User talk:Irishguy

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It should go without saying that trolling, vandalism, and personal attacks will be promptly removed. Thanks. IrishGuy

Casey Stengel

By one interpretation, I have clearly broken the 3-revert rule on that article, having reverted the colors 4 times today. However, the combatants in this are alleged to be sockpuppets of each other, and I have treated their "work" as vandalism. Also, the semi-protection doesn't seem to be working very well. I wonder if I should just leave that page alone, or if I myself should get blocked, or what? Baseball Bugs 20:20, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The semi protection appears to have expired already. Frankly, semi protection wouldn't alter anything because the accounts aren't new enough to get caught with it. You can go to WP:RPP and request page protection outlining what the problem is. You will probably need to ask for full page protection. IrishGuy ^talk 20:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Done. Now we'll see if they take any action, or if they do, whether it's after the alleged sockpuppets have switched him back to the Mets. Thank you! P.S. I'm only watching that page because of User:Ron liebman vandalism. What a nuisance. Baseball Bugs 20:30, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Don't pay attention to them, and sometimes they go away. It's only fun when you keep reverting them and they know that it bugs you. Peace.Lsi john 20:35, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I already filed for it. What I don't get is, if these guys are sockpuppets, why aren't they blocked? Baseball Bugs 20:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

FYI, at least 2 or 3 other users were already combating this nonsense, I just wondered into it thanks to the Ron Liebman situation. You're probably right, that they're doing it just to be annoying. But they're Mets fans, which might figure into it. >:) Baseball Bugs 20:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Well I suppose that it is arguable that there is no such thing as a good Met's fan. Heh. Peace.Lsi john 20:51, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't quite make that argument. I'm just going on averages. >:) Baseball Bugs 21:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Deletion - rocknwrestling.co.uk

Hi IrishGuy, I'd like to question the deletion of an article I wrote recently. Don't worry I'm not here for a childish tirade. The article was called rocknwrestling.co.uk and was about one of my favourite websites. I've met some of the guys behind the site so I know that my inforamtion is accurate in terms of how many visits it's had in it's four month history (several thousand) and I thik the article was concise and well written. Basically I don't understand what a person is supposed to do to emphasise the importance of the subject of an article. When I read articles on companies, organizations or indeed people, I can find nothing that sets the subject matter away form anything else as more important. I explained that rocknwrestling.co.uk has quickly become like a bible to British Wrestling fans, incredibly important to us all, and I feel that it deserves a mention. There is an article on wikipedia about US wrestling journalists Daver Meltzer and RD Reynolds, now I don't know if you are at all interested in wrestling and therefore I shall not demean by assuming you are not and don't know what your talking about in my argument, I wouldn't eb presumptuous as to do this, but even if you are a wrestling fan and just wasn't aware of the website, let me explain that rocknwrestling is as important to British Wrestling fans, as the views of Dave Meltzer and RD Reynolds are to wrestling fans in the US; and to add to this, the site also gets international visits, the coutries now include Germany, Finland, Spain, the Cocos Islands (south pacific) and more. I emplor you to allow the creation of a Wikipedia article on rocknwrestling.co.uk.

Thank you for taking the time to read this message. Please contact me via my email adress (*******@hotmail.com) if you wish to repsond to the message as I chekc that more often than I do my Wikipedia messages.

Yours Sincerely, Michael Chalkley

As noted on your talk page, the article didn't meet the criteria at WP:WEB or WP:NOTE. It was written in an advertisement fashion. It has only been online for a few months and the article was written very promtionally (e.g. "The site has become very popular very quickly"). IrishGuy ^talk 21:53, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

denzil

why did you delete my article, i was trying to make more pages link to late night talk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Denzillacey (talk • contribs)

Please read the guidelines at WP:COI and WP:NOTE. IrishGuy ^talk 00:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

sorry about that Denzillacey 00:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

External_links deletion

Hi Irishguy, I saw that you've deleted a link I've inserted inside the Croatia wiki page. The problem is that my intention was not to make some advertising or so. Croatianet.org is really a nice project and maybe it's the only one where people from all around the world can speak and discuss all about Croatia. The whole project is growing fast and we're working on a daily basis. I thought that was the right place to put such a link. So, once again, there was no such an idea of eg. spam or so. The Community project portal http://www.croatianet.org/community is one of the very few croatian sites where international users may discuss using a multilanguage interface etc....

However thanx for your advice and I've read the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links

Thanx

Interwrite learning

Sorry about that . . . didn't think it was a spam article. (Wow, first time I mistook a spam article as being legit. Most of my mistakes are the other way around.) Anyway, I had moved the page so there's a redirect here: Interwrite learning. -WarthogDemon 19:48, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, he's been recreating that article under different usernames. Why do people think that Wikipedia will help them sell their products? Crazy.... IrishGuy ^talk 19:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

You've probably seen it but a little recently someone was trying to not only recreate their non-notable band articles but attempted to "protect" them as well. And a few days ago I a vandal harassed me saying that I should be blocked for being "unfair" for tagging an nn-band article. And not to mention all the boyfriend/girlfriend articles . . . I may write an essay about boyfriend/girlfriend articles sometime. -WarthogDemon 19:52, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

My favorite is when they recreate the article and add a "protect" tag...but forget to remove the speedy tag. IrishGuy ^talk 19:53, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

You mean hangon tag? Because this was the first time I saw them recreate with the protect tag. O_o -WarthogDemon 19:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

No, the actual speedy tag. Often they will simply cut and paste without realizing they left the speedy tag on the new article. It happens more often than you would think. IrishGuy ^talk 19:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes I've seen that too. :D Anyways, I'll stop taking up talk page space with my curiosity before you need to place a {{subst:uw-chat1}} on mine. Happy editing. :) -WarthogDemon 19:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Yanks-Sox article

I know you're pretty busy, but I was wondering whether you wanted to help a concerted effort to clean up, reference, image, and otherwise spit-shine the Yanks-Sox rivalry article. I'm hoping to get a small cabal of people together for the drive from both sides of the rivalry (and neutrals too to keep things on the up-and-up) and for a GA rating by the end of the season. Interested? I'm personally going to be away from my computer for two weeks starting at the end of this week, but I think it's something that could be within reach.

Oh, and one other thing... it's been bugging me for some time, I wanted to apologize for getting into a spat with you a month or two ago over something relatively simple. I guess it tends to happen to the best (or even, in my case, the mediocre) of us from time to time. - RPIRED 20:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I apologize from my end as well. :)

Sure, I'd be more than happy to pitch in and help shape it up. Do you have a list of ideas? Anything in particular you think needs work? IrishGuy ^talk 20:07, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I think the most important thing right now is probably making sure that things are referenced, but we should also try and pare down some of the history section where it's needlessly wordy (probably including parts of the opening two historical background paragraphs in debate now). I like the Key Moments sections but those should probably be reconfigured to some extent too.

It's hard to do since a lot of the relevant pictures aren't ones that can be considered fair use, but we should probably find some pictures somewhere of things like the Dent/Boone homeruns, the Varitek/A-Rod incident, Ortiz's homeruns from '04, the '04 ALCS celebration, and of course older stuff too where it can be found. Not too many images but definitely we need more than we have now (one picture of Babe Ruth) as an illustration of how bitter the rivalry can be. Perhaps some pictures of fans in Yankees Suck t-shirts (and/or anti-Boston shirts, maybe side by side) that can be done by users. We definitely have a lot of good information here and it seems like it's almost enough to be considered GA once we polish it up a tad. I'm gonna go look for more people to help with the project, I'll let you know who I find. - RPIRED 20:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Matthew D Lee

So I can't make that page?

Anyway...what does it take in order to be remarkable enough to have a page on Wikipedia??

Let me know...thanks