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Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/In the news

message: Sam Vaknin is the author of Wikipedia - Can Teenagers Write An Encyclopedia?. There also is a Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sam_Vaknin. The deleted Sam Vaknin article and the Wikipedia - Can Teenagers Write An Encyclopedia article both have http://samvak.tripod.com in them. -- Jreferee (Talk) 06:34, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, well, if you want to see the last time Sam wrote about us, it might be instructive to have a look at my correspondence page. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia editors said to lack maturity

message: Sam Vaknin's criticism need not be taken seriously. His views are not academic or scholarly; his write-ups on Wikipedia are a result of his frustration. He claims that Wikipedians decided to take revenge against him by authoring "a defamatory and slanderous article" on him. The fact is that the article was authored by an anon user (most probably himself, see the sockpuppet requests) and was deleted because of notability concerns (although Vaknin prefers to misguide others by saying that the article was removed "after repeated complaints" against slander and defamation). 
The issue with the article was not any defamatory or slanderous content -- the issue was that User:Zeraeph had pointed out that an anon user was inserting biased content in favor of Vaknin and removed it. The anon called Zeraeph a "long-time Vaknin enemy", and insisted on adding biased content (in favor of Sam Vaknin) to the article.
Sam Vaknin (User:Samvak) was later found using multiple IP addresses to edit the article in his favor:
* Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Samvak
* Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Samvak (2nd)
* Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Samvak (3rd)
* Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Samvak (4th)
He was finally blocked and has been ranting against Wikipedia ever since. Here is a nice reply to his "Six Sins of Wikipedia": User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician. 220.227.179.4 09:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Putting aside the fact that he writes out of frustration for Wikipedia, it is a complete joke that people under 25 are unable to grasp "historical and cultural context." I'll just remain stupid and consider every single one of my edits worthless, for they are completely unhelpful to the encyclopedia. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 21:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hear, hear! Sr13 08:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Look, the less said about Sam the better. The fact that he posts of Global Politician merely makes Global Politician loses any credibility it might have had (and it has precious little of that). I refuse to respond to this man any further. The first time was fun, now it's getting tedious. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

text: In that case, please don't write a review and give him any more prominence than he's getting. It's just not worth it. He's a shameless self-promoter, and even bad publicity is what he wants. He wants notoriety. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sam Vaknin
Talk:Vivonne Bay (South Australia)

message: Vivonne Bay is a town... on a geographic feature. I think this still means it needs the town, state page name format. Can someone help me out on this? All other towns ending in 'Bay' have the town, state format. cheers Kare Kare 06:36, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're correct with this, so yes it should really have the state appended. Murtoa 12:25, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In this instance, there was a Town of Vivonne proclaimed, but in reality most development in the Vivonne Bay area has occurred in the subdivision adjoining the Harriet River. Lands Titles records refer to this area as 'Harriet River', but in recent years all Valuation Department references now record the area as "Vivonne Bay".Browning ave 09:52, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled section
Talk:Goleta Murders

message: Are these crimes notable enough on their own to have their own wiki?
While they've not been conclusively linked, these crimes are generally regarded as being the work of the Original Night Stalker.  I think this article, along with that for the East Area Rapist, should be merged with that for the Original Night Stalker.  Any objections?
I'll wait a month or two for feedback before taking any initiative. --TheGreatUnsolved (talk) 19:43, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Should this article exist independently?
Talk:Mercedes-Benz MB100

message: Shouldn't this article also mention SsangYong Istana -- MB100's near relative/successor, which is still available? Bolkhov 06:44, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It does now, and did when I first saw it. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 14:36, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Teresa Stich-Randall

message: I have classified this article as a stub due to its level of detail and organisation. Capitalistroadster 06:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub classification

message: She has one of the nicest vibratos of the world's history: fast and constant: Ode to St. Cecilias of G.F. Handel and the Bach Magnificat.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.101.96.134 (talk) 03:47, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teresa Stich-Randall
Talk:Who Can Kill a Child?

message: I was alerted by a friend that this movie could have possibly inspired Stephen King's Children of the Corn. Could this be coincidence?--Jmg124 (talk) 22:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed this from the article:
In the Playground, a remake directed by David Alcalde and starring Diego Luna is under production.
This news appeared on the "bloody disgusting" horror site in 2008, and I haven't been able to find any corroboration. Possibly it was never a real greenlighted project, or financing may have fallen apart. Anyway, no such film has emerged in three years. Bustter (talk) 03:36, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  remake?
Talk:Willard, Ohio

message: For a History course at North Central State college, we were asked to pick a topic from Wikipedia that is local and has little to no information on the history from pre 1900's. I am in need of some constructive feedback from any interested members of the Wikipedia  community, please help as soon as possible, the sooner the better.
Facts that I have propose to beef up the pre-1900 history of the article are:
"Pioneers came to live here about the time of the War of 1812 were New Englanders, most of them from Connecticut"(xi)
"Chicago Junction- division point were large transportation business met"(xi)
"In the south part of Huron County occupies southwest corner of Connecticut Western Reserve"(4)
"Isaac Mills appointed to attend Indian treaty conducted by William Dean in Cleveland, Ohio(5)
"Met at location of what today is Toledo on July 4, 1805 with Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Wyandot, Delaware, Munsee, and Shawnee to relinquish claims to land in the Reserve(6)
Became a state in 1803(6)
"Created by the 'Famed Ordinance' of July 13, 1787"(6)
Source: <Dush, F. Joseph, History of Willard, Ohio with Pioneer Sketches of New Haven, Greenfield, Norwich and Richmond Townships> 
"Chicago Junction formed of 1875"(174)
"December 8, 1877 big fire started in Mason's news and book store"(174)
"Winter of 1881-2 small pox brought by Lloyd Dillion a passenger brakeman, who received the disease from Chicago, Illinois"(174)
All religions,"Methodist, Catholic, United Brethren, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Free Methodist"(175)
"muck started planting celery"(176)
 
 Source: < Baughman, A.J. "History of Huron County, vol I and II>  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorinnapier (talk • contribs) 02:58, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Development addition project feedback
Talk:Lookout Valley Middle High School

message: should this page even exist?
Potency 07:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Category talk:Sport shooters

message: I'm starting to think that dividing rifle shooters into 300 and 50/10 and dividing pistol shooters into 50/10 and 25 was a mistake. There is so much overlap that it doesn't really make sense: while far from all 50/10 rifle shooters also shoot 300, the converse is almost universally true (although it wasn't always in the past), and while many male pistol shooters specialize in 50/10 or 25 (mostly RFP) exclusively, women almost always double 10 and 25. So if nobody objects, I will merge the categories into a single :Category:Rifle shooters and a single :Category:Pistol shooters, which will also make get more natural-sounding names. As for Skeet and Trap/DT, I think I'll keep the distinction, as doubling them is unusual (Kim Rhode does come to mind). Any input? -- Jao 07:24, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, :Category:Pistol shooters might not be the best name for this, as it doesn't differentiate from :Category:IPSC shooters. :Category:ISSF pistol shooters is a bit unwieldy, but might be necessary. Should we then also use :Category:ISSF rifle shooters for consistency? -- Jao 10:35, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All right, I'm listing them at WP:CFD. -- Jao 09:20, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging rifle and pistol categories
Talk:Cumberland slider

message: As it is, it isn't horrible.  I just feel we need more sources.
Adam (talk) 17:24, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Could use more links
Talk:Janelle Jamer

message: I added the news on Willie.
--Florentino floro 07:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy
Talk:Repetition code

message: Please make a thorough revision of the article. The plots are wrong!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.11.117.80 (talk) 08:12, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The plots are flawed and the article is poor. 

message: Do you think the example is a bit misleading, regarding terminology? Because both the repetition code length and the number of transmitted bits are equal to three.
sissyneck (talk) 10:27, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading example
Talk:Del Norte High School (New Mexico)

message: I have gone to Del Norte High School for the last three and a half years, and our school colors are not electric turquoise, silver, and white. Our school colors are turquoise, black, and white.
Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.40.203 (talk) 01:14, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Del Norte's school colors are wrong 
Talk:Trance Energy

message: I notice this article is written from the standpoint of one person. It sounds like a big bulk of it in the 'Transition to Energy' section is written from the standpoint of a rival promoter trying to damage the event. I'm going to allocate more time to go through it and remove all the wild speculation and 'hate mongering'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danceking5 (talk • contribs) 04:08, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I sympathise, but we need reliable sources, see WP:VERIFY and WP:RS. The article has been tagged since August as lacking sources, so I've removed a lot. Individual experience doesn't count here. And I've no opinions on this kind of music. Dougweller (talk) 18:32, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who Is Trying to Damage ID&T With Spreading Negative Rumours? 

message: For weekend 1 of Tomorrowland in Belgium, it was announced that Trance Energy would have it's own arena at the festival. Shortly thereafter, the Trance Energy Facebook page began picking up in terms of activity.
Whilst it's still speculative that Trance Energy would be returning to standalone events at this point in time. Would it be appropriate to add this to the page?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.133.169 (talk) 20:06, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition as an arena at Tomorrowland 2017?
Talk:Semi-Arianism

message: Bias. The article pretends that the so-called "Arians" were followers of Arius, and is otherwise biased towards trinitarianism. The article generally incorporates specifically Catholic POV, which isn't bad in itself, when it incorporates text from the Catholic Encyclopedia; it requires additional work to include other POVs.
Undue weight. What is the passage about three modern churches doing in here? It's unsubstantiated, it's implausible, and it's irrelevant. Jacob Haller 08:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to say I think semi-Arianism in American Christianity (Adventist) is an important topic I think it deserves a full section.  So I disagree we have undue weight, rather insufficient weight.  jbolden1517Talk 01:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias, undue weight, etc.

message: It ought to be noted that accusations of semi-arianism have often come up in later controversies over the filioque, with one side implicitly or explicitly accusing the other of being unorthodox or semi-arian because of different internal understandings of the Holy Trinity. ADM (talk) 19:21, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Catholic-Orthodox controversies

message: Anyone should feel free to edit this Start Class article, as long as they provide relevant and accurate citations from reliable sources. Be bold and edit to your heart's content!
Beam 15:38, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of Tag of Shame and Ideas for Everyone

message: The article should give a brief account on the distinction between Arianism and semi-Arianism. It offers only a history, and it is not quite clear what the semi-Arianism teaches. Theophilius (talk) 17:58, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Not enough information on the content of the doctrine

message: It seems like a blatantly non-neutral point of view. At this point the lead practically defines "semi-Arianism" as false and "the church's orthodox position" of the homoousios as true. 96.231.17.131 (talk) 04:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed that, but the main body of the article still needs to be reviewed, and probably corrected, by someone with more detailed knowledge. 81.99.182.245 (talk) 02:24, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should Wikipedia define some religious beliefs as true and others as false? 

message: But this article provides no info on it. 96.231.17.131 (talk) 04:29, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creed of Sirmium redirects here
Talk:Psalm 83

message: The word "cultic" in the introduction is not self-explanatory.  I suspect the intent is Cultic#Theological definition which means relating to Worship, but I'm not knowledgable enough to say (and we should have at least one source, partly to help nail down the meaning of cultic, or whatever replaces it if we want a different wording instead). Kingdon 14:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultic? 

message: There are no scriptures that refer directly to Elohim as a name as there are for Jehovah:
This article is about Psalm 83, where verse 18 says "whose name alone is JEHOVAH" (KJV).
Also there is Jeremiah 33:2 - "Jehovah [is] His name." (YLT).
Exodus 6:3 - "as to My name Jehovah, I have not been known to them." (YLT)
There are others but where the Tetragrammaton should be translated "Jehovah" as well, but I would bet you can not find one where the word Elohim is used the same way. I don't need to go hunting down your badly reference secondhand source to tell me when I can read it directly for myself. GabrielVelasquez (talk) 03:02, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Psalms were written in Hebrew, not English. The sentence in the lead is about the collection overall, not about a particular line in Psalm 83.  "Elohist" refers to the original Hebrew, not to English translations (KJV or otherwise), and is about the majority (not entirety) of the references being to Elohim, rather than YHWH. (Psalm 83 contains (I understand) both forms in Hebrew.) There's a lot going on here. (Jimmy Dunn was (until his recent retirement) professor of Theology at Durham University.) I'll try to clarify it. Feline Hymnic (talk) 23:32, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  There are no scriptures that refer directly to Elohim as a name as there are for Jehovah.
Talk:Rick Taylor (Splatterhouse)

message: Please stop adding worthless, unverified fan-fiction. It's not even spelt correctly. --Mysterious Bob 08:40, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inukaiser 

message: These could probably stand to be removed from the body of the article... or, at the very least, better integrated into it. --71.156.95.89 21:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: This article was loaded with fanfiction (some references to my own work, actually), conjecture and misinformation. I've attempted to clean it up and replace certain questionable statements and "facts" with what little information about Rick Taylor and the Terror Mask Namco provided us in the games and US release instructional manuals.
There is a possibility that some of the information I removed could have come from the Japanese instruction manuals (arguably the real source for canon Splatterhouse story info), but this is unprovable without a translation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dire51 (talk • contribs) 03:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes 

message: I redirected this to Rick Taylor (Pennsylvania politician), since a real article about a state legislator probably occupy this space rather than a redirect for a videogame character.--Protocop (talk) 13:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect
Talk:QSound

message: I think Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was mixed in QSound, though I can't actually say so. There was a movie I used to own on LaserDisc in the 1990s that had the QSound logo on it and performed the audio, via Dolby, in QSound. What the movie was, I don't remember anymore. It was brilliant-sounding, though. Coffee5binky (talk) 03:34, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  QSound Movie 

message: I just discovered that the PlayStation release of Formula One (1996) uses QSound. As there is no complete list of video games that utilise QSound on Wikipedia, am I able to just add this to the list on this page? TheSturgenator (talk) 06:51, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding video games with QSound
Talk:TransAsia Airways

message: See:
* http://www.asc.gov.tw/asc_en/accident_list_2.asp?accident_no=85
WhisperToMe (talk) 01:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Flight 791
Talk:Uni Air

message: You can say that the death count was eventually evaluated to be 1, but not that eventually one death occurred, because that seems to imply that more than one death occurred initially. In other words, the number of casualties was always what is was (and became at the time the events unfolded) whereas the official tally is subject to revision and a final determination, possibly long after the facts.2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:71B1:7C93:EC1D:B3FE (talk) 07:46, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "There was eventually one death" 
Category talk:English Football League clubs

message: The category says at the top that it is all clubs past and present. But the category consists almost entirely of current clubs, with a few who have recently left (eg Barnet, Aldershot, Hull, Crystal P, Southampton), missing a few who have just joined/returned (QPR, Reading, Mansfield). If it really is supposed to be all the clubs then it is an appallingly incomplete, missing nearly all the current Premier League clubs, who were all Football League clubs once, and the many many many clubs who have dropped out (eg Luton, Hereford, Glossop to name just a few). Either way there is clearly something very wrong with the category as it is at the minute. In any case, there is a separate Category:Former Football League Clubs for those who have left. Whatever, someone needs to figure out what the category is supposed to be and amend it accordingly, because at present it seems like no-one has any idea what the category is supposed to be and its contents aren't correct under any definition. The- (talk) 23:17, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Current or all-time?
Talk:Chikka

message: I think the Chikka Messenger section should be given a more prominent place, as it is the most recognizable Chikka product. For now I'll place it after History. focoma 05:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Layout 

message: Wasn't Chikka acquired by Smart Communications? I suppose it should be mentioned in the article. Zollerriia63 (talk) 06:28, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. (Somebody with better research skills could probably expand my edit, though.) f.ocoma (talk) 07:55, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 1 little comment

message: So I guess that a Chikka ID isn't a real SMS address / phone number or whatever, but rather their system has some sort of proprietary interface to each phone company's SMS network that the service interoperates with?  Experimenting with using it for anonymously receiving text messages I am finding that "Send a free text message" services on the internet seem unable to send messages to a Chikka ID.  Many of them request that you specify an SMS provider when you try to send a message to the Philippines but the dropdowns only ever list phone companies, not Chikka.  Also, Google application mechanisms that send messages via SMS refuse to recognize a Chikka ID as a valid phone number for the Philippines (which perhaps is obvious to someone from the Philippines as the Chikka ID is only eight digits long.)
Perhaps there are some digits you could pad onto the front of the Chikka ID that would direct everything to the correct network but if so that information does not seem to be listed on the Chikka site.
Still, it appears to be a pretty nifty-looking service and probably superior to anything that is available to me here in the U.S.... of course, I get the impression that the use of SMS is pretty much more sophisticated everywhere in the world outside of the U.S. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 10:46, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a real SMS address?
Talk:9617 Grahamchapman

message: Is there a reason 9617-9622 have their own articles?  Each article is identical, sans the name of the asteroid.  Perhaps redirects to a single article about all six? --711groove 09:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair question, but there's no point in doing so. It doesn't hurt anything to have them, the Python connection makes it somewhat interesting, and combining them into one article would be more of a deviation from the Astronomy article conventions. (BTW, there is a slight difference in the Chapman article, due to the presence of a moon.) --Ckatzchatspy 10:04, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment
Talk:Footballer of the Year in Russia (Sport-Express)

message: It should be "Footballer of the Year in Russia", not "Russian Footballer of the Year". The point is the place he plays, not his nationality. DGtal (talk) 17:50, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  name of article 

message: * "Sport-Express" version is not first version. Officially, "Football" weekly is 1st choice in Russia.--Oleg Abarnikov (talk) 11:37, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version
Talk:2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20

message: I fear my stage recaps might be too detailed. If so, let me know, and I'll trim (only stage 15 is probably too detailed at this time). I'll just userify the long ones and put more concise ones like stage 12 here if that's preferred. Nosleep1234 09:57, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too detailed?
Talk:Daedalion

message: In [Eosphorus]] his father is named as Eosphorus, not Hesperos. Dylanwhs 09:58, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father of Daedalion 

message: Note that from now on Chione is being redirected to this page. The decision was taken on the grounds that Chione's story is inextricably tied up with that of Daedalion and hence a redirect avoids needless repetition. Redirection followed discussion in an articles for deletion page available here. Nyctimene (talk) 20:57, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Chione Redirection
Talk:Diocese of Bath and Wells

message: :Prior to the English Reformation, it was a Roman Catholic diocese.
Er, yeah, that's rather obvious to anyone who has any basic idea about what the English Reformation was or indeed what the Church of England is.  Does anyone else think we can lose this sentence? Marnanel (talk) 21:16, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Captain Obvious 