Talk:Bindi Irwin/Archive 1

message: Hdw wrote: " Please stop replacing official external links with namejacked redirects.
Check where your links go and who is owning the site before listing as official."
CrocLover /Wayne Smith / Universe daily / 203.56.233.122 / etc, etc 
does not need to check the links. The redirect spam/neo-nazi/porn sites belong to him. He knows wher they go and is linkspamming deliberately. The Admins need to block the IDs and IPs, as all of Wayne Smith's sockpuppets are indefinitely exiled from WP.
See post #92 here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive56#Shutting_down_Universe_Daily_for_good.
Yale s 17:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: it isn't hard to run a whois on a site. If the 'official' site you're linking is registered by j.random loser or a protected account it's not an official site. In this case you would expect official sites to be registered to Austrailia Zoo, Animal Planet or Discovery Channel. Hdw 00:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Actually, I was talking to all people who add external links. I'm fully aware that we have morons who waste their time being vandals, but we also have people who think that a site like www.bindiirwin.com or www.bindisueirwin.com must be an official one, without checking the registry. Hdw 01:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LINKSPAMMER active on this page 

message: I have restored the history of the article and a redirect to Steve Irwin; feel free to create an article about her if you believe she is notable enough on her own. The previous deletion discussion resulted in deletion only because it was created by a banned user, thus not making any re-creation a candidate for speedy deletion. Please read the speedy deletion criteria. - Mike Rosoft 10:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy deletion

message: Googling her turns up a variety of articles about her specific to her pending television show, and also from before Steve's death. Wouldn't that count as making her notable enough for her own article? Just seems odd to wait for the premiere of her television show, as it's already set and slated to launch, since the amount of press will just naturally grow and grow each month as January approaches. · XP · 20:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not just start the article? 

message: I've filed onto DRV here. This silly circle of revisioning needs to stop so this can stand as an article. · XP · 14:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think a DRV is needed. The AFD did not run its course because it was discovered the article was created by a banned user. I don't think that deletion was with prejudice for a new article. If anyone thinks this should be deleted, they should AfD it, but I don't think a DRV is necessary.  Sarah Ewart (Talk) 15:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I filed just procedurally, since everyone that RVs this back to a redirect cites that borked AfD. · XP · 15:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DRV 

message: I've also requested page protection in article form here with clearly stated policy reasons of why. · XP · 14:53, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page protection 

message: I have read through the article and it seems very well written and constructed. My congratulations and thanks to the writer! Romtobbi 09:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congratulations on the article 

message: I protected the article until you work out what needs to be done, because edit warring is lame. —this is messedrocker (talk) 11:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What edit warring? Some edit warring occured yesterday, and the offender was blocked for 24 hours on a 3RR violation. Today's reverts were all cases of repairing vandalism. I've unprotected. -- Longhair\talk 11:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article protected 

message: It appears that blocked sockpuppeteer and listspam vandal user:Universe Daily has handed over the bindiirwin.com domain to the Irwins .  The name has now been removed from the meta blacklist.  Neverthess, I do not support it being added to the article as it is still just a redirect - albeit a legitimate one now. -- I@n 03:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel the same I@n. Keep the domain out of the article for now unless it's being used for unique content related to Bindi herself. I've also blocked the ip that added the domain for a week as a reappeance of a previously blocked link-spamming vandal. Whilst their recent edit may have been in good faith, there's plenty of other issues they need to address at Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Universe Daily before we can consider them a trusted contributor. -- Longhair\talk 03:16, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bindiirwin.com heads-up 

message: Surely some mention should be made of the controversy surrounding the attention she's getting and the pressure she appears to be under to be like her father (I believe some child psychologists have suggested it might be damaging probably amongst other issues that have been raised)? I know this was talked about a bit in a paper here in NZ and I would assume it had even more discussion in Oz. Nil Einne 08:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to agree. --Philo  01:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy surrounding attention 

message: The link does not go to an article about the TV show, rather a "type of superhero or adventurer character that appears in popular fiction".  I dunno what the proper article is (if one exists), so I haven't changed it.
:It should be Jungle Girl (television show), I just added it/fixed it. · XP · 03:25, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jungle Girl misdirects 

message: On one of the shows which showed Bindi's birth Terri made the comment to here new daughter along the lines of "How do you like being named after a dog and crocodile. Steve confirme this in an interview on his show later.--71.80.23.85 21:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bindi Name Origin 

message: I was watching a documentary on Animal Planet, in that program when they showed her name it was spelled "Bindi Sui" with an i insted of e.--Marhawkman 22:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: name spelling

message: As far as I am aware, "Articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the usage and spelling of that country." see here Bindi is Australian by birth, yet her article uses American spelling. Any particular reason for this? Sarsaparilla39 03:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  US/Aus. spelling