User talk:Jeandré du Toit
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[edit] Template:LCCN permalinks.
I don't know if you're watching or working on Template:LCCN any longer, but I think that it might be better to use the LCCN Permalinks feature rather than performing a search. See Template talk:LCCN if you're interested. Thanks for creating this template. I have used it to provide an id for several books that don't have ISBNs. Quale (talk) 10:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks. The updated template functions well on the tests I tried. You work very very quickly. I could have tried to make this improvement myself, but I wasn't sure if it had been considered and rejected for a reason not apparent to me. Also I have made only a few minor adjustments to a couple of templates, so I am always happy to have a more experienced person do the work. Quale (talk) 10:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] OTRS af.
Re [1]
- Hi, Jeandré
- Ek is vandag ingelig dat ek 'n OTRS-rekening het vir info-af@wikimedia.org, dis hoekom ek daardie e-pos gestuur het (met die OTRS-skerm voor my). Dis seker duidelik dat ek nog baie moet leer hieroor - is daar êrens 'n "Beginner's guide" of 'n ding wat ek kan deurlees? Hoop nie dat die e-possie gepla het nie - dis net vreemd dat hy dan nie by my gewys het nie. Anrie (talk) 14:42, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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- Answered on af. -- Jeandré, 2008-02-19t16:06z
[edit] Fred Miller (Australian politician).
Re [2]
- The article had no content. It had no sources apart from Wikipedia, which is clearly where the content was directly taken from. When someone wants to give it some actual content, they can rewrite it at any time. Rebecca (talk) 19:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] !Mărţişor.
Re [3]
- Hello, I've seen that you've added the hoax tag at the Mărţişor article. Although I've not contributed to it, and I agree that it is not an exemplary Wikipedia article, I can assure you that it is an article about a living custom in Romania. Also you could do a small search on google and you can see that you cand find over 400,000 articles about it and that the article has an important history (and not only at english Wikipedia). Could you revise the tag, please. -- Thx Mihai -talk 13:42, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Films coordinator elections.
The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 10:30, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- Why elections? -- Jeandré, 2008-03-15t16:24z
[edit] Pipe changed to 2.
Re [6]
- Thanks. Fixed. Rich Farmbrough, 20:18 15 March 2008 (GMT).
[edit] African dance.
Please justify the definition that you seem to prefer. The book "African Dance", as listed in my references, includes an entire chapter on North Africa. Steve Pastor (talk) 18:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Pamela J. Ball.
Re Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pamela J. Ball
- Could you please tell me where you found anything on a Pamela Ball who is from Britain? What is the basis for your assertion that there seems to be two Pamela Balls who's info are in the article I wrote. I really want to know; I couldn't find anything on a Pamela Ball that contradicts what I wrote in 220 google hits. It seems odd that you could just say "there seems to be two" without offering any evidence, and get the article deleted.Rosencomet (talk) 22:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Afrikaans permissions-commons OTRS ticket.
Hi, [7] is a permissions email in Afrikaans. Would you mind taking care of this? Thanks for your help. howcheng {chat} 18:02, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Hi, Jeandré
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- I have no problem accepting responsibility for handling this ticket: for many personal photographs (which have not been printed anywhere else before), there is little proof that the person claiming to be the copyright owner isn't indeed just that.
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- I do not have trouble assuming good faith in this particular instance, it seeming to be a personal photograph which could, in all probability, have been taken by his parents/wife, which would mean that, if they are deceased, Irma de Plessis would indeed be the copyright owner. If it was a clear-cut publicity picture or something similar, I would be more likely to share your doubt. But in this case I am happy to assume good faith.
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- I'm not quite sure what is expected of me now, though - I wasn't even sure where to reply! (Feeling a bit uncomfortable replying to the OTRS address - don't want to litter the system with normal communications.) If you could tell me what to do (where to click, etc.), I'd really appreciate it. My apologies for not knowing the protocol/system well.
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- Please note, I'll be without internet access for about two weeks starting tomorrow, so if I don't get back to you soon, that'll be why.
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- Thanks for all your effort so far,
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- Anrie —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.149.199.35 (talk) 08:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Thank you, Jeandré, especially for that guide (I can't accessed the linked version in your email). I don't mind admitting that the OTRS interface still has me banging the keyboard in exasperation, my inexperience still makes me feel like a complete idiot! I "closed" the ticket and added the confirmation template to the image. Was that all I needed to do? (Also, after closing the ticket, I can't find it using the "search" function - is this normal or a mistake on my side?) Thanks, again, for your patience and help. 217.149.199.35 (talk) 11:17, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] !References required for wp:blps.
Re [8]
- [What?]
- What are you talking about? I didn't "add" anything, I just reverted to what was there before the page was blanked. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Reply. -- Jeandré, 2008-04-05t16:12z
- Huh, well, I guess that's me told then. In my defence it did seem, on face value, to be a perfectly legitimate article. Looks can be deceiving I suppose. Sorry for not being more thorough in my fact-checking. --Closedmouth (talk) 18:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Reply. -- Jeandré, 2008-04-05t16:12z
Re [9]
- Long time editors rarely react well to WP:TEMPLARs, so I am not sure what you hope to gain by slapping template warnings on the talk pages of regular editors. Additionally WP:BLP states that "editors should remove any contentious material about living persons that is unsourced," yet you have templated people who reverted the complete blanking of the page. I fully support the removal of contentious materials from BLPs, but how can deleting everything, including categories like Cat:Living people and interwiki links, be viewed as anything other than vandalism?
- As an example, you slapped a {{uw-biog2}} template on User talk:Closedmouth, but did you even review the edits in question? Closedmouth reverted [10] the total blanking [11] of the Kuljit Takhar article by Epicnarcissist (talk · contribs). When Epicnarcissist blanked the page, he noted "deleted by author" as an edit summary, which is clearly false because Wordscholar (talk · contribs) was both the starter and primary contributor to the article. Reviewing the edit history of Epicnarcissist shows all of his edits to have false or misleading edit summaries meant to disguise his vandalism: this edit summary says "grammatical correction" but he actually added "Sukhjit Takhar is my super cool big brother" to the article, and this summary said "Incorrect spelling" but in reality he added "Sukhjit Takhar is a super awesome doctor of everything and my amazingly cool big brother. He likes steak" to the article. The fact that you then removed [12] the vandalism warning that was properly issued by Closedmouth shows an astonishing lack of good faith. While controversial, the removal of personal attacks is permitted, but the deletion of warnings from the talk page of what otherwise appears to be a vandalism-only account?!?
- While I can appreciate the difficult nature of your WP:BLP work, disrupting the project like this benefits no one and only serves to generate unnecessary drama. --Kralizec! (talk) 18:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] List of characters in the Firefly universe.
- Sorry about removing the refimprove. My mistake on that one. Didn't notice you'd added two templates. -- Maratanos (talk) 20:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Board election rankings.
Re [15]
- It's a good one, and he was one of the candidates whose ranking I had to wrestle the longest and hardest with (along with Ad's, who's extremely qualified and knowledgable, but whose answers were often extremely flippant). As far as Kohs goes, my thinking went something like this:
- He's not a good contributor (witness his record of sock-puppetry on English Wikipedia and his behaviour on Wikispecies), but we're not elected an on-wiki admin, we're electing an off-wiki Trustee.
- He's completely wrong about some issues, including advertising, but there's no way he could get his views on those issues enacted by the board, since he'll be only one vote of ten, and odds are the other nine will all be against him.
- On the other hand, he at least recognizes the problems with the Foundation's current operations, and proposes that the Board take decisive action to address these; frankly, I think the majority of candidates are deficient in this regard. I think he's sometimes too strident in discussing these problems, and I also think his solutions are frequently too radical, but in general I'd rather go with somebody who's too radical than somebody who's too complacent.
- The last issue is trust. I've been debating in my head for quite a while whether or not I trust him to work in the Foundation's best interests (as he sees it, of course), rather than sabotaging it or otherwise behaving detrimentally. I've eventually reached the conclusion that I do (partly because he'd be legally obligated as a Trustee to work in faithfully in the best interests of the Foundation, and would be liable in court if he failed to do so). If he's elected and I'm wrong, I'll look like an idiot. But I think that I'm right.
- As I said, I think he's one of the most complicated candidates in the race to evaluate. I've had people tell me that they're ranking him first, to which I could only nod my head and say "Yeah, okay, that makes sense." And I've had people tell me that they're ranking him last, to which I could also only nod my head and say "Yeah, that makes sense." I didn't expect to rank him that high, but I started comparing his answers to the other candidates' answers, and that's where I wound up dropping him. I hope that makes some sense, and thanks for your support. -- Sarcasticidealist (talk) 22:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Xenophobia in South Africa.
I'd like to see if we can build some consensus around a rename for 2008 South Africa riots; the issue has been languishing. If you have a moment, won't you pop over to the talk page? Thanks. 9Nak (talk) 17:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Paul Franklin (disambiguation)
I have nominated Paul Franklin (disambiguation), an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Franklin (disambiguation). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 17:50, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
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