User talk:Lee Vilenski/Archives/2020/September

Amir Sarkhosh

Hi. AppoWeb has apparently tried to get around the salting of Amir Sarkhosh by creating Sarkhosh, Amir (an article in a state clearly beyond that of a newbie's capability). The user has been problematic in other ways, too, as you can see from their contribs and talk history (let me know if you want me to be more specific), and a couple people have expressed concern (including me) that this is "not their first rodeo". (Bringing this to you as you were the one to salt the page.) —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 18:37, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

My discussion on the topic: User talk:HickoryOughtShirt?4#Sock?, and with them: User talk:AlanM1#question 2 (note they call everyone "friend"). —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 18:40, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks AlanM1 - I have deleted and SALTed the page. The IP has aready been banned, but needs a bit more investigation. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:54, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of an IP being involved. Is there anything further I need to do regarding the user I mentioned? —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 18:58, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

They've apparently been blocked at fawiki as a sock of ArmanAfifeh. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 19:06, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

They've now gone. Thanks for that. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:25, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2013 World Snooker Championship

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Your GA nomination of 2013 World Snooker Championship

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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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Adminship request

Hello

I have been a user on Wikipedia for a long time now. I wanted to acquire adminship to stop vandalism on particular pages that contain topics which are extremely communal in our country but are protected by extended protection. I request you to please nominate me as I gone through the Rfa guidelines and I think I am capable of being an Admin.

Thank you! Superbsic (talk) 08:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Superbsic - thanks for taking an interest in adminship, but it is something where you will need years of experience and not days. I think you may have confused adminship and what we call extended confirmed, where you require 500 edits and 30 days of experience to become edit certain pages. Might I also suggest that spamming several admin's talks with requests to be nominated for adminship is not the way to go about this. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:11, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Might I also suggest not removing sourced content at Bajrang Dal against consensus and pushing a POV? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:13, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 1985 World Snooker Championship final

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DYK for 2003 World Snooker Championship

On 3 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2003 World Snooker Championship, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mark Williams won the most successive frames at the 2003 World Snooker Championship, despite losing the first two? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2003 World Snooker Championship. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2003 World Snooker Championship), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

RfA Flight Candidate?

Hi Lee. At one point I think you hinted that you might have someone interested in running in the RfA flight. Did I get that right? If so are they still interested? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:23, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Power snooker is a cue sport

If you want to discuss it you can but I see no reason why my edit was wrong ok DooksFoley147 (talk) 17:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

DooksFoley147 A discussion is not a thing if you aren't taking note. I've reverted this, so discuss at WT:SNOOKER per bold, revert, discuss. Wikipedia is a collaborative project - not somewhere where you can continue to be disruptive. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Review

Hi Lee, I know we're "in competition" at WikiCup etc, not that it really matters too much, but I was wondering if you'd be able to take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1993 Football League First Division play-off Final/archive1 for me? I do appreciate your reviews and they've been helpful in highlighting issues that I'm just now too close to the subject to see. No worries if not, busy times for us all. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 20:51, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

TRM - we aren't in competition, I've resigned myself to at best second place! Sure I can look at it. I also have an FAC open at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1984 World Snooker Championship/archive1 if you'd like to do some QPQ. Might take me a couple days though! Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:54, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, no worries, I'll add it to my review list. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 20:55, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

You have a list - that's why you'll win ;P. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Harry Potter video games

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Your GA nomination of Harry Potter video games

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You seem to want to make every decision on here ?.

Why does it bother you what is added here as long as it is helping out ?. You seem to want to run wikipedia as if you own it which you do not btw?. 80.233.81.98 (talk) 16:50, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry - I'm not sure what you are asking. I believe this is about the changes to several snooker players articles regarding how we treat Power Snooker. However, this is being changed, and been reverted, so the next part of the wheel is to Discuss. We do have a discussion already ongoing at WT:SNOOKER#Career finals which is against this change currently. I ask you to describe the proposed changes there instead. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:53, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2020 World Snooker Championship

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IP 147.10.218.155

Hello Lee, I'm doing some counter-vandalism and wanted to ask your opinion about this IP user's recent edits. Not sure what to make of it. I think that you should take a look to make sure its all ok. Thank you, History DMZ ^{(talk)+(ping)} 09:34, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

147.10.218.155 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)? I saw they made 22 edits to 2008 Summer Olympics, but I didn't see anything particularly vandal-rific. If anything it does look like good faith editing. Probably worth leaving a talk page message about using edit summaries though History DMZ! I can't say I know much about the Summer Olympics to know if there is anything particularly troubling in the particular edits. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:18, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 1971 World Snooker Championship

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Hello

Hi, I was just curious, would you be willing to take a look at some of the GANs at Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations#Earth_sciences? Noah^Talk 18:50, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Hurricane Noah - sure. I can pick up a couple from next month (I'm planning to up my GAN intake). Sciences (and I suppose "earth") aren't my forte, but I'll do my best. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look at some articles. I know they are outside your editing area. I see you have a couple of topics you are working on. I am trying to get a featured topic accomplished for the 2018 Pacific hurricane season. Topics are not easy to complete, that's for sure. Noah^Talk 13:34, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

No issues Hurricane Noah. Snooker is no one's favourite topic! Quite happy to take a look at whatever you've got for QPQ (and I'll have things for review steadily for the next two months). Happy editing Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:03, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

You should check out how large this topic would be. This is just one year of tropical cyclones. Noah^Talk 17:43, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Only 81 articles? Clearly child's play! As an aside, I've been working on a good topic on last season's snooker results, and I'm about 70% through (like 33 articles), so there's hope! Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Let me know how Vicente looks. I will have time to address any further comments during this extended, 3-day, holiday weekend. Noah^Talk 21:06, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

I haven't forgotten about the 2020 article... I will take a look this weekend. I did review the other FAC. If you would be up for the challenge, my one GAN summarizes all the storms in the topic I am working on (there were 26 official storms during the year). It isn't quite as large as Hugo was, but it should have a "non-expert" check it to make sure everything is understandable. Noah^Talk 11:28, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Link me and I'll do it. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:56, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

2018 Pacific hurricane season - off to work. Noah^Talk 13:51, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

GOt the review done for 2020... It has been one heck of a week! Noah^Talk 11:35, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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