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WolterBot scanned all of the currently tagged articles and updated the current number of disputed articles:

Accuracy disputes - 2
NPOV disputes - 18

Any chance you can take a look sometime this month and report back to the news bureau for an update in the August newsletter? Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 07:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Papakolea Beach

Since this is basically your baby, I was wondering if you could take a look at Papakolea Beach again. I'm sure we could at least bump it up to C or B-Class, but more importantly, I think we can get it up to GA. Let me know what you think. There's still a lot of information about the physical location that doesn't appear in the current article but can be found in the references. Also, I'm sure we can significantly expand the geology content. Viriditas (talk) 07:47, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Those both sound like good ideas to me--I'm less convinced now that Papakolea Beach can move up to GA than I was during the initial expansion, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to give it a shot :) Naturally, I want to focus on Hawaiian religion this month, but I'll see if I can't do some research on the side as well. --jonny-m t 02:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note to myself (and MiszaBot) that I brought these back from the archives to work on. --jonny-m t 07:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to start the August newsletter soon, so any help in regard to these topics (and even an update/followup on Hawaiian religion would be appreciated. :) Viriditas (talk) 07:53, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kenji Nagai

Hey, Jonny. I hope you had a good, relaxing break. Listen, I was wondering if you had access to any Japanese language sources regarding Kenji Nagai. I would like to update and expand the article a bit, but I'm having trouble finding good English refs. No hurry on this at all, but let me know at some point. Viriditas (talk) 13:33, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure--there's a ton of stuff online. Anything in particular you need? --jonny-m t 03:53, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I assume that there is more biographical information about him in Japanese language sources than there is the English press. That's a starter. I'm also looking to update the article and expand it. I'm sure Japan made some kind of formal protest, and that there has been some kind of recognition or apology from Burma; anything along those lines. I'm just trying to bring the article up to speed. I would also like to know how the incident affected Japanese society. Do journalists have to take new precautions? Viriditas (talk) 06:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be happy to do some full translations later on if you'd like, but for the time being I tracked down a couple of articles as starting points. This is an editorial written by Yoshihide Matsumura, who is apparently the president of a company specializing in counterfeit bills and someone who knew him personally--apparently he saw him in Thailand and didn't know he was going to Burma (Myanmar in Japanese). There's also this article, which discusses a grassroots-level assembly seeking the return of videotape shot by Nagai (echoing a request from his father in December and continuing petitions started in October). The Yomiuri Shinbun also asked journalists to name the ten biggest stories of 2007, and they chose the Burma demonstrations and Nagai's death as the biggest.

I'll keep looking, but I wasn't able to find anything in Japanese on the apology--this is probably due to the fact that most newspaper websites restrict access to their archives (or simply don't provide them) as well as the technical issues related to searching in Japanese. It seems that there was one, though, judging by this English-language article, although I'll take some more time and check out how well it was received. --jonny-m t 03:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, great work! Should I copy this entire discussion to Talk:Kenji Nagai so that myself and others can keep it close at hand for reference, or would you prefer me to leave it here? Viriditas (talk) 07:55, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lucky Cement, Original Research.

I did, in fact, read the "no original research" rule, and if you had indeed read my article you would have seen that I ONLY wrote facts. I stated the website where I got my facts from. This is just so unbelievably ridiculous! I spent an hour of my very busy day trying to lay out an article that others could benefit from, and you "speedily deleted" it.

I understand the problem you regularly face with "original research", and how people use wikipedia as a forum to publish their own ideas, thoughts and opinions. I applaude the fact that people like you remove this rubbish from wikipedia and make sure it remains 'clean'. However, I think you can certainly see that my article was an exception.

The information was either taken from the Lucky Cement website, the Dawn (a local newspaper) or from their Annual Report (2007). I am not an employee of lucky cement and hold no stake in the company. This article was primarily meant to be educational. It was originally flagged for being "blatant" promotion of the company. This is NOT true.

I am not an advanced web user, I did not exactly know how to glamourise my article in the way that all wikipedia articles are, but I was certainly trying to figure things out. You didn't even give me a chance.

This whole experience has been so off putting that I wish never to publish an article for wikipedia again. Amajidulla (talk) 09:18, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jcoder Java Editor is a non-advertising article

i found this product from google and just wanted to add this new software to wikipedia. Jcoder is a freeware, it's no point to advertise it on wikipedia. This product is getting famous now. You can try to google it: http://www.google.ca/search?source=ig&hl=fr&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENHK263&=&q=jcoder&btnG=Recherche+Google.

I think it's normal for people to find a famous product from wikipedia. If you think my article is too commercial, please advise how i can improve it.

thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.246.65.46 (talk) 08:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help, please...

Hello Jonny-mt,

I would ask your help as administrator. I was working on Beach soccer to create some important teams and their rosters just before the upcoming World Cup in France. However, i created both Russia national beach soccer team and Russian national beach soccer team. Could you help me to delete the surplus one, please? It is the second one.

Thank you.

--Umi1903 (talk) 18:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done! In the future, you can request deletion of articles you created using {{db-author}} (please note that you have to be the only significant contributor for this to work). --jonny-m t 01:04, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you mate.. Cheers! --Umi1903 (talk) 16:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might be interested ...

... in this: WP:Requests for checkuser/Case/Fatimazuhra786

These guys may be sandbagging WP:Articles for deletion/Most Great Name.

Cheers, MARussellPESE (talk) 21:37, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up; I think checkuser was a good idea here. I've fixed the code on the request and added it to my watchlist! --jonny-m t 02:47, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another suspected sockpuppet: User:GoToHellBahaim. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 01:33, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One other point, on Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/SecretChiefs3 it was confirmed that User:Truegardenvariety and User:Gardensong were socks of User:SecretChiefs3, but there has been no block on them. Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 01:36, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update--I've tagged User:GoToHellBahaim, and User:Tiptoety already got the other two. --jonny-m t 05:39, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Getting back in touch ...

Hi Jonny,

Today we met again in Wikipedia and I was wondering if the proposal to do an en-wiki meeting in Tokyo is still standing.

Regards, Miguel

Hi Miguel,

I'm kind of hoping to do an en-wiki meeting in Tokyo if Jimbo ever gets back here--I understand he's usually here on a fairly regular basis, but it's been a while. Naturally, if there are enough of us who are interested (and I see a fairly decent number), I wouldn't mind getting together at an izakaya or singing some karaoke.... --jonny-m t 07:29, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible impersonator username

Hi Jonny, I saw the message you left this John Barrowman impersonator, and thought you might want to leave a similar message for User:Sean Borg. This user has edited Sean Borg, so it's either a matter of impersonation or conflict of interest. I've already left this user the standard COI notice template, but I think you know more than I do about how to deal with the possibility of impersonation. --Icarus ^(Hi!) 03:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up; I'll take of this during the day today! --jonny-m t 03:19, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image question

Hi. Do you have the ability to undelete these two images:

My understanding is that the original uploader was willing to release them to Wikipedia under a compatible free license. Viriditas (talk) 08:10, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I have the technical ability to undelete them, but I need to be sure that the uploader intends to release them under a compatible license. I saw there was mention of you explaining licensing issues to them at Talk:Greg Mortenson#Images--should I let you have at it, or would you prefer that I fill them in? --jonny-m t 09:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome to contribute. Two of the three photos Tauheed uploaded were created by him, and were intended for free (cc-by-sa-2.0) use on Wikipedia. The third (which you can see in the log) did not belong to him and was appropriately deleted. Viriditas (talk) 09:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will ask him again. Viriditas (talk) 09:35, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for help

Jonny,

I think this is not your area, but you might know somebody that can help me. I am proposing Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria) for FL. We have been challenged by the amount of non-free images (although all of them are OK under the fair-use rationale for currency images). I was under the impression that pictures of coins can be used under the fair-use rationale, but the large number of non-free images is what is challenged in the article. Details of the discussion here. Do you know anyone that is an expert in this area? Thanks,

Miguel.mateo (talk) 09:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, two image-related questions in as many days. It's like you heard about my Commons RfA and decided to come test me >.<

Actually, I checked it out, and it seems that you may be out of luck here. As you are apparently aware, these coins are subject to copyright since they issued not by the European Central Bank (which would make them free enough for our purposes) but instead by the private Austrian mint, which appears to retain copyright (although this deletion discussion on Commons is somewhat informative). Since WP:NFC states that "images that are used only to visually identify elements in the article should be used as sparingly as possible" for lists, it seems that there's little you can do to address these objections short of demonstrating that these images are in fact free or simply cutting down on the number of them in the list.

I'll open a discussion on the Commons licensing talk page to get some opinions from people who know more about this than I do. --jonny-m t 14:32, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Monokini

No problem. I just noticed the change on the page and went to investigate. Innocent. -mattbuck (Talk) 16:21, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Father Damien sock farm

Sigh. I've been ignoring this for a while, in the hope that they would get bored and go away, but the socks seem to be multiplying exponentially and are hovering under 20 accounts at the moment. I'm not sure whether I should file a RFCU or what, but it seems like its one account talking to itself on Talk:Father Damien, and perhaps even arguing with its other accounts. Aside from very minor trolling of the talk page, they haven't caused much trouble nor do they appear malicious, but if a serious dispute did arise, I could see how the "soldiers" would be called into duty. Here's a current list sorted by account creation date, although be warned that false positives are possible:

What course of action do you suggest? Viriditas (talk) 23:41, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]