User talk:Alexf/Archive 3

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Gianluca Curci

Hi Alexf. Thanks for your warning about Gianluca Curci page. But please explain me why it was unconstructive. It was career statistics of that soccer player. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solar-Poseidon (talk • contribs) 16:13, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

In order to get a response in your page you have to start signing your messages. This is important and a Wikipedia Guideline. I will not respond there otherwise. In the article mentioned you posted negative goals. There is no such thing. We do not post goals received by goalkeepers as a standard. If you'd like to discuss this issue and get a consensus, please start a section and comment in WT:WPF. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 16:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for unsigned comment. So if I remove negative goals it'll be correct? --Solar-Poseidon 20:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I believe so. Anyway, any controversial or new type of table/stats should be first discussed at WP:FOOTY. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 20:37, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Missed on 2008

Thanks for getting the extra spam I missed on 2008. Maybe they'll learn someday. Nah. Doubt it. Happy wiking. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 16:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Have a good day. Martial BACQUET 16:49, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Dude

User talk:81.158.211.115 I already got my warning for that. I hate the mindless drones on Wikipedia who are too stupid to check the page they're editing before they slap on a template. 81.158.211.115 20:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

You may wish to review Wikipedia:Vandalism. You left this vandalism warning for this edit. That in no way constitutes vandalism. Vandalism warning should only be given for true vandalism and not content disputes. You should also not be jumping right to a level 4 warning unless the vandalism is severe. Please let me know if you have questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 00:12, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I just re-studied the case you mention. I see I might have misread the situation and jumped to a conclusion. In retrospect I maybe should have warned him about unsourced edits. Thanks for paying attention. Sometimes we all make mistakes. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 00:55, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Almirante Brown.gif

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Notability consensus at WP:Footy

Hi, It seems that we are staggering towards some kind of notability consensus at WP:Footy, I don't like the non-players, but the caveat seems to be a fair compromise to me. Please offer your opinion, kind regards, King of the North East (T/C) 00:43, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

in regards to Kuban Krasnodar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_in_Russian_Football#First_Division Kuban promotion source for you ^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Premier_League_2007 ^^^ relegation source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.24.94 (talk) 04:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

No need to tell me about the source. It needs to be in the article, that's all. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 18:20, 25 November 2007 (UTC

juninho page

dont cancelled juninho page stop stop stop to cancel

First, please *always* sign your messages. If you are referring to the removal of unsourced text in Juninho Pernambucano: there were a lot of unsourced assertions and POV. Citation request tags were placed all ofver the section back in October. After two months not one of them was fullfilled. It is simple WP policy, no citations provided after enough time has elapsed for requests, edits are removed. If you are adamant that your edits are correct, please provide reliable sources, else it's either POV or original research or both. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 12:16, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

we have insert reliable sources!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.59.70.70 (talk) 12:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Kaka' page

Hi Alexf Thanks for pointing me to the sandbox. I will use that in the future before editing any article. Sorry for doing the experimentation in the article itself Shaonghosh1 (talk) 23:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Arsenal triumph

I saw you revert the bitter musing of some Mexican on the Arsenal page, did you see the final? The first leg was spectacular, 114,000 in the Azteca Stadium and Arsenal took about 114 fans. They won 2-3 with some awful defending from America, I don't know how the referee sending off Castiglione (Arsenal's captain) fits into the "great CONMEBOL conspiracy".

Arsenal completely dominated the 2nd leg, I think America only had about 2 shots on target, Davino should have been sent off long before he was, and Castroman getting sent off after 1 minute on the pitch as a substitute was well funny. Overall it was America's sieve like defence that cost them, nothing to do with the refereeing, which was quirky but generally pretty good, which is normal for South American referees. America simply should have won with players like Cabanas and Insua on the pitch, but then "on paper" River Plate were the better team in the SF, Chivas in the QF, Goias in the RO16, & San Lorenzo in the preliminary round.

Anyway I hope you're going to give us a hand with the chaos when the transfer window opens, I'm gunna need it, 20 navboxes, 20 current squads and who knows how many player articles to update.

--All the best as always, see you around, King of the North East 00:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

No, did not see it as I don't get much shown on cable TV except GOL TV which shows La Liga (Spain), Bundesliga and some Mexican games. I don't watch much TV anyhow as I spend a lot of time my my serious hobby (photography) and only get to watch my favorite Barcelona and Real Madrid when they show them on Saturdays. I'll try to help as I can and time permits when the window opens. Cheers. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 01:09, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Here are the highlights if you are interested:

--King of the North East 10:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Very nice! Had not seen them before. Thanks! Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Pele's real name

Alex, appart from quoting his civil register, which can be easily consulted by anyone, do you think quoting the movie Pelé Eterno, a biography authorized by Pelé himself, would be enough? I could cite the minute during which it is shown his name as Edison and not Edson. --Tonyjeff (talk) 09:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Honestly? No. Unless the official register is published in the web by the Government (I have not seen it), then anyone can say "I went to the register and saw it in the book". That's WP:OR. A movie (which I have not seen), is always subjective, especially if it is not a documentary. It is, like it or not, a work of fiction. Furthermore I met him once back in the sixties, believe it or not. I followed his career during the seventies and even remember watching the first televised World Cup (Mexico '70 - yes, I'm getting old) when he did wonders. In all this time I have never heard his name pronounced other than Edson. Maybe it is Edison, but it will take some proper proof to convince me. YMMV. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 10:42, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

The movie Pele Eterno IS a documentary, and IS NOT subjective because it DOES show his birth certificate. It cannot be possible that only published works in the Internet may be valid, neither may be valid what convices you or not. For sure you never heard his name pronounced other than Edson because Edison does not affect that much its sound. I am going to put back the name as Edison, according to the movie (documentary) AND his birth certificate, which you may consult to convince yourself: (0xx35) 3231-4599. Cheers. --Tonyjeff (talk) 14:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

OK. Sounds fine then. I'll have to watch the movie sometime. Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 14:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Fabregas's height

Sorry for rectifying Cesc Fabragas's height without citing a source. I believe this is the 5th or 6th time that I'm attempting to get his height information accurate. I discussed this issue multiple times or the Cesc Fabregas's discussion page. You should take a look at it.For some reason someone keeps switching his height back to 5'11 which is totally absurde. If you are a football (soccer) fan, then you should know that Fabregas is nowhere around 5'11. He is in fact 5'9" and this can be seen on his ESPN profile. So please help me solve this issue because I had enough of people who give us wrong information.

National Route 9 (Argentina)

Alexf, I'm sending you this message because you translated several articles about argentine routes to English.

After some work, now the article es:Ruta Nacional 9 (Argentina) is a Good Article in the Spanish Wikipedia, so maybe you want to translate it.

Please notice that es:Ruta Nacional 7 (Argentina) is a Featured Article and its equivalent in English is a mini-stub.

Best regards, --Alpertron (talk) 14:20, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I have a long list of routes to do, but I got busy at work and with my other hobby (photography). I'll put these two at the top of the list to do. Thanks! -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 20:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Sorry I did not answered before but you did not send the response to my discussion page. Best regards, Alpertron (talk) 12:03, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Currency

I've never uploaded currency related pictures before but I reckon this template {{Non-free currency}} and {{self}} to show that you created it. then a fair use rationale for each page the image appears on.

Fair-use rationale

I hope this is helpful, regards, King of the North East 16:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

football templates

is there a template to say you support man u Zanramon (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

No idea. I'm sure there is. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 23:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Mercy Otis Warren

you wrote me regarding vandalism on Mercy Otis Warren's wiki, but I have never navigated to nor edited that page. 75.62.2.38 (talk) 01:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually your IP address did vandalize that page on Sept 11, 2007 at 18:47. It may not have been you personally but it did come from your IP Address. Maybe you should consider creating an account to avoid this problem in the future. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 02:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Victor Valdés

As January 1st 2008 Víctor Valdés has never played with the spanish A national team, so what you have recovered is FALSE. "Supply reliable sources" about 1 internationallity for Victor Valdés in the Spanish A national team. I'll be expecting.

And Catalonia is a non UEFA sanctioned, but it's a national team. So it can be included. --81.39.4.52 (talk) 16:22, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

That's your opinion, which I disagree with. Let's discuss the issue in the player's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 16:24, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I've added this in the discussion page. And I'm waiting the "reliable sources" about the internationallity of Victor Valdés with the Spanish A team, "that you have recovered". --81.39.4.52 (talk) 16:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Recovered? What are you talking about? Just a revert to a previous version, if that's what you mean. If you disagree with the statements in that page (which I did not write), please say so in the article's Talk page (this is not the place for it) and provide reliable sources for your changes. Happy wiking. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 17:00, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, so I'll delete the info about his spanish A internationallity (as it's not true). If anybody can provide reliable sources about it, it could be recovered.

About Catalonia national team I think that it could be included as it's an interesting information about his matches, as he played twice with Brazil and once with Argentina (sources: Catalonia historic matches Catalonia-Brazil Catalonia-Brazil Catalonia-Argentina Catalonia-Argentina ), and the linked article with the catalonia national team explains that it's not a FIFA member. But I'll not add until there's no consense. --81.39.4.52 (talk) 17:23, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Flags in Infoboxes

As you can see on the talk page of Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Players there is a "one flag only" subcategory in which it is discussed. It is common sense that pictures - and thereby flags - are more memorable than text for a lot of people. Therefore, a single flag next to the birthplace is acceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maracana (talk • contribs) 00:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You are taking things out of context. You are quoting a comment/question I made in July 2007 where I was shown I was in error and flags do not belong in infoboxes for places of birth/death and nationality. Also you cannot call one question and answer "consensus". See Wikipedia:FLAGS#Not_for_use_in_locations_of_birth_and_death. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 01:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

sorry

siento muito que machuco sua página —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zanramon (talk • contribs) 03:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

San Fernando, Buenos Aires

Hi Alexf, most partidos of Greater Buenos Aires have individual cities and towns and i'm working on filling in "quality data" for several Cities in Buenos Aires Province and categorising them as "Cities in Buenos Aires Province". I'm also filling in Barios of Buenos Aires city amongst other articles, regards Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 19:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Still doesn't explain the de-wikification of lengths and distances. It's great that you are working to improve those articles. Just don't hard-code distance/measurement conversions. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 19:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, though you where talkin about uniting the city of San Fernando with the Partido! The de-wikification is something new to me, I've just corrected the distance from the capital manually so as to maintain an order and quality standards with other articles Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 19:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Hernan Crespo

hey can you please explain what I did wrong?

No, until you identify yourself. Always sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~)

Bhaal

This is directed at me; see --Jack Merridew 13:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Flags

Hi, just a quick question: you've been deleting flagicons from a number of infoboxes from articles on my watchlist (cycling articles), but I don't understand what part of the guidelines you are quoting. Your edit summary links to Wikipedia:FLAGS#Not for use in locations of birth and death, but this talks about implied nationality. In this particular infobox, it is displaying nationality, so I'm a little bit confused. Regards, Severo^TC 21:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Castroman

I saw the guy undo yr edit, I went to check the reference but I couldn't see any text, didn't know if it was a problem with my computer which is a right piece of sh*t (I can only use it in safe mode at the moment because it killed the monitor yesterday and doesn't like the new one) or whether the content of the article has been deleted. So I left it alone, I'll undo his edit if you confirm the reference is blank. Regards King of the North East 16:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Admin

Hi. I just wondered if you've considered becoming an admin. You seem experienced enough, so I'd be happy to nominate you if you're interested. Regards. Epbr123 (talk) 19:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I have thought about it. I think I can provide a good service as an Admin. I would be happy to start in the process. Thanks. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 19:50, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Epbr123 would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Epbr123 to accept or decline the nomination. A page will be or has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alexf . If you accept the nomination, you must formally state and sign your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

Let me know once you've answered the questions on your RfA page and I'll get the nomination started. Try to make your answers as thorough as possible. You can see how others have answered them at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Good luck. Epbr123 (talk) 20:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Archive box

I am attempting to make a new archive box, in which there is no width parameter, and one of the few pages still using the width parameter is this one. Is there any way possible to remove the width parameter from this box? It would be greatly appreciated. {{archive box|auto=long}} will work the same as you currently have it, but wider. Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I changed it. The way it is now, you also do not have to manually add to links to the box, as long as the pages conform to /Archive #. As long as you're fine with what I did, thanks for your cooperation. MrKIA11 (talk) 20:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for Adminship

You've got a new question off me, Alexf. Feel free to answer it if you want. Solumeiras 17 January 2008, UTC

I've been looking through some of your contribs to see if I can find anything to help me decide how to vote in your RfA.

I like how you look up IP addresses. I wouldn't have thought of doing that. I like how you look through the contribs of a vandal and revert other stuff they've done

I wasn't aware of the "needsource" or similar template that you're using; now I know and might use it sometimes.

I have some concerns. I notice that you sometimes put progressively sterner user-warning templates on the talk page of the same user in consecutive minutes. I would think that a couple of minutes at least should be allowed for the user to notice and respond to the "you have new messages" banner. Also, in some of those cases, the user was not editing close to that time -- your warnings were about earlier edits.

When you revert older vandalsim edits, you need to remember that that's what you're doing and not put user-warning templates as if it was recent vandalism.

(a) This edit: You placed warning templates on the talk page of this anon IP (87.236.232.231 (talk · contribs)) at 11:23, 11:24 and 11:25 (UTC) on Jan. 12, (3 progressively sterner warnings in 3 consecutive minutes), but the user wasn't editing at that time (no edits between 10:53 and 14:35.)

(b) And This edit: (Re 195.229.236.211 (talk · contribs); Another user had already posted a warning after the user's most recent previous edit at 14:01 on Jan. 12. you placed warning templates at 14:10 and 14:11, marked "final warning", but they were apparently related to edits the user had done earlier, before the previous warning on the page just before your edits.

(c) On that same user's talk page, if you scroll up you see that you posted warnings a few days earlier, on January 9 at 11:10, 11:13 and 11:14, about pages Talk:Javier Zanetti, George Eliot and Bangamau. This time the user was actually editing during that time, so maybe that's OK, though they're still quite close in time. However, the user was editing Royal Rumble, as can be seen in the user contribs, not the three pages you mention in the warnings, which the user had been editing at earlier dates/times; the edit to George Eliot was nearly 3 days earlier.

(more about (c)) Among the edits you seemed to be criticizing at that time, i.e. your actions of Jan. 9 around 11:10 which may have been warning about earlier edits by the user, in this edit, (George Eliot (hist), 195.229.236.211 (talk · contribs)) you say "rvv" in the edit summary, but the user may have merely been unfamiliar with wikitext. The edits to Royal Rumble by this user also appear to me to be good-faith edits (3 edits from 11:09 to 11:13, Jan. 9); the user is apparently trying to find a link that works (having learned about double square brackets by that time, apparently). The edit to Bangarmau was merely "unsourced".

(more about (c)) So perhaps there was only one vandalism edit by this user (07:03, 9 January 2008 Talk:Javier Zanetti‎ (←Replaced page with ' == زانيتي ابراهيموفتش ==')) for your three warnings. You may not have been aware that, for example, your warning about edits to George Eliot was posted nearly 3 days after the alleged vandalism occurred.

In cases (a) and (c) above, the two users were blocked after the next edits after your strings of warnings including "final warning". I think probably they should not have been blocked at that time and probably would not have been without your warnings. In cases like this there is the possibility that some users could have been persuaded to become productive editors but are now afraid to edit Wikipedia, thinking that any changes they try to do only harm it or get them blocked.

this web page suggest that "Mick" at least, if not "Ultra Magnus", is a nickname for Stephen McManus, so the second "v" in your "rvv" edit summary seems unjustified.

Re this edit: "Incan empire" gets 40,000 google hits. It may be wrong; it may need to be reverted; but the second "v" in your "rvv" edit summary may be unjustified. You can revert vandalism without calling it vandalism -- nothing wrong with that. But when there's doubt, it's better to err on the side of not using the v-word.

To encourage you to be more careful, I'd like to draw your attention to the case of User talk:Ggggggggggggggg12, (a case you were not involved in), if you have time to look at it, where a potentially highly valuable contributor was lost to the project because of well-meaning application (or misapplication) or rules during the user's early experience with the wiki. I've been more careful myself after reading about it.

I would tend to use the gentler warning templates (test1 rather than test2) more often, but I see you do use test1 or equivalent sometimes, so that's good.

I realize that when doing a large amount of vandal-correcting there may be some mistakes. It's also important to continually learn from them and try to reduce your error rate, and I hope my comments are useful for that purpose. Thank you for correcting all that vandalism. --Coppertwig (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Points taken Coppertwig. I always learn from other editors. I'll take your advice. Thanks for the pointers. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 23:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Here's another example -- however, it's from the time period before my post above, so it in no way indicates you're not watching for this type of error now. It's two successive vandalism warnings by you to the same user, posted at a time when the user was not active, both referring to edits that happened 9 hours earlier. this edit by you is a post of an escalating vandalism warning to user 70.176.230.220 (talk · contribs) at 12:40 on Jan. 18; however you had just posted a warning to the same user one minute earlier. Your first warning mentions article Gregor Mendel (hist), where there were no edits by anyone between 03:22 and 15:10 Jan. 18 (UTC). Your second warning mentions Sister chromatids (hist), where there were no edits by anyone since 03:22 on Jan. 18 (UTC). The user didn't do any editing between your two warnings or anywhere near that time. --Coppertwig (talk) 21:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:TSQUAD.

Would be nice if you joined. Good luck on your RFA... looks like it's gonna come through. :) · AndonicO ^Hail! 22:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I'll think about it. What makes it better than say Rouge or others? :) -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 12:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Help with Nery Castillo article

Hi, I was wondering if you be able to help me with the Nery Castillo article, I have nominated it for good article status after doing a series of edits. User:Oldelpaso then helped by providing some comments and edits to help improve it's chances. However the one remaining thing that needs some help/cleanup is the Olympiacos section. The only substantial references I can find for this are in Spanish. My spanish is very basic and while I can guess at which references may be verifying a subject I cannot verify them. I am going to attempt to re-write that section of the article this weekend, If I posted a set of links on the talk page that I think work as sources could you review them and tell me what works and what doesn't. My spanish is probably at es-1 level. Thanks Pbradbury (talk) 21:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take a look at the Spanish references. Please point me to the ones you want me to review. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 21:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks I will post them at the weekend as I am doing the re-write Pbradbury (talk) 22:19, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

You are now an administrator

Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions, get in touch on my talk page. WjBscribe 01:31, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Nice job, good luck with the tools (if you need help, just ask). · AndonicO ^Hail! 12:12, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA

Congrats Dlohcierekim 02:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome! I have a lot to learn but will do fast. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 02:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Congrats, I found the new admin school helpful once I finished my RfA. If you need any help, just ask. Woody (talk) 11:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Just going through it. Will spend more time on the weekend before I'm ready to use them. Thanks! -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! I don't think there should have been that much opposition just based on canvassing. I support what User:Dlohcierekim said about AIV work (see the user's vote in the support section). --Coppertwig (talk) 13:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. The point was taken then and there. I re-thought some examples and the same day of his comment started to slow down a tad and be less aggressive in AV work. I'll think twice before a block. I may have issued more warnings than needed on ocassion and will be more thoughtful now, with more responsibilities. OTOH, I never sent to AIV anybody that I wasn't sure they deserved it, and I got a block granted over 98% of the time (in fact I can only recall two or three that were not granted right then and there). -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 13:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations. Here are what pass for words of wisdom from the puppy:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version.
Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. You will always pick the wrong one to do. (See #5)
Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll.
Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block.
Remember when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology.
and finally, Remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able.

KillerChihuahua^?!?

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Admin Question.

Well, I've "Ctrl-F"'d through the past 1000 edits on AIV, and I can't find "Alexf" or "72.1.206.118" (both would turn up in the helperbot edit summary). The logical explanation would be that someone removed the report before the AIV helperbot did (else... the cabal did it ;) ). · AndonicO ^Hail! 20:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Here's one... can't find the others though. :/ Maybe after blocking, go back to AIV, hit history, go to the revision the user was reported, then skip forward until you find when/by whom they were removed? · AndonicO ^Hail! 22:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Something else: User:205.155.32.21 was never reported on AIV. · AndonicO ^Hail! 23:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

But if the user wasn't reported on AIV before you blocked, then helperbot won't remove it... because it was never there. Or am I missing something? · AndonicO ^Hail! 23:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Curiouser and curiouser, indeed... · AndonicO ^Hail! 23:38, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

National Parks

I've been working with other people on organizing attractions like museums, arboreta, aquaria, etc. by state, in order to create a better consistency for people to search by state for categories, and for Visitor attractions by state. I have no problem keeping things in both the national and by state level, although it is inconsistent to keep only a few national parks at the upper level and not all. There are already 4 lists of National parks:

   * List of areas in the United States National Park System
   * List of United States National Parks by state
   * List of United States National Parks by date established
   * List of the United States National Park System official units

I will just try to make sure that all the national parks are also represented in their state pages. Some states had no pages before but do have national parks in their states. Jllm06 (talk) 02:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

It's incomplete to only have a few national parks at the top level, but it's OK as long as they are also at the state level. Jllm06 (talk) 02:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

User:75.190.176.31

Hi Alex, Just asking you to maybe have another quick look at the block on the above user please? I was looking through it, and looked more along the lines of content dispute than vandalism. Looks like the editor had tried to engage in discussions (though in the wrong place and in the wrong manner) with the reporting editor, which is what sent him to AIV. I think it just needs a quick pointer in where the talk page is and discuss before editing/reverting. Just my tuppence worth, and completely ignorable ;) Oh and congratulations BTW. ^Khukri 14:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Scratch all that see it was for NPA and not the vandalism. Good call. could do with a message though on discuss before he changes again. Cheers n sry ^Khukri 14:06, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Simon nelson

Hi, you may have seen this guys activities on your watchlist, I have some concerns about edits such as unsourced changes to player statistics, removal of youth clubs & years, putting loan in italics (see the multiple requests not to on his talk page, removal of youth club & years youth clubs and years, youth clubs etc, his talk page features multiple warnings and requests to follow the MOS. Perhaps you can take a look at the situation. Regards, King of the North East 22:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I had seen a couple of his earlier edits today from work. It caught my eye and took a quick look at the first two I saw. They did not ring a vandal bell, and as I was at work I deferred it for later at home (where I have just arrived - it's almost 18:00 here). I'll take a closer look now. Thanks. -- Alexf⁴² 22:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Update: I have posted a question in his talk page. -- Alexf⁴² 23:13, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your support at my request for adminship, which passed today with 42/0/0!

I would like to thank Wizardman for nominating me, Alexf/Archive 3 and everyone else for their support and comments. I'll continue with contributing to the encyclopedia's content (hopefully writing an FA here and there :) and will help out with admin-related tasks which you just entrusted me with. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks again, —dima /talk/ 01:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

NPWatcher

Sorry to bug you but could please approve me for NPW? Thank you Compwhiz II^(Talk)_(Contribs) 03:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Done -- Alexf⁴² 04:08, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Compwhiz II^(Talk)_(Contribs) 15:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Cheers

for the BS, King of the North East 15:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

RFA

Alexf/Archive 3, Thank you for your support in my RFA which passed 43/0/1. I would like to especially thank Bibliomaniac15 for being my nominator and admin coach. I would also like to thank Rudget for being my co-nominator. I'm sure that I can live up to the community's expectations as an administrator, and not totally mess everything up. Thanks again for your support! Malinaccier (talk) 17:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Danny Spencer

I have removed your speedy delete tag from the article- being a member of such a notable band, plus performing with other notable musicians, is an assertion of notability. Feel free to take it to AfD. J Milburn (talk) 19:29, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with it. I am not a subject matter expert on this issue. It looked like notability was not asserted, therefore the tag to alert other editors, and the author, to look at and decide. Thanks for your prompt response. -- Alexf⁴² 19:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Argentine Railway Companies

Many thanks for the barnstar which is much appreciated! It's a massive task trying to unravel the history of the railways of Argentina but is certainly very addictive!! Best regards, David David(Talk • Contribs) 00:43, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Userbox

Hi. I see you transcluded my user box. I just want to advise you that I have tweaked the phrasing. Bovlb (talk) 03:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I appreciate your quick blocking the vandal. The anon did seem to provoke me so I would engage in edit warring with him, but with your help, the anon might have a time to reflect his conduct. Thank you again.--Appletrees (talk) 16:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Problem with warning templates

I want to run this thought by some of the admins who monitor AIV before I present it more widely.

When we revert vandalism by someone who already received a level 4 warning, any other warnings make it seem like, "Oh, we didn't really mean it when we said that was your last warning," like the parent who says, "This is the last time I'm going to tell you" five times before taking action. What about something like this:. I'd like some feedback on this as a possible template for non-admins to use when they revert past a level 4 warning. Thanks. Doczilla (talk) 10:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Excellent point. That has been my beef for a while too. It always seemed awkward and rather silly to me. You idea is great and I'm all for it. -- Alexf⁴² 11:30, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! If you don't mind, I'd like to copy your remark onto my talk page to keep it together with a couple of other people's thoughts about it. Doczilla (talk) 11:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

No prob. -- Alexf⁴² 11:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

FYI: Of the handful of AIV-experienced people I checked with as a sort of sample focus group, I got 4 yeas and 3 nays -- a majority favoring it but certainly not a consensus. Of course, something like this doesn't have to appeal to everybody. I guess I'll run this by people who check the talk page for the Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings. Thanks again. Doczilla (talk) 03:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

At the suggestion of User:Master of Puppets, I've opened the discussion up at WT:AIV#Past-last_warning. Doczilla (talk) 03:46, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Matthieu Bochu

Unless this is a hoax, I can't really understand why you would think it's speediable material. --Dweller (talk) 14:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Cause I thought it a hoax. Feel free to AfD. -- Alexf⁴² 14:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah. That's what I thought. I've asked for clarity from the football WikiProject. --Dweller (talk) 14:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

NB, hoaxes should be labelled using G1 of the speedy criteria. You went for a db-bio which corresponds to lacking notability claims (which this has in spades). Do you have WP:TWINKLE installed? It'll speed/sharpen up your speedy tagging. --Dweller (talk) 14:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

You are right of course. My bad. RE: TWINKLE. I tried to install and am having a problem getting to my monobook.js at home (can't even try at work now). Will ask you for some help on it later from home. Thx. -- Alexf⁴² 14:38, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've fixed the article. He is notable, but the material included hoaxes. Re TWINKLE, you'll find it works (better/at all) with Firefox, rather than IE. --Dweller (talk) 14:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Well done, Thx. I use Firefox at home, IE at work. Will get back to it later. -- Alexf⁴² 14:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I removed the CSD notice from original editor. -- Alexf⁴² 14:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I blocked him ;-) --Dweller (talk) 15:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

I'm trying to report vandalism, not sure how to do it. Anyways I saw your name on the list so I thought I would inform you. The vandal is User:Deacon_of_Pndapetzim.

Here was his comment on the edit summary.

"turn into dab page ... this page just duplicates previous pages, and carries the misleading implication that anything called "Great Britain" has a legal existence."

He page blanked and turned List of Roman Catholic dioceses of Great Britain into a disambiguation. The user then proceeded to empty the entire category, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_Catholic_dioceses_in_Great_Britain which was subsequently deleted. I have finally reverted all the vandalism and restored the Category. This was all done 5 days ago, and I just now saw the vandalism. Benkenobi18 (talk) 02:26, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. I just spoke with the user and warned him about the vandalism. I apologise for reporting as a bot, this is all new to me. It was a real hassle to restore, and I was unsure of how to report the vandalism. Thank you for the prompt response. To see the persistant vandalism, just look at the user contributions for User:Deacon_of_Pndapetzim, and the edit summaries of List of Roman Catholic dioceses of Great Britain Benkenobi18 (talk) 02:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC).

Does that work for Categories? I tried that and it wasn't showing up so I thought I did something wrong. Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Great Britain. Benkenobi18 (talk) 02:42, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm an idiot! List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Great Britain This is the correct page!Benkenobi18 (talk) 02:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Roman_Catholic_dioceses_in_Great_Britain&diff=187847979&oldid=186791234 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benkenobi18 (talk • contribs) 03:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

re User:Amythystdragon block

It was a bit of a hunch, and I may be wrong in which case... the editor will continue and get indef blocked next time. However, I noted that the first comment of their talkpage was that an article they created, "Animals of finland", was being deleted. Since they were vandalising Fauna of Finland I reasoned that they were upset by having their article deleted - and were taking it out on the existing one. I am gambling that after a period of reflection they might regret their reaction, and they may decide to start contributing - after all, this is an editor who created an account and created a fairly ambitious article. If I'm right then WP may yet get a great contributor, and if I'm wrong then an indef block is delayed by a day.

Thanks for asking. I hope this explains things. LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

It does. Thx. -- Alexf⁴² 21:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Caveat

Of course, since it is covered by GDFL (whatever) anyway... I would comment that I have taken a lot of criticism about it - so you may need to defend it. I always say that I do not intend ever to disclose information, but am allowing myself the ability to do so if absolutely necessary. I suggest that if you feel you are getting to much heat then remove it. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thx. Will think about it beforehand. -- Alexf⁴² 22:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you very much for blocking 70.81.138.145. This editor apparently has something against me and it all started from a talk page where I apparently made a comment he/she didn't agree with. From then on, I've had nonsense posted on my talk page and my user page was vandalized. This user will likely keep vandalizing once the 48 hour block is lifted just to let you know. The user is very persistent, however so I am I, and I won't hesitate to report any vandalism from this address again.

Again, thank you for blocking the user, keep up the good work. Lets hope the user grows up within 48 hours (however unlikely :D) Milonica (talk) 22:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Don't need to thank me. That's part of my job. I appreciate your reporting vandals in the appropriate manner and using the appropriate templates, and reporting them to AIV when warranted, then and admin can take it from there. -- Alexf⁴² 22:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Spentsuch

Is requesting unblock and promising to be good. I am inclined to do so, and to leave a note that further vandalism will return the block for good. Does such a probation meet with your approval? Since you were the blocking admin, I thought it prudent to ask your opinion. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 04:11, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for dealing with that. Since the unblock template was closed by other admins, there was nothing left for you to do. If it is still open, the unblock template contains instructions on how to close it in the template itself, so its easy. Check out CAT:UNBLOCK sometime to see some open unblock requests and learn to work with the template. If you need any more help, send me a buzz. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 13:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Squiggleslash

Too quick and too trusting. You blocked this user based on the word of User:Jdchamp31 who had already been warned by me twice for posting frivolous WP:AIV and WP:3RR requests. To the best of my knowledge, User:Squiggleslash has never vandalized anything except for removing harassing messages from his own talk page. I really suggest you look over the full edit history of both of these individuals and then unblock and apologize. Trusilver 17:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I reviewed the case and unblocked. I was too hasty and apologized to the user. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. -- Alexf⁴² 17:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a circus I have been watching for a couple weeks now. If I had been the one to catch it, I would have blocked the other guy, seeing that I've already warned him twice about false reports. Trusilver 17:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Notability of footballers

Hi, you contributed to the discussion about football notability criteria in November, so you will be delighted/appalled that I have restarted the discussion here. Please give your opinion so that we can move towards formalising the criteria. Regards, King of the North East 15:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Roman Catholic Dioceses of Great Britain

The Category has again been vandalised. Could I get some admin help here to deal with the Deacon of Pndapetzim?

05:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC) Benkenobi18 (talk) 05:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

RE:Unblocking

Hi. Please see this, somehow. Thanks. El_C 10:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Getting a bit overly confrontational, I am sensing. Any reason? El_C 11:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

No, not at all. I just think it's polite to ask first, as I would do if I feel I have to revert some admin's actions). -- Alexf⁴² 11:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, obviously, there was a technical reason for that; while you are ignoring your own error, which started this, blocking the user after I had given them a final notice, which they did not breach. So, you know, try to keep the 'I would appreciate if you' balanced. El_C 11:16, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Persistent vandal

I have been looking through the contributions of User:Pararubbas he persistently deletes categories references and other information. Maybe you can keep an eye on it too. King of the North East 17:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

On watchlist. -- Alexf⁴² 17:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Most of his work deleting categories seems to still be in need of rolling back, see current revision of Cristian Rodríguez. I've got to run....King of the North East 17:37, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

ANDREA PIRLO

k, the only reason i put that on there is because everybody keeps switching his international goals from 7 to 6 ... he has 7 international goals, its on the figc website, if you don't believe me check it out for yourself, but don't tell me thats vandalism when its 100% accurate --216.26.217.244 (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I did not tell you anything about how many international goals he has or has not. That's for you to edit and properly source. What I warned you about is this edit where you posted a semi-protected tag on an unprotected article. If you believe the article should be protected, you should go to WP:RPP and follow the instructions, stating the reasons why you want this protection. Then an admin will take it from there. -- Alexf⁴² 00:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the warning, and restored his edits. · AndonicO ^Hail! 03:16, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem; thanks for notifying me. · AndonicO ^Hail! 03:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

External Links

Obviously my desire to link the character actors that played part in the Rifleman series for further recognition was a no-no. I have no intention of trying to boost ratings of any particular website. But while I have your "ear", can you explain to me how the external links on The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, Jonny Crawford, entries may remain there ? The author of those links has blatantly coppied most of this information from a website I am very close to. If you would like further proof I will be glad to take this private with you to prove the plagurisms. Moehunt 2-9-08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moehunt (talk • contribs) 04:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Please read WP:COPYVIO for the policy, rules and how to deal with them. If you have proof that there are copyright violations, go ahead and bring it up in the article's Talk page, and if possible, point to the URL where the material was lifted from. In blatant cases, go ahead and remove the offending material.

As per links, please read the guidelines on linking at WP:EL. If you see link violations remove them, always specifying why in the reference to the edit. If in doubt, discuss it in the article's Talk page and notify the original poster in their Talk page to come and explain/defend the link if they choose to do so. Happy wiking. -- Alexf⁴² 04:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Sarsanda

A tag has been placed on Sarsanda requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 13:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Er, why send this to me? I am not the creator of the article. It was created by a user I blocked for vandalism. After the short block, the user should comment. I'll take a look and comment on the page for this article. -- Alexf⁴² 13:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

OK. I took a quick look. I see somebody has already changed the CSD to Prod. As a settlement or village it is not correct to do CSD. If it is a real village in the legal sense in the area/district/state/province, whatever, then it is notable by default. The article may have other grounds for deletion or just may require improvement. -- Alexf⁴² 14:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick responses. Is the article as much nonsense as it was the last time it was deleted? Can you please email me the previous version? Thanks again! — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 14:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

No need to send. It is the same incoherent stuff (deleted on 8 Feb 2008). -- Alexf⁴² 14:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. Hopefully, the article is now more coherent. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 16:57, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

ANDREA PIRLO (continued)

Hello Alexf, I don't know how to go about this, but the people who kept changing pirlo's stats (both domestic and international) are doing it again. I know now I'm not allowed to place a protection icon on the page, but I don't feel like reverting the changes every hour. Not sure what to do. Thanks!--216.26.217.244 (talk) 23:51, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll take a look and see. Please visit WP:RPP to learn the proper procedure to request a page protection. Happy wiking. -- Alexf⁴² 00:49, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Took a look. First of all, there's not enough reason for a page protection. There is another IP user that is saying that the 7th goal was attributed to Cannavaro. If you believe otherwise, find reliable sources to support your position and quote them. The discussion should be in the article's Talk page, instead of an edit war that does not help anybody. -- Alexf⁴² 00:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)