User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive81

Request for clarification in IRC case

I have requested clarification in the IRC arbitration case here and am notifying you as an arbitrator who was active on the case. Carcharoth (talk) 16:52, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

MSUG

Hi, Blnguyen — thank you for your offer to help with the MSU Vietnam Group article. I'd greatly appreciate any edits or suggestions you can think of, since FA is always a goal. One thing I'm hoping to add is a picture of Diem and Fishel together, preferably one taken by a US government employee so it's public domain; otherwise, since they're both deceased it might be possible to use another source with a non-free rationale. Warm regards from a fellow Monkey — Kevin Forsyth (talk) 12:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Benjamin aislabie

i have created the benjamin aislabie article and i need your help in wikifying it(especially inline citations,still havent learnt how to do that),i think that the article can be put up for DYK if edited by someone like you,thanksShanbhag.rohan 18:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I have cleaned up the article, good to see a new contributor around. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

a new article for DYK

Hello, Blnguyen, there is a new article on a Chinese athlete Jin Jing. We want to push this article onto the "Did you know" on the main page. Could you give us some comments on the talk page of that article? How should we improve that article? If it's a good one, could you please help us put this article onto the "Did you know"? The question could be '[Jin Jing|Who] is called the "Smiling Angel in Wheelchair" by Chinese people?' Thanks!--Supportjinjing (talk) 23:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Well it could be, but at the moment it looks like a WP:COATRACK and a POV magnet. Perhaps people might not take too kindly to your name and it might make it difficult for you to edit. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Nick D'Arcy

Hi Blnguyen. Nick D'Arcy has now been created and there is a bit of a problem with WP:UNDUE at present while the article is so small. If you have the time and interest, fexpanding into a decent stub would be useful. Cheers, Mattinbgn\^talk 07:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Bingo, thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Notification

You're at ANI. --Relata refero (disp.) 09:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Noted thanks, although it seems to have blown over. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Adam Gilchrist and a recent edit

Hi Blnguyen. Given who I think this editor is, this edit has a reliable source! -- Mattinbgn\^talk 01:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

A family member? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Dad, I reckon. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 07:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Arbitration - Requests for clarification

Hi, I know you're very busy, but I'd noticed that you haven't posted anything at the new Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Clarifications and motions page. Were you aware of the page split, and is it added to your watchlist? The page could definitely benefit from some more attention, as there are some requests which have been sitting there unattended for quite some time. Thanks, --Elonka 05:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah I have notice it. Obviously, in one of hte cases, I have recused myself. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah! My mistake. I see your name now (on the other case). It just didn't show up in the page history since that section had been copy/pasted over during the split. Sorry to bother! --Elonka 07:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

My RfA...

Thank you...

...for your participation in my RFA, which closed with 85 supports, 2 neutrals and 1 oppose. I'm extremely grateful for all the the kind comments from so many brilliant Wikipedians I've come to respect and admire, as well as many others I've not yet had the pleasure of working with, and I'll do my best to put my shiny new mop and bucket to good use! Once again, thank you ;)
EyeSerene^talk 16:39, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Email about CheckUser function

I've just sent you an email about CheckUser function, which is very necessary in vi.wiki project. I'm looking forward to your reply. Thanks. Vinhtantran (talk) 17:21, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Noted and replied. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Bob Chappuis

Would you mind reformatting your complaints possibly in bulletpoint format. They are a bit hard to respond to.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 03:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Done. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Good to hear from ya

Good to hear from you. Thanks for the welcome. Hope the wide world of cricket is still treating you well. IvoShandor (talk) 04:22, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Allrounder

Sourav Ganguly has 167 wickets in nearly 410 matches.However what you need to see is he does not bowl very often. If you consider the number of overs bowled and the number of wickets taken, then you might find he is not far away from players are jacques kallis who is a genuine allrounder. So don't you think his role should be an allrounder in the Knight Riders Team? CSumit (talk) 09:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC) Sumit

Oh I think that people are calculate on how regularly they take wickets. If they are not used regularly, then they aren't really required or seen as an all rounder by the captain. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Renaming Punjab Kings

The official team name of the Mohali Twenty20 franchise of the IPL is Kings XI Punjab. However a page of that name redirects to Mohali Twenty20 franchise and another page of the name Punjab Kings exists. I recently updated the Punjab Kings page and tried to rename it to Kings XI Punjab, but it did not work. Could you remove the Mohali Twenty20 franchise page and rename the Punjab Kings page to Kings XI page (since two different pages about the same team exists)? Thank You. CSumit (talk) 07:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Errm Ím confused. Was there an agreement on the names? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

There wasnt any agreement on names. Just that two separate pages exist for the same topic. Also, the page that represents the Mohali Twenty20 franchise should be named after the official team name (Kings XI Punjab). When I tried to rename Punjab Kings as Kings XI Punjab it resulted in an error saying a page of that name already exists. I think you would need to first delete the Kings XI Punjab page and rename Punjab Kings as Kings XI Punjab. Ofcourse, the Mohali Twenty20 franchise page should be removed completely.CSumit (talk) 08:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll probably merge them all together including histories. I see Aksi knows more about IPL than I do. Heh, the way it has transformed cricket.... Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:08, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Re Sehwag, it was justified at the point as he was hardly scoring any runs and kept getting out in every other innings to catches to point. Tintin 13:46, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Phuong Ngo

I restored the case time line you deleted but not the stuff about the gun. I can't understand why you would be so sensitive about it. Albatross2147 (talk) 02:55, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I think its a bit undue to have a big whopping part on conspiracy theories when the court has given its verdict. Especially when the commentators are not professors or anything, but are ALP members, so they may have their own sympathies. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

In the cold light of day you are right {gritted teeth} Albatross2147 (talk) 05:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

So it can be removed? That is what I intend to do. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

question

Is it possible for me to get a name change without it being publicized. I am being stalked and if I attempt to do so in a normal way, that person will immediately know. –Mattisse (Talk) 21:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, it will always show up in the log because someone has to move your contributions. So you can request it behind closed doors to a bureaucrat, but anyone can just look at the rename log and see it. Of course you can just jump ship and start a new account. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Or preferrably (as you shouldn't jump ship), you can get someone in a sufficient level of authority (even through AN/I) to tell the harassing editor to leave you (and your talk page) alone - but it works both ways. Ncmvocalist (talk) 18:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

GA assessment

Hi,

I have fixed all of the things you cited as problems regarding Boris Tadić article becoming a good article.

If you can check it out and tell me if it can be now placed on a GA list.

Thanks,

--Avala (talk) 20:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

At the moment, some of the info still has no refs, there are still paragraphs with single sentences and there are still some references which are not filled out completely. And also there are cases where the "Boris" has to be removed. I have done some examples for you. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Aadal

I just wanted to bring you abreast with the type of discussion Aadal is having with me on the Kannada literature discussion page where he has been inserting his confusing comments in the midst of an other bad faith Rfc. I am not sure if this user has a basic knowledge of how wiki works if he is trying to badger me (I think it is the latter) but here is how the discussions are going.

• First he asks for direct quotations from the source book regarding a Kannada poet/writer
• When I provide the quotation, he questions the source and the credibility of the author from whose book the quotation was taken.
• Then he asks for proof about the ancient/medieval poet's existance, proof whether he wrote in Kannada or not etc.

He does not seem to understand that I can only quote a historian(s)/reliable source. If he has doubts whether the poet actually wrote in Kannada, instead of asking me to prove myself, he needs to do his homework and bring valid citations to disprove my citation or atleast contradict it. We seem to be going round and round and this has been going on from the begining of the FAC in Feb. I felt this is a good time to bring you up-to-date. Here are the sections where badgering is going on, "Questions about quotations", "Should we take E.P. Rice (1897, 1921) seriously?" , "Points not made clear". You will see as you go through these sections that at no point is he able to disprove my sources, but rather he keeps jumping from section to section just to keep his trolling on.thanks.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 20:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Here is an example conversation: (Ravi Kirti is the 7th century Kannda poet)

No DK, He is not known to have written in Kannada. Show me his Kannada writing. Even more modern Tamil authors like the famous Subramania Bharathi were multi-lingual, but they did not write in all the languages. You have to prove that Ravikirti wrote in (nay authored literary works in) Kannada. Please don't remove tags and stop saying it is frivolous in your edit summaries. I added the tag only after discussing it here and not getting any satisfactory answers.--Aadal (talk) 20:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

You are wrong. I have to show that "scholars say" he wrote in Kannada. I dont have to scan/fax Ravi Kirti's work you. Sorry.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC) Dineshkannambadi (talk) 21:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Fowler

Sir, of late, Fowler seems to be making his own rules as to what info needs to be provided along with a citation and what need not. He has tried to remove large amounts of cited, long standing pieces of historica info, while making his own rules. I have asked him for a list of items he wants clarification for. So long as his needs are genuine, I am willing to provide it. Hust want you to be aware of whats happeing. Currently Sarvagnya has reverted him.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 22:47, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Noted. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1995 Japanese Grand Prix

Thanks for your comment. Please reply back at the FAC, and change your opinion if you feel the objection has been dealt with. D.M.N. (talk) 15:01, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Noted. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Could you possibly reply to my comment at the FAC? I don't wish to see the article failed despite the fact that I have sorted out and commented on the problem. D.M.N. (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Done, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Feel sick on you

You can claimed that "Tibet isn't a part of PRC"(well, I really don't care), but you need to know that tibet was used to be a part of ROC, It is absolutely true. You'd better learn more about Tibetan history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.49.53.51 (talk) 06:07, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

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Craig

Hi Phanto. Can you point me to the books with the in-depth power struggle info about the captaincy. Also for some of the other stuff about his comeback. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:45, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Re your request: my suggestion is simply to edit down the section a lot, such as removing the ref to Lindwall and make only passing mention of Benaud (in relation to him taking over from Craig), but focus on the relationship with Harvey, whose support avoided the disharmony of the Johnson-Miller relationship. You don't need to mention voting & internal Board machinations etc. Benaud is like Bradman: he casts a long shadow over his contemporaries, but only luck got him the job, while Harvey was very unlucky (possibly accounts for his negative outbursts?) Robinson is an excellent source (although sometimes his stats are a little dodgy or out of date as he died in 1982, so always double check) - you know my opinion of Perry. I am keen on the FT of Aus capts, so I think Robinson is the best source for this and I think you need to have it. All writers on Aus cricket lift stuff from his writings, I see it everywhere. If there is a specific thing you want to include, contact me & I'll find a ref if you don't have one. Simpson's new book is available at google books. O'Reilly on Benaud: "Tiger - 60 Years of Cricket", Collins, Sydney 1985. ISBN 0 00 217477 4. p 154. BTW, the National Archives has a couple of images of Craig that you can get if you email them to allow GFDL, they are usually amenable: as you know, I have done it myself.

Bradman? Well, old chap, you know I've tried! I spent a lot of time researching, sourcing pix, writing, then later chopping it down trying to get it to FA when suddenly everyone abandoned the project. The biggest thing is fitting everything in to an acceptable size without losing any of the important stuff. I consider his off-field activities as important as his runs, so I am going to start a preliminary discussion forum at WT:CRIC, we can get an agreed format and the content will fall into place quite quickly after that.

Phanto282 (talk) 07:29, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

We can have three subarticles: Early life and career, captaincy and one for administration. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Also - Robinson's book has a photo of Craig in the nets when he was 16 or 17, which is pre-1955, maybe you can scan and add it to the article? It really needs a couple more images.

Phanto282 (talk) 07:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

That photo of Craig in my copy of Robinson shows a person in a baggy green, it could be his debut in 52-53 or in England in 53. If it's in England then it won't be PD for at least another 15 years, depending on when the photographer died (70 years after teh photographer died). Luckily, FA doesn't require a lot of images, one is enough, since it is not judged on whether it has lots of them. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:Ganeshbot

I noticed this come up on my watchlist. Glad to see the bot up and running on Vietnamese wiki. Please do convey my wishes to everyone involved. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Ganesh. You'll be glad to know that your work has gotten a lot of attention. vi:Thảo luận Thành viên:125.24.38.154 and vi:Thảo luận Thành viên:DHN#STOP_CHEATING_!! - A fellow from the Thai Wikipedia popped across and accused vi of cheating with your bot. vi:Wikipedia:Tin nhắn cho bảo quản viên#Bot tạo bài từ database It caused quite a sensation among the established editors as well, on the Vietnamese WP:AN. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

There was a lot of attention on Tamil Wiki too when it was introduced. They finally agreed to let the bot create Tamil Nadu state articles alone.

Well the attention on vi was uniformly positive, except for our anon Thai friend. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Two more edits that are needed for those articles. The original Ganeshbot code added a geo-reference for the demographics and did not add a references section for some articles. This was later corrected by adding ref tags. Smackbot helped out with adding a references section for the articles that did not have them. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

The refs were all working on vi when they were there! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:RPP issue involves an editor who you blocked previously

Hello Blnguyen. See this RPP issue involving Itihaaskar (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). He is once again editing Jodhaa Akbar, after coming off a one-month block that you issued. I did not want to accede to the request to full-protect the article since I didn't think it would help much in a dispute that has been running for two months, and where there is only a single editor who is out of step with the apparent consensus. Since I'm not familiar with the grounds of Itihaaskar's block I didn't think I could just go ahead an extend it myself. So I referred the complaint to you. :-) EdJohnston (talk) 15:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I don't think RPP is necessary for a sockpuppeteer, since there is only one guy and I can CU any dodgy campers with my own eyes. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

And very interesting who this Hindhawk (talk · contribs) is, whose only edits on Wikipedia include four edits to Jodhaa Akbar, reverting my edits and adding fangush! What do you say Blnguyen? Shahid • ^Talk2me 16:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not on the same IP range, except it's in the same small town as Itihaaskar. Given that there are only 40,000 literate people in this town, the chances of them editing the same article is rather remote, especially as the % of the 40,000 literate people in this town who have internet access would probably be less than 10%. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I've blocked him. 60 million internet users in India, so only 5.5% have internet access, and probably all of these are in big metros. I doubt if there was 1% internet access in a small town with no infrastructure. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Blnguyen, thanks for the follow-up, and for lifting the protection of Jodhaa Akbar. EdJohnston (talk) 04:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much Blnguyen for the great news,;) and for the comment re PZ. BTW have you heard that she is the owner of the Mohali Twenty20 franchise cricket team in the IPL? Shahid • ^Talk2me 10:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I did notice that, although I don't like T20. Well, at least the fact that she is in the same team as Yuvraj Singh has amused some people. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Haha!! That was a good one! Best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 08:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Ian Craig

Another Australian captain at FA! Well done once again. Cheers, Mattinbgn\^talk 01:27, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

re: 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing

Ping! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 11:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Another ping! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 22:24, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Ping! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 06:00, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for helping sort Climie.ca. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 08:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem. Thanks for the copyedits. Hopefully a few customers come along. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Ping! --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 16:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Congrats

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is hereby awarded for adding and reverting numerous articles. Thank you! Keep up the great work! Viper55 (talk) 09:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Why thankyou! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Your note

Thanks mate. I've sort of dropped out of the race a bit lately, but hopefully will crank up again soon. Best regards. —Moondyne click! 15:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC) PS, well done with Craig. Nice job. —Moondyne click! 16:01, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Henrik Ebeltoft

Respectfully, I don't think you should have carried out this checkuser request. I read the request in detail but there isn't anything in the request that indicates any kind of abuse. The IPs in question haven't even participated in any AFDs for months, no evidence at all was given with respect to the third IP address. At worst, the use of multiple accounts might make it look as if one user PROD'ed an article while another nominated it for deletion, instead of one user, but no disruption of the debate was asserted. I've looked through Henrik's AfD contributions, and none of them have any suspicious anon comments. There was one incident of both being used for reverting in an article, but not in violation of 3RR, and it was over two years ago. So this just seems like an invasion of privacy to me. In retrospect, do you agree? Mangojuice^talk 19:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Sarvabhaum or the likes

Sir, looks like user:Sarvabhaum or one of his pals are back on Chalukya dynasty and Template:Chalukya infobox‎. He has a new account (user:konkan) but knows all about historian Kamath etc. Sounds familiar? So please consider a lock on this FA if the edits continue, untill the user discusses his reasons for his edits. Thanks.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 21:21, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not him - some guy on the opposite side of the world. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your kind words on my talk page. For several months, I'd been working on college football, but now I've switched it up and am working on articles for major churches. Cbl62 (talk) 02:58, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Please help

Please help. It appears to be Jacques, somehow registered under a new username. Badagnani (talk) 20:34, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

He's blocked. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

And ublocked, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Amar

Not a hoax. He meant that no bowler who was active in 1970 was as good as Amar once was :-) Tintin 01:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

It was waay over the top. Looks fairly decent now after the cleanup. Tintin 01:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Tricia Walsh-Smith

Hi, you added the article to the dyk template. Did you read it? The article fails WP:BLP1E, and was added to the next update by a person who called it a made-up guideline. If you think the article doesn't violate the policy, fine, but otherwise please remove it from the template, thanks. - Bobet 01:34, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Done, thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:56, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Easter parade

Bing, any chance you could move Easter parade (cultural event) to Easter parade? There seems to be consensus for the move on the talk page and I'd like it done reasonably quickly as I want to feature the article on DYK and we don't want the article to have a name change halfway through. Thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 07:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Duh, forget it, already done, sorry to bother you. Gatoclass (talk) 07:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Request article

• Phan Thanh Gian (潘清簡), 19th century Vietnamese anti-colonial official.
• Nguyen Tri Phuong, 19th century important Vietnamese anti-colonial military commander (commander-in-cheft of Nguyen Dynasty's Army at Battle of Đà Nẵng (1858), Battle of Gia Định (1861) và Battle of Hà Nội (1873)). Magnifier (talk) 21:45, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Noted, I have heard of both of these. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)