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This seems to be up exactly in your specialty. -MBK₀₀₄ 05:01, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:25, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

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24 Waterfall salute!

Thanks for all your help with picking images. Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park made Featured Article today! Dincher (talk) and Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Socks

If you're around can you check the following for dirty laundry: Fungsuk (talk · contribs), Hiranyabahu (talk · contribs), 115.240.101.218 (talk · contribs), Mkbdce (talk · contribs), Mkbdtu (talk · contribs). Strange OR/POV/personal blog inserts on to Mahabharata and related topics. Abecedare warned one of the first three on socking. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:01, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Coming. Can you pop into the Gangu GAN, it started. The reviewer doesn't appear to follow cricket so he doesn't see anything content wise YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:06, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I told Aaron that I'll post some comments over the next couple of days, didn't realize that a reviewer would pick it up so soon! cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:07, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Done and blocked YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 08:12, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, wonder if it's some returning user at a different location. So much socking with less than 20 edits per is a bit surprising.—SpacemanSpiff 09:14, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

YM, can you indef the Mkbdtu (talk · contribs) account for this legal threat, made after the 2 week block was imposed ? Abecedare (talk) 19:32, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Ok YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:25, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

TDU

btw, if I get the chance I might do your trick of going out to take photos of the cyclists - I'd hoped that I'd have a new telephoto lens in time, but that's looking unlikly, so I'll see what I can do with what I have. There's always a chance you missed someone last time. :) - Bilby (talk) 01:14, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

I did go to the TDU, but this time my bus didn't turn up so I only turned up 10 minutes before the start and was further away. About the 13th row instead of second. Better pictures as far as no glare, right colouring, even light, but not good zoomed in, mine only has a 2 or 2.5X zoom or something. Any more than 150px width and it gets powdery. They don't have a presentation on the final Sunday, but last year they didn't fence the back end of the street circuit when it goes up Montefiore Hill, so when the riders are going for their very slow uphill warmup you can just wander almost in front of them and get a nice front-on snap, although they will be wearing a helmet and likely sunnies. There are also some cricket training sessions coming up. Aus v Pak in Sydney on Jan 24, so they will probably train on Jan 25 before the Adelaide match on Jan 26. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

That's promising, then. I've got a fast 125mm, which would be the equivalent of about 3x from normal, and an ok 200mm lens. They should give me a bit of range, and, if desperate, I can always go with the slow 400mm plus a tripod. I'd hoped to get a more serious lens, but it looks like it won't arrive until later in the month now. I'll see if I can catch the cyclists at some point and I'll give it a go. If nothing else action shots might be worthwhile somewhere in their articles. - Bilby (talk) 02:43, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Here's an example. 377 wide but not good unless maybe 220px?

YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:53, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Even then, face texture is wonky, try 160px?

User:Sarastro1

[FFS]. Very surprised. I guess you were sorta right when you wondered if he was a reincarnated friend :( Though, BJ didn't write many GAs? So it seems strange ... —Aaroncrick (talk) 02:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Unblocked. I did a CU. Completely unrelated. The admin just presumed him guilty and blocked him. YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 02:45, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

That's good ;) I was wondering why BJ or his socks weren't into hefty article writing while Sarastro was. You'd think the admin would ask for a CU before blocking in that situation. —Aaroncrick (talk) 02:51, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Most of the time, shooting first is the way things. I know one, guy who later became an arbcom member, he blcoked a guy for socking even though one account was in the US and the other was in Australia, and they edited more than once a day, as though they flew back and forth everyday. Some high-ranking admins spend all their time sniffing socks of people who were mainly banned for dissent, trying to jump on the heretics and reactionaries at every possibly opportunity, even if the sock only edits normally. Some banned users deliberately sock and edit normally just to bait these admins into biting them for non-controversial article writing all the time, just to show that the admins aren't interested in substance, and the bait works each time YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:37, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I also know of two now-demoted admins who were famous for and proud of their ultra-aggressive blocking. Well a lot of people played on their strongman vanity and encouraged them to do dirty/cheap/grudge/revenge blocks they weren't willing to do themselves by playing on their red-blooded "bravery" and so forth. Some people once told me that if I needed help, I should ask these guys to do blocks for me, as they would "block anyone" YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:37, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I quick glance would have shown how BJ and Sarastro1 communicated on their talkpages a fair bit, so I really doubt you would spend that much time talking to yourself; lazy stuff really. I'm guessing these types of admins are ones that don't usually do any content work, just help out on images and also on AFD and other deletions, ect. —Aaroncrick (talk) 04:02, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

And those who never write articles and shout meaningless slogans about OR and SYNTH meaninglesslly YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:35, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Your talkpage/my is a mess because Template:Click is up for deletion! —Aaroncrick (talk) 04:04, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Many talk pages, I have half a mind to add more of these templates in mine. The other day, {{Harvard reference}} was being converted everywhere to {{Citation}}. Looks like too much time on hand. –SpacemanSpiff 04:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Might've have overexpanded Bhaj YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:35, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

You'd checked VikasJain (talk · contribs) as a sock of Wikindia24x7 (talk · contribs), is it time for a block? One sock Anas999 (talk · contribs) was blocked before. Creating duplicate articles under different titles, same overcategorization nonsense, it's getting to be a little too difficult to manage. In addition to the possible socking, WP:Competence is an issue, just look at the talk page of the two. –SpacemanSpiff 05:59, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I presumed you would do it, I never bothered thinking about it YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 06:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, ok, I thought since you didn't do it, there was some reason! I'll do it now, just take a look at File:Eijaz khan.JPG and he inserted it in a BLP! I just went through contribution history, –SpacemanSpiff 06:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Is that a authentic scandal pick or just a random Indian defacator, whose face has been blotted out? I remember Wiki Raja (talk · contribs) socked with Indrancroos (talk · contribs) and added pictures of dung-chapattis everywhere. I blocked him for 3 or 6 months YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Don't know, never heard of this actor before, and couldn't find this pic on tineye or gsearch first few pages, so can't say. This guy has been introducing so many factual errors in articles that it's very likely that it's a random pic, the image doesn't look like a genuine one. Oh ya, that Dravidian wikiproject, haven't seen him edit on any articles on my watchlist recently –SpacemanSpiff 08:09, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

FAR for History of the Australian Capital Territory

I have nominated History of the Australian Capital Territory for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.) I'd also like to comment that I'm impressed you started improving the article before I even finished the FAR nomination. That's quick and good work. –Grondemar 04:38, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh, User:YellowMonkey/Contributions#FA.2FA_repair I saw a pile of flagrantly undersourced articles and did some work on some of them, although in this case and many of the others, weren't sure where the original guy got info from and I am not into ACT stuff so don't have a background to lean on YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:12, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on sourcing this one. However, couple of things with your new changes. Firstly, Labor won six, not four, seats, in 1989. Secondly, I don't think it's quite accurate to say that it was disruption by the anti-self-government forces that brought down the Follett government in 1989. Kaine needed some of the anti-self-government MPs to form government, but Follett didn't - it was the decision of Residents Rally to support Kaine instead that wrecked her majority. It might be worth mentioning (since the current text hints at it anyway) that stability was a major issue in 1992, and one of the reasosn the minor party vote dropped so dramatically. Rebecca (talk) 08:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

That's fine, the 20 yrs anniv article is an intro for rank beginners like me who don't know anything so feel free to fill in the gaps and clarify it more as they didn't have the space to explain everything in great detail I guess. It seems sort of obvious to guess that they stopped voting for anti-self-govt folks in 1992 because the random chaos was stuffing everything up and the protest joke was over, but I haven't put it in yet as the source didn't state the obvious yet. Also as for the stats, there was a contradiction as I noted in the FAR, so I'm waiting for a source from somewhere. Actually I was hoping for someone who was fluent in ACT and/or Australian history matters as comparative advantage would dictate that they worry about those sorts of content while I edit cricket and then the productivity rate would go up. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

History of the Australian Capital Territory‎

Hi! Just to keep you informed, 'cause it's more fun this way, I started doing research on the history of the ACT. I went through the talk page comemnts - which was quite a challenge - and I think it would make sense to expand on the formation of the ACT section. There are some nice materials which cover this, so I think something good can be built there - at the moment, what was a fairly complex process is summarised a bit too quickly, I think, so it needs a bit more to give it proper weight. Other than that, tracking down refs for the "citation needed" bits is also fairly straightforward, and I've found a few that will cover some of the main issues, but I'm holding out for better sources - just in case. :) This should be fun - I was working on redoing all the Australian dinght and catamaran classes, but there's not a lot of material, so the ACT will be a better topic.

With all these ACT articles overlapping we might as well fatten them up now that we've read some books and spin off a few more GAs from it as well as saving Canberra and Yarralumla as well. The ACTers don't seem very interested, same as for LBG :( YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:13, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

That's probably a good idea. I'll see what I can dig up. - Bilby (talk) 02:43, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Cricketers

WP:SYNTH is one of the more ridiculous rules on here. Are you pushing Kathik to FAC? —Aaroncrick (talk) 07:12, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

It isn't ridiculous, just that many people don't understand it and a lot of people deliberately mis-apply it to ban their opponent's POV while pushing their own. But then again, policies are little more than opportunities for hypocrisy, double-standards and abuse for seom. I dunno, we'll see. Kartik and Karthik. Two Tamils. I wonder if any Tamil or South Indian Wikipedians will review it??? I was more thinking of just maintenance at the moment, the two articles were very skinny before then. Maybe good ol Abidreh (talk · contribs) will come along and add "Pathan is a tough fighter because of his Pashtun descent. Pashtuns are teh supreme warrior tribe" and then vote for it. Lol YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, don't think there's any Tamil wikipedian interested in Cricket other than me right now. CarTick and Sodabottle are the only others active in that area I think, and neither seems to be interested in cricket articles. Lots of copyvio images coming from the Indian side right now, I'll need to do a sweep of that. Sharman Joshi is one, Aamir Khan looks like one, but can't say for sure. Neither is searchable on tineye. As far as synth, it's very common on Indian caste articles, all the casteist POV pushers synthesize to the extremes. –SpacemanSpiff 08:09, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, how Stifle argued SYNTH in the Invincibles in 48 AFD is ridiculous anyway. Lol, forgot about Abidreh; how do you remember all these users? I suppose now you can only have one FAC at a time. —Aaroncrick (talk) 09:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I didn't realize SYNTH had expanded to those areas. I'd use it on all this casteist nonsense that comes up (from the likes of Ikonoblast and Kalarimaster) but on the Invincibles, yikes! Abidreh is active, he just changed the squash Khans last week, so the Pathans may be due for a visit soon. –SpacemanSpiff 09:23, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, he said that because there was not a specific book devoted for the individual players in 1948, then writing a fork about them, albeit just a expanded chapter because of overgrowth was OR/SYNTH because I invented a concept of writing about them in a subscope. But still, in Roland Perry's rip-off of Jack Fingleton he did write two pages each summarising the individual's contributions YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 00:11, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

• Another century for DK. Looks like South are likely to win, unless the bowlers really goof up and give awy 400 runs. —SpacemanSpiff 07:34, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Some strange stuff

Also, a semi-pp of Dravidian peoples? And sock-check for P6junn (talk · contribs), 69.125.204.209 (talk · contribs), 209.191.40.34 (talk · contribs), H3919 (talk · contribs)? I blocked the last one for copyvios, since then the other three have been ducking. The two IPs are within 10 miles of each other and the second one is a college, so I'm guessing it's the same user connected by the two user ids. The first IP was autoblocked and a request for autoblock removal was denied too. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 20:40, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Also P6jun (talk · contribs). Blocked all three user ids now, too many copyright vios (deleted 15 images today). Can you check if there are any sleeper accounts and block? cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 00:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

No more accounts YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 00:38, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, one of the accounts has asked for block review now. Can you semi Dravidian peoples? I've edited the article before. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 01:57, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Ok, forgot about the lock. Finished cutting the Aussie women. hopefully I can get this mass upload thing to work. Have you used it before? YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:36, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Never done it, but was looking into it on commons a while back. I found two scripts there: Commons:User:Nichalp/Upload script and Commons:Commons:Tools/Flickrripper. The Nichalp one seemed to be easy and looked like it could be used by a non-techie like me, but I have no clue about these things!—SpacemanSpiff 03:49, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

If it doesn't work, I might have to email it to someone, or upload 200 manually :( YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Looks like you can request someone else to do it for you: Commons:Commons:Flickr batch uploading, seems to be simple that way. —SpacemanSpiff 04:06, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Commons:Tools/Commonist opened up and it only took about 15 minutes to fill out, but it wont' let me login YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Are you logging in with YM or YAM? You need to have a commons/SUL account for that, right? —SpacemanSpiff 04:37, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, Blnguyen on commons, created YM on commons and tried that, and it didn't work YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not savvy enough on these matters, but I guess you could try the Flickr thing and let a bot operator do it for you? —SpacemanSpiff 04:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

WP:NBSP

I don't get the point of 'em. So do you use them when you say "17 runs?" And for what else do we use them for. What's the point of that?- It doesn't look any different - does it? —Aaroncrick (talk) 01:26, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't personally, although others put them in later. I only use them for scientific stuff like metres, kg, etc. It's there so that "17 runs" isn't broken between two lines if it is at the end of the sentence YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:25, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Just back from the cricket. Players won't be training until game morning because of the 1-day rest, so they'll probably won't let me anywhere near them again, but I snuck out the back there for 5 hours where Essex CCC, Southern Stars and Silver Ferns were and got to walk right up amongst them. I saw this portly subcontinental guy and thought "Bopara hasn't put on 30 kg has he?" but it was Samit Patel, lol. And the Australian and NZ female pacemen bowl faster than Pathan and Munaf YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:25, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Lol, I remember Cathryn Fitzpatrick bowled the fastest ball at like 125kmp. —Aaroncrick (talk) 05:31, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I should have brought a water bottle though. Feeling rather tired with all the dehydration from standing there in 38 degree heat for 5 hours. The lost saline solution has re-solidified as white powder on my arms. Have to create some stubs though YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 05:37, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

So, all the Aus and NZ women in? User:SpecialWinder had quite a bit of pictures from the WWC, Mattinbgn had alerted me when I was looking for India women images. Don't think I was around for your last poll, I vaguely remember seeing something on your TP, let me know what you're looking to do. India in pretty bad shape today. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 06:05, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Great stuff with Rohit/Saha. I just upload 5/6 different shots of the same person's portrait, bowling action, wicket-keeping style and people vote. Also NZ have this left arm orthodox spinner who has completely mimicked Vettori's run-up, clasps her hands together in front of her chest, flaps them and then bowls YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:13, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Might need help recognising the coaches and some players don't look the same. I think Shelley Nitschke must be the one who has short brown spiky hair and a butchy build who stood around at training, maybe injured, because no other SLA was bowling. And she talked with the same ocker accent I heard in a radio interview YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:15, 8 February 2010 (UTC) Incorrect on my part, they were in Lehmann's cricket academy, not Essex [1] YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Lol, do they actually do any excercise at the academy? - or just eat, drink and smoke? —Aaroncrick (talk) 07:58, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Samit Patel clearly hasn't lost much weight if any at all. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Rodney Hogg is dreadful on Inside cricket. He was argueing with Blewett, Fleming and Julian about who won the AB medal last year. They all said it was Ponting and Clarke and he was sure it was Bracken, lol. Even thought they were saying how he doesn't play Tests. They just gave up. The White article came along quick. —Aaroncrick (talk) 10:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)ec

You missed how Ponting became ODI vice for a game in the 1999/00 CU series and how he injured his ankle. Shock horror! Aaron - 22:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

oh, I think it's notable, considering it got widespread critiscm and it was his first Test... —Aaroncrick (talk) 01:01, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't know about Ponting being ODI VC in 1999-2000. SRW and Warne were in the team, and in 1998-99 when SRW was injured, Warne captained with MEW as VC. The decision was pretty bad, although there are many bad decisions in cricket, including some that Ponting benefited from. Still, it would have been a debut ton, although the bad decision didn't affect the course of the match at all, and didn't cause a big dissent or anything. Got kicked out when the men came again.... YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:01, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I didn't know either. It was when Warne was injured. Did you go to Ade Oval today? —Aaroncrick (talk) 02:45, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes and got turfed out after the security arrived at around 11; got some fielding photos though, but can't recognise the NZ players with respect to CI; they all have similar faces and the chins/noses aren't distinctive enough, although I figured out the similar-looking Australians after much difficulty YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 02:55, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Lol, are security sick of you yet? Did the men train yesterday? —Aaroncrick (talk) 02:58, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

No, otherwise I wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near there, although as usual, anybody could have outrun him. Managed a few one-handed catch photos though, not bad YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:47, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: White and women's crikceters

Cheers, don't know what happened with White really, I just kind of sat down and managed to write it; normally I get bored of one topic quite quickly, and flit between things a bit. With regards to the women's images, that's brilliant; I know I've got a few sat on my computer here somewhere from the World Twenty20's in Taunton last year, but it's always that task of going through and a) working out if any of them are good individual or team shots and b) working out who some of them are! Harrias (talk) 07:58, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, if you haven't seen them on TV with caps and glasses on, then trying to work it out with the Cricinfo mugshot can be a bit difficult. Also do many people watch the women's pages much? because there was a hoax on the NZ page with a [fake?] male player YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

SpecialWindler identified some of the women at [2] and [3]. Those images can also be used and are a lot easier to identify the women from compared to CI or CA. Just look at Jhulan Goswami's pics from CI and CA and compare that to the one SW uploaded, unidentifiable!! The women's pages are hardly watched, I'm thinking of creating a special watchlist token for anyone interested to get it over RSS feeds instead of following over individually bloated watchlists. —SpacemanSpiff 02:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

BTW, where are the images? I searched your TP, but I can't seem to find a link. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 06:57, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Still cutting up the photos, although I've finished the Alyssa Healy ones YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, ok. I see that SW has many of the Aus/NZ women in his list, so identification may not be too difficult. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 07:59, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Gangu

Is there a review page for Ganguly ? Couldn't find one. The ones that I can notice in quick browse are mostly stylistic issues, undue importance (or the opposite of it etc). Like, Durham does not deserve to the on the first paragraph (I didn't even know that he played for Durham, the time with Lancs was much better known), Maharaja does not mean prince - it means king, and some such. Shall I put the review comments here, or should they be in the talk page ? Tintin 10:32, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Some random comments. Will do a more comprehensive review later.

Author Pradeep Mandhani commented that in his tenure between 2000 and 2005, Ganguly became India's most successful Test captain - why do you need to quote Pradeep Mandhani for that ? (Btw, Mandhani is more of a photographer, I think)

twice more than both Azharuddin andSunil Gavaskar. - ??

Matthew Engel, ICC sport critic - wasn't he the editor of Wisden at the time ?

Some experts indicated that the reason for this was for "spite or revenge" against the Indian captain. - check this further. The more widely held opinion is that it was the act of Shashank Manohar (who headed the Vidharbha CA, where Nagpur is) to screw Dalmiya (BCCI pres at the time) so that Dalmiya would be denied that credit for the win against Australia. This gentleman was made the President of BCCI for such services to Indian cricket. Tintin

Oh I wasn't the writer of the article, it's just that the writer skipped a whole pile of stuff and is a bit reluctant to talk about some of these controversies, and the persistent losing in ODI finals and the reviewer doesn't know anything about cricket and doesn't care about the content points I brought up Talk:Sourav Ganguly/GA1. There isn't much in there about the downside of Gangu's raw belligerence style, lack of attention to detail, just Ranatunga style stuff YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:01, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Batting order (cricket)

Will fix it later if you don't do this by then. 6-11 in the current list should be 5-10. ie 304 at No.5 etc till Walter Read at No.10. ZK's 75 is the record for No.11. One of Jayawardene or Inzamam has to go. Tintin 05:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't whether you are serious about expanding that article. If you are, one more thing that could be mentioned is the enforced change of batting order that can happen when a player was off the field for very long and therefore cannot bat above No.8. Not sure whether it is there in the official laws, or it came from some playing conditions. Tintin 05:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I only checked the page because I linked to it from the Sam Loxton article at FAC Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sam Loxton/archive1. Amusing recentist list of flat track bullies as always. I thought the rule was time-based. Wait 3 hours for 3 hours absence or seomthing. Replied to Gangu above YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:47, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

NP

Could you check this account out: Hydrow2 (talk · contribs)? It's repeating the same actions that NP was doing with IP socks on the same article. Elockid ^(Talk·_Contribs) 15:44, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

It's him YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 00:38, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Also NP is going asking other users again with 86.153.128.139 (talk · contribs). He actually got the person to edit for him. Do you have any advice on how to handle this? The Mughal Empire edit seems to be him since NP was heavily involved with that article. Not sure about the lists article but all the other edits have to do with Pakistan and India. Elockid ^(Talk·_Contribs) 23:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Nothing much really. Most of the Indian guys on Wikipedia don't care about anything. It was like this in the old days too, a lot of them had to go running off to BJP supporters to revert Nangparbat-type stuff for them YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 01:29, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

thats such a shame. WP has specific policies prohibiting editing on behalf of banned users.[4] whoever is editing on behlf of NP needs to be sanctioned. Wikireader41 (talk) 02:14, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

New photo survey

Let me know when the new photo survey starts, please. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Just finished cutting. Hopefully I can get this mass upload thing going YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:36, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Vandal user Toutvientapoint

User:Toutvientapoint has been vandalizing several articles in his/her short time on Wikipedia. They have been warned multiple times, but he/she just clears their talk page and ignores all comments. Here are all the warnings he/she have received (I undid all his/her blankings)[5]

South Asia

[6] (after this edit, I told them on their talk page why their edit was wrong) then they repeat the vandalism [7] claiming the reversion was unexplained (even though I had told them why it was wrong) Asia

[8] [9] (They removed a huge chunk of cited content)

Can some actions be taken against this vandal, thanks

Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:09, 10 February 2010 (UTC) (This has also been posted on Nishkid64 and EdJohnston's talk pages Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC))

Maybe he did this because the inclusion of Tibet in SA isn't present in all definitions. I'm wating a bit YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 01:29, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

The SA page has two lists, one list that includes countries included by virtually everyone, another list with places sometimes added. Tibet was in the sometimes added list like it should have been. They removed it from that list... Thegreyanomaly (talk) 03:26, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Lê_Văn_Duyệt/GA1

AM ^(talk) 16:24, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, Google Books is working in Vietnam but only partially. Many pages and books are inaccessible. I have though about A-class review for this article before but I have only little confidence in my English skills so I decided to try GA first. If you can, please feel free to bring it to A-class status. I would help you in finding and citing Vietnamese sources.--AM ^(talk) 05:40, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

dab

Disambiguation page of Loxton. Auntieruth55 (talk) 23:21, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

NOted thanks YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars photo poll) 07:03, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Sourav Ganguly

Hey there YM, your input is needed for the final issue before I pass this to GA. It involves the timeline of the this player. If you feel that it is correct, I would feel comfortable passing it, if it not, what information is not correct? Neonblak ^talk - 00:18, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Ganguly

Hello YM. I thought that its best we discuss this instead of the GA page where its getting confusing. Could you point out what you feel is wrong with the order so that I'm able to rearrange? I'm confused as to what the order might be as you state. I was going for the biography timeline. --Legolas ^(talk2me) 04:40, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

MaximusPrius (talk · contribs)

Maleabroad ? Abecedare (talk) 07:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Also Generate5 (talk · contribs). Abecedare (talk) 08:57, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Bingo! I should nag you to vote in the entertaining photo poll! YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars photo poll) 07:03, 15 February 2010 (UTC)