User talk:The Rambling Man

If you're here about a featured list candidate I've reviewed, a warm welcome! I'll keep all lists I review on my watchlist but I'm happy to be reminded from time to time that you're ready for a re-review. Be advised that if I review your list in depth then I will probably not support or oppose its promotion. I'm a Featured List director so for me to review and then support or oppose is, in my opinion, a conflict of interest. I will, however, promote articles assuming they have community consensus. Thanks for popping by! The Rambling Man

BBHS

Instead if just nominating the page see, i hoped you can take a look at the List of Roman Emperors to see what i need to fix before its nominated okay. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 10:40, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 11:12, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you take a look at the Screaming Trees discography i've fixed all the problems from last nomination, replaced with reliable sources, direct links to the proper pages and so on. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 18:34, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Fixed all the problems okay. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 19:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, you where right Tripwires linked to the wrong, the band he was touring with doesn't have a page and i've fixed the Zobbel link. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 19:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Replaced it with reliable sources. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 19:16, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Added sources from Allmusic for the songs, something else. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 19:31, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

It sais that Pretty Noose was nominated in 1997, but the name is misspelled to Pretty Noise. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 16:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Fixed everything on the Screaming Trees discography. Is it a criteria it isn't passing or something else i should fix just say it. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 09:42, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you please take a look at the Lostprophets discography. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 11:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Fixed the remaining problems not done by Skomorokh, if it something else i should fix just say so. Can you also take a look at the List of Soundgarden awards which i've nominated. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 16:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Can you take a look at the Josh Homme discography, the article got copyedited by skomorokh before it was nominated and all the references links right pages. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 13:53, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Why isn't that scorpion guy helping out checking out the reviews? and those certifications wasn't like that when it was nominated, someone has vandalisied it. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 14:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I ges your right. Question how can i change colour on that box on the josh homme discography. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 14:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Reason for why i'm answearing here is that i have withdrawn the Josh Homme discography. Direct links to the BPI is inpossible, i've found a dussen of direct links but when you use them you are either directed to the start page or it doesn't work. Whats the big deal anyway, no featured list has a direct link to the BPI, check it out for yourself. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 14:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean by unlinked release date, where are they, tell me where they are and i'll fix it. The EPs with Kyuss is in the section with Kyuss and the QotSA ones are on their discography page which is linked too. If you didn't get what i meant just contact me. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 07:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

If you help explain i can probably help you check references on FL candidates for you. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 07:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Hm can you take a look at the List of Romen Emperors and leave a comment(s) on the peer review page. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 08:01, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Take a look at the Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of presidents of the Russian Federation. :) --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 18:01, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I've copyedited the lead, or at least i made it beter then what it was, please take a look. Peer Review, i have List of Roman Emperors at the peer review which is getting good reviews. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 11:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Dud List of heads of state of Gabon is much smaller then List of presidents of the Russian Federation. It has a good written lead which, use references and isn't close to a stub. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 18:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Day 10 for BYU alumni FLC

I believe today is day 10 for this FLC...there are 4 Supports / 0 objections (as well as 1 Support from the previous FLC). I believe obtaining these supports has helped prove the list is FL worthy, but if the list's support is still insufficient, I hope you will please extend the FLC explaining what more needs to be done. Thank you. --Eustress (talk) 12:54, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

G-Unit discog

Hi, TRM. If you were going to close this one tonight, please don't do it yet. I have some things to comment, but I have to run out for 2 hours. Thx, bye! Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 05:12, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, that's fine with regards to both. I had already begun to expect my nom to be archived, and I'd rather it was since it only received two reviews. I'm not sure what you mean by "Freshen it up a bit" though.. has something caught your eye?

I'm also looking at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Trina awards where you said The Sun isn't considered to be reliable because it's a tabloid. Are you sure about that? It's not like the American magazines The National Enquirer, The Globe (tabloid) or National Examiner. It's a newspaper from News International, and, in spite of people's views about Murdoch, I would have thought it was allowed. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 16:42, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. You can go ahead and archive it then, and I'll re-nom later today. Also, I'm going through the FLCs from bottom to top right now, so just be aware in case you archive/promote some others from the FLC page if you haven't hit refresh. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 16:59, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

FLCs and junk

Hey man. Unfortunately I'm still on semi-wikibreak, semi-unreliable-computer-access for a while, but I'll see what I can do with some FLC comments and stuff. Oh and thanks for the comments on mine, as well as all the other hard work you've put in recently. Drewcifer (talk) 11:03, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review Request

I noticed this message was archived, and you might not have seen it, so here it is again,

I currently have the article The Great American Bash (2005) up for Peer review, here. I come to you in hopes of you reviewing the article, as I'm aiming to get this article prepared for Featured Article status. I would really appreciate if you would take some time and review this article to the best of your abilities. Cheers, -- iMatthew _T.C. 13:25, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey Rambler

Hey Rambler, can you comment on SummerSlam (2003)'s peer review (link). I saw you commented on The Great American Bash's, so I wanted your input on SummerSlam because I plan on nominating it for FAC tomorrow.--S_RX 18:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Just so you know

I'm going away (again) on Monday August 4 until Friday, so you'll have to watch the FLC fort. After that, the Olympics begin, so I'll most likely be devoting a lot of my wikitime to trying to maintain some level of sanity in the thousands of related articles, so I won't be very active at FLC. After that (on the 22nd) I'm going away for a few more days. So, you'll be doing most of the closures in August (but I will help out when/where I can), and I'll try and make up for it in September. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 23:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

RE: Your RFA

Hey TRM :) Sorry it's taken so long (you wrote a message on the 20 July) but i've been away on holiday.

No worries about the closure, I recognise the need for consensus within the community and I saw the close coming from a long way back. I decided to hold out to get all the critique I could. Anyway, thanks for the help! —CycloneNimrod^Talk? 10:38, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Timeline of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season

Hi, The Rambling Man. Just wanted to let you know I responded on that FLC. Cheers, Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 15:34, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

About the list

Hi. I would like to resubmit the list for List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 1999 but I can not find the things I have to work on to send it once again to revision. Could you help me with that?

Thanks, Jaespinoza (talk) 18:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

• • Okay. I agree. I wont submit that many lists at the same time, but I want to know the things I need to change to send the list to FL once again. Thank you so much. Jaespinoza (talk) 16:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

A favour if you have time

Instead of rushing in all gun's blazing (And having two The White Stripes-related articles in the Featured List candidates), I was wondering whether you could take a brief look over at List of The White Stripes awards. I'm currently checking it against similar featured lists, but have had my confidence shaken about nominating it after being told a significant reference ("Rockonthenet") isn't reliable. Thanks if you have time. Red157(talk • contribs) 20:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, for that I feel kind of silly. Can remember the exact point I messed up and am now thankful I I didn't nominate this with that error on the list. Red157(talk • contribs) 21:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Hope you get this, but brief question - Is the White Stripes discography being kept for the extra period because of an issue that needs addressing or because it needs more than those two peer reviews? Red157(talk • contribs) 21:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

FA to portal

A proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Namespace for featured content pages to move some pages (unsure which) of the featured processes to portal pages. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:53, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello 2 u 2

I'm back in. I'm trying hard to be positive about the forthcoming season. But the recent result against Spurs was a little worrying, to say the least. We still need a big striker - we've a full house of teenyweenies - and another central defender now that the Doc is out for a few months. Busy IRL, will be feeling my way back in. --Dweller (talk) 09:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Great result! ;-) --Dweller (talk) 10:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Fair? --Dweller (talk) 12:42, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

IP

Any chance you could slap a block on the IP 193.113.57.167 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) even though he hasn't been warned in a few days? It's the repetitive Rafa Benitez = "fat spanish waiter" comic that I think I've mentioned to you before. - Dudesleeper / Talk 10:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

And, if you're really bored... - Dudesleeper / Talk 10:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Danke. Rafa's article may require another lock at some point soon, if my spidey-senses are accurate. - Dudesleeper / Talk 00:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Sarumio

My take is as follows.

1. Sarumio is capable of productive editing
2. Sarumio ignores consensus, discussion, helpful suggestions and ultimately masses of warnings
3. Sarumio is obstinate and insistent and determined to make the most insignificant changes, en-masse, regardless of what anyone else thinks (see point 2) to the extent that tedious minutiae have repeatedly become the focus of edit warring, disruption and almost unbelievable aggravation.

If it weren't for point 1, I'd say just give him a medium/short block (a few weeks) to prevent further disruption, on the assumption that Sarumio might come to his senses and stop the POINTy edit warring on his return, but I think we know that's unlikely.

I would therefore recommend the following: post to ANI recommending a very specific topic ban on Sarumio editing football club articles. If this ban is ignored, I think you'd have to consider proposing either a long block or a site ban.

All of this is a shame, as the guy is clearly passionate and intelligent. --Dweller (talk) 13:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I'd leave any CU stuff until after the above is resolved. Per BEANS I'm staying shtum on detail. --Dweller (talk) 13:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: FLC

I understand; I certainly don't take it personally. I have been away and did not have wiki-access for the last two days, so it's been difficult to know what was done and what was not. I will address concerns and re-nom as soon as possible. Thanks! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 14:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Peer review#Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria)

Hi TRM,

What happened? Everything I was asked to do was done and the nomination was closed without any words. Can I know what needs to get done to get this one promoted?

Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 14:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Just a quick note to let you know I have answered in my talk page here. Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 23:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Alan Shearer Peer Review

Hi, I noticed your name at the volunteers list for Peer Reviews along with football, and wondered if you could pop over to Alan Shearer and have a look for any possible improvements on the way to FA status and list them at the peer review page. I can see just by the amount of messages today (and the fact that you are an admin and bureaucrat) that you are particularly in-demand at the mo, so if you haven't the time, no worries - there has already been some feedback. Thanks - Toon⁰⁵ 20:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, you certainly went through with a fine tooth comb (whatever the hell one of those is), I'll try and combat those issues. One point though, the date linking is to allow user preference date layout (MOS:UNLINKYEARS), i.e. Americans could see it as August 5 2008 whereas I would see it as 5 August 2008, someone else 2008 August 5. Other than that I shall get to work! - Toon⁰⁵ 15:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

With regard to your bit about the "Early Life" section being a bit family-life-light, I've added info, and I considered writing about how he played football in the garden with his sheet-metal worker father from the time he could walk, but it all seems a little bit fluffy and unimportant. I don't really know what more to write about his family, his autobiography doesn't really bring up anything especially interesting. It's all that cliched working class geordie stuff; how his dad would save up money to buy him Newcastle kit, how he played on the streets with older, bigger kids. I don't really know that it warrants inclusion. What do you think of the setup now? - Toon⁰⁵ 16:16, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Toronto Maple Leafs head coaches

Just do all the concerns I have on the FLC page except for the one about the points and I'll be fine. -- K. Annoyomous24 _{GO LAKERS! Please reply on my talk page. Thanks.} 08:23, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

It's perfect. I also would like to thank your kindness in trying to make that article into a FL while not nominating it. -- K. Annoyomous24 _{GO LAKERS! Please reply on my talk page. Thanks.} 09:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

May I ask why is he on a wikibreak? -- K. Annoyomous24 _{GO LAKERS! Please reply on my talk page. Thanks.} 09:53, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I see...I guess you have a lot of work ahead. Good luck. I really need to sleep now. It's 3:13am here and I'm only a teenager. -- K. Annoyomous24 _{GO LAKERS! Please reply on my talk page. Thanks.} 10:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review Stripped

Hey, I'm the one, who requested this article to be peer reviewed! I just wanted to ask you something!: You said following "you call her a @#%$" how do you pronounce @#%$? remember Wikipedia is not censored" I wasn't the one who wrote "@#%S"- Blender Magazine already censored it and I don't know what it should stand for! I mean it could be stand for more than one word!

Additionally, you told me you I had to trim down the personnel part! I really have no idea how I should do that, because I really don't know which part of the stuff I should remove.

Anyway, I've done the rest you've told me!Olliyeah (talk) 12:51, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Sepultura discography (edit war)

You know me where I can ask to block a user? Cannibaloki 18:17, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Cannibaloki 18:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

The Fourteen Infallibles

Hi, thanks for your review. I tried to solve them. Unfortunately some of them aren't clear enough. Please check and and clarify them.--Seyyed(t-c) 02:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: dts template

I will look into it. I was away in Los Angeles for the past few days but am back now. Gary King (talk) 03:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Question

On the twentieth season's page, a user has added "one episode will be shown only after the watershed in the United Kingdom"; source does this neccissarily need to be there? Because it could be any of the listed episodes. Yours truly, Sυρєrıor ^{(Reply!,Contribs)} 22:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing out that on the Admin Incidents board. I'll put them in the correct place in future, but I'm glad to see the incident in question is sorted out anyway!--Spaceinput120 (talk) 15:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

My FLC.

Hi, first I'd like to thank you for taking the time to review the list and for the comments you have provided. I've cleared up all of your concerns except for providing a "Caption/frame etc for the image." Because the image uses the template {{Image label begin}}, I cannot add a caption or make the image into a thumbnail. What suggestions do you have? Malinaccier (talk) 22:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Could you take another look at the FLC, please? Malinaccier (talk) 22:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

FLC

As I was reading some other FLC reviews, I was thrilled to see that you are of the opinion that our featured lists should not look robotic, and that convention should be broken. I am very happy with the FLC community for bucking convention. It is, I believe, necessary for editors to be able to make contributions in the way they prefer, and not to be forced into perfectly straight lines. Thanks again! KV5 • Squawk box • Fight on! 22:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

List of (Football Competion) winners etc.

Hi, I just thought of something at a peer review which was to sorting locations in football lists by country first e.g. Barcelona, Spain given by {{sort|Spain, Barcelona|[[Barcelona]], [[Spain]]}}. Before being bold and changing them, as you have put alot of work into many of these articles I thought I'd stop by and see if someone had suggested it before, and there was a good reason not to do it or if you thought it was a good/bad idea. Thanks Rambo's Revenge (talk) 07:18, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Peer review/Britney Spears/archive5

Hello, would you mind giving Britney Spears an in depth review? I'm working on Janet Jackson at the moment, but once that's done I think it will be easier to keep Fancruft out of the Spears article if I have an FA quality review I can direct IP users and newly registered users to. The Bookkeeper (of the Occult) 08:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/Failed_log#List_of_USAF_Test_Pilot_School_alumni

Hi Rambling Man:

I am still working on the comments for the above Featured List candidate. May I request additional time or would it be better to resubmit after the edits are done?

Thanks,

Skeet Shooter (talk) 12:49, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem, Rambling Man. Hope you had a good weekend. Skeet Shooter (talk) 16:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Timothyhouse1

User:Timothyhouse1 is the new account of User:Timothy Mok, which was blocked indefinitely a month ago because of disruptive editing. I don't know if he's allowed to be on WP after that, but I say we give him a chance, because apart from the information about his house on his userpage, he does not seem to be disruptive with his Timothyhouse1 account. See also my comment on his talk page. Cheers, Face 12:57, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Edit war

How do you stop a edit war, this Neon white is removing alternative rock from the infobox on the paramore page. Alternative rock is cited by the BBC han he is still removing it. Can you please talk to him. --Be Black Hole Sun (talk) 20:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Pesky IP

Thanks for the revert on my user page. Who the hell was he? Ceoil ^sláinte 07:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season's FLC

All the comments that had been raised there had been met to some degree, so why was it marked as failed? Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 07:26, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, well, I think it may have been best to keep it open for another day or two (I'm not sure what the standard time limit is), but I agree about the archiving to some extent. Could you give me some feedback on whether you think it's safe to FLC it again? Thanks, Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 12:06, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

True... Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:35, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

FT?

See User_talk:Blnguyen#Keith_Miller_push_to_FA --Dweller (talk) 10:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

You're mighty quiet, old bean. I thought you might at least have had a go at me over Wimbledon F.C., oops, I mean MK Dons. --Dweller (talk) 12:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Doin OK thanks. Sarumio - I wouldn't bother with an excess of diffs. They're so trivial. But any number of members of the Footy WikiProject can vouch for his disruption. In fact, IIWY, I'd use diffs of discussions of his disruption from WT:FOOTY. What a drama. --Dweller (talk) 13:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Shumi

I don't mind the article being moved, I'm just trying to get him to do it properly (it's a process issue more than anything). пﮟოьεԻ 57 10:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

TBH I don't think he deserves to be unblocked, particularly after the personal attack. He's made his point. I think I actually agree with him, so I've provided the evidence on his behalf. пﮟოьεԻ 57 10:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was intending the last one to be my final say on the matter. I just don't suffer fools gladly... Anyway, a disappointing start to the season after all the new signings. Didn't get to the game, but I'll be at the Orient one tomorrow - t'will be interesting to see the new lineup. пﮟოьεԻ 57 14:34, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure, he's all yours. Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 57 14:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Assyrian kings

Could you tell my why the List of Assyrian kings was not promoted to featured list? I changed or addressed everything that was brought up. Thanks Historicpastime (talk) 12:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Brotherhood episodes

Was this list not promoted simply because no one, besides you, reviewed it?–FunkyVoltron ^talk 14:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

List of former Football League clubs

Hey there, I was wondering if you could help me out with the lead of List of former Football League clubs. I've had a go at rewording it per Peanut's suggestion at the peer review and am hoping you can tell me if it's a hit or a miss. Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 14:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh yes, that'd be great. Mattythewhite (talk) 15:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

RE:List of Need for Speed titles

Sigh, yeah I guess you are right. After I finish the other article and add more notes to the list I will nominate it again for FLC, IYO does it have a chance if the other article is completed?--S_RX 17:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks man, that means a lot coming from you. Don't worry, I won't give up.--S_RX 17:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Denver Broncos seasons

I've tried to address what outstanding issues I could from the nom page. I left multiple notes on the talk pages of all the users who still apeared to have issues with the article, but so far I've got nothing back from them. Would it be ok to re-nominate it? BUC (talk) 19:09, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:User:Historicpastime‎, Assyrian Kings and "fan supports"

Yeah, last night's relay was pretty good. Unfortunately, Canada hasn't been doing so well, but our best days are ahead of us. I love it when users get angry that their nom was failed and blame the closer, as if it's our fault nobody reviewed the article. I hate to say it, but that's how I reacted when my first FLC was failed, I'm not even going to tell you what article it was because my reaction is pretty embarrassing. I'll take a look at the discussion. While we're on the subject, I know you hate backlogs, but perhaps it wouldn't hurt to leave FLCs with no opposition open a few days longer... -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:36, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

MIT

Per your comments on MIT's peer review, I have made many of the suggested changes and would appreciate any further feedback you may have. Madcoverboy (talk) 05:02, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Lewis Young

Hi TRM. Shame about this season's home record! Mind you, fancy your chances this season over ours. Anyway, any chance I could have Lewis Young undeleted. He came on for Watford tonight thus passes the guidelines. Don't really see the point in putting it to the vote... Cheers, HornetMike (talk) 21:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC) Nice threat. I choose to ignore you. Stop the madness. Crashingthewaves (talk) 13:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)