User talk:Ritchie333

Keeping an eye on stuff. Meanwhile, here is some music.[1]

"I'm not a cat. I'm a Texas lawyer!"

THIS USER MISSES RexxS

S.S. Minnow

Please reconsider your close as a redirect. The page has adequate sourcing, is a notable fictional ship, and maybe do another read of the discussion and the sources. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 09:51, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

I haven't read the article (I tend to avoid doing so in order to accidentally get a prejudice or bias for views during the debate). Unfortunately, too many other people reasonably asked for a redirect instead of keeping the article, your views on keeping it were refuted, and I don't think enough people supported this view overall. So I have to conclude that "redirect" won the consensus. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:17, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for the comment. Those asking for a redirect either came in too early to see the added sources or issued their opinions based on things other than sourcing. Luckily, for the virtual crew of the Minnow (Wikipedians who signed up for a three-hour tour and are still islanding years later), Wikipedia is one of the few places where majority opinion counts for nothing or next-to-nothing and, as in this case, sourcing should decide. No need to read the article, just the discussion and the sources. If you have a minute, not even two(?), please consider going over the discussion again, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:14, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

I have reopened the AfD and relisted it for a further week, to see if consensus can develop further. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:18, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks very much, hopefully more editors and sources will arrive (but, taking after the S.S. Minnow, that is probably a faint hope). Randy Kryn (talk) 15:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Question from Mboyoboy (18:51, 19 February 2025)

Hello, I would like to how you can advise to write an article? --Mboyoboy (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

What sort of article do you want to write about? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

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Delectopierre (talk) 03:49, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I've had a look, and I don't think what you asked for is technically possible, I'm afraid. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:13, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Got it. Just so I'm clear, is it not possible due to technical limitations, or is it technically disallowed by policy?

Thanks again! Delectopierre (talk) 22:22, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't think is a button available to do revision deletion on the first revision of a page that has already been deleted. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:10, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks for taking a look! Delectopierre (talk) 19:55, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Question from Deafolabi86 (14:12, 28 February 2025)

hello kindly write a guideline

for minute --Deafolabi86 (talk) 14:12, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:09, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Question from ICPC- UN (01:28, 1 March 2025)

الموضوع: طلب نشر مقال عن الهيئة الدولية لحماية المدنيين (I.C.P.C) في ويكيبيديا السادة/ محرري ويكيبيديا المحترمين، أود أن أقدم لكم طلبًا لنشر تعريف عن الهيئة الدولية لحماية المدنيين (I.C.P.C) على منصة ويكيبيديا. تعتبر الهيئة منظمة دولية غير حكومية وغير ربحية، تعمل في مجال الدبلوماسية الإنسانية والإغاثة والتنمية، وتهدف إلى تقديم المساعدات الإنسانية والإغاثية للمدنيين في المناطق المتأثرة بالنزاعات والكوارث. الهيئة تم تسجيلها رسميًا في مملكة هولندا وتتمتع باعتراف قانوني دولي، بالإضافة إلى اعتمادها ككيان أوروبي بموجب معاهدة عمل الاتحاد الأوروبي. كما أن الهيئة تتبع المعايير الدولية للإغاثة الإنسانية ولها تعاون وثيق مع الأمم المتحدة. من خلال هذه الرسالة، أرفق لكم نص المقال الذي يقدم نبذة عن الهيئة، وأهدافها، ورؤيتها، بالإضافة إلى برامجها الإنسانية والمشاريع التي تنفذها في مختلف مناطق العالم. الرجاء مراجعة المقال للنظر في نشره على ويكيبيديا. في حال تطلب الأمر أي تعديلات أو إضافات للمقال، فإنني على استعداد للتعاون. نحن نؤمن أن نشر هذا المقال سيسهم في تسليط الضوء على أنشطة الهيئة وأثرها في العمل الإنساني، ونحن حريصون على ضمان تقديم المعلومات بطريقة محايدة ودقيقة تتماشى مع معايير ويكيبيديا. تفاصيل المقال: الهيئة الدولية لحماية المدنيين (I.C.P.C) الهيئة الدولية لحماية المدنيين هي منظمة دولية غير حكومية وغير ربحية تعمل في مجال الدبلوماسية الإنسانية والإغاثة والتنمية. تم تأسيس المنظمة بهدف تقديم المساعدات الإنسانية والإغاثية للمدنيين في المناطق المتأثرة بالنزاعات والكوارث. تم تسجيل الهيئة رسميًا في مملكة هولندا تحت الرقم 95012281، وقد تم التصديق على نظامها الداخلي من قبل وزارة الخارجية الهولندية، الكاتب العدل، ومحكمة العدل في لاهاي، مما يمنحها اعترافًا قانونيًا دوليًا. الاعتماد الدولي تم اعتماد الهيئة الدولية لحماية المدنيين ككيان أوروبي بموجب معاهدة عمل الاتحاد الأوروبي (TFEU - Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union)، والتي تم توقيعها في 13 ديسمبر 2007 ودخلت حيز التنفيذ في 1 ديسمبر 2009. يتيح هذا الاعتماد للهيئة التمتع بالحقوق والتسهيلات الممنوحة للكيانات الدولية العاملة في مجال الدبلوماسية الإنسانية المستقلة وفقًا للقانون الدولي واتفاقيات الاتحاد الأوروبي. --ICPC- UN (talk) 01:28, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always.

story · music · places

Missing RexxS (on my talk as on yours). Today is the birthday of Chopin and Ricardo Kanji, see my stories of today and yesterday, with dream music by the first and Bach played by the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:08, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Gerda. Struggling to find the time to do lots of writing, but still doing bits and bobs around the place. Yes, I miss RexxS too. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:09, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Good to know you around! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Today: Carmen turns 150, as the main page and my story tell you. I chose a 1962 concert of the Habanera, - enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

The European Destubathon

Not everybody likes Amazon

You are invited to participate in The European Destubathon in April. Almost $3000 in Amazon voucher prizes, including prizes for 5 different entities of the UK and Ireland, which can be used to buy books for content, though it can also be treated as an editathon if you're not interested in competing! Minimum content to be added to each article just to ensure that they're over a stub, though longer expansions also welcome. Entries at the end of the contest will be tipped into the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge and European Challenge/20,000 Challenge for UK and Ireland entries. Previous contests were really enjoyable and I'm hoping this one will be too! Sign up if interested. Thanks! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:59, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Would be great to have you on board working on English/London stubs Ritchie, you were fantastic in a few I ran. £400 main prize for most destubs. Would be good to do a London contest sometime don't you think? Perhaps WMUK would support it. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:43, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Only thing I'll do with Amazon vouchers is burn them. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:14, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

In light of your concerns and those of another editor that some people don't like wealthy American companies, I've decided to make it more more flexible. Whatever the prize preference the emphasis is on buying books to contribute to Wikipedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:40, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Question from Original-zxuiji (09:19, 9 March 2025)

I plan to add a name for a particular letter casing that I've not found a name for, what would be the standard statement that gets put along side it? For example the "(needs citation)" thing that I find from time to time, I want to convey that it would need replacing/correcting if an existing name does in fact exist. --Original-zxuiji (talk) 09:19, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Which article are you planning to edit? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:32, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

https://ergngevd.top/wiki/Letter_case

I plan to add horsecase to describe sentences/function names where ONLY the 1st letter is in uppercase. This includes names, nouns, etc that are strangely given uppercase 1st letters in the middle of a sentence.

So instead of:

`The phone was answered by Joey`

It would be:

`The phone was answered by joey`

I did try looking for an actual name for the style of letter casing but was unable to find one, so I chose to just name it myself. I chose the name horsecase in reference to how the sentence would look similar to a horse (if you squash it width ways). I welcome a correct name if one exists, I just needed A name to go with. Original-zxuiji (talk) 10:16, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Please do not add things to Wikipedia that you invented. If you want to add this, you will need to also add a citation to a reliable source showing that this is something that people actually use in the real world, and why this letter case might be used instead of regular sentence case. If you don't know what it's properly called and need to invent a name for it yourself, then it's probably something you shouldn't write about on Wikipedia. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:45, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

I thought of a case where it's definitely used, instant messaging. That said I'm not going to dig up people's personal messages to provide a citation Original-zxuiji (talk) 14:58, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

As Ivanvector said, Wikipedia is not for things you made up one day. You need something established which numerous existing source material has covered. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:08, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of City Winery

Blah de blah de blah de blah de templately waffly bollocks etc etc ..... DatBot (talk) 00:31, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

I don't recognise this article. I see it was originally created as a redirect (so per WP:ATD-R, a PROD is not recommended and I advise Qinifer to read the deletion policy carefully) then potentially tried as an article. Why on earth I would have done this at the time, I've no idea as I was clearly in the midst of expanding and improving Faversham. It must have been due to some sort of helpdesk response. Anyway, I've got no views on what happens to it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:38, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masini Situ-Kumbanga (2nd nomination)

I was surprised with your close here - I thought there was a clear consensus not to have a page at this location. Why did you come to a no consensus close? SportingFlyer T·C 11:39, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Simply put, I think "Redirect" would have been an ideal compromise that would have probably been okay, given there are serious concerns at the AfD over its verifiability and suitability of source material. However, there wasn't enough "pull" in that direction because of your suggestion to delete the article entirely, with other editors picked up on. In any case, there wasn't a firm decision towards deleting instead of redirecting or merging (or outright keeping, as suggested by the first week in the debate) so I had to conclude there was no consensus as how to proceed. I'll change the close result to "Views are split between keeping, deleting and redirecting" which reflects the participants a little better.

As I said at the AfD, my recommendation would be to try a selective merge of the content that is verifable and demonstrably true into the parent Zaire at the 1984 Summer Olympics article. Or, if nobody does anything to the article, file a new AfD (I realise this will be the third nomination, but that's okay from a NC close). Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:46, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I don't think this was correct - there was a clear consensus this shouldn't have been a stand-alone page as redirect and delete are both "not keep" - so I've decided to open a DRV. SportingFlyer T·C 12:08, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I think that was a bit premature. I see that Fortuna imperatrix mundi has picked up my suggestion at the AfD of doing a selective merge. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:17, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

There was no merge, though. It was just a redirect. SportingFlyer T·C 12:19, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Ritchie. Excellent close, by the way, nicely nuanced, and allows for alternatives to deletion. Insisting on deleting an African olympist when it could be otherwise dealt with is a rather sledgehammer approach. Cheers, Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi 12:24, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

This discussion reminds me of Chitty. (For context - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chitty (cricketer)) Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:13, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Frank Welker Filmography

Can you please explain why you deleted my reversion on Frank Welker filmography. Thank you. YborCityJohn (talk) 19:19, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Sure, I don't think movieposters.ha.com and www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk are suitable sources for verifying that an established actor starred in an X rated film early in his career. As WP:BLPSOURCES states, "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion. This applies whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable and whether it is in a biography or in some other article." Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:23, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Ok so what about Mr. Welker's official website under his filmography (Click Here) under the year 1976 that would be a reliable source, this was also previously discussed with another Wikipedian who conceded that the current references were notable. Look forward to hearing back with your comments. YborCityJohn (talk) 19:29, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

That only cites the name of the film, the year of release and the character played. So I'm happy for those basic details to be added per the source, but that's it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:32, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

One more thing then I'll leave you alone :0) I see that you in Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism you did block User:67.63.61.242 but there is still the similar report for User:67.63.61.245 which as I stated feel that it is an anonymizer service, so shouldn't that be blocked also since the edits are similar? Thanks again for your assistance and clarifications. YborCityJohn (talk) 19:40, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I blocked the first IP for being an obnoxious jerk; the second IP I assume is now stale and blocking won't have any effect. The revert per BLPSOURCES (and subsequent tidying up of the article and sourcing) is sort of incidental to that. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)