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Oba Chandler

Hi, if you find any improvements that need to be done on the Oba Chandler article, now after some expansion because of his execution please make them :) Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:21, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:00, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Barbara Sturgeon

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The strange case of the self-mutating page, perhaps? Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:23, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hanover Music Corporation

I found this on sale at eBay in the US. Since the letter was written in 1988, I don't believe we can use it as a free use file, but I saved it in WebCite because it's the first time I've seen mention of this in connection with Corinthian Records. It does give us some additional insight into how Corinthian did its distribution, etc. We hope (talk) 21:23, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - Yesterday - The Definitive Duo NEW RELEASE as of 18 November 2011. :-) We hope (talk) 22:01, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Not sure re: letters either but think it would work because it's been published, or made public, as a result of the eBay auction. Have now used WebCite for an archived copy of the auction, so the publication of it can be seen. Thought this would be good for a possible future Corinthian article ;-) Let me know when you need a cover for the new compilation album, OK ? We hope (talk) 19:37, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
There was another compilation album issued last year- Jo Sings for You. Listed but no Allmusic rating. They apparently haven't gotten to listing and/or rating the compilation album with Gordon MacRae yet. We hope (talk) 19:46, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

OK-my "contribution" to the cause was to add them both to the template and add collapsible tables to the list. We hope (talk) 21:05, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Ah, but I've had to watch myself carefully this time. Have had to do a lot of IP banning at a message board as the spambots have been out in force for at least two weeks now. So I'm almost a "bot" in numbers and dots for that right now. BTW--There's another compilation album she did with Frankie Laine I don't see we have listed. Will look it up later to see if Allmusic rated it and if so, it could then go on its own page. ;-) We hope (talk) 21:15, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Will have a look for it later and add links for it here. ;-) We hope (talk) 21:32, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Duet album

Here's the Amazon link for the Jo Stafford/Frankie Laine duets album which was released in 1994. It didn't get reviewed at Allmusic, so think it has to go on the list page. Have done the table for it:

Before I got to looking for this, I stumbled on a lot of old radio and television magazines that seem to be in PD (not renewed). Need to check them re: use of photos. Haven't yet been able to go over them all, but there's quite a bit of information in them on Jo and many other performers. The performers often gave interviews to these magazines since they were highly read at the time. One story on Jo has her telling in her own words how her Dad sometimes took her to work with him when he was in the California oil fields. There's information on how she really didn't care for New York and had wanted to return to California for some time before she was actually able to, some early information, and so on. If these check out as PD not renewed, we will probably have more photos as well as a lot more information. I need to check their status and continue reading what's there. ;-) We hope (talk) 16:21, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Great!! The "problem", if you will, re: the magazines, is that there is simply just so much information in them on so many people! Am finding old radio shows with cast photos and so on. There's information on Como we didn't have before, including a pic of him on the golf course. These magazines also had some "local" pages featuring people who worked on local radio and television. While paging through, I found an article on a guy who did the local weather here for many years. (Retired now, as he's either in or close to his 90s.) While I knew he started in Oklahoma, I didn't know he had been featured in one of these magazines many, many years ago. One pic shows him with two of his 4 kids. The youngest son (who wasn't even born yet when the story was done), also went into broadcasting. Will spare the kids the "embarrassment" since all four of them as tots aren't shown, and upload the photo of their Dad doing the weather. :-) We hope (talk) 19:01, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
The only way I think I can do this and keep part of my sanity is to take a magazine at a time, check it for copyright renewal, take images and then work with the pages for the persons in the articles. :) We hope (talk) 17:47, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
File:Jo Stafford 25 million records sold diamond award 1954.jpg Beginning to pay off ! :-) We hope (talk) 00:09, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, If you have some time to check out my stub on the Murder of Jane Bashara please do.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

OK thanks. Much appreciated:)--BabbaQ (talk) 21:38, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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Yeates coordinates

[1]. I don't follow. Your not being able to format a table does not seem to be a good reason for withdrawing the table. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:40, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll look at it late tonight and do the FAC fixes. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:13, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I reinserted it and reformatted it. I would still like to see a GFDL-acceptable OS map if the area is covered easily... The Rambling Man (talk) 13:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Good work

I just want to say that you are doing a great job with your edits on the Murder of Joanna Yeates. An article that I created and had to go trough a quite tough AfD discussion to keep in the beginning! Good work!--BabbaQ (talk) 21:22, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, Yeah I definitly accept to be a co-nominee. Thanks!. Have a nice time with your relatives! Keep up the good work.--BabbaQ (talk) 00:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Problem user returns

Hi there, just though I would bring to your attention that our old vandal friend 81.109.92.88 has returned from his 6 month ban and has already picked up another warning from another administrator over the nature of his contributions. I have sent the admin in question a message explaining him of the problems we have had in the past with this user explaining as well the sock puppetry that went on with all three of his previous I.P identities. Kind Regards Footballgy (talk) 19:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Yeates

I'm doing more copyediting. I'll set out my rationales in the subject line. Feel free to revert anything you disagree with - really, don't hesitate. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:16, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Okay, I'm done, probably until Monday night next. All yours for a wee while. There's more stuff for you to think about on the talk page. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:52, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi, this news link might be of interest concerning Joanna Yeates.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:04, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

OK always nice to help. I know that The Sun isnt very reliable as source but the story about the money could be of interest if it evolves further. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Nestle Purina Ad

Hi Paul - If there's no indication that the Australian ad was actually aired, then I can't definitively say that this isn't notable, so I'll leave the item up there. Thanks for the message on my user page, I appreciate the explanation. 69.31.35.200 (talk) 18:10, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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James Whitaker/James Whittaker

Yep, didn't think the current article was the primary topic. BTW, there's noway that James Whittaker should be the primary either! Lugnuts (talk) 13:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

New articles

Yes now I have started this week two new stubs on the Murder of Jane Bashara and Murder of Casey Kearney both has recieved alot of attention but most so Casey Kearney. Check them out when you have the time! Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I dont know if you care to get involved but my newest article on Casey Kearney has been put up for possible deletion in a week on the basis of NOTNEWS. However I started a discussion on WP:NOTNEWS talk page and it became quite clear that NOTNEWS does not apply to newly made articles as a basis for possible deletion. In my opinion if NOTNEWS applied there wouldnt be many articles ever made on Wikipedia. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
OK thanks. Hope to have some support from you even though you are the AfD creator. Cheers--BabbaQ (talk) 23:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Actually I would prefer it if you did the AfD instead of some hostile deletionist. But its up to you.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:18, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you!.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I have now made a comment on the AfD and I hope that most users realise that the article should be kept for now. Lets hope for the best.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:33, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice! I will certainly not make the same mistake again in the future. Yes I find this rushing to prod and AfD overall on Wikipedia to be non-productive. As you point out most articles on Wikipedia was once "news" or "stubs". Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
This continued front page coverage of the Casey Kearney murder is a indication of continued coverage beyond the "murder and arrest of suspect" part of the investigation. Even though I respect other users opinions I have to say that I am surprised that the trend never stops on AfDs. Now its on again, lets delete a article based on a current news story on the grounds that there is no indication of lasting long term notability (after 4 days this time). I find that reasoning to be offensive to put it lightly.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I have respecfully declined your offer. I rather see the AfD go on when reasons for deletion stated are so weak. Sincerely.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:13, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps a mention of the continued coverage at the AfD is suitable.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Murder of Jacqueline Thomas seems very interesting!--BabbaQ (talk) 21:51, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I continue to add evidence of continued coverage to the Casey Kearney AfD.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

My twitter account

Just a note for anyone who may be looking for it, I have deleted my twitter account as it was compromised over the weekend. At present I don't think I'll go back as I was really only using it to promote sruff I'd written on here, but perhaps I might start another one in the future. Paul MacDermott (talk) 15:06, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

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Jacqueline Thomas

Yes, it will probably pass DYK very soon. Will keep an eye on it too.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:11, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

If you feel for it please leave a last message on the Murder of Casey Kearney AfD as I think it is about to be closed quite soon.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Murder of Jacqueline Thomas

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IP Vandal...again

Hi there again Paul, I have been continuing to monitor the majority of edits made by our old friend 81.109.92.88. I feel this guy is either dedicating his life to messing up Wikipedia in his own little way or he is just plain stupid. I don't get it because not all of his edits are bad or incorrect but the majority continue to be very perculiar, for instance just editing sentence's to make them complicated, adding incorrect infomation, dumbing down or just adding irrelevant statements. For example on the Grimsby Town F.C. page in a statement that the club have played in the top 5 league's in the country, he said "before Northampton Town" meaning his assuming Northampton will be relegated this season, other edits are mainly made on Coach Trip, some of his work on here is valid but yet he makes a sub section called "Arrival day locations yet to be starting from in future series" with a statement underneath saying "The following arrival day locations have yet to be starting from for other first destinations", then there was a small table of locations, all unsourced so I have removed it. Other edits are like adding "More 4 + 2" as a timeshift to More 4 and various other random edits usually on TV related articles. I have never been able to get any sort of reply out of this user, what do you suggest we do? He has already had 3 or 4 bans on all of his IP accounts. Kind Regards Footballgy (talk) 16:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Paul, thanks for the reply, and thanks for bringing that to my attention, Very interesting. I will keep you informed on any devlopments. I've also added the sock tags to all the known previous IP's I have had problems with. Footballgy (talk) 02:41, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Kept

The Murder of Casey Kearney has been kept for now. Good.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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Re:IP vandal

Hi Paul, this seems to be a real deep routed problem. With something that began with a simple I.D dumbing down football related article's amongst others it seems to have turned into a monster, not forgetting numerous puppet I.P's. The pattern of the edits look similar to our friend however I am just waiting to see edits made to Coach Trip before I would be 100% on that, although he is back editing 2012 in British television. Have you linked him to the GMTV Chart Show page? I think maybe a sock puppet investigation maybe the only option we can swing to, but if he is switching his I.P everytime he is blocked how could it prevent him from returning? Regards Footballgy (talk) 13:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Paul Connolly (journalist)

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Got another one ;-)

Well, if we can't help out our friends, what are we? :-) Having done some work with the backlog of unreferenced BLPs, know what a headache it can be at times and why the enforcement. (Don't think anyone can imagine something like that backlog happening again.) May not know the names, etc. as well as the ones here, but think if you thump away at Google enough, you can usually find something that fits. We hope (talk) 20:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

You're lucky you got that as I got the big pitch to subscribe or "no show"! :-) We hope (talk) 21:34, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
If you're able to view it, why not put the url you have through WebCite and that will make it clickable for everybody? We hope (talk) 21:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

When I try for the link at the Irish Times "Fiddling the System", I'm told that the article is no longer available-removed from back issues, but can be viewed if you sign up for (free) Pressdisplay.com. When I clicked the link you left on my talk page, I got Google.ie search results. If you can get a link for the article, WebCite is very easy-just give a valid e-mail addy and the link you want to archive. We hope (talk) 22:22, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Not sure if links to tinypic are blacklisted here but if not, you might have a try at uploading your screencap to it. Have used tinypic for hosting images in other places where it wasn't possible for the image to be directly uploaded (some message board size constraints, etc.). Know that if the screencap is still a BMP, it will need to be converted to JPG in order to upload it at tinypic. On the Irish Times site, I can't even ask for a link without being told I need a subscription. (British Pharmacoepia won't let me in either, because I'm not in the UK and not in a developing nation, so it may have something to do with one's IP number.) We hope (talk) 23:11, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
That works so it must not be blacklisted.;-) My understanding of your broadcasting system is that at one time, it was non-commercial, government operated, and everyone paid a license fee for their radios and televisions. Since those fees were at least part of what paid to keep everything on the air, those who were outside of the country would be thought of as "not paying their share", thus no use. Here the government only deals with broadcasting rules and regulations. Can't imagine what we would have seen if they actually produced programs, but know it wouldn't have been anything like Upstairs, Downstairs, and so on. If there had been a Happy Days at all, there probably would have been episodes like "Good citizen Howard Cunningham does his income tax". :-) We hope (talk) 00:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
New one works fine ;-) We hope (talk) 00:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Re:License fees, think of it as infomercial insurance. ;-) Some of the worst of the bunch are those of local auto dealers. There was a dealership in this area where the two owners always stood side by side as they promoted their place. They weren't related, but since they seemed to be "one unit" when they were on camera, we started a rumor that they were really Siamese twins, joined at the hip from birth. Soon the pair made new commercials that pointedly showed them on opposite sides of the screen and each in some solo shots. :-) We hope (talk) 03:01, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Just had a look at it in IE and the deal is-it takes a moment or two to come into focus for clarity. Not sure why, but it does clear and is easily read. There looks to be an index to the Irish Times you can access if you know where to find it; backed into one for the Chicago Tribune some time ago. With that one, if you know the date the story was printed, you can look it up on their index for that day. You can look it up in Google News Archive and not need to do their pay-per-view if you use the index. ;-)
While there were some areas of the US who had cable for years because of reception problems, when it was pitched to those without that problem, their "big sell" was that one would pay X amount of money per month and not be bothered with commercials on cable. The subscriber was said to be paying part of the costs, therefore it wasn't necessary for cable to have commercials. I think you can guess how long that lasted--and their rates never do anything except go up either. :-) One of the ones that gets to me is a dishwasher detergent ad where the scenario is a Star Trek/Star Wars setup with a similar flight deck. They're watching the dishwasher's workings on a screen when an alarm sounds (greasy/baked on dish issue). The crew goes into scramble mode until they see the detergent being used is the "right" one. Those who think we need a big hype to buy the product are everywhere! Glad you were able to find the Irish Times source and also glad you're doing DYK with it! We hope (talk) 16:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

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Good work

Good work on the Joanna Yeates article. Really impressive! Started the article on Gemma McCluskie which has recieved quite alot of attention from users. Check it out when you got the time! Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

The Joanna Yeates investigation will be part of the Leveson Inquiry [2], here is another news update concerning Jeffries [3] and here concerning two people arrested [4]. Perhaps you were aware of these stories but anyway!.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Thank you!--BabbaQ (talk) 17:08, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Good job. I like the article you had worked on and suggested. Interesting.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:09, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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Update

Made a small update on the Murder of Casey Kearney article. But im a bit unsure if it is a OK update in the context of the story. Take a look when you got the time.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:30, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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How about giving this a go?

Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications It will give you access to the full text on many newspapers and other publications. One of the things that's really hampered my research was Google's decision to abandon the News Archive. Could have lived with that grudgingly, but they severely limited the amount of hits one can get on a search. Often, it was by going through page after page of hits that you'd find some "gem" of information that could be added to an article. We hope (talk) 18:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Did some working around and found that the papers owned by the Tribune Company all have the same indexed setup for finding news stories. The easiest way around is to work by the date the story appeared. These are arranged by date, but the size of the database varies from paper to paper. Some go back to 1980, others to 1985 and so on. Just work with the month, day and year grid at the top of the page as it's standard for all of them.

Not sure if any of these will help but they might. We hope (talk) 01:38, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

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Dear Paul, I have ALREADY several times corrected with footnotes the fact that Bahati is a racist and a homophobic. Articles from the Guardian, BBC Footage in which a gay BBC reporter interviewed Bahati about his crimes. When Bahati knew he was gay, the reporter had to flee because Bahati had his "men" on the outlook to arrest him an jail him. So far for Freedom of the Press in Uganda ! Please, if you are an INDEPENDANT writer, then look in the archive. Bahati's men delete constanly delete this fact from Wikipedia. As a professionale biographer, I do NOT hesitate to publicise + and - sides of a person. Especially the fact that Bahati is watched by different human rights organisation should be known to you. I'll put it back on and we'll what happens. Best wishes

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Looks like a really interesting article. I'll take a closer look later tonight. Thanks!--BabbaQ (talk) 14:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Interesting article indeed! Historic case. Good work!--BabbaQ (talk) 13:27, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Found this article just now on a quite interesting murder case from 2007 that I remember. Might interest you too, but the article itself is perhaps not the best at the moment.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:11, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm just wondering whether I can move the top edit function back to the right-hand side of the screen. There appear to have been some updates in the last few minutes but I'd like to keep the old page layout. Cheers Paul MacDermott (talk) 18:51, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Could you be more precise? I can't figure out what you mean :) benzband (talk) 19:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
With "preferences" you can add an extra edit function enabling you to edit the lead independently of the rest of the article, which usually appears on the right of the page along with other edit boxes. But suddenly it's moved to the left as a prefix to the article's name. I'm using the old style page layout where the search box is in the menu column at the left of the page. Hope this helps. Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:28, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Oh, right, i use that gadget too except in the Vector (default) skin. Indeed when i switched to Monobook (the one you described) i could see what you mean but i have no idea what caused it :P Cheers, benzband (talk) 19:53, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for taking a look. Bizarrely, it seems to have corrected itself now. Not sure what was going on . Could be some kind of bug, I guess. Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Yup i saw they changed the diff system too. [5] Glad it worked out —you said it's fixed so i'm removing the help tag. benzband (talk) 20:03, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
ok, thanks once again for helping. Hadn't noticed the diff thing, but I suppose if someone behind the scenes is doing a bit of tweaking the two things could be connected. Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:07, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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