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Deleting /Madeon

yo umm idk what the previous entry was like that you deleted but Madeon is an award-winning producer that was just signed to mau5trap (deadmau5's record label) so instead of just deleting pages how about you actually help contribute to the database and invest some research instead of just blatantly deleting things because you personally haven't heard of them

tia —Preceding unsigned comment added by K0mat0se (talk • contribs) 00:35, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Question for you

Sorry for messing your nice blanked talk page, but could you take a look at Talk:Bagram Air Base and read through the move requests. Let me know what you think about all that. Thanks -JE (Let's talk) (My contribs) 17:06, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

typos fixedintroduced: Autorità→Authorità

That was part of your edit summary here. But Autorità (meaning authority) is the correct spelling. Could you remove the ‘correction’ from your list, please? Thanks for making the others though! Ian Spackman (talk) 14:37, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Typo fixing

I saw you've fixed a tonne of typos on pages i created (the LGBT mythology ones). Many thanks! For some reason i get typed words wrong, even when i know how to write them by hand - every so often i AWB all the articles i have watchlisted, but there are always more. Thanks again.YobMod 11:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Ars moriendi

I've just reinstated the perfectly valid redirect to this. I seem to remember there was some issue years ago with a rock group of the same name, but don't you look at these things before you delete? Johnbod (talk) 12:53, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Or you. I was just going by your edit summary, since the page had been deleted. Johnbod (talk) 13:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto

Hi,

Just to inform you that Umi Monogatari ~Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto~ title is incorrect for the English wikipedia. The correct title is Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto. For details see MOS:JAPAN#Titles_of_books_and_other_media.

Thanks. --KrebMarkt 13:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Help Appreciated

Thanks for categorizing the article. I was having difficulty doing so. Your help is appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lisyamit (talk • contribs) 11:40, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for spell correction in SMVS page. Ksoni (talk) 05:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

What to do with Tyciol's redirects

Hello Xezbeth. At User:Ryulong/Sandbox/Redirects there is a list of some redirects created by User talk:Tyciol, who is currently blocked. As I go down the list, I notice that you've already started deleting some of the listed ones as WP:CSD#R3. Do you think the rules allow me to go ahead and do the same for the ones I don't think should be kept? I was concerned that a WP:RFD might have to be followed, but I would do the speedies if policy allows that. My work list is at User:Ryulong/Sandbox/Redir1. Thanks for any opinion on this. EdJohnston (talk) 14:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I noticed you deleted Adrena, why is it implausible that someone would type that name in looking for the Kim Possible villain named Adrena Lynn? It's a fictional first name. If it is additionally a plausible redirect for other terms then it would make sense to identify at least one in the description as a reason for why it should not redirect to this villain, but in that case I would prefer to be notified about the objection because in that case I feel obligated to upgrade it into a disambiguation page for both the super villainess and other potential uses. In the very least if you could sign next to the ones you have tagged as Ed and Aditya have been doing it would be helpful as I would be able to collectively address your concerns with the redirect and be able to explain the specific meaning for it. Also Higurei, a shortened portmanteau referring to Higurashi no naku koro ni Rei. It looks like there's much to check. Tyciol (talk) 00:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I completely disagree about Adrena: it being an uncommon name is all the more reason to direct it to the character with that name. Since her name isn't actually spelled out on the show, people may not know how to spell it and simply type out the first name (not knowing if it is 'Lynn' or 'Lin', etc) and can more easily find her that way. When I redirected red links I made every effort to send them to an article which had SOMETHING to do with it. In some cases there were other equally valid articles and in those cases I was mistaken to do so, as Ryu'n co helped me understand in the last month, creating an article for that person is what should be done in that case. I don't appreciate the 'not in their right mind' insult, Higurei is a completely logical abbreviation for the series (simialar to say, Chocosis.

It being a portmanteau was just a happy coincidence: it's the first 2 syllables of Higurashi, just like Hirei would be with the first. These could be abbreviations for other series too, if people think of how it could refer to other things they could definitely disambiguate them. I will feel obligated to critique every deletion I've got issue with: if deletions were more thoroughly explained in the first place (or were politely consulted with first) then there wouldn't be a need for it. When people C+P the same reason for everything they do even though it's different things and don't notify the creator to allow a chance for explanation then they do feel obligated to voice up. This is the reason why plausibility needs to be more throughly explained in the rules, it's pretty much just personal interpretation on everyone's part here, including mine. Tyciol (talk) 07:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Deleted Ropwu

Hey dude, I saw you deleted my Ropwu website history and information page, you said it was advertising, and it was not that. it was just for information on my website, including history. Could you please see about getting it back up?

Santa22622 (talk) 10:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Dog sex

The article Dog sex is under attack! Could you weigh in on it's talk page or at Talk:Canine_reproduction about the fate of the redirect? Thanks!Peter Napkin Dance Party (talk) 18:20, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

An ANI was raised against User:Ckatz, the admin who was reverting the change. This problem came up and ther is now an ANI within an ANI!

• Reverting cited material
• Dog sex reversion behaviour

HarryAlffa (talk) 15:44, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Question for user

I was wondering if you are able to help me. I am interested in viewing the now deleted article for Matt mutino. I don't want to re publish it or anything, just when talking about his page with family and friends, they all wanted to read it, knowing its lack of credibility, just because we actually know Matt. If this is at all possible, that would be great. Thanks. Dbowlin17 (talk) 16:57, 1 January 2010 (UTC)Dbowlin17

Church of Reality

Hi there. Back in 2005 you discussed this article at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Church of Reality. The article has since been recreated, and I have re-nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Church of Reality (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 01:39, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

'Albums considered the greatest ever' nominated for deletion

I saw you made an edit on the article Albums considered the greatest ever so I thought it'd interest you that it's being nominated for deletion. It'd be great if you'd give your two cent here since I'm the only one so far who wants the article to stay. The only other people involved in the discussion are deletion-happy administrators, which I think is a bit unfair. So I'd really appreciate it if you gave some insight. Thank you. Best, Geeky Randy (talk) 20:36, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Chandarana Records

Hello,

Please can you make an article on Chandarana Records - a studio and producer of many labels such as Saba Saba and others. Their music still is well remembered in Kenya, and spread throughout Africa. See also Collela Mazee and these articles:

Thankyou for your help.

re: novero

hi, i saw you deleted the novero page, i created. i am re-adding with references. please take a look at it when you have a moment, and let me know what else i can do to get it approved.

thanks. -AS

Baba Mountain

Hi, now that Baba Mountain is a disambiguation page, could you help clean up the links that now point to a disambig per WP:FIXDABLINKS? Thanks, --JaGa 20:49, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Preference (economics)

Xezbeth, thanks for your fixes on the entry!. I was the one who made the page move, but apparently it was not done right. I'll be more careful the next time.--Forich (talk) 15:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Spelling fix

Thanks for the correction on the Phoebe Kreutz page! :) Billkwando (talk) 22:40, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much Xezbeth for fixing and correcting the Michel Mimran page! Think88 (talk)

Thanks for fixing major histocompatibility complex. --Dawn08 (talk) 22:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Steve White (Sailor)

Hi,

I am a little puzzled by your deletion of the material that I posted yesterday under the heading of Steve White (Sailor)

Steve White (Steven Geoffrey William White) is my son. The material that I posted was developed by the family as a statement of Steve's achievements and background and has been used in several places including the English website. As such, I believe the family holds the copyright to the material.

If you wish to verify the authenticity directly with Steve, he can be contacted by e-mail at Steve@whiteOceanRacing.com, by phone at 07931 642 994 (in England) or skype whiteoceanracing. Alternatively, if you can let me know your E-Mail address, I will have him contact you directly.

We would just like to know what we need to do to get him a Misplaced Pages entry.

C. Mark White CMW@Cox.net Phone 860-621-3779 (USA) Further to the above, we have managed to find your Declaration for Consent page and will be sending suitable text to your OTRS e-mail address.

C. Mark White

—Preceding unsigned comment added by White Ocean Racing (talk • contribs) 13:32, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Next (2006 film) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Next (2006 film). Since you had some involvement with the Next (2006 film) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). JaGa 22:16, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

L98 Cadet Rifle

Can you undo what have you done as you have just reverted back to the inaccurate outdated article. The reason I moved the articles to two separate articles is that the L98A1 is now obsolete and has been replaced by the L98A2 rifle since 2009. Therefore the old article was now anachronistic, and needed to be:

a) entirely rewritten

or

b) disambiguated so that the two rifles are clearly distinguished.

All you have done is redirect to the original confused article. I am annoyed because if you had taken the time, or left a note on my talk page to actually discuss this instead of just moving them, the issue would have been a moot point. Common sense might have suggested that, the action which I undertook was done for a good reason, remember the old assumption of good faith. Besides if you had even been bothered to read both articles you would see that the tense and emphasis in the L98A1 article had been corrected to reflect that fact that this rifle is now obsolete.

I don't know what you did but the article is now trapped in a redirect loop that reverts L98 Cadet Rifle - which the L98A1 was, but is not now! Do you want to undo what you did? At least I am trying to edit the articles to make them clearer and more understandable. Or if you are not happy with what I did, and prefer the inferior article, may I suggest you edit yourself? Rewind44 (talk) 13:17, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Please help with edits to Gordon Shepherd pages

Although I have been signed up for years I am a new user because I have not added much until last week. We were working on the Gordon Shepherd wiki entry and you changed the entry Gordon Shepherd (neuroscientist) back to what it was so I am requesting that our work is restored.

Some of the complexity of the Gordon Shepherd pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/Gordon_Shepherd

is that Gordon M Shepherd here at Yale has a son, Gordon MG Shepherd at Northwestern so we carefully arranged a hierarchy of disambiguation where the Gordon Shepherd page http://en.wikipedia.org/Gordon_Shepherd_(neuroscientist) lists the two Gordon Shepherd's (see the Tom Morse October 1st version on the history on that [[page: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Gordon_Shepherd_(neuroscientist)&diff=388155282&oldid=388154005]] ) and we created new pages Gordon M Shepherd and Gordon MG Shepherd which you have deleted.

Please help! Thanks for your time and efforts. Tom Morse (talk) 20:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of PeaceDayTV

Dear Xezbeth, would you please explain why you decided that the entry for the PeaceDayTV page should be deleted as an advertisement and reinstate it, if you view thew United Nations site here http://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/2010/broadcast.shtml you will see the Peace Day Global Broadcast is part of their official navigation on the UN Peace Day site. The PeaceDayTV channel is a non-profit outreach project of a ngo, there is nothing to "advertise". It's participants of content include UN World Food Programme, Millennium Campaign, UN Foundation, WE Campaign, Nothing But Nets, Malaria No More, Peace One Day, Water.org, World Economic Forum, UNICEF, Culture of Peace, CARE, and over 100 other respected humanitarian organizations. The channel does not carry commercial content, it provides a means for these humanitarian groups to get their message out at no charge, hence it is not advertising. If the page needs to re-written due to the way it was written we will do so, please advise on this point. Perhaps I should create a page called Peace Day Global Broadcast which is specific to the September 21st annual International Day of Peace event, it has become a significant enough event that the United Nations has adopted to make it a page on their site, as well be the focus of the www.internationaldayofpeace.org site, www.cultureofpeace.org, site, www.UnityFoundation.org site, and over 1,000 other places who carry this event. It is a significant part of the International Peace Day activities. I thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peacedaytv (talk • contribs) 16:07, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Your additions to The Enough Moment

Thank You!

Was going to finish last night and forgot!

Appreciative! Nell 16:48, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Your change to Upstream

You recently categorized Upstream as a disambiguation page. Please note that Upstream has a primary topic, which the first sentence in Upstream describes. Please therefore add the tag "(disambiguation)" to the title of the page in accordance with WP:DABNAME. The new title should be "Upstream (disambiguation)". This renaming is necessary because a bot is changing other articles by redirecting to "Source (river or stream)" links that were intended to direct readers only to Upstream. "Source (river or stream)" is a link within the first sentence of Upstream. Thank you. Corker1 (talk) 00:07, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Kashmir Observer

Could you please undelete this article? We have received OTRS permission for it which I can add as soon as it is restored. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Live at the Chapel for deletion

A discussion has begun about whether the article Live at the Chapel, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Live at the Chapel until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

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You left out one.

On the article Ice cube, (it's quite obvious why you removed the username, but) an offensive username is still visible until your own edit summary is redacted. mechamind90 07:22, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Spindle (computer)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Spindle (computer) , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. § Music Sorter § (talk) 05:44, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

wilawan apinyapong

You deleted this entry on 11th October 2010. I feel that the subject is of enough importance for the entry to be reinstated. She is, and has been, the captain of the Thailand women's volleyball team since 2007, and is arguably their most influential player. Since she became the captain, Thailand has won its first ever Asian championship by defeating China in 2009. Wilawan has also led her club side to two succesive Asian club championships. chriskorathttp://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk:Xezbeth&action=edit&section=new# — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chriskorat (talk • contribs) 05:02, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Gary Speed

Hello, I noticed that you created this article. Did you imagine that he would end up like this?--46.246.131.121 (talk) 20:19, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Xezbeth,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Misplaced Pages administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 22:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Suspension (punishment)

I like how foreboding this section name is, but it's actually referring to the article. Check out this edit and tell me if you spot something fishy. — OranL (talk) 08:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

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Sankarea

Thank you for your revert. I'm certain this was done in good faith. I have undone this revert since it removed factual information from the character summary of the anime and manga. In both the anime and manga, Rea is subjected to years of abuse by her father. Physical, emotional and sexual. He takes photos of her naked with the pedophilic excuse of "tracking her growth". This may not be popular and may not cast pedophiles in a good light, but removing this information for no reason than "revert" is not helpful. Thanks! 165.212.161.131 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:39, 8 May 2012 (UTC).

Soil Warrior page deletion

Hello,

I see that you deleted the page I created on the Soil Warrior due to unambiguous content. Please undelete the page. The Soil Warrior is a piece of tillage equipment and the article contained specific facts about the piece of equipment. If you would like some of the information changed please let me know what should be changed so that the page does not get deleted again.

Thanks Wideopenthinking (talk) 15:21, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Super Disambiguation Barnstar
	For your prolific work on creating dab pages for surnames!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:40, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your recent disambiguation work! Rosiestep (talk) 02:05, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Social is an adjective not a subject

Hi Xezbeth, can you please stop reverting Social and take it to the talk page. As I say there- WP:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary#Handling_problems Sometimes, also, a Misplaced Pages article will be badly named. Its title will be an adjective or an adverb or an inflection of a verb that isn't a noun. For example: "supermassive" is an adjective, and doesn't by itself denote an actual subject. “Supermassive black hole” is an actual subject.

Nomination of Volya for deletion

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A dab that you created: Vasava

Hi, back in August you created a dab for Vasava. I've hit a snag with it and am unsure how to proceed. The Bhil Vasava article should in fact be called Vasava per WP:COMMONNAME and, as far as I can tell, the other entry on the dab (a politician) does not really need to be there. Or, at least, not in the commonname sense. I do realise many Indian people are known by a single name but it seems not to be the case in this instance.

I could create a new article called Vasava people, redirect Bhil Vasava to that and all would work ok but since I cannot see the commonname aspect of the politician, it would be better (says me!) to move the Bhil Vasava to Vasava and stick a hat at the top of both of the articles. What do you think? And, if you agree, how the heck is it done? - Sitush (talk) 13:54, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your doings. I rather think I am going to hit this sort of problem quite a lot over the next few days/weeks. - Sitush (talk) 14:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Recreation of Zappa's Universe

One of the tracks on the album was Steve Vai's first grammy and I'll be sure to properly cite the article and there's a new official project dedicated to Frank Zappa that will make sure the article is of good length and quality. I wanted to create it, but the article said to contact you about it first. Please respond on my page. --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 00:32, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 11:42, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation

A disambiguation page with a single surname in it, should not have the surname tag passed through the {{dab}} - now you'll have thousands of pages in the surname category that are not surnames, but disambiguation pages with as few as one person with the surname, without any indication that the surname is notable. And that helps the encyclopedia how? Then we should also send the Category:Place name disambiguation pages merged up with Category:Place names by your same logic. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:19, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Suffice to say, we disagree. Now posing as "surname" articles are a slew of disambiguation pages without any references or necessarily any need to show any notability of the surname. That dumbs down the encyclopedia. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:50, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Category:Robert Rich albums

Category:Robert Rich albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Pichpich (talk) 15:29, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Category:Lucero albums

Category:Lucero albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:23, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Whoops!

Apologies for reverting your edit!

Just saw the summary! — MST☆R 07:47, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

What Blofeld said :-)

A barnstar for you!

	The Super Disambiguation Barnstar
	For your ongoing, unstinting prolific work on creating dab pages for... well, just about everything.--Shirt58 (talk) 12:15, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Boothby

split - 1) Why? - What is achieved by doing this? 2) What consensus do you have for doing this? 3) Why should I not undo your edits?
Looking forward to reading your reply. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:00, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Surname lists are not disambiguation pages, but set indices as noted in Misplaced Pages:MOSDAB. Category:Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists was recently created so I've been using it as an opportunity to clean up old disambiguation pages like this one.

Does splitting it cause some sort of problem? —Xezbeth (talk) 13:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Only to people like me who have not yet caught up with the latest policy changes! Thanks for the background!! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:23, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Revdel

Please revdel this vandal edit. Zaminamina (talk) 15:41, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Surname holder lists on dabs

Please do no delete the "|surname" parameter from disambiguation templates on disambiguation page that include name holders, even if there is only one such name holder. The name holders are partial title matches, and the list of a single such name holder is still a list of name holders. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I need a deleted article

Can you give me the deleted "Project Shrine Maiden" article? 24.38.110.110 (talk) 16:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

No, the content at Project Shrine Maiden was a hoax about a non-existent television show. There's nothing worth salvaging. —Xezbeth (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I want it for a fanon PBS Kids wiki that you can put fake shows on. 65.200.179.116 (talk) 18:28, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I just want to see it and use it for a wiki. Can you give it to me now? 67.82.213.156 (talk) 23:23, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

X, there's this wiki that you can put hoaxes on called "Speedy Deletion Wiki". People moved some of my hoaxes there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.213.156 (talk) 16:05, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Look, it was about the Touhou Project. I have a "Touhou Nonsense Wiki". Can you give me a copy so I can put it on the wiki? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.82.213.156 (talk) 15:09, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Bey (surname)

Hi Xezbeth, Although I don't like to make substantial changes in the articles, I changed both the title and the text of Bey (surname). Because Bey is not a surname in Turkish. (Of course I don't refer to Erich Bey and Richard Bey). Thanks for your understanding. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 08:45, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Sheynhertz-Unbayg

Sorry for not answering earlier. I don't have time to do any research into this particular IP (in fact, I don't have time for Misplaced Pages at all right now). In my experience, he uses many different IP addresses and only accidentally returns to one of them again (with some exceptions of addresses he uses once per year, maybe when he is visiting somewhere else?). You can check Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Sheynhertz-Unbayg/Archive or User:Kusma/Sheynhertz for ranges used in the past. Sometimes it makes sense to do large-scale rangeblocks; he often probably doesn't even notice blocks of individual IP addresses or usernames because he jumps to the next username or IP address after 24 hours anyway. I must say I thank applaud you for doing cleanup work on his pages, it is a thankless and (after a while) rather unfun task, and he hasn't stopped (and only improved a little) despite hundreds of blocks in the last six years. Happy editing, —Kusma (t·c) 12:08, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Ok, that made me chuckle - merging up to the apes. Nicely done. Here's a cupcake in return. We don't want to offend those apes though! Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 06:49, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Category_talk:American_novelists#RFC_or_not.3F

You are invited to join the discussion at Category_talk:American_novelists#RFC_or_not.3F. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 03:22, 17 May 2013 (UTC)Template:Z48

don't worry about it

I wouldn't worry about getting into revert wars with NM. One very useful thing instead would be (a) go through all of the genre-categories and make sure everyone is in a by-century cat + gender cat as appropriate (b) make sure everyone in the ethnic-novelists cat is in a by-century-cat + genre cat + gender cat as appropriate. There will remain a small cadre of preciously guarded bios in Category:American novelists, this is fine, that can wait a while for the weight of consensus to determine the final outcome. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

To clarify, it is more important at this point to make sure we don't have people still ghettoized, either by gender or ethnicity, than worry about a few bios that people want to keep in the head cat. Last I looked there was still ghettoization in the ethnic cats, so your help there would help de-ghettoize those writers who had previously been ghettoized. Then, no matter what happens (e.g. merge everything to Category:American novelists or not) the tree is at least in a good state and no-one is ghettoized.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:30, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I didn't think to look at those. The genre subcats too have lots of people without any sort of novelist category. I might even venture into the Category:American writers tree too, probably hundreds in there. —Xezbeth (talk) 15:57, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

For example, this catscan link looks at all african-americans who aren't in the by-century tree - so you can target them for de-ghettoization. The same could be done for any genre or other ethnic cats, and even the Category:American women novelists cat just to make sure no women are ghettoized (shouldn't be, but you never know). Once everyone is in the by-century tree, the same technique can be used to determine which ones *don't* have a gender for example - eg show me all by-century novelists, but that aren't in either women or men sub-cat. But there may be some cases where gender is ambiguous, in which case you shouldn't force it, obviously.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 16:12, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Note: For example, this one , you added her to Category:Women writers from New Jersey but neglected to add her to Category:Writers from New Jersey - thus ghettoization - it's easy to miss these - but looks good otherwise what you did on that bio. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 17:27, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Would those not be an example of over-categorization? Some writers are "from" more than 4 states, if they also have multiple professions then that's a lot of category bloat. On an unrelated note, you might want to be aware of User:Truthkeeper88/Sandbox. —Xezbeth (talk) 17:31, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

It's not overcategorization b/c otherwise it ghettoizes, technically speaking. If she is *only* a women writer from New Jersey, then it means the writers from new jersey can only has men in it - that's the problem. I've proposed that these women-writers-by-state cats be deleted, but consensus seems to be against that. Anyway. Oh, hmm - I hadn't seen that sandbox. I wonder what she's preparing? --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Gamarra (surname)/hatnote

Hi Xezbeth, I see you’ve removed the hatnote with the link to the Gamarra surname disambiguation page from 10-12 pages where I had put it (I just noticed that to my surprise after putting one back, thinking I had missed it-adding a Pedro Sanchez’ one in the bargain). Well, I suppose or rather imagine, that you assume that readers reaching those pages do NOT wonder in the least if they arrived on the Gamarra they were looking for; and/or that X Gamarra is not the exact homonym of Y Gamarra. For one, I don’t think that it helps not to have those hatnotes anymore; for instance, when you figure out that, well, after all, it may not be the one you wanted to read about that you found. Bear in mind that people may read articles on matters they have no previous knowledge of at all. Specially as there quite a few Paraguayan and Uruguayan football players with that surname, I would kindly but very strongly recommend that you put those hatnotes (which are not disgraceful nor problematic whatsoever, are they ?) back on those 10-12 pages. They were helpful and although you thought they were useless, I’m convinced, or rather I KNOW (for having been helped by those very tags in the Gamarras' maze) that they are not. Hoping you will agree to do so. If you have no time to proceed to the auto-revert, I certainly can do it, just ask here. Thanks a lot. --210.159.191.239 (talk) 09:25, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

No, I will not put them back on. There is no ambiguity between Daniel Gamarra and any other article of a person who happens to share the surname. If the reader doesn't know who they're looking for, they can visit Gamarra and go from there. By your reasoning, there should be a hatnote on every single biographical article that has a shared surname with at least one other person, which isn't the case. The only time it should be used is if Gamarra redirected to a biography as a primary topic, then the hatnote serves a purpose in directing the reader to the disambiguation page that they may have been looking for. See Misplaced Pages:Hatnote#Disambiguating article names that are not ambiguous. —Xezbeth (talk) 10:03, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, hi again likewise, and let me start by saying that I was just trying to help. I had a look at the guideline about hatnotes but as it mentions those unnecessary hatnotes can (/vs/must) be removed and as it was or is, I couldn't tell, the subject of a very long discussion whose end seemed a bit unclear to me, I confess that, oddly enough, I am not convinced. By your reasoning, quite a few items should be removed from pages as optional features for lazy or stupid readers like me, and feel free to do so. Why even bother having hatnotes if we can indeed search for homonyms and homonym pages ? References are all on Google and policies and methods are explained somewhere. Still, don’t be afraid, I am only half-serious -BUT there is serious confusion between ambiguity and homonymy in those guidelines you mentioned above- and I will leave those pages and all pages just like they are. Thank you for you reply.--210.159.191.239 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	I award you the categorization barnstar, for great work in de-ghettoizing hundreds (thousands?) of bios of women and ethnic minorities, and moving them into non-gendered cats as well! Keep it up! Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:07, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Discussion about novelist categories

Greetings! You are invited to take place in a conversation happening Category_talk:American_novelists#Stalemate here about how to move forward with discussion on subcategories of by-country novelist categories.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 15:10, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

What do you mean by "cat"

This edit is one of several dozen of your recent edits that make changes to articles with an edit summary consisting exclusively of the word "cat". I don't think it's a feline-related edit. I do think that your edit had something to do with reordering and shifting some of the categories included in the article, and I guess I could try to match up the old and new entries one by one and figure out what you did, but you could make the lives of all editors looking at your edits far easier by providing an actual explanation for your edits. As an administrator I would hope that you would be a shining example of how edit summaries can be used to share information with other editors and I hope that you will be substantially more effusive and explanatory in future edits. Alansohn (talk) 17:42, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Are you joking? Your own edit history is full of "add cat". How is that any different? Are you adding pictures of cats to the articles? —Xezbeth (talk) 18:19, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I now see your contribution to Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Johnpacklambert. Since I can only guess as to what your angle is here then I shall endeavor to be fully descriptive in my edit summaries. —Xezbeth (talk) 18:39, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Are you joking? My angle here is to understand what on earth your edits mean. I'm sure that I've written edit summaries that only say "add cat", but even that is far more explanatory than the single word "cat". Did you add, subtract, change, modify, retitle or reorder the categories in several dozen recent edits? No one can possibly know based on your unwillingness to provide the information. The words "add cat" do appear in my last several hundred edits, but always as part of a far more detailed explanation, and your effort to turn this into a game trying to show that I'm somehow just as bad as you are is utterly non-responsive. Why not try to follow basic courtesy and work to provide self-explanatory edit summaries that go beyond a single word? Try for two words or even three before making the bold step of using sentences. A simple "thanks for the suggestion" would also have sufficed. Alansohn (talk) 18:55, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I have used the same edit summaries for nearly ten years, and until today nobody has said a word about them. Perhaps if you were a touch less condescending when you make a suggestion then I'd be more happy to oblige. —Xezbeth (talk) 18:58, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Your recent edits to Pat Brown (criminal profiler) are exactly what I'm looking for. Your actions can speak for themselves and there is no ambiguity on what was done with the categories in the article. Thanks for the change, which should be a model for the future. If your response wasn't so snide I might be even more appreciative. Alansohn (talk) 19:01, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Madeleine

User:SlimVirgin and you seem to be somewhat at cross purposes. SV has restored and expanded given name entries I removed from the main dab page. There is already a Madeleine (given name), which already has the info. The discussion is going on at Talk:Madeleine. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:52, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

About Hawthorne (surname)

Hi Xezbeth. Obviously it's an English, as in "English language", surname. It would appear to me that it is a particularly English, as in "England", surname. I've had a little look for refs, but haven't found anything yet. Your thoughts? Pete aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:54, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

I try not to add countries or languages to the lede unless it's very obvious, since technically it has to be referenced. All of the surname-by-country categories were upmerged into Category:Surnames some time ago, so the by-language categories are all we have to work with in that regard. Though at the moment I'm mainly formatting articles and splitting them from dab pages, so I'm happy to keep whatever the content the article already has without worrying about it too much. —Xezbeth (talk) 10:07, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Your edits to Laurenti

I see that you're working through a lot of "dab" pages for surnames and sorting them out into surname pages, but I think on this one you lost useful content. I've moved Monsieur Laurent (no "i") to a see also section which explains "laurenti", and replaced the "in title" link as I think it is useful here. I glimpsed at your contributions list hoping to see if there were other similar cases, but then saw the scale of your project and gave up on it - but I hope you won't delete any more useful stuff like this. Thanks. PamD 09:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I screwed up on this one. I didn't notice that Raymond Laurent had a different surname, and the in title link got lost in my original edit. —Xezbeth (talk) 09:45, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Kümmel

I see that you have again moved the Kümmel disambiguation page. The German for caraway is of little relevance, and I would not have objected to its removal, but perhaps you can answer the following questions:

1. The usual English meaning of "Kümmel" is as the name of a liqueur. As you are aware, the word also exists as a surname. What is your objection to having a disambiguation page disambiguating these two meanings?
2. I see here that you think the German meaning of the word is worth including. Why do you regard a meaning which as far as I know is neither in use in English nor the subject of a Misplaced Pages article as being more worthy of inclusion than a meaning which is in common use in English and is the subject of a Misplaced Pages article?
3. The policy on wheel warring says "Do not repeat a reversed administrative action when you know that another administrator opposes it." (Bold in the original.) Is there any good reason for considering your action in this case to be exempt from this policy? JamesBWatson (talk) 14:53, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

The liqueur is the primary topic, so a disambiguation page is extraneous as a hatnote can easily cover it. My admin action in this instance was to revert myself by histmerging an article that I had split; performing a page move in the process, a few days after I raised it on your talk page with no response, so I assumed you didn't care enough to object. I hardly think it constitutes wheel-warring since you didn't use admin tools yourself unless I'm missing something. —Xezbeth (talk) 15:03, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

I forgot that you posted on my talk page, sorry for that. However, there you deal mainly with the point "There is no point mentioning that it's German for Caraway", which is quite separate from the question of disambiguation of the surname versus the liqueur. On reflection, my remark about wheel warring was perhaps disproportionate to what is really a rather trivial matter. I have no quarrel with your moving the list of uses of the surname to a disambiguation page specifically for the surname, nor would I have had any objection to your removing the mention of the German for caraway (though, as I mentioned above, you have chosen to keep it). However, I still don't understand why you are happy to start the disambig page for the surname with a sentence mentioning that Kümmel is German for "caraway", while being so insistent that there must be no mention of what you say yourself is the primary topic for the word. It is true that anyone looking for the liqueur is unlikely to find their way to the disambig page, as they will go straight to Kümmel, but it is by no means inconceivable that someone may find their way there for other reasons, and find it interesting or even useful to find out that the word is the name of a liqueur. I therefore don't understand why you object so strongly to its inclusion, so much so that you have repeatedly removed it. Even if you think it is unnecessary, does including it do any harm? JamesBWatson (talk) 15:46, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

You're right that a disambiguation page should link to the primary topic. However, a list comprised entirely of surname-holders isn't a disambiguation page, but a set index, so it doesn't follow the same rules. If there was another article that could have fitted in Kümmel (disambiguation), then I would have simply split the surname list off and left the disambig intact. However, because in this instance there was only the primary topic and a list of names I moved the page and changed the formatting to that of a set index. But yes, a single link is trivial, so rather than mention it in the lede I've added a wiktionary link and a link to Kümmel in a see also section. —Xezbeth (talk) 16:10, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, I don't see any great problem with your latest version. However, I still don't see why it is any better than what existed before you came on the scene. What we have is a page which gives the same information as before, but under a different title (including "surname" instead of "disambiguation") and with two of the meanings listed in different forms (one moved to "see also", and one just mentioned in a sentence about the surname). Why you regard such trivial changes of formatting of the same information to be worth spending time on beats me. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:43, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

A discussion has been opened - where subsequent discussion should take place - at:

Misplaced Pages:No_original_research/Noticeboard#Is_MoStudies_Review_a_publisher_of_review_articles.3F.

(Neutral statement: At issue is the description of a scholarly journal, turning on allowable summary or interpretations from statements within what may or may not be held as reliable sources.)

--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:25, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	After seeing countless edits correcting redirects, Disambig pages, Thanks for taking up these edits. Amit (talk) 03:34, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Activated debates

Hi Xezbeth. I invite you to feedback on my views in Talk:List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations, I'm encouraging all involved since January to do so. Adam37 (talk) 10:33, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Surnames

Sorry about that. Regarding redirects: I didn't realize I'd be picking up so many when I cast my net for surname articles whose talkpages I could create. It's a small matter to remove that template; I'll do so tonight when I'm off work and have access to AWB.

Regarding the disambiguation template itself: do you not want that on any surnames? Because I've found it on a lot of surname pages (it's why I added it to the templates I was using to create talkpages). If that's a problem I can also run AWB to scrub those, once I've dealt with the other issue.

Lastly, what about talkpages on the redirects? I'll stop with those unless you'd like them to be there. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 12:17, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

The way I've been doing it is thus: if it's a disambiguation page that has a list of name-holders, then both tags should be used. If it's a separate surname article, either a name-holder list or a fully-formed referenced article, then just the anthroponymy tag would be fine. You're right that a lot of surname lists have the disambiguation tag already. They used to all be classified as disambiguation pages, so they've slowly been converted to set indexes over the years without the corresponding tags on the talk page being looked at.

As for redirects, I don't see the harm in tagging them as well. Might be an idea to class them in Category:Redirect-Class Anthroponymy articles at the same time though. —Xezbeth (talk) 12:31, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

The same would also apply to given names. I'm not very good with AWB or I'd have done it myself, but if there's a way of adding the anthroponymy project template to articles that have either {{given name}} or {{surname}}, and then adding both tags to all articles that are in Category:All disambiguation pages and one of Category:Surnames, Category:Given names, Category:Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists or Category:Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists, then that shouldn't lead to any errors. —Xezbeth (talk) 12:58, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

There are a couple of ways I can think of, yes. Quite frankly, the one in particular I'm thinking of would make for maybe double the edits, as it would entail adding each template individually, but that's certainly a way to do it. Personally, I'd prefer it that way; it may be more work, but it's more certain.

I'll get started on it all tonight, then. It'll be tedious, given the numbers involved, but it shouldn't be too difficult. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:58, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

FYI: please see here and here. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:54, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Most of our articles do not have talk pages, let alone any redirects. To me this is completely pointelss, but the place to have this discussion is at the Village Pump. Apteva (talk) 16:17, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Redirect-Class articles begs to differ. In particular note Category:Redirect-Class United States articles, which is over twice as large as the surname one would be if it was fully populated. The category also serves a function in that I can compare Category:Redirect-Class Anthroponymy articles and Category:Redirects from surnames to find redirects that have been expanded into articles or redirects that have been overwritten. —Xezbeth (talk) 17:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Just an update: I'm almost all the way through the surname redirects. I'll probably finish them tomorrow, at the rate things are going. Once that's done I'll turn my attention to the given name redirects. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Tyler Minges

The ballplayer is pretty clearly non-notable, but to make it non-controversial I'll restore and AFD. Wizardman 14:16, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, though I wasn't going to do anything about it besides ask the question. I think proposed deletion is a better venue for articles that have survived for so long. —Xezbeth (talk) 14:23, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

Hello X. I know that you will have already noticed the discussion I have started due to our new notification system but I wanted to leave a message with a direct link to the thread here Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Disambiguation#Question regarding Oppenheimer page so that you may add your input. MarnetteD | Talk 17:11, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The ever reliable members of the DAB project got me squared away on the situation. Thanks for your forbearance and for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 17:44, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Oof and forgot to add apologies for my rude and incorrect edit summary while this was going on. Cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 20:02, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

External links

Also simply linking reviews to the EL is not what I have seen on WP:Anime and Manga articles

The Anime & Manga wikiproject is essentially defunct because all the content-producing editors have been driven away by increasingly narrow interpretations and deletionism; what you've seen is not in anyway what ought to be, but mere remnants. What, exactly, would you prefer people to do if not link to reviews? Link them on the talk page? This is utterly futile, as <5% of hand-selected highly relevant links will ever be actually added to articles: it is be linked in EL or not appear at all.

The question is, is it better for a lengthy insightful review for an RS to be linked, or not included at all? Given the moribund editing community, I'm afraid it is simply not a realistic option to demand that each review be carefully parsed and integrated into a Reception section.

Finally, I will again point you at WP:EL, which encourages use of ELs in the body of the article in some fashion but acknowledges that in the absence of infinite editor supply, this will not always happen and that putting RSs into a EL or Further Reading section is perfectly acceptable... --Gwern (contribs) 01:54 28 July 2013 (GMT)

You posted on the wrong talk page, I suspect you wanted User talk:KirtZJ. —Xezbeth (talk) 04:22, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Whups, so I did. Sorry about that; I have no idea how I got the two of you confused. --Gwern (contribs) 23:22 3 August 2013 (GMT)

SU

I think we have a common friend . If you catch him, please let me know. --Eynre (talk) 07:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Removing from article Hornsleth Village Project, 3 Categories

Hi, I saw you removed 3 Categories from the Hornsleth Village Project, but without mentioning why. They look related to the article in question. Care to explain? Thanks! Here's the edit difference: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Hornsleth_Village_Project&diff=0&oldid=567116366 Have a great day. Misty MH (talk) 22:06, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I probably shouldn't have removed Category:Ugandan society, but Category:Danish society is an irrelevant category, and it's not a surname article so Category:Surnames serves no meaningful purpose. —Xezbeth (talk) 04:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Misty MH (talk) 21:09, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Removal of project tags

Hello, please do not remove relevant project tags as you did here. There is no need to write over an existing tag when you add a new one. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 14:53, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, was a reflex. Sheynhertz-Unbayg sockpuppets usually add a project tag that may or may not actually be relevant, and since the article was one of his I didn't look too carefully at it. —Xezbeth (talk) 15:05, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

SU?

I see you blocked 114.180.16.161 under this long-term abuse case, of which I was unaware. I'd like to draw your attention to two others that have made the same edit at Vienna Museum: 121.117.168.235 and 114.180.225.173. I was scratching my head trying to figure out what I should do to make peace with this unknown, and I'm still unsure what makes them fit the MO detailed on that case page, but if one is that editor, they all are. Since I'm apparently the only one watching that article, you likely haven't noticed the connection. And please feel free to hand me my first block for edit warring if you can suggest how I should have handled it better. After 2 posts to the article talk and one to their latest IP talk, plus edit summaries trying to be clear, I was contemplating turning us both in at the edit warring noticeboard. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

I noticed the IPs, but blocking is fruitless as he wont return to them after hopping to another. User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg has been stubbornly ignoring his site ban for about 7 years, and because he usually edits low traffic Jewish biographies and surname articles he's often been ignored. Short of range blocking most of Japan or semi protecting every single article he appears on there's not much that can be done besides reverting his edits. —Xezbeth (talk) 04:30, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

I was afraid that was the size of it. I suppose then to avoid stretching the rules too far, if the same edit gets made again I come and get you to block rather than blocking him/her myself? I had been wondering if there was any more of it that was actually useful - so much effort to pepper the article with meticulous inline link templates in addition to all the red - but I just can't see the advantage. I will watchlist Leopoldstadt too. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:04, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

You can do, but I wouldn't hesitate about reverting; you were more accommodating of his edits than I would have been. Even if he wasn't a sockpuppet there'd be no problem with removing his edits. Links to other wikipedias are frowned upon and his preferred formatting is against the MOS. —Xezbeth (talk) 12:10, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	For fixing all those disamb links. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:16, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Your recent visit to the Kitano "Outrage Beyond" Page

Greetings from Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage Beyond" Page

Thank you for your recent visit to the wikipage for this Kitano film.

As you may have noticed, there have been numerous edits made to the page to try to get it its first page upgrade. Possibly you might have something like a top five list of things that need to be still done to the page in order to get it its first upgrade, and maybe you could list them for the next development phase of this page. Once again, thanks for visiting the "Outrage Beyond" wiki page. AutoMamet (talk) 18:19, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

given name redirect

Hi. This was wrong; I had created that redirect specifically to allow for such a link. --Joy (talk) 10:17, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Double redirect

Hello. I've just come by to ask: Is there any particular reason why the Akinbiyi page redirects to itself? I'd just like to make sure that it wasn't a mistake on your part, as you seem to have created the redirect a few days ago. Thanks in advance.

98.83.197.191 (talk) 23:02, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Link to

Hi, I noticed you change a lot of links to disambiguation pages. See this edit and quite a few more. What is the benefit for that change? From a direct link you changed it to link to a redirect. Garion96 (talk) 11:26, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

To make it clear that the intent is to link to the disambiguation page, and not to one of the ambiguous terms. See WP:DPL. —Xezbeth (talk) 11:43, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

I still don't really see it on WP:DPL. In Miletić there already was a link to the disambiguation page at Milius. Now it's linked to the redirect Milius (disambiguation). I can't imagine the goal is to alter a direct link to a redirect on purpose. Garion96 (talk) 12:09, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

"Where an article intentionally links to a disambiguation page, that link should be through a "Foo (disambiguation)" redirect, to make it clear that the link is intentional." —Xezbeth (talk) 12:14, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

It does says so but still don't see it as valid. You know a policy or guideline behind that reasoning? To make edits in articles just to change a good link to a redirect link seems utterly pointless. Garion96 (talk) 05:36, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

WP:HOWTODAB. It's common practice; thousands of similar edits occur every month, so I'm surprised you haven't noticed before. Take a look at something like List of surnames in Russia for dozens of examples on one page. —Xezbeth (talk) 05:57, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Nope, never saw that before, don't agree with it either but that's besides the point. I do think the edit you made above is pointless though. Change it with other fixes in AWB or script ok. But an edit to only "fix" that... Garion96 (talk) 07:19, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

country WP tags

Why remove country wikiprojects on an anthroponymy article? --Joy (talk) 12:08, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Because those particular tags are nonsense added by a sockpuppet of User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg. If someone who isn't site banned wants to re-add them then they are welcome to. —Xezbeth (talk) 12:10, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Your opinion and expertise would be greatly appreciated

You had been "pinged" recently to provide some input regarding a discussion involving Mormon Studies Review and so are now being appropriately canvassed (per wp:CANVASSING) to participate in the deletion discussion for the Review's brand-new "step-sibling" journal, Interpreter -- here: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture. Thanks for your consideration of this request.--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:11, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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Is dabsolver malfunctioning?

First things first. I just realized I was on the talk page of a True Veteran Of Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your commitment. Earlier this afternoon, I used Dab-solver to do a minor edit at Bruise Pristine. The result is a bunch of (#) signs where brackets should be. The same thing happened here about 10 minutes prior. The first time it happened, I made the corrections, but the second time suggested that something was wrong. I asked at the TeaHouse but they haven't answered yet. ```Buster Seven Talk 21:26, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not that familiar with the tool myself, but it was probably the toolserver malfunctioning. If it happens again then User talk:Dispenser/Dab solver would be the best place to raise it. Or Misplaced Pages talk:Disambiguation pages with links, since Dispenser hasn't been around for a while. —Xezbeth (talk) 06:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Blocking IP

Thanks for reverting that 220.220.158.44's persistent additions. Is there a way to prevent him from doing that again? Bednarek was having a helluva time with him yesterday night. Krenakarore 13:12, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Besides rangeblocking most of Japan, there's not much that can be done. He's been ban evading since 2006 so maybe he'll tire out one day. —Xezbeth (talk) 14:00, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Meteorite fall

I appreciate your efforts on Meteorite fall, but a 100% source in errors in not very helpful. The first link of any line is not a place name but the name of the meteorite. Sorry, I am going to revert your edits. The Banner talk 22:15, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't see the harm in linking to the area in lieu of an article on the actual meteorite, especially since I doubt a full article can be made on all of them. —Xezbeth (talk) 07:03, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Georg Friedrich Haas

Hi Xezbeth,

I'm not up to speed on User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg, but may we discuss edits to the Haas article on their own merits please? Sparafucil (talk) 20:43, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

So you should manually add them back in, since you aren't banned. Reverting wholesale and reintroducing his worthless formatting changes is not good. —Xezbeth (talk) 08:49, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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121.115.78.5 – Suspected Sheynhertz-Unbayg edits reverted

I'm pretty sure this is him, but I'm just notifying you to double-check that I have reverted this user correctly. Thanks. Ginsuloft (talk) 20:30, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

More SU, please block: Special:Contributions/114.181.18.225. Ginsuloft (talk) 22:44, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Just a question

Hi, I just wonder what's the point to remove the categories "Category:Mizrahic surnames" and "Category:Sephardic surnames"? It seems to me it is that they are needed to specify what exactly Jewish roots these surnames have. Thanks in advance for your reply. Olsonspterom (talk) 19:01, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

I have no problem with either category. As long as the articles that populate them actually assert that they belong in either category then it's fine, I'm not even particularly interested in references. My issue was that Category:Mizrahic surnames was created and populated entirely by sockpuppets of site-banned User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg, with the category being seemingly randomly added to articles and redirects that don't even mention their origin. I'm not prepared to take SU's word for it either since he's proven literally thousands of times over the years that he doesn't know what he's doing. —Xezbeth (talk) 19:05, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

OK. I got it. You two had a long lasting issues. I did not know about that. But try when you revert some of them to see if the categories "Category:Mizrahic surnames" and "Category:Sephardic surnames" are needed or only the "Category:Jewish surnames" is enough. Take care. Olsonspterom (talk) 19:14, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for creating a category on Japanese urologists, there are many to come... Do you know of any Japanese admins?--Mishae (talk) 17:44, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't know of any native Japanese admins, but there are a few living there listed in User:Moe Epsilon/Administrators by location. —Xezbeth (talk) 18:21, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! That helped me. I already let one of them know, and hopefully will get a swift reply from him.--Mishae (talk) 19:29, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Re: Surnames

OK, I understood. Thank you for the message. OffsBlink (talk) 23:24, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Moulton

Why did you removed Moulton Ltd. from the Moulton articel? --Gpont (talk) 08:52, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Because external links do not belong on disambiguation pages per MOS:DABENTRY. —Xezbeth (talk) 09:25, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I see, thx --Gpont (talk) 09:42, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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List of months by year

In 2005, you deleted List of months by year and some of its child lists per its AFD. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the impression I get is that that was almost solely because the lists were almost pure redlinks, which explains why List of months by year: 2000–2050 is still around. Does the AFD prejudice against converting the 2000–2050 list into a new List of months by year, so long as the list doesn't include all those redlinks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk • contribs) 21:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

I can't recall something from that long ago. An ancient VfD consensus like this one is effectively worthless because it's so out of date, so I wouldn't constrain myself because of it. —Xezbeth (talk) 22:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, it looks like the deletion was only because of redlinks anyway, so I'll go ahead and adapt the 2000–2050 list into a new List of months by year (it's the only List of months by year page that survived these AFD's). Could you temporally restore the old List of months by year to my userspace, in case there's something to salvage. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 17:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

I've restored them and they're now in List of months by year's history. —Xezbeth (talk) 17:24, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks' and I think I figured out what happened: It looks lake in February 2005 the list was split up by century, and converted into a list of lists. In June all but one of the child lists, along with list of lists itself, were deleted (I think) do to being almost pure redlinks.

By looking at the original version of the list, the the 20th century now has quite a few of bluelinks; I thought there were very few of those (mind you allot of those "bluelinks" are redirects to a year article, but allot aren't). I suppose there are two questions now: Do we want to continue excluding 20th century redlinks (and redirects) per the AFD, or are now there enough bluelinks that it's no longer worth it? Do we want to split up the list by century, or do we want to have one list covering both centuries (there are no bluelinks prior to the 20th century). Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 19:18, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Category:Slave owner

Hello Xezbeth. I note that you recently deleted Category:Slave owner citing WP:CSD#C1. I believe that you were mistaken to do so because that CSD criterion requires categories to have been empty for at least four days, whereas the category in question was populated only a few hours before you deleted it. Could you please undo the deletion? —Psychonaut (talk) 13:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Quite, I should have just cited the AN/I discussion without shoehorning them into an incorrect criterion. I'm not inclined to restore Category:Slave owner, however, since the discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#CensoredScribe's categories doesn't support doing so. It's incorrectly named in any case, and should be at Category:Slave owners, which has been deleted before, or at Category:Slaveholders, which has been deleted before via CFD. —Xezbeth (talk) 17:04, 31 January 2014 (UTC)