User talk:Malcolmxl5

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These are being fixed because they are displaying at Special:LintErrors/multi-colon-escape. Changing them in this way actually fixes the page so that the items display correctly and display the original intent of the editors whose sigs were changed. --Izno (talk) 23:34, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

You're reverting me after I left a message. Please respond instead of further reverts. --Izno (talk) 23:56, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Izno, it’s a simple request. Do not edit my archive pages. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:59, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, and the simple response is, "why?" --Izno (talk) 00:04, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Because I ask you not to do so. That should be sufficient. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:07, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for locking Ed Henrys account. T His children do not deserve any of this. Milam77 (talk) 03:44, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Ah, yes. Quite a lot of what was going on there was uncalled for and unnecessary. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:52, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Stating facts is one thing but opinions and attacking children is another. Thank you again. Milam77 (talk) 03:58, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Im afraid this is going to go on all night. Milam77 (talk) 04:10, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

The disruption has slowed right down. Bongwarrior, who is an admin, is keeping an eye on the article and on Nerdpsych. We’ll see how it goes. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:19, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much Milam77 (talk) 04:33, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Military Age

The military age should be raised to 21 to keep anyone who cannot buy a beer off the battlefields. It is totally inappropriate to send to war anybody who has not yet been granted all adult privileges, including drinking and gambling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.200.0.116 (talk) 05:16, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Fine, but an encyclopaedic article is not the place for your opinion. Have you considered lobbying your local congressman? --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 05:20, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Amadeus American Producer

Hello I hope all is well. I noticed that you deleted a well known producer's wikipage.

I don't know how to contact you, privately. But if you have recommendations to make on the page, please contact me so we can fix it. My email is (Redacted) ENKWMS (talk) 22:32, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

The way forward would be to draft an article using high-quality sources (reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy) with significant coverage of the subject ("Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content). --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 05:58, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Small error

In the page User talk:Malcolmxl5/Archive 3 three errors have been spotted. Three of them are of multi colon excape problem which needs to be rectfied. With regardsAdithyak1997 (talk) 15:10, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Adithyak1997: The talk archive is fully protected, so please do not edit his talk archives (even mine in my talk page). KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 15:17, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

I cannot edit his page. I just informed him to do that edit so that almost all multi escape problems are solved in english wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adithyak1997 (talk • contribs) 15:21, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Bir Tawil

Thanks for the protection. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:05, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

No problem, Beyond My Ken. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:21, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

David Cassidy

Hey,

Hope you don't mind but I changed the protection for this. Over here in Florida there's been websites falsely claiming he's died and I get the feeling this will go on longer than 24 hours. Feel free to change it though 5 albert square (talk) 02:25, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

No problem, 5 albert square, better safe than sorry! --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:38, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

My thinking too especially as it's a BLP article. His poor family having to go through this. 5 albert square (talk) 03:44, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it’s very sad. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

What do you reckon to unprotecting it in a week? Should give any hype about his death the chance to die down 5 albert square (talk) 01:32, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi 5 albert square. Yes, that should do it. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:45, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting my user talkpage

Thank you for protecting my user talk - that persistent spamming vandal had come back with a vengeance. He spams my user talk and some other user talk with content/coding about "LarryBoy"/"Pajama Sam/Thomas the Tank Engine"/etc.
The last time he did this to my page was March 2017. He's also done the same or very similar disruptive editing on my user talk in September 2016. Shearonink (talk) 07:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

No problem, Shearonink. I’ve not heard of this vandal before, I will have to look out for it. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 08:40, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Bill Robinson

Hi Malcolmxl5, I'm just working on an update for the Bill Robinson article and I'm missing a little detail. I'm trying to complete the career stats table, but I don't know of any online sources that have historical stats for Charlton players. I see from the WP:FOOTY Booklist that you're listed as having a copy of "Cameron, Colin (2003). Home & Away with Charlton Athletic 1920–2004. If you still have this and it's to hand, if you could do me a massive favour and fill in the gaps for me, that'd be great (or, if you know of any online sources, that'd also be great!). I've dumped the table on the talk page. If you can't, don't worry. I'll add it to my list for a BL visit. Thanks, Nzd (talk) 00:20, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi Nzd, I’ve filled in the Charlton Athletics stats. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:04, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Brilliant, thank you. Nzd (talk) 19:35, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

learning by mistake

So an admin creates an article under a cryptic title containing an internal mailing list and you call it "learning by mistake". Wow. Yecril (talk) 09:23, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Quick request

This probably should have been done before, but since this edit summary appears to meet the criteria for REVDEL as a personal attack, would you mind deleting it? Bneu2013 (talk) 23:30, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I missed this one (I was away over the Christmas holidays). I’ve had a look, it’s not polite but I don’t think it rises to the level of being ‘grossly offensive’ to warrant being redacted and simply ignoring it is sufficient in the circumstances. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 08:58, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Deletion

Hi Malcolmn,

Just wondering. Why is this page deleted?

07:26, 20 December 2017 Malcolmxl5 (talk | contribs) deleted page Emily Lam Ho (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace (TW))

Thanks for helping.

Mkou88 (talk) 06:39, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

References

Hello Mkou88.

The page had earlier been moved out of article space into user space and all that was left was a redirect that I deleted as we don’t retain redirects that cross over from article space to user space.

The page itself had been moved to User:Cashannam/ Emily Lam Ho, then to User:Cashannam/Emily Lam Ho and then to Draft:Emily Lam Ho, where it was deleted by Primefac as it had been created by a banned or blocked user in violation of their ban or block and also as uncontroversial maintenance, citing the community consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleanor Lam to delete the article and that the creator was a sockpuppet.

--Malcolmxl5 (talk) 07:17, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

JC Gonzalez

Hi Malcolmxl5. You an article titled JC Gonzalez deleted this back in Janaury 2016 per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/JC Gonzalez. As you can see, it (or something with the same name) has just been recreated. Is this the same article you deleted per tha AfD and should it be tagged for speedy per WP:G4 if it is?. FWIW, it looks like the creator AshnaAgg is a new SPA whose only edits have been related to working on this in their user sandbox before directly moving it to the mainspace. It could be a good-faith recreation or the someone with a COI or even being paid to edit. The article didn't go through AfC and looks like it was just copied-and-pasted into the mainspace, so it's not clear whether it's a completely original new improved version over what was AfD'd, or a copyvio problem per WP:PATT. I cannot tell since I don't have the tools to see what was deleted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:15, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Marchjuly, it is similar but not identical. In particular, it has 22 citations whereas the page that went to AfD had only four. Given that, I would suggest assessing it for notability (do the citations show significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject?) and sending it back to AfD if appropriate. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:16, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. There are other editors besides the creator now working on it, so maybe whatever issues it had at the time it was deleted have now been resolved. I just was curious as to whether G4 applied, but that doesn't seem to be the case. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:24, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi again Malcolmxl5. Just thought you should know about Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Texancool/Archive#18 January 2018. I was not aware that the article had been being re-created by a sock when I posted above and have no connection to the SPI. For what it's worth, it did seem, however, that others beside the sock had started working on it and were trying to improve it. I'm not sure if that would've been enough to survive an AfD, but the sources were probably a bit better this time around, at least good enough for the article to not be tagged for speedy deletion. There was still quite a lot of promotional stuff in the article for sure, but it might have survived as a stub containing only the content which could be reliably sourced. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:54, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about the SPI, Marchjuly. I guess that’s the end of that. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 07:14, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi again Malcolmxl5. You might want to take a look at WP:DRV#JC Gonzalez. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Marchjuly. I have commented. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:19, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Salting

I'm probably going WP:BEANS here, but you could also protect Suvo deep Chatterjee, and similar capitalization variants? Home Lander (talk) 15:52, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Home Lander. I’ve protected Suvo deep Chatterjee and also Suvo Deep Chatterjee and Suvo Deep chatterjee. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:06, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you Home Lander (talk) 16:31, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Hey Malcolm - I was just looking at the block log for 2600:8800:FF0E:1200:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log) - currently blocked for trolling current events portals - and noticed a previous block from you for block evasion. Is this range connected to a registered master, or have they just used varying IPs to get around previous blocks? Home Lander (talk) 22:18, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Home Lander, I don’t recall that block but looking back, a block was certainly justified! I expect they were evading a block by IP hopping and I dealt with it, as I usually do, by blocking the /64 subnet. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

OK, that's what I figured. They've continued to IP-hop since then, and it led to an ANI discussion and another rangeblock. Thankfully this range seems quite exclusive to this one editor. Home Lander (talk) 22:46, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for looking into my ANI rangeblock request. Bennv3771 (talk) 12:20, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Happy to help, Bennv3771. I have since blocked a third /24 range. Let me know if they pop up elsewhere. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:22, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Fatima Togbe

Hello Malcolmxl5, Please check whether this recently recreated article qualifies for G4. Here is the link to previous deletion discussion. Regards Hitro talk 09:56, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi HitroMilanese, it’s the same person but the content is different and there are many more citations so I don’t think this is G4 material. I suggest assessing the citations for significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject and, if appropriate, taking it back to AfD. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:36, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Lady Kitty Spencer

Hi there! I noticed you recently deleted the article for Lady Kitty Spencer. I am considering rewriting the article, since she actually is notable, beyond her noble statues and relation to the royal family, as a fashion model in the United Kingdom. I wanted to check in with you before doing so. Her modeling has been covered by reliable sources, for example: Town and Country Town and Country Vanity Fair Today InStyle Hello Magazine Hello Magazine The Times Huffington Post. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 23:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Willthacheerleader18, yes, I deleted the page following the rather emphatic discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lady Kitty Spencer. No objection to recreating the article if you find significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject though I would suggest that you work on it in your user space. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 13:47, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

How did you do that?

It had me baffled! What was I doing wrong, Malcolmxl5? Was it because the 1st AfD was closed incorrectly, and the closer forgot to do something? ^{Atsme📞📧} 00:58, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

I’m not entirely sure, User:Atsme. It might be that the Page Curation tool can’t handle a second nomination or it misfired. Anyway, I came across it on the daily log and fixed it manually. :) --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:03, 4 February 2018 (UTC)