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Rollback
[edit]I do a lot of minor edits here and I do see vandalism from time to time. I am looking for rollback permission. Danke. :) --Teacherbrock (talk) 15:01, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
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Nomination of List of self-referential books for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of self-referential books is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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A brownie for you!
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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Cyberchase
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Minor planets
[edit]Hi Merovingian, I don't think every minor planet discovered in the Main Belt deserves its own Wikipedia article. Unless there's something specifically interesting about the object, or it is a significant (comparatively massive) body, then there's no reason to have an Encyclopaedia entry about it. I see that you've created literally hundreds of such pages recently, with no specific information on any object, other than mentioning who discovered it. It seems that they were created with some sort of script that just drops the name of the object into the appropriate fields and creates a link to JPL. I suggest that you pick out the most interesting few objects, include some more information on them in the articles, and delete the rest. You have to ask yourself, "Would anyone actually like to read this article, and why?" If an Astrophysicist wants to find information about Minor Planet 48475 (1991 UD2), for example, they can just go to the JPL Small-Body Database - there's no need for a Wikipedia article. -Thucydides411 (talk) 16:35, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Nomination of Pain in da Ass for deletion
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Article creations
[edit]Hello, I see that you've created many articles lately. Is there a way of merging them under a single title such as "List of ....". I don't think (58166) 1990 OF3 and (58167) 1990 QM3 are very notable; there are hardly any results from Google [1] and [2]. Sp33dyphil "Ad astra" 08:58, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
- Please respond to this post. Sp33dyphil "Ad astra" 09:05, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have just tagged a bunch of these recently created minor planet articles. You said on Sp33dy's talk page that even you think they don't have general notability, so I'm puzzled why you are creating more article for them. I think the best alternative would be to merge the information into appropriate lists. Wikipedia cannot possibly be a catalog of every astronomical object discovered. I have sent other such objects to AfD before, and they were deleted. I will do the same with these, unless evidence of significant coverage is provided for them (or at the very least, the assertion of significant coverage in independent and reliable sources). Please reply on my talk page. Best, AstroCog (talk) 19:04, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Jubokko
[edit]Hi ^^
I was wondering why this page was deleted. Thinking the page never existed before, I was going to create this page until I saw the warning thing lol. ~ Tony64 (Talk) 15:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for replying. Yeah, a lot of webpages do tell basically the same thing (such as the obakemono project). Well, I havn't got much more webpages other than the first few links on google.
- Shall I re-create the page with what I know, create one from my user page and let you have a quick look, or is it best not to even try? thanks ~ Tony64 (Talk) 15:23, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Here's what I can do. Sorry it's been a while, I've been searching hard for reliable sources every now and then until I recently discovered that the Japanese Wikipedia has an article on Jubokko. I got a close friend to help me to translate various stuff. One or two parts may not be accurate, and most certantly at least three things need translating (with two not been translated properly). ~ Tony64 (Talk) 21:26, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- OK, I'll do that. Do you think someone will drob by and translate トンデモ本の世界U? ~ Tony64 (Talk) 07:18, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Greetings from another old-timer
[edit]Feel free to consider this as just a friendly wave of the hand, if you'd like. If not, tell me how you deal with the perennial problem of WikiBurnout? -- llywrch (talk) 22:10, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hello
[edit]I'm posting this message on your talk page because I noticed that you've recently created the new article Coghlan Island--There is a good number of citations and references.However, I think the article seems to contain a few errors: the article currently does not have appropriate sections and headings. Jipinghe (talk) 19:04, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Main Belt Award |
| Your efforts to increase coverage in this area is commendable. And a truly comprehensive wikipedia would have articles on every one of them and everything in space known to man! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:07, 10 October 2011 (UTC) |
I removed the notability tags from your articles which were added. Are you grateful?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:49, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
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Juneau articles
[edit]I came across Fritz Cove. The article mentions that it's along Douglas Island. It's been more than a few years since I've been to Juneau; a planned trip later this year (mostly to visit the Alaska State Library for further research) appears not to be happening. I do know that Fritz Cove Road and the Fritz Cove voting precinct are both on the mainland side, so I wasn't sure if that statement was correct. A quick glance at Google Maps proved inconclusive towards answering this.
Also, from looking at User:Merovingian/AK-Juneau, there's nothing about Juneau people. I didn't know whether or not that's within your interests. I'm working, mostly offline at this point, on Alaskan politician biography articles outside of the scope of currently popular media celebrities (e.g. Sarah Palin, Lisa Murkowski, etc.). At this point, my list of Juneau politicians includes Mildred Banfield, Jim Duncan, Bill Hudson, Mike Miller and Bill Ray, as well as various members of Cathy Muñoz's family. I even have a photo of Duncan in my Commons upload backlog. I was actually amazed at how friendly he was when I asked to take his photo, as I remember him from his legislative days as a rather extreme prick. I also remember Rosalee Walker as being quite the character, though I dunno if she would be considered "notable" by Wikipedia standards.RadioKAOS (talk) 05:42, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- First, on Fritz Cove, I was a bit confused, too. It took looking at the satellite image to clarify at least a few things, as from land, it looks like the northerly extent of Gastineau Channel. I'd been up around North Douglas a few times, mostly to hike the Treadwell Ditch Trail down to Douglas, though I rode the bus through there a few times back when Capital Transit ran buses down the North Douglas Highway. I guess I didn't notice from that end, and always associated the cove with the mainland. As for the Juneau election articles, I noticed them before and wound up searching for what might have happened to them at one point. If there is any real desire on anyone's part to update/fix the Juneau Assembly article, perhaps relevant portions of those articles can be utilized as an "Electoral history" section to that article. It seems as though the CBJ website covers the subject well enough. That combined with the lack of a pay wall on the Juneau Vampire site should be enough to suffice for sourcing.RadioKAOS (talk) 06:43, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Actually, while glancing at something else, a more pressing issue comes to mind. Someone moved Thane, Alaska to Thane (Juneau) some months back. Others also moved articles for neighborhoods of Anchorage in similar fashion, regardless of whether these areas had previous distinct community identities (e.g. Chugiak, Eagle River, Girdwood, Spenard). Following this convention, I just moved Portage, Alaska to Portage (Anchorage) and West Juneau, Alaska to West Juneau. I noticed that there are a bunch of Juneau neighborhood articles which still have the ", Alaska" suffix on them. I could move these with no problem, but since it appears that you created most of these articles, I wanted to ask your opinion first. Also, I'm guessing that the convention for categorization should actually be "Category:Neighborhoods in XXX," rather than "Category:Populated places in XXX," which is currently the case with both Anchorage and Juneau.
Also, I have a copy of a book written by R. N. DeArmond in the 1980s about Southeast Alaska place names. If I can find where I put it, the book may come in useful for some of these articles. I seem to recall that his similar 1957 book was thrown onto the web, mainly because the printing plates for it were destroyed in the 1966 Sitka fire.RadioKAOS (talk) 07:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Speaking of pay walls, I put a photo of the cover of that book on my Flickr photostream, but it's currently inaccessible because I haven't paid for the account yet.RadioKAOS (talk) 07:47, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
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Comment
[edit]- I've never even seen The Matrix.
You may want to see it. The Merovingian was the bad guy. Viriditas (talk) 02:35, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Re: File:Gastineau channel 17744.jpg
[edit]Had another question. Intuition/guesswork/faint recollection tells me that this view if of south of downtown Juneau?
- 'Kay, thanks. I found another photo on Flickr facing the other direction. Once I get around to the upload backlog of my own photos, I would like to do more digging around on Flickr. Finally starting to find something other than "tourist photos."RadioKAOS (talk) 16:53, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Apologies for being a bit thick
[edit]Hi Ryan. [3] and so on. Ooops - the "discovery circumstances" are of course there - my mistake! I've expanded a few of the JPL Small-Body Database Browser refs to indicate which particular item in the Db they are. Your thoughts about this? --Shirt58 (talk) 09:31, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Noticed all of your articles on minor planets. I feel that this is a great service you're doing. Thanks!! Gwickwire (talk) 04:50, 2 November 2011 (UTC) |
- Hey, anytime! I have my own (which usually involves over-marking-up new pages) hobby. I will look through all of your articles EVENTUALLY. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gwickwire (talk • contribs) 04:56, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Stop messing with my article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.90.48.221 (talk) 00:54, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello
[edit]You must stop changing the William Gay page. /sp/ is not amused at your vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.90.48.221 (talk) 01:00, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Merovingian, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!
I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you worked on, Across Two Oceans, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:
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Plea
[edit]Stop what you're doing! Read this: Talk:List_of_minor_planets consensus has not been what you say it has. Read this: Wikipedia:Notability (astronomical objects). You are creating hundreds of thousands of articles and they will all be undone. Chrisrus (talk) 13:40, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- Reply to the above, which proves that there was a consensus to redirect all such non-notable planets to a chart. Explain why you have taken it upon yourself to turn them all back into individual articles despite Wikipedia:Notability (astronomical objects). You have said this is consensus, but refer to nothing to prove it. I say it is not and refer to the above. Where is this consensus you speak of? Show me where it is, I have shown you where the consensus is the opposite. See here, also, Talk:List_of_minor_planets. See? I am right, please admit it and we can talk about returning them all to reverts, not articles that mock notablity guidelines. Chrisrus (talk) 20:45, 19 November 2011 (UTC)