User talk:JBW

This account was previously known as JamesBWatson, but was renamed to JBW on 19 September 2019. Neither James nor Watson is my real name.

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Multi-stage fitness test

• That info you are trying to remove it's been there since the creation of the entry in 2006, if it's been there all that time is for a reason, me myself and I am sure many others come back to that entry specifically for those calculations.

  Regarding the sources, the source of the calculations is the multi stage fitness or beep test itself and anyone can check if they are correct or not, don't need an eminence to tell us, just don't want to redo them every time.

  Kind Regards. Rodersb (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 09:26, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Requesting for Article

Dear Administrator, Thank you for your contributions, but I would request you to Draft an Article by using the previous details and citations, for "Aarushi Nishank". I am seeking for help or request or trying from years but couldn't get. Please help me with these too many complications & regulations for drafting a new article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlantis7807 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@Atlantis7807: I have looked into this fairly extensively, including checking the history of deleted Wikipedia pages about Arushi Nishank, the history of user accounts which have created those pages, and the references in the article you created, and also making my own searches for information about her on other websites. As a result, I have a number of things I may be able usefully to say about this. However, before I say anything else, I will be grateful if you say exactly what your own personal connection to Arushi Nishank is. JBW (talk) 09:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@JBW Aarushi Nishank is an Indian celeb and I handle her social profiles along with couple of her digital related stuffs. It'll be really appreaciated if you can draft an article for her as per your own searches. And, the Fly gif is really amazing. LOl.! Atlantis7807 (talk) 11:34, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@JBW Looking forward to your guidance for the same. On what paremeters should I work on? It's not true that this celebrity isn't popular, so, when it comes to drafting an article about her all the mentions in the content we include are 100% unique and plagiarism free. Please tell me what has to be done now? Atlantis7807 (talk) 05:53, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Template:Under construction

Hi there. I don't know if we've ever interacted before, but in case we haven't, pleased to meet you. Your edit (which, btw can't be reverted by non-admins) is one which I understand making a change, just not so drastic. There is already Template:In use which serves basically the same purpose. I use the construction template frequently, and it's due to the research I need to do in old newspapers, which can be very time consuming. That being said, I would have no issue with you changing it to 24 hours, as I agree that it's absurd to leave it up for days at a time. But sometimes I don't get back to the article for 12-16 hours due to real life stuff. Anyway, hope that makes sense. And thanks for all you do on the project. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:41, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@Onel5969: I certainly know your username well, having seen you around many times over the years, but I don't remember ever having had any direct contact with you before. Naturally I realise that, as you say, getting back to an article to carry on with editing in progress may take quite a while. However, my feeling is that in that case one should accept that in that period others may make significant changes, and that discouraging them from doing so is questionable. I see these templates as reasonable only when it's a question of trying to avoid immediate edit conflicts while one is actively editing. However, a compromise of 24 hours would, I think, be much better than what was there before. JBW (talk) 07:39, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I agree with the 24 hours range. Even 16 or 18 hours would work for me. But I also used to do a little bit over at NPP, and other editors use it similarly to the way I do, and they may only have an hour or two each day to be able to work on an article, then they have to go to school/work and don't get back to it until about the same time next day. So that's where the 24 came from. Regardless, thanks for your understanding.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:07, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Minor point on English interdental geminates at word boundaries -- wɪθˈθæŋks

More FYI than correction: at least in isolation, my Midwestern AmE produces [wɪθˈθæŋks], seemingly in any register. I can voice the first one, but it does take a bit of effort. That's anecdotal and might be challenged by recordings of natural speech in context, but it does suggest that "With thanks" is pronounced wɪðˈθæŋks, not wɪθˈθæŋks is not valid as a general statement. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 17:21, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

@Barefoot through the chollas: Yes. Since making the post you refer to, I have checked both by looking in dictionaries and by asking a native speaker of American English, and discovered that, while both pronunciations exist, wɪθ is indeed the more usual one in American English. I must have heard it countless thousands of times, and most often not noticed, as my attention was on the meaning rather than the sound, and moreover the preposition "with" is rarely likely to be the focus in an utterance. I had very occasionally noticed the θ, but on those few occasions had put it down to an idiosyncracy of the particular speaker, without giving it much thought. JBW (talk) 18:42, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Anna Koimantou

Dear JBW I am anna Koumantou and I can provide you proof for everything I am adding in my profile. Please amend and accept my changes

If you need further jnfo please contact me [redacted].

I dont add any information which is NOT true or accurate Best regards Anna Happy to send u the content and you can update it on my behalf AKoumantaki (talk) 08:02, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

@AKoumantaki: First of all, please read Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest. Secondly, if what you have said is true then you should find no diffat all in providing links to reliable sources confirming that. Membership of Olympic teams, for example, is very widely publicised. If you can provide links to reliable sites which confirm what you have said then I will be perfectly happy to correct the article for you.

Publicly posting personal email addresses on Wikipedia is not a good idea. If you use the "preferences" link at the top of the page you can set an email address on your Wikipedia account, and then you can email other editors through Wikipedia without making your email address public. However, it is much better to post information on Wikipedia, so that other editors can see it, unless there is material to email which needs to be kept confidential. JBW (talk) 08:14, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Great and thank you. I will provide all the info you need once collect everything. Can you forward you attachements confirming that? Major mistake - i was born in Athens foo not in Patras. AKoumantaki (talk) 08:45, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Correction: can I sent you proof of papers confirming some info as some if them are not on the web AKoumantaki (talk) 08:45, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

I ran across something odd while patrolling Recent Changes

37.111.192.0/24 is evidently having an edit war with itself at Commander of the Army (Sri Lanka).   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:43, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

@Skywatcher68: There have actually been only three edits from that range, as far as I can see, and I don't see any edit-warring there. However, there have been far more edits from the larger range 37.111.192.0/19, so maybe that's what you have in mind. At a quick glance I didn't se any obvious edit-warring against the same IP range, and I'm afraid I'm far too tired to put in the effort it would take to investigate more thoroughly. If you feel like spelling out to me "this edit changed X to Y, this one changed it back, and then this one did so and so..." then by all means do, but otherwise I'm afraid I'm giving it a miss. JBW (talk) 20:17, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, 37.111.192.0/19; all those similar numbers make it difficult for me to tell which is which. Could just be a big coincidence so I'll leave it alone for now.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 20:39, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

IP harassment

Hey JPW, you know the IPs you blocked for a month from editing my talkpage? Well things are kind of bad. On Toyah Battersby’s page, the exact same IP is still hell bent on harassing me and reverting my edits to make me angry, per their summaries. I really want them to stop, Blanchey has warned them many times too. Think you could help? WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:46, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

The IPs are basically stalking my edit history on purpose just to revert whatever I do. WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:50, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

You see the edit I made was in no way majorly disruptive, any form of vandalism etc it was a reliable source from a reliable news site and it was described as “Fancruft” so I went to read the policy and I noticed it never said “you cannot add [this]” there was infact no strict policy. The IPs are out of control. WikiFlame50 (talk) 20:55, 3 May 2022 (UTC)