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Revision as of 21:37, 2 May 2013

If you feel that I have reverted an edit or issued a warning in error, please click here and let me know. I am human and I do make mistakes. Please don't interpret an error on my part as a personal attack on you. I am always open to civil discussion. I will respond on this talk page unless you specify otherwise.  Yintan

Raving reviews

Wow...definitely good for a vandal fighter to get lots of "raving reviews". It would be good if I had more. You seem to get them almost every day. Kudos. Arctic Kangaroo 16:36, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, well, it's just a silly list. ;-)  Yintan  16:46, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I think the latest is my favourite so far  Yintan  12:18, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Haha. Silly dudes. Arctic Kangaroo 16:04, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

People of the British Isles edit

Hi Yintan,

I believe you were in error to so speedily reverse my edit to this page. (I made it without logging in, so the user page you contacted me on was only my IP address but I am that person ;).) I changed:

"Most of southern and eastern England has shown genetic similarities with the Anglo-Saxons."

to:

"Most of southern, eastern and central England has shown very close genetic similarity with modern populations in the Low Countries, Germany and Denmark, which has been interpreted as representing a major contribution by the Anglo-Saxons, while the populations of areas such as Wales and Cornwall are closer to populations of modern-day western France."

You object that I didn't provide a source, but may I point out that not a single source is cited in the entire article - because it is working from a single project report, which is the title of the article...!

The original sentence was in error. The team are yet to compare their results with aDNA taken from actual Anglo-Saxon period human remains. I corrected it to what the project actually said - without significantly changing the meaning or offering any (in my view, much-needed!) criticism.

Rather than dig through the whole project report again to try and find the page reference I will cite a summary of the report which I found in the journal "Oxford Today". Will that be sufficient to prevent you from undoing my edit again? ;)

Domrivers (talk) 17:34, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

My bad, thanks for letting me know. I went to restore your edit but I saw you've already done so. Sorry.  Yintan  17:40, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Not at all, you saw a highly technical edit from an anonymous IP address and undid it, quite understandable, commendable even. :) Best wishes. Domrivers (talk) 17:42, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry

I forgot about talk page, xD — Preceding unsigned comment added by Themacman4me (talk • contribs) 21:05, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Looks like you forgot a lot of things.  Yintan  16:01, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Reverting an opinion deletion

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Tippi_Degr%C3%A9&oldid=552874344 reversion

Since when Misplaced Pages is discussion board? I (and apparently Misplaced Pages Guidelines as well) don't think that personal opinions belong here (even on the discussion pages) and because since 2009 no one didn't even bother to respond to it I don't see why it's necessary to keep it online. User:89.69.142.96

I agree it wasn't the most constructive of messages but still, you're not supposed to delete messages by other people (unless they're plain vandalism). Cheers,  Yintan  22:09, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I (and apparently some of wiki mods) disagree - I've seen before deletions on talk pages because the author just stated his/her opinion and didn't try to improve the article. Of course right now I'm not able to point you a direct example (discussion pages are not indexed by search engines and I don't feel like searching it manually just to make my point), but the very reason for deletion was "Misplaced Pages is not a discussion board". Why would you like to keep that on the discussion page since it doesn't provide any value? The author didn't even bother to propose any changes to the article itself so it would reflect his/her opinion. He/she just vented around 2009 and did nothing to "correct" the article. Why, for the Cthulhu's sake, you want to keep it? What's the point? Why do I have to waste Wikimedia Foundation resources (bandwith, CPU time, storage etc.), your and my time to justify deletion of this piece of unnecessary content? Next time I will see Jimbo's sad face, I won't consider donating, because if he want to keep this kind of content on Misplaced Pages, I think he's just wasting my money. User:89.69.142.96

I think this is a bit of a gray area and we obviously disagree about this particular message. Frankly, I don't understand why you make such a big deal about it. I see no point in deleting it, you not in keeping it. Fine, we disagree. Trust me, I'm not going to start an edit war about it. I'll strike my message on your Talk. Oh, and yes, Jimbo has a sad face, on that we fully agree.  Yintan  20:48, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! I appreciate it.

Sosthenes12 (talk) 23:16, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, no time to answer.
Got to go out for catfood. :)  Yintan  08:20, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

EADS

Tell me why a company based in the Netherlands is not dutch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aargh3 (talk • contribs) 13:15, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Read the article and you'll know. Not everything based in the Netherlands is Dutch by definition. Your comparison with the Royal Dutch Shell (note the name) doesn't make sense. And sign your posts in future, please. Thanks,  Yintan  13:20, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Raving reviews on me

Hi Yintan, since you like raving reviews so much, have a laugh at this. Cheers. Arctic Kangaroo 15:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations! And thanks for my final vandalism warning ;-)  Yintan  15:58, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Marshall and other spam

See User talk:81.182.18.116; I've blocked them for a bit. Thanks for keeping the place clean. Drmies (talk) 16:53, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• I'm finding their spam in lots of other places too. They're selling some nice old Marshalls, though. Can I borrow a couple thousand bucks from you? And check this shit out. Drmies (talk) 16:54, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Nasty spammer. Thanks for blocking the guy. By the way, sorry, if I had the cash for a Marshall stack I wouldn't give it to you ;-)  Yintan  17:00, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I added a request to the spam blacklist page, MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist--I've not done that before, and if you haven't, maybe that's a helpful link. Thanks again. Drmies (talk) 17:10, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Bookmarked. That could come in handy.  Yintan  18:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Martin Kratochvil Edit

Looks like you removed my edit. Are you by any chance a friend of Martin Kratochvil? Are you paid by him? This so called "successful businessman" has ripped many people off through his fake company as documented by "The Economist". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.19.245 (talk) 23:49, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, Martin and I go back a long way and he pays me handsomely to keep his public image clean. Seriously, no, of course not, but your addition that he is "wellknown for ripping off his clients" flies in the face of just about every Misplaced Pages guideline. If there are Kratochvil controversies to be added then make sure you follow WP:BLP, WP:NPOV and WP:SOURCE. You can't just claim something like that without backing it up. Cheers,  Yintan  07:56, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Review

this is link containing citation related to Dr. Haider Sindhi a renowned educationist of Nawabshah This is his profile on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drhaidersindhi?ref=tn_tnmn

this link have his interview http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/118287/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.68.97.44 (talk) 10:28, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Facebook profiles of the subject of an article are not considered good sources. Please check out WP:SOURCE and WP:NOTABILITY. Kind regards,  Yintan  10:40, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Bongwarrior

I want to have Bongwarrior stripped of his administrator status.

How should I go about doing this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.106.51.170 (talk) 13:00, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Not talking crap about penises would be a good start.  Yintan  13:23, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Page blanking

You reverted this edit in which the sole author of a page blanked the page after it had been tagged for speedy deletion. This is a legitimate action, and usually signals the author's request that the page be deleted. Rather than reverting such an action, you should simply mark the page with {{db-author}}. WikiDan61_ReadMe!! 13:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

That would have been another option, true.  Yintan  13:11, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Tony Blair and Sharm el sheikh

Hi there.. this is the link.. Apparently, former president Hosni Mubarak also has a house there, and was here during the 2011 Riots.. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-07-23/londoner-relives-bomb-horror-on-egypt-holiday/2064648 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.127.54.160 (talk) 13:08, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi. It's best if you put that reference in the article. Thanks,  Yintan  13:11, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

VidOn.me on List of software based on XBMC

I'm fine with you removing the reference link/links for the "VidOn.me" software and apps on List of software based on XBMC, but I am however not fine with you removing the text content, nor the link top xbmc.org's "sponsors and friends page". The VidOn.me software itself is not spamware or spyware, and the VidOn.me is an official sponsor of the XBMC Foundation as listed on xbmc.org's "sponsors and friends page", and the XBMC team behind the XBMC Foundation and xbmc.org website is very well known and well respected among the free and open source software community, so they would absolutely not endorse any spamware or spyware. Thus I have restored the text but left out the software and apps links. 164.4.17.36 (talk) 14:08, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

That's fine with me, thanks. I never said (or wanted to suggest) your software is malware, I reverted per WP:EL.  Yintan  14:14, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Marc Vann

To my edit have a source, it is based on the IMDB website, it is a bit problematic to put a source to the Edit, but should not rush to delete the edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.64.222.114 (talk) 14:09, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi. The thing is, if you add something like that to the wiki without a source it will be removed pretty fast. If I hadn't done it another editor would have. By the way, IMDB isn't considered a reliable source for the kind of information you want to add. More about that here. If you need help adding the refs, let me know.  Yintan  14:19, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but...

Hey, Yintan, thanks for keeping an eye on my talk page! WK-test is actually my testing account, though, so please don't revert edits from it on my talk page, as I'm trying to test a script with it. No big deal, though. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:34, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Can you get it white-listed with the Huggle crowd? That would save everybody some work ;-)  Yintan  14:36, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Hm, that's a good idea. I'll do that. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:39, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

"White-listed with the Huggle crowd," LOL. Yeah, I had the same problem. Flyer22 (talk) 21:37, 2 May 2013 (UTC)