User talk:Darius Dhlomo

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Hello Darius Dhlomo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Born in Kingston

I removed your entry, for reasons I explained on Talk:Kingston, Jamaica. Please feel free to add a section of prominent Kingstonians, but listing just one isn't really balanced. Guettarda 15:13, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

India related links

Hi, you may be interested in these links. btw, great work on sports related articles, keep up the good work!! --Gurubrahma 06:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

• I agree with Gurubrahma! Punkmorten 12:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Harry Keough

Hi, you edited the Harry Keough article to change his real name to "William Tyrone Keough." Do you have a source for this? I was unable to find any reference to this via Google. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 16:37, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• I reverted your edit, but Ty Keough is Harry's son. I redlinked him in the Harry Keough article. You could write that article if you want. howcheng {chat} 16:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

"Born in" sections for New Zealand towns and cities

Hi Darius,

there is a consensus that only people of major notability should be listed in the article on their birthplace, and for larger centres, none at all. If we were to list everyone down to the notability of the hockey players you entered on Gisborne and Lower Hutt, there would be hundreds or thousands of names and the articles would be totally overwhelmed. dramatic 21:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. JoaoRicardo^talk 13:56, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

1992 Spanish female hockey gold medal winners

Hi, just to let you know that there's a typo in the medal table that I think you are copying and pasting. It says "Silver" in the name of the medal won, when it should be "Gold". I corrected a couple before realising this was probably a systemic mistake. Cheers, Sliggy 17:25, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Possible new infobox

Hey,

I'm working on a prototype for an infobox on the country olympic pages. The discussion is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics#Template_for_X_Country_at_Y_Olympics

Sue Anne 21:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Error in Template

I was watching the new article track, and I noticed a typo in the block text you're using for articles like Syria_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics. It should read "made its Olympic debut", not "made it's Olympic debut". Other than that, though, they look nice; I just wanted to let you know before it perpetuates too far.-Colin Kimbrell 22:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

I award you this Running Man Barnstar for your outstanding coverage of the Olympic Games. Punkmorten 11:07, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Articles

I have been looking through the list of unwatched pages (available only to administrators) and found 1941 in sports (and others). I see that you recently edited this but are not watching it. You may want to go to your preferences and under the "editing" tab turn on "Add pages you edit to your watchlist". This will enable you to keep an eye out for any edits that are made to pages you work on and help to revert vandalism. If you do decide to turn it on can you please drop me a note on my talk page so I can cut down my excessive watchlist (6000+). Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Two minor things

Hey, Darius. You're doing a really, really, really good job with all these articles you're contributing on sports figures.

Two things that I'd like to suggest - first, could you take a few minutes and just create for yourself a userpage, so that it's not a redlink? Redlinked user pages trigger my "oh, this might be a total newbie/vandal - better check out their stuff extra-carefully" reflex. It's no big deal, just tell a little bit about yourself.

Second, as a result of some recent controversy that you might have heard mentioned, there is a new category: [[Category:Living people]], to which all articles on living people should be added. Since you're contributing so many articles, you might want to include it when you create them.

Keep up the good work. DS 16:22, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

• Great work Darius, but could you fill in the edit summary please? I know very well that you are a prolific, diligent and honest editor, so if you would simply note what you have changed, other editors will simply be able to look at it and believe you (I would anyway). REgards, Blnguyen 03:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Andrei Cherkasov

Thanks, I completely missed the lack of an 'i'. I went ahead and redirected it to the correct spelling. --Delirium 08:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Numbering

I see that you have changed 1500m to 1.500m in a lot of the articles. Is this convention an accepted policy??Blnguyen 03:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC) No it's not. See WP:MOSNUM. Rich Farmbrough 18:14 15 March 2006 (UTC).

Olympic conventions

Hey Darius, I know you're interested in Olympic coverage. Some people have started a discussion on conventions at Wikipedia:Olympic conventions. Just letting you know. -- Jonel | Speak 01:33, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Format of dates

If you do not like "10 March 2006", but prefer "March 10, 2006", do not go changing just that in all articles you encounter. That is against wiki policy. Simply change your preferences to your preferred date format and you will see the dates the way you like to see them without changing articles. See WP:MOSDATE. wjmt 13:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

In addition, and once again against wiki policy, you never seem to give an "edit summary". I am sorry, but you may have made a lot of nice contributions, but neither you nor I nor anyone else owns any article on wiki. There is no reason whatsoever for you to go into an article and change the date format because you do not like it, just as there are no objective reasons (apart from a FEW exceptions) to change, for instance, British English spelling to American English spelling. There is only one English wiki and I think the WP:MOS makes it clear enough which spelling, formats, metrics, and so on, should be accepted. You modified the date format in several articles I created, while WP:MOSDATE stated both mine and your format as valid. That means you have to leave it alone unless there is an objective reason to change it. There was not. Once more... if you hate seeing "10 March 2006", simply go into your "my preferences" and change it there. From then on, any and every article you see that contains links in any of the formats described in WP:MOSDATE, you will then see the way YOU like them, even if the article really has it formatted differently in any of four different ways (one of which was the was I formatted it...).

If you do NOT like how millions of native English speakers format dates, or how they spell certain words, or anything that does not fit into how you, personally, would like to see things, then start your own wiki on your own hard drive. Neither you nor I own any articles here, and unless an article is inconsistent in its use of date formats, time formats (12 vs. 24), "dialect" of English, and so on, you should only change things like that if they are not consistent with the rest of the article. Come on, Darius, if you really have contributed that much and if you really are so valuable a contributor, why do you waste your time on changing the format of dates, when all you have to do is change your preferences and you would not even have seen what you felt compelled to change? I am sorry, but, yes, you may have contributed a lot, but at the same time, you also do not ever seem to bother to give at least a brief description of changes you make (which is against wiki policy), nor do you tolerate things that are accepted by millions of other native English speakers and, most importantly, by wiki. I reverted your edits on articles I recently created or majorly contributed to as not complying with wiki policy. There is only one English wiki... not an American English one, a British English one, a Canadian English one, and so on... nor is there an English wiki that prefers 12 vs. 24 hour formats or the date formats that made me write this in the first place. You are not my superior and I am not yours. We are peers. And, with very few exceptions, you should respect the way I prefer to format dates, just like I would respect yours. wjmt 03:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll stick my oar in as well - can you please stop doing it? I use US style for US subjects, but where people are from areas where the Day/Month/Year style is the dominant one, you shouldn't go around changing it just for your taste. Average Earthman 00:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

French Open tennis articles

Sorry, a mistake. All fixed now. Let me know if you come across any others. Rich Farmbrough 18:37 11 March 2006 (UTC).

Candice Forword

Candice Forword has been proposed for deletion. Please see WP:BIO for the relevant guidelines and improve the article if possible. NickelShoe 20:35, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I've moved it to AfD. Please comment if you would like at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Candice Forword. -- Jonel | Speak 05:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Elena Dolgopolova

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labelled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

When you leave the edit summary blank, some of your edits could be mistaken for vandalism and may be reverted, so please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you.

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

German Olympians

Hi there Darius. Good work on all the Olympic hockey players. I've noticed the german ones. With regard to WP:OLYCON, it was decided to group olympians by the country that they represented, even it is now defunct, so that means I have re-categorized the Olympians to either Category:Olympic competitors for West Germany, etc. Pleas keep this in mind if you create articles for the 1960-1990 era of German athletes. Happy editing,Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Henning Lynge Jakobsen

Thank you for your contribution. Where did you find his birthdate? I have had a hard time finding information on Henning Lynge Jakobsen even among Danish websites.--SVTCobra 23:25, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Christian Tröger

I have announced this stub at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. If you write more about German athletes, please add them there. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 19:09, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Interesting in Project???

Want to join the badminton proposed project i lauched. If you what to join, please look a this proposal and have a consideration. Thank you Aleenf1 08:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Still running man's barnstar

Very unoriginal of me, but I think it needs a renewal.

The Running Man's Barnstar For relentlessly enhancing Olympic coverage on Wikipedia! Enjoy, ßlηguγΣη

By the way, if you create any articles with interesting or unusual facts, come to Template talk:Did you know and nominate them for inclusion in the DID YOU KNOW section of the Wikipedia:Main Page. Happy editing,ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 03:14, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Edit Summaries

I have noticed your work throughout Wikipedia, but had one concern, many of your edits are without edit summaries. Please consider using them so other users have an idea what your edits are. Best, Kukini 15:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

==Emanuele Merisi==

Hi! I reverted your edit to Emanuele Merisi since the Manual of Style states that the place of birth should be in the article, not after the born in .... part. Let me know. User:Attilios