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** I still don't get it. It's a simple text split. What's the difference from any other text split (the type which you merge on a regular basis)? [[User:Mdrn|Mdrn]] ([[User talk:Mdrn|talk]]) 16:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
** I still don't get it. It's a simple text split. What's the difference from any other text split (the type which you merge on a regular basis)? [[User:Mdrn|Mdrn]] ([[User talk:Mdrn|talk]]) 16:42, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
*{{Ping|Mdrn}} If ALL off the text of page X is cut-and pasted to page Y, that is a plain clean cut-and-paste move that can be easily mended. If PART of the text of page X is cut-and-pasted to page Y, then page Y is a daughter page of page X, and pages X and Y are both substantial pages and neither is merely a redirect, and the history before the split can be under X or under Y but not under both. Sorry. [[User:Anthony Appleyard|Anthony Appleyard]] ([[User talk:Anthony Appleyard#top|talk]]) 16:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
*{{Ping|Mdrn}} If ALL off the text of page X is cut-and pasted to page Y, that is a plain clean cut-and-paste move that can be easily mended. If PART of the text of page X is cut-and-pasted to page Y, then page Y is a daughter page of page X, and pages X and Y are both substantial pages and neither is merely a redirect, and the history before the split can be under X or under Y but not under both. Sorry. [[User:Anthony Appleyard|Anthony Appleyard]] ([[User talk:Anthony Appleyard#top|talk]]) 16:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
**But all of the archive pages were moved in their entirety! I don't get where you're getting this "part of the text" thing from... nor what "under both" means here, since I want the history consolidated under a single page, not two. [[User:Mdrn|Mdrn]] ([[User talk:Mdrn|talk]]) 16:51, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
**But all of the archive pages in question were moved in their entirety! I don't get where you're getting this "part of the text" thing from... nor what "under both" means here, since I want the history consolidated under a single page, not two. [[User:Mdrn|Mdrn]] ([[User talk:Mdrn|talk]]) 16:51, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year Anthony Appleyard!

Happy New Year!

Anthony Appleyard,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. NorthAmerica1000 10:14, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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  • Thanks, the article is now in place. Sorry to bother you again, but what I couldn't see is the history merge. I'm by no means an expert on that topic, but expected to see Stuart Yeates' edits creating the other article (I think it was Stuart, at least; obviously, I can't go back and check). Schwede66 03:35, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

SAC vasanth

"11:13, 2 January 2015 Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) deleted page SAC Vasanth (A7: Article about an eligible subject, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vasanthsac (talk • contribs) #

Ramdas Palsule article

Your move of T2 (roller coaster)

Flula Borg article

Sandbox histmerge request

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Running With Scissors

Thanks. --82.136.210.153 (talk) 11:02, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Blackout Rugby

  • Hi I am one of the users for the Blackout Rugby game. Would it be possible to put the Blackout Rugby page back onto the wikipedia page? There's a fair bit of useful information on it (such as when the world cups for the game etc) that users use on the page. We're a community of 5000 so we'd much appreciate if the page was added back in. From when I've read it before I didn't really see it unambiguous advertising but rather just a description of what the game is about.

Cheers, Jegaggin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jegaggin (talk • contribs) 00:37, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Your question at AN about Template:RMassist

Hi Anthony. The quickest way to get an answer about that template is from User:Wbm1058 who has done the recent upgrades. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:49, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Unwanted move

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Move of GoodSearch to Goodsearch

  • Please note that this move was done against MOS:TM. Typically, CamelCase is permissible on Wikipedia where a company name is always typed as a compound word. In fact, CamelCase can assist our readers by making the individual words more readily apparent.
    Lowercase made-up words are normally avoided on Wikipedia, by contrast, even if the company prefers to stylize their name that way. See Talk:FilmAffinity#Requested move for a similar discussion and resulting consensus. Would you mind reverting your page move, please? – voidxor (talk | contrib) 06:58, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Flip-flopped on posting this (I requested the first move), but I'm not entirely sure I agree completely with the above interpretation of the policy (especially as it's not a stylization or a total lowercase... ness? They capitalize the first letter in their company text materials; the logo is the only fully lowercase incarnation), but after a cursory search, it appears the jury is out on common capitalization even in recent sources, with a slight preference to where it's at now. I... don't really know what the point of posting this was, as I'm not contesting the reversion of the move (especially with the search showing that it reflects general usage XP), so I guess the only thing I can add now is that I'm glad I'm aware of that piece of the MOS now that I saw this? - Purplewowies (talk) 02:08, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
  • @User:Purplewowies: A Google search a minute ago for goodsearch OR goodshop showed majority CamelCase, a fairsized minority of uppercasing the G only, and some with all lowercase including the company's logos. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:08, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for moving Straightener (disambiguation)

I almost had to start a new discussion on Straightener (disambiguation) to get it moved, but I am in no way opposed to the fact that you went ahead and moved it. Seeing the edit conflict caused by your page move was one of the most accepting edit conflicts I have ever run across! Steel1943 (talk) 07:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of Andy Hill (Film Music Supervisor)

While I would never propose LinkedIn as a reliable source, I found this which mentions both his Elmo in Grouchland work, as well as his novel writing. Also, the photos in each article were obviously of the same guy. This might just be mirroring Wikipedia content without attribution, so I wouldn't use it as a source, but it seems to reflect that the guy wears mutiple hats. The AW Hill article and at least one of the duplicate articles contained external links to the same official website, which mentions Belgium (Brussels). His Twitter account says that he's a composer and author. Pretty sure it's the same dude. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:02, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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Undelete Request - Real Time Action Technology

Pattern of mistakes

  • Your restoration of Real Time Action Technology was completely inappropriate. I honestly don't know what to do about you – nearly every time I've encountered you over the years, you've been screwing something up. I've seriously considered nominating you for de-adminship, because I honestly believe your pattern of mistakes is serious enough that your presence is more of a detriment than a benefit to the wiki. I don't believe you qualify for de-adminship, since your pattern is one of apparently honest mistakes rather than abuse, so I can only encourage you, as I've done before, to re-read and absorb every policy relating to the areas where you choose to edit, and to edit with a little more common sense, for all our sakes. —Swpbtalk 14:13, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
  • @User:swpb: "(without even notifying the creator)" :: Reading User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Undelete Request - Real Time Action Technology will show that I did include his username in a way that would cause the system to tell him that I had mentioned him, and where. User:B2Btechguy wrote that this was his first go at writing an article, and "Do not bite the newbies" persuaded me to be sympathetic towards him. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:36, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Don't try to justify your error with BITE; what nonsense. And as User:FreeRangeFrog pointed out on WP:UND, that's not the appropriate course of action either. Maybe you should step away from this case entirely, since all you seem to be doing is repeatedly screwing up. —Swpbtalk 21:04, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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deletion of new material without proper justification or attempts at editing it for suitability

  • Anthony Appleyard why did you delete the Mountain Gate, Arizona page? I did not get a chance copy the material down that I had wrote to improve the article further. Instead all the content is gone. Please send the content back to me as I spent a some time on it. Also, explaining a neighborhood within a community is not new to wikipedia and is done in city articles all the time. If you think it sounds like an add or promotion then you should help me improve it so it only gives factual data instead of just deleting it within hours of me posting it. Please send me back the content of the article if you wish not to help me improve it. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reb enfilade (talk • contribs) 16:19, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
  • @User:Reb enfilade: Reddogsix speedy-delete-tagged it as advertisement, so I deleted it. It is now at Mountain Gate, Arizona. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:16, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

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Souni-Zanakia move

It's run for over a month (since Dec 16), Anthony. Alakzi (talk) 23:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. Alakzi (talk) 23:16, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Bahamut (website)

Hello! You deleted the article Bahamut (website) because it is "not indicate the importance or significance of the subject". The website is ranked 27th in Taiwan in alexa,[bahamut 1] and it's THE largest video game website in Taiwan, even in Chinese language video game industry.[bahamut 2][bahamut 3] Western media might not interested in Chinese websites, however I can't believe it's not important. Regards.--QQWWEE112244111155 (talk) 10:52, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Sources
  1. ^ gamer.com.tw. Alexa. "Global Rank 1,066 Rank in Taiwan 27"
  2. ^ 華義今年主攻手遊　月推1款衝業績. Apple Daily. "台灣最大電玩社群網站-巴哈姆特"
  3. ^ 《Final Fantasy XV》 傳奇技工「席德妮」登場. udn.com. "《巴哈姆特》是...目前華人區最大的遊戲社群暨資訊網站"

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My Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests: Pansexual pride flag

Thanks. Sorry if I came across as frustrated; I was, but mistakes happen. Flyer22 (talk) 04:07, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:MaranoFan

Naturalopy

Hello,

You deleted the "Naturalopy" article 20 minutes into its first draft. I have no qualms about your editorial decision. However, since you have removed the article, please remove all references to "Naturalopy" from Wikipedia. I have 21 books on iTunes and Google Play (google: naturalopy) on the subject. I also own the trademark.

Thank-you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trungedm (talk • contribs) 20:14, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

I’ve consulted with an attorney and here is the gist of what she said:

1. This is a clear case of cybersquatting or misuse of a trademark.

Using a domain name or trademark with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. There is nothing on the page that assists users about the subject, good or bad.

Any future economic loss or loss of goodwill can be attributed to the Anthony Appleyard and Deunanknute and the Wikipedia Foundation. This could be significant since the link is #1 on Bing and #3 on Google.

2. Clear failure of editorial duty by Anthony Appleyard and Deunanknute to review the work in question. It took them 20 minutes to mark the file for deletion. Moreover, no citation, references, or links to support their G3 reason. Just repetitively quoting the G3 criteria.

3. Baiting. Luring users into a page without information about the subject, causing loss of goodwill, time, and confusion to the user.

These are two viable options:

1. Remove all references of “Naturalopy” from Wikipedia so search engines can no longer link to it.

2. Leave the page up, but provide proper critique of the work citing sources, references, and other material, per Wikipedia’s editorial guidelines. If you think the work is garbage, that is perfectly fine. Provide reasons as to why you think so, per Wikipedia’s guidelines.

3. Do nothing. I have always donated to wikipedia in the past when asked, but no more. Furthermore, I will encourage everyone I know through social media and website to never donate to Wikipedia again. When this influence reaches 10,000 or more, I will let your superiors know about it.

Best regards.

04:38, 21 January 2015‎ User:Trungedm

User:Trungedm

I must have been getting the details for my Admin notice while you posted yours. Thanks for the help. Deunanknute (talk) 07:05, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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Universal Congress of Esperanto

Hi Anthony Appleyard,

Could you move World Congress of Esperanto to Universal Congress of Esperanto? This is the literal translation, as well as the more common term in English (Google Books search results: 1460 for "Universal" title and 869 for "World" title). There is also an unaddressed request on the talk page for the same move. Thanks!

Sonĝanto (talk) 18:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Rv'd this and another move. Normal translation of universala is "world", and that's used by the orgs themselves. Yes, lots of people are mislead by 'false friends', but that's not encyclopedic. — kwami (talk) 23:49, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Untitled Trivikram Srinivas project

Thanks for clearing this up after my misjudged move (and someone else's unreliably-sourced move before mine, and the cut-and-paste move someone else did afterwards which I cleared up ... quite a chapter of accidents to add to the basic weirdness of a film due for release next month with no official title as yet!) I'm sorry I created the problem - I should just have reverted the initial move as unsourced. PamD 15:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

recreation of Ché Aimee Dorval Page

re: Ron Burman Wikipedia entry

Hi Anthony - Filing a request to un-delete the Ron Burman page from the last few months. I will try one more edit and submission - Burman is an important figure in the field of A&R and pertinent to understanding the U.S. business management of Nickelback.... I filed a similar request on the page's Talk but it was deleted nonetheless Scottmcph1999 (talk) 17:55, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Yung Stet deleted article revised

Talk:Inch Abbey railway station

deletion in Wikidata

Hi, Anthony Appleyard. Thanks for your work on the page history merge. But when you temporarily delete a page during the history merge, its link in Wikidata will be also automatically deleted (see, e.g., this edit). Would you please re-add the link to Wikidata item after the history merge is completed? You may check your contributions in Wikidata to see how many links have been deleted. Many thanks. --Neo-Jay (talk) 16:10, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Sveti Lenart, Železniki listed at Redirects for discussion

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Requested move of Away team (disambigtuation)

I would ask at WP:RM/TR (Away team redirects to Away team (disambiguation), per WP:MALPLACED this should be reversed), but there is a move discussion at Talk:Away team (disambiguation), along with some slow edit warring at the Away team redirect. Since you're uninvolved in that discussion, I think that you could close it (it's been open 9 days) and if any edit warring continued, it could be dealt with swiftly. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:28, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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By the Throat

Anthony, I've got another fun one for you. By the Throat (Eyedea & Abilities album) was an article about an album by Eyedea & Abilities from 2009 until December 2013. It was then copy/paste moved to By the Throat, which was a disambiguation page (there's also an album of the same name by Ben Frost, along with a few songs of the same name (no links)). A month later, the (disambiguation) redirect was turned into a disambiguation page, since the base title had the E&A album at it.

Yesterday, the Eyedea & Abilities album at By the Throat was moved to By the Throat (Eyedea and Abilities album), and the base title By the Throat was turned into a second disambiguation page (By the Throat (disambiguation) was still a disambiguation page). Today I redirected the (disambiguation) title to the base title before I researched this.

My reason for bringing this to you is that there probably should be a history merge of some type (I'm not sure exactly how it would go). My take is that the end result should have the Eyedea & Abilities album at By the Throat (Eyedea & Abilities album) (since that matches the actual name of the band), have By the Throat (Eyedea and Abilities album) redirect to By the Throat (Eyedea & Abilities album) (or delete it) and leave the disambiguation page at By the Throat, with a redirect to it at By the Throat (disambiguation). -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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Draft:Julep Beauty and Julep

Perfect. Thanks! —Anne Delong (talk) 16:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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See also Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Gaming the outcome of a requested move.
By the way, would you consider fixing the talk page archives? They are now attached to the new article, rather than the old article. RGloucester — ☎ 17:07, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
See Talk:2014 Odessa clashes/Archive 1 (there are more). These should be attached to the 2 May article, not the 2014 article. RGloucester — ☎ 17:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Excellent. What about the Talk:2014 Odessa clashes edit history? It seems that that should be attached to the old article, 2 May 2014 Odessa clashes, as well. That stuff isn't about the new article, but about the old article. RGloucester — ☎ 18:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I did request the logs to be moved to "May 2014 Odessa clashes" because extra precision is discouraged. Sole oppose wanted "2" to stay; many at RM wanted removal of "2". --George Ho (talk) 23:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

That's for a different article. The precision is not "extra". It is the long-standing title, and it is only about clashes on 2 May. ~ RGloucester — ☎
Could you at least revamp the article then to be about the month's clashes? Also, you can propose renaming 2014 NYPD officer killings if you wish, but that would lead to nowhere. George Ho (talk) 23:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't deal with American articles. They are distasteful. I'd delete that article on the spot. A summary execution. I shan't expand the article. It must retain the present title, as it has done, and always will do. For eternity, it is the article about the 2 May clashes, not about the non-existent "May clashes". RGloucester — ☎ 23:49, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Existent or not, the accurate title should not be too precise. Voters said so in RM, even when they weren't aware of December bombings. --George Ho (talk) 23:55, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
What is "too precise"? I'm sorry, but in normal English speech, when an event is limited to one day, we refer to it by that day. When we write letters, we write the date at the top, including the day. We do not write "May 2014" at the top of letter sent on "2nd of May 2014". It just doesn't make sense. It is non-standard, imprecise, and often wrong. It does not define the scope of the article. RGloucester — ☎ 00:04, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
...Let's discuss this at your or my talk page. I'll request a page move at another time. --George Ho (talk) 00:15, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that...

...malformed title for Super Halcón, Jr. that you had to deal with. Thanks for handling... Dicklyon (talk) 06:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
For all your work with History merges. — kikichugirl speak up! 22:23, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

No Original Research Noticeboard Discussion for The Frogmen

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Deleted page: Sphere 3D

Hello Anthony Appleyard. I'm curious as to why you deleted the page Sphere 3D [3] and marked it as "does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject." I have no dog in this fight, but I think this is a huge mistake.

Sphere 3D competes with Citrix, EMC, VMware and several others in the Information Storage and Virtualization sectors - all of which have Wikipedia pages.

Sphere 3D recently purchased Overland Storage (this page even has a link to the deleted Sphere 3D page) and Tandberg Data.

Per Wiki guidelines, there are plenty of credible third-party sources with information about Sphere 3D: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q="sphere+3d"

I think the page should be restored.

14:28, 23 January 2015 Anthony Appleyard deleted page Sphere 3D (A7: Article about a company, corporation or organization, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) Minnesconsinite (talk) 21:20, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Talk page disappearance

  • Hi, somehow the talk page of Nike, Inc. disappeared when it got moved and then moved back. Can you figure this out and fix it? Here's the complete talk page as it should be, with its lengthy edit history: [4]. Here is its last iteration before any moves [5]. I'm not even seeing a difference in URLs, so I can't figure out what happened. Anyway, can you restore the complete Talk page? Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 00:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC) EDIT: The issue seems to be that the period after the "Inc" fell off the Talk page title (but not the article title) during or after one of the moves. The period needs to be replaced on the title of the correct Talk page. Softlavender (talk) 01:03, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
  • @User:Softlavender:  Done: It was at Talk:Nike, Inc without the fullstop. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:25, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Tracking page move request

Series of page moves today

History merge

Tincture of Cannabis

Hello Anthony Appleyard,

Could you possibly make the "c" lower-case in the title of Tincture of Cannabis? The most common way on Wikipedia to refer to the drug is "cannabis", and the title should reflect that.

Thanks,

Sonĝanto (talk) 05:17, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Sonĝanto (talk) 14:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Persistent vandalism

Thanks

I did not catch that it was spelled incorrectly in the genus article. Usually I just paste for my reference searches, but, since it was such an easy specific epithet, I did not, and it did not occur to me to check where I got the red link. Good job for doing the extra checking and correcting. MicroPaLeo (talk) 09:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Hi Anthony. You recently carried out a request to move Posttraumatic stress disorder to Post-traumatic stress disorder. That is a controversial move as it moves the article away from the name used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which pretty much defines the name used for all mental disorder articles on Wikipedia. Would you please move it back to Posttraumatic stress disorder as we really need substantial discussion to use other than the DSM title. I'd be happy to have the discussion on the PTSD talk page. Thanks --RexxS (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

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Muhammad Ali Abdur Rahkman

  • It wasn't necessary to take it to AfD unless you thought it did not qualify per A7. Just so you know, I generally stay away from deleting sports articles tagged with A7 because it's one of those niches where it pays to know and understand the notability guidelines, and I always have trouble with sports guidelines. Anyway, you'll get people who are knowledgeable about such guidelines at the AfD, and I'll follow along. Who knows - I may even learn something, although I doubt it'll stick. I think it comes from being an old-fashioned geek. Take care.--Bbb23 (talk) 06:33, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Another history merge

Abbey Brewing Company

  • Hello Anthony Appleyard, I want to draw your attention towards article Abbey Brewing Company. I am not sure why is this notable expect for one claim that "it is the first American monastery brewery founded since before the Prohibition Era". I had nominated the article for CSD but was declined citing "add ref for first in US". The company was founded in 2005, 70 years after the Prohibition Era and am still not sure why should this have an article on Wikipedia. Once bitten, I am not putting this for AfD. May I request your inputs please. Thanks Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 18:20, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
  • @User:AKS.9955: Unfortunately, I live in England and I am teetotal, and I know little about American breweries. Some people may consider this brewery to be notable. If you think that this article's notability is queryable, then AfD it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:14, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

RM closure

Thanks. RGloucester — ☎ 05:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
While I understand why you did the move to the "old version" title, Is there any reason why these redirects were moved? Shouldn't they be deleted? They don't even have an edit history. In addition, it appears as if Talk:Gravity (old version)/Archive 1 should be history merged with Talk:Gravity/Archive 1. Unlike the other two, this was a cut-and-paste merge to that archive. I also wonder if a history merge between the old version gravity page and the gravitation page is possible. It seems that the gravity page was previously text merged into the gravitation page. Either way, I feel like this mess should be tided somewhat, as much as is possible. RGloucester — ☎ 06:13, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, Mr Appleyard, I think there is a history merge that is possible and should be done. I've figured out that Talk:Gravity/Old is actually the talk page of the original article Gravity (old version). The edit history of Talk:Gravity/Old is from 2004, before Talk:Gravitation (now Talk:Gravity, created with this 2005 edit) existed. I'm certain that Talk:Gravity/Old's history should be merged into Talk:Gravity, as Talk:Gravity/Archive 1 is an archive of Talk:Gravity/Old. RGloucester — ☎ 19:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. That's much cleaner. RGloucester — ☎ 22:35, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Pinging

Hallo Anthony, the @[[User:PamD]] in your edit to Talk:Passed (band) did not create a notification for me. I think if you had used @{{User|PamD}} it would have done so, or {{ping|PamD}}. There are a confusing number of subtly different templates for identifying users, and I don't know whether there's a helpful list anywhere to show their comparative effects and which ones generate a notification.

I only spotted that talk page discussion because I (a) had the RM page watchlisted, (b) saw that you'd removed the proposal and another with a note "discuss 1, done 1", (c) found that N-rule had been moved so concluded that Passed (band) hadn't been moved and wasn't going to be, (d) looked at your contributions list to find that talk page. PamD 23:04, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Delete

List of Nike sponsorships

  • Would you please consider permanent semi-protection of List of Nike sponsorships? You created it as a redirect back in 2013 because "There were 1070 attempts to access this page in a week." I split off the overwhelming sponsorship data from Nike, Inc. ten days ago into that article space, because the data was taking up more room than the actual article text. Since then, IPs have been deleting stuff from List of Nike sponsorships almost daily (including section blanking), always with no explanation whatsoever. Since there is no official list of Nike sponsorships that I am aware of, there is no easy way to confirm these random unexplained deletions. I'd rather have any IPs wanting edits to provide explanations and citations instead of possibly vandalizing at will. Anyway, if it could be permanently semi-protected, that would help a lot. Softlavender (talk) 05:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:27, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks so much! Softlavender (talk) 06:54, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others

Can you point me to the discussion for the move from "John D. Rockefeller, Jr." to "John D. Rockefeller Jr." The majority of the incoming links use ", Jr." and I believe the MoS harmonizes on ", Jr." You say it is based on a discussion, but I do not see it. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:25, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The discussion for WP:JR was at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies#Comma after "Jr.", "Sr.", etc.? and has links to other areas of the MOS. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:37, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Wow, seven people !voted on a major style change with a 5 to 2 split. 20:56, 25 February 2015‎ User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

These were not controversial when done, and there's still no indication that the guidance on these will be changed; if it, then they can be moved again. Dicklyon (talk) 18:52, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

  • @Dohn joe:: I thought that the matter had been settled as "leave the comma out", and now it seems that it is not settled. That is about 60 articles to move, and the titles are clearly understandable with or without the comma, and I would prefer to leave them where they are until the dispute about policy about this comma has been settled. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:23, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
    • I understand that Anthony. At least now we have a list all in one place if we need to revisit. And in the meantime, I would ask that you not process any more similar moves until the guidance is more settled. Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Queensgate bus station

I have replied at Talk:Queensgate bus station. I hope that it addresses your concerns. 163.167.125.215 (talk) 14:13, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Undiscussed moves of "Islam/ic" to "Muslim"

Documentation page move

Phir Se film

Deletion: Oregon Senate Bill 166

Object

Page movie

The Last Dragon (2004 film).

  • I note that, in this diff you re-instated the overlong plot at The Last Dragon (2004 film).
    The generic rule of WP:FILMPLOT "Plot summaries for feature films should be between 400 and 700 words" - has been discussed on the talk page. Currently the synopsis is 2615 words - so is 4 times too long.
    Several editors, including 2 sysops, User:Materialscientist and User:JzG. have repeatedly tried to control the length of this synopsis. Can you please explain why you feel this plot should be so long - Thanks - Arjayay (talk) 08:45, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
  • @Arjayay:: As I noted in the edit comments, some readers want this information, if it is not easily available in full elsewhere. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:51, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
  • That argument could be made about almost any synopsis - so there seems little point in having any guidelines at all. PS "ping" isn't currently working Arjayay (talk) 09:21, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
  • The fact that it's not easily available elsewhere is a massive red flag. It's not there because it's in-universe trivia that most sources consider not relevant and not supportable. It is also fundamentally unsourced (personal observations) and massively over-long, written in essay style ina din sundry other ways not appropriate for Wikipedia. Guy (Help!) 11:05, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
  • @Arjayay:: Often one man's trivia or cruft is another man's important relevant matter. For example, I have no interest in football, and I skip over it in the newspaper, but I do not go around Wikipedia deleting football articles, because I know that some other people want to read them. There will always be inclusionists versus exclusionists. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:35, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Hill (film music supervisor) (part 2)

Hi, Anthony Appleyard. I'm not sure where to take this since it has a bit of a convoluted history. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Hill (film music supervisor) received a non-admin closure to merge Andy Hill (film music supervisor) and A.W. Hill into Andy Hill (American composer). It appears as though you moved it to Andy Hill (American music producer) with this edit, User:Steel1943 moved to Andy Hill (American composer) this edit, and User:Ghostrider51 - who is the subject of the article - moved it back to Andy Hill (American music producer) with this edit. While I have no strong opinion on the name of the merge target, I am wondering what now should be done with A.W. Hill. Thanks! - Location (talk) 22:04, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

A lot of clean-up is necessary, but I essentially copied and pasted the writer's biography to a subsection in the musician's biography. - Location (talk) 01:24, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

WILV

Hi

I see you did a histmerge of the WILV article... care to have a look at Talk:WILV#Requested move 3 March 2015?

My interest is not just in this article but in the use of callsigns as article names generally. We frequently get RMs such as this one which blatantly ignore policies and guidelines (WP:BALL in this instance for example).

The appropriate WikiProject I'm sure is doing a good (and huge) job overall, and their practices make sense mostly, and I don't want to hinder them and fall foul of WP:IAR and WP:BUREAUCRACY. But... well, I think there's room for improvement and I'm not quite sure how to help.

There's been some discussion already, see Talk:WBRN-FM#Move closure for example (but warning.... long discussion with long posts). Andrewa (talk) 07:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Stasi Records Agency

I see that you corrected the loss of editor audit trail after I renamed this entry. I note that if ever I need to rename a page again, I need first to locate and digest various wiki-guidelines and/or wiki-rules. But (and THIS, is really my principal purpose in contacting you here) thank you much. Regards Charles01 (talk) 06:51, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Rain in England

Hi - the request was to revert an undiscussed move, per WP:BRD, and as specifically allowed at WP:RM. If the original mover wants to start an RM, that's up to them, but it should be moved to its original title in the meantime. Thanks! Dohn joe (talk) 22:27, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Anthony - I appreciate the prompt action. And if you disagree with the current setup, feel free to start the RM if you wish! Dohn joe (talk) 22:56, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

RM of Martial Race

Hi, how do I challenge the move of Martial Race to Martial race? The rationale was something to do with standard casing but the fact is that the article deals with an official classification and that there is a world of difference between a so-called martial race and one that was defined by the British Raj administration as a Martial Race. I am not even sure that this request was notified on the article talk page, which certainly should be a requirement given that RM is for moves that might be controversial.

I am winding down my activity on Wikipedia because of the increasing gender-based politicisation etc but if contesting this ends up as being my swansong then so be it. - Sitush (talk) 00:13, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

History Undeletions

History merge for ETC Group

ETC Group (AGETC) was created by a copy/paste move from ETC Group, which is now a disambiguation page. The history of ETC Group from before today needs to be moved to ETC Group (AGETC). -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 14:23, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

User:PabloOsvaldo17 and my mistake

If you look at the history of your user and talk pages, you'll see what Pablo did. I'm not taking any action because my first action was absolutely wrong (egg on my face) as I blocked the user who fixed what Pablo did. (I've unblocked the user and apologized.) I'll watch Pablo's contributions until you see this post but otherwise leave it up to you to do whatever is appropriate.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Rlendog indeffed Pablo.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Feel free to unblock or shorten the duration if you feel appropriate. Rlendog (talk) 19:34, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Pablo has a history of disruptive editing (unlike the poor user whom I blocked by mistake), so my view is an indef is justified. As an aside, you used the wrong template on Pablo's talk page. I'd fix it but I don't normally touch other administrators' work.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. I tried to fix it once and it didn't take, but it looks like it worked now. No problem with you fixing it if it is still wrong. Rlendog (talk) 00:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Looks good now.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
  • @Bbb23:: In "As an aside, you used the wrong template" hereinabove, I have worked out that "you" means Rlendog. I (here = Anthony Appleyard) at first thought that it meant me and I was trying to work out what I had done wrong. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of Bob Sheil biography

  • Hi Anthony, in December you rightly deleted a biography of Bob Sheil which included copy/paste from another website. If I create another would you be willing to have a look at it? I have rewritten it from scratch. I am a learner Wikipedian. Thanks!

Archigirl01 (talk) 18:01, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I Remember Mama

Hi Anthony. Any chance of you being able to move I Remember Mama (the article's film contents, at least) to I Remember Mama (film), then turning I Remember Mama into a type of disambiguation page or something, to show the links listed below? The play actually takes precedence over the film, which (the play) was adapted from the novel Mama's Bank Account. The play precedes the film by four years. So, really, the film should not even be at I Remember Mama.

Most appreciation should you do this. Thanks! Best, --Discographer (talk) 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's a drink on me

A beer on me!
Thanks so much for always moving pages for me! Best, --Discographer (talk) 23:58, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Nintendo NX

Kanak

Carthorse listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Carthorse. Since you had some involvement with the Carthorse redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 09:18, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

LATEEF RENAME

Is that OK now?--Petebutt (talk) 01:44, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Dawn Porter

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Help, Page Wrongfully Edited Then Deleted

Talk:Reactions to the death of Lee Kuan Yew – merge?

OK, great. Thanks. — SMUconlaw (talk) 13:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Technical request timing

Hi Anthony

I don't know what the official guidelines say on this, but would it be possbile you to give technical requests at WP:RM a bit more time before effecting them? The request for Yeshivat HaKotel was put in at 15:55 and you moved it just three minutes later, at 15:58. I later moved it to contested, because it didn't seem like a clear cut case to me, but it was too late by then. Number 57 has now moved it back again, so the situation is resolved for now, pending a possible full RM, but it seems like it would be better to allow some time for contests to be made. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 18:10, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Teenage Time Killer

Hi, I see you moved this page after a new user requested it at RM as uncontroversial. However, I think it should be moved back to its previous title (Killer rather than Killers), because most of the cited sources refer to it in the singular, not plural. See here, here, and here for some examples. Everymorning talk 01:54, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Page move

Thanks, Anthony. Tony (talk) 12:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Assistance at RM/TR

That's unacceptable. The burden is on the person who made the change, and purposely prevented a revert. The burden is not on me, who wants to maintain the status quo. The reverts need to be carried out. Each case is individual. There is no room for mass changes here. RGloucester — ☎ 06:23, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
On a further note, I would've been content to do the reverts myself. The only thing preventing me from doing so is the modification of the redirects. I'm sorry that I'm asking you to go through ten moves. Your work is always appreciated, as it is an area that others don't often touch. Nevertheless, the reverts must be carried out. No evidence was provided at all for moving these articles away from their longstanding titles, and only evidence in RS determines capitalisation on Wikipedia per MOS:CAPS. There was no consensus for the moves. There is no way that it is acceptable for a user to make mass changes, prevent reverts, and then make the situation a fait accompli. That would set a horrible precedent. This fait accompli-style change cannot be allowed to occur. The burden to provide evidence is on Dicklyon. He must attain consensus in an RM. Until then, these moves must be treated like any other bold move, and reverted. RGloucester — ☎ 06:33, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
What Wikimandia says or does not say is immaterial. His arguments centre on whether the move was "correct", even though his arguments fail completely in that regard. This has nothing to do with whether it is correct or not. It has to do with Wikipedia processes and consensus. This is very simple. The moves MUST be reverted, so that they can be discussed. They are contested. Bold moves are subject to WP:BRD and WP:CONSENSUS. The burden is on the person making the change to attain consensus. There isn't any consensus, because there was no discussion prior. I cannot believe that this travesty is lingering because of the protestations of someone who clearly hasn't read any of the policies in questions. Do not allow spanners to be thrown in the works. In fact, the redirect modification was itself a spanner of this sort. The reverts must take place. If Wikimandia or Dicklyon want to change the longstanding titles of these articles, they can do so through an RM where they provide evidence and attain consensus, as is specified by our policies. RGloucester — ☎ 06:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
  • I'm getting very impatient with this matter. No one else's bold page moves would be granted special status. This is gaming the system, clearly. Modify the redirect. Make too many changes to easily revert. It is all gaming the system. The goal was to make it as difficult to revert these incorrect and non-consensus-based changes as possible, and that's worked. The administrators at RM/TR, usually quite dilligent in carrying out requests, seem to be facilitating this gaming. This means that whenever someone makes a bold page move and modifies the redirect, they will be protected from reversion and the usual WP:CONSENSUS-based BRD system. Who needs consensus? Just modify the redirect, make tons of moves at once. Make it a fait accompli, and there is no problem. No one will bother to even try to revert, as it is too much work. This is an absolute travesty. A disgrace. Disgusting. This is totally antithetical to all Wikipedia processes. I will not rest until it is fixed as it should be. RGloucester — ☎ 06:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
  • Hey there Anthony Appleyard FYI I'm not the only one who disputes it, and I did not do the original rename. I was on the page requesting another move and saw this discussion already going on — I just added to the discussion that the moves were done correctly per WP naming conventions for articles about things like "disaster/crisis/crash/attack/earthquake/oil spill/avalanche" etc. (see WP:NCCAPS, WP:NCEVENTS and the gazillion articles in Category:Disasters by country) —МандичкаYO 😜 07:18, 27 March 2015 (UTC) (not a HE! 😄) 🙅🙆🙋
  • Comment. RGloucester is correct in this case. I do not know what the ultimate proper destination is for those ten pages, but they should be moved back to the previous status quo per WP:BRD. This is why we have the section at RM/TR to revert undiscussed moves. Anthony - you have shown a willingness to do this before. (See above section at User_talk:Anthony_Appleyard#Rain_in_England, for example.) It's not about whether something is controversial - it clearly is. It's about following an established WP process which was set up for the overall fairness of the system. Please consider reverting the page moves here. Dohn joe (talk) 13:45, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
  • @Wikimandia, RGloucester, and Dohn joe:  Done 9, 1 was already done. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:39, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you, Mr Appleyard. Your work is always appreciated. RGloucester — ☎ 15:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

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WikiProject History Merge

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Surface 3 / Surface Pro 3

I noticed that you recently moved Microsoft Surface 3 -> Surface 3 and Microsoft Surface Pro 3 -> Surface Pro 3 per RM/TR request by User:TranslucentCloud. While I think that those should be the names of the articles. Both had active RM discussions ( with at least 1 initial oppose even though switching towards support ) so was a bit surprised to see the pages moved before the RMs finished. It looks like TranslucentCloud's request was based on a separate discussion at Talk:Microsoft Surface. PaleAqua (talk) 16:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

My request was actually based on the recent moves of the majority of Surface-series articles moves, the discussion in Talk:Microsoft Surface makes little sense. And the opposition to move is not really strong, since the Surface brand itself now is very recognizable. You feel free to start a new discussion for moving of all of the articles back. TranslucentCloud (talk) 16:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I actually agree with the moves, just surprised that they were done as RM/TR while there was an open RM. PaleAqua (talk) 16:26, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I agree with PaleAqua, while in this case subverting process is probably inconsequential, in the next case it might not be. We should not allow for bad precedents like this. --В²C ☎ 18:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Moving page while RM discussion is open

Perhaps you're not aware that you moved Microsoft Surface 3 to Surface 3 while there was an open/ongoing RM discussion about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Surface_3

While it's true that no one is opposing it, it has been open for only a couple of days so far. After your move, the nom closed the discussion, but really I don't think we should be moving and closing proposals like that. --В²C ☎ 18:32, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Atbarah -> Atbara move

Help Please Restore DJ Many Page!

I was not aware of this process and i would like a chance to voice my opinion on this article, the people who commented on this deletion review don't even know who dj many is.... "writing for huffington isn't exactly notable either. Sounds like a cool guy but not noteworthy." Was one of the comments made in the deletion article. how ignorant could these people be to someone who writes for the huffington post and also has tracks with Grammy Award winning artists... Even you anthony said it makes no sense that this article would even be considered for deletion, i would understand previous articles from 2011 but now dj many is becoming more prominent and should be recognized on wikipedia. Supermusicboom (talk) 16:24, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

@Supermusicboom: Of course you were aware of the process. You created the same article (DJ Many (Disc Jockey)) in December 2013, vandalized Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Many (Disc Jockey), and then recreated the article after. You're fortunate you haven't been indefinitely blocked thus far, and you're quickly heading in that direction.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:50, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

@Bbb23: I want you to honestly read the article yourself and check the news references and tell me that my article is not wikipedia worthy when dj many has numerous notable achievements such as his grammy features and writing position at the huffington post... this shouldn't be such a big debate i have scene complete stub articles just sitting around wikipedia with no reference or notability... there is a whole category for writers at the huffington post like dj many https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Huffington_Post_writers_and_columnists Supermusicboom (talk) 16:58, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Greenbelt "s/Station"

You just moved "Greenbelt Station" to the lowercase. You might be aware that an RM to achieve that goal was closed as "not moved" yesterday. In fact, tens of station articles that were part of that RM have been summarily moved despite a clear lack of consensus in that RM, as written by the closer. This is total failure of procedure. Please address this situation. RGloucester — ☎ 13:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Closer also noted that "we seem no closer to a clear consensus for any resolution". Yet there is an obvious consensus that there is a problem that needs resolution; so, yes, the process has failed. Why not follow up via the discussion link that I left there, and help to find a resolution instead of just balking? In particular, if you would reiterate the position you articulate here, that would help support the orderly resolution of this mess. Dicklyon (talk) 14:56, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I most likely support the lowercasing in this instance. I do not, however, believe that circumventing consensus in an RM is acceptable. I agree with many of your moves, but until you start to bow to consensus and Wikipedia processes, everything you do will be tainted. RGloucester — ☎ 16:48, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
I would agree. But here there was no consensus to circumvent, except the WP:USSTATION that the capitalization was circumventing. Dicklyon (talk) 17:28, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
@Dicklyon:, are you familiar with the guidance at WP:RM? The procedure is that if there is no consensus, the pages stay at their existing long term titles. So if the request is closed as no consensus, then they should not have been moved. I also suggested they should be at the lowercase titles, but I don't think they should be moved there if the move request was not closed that way. If you have new evidence, or a different way to convince those in opposition, then feel free to discuss it on the page or even start a new request, but in the mean time, please could you move them back, then we can move on from this procedural discussion and avoid a need to escalate the discussion at WP:ANI. Thanks!  — Amakuru (talk) 17:33, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I'm familiar with the process, and how broken it became in this particular case. Have you looked at the history since the December RM and close review? Anyway, if they're to be moved back, it should be by someone who actually thinks that's an improvement, not just for pointy reasons. Dicklyon (talk) 17:57, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
@Dicklyon: Oh well, we'll just have to see what happens then. "How broken it became in this particular case" just seems to be another way of saying WP:IDONTLIKEIT. You proposed a move, some people disagreed, for what seemed like valid enough reasons, and there was no consensus. To me that did not give you a right to go ahead and move, but hey ho. Anthony, apologies for continuing this on your talk page, but this is my last comment here! Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 20:26, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
The problem is not that I don't like it or that some people disagreed, but that the process that put them at capitalized Station in the first place was so broken, and nobody likes it, yet we can't seem to either unwind that or conform to the agreed conventions. It's like some kind of black comedy going on here. Dicklyon (talk) 23:31, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#‎Page moves of DC Metro stations. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
(edit conflict) I don't know how closely you looked into this, but I'm really baffled by Epicgenius's decision to request this as "uncontroversial". It has been anything but. If there's consensus to make such moves, I say again that that's ok with me. But there's no way this should've been treated as a procedural matter. Anthony, I'm not especially upset with you, because I've made mistakes like this before as well. But this is definitely a mistake. ---BDD (talk) 15:11, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Sorry about that, Anthony. I did not see that the RM discussion was already closed as no consensus. BDD, where can I find the relevant discussion? Epic Genius (talk) 15:33, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Unfinished move?

Histmerge: ScotRail

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Graduateland article deletion

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