User talk:Warlordjohncarter~enwiki/Archive May 2008

A question

Dearest John!

How can I read this article about Messianic Judaism in English?

http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%AA

Vladislav1968 (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2008 (UTC)Vladislav1968

Another Rollback

Hi John, as discussed I would like to have rollback permission - if you would do the honours? docboat (talk) 00:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Directory

Hi, I have noticed your modification of the WikiProject directory. I think it is counter-constructive as it makes it longer to load (44,362 more bytes!) and the fact that there are more sections makes it seem disorganized. A lot of subsections are not even needed as they only contain one WikiProject. Can you consider self-reverting and probably discuss in the talkpage before making such major modification? Thank you.--Jerrch 19:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't really mind, it's just that the sudden increase of 44,362 seemed too urgent. I thought the new version was disorganized, but I guess I could accept your explanation. After all, I think some minor edits could make it more organized.--Jerrch 20:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Stuff

Sorry to hear you are tied down with that. I was slightly concerned I had offended you with my purported lack of interest in the film coordinator roles which isn't true. I genunely think it is a great idea for project coordination as long as responsibility is shared and not a form of hierarchy which I disapprove of. I have just been busy with articles to look too much into it, I'll have a good look into it tomorrow. Times can be difficult on here, I can't believe Sarvagnya went and commented on the die another day lfd (with a strong delete of course like he did with the zinta nomination-an obvious reason as to why. That editor never ceases to amaze me. Trying to remain patient and "civil" with that particularly editor is one of the hardest tests on wikipedia. Anyway off to bed now. Buenos Noches ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Chronological order and proposals

Since you appear to be the head administrator of project proposals May i put the proposals in Chronological order. Iwilleditu^{Talk :)Contributions} 21:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Bryant

When I posted the alarms about the Arthur Bryant article, I hardly dared hope that help would come as energetically and quickly. Thank you so far, and (time and energy permitting) do keep on going. (Please don't bother to respond, other perhaps than on the article's talk page.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Little context in Category:Adelie Land

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SLovenia

Hi there I recently created some articles on some towns and villages in SLovenia and am currently adding the maps and some details. I uploaded some images on Gažon from slovene wiki but their license OVL -I have no idea what this is. It clearly is free to use but would you be able to shed any light on it? I'm not certain it is GFDL ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

here. I;ve just looked at the category there and it looks like non free fair use BUT there is nothing to indicate that it is copywrighted no copysign or nothing. I doubt they would create a template like that. Perhaps its released into the public domain or something -but I saw a Bealtes logo in their category so am unsure. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

The difference is the beatles image has a copy logo on a different tag but images like this are marked as creative commons on the other tag to to me it looks like we can use them ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

These images are lacking description, license or source. They're mostly not free so don't upload them to the English Wikipedia without providing additional information to verify that. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 08:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I see. John any idea what the minimum requirment for a fully fledged project is? WP:Slovenia now has 15 members and loooks like it will continue to grow. Given that projects like Wikipedia:WikiProject Montenegro have roughly the same sort of membership I think it should be moved out of the task force ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Well it wasn't so much about a seperate banner -it was more the "taskforce" categories and general setup. I think it should be moved to WikiProject Slovenia . I'll leave a notice at the WP:Europe page and see what they have to say ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC) What I always found astonishing was that there doesn't seem to be a WP:Hungary project or even a taskforce. Any idea why this is? I would have thought there would be enough editors interested ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Uh well yes!!! I last looked about 6 weeks ago and there was nothing. I see it was only created about 4 weeks ago- for such a large country I found that rather peculiar it took so long to start. I mentioned it at least a year ago when I did some work on Hungarian villages and regions but it didn't exist!! Cool. Glad to see it has finally begun. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Warriors portal

You appear to be a person who knows what is/isn't appropriate with portals so I wanted to hear your opinion on Portal:Warriors. Based on Category:WikiProject Warriors articles, there are just under 30 articles that would fit within this portal. 3 are self-assessed as B-class, 1 is start-class, and 16 others are stub class. Do you think this would be an appropriate portal topic? It feels pretty narrow in focus and doesn't have a lot of quality to present. It was only started a few hours ago, but I was wondering what your thought on it would be before they get too carried away with designing this if it probably wouldn't stand for too long. Metros (talk) 02:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)

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The Amazing Race task force

Thanks for all your work! ♥Shapiros10WuzHere♥ 11:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Caution

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Messianic Judaism. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Tb (talk) 20:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

So noted. Please note I requested clarification on the talk page, and indicated as much in the summary. Perhaps you could pay a bit closer attention to what is being discussed before issuing such warnings in the future. John Carter (talk) 20:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

All I note is that you and two others have each made three or four reverts in a day on the same page. Requesting clarification is good, but the idea is to stop the reverts while the discussion continues. Most important is that this is done whether the other guy stops or not. Tb (talk) 20:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

And I apologize, for counting your edits incorrectly. Amidst such a flurry in the history, my eyes played tricks on me. I'm sorry. Tb (talk) 20:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

To date, I have reverted one truly bizarre addition to the intro, reverted it again, and reverted my own unfortunate removal of previously restored content. That makes two reverts, with a request for clarification made on the talk page. Personally, the quote added, as indicated on the talk page, seems to me to be, as phrased, completely unreliable. I have no intention of further edits, but am very curious how American Jews apparently integrate in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shinto better than they do Christianity, which is what that source seems to state. And no apologies necessary, under the circumstances. Sorry for being a bit abrupt there myself. :) John Carter (talk) 20:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Africa

See this Now what percentage do you think are covered? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:51, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I know. I'm still looking for a plain list where I can start the articles in bot mode. I;m sure it could be done fairly easily but as it is I can't find a list, why on earth Maplandia haven't got an index I don't know . The problem with the falling rain gazetteer is that they list duplicate and even quadruple names for places in the A-Z so some towns may be listed at least four times. I spent a while trying to filter through User:Blofeld of SPECTRE/Missing Settlements/Tajikistan earlier. I to be honest hate compiling lists like that. If somebody presented me with a list of 30,000 red links in a list however I would start to tackle it! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I've found out that they do list them but only in about 15-20 at a time in a given district. This is useful in that I can copy the list in stages and add them at about a rate of 1 a minute using maplandia purely. As they are in the same districts, all I have to do is change the name in the external link, retrieve the coordinates and save article. Tajikistan now has nearly 100 articles, this morning it has less than 15 . This is the most methodical and quickest manual way of doing it ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

We now have 161! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Messianic Judaism

LisaLiel (Talk | contribs) (91,361 bytes) (Moved fringe view by Cohn-Sherbok to Jewish objections section. Putting it in the header is highly POV.)

We had consensus before. Lisa is Orthodox Jewish (according info on her page) and haven't neutral position. It is Wikipedia but not Orthodox book.

PLEASE HELP PROTECT AN ARTICLE!Vladislav1968 (talk) 18:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

HEY

Hey, as you are a member of the Michael Jackson wikiproject I have some very important news for you. I will be nominating the Michael Jackson article for FA shortly and the Thriller album article is currently on the nomination list for GA. We need your help with both articles....

The Michael Jackson artice is currently on a peer review (which you can see on the articles talk page). It also really needs its references formatted correctly.

The Thriller album is going to be reviewed in the next couple of DAYS its sources need formatting.

These are the most important articles on michael jackson here at wiki, 2008 has been an excellent year for michael jackson, lets make it a good year for him here at wikipedia too. If these articles get a GA or FA statues it could make news outside of the wiki world. What a great way to celebrate the 25th year of MJ being the KING OF POP.

Please help with the sources of both these articles and in any other way you can. If you know any other people at wiki that might want to get involved let them know.Realist2 (talk) 22:33, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Ali:Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Collaboration

Hi, one of the wikipedians has chosen this article as Current collaboration, I hope you can help us more with it.--Seyyed(t-c) 02:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

race egyptians

hi john carter i would like to report clear eveident trolling comments on the race and ancient egyptians disscusion page thank you if you could check it out--Wikiscribe (talk) 16:03, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

okay thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 02:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Novels WikiProject banners in the Shannara articles

Please don't forget to add importance tags!!! (See Talk: Border Legion (Shannara), Talk: Shannara.) Thanks! the_ed17 20:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Alright, thanks--I'll try to put some of the importance tags in myself though. =D the_ed17 01:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Vera Caspary

Thank you for the article to B-Class, it was most kind of you. But you have left me confused with your commentary on the article's leadin. I have looked at many many other articles and leads are hardly ever more than 1 or 2 sentences; including the one for Claire Clairmont which is shorter then my own. What do you feel I should include, or perhaps you can refer me to an example that you think I should emulate? Thanks. EraserGirl (talk) 17:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Robert Quillen

Thanks for pushing Robert Quillen out of stub class. For what it's worth, I've now added section headings. Thanks again,John Foxe (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

disruptive editor

hello john ,there seems to be a problem on the kiss song article I Was Made for Lovin' You a particular editor zakkmann has been removeing the disco tag from the genre for this song for a while now it is sourced within the article its self as a disco song and has been disscused in the talk page about the genre of the song if you could check out the situation for me and let me know am i wrong or right i have changed the article back a few times over the last few weeks but he keeps doing it and i dont want to get into an edit war if you could check it out thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

sorry to bother you again but he just reverted your revert,it has already been explained to him the disco genre is for the song and is not calling the band disco its self but just that song--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Screenwriters

I can't really call it a project, I haven't been able to drum enough interest to even call it a task force. I would like to create lists of screenwriters and have been looking for opinions other than my own regarding list sorting. Do you have an opinion for or against the creation of lists of screenwriters by decade for television and film? There may be some bleed over from decade to decade of individual writers, but rarely would they be active for more than 2 or 3 decades, William Goldman is the rarity, not the rule. I haven't had much luck creating pages, nearly every one gets challenged, I think they get points to delete things the moment after creation. I can do some intense population of the lists before creation, but it would be easier to get them up and then increase population afterwards. Does this sound reasonable to you? EraserGirl (talk) 15:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

- Tinucherian (talk) 10:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Lists of Slovenians

Template:Lists of Slovenians has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Any ideas on what I should do. I'm afraid just as things were going well and I was making good progress I run into these people ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Man for an editor who is trying to develop wikipedia on here I sure get some trouble for my efforts don't I. I acknowledged as I was adding some of the more obscure lists such as "bassoons" it would be best to merge them into a musicians list which I have now done. The topics now in the template are notable branches of the encyclopedia. I don't know why none of the editors while agree with me to moving the lists to the project space as project work pages if they fear red links. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Patriot Guard under Wikiproject Christianity?

Why is the Patriot Guard page under the purview of WikiProject Christianity? As I understand it, it's an inclusive organization that welcomes everyone, regardless of age, gender, national origin, vet status, and religion.
I asked that question on the Patriot Guard Talk page last week, and early this morning (after almost a week had gone by without further comment) I decided to be bold and removed the WikiProject Christianity banner. Since you were the one who put it up there in the first place, and as per a suggestion from Vidkun, I thought I'd ask you directly on your Talk page. —Micahbrwn (talk) 20:46, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:AfricaProject

Hi. I was wondering if you could tweak Template:AfricaProject so that the "importance" parameter is overriden when "class=Template" or "class=Portal", similar to how it currently works for "class=Category" (see e.g. Category talk:1980s in Angola). Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 02:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Rhodesian Bush War to Second Chimurenga name change?

There's currently some discussion going on the talk page Talk:Rhodesian Bush War. One user has proposed changing the name of the article Rhodesian Bush War to second Chimurenga. There appears to be some support and some opposition. Sf46 (talk) 11:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Peace Love and Happiness to You!

Ok, so are you having a totally groovy day? I hope you are. Have a wonderful wonderful life! Because its like my goal to be friends with everyone in wikipedia. Will you be my totally awesome groovy wiki-friend?

216.229.227.142 (talk) 15:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Burkina

Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates scared? Ideally templates like these shuold be created for all of the african countries on the provinces and communes and to add the settlements in them like I've done to the first one. This is the best way we can get africa onto wikipedia geographically in an organized way. What do yuo think -I haven't completed them yet many are still ghost templates but its a good foundation I think ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Mmm well most of the provinces have around 5-7 departments so it shouldn't be too bloated. If it gets too big then they can be shrunk. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

See also Slovenia/Municipal templates ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:38, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Vaisnava-Sahajiya and Vaishnavism

Please note the discussion on Vaisnava-Sahajiya and Vaishnavism, per Sri Ramananda Raya article. The discussion is located at, Vaisnava-Sahajiya and Vaishnavism. Any thoughts you have would be appreciated. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 21:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Novels WikiProject Newsletter

(Wassupwestcoast suggested that I turn to you, I hope you don't mind.) Since Kevin has taken a hiatus and his bot is usually the one to send notices for The Novels WikiProject Newsletter out, could you suggest another course of action? Do you know of another user with a bot that can send it out to the 300+ members? Since it's nearly mid-April, I thought we should try to get something out, especially if we want to remind people that we've got a few things that are changing and/or updating. María (habla conmigo) 17:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Eek, I wouldn't want you to "hand deliver" 300+ newsletters! Talk about tedious. I split it with you, or maybe we can post something to the general forum and get a small group of volunteers together and divide the task alphabetically? María (habla conmigo) 17:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Novels Newsletter

Thanks for the newsletter, John. Lighthead ^þ 22:37, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, thank you! :) Hopefully the bot will behave next time, but I appreciate your hard work. María (habla conmigo) 00:11, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to Indian Christianity Wikiproject/workgroup

Upon discussion and consensus ( see here) , The following changes and decisions were taken w.r.t to Indian Christianity workgroup :-

• The scope of workgroup will be limited to Indian region only for now.
• The workgroup will be renamed to Christianity in India instead of Indian Christianity.
• The changes will effect the project pages, Portal and the templates.
• The templetes will be replaced by a Indian map instead of Tricolor flag picture.

This is FYI - Tinucherian (talk) 04:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Don't Forget the Sex Work Task Force!

Hey, haven't seen you around in awhile! Please head to the discussion board on our project for a bunch of posts. Also can we make a user box that people can post on their pages? Let's talk about the symbols we want for it. Love to hear your input and see your work!--NoMonaLisa (talk) 05:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Antisemitism project

Thank you for the organizational advice. However, although I would like to see a Project Antisemitism and would be interested in participating, I would be among the worst editors to lead the effort to organize it because:

1. I do not have enough time, and

2. I was already bounced out of Wikipedia (by a member of the Arbitration Committee) over an argument involving antisemitism while editing the Alice Bailey article. Someone more wiki-respectable, would be needed. Malcolm Schosha (talk) 11:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Template?

Your opinion, please? Nyttend (talk) 14:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Bigglesworth

I see that Mr. Bigglesworth has obtained his new account. There is also a User:Sceptre -pretty suspicious isn't it. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Didn't you create task forces for Madeira and Azores? I thought I recalled you created these ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Would you consider setting up a Portuguese islands task force to include Madeira and Azores? The problem is Madeira is closely tied to Portugal, much more so than Africa ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

And the Azores? They have a population of 245 million. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:27, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah 244,000 is more like it I thought it seemed a lot!! The mind boggles as to how much could be covered. I;ve just been starting rather meagre stubs like Baía de Angra do Heroísmo and that red links template but on Portuguese wikipedia most of those links are B-class articles. Theres like a truckload of amazing articles like this missing. There could easily be a seperate wikiproject for the azores -its such a shame there is so few english speaking people who would be likely to work on these places. I'm in regular contact with several Portuguese editors such as Husond who I could suggest it to. I'll leave a request atWP:Portugal for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portugual/Azores. There appears to be a fantastic amount available pictures wise for the azores. It looks great but we need to translate the portuguese!! As for Africa I kindly asked an editor to start Mining in Nigeria earlier. He has also created pages on many of the african politicians which could be started soon enough. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:41, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support in my RFA, that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. Lawrence § t/e 17:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for an outsider opinion

As part of the discussion on Krishna page edit we are trying to arrive at NPOV where one party keeps adding unnecessary references to the supremacy of Vishnu in the page of Krishna. I would appreciate if you had a look at it in the light of this false allegation [1] and to consider if the proposed compromise for the second paragraph is acceptable. One one side we are trying to follow WP:COOL and on the other side some users try to land some personal accusations, which are are going too far. Thanks for you support and experience on board. --Wikidās ॐ 12:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

Hello John! Long time.. Thank you so much John for your willingness to extend a helping hand, even after helping so much in the past. Yeh I'll nominate it once the article is out of WP:PR. User:SandyGeorgia gave me only two samples of sentence which can be tightened. One I agree with, but the other sounds a bit odd. Her dussestion is:

• (on the article now) The column turned out to be a success, and became one of the site's top 10 most widely read stories on the day.
  • (her suggestion) The column was a success, become one of the site's top 10 in readership.

How does it sound according to you? Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

And does it sound better than the original sentence? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Terrorism Newsletter

	The Terrorism WikiProject April 2008 Newsletter
News 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was made a Featured Article Omar Khadr has an ongoing peer review as it begins the slow crawl towards Featured Article status Trials have begun this month in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, Benbrika affair and 2006 Toronto terrorism case, each article could use a good vetting, and the articles on specific alleged terrorists are desperately in need of some clean-up. Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein had his case overturned by the Iraqi courts and was ordered released, although the US military says they will not release him. China announced that they had disrupted a plot targeting the 2008 Summer Olympics, while detractors claim it was fabricated. The bail hearing for Abdullah Khadr, fighting extradition to the United States, is scheduled for April 29 Former Turkish Member of Parliament Leyla Zana is sentenced to two years imprisonment for praising Abdullah Öcalan. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list needs votes on whether or not it should be kept on Wikipedia.
Archives • Discussion

Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 05:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

New edit on Krishna page

Dear John Carter, Hey, I think that the new edits to the Krishna page are really good and unbias. I think it is great and actually better than before. Thank you for what you did. . And, I agree with what you said about the conflict of interest post.NamaskarGovinda Ramanuja dasa USA (talk) 17:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Media franchises participation

John...Just so that you don't think that I am completely gone from it, I am working on something in my user space for the project, a list of media franchises based on my favorites which can be added to later after I transfer my work to the project, if it is wanted. - LA @ 23:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

PS. If you see anything that I missed, feel free to add to it. It is fairly long and full of holes at the moment. - LA @ 23:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

If you see favorites of yours on that list which is incomplete, would you please help me complete them? - LA @ 23:49, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

About what the wikipedian saw

Sorry about the trouble. The page was actually meant to be on the department of fun group but I didn't have time to add it's link. It was not meant to offend anyone. I apologise for this taking your time. Please send me a message on your view via my talk page. This same message will be sent to the other nominators. I am sorry about all this. If this causes too much trouble I will delete the page myself. Sorry about not adding the link so you could find this message quickly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkside2000 (talk • contribs) 17:38, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for courtesy

Though I'm sure we'll have plenty of disagreement in the future, I would like to thank you for trying to work with me in a civil manner to resolve issues. KV(Talk) 19:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

article length

hey john i was wondering are there exact guide lines for length of edits of article sections and if so could you point me in the right direction to find out about these guild lines thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

yeah edits done on the Race of ancient Egyptians article made by big dynamo seem to be to long and is drowning out the rest of the articles sections,i had left him a message if he could keeps his edits more short and to the point which how the article has been being edited in the past im not complainig about content just the length of the edits--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

okay i will just revert all bigdynamo edits and site on the talk page most of them are irelevent and dubious and edits and are to long winded also--Wikiscribe (talk) 19:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

a user had reverted your revert i reverted it back but this seems to be going no where, bigdynamo is left me a message people are trying to hide facts etc claiming the page is biased, maybe the page should just be protected because it seems they dont want to compromise--Wikiscribe (talk) 14:42, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

john i made some argumenst on the talk page please come check them out you being an administrator and all i have also made some suggestions to thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 16:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I think the issue here is whether the article as titled really addresses the topic. If the intent is to discuss the debate, then it should say that. Otherwise, the article really has no purpose other than to rehash a debate and I don't see where it really provides any value. The point of saying don't waste my time is that it takes time to research and reference the appropriate facts and if facts and evidence are not what is "desired" in this article, then what is the point? Sure, some sentences may be over winded, I agree, but you removed everything, which makes it seem less about specific details than a specific agenda. Big-dynamo (talk) 18:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Rollbacks

Hi John, I'm writing to request rollback rights per seeing your name in this category. I'll be straight with you, i've only 550 odd mainspace edits so far and have only recently started using VandalFighter to start removing vandalism from Wikipedia but i'd be grateful for the rollback ability to make this even easier. I'd quite understand if you were to deny this request. Regards, CycloneNimrod (talk) 23:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

That's quite understandable, thanks for your help, i'll get round to using Twinkle now.. CycloneNimrod (talk) 21:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

werdnabot

Werdnabot appears to be archiving to your old username still. Is this intentional? (Obviously it doesn't matter, as long as you're aware of it.)

Cheers! - Revolving Bugbear 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Want to close this MfD?

Hey John, I was about to close Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:GTA_Ganxtaize/Blog, when I noticed that I asked a question and probably ought to pass off on it even though I didn't take a position still don't have one. Any interest in closing it out? --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, could you take a look at my question at the bottom of WT:MFD regarding finding a bot? Thanks.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Moved pages

Well, I was trying to take your advice, I hadn't dealt with such subpages before. As an admin, could you delete the original userified pages and move them back there? KV(Talk) 03:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

AGF Challenge

The best answers yet! -- Dlabtot (talk) 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Methinks that when faced with any problem on Wikipedia, Mr Carter's first reaction is to have a beer. If it is still unresolved after he has finished the beer, he has another one. Repeat until either the problem has gone away or one no longer cares... Hey, it's a better approach than what I've done in the past. -- llywrch (talk) 06:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Miguel Barnet, gay?

Any chance of getting a reference on this: Miguel Barnet? The article makes no mention of it, and although I can find a lot of LGBT lit referencing him as a source, I can't find anything that actually outs him. Zelmerszoetrop (talk) 03:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've gone ahead and removed that. We've gotta be careful with biographies of living people. Zelmerszoetrop (talk) 06:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Huh?

John, I saw this edit and wondered 1) did you agree to this prod? 2) why is anyone but you removing non-vandalism from your userpage? --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 07:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I didn't agree to the prod, and actually didn't notice the deletion until the link first showed red. I do understand though that the exact notability of the source probably wasn't particularly well established in what I had written. As for why it was removed, it shouldn't have been, and I have restored it. John Carter (talk) 14:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, just remember that any reasonable request to restore the article must be granted; you could at the very least have it restored to userspace but I'd support it's restoration as an article though we should do some digging for sources.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 18:57, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, yeah. All it basically was though was a list of which hagiographies were sourced from Holweck to it, though. I can probably put it back together fairly easily in userspace when the book gets back from the school's binders. John Carter (talk) 18:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Merging WikiProjects

John Carter, I am curious to know why several WikiProjects have never been merged. I am referring to Wikipedia:WikiProject United Arab Emirates. You left a message on my talk page in early February here: User talk:Leitmanp#UAE work group. I responded with this message: User talk:John Carter#WikiProjects relating to the UAE. Since you never responded, I assumed you agreed to my proposal of merging Wikipedia:WikiProject Abu Dhabi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharjah, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ajman, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fujairah, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ras al-Khaimah and Wikipedia:WikiProject Umm al-Quwain into WikiProject UAE.

If you disagree to this merger, can you at least make several changes? By going to Talk:Dibba and clicking "[show]," you can see that both WikiProject UAE and WikiProject Fujairah (which has an incorrect flag; how do you change it?) are listed. I think that since Fujairah is a part of the United Arab Emirates, it should not be counted twice. I propose that by listing an article in WikiProject Fujairah, it should automatically fall under WikiProject UAE. In other words, I think each WikiProject should be a sub-project of WikiProject UAE.

Since I am not involved in WikiProjects as much as you are, I am not sure what the traditional actions are taken regarding WikiProject COUNTRY along with WikiProject LOCAL DIVISION. I would be interested do hear your thoughts. Also, If I did not express myself clearly, please ask me to rephrase. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 03:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for my delayed response. I have thought about this and might have a solution. We can leave both WikiProject Dubai and WikiProject Abu Dhabi alone due to their regional and international importance. The other five emirates (Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain) are not as widely known or influentional as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. Thses five emirates are jointly referred to as the “Northern Emirates.” Therefore, we could merge them into WikiProject Northern Emirates. How does that sound? As for WikiProject United Arab Emirates, it can be used for articles that deal with things that transcend the internal borders of the UAE or national issues. Let me know what you think. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 01:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I do not know if you saw the above message, so I am just dropping a line. Let me know what you think about my above proposal. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 04:40, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

If I understand what you meant, I think the projects should be completely separate. Just as all the WikiProjects for the states of the United States are separate from WikiProject United States, WikiProject Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Nothern Emirates should be separate from WP:UAE. Let me know if there is anything I can help you with. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 05:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:ANI thread on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scientology

Can you please comment at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scientology ? You are the resident admin and expert on WikiProjects, not to mention WikiProjects specific to this type of subject matter. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 10:28, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Venezuela

Rid of Template:WikiProject Venezuela ? It has no assessments on it, and there are duplicate categories for "WikiProject Venezuela" and "Venezuela articles". Could you fix this please to avoid confusion. Can you change to South America template to "Wikiproject Venezuela" articles. Thankyou ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:20, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Any recommendations for what should be done with it? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:57, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi thanks for your reply. I'll stick to using the south america one for now until it is sorted. If it had proper categories using the seperate banner it might not be so bad, but as it is, its a pretty pointless template. I'll leave a note at the WP:Venezuela page. Your comments would also be much apprecated. Saludos ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Mmm nobody has commented on the project talk page in 6 months. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

It is a shame though that is it so inactive. I was under the impression it had many natives on here building content. Many of these seem to have left or edit very rarely. Visiting yesterday I realised how much needs doing, not only in tagging and organization but in getting high priority article sin the countries up and running. Given the huge interest in football in Latin America, I can't believe the national team members don't even have articles yet!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:28, 18 April 2008 (UTC).

Heres a novelty. Churches in Tonga. I found these lurking on tongan wiki. They have photos too!! now thats what I call global. Perhaps there is a tongan wikiproject? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:38, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

LOL. The Tongans have one category labelled "Religion" LOL!! here ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:42, 18 April 2008 (UTC) Yes, I knew about Mr. Rahul's new image agreement before it was even validated, he wanted it kept secret to avoid the Sarvagnya brigade trying to start attacking it. Very good images, but Zinta is always stunning in my eyes. Yes it is amazing how dominated some of the Polynesian islands are by Christianity -the missionaries did pretty good didn't they!. An uncle of mine Wesley Harris lived in Tonga for several years as part of the Salvation Army. He was one step away from making it as general (world leader) of the Salvation Army.

Yes he was head of Canada and Bermuda division during the 1990s. He is my late grandfather's brother, (my mum's uncle) so is a great uncle (and he has a Blofeld baldie lol). My mums side of the family are very Salvation Army based. I visited him in 1993, where he was living in Toronto. During the holiday he took us up to a lake in northern Ontario where the Salvos had a youth training camp and it was one of the most beautiful places I've ever stayed at. I stayed in his luxury house on the lake leased by the army and would go canoeing on the lake every morning. He currently lives in Melbourne and attends the same citadel as Eva Burrows. I've met Paul Rader also back in the 90s. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Anyway fingers crossed with Zinta. In my view its been five months delayed but I have always believed it would get there eventually. I;m sure you feel the same. Regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome

No problem John!! Glad I could be off some help!! --Bollywood Dreamz ^Talk 18:00, 18 April 2008

Not a problem

I wouldn't say I'm very knowledgeable at all, but you brought my eye to it so I called it as I saw it. I would say glad to be of assistance, but that doesn't really capture the way I feel about it, or indeed the way one ought to feel about it. Hiding T 19:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I understand completely. John Carter (talk) 20:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Gogel

You were quick off the mark, assessing Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel. Thanks for the criticism. I have spruced up the article a bit. Hope you like it this way. I think I have squeezed the stone dry as far as his childhood is concerned though :-)--Ereunetes (talk) 21:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I give up

Clearly, Portal:Hermetica is the broader name per guidelines, yet I can't get it to work right either. Back in 2006 when I created Portal:Occult I didn't have any of these problems and it's enough for me to never touch another portal again. If you wouldn't mind, I'd like them deleted but, I'm still waiting to see if KV wishes to work on the Hermetica one, as he doesn't know it exists yet. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 12:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Its rather obvious at this point that they should be deleted. Portal:Hermeticism is the way to go. It fits the guideline for portals and is currently the more broader subject. But I won't be creating the portal :) SynergeticMaggot (talk) 02:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

The Profit

Is a semi-protect in order at this point, or some other measure? It seems quite cut and dry as far as the responses at the RfC, but I am not opposed to just letting the RfC run its course. Cirt (talk) 20:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, well what you did is all appropriate but you might want to also consider that both 86.144.187.42 (talk · contribs) and 81.154.198.163 (talk · contribs) are probably the same as Wogglelump (talk · contribs). Even if they are not all the same, they could all do with a similar notice on their talkpages. Cirt (talk) 21:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping an eye on things. Cirt (talk) 01:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Reply: Portal:Warriors

That's fine, I'll keep the Portal in my userspace. As for content, I believe enough articles will be created to sastify the +30 rule for portals. With articles for all the books that have been/will be released this year, there will be 30 articles (I think). Also, I'll be making some articles about the illustrators of the series and other related people. Thanks, Shrewpelt (talk) 02:18, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:TelevisionWikiProject

Hey John, I had to revert your changes on the 2nd to Template:TelevisionWikiProject. Something in the code caused it to break horrible if infobox=yes was checked. I can't decipher the new code enough to figure out what it was. Can you take a look and see if you can get that fixed so we can get the taskforce stuff back? Collectonian (talk) 13:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing, seems to be working well now. I just updated it to also put our FL class lists in an actual FL class category, however I can not seem to get the actual box to show FL and link to the category instead of showing FA. Do you know how to fix that? Collectonian (talk) 09:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Another Zinta consult

Hey John!

A few months back, Zinta won ownership rights for a cricket team based at Mohali in an IPL bid for $76 million (!!!).

As a result, over the past months, she has frequently been featured in the press. But I still don't know if this new activity deserves a new sub-section in the Other work section, and quite frankly, I'm afraid to start a new section (because I'm afraid to ruin the article with a badly written stuff pre-FAC!). She received many positive reviews for her new work and has been described as "actress turned businesswoman" by journalists etc. You can see this recently published article by The Australian, it covers that pretty well. Today her team is going to have its first match BTW.

As of now, I have only three sentences in the In the media section:

Along with Ness Wadia and others, Zinta in 2008 became the owner of the Mohali Twenty20 team of Indian Premier League. The group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise. The team was later named as Kings XI Punjab.

So, my question is: A) Do you think it has to be written and expanded in a new section? B) would you rewrite these three sentences? :) (after the first FAC, I'm very insecure. I feel I'm a bad copyeditor :( ).

Sorry if I'm bothering too much. My best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:36, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh hey John! Thanks for the reply. I see you were quite busy...

Tell me please, what do you think about --

Along with Ness Wadia and others, Zinta in 2008 became the owner of the Mohali Twenty20 cricket team of (the) Indian Premier League. The group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise, and have since renamed the team Kings XI Punjab.

(I'm just trying to keep the word "owner" because it has a better connotation!!) How does it sound?

And what do you think about the new image? :) Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:27, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, me again :) Last time!

John, and what would you say about

"won ownership rights for the Mohali Twenty20 cricket team of the Indian Premier League."

Or

"won the Indian Premier League bid for the Twenty20 cricket team based at Mohali."

? Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:07, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

OK! Thanks for the help! I really appreciate that. I'd like to take it to FAC, but the peer review is not closed yet. Best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Canadian encyclopedia

Do you know something about Canadian encyclopedia? Is it RS? I am confused. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 15:59, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I want to use it for the article Commonwealth of Learning. It has an excellent page on COL. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 16:04, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Papua New Guinea

I just made myself a member. I've edit the page a little bit, to make it look better. I was wondering if you wanted to get the project running properly?

for starters could you fix this - {{User WikiProject Papua New Guinea}} i just think it would be cool for the project to become good Ijanderson977 (talk) 18:15, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Well just let me know when you have some free time and we can really get it going. Ijanderson977 (talk) 18:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

MONGO e-mail

MONGO has started contributing to the case. If you feel the email sent to you is of any relevance, I suggest you forward the email to arbcom-l, and note that you have done so on the evidence page, without disclosing the contents of the email. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 06:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

I stumbled onto the WikiProject categorization situation by accident and dove in -- probably over my head. I learned a lot in the process, and it's wonderful to know that my efforts are appreciated. Stepheng3 (talk) 22:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Hogenakkal falls

Hi John! Sorry to be bothering you now and again. This is once again about the waterfalls article and guess what the issue hasn't died yet. When you find time can you go through the discussions at Talk:Hogenakkal_Falls#Request, Talk:Hogenakkal_Falls#Inconsistent_lead and Talk:Hogenakkal_Falls#Section_on_Water_Project_need_to_be_removed. The editor has been changing his stand as you can see, but with one goal as to get the section removed. For the record I have mentioned that on his talk page here. I have also asked for Editor assistance and left a message on one of the editor's talk page (yes copied and pasted from the email ... hee hee). [2]. If it is not too much trouble and not inappropriate for you to comment, can you let what you think now of this issue. I do agree that people change their mind and if you have after your email to me, you are free to express that. All I want is to get this issue solved and move on. Thanks Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 07:27, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:WPReligion

Hi John. I recently made some edits to Template:WPReligion. I mainly added the Template documentation, but also edited the template a little. As indicted on this page, everything seems to be working. User:Badbilltucker has the most edits to the template, but he has not edited since January 2007. Would you please review the Template documentation and the template workings and make any changes you think necessary. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 18:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Anson Chan and Donald Tsang

I notice that you tagged the above articles on my watch list. These people are not missionaries nor figures in the religious world in Hong Kong (nor anywhere else in the world for that matter), but are politicians and former civil servants, who happen to have declared a religious faith and are regularly seen at church. I think that if we were to so tag articles of all similar individuals for Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity, the project would be potentially massive and get sidetracked from the main objectives of the focus on the development of religion. Comments? Ohconfucius (talk) 01:40, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Template:NovelsWikiProject

[3] This made its way into the template: "[[Category:Christianity articles with comments|{{PAGENAME}}]]" leaving odd categories on some novel talk pages. --maclean 19:14, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Could you change it to [[Category:Novel articles with comments|{{PAGENAME}}]] (without the "s")? This appears to be the original intended category, which already has many articles and is named consistently with other categories related to the Novels WikiProject. Cheers. – Liveste (talk • edits) 03:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

when do we use the term rev in the lead of an article?

and when not i see some reverends have the title rev. in the lead and some not is there any formalized manual of style re this?--YY (talk) 00:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

Will you please adopt me? Rohit Reddy (talk) 13:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for your reply. Regarding WikiProject India, I would like to upload some pictures that I have photographed with my camera. I would also like to review the articles and, if popssible, rate them. I need help regarding formatting the articles to make them look better and as I am new to Wikipedia, I would like someone experienced to take me along for sometime till I gain the momentum. Once again, thanks for the reply.

Rohit Reddy (talk) 14:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again for your reply. Well, you could guide me in your strong areas. Could you tell me the meaning of fair use rationale of any image? Well, I encountered this in the talk page of an article(NIT Srinagar) that I edited a little. I could also use some help regarding formatting of articles.

One more thing I would like to know is, is there any software that I can use to see the way any Wiki code affects a page while offline?

Rohit Reddy™ (talk) 15:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Hey John!! How have you been?

Well, the Zinta FAC has been quite quiet...

Now there is one editor who thinks that having written a number of columns doesn't make Zinta a columnist. I tend to agree, but what do you think?

My best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:17, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment John. Hadn't you been aware of the FAC before?

I would like to ask you regarding this one

"In addition to being an actress, Zinta has written a series of popular columns for BBC News Online South Asia, and has been (is) a regular stage performer"

What do you think? Also, what's the better way, "acting" or "being an actress"? And in the stage performer part, what would you write, "and has been a stage..." or "is a stage"?

Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed reply. Not only does she consider herself a performer, she has also recently signed a new contract for a new world tour with the Bachchans, called "The Unforgettable"

So I'm going with:

"In addition to acting, Zinta has written a series of popular columns for BBC News Online South Asia, and has been a regular stage performer"

Is that OK? Shahid • ^Talk2me 15:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Or "In addition to acting, Zinta has written a series of popular columns for BBC News Online South Asia, and is a regular stage performer" ? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:01, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Well I can't say performing on stage means acting. They primarily dance and sing (I mean, lip-sync huh!), although there are some sequences of comic scenes. So I don't really think performing on stage is a sort of acting. Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Well there is some kind of everything, dance, singing, acting... Everyrhing that is usually expected to be "performed" on stage (you can see on YouTube LOL!).

I think the definition can be added but not in the lead, in the section itself.

Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:43, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh it was exactly what you said! Thanks for the great help John! Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I have an image of hers in one of her stage shows, which can be added. The image is free, but seems a bit over the top. Don't you think? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Northern Emirates

Since you appear to only keep track of messages at the bottom of your talk page, I will re-add this message here:

If I understand what you meant, I think the projects should be completely separate. Just as all the WikiProjects for the states of the United States are separate from WikiProject United States, WikiProject Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Nothern Emirates should be separate from WP:UAE. Let me know if there is anything I can help you with. Preceding comment originally added by Leitmanp (talk | contributions) at 05:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC) at User talk:John Carter#Merging WikiProjects. --Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 00:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Although the Sharjah, Ajman, RAK and UAQ articles do not receive a lot of traffic, it would not hurt to keep them as sub-projects. Maybe in the future, those emirates will increase their economic importance and influence. Keeping them separate, although a part of another WikiProject, would be okay. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 00:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

RfC

Hi John! Just thought I should bring a few things to notice for you and ShefeildSteel. There is this User:Skbhat who has been adding things to the article. I would like him to participate in the RfC to sort the issue once and for all, because I do have concerns on the references that person is providing as I have mentioned in the user's talk page. Is it acceptable for Naadapriya to encourage [4] it when we on an RfC? Cheers Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 09:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Pixar Work Group Question

In regards to the Pixar work group you created, Pixar articles such as Cars (soundtrack) and Die-cast Pixar Cars, among others, I don't think are in the scope of WikiProject Animation. Unless all products, soundtracks, and misc. articles are considered part of WP Animation, is there anyway that it can say something like "animation=no" so that all Pixar articles can be included in the work group? And have the actual quality ratings for Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Pixar articles by quality statistics? Thanks, -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 14:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Geology-Hogenakkal falls

Hey again! How many projects are you on mate? lols..
Here are the papers I have fished out. [5] [6] [7] [8]
The last one is a book and there seems to be one more old paper which I believe can't be online. Srinivasan V (1977) Journal of the Geological Society of India. See if you can do something about it. Cheers Wiki San Roze ^†αLҝ 17:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Scriveners

(Was trying to think of a unique header for the page : )

I think where you and I might be disagreeing is that you want the people who formulate the text to be the same as the reviewers, and I don't. I think there should be at least "some" divide there.

Compare to the recent request of arbcomm to oversee/start a committee concerning irc.

Same here. Just that we might have a WikiProject/panel/committee in place to do such writing, or can be createed from a pool of volunteers, or whatever.

But having those who review the policy being the ones solely responsible for writing the policy just seems like a bad idea if we don't have to. And, we don't have to : )

Make sense?

Why'd I post this here? Because regardless of the outcome of that discussion, your idea, when "split away" as I suggest above, would be an excellent proposal to discuss. (See also this.) But it stands a good chance of being "lost in the shuffle" as we've often seen with these discussions. - jc37 19:12, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Troubling edit summary

Having falsely accused Geogre of a personal attack over an edit summary, I note that you posted this in response: [9]. As an acknowledged expert in rude and obnoxious user interaction, I have to say that the summary you left was breathtakingly rude. Guy (Help!) 19:27, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

"Having a hissy fit" stikes me as a personal attack, I have to think, doesn't it? To accuse me of that, when I was trying to indicate, over the objections of the parties, that the self-acknowledged refusal to include data relevant to the subject which was in the single source they used, but which was not included and had tags requesting additional sourcing and content removed because, based on the single source, they determined neither the additional content in that source nor the additional sources was relevant, struck me as being possibly particularly obnoxious as well, particularly when they themselves clearly state that the article is not complete. And, yeah, I've used the same source in the past as well. It should also be noted that I first went to the article after a message posted on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity page based on the same concern, by another editor treated just as rudely by them. So, basically, we had individuals saying that, based on limited knowledge from that single source, they were qualified to say that content included in the only source they knew, which was apparently found relevant enough to be included in that source, somehow doesn't need to be included in our article, as that source evidently has too much "fancruft". Personally, I can't think of any more obnoxious content I have ever encountered yet, and that's saying a lot too. But I acknowledge that my temper and desire for complete information got the better of me in this case. John Carter (talk) 19:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

wikimedia

I'm not aware of being (or being related to) an official with wikimedia. Yaan (talk) 08:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Anglican assessment

Hi, I left a note on the assessment talk page, but I don't know if anyone saw it.

Could you add Sermons of Dean Swift, Sermons of Laurence Sterne, and Drapier's Letters (the final one was written when Swift was Dean of St. Patrick's, and it uses a lot of religious imagery that appeals to Church of Ireland members).

Also, could you ask if anyone could help provide two or three lines cited that could explain some of the common basis of an Anglican sermon (or Anglican service in general). I have a few resources, but I am not an Anglican myself, so I don't know how mainstream they would be. Thanks. :) Ottava Rima (talk) 14:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

User: Quorty

Please do something about the user Quorty. What bugs me is the tone he takes in every dispute. Without much investigation, he slams every tool at his disposal at articles and users who work on them. Every user page request is mean-spirited, no one is ever given benefit of the doubt. I post now from my IP so I won't get beat up by him on my registered page -- in an hour or so there will be a marker put on the IP page showing where it's from and implying some kind of misdoing or accusing it outright.

Quorty is a very powerful user, and there's really nothing regular joes like me can do about his nonsense. Is there anything a higher end user like you can do? Or somebody, just to get him to dial it back a notch or two? It's not the Spanish Inquisition -- it's a bunch of people working for free on a community encyclopedia project. I know I'm super-discouraged from creating new and notable content just for dread of having to spend my time wrangling with him instead of actually working on Wikipedia. 72.241.98.90 (talk) 20:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Please feel free to send me an e-mail, if you wish. It would help a lot to know what specific pages and actions are being discussed. John Carter (talk) 20:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Here are two sovereigns...

...because I always pay my bills. Don't you ever complain about money again, do you hear me? :-D

Meanwhile, I am quite concerned about the progress in the matter of governance reform; there are hardly two people sharing the same opinion, and the whole discussion is quite disorganised. As has been expected from the beginning, the very problem which this proposal has set out to combat is the one which will likely become its undoing. Waltham, The Duke of 20:52, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

NPOV question

Dear John,

I appreciate your remaining uninvolved. Would you perhaps be willing to help me understand NPOV and RS policy considering this question? If not, please ignore.

• Suppose that on a particular (scientific?) topic 'X' there exists a majority view 'A', and a minority view 'B'. Now suppose that view 'B' has a fairly large lay constituency, and also quite a number of prominent adherents. As I understand WP:NPOV, this would allow for us to describe X from viewpoint A, and giving viewpoint B appropriate and fair treatment — taking care not to give undue weight. Am I correct so far?
• How would you feel when a wikipedia editor who is himself a subscriber to hypothesis A starts deleting information from article X which is damaging to hypothesis A but undamaging to viewpoint B, claiming that leaving the information in would be giving undue support to viewpoint B, thus misleading our readers?
• The correctness of the information in question is undisputed, but ofcourse, presenting only part of the information can be misleading as well, and we need to be on our guard here, I agree.

 — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (speech has the power to bind the absolute) 00:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

To answer the question you posted on Xiutwel's talk page, John, Xiutwel was topic banned for 2+ years of tendentious editing on 9/11-related articles. You can read the details of the ban here. ~ S0CO^{(talk|contribs)} 07:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

• I would like to give you a specific example, but the ban is in the way. Can I have your permission to write it here, on your talk page, or via e-mail?  — Xiutwel ♫☺♥♪ (speech has the power to bind the absolute) 18:09, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Prostitution in Pakistan

I have added much more information and expanded this article significantly. Can you please reassess the article. Thank you. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 00:59, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Film Music

Hello, I've re-initiated discussion about merging this WikiProject into WikiProject Films since the merge tags have been sitting around for a while. You can see the new discussion here, and I've pulled up your explanation from last March. Feel free to add onto what you've said before and suggest any proper course of action. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 00:33, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Saints

I think we need more gender balance in the selections. Email me if you want to explore this further ... :-D --evrik ^(talk) 19:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

• Thoughts? --evrik ^(talk) 17:15, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Request for mediation

Dear John Carter, I have been running into a difficulty with an editor Special:Contributions/Zeuspitar who appears to constantly engaging in disruptive editing of the page dedicated to specific views of Gaudiya Vaishnava and other groups such as bhagavata - svayam bhagavan. I would humbly ask for your mediation on the issue, as he was just a year ago a Gaudiya and now he is attacking my edits based on his POV, which is similar but different to major Hindu groups. I have already posted a complaint in the relevant board (Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts - User alert User:Zeuspitar:) before and I was attacked by him on [[10]]. I would appreciate if you can mediate us, he himself suggested mediation in his last comments of the Talk:Svayam Bhagavan. BTW article is coming out quite good, and your suggestions on merging or changing it are very welcome. Wikidās ॐ 09:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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And sorry about the delay in replying; I must have missed it on my watchlist. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)