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Why blurry image(s)?

Hi! Isn't the image way too blurry? An emulator can capture a much better image... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Front_mission_gun_hazard_gameplay.jpg

Regards. --83.132.55.126 (talk) 05:46, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

... Try to play the original Japanese version (NO English patches) and then capture it right in JPEG format. --George Ho (talk) 05:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Ma who?

"David Chen of Taipei Times ranked this album number two of his "top 20 Taiwan popular albums from 1975 to 1992" - great additions to the article on Su Rui 1983 album, but Chen is the journalist, the 2009 book is by Ma, but Ma who? Any idea? In ictu oculi (talk) 10:09, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Got it, Ma Shih-fang (馬世芳), a radio DJ at News 98 . In ictu oculi (talk) 10:11, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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Gem (singer)

Hi George, any idea whether "by the singer gem" or "by the singer gee-ee-em" is more normal in English speech? South China morning post uses G.E.M. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Ugh... why can't sources use "Gloria Tang"? As for gee-ee-em, you can request a move. That's all. I'm not sure, but I wish for Gloria Tang. --George Ho (talk) 08:42, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

File:Dog and pony show drew carey show 1997.jpg listed for deletion

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You were right, I was wrong

Hi George. Considering

  • that the subject of the article is all over the news here
  • the later history of that article (and that it required rev-del twice)

I probably should have upped the page protection level and extended it for longer.
You were right, I was wrong, and I hope I will learn from this. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 10:56, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Rhythm Nation copyedit request

Hi, George. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests#Rhythm Nation. All the best, Miniapolis 17:05, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Ally McBeal cast photos at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2014 January 31

Can you double-check the comments there? Two people were uncertain about which images to delete. Nominator prefers season 4. Me: I just uploaded them. --George Ho (talk) 23:23, 22 February 2014 (UTC

I took the really easy way out here. The consensus is to have one image so I left the one in the article that had no deletion tag and removed the others. IF the article's editors want a different one that that is a matter to be discussed in the article's talk page, or by an editor bolding just changing it. Deletion discussions are not the best place to decide which image is the best, just the best place to decide if one or more than one image is needed. - Peripitus (Talk) 00:28, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

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The Big Bang Theory

I motion that The Big Bang Theory redirect to the "Big Bang Theory" disambiguation page.

I also motion that The Big Bang Theory TV show be renamed to The Big Bang Theory (Sitcom) to differentiate between the show and the actual scientific theory.

At the moment, the sitcom's page is a glorified shrine to itself, potentially harming a lot of students' ability to obtain information about the theory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilikesealife (talk • contribs) 06:06, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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My user space

What was your reason to interfere with my creation of a new article? Why did you make this histmerge request? I see no benefit to the encyclopedia or to the reader. Binksternet (talk) 17:10, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

You created the DYK nomination as if the article was new. You said it was sandboxed, so I have to give readers or reviewers an impression that it was "moved to mainspace". --George Ho (talk) 19:45, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
The article is new—it is absolutely new to mainspace. I did not intend to move my sandbox space, nor did I intend to move the history, or I would have done so myself, being perfectly capable of it. Please don't mess with my sandbox space. I'm pretty pissed off about losing my notes. Binksternet (talk) 20:51, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
  • That is not satisfactory. What is stopping you from undoing the histmerge? Binksternet (talk) 21:48, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

"To Sir, with Love", song and record title

I notice that you altered the title of the article for the song/records by Lulu from To Sir With Love to "To Sir, with Love". However, To Sir With Love was correct, as used on the 7" single and album, and in the Billboard listings of the title. This can be seen in the image of the album used to illustrate the article. "To Sir, with Love" is the title of the film. I respectfully invite you to restore the original capitalization/punctuation to the article. Robocon1 (talk) 12:47, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Looks like someone beat you to it. Robocon1 (talk) 14:16, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Re: Another Sad Love Song

No problems. SnapSnap 05:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Jumper (pornographic film)

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File:George W Byng 1920 Pirates.jpg

I see you added a new PD license tag. If that's right, shouldn't you remove all the NFC notices and just leave a file description? -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:29, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

Hi George. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --Another Believer (Talk) 18:33, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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BLP at Disappearance of Natalee Holloway

BLP actually states that contentious material about living people should be removed pending discussion. The Amigoe section was left on by me during discussion. Then it was tagged. I am happy to go to talk and in fact have a new section at explaining my rationale for the removal. This has been gone into at very great length on the talk page, and on my talk page, over several months and there has to come a point where a removal is unavoidable. There has been extended detailed discussion on this section, and as it is undeniably contentious BLP without a plurality of good refs it is not meeting the burden for multiple reliable sources that is mandated by policy for contentious BLP.Overagainst (talk) 18:30, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Precious again

cheers
Thank you for quality articles of Cheers, such as Coach's Daughter, for listing your Halls of shame and realizing "I don't think expansion is needed.", for updating the DYKstats and giving credit generously, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 506th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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Flight 17

Is a 1-2 year protection really appropriate? As I noted at the talk page and at WP:ANI, the indefinite protection was meant to be temporary (oxymoronic as that sounds), since I don't really know how long we normally protect such a high-profile page. I've actively requested other admins to change it to a normal period of time, and if I myself change it at all, it will give a sense of "I think this is where it should be", perhaps making other admins more reluctant to reduce it further. I'm not going to reduce the protection time unless I have a good idea how long it should end up remaining protected. With that in mind, I'd advise you to figure out how long we normally protect pages like this, and then let me know; I'll be happy to help then, if another admin hasn't come along in the mean time. Nyttend (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

HK Music WP:RS

Hi, do you have any idea of WP:RS Chinese source for music like Winter Story (Mandy Chiang album)? Are any of the newspaper's or popular culture magazine's articles online? (probably not free if WP:RS I guess). In ictu oculi (talk) 23:13, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

@In ictu oculi: Do not propose renaming for now. Search for notability of the album first. Obviously, it's just a pop album, and look at WP:NMUSIC. --Gh87 in the public computer (talk) 02:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Yes not even thinking of renaming, just wondering where to get chart/sales data for HK albums and singles? In ictu oculi (talk) 02:44, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Album's officially titled Winter Story. Search it alongside her Chinese name (copy+paste it, i.e.), especially in either Google, Bing, or Yahoo. Then give me sources, so I'll check them. At least this proves it as Cantonese. Songs should be romanized in Cantonese pronunciations. As for charts, I don't know. --Gh87 in the public computer (talk) 02:56, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Adam Copeland

I placed my agreement about the movement of Edge (wrestler) to Adam Copeland as well as thank you for your Input on the Tyler Breeze page situation JMichael22 (talk) 19:47, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Template:Lang-mn

I've downgraded it to semiprotection, the exact number of transclusions needed isn't specified anywhere AFAIK. Hut 8.5 06:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

I haven't really got time to deal with these requests at the moment but you can ask at WP:RFPP and I'm sure another admin will take care of it. Hut 8.5 06:49, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Template:Old moves

Sorry I thought that was what you wanted. Usually that is what's done. I fix them back to semi. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 23:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Re: template:lang-de-AT

If you want to obsolete a template, use WP:TFD. Certainly don't snipe at people using something that seems clear and logical. If you didn't notice my edit summary, please read WP:ATLANG - foreign language text should be wrapped into lang templates for the reasons explained at Template:Lang/doc#Rationale. If there isn't a lot of Austrian German text marked, there are other possibilities to resolve that matter - find and mark more text, or add Austrian as a parameter of {{lang-de}}. Definitely don't post ultimatums to other editors. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 17:52, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Re: templates and citations

In my opinion, this discussion is better had here than on a discussion about whether Wikipedia is a technocracy, so here is my reply:

I think cite templates are acceptable because they are an attempt to standardize APA, Chicago, MLA, etc via flexible and optional parameters. Regarding your last question: Wikipedia is definitely superior in this regard, and you're not the only one who has abandoned the inferior postsecondary methods. In fact, many of my undergrad profs didn't really care as to format, so long as the basic information was there in a consistent manner. Relating this to Wikipedia, if someone doesn't grasp the concept of the {{cite}} template, they are not obliged to use them parameters; they can just place them between <ref> tags, and Wikipedians down the road will usually format them "properly." The important thing is to have the source there, period, no matter the format.

The problem with such templates as {{lang-en-GB}} is that they are not standardizing anything used by journals or other literature, and they do not exist to assist Wikipedians who do not know foreign languages (as is the case for, e.g. {{lang-fr}} or {{lang-es}}). These templates are preceded by French: or Spanish:, respectively, to denote that the terms following are the native language terms so that bilingual Wikipedians may search for other information on the topic elsewhere. I suppose I should have outlined this on the original discussion, but data hoarders are going to data hoard. - SweetNightmares 02:18, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

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A cup of tea for you!

Just because! Keep your head up :) - SweetNightmares 16:18, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Photography Workshop Requests

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Foley

I think it might be based on WP:Pending changes; "Administrators may apply pending changes protection to pages that are subject to heavy and persistent vandalism, violations of the biographies of living persons policy, or insertion of content that violates copyright." But of course I could well be wrong. Feel free to get a second opinion from another admin. If they want to change it no problems. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 04:07, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

War in Donbass

Because, other than templates, I don't think that it is good to protect something indefinitely. If it needs protecting again then it is easy enough to do. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 16:16, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

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