User talk:MartinUK

Welcome!

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Sources for John Cleland (racing driver)

Hello, good work on John Cleland (racing driver), and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Can you list in the article any websites, books, or other sources that will allow people to verify the content in John Cleland (racing driver)? You can simply add links, preferably as the inline citations, or see citation templates for different citation methods. Thanks! best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 03:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

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Guidelines for Wikipedia lists of ethnic groups

Please may I draw your attention to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Guidelines_for_Wikipedia_lists_of_ethnic_groups

Your contributions would be very welcome. -- Brownlee 11:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your contributions to the List of British Jews, and hope that you will continue to contribute to it and to the talk page. - Newport 10:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Michael Laverty

Hey there. If you are currently working on this article and don't want people to edit it while you improve it, it's a good idea to use the {{inuse}} tag. Have fun! (|-- UlTiMuS ^{( U | T | C [] M | E )} 18:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject British Motorsport - Collaboration of the month

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Please cite sources

1. Your change to the page Neil Patrick Harris [1] was determined to be unhelpful, and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
2. Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article David Burtka, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:25, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

   It is especially important that you not contribute unsourced statements to the biographies of living people, please see our policy at WP:BLP for details. If you need any help attributing sources, please feel free to contact me. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Radisich

Yes, Paul Radisich in Croatian would be spelt Radisić. The letter ć in Croatian sounds like ch...hence people add the h to get people to say it correct. Otherwise people would say RadisiCK. Adding the h is common all over the world by Croatian Immigrants but in saying that almost 60% don't add the h.

It was also popular for names to be Anglosized, Italianized ..something like Ivankovich became Evans etc...Pilic became Polo etc... The most popular non Croat sounding last name is Abbott. Dates back to gold rush days.

Jagoda 1 03:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC) Jagoda 1 03:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Courtesy warning

As author of the below article you should be made aware:

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Snooker (rule), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Snooker (rule). If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Kris 14:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Please sign posts

Please remember to sign your talk page posts and indent responses, or talk pages become hard to follow. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 21:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Sourcing

I and I'm sure many others appreciate the amount of sourcing of obscure facts that you do, but to be honest you are effectively also creating a lot of unnecessary work for other editors by not doing it properly. Please use:

• <ref name="SomethingUniqueHere">{{Cite web|url=http://whatever.com/page|other details here...}}</ref>

instead of:

• [http://whatever.com/page]

It would be immensely helpful. (The two blue links in the code example there will take you to the documentation for ref and for cite web (there are also {{cite book}}, etc.) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:04, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Again, please source articles properly, not by dumping bare URLs into the text of the article. This simply makes more and more cleanup work for other people to do. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Good catch!

		A Barnstar Point
		Awarded for: Catching a subtle Masters Snooker error at Andy Hicks, due to my misreading an ambiguously phrased source. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

That error could have stayed in there literally for years! — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Joss Stone

I'm removing the Jewish singer and such categories from Joss Stone. I'm probably going to need some support showing how hysteric people become when you remove that stuff, so I'm asking for your help. The source http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm seems to take additions from just about anyone and also thinks wikipedia is a good resource. Who knows where they got this stuff. Thanks.

WP:CUEGLOSS

Re: "why was this explanation deleted in the first place?)" – No idea; I hadn't even noticed. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 11:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Sen. Jesse Helms

Thanks for trying to fix the Moseley-Braun / Allen bit in the "controversies" section, but your fixed version is also incorrect. Claude Allen had moved on long before she became a senator. Also, "Dixie" is not a "song about the good life during slavery." There is nothing in the song about slavery. (Note: I'm talking about the original version, not Tom Lehrer's parody.) NCdave (talk) 20:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Jesse Helms: examples of Bigotry

1.Helms opposed the Martin Luther King holiday bill in 1983

2.After a protest during his 1986 visit to Mexico, Sen. Helms was quoted: "All Latins are volatile people": end quote

and lastly, i write in disgust!

3.As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith, Sen. Helms helped create attack ads against Smith's opponent Frank Graham, including one which read: "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races." :end quote

MartinUK,

Those three "examples" alone warrant the label of a Bigot.

Alvin A. Harris

Jesse Helms examples of bigotry pt.2

1.In columns, commentaries and pronouncements from the Senate floor, Helms sowed hatred and called names: The University of North Carolina was "the University of Negroes and Communists." (Capital Times, 11/22/94) Black civil rights activists were "Communists and sex perverts." (Copley News Service, 8/23/01)

2.Of civil rights protests Helms wrote, "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights." (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963)

3.He also wrote, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced." (New York Times, 2/8/81)

4.when a caller to CNN's Larry King Live show praised guest Jesse Helms for "everything you've done to help keep down the niggers," Helms' response was to salute the camera and say, "Well, thank you, I think." (Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)

MartinUK,

Would you like more examples? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.232.153.118 (talk) 21:58, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

MartinUK, just so you know, Alvin (a/k/a 144.232.153.118 or GRANDEXTRAV) is citing "facts" that are really just unproven anecdotes, spread by Sen. Helms' political enemies. If there were provable examples of bigotry on his part, then Jim Hunt and Harvey Gantt would surely have used them against him during their multi-million dollar campaigns to capture his Senate seat. They didn't because they could find no such examples.

"Columns, commentaries and pronouncements from the Senate floor" are all very public forms of expression, which in most cases create lasting paper trails. So if Helms had actually "sowed hatred and called names" by calling UNC "the University of Negroes and Communists" in such forums, as Alvin evidently believes, there should be records to prove it. But there aren't. If there were, then Helms' opponents would have used them against him, during their Senate campaigns.

Unfortunately, Alvin seems to accept as fact any accusation against Helms that he reads, without bothering to see even whether it is plausible. Consider, for example, this "fact" that Alvin cites: "As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith... Helms..." It is obviously nonsense, in part because in 1950 Jesse Helms was a 28 year old Democrat. NCdave (talk) 09:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker

Hi MartinUK, i've noticed you do a lot of work on snooker articles, just wondering if you wanted to put your name down on WikiProject Snooker. Not that it makes much difference! Samasnookerfan (talk) 19:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Personal attacks

Please do not make person attacks in your edit summaries as you did in your edit to Jaime Camara. Doing so is expressly prohibited by Wikipedia policy. Also, please do not remove cited material without a good reason (which you did not provide, other than calling another editor a "moron". -Drdisque (talk) 13:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Talk:UEFA Euro 2008

Just to inform you the remarks about the penalty shoot-out weren't a mistake: [2] - article 7.08, page 9. DrFishcake (talk) 21:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Worldwide TV coverage blackout UEFA EURO 2008

Apparently, its easier to deal with a technical fault if all the cables are in the same place... and it was a stroke of luck that the BBC had the five live operating remotely - unconfirmed but i think that the bbc viewers were lucky as we at least had half the experience

92.236.146.87 (talk) 21:23, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I think what we pay for radio is about 1/15th of the license fee, but I guess it's about 1/4 of the experience. Was 5Live's team elsewhere in the stadium, but with a totally different set of cables?

Notability of Simon Andrews (motorcycle racer), British motorcycle racer

A tag has been placed on Simon Andrews (motorcycle racer), British motorcycle racer requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. JohnCD (talk) 17:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

• OK, maybe he does qualify for "the highest level in amateur sports" per WP:BIO. I have removed my db tag. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't call motorcycle racing an amateur sport - although many competitors pay for the rides themselves or through personal sponsors, most of the top guys are paid (fairly big money in some cases) by teams linked to motorcycle manufacturers.--MartinUK (talk) 18:02, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, the alternative in WP:BIO#Athletes is "fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing" - I guess the lines aren't so clear in motorcycle racing, Whatever, he makes it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:51, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

F1 race reports

Hi MartinUK. Thanks for the great work you are doing converting the information in the "Notes" sections of F1 race reports into proper paragraphs. One little tip for you: an easy way to ensure the race classification table appears below the infobox and race report, rather than inserting a whole bunch of carriage returns, is to insert a "clear" code "{{-}}" above the table - see this example. Also, if the fastest lap information is included in the infobox, feel free to remove it from the "Notes" section. But apart from that: keep up the good work! Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 02:39, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

"Comfort zone"

The onus is on those addingn information to provide references - I added the fact tag to alert you to this, rather than simply deleting the unsourced statement. Please assume good faith. (I also added the sub heading with a view to offering a place to put normal political policies into, should yourself or another wish).--Red Deathy (talk) 10:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Barack Obama's ancestry

I just wanted to give you a heads-up that the specifics of Obama's ancestry is already in the body of the article. In fact, it's in the very next section after the intro, so it's kind of redundant to put it in the intro as well. --GoodDamon 22:59, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Having only African American in the lead sentence is not neutral in any shape or form, it is an extreme bias. Reliable sources can be found in great number for both bi-racial and African American. WP:NPOV is a core policy and prohibits this type of POV placement in articles. Landon1980 (talk) 02:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

I'd agree with Landon here, especially due to the specifics of Obama's life (his father's limited involvement, his Indonesian stepfather, his deliberate adoption of a black identity in his 20s after struggling with his identity to the point of attributing his past cocaine use to it). The Lewis Hamilton article reached a consensus in which a single sentance mentions both 'first African-American president' and 'white mother/black father'.--MartinUK (talk) 02:12, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, because calling an individual the same thing he calls himself is such a disgusting POV ... right. Grsz^{11 →Review!} 02:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

The point of view of the subject of an article is still a point of view. We don't allow people to edit their own articles, so why should their opinions of themselves take precedence?--MartinUK (talk) 02:19, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, then we use what reliable sources say...African American. Grsz^{11 →Review!} 02:23, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

So why not use the many sources which expand on this? Calling him 'African American' is like calling a tuna mayonnaise sandwich a bread product, it's only half the story.--MartinUK (talk) 02:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

And it is in the very next section, where it is better served to go into that depth. Grsz^{11 →Review!} 02:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

'White mother' is not 'depth'. The list of his pre-president policies in the intro is much longer and contains less crucial info--MartinUK (talk) 02:30, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

None of the suggested terms are indepth at all. Why all of you keep talking about what Obama refers to himself as is beyond me. BLP mentions no such thing as adhering to what the person wants. You wouldn't call a tuna sandwich tuna in the very first sentence, then go on in the body to explain it is between two slices of bread. What is so hard to understand about a simple fact of NPOV? Reliable sources describe him as both, and picking one of them is POV and it is really that simple. This will lead to an RFC, the editor above is proof that all most editors are concerned about is what they think Obama would want. Landon1980 (talk) 04:13, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

By all means, open an RfC instead of dragging on discussions that are way past consensus. Grsz^{11 →Review!} 04:41, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

And don't put words in my mouth, as you've grown accustom to doing. I never said "what Obama would want". Grsz^{11 →Review!} 04:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

You repeatedly bring up that he "self identifies as African American" you list that as one of your reasons why the lead should be as is. Why do you do and say things if you will not admit to doing them? Even if not word for word you have more than implied it. Landon1980 (talk) 04:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

new article

Keep improving this article, Joan Lascorz! References and notability. Good luck Chergles (talk) 20:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

November 2008

Don't blank other editor comments as you did here [3]. It seems to be fixed and therefore no harm was done but keep it in mind and rather check twice before saving your posts. Thanks, --The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 02:30, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I might have jumped ahead as I realize now that my initial confusing came from an edit conflict. Please dismiss my comment I just placed on your talk page. Actually, just blank the whole new section if you wish unless you'd like to keep my apology standing what would be fine with me (of course).--The Magnificent Clean-keeper (talk) 02:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Jewish Fathers

Although these people are not Jewish, noting that the fathers are Jewish is a reasonable compromise. I have removed others in the past (Ryan Braun, the baseball player), but will leave this.Sposer (talk) 23:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Note question

Note that there's a question for you at Talk:List of people with chronic fatigue syndrome#Notable people?. Thanks, WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 12:56, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Also note - your userbox display on your user page is a bit messy, I wonder if this would be helpful? WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 13:23, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

1995 European Grand Prix

I find this edit summary quite insulting, considering I've been working on it this week and have expanded some of it. I've tagged it with {{underconstruction}} so that sarcastic edit summaries are not made. D.M.N. (talk) 15:44, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

References

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Ken Doherty

Please read this before re-adding poorly referenced material: Wikipedia:Referencing_for_beginners Betty Logan (talk) 20:22, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

I have tried to link the references asked by Betty, but I am a new editor and find the technical side of her request difficult to perform. I have made progress but it is still not 100% perhaaps you can assist. She is technically right but I wish she would assist rather than reverting us. Tommyxx (talk) 12:08, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I am willing to give assistance when it is asked for, so I wish you would ask for assistance instead of just reverting. MartinUK is not a new user and refuses to adopt correct referencing despite several warnings in the past. He has been a nuisance on the snooker project for a while now. I don't have any axe to grind with you Tommy, but the tragedy here is that if Martin was remotely interested in helping you he would have correctly formatted your reference instead of entering an edit war. Betty Logan (talk) 13:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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Andrew Jordan 3rd in the championship?????????????

Doh! I can tell you that I copied the table from Giovanardi's page and I obviously forgot to change the position. Cheers for spotting it. Petera93 (talk) 09:58, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009

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Ricky Ponting

Thanks for your edits, but where in the article does its say Ponting is Hilfenhaus' cousin? I've seen that wrote before but I don't think it's correct. Also in the article it says Hilfy plays for "Tasmania University Cricket Club" which is not true, infact its Tasmanian Tigers. I think the article is slightly unreliable and can't see where it refers to Ponting as Hilfy's counsin. Thanks, Aaroncrick (talk) 22:52, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

'giving Ponting (his second cousin, believe it or not) a reliable option' six paragraphs from the end. A second cousin is the son of a cousin, by the way. Good spot on the Tansmania Club though.

France national football team‎

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November 2009

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Thierry Henry, you will be blocked from editing. Don't take the piss, please. Rodhullandemu 23:51, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as those you made to France national football team. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. Jeppiz (talk) 00:12, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Ken Boothe

Yes, following your recent edit comments, the sentence still does not read correctly. It was an almost direct steal from the referenced source, and I do see the overall sentiment... but. Care to look at an alternative wording ?

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Danny Shittu

I am guessing that the game you referred to was in October 2001 if you want to have a go at finding it. 86.43.110.186 (talk) 15:40, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Power Snooker

Hi MartinUK. A new stub, Power Snooker , has been added. It has ben suggested that this stub be merged to main article Snooker. Editors are invited to go to Talk:Power Snooker and leave their views in the debate.Kudpung (talk) 03:33, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

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Abdul Aziz Binladin

Just in case you weren't already aware, Abdul Aziz Binladin is a relation of Osama and there are several spellings because the official spelling is in Arabic and as such is translated phonetically. Readro (talk) 17:48, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah, sorry.--MartinUK (talk) 18:29, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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