User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive94

copyedit request

Hey, Blnguyen, would you happen to have time to do a good copyedit of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division? It's in need of one before I go for ACR this month. I appreciate any assistance. Regards, Cam (Chat) 05:17, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Time permitting, yes. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Cam, why are you wikilinking dates and months like March 3? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

As in the format of the WL, or the fact that they're wikilinked? Cam (Chat) 07:15, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, the fact that they are wikilinked. I thought that the MOS said only to wikilink when full d-m-y is used, but nowadays I believe it is no longer encouraged and Tony1 (talk · contribs) has been encouraging people to not do it anymore because it blues out the more important stuff. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:23, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah. Ok. I'll fix that tomorrow (it's 1:20AM where I am, I'm going to bed). Cam (Chat) 07:24, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Phan Xich Long

Hi Jappalang. Thanks for the very detailed review, which prompted me to add some more background information and precedents. Hopefully it makes the article more engaging. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:20, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Blnguyen. I think you are making the article much better than at the start of the nomination. There are a bit of grammatical mistakes and I tried to correct them. I think another pair of fresh eyes dedicated to copyediting can help improve the article further (even if only slightly) in presentation. You might wish to contact EyeSerene or AnnaFrance, both of whom I had excellent experiences with. I will still be holding off a final judgment, but rest assured that it is favorable at this point. The article seems to be as comprehensive as the current sources allow it to be, but I just wish to be assured that all available resources have been totally exhausted (who knows, a Vietnamese contributor might later bring native scholarly material, with translation, pertaining to the subject). I will conclusively throw in a final call by next Tuesday at the latest if no one brings up reliable sources that show the article is lacking. Jappalang (talk) 05:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh yes, The Last Emperors of Vietnam mentions that eight bombs exploded in the Saigon-Cholon area. However, the article says that none of the bombs exploded. Is this a conflict between sources? Jappalang (talk) 05:52, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm led to believe that Chapuis made a typo; Marr says none exploded, and the Vietnamese paper used on the vi.wiki says that there were eight bombs and none of them exploded. Chapuis has a few other places where the copyeditor forgot to check because it says that Huynh Phu So was born in 1919 (everyone agrees) and then says that he started his movement in 1919 (should be 1939). Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:59, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again for your help and taking the time to draw that map. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Brown

Done. Daniel (talk) 08:21, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Addressed. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:54, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

"State or nationally"

Sorry for being unclear. I meant was he second behind Bradman in the national batting averages (ie compared to all cricketers in Australia that season) or just the batting averages for their State. --Dweller (talk) 09:44, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh I understand. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:54, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Voting on Proposed decision

This (reasonably straight-forward) case has been open for too long, and has had no responses for nearly a week now when all it needs is a couple more votes before it's ready to close. Votes are required from at least one more arbitrator - either yourself, FayssalF, FT2, Matthew Brown (Morven) or Thebainer.

Undoubtedly, your vote will be expected for the omnibus case too. Thanks - Ncmvocalist (talk) 13:32, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

75.3.253.53

Hi, we're having an extremely difficult time with blanking by user 75.3.253.53, who may be a sockpuppet. Can you help? Badagnani (talk) 02:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

This appears to be the same user as 75.8.213.128 and 75.4.3.86. Badagnani (talk) 02:58, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It's getting quite out of control; can you help? Badagnani (talk) 03:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It might be Jacques, but he hasn't used this ISP before, although this is from the Viet area of LA and there could be perhaps 100,000 Viets here [citation needeed]. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:40, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

buddhism help

Hi Blnguyen, I noticed that you have created many articles on Buddhist leaders and I was hoping you had the time to perhaps look at Cyril de Zoysa, an article I created on this defender of the Dhamma.Pectore^talk 18:01, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Is there any speecific problem with this one, or just a general spruce up? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I just need a little help with formatting and copyediting and such. Perhaps if you could find more information on the man that would be much appreciated as well, as it is somewhat sparse on the web.Pectore^talk 19:14, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! How are you doing? I am extremely sorry for not replying. Since, I found no message from you on my talk page I thought that you haven't responded. A few hours, back, however, I visited your talkpage and found your response.

Well, I beg to differ on your opinion. I personally feel that the particular user's obscenities on my talkpage violate the following clause of the Indian Penal Code and Pakistan Penal Code (which, of course, derives most of its clauses, from the Indian Penal Code)

504. Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him to break the public peace, or to commit any other. offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Anyway, I leave the decision up to you. While I feel that the edits of this particular user demand its deletion from edit history , I agree that you have every right to make the decision depending on your own discretion. Anyway, bye.. and take care :-) -Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 02:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I've deleted it. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Nguyen Ba Can

Perhaps you can shed some light on this, because I don't know enough about the subject to clean this up. Over the past few days, on the Nguyen Ba Can article, a user first changed the birth date, then added a whole long schpiel, then changed the birthdate again. After reverting it a third time (the information was completely unsourced and poorly formated to boot), I inserted only that information which could be verified and sourced it. Now, the anon has registered and reinserted all the information; however, this time they have added an additional, offline source. So I want to contact the user to straighten it out, but I'm a bit ignorant on the topic, and I don't want to go in there saying "World Statesmen sez 1913!!!111one" without knowing what I'm talking about (after all, World Statesmen is hardly the epitome of cold, hard fact). I was wondering if you had a minute or two to look it over and seeing if the information more or less checks out, since you have an interest/knowledge base about the topic in general; I can't seem to verify it on the Internet. If it's legit, I'll just clean it up. If it's not, I'll send the user a message and revert.

Sorry if this makes no sense or I'm missing some process step; it's been a long week. Cheers, CP 02:21, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for looking it over! Cheers, CP 03:20, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Double blocking

I wonder how you ended up having to block User:Manoj nav and User:Notashamed. I am just curious as I was involved in editing an article they were editing as well. Docku^Hi 05:42, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Manoj double-debated with an IP address at [[1]] giving the impression that two people disagreed with Fundamental metric tensor. Notashamed used Frompatna to votestack. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:48, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Just for the record, I'd even warned Notashamed/Frompatna here. Sarvagnya 17:09, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I strongly oppose your block as an immature act, without trying to find out the actual truth [2] and giving me a personal warning or atleast a message on my talk page while blocking. In absence of an apology or explanation, I will conclude that it was a biased act by you to lobby against the article- talk page. I am wondering that it took you such a long time to go thorough this, and then block me on that ground almost after a month.

I also feel that Notashamed [3] and Frompatna [4] are editors (using a common LAN IP) who were genuinely trying to contribute for the articles -

• Bihar
• Racism faced by Bihari people in India
• Economy of Bihar

No personal messages or warning has been given by the administrator before blocking them inspite of their steady and genuine contributions. I came to know of their block only at [5].

Keeping in mind the poor decision that you took in mine case, I would request you to kindly look into the case of Notashamed and Frompatna, and try to find out the actual truth instead of justifying that they are same editors because they share a common IP. They seem to be new editors, who are not well aware of the technical aspects of wikipedia and so are not able to put forward any unblock request. Manoj nav (talk) 07:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

licensing of pictures

Out of laziness, I've been licensing my uploads with {{PD-Self}}.
However, I notice you use {{GFDL-self}}. Why? What's the significance of the difference?
Thanks in advance. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
(P.S. Reply here if you prefer - I like seeing both sides in the one place.)

I think you'll find that PD means that it is completely "freeware" and you can do whatever you want with it. From my undertanding with GFDL, you are supposed to accredit later derivative works when you are basing work on other people's stuff. That's why you can't do a cut and paste move - it violated GFDL because the "honor roll" on contributors isn't preserved and the original evoloutionary history is lost. I think you should upload your (free) stuff to commons by the way, so that other wikiprojets can use the image without having to upload a local copy, YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

RFA : Cirt

Was strike out closed properly ? -- Tinu Cherian - 07:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeh, an error. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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re: VNQDD

That'll be a wet trout moment. I didn't notice it was on the front page. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 14:53, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

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Hello

Been to long since I paid my respects to its most royal Yellow Monkeyness . How are you doing? -- Avi (talk) 16:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, still sleeping....no not really, I can't see why people are making such a fuss....Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:58, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

old GAN

Hey, you left a GAN review 9 months ago at talk:Romania/GA2. The page Romania is again a GAN and I believe it does not have anymore any of the original problems. If you have some time, could you take a look please at the GAN? Thanks, Nergaal (talk) 22:46, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I am a bit busy and tend to try and avoid reviewing the same thing twice so that there is a bit more variety in the review. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! How are you? The stuff has been removed. And well, it might not be appear in Google search. But then, when someone performs a Google Search then my userpage would be on top, and the edit would appear in the edit history. What if someone examines them?

Anyway, I observe that you've been working with a lot of cricket-related FAs. You are really doing a fine job with them. :-) Well, I've working with an article for quite sometime. And I've nominated the article for a peer-review. Do drop by when you're free and give your comments - Wikipedia:Peer review/Iyer/archive1 . Thanks :-) -Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 06:03, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok, yes I've removed those using a normal deletion. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much :-) By the way, do have at the article and give your suggestions when you get time :-). I've just applied for a copy-edit-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 16:15, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Russian Ground Forces

Hi YellowMonkey, notice that you said you'd had wide experience of the 'backend' of the FA process. Maybe you'd like to comment on the above FAR/FARC, and maybe also give me some suggestions for its improvement? Kind regards Buckshot06(prof) 18:00, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I think some of the sections need referencing, among other things. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 07:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Sock farms

Could you add your findings to Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Eastbayway#Landmark Education Group of Sock or Meat_Puppets? Thanks. Jehochman ^Talk 12:55, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for dealing with this during my RfA. Cirt (talk) 03:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome and well done. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 04:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Harry Murray

Thank you so very much for your contributions and support towards helping to promote the article Harry Murray to Featured Article status, YellowMonkey! Sincerely thanking you, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 04:29, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Surprise block

Hi, I was surprised you blocked User:Seminoletree. I thought he was one of the good guys, trying to bring an even-handed approach to the Shia/Sunni wars over Pakistan articles on Wikipedia:
12:08, 16 September 2008 YellowMonkey (Talk | contribs) blocked "Seminoletree (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite ‎ (Nisar Kand)
Regards, WWGB (talk) 06:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, this fellow who is in Pakistan likes to tell us he is in Kandahar waiting to kill incoming infidels. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Triplejumper

The user was blocked by you as sockpuppet of User:Gilbertine goldmark and has now asked for an unblock at User talk:Triplejumper. But there are no block notices nor is it clear to me if there is a sockpuppet case, an ANI thread or whatever. Maybe a block of a user of a year and a half deserves somewhat more documentation even if it is correct. --Tikiwont (talk) 15:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Okay I didn't know that you are a check user and have meanwhile found the CC thread and will drop a note there. A block notice helps other users to understand, though.--Tikiwont (talk) 15:33, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Edits

Hi, I saw your reversions of Seminoletree's edits to Benazir Bhutto and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. I hope you can revert his similar edits to Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Nusrat Bhutto where he removed the many highly reliable references calling them "biased, controversial and unreliable." I think that User:WWGB, who follows a similar disruptive editing pattern, is the same user. I don't edit often, so I really hope you could look into that. Regards, 77.42.190.237 (talk) 18:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I think you should start an account and edit. No WWGB, is not where NisarKand is (Pakistan) - NK however claims to be in Kandahar with the Taliban waiting to kill US soldiers and the like - just another armchair muscleman. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

sheesh

When did you change your name? I saw you vote on an Arb case I'm watching, and I thought there was a noob or a troll loose. Turns out it was you. The things I miss when I look away from this place for a minute! KillerChihuahua^?!? 19:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

About two weeks ago. Too many people have trouble spelling my name so it seems, even the FAC regulars! YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ian O'Brien

Hello, I've left comments on the above FAC. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Noted and addressed. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed decision - C68-FM-SV

We're nearing the end of this case. If you can vote on proposed remedy 6, then I think we'll be done. Cheers - Ncmvocalist (talk) 07:25, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Noted. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Pak Passion

PakPassion wiki: Why was this deleted,? I wanted to make sure I reported only factual statements. Which statements fell foul of this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansakhad (talk • contribs)

It does not meet WP:N by a long shot and is spam. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Elections

Did you mean to vote for yourself :)) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 09:03, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

No, of course not. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:36, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Ian O'Brien

Sure, I'll be right there. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 12:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Edit Warring

As previously warned you have been reported for violation of the 3RR. Cripipper (talk) 09:51, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

What a gentlemanly and balanced report you gave. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I've declined the report as frivolous/vexatious. Stifle (talk) 09:59, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I present this barnstar to you for working to successfully close Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV. NE2 06:41, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Echo NE2. Thank you guys for your efforts. Everyme 15:16, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Another one

Re this, another one to check: NYC43 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

That's him. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again. All the best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:02, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a count of (154/3/2). I appreciate the community's trust in me, and I will do my best to be sure it won't regret handing me the mop. I am honored by your trust and your support. Again, thank you. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 19:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Banana time

Andy Warhol was here.

YellowMonkey indeed. So, maybe you're not Lou Reed but a YellowMonkey needs a yellow banana, and it cannot be just any old banana off any old bunch. It has to be this one. --IvoShandor (talk) 07:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou indeed. Good to see you back again. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Olympic parade

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I don't work in town, and the travel time required to "pop into town" puts a large hole in the working day. Sorry. Good luck! Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for Pakpassion

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Pakpassion. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Suntag ☼ 17:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Noted, YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:36, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Photos

Great work finding the photos. The ones of Herb and the Big Ship in particular are great! -- Mattinbgn\^talk 08:29, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

They weren't that difficult to find. You'll note that a camera is much more accessible than I scanner so I took photos of the book which makes the geometry a bit warped. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Laurie Nash photo

Hmm, according to the photo you added, Nash appears to have a very odd bowling action. --Roisterer (talk) 12:22, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I uploaded at commons on the same name and commons takes precedence. So I had to resnap it. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Great photo of Nash. It is a long term strategy to build Nash up to FA/GA status so I was wondering where to grab another picture or two of him. There is a biography of Nash that I am trying to track down which may contain other treasures. --Roisterer (talk) 01:17, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Miller

Great to have a pic of him bowling. But the text says he missed the Second Test? --Dweller (talk) 13:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

3rd. Fixed. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Email

You have one more. Caulde 15:39, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I've prepared it for you on pieces of paper and will email the photos to you. Hopefully my writing is readable. Outline from 938 AD until now. My USB has fallen off my cord and hopefully my USB is at home and not on this morning's bus. But the originals are still in the camera, although some stuff on my USB is not on my home hard drive. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, we're in luck, the USB fell off the cord when I pulled the cord out of my bag. I just stood up to phone home to see if it was there and the USB fell at my feet. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 02:07, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's great! Fantastic actually. That must have taken a very long time, especially all those notes. I really appreciate it. We just did Battle of Dien Bien Phu actually and we're focusing around that aspect mainly (for the whole course); the US involvement, the French pullout, the Communist interests. No doubt though, those other comments you made will allow me to write at least something about Vietnam's and its chequered history. Thank you again. Caulde 16:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually only a couple of hours. Just waiting for you to write lots of FAs then....YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 06:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey yourself

Thanks. I am not doing a whole lot around here, but I am about. --IvoShandor (talk) 07:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

And I see you got my banana. :-)--IvoShandor (talk) 07:20, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Benson

Thanks for the note - I'll keep an eye on it. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Yup. I recently cleaned out my watchlist - that's been re-added. Guess I should do Brett Lee and, especially, Stuart Clark too. --Dweller (talk) 09:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

re: MH-A-class

Yes, I have. Supports like these worry me, especially when they're from editors with plenty of FAC experience. This article is nowhere near A-Class (no context, the cites need looking at very carefully then formatting). I was going to wait until the next coordinator term starts before trying to tackle it. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 07:50, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

thank you

		Milhist Coordinator elections
		Thank you very much for your much appreciated support in the recently concluded September 2008 Military History Wikiproject Coordinator Elections. I was thoroughly surprised to walk away with a position of Coordinator. Thank-you for your support, and I assure you that I will do my best to serve this spectacular project well. Esteemed Regards, Cam (Chat) 01:04, 1 October 2008 (UTC) Notre Dame de Lorrette Cemetary - Arras, France

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Ah all the best. I've decided to step aside. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 08:54, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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