User talk:Materialscientist

Please leave your message at the bottom of this page, for example, by clicking "new section" at the top. I shall reply wherever you prefer (my usual habit is to reply here if the answer is short). If I replied on your talk page, it means I am watching it, and there is no need to add the {{talkback}} template or quote the previous message.

Hey, I want to ask, how we can add picture to the page ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.215.65.66 (talk) 09:52, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

List of Android application stores

Hi! Could you please tell me what was the exact reason of deleting this page? What particular "unambiguous advertising or promotion" had been noticed there. Thanks! Chivorotsen (talk) 12:21, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Poor Translation

I edited the wikipedia page of the Soviet film "Irony of Fate" because I felt the translation of the full name was pretty bad. "Irony of Fate, With Light Fog!" is the literal translation, while "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" is the most commonly accepted translation (check IMDB). I believe "С лёгким паром" is a colloquialism, while literally meaning "with a light fog" refers to the steam in the Banyas, which are Russian bathhouses. Alas, the translation I provided is the most widely known. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.7.2 (talk) 16:50, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I have reverted myself, but changed bath to banya - although rare in English, it is still better than bath, which is usually used in other sense. Materialscientist (talk) 00:14, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Warfare indeed

Sorry I got under your feet on the Psychological warfare revert. Too many vandal hunters, not enough vandals ;-)  Yintan  13:06, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Never mind and keep up your good work! Materialscientist (talk) 13:09, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

AIV

When I file an AIV report, there's always a very good reason. You've closed most of mine correctly for several years for that very reason. If I can't rely on AIV anymore, I guess I'll have to contact admins on their talk pages when dealing with LTA trolls. Cheers. Doc talk 06:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Please do. I am in the middle of a party, thus can't think for more than a few seconds. I don't recall this LTA case (even if I blocked one of his IPs). Materialscientist (talk) 06:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

I know - you're a busy man. Much respect! Trust me: this is an IP-hopping LTA vandal who deliberately hoaxes edits. Cheers :) Doc talk 06:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

31?

I noticed a lot of vandals get blocked for 31 hours. Just as an aside, because I'm wondering about it, where does that come from? It seems such a strange period. You'd expect 24 or 48 or something. Cheers,  Yintan  11:31, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

This is to shift the daily routine and prevent the same person from returning the next day. We also issue odd-looking long-term blocks to school IPs to open up holiday seasons, when the ratio of constructive edits to vandalism is higher. Materialscientist (talk) 11:36, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Aha. Got it, thanks.  Yintan  11:41, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Tom Crean (basketball)

Thank you for reverting the vandalism done to this page. However, there was numerous instances of vandalism before that by Triasone. Would you be able to undo all edits by Triasone and/or block them from it further? I don't have admin features and it's painstaking to revert that many single edits. Thanks!--YHoshua (talk) 12:27, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind, it looks as though you may have already done it.--YHoshua (talk) 12:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Cinder Cone RPP

Thanks! Quite why this is such a popular venue for people to add such educated dissertations on hi/fart/boob/etc is quite beyond me, but several of us will greatly appreciate the break! Cheers DBaK (talk) 13:58, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Softblock school IP?

Look at this page [1]. Not a single constructive edit and multiple last warnings. You contributed too. Clearly this won't stop and is a poster child for WP coddling of shared school IP addresses used for vandalism only. SBHarris 16:23, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've missed that IP. Materialscientist (talk) 00:48, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Musvida

Hi Materialscientist,

The page Musvida, which you deleted recently, has been recreated multiple times by the same user. Can you delete the page again and warn/block the user? Thanks. Sosthenes12 (talk) 00:39, 30 April 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

Circumference of a Circle Regarding your changes as you did not find my entry on the page constructive: Fact a 3 x a diameter length of 120 cm' = 360 centimeters ergo each degree measures 1 centimeter: That is an axiomatic absolute; and not you or the censorship of all the old boy publishers of academia can alter that reality: Also if you visit www.geometry-mass-space-time which you probably will not: You will discover that three times the radius squared gives an exact area of the circle,that is exactly three quarters of the area of the square of the diameter.

-  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizdomain (talk • contribs) 01:46, 30 April 2013 (UTC) 

Peters Township High School

Hi, scientist! Long time no see...... hey thanks for your quick work with the blocks on that article, but as you may have noticed, there are several other ips (some in the Penn State block and some not) that have been adding namecruft and other non factual info, dating all the way beck to last October. Do what ever you think is right, and as always your help is appreciated. Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:25, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I know. I've blocked only 146.186.45.0/24 for a week, because they caused most disruption. Others are either not recent or harder to pinpoint. School articles are always a headache - most changes, even if not obvious vandalism, are just unsourced and hard to verify. Yet those articles are in a very poor shape and are built up by IPs and newcomers. Thus my personal policy is protect them only against brief attacks, preferably by blocks. I also don't hesitate reverting unsourced additions and tagging the editor with a low-level {{unsourced}} template. Other admins might have their views. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 04:59, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks....Appreciate all you do! Gtwfan52 (talk) 05:06, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Have a kittehboo

Airman Murdah (talk) 15:36, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Kittehboo for youuuu

Airman Murdah (talk) 15:38, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for 100K edits

100K+ edits is incredible. I don't even have 2000 edits. Good job. WorldTraveller101^{Did I mess up?} 16:56, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Materialscientist. You have new messages at WP:AIV.
Message added 23:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Ramaksoud2000 ^{(Talk to me)} 23:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Userpage protection

I hope you don't mind a quick question. I was asked earlier today to remove full protection from my userpage: User talk:INeverCry#User page protection. I figured I'd ask you about this seeing that you also use full protection for your userpage, and I've seen other admins who do as well. My basic reason for doing this with my page is that I've done over 100000 deletions, and I don't want to have to worry about page and file creators messing with my userpage. Thanks for your time. INeverCry 03:02, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on my talk. I'm sorry I seem to have gotten you involved in an argument. INeverCry 04:47, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

No problem. There are no policies for everything, and in many situations admins are supposed to act at their own discretion, like this one. At this moment, I see no policy or guideline that would justify a personal request for unprotection, but MZMcBride may surely raise this point with the community, reach consensus, and ask again - I have no objection to that at all. Materialscientist (talk) 04:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

International Workers' Day protection

I had just asked for 48 hours of semi-protection... thank you. It would have been a tough 24 hours for that article. Fyunck(click) (talk) 07:41, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wrongfully blocked

I did NOT deserved to be blocked. I wasn't vandalizing Wikipedia nor was I spamming and you wrongfully blocked me. All I did was a add a section to this page; List of Virtual Console games for Wii U (North America) and somehow you guys saw it as vandalism. I'm not very happy about this one bit and in case you don't know I have Autism. I demand an apology right now! (50.121.7.217 (talk) 08:46, 1 May 2013 (UTC))

My block had a purely technical nature (evasion of block set to your other IP). Talk to McDoobAU93 (talk · contribs) and JamesBWatson (talk · contribs) if you wish to rectify the issue. See also edit summaries - they partly explain why your edits were reverted. Nobody said they were vandalism. Materialscientist (talk) 08:52, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

User:82.33.215.26

Material

Just to point out that while your block of the IP is legitimate for the article space vandalism this was kind of a goof on your part (thanks for trying though). Think about it, an Admin deleting a page about an Admin is ironic unless i'm wrong about the definition of ironic, plus if you've seen my signature you'll know that it has 'MIVP' in it which if you look in the Edit Summary was included. Don't worry, you're forgiven, all it took was a good faith revert. On that end thanks for handling the block, i'm like the only student of the school with good intentions it would seem and well, I have this account. Just to point out I support your block even though you erred. MIVP - (Can I Help? ◕‿◕) (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) - (Cakes) 08:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Request to move in mainspace

Please move the articles created in user pages for DYK to mainspace:

• User:Nvvchar/Jambavati -> Jambavati
• User:Nvvchar/Yami (Yamuna) -> Yamuna in Hinduism

Thanks. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:17, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for moving. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 15:21, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Ongoing test edits from an IP

Recently I noticed an IP user constantly adding numbers to the "Birth date and age" templates of various people, then reverting immediately. I'm relatively new to editing here but once I figured out what was going on I went to leave a warning on User_talk:93.167.80.7, finding they'd done this before, and that you had blocked them temporarily. Can you take another look at what they're doing? And on a side note, is this the correct way to address something like this? Metadox (talk) 04:57, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

I've blocked that IP for 6 months for disruptive editing, thanks. This behavior is rare, but not unique. It qualifies as trolling, and warrants tagging for vandalism and reporting to WP:AIV. Materialscientist (talk) 05:05, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Speaking of IP editors previously blocked by you (and also tweaking Birth & Death dates to make living people appear dead, among other vandalism): User_talk:76.185.234.38

Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 06:36, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 06:49, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

U:RU1085

S/he has returned as Eisohamakaberspitorimanu (talk · contribs). If you can block it, thank you. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 06:04, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Blocked, thanks. I still haven't figured out the algorithm for a filter that would have low collateral damage. Materialscientist (talk) 06:10, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Uw-unsourced templates

Hello. I initiated a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Template messages/User talk namespace#Uw-unsourced templates complaining that the wording associated with these templates misrepresents Wikipedia policy, seriously in my opinion. The most important purpose of warning templates, I feel, is to alert inexperienced users to policies that they may have inadvertently violated. To accomplish this purpose, the associated statements must be correct! The message associated with {{Uw-unsourced3}}, however, unambiguously states that adding unsourced material violates Wikipedia policy. This is incorrect, and the other levels assert or imply the same misrepresentation. Most newbies' first edits, I'm pretty sure, are uncontroversial improvements that could easily be verified, though no source is provided or needs to be, unless challenged; these are precisely where we want new users to start out.

None of the discussants in this thread use these templates at all often and we therefore know little about the purposes for which they are used. I am concerned because I have encountered cases where they have been used to bully newbies who have, in good faith, added material that was unsourced and had no need to be sourced. Judging by your contribution record, you have made extensive use of all levels of these templates; can I persuade you to contribute to the conversation at WT:UTM? Why are they needed? How can they be revised to represent policy accurately and still have a worthwhile purpose?

If you wish to respond directly, please do so here. I would be very pleased if you would contribute to the WT:UTM discussion instead.

Cordially, Peter Brown (talk) 21:15, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

WP:NPA

Hi, if you could spare a moment, please take a look at this. Thanks. ROG5728 (talk) 03:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I'll have a very abrupt wiki access for the next few hours (seconds at a time). I'll try to read when possible. Materialscientist (talk) 03:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

User:Frenziec; 36 hours?

Odd. Spam-advertising accounts are usually blocked indefinitely. Is there a reason Frenziec only got 36 hours? Alex2564 (talk) 05:08, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

To give them a chance - next block may well be indefinite. A large proportion of then-regulars come here to advertise something. Materialscientist (talk) 05:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

That's pretty odd as well, for then-regulars to come here to advertise something. But, Frenziec joined today... That seems pretty short for a then-regular account. Alex2564 (talk) 05:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Change to Psilocybin Explanation

Hi Material Science. The definition of partial agonism is partial efficacy but does not imply functional selectivity. It may be that psychedelics are partial agonists that happen to be functionally selective but it is misleading to simply say that they are partial agonist which implies that serotonin antagonists should be psychedelic when in fact it is the opposite in that atypical antipsychotics known for their serotonin antagonisms ends psychedelic drug trips by blocking the functionally selective agonism. There is a specific signaling pathway activated by 5HT2a functionally selective agonists such as lysergic acid, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine and psilocin. This pathway is the arachidonic acid pathway. Airsh0w (talk) 05:02, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi Materialscientist, this user has been moving pages without giving any specific reasons. Since I can't move those pages back could you please do that. Tolly4bolly 07:49, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure if those moves should be reverted. IMDb.com shows several movies with the name Amar Prem. Please be more specific. Materialscientist (talk) 08:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Per wikipedia rules, unless there's other films with the same name you move or disambiguate with the year the movie was released [(like Cash (2007 film), Cash (2008 film)]. Example: There's no other films with Kati Patang (in wikipedia) and the user is moving to an inappropriate page like Kati Patang (1971). I believe that there's no need to move when there's no other page with the same name and also that user is moving pages in an inappropriate way. I hope this explains. Tolly4bolly 09:17, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I know. I was just wondering why nobody has created pages for other Amar Prem movies [2]? Maybe they stand no chance for notability? I simply don't know. Materialscientist (talk) 09:22, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ As a creator of hindi film articles, I can say that I also sometimes fear of notability and other tags on the articles and also there are quite few editors who actually create (old) hindi film articles. Anyway, is there any chance that you revert those moves by the users. We can move again when someone creates other pages with the same name. Tolly4bolly 09:30, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Ok. I just don't know about his claim correcting the release date from 1971 to January 1972 for Dushman (1972 film). Materialscientist (talk) 09:38, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks and regarding Dushman, the film was released in 1971 (according to imdb, google searches and the movie itself). Tolly4bolly 09:47, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I (or maybe you) can revert that move, but I was thinking maybe Atul Talashikar was correct? IMDB, Google, and some boxoffice sites I saw are not reliable sources. Would be good to cross-check. Materialscientist (talk) 10:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, I went to National Film Archive of India and searched for Dushman but couldn't find anything on the film (just found about 1953 film with the same name). Tolly4bolly 10:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

• Hi, just came across this discussion, 1972 might be the correct year for Anuraag after all, Encyclopedia ref and films opening title Censor board certificate, as on you tube (just Google video links) mentions 1972 as well.. Thanks.--Ekabhishek^talk 04:54, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Help needed for Alexandrov Ensemble and Talk: Alexandrov Ensemble history pages

Hi - long time no talk - hope this finds you well? I've just had to revert a whole load of redirects after the above pages were moved without prior discussion or sources. I think I've completed all the reverts OK, but I don't know how to put the history back onto the history pages. Please could you help? Thanks. --Storye book (talk) 08:43, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for all your kind help - much appreciated. --Storye book (talk) 08:46, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Need help on an EL

Is this link acceptable? — Abhishek  ^Talk 12:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't see much spam in it, but the value is also small. As I understand (I have no knowledge of Arabic), it attempts to teach the language, whereas the page Arabic language has a very different purpose (overview the language and its structure). Materialscientist (talk) 13:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to STiki!

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Noelia wiki Royalty free Picture

Hello MaterialScientist,

Can you help us to install the Picture of Noelia on her Wikipedia, I have a royalty free image for Wikipedia given by the Managemnte of Noelia to Wikipedia royalty free on tis link www.noelia.tv/royaltyfreepicturewikipedia Thank your for your Help !!

The best way is this: (i) register an account on http://commons.wikimedia.org, (ii) follow instructions in "If you are not the copyright holder". Materialscientist (talk) 05:28, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism on Benigno Aquino III

Hi Materialscientist, do you mind protecting the above page or rangeblocking the vandal? The vandal changes IP very easily, so even if you block the current IP/give a final warning, he will still come back again tommorow. Cheers. Arctic Kangaroo 05:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

IP sock/s

Hi MS,

Are you able to block 208.54.5.227 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) - previously using 208.54.4.226 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) - because they are currently evading the block you gave them on the latter's IP address. 208.54.5.227 continues to misuse this talk page, despite having their other IP blocked.

Regards, —MelbourneStar☆^talk 06:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

IP talk page

Hi MS, after you blocked 98.176.122.212 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) they have continued to vandalise and abuse their talk page. I've warned them that they need to stop or their access may be removed but they haven't. Could you please revoke talk page access? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:50, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Remove my permissions

Can you please remove my user reviewer & rollbacker permissions? I'm retiring --Ushau97 (talk) 10:47, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

proper references

Please, consider that I was forwarding to a place where you can download the whole publication, on the current site you have to be logged in just to see the abstract!! (Feral cats) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.2.252.51 (talk) 08:34, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Could you confirm that? I can access full pdf here [3] and thus reverted your change [4] to [5] (which also gives only a fragment, under different title). Materialscientist (talk) 08:50, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Bamboo Group Entertainment

Heya there, I would like to inform you that Biruitorul is announcing his friends to vote for the deletion of the page. Something is fishy here and what style he has. One note: Biruitorul is a user that was reported before and it's using multiple accounts but the admins closed too early his case. You know his case, I think you did it. I also suspect Dahn. Minceeed ^talk 14:24, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Glad to hear that. Fun stuff! Have a fine Easter, and, er, see you at the club. - Biruitorul ^Talk 05:06, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

List of Android application stores

Hi, is it possible to reconsider that deletion? I thought that page was much more useful, relevant(for an android developers) and up to date then the List of mobile software distribution platforms page. /Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.14.102.25 (talk) 20:26, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

I believe that page did contradict the non-commercial nature of wikipedia, as well as the WP:NOTDIRECTORY guideline. Materialscientist (talk) 04:10, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Unexplained revert

Hi Materialscientist, I have been watching this article Memphis Police Department wanting to clean it up. Someone did a fairly good job and you reverted all of their edits with no explanation. Would you like to leave an explanation on the talk page please? I'm tempted to revert your edit, but I wanted to hear your objection to what was done. All of the information is unsourced, reads like a brochure, and does not meet Wikipedia standards. Thanks. USchick (talk) 04:04, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

You may revert me there at will. This might help a bit: I've blocked 198.144.185.147 (talk · contribs) per WP:OP policy. This particular open proxy corrupts urls in wikipedia articles because of its configuration (correct that if your revert). It removed some sourced info, and some unsourced info, which is correct, yet is a copyvio from http://www.memphispolice.org/ pages. Google hints that the section "Investigative Services" was copypasted from pages that were hosted on https://kiosk.memphispolice.org, but I can't retrieve them (directly or via wayback machine). Materialscientist (talk) 05:02, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Hitchhiking

Greetings, Materialscientist! I reverted your revert of Hitchhiking. The huge deletion which you replaced was in fact a duplication of the entire "Around the world" section. The duplication was previously done, inadvertently, by User:Unforgettableid. Now there is only one "Around the world" section, as it should be. Kind regards, --@Efrat (talk) 11:09, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. My revert was done using STiki, which only shows a diff in a small window, so duplications are easy to miss. My bad anyway, because IP left an edit summary. Materialscientist (talk) 11:20, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Don't sweat it. We all have to be careful not to let the machines take over. POWER TO THE LUDDITES! ;-) --@Efrat (talk) 11:27, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Complaint about Biruitorul

Greetings, Materialscientist! Biruitorul is using multiple accounts and he is dishonoring the symbols of Romania. He is threatening our identity. Biruitorul = Anonimu and another 20 accounts over the Wikipedia.

first issue second issue third issues, IMPORTANT

• In third edit, he is cleaning whatever he wants, then comes with another user. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TheRedPenOfDoom

Minceeed (talk) 13:35, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
	Congratulations, Materialscientist! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Faizan -Let's talk! 12:08, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

why was the picture I uploaded moved ?

the picture of a mugger crocodile

which i recently uploaded was removed from the article Marsh Crocodileand when i checked for a reason the only explanation was a (rvt: was good, WP:NOTBROKEN) tag.the image was replaced with one which I believe is a less suitable replacement .I would like to know if i made a mistake in uploading the image or some other mistake,Im am new to wikepedia and have uploaded several image and i would like to avoid this happening again so please inform me why it was removed.--Jamaican college grad (talk) 23:34, 6 May 2013 (UTC)jamaican college grad

Thanks for providing your images to wikipedia. This one is good, but the crocodile is hard to discern on the grass background, especially in a downsized thumbnail. A side note: the file name is 2006-kabini-croc.jpg, but its description says the date is 16 September 2012. Could you please rectify this? Materialscientist (talk) 23:46, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

The Spoilsport Award

		The Spoilsport Award
		Has been given to you for beating me to reverting vandalism just about as much as CluebotNG has

Transcendence (talk) 01:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the "Alexander Alexandrovich Alexeyev" page

I am currently working on an assignment for class in which we are required to report on a topic that currently doesn't have an entry on Wikipedia, and then link 5 other articles to ours. My topic is Alexeyev, ambassador to Cuba from 1962 to 1968. I tried to link pages such as Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, and Cuban Missile Crisis. But, my links were promptly removed because of relevancy issues. I fail to see how mentioning Alexeyev briefly in these articles is "irrelevant," as he did contribute to the histories of these various topics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxymis (talk • contribs) 04:41, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Disruptive IP genre warrior

Hello, Materialscientist. Since you're an admin that appears to be online currently, there is an extremely urgent issue with 213.132.75.89, who is being a pervasive genre warrior. I've reported this individual to AIV, and a discussion has been opened about him or her on the ANI board. The activity is live, and this IP has been doing it for over one and a half hours, despite the collection of warnings against this. Please help and thank you. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 06:35, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for belayed reply - I am not really on-line, and Bongwarrior beat me to blocking this IP long ago. Materialscientist (talk) 07:14, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Sombrero

Hi Materialscientist, could you help with this article? There's a sea of IPs vandalizing it, and no life at page protection noticeboard. Thank you, 99.136.252.252 (talk) 11:03, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Ah, done, though still in need of a reversion. 99.136.252.252 (talk) 11:04, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

"Kanalukal" song was actually sung by Shreekumar Vakkiyil not by M.G.Sreekumar.

Hello,

My name is Seetha. I am working with Surya TV. I have noticed that there is a mistake on your page regarding the malayalam movie "Mulla". "Kanalukal" song was actually sung by Shreekumar Vakkiyil not by M.G.Sreekumar.

If u have any doubt you can refer the links below.

Kindly make the correction.

[[6]]

[[7]]

Please reply to my email id is seeammu@gmail.com

Thanks & Regards,

Seetha — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.249.208.202 (talk) 12:02, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Cougar edit

Hi, I'm not sure what you intended with a vandalism reversion on Cougar, but it isn't working as is. Is there a way to list two url's with the url parameter? Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

?? Maybe try to rephrase the question? Materialscientist (talk) 22:31, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

This edit has resulted in a url that doesn't work, it has http: in the middle. It's not strictly a vandalism reversion. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:58, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Glasshole

Would you mind looking at Glasshole and its history? The AFD discussion was closed as "merge to Google Glass#Reception" yet M0rphzone (talk · contribs) has reverted the merge and my attempt to let someone else merge it. Thx. Toddst1 (talk) 03:08, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I would really like to help, but as a wiki editor I share the view of M0rphzone and Bill Price (nyb) - we should aim for a respectable encyclopedia and not an echo of transient news. News outlets have always leaned toward sensationalism, especially with the advent of internet and fierce competition. I don't consider the latest sourcing of this topic in Google Glass good enough for inclusion to wikipedia, but I naively think it is a perfectly good entry for wikitionary (I've never edited it though :-D), as all the blurb about "who mentioned the term" adds nothing to its description and can be stripped. Materialscientist (talk) 04:48, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I was more interested in your intervention from a procedural perspective as an admin than as an editorial comment. I think I'll drop it. Toddst1 (talk) 19:56, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Apology

I really apologize for what I did wrong to him 99.229.41.79 (talk) 11:34, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Ok Taecyeon's page

The IP you warned about changing the birthplace of Ok Taecyeon is back and changing the birthplace again. Thought you should know. Mikepellerin (talk) 20:50, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Klitschko

Hello, I believe the amendments I have made are 100% correct, as RTD (referee technical decision) and TD (technical decision) are both counted towards knockout total. Please view two recent fights, which both show 51 KO and were also confirmed by the event presentor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQH9Ehe-FDU @ 00:12:40 - vs. Wach = UD, KO total remains at 51.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRbLyfMaow @ 00:01:08 - vs. Pianeta = TKO, KO total increases to 52.

I hope this will clarify the changes I have made. DRONYA (talk) 10:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

It does make sense to use third party information rather than living persons live event broadcast. DRONYA (talk) 10:35, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

http://www.klitschko.com/en/vitali-wladimir/wladimir-klitschko/ DRONYA (talk) 10:35, 9 May 2013 (UTC) http://www.boxingscene.com/60-14-klitschko-continues-extend-his-reign--65211 DRONYA (talk) 11:08, 9 May 2013 (UTC) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/04/us-boxing-heavyweight-klitschko-idUSBRE9430CU20130504 http://news.yahoo.com/boxing-klitschko-stops-pianeta-six-rounds-retain-titles-221050439.html DRONYA (talk) 13:23, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Rollback

Can i ask the why the rollback rights should not used in the Edit war? answer me 121.7.54.103 (talk) 05:43, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Rollback should only be used in clear cut cases of vandalism. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 12:16, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Yes, otherwise, these permissions may even be withdrawn in case of violation! Faizan -Let's talk! 12:19, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

And why is an IP asking, anyway? Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 12:17, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks (but not to the user who never answer my question like User:E*******8 (to him, i dont know why it not use on war.)), now, i wait for the materials (admin) to answer. 121.7.54.103 (talk) 12:48, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Funny. I thought my name only had six asterisks... Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 12:51, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

I try to offend no one, sorry if i offended you. 121.7.54.103 (talk) 13:17, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

editing a living person page?

Hi, I don't remember what living person's page I edited or why. I don't think I've made any significant changes to any pages in the last year or so, only slightly grammatical corrections when I notice an error.

I was hoping you could help me clear this up. If there was a way to look at my edit history, I think that would help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.173.248.2 (talk) 18:05, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

The page in question is Woody Allen, contributions from your IP are here. Materialscientist (talk) 22:56, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Unfocused

I have regarded your message with the utmost sincerity. I will refrain from useless and extraneous edits, and will withdraw my putting inconsequential "edits" on pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.137.120 (talk) 23:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Lord Tewrigg

All of what I wrote is true. I got thrown out of sixth form over this incident, and He refuses to respond to e-mails, letters, and any other form of communications. It is impossible to reference something that no video was ever taken of, nor was anything written down. Short of referencing all of the different facebook posts where it has been discussed (and confirmed to have happened), it is impossible to reference. Please replace the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.139.99 (talk) 02:58, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello Materialscientist, You sent me this message: "Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Allogalathea because it didn't appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 11:25, 10 May 2013 (UTC)"

Please, you should have a look of what I did because it appears to be a important change concerning the genus Allogalathea, I tired to update the article by removing the redirection link to Allogalathea elegans. Simply because before 2010, Allogalathea elegans was considered like monospecific species from genus Allogalathea. So that's why I built a new article for the genus and modified also the decription of the species. So please could you correct your action. Best regards, Bastaco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bastaco (talk • contribs) 12:52, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

A German beer for you!

Apologies for the unexpected turn of events while using TW automated feature. Ghorpaapi (talk) 12:55, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello Materialscientist, Your last message: " Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Allogalathea because it didn't appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page". Materialscientist (talk) 11:25, 10 May 2013 (UTC) Please, you should have a look of what I did because it appears to be a important change concerning the genus Allogalathea, I tried to update the article by removing the redirection link to Allogalathea elegans. Simply because before 2010, Allogalathea elegans was considered like monospecific species from genus Allogalathea. So that's why I built a new article for the genus and modified also the decription of the species. So please could you correct your action. Best regards, Bastaco — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bastaco (talk • contribs) 13:23, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for posting. Looks like Stemonitis (talk · contribs) fixed it. Materialscientist (talk) 14:03, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Disruptive editor

Hi, could you please take a look at Jameslovesavrilavigne, which has just been created. I suspect it is a sockpuppet of disruptive editor Jameslovesavril. Richard Harvey (talk) 22:59, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

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Thanks for semi-protecting my user page. While I have only seen one piece of vandalism on my user page, I a) Know that there is potetntial for major vandalism, as I have seen it happen on other pages and b) I, unlike some editors, like to keep a lot of info on it, so not needing to frequently revert is nice.

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Enjoy. Good luck on all aspects of admin.  World Traveller101 00:34, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

The changes of potassium permanganate

I recently edited the entry potassium permanganate and you removed it. However, it is true that KMnO₄ need heat or light, so I add a delta (or maybe $h \nu$ is better, because it says "exposed to light"). I didn't realize that the "=" cannot be used in chemical language. I added a up arrow on O₂ because it's gas. Why do you think I shouldn't change it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yejianfei (talk • contribs) 04:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Ebola virus disease

I received the following message:

Hello. There seems to be a problem with the references on the Ebola virus disease page. Could you check it out? Thanks. NHCLS (talk) 22:11, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Technically I'm incompetent with regard to the subject - can you help? Thanks Denisarona (talk) 06:26, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Those broken references were located in "cite doi/xxxxxxxx" templates, which should usually be accessible via an "edit" button, but the button disappeared because of the errors. I've located those templates manually and rebuilt their author lists (using the citation gadget). Materialscientist (talk) 06:49, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. NHCLS (talk) 18:12, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Once again, many thanks for your assistance (but note that youe explanation defeats me technically!!!!) Enjoy Denisarona (talk) 09:45, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Hey!

I've just begun editing on Wikipedia, so I translated the french text into english and put it up on the same page. Pls suggest how I can begin with.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Delfi1103 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

My IP address

If I create accounts, do administrators know my ip address?

No. Only a few editors have access to the tools showing your IP address, and they need a strong reason to use them.

How to know my ip address if I create accounts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fceefyahoo.ca (talk • contribs) 22:56, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Visit one of the IP-informing sites like http://www.whatismyip.com/, etc. Alternatively, log out, type ~~~~ in WP:Sandbox, and click "preview". Materialscientist (talk) 23:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

UN Resolution against Heroization of Nazi

Hi there Hope you are not involved in heroization of Nazi legacy by denying a UN resolution 20.12.2012 against Nazi legacy. Therefore I would strongly reccommend you to respect the recent legal instruments of European Commission against Heroization of Nazi legacy. So if you have a PHD in philosophy try to some postgraduate course in ICL means an International Criminal Law and cultural genocide. Then we can talk... Sofar you ignore and deny the existence of UN resolutions and ICL it is waste of time to talk to you....Do not forget that ignoring and denying UN resolutions is a violating a UN resolutions..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luxtessa (talk • contribs) 02:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Protection of Dinh Bo Linh

Hi, Materialscientist. You have semiprotected Dinh Bo Linh, but NuclearWarfare had already set Pending Changes level 2 a few hours earlier (check out his comment on WP:RFP). Did you mean to override that, or combine them? Bishonen | talk 13:07, 13 May 2013 (UTC).

Thanks, removed. I'm watching the page anyway, and will do something if someone removes PC2 (which would not be a good idea). Materialscientist (talk) 13:17, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

john G ince

You reverted the old version of the biography and I returned the new version with comments, which are that the old version is misleading. It says that John Ince is currently a politician and leader of The Sex Party, which he is not. The old version refers only to one of his five books; the new version refers to all of his books. The new version also adds other important features of his career. The new version gives a much more accurate picture of this person. If footnotes need to be added, they can be contributed. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.102.134 (talk) 18:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Pepsi

For the last time, the logo is meaningless. And if it isn't, you're going to have to honor that same thing with EVERY SINGLE LOGO. Not only that, it could easily be argued that we need to match the exact typeface and the exact coloring and everything. You wanna go there? I think you do. Oh, and you might want to note the linked trademark for this new logo; it uses "PEPSI" all over the body. Despatche (talk) 04:00, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Why are you ignoring me? You're an admin. You know what's going on. Despatche (talk) 23:48, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Need another pair of eyes...

Need some more eyes at 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan - repeated reinsertion of blatantly-BLP-violating, terribly-sourced material that literally accuses the president of the United States of conspiring with the Taliban to kill American soldiers. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 09:25, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I probably could have just blown through 3RR on that under BLP, but I know it's better to find backup. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 09:35, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

This is a relatively easy case (but I've lost internet while posting a note to that user). Materialscientist (talk) 09:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	I feel like no matter where I go on the site, I always see you there cleaning up. Take this, as one of the most prolific and underappreciated admins on Wikipedia. Deadbeef 09:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Kid President

Hello, I am writing this message to you because you are one of the administrators.

I have problems with user DVdm who is constantly reverting my edit of the page "Kid president". My edit has a reference, it is sourced, but the user DVdm constantly thinks the opposite, as the source is not in English and there is probably some confusion with Google Translator. My edit is a reversal of one of earlier edits where the same content was previously approved as good. Could you protect the page with my edit? Thank you. 89.164.132.13 (talk) 15:29, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Note - IP reported for block evasion, again. - DVdm (talk) 15:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Additional note: this revert on your talk page was a mistake. I meant to revert the edit on the article. My apologies. - DVdm (talk) 15:45, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Note - IP is shared among a multitutde of users. 89.164.135.222 (talk) 15:36, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Outcome - Page protected and 2 IP's blocked by NawlinWiki. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 15:58, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Schoolblock

What is the schoolblock on English Wikipedia? --Kolega2357 (talk) 23:10, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

It is just a tag that leads to the instructions summarized in {{School block}}. The block options are set separately. Materialscientist (talk) 23:29, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

May 2013

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Ukrainian cities names

Why there are russian and ukrainian names? It isn`t logical because the only official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, and names are just in Ukrainian. --Killrocker (talk) 09:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

because those cities were Soviet in the recent past, and therefore many people and literature sources still use the old names. Materialscientist (talk) 09:59, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Every Ukrainian city was Soviet. So if i understand you, every city in Ukraine should have also russian (soviet) name. So why they are just in some cities? Why Lviv isn`t Lvov? Uzhhorod isn`t Uzhgorod? Ivano-Frankivsk isn`t Ivano-Frankovsk?...

If the literature sources is also a reason, there should be also other non-ukrainian names in the Western Ukraine, but there aren`t. Why Russian ones are better then Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak etc.? --78.102.92.26 (talk) 12:45, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Better ask WikiProject Ukraine. Materialscientist (talk) 12:52, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Papua New Guinea British territory

From papuanewguinea.travel "The possession was placed under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1902. Following the passage of the Papua Act of 1905". Are they wrong?

User:193.173.63.179

Just to let you know that barely has your previous block of this IP expired and they are at it again, see Comparison of American and British English. I've posted yet another final warning at User talk:193.173.63.179, perhaps you would care to keep an eye on the account and act if necessary. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 13:02, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Reblocked, thanks for posting. Materialscientist (talk) 13:06, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Convolution

I'm sorry to trouble you, but I don't know where else to turn. I have been trying to make a small contribution to convolution#Discrete convolution in order that links from Savitzky–Golay smoothing filter and numerical smoothing and differentiation might be more meaninful. First I had abuse on Talk:convolution#discrete convolution, now my contributions to the article are being repeatedly reverted (5 times at least). The reasons given for the last 2 reversions were spurious. Can you issue a more or less formal request to undo the last reversion? That would do it for me. Thanks for all your help.Petergans (talk) 19:26, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

User:67.216.99.33

Since you gave User:67.216.99.33 a one-month block (August 2012) he has vandalized 15 times on 7 pages without a single useful contribution. Not the busiest vandal around, but still annoying. Perhaps a reblock might be in order? --Guy Macon (talk) 22:18, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

In reference to an editing of the Salvadoran War

The purpose of my editing of this article was to introduce balance and perspective, because it is biased in favor of a particular point of view. They go to great lengths to convince the reader of the innocence of the Soviet Union,Cuba and Nicaragua.Well,the association of American Scientists have posted a page in Wikipedia, that deals with the weapons used in the Salvadoran Civil War.If you visit that page you will find that there is plenty of evidence that suggest that the communist bloc was supplying the guerrillas not only with light weapons but even with antiaircraft missiles. (BepFlaco (talk) 22:37, 16 May 2013 (UTC)) BepFlaco

Mohanlal

The credibility of the reference I had provided was questioned by another editor  Dravidian  Hero  and he said that the website don't meet standards of WP-RS. I am facing a sock puppet action also because of the same . Because of that I removed that edit which I had done. For more info I raised the following question with  Dravidian  Hero  in his talk page which is yet to be answered.

I am providing you with a piece of news and websites which publish the same news kindly tell me which one is reliable and which one is not and why.

• http://southmonitor.com/beijing-new-delhi-must-shake-hands-chinese-premier/
• http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-15/india/39280782_1_youth-delegation-recent-border-stand-off-india-and-china
• http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-15/news/39282144_1_youth-delegation-recent-border-stand-off-india-and-china
• http://news.in.msn.com/national/beijing-new-delhi-must-shake-hands-chinese-premier
• http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-china-must-shake-hands-says-li-keqiang/1116542/
• http://www.rediff.com/news/report/india-and-china-must-shake-hands-pm-li-keqiang/20130515.htm
• http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130515/news-world/article/ahead-visit-li-keqiang-says-india-and-china-must-unite-economic-growth
• http://dawn.com/2013/05/16/china-india-must-shake-hands-says-chinese-pm/
• http://103.1.112.194:3601/Politics/zyLztjtjhmbyFRJLd1zHEP/India-and-China-must-shake-hands-says-Li-Keqiang.html
• http://www.hongkongherald.com/index.php/sid/214531105/scat/9366300fc9319e9b
• http://www.newsx.com/world/asia/india-and-china-must-shake-hands-says-li-keqiang
• http://m.firstpost.com/world/india-china-must-make-asia-engineworld-economy-says-li-keqiang-785413.html

All the above websites have the same news with same words as published in southmonitor.com . Please tell me the difference. I know all the websites mentioned above are using a news article provided by the news wire service reuters. The same news with same content including words are 100% same on all websites. If the other websites are reliable then why southmonitor.com is not reliable thats what why I wanted to understand. Accussing me as a sockpuppet really demoralized me. Now I am waiting for the ban to be declared aganist me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benedictdilton (talk • contribs) 01:39, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't understand

I don't understand what you are talking about? This is my first experience in writing anything on wikipedia and I found it bloody difficult to figure out how to get a message to you.

Can you please send a link to the alleged controversial information that I have posted?

Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.239.41.222 (talk) 14:02, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

A month ago, someone else used this specific IP to commit a vandalism [8]. If you did not do it, then it doesn't matter.--Mr Fink (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

STiki only serving old edits

Hi Materialscientist,

A few STiki users have noticed that STiki is only giving them old edits to look at. Is this happening to you? I ask because I notice from the leaderboard that you have been quite active on STiki recently.

You comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia talk:STiki#Edits older than 20 days.

Yaris678 (talk) 15:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Never mind. Looks like it's fixed now. Yaris678 (talk) 17:43, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

New Article: Miomantinae

Hi There! I just created my first article, and I wanted to know if it is good enough, so whenever your are free, could you please come over to the new article, and check it out? Thanks JackFrost2121(Frostbitten?/ My Work) 18:47, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

• Nevermind, another user has verified it! Cheers JackFrost2121(Frostbitten?/ My Work) 22:00, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Changes made in article: SevenHills Health City, Mumbai

Dear Materialscientist,

I have made changes in the article on SevenHills Hospital & Health City, Mumbai. These changes are factual & represent the actual situation of the hospital at present. The hospital has been using Wikipedia to advertise itself. This, I think, is not the purpose of Wikipedia. Thanks, ousep — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ousep (talk • contribs) 03:13, 19 May 2013 (UTC)