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Re: Notability
To be honest, I don't think I've ever heard of the series... Still, on the strength of the sources that you provided, I feel WP:GNG is met and I wouldn't expect notability challenges.
A propos: compared to films, Croatian TV series are severely underrepresented, with the exception of recent soaps. Definitely the way to go. GregorB (talk) 10:16, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Grič Tunnel (Zagreb)
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DYK for Grič Tunnel (Zagreb)
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Your GA nomination of The Hunted (1995 film)
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Your GA nomination of The Hunted (1995 film)
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Your GA nomination of Gri? Tunnel (Zagreb)
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- Please accept my apologies. The article certainly has not Failed, as I haven't finished the review. It is entirely possible my technical incompetence has led to this erroneous message. I shall check with my mentor and get back to you. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 09:03, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Grič Tunnel (Zagreb)
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- Hello - ignoring the regrettable bot error below, you'll shortly get a message to say I've put this article On Hold. Nothing major, it's a good article, but I have made some suggestions / offered some ideas for improvements. Could you have a look within the next seven days and we can then, hopefully, move it forward to GA status. Do give me a shout if there are issues you'd like to discuss. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 21:21, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Grič Tunnel (Zagreb)
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- Hi, are you away at the present? If you need a bit more time to respond to my review, just let me know. It would be a pity for it not to Pass, when it is very close to GA. KJP1 (talk) 06:57, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
- Sorry, I wasn't near my PC the last few days. I'll get back to you later today. Daß Wölf 18:51, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
- No worries, and no rush. We don't need to stick rigidly to the 7 days. For a non-native speaker, you write very good English! All the best. KJP1 (talk) 06:09, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
- Congratulations - the notification of a Pass for the article should work its way through shortly. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 16:04, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
- No worries, and no rush. We don't need to stick rigidly to the 7 days. For a non-native speaker, you write very good English! All the best. KJP1 (talk) 06:09, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
- Sorry, I wasn't near my PC the last few days. I'll get back to you later today. Daß Wölf 18:51, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
AN3 notice
Hello. FYI, I've reported the Reboot (fiction) editor to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Marcus Antony reported by User:Grayfell (Result: ). Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 04:34, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for helping at the Reboot article. I figured it might turn out to be someone's pet topic, but I didn't think people would be this hard to reason with. Daß Wölf 16:14, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
I restored the citation. It's been discussion ad nauseum on the talk page. Check the archives. talk:Neuro-linguistic programming. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 01:53, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- @Jim1138: sorry about that, I was just cleaning up some backlogged edit requests. I'll try to be more careful in the future. Daß Wölf 02:29, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- No problem. Some articles seem to be prone to that sort of thing. Don't worry too much about it. If there is a problem, someone will probably undo your change. If you want to, a check on their number of edits might suggest something. A new account properly using an ER might warrant further checks. Cheers and thanks for all your work! Jim1138 (talk) 03:42, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
NLP AFD
Hi, as somebody who has contributed occasionally to articles on neuro-linguistic programming I wondered if you could have a look at this AfD, which is not getting much attention. Famousdog (c) 07:46, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
- @Famousdog: Thanks for the notice, but I'm not that knowledgeable on NLP, I've just copyedited those pages on occasion. Daß Wölf 18:30, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
DYK for Golden Bull of 1242
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DYK for Urban Jungle
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Thank you
I appreciate the proposal you set forth at the NOTNEWS discussion. It is solid and provides a logical rationale backed by policies and the structure of other articles. However, as I warned, there is no compromise to be found with the other side of the debate. I suggest you follow this list because we desperately need editors with your judgment to weigh-in. Otherwise, I think it will just be an endless cycle of "no consensus".TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:35, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
- @TheGracefulSlick: Thanks for the kind words, I see the discussion is quite heated (not unexpected given the seriousness of the topic at hand). I check AfD from time to time, I'll give that delsort a try once I have some more free time. BTW I was thinking about making an example list article to better illustrate how useful this would be. (I probably should've done that before starting that discussion.) I've started a user draft, beginning with the example I added here (note that I've basically removed only repetitions and condolences). What do you think? Daß Wölf 02:40, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
- I suggest you consider presenting this draft for a merge proposal/RfC at the article's talk page; this draft accurately summarizes events in a much more encyclopedic style. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still opposed by the usuals but it establishes a precedent -- namely, this is how you write an article. And I think it would be a better option than me AfDing the article in a few months when RAPID no longer can be applied.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 06:11, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
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Collaboration
Hi Daß Wölf, nice work bringing Species to GA. I am planning to pursue a featured article nomination and I would like to cordially invite you in a collaborative effort to bring it to the Featured Article quality. I have access to this movie's collector's edition Blu-ray as well as several academic sources, and I think we might do something about the article. But before we do so, it should be reviewed for A-Class, which is one step closer to being a FA; it is less stringent than reviewing it as FA. So what do you say, interested? Slightlymad 14:13, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Slightlymad: Sure, I'd be glad to give it a try, it'd be nice to add a FA badge to my page :) Actually if my memory serves me right I should still have a DVD with director's commentary lying around somewhere. BTW you might also want to ask User:Igordebraga, he originally wrote a sizeable part of that article. Daß Wölf 02:35, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- Since I was mentioned, added more stuff. And a good place to look for content is the Little Giger database that is already providing some sources. igordebraga ≠ 04:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Reboot (fiction)
Thought you should know that Korny O'Near re-added the Den of Geek ref and "soft reboot" definition you removed back in April. 2A00:23C5:2E01:FB01:F51A:F931:79D7:D760 (talk) 17:35, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
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Re: Croatian AfDs
Aw, this really sucks, 26 at once, it is going to be impossible to argue them all... Granted, some of them may be borderline notable. (The threshold for films is fairly high.) I'll first try to save those clearly notable and those with some actual content. Thanks for the info. GregorB (talk) 10:28, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
- Arhinet.arhiv.hr is the way to go - if the film is there, it's an open and shut case per WP:NFO #4. Others will be more difficult to salvage, but let's do the easy ones first. GregorB (talk) 22:39, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
- I used Google (... site:arhinet.arhiv.hr), it kinda worked.
- Interesting stuff at WP:ANI... I have mixed feelings myself: while it's OK to challenge articles, these assembly-line AfDs suggest little to no checking beforehand. To be quite honest, I'd prefer all these noms withdrawn - we'll see what happens. GregorB (talk) 23:47, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
- Great work from you and @GregorB: on help saving some of these film articles. Thank you both. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:06, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Lugnuts: Thanks. I suppose in the end it's nice that someone turned our attention to these articles :) Daß Wölf 23:39, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
- I believe we have everything under control now except for perhaps Signal Over the City. That's a fairly well known and critically acclaimed film, but its coverage is unusually scarce... GregorB (talk) 13:19, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, I also saw today - with some exasperation - that there are much more. Article alerts surely provide a complete list, everything tagged with WP Croatia will appear there. GregorB (talk) 21:01, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
I saw that you were a contributor to the article on Hedvig Hricak, and I was hoping you could help me with some revisions. I do have a COI, which I've declared on the talk page and my userpage. I've been working on improving the current version of the article to something a little more robust. I have a draft here, with some of Hricak's personal information removed (as it had been previously suppressed for privacy reasons), and some information on her research included in a separate section. I also created separate sections for her other roles, past roles, and accolades. If you have the time, could you take a look? I want to make sure that what I'm proposing is in line with Wikipedia's guidelines and policies. I'd really appreciate it!--FacultiesIntact (talk) 17:23, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Hollywood accounting
Hollywood accounting is often tied in to marketing, which tries to advance the notion that every movie is a super huge hit on opening weekend, to influence the number of people who run out to their local movie theater to watch a particular movie. BornonJune8 (talk) 11:54, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- @BornonJune8: Yes, it might well be so. What is your point? Daß Wölf 17:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Reboot (fiction)
Why wasn't my edit an improvement?. 2A00:23C5:2E01:FB01:F10D:DFE4:6F3F:789B (talk) 23:42, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
- The "all" bit is WP:OR (and arguably incorrect) and "franchise" is repetitive. Daß Wölf 23:50, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
- I see your point. Thanks for giving me a straight answer. I've just read WP:PARAPHRASE as well. 2A00:23C5:2E01:FB01:F10D:DFE4:6F3F:789B (talk) 00:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- Any time. Daß Wölf 00:04, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- I see your point. Thanks for giving me a straight answer. I've just read WP:PARAPHRASE as well. 2A00:23C5:2E01:FB01:F10D:DFE4:6F3F:789B (talk) 00:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
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A very neat article, I like it. I have a weird feeling that it's as if I had written it myself - only it's better, if you know what I mean... :-)
Also, definitely not a stub - even Start class is very conservative. GregorB (talk) 21:49, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
- @GregorB: hehe thanks :) It is pretty short though. Sadly there's much less about the hippodrome online than I expected or I would've gone for DYK. Still, I'm glad I learned something about it while writing :) I was surprised that not even hrwiki has an article about it... Daß Wölf 01:29, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
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(A bit belated) Merry Christmas and all the best in 2019, Daß Wölf! GregorB (talk) 21:24, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! Daß Wölf 22:09, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
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Nomination of Lisa Littman for deletion
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There's no need for the redirect Free Republic of Verdis to be deleted and just so you know, Buzzara RTL is a reliable source. It's approved for Google Inclusion and is part of the RTL Group which is a major news organization in Europe. It is a reliable source, therefore things shouldn't be reverted on the dispute page.
Re: Ideas for a hook
I find multiple DYKs cool, but this particular hook is a bit hard to pull off. One might simplify "former international airport of Zagreb, Croatia" to just "Lučko Airport near Zagreb, Croatia", and I'd even drop the "MMA multiple world champion" description - he is quite popular and many people know about him, and while those who don't might be left guessing, that's also fair game for DYK (even if, in this particular case, Cro Cop is not the DYK target, but an ancillary link). I'd say this shortened version could make a fine hook. GregorB (talk) 18:46, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
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A very insightful comment.[1] It is probably difficult for many people who edit large wikis only to quite grasp how different small wiki communities are. It indeed is the small-group mentality, but unfortunately that's not all. To use an analogy of sorts: just like Molise Croatian, being isolated from the development of the main body of Croatian language, appears almost frozen in the Middle Ages, the modern-day environment of many small wikis seems to resemble the earliest days of English Wikipedia - and not in a good way.
I've noticed that hr wiki editors have a hard time understanding the basic stuff: WP:V, WP:RS, WP:COI, WP:BLP, WP:GNG. It all seems awfully foreign to them. WP:GNG, for example, is, formally speaking, foreign to hr wiki, because there is no such guideline, but even the very concept ("hey, you've got to have at least some substantial non-primary sources") is incomprehensible to many. And it's not just delinquency to blame. I'm afraid it's going to be eternal Middle Ages for some wikis, and it won't be conducive to building an encyclopedia, at least not in the way we'd expect. GregorB (talk) 13:08, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
- Also, "gatekeeping" is the word I'm looking for, I might use it in the new Meta RfC. :-) My plan was to open a brand new RfC with an appropriate opening statement and overview of the situation, and take it from there. GregorB (talk) 15:50, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
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Meta RfC
A propos some of your comments in the Meta RfC: I've always thought warning and even blocking people for "saving too often" (because ostensibly it's extra load on the patrollers) is super obtuse. What's worse, if I were a patroller, I'd be loathe to see a huge edit where all sorts of things were changed, inserted and deleted - these can be more difficult to patrol than a series of smaller edits. (Usually not being able to write a coherent edit summary is a sign too much is being done in a single edit.) This sort of gung-ho mentality about patrolling and the idea that it's somehow more important than editing will be difficult to change, but that's something I'd like to address one day. GregorB (talk) 12:13, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
- A good point. What's worse, it seems that "interaction with newcomers" (i.e. going to their talk pages and admonishing them for all sorts of minor beginner errors and omissions) is a requirement for patrollers. Worst of all: it's an unofficial requirement, since AFAIK there is no page that explains what patrolling is and how it is supposed to be done. It's a mess on many levels. GregorB (talk) 09:34, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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Just in case you might not know, it's der Wolf (sing.), die Wölfe (pl.). Cheers! – Alles gute! – Sca (talk) 15:37, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Sca: I know (I speak German), it was intentional ;-) Daß Wölf 16:19, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- Ha! – Sca (talk) 17:52, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Sca: That episode has one scary looking title card, hehe! And thanks, I had no idea I could watch Tatort online from Croatia, I really appreciate this :-D Daß Wölf 22:02, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thank the German taxpayers.
You can see lots of old Tatort episodes on YouTube, and other German content, too.
Alles gute im neuen Jahr! – Sca (talk) 13:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thank the German taxpayers.
- @Sca: That episode has one scary looking title card, hehe! And thanks, I had no idea I could watch Tatort online from Croatia, I really appreciate this :-D Daß Wölf 22:02, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
- Ha! – Sca (talk) 17:52, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
Re: Quick question
Hi!
Let me say a very nice job on the flood article!
On the WP:BLP issue, in this particular case two questions must be asked about the name-mentioning:
- Is there a potential for causing undue embarrassment or harm, and
- Is there a encyclopedic justification for it
The questions are made trickier by the fact that the cause for the arrest appears to be incidentally linked to the dam affair. (So the details of the arrest itself may or may not be partially off-topic.)
W.r.t. #1 I'd say the answer is "no", because the person in question openly talked about it in the media and saw no wrongdoing on their part (although in the arrest incident, some circumstances seem to be under dispute). (The fact his name is routinely mentioned by the sources is actually not too relevant: if the sources victimize the person, consensus is Wikipedia shouldn't jump on the bandwagon.)
W.r.t. #2 I'd however also say "no". The value of the information is marginal. I'd use it to refer to the subject, if the sentences are less awkward or clearer to the reader that way. At any rate, I don't see a WP:BLP issue, so I suppose either way is OK. GregorB (talk) 20:32, 30 March 2021 (UTC)