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Donguz Formation

Hi Ymblanter! Donguz Formation was recently created and could use a couple of edits so it doesn't get speedy deleted. Do you have time to look at some Russian sources? --Tobias1984 (talk) 07:13, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

I will have a look, but this is clearly not speedy deletion material. Added to the watchlist just in case.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:17, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Ezhiki#List of Russian landscape painters

Ярослав, вы не заглянете туда, если найдется время? Там Ленинградартист просто развернул деятельность, а мне не верят. Очень по вам скучаю :(( --Shakko (talk) 19:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Обязательно, но, наверное, уже завтра: только что вернулся из Польши, три дня был без интернета вообще.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:00, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Canada lists

// There are a number of problems with the Canadian historic places lists. They include:

• provincial lists are too long (some are over 1,000 entries) and need to be split
• lists are not sorted, and are not sortable even by municipality, due to the way the address was dumped
• don't use {{coord}}, so can't use {{GeoGroup}} for mapping
• references numbers (into the CRHP) are sometimes inaccurate, and need to be verified
• the same place may be multiply designated (federal/provincial/municipal, sometimes multiple federal)
• there are missing entries due to the way the data was retrieved

I have no easy ideas on how to address the last point, so am focusing on the other items. What I'm doing is a multi-step process:

1. Fill out the municipality field in the {{HPC row}} templates and deleted the municipality (and redundant "Canada") from the address field (if no municipality is given, try going to the referenced CRHP entry to figure it out)
2. Sort entries by municipality and count entries to figure out how to split the list. This is generally along the lines of counties or their equivalent (some Canadian counties have been supplanted by regional municipalities, see the Nova Scotia list for examples); you'll have to figure out which counties places are in
3. Split the big list; I've not been explicitly seeking consensus, but if the history indicates it might be needed, best check for it. The remaining steps are then done to each sublist.
4. Validate that the id numbers actually link to the proper CRHP listing. If they don't, find the right one by searching the CRHP (every listing I've seen with a wrong id was listed under a different one)
5. Merge duplicated listings where possible (it isn't if there is more than one federal designation, for example, but provincial and municipal listings can be merged into those)
6. Sort the list by primary alpha words (see the Nova Scotia or PEI lists for examples)
7. Change references to {{HPC row}} to {{HPC rowt}}, which uses {{coord}}. This requires changing "lat" and "lon" to "latd" and "longd", and changing the sign on the longitude. (IMHO the last is lame, but the template was already in use on several lists before I took this on)
8. Make sure municipality names are linked (I usually do this in conjunction with one of the other passes, and don't worry about redlinks)
9. If the name field contains pipe links, add "namea" field containing just the name, otherwise the coordinate field gets screwed up
10. Add {{GeoGroup}} and a locator map to the top of the list

I have done this for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI (almost done), and am starting in on New Brunswick. Others have previously done work on the Canadian territory lists (Yukon, Northwest, Nunavut, all fairly modest in length), and those for British Columbia and Saskatchewan. This leaves Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec to do, where some splitting has been done, but little else.

Things this work does not do fix:

• making the list sortable by address, which would require adding sort keys to the municipality field so that the listings get sorted properly within municipality (see {{sort}})
• making the list properly sortable by name (I tried putting sort keys in the name field, and it caused problems with the coordinates)

Did I mention this is tedious work? Thanks for helping! Magic♪piano 20:53, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanations. I will have a look at Alberta tomorrow.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:56, 22 August 20/13 (UTC)

Japan

Hi Ymblanter, in case you want to help: The Historic Sites of Japan need to be converted to use {{NHS Japan header}} and {{NHS Japan row}}. For now only the national part. I did a couple as examples. Multichill (talk) 15:41, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:08, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello; Is it possible to do any conversion by ?bot? as seems to have been done for these Chinese ones? The format of the Japanese lists is intended to be internally similar, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 11:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I guess this is more a question to @Multichill: than to me, but I guess if it were he would do the conversion himself without asking me. Let us wait what he answers. If the conversion is not possible, I volunteer to do at least some of the manual conversion (one-two lists per day).--Ymblanter (talk) 11:50, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I tried converting with a bot, but didn't manage to do it without too much mess so I abandoned that. Multichill (talk) 16:51, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Cleaning up the Belarus geographical mess

I'm getting unstuck in trying to compile a table of terminology for the Belarus geographical naming conventions. There appears to be a flood of new articles and stubs recently and it appears that English Wikipedia is now leading the way with transliteration/transcription norms (which, as we know, simply isn't Wikipedia's role). As the contributors don't seem to know what to do other than follow the current directives, we're ending up with orphaned pages and broken links absolutely everywhere.

My thoughts are to follow the Belarusian government standards for the English speaking world (which DON'T involve the irritating version of what is essentially Latinka), i.e. as laid out per this map and other official sites. What's good enough for the Belarus government should be good enough for us.

You can check the sad beginnings in my sandbox. Any constructive input from sensible Wikipedians would be appreciated.

I've left this message on Ezhiki and TaalVerbeteraar's pages as well. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:54, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

The beginning seems reasonable, thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:53, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic

Greetings. Any chance you could proof/source improve my Russian translation of the history and expand it further?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:29, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:35, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

ARA Libertad

I have one revert, the first edit was to remove a dubious claim. I have engaged on the talk page. Your warning is misplaced. I request that you self-revert, this is getting to the point where my next step is WP:ANI. You can take that statement as my warning I will do so. WCM_email 08:15, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Well, one more revert at your side, and WP:3RR will be counting how many reverts exactly you have made.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:17, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Do I take your statement to be an intent to revert on sight and restore fringe material and a refusal to self-revert. WCM_email 08:19, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Please take it as one more warning. I will first get you blocked, and then see whether I need to revert. The material is nopt fringe, and even if it were, it is not an exemption of WP:3RR--Ymblanter (talk) 16:31, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

RFPP

Can you take a look at WP:RFPP please ? --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:25, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Sure, will do now.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Editing

Could you edit the page 2010 in film in this way; see this:

Highest-grossing films of 2010

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross
1.	Toy Story 3	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar	$1,063,171,911
2.	Alice in Wonderland	Walt Disney Pictures	$1,025,467,110
3.	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Warner Bros.	$960,283,305
4.	Inception	Warner Bros. / Legendary	$825,532,764
5.	Shrek Forever After	Paramount / DreamWorks	$752,600,867
6.	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	Summit Entertainment	$698,491,347
7.	Iron Man 2	Paramount / Marvel Studios	$623,933,331
8.	Tangled	Walt Disney Pictures	$591,794,936
9.	Despicable Me	Universal / Illumination	$543,113,985
10.	How to Train Your Dragon	Paramount / DreamWorks	$494,878,759

References

Did you understand what I am saying; I am asking to edit this page according to this way. I would ask you to edit pages 2011 in film and 2012 in film in this way.

I already replied and made very clear that (i) I am not going to do this; (ii) you should try to discuss at talk pages, something you are apparently unwilling to do. Please stop posting here. Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I've found your comment on my talk page. I reply here, as maybe you can't check it again. I was just trying yo adjust the Brescia line as it was not appearing right in the table, when I've tried to save it correctly with all the Brescia data correct and at the right place, it appeared a message of overediting or something like that, so I stopped editing. What does "editing as IP" mean? Don't worry, I don't want to generate any war. :) But unfortunately someone deletes the right contribution I leave (just in one particular page). — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreaTartaglia (talk • contribs) 15:49, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

ANI

Your edit summary is incomprehensible. Both Bishonen and Liz have looked into this, two highly respected administrators. You should not be throwing allegations of socking around without providing evidence. 81.147.142.137 (talk) 12:04, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

It has been reverted yesterday. What did change since yesterday evening?--Ymblanter (talk) 12:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Oh, I see, and Bishonen has already come to conclusion you are not acting in good faith. Bad luck and no ANI for you, sorry.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

• It wasn't reverted by Liz, it was reverted by the miscreant.
• You're being misled here. The vital part of the discussion on Bishonen's user talk was removed by the miscreant. 81.147.142.137 (talk) 12:14, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

  I am not going to tolerate this language at my talk page. Please stop disruptive editing and block evasion.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:44, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Are you an administrator?

Hi, are you an administrator? Cheers, --Sixtytwoonefiftyfouroneninesevenninenine (talk) 17:42, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:02, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Don't retire!

Please don't retire, Yaroslav. We need you!!! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 22:55, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

I second. 23:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)CounterTime (talk)

Thanks, It is getting better now.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:39, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

I third. GAB^Hello! 20:06, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

List of metro system

Hi there! What do You think about this revision? It is or not a WP:DE? I provide to report the text deleted in discussion for not lost it, ok?

Cheers--82.49.107.13 (talk) 06:59, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Since I protected the article, I am obviously not going to be involved with its content, in particular, with the current dispute.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:04, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Ok, but is it or not a WP:DE, for Your opinion? He deleted the useful work of other users (with sources and so on). Regards,--82.49.107.13 (talk) 07:10, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The work is not "lost" – it's all still kept in the revision history. On the other hand, repasting the entire contents of the article to the Talk page, as you have essentially done, may be considered "disruptive". --IJBall (contribs • talk) 07:35, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

And who are you?! – Your current IP matches neither of the IP addresses that edited the article before Ymblanter protected it, so I can't even tell which changes you're objecting to... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 07:39, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

SPI

I am considering going to SPI regarding... a certain situation and a user whose name I can not type. This was suggested on their talk page. Do you believe that it is worth it? Thanks, GAB^Hello! 20:13, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Given that the sockmaster is not blocked, I do not think it can lead to anything except for a block of a possible user with two edits. They did not even formally break any policy - it is not prohibited to edit while logged out, they did not team-revert, and their unblock conditions is a matter of two admins who are watching their talk page. I think the user just still have very little understanding what Wikipedia is for, and this will lead to the reinstatement of an indefinite block pretty soon.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:48, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the sound advice. I probably shouldn't jump the gun. Furthermore, on a different note, we are seeing very nasty comments on Americans for Legal Immigration, and our patience is wearing thin. So I would appreciate your advice in this case, too. Best, GAB^Hello! 22:57, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

AIV and range block if this has not yet been done (I see that the last comment has been revdeled)--Ymblanter (talk) 06:45, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Need some help

Dear Yaroslav, I'm asking you to pay attention to the edits made by the vandal Yura2404, who was constantly making false claims and trying to exaggerate Russian casualties in WWI-related articles by cherry-picking sources and citing books and websites that didn’t support his words (for a discussion of his vandalism, see [1], [2], [3]). For example, in "Baranovichi Offensive" he put the number of Russian casualties at “80,000 KIA, WIA, MIA” and gave a reference to Залесский К. А. Кто был кто в Первой мировой войне. — М:Астрель. АСТ, 2003. — p. 699 (in Russian). However, there is not even a single mention of those “80,000 KIA, WIA, MIA” on p. 699 or elsewhere. In "Lake Naroch Offensive" he estimated the Russian casualties at 150,000, pointing to another Russian source, namely Оськин М. В., Брусиловский прорыв, М., 2010, p. 7, despite the fact that it actually puts the casualties at 80,000 (p. 8), not even close to 150,000. In "First Battle of the Masurian Lakes" he added a sentence saying that “[the] Russians suffered a crushing defeat and retreated in disarray with massive losses” and left a reference to Spencer C. Tucker, The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia, 2013, p. 232. However, p. 232 says that “Rennenkampf finally disengaged under cover of a two-division counterattack, thereby preventing a second German double envelopment” instead of “retreated in disarray”. In "Siege of Przemyśl" the same vandal estimated the casualties sustained by the Russian army at "115,000 total casualties (40,000 casualties were sustained in the first few days of the siege)", pointing to the following link: [4] (in Hungarian). Once again, I checked his source, only to find out that it doesn't contain this overall number. So far, the vandal has damaged multiple articles and it will take a lot of time for others to improve them. Although he was warned on the Administrators' noticeboard in July, he is still willing to make changes to "Battle of Kursk". Eriba-Marduk (talk) 21:42, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

I am afraid there is very little I can do. I would say the best strategy is first to try to talk to them at their talk page, and if it does not help take it to ANI citing these arguments.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:59, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Edit Quest!

	Edit Quest!
	Titusfox has requested that you join them for an afternoon of questing, slaying and looting at Edit Quest, the Wikipedia Based RPG! I Hope to see you there! TF { Contribs } { Edit Quest! } 14:02, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, not really my piece of cake.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Please add Montana of 300 to the prominent artist list, on the Drill rap subgenre page. He is currently the hottest and most popular in the style.

Please leave an edit request at the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:37, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Miss World 2016

Has been recreated again even though it has been through AFD. Can you delete it and possibly SALT too. It has been recreated at least three times....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

I recently had a very bad experience after I speedily deleted a similarly non-notably article under the same criterion, and I do not want to go through all this again. Could you please ask another administrator. Salting, if still needed, would not be a problem.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:51, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

All right, I messaged Cactus writer. The two of you were the administrators who deleted the article after the previous AFDs....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:07, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Hello Ymblanter: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:27, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:05, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

Hello Ymblanter: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Solomon7968 06:16, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:57, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

	Merry Christmas!!
	Hello, I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!    –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 17:14, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Merry Christmas to you as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:18, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Arr thank you :), Have a lovely new year too :) –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 17:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Nông Thị Xuân

Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 21:34, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:36, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

History_of_Ukraine#Independent_Ukraine

I is not sure that adding 2015 information about the state of reforms in Ukraine and its economics in History_of_Ukraine#Independent_Ukraine is a good thing.... Especially since information about the state of reforms in Ukraine and its economics prior to this year is missing in History_of_Ukraine#Independent_Ukraine. A lot is missing in History_of_Ukraine#Independent_Ukraine.... History_of_Ukraine#Independent_Ukraine is supposed to be a small summary; adding very detailed current information in it does not make sense to me. That is for other Wikipedia articles like economy of Ukraine. — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 15:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I am open on this, but when I came to that article the 2014-2015 part looked like a selection of randomly added sentences. I tried to make it more ordered, added the elections of Poroshenko (who prior to my edits was not even mentioned in the article) and a couple of more things. In my view, this is an overview article, and say in 2030, if Wikipedia survives until then, it should briefly discuss the 2014 events and the aftermath - whether the reforms which started were successful. Obviously, we do not know yet, but as for now, everything I could find confirms the summary of the Bloomberg opinion piece - that the reforms are basically stalled and the economy is on the verge of collapse. I have never seen a different opinion except from the parties clearly affiliated with Ukrainian government. If such opinions exist, they must clearly be added in the article. However, I feel that at this point (December 2015) some one-line summary is already needed, and since there is plenty of RS on this, I think it should stay in the article. Again, I am open on this, and please by all means feel free to reformulate if you think it is POV or does not express the sources.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:33, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Agree! I added some stuff about the presidency's of Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych and the state of human rights and economics in Ukraine. This added to your additions about 2015/2015 state of reforms in Ukraine and its economic the section is starting to make some sense. More could be done, but I am just not such an enthusiastic Wikipedian as before 2014.... — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 18:22, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Great, I was watching in real time how the section was improving. Thank you.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:24, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Problematic user

CharlesBradlaughSociety (talk · contribs), who you recently blocked for edit warring, clearly represents a group, which isn't allowed. I was wondering how you intend to handle this? (Call it a new admin learning experience.) They've been notified of the problem but not taken any action. BethNaught (talk) 18:58, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

They clearly do not get it, possibly because they do not understand what Wikipedia is (may be they do not even know what the talk page is). To enable us to do smth, they must respond in some way at their talk page. If they do not, but instead continue after the block expires, they are likely to be blocked again, and at some point they will just get indeffed.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:02, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

That makes sense. Thanks, BethNaught (talk) 20:55, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26's RFA Appreciation award

	The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
	Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 24:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's greets

Желаю вам веселых праздников, Ярослав! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 00:16, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Спасибо, и Вам тоже.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:42, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Capital punishment in Japan

Hello, Ymblanter! I'm sorry, I have two request. The first - vandalism of the page "Capital punishment in Japan" still continues, despite the protection, due vandal(s) create autoconfirmed accounts. Maybe, it's useful to change protection level to sysop only? The second: two mass murderers are really executed at december, 18. 92.243.166.135 (talk) 18:39, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

I think this is best handled via the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year... ...and if it came to pass, a fruitful retirement... Codename Lisa (talk)

Thank you, also merry Christmas to you.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:08, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Talkback message from Tito Dutta

Hello, Ymblanter. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics#Need_some_serious_help.
Message added 18:39, 25 December 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Tito Dutta (talk) 18:39, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

The return

Hey Ymblanter, (did you read my mail btw?) This editorially disruptive user's been violating WP:3RR before (remember that ANI section I made for which admin action never arrived?),[5]-[6]- and now he's at it warring again, with a loaded battleground edit summary, reverted numerous users and editing with a agenda loaded pov.[7]-[8]. I have tons more of diffs if needed, let me know. - LouisAragon (talk) 19:12, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I responded about an hour ago. If the editor keeps reverting, this is the matter for WP:3RRN.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:16, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I am removing unsourced pan-Iranian imperialistic propaganda that you inserted in articles. The information had to be sourced when it was inserted, not after the fact. If you check the edit history of these pages, as well as the talk pages, the information had been challenged multiple times in the past, yet it remained unsourced and intact.--Damianmx (talk) 19:19, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

This Georgian user (if he really is) is making highly disruptive edits and personally motivated article moves on Georgia-related articles. He continues his edit wars on articles like Georgians, Prince Vakhushti of Kartli, Niko Pirosmani. He also makes conflicting moves on Prince Vakhtang-Almaskhan of Georgia and Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians. This needs to stop as soon as possible. Jaqeli 21:28, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Since I was involved at some point, I can not block them myself. I guess ANI if the best option (unless there is an explicit violation of the 3RR), my experience is that after three or four motivated ANI requests disruptive users usually get blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:33, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Blocked them anyway for large-scale edit-warring, I was involved with Tbilisi and otherwise never interacted with the user,and they are edit-warring in the articles I never looked at.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:38, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks but 24h block methinks is a bit shorter block for him. I deeply believe his editing behavior would remain the same as I am not sure he will learn any lessons with this short block. Jaqeli 21:54, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

If they continue editing in the same way the issue had to be raised again. I do not see why the first block for edit-warring should be longer than 24h.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:03, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

@Ymblanter:; I just wanted to add to this convo between you and Jaqeli that its unfortunately not only edit warring btw (by far), but a pretty significant scale of disruptive (agenda)-loaded edits in general. This includes, but is not limited to;

• Specifically targeting anything that links Georgia and Iran, ties which are historically extremely important for both, and which includes the blanket removal of anything that connects the two; [9]-[10]-[11]-[12]-[13]-[14]-[15]-[16]

• Calling other Wikipedia users who have partial Iranian ancestry as "invaders" of Georgia; “(…) Persians did a great amount of pillaging, massacring and destruction and nothing makes you better or more related to Georgia than any other conqueror that has crossed their path.”)

• Fake edit summaries (can link more of such); (no consensus was ever reached)-[17]

• Specifically targeting Iran (can link tons more of such); [18]-[19]

• More Battleground-type of comments; [20]

• Wikihouding; [21]-[22]

And thats just the tip of the iceberg regarding the mere two weeks this account is active here. - LouisAragon (talk) 23:38, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

This could be a good case for ANI, but only after the user has been warned at their talk page of the existence of all the policies they seem to break.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:19, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:AURORA

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:AURORA. Legobot (talk) 00:04, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review for P.A.W.N.

An editor has asked for a deletion review of P.A.W.N.. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Mfalc1 (talk) 21:05, 29 December 2015 (UTC) This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Mfalc1 (talk) 21:40, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:45, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

2016

	Happy New Year 2016!
	Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.    – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 02:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, also happy New Year to you.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Archiving, not deleting

I recently noticed this edit in which you deleted the protected/declined. There's the rolling archive, which if you want to manually archive them (which is suggested not to by a hatnote) then you should move it there, not delete it. Happy new year, Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 10:44, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

This is my fault. I was looking for this note but somehow was under impression they are just deleted. Will try to repair it now. Thanks, and also happy New Year.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:51, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia threat

What do you think of this. Personally I feel like it's simply vandalism, but I appreciate comments. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 13:45, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Looks like vandalism, but since it is at AN anyway, somebody would deal with it.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:47, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I already reverted it. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 13:48, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for protecting the List of deaths in rock and roll article. That IPv6 user had already vandalized the hell out of the page, as well as adding unsourced infomation and possibly false information, and. irrelevant additions. Cheers. 2602:304:CDC0:D470:C07B:65AE:97D4:9298 (talk) 19:00, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Sure, no problem--Ymblanter (talk) 19:06, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Streisand effect

Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 20:31, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 20:35, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ymblanter!

Happy New Year!

Ymblanter,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 11:13, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you, also happy New Year to you.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:15, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Ymblanter!

Happy New Year!

Ymblanter,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:43, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you, also happy New Year to you--Ymblanter (talk) 21:44, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

User:Shivanshsinghrajpoot

You blocked this editor, and I see he's been blocked before. Could you take a look at the history of Government Polytechnic Soron Kasganj? I tightened up the article, including removing his name from both the list of students and the caption space in the infobox, but numerous IPs have been restoring some of the stuff I removed - and some that I condensed and moved to another place in the article. If the IPs are not him, I imagine they are his friends. The thing is, he/they are not doing any favors for the institution, in my view, with such trivia. I also cleaned up several of his other articles, and I'm concerned that unless he comes to understand the reason why I and others make such changes, he will continue to create very poor articles. I wrote him a note on his user talk after the first such IP appeared after his block. Maybe you disagree with some of my thinking, including with some of my changes to the articles; I'd also like to get someone else to look at them, to make sure I am not being overly harsh. Maybe on the other hand you can get him to listen so he does something more useful, like looking for sources. Thanks for reading this rambling statement, anyway :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 13:33, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

I semi-protected the article for three weeks for persistent disruptive editing and I am prepared to protect it again if disruption continues. Adding the list of students is definitely over the top. I suspect the IPs are the same user evading the block, but I am not good at filing SPIs (and I believe CUs will never comment on the correspondence between IPs and a registered user). Anyway, now they have to go to the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:43, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Ymblanter: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. North America1000 10:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you, also happy New Year to you.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:05, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

User:GeorgiaWikiWriter

Hello Ymblanter,

I have warned User:GeorgiaWikiWriter several times because of his disruptive editing and edit wars. He was also warned by @Flyer22 Reborn: and @Kunalforyou: but he ignored us all. I believe he is a pure vandal that should be blocked indefinitely. One of the last edits he made was on Westboro Baptist Church calling it "a group of fucking morons." His behavior needs to be addressed asap. Thanks. Jaqeli 16:02, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Blocked 48h --Ymblanter (talk) 16:10, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

He doesn't learn his lessons. After he got unblocked he is again vandalizing the redirects over Chichua article. This just needs to stop. Thanks. Jaqeli 10:18, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I do not see anything wrong with their edits after the expiration of the block. The name of the article should be properly discussed, and they seem to be participating in the discussion as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:23, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

He has moved the page to non-existent names like "House Chichuaa", "House Chichua", "House of Tchitchua". House of Chichua does not exist. This is just some petty Georgian noble family and he since got registered here is pushing into an aggrandizement of this surname and this needs to stop. Jaqeli 10:34, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I do not feel myself comfortably enough to intervene in this situation. You can try asking at WP:ANI but I am afraid chances are not very high, you would need to build up a fairly convincing story.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:37, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Just a question, is this user allowed to edit Armenia-related articles? I see he is TBAN'ed but interested if this applies today as well. He had made some Armenia-related edits recently. Jaqeli 07:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Looks like they are topic-banned from Armenian articles, see [Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions/Log|here].--Ymblanter (talk) 08:09, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Recreating James Dumont Article

I have heard that the James Dumont Article has been deleted on October 5, 2015. I would like to recreate the article because he has been in big films such as Dallas Buyer's Club, Ocean's Thirteen, Lee Daniel's The Butler, and Jurassic World. He has also appeared in shows American Horror Story, Wild Card, Ravenswood, Hide, and Harry's Law. He has worked in numerous tv shows and in film, so should I remake it.

The easiest is to use the mechanism of articles for creation, create a draft and then let it get reviewed by community members. Otherwise, if you are sure the person is notable you can just go ahead, but there is always a chance the article could be nominated for deletion. Unfortunately since James Dumont does not seem to ever existed, I can not poin you out to the deletion discussion. Once you try to recreate the article, there should be a link.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:46, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

blocking of 14.140.220.82

The history of 14.140.220.82 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is rather complicated. The article {{la|Indian Badminton League]] (IBL) was usurped to Premier Badminton League (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (PBL) somewhere about 18 Dec 2015, possibly by Vpgautham. The article was then moved to PBL by someone not involved and IBL redirected to PBL. 14.140.220.82 initially tried to add IBL info to the IBL page here but was informed here No, the article has been moved. So, it would appear that 14.140.220.82 has been trying to un-usurp PBL and restore it back to IBL. I thought the anon was attempting to remove the copyright vio tag. If I had known that, I would have directed the anon to IBL and resolved the redirect concern. I have since copied the anon's text back to IBL. (Not sure how to recover the page history properly here). Anyway, while the anon has been non-communicative, I would suspect that if pointed to IBL, few problems would occur. I request you either remove or reduce the block time. Best regards Jim1138 (talk) 05:20, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I just saw that the same IP was blocked for a week in September and thought a month is appropriate in the situation they are massively edit-warring. I can reduce the block to 10 days or smth. If you need a history merge, please let me know.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:25, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I now agree with you. It would appear that Arvabhi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is 14.140.220.82 reincarnated. Same edit thrice at this point. Neither respond to questions on their talk page. There are news sources stating IBL is rebranding to PBL. Interesting though, the IBL website is still up and does not mention the name change that I have seen. Request withdrawn! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Supdiop4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Hi Ymblanter - could you block block-evading Supdiop4 as a sock of Supdiop? Thanks -- samtar ^whisper 08:26, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Already done, thanks Euryalus--Ymblanter (talk) 08:28, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

On the ball @Euryalus:! Thanks anyway -- samtar ^whisper 08:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Football records in spain

Thanks for protecting the page. However, you have forgotten to keep the article in the consensus version. A user just reverted a few seconds before you made the protection. Can you please revert it back to the consensus version? Thanks.SupernovaeIA (talk) 21:13, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

No, please read WP:WRONG VERSION. Sorry for that.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:17, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I did read it. And again you have made the same mistake. Please at least put it in the consensus version. The other user again sneaked through before you protected. SupernovaeIA (talk) 12:28, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

This is not my task to decide which version is correct. And you both will be blocked soon for six reverts anyway--Ymblanter (talk) 12:32, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm curious to know why you have simply blocked the two editors yourself? You don't appear to be involved and this hasn't attracted the attention of other admins. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:18, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Probably too late by now, it would look punitive. I wanted to have a second opinion, but it was not forthcoming.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:30, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!

I'd have given you a barnstar, but you don't like those. :) Thanks for helping out with ZOIDKIN - I figured that there was some mischief involved, but I wasn't quite sure from whom. You definitely saved the day here! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:34, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Sure, you are welcome.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:35, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

• On a side note, I'm not entirely sure what to do with all of the Rajeshbieee pages. I've sort of stopped for the time being since there's a small chance that he could be unblocked and one of the requirements was that he go through all of his pages and deal with them, but I don't want to let them sit either. (sighs) I figure I'll start going through and at least get rid of a few more of the obvious ones, like the articles for the films that never released. I want to start back up with them, but if there's a slim chance that he may be unblocked and have to do the work instead of us, then I'd like to give him the chance to do this. Part of his unblock requires that he have an uninvolved mentor to assist him, but so far I don't know that there are any takers in this situation. Ah well. Still, we have to focus on the positives - we managed to help someone earlier! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:44, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

  To be honest, I am pretty sure this is a sock - and the fact he says he is not but can not explain the incidence in the user name is not really helping, but we definitely need to wait for CU's. I user to PROD one article from the list per day, I guess I need to resume this.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:12, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

IP hopping by Alexiulian25

Hello, 31.192.108.216 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) is the latest IP of Alexiulian25. Please block. Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 19:31, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Noel Gugliemi

Thank you for the protection at Noel Gugliemi. Per this Tumblr screenshot, IP editors have found it funny to go through and reinstate what's displayed. Seeing this was what caused me to begin reverting on the page. Such protection should deter them. Thanks again. Alex|The|Whovian^? 12:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Sure, no problem.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:14, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Page protection

Hey Ymblanter, could you protect this page again? I saw you protected it some time ago, hence why I thought I'd bring it up to you. The same IP hopper is namely at it again with his persistent disruptive editing. - LouisAragon (talk) 14:15, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Configured pending changes instead.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:21, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Спасибо )) - LouisAragon (talk) 14:32, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Vera Songwe

I suppose she could have done a post-doc or something at Michigan, but I accept your reading as better than mine. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 04:08, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

That is exactly what I thought, but postdoc would for my qualieified as "worked", not as "studied", and I tried to write it in the most general way. Let us see, may be some other sources would show up at some point.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:16, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

ahmed saad al azhari

Hi Ymblanter I was hoping you would find the time to help me? From my limited knowledge for Wikipedia I managed to write my first article 'ahmed saad al azhari', however unfortunately it was deleted (by you I think?). I need to re-edit the page to make it less promotional. How do I do that as the ariticle is now deleted? Would I need to create a new article under the same name? To make matters worse, I have chosen a user name that makes it appear the subject of the article is the writer - where this is not the case. I am not Ahmed Saad. Please also could you give me general advice in areas I need to pay attention to on the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmedsaad.ihsan (talk • contribs) 22:43, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Could you please provide the exact name of the article? I do not remember anything about it, and without knowing why it was deleted it is not possible to recommend anything.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:28, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Sure, the link for the deletion log is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Saad_(Islamic_Scholar) I wanted to rework the article to focus on independent sources. However I still need to refer to some sources that has a relationship with the subject for factual information only. Is this ok? I just don't want to create another page again and get ahmed saad al azhari blacklisted from Wikipedia! Thank you for your time Ahmedsaad.ihsan (talk) 20:06, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I think there does need to be an article on him, as he seems to be quite a prominent Islamic personality in the UK and abroad. He has appeared in newspapers and was a panelist with Lord Cary on BBC's Doha Debates. Ahmedsaad.ihsan (talk) 20:10, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I see. There was a deletion discussion which I summarized, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari. If you can find reliable sources which demonstrate his notability, then the easiest is to start Draft:Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari, and, when you are ready, nominate it for move to the article space.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:14, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Sounds good, I will get to work! Thank you for your help. It was my first article. Do you think I should create a new username? I don't want the community to think I am Ahmed SaadAhmedsaad.ihsan (talk) 20:22, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

It is up to you. You can also ask to be renamed, then the contribution gets preserved.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:35, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Football records in Spain again

With protection on this page having expired a few days ago, edit war has started up again. Could you please block the editors involved. Thanks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I blocked one, though they are quite predictably unhappy.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:50, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Likely sock

XxKimJongUnLoverxX is probably the same as the guy you just blocked. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks, GAB^Hello! 21:45, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, blocked this one as well.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:50, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

People’s Artist of the RSFSR

Hi, hope you're well. Any chance you could start the missing article at the end of Larisa Avdeyeva? Russian wiki article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:05, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

I will have a look later today. It should be in principle possible.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:08, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

i'm not a sock account

well first of all my "42" edits are correcting my own spelling mistakes but i wont bother doing it in future

also the sources i include the bellingcat team which you are happy to have as a source when it reinforces the pro-nato and pro-maidan narrative however based on new "research" by eliot higgins he states that the russian army crossed the border which completely contradicts the nato story that the rebels captured a buk system and for the record the ukrainian army also states that NO BUK WAS CAPTURED from them so both kiev army and bellingcat {eliot higgins} state that the german BND are wrong when the claim rebels captured a buk

you threaten to block me because even with the pro-nato journalist sources i show you that you are absolutely wrong when you delete information from them in an effort to peddle a narrative that even the ukraine army says is wrong

and in relation to "odessa clashes" you very disgracefully implying the victims burned themselves with your "building caught fire in unclear circumstances" when the videos and sources clearly show firstly the building being attacked with petrolbombs and then the escaping victims were set upon and beaten with billyclubs.

and given pro- maidan volunteermarek has chimed in proves wikipedia has no interest in information sources if sources even pro-nato one's dont agree with versions peddled by kiev

So you're "not a sock account" yet somehow you know that I'm "pro-maidan" (WTFTI).Volunteer Marek (talk) 23:41, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

based on the pro-maidan garbage you have been peddling yes marek you are pro-maidan ....you even call eliot higgins "unreliable source" when he posts info that doesn't support western narrative but when he posts a pro-kiev narrative he is totally legit why is it that bellingcat is a riable source for this .. but yet when bellingcat states this .he is an unreliable source why the double standards... And as for the trade union house "bursting into flames for no reason" apparently what you can see with your own eyes is not a credible source..OK then Bazzabobo (talk) 01:21, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

I am not quite sure what the purpose of these messages is. First, you say I have done something I have not done (for example, I did not add or remove any Bellingcat sources, and I do not even have an opinion whether they are reliable. Second, it reads like you want that we make exceptions for policies for you (like WP:RS). I doubt this is going to happen. I still believe you are a sock, but as I said, at this stage I am not going to take any action based on this belief.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

References

AfD of Possible Interest

Based on your participation in an AfD for United States presidential election, 2020, you may be interested in this AfD. (This neutrally worded notification is being provided to every editor who registered a !vote in the aforementioned RfC, regardless of direction of their vote, and is therefore done in compliance with WP:CANVASSING and WP:VOTESTACKING.) LavaBaron (talk) 00:21, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Football records in Spain yet again

Sorry to keep pestering you with this, but now the other editor involved in the edit war on this page has now resumed edit warring also. Could you please block them as well. Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:52, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

I am now without internet for likely two days (just found one in McDonalds and need o run away in a minute); could you please post it at ANI or 3RRN indicating that one warrior was already blocked, and that I support the block in principle but have no time to go into details. Thanks, sorry for inconvenience.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Darts world rankings

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Darts world rankings. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Third time around at Bach Page and Bach Talk Page

Thanks for your page protection at the Bach page two weeks ago. The disruptive editor User:Francis who caused me to request that Full page protection has returned now a third time to continue edit warring and forum shopping on the Bach article. There is currently the history on the Bach article of your Full page protect of the Bach article, followed by another admin (MusikA) making a subsequent full page protect of Bach, followed by a third admin (SoftL) making a cautionary warning to User:Francis to follow RfC guidelines and to stop edit warring on the Bach article and the Bach Talk page. Other editors have complained about User:Francis's disruptive editing here [23].

I then rewrote the RfC into a format to allow User:Francis to bring his own version of the edit into the article by creating a separate section for him in the new RfC which I placed there last week. Instead, User:Francis then disrupted the new RfC announcement by pretending to be a co-author of the new RfC and changing its wording with the apparent intention of disrupting the RfC and deflecting all participation from other editors. The disruption of the RfC has led to a "broken" RfC with no participants joining the discussion following User:Francis's disruptive edits to the RfC.

This type of disruptive editing I have not previously seen and it has occured three times now. I can offer to rewrite a new RfC a third time to try to come even closer to consensus, but User:Francis is consistently disrupting the edits and edit warring. Since there are 4-5 editors who have requested the User:Buxte edit to the Bach article, with only two editors opposed, it seems that the original 4-5 supporting editors should be given their chance to at least have a fair RfC and to let it run the full 30-days. I can rewrite the RfC a third time if you think it would help since there does not appear to be another way to get past the three previous edit warring attempts by User:Francis. Since you were the original editor to place the Full Page Protection possibly you know the best way to ensure a stable editing environment for the RfC process on the Bach Talk page given this disruptive edit history by User:Francis. Could you glance at this. Fountains-of-Paris (talk) 16:24, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

No, unfortunately I am travelling now and can not commit any time to this issue. You may want to try WP:ANI, and when it failes, WP:DRN.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Turning deleted articles into redirects

Just to let you know, that a number of deleted articles (such as here) will be turned into #REDIRECTS. This is done in the context of a major revision of:

• clean-up of non-notable articles (removal as per WP:NASTRO)
• fixing the List of minor planets#Main index (removal of self-redirects and redlinks)
• several subcategories in Category:Asteroids (consistency).

Only previously deleted articles with a formal "number-name" designation will be turned into redirects, while articles for unnamed bodies are generally not affected. Rfassbind – talk 08:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Tom Baigrie page deleted

I would like to re-establish and re-edit the wikipedia page for Tom Baigrie, which was deleted in 2013. The individual has become more noteworthy in recent years across UK financial services regulation and business and there are now multiple sources to which this can be referenced. Would it be acceptable to reinstate the page under these circumstances? Mattmorris100 (talk) 12:43, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

No, I do not think this is a good idea. The best way is probably to create a draft in the Draft space and then nominate it for move to the article space.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

New talk section

In the Football records in spain, i have opened a new talk section. So dont accuse me no more saying I didnt notice the talk section. This has been done many times but admins are too lazy to see talk archives. SupernovaeIA (talk) 18:41, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

VISA REQUIRMENTS FOR TUNISIAN CITIZENS

I AM NEW IN WIKIPEDIA AND I EVEN DO NOT HAVE THAT TIME TO BE A PRO HERE, WHEN IT COMES TO THE PAGE OF THE VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR TUNISIAN CITIZENS THE PAGE WAS BLOCKED PLEASE TRY TO READ ALL ITS TALK PAGE TO UNDERSTAND THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GIVE INFOS IN OTHER WAYS AND THANKS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.Majdiii (talk • contribs) 22:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

It was blocked because all these many people could not agree with each other and started edit warring. Try posting on the talk page of that article and agree with other users.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:43, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki_talk:RefToolbar.js#ref_names_needing_quotes

День добрый. Не могли бы вы поправить эту ошибку? Гаджет используется и в рувики (напрямую с енвики), а так у нас имена сносок зачастую на кириллице, то это становится проблемой. Исправить нужно в функции getQuotedString (я не знаю, почему там проверяется только на вхождение кавычек и пробелов, а не оборачивается всегда). --Dima st bk (talk) 22:45, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Так для меня слишком сложно. Я могу исправить, если Вы мне напишете, какую комбинацию символов надо заменить на какую.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:51, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Я бы заменил

CiteTB.getQuotedString = function(s) {
  var sp = /\s/.test(s); // spaces
  var sq = /\'/.test(s); // single quotes
  var dq = /\"/.test(s); // double quotes
  if (!sp && !sq && !dq) { // No quotes necessary
    return s;
  } else if (!dq) { // Can use double quotes
    return '"'+s+'"';
  } else if (!sq) { // Can use single quotes
    return "'"+s+"'";
  } else { // Has double and single quotes
    s = s.replace(/\"/g, '\"');
    return '"'+s+'"';
  }
};

на

CiteTB.getQuotedString = function(s) {
  var sq = /\'/.test(s); // single quotes
  var dq = /\"/.test(s); // double quotes
  if (!sq && !dq) { // Always quotes for non-latin alphabet
    return '"'+s+'"';
  } else if (!dq) { // Can use double quotes
    return '"'+s+'"';
  } else if (!sq) { // Can use single quotes
    return "'"+s+"'";
  } else { // Has double and single quotes
    s = s.replace(/\"/g, '\'');
    return '"'+s+'"';
  }
};

тогда оно будет ставить кавычки везде. --Dima st bk (talk) 10:59, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Исправил, проверьте, пожалуйста, что работает--Ymblanter (talk) 11:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Работает, спасибо. --Dima st bk (talk) 12:38, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

This was a request to edit mediawiki (the original request was filed at the talk page linked above).--Ymblanter (talk) 11:08, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Page Protection on Muhammad

thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! I have been trying to get an admin to help us out on this page for over 2 months with no avail. The one Admin, Neil, seemed to only hang out there to point fingers and "oppose" any potential solutions, without once freely providing any constructive direction or suggestions on how to resolve the MANY issues on that article (which as this is a highly sensitive religious topic, as one would expect are coming from two very borderline fanatical camps; both pro and anti-Islam). Today was a "miracle day" in that we actually made some very slight progress through compromise...and the usual suspects immediately slapped it down and reverted the page to back when they "ruled the roost". I've tryied RFM (they boycott it so their tactics won't be known outside the board), I've tried the DRN, where the assigned admin is pretty much afraid to do anything....is there ANYTHING we can do to get on-going, RATIONAL admins attached to simply look at proposed changes, the supporting proof/citations and foster a consensus? The "usual suspects" who will not accept anything from one side or another will very quickly make themselves known and can be subsequently banned from those topics, and it may be very easy to manage after that. Trinacrialucente (talk) 09:29, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

If DRN already failed, and Arbcom case would be the next step. Note that I am not going to be involved in the content, and to be fait, I do not even understand what the problem is. In three days, full protection would expire in three days, and I (or someone else) would just restore the semi-protection, that's it.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:34, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Putin khuilo!

There have been reverts this month. Extend PC? --George Ho (talk) 04:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 08:14, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Sheikh Fazlollah Noori

Last edit was a couple or few days ago. There have been reverts in December. Extend PC? --George Ho (talk) 04:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 08:15, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images

Could you look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images seems through the edit summaries....debate still on going while editing. Look this up-again?--Moxy (talk) 22:09, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

I do not really understand whether the new edits are disruptive, and it probably would be better if a new administrator would loo at them.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:13, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Changing article name

Hi can you please help me: I would like to change the article Acer Iconia Tab to Acer Iconia (as i wrote in the page's talk page), since Iconia Tab is sub-brand inside the Iconia (which is the family of Acer tablets). The Acer Iconia article redirects to Acer Iconia Tab. So I would like to change the latter to Acer Iconia and redirect Acer Iconia Tab to it. Thanks, Rakoon (talk) 16:05, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 16:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Confirmation

Same question like here: Is that you? Greetings, Luke081515 16:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Seems to be abuse, thanks for spotting.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:53, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

(Global account log); 18:32 . . Luke081515 (talk | contribs | block) changed status for global account "User:Ymblanter@global": set locked; unset (none) ‎(Abusive user name: per https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=702955887)

Locked that accoutn global at beta. Greetings, Luke081515 17:33, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. This is fine for the time being, but if I would need to edit beta, whom should I ask to rename the account so that I could open one in my own name? You?--Ymblanter (talk) 17:36, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Page Protection

Ymblanter, thank you for protecting the MEDRS page during the dispute. I wanted to make you aware of the history of this ongoing dispute. Several months ago, we tried solving everything on the talk page, and when it appeared we wouldn't get anywhere, I filed an RfC on the page. The result came back that we should, indeed, make the change but a few editors on the losing side of the RfC had a problem with it and edit warred 1 2 3the change from being implemented. I tried resolving the dispute with them by contacting the closer, Elvey and he answered questions and confirmed the close. Yet these editors persisted in edit warring, so another editor, one who actually agreed with the close, filed for an administrative review here instead of going to drama boards to get these disruptive editors blocked. Upon review, an administrator, Jamesday, reviewed the close and made changes. So after filing an RfC and having it closed and some editors edit warred that result for months, an administrative review (which should have solved it) was decided, implemented, and that's also being edit warred by this same group of editors. I know you were unaware of the long history there when you told us to take the dispute to the talk page, we've done that and practically everything else and these editors are still disruptively edit warring valid changes from being implemented. At this point, is there something else that should be done? LesVegas (talk) 18:42, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I am afraid WP:DRN is the only viable option. If there are only one or two users edit-warring against clear consensus, you can try WP:ANI.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:44, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

OK thank you very much! LesVegas (talk) 19:05, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I was pinged. A single admin could have taken direct action when editors were wp:edit warring against consensus especially when it's based on an RFC. That doesn't require a visit to ANI, as I understand policy. What policy says that's wrong? --Elvey^(t•c) 03:10, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Once you have an admin willing to take such action (who has read through the RfC, studied the page history, looked at the contributions of the edit-warring users etc) the problem is usually solved. The problem is how to find such admin.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:23, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

• LasVegas' description of the underlying dispute is quite tendentious. The RFC was sharply divided (I didn't say "closely divided", I said "sharply") and the close (by Elvey) has never been accepted as valid by the editors who "lost" the RfC, and there have been battles ever since. A Close Review at AN was finally opened. JamesDay did not formally close the Close Review and did not frame what he did as such - he boldly suggested a solution to the conflict, which has also not been accepted. (if you look at the two diffs LasVegas provided, the the subsection at AN where he described his approach is called

  "A decision of sorts from a previously uninvolved administrator"

  , and the edit note with which he implemented his suggestion read

  Decision from long-term and previously uninvolved administrator: re country of origin RfCs and WP:AN discussion: new wording to say how to proceed if you wish to use this factor. See WP:AN discussion"

  (emphasis added) It was BOLD and interesting but out-of-process.

The issue is still wide open, and yes, both parties are still fighting about it on the talk page and via edit wars. In my view what we need is for the Close Review at AN to finish and be closed, formally and in-process. If that fails to settle it then it will have to go yet higher level of DR. Jytdog (talk) 07:31, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

In any case, I am not going to take any action right now (except for page protection and blocking of occasional socks if pointed out. I do not even have the page on my watchlist.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:46, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

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No activated

Hello Ymblanter you forgot the activate the protection for 6 months Dyan Castillejo's article no log here [24] Oripaypaykim (talk) 11:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Strange. Protected now anyway, thanks for spotting.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:59, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

And it continues

With last round of protection at Football records in Spain having worn off two days ago, the on-going edit war has started up yet again. Considering its a small number of editors involved in this edit-war over very particular issue, might I suggest blocking the editors involved instead of protecting the page. If you look at the talk page, you'll find an uninvolved who doesn't seem to understand page protection, and who is growing increasingly frustrated with not being able to edit the page. Cheers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:19, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 16:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

And now we get this. Could you block this editor as well please? Thank you. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:20, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, you just warned them, so it would be good to wait now. But generally I think the whole situation should go to ANI, since this is a long-term disruption.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Talk page vandalism

My talk page has been vandalised on five occasions ([25] [26] [27] [28] [29]) since your "block". Please protect the page as requested, instead of just blocking random IPs for block evasion, and please make it longer than three days. 4TheWynne^{(talk)(contribs)} 08:27, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, this is not a way you should request a favour. Please ask another administrator. I am not under obligation to protect your talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:29, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

I already made a request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, and you went and made an edit there some two minutes later. I'm only asking because you blocked the IP only one minute after that, and you were the one who helped me before. I'm sorry, I don't mean any disrespect; I just want to stop my talk page from being vandalised. It's now been vandalised seven times since the initial block half an hour ago, and nine in total from earlier. 4TheWynne^{(talk)(contribs)} 08:36, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done. I protected it for three days, since I believe this is an adequate duration of protection for a talk page. We will se what happens after the term expires.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:40, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Hopefully by that time, this pest will have gone away. Regards, 4TheWynne^{(talk)(contribs)} 08:42, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Jaz Banga

Hi there,

About 4.5 years ago I created a page about "Jaz Banga." I saw that you recently deleted it. It had not been updated in a while. Would it be acceptable to re-build the page with better or more recent citations? I'm looking for your advice and thoughts since I only occasionally create tech industry related pages.

Thank you, TrinaMark — Preceding unsigned comment added by TrinaMark (talk • contribs) 00:31, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

I deleted it following my summary of this discussion. In principle, there is nothing wrong with recreation of the article, but the best practice is to do it in the draft namespace (and when you are ready asking users to review the article) and definitely showing notability as in WP:N.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:43, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

From TrinaMark:

Got it. Thank you for the feedback. It's appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TrinaMark (talk • contribs) 22:23, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Вопрос

Здраствуйте уважаемый Ymblanter, как я здесь смог поставить отметку патруля [30] ?, если я не имею флаг патрулирующего ?--6AND5 (talk) 15:06, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Думаю, что страницы участников могут патрулировать все автоподтверждённые участники. Скорее всего, Вы нажали на соответствующую надпись снизу.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:15, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Спасибо, да я нажал, просто интересно было...--6AND5 (talk) 14:42, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari

Hello again

I created a page for an individual known as Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari, under the username ahmedsaad.ihsaninstitute. Anyway the article was rightlfuly deleted by you, and the account was deleted by Orange Mike. I have written the article again and I hope it meets your approval.

I think there should be an article on him (previous attempts used too many references from the chaps website). I am trying not to make it promotional, however I feel there needs to be an article on him due to his media appearances and influence in combating extremism.

I also wanted to get advice from you in terms of getting the article (should it meet yours and the communities approval) among the top hits on google. On searching 'Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari', firstly I can't find it at all on google, and secondly, the top hits are promotional, therefore I think a well referenced, unbiased account should be among the top hits i.e. my article on him.

what do you think? Best wishes, Imran Imran 108 (talk) 21:46, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

I am sorry, but this is not really my area of expertise. You may want to try a corresponding Wikiproject and ask there for help, or may be ask at the Teahouse. Concerning Google, this is not possible, the position in Google search results does not depend on what we do with the article (or if it does we do not know how it does).--Ymblanter (talk) 22:04, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Mail

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Suresh

Despite infrequent editing, none of IP edits were very good. Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 18:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 18:40, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

IP: 71.174.135.36

Thank you for your recent block on the above IP. However, they appear to be countering block evasion by editing under IP:71.184.177.154. Can I suggest that the pages concerned are protected from IP editing for a reasonable period of time? Regards, David J Johnson (talk) 22:09, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 22:12, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

About that thanks

Sorry about that, I used the wrong account. Sigh. Good protection; I'm going to extend it for another few days, as his death is going to be a political furor. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:23, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Not quite sure what you should be sorry about, but thanks anyway.--Ymblanter (talk) 23:36, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Gegard Mousasi

There is just one revert after semi-protection ended. Renew PC? --George Ho (talk) 03:54, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

It is on my watchlist, do not worry.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:04, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Steve Corcoran

Hi, you removed the page "Steve Corcoran" can you explain why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.119.109.194 (talk) 22:17, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

I implemented this decision: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Corcoran (2nd nomination)--Ymblanter (talk) 06:28, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that

Ah, I didn't see that Volosovsky Municipal District was under Volosovsky District.

The whole "XYZ District" vs. "XYZ Municipal District" is confusing. I'm not sure if "XYZ District" is wrong (except when it isn't -- I don't know if all the raion were renamed, or what happened), or if it's just short for "XYZ Municipal District"... if the average person in the street (and, more importantly, the average newspaper/website/book editor) is continuing to use "XYZ District" then it's OK with me... unfortunately English language sources are hard to find at this level... anyway, thanks for looking over my work. I created Bolshekolpanskoe Rural Settlement as an adjunct to Rural settlement (Russia) (if you wanted to look over that one I'd consider it a kindness) sort of so I could point to it and say "Want an example of a rural settlement? Go there".

(P.S. sorry if I was testy over at Talk:Arkhangelsk... I'm not usually like that but I do get that way sometimes... it's a weakness. You won, so that's that, and congratulations.) Herostratus (talk) 09:30, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

P.P.S. I'm particularly vexed by how to render Большие Колпаны / Малые Колпаны... as always, I'm most concerned with getting fully idiomatic English, to the extent possible (and I believe it's always possible)... I just can't think of any examples of Big / Small in America... we do East XYZ and so forth... "Little Italy", yeah, but that's very informal... I guess Americans don't want to live in "Small" anything, heh... Great Barrington gave me Great Kolpany, but what to with the other one... I went with "Lesser" but that sounds odd to me.... maybe Little Kolpany... dunno. Herostratus (talk) 09:45, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the article and raising the points. I asked Ezhiki, who is our guru in the administrative/municipal divisions of Russia, to look at the article and to comment. Let us wait for him and then discuss.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:12, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your work and erudition. If Ezhiki wishes to make a ruling regarding XYZ District vs. XYZ Municipal District (which could entail the renaming of many articles) I will support whatever he says. Also it's entirely possible I got stuff wrong at either this article or Rural settlement (Russia) and any corrections would be welcome (as is true of all my efforts, of course). Herostratus (talk) 15:47, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

No, that would not result in the renaming; at least for Russia, we standartized everything about the districts. I started making redirects today, and will continue, but this is optional anyway.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:49, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

OK that's fine. Yes, redirects solve many renaming issues... Herostratus (talk) 20:47, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi!

I came across this edit. I am trying to understand what happened. The blockreason: "Personal attacks or harassment: likely compromized" is a bit puzzling. I am unable to see his most recent edits because they were hidden. Should I leave a message on his talkpage and ask what happened? Has someone hacked his account or something like that? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:06, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

There was a long ANI discussion. I do not have a link now handy, but it must be in archives around the date of the block.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:09, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:10, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

No problem. If you cn not find it, pls leave me a message, I will try after work today.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:11, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, maybe I am stupid (probably), but I tried this search and 3 of them seem to be unrelated and the last one is rather short, so I think you are referring to something else. The reason I am asking this is because I talked with Leo about improving the Hypocrisy article and he was really into kindness and stuff like that, not really the type to get blocked for PA's. If you can find some info I would really appreciate it. I am not in a hurry. I am thinking about leaving a message on his talkpage in the hope that the real owner of the account would respond so this may give some useful background info. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:30, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Found it: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive912#LeoRomero--Ymblanter (talk) 16:39, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

I see, you found it as well. I do not know anything else.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:39, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, that ANI discussion was not very long. Ok, thank you. I will post a message on his talkpage. Can he still use his talkpage? The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:42, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, he has talk page access enabled.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:46, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks again. I have left a message. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 17:07, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Mind dropping a small comment regarding your opinion?

Hey Ymblanter, would you mind placing your opinion briefly here? (bottom) It's about a comment you had made some days ago. I believe Damianmx is twisting your words, so I thought it would be at least fair to let you know. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 17:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

 Done--Ymblanter (talk) 17:26, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Andrei Kobyakov

I have cited the seven years he served as Deputy PM. Are you contesting the reliability of EABR as a source? If you revert again I will seek a third opinion. Curro2 (talk) 19:08, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

As I said, please improve your communication skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia first.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, if you dont know how to edit Wikipedia, please refrain from contributing at all. You are on the verge of violating WP:3RR. You have improperly moved a reference. Nowhere in the reference does it identify the dates he served, only the position he held. Curro2 (talk) 19:15, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

May be you should learn to read as well. You clearly have difficulties.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:17, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

I have reported this lovely interaction to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Curro2 (talk) 19:29, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Harut111/Archive

Здраствуйте уважаемый Ymblanter. Одна проблема есть, но может быть я на английском не очень хорошо буду объяснить, поэтому Вам пишу. Я думаю, что участники user:El-ßäbrega и user:Harut111 это разные участники, так как участника El-ßäbrega почти все знают в лицо, его зовут Норайр. Его для армянской Википедии проверили ЧЮ на мете m:Steward requests/Checkuser/2015-01#1221nor@hy.wikipedia в начале 2015 года, там нашли много его учеток, но Harut111 не был в этом списке, а он был активен в это время в армянской Википедии. Поэтому я думаю, что они разные люди. Я и Норайру на армянском Викицитатнике написал, но пока он не ответил.--6AND5 (talk) 20:56, 23 February 2016 (UTC)