User talk:ZephyrWind

Well done on your Excellent cleanup! Ohconfucius 02:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Cycle 5 reward challenge debate

In the third episode of cycle 5 Wadaheck asserts, that there was a second reward challenge at the photo shoots. This is being debated on Talk:America's_Next_Top_Model,_Cycle_5, and your input would be appreciated. Another thing, Wadaheck removed caridee's CGOW win America's_Next_Top_Model,_Cycle_7 episode 12, based on a forum post, do you know if that was accurate? --Misty Willows (talk) 01:29, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Katarzyna Dolinska

The article Katarzyna Dolinska, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, I thought you might be interested in voting and adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katarzyna Dolinska (3rd nomination). Thank you. ... MistyWillows ^talk 16:29, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

ANTM Cycle 13 Alphabetical Order

I noticed you reverted my Alphabetizing by last name. If this were a blog or a casual article I would agree with listing by fist name. But Wikipedia has encyclopedic standards and convention that need to be followed (when i first started editing I was chastised for ignoring some of the stylistic rules), such as:

• Order by surname, regardless of where the surname occurs among the elements of a name.

• Use the conventional English adaptation in the order of elements, which sometimes matches the original language's order (Mao Zedong) and sometimes alters it (Béla Bartók).
• Use the most common standard English transliteration or variant where foreign characters occur.
• Generally ignore de, von, van and the like in determining alphabetical order, unless they are fixed to the name without spaces (as in Degas, Vanderbilt, d'Alembert, l'Anglais) or are conventionally treated as an essential part of the surname (as in McDonnell, O'Connor). French le and la, often capitalised in French names, are considered in alphabetising (so Delacroix precedes La Croix). When a prefix is naturalised in English (as in De Quincey, inconsistently spelt with de or De at our article; and Walter de la Mare, name of an English poet), alphabetisation should begin at that prefix.
• Treat Mc as if it were spelt Mac.
• Use other conventions that might be laid out at Collation.
• Allow for conventional exceptions (such as Charles de Gaulle, alphabetized on de; mentioned specifically at CMOS).

I'm not going to change it back because I respect the hard work you do for wikipedia too much to get into an edit war with you . But I hope that you will change it yourself. -... MistyWillows ^talk 09:41, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok now we have most the last names I'm going to put them in Alphabetical order by last name. ... MistyWillows ^talk 10:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

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November 2011

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to America's Next Top Model, Cycle 16. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please look at the talk page, the call out order needs to be sourced so that I and other editors can tell between editors correcting errors and those trying to mislead. Mtking ^(edits) 22:11, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

It is not a case of adding unsourced content. It's a case of reverting vandalism. The table I inserted was simply from an archived section of the article's history. Instead of simply deleting and blanking pages where you deem fit because a vandal adds in content to an otherwise established table, it would be better to add a tag (as what you have done throughout the ANTM articles) or revert the vandalism. Please don't take offense, I'm just saying that I have observed your swift and meticulous deletions of many editors' goodwill contributions that you lump together with vandals' vandalism and it is a bit off-putting, especially for the newer contributors who are doing their best to be good editors. I have edited ANTM articles since 2003/4 and have come a long way in helping to maintain integrity especially with regards to vandalism. However, if you do keep insisting on sources for every detail, I won't get into an edit war with you because as what your talk page says, I am busy in real life too. Regards. ZephyrWind (talk) 10:50, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry but the call out lists on the ANTM pages are unsourced and so it is not possible to tell whose version is correct. It is for that reason they need to be removed and only re-added when sourced to reliable sources. Mtking ^(edits) 21:02, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

It's ok. If you had edited these franchise articles long enough, it would have come by the back of your hand, and you would know it by habit, but it's ok. The table will probably never resurface again. Cheers! ZephyrWind (talk) 05:53, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

William Scorpion

I should point out that subsequent to your last edit of the article there were a number of further edits, which you may or may not have picked up on your watchlist. In particular the article was tagged for multiple issues with these parameters — BLP sources, COI, dead end and orphan, puffery and uncategorized boxes. It was also moved to the fully capitalised version of the name. Obviously you can recreate, but please bear the concerns in mind. Good luck Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:28, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I see. Yes indeed I was unaware of the article's "progress" until about an hour ago. Thank you for your clarification. In the mean time, I will be sandboxing it in my UserPage before actually publishing. I do wish when I am done, you can have a look. ZephyrWind (talk) 10:32, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I feel the article is under-referenced. Some may not matter, but there is a long list of newspapers which are supposed to have written about him, with no refs to any of the articles. The language is still unencyclopaedic in tone, one example is It boasts 12 stables for 12 horses, rooms for guests, lush decor... . These are peacock/spam terms best avoided, and the whole article should be checked for that. This section He is widely viewed as the homegrown "veteran"[1][2] of Singapore's Mandopop night-scene, with related accolades such as "local legend"[3] and "local icon"[4]. Numerous press releases still credit, and much of the local Chinese-speaking night-scene population still consider him as, Singapore's very own "Mandopop King".[5] looks spammy because the very positive reviews are placed in the lead, which is supposed to summarise the article, not idolise him. Better to move to a section called something like "critical reception". if you can find a negative review to balance the adulation, that would be good Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:23, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Survivor Names

Re your message: I reverted all of your changes to castaways full names because the style of the articles has been to use the names as listed on the CBS website and include nicknames such as GC, Bob, or Sugar when they are either listed on the CBS website or in use during the castaway interviews in episodes like South Pacific's Papa Bear. The use of the castaways full legal names would not match the convention used in the episodes and would also need a reliable source for them. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:24, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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Asia's Next Top Model

I was a bit unsure as to whether I should include the Chinese names in the tables, because I originally thought that e.g. Chinese people are born with Chinese names and have English names given to them by their English teacher, but later I wasn't so sure. Since I saw this edit you made to America's Next Top Model (cycle 8), I thought I should include them. But thanks for clarifying here, here and here. I wanted to ask you a question regarding the edit you made to ANTM 8's page in February that I mentioned above: do the tables strictly have to include birth names? Because "Renee DeWitt" was not an alias, it was her married name. And if so, should we change some of the other names (e.g. Fequiere is Stacy-Ann's married name, Isis' birth surname is Walls, Jessica Amornkuldilok's birth surname is Yimchan etc.)? Linguist 111^talk 11:48, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Also, one other thing: I don't see how the middle names sourced by the official sites are "superfluous" or "redundant". I've found no official policy prohibiting having them there. Linguist 111^talk 10:05, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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