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Bedell-Sivright

Sorry for being ignorant Shudde, but it's report writing season in school and I'm having to take my foot off the pedal on Wikipedia until closer to the summer holidays. Yes I think the great Darkie Sivright is ripe for a GA. I always believed that there were a trio of great British hard men during this period, Sivright for Scotland, David Jones (rugby) for Wales and Herbert "The Octopus" Gamlin for England. Nice work so far, and if you need me to expand on a particular feature I'll try to help or find references. Cheers FruitMonkey (talk) 17:43, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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Help with increasing women's rugby content

Hi there! First, thank you for your involvement increasing the content of women's rugby (and science) on Wikipedia and for voting to keep my page (although it ended up being deleted). Oh well.

This whole thing has made me realize how little coverage there is of women's rugby on Wikipedia despite there being quite a lot of women's international rugby being played. You noted this is due to the lack of press coverage it receives, and unfortunately in the case of Americans what little press coverage we have is apparently not considered unbiased or notable enough, and our national governing body apparently deletes their archives. Along those lines, I am wondering what can be done about that in the realm of Wikipedia. Could the notability requirements be changed so that they are at least more equitable between men and women? Could there be articles written about the rugby covering media entities in the US in order to give them more credibility?

I'm planning to start adding articles for other notable Americans that do qualify under the notability guidelines including Shaina Turley (USA Eagles captain, video profile), Emil Signes (former USA women's 7s coach and possibly integral to 7s now being in the Olympics), and Dana Teagarden (first female to referee a men's senior international).

I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm relatively new to this whole Wikipedia thing, although I've done some anonymous editing of the past to scientific and medicine articles where there were poor word choices or bad explanations. And I have some coding experience, although it's all in Matlab.

Thank you! Val Vgriffeth (talk) 00:00, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

  • Thank you for your detailed reply! I've been looking through some of the resources you've sent and they are very helpful. I've been working on an article that is now in my sandbox. Would appreciate any suggestions you might be able to provide. I also added some news sources to the resources page. Vgriffeth (talk) 15:34, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
  • Thank you, that would be great! And yes, I'm sure. He has multiple profiles and interviews done with him with the major American rugby news organization at the time (Rugby Mag) as well as international pubs. Still working on tracking down about 50-60 USA player profiles from the mag that reference him as biggest influence. I agree that the USA Rugby national team pages need some work, and he would definitely belong in those sections. Right now he's linked to from HK Women's 7s and Princeton rugby. Vgriffeth (talk) 20:03, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

History of cricket in Bangladesh

Hi, while I entirely support the copyright violation investigation, would it be possible to restore this article minus the offending section (i.e., the "dateline" section) which has obviously been a copy-and-paste effort from some newspaper or magazine. I believe I can vouch for the integrity of the remainder of the article. Thanks. Jack | talk page 18:09, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

@BlackJack: I didn't delete the article, instead I followed the instructions at {{Copyvio}} and blanked it (replacing it with the template). So everything is there in the history. There are instructions on the page on how to recreate the article without the offending material, on the page is says: Otherwise, you may write a new article without copyright-infringing material. Click "Show" to read where and how., and hopefully those instructions will tell you what you need to know. You may want to do this promptly, as there is a chance an admin may delete the page if they think the copyvio problems are serious enough. -- Shudde talk 09:47, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Shudde. I've restored the content without the copyvio section. I've added a reflist and tagged it as having no references at all. Can you take another look and make sure you are happy that none of the remainder contravenes copyright. I don't think it does but the article certainly needs a lot of work on sourcing, copyedit and update. Thanks very much. Jack | talk page 10:39, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
@BlackJack: It did say at the top of the page "Do not restore or edit the blanked content on this page until the issue is resolved by an administrator, copyright clerk or OTRS agent." -- did you follow the instructions? You should check yourself whether any of the remaining material is a copyvio, I did a few Google searches to find the initial breach. You should do the same with the material that you have restored. -- Shudde talk 10:43, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I've misunderstood. I'll create a new article. There is another dubious section "Brief Summary" which I'd just deleted. I'll restore it to the copyvio notice. Thanks again. Jack | talk page 10:51, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

@BlackJack: -- No worries. I don't have much experience with these kind of problems, but good luck. Shame the article needed to be culled so much, but hopefully something can be salvaged out of it! -- Shudde talk 10:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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Peer Review Request -- Hamish Peacock

Hi, I am requesting a peer review for Hamish Peacock. Peacock is an Australian javelin thrower who has competed at: Senior, Junior and Youth World Championships and is competing in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in the coming weeks. I would greatly appreciate if you could review this article.

Review Page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Hamish Peacock User:NickGibson3900 (Talk - Cont.) 18:59, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

@NickGibson3900: Hey. I'll make some very brief comments soon. -- Shudde talk 11:02, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Morihei Ueshiba

Hi Shudde. Thanks for your work reviewing this article for GA. I've addressed most of the point you've raised; there are a couple I'm still chewing over, but if you'd like to take another look now is probably as good a time as any. Cheers, Yunshui 雲水 09:13, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the additional suggestions and comments - I think I've dealt with all of the stuff raised by your second pass. Cheers, Yunshui 雲水 10:12, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I've made a number of changes regarding the images; would you mind taking another glance over them? (I've also started the onerous process of sourcing all of his students individually... that's going to take a while...) Yunshui 雲水 14:22, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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Amphetamine

Hello, Shudde. Do you remember reviewing "Amphetamine"? The article is currently at FAC. Could you comment here about inclusion of the locations of dopamine/norepinephrine neurotransmission please? Axl ¤ [Talk] 19:52, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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Most of my information came from the book by Matt Elliot. After reading the book, I couldn't believe how little there was on Wikipedia about about such a great Kiwi hero, so I updated it as best as I could. I hope to visit his grave one day.

You could contact the Dave Gallaher Society on https://www.facebook.com/davegallahersociety. I had a look to see if there was a photo of the inscription on the page, but I couldn't see one.

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@John Prattley: Thanks John. I have managed to find a copy of Elliott's book, but couldn't find a copy of the inscription in there. I'll just remove it from the article for now. It can always be re-added again later. Thanks for your efforts. -- Shudde talk 05:04, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

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The next two days or so are going to be tough, so I won't promise anything until later. Ping me again if I haven't looked at by the weekend. Thanks! Resolute 14:22, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. No worries will do. -- Shudde talk 22:06, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
@Resolute: Hey Resolute. Not having many comments so thought it was time to give you a ping. Cheers. -- Shudde talk 00:59, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Shudde. I'm just posting to let you know that List of 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team matches – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 29. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:24, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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Precious again

"as comprehensive as any available"
Thank you for quality articles such as Thomas Ellison, one of the first Māori Rugby players, an article "as comprehensive a coverage of his life—and especially his endeavours and influence on rugby—as any available", for your work in the GA process, for promoting neglected areas "that maybe suffer due to systemic bias", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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A year ago, you were the 862nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

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