User talk:Sphilbrick/Archive 41

Where I've Been

I share your minor obsession with keeping track of the states I've visited. My own map is HERE. I like your idea of different colors for different times in state; my way is less informative. I've only recently visited some of the Mountain States, and I solidly recommend making efforts to see Rapid City, SD; Cheyenne, WY; and Boise, ID.

Rapid City has Mount Rushmore and several similar places, lots of Native American stuff, lots of local interest; Cheyenne has lots of cowboy/rodeo stuff and is an easy drive from Denver; Boise is a very nice place--a lot nicer than one would think. Lou Sander (talk) 14:02, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Interesting timing. Just yesterday I glanced at my map and was thinking that no one had commented. I also need to add a world version, haven't gotten to it yet. Your three cities sound like a good recommendation, all squarely in a section of the country I haven't yet visited, but want to.

How did you get to Cuba? I have a friend who went there, but it wasn't easy.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:19, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

I was a U.S. Naval officer in the early 1960s. My ship went several times to Guantanamo Bay. We were also there for the Cuban missile crisis; we didn't make landfall, but we got non-trivial medals and commendations for participating. If I hadn't been to GTMO, I wouldn't claim to have been to Cuba. Actually, I probably should put an asterisk on Cuba, since GTMO is on the island, but not part of the country.

If you ever visit Rapid City, best is to plan to stay for a week. They have about five attractions similar to Mount Rushmore, but all are in different directions, so each requires a day or so to see. The downtown is a fascinating place, as well. They have life-sized statues of U.S. presidents on many downtown street corners. I didn't expect much when I went there, but I found it to be a hell of an interesting place. For example, if you take a tour bus to Mt. Rushmore, it goes through tunnels carved out of the rock that are literally only a foot or two wider than the bus. Lou Sander (talk) 15:26, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

I agree with the asterisk. I took a quick glance at the article, but my recollection is that the legal status of Guantanamo Bay is special, and you might even legally be in a US Territory as oppose to Cuba, but if I had been there, I'd add it to my list, probably with an explanatory note. --S Philbrick(Talk) 18:46, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

McGibney Article

Are you in the possession of some secret inside knowledge here? You claim the subject of the article is taking the matter up with Business Week. Are you serious? Like the McGibney guy is actually talking to you privately in real life?!? You can't base an edit on something like that and you know this. That's like saying, "Well, since Ted Bundy is taking the issue up with the NY Times we have to remove the information about him being a murderer." Business Week is a nearly 100 year old publication. There is ZERO hint of unreliability with ANY of Business Week's reporting. Just because something is negative or unflattering does not make it untrue. And you also know that. Until such a time as Business Week issues a retraction, the information should stay. You don't get to cherry pick your sources. Am I right or am I right? Dead Goldfish (talk) 00:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Your assumptions are flawed. --S Philbrick(Talk) 12:47, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Let us please hear the details in the interests of openness and transparency so that we can be certain that no shenanigans is going on here undercover and behind the scenes. A concern I have is that it is not the subject of the article who is making these claims here, but one of his internet "followers" acting on his own. Is there anyway to ensure the integrity of this process? Dead Goldfish (talk) 20:08, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I am reasonably certain the email came from the subject. While we have a paradigm of transparency on Wikipedia, details of emails sent to OTRS are not shared without permission. I see no need for urgency. We can wait a bit to see if someone can shed light on the university degree issue, one way or the other.--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:54, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

So I contacted Harvard College directly and got an email response saying they've never heard of the guy. So it seems that he also has a fake degree from Harvard. Still waiting to hear back from Boston University on this guy. Dead Goldfish (talk) 21:12, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Just to update you, Sphilbrick, I received confirmation from Chadwick University today that McGibney did "graduate" from their school in June 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA). His student ID number is (Redacted) and they listed his home address in Boulder City, NV. I can provide you with this information and the name and contact information of the person within Chadwick who can also confirm this with you. So I request that the article be updated to include this information. Dead Goldfish (talk) 04:41, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)

Books & Bytes

Sign up for monthly delivery

Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world.

Wikipedia Library highlights: New accounts, new surveys, new positions, new presentations...

Spotlight on people: Another Believer and Wiki Loves Libraries...

Books & Bytes in brief: From Dewey to Diversity conference...

Further reading: Digital library portals around the web...

Read Books & Bytes

The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs) 16:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:48, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Sphilbrick. You have new messages at Hasteur's talk page.
Message added 16:53, 11 December 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hasteur (talk) 16:53, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

SWAC women's standings

After visiting each of the SWAC schools basketball pages, I am having to revise all the SWAC women's standings. All of them are the Lady "team name," with the exception of Mississippi Valley State. Mississippi Valley State is the Devilettes. You'll want to update this on your standings as well. I have also seen two mistakes again by ESPN. I mentioned earlier and have reported a mistake on Sam Houston State/ Houston Baptist to them. The two schools played a non-conference women's basketball game against each other, but ESPN is counting it as a conference game. However the Southland Conference and both schools acknowledge it as a non-conference showdown. Southland matches begin on January 2, 2014. They are also one game behind on NJIT, listing them as 1-4 when they are 1-5. Bigddan11 (talk)

My To-do:

Update all SWAC names on local spreadsheet =  Done

Contact ESPN re Sam Houston State/ Houston Baptist  Done

Contact ESPN re NJIT  Done

--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

FYI, Mississippi Valley State is just the Mississippi Valley State Devilettes, not the Delta Devilettes. The men are the Delta Devils and the women are the Devilettes.Bigddan11 (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Got it,Bigddan11, I updated my spreadsheet, see you already fixed the template.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

No prob. Here's a few more updates to make on the sandbox templates. These mostly occur for the same reason as BYU- the schools known as one name, but the athletic teams are the abbreviation. Change Southern Methodist to SMU. Delete the women's from women's basketball on Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball team. The men's team is the Rainbow Warriors, so there's no need to include men's or women's. Same thing applies to the women's in Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs. Change South Carolina State (Atlantic Sun) to USC Upstate. South Carolina State is in the MEAC. Change Texas-Arlington to UT Arlington. Change North Carolina-Wilmington to UNC Wilmington. ESPN is wrong in having Pennsylvania listed. They have always been just the Penn Quakers. I'm going to look into the MEAC, but I think most of them are Lady teams as well. Let you know what I find out.Bigddan11 (talk) 14:43, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Relatives visiting, so cannot do right away, but will get to this tomorrow.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:45, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

• Brigham Young to BYU  Done
• Southern Methodist to SMU Done
• Hawaii Rainbow Wahine women to Hawaii Rainbow Wahine Done
• Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs women to Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs Done
• South Carolina Upstate to USC Upstate Done
• Texas-Arlington to UT Arlington Done
• North Carolina-Wilmington to UNC Wilmington Done (Although I see UNCW a lot)
• Pennsylvania to Penn Done

Be advised- ESPN record listings are once again wrong for Southland Conference w/ Sam Houston State & Houston Baptist. They also have the wrong record for Texas Southern (3-4, not 4-3). The individual team pages show the correct records, and the score page shows the correct records. Bigddan11 (talk) 17:14, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Bigddan11 I missed that. Just to update you on a coupe things: I am out of town today and tomorrow, so unable to update standings. I am typically out of town Wednesday and Thursday, although occasionally Tuesday and Wednesday. I tried to update the standings a couple times, but you beat me to it. I did do them one day, but I plan to update those with links on a daily basis, those without links (i.e unused anywhere) on a weekly basis. you, of course are free to update the unused ones more often if you wish. I will report the errors to ESPN. They have been responsive, albeit with some delay.--S Philbrick(Talk) 18:11, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Grooverville Methodist Church

I have initiated a deletion review discussion for consideration of this deletion. I am at a disadvantage because I can't see what was there, but I believe it is based on content in a historical marker and that the allegation of a copyvio is misplaced. Thank you for your kind consideration and input. Candleabracadabra (talk) 19:46, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Candleabracadabra , early in my Wikipedia career I decided to work on an history article. I found a nice plaque summarizing some interesting information, and I took a photo, which I uploaded. To my surprise, it was deleted, on the grounds that the text was subject to copyright. I knew that text in books and articles was under copyright, but it never occurred to me that text on a plaque would also be. Perhaps you have the same view?

If the marker is Federal, it may be public domain (but not necessarily). However, this was a state marker, so unless you found an explicit release for the text, using it is a copyright issue.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:44, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Astron Charitable Trust

FYI, thanks for delting this just now. It's very possibly a 919 scam. Bearian (talk) 17:27, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

of interest

The results at RS/N, the edits from Drmies etc. would seem that there is an eensy possibility that Morrigan is, in fact, disruptive at Christian terrorism, and you likely should note his "interesting section title" on the Christian terrorism talk page <g>. The weirdest thing is that I do not recall saying anything whatsoever about my beliefs, yet he is absolutely sure about them. Cheers. Collect (talk) 21:33, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

I've often observed a phenomenon in others (and truth be told, in myself, although I recognize the fault and try to overcome it). One initially assigns a position to an individual based upon too little information, and then, when additional information comes in, rather than modifying the initial belief, it is sometimes viewed through the lens of the original belief and reinforces that belief. To invent a bland example, you might see a post and conclude the person isn't a thoughtful person. They then follow up with an another post, and you convince yourself that it is further evidence they aren't very thoughtful. However, if you had originally assigned them to a thoughtful "bucket" the exact same post might be supportive evidence. The best example I can think of is Eric, who manages to persuade some editor that he is unreasonably dismissive of the views of others, and then, when a post could be viewed as properly dismissive of an idiotic position, it will be viewed as simply dismissive of a position, and further evidence of the initial position.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Cold?

	Best wishes
	for the holidays and 2014 from a warmer place than where you probably are ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, and best wishes back to you, but your temperature timing is not quite what you might guess. Kudpung. When I left my house Saturday morning, we have over a foot of snow. We spent the weekend in NYC, and it hit 70 degrees F today. Maybe not as warm as where you are, but closer than you might have guessed.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:54, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

speed in deleting g13s

If you continue go as fast as you're going, the bot will immediately nominate another batch, and it will soon be impossible for those of us who are actually trying to look at articles for screening out possibilities to do this. You may not want to do this yourself, but it would be considerate to give others a chance. I know you're not prohibited from doing this, but that doesn't make it fair. DGG ( talk ) 22:11, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

I was told it spits out 50 each hour. That's all I'm doing. You've been given months of notice, so I don't understand the problem.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:29, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

• • 50/hour =1200/day. The problem is that nobody can review at that rate. We have indeed been reviewing them for months, and have been postponing about 1 in 10. DGG ( talk ) 01:35, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, that math sounds unassailable, but it misses that there aren't that many admins doing deletions through the night. The first batch I see in the morning are often several hours old. There are more than that disposed of each day, but that's because you an Anne and others are manually nominating many, presumably after review. I see Hasteur agreed to a slowdown. I'm concerned we will stop making progress.--S Philbrick(Talk) 12:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Infobox Photo Discussion

Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion regarding the better photo for an article Infobox? Thanks, and Happy Holidays. Nightscream (talk) 23:47, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Responded.--S Philbrick(Talk) 02:38, 27 December 20, 13 (UTC)

Hi, Sphilbrick. Thanks for participating in the discussion. Sorry to bug you again, but a fourth photo has been added to the discussion since you voiced your opinion. Could you post again to indicate whether your previously-stated preference remains the same? Thanks, and have a Happy New Year! Nightscream (talk) 18:42, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

question

Hello Sphilbrick,

Very new to submitting to Wikipedia. I need assistance with why the article I submitted (CHEVYBOY/singer, rapper) was not accepted and also help with editing and resubmitting it to Wikipedia. Thank you.

Boogiempls (talk) 04:47, 30 December 2013 (UTC)Boogiempls

Answered at your talk page.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:34, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Women's Basketball Season Pages

As I mentioned earlier, I am attempting to create 2013-14 talkback pages for all the women's basketball teams. However I would like to know if there are any others interested in helping out. I have no problem doing them, but I can honestly say I wouldn't be able to finish all of them until January at the current speed I have been doing talkback pages (3 to 4 a day on the weekends, 1 or 2 on weekdays). So far I have found 20 season talkback pages- 10 WCC, 7 Big 12, 1 ACC, and 2 AAC. I've done 17 of those (all the WCC and Big 12 w/ plans to start on the Southland next week), but I can honestly say I won't have time to do more than 1 or 2 on any given day until the end of October. On the weekends I can probably do more than 4 or 5, but I honestly spend more than 2 hours minimum searching out coaching change resources, schedule references, TV information, etc. So can we find out if anyone else wants to help make them? If so, I have created more than half of the conference standings templates already, and I will have the rest of them finished no later than tomorrow afternoon. They can be found at Wiki at under Category:2013–14 American women's college basketball standings templates so they can easily be accessed by anyone creating a team page. Bigddan11 (talk) 20:39, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Bigddan11 Sorry, but what's a talkback page? I see you are active on standings templates, but that obviously isn't what you mean.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 20:52, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps season team page is a better description. For example, here is the 2013–14 BYU Cougars women's basketball team talkback page, season page, team page, whatever you want to call it. I have done them for all the WCC teams and 7 of the Big 12 teams. Bigddan11 (talk) 20:55, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

OK, that makes more sense. I was planning to do some, but they are a lot of work. Is this a build it and they will come concept? I find it hard to justify an article for a single season when there isn't even an article on the team? If the Group2 table at Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Women's basketball/US College Division 1 is accurate, only one of the WCC teams BYU Cougars women's basketball has an article on the team. Why would we have an article on a single season before we have enough interest in the overall team page?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 21:01, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

As an aside, but a relevant aside, I'm discouraged about my efforts to find more editors. I created Duke Blue Devils women's basketball the other day, pointed it out to two very active Duke fans, one of whom was mortified that a Duke page would need to be created by a UConn fan, promised to contribute, but has done nothing. I pleaded with some Stanford fans, even found one who literally wrote a book about Stanford fans, but she has no interest in helping out.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 21:06, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Bigddan11 I hope you noticed that I created rosters for most of the Big 12 teams, so those can be copied over. I also left some questions on your talk page.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 21:39, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

The main value of having individual season team pages is it provides more details for what occurs during the actual season instead of relying on the most famous coaches and players that get listed under the main team page. If done correctly, on an individual team page you also provide a link to the most current season, though most of these teams still need their team pages done as well. I'm willing to work on the team pages once I get the individual season pages done, but I've found people will be more likely to help if they can find their mos recent season on the deal.

As for adding it to a tab, the advantage would be that you can copy and paste most of the information from the previous season, which means having to update the new coaches, players, and schedules while getting those references. It makes it where you don't have to include the most recent roster on the team page, since you link to the current season team page and find the roster there. With as much info as I put on a BYU page, it still takes me an hour and a half to two hours to put together, but the original one I did took nearly 4 hours, so it's a huge time saver. It also helps make it where you don't risk having duplicates occur. Hopefully that answers any questions you asked me. If not, I'm sorry, but I guess I didn't fully understand it. Bigddan11 (talk) 23:46, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I hope you are right that it will be easier to find editor to help if there is a current season page. I'm not convinced, but we can see what happens. I'll work on adding some season pages, but there are enough to do, that if I start with schools with a team page, I won't run out of things to do. I was planning to do Hartford, Duke and Florida Gulf Coast first, then look at some others. I don't understand As for adding it to a tab, the advantage would be that you can copy and paste most of the information.... What does this mean? What is a tab? Do you mean table?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:09, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for adding Gonzaga's roster. It hadn't been added solely because last time I visited their site, they still didn't have the roster listed.

What I meant by "adding it to the tab" is this. I thought you were asking if you should add a section on the Group Table list showing the current season rosters. I was saying if you wanted to add it there, that was your choice, but one of the advantages would be that it would list which ones have been done this season and show which still needed to be done, much like the Standings Templates show. For those of us who are actually working on the WikiProject, it would make it easier in showing what still needed to be done. By the way, did you realize that 10 conferences weren't listed on the Group Tables? From what I can see the America East, Big South, MAAC, MEAC, Northeast, Patriot League, Southern, Southland, SWAC, and WAC are missing from the Group Tables.

Yes, I know many conferences are missing. There are so few of us active, and some of the more prominent conferences have so much to do, I haven't gotten to some of the others.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 11:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I added columns; I marked the WCC completed. will look at others later--SPhilbrick(Talk) 12:18, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I searched for teams in the Group 1 and Group 2 table, and added them. Let me know if I missed any. Did you do any season pages in Group 3?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 12:57, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I added UMKC, which was the only team I saw still missing, to the list of WAC teams on the table. I also marked the WAC season pages as being complete as I finished all the WAC pages this weekend. Bigddan11 (talk) 23:52, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Bigddan11, nice work. How do you create the schedules, do you have some trick? I did a couple today, but they are hard work.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I copy the schedule template from another team page. I then paste the copy in the one I'm doing and update the team, date, time, etc to be the correct info. In the case of the WAC pages, I did it by copying and pasting the men's teams pages and then just changed it to the women's info. I also keep a second page link to Wiki open so I can type in something like "Utah Valley Wolverines" as needed and have the stadium info correct. Bigddan11 (talk) 02:01, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I copy the schedule into Excel, then build a template. Not sure which is easier, but I had hoped maybe you had some source of schedules that was already in a nice format.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 12:03, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Afraid not. The schedule format I use is solely the format that Wiki already has. However I don't include the categories that I'm not going to keep track of. If I'm not going to do high scorer, high rebounder, Story link, etc., then I don't include them. I also make sure I Wiki link everything that has a link. You may or may not have noticed I redid the UConn women's schedule so it is more like the others. However I deleted all the SNY TV games since SNY's contract only guarantees them home games (as well as conference road games if the opposing team will grant them broadcast rights). They haven't announced anywhere which games SNY has picked up on the women's side this season, even though they have on the men's side. I had at least 3 games that said SNY that had been picked up by an ESPN Network. Do you think you can get this fixed. 2013–14 Southern Utah T–Birds basketball team? In the info box, it says Southern Utah T-Birds women's basketball. It doesn't need to say women's, and I'm not sure how you get it not to list it, but I know you have managed to get it fixed on schools like Baylor and Texas Tech. I get the sneaky suspicion the same thing is going to happen when I get to Montana. Bigddan11 (talk) 18:05, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Will look into it shortly.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 18:21, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. Don't immediately see why, will check with my template expert.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:22, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Got an answer at VPT Tried to make the fix for the T–Birds, but it didn't seem to work.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:23, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Frietjes Fixed it so that it works for Southern Utah. It does work for Montana.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:03, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Bigddan11 I updated UConn tv--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:10, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Got at least one more template to fix on the women's side. 2013–14 Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball team comes up as Central Arkansas Sugar Bears women's basketball instead of Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball. Bigddan11 (talk) 19:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

I'll try to look into it this weekend--SPhilbrick(Talk) 23:02, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Also of quick note, after reading the women's coaches profiles on the Southeastern Louisiana athletic website, I have changed the Southeastern Louisiana women's pages to Lady Lions. Every one of the coaches pages on women's sports calls the Southeastern women's teams Lady Lions. Bigddan11 (talk) 21:28, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

I checked my list and I have Lady Lions, so I think I'm fine. Great job keeping these current.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:08, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Deadlink

The deadlink at Asymptotic theory you asked about isn't in the Internet Wayback Machine and I don't know where else to get it so I removed it from the external links. RJFJR (talk) 17:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

OK thanks, I suspected that would be necessary, but hoped you might find something.--S Philbrick(Talk) 17:56, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year Sphilbrick!

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Sphilbrick: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 05:46, 1 January 2014 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2014}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Thanks Northamerica1000!!

Image formats

Hi, thank you for contributing File:MB PRIZES 2013 reduced.jpg. However, it has been uploaded in JPEG format, which is inappropriate for simple, non-photographic images such as this, and has ruined the quality of the image. Would you be OK to re-save it as a PNG from wherever you got it from? Once you've done this, please add {{PNG version available}} to the description page of the JPEG version. Thank you. — Smjg (talk) 13:33, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

I replaced it. I did not add the template to the jpeg version, as it is a non-free file, unused, so I deleted it as CSD f5.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:17, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Sphilbrick. You have new messages at Challengethelimits's talk page.
Message added 01:01, 7 January 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Challengethelimits (talk) 01:01, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Permissions for images

Hi,

I've left a note for you at ticket 2013110810011964.

TheOriginalSoni (talk) 20:12, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

I think that's carrying things too far, but I've made a request.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Please also see [1]. I request you to ask for permission from the photographer the next time you see a permissions ticket.

Regards, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 04:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

AFC Discussion

Thank you for notifying me of the current AFC discussion. You made a response about the specific article and its references that I clarified because you were actually wrong about number of sources and I defended my position. Please don't think my response on there is an attack on you, it is merely me showing exactly my thought process when declining the submission. Thank you again for having the decency to notify me. Have a great day! Chris1834 (talk) 14:51, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

I would be interested in discussing this further, but I'd like to sit down and review the sequence more carefully. As a minor note, I was a bit hasty at first, I knew this, but didn't see much of an option. I was carpooling with a colleague for a trip to NY, had a delay due to ice, so knew I had some time to look at Wikipedia – I noticed Jimbo opening a discussion about AfC in general, with a specific link to an article you had edited. I was, and am still disappointed that the discussion went on as long as it did without anyone bothering to notify you, or notifying the project. My first order of business was to make sure you knew and post a notice in the AfC thread. I did react, and possibly over-reacted to the comment about half the sources. I'm happy to see your clarification, and sorry if my comment put you in a bad light. I know the AfC process is struggling with the volume, and think it generally does excellent work, but with the move to the Draft namespace, there's always room to rethink the process. I do not have much time today, but hope to find some time soon.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:42, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Images

These files are now named Auchtermuchty Railway Station.jpg and Ladybank - Perth Railway.jpg Alanyoung2154 (talk) 14:33, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I see that the permission has been handled.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:11, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

pohatan chief?

on the pohatan page, you posted a picture of someone named "crown prince" as a chief of the pohatans? He is NOT the Chief and no one can vouch for him for anything.. Please do not post unsubstantiated pics. Ramapoughnative (talk) 00:54, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

That photo was accompanied by legal documents provided by:

• Powhatan Renape Nation
• Rankokus Indian Reservation

I'm not at liberty to share the person's name with you, but it appears to be someone associated with the state of NJ.

None of this proves the documents are legitimate, but the inclusion of the photo was not done casually.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:08, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am a pending commissioner of the state of New Jersey. The Powhatans do not recognize him as a leader and it was requested by the Powhatans to have it removed. Rancocus is no longer a site it was returned back to the state. Ramapoughnative (talk) 13:54, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

You are relatively new to Wikipedia, so may be unaware that we cannot take someone's word. If the Powhatans do not recognize him as a leader, is that written down somewhere? If it is we can remove it, but we generally do not remove something simply because one asks. You mentioned that Rancocus is not longer a site. I'm not quite sure what that means. Are you saying it is no longer a reservation? Do you have documentation? How does the current status of the location have any bearing on whether he is who he claimed to be? We are very interested in getting it right, if his claim is false, but we need some evidence.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:00, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Annoying talk page stalkerThere are several locations/communities in the US that make the claim of Pohatan, or Powhatan, being a chief, there are also many scholarly journals which cite in some manner that he was indeed recognized as a source of authority within his specific tribe. IF there is a legit documented or recognized source which disputes this claim, it is certainly welcomed to place this within the article. However, I must agree, until that time, a source must be produced to buttress the assertionCoal town guy (talk) 15:07, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

2013–14 Livingston F.C. season

Hello, a page was deleted "2013–14 Livingston F.C. season". I was hoping you could restore it as a draft so that I can update it with credible sources and fix any incorrect information. Is this possible? Thank you so much in advance.

 Done Draft:2013–14 Livingston F.C. season--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:22, 13 June 2020 (UTC)