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Fowler&fowler again

Hello, Nishkid64. Would you please spare a moment to look at Talk:British Raj#New page for British India by user:Xn4? I'm getting battered by Fowler&fowler, who seems to have persuaded himself that his ownership of British Raj extends rather widely. If you feel able to do anything to calm the situation, it would be appreciated. Regards, Xn4 (talk) 01:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS Please take a look at Is this allowed?. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:00, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Challenge

COuld you start/expand these:

The Bald One White cat 22:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2008

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Controversy / criticism section

Dear Nish, I would like to know if the abovementioned section is permissible in an article dealing with a political party. Karimpuli (talk) 15:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You left an "indef" banner on User talk:Nukes4Tots, but I think you meant to leave it on User talk:Tots4Nukes. The latter is blocked, not the former. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 22:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Information Technology in India

Kindly take a look at the rewritten Information Technology in India article. If/when you find time then any comments/suggestions on the article talk page would be welcome.

PS: Sorry for bothering you repeatedly :-)

Regards, JSR (talk) 07:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your kind message and for your various corrections. Make sure to read the rewritten History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent as well :-) JSR (talk) 22:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Also make sure to read Indian Media whenever you find time :-) JSR (talk) 16:39, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you add the Wp:Translation header to this? The Bald One White cat 13:44, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I'm wondering why you refrain from speaking to me anymore. The Bald One White cat 14:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah OK its just sometimes you seem very quiet or just too busy to respond thats all. Thats awesome. I'd recommend Not of This Earth and Flying in a Blue Dream. Those are my favourites, Surfing with the Alien is my third favourite. If yiou have a moment have a good cry to Rubina The Bald One White cat 14:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have a listen to the sound on the anthemic Into The Light. Its a short track but undoubtedly one of the best. The tone is unbelievable The Bald One White cat 15:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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ITN Biden pick

Hi, regarding this edit summary and action. Why would we wait for the campaign to confirm it? The Associated Press is certainly a reliable source. I'd like to revert back, but I want to hear what you have to say first.--chaser - t 05:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2002 bou'in-Zahra earthquake

This article is back at FAC by Ed. I was wondering if you could help again? Thanks. --LordSunday 20:12, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anglo-Zanzibar War

Thanks for the congratulations. I always enjoy writing these larger articles as many of my creations (mostly short bios) are much smaller and it's nice to know that other people enjoy reading them. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 10:42, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am finally done with all the refs. Can you help expand the lead? I'm drawing a blank there. A copyedit would be appreciated too. Thanks. RlevseTalk 02:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I I was wondering if you know anything about portals and to try to help getting fr:Portail:Tibet onto english wikipedia The Bald One White cat 08:27, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war in "Sangh Parivar"

Dear Nish, I implore you to keep an eye on articles related to "Hindutva" and organizations concerned with that ideology. As a case in point, an edit war is going on in SANGH PARIVAR. One editor, it seems, is interested in pushing his POV, not attaching any weight to the discussions in the talk section, where even an ADMINISTRATOR has noted a few things.--Karimpuli (talk) 10:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS query

Hi Nishkid64. I'm doing some preliminary image checking for a Stonewall riots FAC run. The principle editor has an OTRS ticket number (2008080810018509) for Image:Stonewall Inn September 1969.jpg, but the OTRS tag has not been added. Do you have a minute to take a look at this one and tag as appropriate? Let me know if you'd like me to move it to the Commons first or need anything else. Thanks. ЭLСОВВОLД talk 15:20, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Much obliged! ЭLСОВВОLД talk 15:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYKs

Hey there. Thanks for your nice words. Well you must know that these articles are so under-represented in the pedia as well as the media. (That rhymed, didn't it? :D) Hence I thought that I could add to them. Where are you from? Mspraveen (talk) 02:45, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I can DYK it :) Let me take a look at it tonight. Nice to meet you here. Mspraveen (talk) 04:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Boy, the town is so poorly sourced in the media. I could only find a connection to the Thousand Pillar Temple and I created it. Did you see this temple as well? To answer your last message, I'm from Hyderabad as well. Most of my life I've been here, but for a few years in Mumbai and College Station, Texas. Mspraveen (talk) 17:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, that's been a concern for many articles that I wish to improve in terms of content, but they are oppressed with the lack of reliable sources. No wonder there is bias on Wikipedia. Btw, I just noticed that you are a member of OTRS. I've been waiting for Image:Rang_De_Basanti_Golden_Temple.jpg to get tagged with a ticket since quite some time. Can you possibly help here, with time permitting? Mspraveen (talk) 17:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the info. I've contacted Howcheng for the image. So long. Mspraveen (talk) 17:42, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

You removed the wikilink from Eugène Delacroix in the personnel section of Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends saying "wrong person". The cover art of the album is the painting Liberty Leading the People which is definitely by Eugène Delacroix. --JD554 (talk) 07:48, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your improvements to the above article (with new refs, info, MoS changes etc). It is much appreciated. I will shortly nominate the article for a peer review with a hope to nominating it as a GA after I get some feedback. I was just wondering whether you had noticed anything else that needed correction with the article or had any suggestions? Many thanks once again for your edits which have significantly improved the article. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 12:37, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further to the above the article's peer review over at the military history wikiproject can be found here if you want to keep an eye on any feedback. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 12:52, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure thing, I'll get on it this afternoon - Dumelow (talk) 14:40, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I was a bit concerned about them when I wrote it. I will try to replace the refs. Thanks for bringing it to my attention - Dumelow (talk) 09:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have added a new journal article (the abstract of which can be found here) and used a ref from the abstract. My university subscription only covers that journal up to 2004 though so I can't access the actual article. If you have access there may be more info inside. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 10:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that, guess I slipped up there. I updated a couple of images with dates for author and replaced some with fair use. Hopefully should be better now, I'll delete the dubious ones from commons. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 16:15, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I will be on holiday for about a week from Tuesday but when I get back I hope to get a copy of a book which will allow me to remove the remaining unreliable sources, which I cannot do at the moment. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 16:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war, need opinion

As part of the tennis project, I have chosen you randomly to help out in the current edit war going on, discussed here, Thank you so much Yosef1987 (talk) 22:42, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I think your opinion would be correct, if the ATP consistently used the sponsor name, but... well, see what I said at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis - rst20xx (talk) 23:50, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User: HairyPerry on Sean Taylor

I am very sorry for saying you undid a revision of mine, I was wrong because I will take your word on it, but it said undid revision and then a bunch of numbers and so yeah...MY FAULT! Sorry about that. (Undid revision 234592215 by 65.205.231.250 (talk); rm speculation and commentary.) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist" See thats what it says and the Talk Page says your name so I thought you undud my revision...Sorry once again, I might hit you up later for some info to create some new articles, that cool?

HairyPerry 13:26, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. If you have any questions later, feel free to ask. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:57, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leslie Ann Warren

Hi, I think we're cross editing. I've been labelling those as sockpuppets of Thais Alexandrina since she seems to be the main account. Exploding Boy (talk) 19:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Makes no difference to me :). I was just letting you know. Exploding Boy (talk) 19:49, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not Sockpuppetry

You blocked a bunch of accounts, Thais Alexandrina, etc., for sockpuppetry.

That was wrong. There was no sockpuppetry. Most of those accounts, as far as I could keep them straight, anyway, never referred to any other posting in a false reinforcement manner.

Wikipedia, as far anyone can tell, allows multiple accounts. Sockpuppetry IS ONLY when you abuse that by creating accounts that falsely reinforce each other to create a false appearance of consensus. I never did that.

Most of these accounts were actually article specific, so it would be impossible to create any such impression.

The only reason why this request was made was certain users, administrators actually, are pursuing some sort of vendetta over pervious edit disputes.

Your blocking of these accounts is wrong, there was no sockpuppetry, and you are being used to further some other person or person's unethical adgenda.

How you all deal with this kind of backstabbing all the time is beyond me. Not Thais Alexandrin (talk) 22:28, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You used sockpuppets to insert inappropriate edits to Mystical Seven (Wesleyan). This is a violation of WP:SOCK. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:42, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Acid Attack response

My comments were intended to and successfully did encourage Creazy to continue the dialog. Consider this before you talk to me about threats of edit warring. Observe that one of Creazy's edits did not even have an edit summary. I hope you've left him a warning aswell regarding edit warring. AzureFury (talk | contribs) 04:52, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indian agriculture

I have just finished rewriting Indian agriculture. Make sure to read it whenever you find the time :-) JSR (talk) 13:43, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered if you wanted to make an FA push on FHB any time soon. This would require serious copyediting and focused attention on the article. When preparing an article for FAC, I have found that it is often a good idea to spend some intense time preparing it. Do we want to commit about three weeks to this project during September? Awadewit (talk) 17:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re

AzureFury has been stalking me and issuing threats to "revert my edits" as long as my rationals ado not satisfy him (as if he's a judge or an arbitrator here...and the threshold of what is acceptable is his liking), which is the very definition of harassment. Why didn't you warn him with a block for stalking me and edit-warring? He had never even edited that page, before he popped up out of nowhere to revert me, following me from another page.--CreazySuit (talk) 01:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But he doesn’t seem to have got the message or have any regrets. From his comment above, it appears that he still thinks that issuing threats and stalking other editors are perfectly acceptable tactics that "successfully work". --CreazySuit (talk) 01:18, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Mba.jpg

Please comment at Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Mba.jpg. Nishkid64 (d) 26 août 2008 à 15:40 (CEST)

Hello. The photos that I uploaded on Commons have two different sources. Some come from family albums (Image:Manoeuvres militaires françaises à Madagascar.JPG, Image:Syndicat d'initiative.JPG, Image:Jour de l'Indépendance malgache.JPG, and Image:Afrique 32.JPG). The others (Image:Tsiranana photo libre.jpg, Image:Mba.jpg, Image:William tubman.jpg) are extracted from reports of Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française. They are not, strictly speaking, true photographs. I do not know if, in this case, there is really a copyright infringement but I am not an expert on the issue. Polaert (talk) 14:23, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have we done something wrong in the formatting of this request? I've never had one sit for so long without being processed as either a reject or accept.Kww (talk) 16:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not to be a bother, but...

...I was wondering if you were still going to see what could be added to the Bone Wars article. I went through Jaffe and wallace and added a fair bit, but I was wondering if your concerns still stood or you were going to add to it. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 19:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me. If Bone Wars doesn't pass outright, I've got another dinosaur article I can sock them with in the meantime :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs (talk) 19:22, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Problem editor/article

Hello again, Nishkid64 ... I'm having a problem with this user over this article ...

Most recently, they removed the {{Articleissues}} tag without comment or improvement ... I'd appreciate your intervention before we get to a WP:3RR edit war. :-)

Happy Editing! — 72.75.117.122 (talk · contribs) 12:11, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This user is helping me copyedit William Hanna at FAC. He's pretty good at it. He's an Indian-American. Are you familiar with him? I don't recalling seeing him before. Also, regarding his stmt that refs should be in numerical order, where does this come from? I have seen plenty of FAs with refs not in numerical order. RlevseTalk 10:09, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did ask Sandy but she's traveling and has not answered yet. The ref rule is new then. I know before it wasn't enforced. Thanks for the tip. Study hard in school. Don't party and stay away from the girls, haha rofl rofl. RlevseTalk 20:07, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for wider input on discussion at WikiProject Tennis

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Hi there

Hi Nishkid, i would just like to ask how is it that you created the heading of your userpage to say Nishkid64, your friendly neighborhood administrator at the top of your web browser. I would appreciate it if you could tell me your secret :P By the way since your Indian im sure that you love your cricket but it must be tough where you live because they have no idea what it is. You should teach them because i think they can get the hang of it :) Thanks Monster Under Your Bed (talk) 03:13, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

M'ba

Not sure if you know, but M'ba is up for PR again... Cheers --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 23:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Architecture of India

I have just finished re-writing the Architecture of India article, which I found in a neglected state. Don't forget to take a look :-) JSR (talk) 01:43, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another admin might get to it first but since you blocked the other similar sounding account Ken Moxon (talk · contribs), I thought I should let you know that I reported Kendrick Moxon (talk · contribs) to WP:UAA - it is obviously not the actual individual. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 15:10, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cirt (talk) 17:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spammy DYK update/housekeeping-type notice

HI (sorry 'bout the spammy note), DYK updates have been a bit slow and there's a bit of a shortage of admins actively involved. We are asking folks who listed themselves on Wikipedia:Did you know/Admins to update details on this page - User:Olaf Davis/DYKadmins, so we can grade everyone's involvement (and who, knows, someone may want to get involved more :) ).Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hydrochloric acid FAR: your further comments please

Hello Nishkid64, you request a FAR for Hydrochloric acid. With a joint effort of WP:Chem and other editors, significant progress has been achieved. Would you please comment in Wikipedia:Featured article review/Hydrochloric acid, and adjust your 'remove' recommendation accordingly? Wim van Dorst (talk) 18:12, 8 September 2008 (UTC).[reply]

E-mail

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Hello !

How are you going mate ? Please, could you take a look at thoose few changes i made : [1]

Thanks :) Lilyu (talk) 20:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Lilyu (talk) 03:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good job, good job.... ha. I had all my cleaning work on the french article revert by the guy who wrote the biography of the woman. And 4 fanboys has gang bang me cause i was sayin he's not neutral with the subject and talking shit on other historians that do not agree with him. So, i had to left the article. i flee :(
(sorry for the bad slang, most of my english vocabulary come from Hollywood movies, i dont know how to say it in a normal way) Lilyu (talk) 22:17, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Dear Nish, it appears to me that an editor that goes by the name of WikiEditorMagic has a single point agenda of reverting my edits. I request you to look in to the matter.--OoOpS (talk) 18:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I've left some comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1964 Gabon coup d'état. If you have time, I wonder if you would revisit it? Thanks, Ling.Nut (talkWP:3IAR) 00:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any (English, I can barely read French) sources beside the Powder Keg? Man, this has been one stressful FAC. I wonder what FHB's would be like if we indeed make the final push. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 21:15, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What are we to do with Tsanirina, M'ba, and HB if we can't translate an article from other Wikipedias without accessing its sources first? If that is the case, I no longer wish to contribute. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 22:40, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can barely read French, so that would be extremely hard. There aren't enough English sources to replace the amount of info from French ones. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 23:17, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom clerk template

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New account attacking articles

An interesting situations seems to be developing in Sushruta and the Sushruta Samhita where one new editor seems bound to make a statement attributing the origin of all of India's literature to Ashoka. Most of it may have to do with a discussion here and here and a series of edits made on Leprosy which can be found here. He himself undid his edits on leprosy after I removed the off topic material but now he seems to do the 'attribution of the origin of India's literature to Ashoka' in Sushruta and the Sushruta Samhita for some reason.

I want to ask what can I do to defuse the situation? I'm pretty sure that this editor will not listen to reason or be civil (some of it may have to do with his being less experienced) but I can't let anyone attack an article for whatever level of experience one has. I myself spent days on wp: sandbox to attain minimum understanding of Wikipedia. I'm writing this to you because you have dealt with him once before for his edit warring where he made claims which he clearly did not intend to follow.

JSR (talk) 15:18, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just asking for an opinion: Would a fully sourced rewrite of these two articles using proper sources take care of the present situation so no outside intervention is necessary? The editor is new after all, and bound to make a few mistakes initially. Should I try and attempt a sourced rewrite (the article can benefit from some improvement) first and see if the pattern persists ? JSR (talk) 15:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have made an effort and written the article using the earliest reliable sources at hand. Kindly see that his incivility and revert warring stops. I have just been left a disturbing message on my talk page. JSR (talk) 20:59, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He just reverted and said: Doesn't matter, it doesn't change a thing, I provide another scholar source. It doesn't matter that he has not read the source (or has it)? His source doesn't deal with medicine and does not have any component of India's medicine in it. And what are his comments on Indian literature doing on a surgery page? Please look at his latest reverts after warnings. I have not reverted thrice but rewrote the whole thing sourcing it and removing all material which was nsourced and/or unrelated to medicine. Literary critique belongs in the literature of India, not as a sweeping generalization in surgery. The material was originally introduced by another editor on Leprosy and has been removed from there following discussion. He neither has it nor is he familiar with it and the article itself is not seen on surgery related pages elsewhere as it deals with literature.JSR (talk) 21:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Query

Nishkid64, I apologize for again imposing on you for OTRS "stuff", but I'm wondering whether you could tell me what ticket 2007110910016335 says. I ask because this image of a Federal Reserve Note was replaced with one containing "specimen" stamping and a summary referring to that ticket as the reason. I'm curious whether the "specimen" stamp is indeed a requirement to display/reproduce such currency; I can't find such a requirement in US statutes or government websites, so I'm wondering whether the ticket articulates something I've missed. Эlcobbola talk 19:21, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Эlcobbola talk 21:04, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]