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Is a Good Article! Thought you'd like to know. :) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 01:02, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Gary Chalandon
On 9 July 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gary Chalandon, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Gary Chalandon won the Formula Le Mans class of the Le Mans Series in 2010? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gary Chalandon. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Tixati
Hi, according to this article, Tixati is among the top 10 most popular P2P applications grouped by the file sharing applications category. A Google search for "best bittorrent client" reveals websites like Gizmos Freeware and Tom's Guide which talk about Tixati, and Lifehacker which mentions only Vuze and Tixati as an alternative to uTorrent. This makes me think that Tixati is actually quite popular. Do you think this is enough for it to be a page on this wiki? Squc (talk) 06:58, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
- The thing is, most of that sort of thing is routine - just appearing on one of these lists isn't grounds for notability, and popularity is not the same thing as notability. Gizmo's Freeware is not a reliable source, for starters - it's not a bad one by any means, but it can't be used for notability. Tom's Guide is possible a reliable source, but again, it's a routine list of 10. Tixati is mentioned all of once in the PDF, and although it may be a reliable source, there's no evidence to back up its claim - and again, popularity and notability are not the same thing. Tixati is only mentioned very briefly in the Lifehacker source. There's still not enough there, I'm afraid. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 08:01, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
I invite you back to the discussion and request you reconsider your stance. The article's issues ARE addressable... and I plan to do the work later tonight. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 02:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks Luke. Sometimes I just get lucky with my google-foo. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 09:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
- It happens both ways - sometimes lots of things appear, others, they don't. That's part of the problem with the targeted search engines, I guess. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:24, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
- Agreed. I find the "Find sources" created by AFD template to be ofttimes problematic. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 09:32, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:05, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi mate. Are you in the process of taking this bullsh*t to ANI? If not, I might post an urgent request for closure at AN. It's just getting silly. Stalwart111 09:19, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not in the process of doing anything about it; my intention was to wait until after the AfD ended before starting an ANI thread. Feel free to file the AN closure request :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:25, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- I actually suspected as much, from your querying tone there. All good mate; I'll get on it and then we can consider other things beyond that. Cheers, Stalwart111 09:37, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- And we're Done. Happy to help with an ANI case with regard to the paid editing and disruptive AFD conduct if you are so inclined. If you don't feel like a trip to the drama boards, your original suggestion of a WP:COIN thread may be in order. Stalwart111 10:50, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- Case has been filed, hopefully Echo's pings worked for everyone! Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 11:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- Worked for me. I've supported your call for a block. Stalwart111 11:39, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- Had I been on before the thread was closed, I would have supported. Thank you for bringing that up, Luke. Ishdarian 20:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- Not a problem. I've seen some things here... but going that far for $34 is just stupendous. I don't have a major issue with payed editors... apart from when they act like that. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:03, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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- Hey,
- The best thing to do is to state our claims, and ignore. Unless something really needs answering, there is no point of doing anything remotely close to giving him any bit of attention. I trust the DRN volunteers to be stable headed enough to handle this situation, and help close it.
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- TheOriginalSoni (talk) 21:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
- Over the last couple of days, I've bumped into two or three troll users... not sure why. The DRN case should be shut down, because it's obvious that the user in question is violating consensus and policy. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:55, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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A bowl of strawberries for you!
Great Stub Article Sarah Moore (racing driver) TRL (talk) 02:46, 20 July 2013 (UTC) |
- Thanks, TRL, but that's definitely not a stub article - it's about twice the size of one! Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:15, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- Well, you can keep the strawberries either way. TRL (talk) 06:18, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- I'm happy to take the praise, just giving you a note for future curations. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:19, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
ANI, User:TransVannian
Former admin, Luke. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:05, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- An understandable error. It's hard to think of you otherwise.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:11, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- It wasn't meant as criticism, Bbb. Just a note, like a hairshirt. Drmies (talk) 01:29, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- In my eyes, Drmies, you're an admin without the tools :P In all seriousness, sorry for the error, I filed the report just before I went to bed. Interesting to see that TransVannian continues to try to drag my name through the mud in their unblock request... Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:17, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, I didn't think Drmies's comment was criticism; nor was my mine. I agree with Luke's comment about Drmies being an admin without the tools. Despite his use of the word "deftly" (thanks), I wasn't so keen on NAC; what about EAC (emeritus admin closure)? :-) An unblock request that attacks another editor is generally not a good idea. When the block was in part for attacking another editor, it's even worse.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:37, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- I didn't take it as criticism :) It still justified a response from me :) For those of us that don't speak Latin/highly sophisticated English, what does "emeritus" mean? Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:39, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- Heh, Drmies is the highly sophisticated English prof. I just struggle, vainly, to keep up with him. Emeritus: "honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title 'emeritus' as in 'professor emeritus'" ([1]). Drmies, Administrator Emeritus.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:01, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- You need to archive this page, Luke, it's way too big and takes too long to save comments (my guess is it's all those tables). The size of your talk page is almost 10x the size of mine.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:05, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- I've fiddled with the archiving recently; I'll probably do it again soon. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:07, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- Just to show you that not everything is bigger in California. Drmies (talk) 16:32, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- I've fiddled with the archiving recently; I'll probably do it again soon. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 15:07, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- It wasn't meant as criticism, Bbb. Just a note, like a hairshirt. Drmies (talk) 01:29, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
A bowl of strawberries for you!
Great Stub Article Sarah Moore (racing driver) TRL (talk) 02:46, 20 July 2013 (UTC) |
- Thanks, TRL, but that's definitely not a stub article - it's about twice the size of one! Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:15, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- Well, you can keep the strawberries either way. TRL (talk) 06:18, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
- I'm happy to take the praise, just giving you a note for future curations. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:19, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
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Aligarh Muslim University
Well I cannot grasp this edit. User:TheRedPenOfDoom ought to wait to get the RfC closed before removing it, this is my rationale for restoring it. Can you get the RfC closed by someone else? Because I see your comment there too. Or will a fresh RfC work? Any thoughts? Faizan 12:02, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
- If TRPOD's edit was as bad as you claim, then in the THREE months it was out of the article, someone would've reinstated it. At the end of the day, the information is a duplicate from the other article; that's an indisputable fact. The only thing that might be worth including is "X number of presidents" and "Y number of prime ministers" in that section. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 12:32, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
- I am going for an RfC, thanks. Would like to see your participation there too. Faizan 06:13, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Sidecarcross disambig stuff
No, thank you for pointing it out to me. Nowadays the disambiguation bot would pick this up almost straight away but back then it went unnoticed till you did your bit. I'm happy to fix it, where I can, after all I created the pages with links to disambiguation pages. Thanks, Calistemon (talk) 18:53, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
- I got bored, so I decided to do some gnoming that needed doing. There's plenty that I've tagged as not knowing what they are; some others I've probably messed up. Feel free, Calistemon (or any talk-page stalkers I may have) to go and clean up anything I've done :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 18:56, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
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Nice close
This close. I liked the way you put it. :-) Bishonen | talk 13:57, 23 July 2013 (UTC).
- Glad you did, Bish :) Personally, I'd like to see a lot more things closed when they're resolved, but I'm not a sysop, so I'm not able to increase the amount of closures! Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:12, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
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Juan Manuel López
Thanks a lot! The article seems very complete (more than I usually do). I tried to improve the introduction, and added two databases. Good luck! --NaBUru38 (talk) 18:34, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
- Not a problem, NaBUru38. It's no surprise that the article was deleted before; the article was only showing little glimpses of notability (although it was definitely established, albeit without proper referencing) and most people aren't inclined to try slightly more unique searches than just the guy's name. Regardless of that, I don't believe in releasing a half-arsed article; I can safely say I only have done that once, and that was simply because I had no idea what else I could add without voyaging into OR territory. Also, thanks for further improving the article - I'm not sure where you got ninth from for the 2012 International GT Open though? Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 19:20, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
- There are two ways to count places in standings. One way is to say "López was 9th because 8 drivers scored more points" (as in golf). The other is "López was 5th because Leo and Bruni tied for 1st, Tandy and Holzer for 2nd, Barba and Malucelli for 3rd, and Giammaria and Ramos for 4th".
- If you check the official website, here you see that López was ranked 5th in 2011 and 5th in 2012. Ties were separated in 2011 but grouped in 2012.
- As far as I know, the most usual and reasonable ranking method is the first, so that's what articles should say. I'll post this at the WikiProject Motorsport, ok? --NaBUru38 (talk) 19:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
- I don't have an issue with checking, because, in fact, it's a problem for pretty much all the endurance racing-related articles of this type; there's a huge amount of inconsistency across all of them, and indeed, across sources as well. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 19:39, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Royston Drenthe article
Some the changes you made to the Royston Drenthe article are incorrect. Drenthe made 46 La Liga appearances for Real Madrid and 17 for Hercules, for a total of 63 La Liga appearances Source: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/royston-drenthe/leistungsdaten/spieler_35631_gesamt.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Collingsworth (talk • contribs) 00:23, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
- If you look carefully, you'll see that I've deliberately not listed the word "league" in his appearances for Real Madrid, Tom; that's because it is the total number he made. However, I had originally messed up and written 19, getting confused with the loan spell below it - I only found that out after reverting some IP-based vandalism, and then realizing that one of the edits was right. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Introduction and infobox for Ping Fu article
Hi Luke, it's been a little while since anyone weighed in on the discussion on the Ping Fu Talk page about updating the infobox and introduction. Based on your earlier positive review of the suggested updates and Larry's recent approval of the new 3D Systems source showing (absolutely and definitively!) that Ping Fu is a VP at the company, would you be comfortable updating the article with my proposed versions?
I've gone ahead and updated the suggested infobox (and markup) on the Talk page, so if you do grab the markup, the new 3D Systems source has already been added in. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 00:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
NPA
Please don't say things like "...makes you look even more silly..." It just escalates things. You've been around for a while, so you should know better. The last thing we want is an escalating back and forth argument. Please just keep it about the edits. Thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:24, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
- I deliberately phrased it in a NPA-compliant way. There is an SPI open against these IPs and that account, and Waterspaces has been around, and socking, for even longer than I have been editing. I do appreciate your advice though - just letting you know where I stand :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 11:25, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
- Cheers. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:43, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
- You were right. :) Oh, well. I had to assume good faith. You now have one more person watchlisting the articles. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:20, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
- Some sockmasters are incredibly obvious when you've seen them once; this is one of them. :) I'm not criticizing your position at all - it was entirely correct given the fact you were unfamiliar with the master. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 06:37, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
- You were right. :) Oh, well. I had to assume good faith. You now have one more person watchlisting the articles. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:20, 26 July 2013 (UTC)