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Many thanks for looking at my first Wiki page Whiskey Bay Rovers. I am as yet, unskilled with the wiki world. I was hoping to have the result something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Bogg_and_Salty. A very well known version of the group. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cortknox (talk • contribs) 17:37, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Your note re speedy deletion of article Amshold

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This is a real company owned by the British Lord and businessman, Lord Sugar. I am working to expand on it and would kindly ask it isn't deleted(Spymo (talk) 15:04, 7 June 2013 (UTC))

Hello Spymo, even though the company is real, if the article does not explicitly show notability, per Wikipedia guidelines, it can be deleted. smileguy91talk 15:10, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Update: The article now shows notability after Spymo made additions. Speedy removed. smileguy91talk 15:12, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Username notice

Hi there, you are the third one to point out that my username "FootballStatWhore" is potentially in violation of wikipedia's policy. OK, a stat whore is not related to sex workers in any means... It's just someone who is excessively concerned with statistics. FootballStatWhore (talk) 17:29, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, if many people could consider it a violation, you might want to consider changing it to prevent controversy. Cheers, smileguy91talk 17:32, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Actually I changed from an uncontroversial name to FootballStatWhore, to tell people what I do here. I will add the explanation to my userpage. Plus, three people is not "many people":) FootballStatWhore (talk) 17:55, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Understood. smileguy91talk 18:40, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
I also had doubts about it, glad to hear an explanation...Matty.007 14:13, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Your request for rollback

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Okay, thanks. smileguy91talk 03:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

{{yw}} (even shorter;-) – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 03:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

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auto removal of the dispute: 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Hi Apparently this dispute was removed by a bot. Should I restore it? Ykantor (talk) 14:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello Ykantor, it seems like it was removed for inactivity, yet I don't know at this point whether restoring it is "legal" within WP guidelines. smileguy91talk 02:36, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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I've received an inquiry about Battle of Kursk, but only intended to offer a comment there. I'm also dropping this same note at Nbound's talk page. Just FYI. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 01:09, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

The DRN case

Hello. What is the next order of business for this case Talk:Battle of Kursk#Use of term Blitzkrieg. I'm down for a compromise, if the other editors are willing: The blitzkrieg stays together with the supporting 4-plus citations. Then the succeeding sentence can point out that it is still disputed. The only problem with that is that it may one day get tagged with {{citation needed}} if they don't provide one. They could also put an inline endnote to point out that the term was never used in any orders issued for Citadel; and sources to support this should be easy to find. Although technically, if we follow that logic for the rest of the content in the article, we will have a sea of such endnotes. But I have no objections to its use in this instance if it will resolve the dispute. I wanted to post this suggestion in the noticeboard but I'm not sure if we are still waiting for something or if there is a unique protocol to the resolution of disputes. Especially since my previous replies turned out to be outside the proper protocol. EyeTruth (talk) 01:25, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

RfC for User:Baboon43

Hello! I was wondering if you would review my outside view and potentially add your name to the endorsers? I'm trying to get the RfC to wind down and come to a conclusion. Dusti*poke* 00:54, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

If you're still interested, the issue has finally gone to WP:AN. MezzoMezzo (talk) 07:42, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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Dispute

Hi Smileguy,

I want to intervene after your last comment. You make a false parallelism between me and Ykantor that I cannot leave without answer when you talk about "strong beliefs" on "both sides". I have been on wikipedia for 8 years. I have written 7 FA in French, two of which where translated in English. 4 of them directly refer to the '48 War. I have 20 books on the very specific topic the 1920-1948 period at home and 10 of them directly refer to the 1948 war too. ~I have been in contact with 4 historians to ask them their mind about some issues. One of them even read an article suggested to FA to suggest corrections. I am also a former AbrCom member on wp:fr. I know all the rules and I am well known by the contributors dealing with the I/P topic. Despite all this, I have been outed by stupid fanatics and accused of antisemitism. I have had to ask a lawyer to contact WMF at the time. And despite of this, I still have to manage newbees with patience, which I do. But please, don't make such parallelism, talking about "strong beliefs" when such a newbee comes here with the ambition of correcting the mistakes and propaganda on wikipedia and attack other contributors... Thank you for your understanding. Pluto2012 (talk) 07:26, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry if I have offended you. I hadn't reviewed the dispute after a long time and I may have forgotten the context of the case. Again, I apologize. smileguy91talk 10:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Smileguy,
You didn't offend me but I wanted to point out that I don't accept the parallelism that you made even if I am aware that this is a prerequisite to mediation. By the way, there is no dispute and no way to bring a constructive answer to Ykantor. We face a behaviour issue that will end alone on WP:AN/I.
Pluto2012 (talk) 09:39, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
I am sorry to intervene, but Pluto is far from being objective, since he prefers anti-Israeli stories and routinely deletes lot of my writing, although concise, well supported and objective (in my opinion), because the truth is not sufficiently anti Israeli in his view. As a side show, he routinely attack me personally. BTW Whatever I wrote is fully supported. e.g. "Si je comprend bien, Pluto2012 vous propose :d'agir comme WP:MEAT de Pluto2012" which means: "I understand well. Pluto propose that I will be his meat puppet" (the reply of user:Racconish to pluto). Ykantor (talk) 13:29, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
OK, I don't exactly want to turn my talk page into a DRN page, but both of you please summarize your opinions/views concisely, please? I am rather confused by the dozens of paragraphs on the DRN page and the article talk page. Thank you, smileguy91talk 13:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
  • As asked, I have recovered and slightly modified the deleted section. Should I copy it to the article talkpage? At the moment it is in my User:Ykantor/sandbox?
  • The section is not ready. It needs a lot of work, but it is sufficiently good to debate about it. It is rather long, and should eventually be concised.
  • In my opinion the dispute is a section deletion by user:pluto2012 against Wikipedia rules, and although he have not exposed any error there.
  • The usual Wikipedia process is debating the section content in the talkpage, and that exactly what I would like to do. I might be wrong, and I try to be open minded. However, in my experience Pluto is routinely deleting most of my writing, so unfortunately he might repeat it in this case too. He is greatly assisted by his friends, while I am alone. It might cause an automatic majority against me, and eventually to an incorrect section. (like other present errors and inaccuracies in the article.). So, I wonder what can be done if such a situation arises? Ykantor (talk) 17:55, 16 August 2013 (UTC)



Ykantor, please do not mislead about what I write. Racconish did not wrote "Si je comprend bien, Pluto2012 vous propose :d'agir comme WP:MEAT de Pluto2012". I did. And your quotation is too short. And your translation is wrong. Visite fortuitement prolongée (talk) 20:32, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
  • It is very important to me to as reliable and accurate as possible. I wrote initially:"of asking other editor to be his sock puppet? ( that what the other editor understood)", and this is still accurate. I had later a minor mistake with the identity of the other user (not user:Racconis but User:Visite fortuitement prolongée ).
  • Because of my weak french, I double checked with both automated translations of Google and Bing. The Bing translation is:"If I understand well, Pluto2012 offers: to act as a WP: MEAT of Pluto2012". So the translation should have been: "if I understand well. Pluto propose that you will be his meat puppet" (one word is different). So, it seems that my initial claim is still fully justified. (this is a copy of my writing in the article talkpage) Ykantor (talk) 23:59, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
I am not taking any sides here, but Bing and Google Translate cannot be used as definite methods of translation. It sometimes misinterprets meanings of words, especially words that can act as synonyms. smileguy91talk 03:32, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
  • There are 2 (two) words difference between "I understand well. Pluto propose that I will be his meat puppet" and "if I understand well. Pluto propose that you will be his meat puppet".
  • Please do not mislead about what I write. "if I understand well. Pluto propose that you will be his meat puppet" is still an incomplete and inacurate translation of that (how a comma became a dot is beyond me).
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Jumping the gun

The article kronik (slang) was tagged for merging while I was in the midst of creating it. Since marijuana has no current section on slang terms other than a footnote, I do not understand the suggestion that this should be the target of the merge. The term kronik is not in fact on the list of marijuana slang terms [1]. The term has sufficient multiple meanings and cultural references to warrant a separate article.FriendlyFred (talk) 18:05, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

I still doubt that this page warrants its own article. I will try to make improvements to the page. smileguy91talk 21:01, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

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The Female Struggle

You tagged The Female Struggle with {{db-repost}}, indicating that the article had previously been deleted as the result of a deletion discussion. Can you please provide a link to the AFD discussion that resulted in the prior deletion? Thanks. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:03, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

This may be substantial: [2] smileguy91talk 20:05, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

WP:CSD#G4 only applies to articles that have been deleted after a deletion discussion at WP:AFD. Articles that have been previously speedily deleted are not eligible under this criterion (although they may well be eligible under the original criterion by which they were previously deleted). In this case, this is an article about a book, which, by some strange Wikipedia consensus, is not eligible for speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A7. Since the article is not overtly and irreparably promotional, the best course of action is to PROD the article. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:10, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
OK, thanks, I apologize for the error. smileguy91talk 20:10, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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