I am just an occasional anonymous reader/sometimes editor, and skating fan. I like your work on the figure skater bio pages. But I wonder why no mention of Yu-Na Kim and Asada Mao being linked in the media due to their ages, ranking etc. I know there are lots of stupid people who try and turn it into some kind of racist attack on one or the other of these wonderful skaters, but for the rest of us, it's simply a fact that Mao and Yu-Na are closely linked in the mass media by their age, ability and constant competition. I am a Yu-Na fan from Tokyo and she is alway on the television here, in the same pieces as Mao-chan. Also my Korean friends say that Mao is treated similarly in Korea. I think this is significant details about Mao and Yu-Na for readers of Wikipedia, provided it can be phrased in such a way to avoid any kind of racist sentiment or feeling of sensationalism. Also- is it possible to get a picture of Shizuka Arakawa for the Ina Bauer article? Hers is the best and most famous, after all! Maybe for the Arakawa page too- it is her signature move, along with the y-spiral and the donuts spin.
Probably I cannot read your reply, but I wish you good luck with your wiki works in the future. Thankyou for supporting great skaters and skating in general.
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David Spart 00:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Notable competitions
I notice you've been undoing some of my changes to remove non-notable competitions from skaters' results tables.
NACS were developmental events, not elite competitions. In the US, selections were under control of the athlete development committee rather than the international committee that selects athletes for "real" international competitions. Most every US national novice competitor and many intermediates were offered the chance to participate in them. Participation in these events doesn't make the skaters concerned notable.
Similarly, having results at qualifying competitions below the national level doesn't provide any evidence of notability for the skater concerned. In particular, anyone can enter regionals.
Mid-Atlantics is a club competition sponsored by the SC of New York, not a regional qualifying event. Anyone can enter that event, and having a result at it is not evidence of notability. Ditto for Skate Detroit, Liberty Open, Golden West, Broadmoor Open, and some others I've been weeding out of the results tables.
Part of the reason why I want to get rid of these things is that any skater who is truly notable will have plenty of other, more notable competition results to put in their articles. And it will avoid confusion in dealing with cases like
Zsa Zsa Riordan, who could fill up a table of her own with results from similarly meaningless competitions that do nothing to establish her notability.
Dr.frog 03:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I have no problem getting rid of most of those, but I'd prefer to keep regionals and sectionals in. They are qualifying competitions for Nationals, and so while placing at one of those doesn't make a skater notable, it does mean the skater gets to go to Nationals. I also think it's interesting to see, at a glance, how a skater did at Nationals vs how he or she made it there (like winning sectionals, but placing 14th, or placing 4th at sectionals and getting on the podium). Of course regionals and sectionals don't establish notability, but I think they're important enough competitions by virtue of feeding into nationals. Sure, they don't make a skater notable, but I think they deserve to be in a list of highlights.
Kolindigo 21:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi, I am an irregular anon. contributor and I usually defer to regular editors; but I think it is relevant that the articles on Asada Mao and Yu-Na Kim mention each other. Both skaters are almost exactly the same age, height, and have very similar ability, and always compete for first place at major international events. It's difficult to explain this without making an oversimplification that they are cartoonish "rivals" but even so, they are indeed rivals in a very real sense, and the Japanese and Korean media never seems to mentioned one without the other. My IP changes so I probably can't reply further, but I will trust your judgement. Also, the Arakawa Shizuka article, which thanks to you, maybe me and a couple of others, has slowly been getting better and less like a mix up of fan-pages, could still use more help to make it smoother and more concise! Anyway, good work. —The preceding
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I agree, nothing wrong with stubs. But some of these translations were rather difficult. So I am not sure about the correct English. Thats all.
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I'm not spamming. I still can't understand why you decided to remove every single link to this site from wikipedia instead of simply reverting every spammed link by
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I basically started a stub to keep people from posting information about the skating team in the
Capitol Steps article. The comedy troupe has been around longer, and is more notable...at least within the United States (they're not very widely known outside the US). If you move forward with the prod, go ahead - it's not even on my watchlist. But I would ask that some kind of dab statement be left on
Capitol Steps to keep information about the skating team from creeping back into that article. Perhaps the skating team can be merged into some article about Virginia, or one of the towns they practice in.... --
JohnDBuell 11:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Sandbox edit
Hi there, I'm very sorry for revert-editing your sandbox text. I noticed it too late. It showed up in the recent changes list as a mayor edit and didn't notice it as a sandbox edit. Again, I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. :) With kind regards, MisteryX
Attempt to delete subcategory of Jewish figure skaters
Well, they are trying to delete a subcategory of Jewish athletes again. This time, figure skaters. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_April_14#Category:Jewish_figure_skaters . I pointed out to the originator of the attempt that we had addressed this general issue already with the main category and with Jewish fencers, where the attempts failed. Still, they insist on trying to delete this category. Any help by your weighing in on the issue would be appreciated. Thanks again. --
Epeefleche 00:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)--
Epeefleche 20:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)reply
You didn't mean to post this to me, did you? ;) Look, I've got no problem with subcats of Jewish athletes. I just don't think Athletes by Relgion by Sport is that worth it, and if we have Jewish figure skaters, we need to have Catholic figure skaters and Protestant Figure Skaters and it just becomes a headache.
Kolindigo 02:23, 16 April 2007 (UTC)reply
On added thought, who do you mean by "they"?
Kolindigo 02:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)reply
By "they" I refer to those who tried to delete categories such as Jewish sportspeople and Jewish Fencers in the past. Their efforts were rejected. And yet, they are trying to do the same here. Editors such as ProveIt and coelacan and Abberley2 were all involved, for example, in the recent failed attempt to have jewish fencers removed as a category. I personally think it is a waste of our time for them to try again here, category by category. But when I asked them to drop it for that reason, they refused. --
Epeefleche 02:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)reply
You missed my point. I'm the one who nominated it, and I did it without having any idea that such discussions had already ocurred at nauseum or knowing who the major players are. I'm active in WikiProject Figure Skating, not WikiProject Judiasm. As for Jews being a nation and a culture as well as a religion, that's very true. But being Jewish is not a nationality in the same way that being Israeli or American is. All the other skaters are categorized by which country they represent in competition. No one shows up representing Judaism.
Kolindigo 02:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)reply
I do stand corrected. Proveit was the second, not the first, person, to take the position tha you started. While you were not familiar with the fact that this has already been discussed, though, he is -- since he started this discussion, which is one that I referred to, and which was joined in by two of the others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_4#Category:Jewish_fencers I believe that no new issues are raised by anyone on this discussion, and that it is therefore redundant of the jewish fencers discussion. Many of the same issues were raised and discussed in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Jews_in_sports . I think that it is a wast of all of our time to have repeated votes for each category.
I recognize that you were not aware of the history. Perhaps reviewing it, as well as my comments, you might reconsider your position? This is just a time-saver for all, as it appears to me that the same comments will ultimately be made, with the same result. I would hate to have to go through this for each sport ... we can all do more constructive things with our time -- even on Wikipedia!
As far as your comment about Jews as a nation, I agree. They are not a nation the same way that Israel is a nation. At the same time, they are a nation within the meaning of the Wiki definition. Per Wiki. And they are "more" of a nation that the other religions that you mentioned. --
Epeefleche 02:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Figure Skating
Hi, I am very suprised how quickly you find my new figure skating artikles. Well I highly appreciate that you do. But how do you do that? I would like to re-use your technique.
Well, I have result lists of all Europeans, all Worlds and most of the Worlds Juniors. Shall we all really put them in here? I am a bit insecure about it. Also it keeps me bussy for years!
...and also thanks for correcting my English. Sorry, but it is just not my mother-tongue.
Uwe Langer 21:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Hey. :) I find a lot of new skating articles in one of two ways: either by already having the red link on my watchlist, or by clicking on the "contribs" link next to a name. As for results pages, I would love it if you made them! It's hard for me to find online results for competitions that took place before 1999 and I think it would be wonderful to have those results on wikipedia. But, hey, if you don't have time, no pressure. :)
Kolindigo 01:14, 3 May 2007 (UTC)reply
OK, well it just takes time. Worlds, Europeans and Olympics i have in an EXCEL-table. I could send that one to you. So you have the results and you can sort them as you want. So it is easy to find the places per skater. To do so, i need your E-mail address. I just validated mine here in Wikipedia. Just send me a mail.
Uwe Langer 20:51, 6 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Jerry Falwell
So, are we having fun keeping that schmuck's article unvandalized yet? As much as I disagree with him philosophically and theologically, the whole fecaloma vandalism's getting old fast.
The Dark 18:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Hi, regarding
my edit to Ellen DeGeneres, I do realize that using a tabloid as a reference is not such a good idea and the wording was probably bad. But there are multiple mentions on many sites (see this
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I don't have a problem with including the info, I'm just concerned about slander issues and proper references. If you can get real, reliable refs, that's great. If not, I don't think it's make-or-break info.
Kolindigo 04:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Yes, I know about
blp. What I meant was that maybe you can take a look at that google search and see which is a reliable source... I thought E! News is pretty reliable, but you say its a tabloid and therefore not reliable. I wouldn't know. Maybe transcripts.cnn.com? But then again, this makes only a passing mention of it. Thanks. -
TwoOars 04:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)reply
And yes, its really not that important. Its just that I use Wikipedia as my primary reference and was a teensy bit annoyed that I came to know of this from some other source when there's no mention of it here. :) If there is no reliable source in that google search, well I am leaving this matter alone. -
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Peter Kennedy -- folk musician
Ok, I've created
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Zaytsev
Hi, Kolindigo! First of all, I apologize for reverting your move without explanation—I got so pre-occupied with cleaning up various Zaytsevs that I did not notice that one of my moves was speedily reverted by you! I see you moved
Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev back once again, so here is my reasoning.
Names of Russian people in Wikipedia are romanized using
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What's wrong with removing the years in which no competition was held?
It is specified in the leading paragraph the years in which the competition took place, so it should be clear that on the years in between they were not.
If you insist on this format, then you can add a line for 2007 as well...--
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Friends of Shirley Partridge
Hello Kolindigo. Forgive me if I am not writing this in the right place, I noticed a note you wrote on the "Friend Of Dorothy" page a while back and thought you might be a good person to lend some support to the WWII/Dorothy Parker etymology. Some friends and I tried correcting the article by noting that "Dorothy from Kansas" was not the actual source of that expression. We provided the book and documentary film "Coming Out Under Fire" as a reference, and explained about the vernacular that developed from Mrs Parkers writings during the war. However, as I'm sure you know, the "Dorothy from Kansas" theory is much more popular. I suspect this is simply because gay people developed their own theory in the absence of the actual truth, and since we do not have great access to "Gay/Lesbian" History, an alternate explanation was developed.
So the problem that we're having is that as we've tried to correct the article, a small group of dedicated "editors" are trying to protect the Garland theory and relegating Dorothy Parker and WWII to second fiddle. S/He/They have now gone so far as to "protect" the page from being edited, claiming that there are countless more "references" that support the Wizard of Oz theory.
The problem with this, as I see it, is that there is BOUND to me more information supporting the Wizard of Oz theory, because that is the myth that developed in the absence of the actual story. However, none of these sources explain the history of how the term was developed. In "Coming Out Under Fire" we learn that there was in fact a vernacular adopted by Gay men who used it in their communication during and after that time. So this information supercedes any "Wizard of Oz" theory, because it actually explains its actual origin.
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King James is a Queen!
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Benjiboi and his stalker. After a chance meeting at the
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Superman in a telephone booth. So perhaps some of you would like to watchlist Benjiboi's page, and lend a hand if you see some love letters from an 11 digit friend. I was actually thinking we should get Alice's harasser and Benjiboi's stalker together. Then we could have another sequel, sort of like
Freddy vs. Jason. Any bets as to who would win??
Not quite the second coming, but special just the same
Let me be the first to give a warm, wet, Love Boat kiss (though not with tongue) to our newest Project members:
Jacksinterweb,
Cleduc,
Pigman,
Becksguy and
Iamandrewrice. Even in the month of our Saviour's birth, your popping into our Wikipedian lives is a blessed event indeed. As Jesus Himself said,
"Live long and prosper". He did say that, didn't he? I think he said it. In any event, if he was standing next to me now, I'm sure he'd say it, and add, "Happy homo editing!"
Battle of the Wikipedia Stars!
Indomitable
Ann Bannon is holding her own in Wikipedia's answer to
American Idol:
The Featured Article candidate list! For four feverish weeks, she has mastered the challenges and not been eliminated from the competition. Drop by the FAC page and show Ann you love her....or give her the hook (I'm not supposed to tell you how to vote). Giving our plucky Ann reason to hope is the recent promotion of
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sa-Sc. If Miss Julie has her way, we will have the entire alphabet of Queerdom Featured here on Wikipedia soon! And I would be remiss if I did not give a warm, Lesbian salute to our own
Belovedfreak, who showed Wikipedia with
But I'm a Cheerleader that even
pom poms are no protection from the Love that dare not speak its name, and got a
gold star for her efforts.
Climbing the Wikipedia career ladder is
User: Tim1965, who has not only written, but is now promoting
Reel Affirmations to
Good article status. Best of luck, Tim, and remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. We're sure you'll be trading that green circle for a gold star soon (assuming you get the green in the first place!).
Santa's on his gay way!
Santa needs elves
Yes, I know: packages need buying, trees need trimming, egg nog needs drinking. The holidays make many demands on our time. It's ...well, it's a bitch, is what it is. So I wouldn't blame you for skipping this little section and putting off my request until next year. But...think of the children. Our future. They need quality information about the homosexual "lifestyle" if we are to
indoctrinate them properly. That's why I am asking you to drop by
our Peer review area and give your meaning as to the efforts of your fellow gay Wikipedians. And think: in this season of kindness and good will to all, isn't it nice that I am pointing you to someplace where you can (in a Wikiloving way, of course) rip someone a new asshole? Think about it...and those children with their shiny, bright eyes, thanking you for contributing to their future.
Even more festively, consider joining in on the
deletion discussions of our favorite articles. Here you can bandy about such words as "homophobia", "Right-wing Christian agenda" and my personal favorite, "just who do you think you're pushing around?!?!?". If you play your cards right, there might even be an
extra present under the tree for you. :-D
Urgent Christmas appeal Tovojolo asked me to ask you to edit
Elizabeth Bishop as part of the Collaboration Project. She's an old dead poet (Miss Bishop, not Tovojolo. I've never actually met Tovojolo. She's probably very young and attractive. Maybe somebody should ask if she's single), but she was a flaming homosexual long before most of us had even been conceived, so we owe her some respect. Tovojolo actually asked me for the last newsletter, but Miss Julie forgot. Bad Miss Julie. She was so busy boosting morale it just slipped right by her.
Nemissimo, maybe you need to
crack that whip again to get Julie back in line.
Surrender, Dorothy!!!!!!! Friend of Dorothy has attracted the attention of a group of....the more senior elements of our gay society. They disagree with our thesis that
Saint Judy was the possible source of the term, and demand we change the article to reflect their contention that
Dorothy Parker was the origin. The problem is, their source didn't check out. So we agreed to disagree. Well, we at the project did. They got kinda mad at us, said unkind things, and started edit warring. Though they are old, they are certainly quick, and could revert the article faster than my nimble fingers could press the undo button. To quote the divine Miss Parker, every time I saw the article on my watchlist, I thought to myself, "What fresh hell is this?". The page was protected by sympathetic administrators, but keeping an eye on it will keep Dorothy safe from
future Wicked Witches of the West or East.
Ambrosia
Our dear
Benjiboi has been busy indeed, lately. He recently made fruit salad out of
Fruit, turning a once nasty word into a damn good article, and saving it from deletion! Congratulations, Benjiboi! I hear he has turned his attention from fruit to
poultry now. Before he is through, he will have turned every major food group gay on Wikipedia!
Christmas came early
Yes, indeed! Valued administrator
WJBscribe was raised out of the mire of mid-level management and placed squarely into the
Pantheon of Bureaucracy! And Miss Julie is just too proud of him not to mention that he got the most support votes in the history of Wikipedia! Congratulations, WJB! We know you will not prove
the Peter Principle correct!
You!
Yes, you! It's you who make this project shine! It's you who make Wikipedia such a valuable resource for all humanity! And it's you who make Miss Julie's dull life just a little bit better. So I want to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for all you do here.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Happy Hanukkah!
Festive Kwanzaa!Delirious Dong Zhi!Delicious Diwali! And for our
oppressed Iranian brothers and sisters, I wish you a
safe and joyous Yalda. And if I didn't mention your favorite December holiday, well, it's because I feel it's so special I should just keep it between you and me. Always remember:
You light up my life!
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Well I think it's more focused than the heroes category. It seems the hero category only goes over old mythology type heroes.
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You asked "contaminated - how ?" - when I opened the entry I was greeted with the sight of a close-up photo of male genitalia. Deleting this section was the only way I could find to get rid of it. RGCorris
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NHK Trophy
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I'll check the discussion out. But I haven't recreated the category. I simply have it redlinked on my userpage in case it gets recreated.
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Weir Sourcing
I could easily source the stuff said by Scott Hamilton by linking to the actual score card. As for what was said about the Swan, I dug really deep (I looked before) and find an article by the Philadelphia Inquirer to source The Swan as his most famous performance. I think more sourcing can be found if it is looked for. Honestly, the whole article in general could use a lot of sourcing improvements beyond what I have added with sources. Many statements are presented in the article without sources.
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Medal table
Hey there. I noticed you undid my precious edit. Which is fine, but I thought medal tables, just like with the Olympics, are ranked by amount of gold medals won, then silver, and then bronze. So that one gold counts more than any amount of silvers and bronzes (
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The sentence about Randy Gardner revealing that he is gay in a 2006 magazine article is "explicitly referenced' - it states in the PEOPLE magazine article of May 26, 2008 ("Together Forever") that he "revealed he is gay in a 2006 magazine article" - I referenced it along with the information about him finding his birth mother, in the same paragraph. —Preceding
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Never mind - I found another source that mentioned the actual name of the magazine in which he came out (Scene), so I referenced that one instead.
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