User talk:DeLarge

There used to be an paragraph at Wikipedia:Talk pages recommending that conversations be kept contiguously on one page ("How to keep a two-way conversation readable").[1] However, after a judicious piece of redirecting back and forth, it has been wiped out. Nevertheless, while I know some people carry on conversations across two User talk pages, I find this ludicrous and unintuitive. Conversations started on my talk page will most likely be continued on my talk page, while those I start on other users' pages will be continued on their pages.

Qian Zhijun

Hi, Delarge! I would like to inform you that now Qian Zhijun and Little Fatty now have articles. Or rather, they are back. They both survived a DRV. An administrator speedied them since I had started the articles even though I had not started a discussion on whether there is enough evidence to allow subjects to be restored. I started a thread on the BLP noticeboard inquiring about this, the discussion moved to DRV, and after a lot of effort from not only me, but a Singaporean (User:Lonelydarksky) who helped translate articles in Chinese so I could use them as sources, the articles were restored as a result of the DRV. I must add that I cannot thank the Singaporean enough for helping me with this. The people involved in the 2007 discussions/etc not only failed to examine the sources to check for signs of in-depth analysis, but they also failed to consult Chinese speaking users to get their assistance.

After both articles were restored, to "Little Fatty" I added additional sources from academic journal articles that demonstrate notability from the academic world. Please take a look at them. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:02, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• Anyway, I e-mailed Badlydrawnjeff. He told me that he felt strangely vindicated by the matter. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:25, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

I've been following this from a distance, and was of course delighted at the outcome. Hopefully the successful DRV and article expansion will put this to bed for good. I also noticed the former Doc Glasgow (Scott Mac) has quit again, so that should end any further troubles. And I'm glad someone's let BDJ know; the way he was driven off this site after his many FA contributions was pretty unconscionable, and it does vindicate his original position. (albeit several years too late).

I may just reconsider my semi-retirement now... --DeLarge (talk) 10:20, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I took some steps to make sure that the articles would remain. After "Little Fatty" was restored, I found some academic journal articles discussing "Little Fatty" and cited them, just to cement the article's notability. At least three (Wallis and the two Cheung sources) discuss the "Little Fatty" phenomenon in depth. I also found that several books talk about it too.

I hope that Wikipedians learn from this DRV so they understand the correct way of dealing with notability issues involving foreign subjects. While the 2011 DRV had the new Chinese sources available (as for after the DRV, the four journal articles and the book sources all came in 2009 or later), I also believe that focusing the discussion on the article content and consulting a Chinese speaker helped achieve the successful restoration.

WhisperToMe (talk) 02:34, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Darn it, thought I'd checked all of them. You're quite a handy little bot, aren't you? --DeLarge (talk) 19:05, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for A (yacht)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:53, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations on a fantastic article! --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 04:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I missed it on the main page, unfortunately, but it seems to have had plenty of views despite not being used as the lede item (with an image, which would surely have boosted it further). Anyhoo, next stop: GA-class. Regards, --DeLarge (talk) 13:19, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Citroen C-Zero mess

This might be helpful Wikipedia:Notability (vehicles) as a reference point NealeFamily (talk) 22:43, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Mehh. That's just an essay, and not really germane to the issue. No-one's suggesting they're not notable, or that the articles should be deleted outright. I'm just planning on having them redirected to the "original" vehicle. --DeLarge (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Request

Hi, DeLarge. I respect your reversions about website names and have contributed to dialog on the talk pages of the affected articles. I would only suggest that opening and closing the discussion at Slant Magazine on the very same day, and closing it in favor of one's own position, might have been handled more constructively. Generally these discussions stay up for a week, and generally aren't closed before someone who had made the move has had a chance to weigh in.

I'm respectful of your requests for formal discussion on what I had thought, perhaps incorrectly, where noncontroversial moves. I ask similar respect in that you reopen this one discussion; less than one day simply doesn't give enough interested editors adequate time to comment. I'm sure two editors of good will can work this out. With regards, --Tenebrae (talk) 03:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC)