User talk:Steve Farrell

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Billy Boys

I would ask you to reconsider your vote for deletion as this article has been expanded. PatGallacher 17:56, 2005 July 16 (UTC)

Mythology

I just stumbled across a remarkably good piece on the interrelationship between Mesopotamian myth and Gensis in the artilce Adam and Eve - see the section called Mythologies or some such. PiCo 12:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Alchemy POV

Well, Alchemy is obviously POV, very POV..... but I removed that same sentence before and Jorge Stolfi had an absolute shitfit..... be prepared for a fight, and let me know if you need help.

The guy can shitfit all he wants, that sentence shouldn't be there. Besides being POV, it's also wrong. --Stevefarrell 17:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

But, I should mention that if you can properly cite things he can't really stop you from fixing the POV problem.

KV 20:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Or, alternatively, he can't really stop me from removing the POV sentence because POV sentences are against Wikipedia policy. I don't need to cite anything, it basically said 'Alchemy is obviously stupid, and should be pointed and laughed at'. Though if I have to, I will. --Stevefarrell 21:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

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Added source info. Copyright paranoia is such fun.--Stevefarrell 23:50, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry!

I wasn't aware I had! Superlinus 06:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No worries. It wasn't exactly hard to add myself back. I'm sure it was just a mistake. Hope to see you in the edit history of some football articles! --Stevefarrell 10:28, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		I present to you your first barnstar for your hard work on the Your Sinclair article! — Wackymacs 13:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hurrah! --Stevefarrell 13:51, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Glory hunters

Other Wikipedia articles are not necessarily reliable sources for information (see the organisation's own disclaimer) and in any case Chelsea are mentioned in one add-on sentence. There is also no mention of glory hunters in the Arsenal, Liverpool or Manchester United articles, who are all cited on the glory hunter page. Assertions like "rival supporters have accused..." (which sounds weasly to me), and "who have converted to supporting the club due to its success, rather than because of any real passion for the team itself, and who would stop supporting the team if it stopped being so succesful" are very bold statements and need sources. Given that you added them, surely you ought to provide it. Thirdly, I'm not sure the inclusion of fans' opinions of other sets of fans is a good idea generally, given the sort of mud that is routinely thrown among football fans. As a Liverpool fan, I'm you'd agree that rival fans have accused them of plenty over the years. It doesn't mean those accusations belong here, though. SteveO 18:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. I noted from your user page that you were a Chelsea fan, and so I'm sure you get tagged as a 'glory hunter' all the time by people, even though you probably supported them while they were in division two. Most football fans are glory hunters in one sense or another - even Watford fans want to see their team win the Premiership and are probably angry that they're right at the bottom.

I actually looked for some impartial sources about this, but then I decided it wasn't all that important after all. --Stevefarrell 19:14, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

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The image does not fail fair use rationale. It is used in one article, the article about Steve McClaren, to illustrate the subject. It is properly sourced, with a link to the source. There is no need to replace it. --Stevefarrell 18:43, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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SFX

It seems improper to include her former name in there - they no longer do in the magazine itself, and it is irrelevant to the magazine article what her name was. If she was notable enough to have an article about herself, it would be included, but why for the magazine? You go to the article for info about the magazine, and you get information about someone's former name - it's a bit odd! It's also kind of personal to her, so including biographical information about a living person in the article feels wrong. Stephenb (Talk) 16:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

... on my User page. I was off reporting the abUser to AIV. Regards, Flyguy649 20:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Regarding notability of Football (soccer) players

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Multi-instrumentalists' official listing!

Well, this might be a little too little, but I however want to congratulate your recent edit on multi-instrumentalists page. Happens that some of the fellows you've removed from the list were added by me, but I was somehow happy to find them deleted. I came to think of it and they really were pretty weak as multi-instrumentalists (although being able to play both the violin and guitar at the same time stays a mystery to me!) and, on the other hand, as I checked the latest two versions of the article in comparison, I watched your choices, which seemed pretty fair to me. That's why I let this message here - it's maybe I've seen one of the most convincing edits since I entered the community. And that wasn't today nor yesterday - I've been in it for quite a while. Cheers! (Impy4ever 20:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC))

Thank you. It's nice to get some thanks for doing this kind of edit for a change. I hesitated over the one that said 'violin/guitar/vocals', though. I generally think that a musician can be considered a 'multi-instrumentalist' if he or she plays more than three or four distinct instruments, not including vocals (I consider bass guitar and electric guitar separate as there are different techniques involved in playing them). But my criteria may be different from others. The list of multi-instrumentalists often has a lot of weak additions made to it, as do other similar articles such as Keyboardist, which I also watch and quite often find myself reverting edits to. It's understandable that people want to see their favourite artists' names on as many pages as possible. Really, that's why I started editing the Multi-instrumentalist article in the first place, as I'm a fan of Mike Oldfield, and I know him as a multi-instrumentalist and thought he should be at least mentioned in the article. But after I started a 'list of' within that article, many unnecessary people were being added (someone, for example, kept insisting on adding Michael Jackson), so eventually someone came along and took the list off, and I created the List of multi-instrumentalists article. Thanks for the praise. --Steve Farrell 21:52, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Rudess

You don't consider Jordan Rudess a notable keyboardist? --ΛэтєяиuS 16:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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The image is clearly the logo/ident for the early 1990s British cartoon The Dreamstone. I will go and change it, or wait a while and have another page that doesn't have anything to illustrate it because of copyright paranoia. --Steve Farrell (talk) 03:33, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

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This is ridiculous. This picture has been up for six years or more. Steve Farrell (talk) 17:59, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

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No.

It's just a picture of a character on a show. There are thousands of them on wikipedia. It's there because it's a character on the show. It's been there since 2004. I bought the DVD, I loaded it in Media Player, then I took a screenshot of it, then uploaded that picture to Wikipedia.

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