User talk:Toshio Yamaguchi/Archive 4

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New Message! Heads up!

Hello, You have at least one new message here. --Tito Dutta ✉ 03:25, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

TAFI

I have done some more work towards trying to get the project ready. If you'd like, please take a look and see what else you think needs to be done. AutomaticStrikeout 19:23, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Idea lab

I apologize for the nature of my oppose there. I didn't realize I was on the idea lab page when I made it. Ryan Vesey 21:47, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

It's okay. I admit that I don't have any founded data on how well the current tags are working. Perhaps I should research that first. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 21:58, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

NFCR

Sorry i didn't act upon NFCR but i found i am unable to judge whether free use is warranted or not :P and i cannot get a proper grasp of the free use policies. :( Sphilbrick suggested i look into text © violations so i've been trying that instead. Thanks again, benzband (talk) 08:47, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello. You have a new message at benzband's talk page.

Toshiba Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries

Do you mind a merge with Toshiba? --Anbu121 (talk me) 10:08, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

I didn't plan this. I think this information is too long for the Toshiba article. I planned to create a category for pages of this kind, like this new page and Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 10:12, 12 August 2012 (¿UTC)

Hezbollah flag

¿Hezbollah flag copyright?....you are patetic....

I guess you mean pathetic. Anyway, thanks for the compassion. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 13:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Animation_International

Hello Toshio Yamaguchi,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Animation_International for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 05:22, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Toshio Yamaguchi. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Help desk.
Message added BigNate37_(T) 20:52, 22 August 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

For your information...

Thanks to Ryan Vesey we have our first nomination in the WP:TAFI project, so I'm notifying all the project members. AutomaticStrikeout 20:18, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Barbara Cartland novels

Lacking references and notability in accordance with WP:BOOK, the guidelines would suggest that the many articles you are creating are best either deleted or redirected to the author. Which do you prefer? Cindy(talk to me) 13:44, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Neither, the books clearly satisfy WP:BKCRIT#5. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 13:45, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

That specific criteria refers to the works by authors such as Shakespeare, rather than a contemporary romance novelist. Note the guideline in bold. "The book's author is so historically significant that any of his or her written works may be considered notable. This does not simply mean that the book's author is him/herself notable by Wikipedia's standards; rather, the book's author is of exceptional significance and the author's life and body of written work would be a common subject of academic study." Barbara Cartland does not meet this criteria. If not redirecting, I would recommend submitting the articles for community discussion. Your thoughts? Cindy(talk to me) 14:02, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

I will redirect the articles to Barbara Cartland bibliography and {{db-g7}} the template. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 14:38, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

If you need help redirecting, just let me know. Thanks, Cindy(talk to me) 14:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

All articles redirected and Template:Barbara Cartland G7ed. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 15:13, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

CfD notification

FYI...Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_August_26#Category:Wikipedians_open_to_being_called_NFCC_zealot. VegaDark (talk) 04:03, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Prod vs AFD

You asked at the Village Pump the other day about why prod is preferable to AFD. They both run for seven days minimum, so neither is faster. What matters is the amount of people-time, rather than the amount of calendar-time. AFD requires the direct involvement of multiple people, typically one to nom, a couple to comment, and one to close (or re-list, if a couple of people haven't commented yet). Prod requires direct involvement by only two: one to tag, and one to review the tag. Prod is therefore more efficient with our most limited resource, which is attention from people like you. That's why prod is preferable for uncontested deletions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I agree that we don't have an ideal situation where we have enough people to deal with AfDs, so Prod is a working alternative. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 05:55, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Article you requested per fair use

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B86iegI5pG5TRjg1Z0hsN3VJMnM

Please let me know when you are done. Churn and change (talk) 02:27, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Done. Thank you. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:07, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Tien Shinhan.png)

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Link to subpages

I'm interested in the link you mentioned at the help desk.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 09:58, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Simply add

$( document ).ready( function() {
  mw.util.addPortletLink(
    'p-personal',
    mw.util.wikiGetlink( 'Special:PrefixIndex/User:' ) + mw.config.get( 'wgUserName' ),
    'My subpages',
    'pt-mysubpages',
    'Show your subpages',
    null,
    '#pt-preferences'
  );
});

to User:Sphilbrick/common.js. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:13, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Toshio Yamaguchi. You have new messages at Dodger67's talk page.
Message added 22:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Roger (talk) 22:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Kumioko

Saw your diff (have your talk page on watchlist, so saw the userpage diff). Perhaps you can't state (and why I won't state) the exact cause, but it's blatantly apparent from various edits in his last 50. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:12, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, some animals are more equal than others methinks (btw. sometimes switching an A with an R and and R with an A has an interesting effect) .... -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 16:32, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Both added to the list. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 09:10, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Tongue in cheek, hope you don't mind a bit of levity :) [1]. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Does that date have a specific meaning? Is it tied to something in particular? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 15:45, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

From the linked chart, November 2007 is when we reached peak active editors. It's been in average decline for the five years hence. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:03, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Mmh, yeah, I see. An old saying goes "Anyone who can read has a clear advantage." =P -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 08:58, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for the Redirect

Somehow I missed a Redirect. Thank you.

No problem, you are welcome. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:01, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

JSTOR

Hi there. You're one of the first 100 people to sign up for a free JSTOR account via the requests page. We're ready to start handing out accounts, if you'd still like one.

JSTOR will provide you access via an email invitation, so to get your account, please email me (swallingwikimedia.org) with...

the subject line "JSTOR"
your English Wikipedia username
your preferred email address for a JSTOR account

The above information will be given to JSTOR to provide you with your account, but will otherwise remain private. Please do so by November 30th or drop me a message to say you don't want/need an account any longer. If you don't meet that deadline, we will assume you have lost interest, and will provide an account to the next person in the rather long waitlist.

Thank you! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 21:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Responded via E-Mail. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 08:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Goodbye

I am sorry to see you have gone, although I can empathize somewhat with how you feel. I would like to thank you again for your help in starting this project. Best wishes, AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 19:05, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

You are most welcome. It was a pleasure for me to help with TAFI. I hope that you and the other members can keep that project afloat, Wikipedia definitely needs it as there are many articles that have the potential to become better than they currently are. Thanks for your good wishes. All the best. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:52, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you...

Thank you for the offer of assistance. I will definitely take you up on it, but first...

...I am very glad that you have decided not to leave Wikipedia, and look forward to the day you consider yourself a complete editor once again. (Though I believe no editor is incomplete, just as it is impossible to have half a hole.)

In the meantime, the outline I need help on is Outline of natural language processing.

It is still under construction, and needs topics gathered to it and annotated.

The outline hints at the day when computers will be able to understand everything we write or say, when they will be able to communicate with us and each other in our languages. It is interesting to see the components this effort is broken down into.

A most fascinating outline indeed. I look forward to your collaboration. The Transhumanist 01:55, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Topic mining

In order to gather relevant topics, I've found it useful to browse the webpages on the subject, rather than just Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia's articles on natural language processing are far from complete, and many of its topics are orphaned (not linked into its main subject articles).

There are many branches (of the outline) to be discovered. The Transhumanist 04:06, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Working out the details at Wikipedia:Today's article for improvement

The RFC for TAFI is nearing it's conclusion, and it's time to hammer out the details over at the project's talk page. There are several details of the project that would do well with wider input and participation, such as the article nomination and selection process, the amount and type of articles displayed, the implementation on the main page and other things. I would like to invite you to comment there if you continue to be interested in TAFI's development. --Nick Penguin_(contribs) 02:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

An invitation for you!


	Hello, Toshio Yamaguchi. You're invited to join WikiProject Today's article for improvement. If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the list of members. Happy editing! Northamerica1000^(talk) 02:21, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Done. Thank you. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 07:09, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for joining! Northamerica1000^(talk) 23:39, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Toshio Yamaguchi. You have new messages at WP:HD.
Message added 11:55, 20 January 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Pratyya ^(Hello!) 11:55, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Resolved. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 12:28, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Google Maps link

Template:Google Maps link has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. WOSlinker (talk) 15:22, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

List of hospitals in the Federated States of Micronesia

The tag is the least bad tag I could find. Basically, the article consists of a list and all of the items are Red links. I know it is a non trivial task to correct, if and when you write the articles then the tag can be removed. If you are aware of a better tag then by all means substitute that tag. Regards Op47 (talk) 19:44, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, I am not currently aware of a better tag. Yes, the main entries of the list are all redlinks, however

I regard a redlink as a link to another article
this is not directly an issue with this article, but with the articles this one links to (which do not exist (yet))

I will look whether I can find another tag to use. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 19:58, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Help:Downloading article as PDF

Help:Downloading article as PDF, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Help:Downloading article as PDF and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Help:Downloading article as PDF during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 00:57, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Checklinks

Hello Toshio,
I noticed you have been fixing links in the Singapore Exchange article. There is a handy tool for this sort of thing, see: w:WP:CHECKLINKS. I took the liberty of running this on the article, and repaired dead links from archived copies.
~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 18:17, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

That's good, thanks. Unfortunately there seem to be a number of links where no archived version exists or where I have been unable to locate a working cached version. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 20:12, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

That thread is closed. I closed it because it is heading straight toward personal attack argumentland, and clearly there is a consensus against that proposal. Everyone has explained their position, and no one is going to be changing their minds. Don't reopen it. Prodego ^talk 00:27, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Rd232 made a new subsection to get more opinions and asked for other ideas. Even though I opposed the original proposal, I don't see the need to shut down that discussion. Let it die out naturally. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 00:33, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

It doesn't really matter how good an idea it is though, it will not happen for social reasons, for legal reasons, for technical reasons, and for administrative reasons. That is a lot of reasons. On the other hand, comments are getting attacky, so it is time to put down the stick and step away. Prodego ^talk 00:43, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

I don't see the comments getting attacky, but the original proposal doesn't appear to have a chance to be accepted. However, I think it is legitimate to try to get further opinions on the proposal, as Rd232 did in the new subsection. It's closed now, so I'll let it rest in peace. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 00:57, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

ST:VOY episode images

Toshio, I'd like to merge the 14 18 ST:VOY images you posted for discussion on WP:NFCR into a single section, bulletizing the 14 18. All 14 18 have the same proposed rationale for removing them. I think it would be appropriate to have a single discussion on the appropriateness of episodic images. There are differing viewpoints, and having the discussion split out over 14 images servers everyone poorly I think. This isn't to say I agree or disagree with you. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, the common practice seem to be to use one header per file or one per article if it concerns one article having multiple non-free images. This seems to fall into the first case, that's why I started one section per file just as is done usually. I agree though that it might be worth merging them. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:39, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Ok. I merged. Feel free to undo/adjust/whatever as you see fit. Wikipedia:Non-free_content_review#Star_Trek:_Voyager_episode_images. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:46, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Well obviously you were faster than me, as I tried to do the same. :) -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:58, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I am mightier than thou! Bow before my almighty fingers! ;) --Hammersoft (talk) 15:07, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I need to train my fingers, need to advance to orange, as I am still at yellow (and get a faster internet connection). -- Toshio Yamaguchi 15:21, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Voyager images

you may want to group those together under a single topic at NFCR - I've got a comment on this that relates to something I already approached the TV project about regarding such images but can be addressed as a group. --MASEM (t) 14:35, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Please see reply above. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 14:40, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Grutness on your user page

I'm not sure what the purpose of the table is on your user page, but Grutness is still editing (or perhaps "editing again"). If it's there to document reasons for decline, or something else that Grutness's editing doesn't prima facie contradict, please just remove this comment. Cheers, Storkk (talk) 01:33, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I removed Grutness from the table. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 06:19, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Average

Let me word it differently. If the largest religion has 2 billion adherents, and the smallest religion has 20 adherents, how many adherents does a medium-sized religion have? Pass a Method talk 21:14, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

That depends on whether by billion you mean a billion in short scale or long scale. If it is the former, then you have

{20+10^{9} \over 2}

, if it is the latter, then you have

{20+10^{12} \over 2}

. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 21:21, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Non-free file File:LANTONNOIS VAN RODE.JPG

I do not know who added this image to articles on the medals the subject is wearing, but I have removed it from those articles. I can see no reason why the articles, which both have pictures of the medal, need non-free pictures of this particular medal-holder. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. That is good then. One thing you could do to further improve the image is to fill out the empty fields in the section Summary of the file page if you want. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 17:23, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

TAFI

Hello,
In the past few days, Today's Articles for Improvement has gone through many changes.

We have modified the process for adding Nominations, which now uses a template/table format and requires only 3 supports for an article to be selected.
There is now a Holding Area, where articles are kept for discussion before being selected for a particular date.
The TAFI schedule now involves adding 10 articles weekly, chosen from a variety of topics.
We now have an Accomplishments page where we will be highlighting our older TAFI articles which have now become quality articles on the Wikipedia.

The Project is almost ready to hit the Main Page, where it will be occupying a section just below "Did you Know" section. Three article from the weekly batch of 7 will be displayed randomly at the main page, the format of which can be seen at the Main Page sandbox. There is also an ongoing discussion at the Main page talk over the final details before we can go forward with the Main Page.

If you have any ideas to discuss with everyone else, please visit the TAFI Talk Page and join in on the ongoing discussions there. You are also invited to add new nominations, and comment and suport on the current ones at the Nominations page. You can also help by helping in the discussions at the Holding Area.

Above all, please do not forget to improve our current Today's Articles for Improvement

Thank you and hoping to have some productive work from you at the Project,
TheOriginalSoni (talk) 12:10, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
(From the TAFI team)

Thank you for this message. I will take a look at it. I don't know how much I can do for TAFI at the moment, as I have a number of other time-consuming projects I participate in. This isn't to say that I am not interested in the project (far from it), but the project seems to have evolved a lot since I last checked it, so it might take some time for me to get into it again. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 12:23, 18 February 2013 (UTC)