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[edit] RE:Fade to Black (webzine)

Hello mate. Thanks for letting me know, but it's not actually my text. I was just tidying up the disambig page, which the text in the article was too long for. You might want to let User:Schmeitgeist know, who seems to have written it initially. Cheers. - Nzd (talk) 21:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allegations of sock puppetry on the Center for Science in the Public Interest page

Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page, please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 18:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Katie Jackson

-- Malber (talk • contribs) 16:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD Nomination: Billy Jackson

-- Malber (talk • contribs) 17:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks..

Hey, thanks for helping out with Little Terrorist :) -- Lost^(talk) 08:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh.. thanks for the tip. I was wondering where you got the precise info about the category for nomination so quickly from.. -- Lost^(talk) 08:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Fair Use

Hey, I'm actually glad you found it - back when I started I had that page full of album covers until I found out about WP:FUC. I removed all of them except apparently I must have missed one. Thanks for pointing it out. Weatherman90 23:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mahinda Rajapaksa

Thanks for looking into the Mahinda Rajapakse article. A case could be made that the human rights abuses listed were listed since the person in question is the president, head of the armed forces, defence and finance minister and is ultimately responsible since he is the person in command. I will certainly raise this as part of my discussion for the page. I should just mention that the section Human rights abuses existed well before (there was some discussion albeit a small one) and it was repeteadly removed without a valid reason with false pretenses. I am not the original author of the section, nevertheless it may need a clean up. Regardless, User Snowolfd4 has gone on spree POV pushing numerous articles including Tamilnet and has not been in mood to discuss things I am afraid. The user repeteadly insists on putting original research and baseless allegations without any citations and has repeteadly removed the content in dispute tag. Please take a look at the discussion section on Tamilnet to see what I mean. Elalan 05:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the holes/cleaning up the human rights section. These articles really need constructive criticisms from neutral observers from time to time and unfortunately due to these revert wars, all of this gets lost in emotion. Where there is smoke there is a fire and so I'll certainly try to get the sources pinned down regarding significant increase in human rights abuses etc and where it links Rajapakse directly. That shouldn't be too hard to find, but I'll certainly look into it and move whatever else to the separate human rights section. I am agreeble to your suggestion of having a link to see also section. Elalan 05:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky81682, you might want to see what is happening at the Tamilnet page. In my opinion User snowolfd4 is using Mickey Mouse reasoning to try to remove some of the tags on the page. He has accepted that Ministry of Defence is not a reliable source and is clearly biased, hence I really think this false reporting purpoted by Ministry of Defence should go. Short of that, the fact that section is not Neutral and relies on unreliable source tag should be there. Allegations of false reporting that dominates the article hinges on the Ministry of Defence and Asiantribune citations. I have never seen any news source cite Asiantribune. Only the Ministry of Defence seems to cite it. Elalan 18:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I have outlined a more detail set of problems with the two 'contreversial events' with citations by the Defence ministry. Your comments and citations with regards to the issues raised would be much appreciated. Elalan 04:31, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Velupillai Prabhakaran article

Hi Ricky, I had gone this biography on Velupillai Prabhakaran, which is in an utter state of mess and made a first effort of putting citation needed tags (probably more than 50 or so), since a lot of the stuff remains unreferenced and needs to be cleaned up. The article has been heavily vandalized and statement really sound like someone had too much time on their hands to play practical jokes or something. User Snowolfd4, reverted my changes with the following terse justification First of all everyone please remember referencs do not have to be websites only. Reliable books are also valid references Next all the citation problems have arisen from Adhoc's previous mistake where he changed the word "References" to "Further Reading"[39]. All the content from this article had been from those books that are mentioned. Therefore the citation tags aren't neccessary. --snowolfD4( talk / @ ) 19:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC). I am not sure what the reason for this statement and reversion was to accomplish. Was it to ensure the page remains in its present statement of mess or not ? I honestly think this is helping to perpetuate vandalism and needs to be stopped. Your input in this regard I am sure will help to ensure constructive changes occur. Elalan 22:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky, I completely concur with Elalan, and you can take a look at the Talk page for all the mess that has been created and also the standard of discussion that is being adopted by snowfold and others. Most of the citation tags need to stay or be cleaned up to ensure a clean article. Thanks for your help. Sudharsansn 23:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Great Ricky, thanks. I will also go through your draft and add any citable ones if necessary, but I think your version is pretty trimmed down now and quite a lot of crap is out now. I will def'ly try to add on to the version with NPOV statements, citable and verifiable. Thanks again Sudharsansn 23:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Ricky, I might need some help from you in creating a project, similar to Project India or Project Indian history for this issue. The vandalism isn't restricted to this page alone, the Eelam page, Tamilnet page and almost everything coming under the spectrum of Sri Lankan crisis is either vandalized or completely lopsided. I have an idea of creating something like 'Project: Neutral coverage of SL Crisis' or 'Project NCSLC' or something in those lines. Could you please help me with it? I'd want to know how to go about with the projects and stuff, etc..ThanksSudharsansn 23:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky, I wanted to thank you again for helping further enable constructive efforts to progress with regards to the VP article. Its certainly admirable that you have plunged yourself into the article when many of us were starting to think it was a lost cause. Elalan 04:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Sudharsansn has got it right on by mentioning that a lot of articles related to Sri Lanka has undergone absolute devastation once the conflict flared up earlier this year and there is need for some sort of publicized/open joint effort to clean articles in a mess and then potentially police to ensure it doesn't get devastated again. What is also very dissappointing is that a lot of neutral/profesional editors were turned off and left in disgust due to determined efforts to propagate openly POV content mostly siding the govt. side, although there was also some on the Tamil Nationalist side as well. I am sure many will return if some level of stability is reclaimed. Elalan 04:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit done

I have done some work on this article and all claims made are explicitly verifiable from all the information, taken even from the Sri Lankan media and also the international media to ensure a NPOV. The issuing of death warrants, the thileepan incident, the alfred duraiappah incident are all cited with background information and some hearsay remarks about his family have also been added with citation tags clearly. Let me know what you think about this version, we can refine it.

Btw, I am working on creating the project. I'd sure would like to have you there. Thanks again for your help in cleaning this up. There is some wore work left to be done in the last few sections, I shall get this done and you can verify it and then the best option would be to protect this page. Thanks.

Sudharsansn 17:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revamped version

This article Velupillai Prabhakaran as of now, is almost completely revamped with regard to completely cited information about VP in a NPOV and all evidence is verifiable as stated - SL media, Indian media and the international media. Complete rework has been done on this article. Please read through it again, with all the exact citations and references provided and also some redundant sections trimmed down.

As of now this article, IMHO, seems to be perfectly NPOV - his murders, assasinations are also cited with evidence and so are his achievements as a military leader, both sides are portrayed equally - This should be fine enough for the reader to make a good, informed decision about VP.

Let me know your opinions. Please read through it again if any fine-tuning is required. VP Talk page

Sudharsansn 18:56, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ricky, User Iwazaki is bringing back info from all the sections which you had trimmed, including the cult of personality section which had not a single cited evidence.

Pls go through this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Velupillai_Prabhakaran&diff=82998537&oldid=82954817

Here Iwazaki has framed up two entire sections of his own, literally without any citation at all. The citations he has pointed to refer to a newspaper article which he has read sometime ago and is not a piece of evidence which can be verified by everybody who would be reading that article. It is something like 'I-saw-that-in-news-once' kind of a link. A strong msg needs to be sent out to Iwazaki who is violating almost every single policy of Wikipedia, Civility, NPOV, Verifiability, etc...I kindly request you to step in and take some action to avoid blanking-out vandalism and reverting to uncited versions of the article which transitively refers to Vandalism. Pls go through my posts here to justify removal of the sections and how he has responded here

The user has also been issued a final warning for Civility but continues his spree of personal attacks and diplomatic vandalism. Check this Iwazaki Talk page

This seems to be going on for almost a month inspite of several friendly suggestions and also Admin warnings. Kindly help. Thanks Sudharsansn Sudharsansn 17:53, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject NCSLC

Hi Ricky, I have created a project titled NCSLC: Neutral Coverage of the Sri Lankan Crisis. Pls let me know your inputs and how to take it forward from here. I am eagerly looking fwd to have you there. Thanks again Ricky Sudharsansn 20:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tamilnet Again

User snowolfd4 has come up with new ambiguous reasons to remove relevant content from the Tamilnet article as he did for the Vellupillai article:

Here is his justification:

Sudharsansn the reasons are given in the edit summery. Thats not vandalism. Get your facts straight. Practically everything I removed is irrelevant to the context of the article. The international news organizations don't say sympathetic to LTTE website. Its plain pro LTTE website. That means they support the LTTE. Plain English. Not sympathetic. Support. And stuff like

David Jeyaraj a Canada based freelance journalist known for his neutral stance in the current Sri Lankan civil war had written that Karuna, was personally involved in the murder of famed journalist Taraki Sivaram

is just not encyclopedic and doesn't belon in WP. So again I'm removing irrelevant content and restoring my previous version. --snowolfD4( talk / @ ) 04:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

He claims David Jeyaraj's statement (with reference) is unencylopedic, so he decides to remove it completely. He also insists on mentioning the LTTE with the list of countries banned in detail. Is the article about the LTTE or Tamilnet ? But he wants to include as much negative detail about the LTTE in order to highlight his POV. He also insists on saying the website supports the LTTE, which is legally vague. Material support, financial support, political support what does support mean ?? The best word as far as I see it is that it is sympathetic to the the LTTE. Furthermore he blanks many other factual statements, with relevant citations without even discussing it. The reasons for these factual statements are outlined in detail on the talk page. Here is the diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tamilnet&diff=80561873&oldid=80558808) Please also look into the section which labeled as "Time", because there is the added complication of old Sri Lanka time (5h30 difference from GMT) and new Sri Lanka time (6h difference from GMT).

I had also switched the title of the allegations section from "Allegations of False Reporting" to "Controversy" because:

• Only one incident is where Tamilnet is accused of false reporting, the other two references, it is called discrepancies [1], [2].

So in my opinion, snowolf is adding words from his POV to fill in the gaps...

Thanks, Elalan 05:29, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New user Civility

Hi Ricky, there is a new kid, literally a kid, who is going beyond limits with scant respect for fellow editors and has gone overboard with his civility almost thrice inspite of friendly suggestions. Kindly intervene and warn him so as to avoid trivial conversations. He is dragging in things like how his parents brought him up, how we all should have been brought up, how he wants to honor the SL Army, how much of a pre-school kid 'I' am for all the good work I did on the VP page. I would pls ask you to interfere and issue him a strict civility warning and ask him to go through WP policies. The link is here and the user name is User:Iwazaki Thanks Sudharsansn 05:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article on Zeest Deleted without any notice

Dear Ricky, the article u edited on Zeest, the major part of the article is deleted by someone without any notice. while i've contributed the article with reliable reference n sources. plus the article is according to the criteria mentioned in WP:MUSIC, on such points For composers and performers outside of mass media traditions

 Italic text  * Is cited in notable and verifiable sources as being influential in style, technique, repertory or teaching in a particular music genre.
   * Has established a tradition or school in a particular genre.
   * Is frequently covered in publications devoted to a notable sub-culture.

we all know that Zeest did really influence its music on major population. plus not frequently but it did appeared on some major newspapers & magazines too, and it can be viewed and observe through many web articles too . I've provided the whole article with the reliable and verifiable sources. but this guy deleted the whole article with reliable sources and references, leaving only introduction. please help me to recover that article again or tell me where i can complain abt it. Sohail981 22:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verifiability breach

I need your help in explaining Verifiability to Iwazaki here because he is framing up two sections based on nil evidence. Pls check this diff. Thanks Sudharsansn 13:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Talk

Hello , user [3] at my talk page . You have already warned him about this. Can I blank his comment on my Talk page? What can I do about this?
See the comment he made at my talk page here:[4]
Thanks
Trade2tradewell 16:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of interest edits by Bob Fink

Hi, I noticed your comment at User talk:65.255.225.49, that said "Please don't spam this site with links to help sell your book. If you continue, you may be blocked.". It is an old comment, but the problem addressed persists.

He has inserted numerous links to his website throughout wikiepdia. A search for greenwych.ca shows more than 40 articles that still contain links to his website, and I am confident that a review of the history of these articles will show that in every case that the link was added by him (every one I have checked up on so far has revealed this). I have compiled a list of IPs used by him at User:Rainwarrior/Bob Fink. He seems to have a dialup account which assigns him one of many IPs within a certain range; I don't think anyone else currently uses these IPs to edit wikipedia, but in the past 65.255.225.41,42,50,51 and may have also been used briefly by someone named Kate McMillan (see history). I have not found any other edits which indicate a different person in any of the other IPs listed.

I discovered this after I attempted to prune irrelevant material from Musical acoustics, which I later found that he had added, and is his own original research from his self-published books (to which I assume your older comment had referred). He has left lengthy diatribes on Talk:Musical acoustics in response to my assertion that he should not be doing this, and I've asked a few others to comment, but no one seems willing to do so given the sheer amount of text involved at this point.

This is not the only page this author has had such problems with. Any glance at the edit history of Divje Babe will reveal that he has been massively editing the article that is about his own research; the article about himself, Bob Fink has a similar history, et cetera...

Because he refuses, in general, wish to log in and make edits under a username (though he possesses at least two), I have no way of leaving messages directly for the author, and any points I have made at Talk:Musical acoustics have been met with pages of vitriolic response. I would appreciate if you would be willing to comment on the situtation at musical acoustics (if you find you have an opinion about the disputed content in the article itself, the section Talk:Musical acoustics#Please comment on the "Evolution of the diatonic scale" section is probably the most appropriate), or if administrative action could be taken (if you think it's appropriate), or otherwise leave a comment to this user about his actions.

Thanks if you could be of help in resolving these issues. - Rainwarrior 23:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Nlitement

You blocked this user indef for incivility back in the beginning of October. I am wondering if you think the two months this person has been blocked is enough, or if you think the block should remain. I personally think the user may have a change of contributing helpfully and will keep the user's talk page on my watchlist in case reblocking is needed.

Regardless of how I feel I will defer to your judgment in this case. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 16:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] fork

I made a huge revert on that day, and wanted to save that version of the page.Bakaman 19:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

sure go ahead.Bakaman 19:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Djibouti Wikipedians

Hi. I see that you created that category and was wondering, with no members, if you'd want to keep it. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 23:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

ok. Could you delete it then? It'd be faster. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 05:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Thank you. Xiner (talk, email) 19:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi (Lata Mangeshkar)

Hi my username is shshshsh. I am the anon who wrote you the claim. I really have worked very hard on this page. according to you, all the written things are copied, but it`s not right. I`m going now to turn back some little things that as I see, are not copied, because some of them, has have written by me too.(don`t try to find it. I have a new username now.) If you find my new edits as wrong, please revert the page again. I won`t do enything else.

[edit] Lata

Hi Ricky. about the apology, it`s OK:). I know you haven`t done that deliberately, only to protect WP rights. In my opinion, your idea is very good. we really can`t write the names of every film here. Lata has sung in over 950 films in her career, so we really need to select the most notables films. Thanks!! User:Shshshsh

[edit] Thank you!

Just a quick note to thank you for the speed you categorized my new article John Grady (author). I was really impressed.Gillyweed 12:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brief footnotes on current events articles

Thank you for improving and combining a number of footnote-citations on Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. I had tagged the footnotes that needed to be filled out with full citation info...a while ago.
One problem with brief footnotes of the flavor <ref name= "ad-hoc-hame-here"/> on articles which rapidly change is when other editors come along, the first citation occasionally gets deleted by an editor unaware of the consequenses of deleting a named-footnote, orphaning all of the subsequent named footnotes. (Discussion here: Talk:Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy#Ref_problem).

Although I haven't given that article a going over for footnotes, on occasion when I have corrected orphan footnotes there in the past, or occasionally simply just improved a footnote, I have made the subsequent named-footnotes full named ones, to eliminate the potential orphan footnote problem--the result being the second named-footnote carries forward and displays its citation information if the first is deleted. This is why I regret to seeing genuinely useful and helpful clean-ups that make potential footnote-orphans more likely.

If you have any better ideas on how to reduce this problem on current events articles, articles subject to rapid changes, the efforts of many editors, or subject to disputes--so that the footnotes can have less degradation, I'd like to hear of thim. I view this as a general policy problem for citations, and I suspect there is no better solution than full-named-citations this, but I admit I have not checked the village pump or other archives for the discussion that in all likelihood has occured on this topic. -- Yellowdesk 16:43, 8 April 2007 (UTC)!

Agreed, it's not a big deal, and these things are quite recoverable. Cheers, -- Yellowdesk 21:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)