there is no need to continue the debate on my talk page to no avail. The diffs have been removed from the article page, Svernon19 alludes to be apologetic for his actions, and I hope that Theserialcomma also sees that posting of diffs on article talk pages are non-productive and can lead to escalation of disputes since they suffered from the same. Removing of the diffs by Theserialcomma that contained a personal attack would/should not have been seen as a 3RR. Lets just take a step back, deep breath and move on to improving the encyclopedia. I don't think Grsz is attempting to carry this further, nor do I think serialcomma wishes to do the same. Lets all just relax. Cheers.--«JavierMC»|Talk 19:10, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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The Murphy's Law struck again

Hi Javier,

Would you be so kind to review Snipe incident?, there could be some "typos" of mine. --Keysanger (talk) 21:13, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I cleaned it up a bit. I'll try to get back to it and see if there's any more I can do to help it out, when I get the time. Interesting however. Later.--«JavierMC»|Talk 22:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Rock microstructures edit

My recent edit to the rock microstructures page was not vandalism. I was merely correcting a mistake as the section i have changed talks about igneous grain structure (e.g.porphyritic and vesicular rock texture) not grain size which is measured as either coarse, medium fine grained. I am currently doing a degree in geology so i know what i have said is correct.

Thanks R Jones —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.30.80.90 (talk) 20:32, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Your edit may be correct, but if you add a source and cite it, it may prevent further action by vandal patrols. Most additions of information or changing of information, unsourced, is usually a method of vandalism. Please read WP:Verifiability and WP:CITE. I hope this helps and that further changing and addition of information by you will follow these principles. Thx.--JavierMC 20:41, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi...

Mind deleting this entry?

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

Some kid decided to edit it and put a lot of offensive things in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrmisterwaa (talk • contribs) 21:21, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Looks like the vandalism patrollers got to it before me and reverted all the offensive content additions. I added info lost in the reverts. If you see any more problems/vandalism, please don't hesitate to let me know. It reads well now Kuwait English School. Thanks for reporting the vandalism.--JavierMC 21:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)