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Welcome to WP:CM!

Hello, Juliancolton!

We're delighted you've started contributing to this collaborative effort! Classical music is an active, medium-sized project with more than 9,000 articles.

We have a discussion page linked to the main project page where you may sign in. Please take part in our forum! The scope of the project is vast: nearly 1,000 years of history, numerous countries, and many languages. Some music editors use reference books such the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, or the German Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. These are helpful for checking facts and providing the essential references required on Wikipedia. We would greatly appreciate your collaboration in adding sources from these books. However if you don't have access to books, there are still many other ways you can contribute to the project: copyediting, compiling lists of recordings, picture and sound clip researching, etc.

We hope you have a great time on the Classical music Project. Please don't hesitate to ask us if you have any questions! We are always available here at your convenience.

Best regards!

This welcome was sent by La Pianista at 06:05, February 15, 2009 (UTC)

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The 404

Ok, listen to this. The 404 page is being deleted for not having appropriate references, well the Buzz Out Loud has only has one external (from CNET) reference, and it doesn't load up, so... there are no external references. So if The 404 is deleted for no external sources, the Buzz Out loud should be deleted with it. Also the person who deleted it before (Feydey) said something that sparked my interest "P.S. I read somewhere that there are only 5 or maybe 6 people who actually get the 404 'cast. Bummer.". There is a problem with that, as I write (Thursday, February 2009 at 8:05 Central Time) The 404 is #22 on the top Technology podcasts. So... there is a reference http://i39.tinypic.com/2hrn3nq.jpg that is not from Cnet. If you want, look it up yourself. But please, let the podcast live.

Here you go :)

Deletion from User Page

Hello, All I ask is for you to tell me what was wrong with the page you deleted. The links were full of Wiki-speak, which is a far cry from a simple English explanation. I am not here for an argument, and I trust your intentions were earnest. Just give me a simple basic reason so I know for the future what NOT to do. You can let me know either here or on my talk page. Thanks, Hamamelis (talk) 20:15, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I understand it now. Much obliged, Hamamelis (talk) 21:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Periods

Did you get my msg about periods in lists? Or ban thereon I should say? — Rlevse • Talk • 20:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Near-birth experience

Why was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Near-birth experience closed as a keep? With an even number of votes each way, shouldn't it either have been kept open longer or closed as no consensus? ClovisPt (talk) 01:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Replied to your reply on my talk page - cheers. ClovisPt (talk) 02:08, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Replied again on my talk page - cheers. ClovisPt (talk) 01:51, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

WT:FAC

I had a hard time keeping sarcasm out of my reply, so I appreciate your addition. :) Looking forward to seeing the next hurricane FAC. --Laser brain (talk) 02:54, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Quick favor

Might I ask you to copy+paste the source of this deleted page and place it at User:I Grave Rob/Adoption/WikiFail? We're working on fundamentals of article deletion and need to discuss questions that arose from this deletion. Thanks Julian! ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks and a request

Thanks for signing up at Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers and for your work doing reviews. It is now just over a year since the last peer review was archived with no repsonse after 14 (or more) days, something we all can be proud of. There is a new Peer review user box to track the backlog (peer reviews at least 4 days old with no substantial response), which can be found here. To include it on your user or talk page, please add {{Wikipedia:Peer review/PRbox}} . Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Architecture

Thank you for your prompt action! Amandajm (talk) 07:29, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Johnny Bravo

Hi, Julian. I don't understand your closure reasoning in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johnny Bravo (character). Your closing statement mentions only the argument of Original Research, without addressing the additional very valid arguments in favor of deletion. Powers ^T 11:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid I disagree that the preponderance of argument relied on original research. As you said yourself, original research is not by itself reason for deletion -- but almost all of the people who referenced OR as a concern listed it as only one among several areas of concern. I would urge you to take another look at the arguments; I think you'll find plenty of reason beyond original research that the article content is not worth keeping. Powers ^T 14:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 February 25#Johnny Bravo (character). No hard feelings, I hope. Powers ^T 14:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

For deleting all those spam articles, and can you please comment at the Nevado del Ruiz FAC? Please? I need more feedback. Ceranthor 17:03, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Patrykbot as a username

Hi Juliancolton!

Patrykbot has been an alias that i've been using for the last few years online. Patryk is my name in Polish and adding the "bot" to it is a bit of a cynical point of view regarding our realities as being obsessed with the internet, information, and the digital landscape. I'd rather keep it but it will be an issue amongst the Wikipedia community then please let me know.

Cheers, Patryk

Patrykbot (talk) 17:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Unrealkitten block

Just wanted to let you know: I reduced Unrealkitten's block to 24 hours. While Unrealkitten was clearly getting very upset and ended up edit warring over the contribution, this was fundamentally an attempt to add material to an article in good faith. The situation was further complicated because one of the edits included some profanity in a hidden comment (which ClueBot reverted) and because the user had vandalized a prior article. So it's very understandable, but the only thing actually wrong in this situation was the edit warring. And, to a degree, the language Unrealkitten used when he/she got upset, but I think that's understandable given the situation. Mangojuice^talk 18:56, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

72.241.204.47

This IP has not only made disruptive edits today, but someone has made the prior warnings disappear. This is above my pay grade. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 20:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Stan

These were fresh vandalism and fresh warnings, which are in the history of the page, but were not there. I put them back. I also reported this to WP: AIV. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 20:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Stan

Thanks for the helping hand. I don't know where those warnings went, so to speak. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 20:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC) Stan

Request

Hey, I see that you are someone who regularly accepts or declines people's requests for permissions. Could you please check out my request for NP watcher? Requests made before and after mine have been accepted or declined, and I was just concerned that mine has recieved no response. I'm sorry to appear impatient, and thanks for your time Macromonkey (talk) 21:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I'm sorry to bug you with the request Macromonkey (talk) 22:00, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Oversight support thanks

It really meant a lot coming from you! I really respect you as an editor and I'm glad to see you have the same trust in me. Daniel Case (talk) 21:50, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Iowa Park, Texas

Hey there,

Thanks for the info. I guess I didn't read enough on blocks and page protection. I'll read up on blocks now. Thanks for the help again!

25or6to4 (talk) 21:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Please Block this IP

We are having huge trouble with 68.33.170.243. Somebody should go through and block him, he has been warned, but is persistent, vandalized your page which I reverted, vandalized mine, removed speedy deletion tags. User_talk:68.33.170.243

Thanks, RedSkunk^talk 00:13, 26 February 2009 (UTC) and this account, which is the same and has been justly notified User_talk:Sexysaxmaster RedSkunk^talk 00:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

LoveGame (Lady GaGa Song)

• Why was no reason given for the LoveGame (Lady GaGa Song) deletion decision?
• What was the reason for deleting LoveGame (Lady GaGa Song)?

SunCreator (talk) 01:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Consensus?? What consensus? There is none - no two people agreed on the same reason for deletion. Afd is not a vote - at least it didn't used to be but I've been away for about 6 months. SunCreator (talk) 01:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

There was no agreement at all, everyone gave a different reason. AFD is suppose to be a discussion not a vote.

Why did you not give any reason what closing the deletion process? May I suggest you didn't give one because there was no consensus. Thus you gave it a delete as a vote. SunCreator (talk) 01:53, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Rollback

Much obliged sir, thank you. Matt (talk) 06:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Civility

The terms overzealous and Wikipedia:Don't be a dick are not considered uncivil at Wikipedia. Green Squares (talk) 12:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

• Hi, i did not write the Wikipedia internal policy for, which lexicon is acceptable, I am only quoting the wiki-link to the policy Wikipedia:Don't be a dick. Green Squares (talk) 14:47, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

• • Hi, deleting someone's articles that were written with the best of intentions is uncivil. In addition, he is not reproducing the articles in their entirety, to skew the decision, the articles he posted are not identical to the articles I have written. The articles should be placed back and and an +AFD posted, which allows discussion. Simply deleting articles of this type is highly egregious and against the spirit of Wikipedia! Green Squares (talk) 15:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

• Cliches are fun how about this one: "The Truth Is Out There, Trust No One"...Green Squares (talk) 15:18, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Spam pages

Well, that's hard to do, as I'm simply tagging them as a part of the same spam-tagging process as I find them. The batch I've done is mostly two days worth, from New Pages starting in late January and some from a Google search. There's a backlog, unfortunately, because there's a huge and ever-increasing supply, not caught or looked-for by New Page patrollers which I'm working my way forward on. --Calton | Talk 14:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. I'm not trying to be difficult, but things stack up pretty quickly. --Calton | Talk 15:12, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Non-username violation, but extreme behavior

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Remember Qqqqqqqqqddddddddddooooooooo? In addition to vandalising a page as his first edit, he also attacked the user who warned him. I'm not taking this to W:AIV, as that isn't enough to warrant a ban, but could you watch him for me? Cheers. Imperat§ r^(Talk) 15:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Found some bot tasks for you! Search/replaces for "Demographics of" articles

Here are a bunch of search/replaces you can do in AWB all in the same pass on the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country demographics articles. Pick just one to submit to the bot approvals group.  :) Then complete the rest once you've got bot approval. But test some of these first before writing your request for approval!

During your "manual" test runs, set AWB to skip articles that do not include the text "CIA World Factbook demographic statistics".

Turn general wikifixes on, because there are a lot of blank lines in these articles.

Here are the search/replaces:

A bunch of these pages have links in their headings. Those need to be replaced, as follows:

1. Replace "=Population=" with "=Population="
2. Replace "=Population growth rate=" with "=Population growth rate="
3. Replace "=Birth rate=" with "=Birth rate="
4. Replace "=Death rate=" with "=Death rate="
5. Replace "=Death rate=" with "=Death rate="
6. Replace "=Net migration rate=" with "=Net migration rate="
7. Replace "=Net migration rate=" with "=Net migration rate="
8. Replace "=Net migration rate=" with "=Net migration rate="
9. Replace "=Infant mortality rate=" with "=Infant mortality rate="
10. Replace "=Infant mortality rate=" with "=Infant mortality rate="
11. Replace "=Life expectancy at birth=" with "=Life expectancy at birth="
12. Replace "=Total fertility rate=" with "=Total fertility rate="
13. Replace "=Total fertility rate=" with "=Total fertility rate="
14. Replace "=Nationality=" with "=Nationality="
15. Replace "=Ethnic groups=" with "=Ethnic groups="
16. Replace "=Religions=" with "=Religions="
17. Replace "=Literacy=" with "=Literacy="
18. Replace "=Annual population growth rate=" with "=Annual population growth rate="
19. Replace "=Sex ratio=" with "=Sex ratios="
20. Replace "=Human sex ratios=" with "=Sex ratios="
21. Replace "=Sex ratio=" with "=Sex ratios="
22. Replace "=HIV/AIDS=" with "=HIV/AIDS="

Some pages lack the headings and have the semi-colon no-level heading instead. So those need to be replaced:

1. Replace "; Population:" with "===Population==="
2. Replace "; Age structure:" with "===Age structure==="
3. Replace "; Population growth rate:" with "===Population growth rate==="
4. Replace "; Birth rate:" with "===Birth rate==="
5. Replace "; Death rate:" with "===Death rate==="
6. Replace "; Net migration rate:" with "===Net migration rate==="
7. Replace "; Infant mortality rate:" with "===Infant mortality==="
8. Replace "; Life expectancy at birth:" with "===Life expectancy==="
9. Replace "; Total fertility rate:" with "===Total fertility==="
10. Replace "; Nationality:" with "===Nationality==="
11. Replace "; Ethnic groups:" with "===Ethnic groups==="
12. Replace "; Religions:" with "===Religions==="
13. Replace "; Languages:" with "===Languages==="

There are many more search/replaces, but this is enough for now.

If you have any questions, of course, fire away!

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    00:50, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Will do, thanks for the list. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 00:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, these appear to be done already. JCbot (talk) 18:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

You mean you didn't check? Why not?

They are still there. It doesn't appear that any of them have been fixed.

Try again on "=Population=", to see if AWB is having a problem with the equals signs. It should catch the match on Demographics of American Samoa (and there are others).

Whatever the problem is, please figure out what it is, so that we can verify it and bring it to the attention of the AWB programmers if needed. The Transhumanist    18:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I see what I was doing wrong. Although, out of all the above tasks, AWB found 5 edits, so I'm still a bit unsure whether I'm doing it correctly. JCbot (talk) 20:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

"Demographics of" pages with links in CIA stat headings

Please, check your work. You should be suspicious when your bot finds no (or very few) changes to make. Earlier, you incorrectly stated that the changes had already been made. Therefore, before making such reports, you should verify that they are accurate! What actually happened was that AWB failed to change them. Please tinker with it some more and figure out how to get the task done.

Here are the demographics pages with links in their CIA stat headings (I was working on this list while you were finding the 5 you mentioned above, so it may not be entirely accurate):

• Demographics of American Samoa
• Demographics of Argentina
• Demographics of Belgium
• Demographics of Burma
• Demographics of Cambodia
• Demographics of Dominica
• Demographics of East Timor
• Demographics of French Polynesia
• Demographics of Greenland
• Demographics of Grenada
• Demographics of the Isle of Man
• Demographics of Jamaica
• Demographics of the Northern Mariana Islands
• Demographics of the Palestinian territories
• Demographics of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Demographics of Saint Lucia
• Demographics of Sri Lanka
• Demographics of Swaziland
• Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago
• Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

The following pages have semi-colon headings with links in them (the second batch of search/replaces posted above):

• Demographics of the Cook Islands

A bunch more pages have headings screwed up in other ways.

I've added below some more search/replaces to handle the additional problems I've found.

Some more search/replaces for you

On the same demographics of articles as being discussed above, please:

replace: ;Population:

with: ===Population===

replace ;Age structure:

with: ===Age structure===

replace ;Population growth rate:

with: ===Population growth rate===

replace ;Birth rate:

with: ===Birth rate===

replace ;Death rate:

with: ===Death rate===

replace ;Net migration rate:

with: ===Net migration rate===

replace ;Sex ratio:

with: ===Sex ratio===

replace ;Infant mortality rate:

with: ===Infant mortality rate===

replace ;Life expectancy at birth:

with: ===Life expectancy at birth===

replace ;Total fertility rate:

with: ===Total fertility rate===

replace ;Nationality:

with: ===Nationality===

replace ;Ethnic groups:

with: ===Ethnic groups===

replace ;Religions:

with: ===Religions===

replace ;Languages:

with: ===Languages===

replace ;Literacy:

with: ===Literacy===

replace: Population:

with: ===Population===

replace: Age structure:

with: ===Age structure===

replace: Population growth rate:

with: ===Population growth rate===

replace: Birth rate:

with: ===Birth rate===

replace: Death rate:

with: ===Death rate===

replace: Net migration rate:

with: ===Net migration rate===

replace: Sex ratio:

with: ===Sex ratio===

replace: Infant mortality rate:

with: ===Infant mortality rate===

replace: Life expectancy at birth:

with: ===Life expectancy at birth===

replace: Total fertility rate:

with: ===Total fertility rate===

replace: Nationality:

with: ===Nationality===

replace: Ethnic groups:

with: ===Ethnic groups===

replace: Religions:

with: ===Religions===

replace: Languages:

with: ===Languages===

replace: Literacy:

with: ===Literacy===

replace: Population:

with: ===Population===

replace: Birth rate:

with: ===Birth rate===

replace: Death rate:

with: ===Death rate===

replace: Net migration rate:

with: ===Net migration rate===

replace: Sex ratio:

with: ===Sex ratio===

replace: Infant mortality rate:

with: ===Infant mortality rate===

replace: Life expectancy at birth:

with: ===Life expectancy at birth===

replace: Total fertility rate:

with: ===Total fertility rate===

replace: Literacy:

with: ===Literacy===

replace: ===Net migration rate===

with: ===Net migration rate===

Good luck.

Have fun.

The Transhumanist    20:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Move request

Please move Mexican (disambiguation) to Mexican. The word deserves specific treatment (you should go to a description of "Mexican" when you type in "Mexican" - the person isn't likely looking for the country if he types that in. Because of this, I doubt anyone will object to the move.

The Transhumanist    23:17, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:25, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Block

This user needs a block. He's vandalized my adoptee's userpage, among other things he's vandalized. Thanks! ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 23:41, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion request

Please delete Moldovan. I didn't see Moldovan (disambiguation) (which should really be moved to "Moldovan").

Thank you.

The Transhumanist    23:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Y Redirected instead; hope that's acceptable. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I merged it instead. I hope that's acceptable. The Transhumanist    01:23, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Another move request

Please move Nicaraguan to Nicaraguans.

Pages of this type include Austrians, Germans, and Italians.

The Transhumanist    01:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:17, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

And another

Please move Australian (disambiguation) to Australian. Currently, if you type this in, it takes you to the country. But if you wanted the country, you would have typed in the country, right?

The Transhumanist    01:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:26, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Julian -- all these requests to move SOME NATIONALITY (disambiguation) to SOME NATIONALITY are controversial. When you do this, all the existing articles that link to that word are broken. These moves should be discussed on WP:RM and (preferably) notified to WT:WikiProject Disambiguation as well, as they affect thousands of existing articles in some cases. Thank you. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:25, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Enjoy your vacation!

Have some fun for me :) StarM 02:04, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

quit cursing. Snow is a four letter word :p StarM 04:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC) ETA: cannot believe that's a blue link StarM 04:40, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Whaaa?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADavid_Fuchs&diff=273570600&oldid=273542990 And why would I suddenly decide to break away from my perfectly satisfying bleeps and video games to write about some tropical depressions? --Der Wohltempierte Fuchs ^(talk) 04:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Meh, there must be some tropical depression that somehow relates to video games :P Fat chance (although I'd be humored to be proven wrong.) --Der Wohltempierte Fuchs ^(talk) 04:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Not sure how to deal with vandalism

Hi, I'm not sure how non-admins are supposed to go about dealing with vandalism - it's a little unclear from the various pages I've looked at.

Anyhow, for various strange reasons I've been watching the edits on the Rambo page, where I saw you banned an account because it was only used for spam. Been a fair bit more since then, including a few edits from 67.53.104.214, who seems to be a persistent vandal. Not sure what I can do about it as a non-admin so I thought I'd pass it along.

Keep up the good work. 118.208.13.64 (talk) 04:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

History Db error

Hi there seems to be a error on the history page!? Jose! 05:56, 27 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Josemanimala (talk • contribs)

Automatic patrolling of tagged pages at New Page patrol

Hi there. There is a suggestion to get a bot to patrol any New Page that an editor has tagged for CSD, AfD, etc. As someone who patrols a lot, your opinion is particularly welcomed. --GedUK  10:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Lucas20 problem

The user Lucas20 has remove contents from hundreds pages in just few days. The destruction he caused is substantial. Many contents removed by Lucas20 are simply facts (not opinion) which are needed -- this is a type of vandalism. Please take a look at the contents he removed. Lucas20's behavior will damage this website because censorship cannot be helpful in wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.231.184.199 (talk) 13:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

[[Jan Bryant Bartell]

Hi, could you userfy this to me so I can use it as a basis to write about her book? Thanks, JoshuaZ (talk) 17:32, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Boyband625

Just as a heads up, I have removed the account creation part of this user's block. They have promised to not post links to their own site if allowed to register a new account. Oren0 (talk) 18:25, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Jan Bryant Bartell entry

Dear Ms. Colton,

As the author of the entry in question I wish to begin the protest process concerning the deletion of the entry.

After review of the deletion discussion I see no viable reason for deletion other than some individuals did not consider the subject important enough. Considering some of the entries that are covered in Wikipedia, I find this reason unpersuasive.

Granted, Ms. Bartell wrote only one book Spindriftand died during its publication process, but this book has proven long lived in popularity and interest and is a strong seller on the second hand market. The book has proven personally important to numerous people and is a interesting first person account of contact with the paranormal that is refreshingly devoid of New Age jargon and cant.

Bartell was a very reclusive and private author. Myself and others dug long and deep for the information presented which is accurate and factual.

Please reconsider this deletion and contact me as needed.

Sincerely, 71.41.27.196 (talk) 22:09, 27 February 2009 (UTC)Mark J. McCarthy

   mccam@verizon.net