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Will Lee

Not sure how one would call him an american politician.

Did you check all of the entries before making the mass changes with AWB? - jc37 14:12, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Persondata

You recently modified the persondata for Ruth Shipley and John F. Melby, identifying each as a politician. Neither was ever a politician. One was a civil servant and the other a diplomat. I've corrected both. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 16:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto for Elizabeth Hawes - who was many things, but never a politician. What the...? Mabalu (talk) 23:38, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I apologise, I hadn't realised that the MacCarthyism category was under United States Senator and a number of these got picked up. Waacstats (talk) 09:31, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Emanuel Xavier

Hello. Please do not add "Puerto Rican writer" to the template (unless you can provide a reliable source to verify it). It is misleading, at best. Thanks. Rivertorch (talk) 07:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

English cricketers

Hi. You've been adding "English cricketer" to a lot of persondata and I'm sure most of them are correct. But in the 30 or so cricketers that I have on my watchlist, you've swept up one Welshman and one Irishman, and one chap who was editor of the Daily Mirror (and just happened to play a few cricket matches when he was young) also got tagged as a cricketer only, when his journalism is probably a greater claim to fame (also an England rugby union star who just happened to play a few cricket games). And those are just among the ones I watch. Not quite sure how you avoid this, but maybe a note at the cricket project might be in order? Johnlp (talk) 17:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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typo in Persondata

Take a look at the November edit you made to Paul Yingling. A typo I'm sure -- but when I first glanced at it I thought it was vandalism. It's been fixed. :) --S. Rich (talk) 01:52, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Marking baseball umpires as players

Howdy. I'm curious why you "marked" two baseball umpires as players with the following two edits: [1] and [2].--Rockfang (talk) 03:50, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks for your help with Roderick Wetherill. Bearian (talk) 16:43, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

...for your contribution to W. David Wilson Ottawahitech (talk) 19:03, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2011/September

Can you create {{Jazz-festival-stub}} and the German festival stubs. Really needed I think. Hope you iz well.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. How many stubs? becasuse I can get it over the mark for Category:Jazz festival stubs. 76 in tranclusion. Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:45, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sandeep Jyoti

YOu added that he is an Indian cricket umpire. I don't see it in the article. Rich Farmbrough, 21:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Adding Swedish footballers to persondata description

Hello. You seem to have added this description to many footballers, e.g. Richard Kingson, Yazid Kaïssi, Yamba Asha, who have at some point in their career played football in Sweden (among other countries) but who are not Swedish. Perhaps you might go back and correct the mistaken ones. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 15:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Happy first Day of Spring!

William Wegman (photographer)

Well, that was certainly an interesting edit summary! TJRC (talk) 23:14, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lets blame Cut and Paste for that one. Waacstats (talk) 08:18, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

LDS Church Presidents were NOT all politicians

In recent edits, you claimed that several LDS Church Presidents also could be described as politicians. But you provided no verification for these claims. Verifiability is one of the pillars of Wikipedia. I have reverted your changes until you provide an adequate explanation. Please provide sources and more detail in the edit summary fields in the future. To respond, please post at the relevant talk pages or drop me a line on my talk page. Thanks. --Jgstokes-We can disagree without being disagreeable (talk) 07:53, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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No citations

Sorry to trouble you, but you say that the article on Jonathan Sayeed "includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations." This does not appear to be true. There are two places where additional citations could usefully be added (you can find these as they are marked with "citation needed" tags). Please could you remove the template.--Toddy1 (talk) 10:30, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MonmouthpediA

Not sure if you are doing this on purpose but your tidying up is turning up here and is very much appreciated. Thanks anyway Victuallers (talk) 12:59, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Poor edit

This was a very poor edit. I think you know why. Please desist. --Mais oui! (talk) 19:33, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And this one was even worse. I am actually quite appalled that you ever thought that these hundreds of edits would ever be acceptable. It is going to take us an awful long time to sort out the mess you have created. Or are you going to do the decent thing and either self-revert or insert the correct descriptions? --Mais oui! (talk) 20:00, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Now I am at a loss for words. --Mais oui! (talk) 20:05, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I believe I have changed most if not all of the bishop articles, the judge was a one off and as for the politician, well he was indeed Scottish but as an MEP would have been classed as British so I don't see that as wrong (however much I would like to see your Scotland and my Wales as independent countries you are not there yet so it is not incorrect to call him British). Waacstats (talk) 21:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Although it is hard to know what to make of this edit. For future reference, WP:VERIFY is your friend, as well as being official Wikipedia policy. So, if Sean Connery is routinely referred to as Scottish in reliable external sources, then Wikipedia refers to him as Scottish. In addition, with the biographies of living people, self-identification is also taken into account. As you know, there are fuzzy areas: eg Jim Murphy strongly identifies with both Scottish and British, and is on the public record as saying so. However, it is worth noting that the descriptor he applies to himself every time he selects re-election is "Scottish Labour", not "British Labour". Anyway, I digress. In future, please take note of how the Wikipedia article intro refers to the person in question, or at least please note the categories they are located in. I would strongly advise that you take English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh categories one at a time, and not in one huge lump. --Mais oui! (talk) 04:50, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some falafel for you!

For your Welsh footballer awesomeness. Iloveandrea (talk) 18:46, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking help with a College Basketball Article

Hello, I'm currently working on an article for the 2003-2004 Saint Joseph's Hawks Mens Basketball and I was wondering if you were at all interested in helping me add to it. The url is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_Saint_Joseph%27s_Hawks_men%27s_basketball_team , thanks for the help. 5hane2012 (talk) 01:30, 24 April 2012 (UTC)5hane20125hane2012 (talk) 01:30, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kate Westbrook (musician)

Not sure why you have added the short description "English politician" to this article. Kate Westbrook is not involved in politics. I have amended this to "musician" although it could be argued that "singer" would be more appropriate. However, she does play several musical instruments as well as singing and writing texts to Mike Westbrook's music. Chris53 (talk) 20:53, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No response as of 12/5/2012, I guess my comments are best ignored? Chris53 (talk) 11:38, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Persondata: Professional wrestler issue

Hello, just wanted to let you know that some of the additions on May 7 to persondata have 'professional wrestler' spelled 'wrester'. InFlamester20 (talk) 19:25, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary

Hi, a few of your recent contribs have popped up on my watchlist. They all seem to be using "Correct own spelling mistake using AWB" as the edit summary, but you don't appear to be actually fixing any spelling mistakes – you're actually adding persondata info. Not a big deal or anything, but could you please change the edit summary to more accurately reflect what you're doing? (Or I have misunderstood this somehow?) Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 21:28, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I came here with the same message. --Dweller (talk) 10:22, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Waacstats replied on my talk and said he had fixed his edit summary, just FYI. Jenks24 (talk) 10:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks both, I just forgot to change the edit summary. Waacstats (talk) 11:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Template:WinchesterVA-geo-stub

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Persona Data edits

Please refrain from editing Irish politicians under the term British politicians. Thank you. Osioni (talk) 09:14, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • I apologise if I caught any Irish politicians, however I believe everyone I have tagged recently served in the Parliment of the United Kingdom and therefore could correctly be called "British", If I am wrong then I am sorry. Waacstats (talk) 09:18, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Further to the above: I see that you have labelled several people as British politicians, who were not career politicians: they made their names in some other field, and only became MPs late in life. For example, Daniel Gooch and Richard Peacock were both railway engineers - one designed the majority of locomotives for the Great Western Railway, the other co-founded the engineering firm of Beyer, Peacock and Company. Then there is Walter Coffin - a coal owner who in five years as an MP never spoke in the House. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:43, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for all your person data edits. But I have had to change José de Madrazo y Agudo from French to Spanish painter. This is clear from the article summary. Is there a way you can get these double checked? Mozzy66 (talk) 23:09, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Shawn Welling for deletion

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A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This is for so many Paralympic athletes stubs. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:46, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
FYI, I have proposed that Sebastien Barc be renamed to his French spelling, cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:06, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for reply. I've actually already done it - been through most of the bios and corrected the lede lines (including inserting middle names for some of the ledes per WP:FULLNAME which naturally don't go into title). I moved 6 myself: Adrián Paz Velázquez María de los Ángeles Ortíz Jón Halldórsson (athlete) Britta Jänicke Andreas Müller (athlete) Matthias Schröder, these 6 because there were complications with disambiguation, merging duplicates or very different names. ‎
The remaining ones that are at non-native spelling are Reinhold Boetzel, Oduver Daza, Jose Monteiro (athlete), Anibal Bello Jose Villarreal Sebastian Baldassarri Ariadne Hernandez Salvador Hernandez Mario Santillan Maria Salas, Lucia Sosa, Nicolas Ledezma Mauro Maximo de Jesus Jesus Lucero Moises Beristain Angeles Ortiz Ettiam Calderon Lazaro Raschid Aguilar Adrian Iznaga Angel Jimenez Ana Jimenez Luis Felipe Gutierrez Leonardo Diaz (Paralympian) Fernando Gonzalez (athlete) Antonio Souza Joerg Frischmann Diosmani Gonzalez. I thought seeing as these weren't complicated title changes I would just add to lede line, source refs, and alert the articles' creator. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:10, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thought I should let you know, Talk:Sebastien_Barc#Requested_move went off with no problems, so if you want to rename the other BLPs to their Cuban etc names per our earlier discussion go ahead. All clear. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

AWB abuse

Hi. Thanks for adding the missing persondata info with AWB, but the rules of use clearly state "Don't edit too quickly; consider opening a bot account if you are regularly making more than a few edits a minute." I recommend you head to WP:BOT. Thanks. Lugnuts (talk)


ANI

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Nomination of Tony Radevski for deletion

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A couple of very similar wheelchair rugby players

I just noticed Geremy Tinker and Stephen Guthrie which you recently created are alarmingly similar. I'm not sure if it a player with two names or simply miscopied/misentered...--Qetuth (talk) 17:36, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I was wondering whether wikipedia could make new additions for each user statistics, so that, for example, each user can see his own contribution to wikipedia (so that he can have a clue about how many bytes he added for all his articles and how many bytes he erased for all the articles). Also, it would be interesting for him to know how many people consulted the articles created by him (for each month) Could something be done about this? Thank you in advance!--Ionutp (talk) 18:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Getting Wikimedians to the Olympic Games

Hi. I am part of an effort to get Wikimedians access to the 2016 Summer Olympics as accredited reporters and photographers. Part of this effort includes covering the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Two Wikimedians have credentials to attend these games as reporters through Wikimedia Australia. As English Wikipedia does not allow original reporting, this is largely through Wikinews with a project page found at Wikinews:Paralympic Games. If you are interested in helping to get Wikimedians to the next Summer Olympics,I'd encourage you to assist with Wikinews efforts, and also to work on all language 2012 Summer Paralympic Wikipedia articles before, during and after the Games to demonstrate a track record of success. Thank you. --LauraHale (talk) 05:23, 17 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Julian Vannerson

Hi,

Thanks so much for the extra citation that you provided for the Julian Vannerson article. I'm not sure you know, so I thought I'd pass on that on the page to the book, you can scroll down and all the information for a proper citation is provided there (Wikipedia:Citing sources#Books). For instance, the citation in this instance was: "American photographs: the first century from the Isaacs collection in the National Museum of American Art. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1996. p. 160. ISBN 1-560-98719-7."

If you would like any help formatting citations - or using the Refflinks tools to format barelinks, etc. let me know - I'd be happy to help out!--CaroleHenson (talk) 08:35, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I refer you to two topics on which you have your say

Type of Disability and Disability Class and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Paralympics. --Kasper2006 (talk) 07:17, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MMA

Hello,

i noticed you edited a Mixed Martial Arts page in August, but you haven't listed yourself as a Participant on the Wikiproject for Mixed Martial Arts pages. I've decided to try to drum up interest to get more people involved!

Kevlar (talk) 01:32, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Minor barnstar
For all your Persondata additions, it may seem small, but its usefulness is not to be overlooked. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 15:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Nomination of Davy Vancampfort for deletion

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Nomination of Andrew Doughty for deletion

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F.G.Natesa Iyer

I have noticed that 121.240.36.97 has changed the name to Francis G Natesa Iyer on 24 September 2012. There does not seem to be any reference or citation to this? Since you had worked on the person data around 23 August 2012; can you ensure that such sort of changes are not resorted to?

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An article you worked on has been nominated for deletion

MG Services has been nomiated for deletion. If you would like to comment on the discussion, it is located at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MG Services ColtsScore (talk) 18:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]


A kitten for you!

Thanks for your work adding persondata. Forgetful sometimes am I. :(

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Category:People's Republic of China railway station stubs

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