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thanks

my first ever Barnstar! Michellecrisp (talk) 01:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

...and thanks for the Bristol Rovers user box too! Good work. — Gasheadsteve 12:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

And good evening to you!

I didn't know you were on Misplaced Pages. How did you find me - my edit to Cardiff, or my joining Misplaced Pages groups on Facebook? ;) Anyway, to make this comment Misplaced Pages-relevant: If there are any articles in English that you'd like to see included on the French Misplaced Pages, let me know and I can perhaps write a French stub at least. Aridd (talk) 21:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:RFR

Hiya, I'm just trying to get a sligh thandle before pressing the button here. Are you now intending to work at recent Change patrol for vandal fighting? What other instances would you use roll back for? Sincere apologies if this looks like an inquisition. Pedro :  Chat  15:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I've granted rights - please use the tool cautiously and only for vandalism. Ta! Pedro :  Chat  16:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Inappropriate use of rollback

You used rollback here for an edit that does not appear to be vandalism. Please remember that rollback is generally only for vandalism. --- RockMFR 16:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

66.233.116.107

Wonder what they had against Argentina? ;) BananaFiend (talk) 17:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Cardiff

Bettia,

Good work on Cardiff, but just a small point Cardiff also has a hill to the east, see Rumney, Cardiff...Anyone who can be bothered to making daily edits to Cardiff deserves a Barnstar...Personally I have better things to do. Seth Whales (talk) 18:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		For tirelessly making minor edits that are essential in improving Cardiff. Seth Whales (talk) 18:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review

Ah well, it's the furthest City have been in years and I'm proud they got that far and didn't lose by too much! Anyway I've made a couple of comments on the peer review and will try to add more soon Welshleprechaun (talk) 11:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Cardiff post peer review

Hi Bettia, I see you deleted the links to the List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population and the List of conurbations in the United Kingdom from the Cardiff intro. I'm happy to demote these links from the intro, but I do feel that they should remain in the article, partly to offset those perrenial POV arguments about the relative size of the city, e.g. here and here (remember those debates!) Although the census dates quickly, this kind of data on the population of cities and urban areas (as distinct from the population of the Local Authority districts that they are contained within) is only published following the census, so it will probably be some time after 2011 before we have the next set of similar data.Pondle (talk) 20:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Recent minor edits

First congratulations on having the patience to help out Cardiff123098 on his return from a temporary ban. Secondly - any particular reason for removing the New Delhi reference? --Snowded (talk) 10:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

My childhood memories of spending too much time between the Museum and the Sasparella shop say that it was modelled on new Delhi, but I am not sure of the reference. Will have a look see --Snowded (talk) 12:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

6/1 DYK

On 1 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Colchester Gladiators (American football), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Cardiff music scene

I have to disagree with you on this. The Cardiff music scene, as with music scenes of other major cities, includes acts from the surrouding area, not just the city itself. Examples include Sting and Bryan Ferry to Newcastle upon Tyne; The Coral to Liverpool and Jamelia to Birmingham. Welshleprechaun (talk) 11:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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• Sorted (blimey, these bots don't waste any time, do they?) :) Bettia 08:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

The Stig

Calm down! I was reverting the same vandalism you reverted. Look at the times in the article history () - you must have reverted the vandalism about three seconds before I tried to. Neıl 龱 14:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Winchester Castle

Hi Bettia. Regarding Winchester Castle, do you know when the Division One of the Hampshire League became the Premier Division? I'm just thinking that if WC played in Div 1 after the Premier was introduced, they did only play at the equivalent of Step 7 (as we have to move everything down a step prior to the introduction of the Conference North/South). Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 57 08:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, that's fair enough. As I've been discovering at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Overton United F.C., the Wessex/Hampshire situation seems to be quite confusing! I've asked User:Richard Rundle (creator of the FCHD) for input to try and clear things up. пﮟოьεԻ 57 09:16, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

The equivalent of Wessex 1 is high enough for me - I'll leave the article alone! And yes, they really do need to sort out the situation - I thought they had agreed to a merger already... пﮟოьεԻ 57 09:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Robbie Lawton

"fails WP:FOOTYN easily too"

But does it? According to WP:FOOTYN one is notable if one has " played for a fully professional club at a national level of the league structure ". Lawton plays for Altrincham F.C. in Conference National. Conference National is at the national level of the league structure (unlike Conference North and Conference South. Some teams in Conference National are full-time professional - but is Altrincham F.C. (I have my doubts given their normal position at the bottom of the league). It may fail WP:FOOTYN but it certainly isn't an easy fail. Though issue is moot as WP:FOOTYN isn't accepted by community-at-large. Nfitz (talk) 18:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Thanks

Thanks mate for reverting vandalism on my userpage. I wonder why would anyone do it to me when I'm rarely here! Anyway with this I reward you with this barnstar:

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for the fix on my userpage.. From FleXiJane (T) 15:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Take care. FleXiJane (T) 15:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hello Bettia,
I noticed that you revert a lot of vandalism. Thank you for helping keep Misplaced Pages the best encyclopedia in the world!
However, I also noticed that you revert manually (using undo, save page), and also leave warnings manually. To make it easier, try Twinkle. It's a really cool tool that helps you fight vandalism more efficiently. It also makes it much easier to leave warnings to vandals. I believe it will be of great use to you.
Thanks and have a nice day.  S3000  ☎ 17:14, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, currently Twinkle doesn't work with IE. It's ok, the most important thing is countering (reverting) vandalism. Warnings come later. It's good to hear that you're able to counter vandalism effectively -using Vandal Guard. Keep up your good work and have a nice day.  S3000  ☎ 14:05, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Hi Bettia,

I have noticed on your userboxes that you would like to be an Administrator one day. I feel your contribution to Misplaced Pages is as good as anyone, so I would therefore like to propose you for a RfA. Let me know if this is okay on my Talk page, or if you feel you want more time to think about it etc.

P.S. I like your Userboxes (political and all). Seth Whales (talk) 15:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Apart from support for Barack Obama, see his political positions which states "During his 2004 Senate campaign, Obama stated that he had not ruled out military action against Iran"...this is not good...Seth Whales (talk) 16:00, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I will nominate you in the next few days then. Best of luck, I will see how you get on. Seth Whales (talk) 10:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for those kind words Bettia,

Well firstly and most importantly, I have no inclination to ever become an Administrator at all (see my Userboxes and secondly the edit war that I have recently been involved in would not have helped my cause for many years to come. Thanks again for considering me though.

From the comments so far regarding the RfA, (7/4/1), maybe if we wait a few months and then try again. Nothing has been lost at all...best of luck anyway. Seth Whales (talk) 12:53, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Good luck. I suspect that your edit count and lack of C:CSD work may cause this RFA to fall under WP:NOTNOW. I maybe wrong! Either way I'm happy to support you and best wishes. Pedro :  Chat  10:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Also, remember that it's not wrong to look at the relevant policy pages when answering any other questions people give you and don't respond to opposes unless you feel that there is a serious misconception, as people get annoyed with it for some reason. I hope it goes OK, I think you're a good user who would be a good admin, despite the lowish edit count, and if it fails, it's not a big deal :) Tombomp (talk/contribs) 10:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Bettia - if this request doesn't succeed, don't take it personally please - you're a bright editor and good Wikipedian, but the edit count issue is going to be the main obstacle. That just means... hang around awhile, and try again! Avruch 16:10, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Your RFA

Best wishes for your RFA . Have a gr8 day -- Tinu Cherian - 17:39, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Your RfA was unsuccessful

I am sorry to inform you that I have closed your RfA as unsuccessful. I hope you are not too disheartened and will take on board the comments made by those opposing and will consider running again in the future when you feel you have addressed them. WJBscribe (talk) 10:18, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Not a suprise, but as noted above don't take it to heart. Give it three months an some solid contributions. You had a lot of regretfull opposes and no issues were raised except for demonstratable experience - which you can easily get. Good luck and hit me up if you need any help. Pedro :  Chat  11:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Let me add to the list; it's a shame that glancing through all those opposes, I don't see a single one that listed something you did that was oppose-worthy; simply some magical things you didn't do. I hope you'll stick around and keep doing what you're doing; you may choose to look at some other admin areas if you wish to become an administrator but don't make that your primary focus. Thanks for your contributions to the project! Please contact me if I can be of any assistance.  Frank  |  talk  13:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I hope you have not taken the outcome of your RFA too seriously. Please dont be disheartened and do keep up the good work you have been doing. People are a bit intolerant when they see 'less experienced' ( this is a relative term) in RFA. Please do come back after 3-4 months, with lots of WP experience, I will also happy to support you.I hope the below smile will make the day better for you ..

-- Tinu Cherian - 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. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-- Tinu Cherian - 14:31, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Cambridgeshire Cats DYK

On 21 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cambridgeshire Cats, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 23:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Gary Muir

Just noticed that you have flagged this article (Gary Muir)for deletion, and just thought I would message you about it as a editor of the article. I am happy to see it go as I don't see him ever returning to football. If he does it can be redone then. Gorillamusic (talk) 21:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Newport County Borough AfD

Hi there

You might want to amend your rationale to refer to "level" 13 rather than Step, as that is the correct terminology when referring to the oevrall pyramid including the pro levels and avoids confusion (the FA-defined "Steps" only start with the Conference National).

Cheers -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:18, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

• OK, done :) Bettia (rawr CRUSH!) 11:25, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Hughes

Hmmm, I was in two minds about prodding it - I couldn't tell whether apperances on the programmes referred to clips of him, or whether he's used as a pundit (on Sgorio). If it's just brief apperances (like the gunging incidents), then I'm not sure this marks him out as different to any other member of the public. If he is a Sgorio pundit, then I'm happy for it to be deprodded. пﮟოьεԻ 57 10:35, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Anglerfish

I don't believe this is what you intended, but your comment on your restoration of this article made it seem as though I was the vandal. I assure you I was not! Kostaki mou (talk) 22:18, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

• Actually, the edit summary states the two edits AFTER yours were vandalism, and I was reverting the article back to your version. Bettia (rawr!) 09:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

WABCO

As an editor who has been involved in the recent controversy on the WABCO page, please refer to (and join in) the discussion on the WABCO discussion page. WikiDan61_ReadMe!! 15:59, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

• (replied on Talk:WABCO) Bettia (rawr!) 16:44, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

N. K. Naik

Google scholar has high ratings (citations) for his book and the two publications cited here in the article. Not just this, also he has several publications with high rating from Google scholar.

On the top of all, I. I. T is a top-notch school in Asia. It is one of the highly reputed engineering schools in the world. I suggest you do some research before you decide to delete it. This is an Indian stub.

JRN08 (talk) 02:43, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

• Fair enough, I've removed the PROD purely on the evidence of his work being cited by others. Bettia (rawr!) 10:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Fran Moore

I would like to thank you for your pedantic removal of Fran Moore. Despite a link proving he played in the UEFA Cup for us and the work involved you just couldnt help yourself. Leave the Rovers players to Rovers fans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rovers Forever (talk • contribs) 15:26, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you for your concern. Firstly, nobody owns the articles on Misplaced Pages - everybody has the right to edit them (or propose that they be deleted) provided that all the right guidelines are followed. Secondly, the link provided on the article (the only source available on this subject) didn't prove anything as you had to pay a ten Euro fee to view it - this coupled with a lack of other sources on this player meant that none of the facts could be verified. Thirdly, the article in question was deleted following a discussion in which all the article's merits were considered - the consensus was that this player is not notable enough for a Misplaced Pages article. Only then was the article deleted. Bettia (rawr!) 15:56, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Still pedantic. A lot of work is being needlessly deleted.

Secondly why would anyone create an article if it was not true? Thirdly are you going to set up a forum to delete all League of Ireland players? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.198.140.206 (talk) 17:01, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Revisit

Regarding this short thread, do you have any interest in me working on this page some time soon? I would not say I got resounding support, but I do think there's more support based on the few responses I got.  Frank  |  talk  22:23, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

(replied on Frank's talk page) Bettia (rawr!) 12:38, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of File:Spartans logo.gif

A tag has been placed on File:Spartans logo.gif requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section I1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Misplaced Pages (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on ] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. Bettia (rawr!) 11:20, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Andover F.C. GA

Just wanted to say congratulations on getting the article to GA status -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:43, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks mate! Bettia (rawr!) 09:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for fixing the vandalism on the Shimer College article.

Unfortunately, you can no longer go to the article by typing "Shimer" on the Misplaced Pages search box. You have to enter "Shimer College." If you have any idea how this might be corrected, I'd appreciate your letting me know. (I'm a new wikipedia editor.)

Thanks again,

abf31

Abf31 (talk) 09:28, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

• As far as I can tell, there are three articles containing the word Shimer on its own: Shimer College, Brian Shimer and Robert Shimer, as well as Armin Shimerman, Shimeron and Shimerville, Pennsylvania. Seeing as none of these appear to be more notable than the others, perhaps the best step would be to create a page called Shimer (disambiguation) containing a list of links to these. Bettia (rawr!) 09:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Third opinion

Whoops. Sorry about that. I didn't notice you'd offered to provide a 3O on the aspartame quote. Apologies. (You should consider removing the entry from WP:3O before you offer to give a 3O - my fault for not noticing though!) --Regent's Park (Boating Lake) 23:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

• Heh. I'll remember to do that next time :) Bettia (rawr!) 09:10, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Third opinion on State Defense Forces

Thanks for your thoughts. Would you mind continuing to weigh-in on the talk page? I think that in spite of some of us trying to build consenus, we still have a bit of personal opinion and synthesis going on. Newguy34 (talk) 04:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for the trust you placed in me by supporting my RfA (which passed and, apparently, I am now an admin!). I will do my best to continue to act in a way that is consistent with the policies of wikipedia as well with our common desire to build and perfect this repository of human knowledge; and can only hope that you never feel that your trust was misplaced. Thanks again! --Regent's Park (Rose Garden) 23:10, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Penthouse Paupers now referenced and linked

Hi B,

Please check the site and remove the warning. Any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,

M —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manoovers (talk • contribs) 10:54, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

• Hi, and thanks for your message. While you included one external reference, there were still no citations. I've added one to start you off, but the article would need more of these before it could be counted as properly referenced. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 11:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Cardiff

Thanks for your message. Whether you are aware or not, as of 02 March the airport changed its name which can be found on its new website www.tbicardiffairport.com - I have therefore reverted the link back and Misplaced Pages are currently in the process of changing the name of the page and all assocaited links to the new name. PP —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fanrailuk (talk • contribs) 12:30, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, so it is. Fair enough, let's get renaming then! Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 12:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Ah, hang on a minute... the airport may have changed name, but what about the railway station? As far as I can tell, the old name is still in place. I think we should hold fire before updating those links, just for the time being. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 12:43, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Cardiff

Yes, it seems as though the train station will continue to use its original name for the time being. Fanrailuk (talk) 12:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Wales

Hi, I noticed you interest in getting Cardiff to FAC. May I recommend you join Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Wales. Maybe this will help along the way. Agathoclea (talk) 10:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I can't believe I hadn't signed up already! Thanks for the nudge Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 10:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:RfA

Oh really? Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. Yes please merge.--₮RUCӨ 21:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

An early congratulations for tomorrow. :-) -- Mentifisto 01:19, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Your RfA: Successful

A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Misplaced Pages:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle (talk) 13:30, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Bring on the mop! Well done :) --GedUK  13:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations! --RegentsPark (Maida Hill Tunnel) 13:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, welcome to the club. I know you'll be a great asset. Here's your shirt!  Frank  |  talk  02:14, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Many Congratulations! : )  Badgernet  ₪  14:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Well done, use the tools well. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Mosquito

I guess it's on your watchlist, but this is just to let you know that the discussion has reached a deadlock summarised as "WP:EL allows a link to the official website of a product, even if that website is commercial, misleading or provides no unique information" versus "all Misplaced Pages policies should be applied with common sense, and it is common sense not to link to this website which is commercial, misleading and provides no unique information". Thanks for your time. --McGeddon (talk) 21:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Bettia, thank you for your help in resolving the Mosquito dispute. All the best, --Purpleblue1 (talk) 02:14, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Account request

I've noted your account request for an alternative account. Just in case it wasn't you who made the request, I've cancelled it. This is because you can create the account for yourself anyway — just go to Special:UserLogin/signup and fill in the details, making sure to tick the "Ignore spoofing checks" option, which is available to sysops.

Congratulations btw :) Stifle (talk) 16:19, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help. It was indeed me who requested the alternative account, but I decided to use the formal account request feature just to be on the safe side. I've gone ahead and used the 'old fashioned' method. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 16:23, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Grats

Just congratulating you on your recent promotion. I can see you've been hard at work on speedy deletions already and appreciate your contributions. :-) Dcoetzee 06:36, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cardiff

Good afternoon Bettia. You might be interested in joining Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cardiff that I have just created. Its main aim to improve Cardiff-related articles, but you can see its other goals on the project's homepage. If you are interested in joining, please add your name to the project page and {{User Cardiff project}} to your user page. There are already requested tasks to be done but also feel free to add your own to-do points to it. I look forward to working with you. Many thanks Welshleprechaun (talk) 15:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, I've just noticed you've been made admin. Congratulations! Going by your Cardiff edits alone, it's well deserved. Welshleprechaun (talk) 15:36, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for joining. I'd like you to be a co-ordinator on the project. See the project page for details on what this entails. As there are no other members yet, you'd be appointed without consensus. Welshleprechaun (talk) 21:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Well a lot of other major cities in the UK have a WP and I wondered why Cardiff was missing so I hope to improve Cardiff pages a lot with the project and am glad to have you on board. The Radyr thing may have been me, I can't remember to be honest, but if it hasn't been nominated etc. then would you mind changing it back? At the moment on WP:Cardiff, I'm adding {{WikiProject Cardiff}} with their assessment to all pages under Category:Cardiff. All pages in the sub-categories such as Category:History of Cardiff etc. that you'll see on the project page have been done. This is probably the top priority at the moment for the project. Welshleprechaun (talk) 17:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

my user page deletions!

Thanks. --Docku: What's up? 16:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Radyr

Hi Bettia, I see that you have been really busy the last couple of days on Radyr and that you appear (I have not checked the article itself, only the GA1 page) to have cleared all the outstanding actions.

I have failed the article at WP:GAN and I can't unfail it and restart the review. There are now two ways forward down the GAN route, the first and best way would be to resubmit it at WP:GAN, and ideally another reviewer would review it (leading to a GA2 page and a decision). In theory, I could carry out a personal reassessment (also leading to a GA2 page and a decision), but I have carried out some edits on the article and if they are regarded as significant that would bar me from assessing it; and any decision I came to could be open to challenge. Either way, the article will need to be reassessed from the start against the GA criteria; not against the actions raised at the last review.Pyrotec (talk) 19:33, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi. There's still a few bits to do, mostly about the village's history after WWII. I'll just work through your comments, see if there's anything I can add to the article myself then resubmit it when I get the chance (and hopefully there'll be a quicker response next time!). Cheers. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 08:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Great, I will have a look as well; so I probably won't being doing the review next time round. I hope it goes well.Pyrotec (talk) 16:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Fihrist / Fehrest

Well, I asked for a third opinion, so I suppose I'd better stick with it.

For the record, I think you're wrong. Al-Nadim was writing in Arabic for an Arabic audience, and they would have pronounced the title Fihrist, even if it was a Persian loan-word. (FWIW, I think the Henning comment is an inference about Al-Nadim's origins rather than anything else).

The Iranica aticle is littered with Persianisms ("Ebn Al Nadim"? "Ketab"?), which aren't followed by any of the rest of English-speaking scholarship, and nor by us. So why make an exception for the name of the book?

Finally, the rule right across WP is that if there is a standard anglicization, we use it. That way we minimise the mismatch for our readers. That applies not just to names of articles, but is spelt out by the various language styleguides too - notably including WP:MOSAR, and this was an Arabic book.

The original earliest version of the article used Fihrist too , and so it stayed for four years until one user changed it. .

So I think it's completely wrong-headed to follow one rogue article, against all the rest of English-language scholarship, and all our style guides. Jheald (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Dabomb87 (talk) 19:10, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

List of American football teams in the United Kingdom

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. The thing about britball (source) is that we don't about its reputation for fact checking. I usually look for these things when determining if a site is reliable:

• Method(s) of fact-checking
• Cited by any (multiple, if possible) reputable organizations, newspapers, magazines, agencies etc.
• The site is owned or controlled by reputable third-party organization.
• If the site is sketchy but the article is written by one person, does the source meet WP:SPS?

Hope that helps. If you have any questions, please ask, and I promise I won't take so long to answer.

Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:37, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Cardiff

Hiya Bettia, I've had another think about the Cardiff article. It's really long already, and adding infromation and the sort of references we need is going to make it massive. I've looked at some city/country FAs and they seem to be between about 115,000 - 130,000 bytes (Peru is only 50,000 bytes). Cardiff is at 138,944 bytes, which probably makes it too big already. I was thinking of moving the Sports section over to the Sport in Cardiff article (which could use some help) and paring it down to two (hopefully) paragraphs, as part of the Culture section, which also needs to be cut. What do you think? Don't worry, I'm not asking you to do it, just looking for your advice. Cheers, Daicaregos (talk) 14:14, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Afternoon mate. I think you're right, Sports and Culture could do with trimming down. A lot of the info in the Culture section is also on the sub-article, so there's plenty of scope there in particular. Perhaps Economy too - I did trim this section a while ago when I created the sub-article, but it still looks a bit bloated. I think after those are done, as well as blitzing the Cityscape section we discussed a while ago, that may just about do it. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 15:18, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice. Sounds like a fair amount of work, but on the upside we may end up with a few decent articles. Not sure what you mean about the Cityscape section (probably before my time). I did take a look at it a few weeks ago to see if I could find any references (for things like Inner Cardiff etc) but I really struggled. It may need a complete rewrite (sigh). Cheers, Daicaregos (talk) 15:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi

So abandoned reason and logic and joined Islam? --Street Scholar (talk) 20:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Deleted content

Hi I was wondering what the content of the BrainZ in JarZ page was as I never saw it. The reason put was that it had no significance or some thing like that. Im interested because Im half of BrainZ in JarZ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.236.96.197 (talk) 19:42, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Brainz in jarz was deleted because it did not show (or even assert) notability of the band. WP:MUSIC and your first article would be helpful reads as well.  Frank  |  talk  19:50, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool... not that I like it but if I understand correctly it means because we havent produced anything that can be officialy documented, i.e. on TV or in magazines or some kind of official public forum, then we cannot be recorded in an encyclopidia. Anything self made, i.e. myspace, is not an official source as it is a biography which is best kept to, well, biographical forums and sites etc. Ah well... just woulda been nice to see us on WIKI... ha ha. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.236.96.197 (talk) 22:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Deleted Page

I am relatively new editing and creating on Misplaced Pages, but the last time I checked, company profiles were found all over Misplaced Pages. I recently created a page for a website I found to be extremely interesting and helps people fulfill a religious obligation to the highest standards. You deleted this page and I would like to know what I did wrong.

I do not know exactly how messages work on Misplaced Pages but please contact me regarding this issue.

Thank you Dspang —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dspang (talk • contribs) 03:44, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Mikvah Calendar was deleted because it was little more than an advertisement for a commercial product. Please read WP:CORP and WP:NOTABILITY for more information. It's certainly true that any number of commercial products and companies are profiled in Misplaced Pages, but they have been determined to be notable. If you can show notability, determined by multiple citations in reliable sources, please feel free to do so and recreate the article.  Frank  |  talk  03:50, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

I can provide a dozen links to news coverage, reviews, and other Misplaced Pages articles. The site covered in this Misplaced Pages article is a free service designed to help uphold religious laws to the highest standards. I think this is more than appropriate. How can I make this more notable then? Dspang

If we can find enough sources, then this article could be a goer - the Ynet and Arutz stories are a good start but I think we'd need more, especially for such a relatively new website. For the time being, I've moved this to my sandbox and made a few changes, mainly using those two stories as inline citations. Feel free to expand on this as my sandbox is open to all(!) - once we get enough sources, we'll be able to re-publish this. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 09:12, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:ATHLETE, now with added WP:FOOTYN?

Yes, I'd go along with that, and I'd imagine the best place to start a discussion would be WT:BIO, I don't know why that route wasn't tried before..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Scott Doe

You are not neutral is this issue and should not have closed it. Please re opened immediately and address the issues raised.--Vintagekits (talk) 13:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Address the issue and stop edit warring.--Vintagekits (talk) 13:35, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

There is no issue with that article. As it has recently passed it's good article nomination, that AfD was applicable for a Speedy Keep close under clause 2.1 ("obviously frivolous or vexatious nominations (such as recently featured articles)"). Please do not re-open it again. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 13:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Did you read the GAreview? it did not address the notability. "frivolous or vexatious nominations" - please explain - my nomination was policy based.--Vintagekits (talk) 13:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Read the Good Article criteria. The article was reviewed by a neutral party and the sources provided in that article were deemed sufficient to pass. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 13:40, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Did you read the fucking review. This is a fucking piss take. You are bang out of order!--Vintagekits (talk) 13:41, 30 July 2009 (UTC)