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DYK RfC

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DYK RfC

• As a listed GA participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should be eligible to appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance. Gilderien Chat|Contributions03:07, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Bus Stop's disruptive editing

Hi Tony. There's a serious problem with Bus Stop and his disruptive editing. Check out this, which is a transparent attenpt to grotesquely distort what was in the source. This comes mere hours after being told to stop. He is fully conscious of his actions (though astoundingly feigning innocence). He is clearly not editing in good faith. Curly Turkey (gobble) 03:34, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Gypsy

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DYK for Claire Underwood

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Frank Underwood (House of Cards)

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Chapter 1 (House of Cards)

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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Of potential interest: Research on DYK page views, with a more detailed analysis of some of your hooks

Hi. I posted some research at Research:Anatomy of English Wikipedia Did You Know traffic that I thought may be of interest to you. If you have any feedback, much appreciated. --LauraHale (talk) 08:01, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

File:Pilot (The Cosby Show) monopoly lesson.png listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Pilot (The Cosby Show) monopoly lesson.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. George Ho (talk) 01:10, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Re: In a World...

That's okay. Would you mind replacing it with another entry? Thanks. Alex Shih^Talk 06:49, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

FOUR lists

Sorry, I can't remember how I originally did those lists. I've created User:J Milburn/List for Tony, which lists every article in Category:Did you know articles that are featured articles that isn't listed on Wikipedia:Four Award/Records. This is by no means a perfect check (as the category is incomplete, and some FAs formerly a DYK perhaps won't have been through GAC), but may help you find some more. Sorry! J Milburn (talk) 09:25, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Asof

How do i get the As of template to be lowercase? Koala15 (talk) 23:58, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind i figured it out. Koala15 (talk) 00:00, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Requesting your opinion on a photo

Hi. We really need your opinion on which of these photos would make the best Infobox portrait for the Rick Remender article. Could you please offer your opinion in that discussion? The most recent subsection of that discussion is here, so you can just chime in there if you don't want to read the whole thread. I really appreciate it. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 17:09, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

In a World...

I did not remove anything from the page. I simply moved the background farther down the page, after the plot and cast because in every film article I've seen in the past, those two things always go first. Yes, I should have used an edit summary, but you also should have made sure that it was actually vandalism before treating it as such. JDDJS (talk) 04:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Wham support/oppose

The only bold strong oppose under my signature is me quoting Modernist in disgust. Since the ones responsible for promoting/archiving are humans and not robots, I can't imagine it possibly being an issue. Curly Turkey (gobble) 11:42, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to see the article was archived. I hope it doesn't discourage you from trying again, though I totally sympathize with why you wouldn't. Curly Turkey (gobble) 00:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

I'll likely support, though there are things I'd prefer to see worded differently. Curly Turkey (gobble) 13:08, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for In a World...

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Pricasso

Because of a discussion on my talk page, the DYK nomination has been re-opened. SL93 (talk) 23:15, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for all the help! Koala15 (talk) 04:08, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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This week's articles for improvement

Full rack of fifteen balls, ready for the break shot Hello, TonyTheTiger: The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections. Pool (cue sports) Posted by: Northamerica1000(talk) 09:41, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Image review for Whaam!

Hello Tony, maybe it's a good idea to get a second opinion for the fair-use situation in Whaam!. User:Masem is active in fair-use discussions and also seems to have some knowledge in the topic itself; they may be better able to judge the relevance of the used images, especially of the sketch. Just a suggestion to avoid any unnecessary, lengthy disputes for the second nomination - of course i am glad to help, if you have any further questions on images for the nomination. GermanJoe (talk) 20:04, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

GLAM and WALRUS

Hi Tony. GLAM isn't really a centralized effort, but I've been involved in it for a couple of years, have done a fair aount of museum and library stuff, and sort of started the Wikipedia Loves Libraries thing. There are no hard eligibility requirements for WALRUS, we just want people who are reliable and have a bit of wiki experience, and who have the trust of their local community (incidentally, we're in the midst of another WALRUS naming debate - meta:WALRUS/August 2013!). Also, thanks for pointing out my error, of course I meant Sept 21 for Wikipedia Takes America.--Pharos (talk) 20:24, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Carlos Brown (American football)

In looking at some Mich. football articles, it appears that the article you developed on Carlos Brown (American football) was heavily vandalized. I'm not sure what's vandalism and what's not, but thought you'd want to know. I also notified Jweiss, and he's done some reverting, but it could definitely use another set of eyes (and some updating as well). Cbl62 (talk) 05:18, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

WP:FOUR

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Back at cha

Nice to hear from you, Tony. Things are going fine here, I just won a bet and am on my way out next door to collect my margarita prize, and likely will NOT be doing much editing afterwards. My only Chicago news is that I just received a nice red tee-shirt from my daughter - it was the shirt from her school during the teachers' strike last year. I wear it with pride. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 23:37, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Help cropping out a PD-ineligible portion of a copyrighted image for a potential WP:TFA

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I replied there again - I went back to the original and did a tighter cut of just the bare letters on an even background - I think I prefer it - see what you think - Begoon ^talk 11:08, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

And replied again. Colour version is uploaded. Begoon ^talk 08:02, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Wham!

I might cut some repitive bits an pieces, are you ok with this. Ceoil (talk) 10:16, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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I started another reassessment of Entranceways at Main Street at Lamarck Drive and Smallwood Drive. See the discussion at this page. --Orlady (talk) 04:11, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:TonyTheTiger/sandbox/FOURRFC

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Re: Wikipedia:Peer review/2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team/archive1

Sadly, yes. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 13:42, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

On the other hand, you caught me at the right moment, and I posted my suggestions to the article's talk page about five minutes ago. Finetooth (talk) 22:13, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Oh, bother! I see this morning that what I reviewed was actually 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament rather than the one you asked me to review. I think the one I reviewed has a good chance at promotion if you are interested. It needs a little more work on the citations, mainly. My suggestions are on the talk page of the tournament article. Sorry about the mixup. Finetooth (talk) 17:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Jarmere Jenkins for deletion

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Let me politely refuse this thanks

Hey Tony, I see that you're mass-adding notices of thanks to GA reviewers, and I'd appreciate it if you'd leave me out from any further notes. Frankly, I'd prefer if we didn't interact for a bit after your spreading bad-faith accusations against me over more than a hundred project and user pages just two days ago, which to my knowledge you haven't in any way retracted. But even if that weren't the case, it's unnecessary to give to me an individual userbox for any article I review. Let's just take a break. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:09, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

This week's articles for improvement

Full rack of fifteen balls, ready for the break shot Hello, TonyTheTiger: The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections. Pool (cue sports) Posted by: Northamerica1000(talk) 06:11, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the barnstar for my work over at Tintin in America; all the best! Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:07, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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Stanley Fish

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There is some disagreement on how to discuss Stanley Fish's father's profession. Your opinion would be appreciated.Macroscope7 (talk) 21:30, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

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WP:NSONGS

Please see WP:NSONGS, the song has yet to even receive its official release as a single so why would we have an article on it? That makes zero sense. You can create it in your sandbox, and do a little thing called waiting. You might want to also see WP:TOOSOON and WP:CRYSTAL. Will it probably chart? Yes, but it is CRYSTAL BALLING to just assume it will and that the song is notable. This is why "Survival" does not have an article, when if anything Survival has been covered more by sources, the audio barely came out two-three hours, there should not be an encyclopedia article on the topic yet. Any proper content is available on the album article. The song currently fails WP:NSONGS and WP:GNG. STATic message me! 06:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

There is a lot reliably sourced content out there. Wikipedia's job is to summarize this. This passes both NSONGS and GNG for this reason. We have every reason to believe that this article will grow to more than a stub. Readers are probably googling and looking for content.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:41, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

And everything that was mentioned in the article is already found at The Marshall Mathers LP 2. The article definitely does not pass NSONGS and GNG, you might want to have a good look through of the two pages. "We have every reason to believe that this article will grow to more than a stub. Readers are probably googling and looking for content." sounds alot like WP:CRYSTAL to me. You really need to understand WP:DR and have a proper discussion before jumping to AN. But I see that you have a negative history there, which makes you taking it there make even less sense. STATic message me! 06:55, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

The fact that people are denying a place for this article and forcing the content to be in the album, has no bearing on whether this article should exist. Yes it fails the three enumerated reasons, but those are not criteria, but rather suggested considerations. Reread the first sentence: "Songs and singles are probably notable if they have been the subject[1] of multiple, non-trivial[2] published works whose sources are independent of the artist and label. This includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries and reviews". This song passes that test. Let your fingers do the walking on google. There are several articles out there.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:03, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

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Editing of my proposal

Tony, your recent edits were not properly done, as they changed and substantially altered mine. I haven't been involved in expressing any vitriol to you during this RfC, but I'm entirely serious when I say I won't tolerate another user, regardless of status and seniority, editing my comments to say something I didn't say. This not only violates WP:TPO, it is not helpful to the argument. Now we have to devolve into (potentially) another discussion, and you know there are going to be people who jump on this as just a chance to bash you. This is a warning -- I don't know whether you did what you did in good faith or not, but that's what I'll assume. Another instance will be proof otherwise. Cdtew (talk) 17:46, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Million Award

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		For your contributions to bring Michelle Obama (estimated annual readership: 1,032,563) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:15, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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I'm just giving out the top tier for now--articles with a current estimated readership of 1,000,000 or more for the year--but feel free to claim whatever else seems fair. Though we've been disagreeing lately, I still greatly appreciate all your work on articles like these. Congrats again! -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:15, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

1951–52 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

Thought you might be interested in this one -- the first racially integrated Michigan basketball team. I'm planning to work on it a bit more and submit to DYK. With all the work you've done on Michigan Wolverines basketball topics, I wondered if you knew of other source materials that could be used to improve the article, or if you might like to help out. Cbl62 (talk) 05:18, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Concerning the painting Whaam!

TonyTheTiger—you are removing sourced and relevant material from the article. Can you please weigh in for instance here with an explanation or justification? Thanks. Bus stop (talk) 14:38, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), Dana boomer (submissions), Status (submissions), Ed! (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

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Comment requested

Hey, Tony, are you interested on commenting on this? It got quickly buried. Curly Turkey (gobble) 21:24, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Crisco 1492. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Wikipedia talk:Four Award that didn't seem very civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia needs people like you and me to collaborate, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Please do not imply that another editor is a racist without substantiating your claim with diffs.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:54, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon

User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:59, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Notice

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Continued policy violations from User:TonyTheTiger at WT:FOUR. Thank you.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:37, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Blocked again

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• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Continued policy violations from User:TonyTheTiger at WT:FOUR

For your unfounded accusations of racism at WT:FOUR and WP:ANI, which closely match your behaviour in June 2012 ( AN link, talk page link) when you were blocked for 48 hours for similar unfounded accusations of racism, I have blocked you for 48 hours. Bencherlite^Talk 12:26, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

User:Masem

Can someone explain to Masem (talk · contribs), what I feel he already knows. If he no longer opposes Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Whaam!/archive2, he is suppose to strike his original oppose. I am sure he knows this and should not have to be told, but for some reason he has not done so.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:54, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Tony, not only did he strike his oppose, but he supported. (Redacted) Curly Turkey (gobble) 15:07, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Note that my request was made at 13:54 and he supported at 14:06. What is your point?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:36, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

The "point" is that what should have been a simple request was instead used as an opportunity to insinuate. What was the point of that? Curly Turkey (gobble) 23:49, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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