If I left you a message: please answer on your talk page, then place {{Talkback|your username}} on my talk. If you leave me a message: I will answer on my talk page, then place {{Talkback|Yarnalgo}} on your talk. Please click here to leave me a new message.

Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3 Archive 4 Archive 5

Contents 1 Little context in 1636 in sports 2 Stratocracy 3 Speedy deletion tagging 4 Rollback 5 List of baseball parks in Toronto, Ontario 6 File:M777 Light Towed Howitzer 1.jpg 7 Cordoba image and public domain rights 8 DreamGYM 9 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 10 Scottish Lacrosse team 11 Question 12 Thanks ... 13 German windmills 14 CodeFixer and BR tags 15 Barnstar 16 MLL 17 Previewing changes in other namespaces 18 FFD for ArmyNavyLax2009.JPG 19 {{find}} and {{rescue}} 20 Casebox 21 Gordon Gair 22 I appreciate your help! 23 Sr. B 24 UK Supreme Court badge 25 I have a question to ask you (in private)... 26 NLL Navbox 27 class=url 28 Replaceable fair use File:Mike Nifong.jpg

[edit] Little context in 1636 in sports

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on 1636 in sports, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because 1636 in sports is very short providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting 1636 in sports, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 21:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Stratocracy

This is a message from the unregistered user who edited the Stratocracy page. The edit I made wasn't a test. The information in the section "Stratocracy in Fiction" was inaccurate. The page claimed that the manga/anime series Fullmetal Alchemist features a stratocracy, when in fact a reference was made to an alternate power structure in vol. 16. I accept that perhaps I should not have edited it without consulting someone, and apologize for the trouble. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.117.138.33 (talk) 05:34, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion tagging

Hi Yarnalgo , can you please be careful with your speedy deletion tagging? For example:

• This has content and context, it just doesn't say why the company is important.
• This was not spam when you tagged it, but could have been tagged with no content because it just had one external link.
• This has more than enough context to determine the article's subject, and could be prodded or taken to AFD if you think she's non-notable (as she may well be).

Hope that helps. Somno (talk) 09:36, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I will try to be more careful in the future. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 09:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

I have granted rollback rights to your account; the reason for this is that after a review of some of your contributions, I believe I can trust you to use rollback correctly by using it for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Good luck and thanks. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 14:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I will be careful in my usage and only use it for obvious vandalism. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 19:42, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] List of baseball parks in Toronto, Ontario

I would be glad to entertain suggestions on how to improve the appearance of that article, or list actually. Some have suggested using a table, but the variable length of the various data elements don't seem to fit that idea. That's why I'm using kind of an "outline" format. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 05:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Check out WP:LIST for the style standards for lists on Wikipedia. I can't really work on it until this weekend because I'm kind of swamped so you can work on it in the meantime if you want to. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 05:57, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

I see what you mean. The way you have it is fine and probably the best we will be able to do. I removed the cleanup tag. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 06:00, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:M777 Light Towed Howitzer 1.jpg

Just curious, why did you change the license tag on some of User:Jonathanmallard's images?-Andrew c ^[talk] 03:52, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Because he is a US Army soldier and the pictures were taken during his course of duty. That makes the pictures "work[s] prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. government as part of that person's official duties" which puts the pictures in the public domain. The license on Flickr is irrelevant because of this. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 06:06, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Do you have information that I do not? I think the key word in that tag is "official duties" and it isn't clear to me that Mr. Mallard is an Army photographer. I just assumed that these were personal photos taken in an unofficial capacity. I could be mistaken, but I just didn't have evidence to the contrary, which is why I'm contacting you :) To see if you have more information than me. Thanks!-Andrew c ^[talk] 13:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The way it has been previously explained to me, is that as long as he is taking the pictures while on his tour of duty, that constitutes as "part of that person's official duties." It doesn't really matter to me. You can revert the change if you want (on that picture, it wasn't even me who changed the license first). --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 20:22, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Cordoba image and public domain rights

Thanks for helping out the n00b. I posted a text file like you suggested at http://zamagazine.org/cordoba_release.txt and updated the IFU page accordingly. I'm just posting it here to cover my bases...I want to make sure someone sees it!

Cheers, Brendinooo (talk) 02:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] DreamGYM

Hello, User DreamGYM is here. I wonder why my User Page was considered for deletion. I created the page to explain a bit about company that initially produced the articles. These articles have no direct connection to the company and do not sell any of its products. It was done on the User page, not as a main article. I was in discussion with another admin (Mindmatrix) about this page and articles. I thought that I'm not "spamming" the Wikipedia this way. Before putting a page together I checked pages about companies that I worked for and competitors pages. All seems to be fine for them. All they did for Wikipedia - just put user page about themselves with a link to their site - pure conflict of interests.

Well, my life did not start on Wikipedia as in paradise :) but I'm optimistic that it can be better.

Best regards, DreamGYM (talk) 03:58, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Well an article like that in the article namespace would definitely be deleted because it is written like an advertisement. To tell you the truth, I'm not exactly sure if you are alowed to write the article in your user page but I was going on a very similar if not exact case where the page was deleted (User:Illusions Online Arabia FZ LLC). --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 06:00, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt answer. DreamGYM (talk) 10:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Any chance to remove warnings from my talk page? Thanks a lot, DreamGYM (talk) 20:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

You can remove them yourself anytime you want. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 22:27, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!

Stubs Johnny Unitas Stadium Brian Skinner List of furniture designers OLN Bear Mountain Arena Gene Shue Bentley School Achille Compagnoni Chenango Forks, New York Gyachung Kang Ardito Desio Ike Hildebrand John Desko Gretna F.C. List of U.S. state dances Gasherbrum IV Angela Batinovich ELF Corporation Looting

Cleanup Lino Lacedelli Alpha Kai Omega Glock Merge List of mountains in Pakistan Bayonet Party Add Sources Fusajiro Yamauchi George Boiardi Lacrosse in Australia Wikify Pier Paolo Pasolini Utica College Loomis Chaffee Expand Seattle SuperSonics Team sport Fulton Fish Market

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping.

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from ForteTuba, SuggestBot's caretaker.

P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot (talk) 18:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Lacrosse team

Thank you for your help with the Scottish lacrosse articles. I was amazed to see that there were none until recentluy, because of the long history of it here.

I was wondering if you could create articles on the mens and women's international teams, as well please. Many thanks.--MacRusgail (talk) 16:50, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Added the following, check 'em out - National lacrosse teams - Scotland (M) · Scotland (W) · Indoor

Thanks for your help with the other ones. I am not a lacrosse fan, but I felt that there should be at least something on Scottish lacrosse, considering it's been played here for at least a hundred years.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Cool thanks. I'll try and do some work on them. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 21:33, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Thanks for your request at User:Drilnoth/codefixer.js/doc; I have a question about it, and have left it there. –Drilnoth (T • C) 12:15, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks ...

Thanks for adding an 'under construction' tag to my new St Paul's, Harringay page. I was unhappy at having to leave off mid-project, and you helped me leave things neat and tidy for visitors ... appreciated. Will continue next weekend ... . Ucypanp (talk) 19:15, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I'm glad to help. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 20:11, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] German windmills

Thanks for improving the various lists by adding images. Are you able to add the images to the corresponding German language articles or would it be better if I gave a shout to a German editor to do this? Mjroots (talk) 03:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I can probably do them too but right now I'm still working on the English lists. In the meantime you could have a German editor do them or just wait. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 03:21, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, I'll wait. After all, there's no rush, is there? If you have any problems, give User:DeNiteshift a shout (de:Benutzer:Niteshift is his German user page), he speaks better English than his Babel suggests. Mjroots (talk) 03:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Alright sounds good. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 03:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] CodeFixer and BR tags

I see you used the tool "CodeFixer" to just add two characters to the template {{current court case}}. This is your edit: [1]

You changed from the wikimarkup <br> tag to the XHTML <br /> tag. There's no consensus for doing such changes.

So which should we use? <br> or <br />?

Let's examine this step by step:

1: Writing the XHTML code <br/> without a blank is even against the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium, instead it should be written as <br /> since then HTML parsers can understand it too. HTML parsers will simply regard <br /> as a "br" with an unknown parameter "/", while they will regard "br/" as an unknown tag name. So we should definitely not teach people to write <br/>, but possibly <br />.

2: The "HTML" codes we use here at Wikipedia are not XHTML markup nor are they HTML markup, instead they are "HTML wikimarkup", since MediaWiki processes them just like wikimarkup.

3: Wikipedia mainly uses wikimarkup. The reason for that is simple: Most people that edit Wikipedia are people who never have made a web page, so they know nothing about HTML, XHTML or CSS. So for them (and even for us old webmaster geeks) it is easier to use wikimarkup.

4: As far as I have seen the documentation for MediaWiki talks about "HTML in wikitext" and never mentions "XHTML in wikitext". Also up until recently all documentation listed <br> as the code for forced line breaks. But some time ago some XHTML enthusiasts went around and edited a lot of the help pages to show the <br /> or even the <br/>.

So which should we use? <br> or <br />?

Well, let's first ask another question: Which markup should we use for bold text?

• '''Bold'''
• <b>Bold</b>
• <span style="font-weight:bold;">Bold</span>

I think we all know that the wikimarkup '''Bold''' is the recommended one. Mainly because it is simpler to use, especially for the majority of editors that don't know HTML and CSS.

The same goes for <br> vs <br />. The HTML wikimarkup <br> is easier for the majority of editors to use, and it is shorter.

Sure, we have a "teaching opportunity" to teach people to use the <br />, but there is a very high risk that they instead will use the <br/> and that would be a bad thing. And believe it or not, many beginners have problems telling "/" and "\" apart. So they sometimes use the <br\> or even </br>...

So again, the <br> is easier for the majority of editors to use, and it is shorter.

--David Göthberg (talk) 02:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Discussion at User:Drilnoth/codefixer.js/doc#.3Cbr.3E tags --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 06:30, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		Awarded for your excellent work in adding photographs to the various Lists of German windmills. Mjroots (talk) 19:28, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 22:21, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] MLL

Yarn, you posted a note at User talk:Smith03 about American vs British english. Are you talking about this edit? I think Smith's change of "colour->color" is appropriate based on the MLL -- similar to MLB -- being a US based league (i.e. using American english). Also, since the editor has been around for a long time, you may want to consider WP:DTTR. -Mitico (talk) 12:00, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh yea, and thanks for your tweaks and additions to the field lacrosse article! Mitico (talk) 12:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I changed it to American English because the reference was to the old Rochester (American) team. thanks for your concern Smith03 (talk) 16:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay, sorry about that. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 01:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Previewing changes in other namespaces

Hello! In response to your edit summary here, for the {{notaforum}} template: It is in fact possible to test changes in other namespaces. I explain how here. Hope this helps. Happy editing! —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 02:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice! --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 03:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] FFD for ArmyNavyLax2009.JPG

I commented at the FfD. The photo is credited to Army Athletic Communications. The athletic department of the United States Military Academy is part of the Department of the Army, and therefore its works are in the public domain. Strikehold (talk) 04:57, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Your right, I was thinking because it was on the Go Army athletics page (commercial site with copyright notice as I said; West Point main site does not have copyright notice b/c it is PD) that it was copyrighted. But since it has this attribution it is in the public domain as you said. Thanks and great job on the college team articles --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 05:09, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I probably should've linked directly to the page with the image and attribution instead of the gallery to eliminate any confusion. The (C) at the bottom of the site, I assume, was put there by privately contracted website developers. They may hold some rights over some things like the web design, but may not necessarily understand copyright law as it applies to the USG. Strikehold (talk) 05:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] {{find}} and {{rescue}}

It's showing up on all the articles tagged for rescue as a big wonky error message. -- Banjeboi 18:38, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

That is weird... Any idea why? I tried it out in my sandbox and it worked fine. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 18:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I hate to be paranoid but everytime something "weird" happens it sadly points to someone who has issues with the Article Rescue Squad (sigh); the {{BLP sources}} template used our idea but had different coding. Hmmmm. I think it's someone's pointy way of saying they think rescue template only should be on the talkpage of an article but community consensus has maintained that mainpage usage is completely fine. -- Banjeboi 18:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

P.s. thank you for trying to fix this. -- Banjeboi 20:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Casebox

Yarnalgo, I've replied on this page: I've got another question when you're back; how do the titles work? For instance, I'm planning to have lots of different boxes which can be used across a number of pages; if I put in a page something like "<Template:Casebox consideration>" would that mean that the template page itself would be "Template:Casebox consideration"? Wikidea 12:21, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Looking at the way that came up on the page (rather than in the edit page), I think I answered my own question! Wikidea 12:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Gordon Gair

I see you added and then removed Cat:Sportspeople from Ontario — just to let you know, the category does exist, but it's in the naming format Cat:Ontario sportspeople. It should get moved to the "Sportspeople from Ontario" format, but it hasn't yet because all of the other Canadian sportspeople-by-province categories would have to get done at the same time. Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 05:36, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the help. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 05:37, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] I appreciate your help!

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For your advice and expertise in creating a template for list of legal cases, and being super helpful and patient with my requests. Wikidea 00:19, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

v • d • e Core cases on agreement Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Co (1876-77) LR 2 App Cas 666 Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co [1892] EWCA Civ 1 Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation [1955] 2 QB 327 Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl [1983] 2 AC 34 The Brimnes [1975] QB 929 see Agreement in English law

And I think I've cracked it, as seen here. Thanks so much for your help!

No problem at all. Glad I could help. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 00:39, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sr. B

I removed the Sr. B from the template only because it seemed redundant at the time. I will make an article for the WCSLA next. A decent league out in BC. DMighton (talk) 19:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

It's only there because the OLA leagues are all called "OLA Level". So it's differentiate between the other OLA leagues. If you want to remove them that's fine with me. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 19:33, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Nah... don't worry about it... I just wanted to make more room... that was all. The OLA isn't all that creative about naming their leagues... lol. DMighton (talk) 19:49, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] UK Supreme Court badge

Why have you replaced the version showing a flax leaf (which I believe is correct), with one that showing a shamrock (which is not)? Andrew Le Sueur (talk) 12:04, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I did not realize it wasn't accurate. The svg version was made because of a request at Commons. I don't think the creator realized that it wasn't the right leaf. It should be changed back to the correct badge until the svg is fixed (I haven't checked to see if you have done this already yet). --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 22:29, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] I have a question to ask you (in private)...

Please e-mail me for the question at LDEJRuff@yahoo.com.
~~LDEJRuff~~ ^{(see what I've contributed)} 14:37, 08 June 2009 (EDT)

I emailed you, but in the future why don't you just use Special:EmailUser/Yarnalgo? --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 21:01, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] NLL Navbox

[edit] class=url

Please can you explain why you made this edit? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:18, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Isn't the url property used for the website? Am I missing something? --Yarnalgo _talk to me 19:28, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Do you mean used by the microformat? Yes, but only as a property of the "A" element; or if the URL is displayed on the page, as opposed to link text. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 19:35, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Okay then. Sorry about that. --Yarnalgo _talk to me 21:34, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

NP. It would be better if MediaWiki allowed us to add classes to "A" elements. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:43, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use File:Mike Nifong.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mike Nifong.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Peripitus (Talk) 00:32, 13 November 2009 (UTC)