User talk:Phil Boswell/Archive2007

Illustrated Wikipedia

Please can you adjust {{Illustrated Wikipedia}} so that the comic strip of the article appears in the template. Cheers. frummer 12:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Dubbo page

Hi Phil I noticed you have previously added to the Dubbo page. Can you have a look at the dubbo talk page and see the discussion there if you have time. I'm not sure whether to pursue this issue or let it drop. It's not that important, but feels a bit like I've been bullied. Wayne Connor 06:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Scottish Parliament building diagram

Hi Phil, I'd gladly convert to SVG if you let me know how - Photoshop doesn't seem to export to that extension. The PSD file has no vector information either - what's the advantage? I used Autocad to create the line content and then printed to file as a pdf and exported into photoshop where I added the colour and text. regards --Mcginnly | Natter 00:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey Thanks!

Just wanted to say "thanks" for the helpful edits to the solar car article I put up. I think that's the coolest thing about Wikipedia that people make contributions like that. All the best! FN 03:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)fnazeeri

Changing my user page

Please next time can you ask before changing anything on my (or anybody else's) talk page, as they may not want you to change it. I know people that have been sent this:

"Please do not edit the user pages of other contributors without their approval or consent, as you did with User:????. It may be seen as vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please visit the sandbox. --User:????".

Also, I did have the "st"/"nd"/"rd"s/"th" on the end of my dates for a reason, I HATE IT without them. And now I've got to do change all of the dates from this:

"[[20 January]] [[2007]]" to this: "[[20 January|20th January]] [[2007]]", which in my opinion you should have done.

As you are a Wikipedia admininstartor, you should know that you are only supposed to change someone's user page with their prior consent. (Of course, if it's vandalism it's okay, as long as you say clearly in the edit summary)

I don't mind what you did, but just next time - ask!

Thanks, -- Arriva436 17:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Explanation needed.

I expect an explanation from you to come for removing my comments from someone else's user talk page. My comments were intended for Freakofnurture, not you, not anyone else. If you do not give me an explanation soon, I will revert you. I am not making false claims, I have IRC logs of what I am referring to, and even witnesses if you want, but I don't see the point as this is a private conversation with Freakofnurture who knows very well what I am referring to. If Freakofnurture has seen this message and asked you to revert it for him, do let me know. Otherwise, like I said, I will revert you.--KonstableSock 11:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Long ISBNs

Hi Phil, Really we need to monitor the booksources until we reach a critical level. However Wikipedia pressure or requests may actually convince some to change over. Also there is a little resistance (which I sympathaise with upto a point) to having other than the "printed" ISBN as the reference. The third problem is my disk with the scripts on is in a bit of bother at the moment. Rich Farmbrough, 17:02 23 January 2007 (GMT).
PS No reason not to use full ISBNs for any new entries. Rich Farmbrough, 10:40 24 January 2007 (GMT).

User:Asher Heimermann

I have removed a contact template off of his user page. I notice that you used your admin powers to wipe away his previous contact template. Please review my edit to his userpage. Either revert my edit if you disagree with my removal, or wipe away his contact page again. You don't need to leave me a message in either case. Be advised that he is a younger teenager, and it is a child protection case. Cheers! Royalbroil ^T : C 04:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Hyperdrive main.jpg)

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Babel fix

WikiThanks

Belated thanks for fixing the Babel template on my user page in October 2006. –Sommers ^(Talk) 04:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Starlost

Please see the talk page, and no I haven't read it, humorous is still however an opinion and therefore non-NPOV as some other person could easily say it is more like drama, hopefully you see my point. If not I invite you to the talk page. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 18:44, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Yellow Submarine Improv Troupe (YSIT)

Would you please take a look at Yellow Submarine Improv Troupe (YSIT)? I am currently in a conflict with User:IrishGuy about this article. (Among others - he has been following me from article to article). In a nutshell: I removed a lot of uncited claims, unencyclopedic and/or vague language, and explanation of improv comedy. He says he disagrees with my removal of what he feels are claims to notability, but which I feel are uncited, vague references to people they hired to teach them. So he just reverts all of my edits, not just what he says he disagrees with.

As I said, this conflict has moved from article to article, as he reverts edits that I make to remove uncited material. Please, if I am doing anything wrong, tell me, but I really don't want to be in an edit war, and certainly not several of them. I am just trying to clean up all of the articles about non-notable comedy groups, and this one in particular has a lot of irrelevant or uncited claims. Thanks, Future Fun Jumper (TIC) 00:18, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Infantry brigades

Also replied on your talk page:

Are you quite sure those are unique names? In general, I'd be very careful about applying that clause to extremely simple numerical designations (e.g. 36th Infantry Brigade, which, for example, has a name collision with at least one US unit by that name); while some of the highest-numbered ones may, indeed, be unique, it's a pretty safe bet that anything up to 100th Whatever has been used by some combination of US/Soviet/Chinese/German units.

(As an aside: isn't the unit's actual name the "12th Indian Infantry Brigade" rather than just the "12th Infantry Brigade"? I do know that many territorial units actually had the territory name in the unit name; is this not the case here?) Kirill Lokshin 21:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm cool with you reverting if you think it best. I have to admit that I am getting confused between situations like British 36th Infantry Brigade—where the unit is actually called "36th Infantry Brigade" and is British—and Indian 12th Infantry Brigade—which is actually called "12th Indian Infantry Brigade" and is also British—and Indian 2nd Infantry Division—which is actually called "2nd Infantry Division" and is Indian.

When I refer to "unique name", I'm referring strictly to within Wikipedia: I'm not dogmatic about there not being any others with the same numeric designation. In that case, the naming convention should come into play, as in the case of 2nd Infantry Division (India). I would also draw your attention to this which I think I did right but would appreciate a double-check.

HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 21:48, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, it's no big deal. A large number of editors wanted the simple numerically-designated units to be preemptively disambiguated (hence the inclusion of a recommendation to that effect in the guideline), so I would suggest not moving pages purely for the sake of getting rid of that disambiguation; but it's not really a major issue if limited numbers of them wind up needing an eventual move.

As far as the other issue, I agree that it's confusing to figure out what the unit's actual name is sometimes. I'm hoping that, in the long term, editors with more detailed knowledge of the units in question will catch any mistakes; so long as the overall scheme is more-or-less coherent, people will figure out the stranger cases.

40th Infantry Division looks good, incidentally. Thanks for setting it up. Kirill Lokshin 21:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Como se llama?

Look at my new bar on my user page. ;) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 07:06, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of asteroids/120901–121000

You closed this as keep and said there were no valid reasons for delete given. But how does this not fail WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a directory? Please explain how a 150K item list of numbers, dates and discoverers is anything other than a directory. Eluchil404 14:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

It's a primary source dump, which if anywhere belongs on Wikisource. But more pressing is the issue of possible copyvio, since it's a perfect 1:1 copy of a copyrighted website without established permission. Of course the question why we would want to mirror a perfectly well established and stable web source rather than just link to it in the relevant articles has also never been answered. ~ trialsanderrors 19:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I really don't think that it's a copyvio since it's such a pure directory. If one can copy a telephone directory (and one can under Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service) then logically one can copy an asteroid directory. But the point is still reasonably well taken. This list is either a copyvio or a directory and doesn't belong on wikipedia in either case. Would a mass nom for all c.1600 articles be in order or should this one go to DRV first? Eluchil404 04:53, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

List of asteroids

"The result was keep since no good reason has been shown for deleting this list other than "Gosh! how MANY of them ARE there?" HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 13:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)" Exactly where did you get this? This was nominated for deletion because it fails to assert notability, and it continues to fail to assert notability. Wikipedia is not a repository of information, can I upload the white pages of my little town as a list to Wikipedia, after all, unlike the asteroirds, there are at least a few noteworthy people in it? KP Botany 15:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

AWB Bug: Reparse option not working at all? - Fixed

Hi, I have fixed this bug in SVN Rev 606

Thanks

Reedy Boy 19:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Yellow Submarine Improv Troupe (YSIT)

I noticed that when YSIT was first put up for deletion you had reverted it and it was no longer up for deletion. Very little has changed and it is again up for deletion. I was wondering if you could look at it again and say why you had spared it the first time on the deletion page if its still relevant. Thanks FalconBob 18:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

"The Secret" film disambiguation

In reference to your edit, 09:40, 26 February 2007 at the page for the film "The Secret":

• Wikipedia search for "The Secret" now finds "The Secret (2006 film)" and "The Secret (2007 film)".
• I am unaware of a 2007 remake of the film and I note that there does not exist a page for such a remake.

What information do you have regarding this? —thanks, WikiLen 17:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Infobox mistake

Oh dear...I'm afraid I'm an utter newb and wasn't aware the info boxes were causing a disruption behind the scenes. Perhaps if you could show me how to fix one, I could go back and fix the rest.Orsoni 12:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You must be busy. Whenever you have time to sort this out, I'm all ears :) Orsoni 17:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I looked at the Graeme Crosby article and can't find the {{subst…}} command anywhere. I'm sorry for being a bit dense but, I know nothing about computer coding. What I did was cut and paste from one edit box to another. If you could fix the Graeme Crosby article for me, I can see what you've done and re-do my other edits. Any help is appreciated.Orsoni 05:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Here is the first template that I copied from: Template:Former F1 driver. Here is the first biography I used it on: Hugh Anderson (motorcyclist).Orsoni 10:05, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

"Intemperate closing remarks"

Nah, I think I did kinda screw up on that. No harm was intended, and as said at the project talk page, I don't think I actually did any. The new {{WikiWorld}} strikes me as a lot more useful than any of the old templates, and I've deployed it everywhere relevant. Still, I certainly didn't handle this properly, and apologize. I don't know why I was on such a tear that day. I think seeing a WikiProject tag in an article instead of on its talk page just set me off and made me turn purple. I probably should have gone and had a cup of WP:TEA instead. <sigh> — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 00:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Dead note

Hi, I noticed that in Balkan linguistic union, you annotated all bibliographic entries which are not footnotes with a comment e.g. <!-- Dead note "Batzarov": -->. What is the function of that comment? Thanks, --Macrakis 17:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I understand that they are not referenced in the text, so form part of the bibliography rather than the notes. What does it add to mark them as "dead"? --Macrakis 18:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi further comment needed

Hi i was wondering if you could proved further explanation here(Gnevin 18:36, 28 February 2007 (UTC))

Happy Spread-the-funny and-slighty-random-love day!

:) pschemp (talk) 01:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Stop messing up the category sorting

Please stop changing articles which were previously properly sorted in their categories, or those which were not, by adding improper sort keys such as the {{DEFAULTSORT:Sárneczky, Krisztián}} you added in this edit of Krisztián Sárneczky, where they were all previously properly indexed with the sort key "Sarneczky, Krisztian". See Wikipedia:Categorization if you need information on how these sort keys work; they may look like wikilinks, but they are something entirely different. Gene Nygaard 17:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

The Secret

I can't find any reference on IMDB to The Secret (2007 film) (search "the secret"), and, since there's no article for it, is the disambig at The Secret (film) really necessary?

Also, as for the "thing that makes you cross", I highly recommend iTunes Radio. You don't seem to be a Mac person, but maybe you can be. — atchius (msg) 15:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Try this:

• The Secret at IMDb

HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:14, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Ooh, scary. Weird that it didn't show up in the search. I'll put a few identifying details and a link on The Secret (2007 film). — atchius (msg) 16:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Invite

Hello! I thought you may be interested in joining WikiProject England. We work on creating, expanding and making general changes to England related articles. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Project Page!. Thank You.

Tellyaddict 19:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Infobox CityIT

It looks like you have more experience with the CityIT infobox than I do. I spent some time this morning working on adding the infobox to Cavallino. However, I can't get the locator dot to move from bottom-center of the map. The correct position can be seen at the Italian Wikipedia (it:Cavallino (LE)). Could you help? Thanks! ~ BigrTex 18:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Just stopped by to say hi to a fellow FoL...--catseyes 19:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Amy b. Jordan

Phil, would you please upgrade the article on dr. Jordan so it will survive AfD. See [[1]] and my comment there. It needs: dates of her degrees, previous positions, with dates, and details of her awards, and particularly, links or exact references to her video presentations, and a much fuller list of publications (not every conference, but certainly every peer reviewed paper in an inmportant journal). DGG 04:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Amy B. Jordan (research investigator)

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Reply

[I]f you're a friend of his, and he is willing to listen to you, please explain to him what he is doing that is making people so annoyed at him, and try to convince him to stop

Phil, It's your belief that I am doing something wrong. Nobody has yet presented any evidence to refute the established consensus for LOEs. It's purely a subjective matter of opinion as to if they are copyright violations. My opinion is that they add a lot to articles and comply with the NFCC. Your opinion I expect is they do not and violate the NFCC, you are just as welcome to an opinion as any other editor. The matter in hand is do you have consensus for your "group's" actions? Personally I do not believe so. This requires a community discussion, not something at WP:AN. Have a good afternoon, Matthew 14:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh grot

You might as well hear it from me. Doctor Who is cancelled this weekend because of the Eurovision Song Contest. --Tony Sidaway 17:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh ignore that, it's just some bollocks I read on Wikipedia. Apparently the BBC says that Eurovision is on on the 12th and Doctor Who on that day is being set back to 19th. --Tony Sidaway 05:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Tensors

I saw your post on Splash's talk. I hope you don't mind me jumping in. I can't speak for him, but for myself I tend to agree with that opinion. But, at the same time, I've found that the easiest way to get people interested is to simply create nice little templates which relate topics of relevance. It is incrementally the easiest thing to do that makes it apparent why a certain technical subject is relevant. It does not do the explaining of course, but its a first step towards unifying content on Wikipedia. As for tensors, what do you want to use them for? Sometimes, it's appropriate to consider the level of abstraction that is necessary for the application...Cheers! --HappyCamper 15:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

This is a far more succinct version of what I have just written out in daunting detail on my talk page! Splash - tk 12:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

The situation in the parlour

A while back, you wrote me a note about my criticism of the FA process; I finally got some time to work out a reply which is on my talk page. As it's been a while, thought I'd drop you a ping here. Splash - tk 12:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:HP5-Int-A.jpg)

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New "source" tag

I noticed your recent AWB change to Singleton pattern, replacing the <code> tags with <source lang=...>. I'm happy that somebody finally got around to designing a tag to indicate the particular language used in a snippet of source code, but I'm extremely disappointed in the fruit-salad syntax coloring, especially since there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it — the coloring is different between different languages, and it's not obviously based on any prior art (Borland for Pascal/C/C++, Microsoft for C/C++/C#, the ACM or Knuth for Algol/Pascal,...).

I respectfully request that you not convert any more articles' source code until the problems with syntax coloring have been sorted out. In the meantime, could you tell me how you learned about the <source lang=...> tag? I don't see it mentioned anywhere obvious. (For example, Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia, Wikipedia:WikiProject Programming languages, Wikipedia:Community Portal.) --Quuxplusone 04:53, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:EL

Jeez, didn't know about that. I've always updated it personally if there becomes more than one link. Always seemed proper to me. There's a few more film articles that are that way (thanks to me, hah), so I'll correct them when I revisit these articles. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Blood Ties Changes

I personally wrote all those episode recaps, they were not copyvios. I wish you had brought it up under the discussion board before deleting them all, because i spent hours working on them. Tigerpoet 23:05, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the BDJ ArbCom case

You've misunderstood me completely. I was saying that dubious or wrong information about a living person should be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous; that's what it says on Template:Blp which is used in all such articles, and that's what I understand the main purpose of BLP to be. If information is definitely accurate, verifiable and published in reliable sources (hence not "private" information), but still potentially harmful, then yes, we should take the harm factor into account in discussion - but it isn't a reason for immediate deletion. We have a legal responsibility to prevent false or defamatory information from being spread, and to remove it ASAP. That's a given. But whether we have an "ethical" responsibility to delete things that might hurt someone is a matter of opinion. For such articles, content removals should take place only with discussion, debate and consensus, because ethical principles are individual and subjective. Yes, we should take ethics into account; but it isn't acceptable to say "This article might hurt someone, it offends my ethical principles, so I'm going to use my admin tools to delete it. Try and stop me." Walton^Assistance! 18:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Re your comments on the Workshop page, I was talking about details appearing in reliable sources. Certainly we shouldn't "out" a subject's private details from an attack forum or blog, just as we wouldn't with a Wikipedian. But, just as Wikipedians who are notable must face the fact that someone might dig up details on them from the press, so the subjects of our articles have to deal with the fact that the press might publish stuff on them, and that this content might end up in a Wikipedia article. Walton^talk 17:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Smile!

WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Could you do me a favour?

Regarding this, I'm not on IRC right now so I can't get to anybody else: could you pass the word to the other AWB admins to make sure this guy doesn't get himself into trouble? TIA HAND —Phil | Talk 08:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Actually, a good place would be WP:AWB/DEV. I'll post there now. —METS501 (talk) 12:29, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Over a dozen of these articles have been deleted since I first listed my request. More are deleted every day, many with the recommendation for conversion to a category right in the deletion discussion but its harder for me to do that after they're gone! Thank you for raising your concern, but how long do I have to wait for this? -wizzard2k ^(C-T-D) 17:54, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Done…now go and make me happy that I did the right thing. —Phil | Talk 05:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

TfD closure

If it really means that much to you, I can change the rationale. RyanGerbil10(One, two, Charlotte's comin' for you) 22:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

HP7 protection

Hey Phil, I noticed that you had recently edited the Harry Potter 7 article and was wondering if I could weigh in on some page protection status-wrangling at WP:AN. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 08:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Hi,

Can I ask you a favor? Can you clean up the Man vs Wild footnotes/references at the bottom with AWB? Alot of them are repetitious.24.90.213.242 15:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Psychomanteum

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