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Version 1 page

• Hi Anthony, you left a page at Varieties of Arabic/version 1; I can't figure out whether you meant to delete it after sorting out some page history issues. See http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Varieties_of_Arabic/version_1&action=history - Fayenatic (talk) 18:44, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
• For its history, see http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Varieties_of_Arabic/version_1&action=history . Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:27, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

File:Aa Jegere i vann 24159a.jpg

• Hi, you copied this one from no.wiki - it's been deleted there, but as I don't read Norwegian, I've no idea why. You might want to update your summary.  Ronhjones  22:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
• I have added information to the file. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:32, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Can you pls undelete Category:Internet in Cyprus

• Hello Anthony
  • I believe you have deleted several months ago the Category:Internet in Cyprus because it was empty. Since now it has 4 elements, would you be able to re-create it? Cyprus is the only country missing from the Category:Internet by country Maryafrika (talk) 11:51, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:29, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Manchester wikimeets

• Hi Anthony. I've set up a standing page for the Manchester wikimeets at meta:Meetup/Manchester - next one will be on 17 September if you're interested in coming (please sign up!). I'm also setting up a list of people that want to receive notices about the meets, which might also be of interest. How did the photos from last month's meet come out? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:21, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
• Images added: see Misplaced Pages:Meetup/Manchester 8. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:31, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Completely new abortion proposal and mediation

In light of the seemingly endless disputes over their respective titles, a neutral mediator has crafted a proposal to rename the two major abortion articles (pro-life/anti-abortion movement, and pro-choice/abortion rights movement) to completely new names. The idea, which is located here, is currently open for opinions. As you have been a contributor in the past to at least one of the articles, your thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

The hope is that, if a consensus can be reached on the article titles, the energy that has been spent debating the titles of the articles here and here can be better spent giving both articles some much needed improvement to their content. Please take some time to read the proposal and weigh in on the matter. Even if your opinion is simple indifference, that opinion would be valuable to have posted.

To avoid accusations that this posting violates WP:CANVASS, this posting is being made to every non-anon editor who has edited either page since 1 July 2010, irrespective of possible previous participation at the mediation page. HuskyHuskie (talk) 19:46, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Page move

• How exactly is the moving of Circuit de la Sarthe to Circuit des 24 Heures not controversial? Talk:Circuit des 24 Heures#Name of the track seems to quite clearly show there was still ongoing discussion without any clear consensus, with reliable referencing for both names. Nor was the fact that this was posted on WP:Requested Move ever mentioned in this discussion. The5₉ (Talk) 06:22, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
• I have reverted this move and put a discussed-move header on the discussion. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:07, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Hmm

Might be policy to move to an article's talk page, but since the article (Dream With Me) has extremely little in terms of editorship, I'm not sure if it'll get much - if any - discussion except maybe one or two people. CycloneGU (talk) 06:36, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Ketogenic diet

Anthony,

Please stop adding a section on the Inuit diet to the ketogenic diet article. This article is about a medical nutrition therapy, not about low carb, high protein diets that are ketogenic. See low-carbohydrate diet. I'd expect an administrator to know better than adding unsourced sections to an FA. Note also that WP:WEIGHT requires us to show that reliable sources discuss the Inuit diet when they are discussing this medical therapy in detail. They don't. Colin° 13:13, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Freddy

• The actual film says "Part 2". The poster did not include this in the title, but the actual film says "Part 2" and that is what we go by when naming articles. That's also what the copyright is.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 13:42, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
• This seems to refer to A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:35, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
• Yes, I saw your recent move of the page where you took it from "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2" to "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2". The film itself actually says "Part 2". So, the original page name was correct.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 18:10, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
• I have put in a discussed move back. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:21, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Boom Boom

• I request a history undeletion of Boom Boom. SNS (talk) 00:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
• The deleted edits of Boom Boom are not part of the history of the present Boom Boom disambig page but an old page deleted at 19:53, 4 April 2005 by AfD Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Boom Boom: "Boom Boom is a koopa-like monster from Super Mario Bros. 3. This monster was found in every fortress of every world. And a few levels besides fortresses contained them too; but they were in World 8. Mario must step on Boom Boom 3 times to win the fortress, the first of which is worth 1000 points, the second 2000, and the third 4000. In worlds 3 and later, he can fly between the first and second steps. Boom Boom's were supposed to be part of Bowser's army. Boom Boom also guarded the navy, air force and tank squad from World 8. ]". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:15, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Hyper engine

• I have edited out many, if not all, of the material commented upon on the article's talk page. It would now be quite easy to transfer the remaining sections into the existing Hyper engine article. I was quite concerned about the major rework necessary to revise the existing article with what material I thought was needed to revive it, but I am now confident, with the consensus of all concerned, that I can manage that task. Would you please, when you find a moment, take a look at my edits and leave your comments? Regards, Buster40004 Talk 16:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
• Hyper engine; User:Buster40004/Sandbox/Projects/Hiper engine/Hyper engine. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Black-headed Gull

Hi, Anthony. Unfortunately the move is not uncontroversial. The bird project fully capitalises all bird species, and this is accepted as an exception to the usual lc convention, including at WP:FAC. I've therefore moved the article back and undone the last editor's good faith changes. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:57, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Some more history undeletion requests

• I request history undeletions of Prey 2, Sonic Free Riders, & Pikmin 3 (& the talk page for the last one). SNS (talk) 05:34, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
• Prey 2:  Not done, as its only 2 deleted edits are a stub "The announced game sequel to prey. Please add more to this article." and the same plus a speedy-delete tag.
  • Sonic Free Riders:  Not done, as its only 2 deleted edits are a doodle "dfgdfgdfgdfgdfg" and the same plus a speedy-delete tag.
  • Pikmin 3 & its talk page:  Done. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:13, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Get 'Em Girls

• Hi, shouldn't Get 'Em Girls be moved back to Get 'em Girls because according to WP:CAPS, four letters or less should be in lower case. Ozurbanmusic (talk) 22:21, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Not done. Here, "'Em" is not a conjunction or a preposition or "to". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Error on a disambiguation page

• Hi Anthony, I hope you can help me. I've noticed that the disambiguation page for Peace Oil contains incorrect information. I'd amend it myself, but as I work for the charity that runs Peace Oil (UK), I thought I'd better check first. The page currently states that Peace Oil (UK) is marketed 'with the support of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain'. This is not true; we receive no such report. Perhaps the page could be amended to say something like 'Peace Oil (UK), a brand of olive oil marketed in the UK through the Charities Advisory Trust'. CAT2011 (talk) 10:51, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done; should "no such report" be "no such support"? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:59, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Query

• What was this about? --John (talk) 09:35, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
• See Talk:Thermal lance#Deleting section Appearances in fiction. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:05, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
  • I replied at article talk. I request that you not misuse the revert tool like this in the future, and that you notify me if you undo any more of my edits. Thanks, --John (talk) 10:42, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Problematic histmerge

• Hi Anthony, as you may (or may not) know, Lying down game was recently listed at WP:RM and after a week of discussion SilkTork closed the RM and moved the article to Planking (fad). Planking (fad) already had a history and had been text-merged into the Lying down game article on 31 May 2011. Instead of moving the original history of Planking (fad) to, say, Planking (fad)/version 2, SilkTork moved Lying down game over the Planking (fad) article and then undeleted the original history of Planking (fad), basically performing a histmerge on two articles that had parallel histories and should never have been histmerged. The history of the article from prior to 31 May is now an absolute mess, jumping between two different articles. Misplaced Pages:How to fix cut-and-paste moves#How to undo a history merge says that it is possible, just incredibly tedious, to undo a histmerge and, as I'm not an admin, I was wondering if you could please undo this histmerge or point me to another admin who would be able to? Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 17:05, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
• I can do it tomorrow. Here in England it is 11.33 pm and I need to go to bed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:33, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks very much. I appreciate it. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 07:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done, I think. The extracted edits are in Planking (fad)/version 2. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:53, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks again, Jenks24 (talk) 10:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Mario Super Sluggers

• I was looking at the history of Mario Super Sluggers & noticed it was originally made by a cut & paste of Super Mario Stadium Baseball. . SNS (talk) 01:00, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:04, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Populated places in India

As agreed on Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (India) the dab ", India" is phased out for individual articles. I moved all that I could, these need help:

• Dhabouli, India -> Dhabouli, Saharsa
• Hassan, India -> Hassan, Karnataka
• Karungulam, Tamil Nadu, India -> Karungulam, Tamil Nadu

There may be the need to create XXX/version 2 in some cases. FYI ", India" is currently only intended to be used for WP:SIA pages in Category:Set indices on populated places in India Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 03:10, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:20, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks a lot! Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 10:36, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Ox Tales for deletion

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

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ox Tales until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 04:05, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Xe/Blackwater

First, to address a little history, intra-editorially: You may have made my day with this: "Some sort of page is needed here", courtesy you, April 2011, Security Industry Association article created. I don't know if you remember my involvement in this re: "Security" v "Securities" industry associations tangle. I don't even remember a lot of it. But, for my part, before I found the new Security IA article in the process of writing this note tonight, my heart had sunk when I found that SIA was why your name sounded familiar. I'd come upon your name in this much bigger naming wrangle over at Xe/Blackwater.

Well, I did weigh in on Xe/Blackwater naming, here; then decided to write you. (It may not even be my first time on Xe. I've definitely been in that neighborhood in the past. That's why I went back there today, with the "move to DC" article.) To you:

In case blissfully somehow maybe you hadn't known that the Xe problem was never resolved (as I think it should be resolved), and even with the SIA in our past:

Maybe you'd like to take another look at Xe/Blackwater.

I didn't try to figure out what you'd gone through or where you stood back in '09 on Xe. I felt you were trying to move toward Xe.

Meanwhile, back to SIA. Yeh, your April creation is (still) just a stub. It had actually had little interest to me, as such (I had come at it from the Securities IA side (which had been misnamed Security IA, as I recall it)) and I was so frazzled after the go-rounds that I never figured out how to, or never tried to, do what you did in April. Maybe now I'll go back, build up the stub some just for old times' sake. Least I can do, right? But for now, Thank you! How could you possibly follow-up so nicely six months later? I have to wonder. It makes my head spin, given the obvious scale of your overall Wiki endeavor.

Aargh. ... Now I'm confused again, with this, April 2011, Securities Industry Association article ALSO then created by you? Wasn't there one with older roots? Wow. You had to do the SIA disambig., too, in April, from scratch re: these two, I guess. Well, frazzled I was. "Scorched earth" has now come to mind (with specific memories still blessedly minimal; does this mean there was no article by either name from Oct. to April? sort of looks that way; if you're interested, I think there was some more history on Securities Industry Association, under the Security IA name, if you wanted to & could dig it up). Well, ...

... anyway. Heartened at your willingness nay inclination (nay eagerness?) to wade back in to old tangles, I (sorry, sort of frazzled again,) hereby post this (as, hopefully, something better than nothing).

Cheers. Swliv (talk) 02:44, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

• Page Securities Industry Association has a deleted history of 8 edits.
  • Page Security Industry Association has a deleted history of 16 edits; see Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Security Industry Association.
  • Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Thanks. I can't say which article ended up with which content, but I expect most of both applies to the merged/defunct organization called the Securities Industry Association. My recollection is that there was little ever done about the actual Security Industry Association, though I may be wrong.

  If you can and would give me access to those two deleted articles I would sift through them and propose, or edit in, what seems still useful. As I said yesterday, on the new Security Industry Association article, I have a bit of a feeling for it now and may try to build it from available outside, new material.

  For what it's worth, I did collect a couple of endorsements to my Xe comment at the Blackwater talk page.

  Thanks again. Swliv (talk) 20:10, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

• In User talk:Swliv. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• One more spin-off of this initiative (and thank you much for helping with Xe):

  Talk:International Peace Operations Association#Name change, updates outlines the need for another name change. As I say there, I've done a major and hopefully adequate update of the article in preparation for the change.

  If there's a way to pursue this type of request other than one-to-one, you can let me know. Maybe I could work it out from the Xe process. But if you're willing to take this one on, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again. Swliv (talk) 04:51, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

• Best put in an ordinary discussed-type page move request to move International Peace Operations Association to International Stability Operations Association. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

• I managed to do it, it seems cleanly. Any comments welcome. More comments or no, thanks for your help. Swliv (talk) 19:08, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

History Undeletion Requests

• I request history undeletions of Kremling, Kremlings, Bond 23, & Tom Nook (as well as their talk pages). Also the talk page for Aquapod (bottle) (if I recall correctly that had the correct templates for the article, so I don't get why it was deleted). SNS (talk) 03:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Bond 23 & Tom Nook & Talk:Aquapod (bottle).  Not done Kremling & Kremlings, as they were deleted by AfD and they have had no history after that except a redirect each; see Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Kremling & Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Kremlings. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:41, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Circumcision controversy in early Christianity

Please revert an undiscussed move on what is a pretty tightly focused article here:

. . Ewawer (talk | contribs) moved Circumcision controversy in early Christianity to Circumcision in Christianity (To open the article to a more general discussion of circumcision in Christianity)

Religious_circumcision#In_Christianity has a good deal on the wider topic, & is where the wider title should redirect, or what a new article should be based on.

Thanks, Johnbod (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:07, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks! Johnbod (talk) 16:28, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Another incorrect histmerge

• Hi Anthony, I'm hoping you could take a look at User talk:Fastily#Rihanna - Cheers (Drink to That) and the Cheers (Drink to That) article. Fastily has performed an incorrect histmerge between a user's sandbox and the actual article when they had parallel histories. So I'm wondering if you could reverse the histmerge as you did at the planking article. I would suspect this one should be easier as there are less than 50 revisions and, basically, every edit by Calvin999 is one of the histories and every edit not by him is the other history. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done: Cheers (Drink to That) and Cheers (Drink to That)/version 2. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:24, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
• Thanks! Jenks24 (talk) 02:12, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the page move

Hi Anthony - thanks for fixing Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia... (the darn word has too many t's for my liking! and typing skills ---Shirt58 (talk) 08:55, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Moorland Closed (HM Prison) requested move

• Hello Anthony. This move discussion is a 1:1 tie between you and User:Bleaney so I was thinking of closing it as No Consensus to move. But instead, I'll try to persuade you that the move is a good idea :-). If you go into justice.gov.uk and you find this page, which contains no reference to 'Moorland Closed.' It's just plain old Moorland Prison. So in our terminology, Moorland (HM Prison) is the natural name for the article. Now we could still keep the present DAB page, Moorland Prison, but the two entries would send the reader to the new names of the two prisons. What do you think? EdJohnston (talk) 02:55, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:15, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Chuggington

I've reverted your strange reversion - explanation on the talk page. a_man_alone (talk) 07:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi

• Could you merge my sandbox of Rihanna's California King Bed into the actual article here please? As well as the history of my sandbox so that the actual article has a record of the edits i have done. Thanks :) Calvin • 14:10, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• Regrettably, pages User:Calvin999/Sandbox6 and California King Bed have WP:Parallel histories, and thus a full history-merge cannot be done. User:Calvin999/Sandbox6 runs from 17:59, 23 July 2011 to 14:02, 30 July 2011; California King Bed runs from April 2011 or earlier to 23:04, 29 July 2011. While you were editing User:Calvin999/Sandbox6, people were still editing California King Bed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:46, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• What's the solution then? Calvin • 15:44, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• Make a note in Talk:California King Bed to say what happened. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:52, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• So you're suggesting I copy and paste my sandbox into the article then? Calvin • 15:56, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• Did your sandbox start as a copy of California King Bed? Your sandbox's first edit at 17:59, 23 July 2011 has 27,892 bytes, but the last previous edits of California King Bed at 17:55, 23 July 2011 has 28,106 bytes. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:02, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• Yeah I copied and pasted the current article into my sandbox, then made edits to the sandbox version. I haven't made an improvements or constructive edits to the actual article, only to my sandbox. Calvin • 16:05, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• Your sandbox seems to have started as a copy of California King Bed at 17:55, 23 July 2011. I could history-split California King Bed and move its edits after that time to another name, and then move your sandbox's edit history in instead. But it would have been better for you to have edited page California King Bed directly instead. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
• Do whatever you can do so my sandbox version and it's history can be put into the actual article, just so that I am credited with those edits as I plan on proceeding with GAN. I know it's easier to directly edit the article, but it's harder when you try to make edits which are likely to get changed by someone else. Calvin • 16:13, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

  It's fine now, don't worry. Calvin • 17:59, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Lost - against consensus?

• Hi

  I just wondered if this page move was against consensus, as per the discussion here. I have no vested interest, rather was looking at someone's contribs and noticed it. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:56, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

• As it says, there was no concensus to move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:00, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that, though I was hoping for an opinion on the move :¬) I have relisted it anyway. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:19, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Forts, rivers and lakes in India

More common than "X fort" is "X Fort": http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?depth=3&categories=Forts+in+India&sortby=title

I moved ca. 10, but the following 7 I could not, because there was a target page, maybe you can help.

• Akola fort
• Chandragiri fort
• Karnala fort
• Kuchesar fort
• Laling fort
• Panhala fort
• Raigad fort

Same goes for rivers and lakes

• Adyar (River)
• Ghaggar-Hakra river
• Shivasagar lake

Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 10:38, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

• I have listed this move for discussion. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:26, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Wrong term Karşılama

How much more discuss, about a wrong term (Karşılama)? It should have been turned in English. Consensus is admissible... -Karbont (talk) 10:34, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Merging external sites into Wiki articles

Do yo know how to merge CC text from external websites into Wiki articles? Can you contribute anything on the topic at Wikipedia_talk:GLAM/ARKive#Edit_summaries? or any of the other discussions about merging CC text from the ARKive website, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL. Snowman (talk) 12:57, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Video games developed in Japan mediation follow up

Anthony- I followed up on the implementation of changes to {{Nihongo}} as a result of Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for mediation/Video games developed in Japan. I posted at Template talk:Nihongo#A suggested change to template Nihongo, but seem to have met with initial resistance. Given the touchy nature of what this is attached to, I was hoping you could help out in any way you can. Thanks for your time. (Guyinblack25 18:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC))

Formal mediation has been requested

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Before It Explodes/version 2

• I cannot figure out your reasons for this move. I hope I wasn't the cause by taking care off the move but forgetting to remove it from current requests, but can you explain why we would have a "version 2" of any page? Thanks.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
• If I had left those edits as deleted edits sitting under page Before It Explodes, it would have been liable to accidents if page Before It Explodes later had to be temporarily deleted: see WP:Parallel versions. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:41, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Assassin's Creed quick clarification

• Greetings Anthony! At Talk:Assassin's Creed (video game), were you meaning to say "and the existing Assassin's Creed to Assassin's Creed (series)"? Just thought I'd ask - cheers mate! Arbitrarily0  05:14, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:22, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Some Requests

• The earliest version of Resistance 2 is a page move to Resistance 2 : Rise of Man. After some more page moves, the edit history ended up in Resistance: Fall of Man Sequel. I request a merged back with Resistance 2. The earliest version of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is also a page move, in that case to Uncharted 2 (working title). I request a history undeletion & then merge. My other requests are for history undeletions of Resistance 3, Uncharted 2, Gears of War 2, & Gears of War 3. SNS (talk) 02:56, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Not done re Resistance 2. Apart from redirects: the last edit of Resistance: Fall of Man Sequel is before the first edit of Resistance 2, OK; but the last edit of Resistance: Fall of Man Sequel is very unlike the first edit of Resistance 2 and I do not see that they represent one continued edit history. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:56, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Done the 4 history-undeletes; Uncharted 2 had to be undeleted and then history-merged to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:17, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Move "Windows Phone 7" to "Windows Phone"

• We have reach consensus to move the Windows Phone 7 to its new name, Windows Phone. Because the "Windows Phone" article, which currently is a redirect, have major history, I am having difficulty performing this move. I have read the moving procedures but am still in need of assistance. Illegal Operation (talk) 05:38, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:48, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

are you still trolling?

• are you still trolling or are you finally going to do this http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Bing_(search_engine)#Requested_move 02:53, 7 August 2011 User:Theoneintraining
• As Talk:Bing (search engine)#Requested move shows, this move is disputed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:12, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
• no it's called a page move request, the only people disputing the move are NPOV trolls, if you want me to I will provide proff of all your bullshit to stop this move from happening, I remember what you said about a year ago. We know you love google and that's fine, your roll as a wikipedia admin is to put your differences aside.---- 08:51, 8 August 2011 User:182.239.207.90
• Trolls or not, I better wait until this move discussion has run its term. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Further corrections relating to Peace Oil (UK)

Hi Anthony, thank you for removing the false information in my request of 20th July, headed 'Error on a disambiguation page'. Yes, "no such report" should have been "no such support"; apologies for the typo. I have a further request: on the actual Peace Oil (UK) page, it states that "the oil was launched at an Israel Expo Day organised by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland". Dame Hilary Blume, the director of the Charities Advisory Trust, has told me that this is also untrue. There is no connection between Peace Oil (UK) and the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. Peace Oil was sold at a stall at the Israel Expo Day, just as it is sold through many other outlets, such as churches, synagogues and shops. However, the idea was launched at a reception at the House of Commons on 5th November 2001. The first batch went on sale in 2006. CAT2011 (talk) 15:31, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Boston English

• Tried to move Boston accent to Boston English. It failed because there is now a (rather useless) dab page. Can't quite figure out how to do away with the dab page. Of course, it will get reverted. I'll be the third to have tried it! Maybe after 50 attempts, they'll allow it!  :) Student7 (talk) 22:39, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
• See discussion at Talk:Boston accent#Requested move. I put in a hatlink about the school. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:00, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Request for mediation rejected

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SCBA

• Hi. I'm uncertain as to why you undid my grammar correction on the SCBA page. Could you comment? Thanks --Badger151 (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
• OK, OK, I have re-reverted it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

History Merge Requests

• I request a history undeletion of Spy Kids 4 & then merge with Spy Kids: All the Time in the World. I request a merge of Reboot Ralph with Wreck-It Ralph. SNS (talk) 01:59, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Spy Kids 4 (old deleted edits) to Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:28, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Not done Reboot Ralph to Wreck-It Ralph: Reboot Ralph's history is largely redirects, and what edits are text have no apparent edit continuity with the start of the history of Wreck-It Ralph. And the history of Reboot Ralph (2012 film) complicates matters. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Majority move for a page

• Really... there is a "majority to move, not just a "consensus to move" or "better arguments to move." I have lost move requests in the past with 65% of the votes saying to move... and now a two vote majority happens and you move the page? There's always something new surprising me at wikipedia. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:19, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
• It was in the backlog and so needed sorting out. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:09, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

  Backlog? Wasn't it up for only a week? Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:19, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

La Spirotechnique

• Hello, you old British diver. I completed and brought the proper official name at an article that you created. Please, could you bring any needed correction to Aqua Lung/La Spirotechnique? You did it for former contributions of mine... so I thought you could do it again... Just tell me, please, if there's any problem I'll ask somebody else. Best regards, from a diver to another. Kintaro (talk) 18:02, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:08, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! :) Kintaro (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Sophie Lefevre - what the heck?

• You moved a page where the talking consensus just a week ago was to keep at Sophie Lefevre. Instead you moved it as "uncontroversial." Please move it back because an error was made here. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:17, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
• As I researched it I see the request was for an "uncontroversial" move by Mayumashu. You were obviously just doing your job and I would guess that would be to assume the editor was asking for the move in good faith. That turns out not to be the case and he should be told as such after the page is moved back. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:30, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:51, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Uncharted

Uncharted started as a cut & paste of Uncharted (series) . SNS (talk) 02:43, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello Anthony Appleyard! I hope you accept this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 05:58, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Sydney New Year's Eve

Hey Anthony. Ages ago you changed the Sydney New Year's Eve article to "Sydney New Year's Eve Fireworks" for me but now I believe this is wrong and should be reverted back. The event currently features: Pre-Show Entertainment, Indigenous Smoking Ceremony, 9pm Family Fireworks, Harbour of Light Parade, Midnight Fireworks and more. AnimatedZebra (talk) 07:02, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Harmonielehre move

• Hello. I see you've made the move of Harmonielehre (John Adams) to Harmonielehre requested by User:Svick. I'm terribly sorry, but I was in the middle of trying to figure out how to contest this move (my first attempt at this, and the process isn't documented very clearly). The reason for doubting it is that Harmonielehre is also the title of a historically significany book by Arnold Schoenberg (the first listed at Arnold Schoenberg#Writings). Is there anything that can be done now? I would be willing to create the desired disambiguation page. --Stfg (talk) 14:07, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
• I have put a hatlink in page Harmonielehre. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
• Thank you. That's perfect. --Stfg (talk) 16:14, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Otis Redding histmerge

• hello,

  thank you for the histmerge. However, is it possible to remove the four last revisions and to restore the former history of Otis Redding?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{HeyI am dynamite} 09:24, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

• I am not sure if you understood me; there are four revisions at the end that should be removed. Also can you merge the history from Otis Redding/version 1 to Otis Redding?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{HeyI am dynamite} 09:38, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
• Your link to the history of Otis Redding was with an offset that made it list ignoring the last 50 edits, as caused by the "dir=prev" in its URL: "http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Otis_Redding&dir=prev&action=history": your "last 4 edits" are the 51st to 54th edits from last. And, pages Otis Redding and Otis Redding/version 1 have WP:Parallel histories and therefore the two cannot sensibly be history-merged. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:48, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
• "last" is ambivalent; what I meant are the very first (or last, doesn't matter) 3 (not 4, as histmerge doesn't go) revisions , and . Is it possible to remove a revision completely?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{HeyI am dynamite} 10:13, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
• If you mean the first (= bottom-most, oldest) edits of page Otis Redding, if they are part of the history of that page, they may as well stay there. They are not doing any harm, since there is no good reason to history-merge Otis Redding/version 1 in, as I explain hereinabove. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:41, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
• The problem is that the original old history of Otis Redding is not displaying. Explain to me why the former history is still displaying in List of channels on Zattoo, which you histmerged. Why didn't you do the same here?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{HeyI am dynamite} 13:13, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
• As far as I can see, the significant dates in the history of page Otis Redding are:
  • 1st edit: 16:54, 10 April 2011 GreatOrangePumpkin (3,416 bytes)
  • 5th edit, first major change of page size: 19:01, 1 August 2011 GreatOrangePumpkin (26,843 bytes)

  The history of page Otis Redding/version 1 starts at 19:25, 15 November 2002, and by August 2011 its size is running at about 24000 (± 800 or so) bytes. To me these 2 histories look separate. There may have been partial copy-and-pastings between them. I do not know if some edits relevant to Otis Redding are now (deleted or undeleted) in a third page that I do not know of. Otis Redding has one deleted edit (a redirect). Otis Redding/version 1 has no deleted edits. There are no deleted edits at User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Sandbox18. History-merging cannot cater for the results of merging the texts of 2 pages, or splitting a page into two pages, or starting a page which is a duplicate of another page which is not blanked but left for people to keep on editing it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:47, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

• Ok, I understood, you did the "troublesome case". Thanks for the explanation =). --♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{HeyI am dynamite} 14:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

WP:RM

You removed my request without it being done. I am still seeking for Noitamina to be moved back to NoitaminA.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 23:28, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

MOS:TM says, "Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official""—it should probably stay at Noitamina and be written as "Noitamina" in the text. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 23:44, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Well, nevermind that. Anthony moved the discussion here: Talk:Noitamina#Move.3F. Please follow that discussion if you are interested in moving this article. Thanks, ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 23:47, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

"Harry Potter and the ..."

• Hello. You reverted my edit on the Lord Voldemort page some time ago and explained that we should "use full names, for correct information". I want to tell you why I disagree with the revert. :)

  The writing in that paragraph is extremely tiresome, so much so that when I first saw it I just skipped to the end of it. Technically, the shortened titles are not the 'correct' ones, but prose is very important as well. I think that if we use "Harry Potter and the" only in the first entry in the list, and in all subsequent entries we use only the 'subtitle' everything should be perfectly clear (especially since the films have been mentioned before in the article).

  Also, we — when reading and writing that article — are under the "Harry Potter" context. We can take advantage of that and avoid necessary verbosity, whihc will make the article easier to read. -- Diego_pmc 10:04, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

• As this is the first time that each of the films is mentioned in this article, the full names should be given. Elegant variation can be confusing and is to be avoided. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:20, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

2011 England riots

Hello Anthony. There has been a history of edit warring over the infobox location details in 2011 England riots. To try to stabilise this, and raise another closely related issue, I've started a discussion topic here: Talk:2011 England riots#Location details, widespread pattern of arrests. Since you've made many contributions to the article, I'd be grateful if you would come and comment. Thanks. Rubywine . talk 01:27, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)

Just to let you know, I've reverted this page move, as I disagree that it's uncontroversial and have explained why on the articles talk page. The editor who proposed the move didn't post any notification of it on the article's talk page so I missed the request on the page move requests. Valenciano (talk) 07:36, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom Case: Abortion

You have been added to the list of parties for Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion as of September 1, 2011, as instructed by the Arbitration Committee. Although you are added after the case has already been opened for an amount of time, the arbitrators have instructed to give you a minimum of seven days to present evidence with regards to that case. If you require more time, please let me know.

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