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Rajmaan ( talk) 06:21, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Dear Phil. Please help. I need your brain.
I started Nanhai Pearl Artificial Island based on this which has a clear photo of what I will call "peanut island". It is located here just off Evergreen Park. It doesn't show on that old FlashEarth map, but http://ditu.baidu.com/ has it. There is also this source that shows a peanut-shaped island.
Now, there is a second island under construction off Holiday Beach. It is listed at the bottom of List of islands of Hainan as "Unidentified artificial island". It is approximately here. I went there yesterday and the engineer man at the foot of the new bridge there said it is called "Nanhai Pearl Artificial Island". I could see a huge HNA sign on the island itself.
Unhelpful are two other refs I added to the peanut article: [1] and [2]. They show a round island and the coords they cite are completely wrong. Also, peanut island construction has been abandoned since the typhoon a couple of years back so there is nobody to ask there.
Would you please consider doing a bit of clicking and reading to shed some light? I am mystified.
See also:
So, again, the complications: Two sources with wrong coords and two sources (one of which is a govt source) with wrong photos. Geez louise.
The best plan I can think of for now would be to usurp the article to make it become about the big, round HNA island, and keep the current content on my computer till I find the right name and a home for it back at Wikipedia.
Many many thanks for any help you can offer. A good choice would be to say, no thanks to this one. :)
Anna Frodesiak (
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07:12, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed you renamed the Braathens Regional article into BRA Braathens Regional Airlines. I am afraid this is not correct. When Malmö Aviation and Sverigeflyg combined their networks on 29 February 2016 to form BRA Braathens Regional Airlines the following happened:
- The brand Sverigeflyg, which was just a virtual airline without any aircraft of its own, ceased to exist - A new virtual airline, BRA Braathens Regional Airlines, was created, again with no owned aircraft - Malmö Aviation was renamed Braathens Regional Aviation, ceasing its own network and now flying ACMI for BRA Braathens Regional Airlines - Braathens Regional, the ACMI provider for Sverigeflyg, was renamed Braathens Regional Airways.
So on that day this line-up:
- Sverigeflyg - Malmö Aviation - Braathens Regional
became:
- BRA Braathens Regional Airlines (not the succesor of Sverigeflyg) - Braathens Regional Aviation - Braathens Regional Airways
Hence your transformation of the original Braathens Regional article to BRA Braathens Regional Airlines is not correct. Instead it should have been renamed Braathens Regional Airways with much of the information staying the same. Then a new article for BRA Braathens Regional Airlines needs to be created. I have already transformed the Malmö Aviation article into Braathens Regional Aviation.
Confusing I know, but I hope I explained it well enough.
Best regards,
Max — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaxG.P.Hol ( talk • contribs) 08:57, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Phil, first of all thanks for closing the discussion at Talk:A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(play)#Requested_move_18_April_2016 and performing the move, but I think there may be some unfinished buisness. You moved A Streetcar Named Desire and its talk page to A Streetcar Named Desire (disambiguation), and you subsequently moved A Streetcar Named Desire (play) to A Streetcar Named Desire per consensus. However, the talk page for A Streetcar Named Desire (play) is still at Talk:A Streetcar Named Desire (play) and probably should be moved to Talk:A Streetcar Named Desire. Is this an oversight or is there some reason for not moving the talk page as well? Betty Logan ( talk) 09:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
re: [5]. - Please review the tags of the article ( Azimo) you moved from draft space. Staszek Lem ( talk) 22:49, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, it's been a while since I had to make a c/e requests from you, hope it's ok. This one is a bit odd since it's not for an article that I started. The article is Sydney punchbowls. I first came in contact with it while I was working on my SOIC stuff, later I learned that it is now a GAN. Now, the editor who nominated it have not done any edits on it and the original writer has only made this one article and hasn't been active here in a while but is apparently willing to assist with facts. The article is sort of next in line at the GAN and since a review can happen at any time now I got in touch with the GAN nominator and fixed up the article as much as I could. Since the whole nomination is a bit unusual, it would be great to smooth out as much as possible for an easier review. Most of the article is written by an Australian librarian so not so much a problem with the language as with proper encyclopedic style and so on. Do you think you could lend us a hand and do a c/e for the article? Cheers, w.carter -Talk 19:16, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey thanks a ton for those moves. I know it's tedious as hell, and there are so many funner things you could be doing. Sadly, we're far from done, and the plan is to slow down a bit to avoid becoming a nuisance (the issue is politically charged). Might as well keep the subheading even when it's empty, so we don't have to remember to re-add it when we're ready for more. I'd call it "WP:JR moves" rather than "Jr/Sr moves". ― Mandruss ☎ 06:07, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Also, Phil, a question about admins and moves. Why are so few admins willing to help close RM discussions? For example, at Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Backlog you see Talk:Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.#Requested_move_6_April_2016 stuck at the bottom, 5 weeks old. It's not that complicated. I know you do plenty of service for moves, but how does one provoke more work out of other admins? Or what is keeping them from jumping in? Dicklyon ( talk) 15:17, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that you moved Egyptian Revolution of 1919, Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and Egyptian Revolution of 2011. I would like to request a reversion until a discussion settles the titles. While historical events aren't necessarily capitalized, they can be once established. For example, Egyptian Revolution of 2011 was located at 2011 Egyptian revolution until July 7, 2013. Thanks. -- Article editor ( talk) 05:22, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
...would it be a breach of etiquette to ask what (if any) software you utilised? Apologies in advance if it is an industrial secret! All the best, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 15:09, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Just finished another of the Gotlandic treasure articles, Havor hoard. I'm a bit at a loss about how, or indeed if, I should link it with the sv-wiki. The hoard itself is just a section in the article about the location sv:Havor but the torc from the hoard sv:Havorringen has its own article which doesn't mention the hoard at all. Lost! Further: Is it possible to "loop-hole" the rules about non-free pics here? The torc is stolen and gone since 1986 and no free pics of it can be found and non can be taken as long as it's gone. There are two copies of it in two museums and they can be photographed, but they are not the "real" thing. Taking all this into account, is it possible to use one of the museum pics under the fair use criteria? When I wrote Lesedi La Rona I used a fair use pic under similar circumstances and no one has objected yet (and that article was ITN and thus very well scrutinized). Also, would you mind doing a small c/e on the article as well? Please. :) Grateful for your help as usual, w.carter -Talk 21:34, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi
Makes me not happy what you did 17th October 2015. Removing homologation from my List title destroying the sense. My intention was to show that already solar cars are driving on public streets
Can you please remove your change to something similar like I had the title before with /info/en/?search=List_of_solar_cars_(with_homologation) ?
Greetings
Alexander — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexander Nitica ( talk • contribs) 19:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
In January this year, a new subdivision of Sweden came into effect. All the sockens as well as some other areas are now districts. <sigh!> A change so silent and unnoticed that the first I heard of it was when I noticed that the Gotland categories on Commons had new names. No info for the people, oh no... Anyway, all the Gotland articles have to be adjusted accordingly. And while I'm doing that, I'm trying to clean up some of the messes I find along the way. Most of it I'm fairly certain I can handle, I'm even finding more asteroids (still!) if you remember from my newbie-days: Seach for a place on Gotland – end up in the asteroid belt. But there are also a number of disambiguations that need to be resolved, and since I totally botched it the last time I tried, it might be best if I asked you for advice and some help as I encounter them. If that's ok with you.
First up is "Dalhem". There are Dalhem and Dalhem, Gotland. The Belgium place is larger so I guess it's ok for that one to be the primary topic, but the top of that article looks a bit messy now with all the hat notes, should this be done a different way? Should a disamb page be created instead?
Second is "Tofta". There are Tofta, Tofta, Gotland, Tofta, Varberg Municipality and Tofta Leikvøllur. The last one is only a redirect, but still. The first article created was Tofta so it got the short name, but it is also the least significant of the places. IMO Tofta, Gotland with an international endure race, world renowned beach and military facilities, should be primary and Tofta moved to Tofta, Adelsö (That's the best description since if corresponds with sv-wiki and Tofta manor would be this place). Or should "Tofta" be a disamb page since there are several types of subjects with "Tofta"? Like Bro. Be advised there are many more Swedish Tofta's waiting in the wings should someone feel inclined to translate any of those. Come to think of it, same goes for Dalhem... Hmm.
There will be more, but let's start with these. I can probably use them as "templates" for the following messes. Best, w.carter -Talk 15:21, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
The !voting at Talk:Tofta is ongoing. Seems like they agree with me. When/If the voting is done after a week or so, can I move Tofta myself to Tofta, Adelsö and set up "Tofta" as a DAB page, or should I request this in a more official way or must an admin do this?
Next problem. Before they made a new interface et al with Wikidata, I had no problem correcting wrong links, now I'm totally lost! I accidentally linked
Kräklingbo to
sv:Kräklingbo when it should have been linked to
sv:Kräklingbo socken. Do you know how to fix this and can you help me with it?
All these places have had different designations as they grew and bureaucracy changed how they should be defined, while keeping the same name all the time. It goes sort of like this: settlement/ Ting → church village → socken → parish and county municipality → (and now) district. So you get perfectly valid descriptions for places like this one: Kräklingbo (church village) formerly of Kräklingbo (ting) in Kräklingbo (socken) previously Kräklingbo (parish) and Kräklingbo (county municipality) now Kräklingbo (district). (Is your head spinning yet?) The sv-wiki has an article for each of these stages (no wonder they now sport +3M articles...) but I try to contain it all in one article and link that one to the "socken" part per WP:COMMONNAME since that is the most used and also where most of the info is. The articles for the new districts are in effect just redirects to the old socken-articles. All these changes are a plague on us dealing with Swe geography articles. I have nothing but the highest admiration for the poor sod who has so far made 335(!) regional maps for all the new districts. w.carter -Talk 17:11, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
I was asked by the reviewer to write a Sydney punchbowls#Background section. This is now done, but there are some places where I just can't get the text to flow as elegantly as I would like to. Do you think you could take a look at that new section and see if you can do something about it? It also contains something called the 'Country Trade', all new to me but you may have heard of it. It is not mentioned any place else (that I can find) in the usual articles about the East India trade. Only in the Austrian East India Company#Colonisation of Delagoa Bay. Always interesting to learn about new angles. Apparently there is also a curry dish involved. (!) Will get on fixing the lead tomorrow. Also per request. I may get back to you on that. Night night! w.carter -Talk 20:42, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello Phil! Can you tell me if there are deleted edits under William Latimer? The article is about a living epidemiologist, but the disambiguation page at William Latimer (disambiguation), most of the incoming links, and the other language Wikipedias are looking for a clergyman and scholar that lived from the 1460s to 1545. - Niceguyedc Go Huskies!
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Sinosphere(redirect). Since you had some involvement with the Sinosphere(redirect) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Stefan2 ( talk) 23:53, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, you moved the page Khalifa (album), but there is no article anymore, it somehow redirects to itself. Can you fix that? Thanks. © Tbhotch ™ ( en-2.5). 13:34, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Well, I got me this here brand new article in my sandbox and now that it's ready to inflict on the ol' WP, I don't know what to call it. I'm stuck! Do you think you could help me out, please? w.carter -Talk 10:56, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
I have just removed speclucation and unsourced information from Leroy Homer's page and replaced it with more realible sources, particully from his wife. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.99.28 ( talk) 11:20, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Basically, I am modifying the section about Homer's fate when United 93 was hijacked. The original article contains unsourced or unreliable facts on Homer's actions that day, while the people who use these keep ignoring all the more reliable evidence from observations- including the testimony of Homer's wife Melodie, not one of the thousands of far-fetched accounts given by some people- that Homer was the person who shouted "mayday" on the cockpit voice recorder, and possibly was even alive after the hijacking (notice: I say possibly, and indeed I wrote in the article that Homer's actions are just what his wife believes, while these people use speculation and fictional books as facts).
Just curious, would you have accepted as uncontroversial moves of the remaining dozen or so in Category:Arab League summits to upper case Summit? Naraht ( talk) 13:57, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Naraht:. My advice is to post a multiple move request as explained here with a suitable rationale. I'll certainly be happy to !vote support but I won't do the moves as I am arguably now involved. Best, Philg88 ♦ talk 14:41, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hey can you help me create two kits for my football team? — Preceding unsigned comment added by UTA ARAD 1945 ( talk • contribs) 12:43, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
A user is calling an RS source's views as "fringe", POV and claiming it can't be added to the article because nobody else talks about it. Talk:Ürümqi#Demographics Then is borderline attempt at trolling occurred, with the user suggesting to reverse the entire POV of the original source. I need third party arbitration to discuss the source and its views. Rajmaan ( talk) 16:35, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hallo. You moved 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis to 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis. Please, move the talk page too. Thanks. Christian75 ( talk) 08:27, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello @ Philg88:, maybe my english is not perfect to understand this phrase correctly: Montreal (Listeni/ˌmʌntriːˈɒl/);[11] (pronounced: [mɔ̃ʁeal] ( listen)) officially Montréal in both Canadian English and French, ... [citation needed] I did this.
This part I read - die offiziele (richtige) Schreibweise für Montreal ist Montréal in both Canadian English and French. Is my interpretation Ok or wrong? I am asking because of a chance in wp:de. The new text: ... offizieller Name ist auch auf Englisch "Montréal" Quelle: englisches Lemma). Best.--
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Hello. Good morning. I hope that you arew doing fine. You have to help me. Long back, I had created a new page named Kunwar Singh in 2005. I find that it was deleted to make way for another similar page name of the same person. I request you to restore the deleted page and merge both the pages to preserve history of the page - to ensure fair dealings. I do not know How it can be done. You may move the presently existing page to Babu Kunwar Singh and then restore the old page as Kunwar Singh and then merge both the pages as Kunwar Singh. Thank you. I am giving the links: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Undelete&target=Kunwar_Singh
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Kunwar_Singh&dir=prev&action=history
-- Bhadani ( talk) 03:00, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I was in the process of writing a Wikipedia article on George Lakey, one of, if not the, main creators of modern non-violent action theory and practice when I noticed that there had already been an article on him that had been taken down. The given reason for the removal was that it did "not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant". [1] /info/en/?search=User:Mgifford/George_Lakey
This seems odd to me, given that he is very well known in the peace and resistance movements. In fact a book trying to discredit non-violent politics, "Critique of Nonviolent Politics From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement" by Howard Ryan [2] mentions George Lakey nine times in the first 40 pages.
His notability is clear to me and I hope now to you. The text of the original with its references could be of great value to me in creating a new article worthy of both George Lakey and Wikipedia, so I am requesting the original George Lakey article text. Alternatively if you consider it appropriate or, perhaps you could reinstate the original.
Thank you so much for your attention. David Blake — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidsBlake ( talk • contribs) 18:40, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Philg88, If it has no references, it is probably not of much use to me. Thank you so much for looking into this, and I suspect with references a George Lakey story will be a fine addition to Wikipedia. Thanks again David Blake — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidsBlake ( talk • contribs) 15:15, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Philg88, I have never talked with you but I've heard that you can redirect accounts (Including the contributions), the problem is that I lost my old account and I need your help, please. -- Bleckter23 ( talk) 23:08, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Sorry for the edit conflict, I think we attempted the move of Earl Washington Jr. right at the same moment! Rechecked and it appears to be good now. -- Dane talk 23:06, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Phil, when renaming Telepathy (song) and John Wayne (song), you forgot to move their talk pages to "Talk:Telepathy (song)" and "Talk:John Wayne (song)" respectively. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 22:43, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Hello Philg88, in en.wp is an article about Martin Krampen. A new part of his work is writen - but nothing about this you can find in the German WP article. The new name is : Phytosemiotics , also a new category.
I don't know? but the intro to the text bei Krampen. best.-- Maxim Pouska ( talk) 14:40, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. I came across your name in the list of 'Copyeditors' willing to lend a hand: could you please have a look over the Paris article? Thank you! THEPROMENADER ✎ ✓ 08:10, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you have contributed much to the article Loharu. I have recently discussed merging that article and the article Loharu fort, for reasons you can find here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Loharu#Merger_Proposal. It would be helpful if you could discuss this with other frequent contributors to Loharu and Loharu fort. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZachAttrax ( talk • contribs) 22:48, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Hrdap ( talk) 08:50, 27 April 2017 (UTC)Hi Philg88. For about two years ago you helped with guidance in the article "Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR)" that I was then creating [6]. May I bother you with yet another consultation: About two weeks or so, around an investigative report of SWEDHR doctors on malpractice shown in a 'White Helmets' video (the report was wide-spread in media and eventually cited in the UN Security Council session of April 12, 2017 by the Syrian ambassador), one user proposed the SWEDHR article for deletion based on poor 'notability' and also claiming that Swedish Doctors for Human Rights would be just "Russian propaganda". But administrator decided Keep. As a result of this Keep-decision, the users proceeded to redo the entirely SWEDHR article and at the same time asked for the deletion of the bio article about the SWEDHR founder [7]. My consultation is: a) As the creator of the SWEDHR page, am I inhibited to vote in the discussion on the SWEDHR founder, (or to do edits in that article)? One user wonders if it is a conflict of interest, and honestly, I do not know. b) Am I inhibited to do edits in the SWEDHR article because I was the creator of the article? The deletion-discussion is found here: [8] Kind regards, User Hrdap.
I thank you kindly. Hrdap ( talk) 11:31, 27 April 2017 (UTC)