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Rybec, you are invited to the Teahouse

Aaron Montz

I removed the tags from the Montz article; despite the claim in one of the tags that a "contributor to the article may have a close connection with the subject", I see no problem existent within the article any longer. Excellent work! dci | TALK 03:52, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

RFd Chomsky (Misspelling)

--81.253.75.215 (talk) 09:54, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Authorship

Sorry about that; it was a careless oversight on my part to think that you'd created it. Thanks again for your work, and please don't take my remarks the wrong way. dci | TALK 00:01, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Skateboarding

Hi, I saw some of your edits and requests of other editors and thought it might be worth inviting you to join WikiProject Skateboarding. WikiProjects are basically groups of editors with an interest in editing articles about a particular subject. Feel free to join, or to shoot me a message if you have any questions. Cheers, Stalwart111 11:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of hoaxes

Hi Rybec. I'm glad you fixed this; I was just about to do so myself. The speedy deletion criterion for hoaxes (G3) applies only to articles that are hoaxes, not articles about hoaxes. Thus, if you run across an article about a non-existent micronation which explains that the micronation was a hoax created for fraudulent purposes, that's not something which needs deleting. On the other hand, if you find an article about a person you've never heard of which claims he has cured cancer, lived on the Moon for a week and been President of the United States for three successive terms, that's a hoax, and can be G3'd . Hope that helps clear the distinction up. Yunshui 雲‍水 09:35, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Question about blacklisted site 360cities.net

Hi. You've removed the link on the Mount Taranaki page linking to the 360cities site. Where is the[REDACTED] blacklist of sites? Thanks peterl (talk) 11:32, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Peterl, looking for the same re Edradour Distillery I found it here , provided it's the \b360cities\.net\b line; wasn't able to find out who, when and why put it there though. --Thrissel (talk) 21:37, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

The discussion that led to the site being blacklisted is here. I asked about it here. If you think the site should not be blacklisted, MediaWiki_talk:Spam-whitelist#blog.360cities.net might be the best place to talk about it. If you'd like to talk about my edits, you're welcome to do so here on my talk page. However, I don't think they can be undone so long as the site is on the blacklist. —rybec 00:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

That's fine, good clear decision. I agree. Peterl777 (talk) 00:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I see. It's a pity, the pics are good - but not as good as to justify this kind of spam. Thanks for showing us the links. --Thrissel (talk) 17:20, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: please use an edit summary with PROD

This message was directed at the wrong user. I did not PROD the article in question. Cheers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Raising Steam / Raising Taxes

Hi there. I'm sorry to inform you that I reverted your changes to Raising Taxes, including the move to Raising Steam. The tweet by Terry Pratchett only confirms a single thing: That the next DW book will be called Raising Steam. It does not say that it is the same one as Raising Taxes nor that Raising Taxes was the working title. Misplaced Pages has a strict rule that all content must be verifiable in reliable sources and there is no source that backs up your edits. Note that this does not mean that your changes weren't correct. But until a reliable source actually says those things you guessed with your edits, we cannot have them on Misplaced Pages. Regards SoWhy 10:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction. The statement that Raising Taxes is a working title was in the article before I touched it . —rybec 11:25, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, but your change implied that Raising Taxes was the working title for Raising Steam while it is only the working title of "a possible third Moist von Lipwig novel", which - unless we have some sources saying otherwise - it still is. Regards SoWhy 11:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I acknowledge my error and I haven't touched the article since you reverted my changes. If there's anything else I can do, let me know. —rybec 11:39, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

No worries, I just wanted to clarify what I meant with my first notification since it seemed a bit unclear. If you can find any sources that confirm your edits, that would be great since I, too, would love to see it clarified whether those are two separate projects or the same project under different names, so keep your eyes open. Happy editing and feel free to contact me if you need any assistance. Regards SoWhy 11:43, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I took your note to mean that there could be two different books, and that assuming otherwise is synthesis. Someone has added to the Discworld article a clarification from Pratchett that Raising Taxes and Raising Steam are (will be?) in fact two different books, , although when I looked at the tweet it said "But it's definitely not Raising Taxes..." which is different from the way he's quoted in the Misplaced Pages article: "Raising Steam is not Raising Taxes". —rybec 12:07, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

1971 Bangladesh atrocities

You recently commented on a RM on the article 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. The discussion was closed and the article moved to the previous title by another editor per WP:RM/TR. A new RM has been initiated and can be found here Darkness Shines (talk) 16:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Jeronimo Dominguez

Thank you for improving Jerónimo Domínguez. I considered using the Spanish-language form of his name as the article title myself, but since all but one of the references I found used the English-language version, I followed the established practice of using the English-language form if it was clearly the most common form of the name in the English-speaking world (see WP:Manual of style and related pages for details). Please consider undoing your page-move, or, if the most common English-language use of his name is the version with the Spanish-language accent marks, provide links to sources that use this form either as references, in an "External links" section, or on the article talk page. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:13, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Done. —rybec 02:44, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Christopher Dorner

Hi, saw your addition of the inline "disputed" template. Dorner was fired by the LAPD, he was honorably discharged from the Naval Reserve. I'm not sure there's debate about his military career, rather the use of specific language to describe it-- "ex-" vs "former". I can't find a reliable source that differentiates the two, and I don't see it mentioned at WP:MOS. Anyhow, if you don't object, I'd like to remove the template. Thx, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:21, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't have an opinion about the dispute; I just noticed that other editors have been going back and forth about it. I was hoping they'd work it out on the talk page of the article rather than edit-warring. I'd be happy to remove the template if there's a better way to stimulate discussion. After you wrote to me, I looked at Misplaced Pages:Edit_warring and it does suggest adding "appropriate cleanup tags." I had noticed that the statement in dispute didn't have a reference; the tag I added asks for references. I've added a section to the article's talk page...are we okay? —rybec 20:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment

Hey Rybec; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:42, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reviewing the article Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Peruva. I'm waiting for your decision and expecting a favourable result. Please also give me your suggestions and feedback. Thank you JK (talk) 04:43, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the note. I notice that Keezhoor mentions a town called Peruva, but in your draft it's called a township. —rybec 05:09, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I guess I need to change to a town. It is a town within a panchayat named Mulakulam. JK (talk) 05:27, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll change it in the copy I'm working with. —rybec

Hi Rybec, I didn't knew that any user can create an article. I thought every article needed approval by admins. May I know what mistake I made in my previous move? Talking about this diff JK (talk) 06:21, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, anyone with an account can make articles. People who aren't logged in ("IP users") aren't allowed to. If you'd like to keep using Articles for Creation, it's fine. The mistake you made was in moving your article to the Misplaced Pages: space which is for articles about Misplaced Pages itself. Regular articles go in the article space (it's at the top of the list when you move stuff). I wasn't going to mention it because it's no big deal. —rybec 06:31, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Dear Rybec, Extraordinary editing! thank you. Sincerely, Adalbert Ada1944 (talk) 19:06, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

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		Thanks for reviewing the article Peruva. JK (talk) 05:48, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of redirects

The redirects I deleted were "Bak So-yeon" and "Pak So-yŏn", note the "" on each, that's what made them implausible redirects. If you want to create Bak So-yeon and Pak So-yŏn (without the inverted commas) I won't delete them. Regards, James086 13:01, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah! Thanks for catching that and for the explanation. —rybec 22:12, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Cover of Striking Thoughts (2000 edition).jpg)

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Happy Easter!!!

So a print encyclopedia, a strawberry shortcake, and a sycamore walk into a bar - wait, have you heard this one? (talk) 00:13, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Your request for undeletion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Misplaced Pages:Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Misplaced Pages talk:Articles for creation/Mauro Baranzini 2nd copy. JohnCD (talk) 22:07, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Taiwan

It's not your fault/mess, it's the rather the way China pages are constantly in flux on Misplaced Pages. When I originally asked for the template to be created over a month ago, the ROC template was a dedicated Republic of China template. In waiting for the AFC to be processed, last week, someone converted the ROC template to be Taiwan only, but it was still transcluded from the ROC template name, and used on non-Taiwan articles, so it was obvious the change had been made. If things still stood the way they did at the beginning of March, we'd have a China-set, PRC-set, ROC-set, and then the new Taiwan-set, which I think is reasonable (considering at the beginning of March, I was planning to submit AFC requests for some of the years that are redlinks and not part of the ROC period) -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for helping me learn about Wiki submissions.

After choosing an artist I knew about and going back and forth learning about how to add and make changes properly. I'd like to see what you think. Thanks, Ryan http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Elliott_Arkin

WRyanZiegler (talk) 22:01, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your numerous helpful contributions!

Hi Rybec. Much appreciation for all of your help on The Rocket Record Company article page. Also, thanks for the small disambiguation link atop the Rocket Records article page as well. I do not know whether you are interested or not, but a new article has to be written and submitted for Elton John's new company named Rocket Music if you have any time to do so. Your contributions have been very helpful, and you seem like someone who has a lot of knowledge in the record label/music industry area, especially as it pertains to Elton John and other major music artists like him. Thanks again for all of your numerous helpful contributions so far!

Zachtron (talk) 19:24, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

An Barnstar for You!

	The AFC Backlog Buster Barnstar
	Congratulations, Rybec! You're receiving the AFC Barnstar because you reviewed 223 articles during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive! Thank you for you contributions to Misplaced Pages at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! Mdann52 (talk) 12:48, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Lewis Marnell image file

Hi Rybec, a copyeditor has found an approved image of Marnell himself and has asked me to try and remove the image so that he can upload it. I am unsure of how to do this, but thought it best to send you a message first anyway. What do you think?--Soulparadox (talk) 01:28, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Lewis Marnell. (8437327867).jpg doesn't need to be deleted from Commons to make room for another photo; just choose a different name (the 8437327867 is a unique identifier from Flickr), then put the new name in the Lewis Marnell article. Links for uploading:

• Misplaced Pages:File_Upload_Wizard uploads to Misplaced Pages and is only for autoconfirmed users

• Misplaced Pages:Files for upload/Wizard uploads to Misplaced Pages, for new users or people without an account

• commons:Special:UploadWizard uploads to Commons —rybec 02:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Angolans in Brazil

You PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion was requested at Misplaced Pages:Requests for undeletion/Archive 87#Angolans in Brazil, and the request actually scrolled off the page without being answered. As it was a PROD deletion, I have restored it, but as a similar page was decisively deleted at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Angolan Brazilian I didn't put it back in the main space, but userfied it to User:Lguipontes/Angolans in Brazil and asked the requester to check with Juliancolton, the closing admin, before returning it to the mainspace. Notifying you in case you want to keep an eye on it. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:14, 20 April 2013 (UTC)