User talk:The-Pope

Pavlich vandalism?

Are you sure about this revert at Matthew Pavlich? I looked at the reference [1] and it claims that he is part Irish. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 11:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

When an IP who's only previous edit was "And he loves his nanny" makes a change to nationalities, I don't pay it much attention. Removing Croatian was vandalism, adding Irish was a red herring. all fixed now. The-Pope (talk) 12:17, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Ah yeah I didn't see the previous edit by the IP. Thanks for fixing that up anyway, Jenks24 (talk) 12:52, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Are senior public servants really notable?

I've replied. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 22:53, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Reply. Pdfpdf (talk) 11:20, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Jasper Wood

Your Holiness: this article of a BLP musician has had no sources since it's creation June 2007 [2]. I don't think the article has ever been flagged as needing sources. I'm new to finding WP:V sources and adding them to articles. When I add {{BLP unsourced}} should it be backdated to June 2007? Thanks. Argolin (talk) 05:24, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

No, it should be tagged with the current month, as there is a project going on to remove the backlog, month by month, and backdating newly tagged articles would make that campaign very difficult - impossible actually. The Wood article actually has an inline link (two actually, but one is a deadlink) for the prizes that he won, so you could convert that internal external link (which are generally not used anymore) into a ref and add a {{BLP sources}} tag instead. Thanks for helping out! Regards, The-Pope (talk) 05:52, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

You contacted Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian music last year regarding the BLP unsourced project. I couldn't help back then; now: Corey Cerovsek Harry Adaskin. Last year our project only had about 2,000 articles. Today around 5,300. A rude amount of articles were not even assigned to Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians or to any project for that matter. The BLP project is only working to 2009, and is why I asked above. I wasn't sure if you will be pressing a button and removing unsourced BLP's created before a selected date.

Two questions: 1) Are you going to have another such push this year? 2) I've seen many BLP articles without any template notifing the projects involved that BLP sources are required. I know that the Canadian music project has many more than the 51 here [3]. I can't go through the 5,300 articles as tagging them as unsourced BLP's as these would be the only edits I would do for months. Your project aware of this? Is anytihng being done? Argolin (talk) 17:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

There have been two distinct modes of "attack" to remove the 'known UBLP backlog - WP:URBLP works on the idea that if you can identify them by topic, then people might want to clear topics that interest them - Metal, Australia, Olympics, NFL, Spain, Sweden and many other topics have been completed in this way. The second project is WP:URBLPR, which picks a month, generally from the "back end" and clears them month by month. Up to month #15 now, 2008 is completely done and eventually they'll get through all of them. But, as you point out, these projects ONLY deal with the KNOWN and already TAGGED articles. I've spent a lot of time ensuring that already TAGGED articles are allocated to at least one project, but I haven't been very active in this area lately. There are some other users who every now and then discover "untagged" UBLPs, and when they do them in batches you see the number of outstanding UBLPs jump - there was a batch done a few days ago - see Jan 31 on this list. So, we all know about the various problems, but we generally are working on the "known" issues first, thinking that we haven't finished what we know let alone what we don't know, but any help in any of the process steps is greatly appreciated. The-Pope (talk) 02:28, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Your Eminence: I thought for a second you were have a Dick Cheney moment! I am a fan of your project Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue. If fact, I found your /Resources page and am in the process of developing my own /Sources page. Citing the Order of Canada honour, Junos, Genie Award's, Gemini Awards, or Gémeaux Awards isn't that hard if you have an example. It's crazy the number of articles I've seen claiming these awards with no citations. Thanks again. Argolin (talk) 23:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

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Nomination of Ron Ainsworth for deletion

The article Ron Ainsworth is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Ainsworth until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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Sorry, but that reference you have doesn't appear to be much in the way of coverage. It feels like he doesn't meet significant coverage, Sadads (talk) 01:30, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Take it up at WP:NSPORTS then.The-Pope (talk) 02:55, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Michael Swart

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Infobox

Heh, I was actually just about to ask for your help on this :) But as to your fix, it doesn't seem to have worked (at least for my browser). When I look at Ilija Grgic for example I still see the lines as being messed up. How about you? Jenks24 (talk) 15:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks fine to me now, try purging/refreshing the page, or picking another page that you haven't viewed, but has the same infobox? I'm checking the other infoboxes soon. I'm only learning by copying, so I may stuff it up too!The-Pope (talk) 15:51, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah yes, I just had to purge properly rather than just refreshing. Seems you are right and your fix has worked. Nice job :) Jenks24 (talk) 15:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

• Hmmm, not sure about this one. It may be me again, but take a look at Mark Merenda (for example) and tell me what you see. Jenks24 (talk) 16:07, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I've stuck a br/ in the debut line to fix that, but if there is a long line in the highlights - such as Kevin_Murray_(Australian_rules_footballer), it still looks a bit strange, but that is probably better fixed in the individual article, not in the template. Revert if you think it's damaged them too much, I think it's OK now, but it's tough finding a wide variety of usages, without opening up lots of pages. The-Pope (talk) 16:15, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I was just going to say that it had was definite improvement. You're right that anything else should probably be fixed on an article by article basis, although in an ideal world we wouldn't use that template in any articles. Anyway, thanks for your fixes, much appreciated. Jenks24 (talk) 16:18, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Phil Kelly

Greetings! I have reverted your move to the Phil Kelly article; it is standard practice at WP:FOOTY to disambiguate by date of birth rather than nationality. Thanks and regards, GiantSnowman 17:14, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm not going to move it again, but for simple dab situations like this it seems overly complex - adding info probably not known about the person to the title - readers would know his nationality, they probably don't know his DOB. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_40#Welsh_footballers from Jan 2010 disagrees too. Is there a guideline page at WP:FOOTY explaining the dab naming rules? I couldn't find one. The-Pope (talk) 02:29, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Nationality is a major issue when it comes to football - and especially when it comes to describing footballers from Ireland, both Republic of... and Northern... - there's no specific guideline page, and if I'm wrong them I'm wrong - maybe we should start a fresh discussion, either on the Kelly talkpage or over at WP:FOOTY. Regards, GiantSnowman 02:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello

I was the person who made several AFL player articles. I would like to know if there was anyway I could be a wikiafl person, or whatever you call it. PS. Im sorry I haven't made a change in ages-i've been on a really long holiday. Thanks, Canterbury21 (talk) 06:28, 2 March 2011 (UTC)