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  • Hi, you copied this one from no.wiki - it's been deleted there, but as I don't read Norwegian, I've no idea why. You might want to update your summary.  Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
  • I have added information to the file. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:32, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Can you pls undelete Category:Internet in Cyprus

Manchester wikimeets

  • Hi Anthony. I've set up a standing page for the Manchester wikimeets at meta:Meetup/Manchester - next one will be on 17 September if you're interested in coming (please sign up!). I'm also setting up a list of people that want to receive notices about the meets, which might also be of interest. How did the photos from last month's meet come out? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:21, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Images added: see Wikipedia:Meetup/Manchester 8. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:31, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Completely new abortion proposal and mediation

In light of the seemingly endless disputes over their respective titles, a neutral mediator has crafted a proposal to rename the two major abortion articles (pro-life/anti-abortion movement, and pro-choice/abortion rights movement) to completely new names. The idea, which is located here, is currently open for opinions. As you have been a contributor in the past to at least one of the articles, your thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.

The hope is that, if a consensus can be reached on the article titles, the energy that has been spent debating the titles of the articles here and here can be better spent giving both articles some much needed improvement to their content. Please take some time to read the proposal and weigh in on the matter. Even if your opinion is simple indifference, that opinion would be valuable to have posted.

To avoid accusations that this posting violates WP:CANVASS, this posting is being made to every non-anon editor who has edited either page since 1 July 2010, irrespective of possible previous participation at the mediation page. HuskyHuskie (talk) 19:46, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Page move

Hmm

Might be policy to move to an article's talk page, but since the article (Dream With Me) has extremely little in terms of editorship, I'm not sure if it'll get much - if any - discussion except maybe one or two people. CycloneGU (talk) 06:36, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Ketogenic diet

Anthony,

Please stop adding a section on the Inuit diet to the ketogenic diet article. This article is about a medical nutrition therapy, not about low carb, high protein diets that are ketogenic. See low-carbohydrate diet. I'd expect an administrator to know better than adding unsourced sections to an FA. Note also that WP:WEIGHT requires us to show that reliable sources discuss the Inuit diet when they are discussing this medical therapy in detail. They don't. Colin°Talk 13:13, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Freddy

Boom Boom

  • I request a history undeletion of Boom Boom. SNS (talk) 00:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
  • The deleted edits of Boom Boom are not part of the history of the present Boom Boom disambig page but an old page deleted at 19:53, 4 April 2005 by AfD Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Boom Boom: "Boom Boom is a koopa-like monster from Super Mario Bros. 3. This monster was found in every fortress of every world. And a few levels besides fortresses contained them too; but they were in World 8. Mario must step on Boom Boom 3 times to win the fortress, the first of which is worth 1000 points, the second 2000, and the third 4000. In worlds 3 and later, he can fly between the first and second steps. Boom Boom's were supposed to be part of Bowser's army. Boom Boom also guarded the navy, air force and tank squad from World 8. [[Category:Mario characters]]". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:15, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Hyper engine

  • I have edited out many, if not all, of the material commented upon on the article's talk page. It would now be quite easy to transfer the remaining sections into the existing Hyper engine article. I was quite concerned about the major rework necessary to revise the existing article with what material I thought was needed to revive it, but I am now confident, with the consensus of all concerned, that I can manage that task. Would you please, when you find a moment, take a look at my edits and leave your comments? Regards, Buster40004 Talk 16:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Hyper engine; User:Buster40004/Sandbox/Projects/Hiper engine/Hyper engine. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Black-headed Gull

Hi, Anthony. Unfortunately the move is not uncontroversial. The bird project fully capitalises all bird species, and this is accepted as an exception to the usual lc convention, including at WP:FAC. I've therefore moved the article back and undone the last editor's good faith changes. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:57, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Some more history undeletion requests

  • I request history undeletions of Prey 2, Sonic Free Riders, & Pikmin 3 (& the talk page for the last one). SNS (talk) 05:34, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Prey 2:  Not done, as its only 2 deleted edits are a stub "The announced game sequel to prey. Please add more to this article." and the same plus a speedy-delete tag.

Get 'Em Girls

  • Hi, shouldn't Get 'Em Girls be moved back to Get 'em Girls because according to WP:CAPS, four letters or less should be in lower case. Ozurbanmusic (talk) 22:21, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
  •  Not done. Here, "'Em" is not a conjunction or a preposition or "to". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Error on a disambiguation page

  • Hi Anthony, I hope you can help me. I've noticed that the disambiguation page for Peace Oil contains incorrect information. I'd amend it myself, but as I work for the charity that runs Peace Oil (UK), I thought I'd better check first. The page currently states that Peace Oil (UK) is marketed 'with the support of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain'. This is not true; we receive no such report. Perhaps the page could be amended to say something like 'Peace Oil (UK), a brand of olive oil marketed in the UK through the Charities Advisory Trust'. CAT2011 (talk) 10:51, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done; should "no such report" be "no such support"? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:59, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Query

Problematic histmerge

  • Hi Anthony, as you may (or may not) know, Lying down game was recently listed at WP:RM and after a week of discussion SilkTork closed the RM and moved the article to Planking (fad). Planking (fad) already had a history and had been text-merged into the Lying down game article on 31 May 2011. Instead of moving the original history of Planking (fad) to, say, Planking (fad)/version 2, SilkTork moved Lying down game over the Planking (fad) article and then undeleted the original history of Planking (fad), basically performing a histmerge on two articles that had parallel histories and should never have been histmerged. The history of the article from prior to 31 May is now an absolute mess, jumping between two different articles. Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves#How to undo a history merge says that it is possible, just incredibly tedious, to undo a histmerge and, as I'm not an admin, I was wondering if you could please undo this histmerge or point me to another admin who would be able to? Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 17:05, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
  • I can do it tomorrow. Here in England it is 11.33 pm and I need to go to bed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:33, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
    • Thanks very much. I appreciate it. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 07:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done, I think. The extracted edits are in Planking (fad)/version 2. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:53, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Mario Super Sluggers

Populated places in India

As agreed on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (India) the dab ", India" is phased out for individual articles. I moved all that I could, these need help:

There may be the need to create XXX/version 2 in some cases. FYI ", India" is currently only intended to be used for WP:SIA pages in Category:Set indices on populated places in India Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 03:10, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Ox Tales for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ox Tales is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ox Tales until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 04:05, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Xe/Blackwater

First, to address a little history, intra-editorially: You may have made my day with this: "Some sort of page is needed here", courtesy you, April 2011, Security Industry Association article created. I don't know if you remember my involvement in this re: "Security" v "Securities" industry associations tangle. I don't even remember a lot of it. But, for my part, before I found the new Security IA article in the process of writing this note tonight, my heart had sunk when I found that SIA was why your name sounded familiar. I'd come upon your name in this much bigger naming wrangle over at Xe/Blackwater.

Well, I did weigh in on Xe/Blackwater naming, here; then decided to write you. (It may not even be my first time on Xe. I've definitely been in that neighborhood in the past. That's why I went back there today, with the "move to DC" article.) To you:

In case blissfully somehow maybe you hadn't known that the Xe problem was never resolved (as I think it should be resolved), and even with the SIA in our past:
Maybe you'd like to take another look at Xe/Blackwater.

I didn't try to figure out what you'd gone through or where you stood back in '09 on Xe. I felt you were trying to move toward Xe.

Meanwhile, back to SIA. Yeh, your April creation is (still) just a stub. It had actually had little interest to me, as such (I had come at it from the Securities IA side (which had been misnamed Security IA, as I recall it)) and I was so frazzled after the go-rounds that I never figured out how to, or never tried to, do what you did in April. Maybe now I'll go back, build up the stub some just for old times' sake. Least I can do, right? But for now, Thank you! How could you possibly follow-up so nicely six months later? I have to wonder. It makes my head spin, given the obvious scale of your overall Wiki endeavor.

Aargh. ... Now I'm confused again, with this, April 2011, Securities Industry Association article ALSO then created by you? Wasn't there one with older roots? Wow. You had to do the SIA disambig., too, in April, from scratch re: these two, I guess. Well, frazzled I was. "Scorched earth" has now come to mind (with specific memories still blessedly minimal; does this mean there was no article by either name from Oct. to April? sort of looks that way; if you're interested, I think there was some more history on Securities Industry Association, under the Security IA name, if you wanted to & could dig it up). Well, ...

... anyway. Heartened at your willingness nay inclination (nay eagerness?) to wade back in to old tangles, I (sorry, sort of frazzled again,) hereby post this (as, hopefully, something better than nothing).

Cheers. Swliv (talk) 02:44, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

  • Page Securities Industry Association has a deleted history of 8 edits.
  • Thanks. I can't say which article ended up with which content, but I expect most of both applies to the merged/defunct organization called the Securities Industry Association. My recollection is that there was little ever done about the actual Security Industry Association, though I may be wrong.
    If you can and would give me access to those two deleted articles I would sift through them and propose, or edit in, what seems still useful. As I said yesterday, on the new Security Industry Association article, I have a bit of a feeling for it now and may try to build it from available outside, new material.
    For what it's worth, I did collect a couple of endorsements to my Xe comment at the Blackwater talk page.
    Thanks again. Swliv (talk) 20:10, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
  • In User talk:Swliv. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
  • One more spin-off of this initiative (and thank you much for helping with Xe):
    Talk:International Peace Operations Association#Name change, updates outlines the need for another name change. As I say there, I've done a major and hopefully adequate update of the article in preparation for the change.
    If there's a way to pursue this type of request other than one-to-one, you can let me know. Maybe I could work it out from the Xe process. But if you're willing to take this one on, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again. Swliv (talk) 04:51, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Best put in an ordinary discussed-type page move request to move International Peace Operations Association to International Stability Operations Association. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
  • I managed to do it, it seems cleanly. Any comments welcome. More comments or no, thanks for your help. Swliv (talk) 19:08, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

History Undeletion Requests

Circumcision controversy in early Christianity

Please revert an undiscussed move on what is a pretty tightly focused article here:

. . Ewawer (talk | contribs) moved Circumcision controversy in early Christianity to Circumcision in Christianity (To open the article to a more general discussion of circumcision in Christianity)

Religious_circumcision#In_Christianity has a good deal on the wider topic, & is where the wider title should redirect, or what a new article should be based on.

Thanks, Johnbod (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks! Johnbod (talk) 16:28, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Another incorrect histmerge

Thanks for the page move

Hi Anthony - thanks for fixing Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia... (the darn word has too many t's for my liking! and typing skills ---Shirt58 (talk) 08:55, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Moorland Closed (HM Prison) requested move

  • Hello Anthony. This move discussion is a 1:1 tie between you and User:Bleaney so I was thinking of closing it as No Consensus to move. But instead, I'll try to persuade you that the move is a good idea :-). If you go into justice.gov.uk and you find this page, which contains no reference to 'Moorland Closed.' It's just plain old Moorland Prison. So in our terminology, Moorland (HM Prison) is the natural name for the article. Now we could still keep the present DAB page, Moorland Prison, but the two entries would send the reader to the new names of the two prisons. What do you think? EdJohnston (talk) 02:55, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:15, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Chuggington

I've reverted your strange reversion - explanation on the talk page. a_man_alone (talk) 07:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi

  • Could you merge my sandbox of Rihanna's California King Bed into the actual article here please? As well as the history of my sandbox so that the actual article has a record of the edits i have done. Thanks :) Calvin • 999 14:10, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Regrettably, pages User:Calvin999/Sandbox6 and California King Bed have WP:Parallel histories, and thus a full history-merge cannot be done. User:Calvin999/Sandbox6 runs from 17:59, 23 July 2011 to 14:02, 30 July 2011; California King Bed runs from April 2011 or earlier to 23:04, 29 July 2011. While you were editing User:Calvin999/Sandbox6, people were still editing California King Bed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:46, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • What's the solution then? Calvin • 999 15:44, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Make a note in Talk:California King Bed to say what happened. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:52, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • So you're suggesting I copy and paste my sandbox into the article then? Calvin • 999 15:56, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Did your sandbox start as a copy of California King Bed? Your sandbox's first edit at 17:59, 23 July 2011 has 27,892 bytes, but the last previous edits of California King Bed at 17:55, 23 July 2011 has 28,106 bytes. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:02, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Yeah I copied and pasted the current article into my sandbox, then made edits to the sandbox version. I haven't made an improvements or constructive edits to the actual article, only to my sandbox. Calvin • 999 16:05, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Your sandbox seems to have started as a copy of California King Bed at 17:55, 23 July 2011. I could history-split California King Bed and move its edits after that time to another name, and then move your sandbox's edit history in instead. But it would have been better for you to have edited page California King Bed directly instead. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Do whatever you can do so my sandbox version and it's history can be put into the actual article, just so that I am credited with those edits as I plan on proceeding with GAN. I know it's easier to directly edit the article, but it's harder when you try to make edits which are likely to get changed by someone else. Calvin • 999 16:13, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
    It's fine now, don't worry. Calvin • 999 17:59, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Lost - against consensus?

  • Hi
    I just wondered if this page move was against consensus, as per the discussion here. I have no vested interest, rather was looking at someone's contribs and noticed it. Chaosdruid (talk) 18:56, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
  • As it says, there was no concensus to move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:00, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for that, though I was hoping for an opinion on the move :¬) I have relisted it anyway. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:19, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Forts, rivers and lakes in India

More common than "X fort" is "X Fort": http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?depth=3&categories=Forts+in+India&sortby=title

I moved ca. 10, but the following 7 I could not, because there was a target page, maybe you can help.

Same goes for rivers [3] and lakes [4]

Bogdan Nagachop (talk) 10:38, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Wrong term Karşılama

How much more discuss, about a wrong term (Karşılama)? It should have been turned in English. Consensus is admissible... -Karbont (talk) 10:34, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Merging external sites into Wiki articles

Do yo know how to merge CC text from external websites into Wiki articles? Can you contribute anything on the topic at Wikipedia_talk:GLAM/ARKive#Edit_summaries? or any of the other discussions about merging CC text from the ARKive website, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL. Snowman (talk) 12:57, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Video games developed in Japan mediation follow up

Anthony- I followed up on the implementation of changes to {{Nihongo}} as a result of Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Video games developed in Japan. I posted at Template talk:Nihongo#A suggested change to template Nihongo, but seem to have met with initial resistance. Given the touchy nature of what this is attached to, I was hoping you could help out in any way you can. Thanks for your time. (Guyinblack25 talk 18:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC))

Formal mediation has been requested

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Before It Explodes/version 2

  • I cannot figure out your reasons for this move. I hope I wasn't the cause by taking care off the move but forgetting to remove it from current requests, but can you explain why we would have a "version 2" of any page? Thanks.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
  • If I had left those edits as deleted edits sitting under page Before It Explodes, it would have been liable to accidents if page Before It Explodes later had to be temporarily deleted: see WP:Parallel versions. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:41, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Assassin's Creed quick clarification

Some Requests

Move "Windows Phone 7" to "Windows Phone"

are you still trolling?

Further corrections relating to Peace Oil (UK)

Hi Anthony, thank you for removing the false information in my request of 20th July, headed 'Error on a disambiguation page'. Yes, "no such report" should have been "no such support"; apologies for the typo. I have a further request: on the actual Peace Oil (UK) page, it states that "the oil was launched at an Israel Expo Day organised by the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland". Dame Hilary Blume, the director of the Charities Advisory Trust, has told me that this is also untrue. There is no connection between Peace Oil (UK) and the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. Peace Oil was sold at a stall at the Israel Expo Day, just as it is sold through many other outlets, such as churches, synagogues and shops. However, the idea was launched at a reception at the House of Commons on 5th November 2001. The first batch went on sale in 2006. CAT2011 (talk) 15:31, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Boston English

  • Tried to move Boston accent to Boston English. It failed because there is now a (rather useless) dab page. Can't quite figure out how to do away with the dab page. Of course, it will get reverted. I'll be the third to have tried it! Maybe after 50 attempts, they'll allow it!  :) Student7 (talk) 22:39, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
  • See discussion at Talk:Boston accent#Requested move. I put in a hatlink about the school. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:00, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Request for mediation rejected

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SCBA

  • Hi. I'm uncertain as to why you undid my grammar correction on the SCBA page. Could you comment? Thanks --Badger151 (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
  • OK, OK, I have re-reverted it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

History Merge Requests

Majority move for a page

  • Really... there is a "majority to move, not just a "consensus to move" or "better arguments to move." I have lost move requests in the past with 65% of the votes saying to move... and now a two vote majority happens and you move the page? There's always something new surprising me at wikipedia. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:19, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
  • It was in the backlog and so needed sorting out. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:09, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
    Backlog? Wasn't it up for only a week? Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:19, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

La Spirotechnique

  • Hello, you old British diver. I completed and brought the proper official name at an article that you created. Please, could you bring any needed correction to Aqua Lung/La Spirotechnique? You did it for former contributions of mine... so I thought you could do it again... Just tell me, please, if there's any problem I'll ask somebody else. Best regards, from a diver to another. Kintaro (talk) 18:02, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:08, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! :) Kintaro (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Sophie Lefevre - what the heck?

  • You moved a page where the talking consensus just a week ago was to keep at Sophie Lefevre. Instead you moved it as "uncontroversial." Please move it back because an error was made here. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:17, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
  • As I researched it I see the request was for an "uncontroversial" move by Mayumashu. You were obviously just doing your job and I would guess that would be to assume the editor was asking for the move in good faith. That turns out not to be the case and he should be told as such after the page is moved back. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:30, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:51, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Uncharted

Uncharted started as a cut & paste of Uncharted (series) [5] [6]. SNS (talk) 02:43, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello Anthony Appleyard! I hope you accept this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 05:58, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Sydney New Year's Eve

Hey Anthony. Ages ago you changed the Sydney New Year's Eve article to "Sydney New Year's Eve Fireworks" for me but now I believe this is wrong and should be reverted back. The event currently features: Pre-Show Entertainment, Indigenous Smoking Ceremony, 9pm Family Fireworks, Harbour of Light Parade, Midnight Fireworks and more. AnimatedZebra (talk) 07:02, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Harmonielehre move

  • Hello. I see you've made the move of Harmonielehre (John Adams) to Harmonielehre requested by User:Svick. I'm terribly sorry, but I was in the middle of trying to figure out how to contest this move (my first attempt at this, and the process isn't documented very clearly). The reason for doubting it is that Harmonielehre is also the title of a historically significany book by Arnold Schoenberg (the first listed at Arnold Schoenberg#Writings). Is there anything that can be done now? I would be willing to create the desired disambiguation page. --Stfg (talk) 14:07, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
  • I have put a hatlink in page Harmonielehre. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Thank you. That's perfect. --Stfg (talk) 16:14, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Otis Redding histmerge

  • Hi Anthony. Looking at the current situation it appear to me that the original Otis Redding article was moved to Otis Redding/version 1 and that contains all the history up to 18 August 2011. Some form of sandbox version (found it - User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Sandbox18) was then moved to Otis Redding, and this only contains the history of the sandbox, plus the history since the move. My suggestion is that Otis Redding is moved to User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Sandbox18, and Otis Redding/version 1 is moved to Otis Redding, and then the history of User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Sandbox18 from 18 August 2011 to the present is merged into Otis Redding along with the contents, and a merge note is put on the talkpage of Otis Redding linking to User:GreatOrangePumpkin/Sandbox18 in order to pick up the parallel history from 10 April 2011 to 18 August 2011. Does that make sense? Currently people are going to be confused that an article which has existed on Wikipedia since at least November 2002, appears to have been created in April of this year. SilkTork ✔Tea time 15:31, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
  • But, Otis Redding/version 1 in its last few edits including 16:28, 18 August 2011‎ runs steadily at about 25800 bytes, but Otis Redding runs through 18 August 2011 at about 39000 bytes. It seems that there was an old established page about the singer Otis Redding, and years later someone started a new sandbox page about Otis Redding, incorporating parts of the old Otis Redding page and new self-written matter, and developed it while people were also editing the old Otis Redding page, and he moved that sandbox page (by the proper means, or by cut-and-paste which has now been mended) to the name Otis Redding: if so, then the new Otis Redding page is more continuous with the sandbox replacement than with the old Otis Redding page, and this is history and what happened and cannot be helped. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your response. Unfortunately I am unable to follow your explanation. My understanding is that the history of a page shows who contributed what and when, and holds previous versions of a page which can be accessed and copied or edited. The history of the current Otis Redding only shows a fraction of that information. Your explanation of "runs steadily at about 25800 bytes" makes no sense to me. What does that mean? What I can see is that nobody can access the older history, and if the current version (after the sandbox merge) is seen to be nonsense or a copyvio, then an editor would have difficultly finding and accessing a previous version to be restored. Would you mind if I had a go at restoring the history? SilkTork ✔Tea time 16:25, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • "Page X runs at about n bytes" means that around the time in question the page's size varies somewhat but is always near n bytes. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:34, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • How about moving Otis Redding to Sandbox 18 and Otis Redding/version 1 to Otis Redding, like explained above, but just c&p the current version back to Otis Redding. Is that possible?--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫Heyit's me 16:41, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • I think we are looking at this from different perspectives. You appear to be looking in terms of size. That seems to me, as regards the contribution and content history, to be irrelevant. Content can be added and removed at any time. Such content may alter the size (or amount of bytes), but such information is of little consequence as the content may be copyvio, may be garbage, may be vandalism, may be a mistake. What matters here is the contribution history, and the ability to verify content, and to restore earlier versions. I am aware that you have experience and skill in history merges, so I would prefer to defer to you, but I am puzzled by your answers, and remain concerned by the condition of Otis Redding/version 1 and Otis Redding. I believe you are indicating that you don't wish to do any more work on this matter, which is fine. I will do the history merge. SilkTork ✔Tea time 19:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • I will have to look at this in the morning. It is 11.20 pm here in England. Those 2 pages were being edited in parallel for a long time, and likely in that time there were several partial copy-and-pastes between them. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • The bulk of the parallel editing was sandbox editing. GreatOrangePumpkin may be able to provide some info on that. Normally with sandbox editing it is usually just one editor, and the same editor is the one who then merges the material into the mainspace article, so that single edit acts as attribution and history. There appears to be a slight period of cross editing, which if I was to sort out the overall history, I wouldn't attempt to individually history merge, but I would provide a link to the sub-article on the talkpage of the main article. The aim would be to have the previous history up the the merge, the recent history, and sandwiched in between, one version of the short parallel history, with a link to the sub-article for the other half of the parallel history. Does that make sense to you? SilkTork ✔Tea time 00:26, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
  • The edit being mostly discussed here, to the former sandbox page (now at Otis Redding) (matter moved in from (what is now) Otis Redding/version 1), seems to be this diff (15:45, 18 August 2011‎ by GreatOrangePumpkin (38,288 bytes) (pasted from main)); it is a fairly minor change to one paragraph.
    • The former sandbox page (now at Otis Redding) starts with 4 stub edits (merely a list of when the musician played), followed by 19:01, 1 August 2011‎ GreatOrangePumpkin (26,843 bytes), which may have been a copy-and-paste of an edit (15:08, 1 August 2011‎ Stagehand (24,844 bytes) (Memorial Plaque)) of Otis Redding/version 1: see this diff.
    • But around 18 August 2011‎ the text differences between Otis Redding and Otis Redding/version 1 are much greater, as seen by the difference of page length (38,288 versus 25,778 bytes). (I earlier history-transferred between these 2 pages, as was requested, but a bit later I doubted the rightness of this and reversed the history-transfer.)
    • I have put an edit history note in Talk:Otis Redding; that note links to Otis Redding/version 1.
    • The bulk of the parallel editing was sandbox editing: But if meanwhile the non-sandbox page has major edits, there are thereby WP:Parallel histories, and after that, when the editor replaces the text of the non-sandbox page by the text of the sandbox page, that is merely another discontinuity-causing cut-and-paste move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

WP:RM

You removed my request without it being done. I am still seeking for Noitamina to be moved back to NoitaminA.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 23:28, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

MOS:TM says, "Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization rules, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official""—it should probably stay at Noitamina and be written as "Noitamina" in the text. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 23:44, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Well, nevermind that. Anthony moved the discussion here: Talk:Noitamina#Move.3F. Please follow that discussion if you are interested in moving this article. Thanks, ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 23:47, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

"Harry Potter and the ..."

  • Hello. You reverted my edit on the Lord Voldemort page some time ago and explained that we should "use full names, for correct information". I want to tell you why I disagree with the revert. :)
    The writing in that paragraph is extremely tiresome, so much so that when I first saw it I just skipped to the end of it. Technically, the shortened titles are not the 'correct' ones, but prose is very important as well. I think that if we use "Harry Potter and the" only in the first entry in the list, and in all subsequent entries we use only the 'subtitle' everything should be perfectly clear (especially since the films have been mentioned before in the article).
    Also, we — when reading and writing that article — are under the "Harry Potter" context. We can take advantage of that and avoid necessary verbosity, whihc will make the article easier to read. -- Diego_pmc Talk 10:04, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
  • As this is the first time that each of the films is mentioned in this article, the full names should be given. Elegant variation can be confusing and is to be avoided. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:20, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

2011 England riots

Hello Anthony. There has been a history of edit warring over the infobox location details in 2011 England riots. To try to stabilise this, and raise another closely related issue, I've started a discussion topic here: Talk:2011 England riots#Location details, widespread pattern of arrests. Since you've made many contributions to the article, I'd be grateful if you would come and comment. Thanks. Rubywine . talk 01:27, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)

  • Just to let you know, I've reverted this page move, as I disagree that it's uncontroversial and have explained why on the articles talk page. The editor who proposed the move didn't post any notification of it on the article's talk page so I missed the request on the page move requests. Valenciano (talk) 07:36, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:15, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom Case: Abortion

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histmerge

What is better: placing the histmerge template or adding the request to "talkpage"? (thanks for doing such jobs) mabdul 22:42, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Jetpack (disambiguation)

  • Can you explain your reversion of my change (I quoted a wp guideline in my edit summary) ? Explaining reversions is a big help for those of us still learning how to contribute. DexDor (talk) 08:35, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
  • The deleted entries looked relevant to me. OK, I have re-reverted it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:40, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
For your dedication in history merges over several years that have kept our histories usable for browsing. The Evil IP address (talk) 17:29, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Propose restore Heave offering to English

Hi Anthony, I'm proposing to restore this recent move back to English per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English). I do realise that a lot of extra material related to later rabbinical interpretation of this concept was added, but nevertheless even the WP:RS dealing with the rabbinical applications use English not terumah in the body of English text. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:21, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Wet (Snoop Dogg song)

Thanks! Best, --Discographer (talk) 18:56, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

User:Amyabaker/Noddle

Hi Anthony. Would you unprotect User:Amyabaker/Noddle for me so I can update the draft with my changes? See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 September 3#User:Amyabaker/Noddle for background about the speedy deletion. Thank you, Cunard (talk) 08:49, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

I have replied at User talk:Ron Ritzman#User:Amyabaker/Noddle. Cunard (talk) 09:10, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for settling Big Show and Kane for me :) Starship.paint (talk) 10:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

SCOOP

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Johannes von Ronge, etc.

Thanks for sorting out those three pages as best you could. It was a manic set of reversion last night. I've done some fairly simple cut and paste repairs, but this one took the biscuit. I've re-protected those two redirects you left - there are some editors out there with very strong views on the name. This way they will have to contribute to the move request you started.  Ronhjones  (Talk) 18:46, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Question

  • Could I ask you question. It's obvious that I totally messed up. If you type in KPSL-FM in the search box, that's the article for the KPSL-FM that was deleted. That probably needs to be moved into the deleted article. Hopefully, I put the right box, so you guys know to move that over there. Don't know how, but just wanted to give you a heads up. The question I wanted to ask is, when making moves like that, you move the article it self, not start a whole new article. That's what I did wrong. Needed to move the whole article itself. Sorry about all the work, but wanted to let you know about the KPSL-FM that was deleted, and the KPSL-FM, if you type that in the search box, you'll see that article on there. Just when you get the chance, I'll let you work on getting that on that page. Thanks a whole lot. I'm not moving anything on that page. Don't want to mess it up, if you understand. Thanks. (JoeCool950 (talk) 06:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC))
  • No histmerge done: nothing to histmerge: KPSL (FM)'s history is 2 redirects & a blanking; KPSL-FM's deleted history is 2 redirects. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:23, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

An accident

  • Hello Anthony Appleyard, I am very sorry, but I made an formal error: I have moved the article "Siphon (mollusc)" and AFTER then I have realized, that it was formally "against" the previous "move request", where there were only two opinions (each of them contradicting each other). I would like to assure you, that I made this my mistake unintentionally and I wanted to personally inform you about it. I would like to also tell you, that I really appreciate your opinion. Solving this will probably require more opinions from more wikipedians. Thank you for your understanding. Have a nice day. --Snek01 (talk) 15:18, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
  • I have moved it back to Siphon (mollusc anatomy). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:46, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Sirtos

  • Hello my friend, I demand an immediate change of article syrtos, cause its obvious that throughout the article and other sections referred to, as SIRTOS (nowhere as: syrtos) something that you may didn't noticed, so I removed the section you added in talk page as unnecessary. in any case, thank you! --Ecogmtehs (talk) 17:48, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
  • I have restored the move discussion section. Please let discussion proceed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:14, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the Snagit move ;) --danhash (talk) 18:12, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Johannes von Ronge

Vegaswikian closed, and then at my request, reopened discussion of what title the Johannes von Ronge/Johannes von Rönge/Johannes Ronge article should have. Since I think the way we've been describing what we as individual editors see as the appropriate title, I am asking prior participants to !vote explicitly on each of the three options at Talk:Johannes von Ronge, hence this notice. The article has also been listed at WP:RM. Thank you for your participation, --Nuujinn (talk) 19:25, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Quick reminder of Saturday's wikimeet

Hi Anthony, this is just a quick reminder about the Manchester wikimeet this Saturday (17th September). Hope you can still make it. Mike Peel (talk) 22:58, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Capitalization of common names of animal species

Hello. Just letting you know that I've posted the following at a number of project talk pages:

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:44, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

RSCS

  • I believe you are holding my post on RSCS for review because I am new here. I just wanted to add that I have figured out how to use references properly and have corrected them in my latest draft. George.McQuilken (talk) 12:17, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
  • I can find nothing about RSCS in this talk page or in its last 2 archives. Page RSCS was about "Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem" and on 7 January 2008 was tagged as "possible copyvio of http://www.vm.ibm.com/related/rscs", and on 9 January 2008 was deleted (not by me) as copyvio, and in August 2011 was re-created as merely "RSCS: Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem" and deleted (not by me) as "Article has no meaningful, substantive content)". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:25, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Paraveterinary workers

Bigfin reef squid

Thank you very much. :) -- Obsidi♠n Soul 08:27, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Histmerge query

  • Hi Anthony, I see that you're familiar with Histmerges. I have a question for you about this. I took an article, "One Tree Hill", and expanded it at User:Melicans/One Tree Hill. I've finished my expansion but am unsure how to go about this next. I want to move the content back, but with the history accompanying it. Do I copy-and-paste the text back into the original article and then request a histmerge (I attempted this a few days ago with Exit (song), which was declined for reasons I don't fully understand). Do I do a physical move and somehow get a histmerge from that? I'm not quite sure how to go about this. Melicans (talk, contributions) 00:10, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Histmerge  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:30, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Thank you. I hate to be a bother but I did the same thing with Exit (song) a few days, which I developed at User:Melicans/Exit. When I put a histmerge request there it was denied. I was wondering what the difference between them is and why it was denied for that article? Melicans (talk, contributions) 15:00, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:55, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Oh, thank you. I'm curious; do you know why it was denied the first time? Melicans (talk, contributions) 16:00, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Sorry, I don't know. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:02, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Article Move

Arab Slave Trade

  • Hi If you have moved it per the request why is it still saying Islamic Slave trade while the file is saying Arab slave trade? The point of the move was to restore it before the vandal changed it.[10]--Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ (talk) 16:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
  • God only knows. Some sort of system hang-up? It seems to be right now. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:23, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry Islamic slave trade should point to Islamic views on slavery not back to Arab. Thanks--Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ (talk) 16:29, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Geographic information retrieval

Anthony, thanks for moving that uncontroversial one. There are an awful lot of poorly formatted article names, sadly. Tony (talk) 09:00, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Merging the history of a sub-page in user space into a pre-existing article

You were recently mentioned in passing in a now closed ANI ("Merging the history of a sub-page in user space into a pre-existing article") Do you merge user space histories into existing articles? As I do not watch your talk page please make any reply on mine. -- PBS (talk) 04:07, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. It seems to me that we need a guideline in this area, so I'll probably bring it up at village pump. If I do so I'll inform you. -- PBS (talk) 09:44, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

WNWC

I don't routinely monitor the requested moves page so I was caught unaware when this so-called uncontroversial request was made. I've moved WNWC (AM) back to its proper name as there are no FCC-licensed radio stations in the United States with a legal -AM suffix to their call signs. Per Wikipedia and WP:WPRS naming conventions, when a two or more stations share a base call sign, the article is disambiguated with the type of broadcasting (usually AM for AM/FM combos, sometimes FM for FM/TV combos) and a disambiguation page is created at the base call sign. There are countless examples of this for radio station articles from coast to coast. - Dravecky (talk) 05:59, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Yurukikos ?

Wamba/version 2

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Proposed deletion of AirCare (medevac system)

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Nomination of AirCare (medevac system) for deletion

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Why did you revert the edit to heavy equipment

?? Granite07 (talk) 00:12, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Histmerge request

  • Hi Anthony. I just stumbled upon a set of articles with interesting histories. The relevant articles are Agony (comics), Leslie Gesneria (comics), Leslie Gesneria and Leslie (comics). From what I can tell, I think only one histmerge will be needed/possible. Anyway, here's how I see it:
    1. Article originally created at Agony (comics) and the majority of the history is there.
    2. On 15 April 2007‎ Agony (comics) was cut-and-paste moved to Leslie (comics) and then later that day was again cut-and-paste moved to Leslie Gesneria (comics). This was reverted on 18 April 2007 and the article was again at Agony (comics) – I don't think a histmerge is desired here because the cut-and-paste move was simply reverted, not cut-and-paste moved back, so no new content was added.
    3. On 1 September 2007 Agony (comics) was cut-and-paste moved to Leslie Gesneria. The article was very slightly expanded before an IP tried to cut-and-paste move back to Agony (comics) on 8 September 2007. The IP was reverted on both articles by a bot. On 16 September 2007 a different IP successfully cut-and-paste moved back to Agony (comics) – I'm not sure if it would useful to histmerge some edits to Leslie Gesneria (ranging from the first edit to the edits by 67.141.242.250; the edits from Phgao would not be of any value) into the Agony (comics). You would get a few junk redirect edits, but the article was slightly expanded (including two sources being added).
    4. On 17 November 2007 Agony (comics) was again cut-and-paste moved, this time to Leslie Gesneria (comics). The article stayed at that title until 19 June 2008 when it was cut-and-paste moved back to Agony (comics) – I think a histmerge is required here. There are no overlapping edits and the article significantly changed in the months it was at Leslie Gesneria (comics).
So I'm hoping that made sense and you'll be able to try and sort this out when you have some spare time. All the best, Jenks24 (talk) 13:37, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Kingsoft

  • Why this revert? The exact same link is already in the external links section, and the article has no references. 2.26.128.165 (talk) 22:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
  • OK, I have re-reverted my revert. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:28, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. 2.26.128.165 (talk) 22:30, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Question (2)

  • Hello !
    I noticed you respond to merging requests and I have a question as I am not certain which noticeboard should I use for my request. A page was moved under a different name without any discussion and, under its new name, it does not correspond to the naming convention of the article series. I am talking about People's Republic of Bulgaria, which was renamed to History of Bulgaria during communism. Under its new name it does not correspond accordingly to the other Eastern Bloc country articles (Socialist Republic of Romania, East Germany etc.) but I am not aware how to move it back to its original title. I would appreciate your help. Best, - ☣Tourbillon A ? 14:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:08, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Cranes

Thanks for this reversion [11] I fully support it. Rvancopp's additions have been useful and measured: there might be a shared interest here, but I see no conflict. Nor do I feel particularly happy when an account makes no other edits than to scream loudly about someone else's "unfair" editing.

Thanks for reverting this, you beat me to it (a busy week, no time for editing anything). Andy Dingley (talk) 22:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Lesley Gesneria

  • Why did you move this page back to being listed as Agony, a fan fiction name that has never appeared in any comic or Marvel publication? 31.53.35.201 (talk) 16:51, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
  • This was the result of a history-merge. I have now moved it back. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:11, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Hi. I'm wondering if you can move this entry again. Another editor, ignoring the discussion on the talk page and going from what he admitted was vague belief they'd been given official codenames, rather than having checked the facts, moved it back to the unofficial fan name. He similarly reverted the other moved symbiote page to Phage, another unofficial fan name. 90.219.225.168 (talk) 14:50, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done I have moved Agony (comics) to Leslie Gesneria (comics). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
  • Thanks. Can you do the same to Phage (comics), move it to Carl Mach (comics), for the same reason? DeadpoolRP (talk) 04:10, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:54, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

histmerge request (Brett Sutton)

  • Would it be possible for you to merger the history at User:NSH001/sandbox into Brett Sutton? There is a handful of overlapping edits, but I'm hoping these won't create too big a problem. Since most of the effort behind the current article is in the sandbox version, it seems appropriate that they should appear in the main article history. Many thanks, NSH001 (talk) 17:08, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
  • You are already attributed in the article history when you rewrote the article in this diff. What purpose would it serve to put the sandbox test edits in the article history? Hekerui (talk) 20:29, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Sorry: I can find no mention of my name in the edit histories of Brett Sutton or User:NSH001/sandbox, and their deletion/etc logs are empty. The diff that you linked to, is for an edit by User:NSH001, who seems to have copied much text in there: but where from? and was it a cut-and-paste or a copy-and-paste or what? Regrettably, textmerge cannot help with text-splitting or text-merging or text-duplicating, or with a partial copy-and-paste; you will have to put a history note section in the article's talk page saying what happened. See WP:Parallel histories. (It is 11.20 pm here in England and I am ready to go to bed.) Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:19, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying (various matters have kept me away from Wikipedia). Firstly Hekerui's remark was, I think, intended to be addressed to me, although he appeared to address it to Anthony. Hence the obvious confusion going on here. I am, of course, aware that it would be possible to put an article talk page note referring to the sandbox version for the full article history, but I'm reluctant to leave what looks like a full mainspace article lying around indefinitely in user space, solely in order to keep a record of the history. Deleting the sandbox version isn't great either. From my point of view, a history merge would be the best solution, but if that is not possible because of WP:Parallel histories, or if it is simply too much work, I will accept your (Anthony's) decision and have to ponder what to do. (For the record, there is almost nothing in common between the previous version of the article (or any of its history) and the current one. If the AfD had succeeded, that would have neatly solved the problem.) --NSH001 (talk) 18:47, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Another histmerge request

Thanks for carrying #Histmerge request, Anthony. Happened to glance through the contribs of the user who made that mess and found two others: Carl (comics), Phage (comics), Carl Mach (comics) and Carl Mach are one set; the other is Riot (comics), Trevor (comics) and Trevor Cole (comics). I'd appreciate it if you could take the appropriate action when you get a chance. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 14:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Brigette Barcley/Grant history merge

[12] Many thanks for that. Sparthorse (talk) 15:50, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for moving C. A. Patrides!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 23:47, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Pot O' Gold / Pot O' Gold (Glee)

Hi Anthony, I see you've just moved this article per an uncontroversial request at WP:RM. I just wanted to draw your attention to this discussion on the talk page, where the subject of disambiguation had previously been discussed, and per the WP:CAPS guideline, deemed not to be a necessity. I think in this case, a move discussion might have been—or indeed might still be—beneficial. Frickative 12:28, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Nisbet, Roxburghshire

Hi Anthony. I'm a bit puzzled by what happened to the technical move request on this one. Your edit summary for the group of four technical move requests states "Done 3, discuss 1", but this one seems neither to have been done, nor to have been relisted as controversial. Am I missing something? Skinsmoke (talk) 13:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Just noticed the timing of your edit summary. It could be that I've blundered in while you were part-way through dealing with it and got distracted by the Glee thing! Skinsmoke (talk) 14:00, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Cut-and-Paste repair pen

Repair pen
Thanks for repairing the cut-and-paste on Communauté de communes Coteaux et Châteaux! Here`s a helpful pen so you can keep up the good work! Benzband (talk) 19:45, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I also appreciate your work on Sons (2006 film)! __meco (talk) 16:45, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for your contributuion to the Canid Infertility Chart! Chrisrus (talk) 16:08, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

If you would, could I run some ideas for the chart by you? Chrisrus (talk) 16:37, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

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New attempt to sort out old problems on DIR

Hi Anthony, I am trying to improve the DIR article, See Talk:Doing It Right#New attempt to sort out old problems. You have previously contributed to attempts to improve the article and may be interested to comment or contribute. Cheers, Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:22, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Replied at Talk:Cell (Dragon Ball)#Redirect?. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 09:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Requests

TO DO

Canoe River train crash

Hi, I reverted one of your edits. It struck me that both British Columbia andPrince George, British Columbia were already linked, and there was no really long gap to necessitate another link. If you feel strongly about it, just change it back.--Wehwalt (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Your user page

I don't generally mess around with people's user pages – and, frankly, have a certain amount of respect for editors who don't pay that much attention to theirs. But yours currently contains a bit of vandalism, from this edit way back in April 2010. From what I know of you, you deserve better, so I'm going to revert it.

If I'm wrong and you actually wanted to keep it, well ... That would mean you're stranger than I took you for.

Regards, --88.104.41.22 (talk) 19:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

American Mafia

  • Renaming American Mafia to American mafia as a non-controversial, technical move 9½ hours after a request was posted and with no notification to editors on the article talk page seems a bit premature. Although the original requester states unequivocally that Mafia is "Not a proper name like Cosa Nostra", Merriam-Webster, The Free Dictionary, and Dictionary.com (citing Random House Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, and The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy) would appear to disagree in cases where, as in this article, the word refers to a specific organization. Please restore the original article title and help ensure (I've never had to visit the Wikipedia:Requested moves page before) that a true consensus to rename exists. Thanx. Fat&Happy (talk) 07:41, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:51, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
  • TY. Fat&Happy (talk) 15:40, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Operation Nordlicht/Northern Light

  • I noticed you moved one of these pages recently per RM (my mistake, I didn't delete the template). They've now been moved again, despite the explanations given on the talk pages. I’ve opened a discussion, here; perhaps you’d care to comment? Xyl 54 (talk) 16:11, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
  • I have answered at Talk:Operation Nordlicht#What's going on?. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:12, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to reply
I have to say I was pretty pissed off when I saw this; having spent a fair amount of time sorting this out last year, and doing the same just now, it was frustrating to see that work binned. Though I have to say I’m more annoyed with the IP for tagging it, as I didn’t see it as a cut and paste move(I’d undone the previous edit blanking and redirecting the page, which restored the content). And it seemed a pretty sophisticated thing for an anonymous someone, who'd only been here a month, to be doing.
I am also unclear of the value of this histmerge process; if the fault of a C&P move is that the edit history is separated, and attribution unclear, it is at least unmuddled. The remedy seems make the situation worse. Previously it was possible to trace an article’s history, and to reconstruct what was done and why. Now, it really isn’t; with two sets of edits in strictly chronological order an edit doesn’t necessarily relate to the one before, or the one after, and a proportion of them are deleted altogether (like the one I was referring to). It also means (in this case) the explanations don’t make much sense, and probably need redacting.
Wouldn’t it be better (and avoid having to spend silly amounts of time!) just to have the attributions clarified, as with WP:MERGE? Xyl 54 (talk) 12:47, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
I’m not at all sure what’s happened, by now; IIRC there was a page at Northern Lights on the Iraq op, a page at Nordlicht on the German ops, and a page at Sinyavin Offensive on the Soviet op, with an explanation on each talk page saying how they'd got there. I know 70.24.248.23 tagged the Nordlicht page, you moved some stuff, then Fastily moved some stuff. So now we have the same arrangement, but with three opaque edit histories.
It’s pretty academic now (and there’s nothing to be done about it); and if I sounded testy before, it wasn’t meant to be. But my questioning of the process was meant; is this really the best approach? Wouldn’t a tidying up of any attribution needed be more effective, less complicated, less time-consuming, (especially) less final? Xyl 54 (talk) 21:44, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Someone wrote a page about the Iraq operation. Someone else overwrote it with a page about the WWII German operation. That page with all its history was moved to name Operation Nordlicht. That is the page that I history-split. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:05, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Ah! Presumably then, Fastily merged the page histories for Norhern Light and Nordlicht; with this, maybe. Oh, well, can't be helped... Xyl 54 (talk) 11:39, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for 2011 M5 motorway crash

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 18:37, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion closed

An arbitration case regarding all articles related to the subject of Abortion has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

  • All articles related to the subject of Abortion:
  1. shall be semi-protected until November 28, 2014;
  2. shall not be moved absent a demonstrable community consensus;
  3. are authorized to be placed on Standard discretionary sanctions;

In addition:

  1. Editors are reminded to remain neutral while editing;
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For the Arbitration Committee,
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Chinese striped hamster

Thanks for fixing my move goof-up. ~ Lhynard (talk) 06:24, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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History Merge

Thank you for the history merge for Derek Branning, very quick. GSorby – Ping! 23:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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Primacy of the Roman Pontiff

Please see this comment. Esoglou (talk) 10:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

another histmerge?

Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion

Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification that: The Abortion case is supplemented as follows:

Remedy 1 of Abortion is amended to the following:

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Discuss this

Kralan to Khao Larm

  • I only just started reading up on the Kralan/Khao Larm articles and it seems as if User:Pelaisse has hijacked a legitimate article about the Cambodian dish called kralan and changed it to the Thai dish called khao larm/Khao lam. I would ask you to revert the merging of the articles again and reinstate the article Kralan in its original state before user Pelaisse started messing around with it. The same user also changed the text in this image to mention that it was made in Thailand instead of Cambodia. It would also seem appropriate to warn user Pelaisse about his actions. - Takeaway (talk) 17:01, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:10, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
    • Thanks! You are fast! - Takeaway (talk) 17:12, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Relisting move proposals for 5 O'Clock and 5 O'clock (song)

I hope this is ok, but I have re-listed the articles 5 O'Clock and 5 O'clock (song) with a move proposal together at 5 O'clock (song)'s talk page here: Talk:5 O'clock (song)#Requested move 2. I asked on said talk page whether or not I should do so and waited 24 hrs with no response so I just went ahead and did it. There is also new evidence to consider regarding why they should be moved and my move proposal involves slightly different proposed names then others have proposed before. I hope that this helps make things clearer for everyone and not more confusing :-)
I am letting all the editors who were involved in recent discussions know.
Please see the talk page for more info.
Thanks, MsBatfish (talk) 08:28, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Yubikey deletion record

  • Hi, I just came upon the deletion notice at Yubikey, and I'm trying to find the entry at AfD? It said you were the closing admin back in '09. I'm curious whether the situation has changed or if it's the same as when the decision took place. --Qwerty0 (talk) 20:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
  • At 13:54, 17 May 2009 I moved page Yubikey to YubiKey. At 13:54, 17 May 2009 I deleted YubiKey by speedy delete (not AfD) as "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Oh, I see! So it was just pretty spammy? If I find that there are enough references for it to be notable and put together a neutral article (big if), should I just re-create it or is there more to the procedure? Haven't ever re-created an article before.

--Qwerty0 (talk) 10:53, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for prompt assistance!

The dust had barely settled on my screw-up, doing a cut-and-paste to change the title of Shark Island (Extermination camp) to Shark Island Extermination Camp, when the history was merged back again. Thank you for your help, and -- again -- I apologize for my mistake! Best wishes, Virago250 (talk) 07:13, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you at Shishapangma

Thanks for your assistanceRacerx11 (talk) 17:07, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Anthony - Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Find it ironic after six weeks or more of discussions about the spelling of this mountain that in my haste, I have misspelled the name in this section heading...now of all times when it would appear it has finally been settled. Corrected spelling in my previous post.--Racerx11 (talk) 15:46, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Personhood

Thank you for the move! USchick (talk) 01:14, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Little Mix

  • If you have a chance, please look at the move request at Talk:'''Little Mix'''. One minute after the request was posted, someone else did a cut & paste move of '''Little Mix''' to Little Mix, at 22:17 today. I didn't revert because of a flurry of edits at the new (correct) title immediately after the move. I think all that is needed now is a simple histmerge of '''Little Mix''' into Little Mix. If you agree, perhaps you could do that and close the request or just delete the whole page. Thanks. Station1 (talk) 23:11, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
  •  Done histmerge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 00:30, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Your assistance for Mohnish Bahl is appreciated. Centaur81 (talk) 07:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Please advise (info about living persons)

  • I need advice on this... This is regarding Biography articles of living persons: I think you will appreciate that getting reliable citations for information on living persons through books, journals, print media or even the Internet may not always be possible. Is it possible for an editor to cite the person's family members/relatives in this case, if they provide information? After all, such information would be most reliable as it would have come, if you will, from the horse's mouth... Kindly advise. Centaur81 (talk) 15:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Best see Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:49, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Livorno now moved to Leghorn (city) without discussion

Yes, thanks - forgot to note that. Johnbod (talk) 23:14, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Thanks for the histmerge. Wish there was a bit that would allow me to do that without having to become an admin. :-) Yworo (talk) 23:17, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Eastman Kodak

Greatly appreciate your intervention in reverting that anon user [13] that never does anything constructive except trolling users for any perceived infringement.MonkeyKingBar (talk) 23:36, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

European Le Mans Series to 2001 European Le Mans Series season

  • Hello. Why was the merge and rename rejected? After a monthe of discussion at the Sports Car Racing Project, everybody agreed with the change. The Le Mans Series championship will be renamed European Le Mans Series for 2012, so we want to rename that article to European Le Mans Series. So to do the change, we have to do something with the history of the old European Le Mans Series article. Please, will you merge European Le Mans Series to 2001 European Le Mans Series season? --NaBUru38 (talk) 18:44, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
  • As the recent edit comments in page 2001 European Le Mans Series season's history show, this histmerge request was rejected because of WP:Parallel histories. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:46, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Yarlung Tsangpo

Hello!

Could you have a look at Mike's talk page, chapter Yarlung Tsangpo, as the discussion is mentioning a move that you have made back in 2009. Thanks,--Pseudois (talk) 16:42, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Request for Comments on Wikipedia:Representation

Hi there! My name is Whenaxis, I noticed that you are on the Mediation Committee. I created a policy proposal called Wikipedia:Representation. I think that this policy would help the Mediation Committee as well as the Arbitration Committee because the goal of this proposed policy is to decrease the amount of time wasted when an unfamiliar editor files a Mediation or Arbitration Committee when other forms of Dispute Resolution have not yet been sought. For example, an editor may come to the Mediation Committee requesting formal mediation when other dispute resolution areas have not been utilised such as third opinions or request for comments. A representative works much like a legal aid - there to help you for free and:

  • File a formal mediation case or an arbitration case on your behalf
  • Make statements and submit evidence at the case page on your behalf
  • Guide you through the expansive and sometimes complex policies and procedures of Wikipedia

This proposed idea can also help the editor seeking help because it can alleviate the stress and anxiety from dispute resolution because mediation and arbitration can be intimidating for those who are unfamiliar.

I would highly appreciate your comments on this proposal at: Wikipedia talk:Representation. Cheers and Happy New Year - Whenaxis about talk contribs 22:35, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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