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Fair use rationale for File:2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics logo.jpgThanks for uploading or contributing to File:2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics logo.jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. FASTILY (TALK) 04:17, 10 June 2009 (UTC) Berlin ChampsHi there Philip. Just a personal note to say thanks and keep up the good work on the 2009 World Championship articles. It's good to see a number of editors helping out and adding all the information. I hope you're enjoying the championships as much as I am! Take care. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)Join WikiProject Athletics! 14:08, 16 August 2009 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image (File:Berlin 2009.jpg)Thanks for uploading File:Berlin 2009.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. FileBot (talk) 10:50, 20 August 2009 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image (File:Roma09.jpg)Thanks for uploading File:Roma09.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. FileBot (talk) 21:00, 22 August 2009 (UTC) PhelpsWelcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Michael Phelps, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 11:08, 6 September 2009 (UTC) I think that there may have been a bit of a mix up. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 03:58, 28 October 2009 (UTC) Thanks for your recent changes!Thanks for your recent changes!!
AutoreviewerHey. I see your swimming articles come up a lot in New Page Patrol. Consider applying for the autoreviewer permission. This will make pages you create show up as already patrolled, meaning that they won't come up in the NPP logs. I'll gladly nominate you myself, if you'd prefer. — ækTalk 10:19, 3 December 2009 (UTC) PS -- thanks for all the work you're doing to WP's improve swimming coverage! Thanks for pointing out this feature to me. I am now a autoreviewer. Thanks again!!-Philipmj24 (talk) 01:05, 4 December 2009 (UTC) Hello, regarding your edit here [1], is there some sort of consensus regarding removing attributes from the infobox? Thanks. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 03:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC) Hello, Philipmj24. You have new messages at Omarcheeseboro's talk page.
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Issue with signatureHello. It appears that your wiki signature is missing a </sup> at the end. This is causing text after your sig to also appear in superscript, such as the date/time stamp and the "Template:Twitter" header here. While I fixed it on WP:RFPP, please address this issue in your signature preferences. Thank you, — Kralizec! (talk) 20:05, 13 February 2010 (UTC) DYK for Ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Normal hill individualMaterialscientist (talk) 00:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC) DYK for Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metresMaterialscientist (talk) 06:08, 17 February 2010 (UTC) Hockey player medal recordsHi, as per WP:HOCKEY/PPF, medal records for ice hockey players go in the "International play" section. Please see the discussion here. Thanks! Schmloof (talk) 07:07, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Dear Philipmj24: You expressed puzzlement about what happened to the sections in the Hannah Kearney article. First of all, please sign your posts by typing four tildes, as explained above each edit box. As to what happened to the sections in the article, you may follow the history of edits in the "View history" tab. You may click among versions by choosing "prev" on any edit entry. Although you appear to not be totally new to Wikipedia, perhaps you haven't explored these functions. I hope that following those steps will help you answer your own question. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 22:43, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
File copyright problem with File:Hardy 2008.jpgThank you for uploading File:Hardy 2008.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. ww2censor (talk) 04:12, 31 March 2010 (UTC) Solinsky clean upHi Philip, just a note: you seem to have undone some of my cleaning up on Chris Solinsky when you were also cleaning up. You moved some external links back into the main of the article and you also deleted information about him becoming the runner-up at the US Championships! I assume this was unintentional? Just a couple of pointers: distances (e.g. 1500 m) should use a non-break space (  ;) between the number and the "m" or "meters" in order to stop the two elements splitting up (i.e. the number is on one line and the "m" follows on the next line all alone). When "-" is supposed to indicate "from/to" (e.g. 2009-10), an endash should be used (it's the first line thing on the "insert" toolbar. Dates should be written as May 1, and not May 1st. Personally, I'm not bothered if people don't get the format right when they're writing, but certainly if corrections are made they should not be reverted. I'm not really sure what happened here as it seems like you didn't undo my whole edit but, nevertheless, undid most of it. The removal of the US champs info and the introduction of a spelling error ("2008 Summer Olympic") is a bit odd! I've sorted it out now and hopefully I have helped you understand why I made those changes and didn't come across as some weird formatting nerd (hopefully...!) Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)Join WikiProject Athletics! 09:55, 3 May 2010 (UTC) Medal TemplatesHi, you might not be aware of Template:MedalTableTop/doc, which says that usually {{MedalCountry}} comes before {{MedalSport}}. Thanks! SeveroTC 20:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
You may already know this but ...Johnny Damon is, I believe, Thai American. Tx for your work on the Olympics pages, btw.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC) You are now a ReviewerHello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC). Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here. If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 23:34, 15 June 2010 (UTC) Making extra work for other people
Please stop wasting other people's time like this. You knew, from the RFD discussion, that it was possible to edit the redirects into articles when the time came. Instead, you chose to create a new page and waste other people's time by nominating the existing page, that you could have just edited, for deletion. Making administrators (and, indeed, every ordinary editor that does Proposed Deletion patrol) waste their time with unnecessary busywork in order to accommodate a bizarre unwillingness to edit existing pages on your part will not make you friends. Uncle G (talk) 18:24, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Just finished up the GA Review for Celski. Please feel free to ask, if anything needs clarifying. Canada Hky (talk) 15:03, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
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Has been unsalted. Courcelles (talk) 23:54, 22 July 2010 (UTC) WJCHey, thanks for noticing me. Yeah i meant ROU but somehow i was typing in RUS, don´t know why. Fixed it and thanks again. Kante4 (talk) 23:59, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Template:Template: burning brightTemplate:Template:Infobox World Junior Championships in Athletics & Template:Template:Infobox World Junior Championships in Athletics/doc Can you sort this out, and csd the Template:template pages? Rich Farmbrough, 17:25, 23 July 2010 (UTC).
GA review for Katherine ReutterI'm going to pick up the GA review for Katherine Reutter. I'll use the same review subpage the previous reviewer used, here. –Grondemar 04:36, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, seems you've been waiting quite a while for a review! I'll take it up and the review will be at Talk:Michael Phelps/GA1. I'd appreciate it if you could add that page to your watchlist. I'm pretty easy going as a reviewer—as long as progress is being made, I'm happy to leave the review open for as long as necessary. I'll just give you a list of bullet points by section to work through at your leisure, so feel free to mark each point with {{done}} or a comment or whatever floats your boat and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions! :) Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 05:04, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Speed skatingHello, I've noticed you've had an interest in speed skating articles. Would you be interested in joining a WikiProject for the sport? I created a proposal where you can vote to support or oppose the creation of such a project! See it here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Speed Skating. oncamera(t) 03:54, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Use of flag iconsPhilip, I thought you might want to weigh in on this topic: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Swimming#Use of flag icons. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:58, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
TalkbackHello, Philipmj24. You have new messages at Courcelles's talk page.
Message added 05:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. ThanksThanks for the barnstar and the recognition. I hope to get all most of the additions and tweaks done soon. I haven't even publicized this article yet to the Masters community, you must be busy. Don't get irradiated at San Onofre (I hate to drive past the place). Trackinfo (talk) 21:36, 10 December 2010 (UTC) This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Olga Shkurnova, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://www.freebooknotes.com/wiki/Soviet_Union_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics. It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues. If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 23:37, 11 December 2010 (UTC) FINAHey, just let the references at the Heats section please, looks better and it´s easier to navigate... Kante4 (talk) 14:33, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Re: AwardHey, thanks man. Thanks for creating all articles and the other things you did to this article to make it a very good article. Kante4 (talk) 23:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC) GAN for Rebecca SoniHello. I have reviewed Rebecca Soni as a good article nominee, and have placed the review on hold pending the addressing of several issues. You can find the review here. –Grondemar 19:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Event name discussionHey... I moved our discussion from the 2010 Short Course Worlds discussion page onto my talk page, where it seems more appropriate. Hooperswim (talk) 21:49, 14 January 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.5.214.41 (talk) TalkbackHello, Philipmj24. You have new messages at M.thoriyan's talk page.
Message added 00:22, 18 January 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. ArtsiukhNormally I wait for an official announcement of some sort. I have only read about the ban from the updated banned list so far. SFB 07:41, 19 January 2011 (UTC) Rebecca SoniSorry, but I thought the archives were not needed since the original links are working. Won't happen again. Arbero 08:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC) GAN for Ryan LochteHi, I review your good article nomination of Ryan Lochte and placed it on hold pending resolution of a few concerns. You can find my comments here. –Grondemar 02:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC) Re: TemplateHey, read again, i did not reverted your edit i reverted to your edit. Kante4 (talk) 15:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Aaron PeirsolGA reviewed. Only done the first few sections. Big issues mainly unsourced stuff. Continues all the way through. 1 week to sort the issues out or I'll politely fail it. KnowIG (talk) 17:49, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
March 2011Is this IP address "76.194.200.90" you? Intoronto1125 (talk) 21:03, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
2011 Pan American GamesHey would you like to help with the results section of the Pan American Games in October? If so please list your name over at the talk page [2]. Thank you!
Hello! Would you be interested in joining WikiProject Multi-sport events? We work on improving Wikipedia's coverage of multi-sport events. If so, please feel free to add your name to the members list! Thanks! Intoronto1125TalkContributions 03:57, 14 June 2011 (UTC) FINAHey, thanks for the improvements to the sub articles. Kante4 (talk) 22:27, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Don´t see the point, but ok. Soon all are filled. Kante4 (talk) 23:20, 23 July 2011 (UTC) Elizabethel Beisel's PRsPMJ, could you please double-check this personal best time for me: [3]? Sounds awfully slow for a world-class backstroke swimmer. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:52, 31 July 2011 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Dorial Green-Beckham
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A barnstar for you!
Re: AwardNo problem, you deserve it. Pinkstrawberry02 (talk) 15:53, 18 September 2011 (UTC) New Page Patrol survey
March 2012Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 14:12, 11 March 2012 (UTC) Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talkabout my edits? 14:33, 11 March 2012 (UTC) High school record holdersCategory:American high school record holders is being considered for deletion. Please share your thoughts on the matter at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Trackinfo (talk) 05:35, 30 June 2012 (UTC) Conor DwyerPhilip, if you work your magic with sources for the international meet times on the Conor Dwyer article, I will swoop in and finish the clean-up of the text and provide newspaper and team profile footnotes for the rest. If you would like, we can work out a priority schedule so we can blow through a couple of these articles per day, and have most, if not all of them in at least C-Class condition before the first gun fires in London. Let me know if you have the time. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:57, 10 July 2012 (UTC) DYK for Connor Jaeger
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC) Archiving USA Swimming profilesHey, Philip, do you know how to "archive" the individual swimmer profiles that USA Swimming has created? I don't know how, but I think we should. If consistent with the recent history of the USA Swimming website, the profiles will disappear relatively quickly, and they are the best reliable source for basic biographical information on many of the 2012 Olympians. I think we should do what we can to preserve these profiles. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:44, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Jack Taylor (swimmer)Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as Jack Taylor (swimmer), is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Silvrous Talk 08:09, 23 September 2012 (UTC) Ryan Lochte PageHi Philip, please see my comments on the Talk Page regarding Ryan Lochte's personal section. You undoubtedly have more experience with threshold than me, but I think a pretty convincing case can be made to leave the relevant quotation in. I look forward to your comments.Wikieditor987654321 (talk) 03:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC) Olympic relay swimmers who received medals for swimming in the prelimsPhilip, do you know what year the Olympics started officially awarding medals to swimmers who swam in the preliminary heats for the top three teams in the relay events? All I've been able to determine so far is that the practice started some time after the 1968 Games. At the 1968 and prior games, those who only swam in the relay prelims were typically referred to as "alternates" and did not get medals. If you could shed any light on this, I would be grateful. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:14, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Philipmj24, and thank you for your contributions! Some text in an article that you worked on 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, appears to be directly copied from another Wikipedia article, 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay. Please take a minute to double-check that you've properly attributed the source text in your edit summary. It's entirely possible that this bot made a mistake, so please feel free to remove this notice and the tag it placed on 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at any time. MadmanBot (talk) 18:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
User rights removalYou were originally entrusted with the Autopatrolled and Reviewer rights. Unfortunately, your recently bulk creation of a number of inappropriate individual articles related to individual events from the 2012 FINA championships have shown that you unfortunately cannot be trusted with those enhanced rights, and I have removed them accordingly. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:24, 14 December 2012 (UTC) Take a breathGiven the allegations of abuse against a highly respected admin, I think there have been many editors poring over the issues, and offering support for your position. While I appreciate that you feel wronged, and want resolution quickly, pushing will only hurt your case. There are a lot of sympathetic editors, let them help you. This isn't a minor issue that can be resolved by a quick glance at a couple diffs, the issue requires review of dozens of articles, to get a sense of what types of detail are appropriate.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:42, 14 December 2012 (UTC) BWilkinsPhilip, I would suggest that you disengage from the ANI discussion before you say something you may regret later. Right now, you are hitting your head against the wall by demanding that BWilkins' obvious errors be corrected instantly. Please allow me to advocate on your behalf, and also allow time for several of the uninvolved administrators to get up to speed on the structure of the international swimming championship articles. If you back off a bit, I suspect that either BWilkins or another admin will correct these errors in the next 12 to 24 hours. Patience, my friend. Wikipedia policy, precedent, and the facts are all on your side. If the situation does not resolve itself, I am willing to file a DRV and other review requests on your behalf. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:33, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
@ Intoronto1125I just glanced at the talk page of the blocking admin Alexf, and see no indication xhe has been contacted, so may not even know there is a question, so why on earth would you expect a response? (Unless you meant BWilkins, but he wasn't the blocking admin and he has responded.)--SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:56, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
The article Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Pool schedule has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Rights restoredI've restored your rights and have suggested an uninvolved admin review any deleted articles with you on your talk page. While there are exceptions, we prefer you try to talk to the admin whose actions you disagree with on their talk page at least once before bringing to ANI, to prevent drama and unnecessarily long process. Admin are expected to listen and either work to correct the problem or provide a rationale why the original actions were correct. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 19:48, 14 December 2012 (UTC) Removal of personal attacks on user pageHello, while I understand your frustration over the situation you should not have attacks on other editors on your user page per WP:POLEMIC. I have removed the comments about Bwilkins. Please do not restore them.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 22:47, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
On another note, you should disclose when you are editing from an IP to make a contentious edit, lest someone misunderstand the situation. If you are concerned about the security of your main account, you could also create an alternate account for any editing you do on public computers.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 00:20, 15 December 2012 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Philipmj24. You have new messages at Sphilbrick's talk page.
Message added SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:44, 15 December 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Short summary, I restored all but one article. However, I urge you to read my comments. A Serious CommentPhilip, I wanted to touch base as I am literally saddened and shocked by the direction that both of our actions took this morning. I am a very firm believer in resolving all issues at the lowest level, and as you now know well, ANI is certainly not that level. As you have already read, I apologized for jumping to both remove rights and delete articles - but in case you missed it, I'm saying it again: sorry. Because of my haste, I also stated that I was personally willing to return said rights - and gave any other admin full permission to do so, which thankfully our colleague Dennis Brown restored the rights, and Sphilbrick did the articles. I do honestly wish you had approached me first, as is required on this project. I'm sure that if you take the opportunity to look at the situation through my eyes, you will see that I saw concerning behaviour, and my first reaction was to protect the project as a whole. It was not personal, but borne out of concern for the project as a whole. If you had shown me that some of the years that I had NOT checked had the multiple event articles, I certainly would have acted quickly to fix my error. (Heck, if I had actually blocked you, I could easily have been accused of abuse :-) ) Recognize that by going to ANI instead of directly to me, you actually prevented me from returning the rights to you and undeleting the articles - obviously you can see that it would have been the best choice, and I encourage you to attempt to resolve things at the lowest level in the future to avoid what you now see to be ridiculous and energy-draining drama, and I will personally try not to be so hasty. I wish you the best in your work in aquatics. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 01:35, 15 December 2012 (UTC) |