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== BLP, ethnicity, gender ==

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Wikilawyers have been trying to drive through a wording loophole in BLP, saying ethnicity and gender of EGRS doesn't apply to living persons, simply because the two words aren't in the policy. (Apparently, they think it should only apply to dead people.) I remember you as having been very involved in years past.

They also are trying to remove the notability and relevance criteria for EGRS, but that's another fight for another day, I'm simply too busy to watch two fronts at the same time.<br />--] (]) 14:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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Unresolved old stuff

It says here in tautology to remind you...

Unresolved – Photo not uploaded yet.

It says in a comment on Tautology

Remind User:SMcCandlish to provide a photo of a street sign; might be a nice enhancement to the article. It's only about 2 miles away.

So I have. Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 15:53, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Right, thanks. I'll try to remember to take a pic of it next time I drive past it. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 21:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Damn I'm lazy! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 07:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I did take one but the sun was too low in the sky and the contrast is bad. Will try again at a different time of day, I guess. Morning is probably best. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Cueless billiards

Unresolved – Can't get at the stuff at Ancestry; try using addl. cards.

Categories are not my thing but do you think there are enough articles now or will be ever to make this necessary? Other than Finger billiards and possibly Carrom, what else is there?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Crud fits for sure. And if the variant in it is sourceable, I'm sure some military editor will fork it into a separate article eventually. I think at least some variants of bar billiards are played with hands and some bagatelle split-offs probably were, too (Shamos goes into loads of them, but I get them all mixed up, mostly because they have foreign names). And there's bocce billiards, article I've not written yet. Very fun game. Kept my sister and I busy for 3 hours once. Her husband (Air Force doctor) actually plays crud on a regular basis; maybe there's a connection She beat me several times, so it must be from crud-playing. Hand pool might be its own article eventually. Anyway, I guess it depends upon your "categorization politics". Mine are pretty liberal - I like to put stuff into a logical category as long as there are multiple items for it (there'll be two as soon as you're done with f.b., since we have crud), and especially if there are multiple parent categories (that will be the case here), and especially especially if the split parallels the category structure of another related category branch (I can't think of a parallel here, so this criterion of mine is not a check mark in this case), and so on. A bunch of factors really. I kind of wallow in that stuff. Not sure why I dig the category space so much. Less psychodrama, I guess. >;-) In my entire time here, I can only think of maybe one categorization decision I've made that got nuked at CfD. And I'm a pretty aggressive categorizer, too; I totally overhauled Category:Pinball just for the heck of it and will probably do the same to Category:Darts soon.
PS: I'm not wedded to the "cueless billiards" name idea; it just seemed more concise than "cueless developments from cue sports" or whatever.— SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 11:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
I have no "categorization politics". It's not an area that I think about a lot or has ever interested me so it's good there are people like you. If there is to be a category on this, "cueless billiards" seems fine to me. By the way, just posted Yank Adams as an adjunct to the finger billiards article I started.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Cool; I'd never even heard of him. This one looks like a good DYK; just the fact that there was Finger Billiards World Championship contention is funky enough, probably. You still citing that old version of Shamos? You really oughta get the 1999 version; it can be had from Amazon for cheap and has a bunch of updates. I actually put my old version in the recycle bin as not worth saving. Heh. PS: You seen Stein & Rubino 3rd ed.? I got one for the xmas before the one that just passed, from what was then a really good girlfriend. >;-) It's a-verra, verra nahce. Over 100 new pages, I think (mostly illustrations). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 13:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
If I happen to come across it in a used book store I might pick it up. There's nothing wrong with citing the older edition (as I've said to you before). I had not heard of Adams before yesterday either. Yank is apparently not his real name, though I'm not sure what it is yet. Not sure there will be enough on him to make a DYK (though don't count it out). Of course, since I didn't userspace it, I have 4½ days to see. Unfortunately, I don't have access to ancestry.com and have never found any free database nearly as useful for finding newspaper articles (and census, birth certificates, and reams of primary source material). I tried to sign up for a free trial again which worked once before, but they got smart and are logging those who signed up previously. I just looked; the new Stein and Rubino is about $280. I'll work from the 2nd edition:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hmm... I haven't tried Ancestry in a while. They're probably logging IP addresses. That would definitely affect me, since mine doesn't change except once every few years. I guess that's what libraries and stuff are for. S&R: Should be available cheaper. Mine came with the Blue Book of Pool Cues too for under $200 total. Here it is for $160, plus I think the shipping was $25. Stein gives his e-mail address as that page. If you ask him he might give you the 2-book deal too, or direct you to where ever that is. Shamos: Not saying its an unreliable source (although the newer version actually corrected some entries), it's just cool because it has more stuff in it. :-) DYK: Hey, you could speedily delete your own article, sandbox it and come back. Heh. Seriously, I'll see if I can get into Ancestry again and look for stuff on him. I want to look for William Hoskins stuff anyway so I can finish that half of the Spinks/Hoskins story, which has sat in draft form for over a year. I get sidetracked... — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 14:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
It's not IPs they're logging, it's your credit card. You have to give them one in order to get the trial so that they can automatically charge you if you miss the cancellation deadline. Regarding the Blue Book, of all these books, that's the one that get's stale, that is, if you use it for actual quotes, which I do all the time, both for answer to questions and for selling, buying, etc. Yeah I start procrastinating too. I did all that work on Mingaud and now I can't get myself to go back. I also did reams of research on Hurricane Tony Ellin (thugh I found so little; I really felt bad when he died; I met him a few times, seemed like a really great guy), Masako Katsura and others but still haven't moved on them.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Ah, the credit card. I'll have to see if the PayPal plugin has been updated to work with the new Firefox. If so, that's our solution - it generates a new valid card number every time you use it (they always feed from your single PayPal account). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 18:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
PayPal Plugin ist kaput. Some banks now issue credit card accounts that make use of virtual card numbers, but mine's not one of them. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 19:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for trying. It was worth a shot. I signed up for a newspaperarchive.com three month trial. As far as newspaper results go it seems quite good so far, and the search interface is many orders of magnitude better than ancestry's, but it has none of the genealogical records that ancestry provides. With ancestry I could probably find census info on Yank as well as death information (as well as for Masako Katsura, which I've been working on it for a few days; she could actually be alive, though she'd be 96).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:52, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Sad...

How well forgotten some very well known people are. The more I read about Yank Adams, the more I realize he was world famous. Yet, he's almost completely unknown today and barely mentioned even in modern billiard texts.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Reading stuff from that era, it's also amazing how important billiards (in the three-ball sense) was back then, with sometimes multiple-page stories in newspapers about each turn in a long match, and so on. It's like snooker is today in the UK. PS: I saw that you found evidence of a billiards stage comedy there. I'd never heard of it! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 15:17, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Jackpot. Portrait, diagrams, sample shot descriptions and more (that will also lend itself to the finger billiards article).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Nice find! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 06:07, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject merge

Resolved – Others have already taken care of this and various related merges.

I closed your proposal as a merge, see Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Photography#Rename or merge. I've not done the merge as I would imagine that merging a WikiProject is pretty complex and someone familiar with the projects should probably take the lead on doing it. Fences&Windows 20:16, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

I can do it. Thanks for the update. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 02:51, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

I didn't know where to go with this, because I'm not part of either project. I am interested in photography though. Anyway, this supposed project on Valued picture candidates appears on the verge of collapse due to the same reasons causing your problems at Photography. They call themselves a "project" though it appears unofficial. I suggested that a lack of visibility might be part of their problem. Thoughts? --THE FOUNDERS INTENT GOOD WORKS 23:07, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I don't suppose I could get an answer here? --THE FOUNDERS INTENT GOOD WORKS 14:02, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey dude, can I get a response?

Well can I? --THE FOUNDERS INTENT GOOD WORKS 12:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay; I didn't notice your msgs. of 31 Aug & 7 Sep (hadn't archived this page in ages and it was full of thread after thread). Anyway: The Valued pics thing is a redlink, so that's moot. I have been hard-pressed for time, so I haven't gotten around to the merge yet. The sky won't fall down or anything. :-) — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 18:44, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
What's a redlink? --THE FOUNDERS INTENT GOOD WORKS 12:02, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
A wikilink that's red instead of blue; i.e., a page that does not exist (in this case because it's been deleted, apparently, probably after WP:MFD process). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 12:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Transclusion tricks

Unresolved – Split WP:CUEGLOSS and use <onlyinclude> to offer a one-page version (and update {{cuegloss}} to handle the situation.

There didn't appear to be any information anywhere on that transclusion issue we were talking about so, it may or may not stick, but see this diff.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:18, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

That <onlyinclude> feature is going to be a real boon. After we split the glossary into several articles for size reasons, we can still offer a one-page version by <onlyinclude>'ing the content. Nice. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 02:55, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Just tell me when, where, what and how.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:53, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

WHY ARE EVERYONE AND THEIR DOGS READING MY PAGE? (or not)

Unresolved – It's still a mystery, as of 07:18, 14 September 2010 (UTC).
Beware! This user's talk page is patrolled by talk page stalkers.

This is really weird.

For August 2009, my talk page showed up in the Falsikon page stats tool as the 136th most popular page on English Misplaced Pages, with 14,836 visitors and 39,827 pagevuews], ahead of Brad Pitt, Rhianna, Johnny Depp, New York City, the Philippines, Shakira, etc., etc. This just can't be right. I mean, sure I'm pretty cool I like to think, and I'm even famous among the "digerati" (I was arguably the world's first professional online activist, and anyone following the Internet censorship and privacy issues of the 1990s to early 2000s knows my name from my work at EFF). But really, people not involved in those socio-political issues would not know me from Adam (my book is long out-of-print too, and never was a big seller).

My current guess is that some runaway bot or other tool must've done this. In August of 2009, the page views were even more excessive at 39,827, compared to a much more normal 314 a month earlier, 206 in September 2009, and 195 as of last month (August 2010). My user (non-talk) page didn't see changes of this sort, and has remained in the 100–300 range throughout 2009 and 2010, which strongly suggests automated behavior (if nearly 40K actual humans were reading my talk page in one month, readership of my user page would also have significantly increased, since humans are curious and scripts are not). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 19:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

The original threads that alerted me to this weirdness:

Curious

Why your talk page got so many hits in 2009. http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC).

Hell if I know! Weird. Someone below comments that it still seems to be happening. Any theories? — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 07:18, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Popularity

I can see you are a major contributor to WP, but why are you the 136th most accessed page here in august? Just curious, but I will watch you to see what i can learn here, im not just a grazer, im trying to improve my editing skills.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:29, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Where'd you see those statistics? I can't imagine that my user and/or talk pages could be that interesting to anyone. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 22:37, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
The stats page is here, and another place where you register is for your user page here and your talk page here. fascinating, what? I have absolutely no idea how this is possible, i dont know how these pages function, im not a programmer, so good luck. id love to learn anything you learn about this.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:38, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh, i just noticed, these are for august 2009. my error, but still just as strange. were you appointed supreme ruler of WP in august of last year? PS i found all this starting at Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Nah, quite the opposite, really. I think I'm fairly well-respected as an editor, but I've been rejected for adminship twice. (I've apparently grated on number of people's nerves, because I get frustrated and testy, and allegedly my civility decreases when this happens). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 06:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Well I was curious and have seen how many users watch you userpage. And currently 99 user watchlist this page. Armbrust Contribs 07:49, 19 February 2011 (UTC)




New stuff

Lindrum Book

Hi Stanton,

You may remember we had a wee chat last September about Walter Lindrum. I found the Ricketts book in a secondhand bookshop in Melbourne today, but unfortunately it came in at $40, so I didn't buy it. First place I've seen it though, and I have looked around a bit for it recently. It was a hardback version, and appeared to be in very good condition.

Also got myself up to the Melbourne General Cemetery a while back, but no luck finding his headstone, unfortunately through a series of muckups (works in progress, locked gates, detours...) by the time I got to the general office they had just closed for the day, and I haven't got back since. I did get some photos of the Hotel Lindrum though, which I'm yet to upload. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know about the book and see if you were interested in it. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 14:25, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! If the book is still available, I'd take it for that price, no problem. Shipping on something like that is usually around $12-25, depending on weight, surface vs. airmail, etc., but that would still be a far more affordable total than what Amazon.com wants. Just noticed there are two "books" about him now appearing on Amazon, but they are actually just re-printings of the WP article! Sheesh. One for over US$45. Rip off! Too bad about the grave site! That must've been frustrating.
Yeah, checking the Aust Post rates you could be about on the money re postage. I suspect it'd be unlucky for the book to have to sold since I saw it (esp. at that price) but I guess you never know who's looking; shame, if it had been more around $20 I would have grabbed it on the spot (wow, just checked Amazon - the one copy they have is $147.85!; if I'd known that I would have grabbed it on the spot at $40). The trick will be getting back into the city as I won't be down here much longer and have a bit on, and I wouldn't want to leave it for three months or so till next I'm down. Haha, just saw the Misplaced Pages ripoff one selling at $45 - the only question is how they got 78 pages out of it! --jjron (talk) 16:37, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Email sent. --jjron (talk) 05:42, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Pouring you a cup of Gatorade?

Hi there SmcCandlish, I noticed that you have been among the most active and helpful on the Gatorade article in the recent past, so I thought I'd reach out to you here. I have proposed a revision on the Gatorade article Talk page and thought you might like to weigh in. I see that your status is busy at the moment, so if you are not able to do so there are no expectations. Just thought I'd extend a note your way due as you seem to have shown a continued interest in the article. Cheers, Jeff Bedford (talk) 14:15, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Is this still an active draft, or has it been merged into the "live" article? — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:16, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
P.s.: I'm not very invested in that article/topic at all, really. I was just bored and doing article clean-up "gnome" edits. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 17:14, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Ah yes, that revision was recently moved into the "live" article; however I remain broadly open to further input. The only last thing that I have been meaning to do is to get ahold of the current logo in .svg format. It looks just slightly blurry in its current state. I haven't yet been able to figure out how to convert image files into .svg (vector) format quite yet, so I am planning on asking the folks over at Wikiproject Images and Media. Thanks for the friendly response. Cheers, Jeff Bedford (talk) 08:36, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Cite4Wiki

Unresolved – New version for FireFox 4.x not released yet.

Updates to this are very welcome, thanks. One thing though - it doesn't seem to use the vertical form any more, could this be fixed (or added as an option) in future releases? pablo 12:28, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Working on it. Probably won't release until FF4.x is out of beta (if it isn't already - haven't checked in a few weeks). Vertical format will be an option, but one that you have to manually enable. Have no had time to work out the code for actually installing an Otions menu and supporting functionality. Going with horizontal layout by popular demand, though I prefer the vertical format myself. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:21, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Look at the main page

Unresolved – Katsura News added (with new TFA section) to WP:CUE; need to see if I can add anything useful to Mingaud article.

--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Since you don't appear to have seen this near to the time I left it, it might be a little cryptic without explanation. Masako Katsura was today's featured article on January 31, 2011.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:26, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Supah-dupah! That kicks. WP:CUE's (and your?) first TFA, yes?! And yeah I have been away a lot lately. Long story. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Indeed, my first, though I have another in the works (not billiards related). I think François Mingaud could be a candidate in the near future. I really wanted to work it up to near FA level before posting it but another user created it recently, not realizing my draft existed, and once they did realize, copied some of my content without proper copyright attribution and posted to DYK. I have done a history merge though the newer, far less developed content is what's seen in the article now. I'm going to merge the old with the new soon. Glad to see your back.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:15, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
My front and sides are visible too. ;-) Anyway, glad you beat me to Mingaud. I'd been thinking of doing that one myself, but it seemed a bit daunting. I may have some tidbits for it. Lemme know when you'r merged version goes up, and I'll see what I have that might not already be in there. Probably not earthshaking, just a few things I found in 1800s-1910s books. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Resolved – Just projectspam.
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Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics
  • 54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
  • One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
  • Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
  • Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.
Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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Template:Whisperback issue

Resolved – Raiser of issue fixed it himself later in the template's code.

Please see Template talk:Whisperback#Template causes following header to be indented. Thank you, rʨanaɢ (talk) 15:45, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Albino bias page

Resolved – Just an FYI.

Made some updated comments to some (admittedly old) talk sections. Just FYI. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:29, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I'll have a look-see. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away

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WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike

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2011 World 8-Ball Championship

Resolved – Query answered.

Can you provide the correct article name? I'm planning on maintaining one for the 2011 tourney. –HTD (ITN: Where no updates but is stickied happens.) 19:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

The official site uses "WPA World 8-Ball Championship", "World 8 Ball Pool Championship" (addl. word, no hyphen), "World 8 Ball Championship" (no hyphen), etc., etc., and the year is put both before and after it in different examples of usage on the same page. I would put our article at 2011 WPA World Eight-ball Championship (for reasons best explained at WP:CUESPELL), with redirects from 2011 WPA World 8-ball Championship, 2011 WPA World 8-Ball Championship, 2011 WPA World 8 Ball Championship, as well as WPA World Eight-ball Championship 2011, WPA World 8-ball Championship 2011, WPA World 8-Ball Championship 2011, and WPA World 8 Ball Championship 2011. The same redirs, without the date, should exist for the WPA World Eight-ball Championship article. And versions with "Championships" (plural) should exist for the main article and the by-year articles. I'd avoid any use of "Eight-ball Pool" (or variants thereof like "8 Ball Pool", etc), since that is actually a different game (the yellows-and-reds version, a.k.a. Blackball, with its own governing bodies). The phrase "(advertised as the Etisalat World 8 Ball Pool Championship 2011 for sponsorship purposes)" should probably appear in the lead. A pile of redirects could be created for that, too, but I'm not sure I'd bother. Fujaira World Eight-ball Championship and spelling variants should redir to WPA World Eight-ball Championship, since I'm pretty sure the event's been held there more than once. If you're bored you could link things like 2011 Fujaira World Eight-ball Championship and variants to the new article as well, but that might be overkill. Redirects don't hurt anything and can help people find stuff, but they can be a bit time-consuming to create. The official site is http://www.world8ballchampionship.com/. PS: Are you signed up as member of WikiProject Cue Sports yet? — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I just created it at 2011 WPA World 8-Ball Championship a while ago, but I do agree that "2011 WPA World Eight-ball Championship is a better name, and I redirected a couple of probable names already. As per cue sports project OK I'll sign up. Thanks for the suggestions! –HTD (ITN: Where no updates but is stickied happens.) 16:20, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Cool beans. :-) — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 06:26, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Re: Association of College Unions International

Resolved – Deleted article was a copyvio; new one needs to be made from scratch.

You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at JamesBWatson's talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

PS: I'm in touch with someone from ACUI to get some materials for a basic article. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 05:29, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Six-red World Championship for deletion

Resolved – Responded at AfD page.

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Six-red World Championship is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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BLP, ethnicity, gender

Misplaced Pages talk:Biographies of living persons#Include "ethnicity, gender," to match all other guidelines

Wikilawyers have been trying to drive through a wording loophole in BLP, saying ethnicity and gender of EGRS doesn't apply to living persons, simply because the two words aren't in the policy. (Apparently, they think it should only apply to dead people.) I remember you as having been very involved in years past.

They also are trying to remove the notability and relevance criteria for EGRS, but that's another fight for another day, I'm simply too busy to watch two fronts at the same time.
--William Allen Simpson (talk) 14:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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