User talk:YellowMonkey/Archive89

McCain military/Vietnam FAC up

You previously indicated interest in this (and your comments etc. will be most welcome!): Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Early life and military career of John McCain. Wasted Time R (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Noted. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Multile violations

Hi Blnguyen! Please look at this account(s) and I think this guy must be block forever because:

• Netking China (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) - actions evidently indicate a vandalism only account. Please look at all vandal edits from this user and its Talk Page. This user is a extremely pro-China who is always attacking to Taiwan, Tibet (as parts of China), Dalai Lama, pro-Beijing Olympics torch relay, etc...This user must be block for a long time for his multiple violations:

1. WP:SOCK: Netking cn (blocking 3 days by a Chinese-Singaporean admin [1]), 222.49.254.135 (IP address from Beijing, China) and the newest one Renaissance2008.
2. WP:PNA: Attacked my Talk Page [2] and others [3] (he threatened me and other users must obey all directions of Chinese Communist Party and must be respect the Chinese rules in Tibet, Taiwan and anywhere). Vandalized or deleted his vandal proofs in Talk Pages [4][5].
3. NPOV and 3RR: Please look at all his contributions, as well as my proofs.

This account must be block forever because his multiple violations in a short time. Thank you. Angelo De La Paz (talk) 01:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I've changed it to a month and bloked the others. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

YamVand

Sheesh, you cannot keep that monly from scrawling all over your userpage, can you? :) How are things doing, my friend. Long time no bananas. -- Avi (talk) 03:27, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Attention:

I heard of this band, and i went looking, aND i just want to know why you deleted it.--Greenday21 (talk) 00:54, 26 June 2008 (UTC)Greenday21

Which is the article. I have deleted hundreds of band articles? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:56, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

The band i am speaking of is Attention: —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenday21 (talk • contribs) 14:31, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

P.S I have never seen the Article. I just got into the band and wanted to find some information. I am not bitter about this. Thank you.--Greenday21 (talk) 14:35, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Greenday21

I deleted it under WP:PROD because nobody objected to it being deleted. IT did not go through a formal deletion debate. IF you want I can restore it for you. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:16, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I would like that, thank you.--Greenday21 (talk) 13:39, 1 July 2008 (UTC)Greenday21

I've undeleted. I suspect it might get deleted again though if they haven't become more famous since 2006. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Having trouble with anons... ideas?

There are anons (or one anon, with a changing ip) editing many of the Miss Teen USA year articles (eg Miss Teen USA 1991) and whilst some of the edits are helpful, most are not. Worst problem is, the person doesn't use ANY edit summaries. Its a mess. There's also anon trouble at Miss Universe Special Awards, with a number of anons (think its the same person) adding html center tags into the tables completely unnecessarily, despite requests not to do so. Because the ips keep changing its difficult to warn this person. Any ideas? Its just completely frustrating. Cheers. PageantUpdater talk • contribs 13:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Not any that cuts any corners or makes thing quicker. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Recovery
		The Barnstar of Recovery is hereby awarded to Blnguyen for much appreciated work at Wikipedia:Featured article review. A “save” on a review is always rewarding, and with so few helpers every comment or article edit is an asset. Thank you and keep it up! Marskell (talk) 19:46, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Blanking

Hi, could you check out this edit, and this editor's edits in general? Badagnani (talk) 23:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

It's getting extremely problematic? Could you have a look at [6]? Badagnani (talk) 00:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you; I think the contributions should be looked at as well. Badagnani (talk) 00:49, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

It's a bit impossible for me to block him and then edit against him while he is incapacitated. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:46, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I just asked you to look carefully through the contributions. It was very difficult to deal with this earlier today. Badagnani (talk) 04:50, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Good work

		The Original Barnstar
		I hereby Award Blnguyen for his contributions and help in bringing out the WP:INDIA Newsletter for month of June 2008 -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 09:57, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

The traditional rfa thank you message

		Thank you for the support!
		YellowMonkey, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 (Talk) 03:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Existential blather

So I was on IRC last night ('merica time) and mboverload is back. He's been gone two years, I didn't even realize it.

Following that, it's almost two years an admin be I and a year and a half or so more in the shadowy corners. Got me reflecting...

Thanks for keeping up your work, as an admin, writer, and ArbCom member. Barnstars only say so much, I like to leave a personal note of appreciation of your work. This is an amazing resource and website, and your contributions aid to the common goal. Keegan^talk 06:03, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

re: Auxiliaries ACR

Done. Funnily enough, I was working through the ACRs and almost there when I got your message :) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 09:13, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Rfarb - voting on motions

2 arb-clarifications have been waiting on the discretionary sanctions wording. There are 4ish votes in support of the wording like in the homeopathy case, with 1 in oppose. It's nearly been 2 weeks since it was ready for voting. Can you please vote?

I've also asked a question about voting on motions here. Ncmvocalist (talk) 03:20, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

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DYK delay

Hi, I come to here after seeing Wikipedia:Did you know/Admins. The next DYK update is past 2 hours due time. Can you check this? Thanks.--Caspian blue (talk) 02:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Citadel of Saigon

Excellent! Cam (Chat) 04:11, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Specify level of copyediting

Hi Blnguyen

Could you please specify your level of copyediting for the military history project here.

These are the levels:

1. Copy-edit lite: basic proof-reading, spellchecking, punctuation.
2. English variant conversion: for example, from American English to Commonwealth English, or vice versa.
3. Naturalising: copy-edit for editors whose English is fluent but not perfect.
4. FAC prose copy-edit: flow, structure, elegance.
5. FAC technical copy-edit: MoS-compliance for dashes, hard spaces, numbers, measurement conversion.

Thanks a lot. Wandalstouring (talk) 12:17, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Done, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

saleem altaf

Hi Blnguyen, i wanted to leave you a note about your edits to this article. a couple of days ago, i added some info that i thought was pertinent to the article. you deleted it, claiming it was undue. i disagreed with the basis of your deletion and reinstated my text. however, you seem to have gone ahead and deleted the text again, without addressing my question as to why it was undue. this is the version o f the page before i added my text, and this is what i added to the article, with proper citations. anyone following the recently concluded kitply series in bangladesh will know of the well publicized fallout in the pcb after pakistan's 140-run loss to india. information of this can hardly be called undue.

if this edit, according to you, is wp:undue, then i fear we will have to replace the sachin tendulkar page with nothing more than the text "sachin tendulkar is an indian cricketer who represents india in tests and odis". i don't want to get into an edit war since this is a (seemingly) small issue. i would, however, like you to respond as to why you feel it is undue, if you still so despite my explanation above. you can respond either on your talk site or on the article's talk site. thanks 64.14.248.62 ([[User talk:64.14.248.62|talk]]) 17:27, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

page protection on Vishnuvardhana

Hi Blnguyen -

I'm contacting you since you are the protecting admin on the Vishnuvardhana page. I've been doing some research on long-term page protection policy (in general, not about that page in particular) and noticed that page has been protected since May 1.

It looks like there's been no discussion there since then so I wonder if maybe the protection is no longer needed and you might like to unprotect it.

I am not familiar with what led up to the protection. If you'd rather keep it protected that's fine with me. I don't edit that page, so this is not a personal request, just something that came up related to the research I've been doing.

Thanks and have a good day... --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 03:14, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Howdy!

I came upon your talk page while browsing someone who you banned's talk page. They were advised to approach you on your talk page, as the picture made you seem fairly approachable. I checked it out, and I have to say, that monkey is adorable. Uh, that's all I have to say. JW _|^|_| Talk 21:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou my dear sir. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Blanking

Hi, can you look at [7]? Thanks, Badagnani (talk) 00:31, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, how did you know it was a sock? Badagnani (talk) 00:39, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I have checkuser ability which allows me to get people's IP addresses. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:20, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

RfA thank you

		Thank you!
		YellowMonkey, it is with deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust that I am honored to report that in part to your support, my request for adminship passed (87/14/6). I deeply value the trust you and the Wikipedia community have in me, and I will embark on a new segment of my Wikipedia career by putting my new tools to work to benefit the entire community. My best to you, Happyme22 (talk) 03:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Imran

Has his original talk page been lost somewhere in all the page moves? --Dweller (talk) 13:39, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I've fixed it. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Lebanese Australians Criminals/Rapists

Blnguyen, I noticed that you re-inserted section on rapists in this article without addressing my comments in the discussion. If you really feel strongly about including information on these rapists, I believe you should write a separate article that details the incident, court case and subsequent jail terms handed to the individuals. Their names are hardly relevant to an article about a minority group. Fairdes

Blnguyen, I noticed that you re-inserted section on rapists in this article without addressing my comments in the discussion. If you really feel strongly about including information on these rapists, I believe you should write a separate article that details the incident, court case and subsequent jail terms handed to the individuals. Their names are hardly relevant to an article about a minority group. Fairdes (talk) 10:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC) Fairdes

• Hi - before reinstating the names in the list, please either comment on the talk page or in the discussion I have initiated at WP:AWNB#Fooian Australian criminals - notable Fooian Australians?. I have concerns about their names being listed but I think the concern goes greater - as per WP:ONEEVENT I think there should be an article on the event(s) - ie the legal cases and not concerning the people involved. I believe this matches User:Fairdes concern as well. Once I have allowed discussion to occur my intention would be to merge the articles on the individuals into one that concerns the case(s).--Matilda ^talk 01:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Second thoughts - there is already the article Sydney gang rapes - I propose to prod all these articles with at best leaving redirects to the article on the event.--Matilda ^talk 01:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Noted, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

G'day Bl

First I wanted to thank you for voting to reject the rather hasty 'wheel warring' case currently up for consideration at arbcom - in my view it's a small voice of sanity in a rather noisy wiki world. Secondly, I wanted to ask you to please consider posting some of your responses, or feedback to the current arbcom situation - I don't think it's massively hyperbolic to note that this really is in many ways a Wiki Summer of discontent (well actually winter for us southern hemisphere types...).

I believe it's the right thing for you, and all other committee members, to be doing right now - I don't think the community as a whole are getting the benefits of any private discussions, and I believe they, and the individuals named in the various debacles around the place, deserve much, much better.

I entreat you to consider signing up as available to offer thoughts, or answer some short, focused, questions. I would also ask you to consider contacting the Wikipedia Weekly team, or the 'Not The Wikipedia Weekly' team, if you might be available for a short voice conversation.

It's my view that communication really really matters, and I think there's an urgent need for arb.s to step up.

cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 03:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

The page has had quite a bit of wiki editing over the last couple of days, and I think it could become a very useful part of the RfC process. I'm keen to encourage all arb.s to respond just in a straight forward fashion - I think we need to take the pressure off the weight of the communications, and I think it would be great were you willing to let the community know your thoughts, as an individual, on the various matters raised! cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 01:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Australian cricket team in England in 1948

On 6 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1948 Ashes series, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 14:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I switched it to the correct article. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:46, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Nguyen Trung Truc DYK

On 9 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nguyen Trung Truc, 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.

Congratulations! --PeterSymonds (talk) 11:22, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Poverty in India

Hello,

I added a section in the topic "Poverty in India" that indicates that the Government of India organozation named NCEUS made a wrong computation in calculating poverty from NSSO data. As a result of this mistake, deliberate or otherwise, everyone thinks that 77% of Indians spend less than Rs 20 per day. My computations show that the true figure is 62% which is a whooping 15% less. I emailed the Prime Minister and other misnisters as well and my emails were bounced. This is a terrible lie being perpetrated by media across the world. I provided a link to my computations.

Could you explain to me why you deleted that section? Did you find that NCEUS computations were indeed correct?

Spain001 (talk) 13:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)spain001

You have made your own data analysis and reasoning/modelling, which is not allowed per WP:OR. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:58, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I am wondering why you keep removing my edits.

I would like to understand why you keep removing my edits. Why do you remove a prominent Kaul lady's name from prominent kauls? I believe she deserves a place there. I had given a link for the article. What makes you believe she was not a prominent kaul? You seem to be okay with other names. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.171.193.104 (talk) 02:35, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

It's an obvious business card edit. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Jadeja

I'd like to know why Blnguyen removed my addition on the Ajay Jadeja article. The information I provided was authentic and AFAIK had no prejudice.

Regards, $p1tF1r3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by $p1tF1r3 (talk • contribs) 00:29, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I've corrected myself. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

July 10 DYK

On 10 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Citadel of Saigon, 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.

--Bedford ^Pray 05:11, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Weigh in?

Hi there, would you like to weigh in at Talk:India, Is the article heading for an FAR?. The perennial subject of the India page's length is being discussed yet again. I remember you saying last summer that it wasn't that long. But, maybe, the FAR guidelines have changed. Thanks! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:38, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Featured article statistics. Yeah, there are some that are twice as large. I think the discussion died again after I reverted all teh recentist fluff about the IPL and Sania Mirza and all the F1 business. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 12 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Military career of Keith Miller, 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.

Rudget (logs) 09:49, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

The detail in the elephant

The Geogre/Connolley RFAR was not supposed to be about Giano... and yet Kirill has added as a FoF an extensive collection of Giano quotations, which he describes as "public attacks against fellow editors".[8] Please note that, pushing the case further over towards being about Giano after all, Kirill had previously offered the same context-free collection in the workshop as "The elephant in the room".[9] I beg arbitrators to study the context Carcharoth supplies in "The detail in the elephant"[10] before they vote. It makes the elephant look rather different. Bishonen | talk 08:40, 15 July 2008 (UTC).

Noted, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Early life of Keith Miller

On 14 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Early life of Keith Miller, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 06:04, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Request for Oversight

Hi!How are you? I just wanted to make a request . Would it be possible to remove the edits with the abusive and racist language used by NisarKand's sock [11], [12],[13], [14] and the related discussion on User:EncMstr's talk page [15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21],[22],[23],[24],[25],[26]. The issue, I feel, is very much resolved and User:EncMstr has archived the discussion. So, I feel that there is no reason for these edits to remain. Also, the exchanges I had with EncMstr and NisarKand appear in Google Search results [27]. I never wanted such a thing to happen. I also wish to mention here that NisarKand's activites are prohibited as per IPC and PPC sections 499 and 504.-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 02:37, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't see how they fall under RFO, it's just a person swearing. If you are worried about google can you ask EncMstr if he can blank that part of the archive for you. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:11, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Janet Nguyen

User:JanetNguyen seems to be making a lot of COI edits to the article Janet Nguyen, with some text taken verbatim from the official website. I tried talking to the user but did not get any reply, and she keeps repeating her edits. I notified at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard but after her edits were reverted, she kept coming back. It seems now there's a sockpuppet making edits at that article. DHN (talk) 19:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I've semiprotected the page and blocked her and her socks. I used checkuser of course. Is Van Tran a political enemy because the sock made some BLP-violating edits saying that VT's wife is a crook. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Tran used to support her when she was starting out in politics, but he had supported her opponents in the last 2 elections (she defeated them both despite his backing). Their relationship turned particularly poisonous in the last election, when Tran's people accused her of being...(you guessed it) a communist sympathizer. DHN (talk) 04:30, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Staying out of Viet politics is the way to go...Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Angela Merkel

I see you recently reverted an edit to Angela Merkel, which had moved some information about spouses and children to the "Personal Life" section. Although the edit came from an IP that had received vandalism warnings, the edit looked OK to me, except that it removed the date of the second marriage while apparently attempting to remove duplicated information. Have I missed something, or would it be OK to undo your revert and just add the missing date? --Boson (talk) 06:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah sure, I didn't notice that it was a repeat. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 90 support, 2 oppose, and 0 neutral. All the best, Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk 20:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Keep fighting the good fight

Cheers. an old friend, 00:23, 20 July 2008