User talk:The Rambling Man/Archive 15

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If you contributed, thank you for your support on my RfA, which recently passed 128/0/0. I'll take small steps at first, please let me know how I'm doing or if there's anything I can do to help you. --The Rambling Man 07:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Contents

Your RFA

I liked your answer. I don't sense doubt that you'll assuming good faith, which you were absolutely right on it's high level of importance, to say the least.--U.S.A. cubed 03:29, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

O Gnome of Great Distinction

You've gnomed my user page,
It must have ta'e an age,
You're a Gnome of Great Distinction,
Thanks for ending my frustration.

It's utterly franptious. Thank you. --Dweller 07:36, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Merci

Thanks! Hopefully it'll get passed soon.. is there any time limit on FAC's? And I keep on telling myself to get revising.. but meh.. It'll fit in somewhere.. Mattythewhite 15:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)

An outstanding obit in 1993 Wisden (I have it in a little book of Wisden obits) is really helpful. Leaving it to my fav. gnome to do the stuff I find so hard! --Dweller 19:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Helping you out:
  • ([1])
  • ([2]) NB Hutton's average against him, his better performance v right handers (usual for a leggie) and how few stumpings he won
  • ([3]) not that interesting, except that surprisingly, he had least success at his home ground, Sydney
  • ([4]) extraordinary consistency - not a single bad series - and his worst (1938) distorted by England's mammoth 903.

--Dweller 10:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks for those - I'm grabbing the data as we speak. The Rambling Man 10:30, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Derry City F.C. FAC

Thanks again for the advice. I shouldn't have any major problems in resolving your points. I will work on them as quickly as I can. I have left a few other comments on the FAC page if they interest you. Danny InvincibleTalk|Edits 12:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Possibly you could help with attaching fair use rationales to the relevant images in the article or guide me on what information to include? Cheers. Danny InvincibleTalk|Edits 02:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I have added fair use rationales to Image:DCFCProg.jpg and Image:Beckettbarca.jpg (which isn't in the public domain - I came across it on the club website). Do you think what I have written is OK? Would I need to do anything with the crest images and the album cover image? Danny InvincibleTalk|Edits 02:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations

After unanimous support on your RfA, you're now an administrator. Use the new tools wisely, and as you get comfortable, dig in and help clear out the backlogs. Feel free to ask for help if you're unsure and have fun! Again, congrats. - Taxman Talk 16:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, congratulations from me too. All the best! —Anas talk? 16:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations, well deserved promotion there. Good luck with your new tools. Majorly (hot!) 16:59, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations on your graduation. Are you ready to be a coach?  The Transhumanist    17:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Well done mate! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehh! Dr Border 21:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you all for your support. I'll get round to a more complete round of thanks in due course, but I'm truly touched by the unanimous backing of the community. Thanks, again, I hope I don't let you down! The Rambling Man 18:15, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Well done mate; you've worked for it ~ Anthony 21:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Excellent. Just excellent. – B.hotep u/t• 22:15, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


It is time. I think we have been all touched in a positive way by your presence here, RM. Seldom do I experience such a sense of true delight as I do when someone with your talents, good works, integrity, and intellect, receives a full vote of confidence from such a vast assortment of souls. It is clearly a "perfect score" and a "perfect game." I say check and mate, J. Congratulations. 67.163.7.227 06:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry - I seem to have missed your RFA - but I see you did not need my help! Congratulations. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA

This is a placeholder comment. I'll be back later to say what I think. Meantime, suffice to say:

  • well done
  • I'm not surprised
  • thanks for the shiny thing

"See" you later. --Dweller 07:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

The Hammer of the Vandals
You are the most qualified candidate I've seen at RfA since I came here. Your first RfA failed because of some appalling luck and some misconceptions. This was the result you should have had then. You are unfailingly gracious (even to trolls), extraordinarily hardworking and persistent. I've never met you and maybe I never will... heck, I don't even know your real name, but I consider you a true friend and (sort of) a work partner. All this despite your football allegiances. You don't need a mop... I've given you a mallet for vandal-bashing. I may shortcut AIV and just post all my vandal block requests straight to you (jk). Good luck and thank you for all you do for this Project. --Dweller 10:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Up the Tractor Boys! (my favourite Championship team, and second-favourite English team behind my beloved Hammers...) Congrats on the RfA result, mate - extremely deserving. Keep up the good work, especially writing football articles! Daniel Bryant 11:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Congrats old chap, well deserved. Sorry I didn't get round to looking at the Norwich FA, haven't the time of late to look at any of the football FAs. Might do some gnomish stuff when I have the time. HornetMike 21:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Comedian Rajnikant

Hello ... would you please SALT this page ... see the log ... thnx! —72.75.73.158 15:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Nice to see ...

... that a lot of work has been done on the "Medical Tourism" page to make it something other than ... well, what it was, which was a mess.

I hadn't looked in months, I confess. I remember wincing then. I don't now.

As someone who wrote a book about the subject -- my compliments. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jeffbot (talk • contribs) 00:52, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

York City FA

Cheers!! 'bout time it got there. Thank you muchly for the contributions you made to the article.. and congratulations on becoming an admin! Take care, Mattythewhite 10:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you The Rambling Man, for voting on my RfA. Although it failed, I will try to improve in the ways pointed out to me, and maybe I will become an admin next time. If you have any comments, questions, etc., you know where to go. ¿SFGiДnts! ☺ ☻ 22:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Admin coaching

Hello! First off, further congrats on your successful Rfa, and I was more than happy to see you pass with flying colors. Secondly, I am interested in grooming myself into a possible admin role. I noticed that you had listed yourself at WP:ADMINCOACH as a volunteer, and was hoping to possibly become your coachee. I've been told that I am "just a bloody-bastard of a Yank", but I'm actually a pretty decent one once you get to know me. I would love to discuss this with you, and hopefully learn from you and your 24,135 (as of my writing this) edit count experience. Thanks for your time and consideration. Yours, 10:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC) Jmlk17 (talk · contribs)

Wonderful! Thank you so much :). First off, I joined Wikipedia back in December of 2005, and just sort of slowly edited in my spare time or when I was bored. Fast-forward about a year, into December of 2006. I was getting ready to graduate, and found myself using Wikipedia to research and help collect information for a couple of serious papers I was researching. After earning an A- on one and an A on the other, I thought "well, I found myself a pretty useful tool"! So I dug deeper in, and began to do mainly copyediting and grammar edits. I worked my way up to getting involved on talk pages, a fraternity and sorority wikiproject, and I keep a big eye on NHL pages and their doings. My watchlist is currently around 200-225, and while large, I like it. I recently found VandalProof, and I love it, since one of my big things is I hate finding vandalism on a page I am visiting or reading from (it just sort of breaks your concentration you know?). The most frustrating part of Wikipedia isn't something I can do much about: everyone seems so disconnected at times. I like having an online buddy group (AIM etc.), but here, I feel isolated from my edits at times. But beyond that, I feel as if vandals take control at times, and that's why I love to revert vandalism edits whenever, and wherever I find them. As for the last part, I find myself able to do much here at Wikipedia, but beyond basic editings and page construction, I am not too knowledgeable about the in-depth parts here (such as Water-Pump, AIV issues, etc.) I would love to learn anything, and everything as much as possible, since Wikipedia is a fun hobby, and has helped me immensely in my schoolwork, as well as my entertainment life. Jmlk17 21:44, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Sounds just fine to me. I can't think of any question at the moment, but I shall keep in touch as well. Thanks! Jmlk17 07:56, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Aston Villa

Is it possiable you could help me at all when you have sometime with the points you have raised?

Many thanks

Andy (Everlast1910 14:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

Peer Review

Mainly proofing the History and cutting it down because when i go to do it i can't just can't i don't chopping history out! Also anything else that you think will make the article to the next level and eventually FA! :)

Andy (Everlast1910 15:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

Sorry i was just trying to work out what was done! Ill respond instead in the future! Thanks again

Andy (Everlast1910 19:19, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

Cheers mate I see what you mean little things do make an improvement good final, I want Selby to win :)!

Many thanks again Andy (Everlast1910 19:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

I hope he does win, yes i am here to learn this is the first article i have started to edit .

Once again many thanks for your help

Andy (Everlast1910 19:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC))

Hey TRM, I see you have made a lot of little edits and i must say the article is looking much better after the history section is done what more do we need to do to get this to FA status! Good final last night! :)

Hope your okay and thanks a lot!

Andy (Everlast1910 21:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC))


Cheers mate ill have a look thanks for helping! Just hope we can get this up to FA!

Andy (Everlast1910 22:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC))


Yes i saw that there is already an article for the final already done in detail, also there is a round by round one which we could link at the top so yes, i think it should be deleted! - Also also what is in major need of being done!

Thanks again Andy

(Everlast1910 17:06, 9 May 2007 (UTC))

reply, for you on my talk page

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I just noticed this edit. Heh heh, sorry about listing you in the wrong place on that page! :) Acalamari 20:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for quick action

Hey, just noticed that you'd deleted an article I tagged with CSD A7/G11 literally seconds after I tagged the article. Thanks for that, as I've been on a big article drive to clean up Category:Companies of Australia and it seemed this article was somehow restored after being blown away. The article lacked any information on notability, was blatant advertising, and had no sources information added to it despite being in existence for a year or so. Again, thanks for the quick action. Thewinchester (talk) 15:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for responding so quickly to delete the defamatory article entitled "The Society of Stewards". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.161.140.50 (talk) 16:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

Did you ever get that feeling of deja vu?

A Few Quick Facts: Weapon of War (Private Snafu) --Dweller 16:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, linky link gone red... wonder why? Cheers for heads-up... The Rambling Man 16:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of information

Hi!

I'm an intern at Utah State University's Mountain West Center for Regional Studies. I was trying to get some information about the center into Wikipedia, but apparently, you indicated it was inappropriate. Since I am new at this, I would appreciate any helpful suggestions you may have.

Thank you.

S. Bell MWC —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mountain West Center (talk • contribs) 17:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

Thanks!

I shall study the information and make sure we meet the criteria.

Mountain West Center 17:34, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

nom page

Dweller's nom page is up. I saw you (or somebody) wanted to sign first. So you better get in there.  :-) -TT 20:37, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

re: invite... do the honors. The Transhumanist 20:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Ziva Pluchuck

Why was my Ziva Pluchuck article deleted?

Avishai Geva

Why are you such a sad man??

Not only are you a rambling man you are ectremely sad... stop talking to me i dont like you i dont want to talk to you and stop threatening me with blocks. If your such a special wikipedia guy why dont u block me urself, why not? i'll tell you why... its because your so rubbish and dont even have that power. So jog on... get a life and leave me aone you sad gimp.

NEWSFLASH- THE RAMBLING MAN IS AN ACTUAL FOOL WITH NO LIFE.

If you hate the rambling man clap your hands!!!........

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

see noone likes you. why dont u just delete ur account u flimsy rabbit chaser. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nikky88 (talk • contribs) 20:41, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

Flimsy rabbit chaser? You aren't related to Arnold J. Rimmer, are you? -TT 20:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Wow, blocked before I could draw breath. Hmm. Thanks y'all, although I like the "..jog on.." and the gimp reference. A round of applause all round. The Rambling Man 20:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes and I was going to delete this trolling as part of the cleanup as well, but if you want to keep it, it's up to you. – B.hotep u/t• 20:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Daniel Coleman

Just to let you know - around two and a half years ago, I created an article about Ghanaian soccer player Daniel Coleman, which unfortunately suffered from vandalistic edits from a registered editor and, later an IP. These were never reverted, and unfortunately, when spotted, the article was speedily deleted by yourself.

I have reinstated the information as per the original article I had written, and I hope that when you see this message everything will be fine. All the best. Bobo. 03:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Hello. Thanks so much for the kind words. I've gratefully accepted. Here goes... Incidentally, as usual, I'll be unable to edit much over the weekend, so optional questions posted then may go unanswered for a couple of days. As they're optional, that shouldn't be a big deal, but I would like to respond promptly to any and all that get thrown at me. After all, I see the RfA as a great opportunity for receiving feedback. --Dweller 09:40, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Question

Dear Mr. Rambling Man,

Just checking in to see why the information on Weapon of War was deleted? I thought it would be useful for people to see what the storybord of the film actually looked like as it is a first hand historical reference.

Also the the National Archive reference numbers would be useful for anyone researching it (took a while to track down) and the authorship of Geisel is particularly intriguing.

Confused, Paul Manchester wilwhimsey@sbcglobal.net —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wilwhimsey (talk • contribs).

Vandalism

You got it all, thanks. I see you got the same treatment, what a pleasant fellow. Yomanganitalk 16:54, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

deletion of my article on Uduan express.

I had given a complete authentic article on Udyan express . I know almost everything on Indian trains better than even the general managers. the article also cited media criticism for the violation of environment by the wrong policies adopted for udyan express and make many more human beings aware ot it. please I would like to know why was the article deleted. i find in Vikipedia totally wrong info on schedules of certain trains totally wrong info about second fastes train in India. i find that the wrong article about 6011/6012 chennai express existent for a year. the train is not named and the article is utterly misleading. why my complete informative as well as environment supporting article deleted. I do not know much of style. style could have been corrected.--Anilped 16:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I find out lots of wrong scheduled lots of misleading info ( eg. 6011 chennai express), incorrect info about Indian trains existing for a year in vikipedia. nobody deleted these articles. My article was complete informative and also took up the touching issue of environment protection also taken up by media. please mail me as to why was my article deleted and lots of wrong info articles exist ion indian trains for a year now. e-mail anilped@hotmail.com

I see the article has been recreated. My advice - ensure all claims you make within the article (such as "...the most popular train...") have reliable sources which verify the notability of the article. Thanks. The Rambling Man 17:03, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Chitika

This article ended up on DRV, and I speedily restored it because the previous deletion was by PROD and not by AFD; G4 doesn't apply to deleted PRODs. It's on AFD now. --Coredesat 22:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Terry Hershey

Hi, I'd like to edit the article you deleted on Terry Hershey. I have much more I can add to establish notability. Could you restore the article for me to edit?

Terry has been instrumental in establishing the spiritual gardening community and is a well known national speaker. He is a also regular TV commentator on the Hallmark channel.

thanks much, ---avibodha (Avibodha 16:40, 11 May 2007 (UTC))

Church Stretton Royals FC

Hi, Please advise why you deleted my article on Church Stretton Royals Football Club. Thanks in advance. Strettonroyal 13:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Bill O'Reilly peer review

Of course, no problem. I plan on adding my support when you take it that far for sure. Make sure you let the Project know, as well, I'm sure you'll get a lot more of us putting our names by it. And thanks for the Wiki redirect link, I actually wasn't aware of that beforehand... Just seemed like common sense to me but *shrug*. :) AllynJ 18:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

StarTex Power

My entry was deleted, but I noticed that similar entries exist for Cirro Energy, TXU, Reliant, etc...how was my entry different? thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stephenmadden (talk • contribs) 21:09, 12 May 2007 (UTC).

one final word ... Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)

i think we should re-word the sentence Four years later, after a second successful tour of England, Wisden .. as In 1939, Wisden reflected on Bill O'Reilly's succesful 1938 England tour:.
sorry for being hard but it will make it more accurate. Kalyan 14:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Review request for List of ODI Awards for Sachin Tendulkar

Hi., I am planning to make the wikipage - List of ODI Awards for Sachin Tendulkar as FL candidate. Please let me know your feedback on the wikipage. Kalyan 14:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Peer Review Request: List of ODI Awards for Sachin Tendulkar

Hi., i moved the list article for peer review. Please aid me in (1) review of the list (2) garnering support to take me thru the review process. Thanks. Kalyan 16:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

B O'R

Thank you for the note: much appreciated. But I meant what I said on the FAC – I like creating readable articles but don't have any inclination to polish them up to FA status myself, and much admire those such as you and your compadre who can and do. So well done to you two, no matter what the result of the FAC process. BTW, I have a perhaps mischievous thought that your next project should be to do the same to Bill O'Reilly (commentator). And then get the two to be run as FA on consecutive days? Cricketer first, of course. ;-) Johnlp 20:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Update

Thanks for your messages.

My RfA

Thanks for the heads-up. I responded to the questions last night.

Bill O

I think it's a great article now. I perused a great tome of a biog on Bradman over the weekend and we'd got it all, pretty much. Interesting how my antennae are tuned... I found the book badly written and hagiographic.

Harlech Castle

Going well, I think. I've asked Clio for help. Michael Prestwich and AJ Taylor (I think it's Arnold Taylor) are great sources and her library will have their works and also published journals with any new research etc.

Sir Bobby Robson

That'll be a pleasure.

We just need to decide what's next in the queue. Do you think our collaborative efforts need/deserve their own bit of user space? Or possibly even a dedicated bit of project space? It'll help keep our discussions together and make them easier for other collaborators to keep up with.

Pulling it together

How about WikiProject FADrive? I see no real clash with WP:AID which has its own adherents and a very different way of working. I'm very content with our "we'll work on it if it pleases us" approach, lol. --Dweller 10:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

You might be interested in WP:1FAPQ which is nowhere near as rigid as its (decoded) name suggests. Yomanganitalk 11:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Yep. And, TRM, thanks for your welcome. I'm still waiting for the 100 opposers to jump out from behind the sofa. --Dweller 20:46, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

TRM, thank you for your kind support of my RfA, which successfully closed yesterday. Please feel free to drop me a line any time if I can help you in any way. Pastordavid 15:24, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Bobby R

I've chucked a load of stuff into the article for working up. Clio (bless her) has also bunged some Harlech stuff on my talk page. I'll take a look at it later. --Dweller 10:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I've seen, thanks. Hit the Harlech! I'm trying to source an image for the Robson article from my "sources"... The Rambling Man 10:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, I think there's summat wrong with the refs. --Dweller 10:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

NB Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) --Dweller 16:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

From Moni (lilium)

Thnks for the help altho' i still don't get it( cause i've not read it properly) thanks anywayz might read it todayMoni(lilium) 11:02, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Smile!

Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! (Whisper...) has smiled at you! Smiles are good! and hopefully this one has made your day better. Why not smile at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend? Happy editing!

Bill, again

I added a couple of "explanations" on the FAC notes for B O'R for two points raised by your learned friend. The second "bat" is definitely a ball and I've altered that in the script. BTW (and I've posted this note on User:Dweller's talkpage too), in the Wisden references where there is a Part II, it's to do with the pagination of Wisden rather than a second part of any single article. Until the 1937 edition, the paging started with Part I page 1, which included all the stuff about cricketers of the year, notes by the editor, births and deaths, laws and public schools, and this went on for about 300 or so pages. Part II was then the chronicle of the previous season and started with another page 1, and Part II then usually extended for about 700 further pages, finishing in distant colonies and then with the fixtures for the coming year. I'm not sure how to do references properly, so am chickening out of doing the deed myself (though I altered one that was wrong). Johnlp 21:10, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Many Thanks:

Thanks for signing the petition for me to return from my Wikibreak/Retirement. It was unexpected & I appreciate your kind words. I'm planning to stay away from conflict for a bit, so don't expect to see me around any talk pages etc. Anyway, thanks again for being there. :) Spawn Man 23:39, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh & congrats on your successful RfA. :) Spawn Man 00:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I see he attacked you too. jimfbleak 09:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Huh? Spawn Man 09:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
No fear, he's not referring to you, he's referring to Mr Deathray who I blocked earlier on today for persistent personal attacks! The Rambling Man 09:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

As well as blocking Mr Deathray you have also blocked me. I would greatly appreciate if you could remove the block seeing as I have done nothing wrong. Regards, Roydosan 10:29, 16 May 2007 (UTC)