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For the amazing work of Workhop in Ahmedabad. Really it is a great job. Keep up the good work! Yasht101 08:53, 24 April 2012 (UTC) |
Discussion Page at Lee Kuan Yew
Hello, noted you are an interested party. Please see the discussion page at Lee Kuan Yew and would love to talk to you more there. All the stuff I have written about his family are facts, as per WP:NPOV, and they are all from his own books. Not sure which lines you claim are opinions, please write out the lines which you think are opinions, or which you have objections to.
Many thanks, Littleblackridinghood (talk) 13:17, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Singapore Airlines
You recently edited Singapore Airlines and removed some content without explanation. Next time please explain something If it is not vandalism. Thanks Qantasplanes (talk) 09:57, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
- What he removed was irrelevant. List of companies, airports or Malaysia airlines if not kept in the article is better thing to do. They don't relate to the airline so not a vandal edit. Yasht101 10:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
- So your saying that it is "irrelevant". I'm not sure anyone will agree with you. And who said it was a "vandal" edit? Think before you speak son.Qantasplanes (talk) 10:31, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
- It is irrelevant till some extend. It is debatable. I would prefer if you disscuss this with someone who has been editing that article or airlines related articals since long time.
- If you call someone son, you indirectly say that you are better then them which is not a good faith thing to say
- So your saying that it is "irrelevant". I'm not sure anyone will agree with you. And who said it was a "vandal" edit? Think before you speak son.Qantasplanes (talk) 10:31, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
- Next time please explain something If it is not vandalism - clearly states that you considered their edit as a vandal.
- Happy editing! Yasht101 10:36, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
- How long is a long time? Qantasplanes (talk) 10:38, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the advice, Qantasplanes, I will keep that in mind. I thought the removal of those links was fairly uncontroversial given that the subject is an airline so I didn't see how the links to "List of airports in Singapore", "List of companies in Singapore" and "Malaysia Airlines" were directly relevant to the subject. Next time on, instead of reverting an established user, please leave a message on their talk page so that they can address your concerns, so that it saves us all some time and effort. Thanks. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 11:29, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
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I hope that you like it. Thanks and Happy editing! Yasht101 04:26, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Yash, but my pages are UBX-free zones. :) — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 06:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
- Ah.. I saw that but just in case you get an solid urge to add a ton of userboxes in future, you can use this also ;) Yasht101 06:28, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hey thanks for suggesting that clearer wording with regard to the title Pandit! Regards Hekerui (talk) 23:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I have been here for a while and want to improve myself. Though I try my best to do the right thing, I may do something wrong. As you have seen me work, can you please leave me a review as I want to know where I stand so far and what should I improve to be a good editor. Your opinion has always been valuable and your review can help. Thanks :) Yasht101 08:24, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Well done
for moving SingTel. It's amazing how many articles of major companies are still at clunky legal/formal names rather than common names. This was a particularly glaring example. Rangoon11 (talk) 22:50, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. Now I just have to use AWB to fix the links ("What links here") pointing to this article. :) — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 09:03, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
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Neutal noticeboard post
Just a courtesy note to inform you that I removed some wording that I felt was not neutral and ought not to be used in such an instance. I am sure you would want to avoid all accusations of canvassing. Thanks for your attention. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 14:59, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
- Please do not edit other users' comments without their express permission. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 15:08, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comment and your revert. I have now reported your suspected canvassing to WP:ANI. Regards, --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 01:41, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Lee Hsien Loong
I'd really appreciate it if you explain yourself before reverting my edit on the article. This is the second time you removed my addition without providing any rationale in your edit summaries. 220.255.1.92 (talk) 04:17, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
- Since you are on a dynamic IP range, I will respond here. You cannot add content (including categories) to biographies of living persons without using reliable sourcing to back up your claims. Moreover, you seem to be acquainted with Wikipedia given your editing style, so please discuss on the talk page of the article. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 05:22, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
- I've responded at Talk:Lee Hsien Loong. 220.255.1.46 (talk) 05:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Administrator policy
Regarding your recent semi-protection and use of rollback at Donald Tsang, I'd like to remind you of WP:INVOLVED, Wikipedia:Rollback_feature#When_to_use_rollback, and Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Guidance_for_administrators.
You have taken a clear stance on this issue, so it appears to be conflict of interest for you to be using administrator tools to favor a certain version of the page. Semi-protection is used when all parties involved in an edit war are unregistered or new editors, not to favor registered users in the content dispute over non-registered users.
I suggest that you undo the page protection and request another administrator to protect it if you believe it deserves protection. I don't think it does, since there is no edit war.--Jiang (talk) 22:59, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Please don't come here to defend WP:POINTy edits made by random IP users. Perhaps you should take a look at their contribution history before lecturing me on administrator policy. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 23:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- 219.78.16.8's contribution history is indeed problematic, and I even reverted one of this user's edits earlier in the day, but that does not justify your actions at Donald Tsang as 219.78.16.8's edits to that particular article did not constitute vandalism. Even if it did constitute vandalism, it would not justify semi-protection, which usually requires repeated vandalism by the same or multiple IP addresses. Here, there was only a single edit to this article by this IP.
- Perhaps you ought to warn 219.78.16.8 instead.--Jiang (talk) 23:12, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Given my extensive experience as an administrator on this project, I have a good reason to believe that it is an involved user editing from a random IP address for some WP:POINTy fun. I cannot help but feel amused at your propensity to ruleslawyer in every given situation. Please do not encourage disruptive behaviour by coming to their defense. I hope you have better things to do. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 23:20, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- I did not come to you to defend 219.78.16.8. I came here to request that an unnecessary and inappropriately implemented page protection be undone. It would be just as bad form for me to do so without consulting you first.
- We all make mistakes sometimes. Sometimes the best thing to do is to accept them and move on.
- Are you going to object if I undo the page protection?--Jiang (talk) 23:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I would object. Given that (i) there is an on-going BLP content dispute and (ii) the fact that we have witnessed several IP users edit-warring with established editors, the likelihood of further abuse is high and in that context the semi-protection is justified. It does not however, as you should note, obstruct demonstrably inappropriate editing by established users. I do hope you will apologize and undo the change made. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 23:45, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Wikimania
Hello again - we talked a bit previously about a scandal in Indian politics. Are you coming to Wikimania? If not, who from the India chapter is? I would like to meet someone at the conference with whom I can talk about the chapter in India. Thanks - I hope that I can meet you either in DC next month or in India sometime in the future. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:13, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi sir! I have added IPA for Amdavad so can you please review it? It is my first time at IPA and I may have given wrong input. Please fix or let me know if there is any modification needed either in IPA or in the article. Cheers! — TheSpecialUser (TSU) 06:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
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Could you have a look please?
Hi there Nick, could you please have a look at this please? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:13, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
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According to the time line lodged at Talk:Burma#Requested move (Burma → Myanmar) August 2012 you [re]listed the requested move if you dispute the time line then post a message to my talk page.
If as it seem you are the editor who [re]listed the requested move. Add the a move request proposal to Talk:Burma#Reasons for the move before you make any more edits (other than to my talk page) or I will close the request on a technical close. -- PBS (talk) 18:38, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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- Thank you for the note, PBS. I will comply with your request shortly. Thanks. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 03:24, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
What just happened at Talk:Burma?
I'm very confused. I see the section above, but it's not really making things clearer. Did you relist the debate? Did you make a co-request? Was that place "reserved for a comment" for you or for Marcus Qwertyus? Why highlight certain oppose arguments over others (under "Reasons for not moving")? Is it really a counter proposal if you're just saying no to the original proposal? I admire your efforts to make this daunting discussion more accessible, but at least in some parts, and at least to me, the result has been fairly confusing. --BDD (talk) 05:05, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the message, BDD. PBS insisted that since I re-opened the debate after Marcus closed it prematurely, I ought to leave a rationale at the top explaining why I think that the page ought to be moved to Myanmar instead of the current name. The "reasons for the move" section is simply procedural - since that is where a nominator leaves their commentary appealing to the community to make the change. I am not so certain about the "reasons for not moving" section, which has been created by BritishWatcher, possibly as a response to Marcus's nomination. Please feel free to point this out under the "procedural comments" sub-section. Thanks, — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 07:20, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, I guess the reasons for not moving had always been there and I had just noticed. When you're referring to Marcus closing it prematurely though, that was, I want to say the day of or the day after the initial request. Did Marcus close it again more recently? --BDD (talk) 14:03, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
I place a "reasons for not moving" section header into this debate because the debate appeared to start as an RfC which I retro-fitted an RM. Before I added the RM, there were at the top of the section lists of evidence for and against. As it happens this issue about biased RfC has just been discussed on the RfC talk page and a new bullet point (which I helped to draft) added to the wording of the RfC policy: If you feel an RfC is improperly worded, ask the originator to improve the wording, or add an alternative unbiased statement immediately below the RfC question template. Do not close the RfC just because you think the wording is biased. So I put in the RM added a section for the proposer, and moved what I thought were the initial complaints, into a new subsection called "Reasons for not moving" (in line with the new guidance in the RfC) --Simples! -- PBS (talk) 16:03, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Once in Ireland when asking for directions I received the classic reply "If I was going there I would not start from here" (meaning it is complicated to give accurate directions). In this case because of a withdrawn RM, an RfC and a malformed reopening, of the RM, it was not at all clear to anyone new to the conversation what was going on. Hopefully now that the new RM is in place with a clear nominee, it will now go through to completion without any more procedural hiccups. -- PBS (talk) 16:08, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
India Page
Hi, I have reverted you edit on the India page, AFAIK there was a consensus not have Bharat Ganarajya rendered in Devanagri but not to remove it. Thanks --sarvajna (talk) 11:10, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 11:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Online Citizen
I have a response to you on my talk page. Francis Bond (talk) 02:51, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Narendra Modi edits
if you have any objections please discuss that on the talk page. you can start a section for that. my edits are in WP:good faith and i see no reason to undo except for your WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Please do not undo well sourced content 12.54.94.21 (talk) 19:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Question regarding recent reversion of my edit at the LKY page
Hi. Regarding ur recent reversion of my edit to the lee kuan yew article, could you tell me why you did so? I believe you should have a reasonable reason and I wish to hear it, as a learning point.
Side note: LKY is a dictator, and hence it should be okay to mention that fact in the lead section of the article. But I guess maybe there's a reason why it should not be included. Bonkers The Clown (talk) 14:28, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
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List of Modern Dictators
Well, I didn't expect such a reaction (so you are the administrator) but i just undid the revision, i didn't add him first. But i've a question; do biographies of living persons' policy include Raul Castro, Alexander Lukashenko, Ali Khamenei and the others? - Avatar896 15:33, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I would think so since one man's freedom-fighter is another man's tyrant. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 02:10, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you take a look at this page please
User:Wasifwasif and his sock puppet User:Huhshyeh are vandalising Popular Front of India page and turn it into a fan site deleting references which are critical of PFI and reveal it's terrorist nexus with Al-Qaeda. Have mentioned some of the issues on the talkpage. Thanks WBRSin (talk) 19:03, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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Harry? Or not
Hi, Nearly Headless Nick, this is with concern, once again, to the Lee Kuan Yew article. You have helpfully reverted my edit, time after time, and directed me to WP:UNDUE. Now, I thank you for that warning and the heads up, but I still don't understand. After re-reading UNDUE for innumerable times, I don't think WP:UNDUE has even any relevance to the current issues (regarding LKY's birthname), simply because WP:UNDUE addresses issues pertaining to the inclusion of minority viewpoints. I stress that term. Lee Kuan Yew's given birth name, Harry, is mentioned in almost ALL of his memoirs, biographies, etc (usually in the front sections). That is not a view! It is a fact... How do I put it? A viewpoint is very different from a fact. And not to mention it is not someone else writing about this fact, it is Lee himself who mentions it... In what way is that even a view?
One example of a viewpoint:
- I think that Lee Kuan Yew's given birth name is Harry.
One example of a fact:
Actual text from one of LKY's memoirs
- I decided after my studies to stop using the name "Harry" which my paternal grandfather, an ardent admirer of the British, had given me. (Does this sound like a viewpoint in any way to you?)
If possible, every biography starts with the name, birth date and birth name, if different from the subject's current name. It is not about weightage, it is about WP:BIRTHNAME.
I hope this makes sense to you. Thanks. Bonkers The Clown (talk) 05:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)