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[edit] how dare you challenge the authencity of my post?

are you one of those who destroy religion and are working for organized crime,drug mafia and hawala kandis? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamta dhody (talkcontribs) 11:03, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Righto, me, a Taliban supporter? You don't know me, obviously. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kevin O'Halloran

I have put Kevin O'Halloran on hold as per your GA nomination. Please see the to-do list on the talk page. Thanks. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 15:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Noted, thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Pong. (Sorry forgot about that) - Milk's Favorite Cookie 02:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Alright Passed it. Congrats on your like 50th GA! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 02:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ian O'Brien

I have reviewed this article per your GA nomination, and put it on hold. See my comments on the talk page. Thanks.   jj137 (talk) 16:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Noted, thanks. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations! After you assessed the problems on the talk page, I have passed Ian O'Brien as a Good Article. I understand that images were hard to add due to copyright laws, and although Good Articles should images, it is not a requirement. Again, congratulations on your next Good Article!   jj137 (talk) 21:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] OhanaUnited's RFA

[edit] 3RR

I will ask you get blocked also. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HaniEGY (talkcontribs) 06:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Right, I think I know you from before.... Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 02:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Egyptian Australian

Blnguyen, what exactly is the problem with this article that requires that much edit-warring? You obviously know better than this. Have you considered at all discussing the issue on the article's talk page or with the ediort?! Also, why did the user not get a warning explaining the reversion policy before it escalated like this? — Zerida 07:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:User WikiProject Australian sports

A tag has been placed on Template:User WikiProject Australian sports requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 02:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:User wikipedia/Arbitrator

A tag has been placed on Template:User wikipedia/Arbitrator requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 02:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ozy and Millie GAN

Hi there,

I've tried to carry out the recommendations you asked for. I could not find the name of the college, but I did find the name of the newspaper from where the comic originated. I hope that is good enough.

Thanks, ISD (talk) 11:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for promoting the article to GA! ISD (talk) 08:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ehud Lesar

Re [1], who's the 14th? The talk page still say 13. RlevseTalk 10:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Morven was listed as inactive but he started voting. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vietnamese place names...

Question: why are the articles for Vietnamese places in unaccented forms, not in their Vietnamese forms? e.g., Chau Thanh not Châu Thành. Most other places with extended Latin-based alphabets have articles titled in their accented forms. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure. There isn't any real convention at WP:VIET. But no diacritics seems to be almost universal among place names, but for people, diacrtics is more common, although still a minority. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Needdiacritic

{{Vietdiacritic}} - Just made this template. Whack it on a talk page of the article, and it will put the article in a category of articles needing diacrtics so it can be easily chased down. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 07:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Why not copy the code from Template:Needhanzi? Badagnani (talk) 07:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I find it intrusive to use templates on the main article. If there is a massive problem, like no sources, no refs, POV, spam farm, then its good to put a sign on the main article, but if it is just a five second job to fix, then its easier to simply put a maintenance tag on teh talk page, like for photo requests. Otherwise the main page looks like it has some dreadful problem when it is easily fixed. Íll check this cat on a regular basis. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 07:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest using an image of an " ễ " in place of the Chinese characters. Could that be done? Badagnani (talk) 07:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I've made the image. Image:Vietvowel.png Badagnani (talk) 08:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Implemented. Badagnani (talk) 08:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Redirect from Template:needviet just made, for ease of typing. Badagnani (talk) 08:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi! Can you make this a DYK?

February 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra. If not a DYK atleast give your opnions on how to improve the article. The references need to be formatted, I know. KnowledgeHegemony 18:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I'll look. It's getting too old by about 2 days now. The last 5X expansion way about 8-9 days ago when it started. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GAN Reviewer of the Week

The Good Article Medal of Merit
Congratulations, I have chosen you as my GAN Reviewer of the Week for the week ending 23rd February 2008. Epbr123 (talk) 12:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA question

Hello, I saw that you are quite active in reviewing and listing Good Article candidates, so I hope you don't mind me asking your opinion on a related issue. I just recently passed the article Verna Fields for GA, but I'm not sure where it would belong on the list. Because she was a film and sound editor, she doesn't fit in the section for "Actors, models, performers and celebrities". Should there be a separate section for filmmakers and technicians? What would you suggest be done? Thanks for any insight! María (habla conmigo) 14:47, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I lloked at WP:GA and I would have put her in the general "cinema" section as it seems to fit well enough. However in the current section "Actors, models, performers and celebrities" I also saw Matt Groening so perhaps it should include filme producers/director/engineers simply by redefining the topic title. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Buddhahood

I've warned Sawadeekrap about the 3RR rule [2] but as you know, it applies to all. Best regards, Tikiwont (talk) 10:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Sure, Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 04:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] new york

why did you revert the changes i made on New York City? Jak123 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 01:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I saw the size of the article go down dramatically without an edit summary, so I thougght you blanked everything. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 01:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] DYK : Tourist attractions in Kochi

Thank you for your kind comments and DYK acceptance of Tourist attractions in Kochi.

- Tinucherian (talk) 02:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot's recent run

Hey! The bot ran through pretty well. Take a look at User:SatyrBot/Maintenance logs. I haven't looked at the "not added to" errors, but let me know if there's something that needs fixing. Also let me know if this is something you'd like run once a week? That's the least-often it's set to run right now.

Thanks -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 02:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

It's all good. Thanks very much. Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 04:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You are a vandal

And so am I, apparently. [3]. :-) Heimstern Läufer (talk) 05:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was about to block you both - had to struggle to hold back ;-) Ryan Postlethwaite 05:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Harbhajan hattrick.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it may be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 06:32, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello bot, it was someone else who added the fair use image that I uploaded to a second article and didn't add in the fair use rationale. Nevermind, I don't mind cleaning up, unlike some people, and I deleted it anyway since I had some home-made photos to replace them with. Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 06:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Dude, don't talk to bots. Next thing you know they'll be running for adminship and deleting things and killing puppies. ~ Riana 06:38, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps the bot can vote in the strawpoll and see if the free image of bhajji that I replaced was the most suitable. Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 06:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Unblocking of Dahn (talk · contribs)

Hello Blnguyen, there is an ANI thread regarding your unblocking of Dahn (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), earlier today. You are welcome to make any comments. Regards, Rudget | talk 17:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Apologies. I've just realised it's from 2007. No matter. So sorry. Rudget | talk 17:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Double DYK

Updated DYK query On 18 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Artillery of the Nguyen Lords, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

and

Updated DYK query On 18 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gail Neall, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations again! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 18 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Duong Quynh Hoa, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 11:29, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This must be a record

Updated DYK query On 22 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Ngoc Lu drum, Dong Son drums, Co Loa Citadel, and Chau Can, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Updated DYK query On 22 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Lang Ca, Lang Vac, Xuan La, and Viet Khe, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Heh perhaps. Something for the trophy cabinet of weirdness. Lol. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Che Guevera

Since you have edited Che Guevara in the past, I am wondering if you have any suggestions about how to handle the current situation. In the last month or so, the article has ballooned from approximately 125,000 kbs to 209,000 kbs. One person appears to have stepped in and taken over the article. Now an edit war of some sort has started. Is its FA status going to be endangered? I have thought about nominating it for FAR just to stop the madness. Would that be a bad idea? Regards, Mattisse 16:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I guess this is Redthoreau (talk · contribs). If the edit-war is only a few days old, then I wouldn't think that it was necessary to have an FAR, but if it became a subjet of a long term dispute, which had persistent edits wars then yes. If Redthoreau is going overboard you can ask him to use fork articles to put all his new and unpolished additions in a separate article, or simply revert him I guess - he is a SPA. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
I think he is a sockpuppet too. The article has been in FAR since February 23. Redthoreau has been working exclusively on the article since December or so, and even reverted SandyGeorgia. It is a single purpose account. SandyGeorgia suggested that we revert to the original FA version of 2006 as that is infinitely better than what exists now. Redthoreau will not desist, even now although he has slowed down for the time being. If we cannot revert soon to the old version and get to work while the article is in FAR, then all is lost. There is a consensus on the FAR to revert - me, Polaris999, SandyGeorgia, and another editor, User:Caribbean H.Q.. Only Redthoreau is against it and sees nothing wrong with the article. Would it be O.K. if we reverted now so we could work on it under the protection of FAR? Polaris999 and I are of one mind. We just want to repair the article and it's faults as much as we can. No other agenda. But we are both worn and discouraged over POV wars. There is little interest from other editors in the FAR. Mattisse 02:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beautiful "Good Evening" Vietnam

Sunset on the South China Sea off Mui Ne village on the south-east coast of Vietnam. I obtained this image via flickr agreement I made. Nice huh? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blofeld of SPECTRE (talkcontribs) 23:17, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Beautiful. Blnguyen (photo straw poll) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DYK x5

Updated DYK query On 26 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Bao Quoc Pagoda, Dieu De Pagoda, Tu Dam Pagoda, and Thien Mu Pagoda, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Updated DYK query On 26 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Buddhist temples in Huế, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 13:18, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow, I must say, this is an impressive achievement. I am proud of you, B. -- Y not be working? 16:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations on your Triple DYK!

Updated DYK query On 27 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nguyen Thuong Hien, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

and

Updated DYK query On 27 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nguyen Than Hien, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

and

Updated DYK query On 27 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Plus it seems you never got credit for this one either:

Updated DYK query On 27 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Joint Communique, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Great work! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 11:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

and this....

Updated DYK query On 27 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sariputra in the Jatakas, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 23:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)