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Concern with Infobox hotel merger[edit]

I have a concern that your closure at this discussion did not mention the fact that it will make Infobox building harder to use. And especially since you closed the TFD at Infobox casino "No consensus", this makes me wonder if Infobox hotel should've been closed off as no consensus too. Cutecutecuteface2000 (Questions, comments, complaints?) 13:21, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's because it shouldn't make Template:Infobox hotel any harder to use. Vegaswikian commented that only two parameters would need to be added to Template:Infobox building. The opposers did not make a case against the merge, and your objection is nearly 8 months after the fact. JPG-GR (talk) 23:02, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview[edit]

Dear JPG-GR,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


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If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talkcontribs) 23:09, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am likely not active enough anymore to be enough of an interviewee for your project. However, I will take the request under consideration - feel free to check back if you have slots that need to be filled after an appropriate amount of time.

Invitation to events: bot, template, and Gadget makers wanted[edit]

I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

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Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator Sumanah (talk) 14:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is it appropriate to recreate Template:Cr-IPL/Flags?[edit]

The template {{Cr-IPL/Flags}} has been deleted aa result of a deletion discussion this TFD discussion. There is a discussion going on at Talk:2012 Indian Premier League for a proposal to add the flags and this template may have to be recreated or restored. If it is appropriate, please let me know so that I can recreate it, or just undelete it (It is not an attack page nor a copyright violation) if not I may start a deletion review on the template. jfd34 (talk) 13:40, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the discussion, the concern seems to be whether these are legit flags or just decorative uses of team colors on Wikipedia. If you can show that the flags depicted are used by the teams, there should be no issue re-adding them. If, however, they are in fact created only for use on Wikipedia, they should stay gone. JPG-GR (talk) 18:14, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

About a year ago you closed this discussion as "delete after necessary conversions/substitutions/what-have-you." During the discussion I raised issues (without making a !vote) about the practicality of doing the conversion, and indeed, almost a year later, nothing was done and the template is still very widely used (17986 transclusions). Do you think the template should stay in the current limbo state? Should the delete decision be revisited in light of this? Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 06:07, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no deadline for the conversion of the template. Eventually someone will make the "necessary conversions/substitutions/what-have-you", or they won't. JPG-GR (talk) 07:57, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merging[edit]

No one's answering me on WT:TOKU and you're frankly the only person I can trust on these matters. Seeing as the main villain list and the MMPR villain pages were deleted, undeleted, and then restored at AFD, DRV, and AFD again, I think it's about time that we end this practice of having multiple pages per series and simply have a singular list of characters.

This is obviously going to be difficult for the Zordon era because casts were retaind across multiple seasons, but I think we need to start with what I've coordinated at List of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy characters. AlienX2009 started it out but he is for some reason refusing to continue. With Leo Corbett (that guy really needs the boot but now that I've said it to you it can't be done by you) creating separate pages for all of the Megaforce characters (which I've reverted because we don't know shit after 2 episodes), I think we need to enforce this change.

I'm also thinking the Zords per season pages also need to go, but the only solution I can think of is just merging everything with Zord. It's obvious we're not going to find reliable sources to show the notability for anything beyond Turbo at best, so I think merging is going to be the better option than being blindsided by AFDs that we aren't made aware of until someone removes all the redlinks.—Ryulong (琉竜) 19:18, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hollywood stock exchange[edit]

Hi,
I recommend that you read the verifiability policy. It says:

Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be replaced without an inline citation to a reliable source.

There are other policies which apply to the text that you're adding, but WP:V is a good place to start. bobrayner (talk) 21:38, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not adding any text, I'm undo-ing what you have been removing. What you say above is all fine and well, but begs the question - why are you removing only part of the article which is not sourced? JPG-GR (talk) 02:39, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment[edit]

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dino Charge[edit]

You should have really protected the redirect you made because we're dealing with a sock farm who thinks he's allowed to make the page. Also, the Power Rangers:Dino Charge one needs to be nuked and protected.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When I am in an editor role (which is more common these days than an admin role), I see no reason to exercise admin actions. Moreoever, I believe that creating an article (even if it is only a redirect) only to immediately protect it is bad form. JPG-GR (talk) 13:30, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You hadn't been party to the mess that the sockpuppets have been laying out. He moved every page he could when I posted the requested move and edited all of the redirects. He then keeps making his shit version of the Dino Charge page which wouldn't even last in the first place because it has all of one reference on it. And he keeps dicking around with page moves and redirects, on top of trying to get me blocked for finding his latest account.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 17:04, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you[edit]

Thank you for stepping in as the voice of reason in the colon debate. I had very little idea that this was the 5th time Ryulong tried adding the colons to the Power Rangers titles. I know now his section break addings were not only bullshit, but was only put there as schmuck bait of sorts as to discredit me. Wouldn't you agree that an unnecessary section break is not a "legitimate talk page comment" as described in the warning templates he quickly posted on my page? It is not part of the actual argument, it just disrupts it so his contradictions are harder to quote! Notice how the insistence of the section break uses flawed reasoning just as his insistence on the colons was. He arbitrarily chose what sources were legitimate or not. Like his 3rd party sources (which got more and more obscure) were more legitimate than mine he forced me to get. Even a quote where his own argument is acknowledged he discards because it was too close to the primary source. My block was BS and the appeals process was just a sham. The fact that he got a slap on the wrist is all the more insulting--Harmony944 (talk) 20:53, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"No problem" to joining the discussion. "No comment" to the rest. JPG-GR (talk) 22:45, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Harmony944 needs to read WP:Arbitrary section break and let it go.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:57, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Surely monitoring my talkpage must get boring these days? JPG-GR (talk) 00:14, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I came back to see if you had responded to my previous message and found his comments.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 06:13, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Plausible. My apologies. JPG-GR (talk) 22:00, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Question about date of KFAR frequency change[edit]

I posted this on the Talk page for KFAR, but then I realized you might see it here sooner. Where did you find the information that KFAR "moved to 660 kHz in 1956"? An article in the Oct. 11, 1948, issue of Broadcasting shows KFAR at 660 then. See "KFAR, KENI Join MBS" on page 81 here. Therefore, the shift must have occurred prior to Oct. 11, 1948.Eddie Blick (talk) 02:24, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only edits I ever made to that article were maintenance-related and have nothing to do with what you speak of. JPG-GR (talk) 23:39, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please delete this KIS template I forgot after the merge?[edit]

I previously merged individual state KIS templates, some of which were created by you, and took them to MfD, where they were deleted without opposition. (such as Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:KIS/AK) I somehow forgot to include WP:KIS/MI among those. Since you were the original creator, I was wondering if you could delete it. The only other edits were maintenance following the TfD. It is orphaned. Would this qualify as G6 or another CSD? Thank you. —PC-XT+ 13:46, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done. JPG-GR (talk) 03:56, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks —PC-XT+ 14:58, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WGHN-FM talk page[edit]

Were you the deleting administrator for the WGHN-FM talk page? I have split WGHN into WGHN (AM) & WGHN-FM as the stations haven't simulcast in years. I need the talk page undeleted.Stereorock (talk) 13:52, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, but there's also no edit history to speak of, so feel free to recreate it.

Technical tap listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Technical tap. Since you had some involvement with the Technical tap redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 05:57, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:English language[edit]

Hello, I wish to know if it's okay to re-create the English language template and make it similar looking to the Korean and Japanese templates? Thanks. Seqqis (talk) 19:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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To undelete: Gerald Walpin[edit]

The recent U.S. news media about death of former US inspector general Gerald Walpin of AmeriCorps has raised questions about wp:GNG notability. So do you think could undelete "Gerald Walpin" as now considered long-term notable (since 2009) by several news sources, or should we next wp:DR [DRV] that page? thanks. -Wikid77 (talk) 05:19, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, "wp:DRV" but too busy on typos, but thanks, so now added into:
"WP:Deletion review/Log/2016 June 29". Onward and upward. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:58, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]


IP user[edit]

An IP user brought back its edits on The Transformers (TV series), List of programs broadcast by Fox Kids, and Beast Machines: Transformers. — FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 23:07, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wake County templates[edit]

Wow.. I didn't realize the talk page thing was going on. What was I thinking? Thanks for fixing it. As for the templates displaying twice I'll take a look and remove instances where it does so. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:33, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Template talk:Rfc top[edit]

Hi, re this close - please can you convince Legoktm (talk · contribs) to fix the bot? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:10, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:BOTR, "If a bot is acting improperly, a note about that should be posted to the owner's talk page and to the Administrators' Noticeboard. A link to such a posting may be posted at the Bot Owners' Noticeboard." JPG-GR (talk) 02:10, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Adminship Anniversary![edit]

Wishing JPG-GR/Archive 14 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Slightlymad 04:02, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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