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Hi, could you take a look at the work we've done on List of Veronica Mars episodes and let me know whether you think we've satisfied your requests? Cornucopia and I are actually having a slight disagreement about how much to put into the episode summaries, but we're both agreed to go with whatever think is an appropriate length. Thanks! Jclemens (talk) 23:14, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at Talk:List of Veronica Mars episodes to keep discussion centralised. Matthewedwards 23:50, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much. Jclemens (talk) 23:55, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, sorry about the template graphics in the responses. I won't do that again. Jclemens (talk) 00:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Matthewedwards 00:07, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your signature -

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I'm not sure if you have special permission or something or other, but I'd recommend that you read this page. ;) — Ceranthor  (Sing) 14:22, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Guess I gotta change it then! Matthewedwards 16:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to bother you. — Ceranthor  (Sing) 19:20, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 19:45, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do these hospitals meet any CSD criteria?

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I saw you in the recent changes, so I've come to ask your opinion on whether or not Columbia Asia Hospital - Taiping and Columbia Asia Medical Center - Puchong meet any of the CSD criteria. I declined the speedy on both articles because they were not promotional. If you have time, please comment at User talk:Cunard#Speedy delete of hospitals. Cheers, Cunard (talk) 05:26, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As the original nominator, I should mention that admin User:Tone speedily deleted very similar articles on hospitals in this group yesterday. Michellecrisp (talk) 05:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Commented at User talk:Cunard#Speedy delete of hospitals. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 05:40, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your detailed response! I've got another question. Do hospitals qualify under A7? Cunard (talk) 05:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think you'll have anyone question you if you do it as A7-company. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 05:50, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ha, but I'm not an admin and don't want to be one at this point! I'm a regular user without the tools who regularly plods through the SD category looking for mistagged articles or other articles that can possibly be salvaged. Thank you again for responses to my questions. Best, Cunard (talk) 06:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi
I just saw that you deleted The Welcome to the Circus Tour (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an article that I had bookmarked since I noticed it was using a Fair Use image improperly, and wanted to fix it. I notice that you deleted it as an A3 "no content" article, but I'm sure that it several paragraphs. I don't deny that it might need deleting per WP:NOTE and WP:CRYSTAL in the end anyway, but can you undelete it please since I know there was a non-A3 revision in the history somewhere?
Cheers, AmaltheaTalk 12:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at user's talk page. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 17:07, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I neither noticed the edit war nor that it contained the exact same content from the article. Why didn't you just protect it though, if it was an apparent content dispute? Deleting it as an A3 is still very wrong, no content dispute should be solved that way.
Cheers, AmaltheaTalk 19:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't deleted to solve a content dispute as there was no edit war. The content had been copied word-for-word to Circus (Britney Spears album) in this edit. When I deleted it, it was completely blank, as those who had redirected it had gone back and removed the redirect link. There was no content. The content that was there had been moved to another page. If you want the page back, it back it isn't salted. You can recreate it with a redirect, or whatever. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 00:29, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I only read the content dispute from the "last 13(!) edits were redirects". No contest at all then, and I didn't want to bother you, I was just surprised. :)
Thanks & Cheers, AmaltheaTalk 00:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
NP, regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 00:35, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Matthew, on the List of Walter A. Brown Trophy winners FLC, there is a discussion about the appropriate article name. You commented about this on the previous FLC, but I am requesting you to revisit the discussion. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:44, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 00:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marc-andre aucoin

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You removed the speedy delete tag from this page and replaced it with a {{notenglish}} tag. To be sure, the article is not written in English. But as a person with a passing familiarity with French, I can assure you that translation will NOT help this article. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I did. As CSD A2 is for "Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project." This didn't, so "If the article does not exist on another project, use the template {{notenglish}} instead". It has since been prodded, so I suspect it will be deleted anyway. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 00:32, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't propose deletion under CSD A2, but rather CSD A7 as the bio of a non-notable person. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 05:57, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but I didn't know if it truly is a non-notable person. By removing it and adding the {{notenglish}} template, someone can either (a) translate it, (b) move it to the French Wikipedia, or (c) leave it. If (a) happens and it is still not notable, it will be retagged anyway, if (b), it will get deleted, and if (c), it will get deleted. Tell you what though, after running it through Google Translate, I can endorse the prod if you want? Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 06:24, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You deleted Cathkin railway station, Victoria as a copyvio, which it was. If you could restore the article and replace the copyvio sentence with the following one (but keep the infobox and categories), I think the article will be fine.

'''Cathkin''' is a former railway station in [[Cathkin, Victoria|Cathkin]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]].

Many thanks. -- Eastmain (talk) 04:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, though I'm leaving the task of finding WP:Reliable sources to you, still. If not, it may be tagged again. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 06:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of VM episodes

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Hi there. User:Jclemens and I have been working on the list and we were wondering if you have any more comments to leave at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Veronica Mars episodes. Thanks, Corn.u.co.pia / Disc.us.sion 13:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I have translated this page and do not think it belongs on Wikipedia. I do agree that now looking back, I incorrectly tagged the page due to it not being in English. However if you translated it, you will see it appears to be nonsense(well actually some random story\bio?). How do you suggest to go about this situation? Afd? Thank you for your time, MatthewYeager 10:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted images

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hello, recently you speedy deleted 12 of my images as per Wikipedia:CSD#I11, for not showing evidence of their copyright status. but the copyright holder of the images emailed permissions-en@wikimedia.org which was what i was told to do on the warning tag on the images, but they still got deleted. can you please let me know what i was supposed to do? and if you can somehow 'undelete' them? and what i should do if other images i have uploaded are tagged? here is a list of images you deleted:

Thanks. Pouya sh (talk) 15:04, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. The Image pages had not been updated with the information. Please let me look into this, and I'll see what I can find. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 15:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I've looked into the images, and I'm a little hesitant to undelete them all at the moment. From what I understand, they are either screenshots of movies directed by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh, photographs of Mahmoud, or photos of other things. In the email you sent, you say you are "the owner of the (...) images and (...) have given permission for them to be used freely and according to the copyright tags on the images". It appear from various references in the articles about Mahmoud's films that Pouya Shoolizadeh is Mahmoud's child, and that given your screenname is Pouya sh, that person is you. Therefore, I am happy to WP:Assume good faith that you are the owner of the photos of Mahmoud, and I will restore those image, but not the screenshots of Mahmoud's films. Mahmoud, as the films' director, is the copyright owner, and he would have to give permission for their free use. Alternatively, they can be used as Fair use images, and given a detailed WP:Fair use rationale for their inclusion on the articles. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 08:36, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'll do this tomorrow (it's 1:00am my time and I'm going to bed). Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 08:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your cooperation. yes you are correct in assuming that he is my father. Regarding the films screenshots, he is the owner, and it was him that sent that e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org giving permission for their use on wikipedia. He sent that email because I notified him that he needs to do it as the administrators here need his permission. So can you please undelete them too? (It was him that sent the email not me, and he gave permission). His email's username is noora1381, where Noora is his main film and 1381 is the year of the films production in the Iranian calendar. Thanks again. Pouya sh (talk) 11:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. I'm moving house today, but I'll get around to doing it at some point. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 16:02, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All the images have now been restored. I have added the {{permissionOTRS}} to them all. You should consider adding {{Information}} to the image pages too. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 05:49, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

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Thank you very much for your comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Carnivàle awards and nominations; I appreciated them. If you need two extra eyes for one of your articles/lists, drop me a line. – sgeureka tc 19:44, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

delete yelena yegoryan

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I recently had a deletion to yelena yegoryan, (csd g11) for blatent promotion. When in fact the bio on this artist has been documented, and can be seen on various websites including pasadena symphony, sonymusic-Danny Elfman recordings, etc. Can you please give me some insight on this in laymen's terms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Promanagment (talkcontribs) 03:02, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I trouble you to push a button?

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Dear Matthewedwards: I saw you're online at WP:HAU, and you did the most recent admin-type-thing in the Log as of 8:30 UTC, so I figured I'd ask you for your help. Can you CSD G6 Change.gov for me? I'm trying to do a move to fix something I messed up, doing my first WP:AFC approval, and I need the article speedied to do it. (I should have moved it rather than copied it, so the history is borked, and the source page is in limbo.) I've had it tagged for a while and I'm about to go to bed, and I was hoping to fix my mess before doing so. I figure the general speedy backlog's big enough no one's even had a chance to look at it. ⇔ ÆS dt @ 08:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 08:50, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

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The Real Life Barnstar
For going the extra mile, contacting authorities and possibly saving a life. We need more folks like you here. Toddst1 (talk) 17:48, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, thank you. One of the more humbling barnstars I've received, I think. Here's what happened:
  • At 7.20pm (Pacific time -- my timezone) an IP edited the article Suicide, making a claim that an Evan Kucera would die in two hours. I actually have that page watchlisted for such threats, although I wasn't online at the time.
  • At around 10.30pm I came online, went on IRC and checked my watchlist, where I saw the edit. It was being discussed in the admin channel at the same time, and after a SamSpade WHOIS query of the IP was conducted, it was decided that someone should contact the IP's ISP and the local police department. I did the latter.
  • I spoke to a detective and explained that I am an admin on the Wikipedia website and that it had been brought to my attention that someone had posted a comment to one of the webpages there, that a threat had been made that someone called Evan Kucera was going to die within two hours. Unfortunately she didn't know what Wikipedia was, asked if I was a minister, and what is an IP.
  • I explained that WP is an online encyclopedia, on the internet, and that someone had changed one of the pages of the website to say that this someone will die. I gave her the name of that someone, the IP address who made the threat, but still she didn't understand so put me on hold and passed me on to another detective.
  • Fortunately, the second cop knew what WP was and how it worked so I didn't have to explain all that again. Again, I gave him Evan's name, the IP address, the ISP, the ISP's phone number, and the URL of the diff where the threat was made and the time it was made. I gave him my name and phone number, and explained that the threat was made three hours ago and it said he would "die in two hours". I also told him that it couldn't be determined whether the threat was made by Evan himself, or by someone else, and that it was entirely possible that it could be a hoax, but that my phone call wasn't.
  • The cop explained to me that they didn't have a 24 hour IT department, but that he would attempt to contact the IP's ISP to get the IP's information.
  • At the same time, the discussion was still ongoing in the admin channel at IRC, and a geolocate had determined that the IP may be in Lincoln, Nebraska. A google search of "Evan Kucera"+"Lincoln Nebraska" returned positive hits, and another admin, Huntster, contacted the PD there.
I don't know if Evan or an enemy made the threat, or whether it was real or just him or a friend playing a joke. I just followed WP:SUICIDE and gave what I thought would be the best information in the circumstances. I don't believe there is anything more we can do in this case, except maybe a followup phone call.
Thanks again for the barnstar. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 19:14, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Look what I pulled up. Based on that geolocation, it seems Evan Kucera is a high school basketball player in lincon nebraska according to the Lincon Journal Star [1]--Ipatrol (talk) 19:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know. I haven't heard back from the cops. I don't know if they investigated it or not. I wasn't the only person to call them though, so hopefully they realised it wasn't a hoax call. Save from calling them again, or the school, there's not much we can do, but it's probably too late now anyway :/ Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 21:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hagger vandalism

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Hi. I notice you blocked this guy - User:Luke Organa. Is there some sort of 'Hagger'-vandalism meme that I don't know about? - Richard Cavell (talk) 10:27, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean by "'Hagger'-vandalism meme", but last night four accounts (Dbuckner, Jan Dodonna, Tott Doneeta and Luke Organa), which were all created on 19 October, went on a Hagger spree between 00:18 and 00:27 and started moving pages to H,A,G.G.ë.R ?, H,A.G.G.ë.R ?, H Ë R M Ë Ë ?, etc. User:Chris G blocked the first three, I blocked Luke. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 16:24, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Richardcavell, see here. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 16:32, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note that we immediately indef-block on sight, rather than give warnings, and WP:DENY them any kind of recognition by not placing block templates on their talk pages, not allowing them to edit their own talk page (which I forgot to do last night , but his talk page was blocked and salted instead), or send emails. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 17:10, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks. I saw you indef-block on sight, and I figured that there was a history there that I was not aware of. Thanks for bringing me up to speed. I'll do the same from now on. - Richard Cavell (talk) 22:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS tag

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Uh.. you tagged the image Image:Mahmoud Shoolizadeh.jpg as archived in our OTRS system, but you did not reply or close the related ticket. Could you see to that please? Thanks. (respond on my talk page please) —— nixeagle 18:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have access to the OTRS ticket. I asked User:Orderinchaos to check the email for me, because of User talk:Matthewedwards#Deleted images. After looking at the ticket, the images, the pages they appeared on and the user's reply at my talk page, he said I could restore them. I didn't realise there was another step in the process, sorry. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 21:03, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can't disagree with this deletion, as I don't see why we need to have this image, but there seems to be an inconsistency in {{Externalimage}}, especially in the light of its deletion review in that if we can't host copyrighted images, there seems to be no objection to linking to them. The specific example in WP:ELNEVER that stands out is Youtube, a known host of copvios. Your thoughts welcome, in that we are not linking to a copyright violation; we are linking to the original source, aren't we? --Rodhullandemu 00:22, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no opinion on {{Externalimage}}; I assume in certain situations it may be of use. WRT to the image it was linking to, [2], it looks like it appeared either in The Sun or its website (or both) and has a "© PA" (Press Association?) watermark. The image is at the Daily Mail's website though. Now, it may not be copyright infringement considering how many other pictures I've just seen with "© PA", but it would be better to get it from The Sun if it has to be there at all. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 00:46, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Tricky; the PA doesn't make its material available otherwise than to subscribers such as The Sun, so it's moot as to whether we can actually link to an original source; the whole point of {{Externalimage}} as I read it is that we can link externally unless and until a free image is available- this seems to be a temporary fix; in this case, a free image of Georgina Baillie should not be that hard to obtain per WP:NFCC. But still, there's no particular reason why the article should carry an image of her, and I can't disagree with your removal of the link. On balance, I think it's better left out. --Rodhullandemu 01:00, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help me (not really, just an IRC bot test)

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{{helpme|Not really though Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 04:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)}}[reply]

Deletion of Image:The Escape Engine-press photo.jpg

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Can you please explain why you deleted Image:The Escape Engine-press photo.jpg? It is my understanding that the record label emailed permissions@wikimedia.org on Saturday, October 25, 2008 stating the content of the Fidelity Records has been released under cc-by-sa-2.0 and received a reply from Wilhelm Schnotz on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 (see: Ticket#2008102510020933). The guys at the label have been very understanding and helpful but I can't keep going back to them asking questions or to do more things every time this photo is deleted. So, please help me out and let me know if there something that I am missing? Thanks. --NJ hardcore kid (talk) 03:26, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will look into this. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 07:45, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
 Done The image has been restored and placed back into The Escape Engine. Sorry for the mess around. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 08:23, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So what is going to happen now? Nergaal (talk) 03:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing, Bignole has supported, all seems well with the world. Wait til Tuesday when either Scorpion or I will close it. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 07:44, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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The RFA project was a success, because of you! MBisanz talk 03:54, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I'm burned out by article writing so if there's ever anything else let me know. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 07:52, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

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Can you fully protect California Proposition 8 (2008) until the other ones are unprotected? I'm tired of people jumping the gun and saying the initiative has passed. Thank you, CTJF83Talk 03:56, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The mis-information isn't enough for full protection at the moment. It's being reverted. If you disagree, make a request at WP:RFPP, sorry. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 07:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A moment of your time?

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Hi, this is a bit out of nowhere but since you did help to delete a blatant copyvio that I tagged I figured you could assist me in another matter. I have tagged several images that were uploaded by User talk:Jenevip for either not having sources or for their lack of fair use claims. Anyhow, I have tagged one particular image (Image:Teambatista.jpg) several times now. The image is always deleted, but the user continues to upload the same image again (with the same improper license and with no source). This has happened several times now with not only that image but with one other that I have tagged before of theirs. I'm not sure about how I should go about talking to the user about this so I was hoping that you could caution the them about continuously uploading the deleted images. I would really appreciate the assistance. :] --Pinkpineapple (talk) 17:27, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 19:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Solution?

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Be Black Hole Sun, you have been in an edit war over Template:WikiProject Rock music since August, and you asked me to edit the entire template to some new format that didn't use Template:WPBannerMeta without really explaining why. I told you to place an on the template talk page and wait for an admin. An admin came and declined it, so you unredirected both Template:WPRock and Template:WPRock disco and filled them in with your new template. All three templates are highly visible on many, many talk pages, and after they were re-redirected you undid it again and again. Disrupting the process is bad enough, but then in the edit summaries and on my talk page you say to the editor you're in conflict with things like "MY TEMPLATE WORKS", "YOU AINT A MEMBER" and other things which could be considered uncivil. I'm assuming this refers to being a member of the WikiProject, but you don't WP:OWN the template, nor does the WikiProject. As I was looking through the history, I saw that User:Russian Airplay had made the same edits you have been making to the template during the time that you were blocked last week. When I checked Russian Airplay's contribs that editor had only edited pages that you had. I also saw that his edit summaries and usage of language were similar to yours, and that he "retired" when you were unblocked. Based on this I asked a checkuser to investigate, who told me that it was a match.

Xenocidic asked whether an indef block is too harsh. I don't think so. You were previously indef blocked from en-Wikipedia and the Norwegian Wikipedia for operating multiple sock accounts and committing vote fraud. You promised you would behave and not create more socks, and asked for a second chance which was given by the blocking admin here on en; however, while you can be a good editor, as evidenced by your FL and GA contributions, you are also more than happy to engage in edit warring, disruptive editing, and such. In fact, you were blocked once already on this account for evading a block, so it's not as if you don't know it's not allowed. In light of what I have already said, and your response that you operate under other accounts and will continue to make more, I do not feel comfortable in unblocking you.

I want to find a solution here, this block isn't really doing any good. I'll stop edit warring, disruptive editing, and the sockpuppetry. Reason why i'm asking is that this block isen't working very good for me or for Wiki libs and Scarian. I want to find a solution this which will resolve in my unblock. I know i've been bad. First i never had any sockpuppet accounts as stated on my user page and second can you unblock my BBHS user talk page, Scarian blocked. Be Black Hole Sun (talk · contribs)

There is no way in hell that I would allow this guy to be unblocked. How dare he request something that he wants? Is this a joke? "I'll stop edit warring, disruptive editing, and the sockpuppetry" - Immediately after he left the above comment, he then went on another undo rampage. It's beyond a joke. BBHS, do you think immaturity gets you anywhere? I'm sick of this guy and his childish behaviour. ScarianCall me Pat! 14:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've declined an unblock request from this user. I'm not seeing much more than "Fine, fine, you're right and I'm wrong, can I edit now please?", and I think Scarian would agree that that's not enough. Perhaps some admin might be convinced of the editor's intent to edit properly, but I'm not seeing it. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 17:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks for taking care of that. I've only just come online and hadn't gotten around to it yet. It should be noted that yesterday he used the following accounts:
I'm sure there are more that we don't know about, but judging by some of the edits and the summaries, "DIPLOMACY OR RANGE BLOCK, WHAT WILL IT BE", "Replaced content with 'fuck yeah --~~~~" and "WISH IT WAS ANOTHER WAY" while removing content from an article, it's clear that he's not ready to return yet. Thanks. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 17:19, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Take a look at my talk page.. if you have anymore questions i would be happy to answear them. Be Black Hole Sun (talk · contribs)

Email

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I have sent you a couple of emails. Dunno if this is the right way to inform you, but since you say you check email once a month, I am trying this. I have to learn wiki properly yet. Zhen (talk) 11:28, 10 November 2008 (UTC)AtulKherde[reply]

 Done -- Replied in email. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 16:59, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email in your inbox....

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Intimating you to check your inbox... 122.169.110.74 (talk) 13:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)AtulKherde[reply]

OK, will reply later. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 23:49, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Preah Vihear Temple.png

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That's a lovely image you've uploaded for the Preah Vihear Temple article (and you're a brave man to edit there!). Any chance you could upload a new version that corrects the typo in the name of the Cambodian capital - Phnom Penh? I have made the same mistake myself when typing rapidly, what with the 'g' being next to the 'h' and all. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 14:13, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was something I knocked up for http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Thai-Cambodian_generals_in_talks_after_border_clash_kills_two after a request on IRC. I had no knowledge of the situation and only had an hour to make it, so I'm glad you like it. Thank you. I've gone ahead and fixed the typo now, but you know, you could have done it yourself. My image are all either PD or cc-by-sa. Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 23:48, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Muchos Gracias! I could not have done it as well as you - I'm lacking leet image skillz :) - What is a Jay peg again? :) Cheers, Paxse (talk) 13:03, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same-sex marriage in California

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I think this page can be lowered to semi-protect. There is no substantive controversy ongoing that I can see and there is need for additional material on the aftermath of the Prop 8 vote: court challenges, protests, status of those already married, etc.--agr (talk) 16:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Reupload of CSD image

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Image:Fish Go Deep.jpeg is a reup of File:Fishgodeep.jpeg. The. uploader just changed the sourcing info from MySpace to "discogs.com", which still is a copyvio. Should I nom this image as a CSD G12/I9 as well or does this fall under recreation of deleted material? Soundvisions1 (talk) 02:47, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FAC

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Can you strike yourself on my FAC?? I've fixed all your concerns. Thanks! CTJF83Talk 08:06, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: FLC Box

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Sure, sorry for that. I wasn't aware of the 8 step process, you won't edit conflict anymore in the future, believe me :)--SRX 20:01, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting a list with images

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Hi Matthew; could I ask your advice about a list which is currently in the early stages of development but which I intend to take to FLC ultimately? Bear with me, this might be a bit long-winded...

I'm preparing a list of listed buildings in Crawley. Ultimately, I want to get an image of every one, but I will only be writing separate articles on the most notable ones, which is unlikely to be more than about 10 (out of 94). Normally one would wikilink the buildings which have articles, and leave the others as plain text:

Building/Address[1] Street Neighbourhood Grade Date Listed Refs
Parish Church of St Nicholas Church Road Pound Hill I 28 Oct 1957 (Ref)
Parish Church of St Margaret Ifield Street Ifield I 21 Jun 1948 (Ref)
Friends Meeting House Langley Lane Ifield I 21 Jun 1948 (Ref)

(etc.)

Instead, I thought of wikilinking each entry in the table to an image on Commons, and writing brief summaries of the few buildings which do have separate articles in the lead...

Building/Address[1] Street Neighbourhood Grade Date Listed Refs
Parish Church of St Nicholas Church Road Pound Hill I 28 Oct 1957 (Ref)
Parish Church of St Margaret Ifield Street Ifield I 21 Jun 1948 (Ref)

Do you think that would be considered inappropriate in a FL? It seems like an elegant solution to me, and would let me put in more columns of info than I have at the moment (currently I have some images in a line down the right-hand side of the screen, like in this list. I've seen it used in a list section of an FA, incidentally. Thanks for any advice you can give. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 12:52, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem I see with doing it like the second example is how would you link to the articles? Readers won't expect the links to be to images, and unless they have popups installed, they won't know until the click on the links. I think it would be better to do it like List of West Midlands railway stations and have them down the right-hand side of the page. This would also allow people who are reading a printed version of the page to see the images. Which FA does it that way? Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 20:05, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your thoughts. The expectation of wikilinks leading to articles is indeed the major disadvantage. The FA in question, which admittedly only has this "image-wikilink" feature as a small part of its content (in the "Locations of Features" section), is Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. The problem with putting images down the side is that there will be too many to fit in the available space, although I suppose I could only put the most significant in and provide a link to the Commons category (which I haven't created yet!) for the rest. I'll throw in a couple of other possibilities which have also occurred to me...
Building/Address Street Neighbourhood Grade Date Listed Refs
Parish Church of St Nicholas (Image) Church Road Pound Hill I 28 Oct 1957 (Ref)
Parish Church of St Margaret (Image) Ifield Street Ifield I 21 Jun 1948 (Ref)
Building/Address Click for
picture
Street Neighbourhood Grade Date Listed Refs
Parish Church of St Nicholas Image Church Road Pound Hill I 28 Oct 1957 (Ref)
Parish Church of St Margaret Image Ifield Street Ifield I 21 Jun 1948 (Ref)
I'm happy to set it up with the pics down one side, and in fact that's how it is arranged at the moment in my sandbox, so if you think that's best then I'll go with it; I thought I'd better throw a few alternatives around first! Many thanks, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 19:25, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Toolserveraccount

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Hello Matthewedwards,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your Freenode-nick (if you have one), your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 16:03, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have set up a peer review for said article. If possible I would like your informed opinion on how missing viewing figures might affect Criteria 3: Comprehensiveness. If you have time and fancy taking a look at the lead that would also be great, but I understand your a busy man. Thanks, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 23:22, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about this anymore, it is now at FLC and we will soon see what people make of it. Best wishes, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 00:06, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Admin hopefuls

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Hi - Are you done with User:Matthewedwards/new page design? Because it's included in Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls you show up in the "already admins" section at Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls. If you need this page for some reason we can probably figure out a workaround. Please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:39, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Getting_started Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 08:38, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A copy of two discographies, should be deleted. Cannibaloki 03:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Take it to AFD then. I'm not going to speedy delete this, if that's what you're hoping :) Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 06:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Again I lost my time here. Cannibaloki 14:17, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Under grounds do you think it should be deleted? Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 15:53, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Close this for me. (the result was keep) I have a better solution. I removed the copy and paste (tables), in addition put the links for the main lists. Cannibaloki 17:34, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, only now I read the text below and saw that you are in "trouble". I ask to other person, no problem. =) Cannibaloki 17:40, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For anyone who watches this page

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Some of you know that I became homeless a couple of weeks ago after the lease on our apartment ended. Obviously I had no internet access for most of the time, and even if I had managed to find it Wikipedia was the least of my worries. After spending 2 nights sleeping in the van we decided to go to Las Vegas which wasn't too bad. The hotel room was only $12 a night and it wasn't a crap one! :)

We have now found a new apartment and moved in on Saturday, but my contribs here will still be limited for a short while. We are using the neighbour's internet access wirelessly until they turn ours on and I'm using an old, crappy laptop to do so. I'll be around to keep an eye on my favourite watchlisted articles and FLC but that's it. If you need someone to do some admin work, there's plenty of others around. :) All questions related to FL and FLC should be directed to User:Scorpion0422. Thanks, Matthewedwards (talk contribs  email) 05:49, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I know you have much more important things going on at the moment, but if you get the chance could you revisit your comments at the "List of The O.C. episodes" FLC, as I believe Cr.3 Comprehensiveness and Cr. 6 Visual appeal have now been met. Thanks, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 20:47, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference CBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).