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Changes to Igor Girkin‎

Many things use DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY, but YYYY-MM-DD ought to be preferred because it has the least national bias. Dustin (talk) 17:09, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

What I mean is, that makes up another part of my reasoning changing the formatting. It took like twenty minutes due to being required to change them manually. Dustin (talk) 17:12, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
DD Month YYYY is used in related articles such as Donetsk People's Republic, Federal State of Novorossiya and MH17 (somewhat related). And I'm sorry your consistency edit took so long Dustin V. S., but mine also took 15–20 minutes to complete. -- Pingumeister(talk) 17:25, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Was it the fact that didn't write out the month? Dustin (talk) 17:27, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
@Dustin V. S.: Personally, I think writing out the month looks nicer, but personal preference isn't the problem here. YYYY-MM-DD doesn't seem to be very standard. Most featured articles don't appear to use numeric months (don't quote me on that though, I sampled randomly). And again, Igor Girkin only used YYYY-MM-DD in automatic reflinks citations. The properly formatted citations (which constituted nearly half of the citations in the article) used DD Month YYYY, making that the standard in the article. -- Pingumeister(talk) 17:40, 20 July 2014 (UTC)


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Proposed deletion of Stylianos Kallenos

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Proposed deletion of Đặng Anh Tuấn

Hi Pingumeister I apologize but I am unsure why Đặng Anh Tuấn is tagged for deletion. The article should meet WP:NFOOTY as the subject has played multiple times in a fully professional league (V.League 1). The fact that he played in it is backed up by the soccerway reference in the article. The article should meet the WP:GNG as a result and if it doesn't please let me know why. Thank you Inter&anthro (talk) 20:51, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake, have removed the tag. Very new to that particular guideline! -- Pingumeister(talk) 20:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
No problems, I bear some of the responsibility too as the initial article isn't the best and I only put in one reference. Inter&anthro (talk) 20:57, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Your proposed deletion of Kerry Lee Crawford

I'm really confused why you took a brand new article that does not meet WP:N and is completely unsourced to AfD. You'd be better of closing the AfD and nominating the article for speedy deletion.  {MordeKyle}  ☢ 00:05, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Please re-read WP:A7 carefully and see my reply at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kerry Lee Crawford -- Pingumeister(talk) 14:53, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Final Problem Review

Sorry, I just wanted to say I only removed it because I thought it would be easier to wait until a consensus had been reached rather than trying to start any sort of edit war. Sorry if it was any trouble -124.188.232.125 (talk) 00:21, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

No worries – I didn't assume it was removed maliciously. Cheers. -- Pingumeister(talk) 00:50, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
I appreciate that, the other anon seemed to believe it was some kind of personal attack.

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Pangasinan Solid North Transit, Inc.

Hi. Just a tip. When an article has no content, look at the history. If it has been blanked by the original author (and no-one else has made any content addition - typos, cats and such don't count). tag it G7 one author request rather than 'no content'. It can make a difference later to subsequent versions of the article. Also, if it's not blanked, it can be that the newbie has managed to get the whole content inside reference markers, or inside 'comment' markers. In that case, it should be tidied up so it's readable. Peridon (talk) 16:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Oh crap, sorry about that. Will be more careful in future, cheers. -- Pingumeister(talk) 16:43, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

removing content without explanation - cats?, me?

It's not clear whether the comment "Please stop removing content without explanation" in this edit is aimed at me. I have removed a few categories lately with a very generic message - and could easily have made a mistake. If you think one of my removals was wrong, please let me know explicitly - which one, and why. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:30, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion - was aimed at the previous two editors there! -- Pingumeister(talk) 10:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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Appears to fail WP:PROF. I'm having trouble finding secondary sources about this guy. -- Pingumeister(talk) 16:26, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

  • No, this page should not be deleted because this acaedmic person actually exist. Here are some proofs:

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Do you need more sources? --Wiwigald32 (talk) 16:49, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

LiteSpeed Web Server Logo Removal

Hi Pingumeister,

Could you please comment on [change] you made? We believe the new logo complies with the guidelines -- it is simple and it is in public domain.

Dmitri tikhonov (talk) 12:45, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

I am not a frequent Commons user but I believe some verification of the logo's licensing is required. Cheers, -- Pingumeister(talk) 11:29, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Additionally, that is a company logo, not a product logo. I don't think it belongs in the product's article. It doesn't serve a purpose beyond branding, which is not appropriate for an encyclopaedia. -- Pingumeister(talk) 11:31, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you -- we'll work on it. Dmitri tikhonov (talk) 11:52, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Further Guidance Request

Hello Pingumeister,

I plan to make what I think are uncontroversial changes to two LiteSpeed Web Server-related articles:

  1. LiteSpeed Web Server: This web server's market share has now grown to 3%. In addition, a new version has been released.
  2. Template:Web_server_software: I would like to add LiteSpeed Web Server link to this template.

Do you think I'd be in violation of any WP:Guidelines were I to make these changes?

Thank you for your help. Dmitri tikhonov (talk) 13:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey @Dmitri tikhonov: I don't know what the consensus is regarding reliability of W3Techs surveys, but since they're already used in the article for now, go ahead. The template addition sounds fine. Cheers. -- Pingumeister(talk) 17:14, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, will do. -- Dmitri tikhonov (talk) 13:41, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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