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iPod

Some newcomer has made a dramatic but good-faith edit to iPod. He also talked about it on the talk page. Can you look at that for me? It looks alright to for things like NPOV but content-wise, it's over my head. Thanks.HereToHelp 02:04, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Apple review

Sorry for not reviewing as I'm really busy these days. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Wal-Mart toc, consistency in company articles

In response to your last edits to Wal-Mart, please provide an ideal company article to go off of to back up your point in your edit summary, for I am very interested in seeing it. I know you're a member of WP:BIZE, and my WikiProject Retailing falls within the scope of it. One of our goals is to make retail companies consistent, and I am very interested in seeing your opinion on an ideal document structure so we can modify our own idea. Regards, Tuxide 18:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh damn...you're fast *grin* Happy editing to you! Tuxide 18:46, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, we should base document structure on (although I don't really like the company) Microsoft since it is a featured article. Regards, Tuxide 19:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Does WP:BIZE have a style guide similar to this one? I was looking for one a while ago and all I could find was Misplaced Pages:Companies, corporations and economic information, but it doesn't explicitly suggest document structure. Tuxide 19:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

West Bengal FAC

Hi! Thanks for your message. Thank you for the massive copyedit of the article. Rest of the shortcomings can be managed easily, except one thing - the map. I could not find out an updated map in the web! However, please see this talk. Thanks. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Question of Etiquette

I've written an article on Apple stock at ValueWiki.com. I was hoping to find a few wikipedians to read/edit my AAPL page, but I'm not sure of the etiquette. Is there a forum where it's appropriate to solicit help, especially since this is a non-mediawiki page? Thanks!Jonathan Stokes 00:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ann Saunderson

Wackymacs, I'm not sure why you would revert my wikification on the Ann Saunderson article. Was it a complete wikification? No, it wasn't. Did it improve the article? I feel it did. Instead of simply reverting, why not improve what I had already begun? As it stands now, I'm going to leave this one for someone else, rather than begin a revert war, or even worry too much about it. Cheers. JubalHarshaw 13:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Jake Gyllenhaal

Hello,

You seem to be an experienced and helpful editor, so I wonder if you could check out the above mentioned FAC and see if I am being totally unreasonable in having nominated the article 3 days after it failed its previous nomination with 4-2 or 66% support. I did so because the only actionable objection had been the prose, which was then dealt with in the intervening three days by a variety of editors, but mostly DaveOinSF. I've been railing against editors having far too high standards, but as someone who doesn't hang out a lot on WP:FAC, I may simply be unlucky. If you could take a look, and possibly comment or vote, I would be grateful. Dev920 (Tory?) 07:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou for your support. I feel somewhat vindicated now. Even if it fails this FAC as well, I know I was right. Dev920 (Tory?) 14:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Newspapers section of Typography

Thanks for adding seed text there Wackymacs! Much appreciated. If you can expand on it or recruit others who can—yes please. Anything I can do for you?

Arbo talk 21:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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Apple II survey

I'm conducting a survey about the Apple II -- any former users are invited to participate. I found you were active on Apple II related articles.

Come to User:Applephreak/survey

Applephreak 18:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Request: West Bengal FAC

Hi! Thanks for your comments in the FAC. I need some help. Please see Tony's comment and also Sundar's comment in the FAC. The article needs copyedit from some editors who are not much familiar with the topic. I guess you are not familiar with West Bengal :) If you have time, Can I request you to kindly have a look at the article and help? --Dwaipayan (talk) 15:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/NeXT

I have a couple points:

• Early history states their first product was a "toolkit", Whats a toolkit?
• "The first major source of venture capital was Ross Perot"... umm do you mean "first major source of outside investment"?
• What does NeXTWORLD magazine have to do with anything?
• "Hardware" section doesn't flow at all, It jumps from time periods and jumps from pre-release information, specs, aftermath, hype, etc. Just arrange it by; What was happening during it development?, What were its specs when it shipped?, What did people say about it when it shipped?, What things happened after it shipped? and lastly you can add that bit about it impacting the programers careers.

Thanks. - Tutmosis 19:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adressing my concerns, I have a couple more:

• This sentence seems unecessary in this article, since you talking about the company. I dont see the point to discuss the chip itself on this page. It would be more appropriate on the NeXTcube/Motorola 68030 pages: "The 68030 was supported by the 68882 FPU for faster mathematical performance, the 56001 digital signal processor (DSP) for multi-media work and two custom-designed 6-channel direct memory access (DMA) channel controllers, which allowed much of the input/output (I/O) processing to be offloaded from the CPU to boost the speed of common tasks."
• There is a red link NeXT RISC Workstation in the article. This isnt the NeXTstation workstation, is it?
• I also dont see the point of throwing this sentence at the beginning of 'Hardware', it would be more appropriate at the end of the section: "The 88110, a later chip released in 1990, was used in the NeXT RISC Workstation, however the project was canceled along with all NeXT hardware projects in 1993.".
• The arranging is getting better, but try to remove present tenses from the hardware specs paragraphs like "shipped" because it still doesn't flow from past to present. You say "shipped" in paragraph 4, but only in paragraph 6 do you actually say they were released. My point above was all about this, try to make the article tell a story from past to present, like a history book.
• I'm having a hard time understanding the deal with the "NeXTWORLD" magazine since it wasnt published by NeXT but Integrated Media. Was the magazine about the NeXTcube or was it sponsored by NeXT? Please elaborate.
• That first paragraph in 'Software' seems like it needs to be merged appropriately with 'Hardware'.

Thanks. - Tutmosis 14:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I fixed myself some of the last concerns I had, and now voted support for the nomination. Good luck with other editors and in any other future projects you plan on undertaking. Thanks for responding and adressing my concerns. - Tutmosis 19:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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New round of Mac FAs?

We have some "pretty good" (i.e.e almost featured) articles on Mac topics. What do you think people wouldn't like against, say, iTunes if I was to nominate it?--HereToHelp 21:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Also: someone has nominated Mac OS X for an FAC.--HereToHelp 22:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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FinanceToGo

Hello, Wackymacs, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. An article you recently created, FinanceToGo, has been tagged for speedy deletion because its content is clearly written to promote a company, product, or service. This article may have been deleted by the time you see this message. Please keep in mind that Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, not an advertising service. Thank you. Calton | Talk 22:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure why I deleted this article, either, since I didn't delete this article, being, you know, not an admin, as it explicitly says at the very top of my user page.

And a product just released -- what, less than a week ago? -- with an article telling about all its fine features? Sounds like an advert to me. --Calton | Talk 07:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

In fact, in looking at the deletion log, I see it's been deleted TWICE over the last few days. It doesn't look like your problem is with me. --Calton | Talk 07:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Guy, what part of "I did not delete your page or article" escapes you? What portion of "it's been deleted TWICE" by two different admins was unclear? What aspect of "It doesn't look like your problem is with me" has escaped your attention?

I'm not even the developer. Since I didn't bring up, I fail to see how it's relevant. --Calton | Talk 07:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

You're suggesting something saying that I have added it so soon after its release - however I fail to see anything wrong with that.

Other than having zero time to establish notability worthy of an encyclopedia article, no not really.

You're still not giving me reasons for its deletion.

For the THIRD time, I did not delete your page or article. For the THIRD time, two different admins -- actual admins -- have chosen to delete it twice already. For the THIRD time, your problem is NOT with me. What part of any of this are you having trouble understanding? --Calton | Talk 08:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

No need to shout

If you refuse to read plain English despite multiple attempts, there bloody well is. --Calton | Talk 08:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Even more to the point, given that I'm not an admin and therefore can't undelete a damned thing, what were you hoping to accomplish by badgering me? I notice that you haven't bothered contacting either of the two admins who've deleted this thing: why not? No, on second thought, don't bother answering. --Calton | Talk 08:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

The day I accept advice from you will be the day you stop being childish. That is to say, not today. Meantime, I notice, again, that in the last nine hours you have completely failed to actually contact the actual admins who actually deleted your so-called not-spam article, who could actually tell you why they deleted it and actually do something about it if so persuaded. Is there a reason to continually badger me as opposed to actually doing something actually productive, or are you waiting for the right phase of the moon? --Calton | Talk 17:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Rajkumar Kanagasingam

Hi Wackymacs. I've been tracking down overly promotional addition of external links to articles by Kanagasingam. I see you created an article about him back on 2006-09-23 that currently reads like a link farm (which is not how you created it). The only links I've found related to Kanagasingam seem to be written by him. I'm trying to find out why he might be suitable for an article in Misplaced Pages and was wondering if you had more information on him. Thanks. --Siobhan Hansa 20:38, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. I'll try some clean up tags first... --Siobhan Hansa 20:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Rajkumar Kanagasingam

Though the Rajkumar Kanagasingam was posted by me to the wikipedia originally but wrongly as a newbie (and still feel so), it was actually created by Wackymacs and subsequently shaped by others , , , and .

After they all have given notability for Rajkumar Kanagasingam only, I started to shape the Rajkumar Kanagasingam.

The Daily News of Sri Lanka is a Sri Lanka's National Newspaper since 1918 and the widest read newspaper in Sri Lanka and overseas.

Rajkumar Kanagasingam has published articles over the years and the following articles , , and are available online since 2002.

Though the articles have been written by the subject Rajkumar Kanagasingam, the facts he has mentioned in those articles might have well accepted by the populace without any complaint before he published the next article over the years and might have established some credibility within the Editorial circle as well.

I wonder why those articles can't be considered as Reference for Rajkumar Kanagasingam.

The Press Release in Daily News could speak for Rajkumar Kanagasingam's association with leading Sri Lankan and international personalities and adding notability for Rajkumar Kanagasingam.

The US State Department's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatements "Safe Passage" Newsletter carried a news on "Night of A Thousand Dinners" which was organised jointly by Asian-German Sports Exchange Program and PDIP, A Think Tank which was founded by Rajkumar Kanagasingam.

As the PDIP's Secretary-General, his activities in the available publications (on-line) will speak for his achievements.

All of his above attempts are substantial enough for a fair testimony for his notability among Sri Lankans and gives weight of his book German Memories in Asia which is about-to-be-released.

Ezine Articles may be "Vanity Press" but the contents in most of the articles by Rajkumar Kanagasingam are falling in the lines of well-researched and well-documented articles than those of mere Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ones.

After all his Ezine Articles are linking to his Book/Author Info. Page in AGSEP, which is an NGO and not to his personal or affiliated sites with ulterior motives of Ad Sense and click-gimmicks. As an author he is trying his fair attempt for his book without any hidden baits.

Some of the linkings might be Link Farms as I am a newbie of mere three months, but you should consider few of the internationally prominent people I have so far created and those have been left out in the wikipedia so far, especially Dr. Gamani Corea and others.

I have spent lot of my time to keep Dominic Jeeva from deletion with rest of my creations Arumaipperumal and Pandara Vannian which are not falling into the Link Farms.

The Internet is introduced after the mid nineties and still most of the news items are not falling into the web-world. By expecting reference for testing a person's notability with on-line reference materials might be some times misleading where the particular persons' references are mostly in off-line media archives.

Internet is mostly weighing a person's prominence based on the Internet availability in English and few other languages and not in all other world or local languages.

I don't have any objections if suitable and appropriate deleting Rajkumar Kanagasingam from wikipedia, but my kind expectation is at least wikipedia should attempt to have a survey among Sri Lankans through its available means whether Rajkumar Kanagasingam is prominent enough or not among Sri Lankans.

User:Rajsingam 2 December 2006