User talk:Dismas

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Thanks, Dismas|^(talk)

For your information...

Not only I've finally discovered for over a month that that per MOS thing was a reference to the mandatory Manual of Style - it would be better if you explained things, people aren't obliged to know every abbreviation, I thought all those corrections were made just for a personal idea of style, as so many other editors insist in removing or readding things more than once without any rule as justification - but I've also corrected some of my previous mistakes, in good time!... If you've read my rant as you should and then you would've reached to that conclusion: that I was just justifying why I've never followed the rules before!... But apparently you have no time for reading, or correcting anything, the same reason why I had to correct some articles personally instead of just waiting for someone else to do it, some of the dits been done today!... PS: If films are "not notable" - as if!... - why do they have pages - not having a page doesn't make it "non notable" per se?... Or you prefer to have everything unlinked?... Actually I read the articles better with more links, and beside SOME common English words I've linked were mostly to illustrate the speech or some character appearance without a page. G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 19:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Because I was so sick and tired of seeing edits made by subjective reasons that I just assumed it was the case. Specially when I didn't know of all those rules: since no page had a complete or even an incomplete Filmography I assumed there weren't even rules for something so small in a whole Encyclopedia. And the only time I've seen someone say anything about the Manual of Style that was inteligeable that someone said or I've read on the top of it that it was "guiding lines", which I interpret as being mere abstract preferences, like, it is preferable to put filmographies from the oldest works to the newest ones. The rest, I have no time to talk or read editors' things, I have so many other things to do... You should've said that Dates are mandatorially deprecated by some recent decision and according to the mandatory Manual of Style, instead of that gibberish "date audit script assisted per MOS" (I've only open the link of the script and I assumed it was just a description of the alteration and the program that assisted it and I never read what the MOS was), I would've ran to the Administrators in the first place to know what was going on instead of debating the issue with just another editor!... When someone started taking dates out not only I didn't knew it was some new management's idiossincratic mandatory change, but I saw that it was a stupid one, since most people otherwise wouldn't even know that there are pages for years and for years in music and film and television, which by the way is the only reason I know they exist, because I've read them in some page. If you deprecate them all - and according to the Holy Manual of Style they're not even to be deprecated as I see so many doing - no one will even know they're there. My rant was the one that was here long enough to be read!... I was referring to your comment that I did links to so called non notable films. The rest, on Saturday I've corrected most of the Filmographies, and there are just about 30 left, which I expect to finish soon. G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 12:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

IMDb

I've changed the template because it was more simple, when I opened it from instead of Dismas at IMDb I got there directly without any redirect, the parte of the name is on "name="!... G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 13:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

It's corrected!

The IMDb name things, they're all right now, I've corrected them yesterday!... G.-M. Cupertino (talk) 13:26, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Stingray Sam

The Wikipedia article for the upcoming Cory McAbee's film Stingray Sam is nominated for deletion. Please contribute to the discussion.--DrWho42 (talk) 03:22, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Ridge Landing Airpark

Just wanted to let you know that Ridge Landing Airpark doesn't qualify for G4 because it's content is not at all similar to the version that was deleted . imho, it is marginally notable, but if you think otherwise, feel free to list it for deletion again. Regards. Thingg^⊕⊗ 02:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

date style - month/day vs. day-month

You cleaned up the dates in 2005 Southeast Asian Games, but in so doing, converted all from month-day (more or less) to day-month style. Shouldn't you keep the existing style unless the nationality of the article's subject clearly calls for the other style? Chris the speller (talk) 02:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

OK. For parts of Southeast Asia, you may be right (Hong Kong, for example). But the Philippines have had much more US influence, so the day-month assumption will often not work there. I also have a script for these conversions. If you see me mess up, or if you have any related questions, or end up in a tight place, please drop something on my talk page. Happy editing! Chris the speller (talk) 04:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Priscilla Taylor photo removal

Priscilla Taylor has asked me to remove the photo I posted of her. I removed it twice but it keeps re-appearing. You told me to contact OTR in regards to that. I did 3 days ago. I have not received a reply and her photo is still there. I told here I removed it and don't want here being mad a me because it's still there after i told her I removed it. How can i get it removed permanently?

Glenn Francis (talk) 03:37, 26 November 2008 (UTC) Glenn Francis

Filmography

Putting the last movie on top of the list is just the opposite of IMDB, eventhough Wikipedia WP:LOW says otherwise. Looking at the various actors, majority is the opposite. Savolya (talk) 13:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)SavolyaSavolya (talk) 13:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I see the dilema. There must be an easier way of enetering reverse data from IMDB.

Savolya (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)SavolyaSavolya (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:EGG

I saw your comment on the Date linking RFC. Please note that WP:EGG explicitly exempts some piped links: "However, piped links may be useful: in places where compact presentation is important (some tables, infoboxes, and lists)." To hold otherwise would devastate many sports articles. See the infobox on any NFL player to see how many piped links there are to NFL seasons, Pro-Bowl years, and All-Pro years. See Jason Taylor for example.--2008Olympian^chitchat 10:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Help with photographer's page?

Hi-

You were a HUGE help to Mason Marconi on her page with sorting copyright issues, and I was just reading a blog where an artist put out an open cry for help that I thought to pass along to you:

http://www.stevedietgoedde.com/bloggy/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Wiki Trouble Are there any Wikipedia contributors/editors out there? I used to have an entry but it was deleted back in June. Several other colleagues had their profiles removed as well, namely Charles Gatewood and Christophe Mourthé among others.

The page for my entry is still there at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Diet_Goedde

The deletion log says: 06:02, 10 June 2008 ESkog (Talk | contribs) deleted "Steve Diet Goedde" ‎ (G12: Blatant copyright infringement: no revisions had anything that wasn't ripped from the linked page)

I'm not sure what kind of copyright infringement was involved. I don't even understand that last sentence in the above quote. I had approved two of my images for use in the article and followed all their usage rules. That had been done a few years prior to the removal. So I have no idea what happened. So if anyone is interested in restoring my page, please let me know and I'll be happy to provide any biographical information.

(end blog)

Steve's email address is stevedg@gmail.com... I hope that you can help him- he's very nice and an important photographer!!!

99.141.74.72 (talk) 23:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC) Librarian2008

Cupertino

Thanks for letting me know that you've had problems with him in the past. As I'm bringing an arbitration case against him, it helps a lot. I'm not entirely sure how they work, but is it possible to bring you in to comment after I've already submitted it? Thanks again. Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 17:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I saw your question on the requests for arbitration page (I'm one of the arbitrators). Any user may offer his or her opinion on whether a request for arbitration should be accepted or not, so feel free to submit a short statement if you think it would help. Your statement will be most helpful if it discusses whether arbitration (as opposed to another means of dispute resolution) is the best dispute-resolution method to use, in addition to any other issues. Hope this helps. Newyorkbrad (talk) 18:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Maria Thayer

I've opened a request for arbitration and listed you as a named party. You may wish to make a statement. Best wishes, Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 22:22, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Reference

IMDB was removed from Melissa Bellin page as a reference with the notation: "IMDb can be used as a reference for filmography items but not for biographical data, see WP:RS for more on that, standardize section headers, italicize magazine title".

The page has been deleted for "lack of notability" in the past, and is under the threat of it again for the same reason and for "lack of reference".

As for the "lack of notability" issue, I have no idea why she is less notable than any of the other Nitro Girls that have their own pages, but that is another issue.

The IMDB biography page is the only source of biographical information available, so I guess the page will be deleted again, due to "lack of reference".

Qzk1718 (talk) 12:16, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank You

That's the second bad external link call I've made this week. (The other one was less egregious and I reversed myself before anyone else had to.) Thank you for correcting my error so gently. Best, David in DC (talk) 16:28, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Humayun Saeed

Ok =] Thanks.(Rk12m (talk) 06:01, 24 December 2008 (UTC))

information

Alright, I got a little more information on the "one footed snorkel monster" question. Hope it helps!-Warriorscourge (talk) 00:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/G.-M. Cupertino

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/G.-M. Cupertino/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/G.-M. Cupertino/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, - Penwhale | ^{Blast him / Follow his steps} 16:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Account usurp

Trying to usurp an account on de. Hello, I confirm that I'd like to usurp de:User:Dismas and ru:User:Dismas. Dismas|^(talk) 08:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

using sandbox

thanks for the tip! That was my very first Wikipedia page!

Glenn Francis (talk) 03:44, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Taya Parker Edit

Taya Parker and I began her wiki page long ago. I realize now there is all this sudden interest. Please do not remove accolades.

I have cited references for all of them. We are not sure if it's done the best way.. just the same.. please do not remove ALL the information for no reason. The information is extremely justifiable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.64.21.41 (talk) 01:15, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Ida Ljungqvist (new information)

Hey there- Im a playboy fanatic and love researching all the playmates and I have a few blogs and the biggest question I get is: Who is Joshua R. Lang? (Ida's husband) well after searching forever and hours I discovered alot of crazy stuff and who he is and where he is from. Bt having this on here with Ida Ljungqvist, this will answer many peoples questions and give insight to who he is and the articles and news stories regarding them both. Thanks and great work. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greystone36 (talk • contribs)

Here is what I added to: Ida Ljungqvist (copy and paste link to view)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ida_Ljungqvist&oldid=263556861 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greystone36 (talk • contribs)

Ida Ljungqvist (reply)

I shall create a new one for both. Lang is more notable than Ljungqvist just to let you know. If I'm not mistaken he was in all the news articles and television more than her. Also I will use Ida's real name and information. thanks. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greystone36 (talk • contribs)

Ida Ljungqvist

While I agree that a redirect with a bad title shouldn't exist, such redirects are generally kept to retain the attribution of the edits. If you have included material from the deleted page, you should give credit to Greystone36 for adding it somewhere in the first place. If you have the intention to delete the page it came from, the best way to consolidate both things is to mention where it came from in the edit summary. Keep it in mind for the future, and perhaps do a null edit (adding a space or punctuation somewhere) and make such an edit summary now. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

• Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but when you said done on my talk page, which edit were you referring to specifically? I've looked through your contributions and those to the article and I can't find it. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
• It worked this time. :) - Mgm|^(talk) 09:25, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
• If merged material comes from one single editor and there are calls to have the source article deleted, this is the easiest way to combine the conflicting moves. If more people contributed to merged material, a rename of the page might be in order before it's merged and redirected. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Joshua R.

Hey Dismas- When doing reseacrch and putting together the Joshua Lang article. Many if not all use Joshua R Lang (the middle initial) typing in just Joshua Lang doesnt boost much stuff online or the news and gets it mixed up with some other random Joshua Lang's. From what I'm researching the R. is basically his trademark and the news and other information sites use this to seperate. Greystone36 (talk) 17:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC) hope all is well

Responded at Talk:Joshua Lang. Dismas|^(talk) 19:49, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Award Nominations

Maybe the project should set some kind of guideline for listing awards and nominations. I prefer not listing any closed nominations if they have a win somewhere because wikipedia is not an indiscriminate list of information. Imagine if we listed all of Jenna Haze's nominations or Jenna Jameson's. For those subjects that don't have any wins, then I feel listing nominations is fine in order to verify their notability under WP:PORNBIO. Morbidthoughts (talk) 04:21, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/G.-M. Cupertino

The "G.-M. Cupertino" arbitration case has been closed, and the final decision is available at the link above.

G.-M. Cupertino is banned from Wikipedia for a period of one year. Should he return to editing following his ban, he is limited indefinitely to using one account to edit. He is to inform the Committee of the account he has selected, and must obtain the Committee's approval if he wishes to begin using a different account.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee,
Mailer Diablo 23:45, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Simpsons guest stars

Would you be OK if I speedily deleted the Simpsons guest star categories you've nominated? They've been deleted about 5 or 6 times, by my count. I can just delete them and close the discussion if it's OK with you. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:12, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, done; bot will remove the season 1 category from articles shortly. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:33, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

What is linkspam?

Can I solicit your opinion on what constitutes linkspam, please?

See the recent edits to Silvia Saint by myself and JordanGekko and his lengthy set of statements in the Silvia Saint talk page.

In my opinion, a link to a site that is simply for the purpose of selling products is linkspam, whether the performer is associated with the link or not... Valrith (talk) 05:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

• Ignore the foregoing. I now think I've identified the issue. JordanGekko is claiming the pre-existing link to the official fan club is linkspam. The link he wants to replace it with is different than the "official website" link in the infobox, and leads to a different server, but shows (at least for now) the same content. Any thoughts on that? Valrith (talk) 05:36, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Script delinking dates

Hi, I'm assuming you're not yet aware of this temporary injunction, so it's probably a good idea to hold off doing this for the moment. Cheers. --Rodhullandemu 21:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)