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Deletion of article List of number-one hits in Norway

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:Category:Slovak expatriate footballers in Costa Rica ↗

Hello. I've noticed that you have added several new "triple intersection" categories such as this one for footballers. While I appreciate your efforts to improve Wikipedia's coverage of football, this appears to be a case of overcategorization (as :Category:Expatriate footballers in Costa Rica ↗ would suffice). Indeed, there was a CfD on this very topic which resulted in delete all. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_August_21#Category:Expatriate_footballers_in_England ↗. I am going to begin reverting these triple intersects back to the parent categories and wanted to let you know. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best regards. Jogurney (talk) 22:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

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In favour of the so-called 'triple intersection' category pages

Hi there. Just to let you know that this by no means constitutes a cut and dry case of overcategorisation. They subdivide long lists of expat footballers in a country in a sensible and informative way while reducing category page list clutter at the bottom of footballer bio pages. There is likely to be a discussion on the matter in the coming days at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion ↗. Regards, Mayumashu (talk) 04:00, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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Taking it to talk.

Regarding whether suicide is a manner or cause, I've already had this chat. ↗ I conceded defeat, so can't rightly bring it up again. But there are some useful links in there, if you'd like to understand where I was coming from. InedibleHulk (talk) ↗ 08:26, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

:Mainly just this link. ↗ InedibleHulk (talk) ↗ 08:30, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Your revert

Adding references in 'Deaths in 2015'

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deaths_in_2016&curid=48857868&diff=706991141&oldid=706990946

Clive Burr

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Clive Burr ↗

Hi. Slightly mystified as to why you added Clive Burr to the Deaths in 2016 page - he died in 2013. I have removed the entry. Thanks. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 23:16, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
::Nothing to be mystified about. People make mistakes, it happens all the time on that page. Fix it and move on.Nukualofa (talk) 23:21, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Sally Beauman Obit -- Link Text Correction

Greetings ....

This is to let you of my edit to your original post of the Sally Beauman obit on the Wikipedia "Deaths" page. Everything you had was OK except for the omission of the text "http://" just before the rest of the link www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36763473

Always remember that (unless otherwise) Wikipedia requires http;// in order for external links to function correctly.

Thanks most kindly for your contribution
Peace from Fgf2007 (talk) 13:43, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

"Undos"

Per reversion guidelines ↗, that isn't what the Undo button is for. Your edit ↗ pretty much overrode my removal, while you added your own changes (not the same thing) while throwing shade my way for improper housekeeping. It's not my "job" to track down a source, when the DI lead ''clearly'' says to add one with entries. — '''<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Wylie</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">pedia</span>''' 00:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
:I'm really sorry I hurt your feelings.Nukualofa (talk) 00:31, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Not the fall that kills, but the sudden stop at the end.

Regarding this ↗, I won't revert you, but ask you to consider how long cancer (or many other diseases) takes between starting and finishing. Often years. A fall is external, so different, but directly responsible for death, so the same.

If you appreciate that, revert yourself, but if not, that's cool. InedibleHulk (talk) ↗ 21:22, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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Sorry

I accidentally rolled back your edit but immediately reverted my error. All good! WWGB (talk) 08:08, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Woah.

Hi. The editor who just removed the "death announced" tag from Arnold Clark ↗ in Deaths in 2017 ↗ has obviously, in total "good faith" ↗, learnt that the date of death had been established. Unlike yourself, he had only neglected to provided the relevant source, move the subject to the correct date or provide an edit summary. Now, I know that's a lot to be forgetting or neglecting to do, but it doesn't represent removing the tag "for the sake of it". His edit had been 'live' just five minutes! I think a little good grace and no comment is in order some times. Thanks though for getting it right where he had made his "mistakes". '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 12:31, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

::Yeah, you're right. Sorry about that. It just happens a lot, and I always double check the source if no new source is added, and it gets a little tiresome sometimes.Nukualofa (talk) 12:44, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Trigger happy?

Fuck me for trying to find her date of death, right? <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 16:19, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
:You have tried and failed more than once. Why not wait until it's actually published somewhere? Nukualofa (talk) 16:27, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
::Cause I thought it was. Guess my translator isn't as good as I thought. Just don't think I'm a dick for trying to find the date of death. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 16:31, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
:::I was incorrect yeah, just didn't appreciate the snippyness of the edit summary. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 16:59, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Edit summary

This edit summary ↗ was an unacceptable outburst. I apologise for that. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 22:23, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Reply

I was running on the assumption that, with the date being noted on the wiki article, it was sourced and thus I didn't need to track a source. Upon completing that I realized this wasn't the greatest way of verifying. But just in general I search the person/animal to see if any other sources can be found that have more info. In some cases more info doesn't come right away. But in this one there was a source. I'll verify better, but i'd also ask of you to make sure there's no other sources available. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 19:50, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Weum

Sorry, I took the sentence "he rounded 70 yesterday" to be a rough translation to he died yesterday", but I realized that it was a post he made when he turned 70 the week before. My bad. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 23:02, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

:No problem.Nukualofa (talk) 23:32, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Bernie Casey

BBC ↗, Rolling Stone ↗, The Hollywood Reporter ↗, The New York Times ↗ and Variety ↗ are all citing Tuesday. I can't revert the edit back, so if you could please undo yourself. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 15:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
:No probz. It's done.Nukualofa (talk) 16:51, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Deaths in 2017 ↗

Hi. A good faith ↗ user just recently caused you to have to go through a large number of housekeeping edits through their use of AutoEd on the above page, and I have also had to clean up the other format abuses which were caused by his actions. I have had a word on his page to ask him not to use the bot on the Deaths pages. Cheers. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 19:29, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
:Thanks.Nukualofa (talk) 19:53, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, let's discuss our little difference at Talk:Deaths in 2017 ↗. --Marbe166 (talk) 22:46, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Language ident

Hi. If you copy and paste a line of the source into Google Translate - "detect language" to "English" - it will tell you which it is. If only I could speak all those languages! '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 06:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
:I tried that, and it said Indonesian, and gave me a broken translation. Nukualofa (talk) 06:57, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
::Oh dear. That's unexpected. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 07:20, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Deaths in 2018 ↗

Hello, when you add people to the Deaths in 2018 ↗ page, please note that they should be in alphabetical order under each day. Thank you. --Marbe166 (talk) 10:57, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
:I am quite aware of this. With the hundreds, or thousands, of people I've added to those lists, a mistake is bound to happen every now and then. Just fix it and move on. Nukualofa (talk) 11:12, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Nadia alo (1980)? Please. Source Content Self-Maker 15:14, 23 March 2018 (UTC) <small class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by Sourcecontent1 (talk • contribs ↗) </small>

Thank you

Thank you for fixing the info box for the Gordon Walgren ↗ article-RFD (talk) 18:26, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
:My pleasure Nukualofa (talk) 18:31, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

March Deaths

Yeah I definitely jumped the gun. I thought tomorrow was gonna be the 7th but it’s gonna be the 6th. <i style="font-family:Rockwell; font-size:medium; color:red;">Rusted AutoParts</i> 23:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
:No worries. The 7th will be here quick enough.Nukualofa (talk) 23:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

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European access blocks

Hi. I realise you may well be in a PART of Europe which has access to certain blocked sites (and especially referring to the Tribune group in the USA), but I can assure you that the UK (and probably other countries in Europe) certainly didn't have access - we were redirected to a dedicated page saying '''"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."'''. I have never claimed that the blocks are Europe-wide, and some sites apparently specifically state that "the content is not available in some parts of Europe".

I never put tags of any kind in lightly - I do look for alternatives but, I'm sorry, if the claimed source will not display to the people of my own country, I am going to ask for a better one through a tag. Although Wikipedia guidelines seem to say that paywalled and suchlike content should be believed on trust, I prefer to examine things with my own eyes, and always will.

As it happens, in the recent instance the issue was later resolved by the provision of a world-wide accessible reference (as I knew it eventually would be). However, what I'm asking today is that you let my tagged sources stay in there until such time as the better source comes along. I assure you that I never lie, especially within the Wikipedia world. Thanks. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 19:57, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

: Sorry, Ref, I didn't mean to imply that you were lying. I just imagined one of two scenarions. 1, you made a mistake, or 2, the page had magically been made available to Europe. Usually I get the same Europe blocks as everybody else here, but on this occasion it seems we have been voted out of Europe. I'll calm my trigger finger the next time (if ever) the same thing happens. Nukualofa (talk) 22:01, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
::No probs now, sorry to bite back a bit. I believe you are in Norway? If so, I think you can assume that the access block is actually a European Union one, due to their now-strict rules on dealing with privacy, and which some US websites aren't happy about conforming to (hence the blocks for maybe just EU countries). I would be correct in thinking Norway isn't covered by all EU regulations? Anyway, thanks for seeing my point. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 01:31, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Can you not delete my aunties death please

Mari Griffith, 79, Welsh singer, author and radio presenter ↗. Cpqueeley89 (talk) 22:04, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

:I have answered this on your talk page. She was listed twice. Nukualofa (talk) 22:08, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
::Does not need to be displayed as a reference on this page, so reduced to proveable link. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 14:03, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Frankie Smith ↗

Hi. I think I've found a valid reference for the death of the above, but I'm getting a lot of resistance as regards adding it in his article, and I suspect the same will eventually be true for Deaths in March 2019 ↗ (8th). So please give your opinion on the ''BlackAmericaWeb.com'' statement here ↗, and the actual validity of that website. (I may also need editorial support in order that I do not exceed 3RR in the near future.) Thanks. '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ 14:01, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Frankie Smith is a music legend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Yet if he has truly passed away why is there NOT a single news article from any Philadelphia television news stations or newspapers? It's been almost 3 months since he supposedly died.

No news on any funeral or memorial service?

No news on any public tributes?

The fact that the only websites reporting his death are BLOGS (such as BlackAmericaWeb) makes me suspect Frankie Smith was/is the subject of a death hoax. I cite Wikipedia's policy on verifiability ↗. Specifically, the section on questionable sources.

But whatever consensus is decided upon by other admins, I will abide by. 73.9.202.181 ↗ (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

:BlackAmericaWeb isn't a blog. It's a part of Reach Media, which again is a part of the media conglomerate Urban One. It should be accepted as a valid source, as it is in fact a journalistic news site. However, I'll leave this one open until further to look for a different source. Nukualofa (talk) 00:31, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

i stand corrected about BlackAmericaWeb not being a blog. Still, where's the coverage from local news at the very least?

Nonetheless I am a man of my word. And I don't want to be responsible for overzealous editors like '''Ref''' <sup>(chew)</sup><small>(do)</small> ↗ having a nervous breakdown because their edits get reverted. So I will no longer edit the article in question. So long and thank you for being the adult in the room. :-) 73.9.202.181 ↗ (talk) 00:44, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Redlink polar bear

Just curious why the polar bear, Lyutyik, was removed from Deaths. Is it because he was a redlink? Other polar bears have appeared in Deaths over the years. Example: Knut, 4, German-born polar bear, drowned.[206] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_March_2011).72.129.236.61 ↗ (talk) 19:41, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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Brilliant

The World Cup information is brilliant. I didn't know Rudi Hoffmann had passed, superb research. <small class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by 82.22.94.98 ↗ (talk) 22:55, 5 January 2021 (UTC)</small>

David Washbrook ↗

Howdy! Just saw your post on Deaths in 2021 ↗. I have been building David Washbrook ↗'s article from scratch. Was surprised to see it didn't exist earlier. Have you by any chance seen an obituary of any form in WP:RS ↗ other than that DailyO opinion piece? Thanks in advance. Ktin (talk) 02:49, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

:Hi Ktin. Sorry, no. I was looking for one, but that was all I could find for now. It's not the best of sources. Do you consider it unreliable? Nukualofa (talk) 02:52, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
::{{u|Nukualofa}}, No, I personally do not think it is unreliable. But, I want to get my hands on better sources as I continue to flesh the bio in preparation for WP:ITNRD ↗. Do me a favor, if you do not mind -- if you see an obituary, please send my way. Thanks. Ktin (talk) 02:58, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
:::Sure, I'll keep an eye out. Nukualofa (talk) 03:00, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

David Roth

I note that there are TWO David Roths listed under January deaths in 2021 to be added to that month. One goes to a disambiguation page and the other to a specific article. Surely, two different David Roths didn't die in the same month of the same year. Editrite! (talk) 00:21, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

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