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Hayagriva

With respect to Wikification, there are whole sections with no wikilinks whatsoever. That's not normal in a Wikipedia article. With respect to references, there are really no citations to the references. It is not adequate to merely list sources. The information has to be cited to the sources. See WP:CITE. (Note: the problem is with the "anybody can edit" method of Wikipedia. An article cited only at the end when written may be changed by others. Therefore, all information needs to be footnoted so that future editors can verify which information came from which source, to prevent the information from being changed while leaving the implication that the information came from one of the cited sources.) IPSOS (talk) 22:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:pnc nominated for deletion

See Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Template:pnc for the discussion, which will certainly spill over into larger issues. Your thoughts would be appreciated. --Kevin Murray 23:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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Military history project publications

User:Kyriakos is working on a wikireader about 'Athens, history of a maor power in ancient Greece'. So far the topic has quite a lot to do with naval warfare. Would you be interested in helping with this task? Greetings Wandalstouring 11:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Saul Rosen

I believe Saul Rosen is definately more credible than such as Adam Rosen, Founder of the Miami Gay-Straight Alliance Corps, Facilitator of JCC Rainbow Fund, Axel Rosen, who doesn't even have a wikipedia page, Dan Rosen?, a few RABBIs... I'm just telling you how absurd it is how a multimillionare and one of the largest car firms in the UNITED STATES Cannot have his name listed in one of the famous rosens! 24.13.253.21 19:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC) www.rosenrosen.com

You're Right

You were right about the "no personal attacks" policy, which I violated on the Elton John page. Thanks for reminding me. Keep up the good work! Also, would you like to guess what I stuck up my butt today? 172.162.2.155 11:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

No thanks. Given that I haven't reminded you about personal attacks or anything else, I think you're confusing me with someone who cares. Euryalus 11:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Shadoof

Good maintenance! Peterkingiron 22:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Porteous

Thank you for your kind response. I was not at all assuming bad faith in reverting the notability tag. I simply disagree as to the question of notability. Porteous was a viable candidate in a high-profile race; she was one of the first minor party candidates (along with Fiona Byrne in Marrickville) in state history to be given a chance of a lower house victory. A search of newspaper archive Factiva turns up quite a few more press mentions both in the context of that campaign and in her role as a councillor, and I'd argue that that criterion is met. Still, my view has no more merit than yours, so if you wish to seek a consensus for deletion, feel free. :) Rebecca 04:10, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Bill Haley

That is a great site! Vielen Dank! It always amazes me that Europeans seem to know more about our music that we do. Would you think about some text for that link such as "auf Deutsch" but has great photos even if you can't read German? I guess that's what the dt is? And so much other stuff! I will be back there! Steve Pastor 19:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Errol Flynn

Thanks for your comment. As I mentioned, LC Robson who was headmaster at the time (during the 1920s) struck Flynn's name from the official register. I formerly attended the school and worked in the school archives and there is photographic evidence of Flynn prior to his expulsion. Additionally, the story of Errol Flynn and the manner of his expulsion is one of the enduring school "legends" passed down from generation to generation (which is not difficult given that mayny sons follow their fathers and grand-fathers to the school, and cetain members of staff had been employed there for up to 40 years). Regrettably though, short of visiting the school archives, there is nothing I am going to be able to produce for Wikipedia.--Calabraxthis 11:59, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Subsequent to this, I have managed to find one reference to Errol Flynn attending the school. Please see the article in question. Kind regards. --Calabraxthis 12:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Help

(moved from userpage) hey euryalus , whats up ? i really need help with translation... i translated a certain article to a different language and i dont know how to submit it... can u help me out? thanks! Shantigk69

Reverting

Hi, please be careful when reverting vandalism, so that you don't revert to a vandalised version. I've reverted to the clean version. Cheers. – Chacor 11:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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Ronald McDonald

Just an FYI, Ronald McDonald wasn't really empty, but was instead a victim of page move vandalism combined with other vandalism edits. I've put everything back where it should be. -- Gogo Dodo 06:36, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Re your message: It was a little confusing. When you move a page, the edit history goes with it. So when Angelica Pickles (talk · contribs) moved it, the edit history went there. An anonymous IP came along and replaced the redirect with nonsense, another IP showed up and blanked the nonsense, MartinBot (talk · contribs) reverted that, and then you CSD tagged it. I'd point you to the history, but I had to delete it to move the article back to where it's supposed to be. If the page move was caught before the anonymous IPs came along, you would have been able to move it back, but since they changed something, it required intervention by an admin. So you could say that everything ended up just fine as your CSD tag caught an admin's attention which was going to be needed to put the page back where it's supposed to be. =) -- Gogo Dodo 17:08, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Re your message: If there haven't been any edits since the page move, you should be able to move the page back yourself over the redirect and then tag the resulting redirect at that bad name with {{db-pagemove}}. In the Ronald McDonald case, leaving a note on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents would probably be the best solution. An admin should notice and move the page back where it belongs. -- Gogo Dodo 07:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Naming conventions etc.

Although I'm a public servant - I don't know if the official name of all government agencies in New South Wales is "NSW XXXX", but in the case of the Housing Department, it is. I went to their website and looked around - it is what is on their logo and their pamphlets etc. Happens that the Premier's Department is becoming a bit more fussy about common look and feel to web-pages, branding and so on - so it may be that in the near future "every" government agency rebrands as "NSW XXXXX".

AFAIK, in the near future, all NSW government agency websites are going to end up looking a lot more like the State Government portal.

The relevant section of the WP:MOS states points the reader to Wikipedia:Naming conventions. This in turn says:Generally, article naming should prefer to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government departments and ministers) has a bit to say about pre-disambiguation.

I would be happy to see redirects exist with article names like Department of Housing (New South Wales) and Department of Housing (NSW) because this is probably more natural to drop into an article as text, especially when you use the pipe trick to hide the (NSW) part of the name like [[[[Department of Housing (NSW)|]] (which ends up looking like Department of Housing (NSW)).

I created the AHO redirect, in the absence of "anything else". You are definately correct that they are a different agency, and they are one I have no knowledge of whatsoever. In fact, my work started by moving Housing Commission (New South Wales) and then I noticed the redlinks at the list of... article. I did this because it was relevant for another article I was working on, Blackett, New South Wales.

I don't have anything against redlinks, and try (as a public servant I see a WP:COI) not to edit articles related to NSW government agencies. But in this case, I didn't want to link the article I was working on to a historically named article - so I fixed it by moving the article to the current offical name.

Hope that clears everything up for you?Garrie 05:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

PS. Does the NSW Dept of Housing not service clients of ATSI background? It amazes me how these things (affirmative action etc) are not wiped out as being discriminatory, I mean I would think that for a government agency such as the AHO to not service me because I'm not an aboriginal seems bizarre.Garrie 05:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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Famous Beijing Old Stores

I saw...thank you very much. My tag wasn't exactly the best one for the job. Jmlk17 09:42, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Euryalus! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Daniel 09:01, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism?

I think it's a little obvious that it wasn't me... =_= --necronudist 11:24, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah ok :-) I don't think he/she'll listen to you, however... Thanks for reverting abuses. --necronudist 11:28, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandal warning

Hello. While on RC Patrol, I reverted an edit on the The Head article, but you provided the warning. I'm just letting you know that I was going to do the same.

I've reverted vandalism on your userpage by the way ;-). Lradrama 11:35, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou very much indeed. He went on a spree destroying userpages after he warned not to do so...what's knew?  ;-) Lradrama 11:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

I didn't notice until just now that our mutual friend made some juvenile comments on my userpage, which you reverted. Thanks, comrade! ;) Eleland 02:16, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

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"Flu Flu Golf"

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I am not vandalising. I came across this article while doing legitimate research, and I have never seen anything as preposterous in my life. It should be removed from the webiste. You like military history - why should pages on archery be tarnished with such garbage? 13:31, 13 July 2007 41.243.232.175

Euryalus, I have left a comment on this user's talk page about nominating for speedy G1 (nonsense), as I got a message form the IP first. I also added the date and time of the IP's comment for you! :) -- Stwalkerster talk 13:36, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh the Places You'll Go

Verification for the source is needed. Refresh you memory with Wikipedia's standards on verifiability. Thanks and have a fabulous afternoon.

The claim this a popular book is referenced with a link to a newspaper column which supports it. The link satisfies WP:V for what is an uncontroversial claim (that a book by Dr Seuss is popular among children and young people). I do not believe that additional sources are required beyond the one already given.

If you wish to tag a statement as requiring additonal sources, you should generally use the {{fact]] tag. Please also sign your posts on talk pages with ~~~~. Thanks. Euryalus 21:48, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Silsden Vandalism?

This is a work IP address and over 300 people work in this office using the same network IP. It is highly unlikely that whoever did the vandalism will actually view the talk page. I only checked because of the new message icon. It's likely to have been vandalised as this office is based less than five minutes away from Silsden 82.47.247.163 14:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

why hide the truth about wikimedia sock policy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Tobias_Conradi&oldid=146970498

thx for responding. I moved it back, see cat talk. everything well sourced. 84.190.36.219 11:30, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Hobart Freeman page

If you're not too busy, we could use another batch of your reverts...any tips on how to deal with this sort of thing?

If you are going to alter this article, please check the sources for the various statements before you do so, as some of those you did alter have been altered so they are no longer actually true. If you can't view the sources, then please don't alter the page.

Waldorf education

Hi, thanks for your help with reverting the vandalism. This whole subject matter is quite contentious and prone to some very disruptive editing. --Rocksanddirt 17:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Sigh. Yes, thanks for reverting the vandalism a couple of days ago. Now there is another vandal doing the same stuff on waldorf. I wonder if it is the same person with a different user name? Is there a way to tell?MinorityView 23:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Military history/Coordinators

I have moved this conversation to User talk:Euryalus/Military History as the conversation was impacting on my ability to post messages (it would come up as a sub-heading within the box provided). Thanks, Auroranorth 11:17, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I believe the reason is no </(whatever)> tags. All tags need a </...>. Auroranorth 11:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Barbara Spooner

Thank you for leaving your message on my talk page.

The only things I know about her was from Amazing Grace (movie) released this year. She encouraged her husband to try again after repeated decisions not to carry the bill for abolition. Auroranorth 11:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Vandalism Removal

its no problem, anytime :).--Kerotan^{Leave Me a Message} Have a nice day :) 13:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

sorry for attaking u —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.128.253 (talk) 13:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hello Euryalus. Thanks for your support at the Military history elections. With your aid I was able to commision this ship to help plunder the coast of Military history. Na, just kidding. If you ever require any astance all you have to do is ask and you will see my ship on the horizon. Kyriakos 03:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for supporting my recent successful RfA. You obviously took the time to look at my answers to the questions and my contributions, which I appreciate. I have been testing my new mop a bit and Wikipedia hasn't crashed yet! Let me know if I can help you out with anything. Cheers! -- Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 04:29, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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The now-traditional RFA thank-spam

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Dear Euryalus,

Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 83 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutrals. No matter if you voted (I mean, "!voted") support or oppose, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm new, remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them, and if I do anything wrong, feel free to add to the permanent chorus of disapproval on my talk page. Special thanks to Walton^One and Dihydrogen Monoxide for nominating me.

iridescent (talk to me!) 21:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Credits

This design was brazenly stolen from inspired by Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor's RFA Thanks, which in turn was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks.

RFA Thanks!

Thanks for your participation for my RFA bid and for your support.--JForget 23:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, both the talk and user pages will need a clean-up soon.--JForget 01:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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