User talk:LeaveSleaves

Revert on PHP Debug

Hi, just wanted to let you know that you've incorrectly restored an article that had been blanked by the author. As far as I understand, this can be taken as a request for deletion (which makes sense since the article has multiple issues). So I've re-blanked the article and added the db-author tag to it. Hope that's fine. Cheers, Laurent (talk) 18:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Andy Murray

What about saying something like "4 (guaranteed 3 on 11th May)". Maybe better worded than that though. Alan16 ^talk 17:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

The infobox needs to precise and specific in terms of information mentioned. In any case, until 11th May his ranking is going to be 4 and should be kept so. Change can be made thereon. ^LeaveSleaves 18:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll put it back to four then. Alan16 ^talk 21:48, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Julian Myrick

On May 4, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Julian Myrick, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Royalbroil 03:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Indian Grand Prix Article

Hey,

On the Indian Grand Prix article, you do realise the references you reverted back to are showing a 404 not found error, how are they reliable when they dont even exist ? --121.247.204.240 (talk) 16:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

The solution to the situation is to find another reliable source, as I have done now. ^LeaveSleaves 17:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, good. But one should also not be overzealous to revert edits without actually checking the earlier version first. Peace.--121.247.204.240 (talk) 07:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Seal has requested deletion

If you would like an email from Dr. Seal for verification, please indicate where it should be sent.

DYK for Niladri Kumar

On May 11, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Niladri Kumar, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Barnstars

I want one :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChilliSauce59 (talk • contribs) 13:26, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Merapi

Ta for that - hope it gets the idea or it might be one of the compulsed gotta get blocked ones :( SatuSuro 13:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem, happy to help. ^LeaveSleaves 14:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Phew both sequential numbered IPS got blocked - always a relief to see there are dedicated warners :( SatuSuro 14:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

HMS Penelope

you took the hms penelope tribute video link of the wiki site the video is my own and has information on the ship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAhiVP8T5hU&feature=channel_page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carsie100 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

The link you are adding is unacceptable under WP:EL. ^LeaveSleaves 14:03, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

merseyrail

hey, sorry. i didn't think that would actually appear. isn't there a filter? anyway i changed back the edit before mine which was wrong. 86.142.68.76 (talk) 14:01, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

professional

why did you revert my edit ? the page is really dreadful, it starts with a specific definitions of a specific meaning from a single country and goes downhill from there. My edit was succinct and accurate and IMO a very good place to restart 92.25.206.105 (talk) 15:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I assume you are referring to this reversion. You edit was far too specific in terms of describing the generalized criteria. Moreover you entered an example with no cite present regarding occurrence and significance such an event. ^LeaveSleaves 17:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

sorry I complained to the wrong person :-) 92.25.206.105 (talk) 22:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		For consistently beating me too the vandals, I'll beat you too it one day. SKATER T. 13:44, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

User page

Thanks for the reversion. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 22:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

2009 sony ericsson open

Hi mate, I would be willing to help with the page. I have already submitted the 2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters article for Peer Review and the main thing I needed to do was add more references. Let me know what you want me to do. 03md 18:22, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Since you have made significant progress with 2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, I think we should focus on that first while simultaneously expanding 2009 Sony Ericsson Open. As for citations, I'll fish around and try to gather more. I'll post those on the article talk page or insert them into the article's right away. ^LeaveSleaves 18:29, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for The Terminator Decoupling

On May 17, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Terminator Decoupling, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Royalbroil 05:08, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Fake IPL Player Nicknames

There is a rule called Ignore All Rules Rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules) that is really important. I don't think that mentioning the nicknames with the names actually violate the BLP rule. But even if it does, this is a very important part of the discussion, and for the sake of improving the page, must be maintained. I have undone your deletion. --Ant80 (talk) 19:20, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I've responded on the article's talk page. ^LeaveSleaves 19:47, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject User Rehab

Would you be interested in joining this project? We need more editors who share a burden for rescuing promising editors who have gotten into serious trouble because of behavioral issues. IF (a fundamental condition!) they are interested in reforming and adapting to our standards of conduct, and are also willing to abide by our policies and guidelines, rather than constantly subverting them, we can offer to help them return to Wikipedia as constructive editors. Right now many if not most users who have been banned are still active here, but they are here as socks or anonymous IPs who may or may not be constructive. We should offer them a proper way to return. If you think this is a good idea, please join us. Abce2|AccessDenied 04:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Stapedectomy Article

I agree with your prior spamming deletion and it seems that the spammer has a personal interest in this post given the reaction. I'm all for a more thorough article which would include the Lippy info, but see it as inappropriate to overstate the contribution seemingly for the purpose of adding a web link. The tone in the discussion leads me to touching base with you as someone with more experience in these issue and ask, What's the best way to clean up the article? 158.93.190.31 (talk) 14:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I just checked work done by Lippy and it appears that he has significant contribution in the field. I'm not an expert on this subject and the reason I removed the content earlier was because I felt that it was added for promotional purposes. But my suggestion, since you asked for it, is to tone down the information to a more neutral manner, move it from the lead to the body of the article and include the link in the external link section since it seems to be helpful (Although, I could not access the link myself because I have some problem with my internet connection. Make sure you check it out before keeping it). Hope this helps. ^LeaveSleaves 15:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello, I noticed you've made edits to University of the Philippines (UP) and UP–related articles and thought you might want to support our recent proposal to create the WikiProject University of the Philippines. We've recently revamped the proposal and started a drive to push the approval of this project. We have a lot of articles that may be under this project and we would like assistance and support for its approval. Hope we'll have a very positive response. Go Fighting Maroons!

P.S. You can look at the preliminary drafts of the project in here. Thanks!--The Wandering Traveler^{WIKIPROJECT UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!} 04:32, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

2009 Sony Ericsson Open

Hey LeaveSleaves, thanks for your note. I'll do my best to give you a review in the next day or two, and I'm more than happy to help you push the article on to GA/FA or whatever. All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I took my time but...

...I've left you some comments at the peer review... Hope they help! The Rambling Man (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

French Open

Hi, Are you planning on applying your article layout to the French Open article after the tournament has finished, as people have started adding day-by-day summaries? 03md 19:01, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, plans are to apply the new layout to every possible article, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to an article of an ongoing tournament. I guess what we can do is keep moving day by day information to sub articles and ask editors add it there instead of the main article. ^LeaveSleaves 04:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I was wondering what you thought about inclusion of the tournament category and location in the infobox for tournaments, as happens in the French wikipedia tennis articles, for example on the equivalent French article for the Miami tournament. I have added a parameter into the infobox for Category, which now appears on all tennis articles. Fr:Modèle:Infobox Tournoi de tennis —Preceding unsigned comment added by 03md (talk • contribs) 12:40, 25 May, 2009 (UTC)

I think that would be a very helpful addition. After all infobox is intended to include basic information about the tournament. ^LeaveSleaves 12:49, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Do you know how to make the parameters optional on the template and, if so, could you make the location and category parameters optional on this template. 03md 13:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Done. I've also updated the documentation and applied same changes to {{TennisEventInfo2}}. ^LeaveSleaves 14:38, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

12 Squadron

Hi. The You Tube clip was of a film made non-commercially by the UK Central Office of Information, a government agency. I presume the film's purpose was to educate the public about the role of the Armed Forces, and as the final credits clearly show, was made with aircraft and crews of 12 Squadron. The link was placed precisely where it was in the text because it featured a Martel anti-shipping missile being fired from a 12 Squadron aircraft, and the reference in the pre-existing text to Martel was unsourced. It seemed entirely appropriate to me. 86.146.192.250 (talk) 17:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Linking to videos on YouTube is generally disallowed. See Wikipedia policy on external links, particularly section about linking to YouTube like sites. ^LeaveSleaves 17:48, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

OK. Understood. Ta for the advice. 86.145.69.94 (talk) 15:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Tennis bio template

I think I'm done with this template. Most parameters are now optional. Testing and viewing in actual articles appears that there's no issues. If you run into anything out in Wikiland on tennis player related articles, fix it or let me know. Cheers. - ALLST✰R▼^echo _{wuz here @} 05:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Huggle

Please exercise greater caution when using Huggle - [1] is a good faith attempt to improve coverage, rather than the vandalism Huggle seems to think it is. Thank you. --Malkinann (talk) 13:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

It did not appear to me as a good faith attempt at the time, but if it was then I apologize for the revert. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. ^LeaveSleaves 17:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

There are a few times when a good faith edit is ALLCAPS, and one of them is when describing shouting. If you wish to apologise, it's not me who you should be apologising to - it's the person behind the IP that left it. --Malkinann (talk) 20:33, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Merci!

Thanks for the clean up of my user page, was some nasty vandalism Ottawa4ever (talk) 17:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. ^LeaveSleaves 17:49, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalizm

hey I was not the one who vandalized the Galatasaray S.K.'s page. I'm not interested in sports and I don't like football. Can someone else use my IP adress; is it possible? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.233.116.177 (talk) 19:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

It is possible that your ISP uses dynamic allocation IP addresses and thus the IP address you are using is used by others previously. If you haven't made those edits, just ignore those messages. To avoid getting any such messages or blocks addressed to other users of the IP, you can consider opening a user account. ^LeaveSleaves 19:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Admin

Are you an admin, because if you are not, you should be. Wireless Keyboard ^Click! _Clack! 13:04, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. And no, I'm not an admin. ^LeaveSleaves 13:29, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Confused here

I use wikipedia mainly for help with university work, I very rarely make any edits, and those I do are normally corrections of spelling mistakes. However, I just turned my computer on, opened IE and went to wikipedia and found that I have new messages accusing me of vandalism.....I only just turned my computer on....and why would I vandalise an article.....144.32.155.203 (talk) 13:52, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

actually, dont worry, I have just read the whole of the page in a bit more detail....I think I may create an account.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.32.155.203 (talk) 13:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Note

Dear "LeaveSleaves"...Just wanted to apologize for temporarily "vandalizing" the Tony Danza page a few days ago. I am training teachers how to use Wikipedia as an educational tool and I wanted to assure them that edits are monitored vigorously, as mine was by you. The demo helped. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.44.127.42 (talk • contribs) 21:12, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Your user page

Hey. Have you ever thought of semi-protecting your user page? Given this page history, it sounds like kinda good idea IMHO. :) — Aitias // discussion 13:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, I don't think it's that bad a situation. It usually gets vandalized a couple of times when I'm using Huggle (which is about an hour per day), but I think that's a given when fighting vandalism. Thanks for the suggestion though. ^LeaveSleaves 13:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

RE: My user page

Your so welcome :-), keep up the good work MaenK.A._Talk 14:03, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Help offered with improving Roger Federer Article

Thanks very much for your help. I'll be adding to the article here and there (mainly to the 'Career in the ATP' section) so please give the additions a look over if you have the time and mention anything that I can improve on in the future. Bittersweetsmile (talk) 21:57, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Roger Federer article: Reduce references to records?

I have noticed that in the later years there are a lot of references to records he set e.g. "Simon became just the second man to defeat Federer in the round robin stage of the Tennis Masters Cup." or the first time he has does something: "Federer lost in the semifinals to American Mardy Fish for the first time, thus ending his 41-match winning streak against American players dating back to August 2003". Shouldn't these be cut down to just the really significant ones? (e.g. Federer became the first player in tennis history to have five consecutive wins at both Wimbledon and the US Open)

I also think: "At the US Open, Federer reached the fourth round without dropping a set. There, he defeated Russian Igor Andreev 6–7(5), 7–6(5), 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. In the quarterfinals, he defeated Gilles Müller in straight sets and then, in a rematch of the 2007 US Open final, he topped third-seeded Djokovic in the semifinals 6–3, 5–7, 7–5, 6–2. On a Monday final, he defeated Murray 6–2, 7–5, 6–2 to win his 13th Grand Slam title and his fifth straight US Open title and extended his US Open winning streak to 34 matches.[74] Federer became the first player in tennis history to have five consecutive wins at both Wimbledon and the US Open.[75][76]" can be cut down to just the Monday final.

Lastly there are a number of commentaries on tournaments (like the one above) that could be cut down to just the final's result. I hesitate to do this because the matches described are significant ones (and numberous) but cutting out the commentaries would make the article less bulky.

Thanks and sorry for the long comment!, Bittersweetsmile (talk) 09:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, cutting down the commentary/opinions is the major idea behind answering the "fancruft" tag of the article. Reducing the tournaments to Federer's final result would be ideal, although do not ignore if there was any major match during his progress in the tournament. As for the first paragraph of your post, I agree that those sentence are a bit too specific for Federer's articles and are perhaps more suited for Simon's and Fish's articles respectively. ^LeaveSleaves 10:37, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Anne Minter

Thanks for looking at the article. It was a bit surprising to me how extensively the editor worked on the article even though he had a fixation about a certain unsourced item. One does not normally see that. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:53, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Roger Federer article: Merge Early life and Personal Life

I was looking at 'Marcus Trescothick', which is a featured article. It has both Early life and Personal life as one section. I think merging the equivalent sections in the Federer article would be a beneficial change. I'll start a new one for his Junior Tennis. Just wanted to pass it by you first before I do this relatively 'major' change. Cheers,Bittersweetsmile (talk) 10:23, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Under "Early life", there are usually the details about how the player started playing the sport, his training etc. Playing in junior tournaments can be either part of this section or "Career" section. "Personal life" on the other hand is (obviously) about player's family etc. That's the reason it is usually separated from early life. While merging the sections, make sure you take these things into account. ^LeaveSleaves 12:54, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey You

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Fancruft discussion on Federer article

I don't know whether you saw my responce to ROxBo's comment about deleting the fancruft - I think the page has been improved considerably. Can it be deleted by people other than the editorial team? Cheers, Bittersweetsmile (talk) 20:16, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

The tag can be removed by anyone, but the issue in the tag needs to be addressed or some proper explanation for its removal should be given (you can read WP:Tagging for more on this). The problem of fancruft still lies severely in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. I know it seems like I'm edit warring over keeping the tag, but I feel that there is no need to push for it even if it is appropriate. The intention is to trim the article and that can happen whether the tag remains there or not. ^LeaveSleaves 21:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

That seems sensible to me, was just interested as to Wikipedia etiquette. Bittersweetsmile (talk) 21:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

please read the first new discussion i atemted to re-start

After attempting to restart the discussion the other user launched into a verbal; tirade attacking me, which I think is out of order any where except a user talk page, and then even that is debatable. Please see both sides before commenting, I strongly believe I am maintaining consensus and so does the other user.--Lucy-marie (talk) 19:35, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I've been following all the discussions closely. I'm a regular member at WP:F1 and was significant part of last flag discussion. As much as the last decision did not have my support, I accepted the community's consensus. If you are genuine about overthrowing that consensus, I suggest you stop editing flags form F1 related articles and resort only to discussion. ^LeaveSleaves 19:40, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Federer article: Federer-Nadal Rivalry

Hi again; I hope you had a good holiday! I had the idea that the Federer-Nadal rivalry section of the Roger Federer article should have the following addition: after "Nadal leads their overall head-to-head series 13-7" I would put "However, it is interesting to note that excluding their meetings on clay, Nadal's best surface, it is Federer who leads by 5-4." I thought that this puts their rivalry in context. I did make this change after discussion with another editor but it has been reverted by 'FedFan55' (who doesn't have a user page). I just wanted to know whether you think the addition is a good one and, if so, how I should proceed in asking 'FedFan55' not to revert it again. If not I'll leave it! Cheers, Bittersweetsmile (talk) 15:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid your edit was not so good in the aspect of neutrality. It seems improper to point out that Nadal is behind on one of the surfaces. And that's why I did not revert FedFan55's removal of it. However, I had an idea as to how this can be handled. You can add rivalry standings for all the surfaces (hard, grass and clay) thereby giving them an equal weight. Also, make sure you say this simply and neutrally without any synthesis i.e. without use of words such as "interesting" or "Nadal's best surface" etc. ^LeaveSleaves 16:01, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes I had similar reservations myself: [[2]]. Good idea though- saved again! Thanks, Bittersweetsmile (talk) 16:13, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Nole image in Infobox Bad?

I think we could find a better image for him to have in the infobox, instead of a serving motion. TennisAuthority 23:12, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I have changed it. Should you feel you need more choices you can find them at commons:Category:Novak Đoković. ^LeaveSleaves 04:10, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

That wasn't vandalism

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