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Contents 1 WP:MILHIST Coordinator Elections 2 Halo4life 3 Reservations 4 Regarding Lilwyte's image uploads 5 5P question 6 thanks 7 Global Awareness Group 8 and or & 9 Your DYK nomination for United States Africa Command was successful 10 WikiProject Military History elections 11 FA counter bot stalled again 12 Hi Dear Banyan Trere 12.1 About 「戒名」 12.2 Thanks you very much 12.3 Mr. BanyanTree 13 Bad Image List 14 Sherbro People 15 Sherbro people 16 Kentuc 17 I was just looking this over 18 Anishinaabemowin language Userbox 19 Bishop Paride Taban 20 Super smash bros. computer game -> Super Smash Bros. Melee for RfD

[edit] WP:MILHIST Coordinator Elections

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[edit] Halo4life

24 hour block for a newbie was a bit harsh imho: 2 of the warnings on his page were for the same edit to Global Warming (the one I reverted and warned and then someone else double-warned without checking) and I am not sure on the timings he saw a warning before the second offence. His third offence was the one you saw which looked not too awful to me? I mean vandalism but if it was a second offence we would try not to bite, right? --BozMo talk 17:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I've unblocked. I promise to clean up if he does anything else! Hope that's ok with you.. sorry if not --BozMo talk 17:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

We'll have to disagree. Three edits: a full page blanking, the addition of "Global Warming is gay" (both to an ITN-linked page) followed by misinformation in the lead sentence to the TFA. I had considered an indefinite block as a Main Page vandal-only account, but figured that there might be a hint of a question, so went with the 24-hours suggested by Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Guide to blocking times. I hadn't realized that there was a double-warning, but my overall judgment on the block doesn't change as I've never seen a productive editor emerge from such beginnings. However, I appreciate your approach as it is one that I may have followed when I was first adminned. I'll let you deal with it. - BanyanTree 17:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I completely agree with your assessment of the case and with your block; see User_talk:Sandstein#Halo4life. Best, Sandstein 17:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, I am happy to agree I have a lot to learn. My general feeling with 10 year olds (which is my guess here) is they get bored quicker if you are over-reasonable with them (whereas working around a block makes them feel smarter and they annoy us more) but I will muse about it. --BozMo talk 20:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reservations

Hi, see this discussion. I finally am back in my country and had a try to see if I could merge the current article with my sandbox stuff. I was hoping you could have a look at it and see if it makes sense and not too much legalize etc etc. :). It's here. Garion96 (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Garion, I took a stab at rewording sentences that I stumbled over and some general formatting and structure choices. Feel free to revert if I've changed meaning. I clearly missed some details in the version I started.  :-\ It looks ready to go live at reservation (law). Cheers, BanyanTree 22:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the improvements, I will copy it over. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 22:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Lilwyte's image uploads

Thank you for taking the initiative to delete Lilwyte's many image problems. I'd like to point out that there are other images which Lilwyte has uploaded that had not yet generated warnings on the user's talk page. Many of them are also problems, such as fair use images with no source. You can see the user's image upload log here. You may wish to delete those as well. Once again, thanks very much for taking the time to deal with this problem. --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 04:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I've deleted the remainder. I am watching Lilwyte (talk • contribs)'s pages now so will see any more image notices. I've noticed you working on image use notices before; if you see him using a sockpuppet to evade the warning, just let me know and I'll proceed straight to the deletions and block. I'm amazed he managed to avoid admin attention before this. - BanyanTree 04:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 5P question

This is not a hard question, and there shouldn't be too much controversy about the answer. The Administrators' reading list states this is something every candidate must know. They are pretty straightforward and aren't something you can argue against any more than you could argue against one of Jimbo's dictates and be a successful admin. If a candidate can't research and itentify the five pillars correctly other than saying, "They're the guiding principles and they are really important," how can we trust them to be able to evaluate verifiable reliable sources? They should auto-fail if they can't answer it correctly. Not that I've been voting this way, but I think only one candidate has answered this correctly. —Malber (talk • contribs) 14:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Unless you assume that the recent RFA candidates are, on a whole, idiots, the fact that you got only one "correct" answer suggests that there this a problem with the wording of the question. I, as an imaginary candidate, certainly wouldn't guess that you wanted me to parrot WP:5P. Why not make the answer concrete, along the lines of "Please explain how you have implemented each of the five pillars in the course of your editing. If you cannot think of an example, describe a use, or misuse, of the pillars that you've witnessed." At least with that wording the candidate's possible responses are directed, but I think that the barrage of questions that has developed in the past couple of years may be counterproductive in attracting quality candidates. - BanyanTree 14:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I think adding the word "each" would probably solve the issue. —Malber (talk • contribs • game) 18:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

for your help restubbing with {{Africa-newspaper-stub}}. I thought I was going insane and somehow repeating my edits until I realized that we were stubbing nearly simultaneously. I proposed the stub thinking there were maybe 50 articles, but it looks like that was a significant underestimate. Cheers, BanyanTree 17:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Banyan Tree. Yeah, i was working on the Africa Peer Review stuff when i noticed you adding the newspaper template and decided to help you mate. Cheers. -- Szvest - ^{Wiki me up ®} 17:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Global Awareness Group

Hi BanyanTree,

Just so you know, I placed the {{hangon}} tag on the page in question because the author(s) had placed an equivalent message on the talk page. MacGuy^{(contact me)} 21:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I like to think that I never forget to check blue-linked talk tabs when reviewing CAT:CSD, but an explicit {{hangon}} reduces the chances that I'll slip up greatly. Cheers, BanyanTree 21:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] and or &

Two reasons make me think it is a typo and he meant & - 1) Notes & Queries is a weekly column in the Guardian Newspaper, which is the same newspaper the article is being published in. 2) He says "in columns" .. Notes & Queries is a column, Notes and Queries is not a column. I guess it doesn't matter but I can't imagine he would not be referring to the column in his newspaper. BTW thanks for posting that, it was a very gracious compliment in particular coming from someone of his stature. -- Stbalbach 16:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I figured that he was talking about your work in particular.

This is clearly is going to drive me mad as I disagree with you quite strongly, but still see your point. I've written a letter to the "reader's representative" of the Guardian explaining the disagreement and requesting clarification from Mr. Sutherland. Hopefully they'll respond. Cheers, BanyanTree 18:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok hope he replies. I removed that abusive YouTube video from his page, which he mentions in the article, clearly a violation of WP:BLP -- Stbalbach 21:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your DYK nomination for United States Africa Command was successful

Did you know? was updated. On February 11, 2007, a fact from the article United States Africa Command, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 19:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh ho! You were the one that nominated it? I wondered. Thank you. :) --Petercorless 19:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome and thank you for your detailed expansion. - BanyanTree 21:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military History elections

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[edit] FA counter bot stalled again

Sorry to keep bugging you, but I'm going to be traveling a lot, and this bot seems to need constant monitoring; has been stalled again for several days. Message left on User talk:Jmax-bot SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey Sandy, I'm actually packing for a brief trip right now, but I've left a note at Jmax-'s talk. Cheers, BanyanTree 14:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm trying to pack :-) I'll have limited internet access, so just wanted to be sure lots of people are following up. Have a good trip! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Bugger, that's a real pity. Is it possible to fix this (I'm not good with the tech) or is this not possible? Witty lama 21:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

The most recent discussion at User talk:Jmax-bot suggests that the cascading protection is not the problem and Jmax- has just stated his computer died a couple of days ago. He can recreate it, but it will take some time. So the bot, as we know it, is dead. Until it is resurrected, keeping the count off of the Main Page seems in order. I'm not sure what the FA folks feel like doing in terms of no template/manual updating/waiting it out. - BanyanTree 21:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Dear Banyan Trere

I read the the link which you showed.
I understand it is possible to write word in forein character, isn't it?
Tokyo Watcher

Replied to Tokyo Watcher/博多っ子 there. - BanyanTree 14:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks you!
The Tokyo watcher write an article about Tokyo.

Thanks in advance for your help.

「よろしくおねがいいたします」。

Tokyo Watcher 09:29, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About 「戒名」

You are writing down a posthumous Buddhist name by the alphabet but the posthumous Buddhist name can not be understood a meaning if read out a kanji. That is why Kanji must be written in Kanji Style. How do you think about 「戒名」?Tokyo Watcher 09:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Tokyo Watcher, 私は少し日本語ができますから、今回日本語でがんばります。

英語のウィキペディアに記事にないと（例えば、「戒名」）漢字で書けばいいんです。その結果はこんな編集がいりません。英語の記事のAzabuがあってあそこにja:麻布への言語間リンクがありますから。そのほか、英語のウィキペディアを読んでる人々のほとんどは日本語ができません。漢字は直接のリンクもであれば日本語ができない人々は簡単にjaに行って道に迷います。- BanyanTree 13:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Your Japanese is primitive level same as I am in English, then I correct your your description.
「Tokyo Watcher、私は少し日本語が出来ますので、今回は頑張って日本語で記述します。 英語のウィキペディアに記事にない場合は（例えば、「戒名」）漢字で書くことを勧めます。その結果はこんな編集がいりません（←意味不明？)。英語の記事のAzabuがああり、そこにja:麻布への言語間リンクがありますから。そのほか、英語のウィキペディアを読む人々のほとんどは日本語が出来ないと想定されます。漢字は直接のリンクもであれば日本語ができない人々は簡単にjaに行って道に迷います。【←意味不明？】」
Tokyo Watcher

Mr.BanyanTree
Show the ground of your claim by the rule of the Wikipedia.

「お願い致しまする。」

Tokyo Watcher 23:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

How about I use all of the Wikipedias as an example? In the article ja:ウィリアム・シェイクスピア, why doesn't William Shakespeare link to en:William Shakespeare? Because it is a bad idea, and confusing for people who read Japanese but not English. If you really don't believe me, go ask someone at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan or one of the people at Wikipedia:Local Embassy#日本語 (Nihongo). Not everything has to be written down in policy before it makes sense. - BanyanTree 23:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear Mr.BanyanTree
Show the Wikipedia:Interlanguage links.
It is permitted in Wiki that set a link among languages, isn't it?
Tokyo Watcher

Interlanguage links appear in the left hand column, not in the main body of text. When on William Shakespeare, there is a list under "In other languages", which includes "日本語" with a link to ja:ウィリアム・シェイクスピア. Similarly, on ja:ウィリアム・シェイクスピア, there is list under "他の言語", which includes "English" with a link to en:William Shakespeare. That is an interlanguage link, not a link in the text. Try reading ja:Wikipedia:言語間リンク. - BanyanTree 23:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Mr.BanyanTree
Wiki is managed under the rule.
Please show the rule of Wiki., rather than example.Tokyo Watcher

Actually the wiki runs largely under a few foundational principles, extrapolations of those principles and a lot of community norms. If nobody besides you is linking kanji, then there is probably a very good reason that this is so. I've explained to you what I feel is a good reason, but you want a firm rule. There cannot be a rule for everything. You are wrong in this and your edits will continue to be reverted if you continue. Seriously, stop talking to me, whom you clearly do not believe, and ask someone else. - BanyanTree 01:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear Mr.BanyanTree
You say "You are wrong in this", I am perplexed it. Please describe your claim on the basis of the rule of Wiki. I think that you are stating your comment only, isn't it?
I want to discuss with you thoroughly about this matter.
I hope you to state your idea logically.
Tokyo Watcher

If you don't recognize that "Nobody has ever done this" as a strong normative statement, nor recognize the argument I've presented as to why this is the case, then I have zero interest in discussing it further. I have a limited amount of time these days to spend on the wiki and I would prefer to do something besides explain the power of social norms in Wikipedia. I've started a section Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)#linking kanji to ja asking for other input. Please ask any questions you may have there. - BanyanTree 03:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks you very much

Thanks you very much dear friend BanyanTree.
I have a lot to be thankful for your kindness.ありがとうございます
Tokyo Watcher

[edit] Mr. BanyanTree

Tokyo Watcher is writing only an article about Tokyo. Wishing to do a reply to Tokyo Watcher about the thing about Tokyo. Tokyo is nice place, please come Tokyo, you are welcome!!
I give you Manekineko whichi is a cat causes good luck. I appreciate your friendship.Tokyo Watcher

[edit] Bad Image List

Why is Image:Ejaculation_Educational_Demonstration_Still_Frame.jpg on the Bad Image List? And for that matter, what is this list? The reason I am asking is that this image is part of an ongoing and often heated discussion on the Ejaculation article. User:Atomaton argued against this image and then tried to speedy delete it. Now it ends up here. I'm getting the feeling that this image is being censored. What is the criteria for putting images on this list? Who decides this and why? Where is the discussions for and against putting images on this list? What is going on here? This just doesn't seem right. This image is being used on the Semen article at http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemensy%C3%B6ksy?uselang=en. Will this image being on this list affect foreign language wikis too? Please give me an answer back on my Talk Page. Thanks Infofreak 17:37, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Responded there - BanyanTree 18:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sherbro People

I don't know why you would delete my article on the Sherbro Culture or merge it with any other article. How much do you know about the Sherbros anyway? Did you know if I was researching them and wanted to gather adequate information on them before editing? Please stop trying to police those who know more about certain subjects than you and those who are trying to improve wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikiaddict8962 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

OK, if you want a full discussion, I'll put them up at AFD and recommend a merge. - BanyanTree 20:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

As for "knowing more", the sum total of the four articles you created on aspects of the Sherbro is now at Sherbro people, which now totals a little less than two paragraphs. It might be best to expand that page until it reaches an unwieldy size, and then break off daughter articles.

Also, I noticed that you recreated Category:Sherbro People and have put it and Category:Sherbro up at CFD. I see no reason why "People" should be capitalized as a proper noun. - BanyanTree 20:52, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sherbro people

You are correct BanyanTree, I apologize for the misunderstanding. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikiaddict8962 (talk • contribs) 08:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

No worries. Cheers, BanyanTree 13:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kentuc

That user you just blocked is a sock. A checkuser is being performed on this user, who continually replaces userpages whith INDEFBLOCK. I'll get you the link now. Retiono Virginian 18:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

See WP:RFCU#indefblocked_vandal. Retiono Virginian 18:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I hadn't realized that there was a checkuser request. I've added a few more that people hadn't recorded. - BanyanTree 19:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I was just looking this over

and contemplating advising Mike Peel and David Kernow that interwiki link templates needs a seperate category for these interwiki sisterlinks templates, would probably be good, albeit a bit redundant. In any event, if you're working down this backlog, these are all part of a very complicated set. See music for the kludge in full glory. They need put into the same category. Adding them individually to a sister-special category like this edit is okay, but there aren't a lot of those planned that I know of, but suite yourself. That's not a bad idea either, save for category creep. It might have it's uses. I'll bring it up with those two, since they've been waving the baton and leading the reorchestration of the template categorisation. Cheers! // FrankB 06:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not that involved. I created Category:Interwiki translation templates out of sheer annoyance that the names of the templates were so ambiguous and probably made the edit you point out while I was in the area. If someone is actually trying to standardize a system, all the better. - BanyanTree 12:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anishinaabemowin language Userbox

Aaniin, with great effort from User:Miskwito, we now have the oj series of Anishinaabemowin language userboxes. On the WP:IPNA/Nish page, we have a matrix of the possible categories for the oj series and the major dialect groupings. You can now add to your Userpage one of the oj userboxes that are available or you can help create a userbox for the dialect of your interest. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Babel#Ojibwe_language_userboxes for the full discussion. Miigwech. CJLippert 23:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bishop Paride Taban

I just created an article for Paride Taban, and I was wondering if you've heard of him. Mostly, I'm wondering because I'm surprised that the article didn't already exist, as well as an article for his village, Kuron, and am thinking that there may be some spelling variations or something. Also, I'd like some help from someone more familiar with WP articles on Sudan in deorphaning the article and the one on the peace village, which I'll probably create soon if no one else does first.

I guess I'd bring it up at a wikiproject, but... its disheartening mentioning an article like this for a project about a continent, especially when Wikipedia:WikiProject Sudan exists but is inactive. Hopefully the whole business somehow works out for the better. Smmurphy^(Talk) 17:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Smmurphy, The name doesn't ring any bells, though I've certainly heard of the New Sudan Council of Churches. Given its key role in the southern conflict over the past decades, I wish I was surprised that it's redlinked. I've just picked up my stake and moved and things are absolutely silly in Real Life^TM right now, but I will try to fill in that redlink sometime soon and give your new bio a context. Cheers, BanyanTree 21:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and best of luck. Smmurphy^(Talk) 21:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Super smash bros. computer game -> Super Smash Bros. Melee for RfD

Hi,

Just letting you know I RfD'd the redirect that you created, Super smash bros. computer game -> Super Smash Bros. Melee. The article, originally written by someone else, contained the one sentence "super smash bros. computer game is super smash bros. melee." It was put up for speedy, but you changed it into a redirect. I don't think this was the right decision, as there is no such thing as a Super Smash Bros. Melee computer game (it's a console video game). Also, please also reserve the use of the "m" in edit summaries for edits which are truly superficial. --JianLi 23:21, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirects are cheap. Clearly someone thought that it was a reasonable description of the game, or the article would never have been created. As for superficial, a one-line article that duplicated the info in a pre-existing article was turned into a redirect to that pre-existing article. In terms of edits that affect the substantive content or structure of the encyclopedia, it's about as minor as one can get. I'm not quite sure why people seem to think that deleting an article is less controversial than turning it into a redirect, but that is clearly the case in my experience. - BanyanTree 03:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)