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Perhaps you'd like to take a gander at this AfD, its quite screwy and needs more uninvolved takes: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Press (3rd nomination). Cheers.-- Milowent ( talk) 17:35, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Because of your persistent and abusive misinterpretations of essential policies and your abuse of adminship in interpretating these policies, I will officially request admin recall per User:SarekOfVulcan/Recall criteria. Ottava Rima ( talk) 20:16, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Just for clarity here, I've made no statement on the matter other than to suggest that I do not take AOR seriously. I've got no reason to doubt that SarekOf Vulcan does, but I've got no idea which statement of mine "did not follow official procedure", as I don't recall making any recall request, either officially or unofficially. I disagreed with Sarek's block of Ottava, and with how the first unblock request was handled, and I made that clear. Surely it's allowed to disagree with an administrator without either a block or an admin recall resulting. Can't we just disagree? -- Malleus Fatuorum 01:34, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
A discussion about whether of not the infobox books template should include outside linkage from the OCLC number is posted here. You are being notified because you posted in a discussion at infobox books about this template functionality. Please stop be and include your input into the issue at the link. Thanks. -- 69.226.106.109 ( talk) 06:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
Since you are one of the people who voted in favor of my recent topic ban, I invite you to participate in this discussion on my talk page. I am especially concerned that the people who supported my topic ban did not answer these particular questions that I repeatedly asked during the discussion of my proposed topic ban. I am very much interested in hearing your answers to these questions.
If you do not wish to participate in this discussion, you don't have to. If you wish to erase this comment from your talk page, you may do so. I will not post this message on your talk page a second time. This comment is meant as a request, and not a demand. Thank you.
Grundle2600 ( talk) 13:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi, when an artist or photographer is notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article it's good practice in captioning to credit the artist. A few featured pictures, for example:
The policy statement about photographer credit refers to non-notable photographers; Jerry Avenaim is at least as notable as Arthur Rothstein--comparable to George Hurrell. It's significant encyclopedic information when we're fortunate enough to get a free license donation from someone of this stature. Durova 349 06:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Bose wave systems, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bose wave systems (2nd nomination). Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Andy Dingley ( talk) 15:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your input into the AfD for Bose stereo speakers et. al. As you may have seen, the result was No Consensus. I have started a discussion to find consensus on merging all of these articles together. Feel free to contribute your opinions here. Thanks! SnottyWong talk 19:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that you unarchived the thread with edit sumary, "nothing resolved". I agree that nothing was resolved; in fact my note itself pointed out that nothing about this could possibly be resolved at ANI, and a User RFC is the only suitable venue at the moment. Could you re-archive the thread ? Abecedare ( talk) 19:31, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
The discussion on [sustainability] is supposed to be about sustainability. Having editors go their and change the discussion about the contributors in the past was a problem. We all agreed about staying on content. If not, your edit will be replaced with a Template thingy. You clearly did not take full oversight of the issue. Asking questions about the contributor that has no bases on sustainability is not blockable? I can ask personal questions all I want on talk pages? If these are true, which I doubt, then you have done nothing wrong. Otherwise, I suggest you at least undue yourself of some of the issues. AdenR ( talk) 20:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
I was focusing on preferences expressed between the two proposal, not on the absolute ratio of supports. Tried to make that clear in the opening paragraph, apologies if it wasn't. Durova 355 15:16, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Looking a little further afield, it appears none of the 204.10.221.* IP's of HCCA Net are any different. Is there any point in treating them individually? LeadSongDog come howl 19:34, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Could you smack this guy with a cluestick, please? He's making a mess. HalfShadow ( talk) 21:14, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
This was an attempt at humour, by all means delete. The Rationalist ( talk) 22:27, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Would you please continue to disengage from Ottava Rima? I am trying to help the editor be more productive and less combative. He needs space and your cooperation would be a great assistance. Thank you. Jehochman Talk 02:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
So, were you trying to make a shitty point on my talk page or was it in wikihumor? Just curious if you agree with my point that Maleus wasnt calling anyone shit-for-brains, in fact if he was calling ANYONE shit-for-brains it was himself and I dont think our civility rules apply to insulting oneself. I think if I wanted to call myself a general asshole and rude MF*er on my talk page I should probably be allowed to. I am curious as to your serious opinions. Ive seen you around and respect your opinions. Camelbinky ( talk) 04:52, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
As I wrote, these actions against my submissions are based on not understending the essence of my submissions and not understanding the importance of the content in these submissions. The only way to fight against not understanding is to explain, to teach, to learn and to extend knowledge. It is evident, that these actions against my submissions are subjective, and their intension is distinctly NOT to enable discussion and NOT to exhibit serious contradictions in informations published globally in specific Wikipedia articles. I consider this as a serious matter. If such state is actively supported, that represents degradation of specific Wikipedia content, controlled and censored by specific users. I do not think that this represents the Wikipedia comunity. This represents the user DVdm. Howgh. Softvision ( talk) 11:24, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Since you have protected the talk page of the above user, I am forced to use your talk page to clear myself of the allegations. First of all, I am an occasional Wikipedia Vandal (and occasional constructive editor). I don't apologize for that- it is stress relief. I didn't mean to spook the very naive and obviously skittish ROTC kid. But I did want to teach him a lesson: He is using as a user name the name of an organization at his school. He also has several edits which reflect very badly on himself (and given his unfortunate choice of user name) his school and the JROTC organization which he claims to represent. Some of those edits bash homosexuals and are personal attacks. I had considered calling his school (or e-mailing), especially since he is so easy to threaten others (as seen by his obvious zeal for informing ISP's of vandals). As for stalking and the cheerleader crap, I've no idea where that came from- I was actually vandalizing other people's shit when Mr. ROTC came into my iittle garden on wikipedia. I found out his name (and I didn't post his last name when I could have easily) because he, himself, was dumb enough to post it on one of his little Hitler Youth reports to somebody else's ISP. Trust me, I am not "stalking" Mr. ROTC, so let him no he has nothing to fear (at least from me), and I apologize if he took it the wrong way.
But he does need to be more careful... people like him (think Neidermeyer from the movie Animal House ) make enemies of people who are not as harmless as me. As a show of goodwill, I can show you the edit which he posted his real name(not on this page of course), so that oversite can delete the reference. So once again, I do apologize to the kid if he somehow felt threatened, it wasn't intentional- just trying to show him the internet can be a very harsh place. I do think; however, he should start a new user name and start from scratch, and maybe be a little less aggressive. I was once that way before I turned to the dark side- his type only encourages vandals instead of discouraging them.
Live long and prosper, Sarek... 69.171.160.172 ( talk) 02:32, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
...I think the editor may become more p'd off, but the archiving was likely wise. The use of sarcasm was becoming problematic - it truly appeared that people were laughing at the complainant, and they should be ashamed of themselves. ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 18:07, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
First of all, Sarek, my comment to Bwilkins was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek joke. Secondly, with all of the mocking and belittling of me that was occuring by ADMINISTRATORS, I hardly think that another administrator (such as yourself) should be chasitising me over something what was done in good faith and merely an attempt to lighten the mood. SkagitRiverQueen ( talk) 18:48, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
I think it is time for you or another Administrator to step in and rule on this ongoing merging debate. As you may remember, a few days ago I tried to make edits to move the discussion along, but ended up being banned, so now I have put my own agenda aside and put forward a workable solution on the talk page. Personally I do not want to see this debate drag on any longer, as it has now been going on for over a year, however I do feel it has been hijacked by the Classical Music Wikiproject, even though the articles in question are actually about a dance production, not just a musical work.
Crazy-dancing ( talk) 23:40, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
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it is useful in this case, because I wrote my message with the original in mind, not the "retouched" one. My comment wouldn't make sense otherwise.-- Nero the second ( talk) 14:23, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Sarek, the issues with History of Germany since 1945 are not solved, should I open a new notice for that?-- Nero the second ( talk) 14:33, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment. Yes I've reviewed the policy. My comment was not a legal threat and I do not think would be interpreted as such - I did not set out that I intended to take legal action. With hindsight it might have been better to raise a problem under the Wikipedia civility code of conduct (around personal attack). Graemedavis ( talk) 22:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I am creating this notice to invite all interested parties to vote on the proposal to merge Undine (ballet) and Ondine (Ashton) to a new article at Ondine (ballet). You can read the discussion and add your vote to the poll at:
Look forward to seeing you there to help resolve this situation, thanks! Crazy-dancing ( talk) 11:19, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Very good unblock of Domer, the more I look it appears it gets worse, Angus bans him from page at 23.03 logs it as Troubles related at 23.05, which I dont recall being a remedy of the ARBS, maybe Angus might show a diff eventually, then when Elonka asks why the ban, and if you believed in conspiracy theories promts Angus at 00.40 he the decides that it was WP:BLPBAN and still didn't log in correct place, I see in his contributions that he is now on the relevant page to log such bans but I haven't checked what he is adding. It sure stinks. BigDunc 16:55, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
For the heads up. Won't do it again- some of that post were bogus- I didn't threaten anyone.. Take care Regisfugit ( talk) 04:46, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
When you say "overwrite" what specifically do you mean> Regisfugit ( talk) 05:05, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
i fixed it- I pasted some text, when I posted the second time, but I didn't delete anything. It was a post from user:equalization that vanished. When you first sent me a message, I thought you were saying I couldn't post one WQA more than once? I did delete it if that is what you are thinking Regisfugit ( talk) 05:20, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Currently about a fifth of the way into Swordhunt, and enjoying it immensely. I like the extensive fleshing-out of the Romulan backstory in The Romulan Way. The fact that Duane refers to Bones as "Leonard E. McCoy" instead of "Leonard H. McCoy" annoys me a bit. Thank you for the recommendation - the stories are certainly in the top 10% of the Star Trek Pocket books, in terms of quality. -- Scjessey ( talk) 12:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated a page you recently created for deletion per notability here: [2]
Sorry to come to you directly, but as the blocking admin you seem to be the best person to ask. Would you consider taking away his talk page access? He has now resorted to placing personal attacks there. Thanks for taking the time to look. Jeni ( talk) 17:20, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Are you tag-team warring at Kilmichael Ambush? Sarah777 ( talk) 22:09, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
While I agree that the statements he made were "embarrassingly stupid", the protection log is not an appropriate place for soapboxing. BLP applies to edit summaries and logs as well. Horologium (talk) 03:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello, SarekOfVulcan. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Frmatt ( talk) 04:56, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
You were only mentioned tangentially, in regards to User:Thewtfchronicles and their redirect of the page that originally got them banned. Frmatt ( talk) 04:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
What revert? Pay a little attention before throwing wild accusations. Tyuia ( talk) 17:52, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
4 reverts in 6 hours.-- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 17:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I'm not seeking action here, only clarification. I'm interested in becoming an admin in the future and participating in WP:ANI discussions, but I've been watching the discussion this user started on WP:ANI about some WP:CU incident and I am confused about something. Why was GiacomoReturned ( talk · contribs) never blocked for his personal attacks against (many) others? With so much admin oversight in that discussion, he didn't even receive a warning for calling people stupid, cowards, and bullies. I think his comments were disruptive, even if he could be right and could have a reasonable dispute. You seem to be neutral on the matter and can probobly help me understand best, thanks.-- TParis00ap ( talk) 14:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at the Tubefilter talk page history and weighing-in about Otterathome's penchant for deleting comments made by other editors? While technically being okay with WP:TALK, it seems to tread all over WP:CIVIL and WP:DISRUPT. -- Scjessey ( talk) 15:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
I have been requested by User:HarryAlffa to userfy the above deleted page, for the purposes of a Request for Arbitration. I reviewed the MfD and noted that a few respondents were inclined to allow the page to be userfied, so undeleted the page and moved it into userspace - per my talkpage discussion - with no redirect. I trust you will find this action acceptable under these specific circumstances. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 16:52, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Would like your input here please. Note: This is a draft, to be kept in my namespace until the editor is off their block and their new contributions can be reviewed. Frmatt ( talk) 07:04, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
This is totally out of line. This isn't an RfA, where replying to an oppose is frowned upon because the process is basically a head count: out here on the rest of the encyclopedia replying to people who disagree with you is considered a good thing because the discussion is supposed to be a dialogue. I started a comment on the template talk, waited several months for a reply and when I didn't get one I took it to TfD. I'm glad that there's actually a discussion going on there (although less glad that it seems to have turned into an RfA-style vote, "strong keep" nonsense included), and that's how we're supposed to work things like this out. The next time you go accusing others of "badgering" take the time to consider the purpose of these debates, and how exactly they're supposed to work if people are prevented from replying to each other. Sheesh. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:14, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I responded to Karanacs' EW notice [3]by protecting the page because there were multiple editors involved, but notice you have blocked Nancy at the same time. User:Leadwind was obviously over the 3rr too, so I think either both need to be blocked (and the page unprotected) or both unblocked (and the page protected). What do you think?-- Slp1 ( talk) 16:32, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to use talk pages such as Talk:Tubefilter for inappropriate discussion, you may be blocked. Otterathome ( talk) 18:22, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hello SarekOfVulcan. Otterathome ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Sandstein 20:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
OK Thanks -- Cookiebg ( talk) 01:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't quite understand your protection of Ásíyih Khánum. It's one anonymous editor changing the page as opposed to 5 other editors who all believe his edits are not germane. Wouldn't an sprotect be more appropriate. Regards, -- Jeff3000 ( talk) 20:07, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
In regards to this request, please email me using Special:EmailUser/ThaddeusB if you still need to resource & I will be happy to reply with a PDF copy of the scanned document. -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 18:54, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
that needs to be avoided was specified at DFTT. ;) Ncmvocalist ( talk) 04:13, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
...about this draft essay ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:27, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Sarek. I stumbled upon this Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Politeness Police and was curious what the page said? Can you move it to my userspace so I can have a look, at least temporarily? I tried get the tools so I wouldn't have to bother anybody with these trifling requests, but the community wasn't quite prepared to empower me at that time. Perhaps if you were to nom me? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I finished reading The Empty Chair yesterday. The saga was superb, and definitely among the best Trek stories I have ever read. Great SF in general, in fact. Thank you for recommending them to me. I'm now reading Time Travelers Never Die from the rather awesome Jack McDevitt. -- Scjessey ( talk) 18:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Your name was brought up by a party to the Arbitration case located here. Any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider can be added to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf/Workshop.
-- Tothwolf ( talk) 20:50, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
I understand you used a canned response, but the statements in the template do not come close to matching the facts. I do not see that you have been engaged in any of the discussion; please read the talk page to see that I have been extensively, and politely engaging in conversation.
I'm not close to 3RR. I personally strive to follow a 1R limit, and talk if someone reverts again. In fact, I think I reverted exactly once, when William Connolly mistakenly reverted, with the cryptic "Fox is junk". I reverted once, citing the reliable Sources Noticeboard. I did replace some material he removed. Please note his response: "Sorry, that was an accident." While he doesn't think it should be there, I don't consider reverting an accidental removal as an edit war.
The subject matter is obviously of intense interest to many, and it is quite appropriate for admins to keep an eye on the page. I urge you to read my contributions to the talk page and see if it really looks like an edit war, or an honest attempt to accurately characterize this event.-- SPhilbrick T 16:09, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Does the 1RR that you've put on the Ulster Special Constabulary article mean that you can only edit once a day if editing includes re-writes? I just want to be clear on this. Jdorney ( talk) 16:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Since Template:City-state was retained at its TfD, I was wondering about the reason you've replaced them on some pages with the plain link. Is there something that indicates the template shouldn't be used? Thanks. LaVidaLoca ( talk) 19:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
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Why are you so determined to remove an indef blocked template from the userpage of someone who is indefinitely blocked? They're blocked, the template should be there. When they're unblocked, it can be removed. A notice that an account has been blocked indefinitely has nothing to do with them failing to request an unblock. Furthermore, discussion at AN/I seems to have ended without anyone coming along to say the block should be shortened or lifted. Consensus (and fact) seems to be that this account is blocked indefinitely. So what's wrong? <>Multi‑Xfer<> ( talk) 04:09, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Well, it's good that you've corrected that. But the more worrying thing is your judgement of good faith, which is not particularly representative of either our policies or our norms. It's your call, but persisting with that rather non-standard and unsympathetic interpretation will almost certainly lead you into repeated conflicts with the community. In general, taking an unnecessarily dim view of the intentions of editors in good standing is not appreciated and it gains precious little. Knepflerle ( talk) 19:43, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Your recent ban of User:QuackGuru has expired. As I noted in my request for enforcement, from my reading, s/he was to be banned from "any topics dealing with Chiropractic". Since the recent unblock, QuackGuru has again been editing pages dealing with chiropractic, notably Vaccine controversy, an article which mentions chiropractic a dozen times. Is this permitted? Should I post to ArbCom for clarification? DigitalC ( talk) 20:34, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
<-- Here is the wording of the topic ban:
Note the date. Not only was it a six month topic ban, the latest ban was something that should have reset the clock, IOW lengthened the topic ban. It hasn't come anywhere near an expiration date. -- Brangifer ( talk) 09:16, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Paul Townsend, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Townsend. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Alan - talk 00:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
"Paul Townsend FRS is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.[1] He is notable for his work on string theory. He received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1976"
That's the entire article in quotes right there, surely someone must be able to find something more on the guy. the content of the article really isn't enough to comply with WP:STUB, but I still did AFD rather than speedy delete, giving other a chance to at least expand it and save it (which most don't seem to get on here, then again, tis is Wikipedia..lol). Alan - talk 03:24, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Why did you have to request SD for that? As an admin, can't you just delete it anyway? Half Shadow 18:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
What is your reason to remove the sentence. Requesting attribution was not a good reason to delete the the sentence. Attribution is a violation of WP:ASF. QuackGuru ( talk) 18:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Monday's Policy Report is going to be on WP:Civility, but we don't have enough quotable material from the talk page yet, so I'm beg ... er, soliciting opinions from people who have spoken up on that talk page recently. If you have something quotable, or if you don't, feel free to weigh in at Wikipedia talk:Civility#Policy report_for_Signpost. - Dank ( push to talk) 23:18, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I think you have the wrong sockmaster there.. I'm seeing some behavioral things and some clues that it is more likely the latest Redking7 sock, not Boneyarddog. CheckUser might be the best way, but I agree, probably a sock.. just not of who you thought. SirFozzie ( talk) 23:15, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I am not clear on why you have disabled the above editors ability to edit their talkpage - certainly the only edit since 3rd November was not polite, but I don't see any complaint and it seems strange that action should be taken some days later. I would also gently enquire whether you took a third opinion before enacting this, since you are likely to be considered an involved party in regard to HA. My internet access is limited at the moment, so I shall look here when I can for any response. Cheers, LessHeard vanU ( talk) 13:56, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Good morning!
I understand the undoing of the edit to "Contemporary Era." My mistake there. But I am less clear about the undoing of the edit to "Foreign Relations and Military." You note that: "This is a summary of US military info, not a place for news items." It seems to me that a quite large troop deployment qualifies as both. The new information would naturally follow the existing sentence: "In September 2009, there were about 130,000 U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and 62,000 deployed to Afghanistan."
My edit serves to update the existing sentence -- which, as it stands, provides outdated information.
Could you please clarify this?
Thanx! Danieldis47 ( talk) 17:15, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Makes sense. Thanks --
Danieldis47 (
talk) 21:46, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the assist but I don't think the state has formed, only the process of discussing the formation has started. I'm reluctant to fix myself because of WP:3RR. -- NeilN talk to me 21:47, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, Sarek, for running this. At least we can resolve the matter. Cheers, and happy editing. Pedro : Chat 22:57, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The text reads a space jump from a orbiting ship. That with the other additions does prove that it is orbital. I have no objections to linking it to the space jump but there are justifications there. Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 18:06, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Funny. It's currently showing up on the orphaned template list. Perhaps you could add it to the appropriate humor category, and link it somewhere so people could find it? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:24, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Bearian ( talk) 17:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Just stopping by to say that I understand why you blocked me the other day. Both outing and harassment need to be taken seriously here. To be clear, it wasn't my intention to do either, but I understand how it may appear that way to some people. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 18:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Do you mind providing me with the most recent version of Cyprus–Paraguay relations at User:Cdogsimmons/Cyprus–Paraguay relations. You closed the second delete discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cyprus–Paraguay relations (2nd nomination) as a delete but I'd like to continue to improve it. Thanks.-- Cdogsimmons ( talk) 18:59, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
The company has very little notability outside of Fireproof (film). I considered all of the other articles related to Sherwood films unnecessary and promotional. If I had my way they would all be merged with Fireproof.-- SuaveArt ( talk) 17:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
The sources I removed I considered to be unreliable (since this wasn't 100% clear, I apologize for removing them without consensus), therefore after removing them I proposed the articles for deletion mentioning that they failed to establish notability.-- SuaveArt ( talk) 03:10, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Sarek of Vulcan,
I added some source information for Wafa al-Mullah al-Howeish being the fourth wife of Saddam Hussein. I think the article got deleted. I didn't write the article, but I don't think that it should have been. Is there anyway to restore it? I added my information to the discussion page of the project page. For some reason I couldn't seem to edit the project page. 74.218.38.217 ( talk) 21:34, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi -- We recently contributed to a deletion review ( link). I have moved on from concerns for that deleted image. However, during that process statements were made that have left me puzzled regarding whether I did or did not make edits to the talk page of that image. The help desk has confirmed to me that edits of deleted pages are only visible to administrators. So, I am asking a favor for which I would be grateful. Could you look at Special:Contributions/Steve3849 (or whatever way you may choose) to see if I made edits to File talk:Sst7.jpg within the 2 days prior to its deletion? Sorry if this is a bother. - Steve3849 talk 00:13, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, I uploaded this image - File:0304LinburySeatsCommercial.jpg
Basically, I mucked it up and ended up doing it again using a proper file name. I have added a deletion tag on it, but if you could get rid of it ASAP, that would be much appreciated. Thanks Crazy-dancing ( talk) 22:02, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey there. I noticed your edits for the lead of this article -- I wholeheartedly concur with them; see here before changed. [4] [5] A discussion is afoot on the talk page; you may want to weigh in there. Thanks! Bosonic dressing ( talk) 01:47, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
The edit you cited on his talk page was trifling compared to others I have cited here. Seregain ( talk) 18:52, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your request for speedy deletion of the Galen Institute page over insufficient source material and notoriety -
The Galen Institute has been featured in a number of top-tier publications, as I note on the Galen Institute page. This should clear up any issue regarding questionable notoriety or lack of substantive information, which you cited when you marked the page for deletion.
Specifically addressing your concerns about using a "Letter to the Editor" from the New York Times as a source: the Galen Institute has also been featured in the New York Times in other instances in addition to the letters to the editor that you mentioned as your cause for a suggested deletion; two additional articles - one written by Galen Institute staff, and one featuring a quote from Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner - have been added.
Furthermore, the Galen Institute counts among its notable scholars, trustees and fellows former high ranking officials at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, former heads of the Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget, and several prominent think tank founders and scholars with background in free-market health reform. This, I believe, clearly demonstrates the notoriety of the Galen Institute.
Both these additional references and notable persons associated with the Galen Institute should clear up any and all question as to: a) the substance of the third-party sources used on the Galen Institute Wikipedia page; and b) the noteworthiness of the Galen Institute as a subject to be included on Wikipedia.
A detailed description can be found on my talk page as well as that of the Galen Institute page, but under the rationale above, I ask that you reconsider deletion of this page. Thank you.
Andrewpsroyal ( talk) 02:16, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.
A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;
I will do so as much as I can. He has obviously targeted me (among others, but me in particular), so I don't know what he will do after his block is lifted. What should I do if he continues to target me? Seregain ( talk) 20:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
SuaveArt has requested unblock, citing in part the lack of clarity over specifically what he/she was blocked for. Could you specify the edit (or page being edited) that caused the block? I think it's fairly clear from the contribs, but didn't want to speculate. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 20:53, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
To SarekOfVulcan and Jclemens: JzG is making it difficult for me to completely disengage from all issues regarding this user. He has continued to propagate a baseless accusation that was originally initiated by the disengaged user. I have asked him to stop, but he has refused. Can one of you talk to him for me? (Message also posted to Jclemens.) Seregain ( talk) 23:39, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I can assure you that I had nothing to do with what happened to this AfD. I wasn't even aware of the AfD until I saw the article had been deleted hours after it happened. My userpage post is nothing more than commentary after the fact regarding the disparity between the reaction to the two AfDs. Non-disruptive commentary about what happens on Wikipedia is allowed, isn't it? Seregain ( talk) 05:17, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Sarek,
While I definately understand the need to protect an article on which edit warring is taking place could you at least kill the photo box that doesn't show anything besides an "X" for the 3 month protection period so we don't have an article with an obvious problem sitting available uet uneditable. Or barring that link to a photo so at least something shows?
Thanks! Nefariousski ( talk) 20:00, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
About Trey Grayson: You're not supposed to revert my revert back to your protection level back to my level. I'm gonna report you! That's a wheel war, man! :-) Toddst1 ( talk) 08:27, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
SarekOfVulcan, apologies if someone has taken offence but the choice seems to be either agree with an incorrect assertion or be accused of not showing good faith. The whole purpose of the talk page on the topic JWASM and the nominated deletion was to discuss the issue yet unless you agree with assertions made in error you are attacked by a variety of people who know each other in Wikipedia. I have done no more than insist that editors conform to Wikipedia policy and I have directly quoted that policy in the proposed deletionof JWASM page.
Regards,
Hutch48 ( talk) 16:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
SarekOfVulcan, thanks for bothering to respond but I have solved the problem, I have abandoned the page so they can simply do anything they like with it.
Regards,
Hutch48 ( talk) 16:59, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
SarekOfVulcan, I don't wish to argue with you as you sound like a decent human being and I am sure that you mean well but well understand that I don't need Wikipedia and came in as an editor to fix a number of broken pages but found that time consuming effort, research and reference was wasted when people with no demonstrated competence deliberately defaced the pages I have worked on. I live in a real world where people show respect for each other and I am appalled by the internal conduct I have seen in Wikipedia with amateurs playing childish power games and after seeing the last effort to destroy a page I put a reasonable amount of work into I pass judgement on a number of editors and the implimentation of Wikipedia in general by abandoning the page as I can put the work elsewhere where this type of programming is protected from the idiot fringe.
I have no animosity towards you and respect your intent but the damage is done and I will not support this type of work in Wikipedia again.
Regards,
Hutch48 ( talk) 17:41, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
SarekOfVulcan, its only a matter of good manners that I reply to you personally as I see you as a well intended decent human being but I took exception to the conduct of a number of people who splattered trash all over pages I have worked on and in technical terms I have very good reason to do so. My response to the apalling bad manners has in fact been very subdued in relation to the accusations I have had to listen to if I don't agree with people who have no demonstrated expertise in areas they have defaced.
The argument is over and the idiot fringe have won, I have abandoned the page so they can trash it any way they like but it comes at a cost, I will never re-create it for them again, no-one is doing you a favour by wasting your work and nothing they can do can effect me as I do not depend on Wikipedia.
Now again, I have no animosity towards you as you seem to be a well mannered decent person but the damage is done and no-one gets work out of me by wasting my effort, I will continue to put it where it is protected from the idiot fringe. I am about 4 hours late to get some sleep so I will not be responding again.
Regards,
Hutch48 ( talk) 18:07, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
SS,DD. This is getting old. Auntie E. ( talk) 06:09, 1 February 2010 (UTC) One more: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Category_talk:Homophobia&diff=341213330&oldid=341018328
Stalking Seregain again. Nothing has changed. Auntie E. ( talk) 06:18, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Could you please take a look at the following three edits? [6], [7], and [8]. I don't feel they were done for any reason other than disruption and targeting me, but I don't want there to be any COI due to my agreement to avoid SA. Seregain ( talk) 14:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Good call – hopefully things will improve overnight...! ╟─ Treasury Tag► First Secretary of State─╢ 22:10, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, SarekOfVulcan. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/JWASM, a discussion in which you participated, was closed as redirect to Open Watcom Assembler. Open Watcom Assembler has now been nominated for deletion due to notability concerns. If you would like to participate in the discussion, please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open Watcom Assembler. Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 09:13, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Guess what? Ta dah! OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 22:47, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Copyright Violation in MASM page. Thank you. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 23:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
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Thomas ( talk) 02 Febuary 2010 (UTC) 74.12.121.29 ( talk) 00:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
The only thing I got from Collectonian comment was he continues to be rude and uncivil.-- TheMovieBuff ( talk) 22:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I have been dealing with the blatantly POV article Anticlericalism and Freemasonry. The article is nothing but a POV forked resurection of problematic material that was cut from the old Catholicism and Freemasonry article (note that this the bulk of that article's contents was moved to Papal ban of Freemasonry and the title now redirects to Christianity and Freemasonry#Catholic Church).
I do intend to nominate this article for deletion (I am working on how best to phrase the nom, as it is a very complicated situation... the article will, at first glance, appear to be well sourced, when in fact it isn't.) But the problem is that the topic sounds reasonable from a WP:NOTE perspective. I will have to point out that this same topic is well covered in multiple other articles.
I have also written up a section by section critique of the article, noting what the problems are, which I intend to post the articles talk page (so that if the AfD ends up as "OOOh... Masons!... kooool... it must be notable... keep and clean up", I have firm grounds to essentially gut the article back to a stub)
Would you take a look at my critique, and comment. Feel free to edit. Any other advice is welcome. Blueboar ( talk) 18:32, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I have attempted discussion, and achieved little. I have been told that it has all been argued and resolved before. I have no idea where. I am a relatively new editor and find it frustrating when other editors claim such things and won't now discuss. HiLo48 ( talk) 18:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. You should know that the reference used for the removed paragraph only supports a single word in the entire section: (increasing) "unemployment". Not "massive", not "depopulation", not even "crisis", no word of any factories or failure of small businesses or cessation of construction. It's just an unemployment statistic. I'd like to remind you that based on this same reference unemployment in Kyustendil Province (not city) is 7,17%. This is far less than the unemployment in the United States, which stands at 9.7% [9] There is no data about the city of Kyustendil in the reference.
Based on that, I'd like to ask you to undo your edit. Thanks, Todor → Bozhinov 20:22, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hello. Sorry, it appears that I had already semi-protected User talk:Collectonian by the time I edit-conflicted with you at WP:RFPP. I had protected the page for 36 hours based on the fact that 65.80.246.7 ( talk · contribs) admitted to being 65.80.247.100 ( talk · contribs) from the previous day's angry diatribe on her talk page. — Kralizec! ( talk) 19:15, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
As you can see from the IP talk page, the editor is now editing from 86.3.142.2 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), and also has the account User:Wiki Alf. I suggest the block is moved to the named account, and the others blocked for longer to discourage IP socking. Thanks, Verbal chat 19:53, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading File:The22LettersCover.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. feydey ( talk) 13:28, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the help with the Hewitt stuff. It's not up to me but I'd favor a much more aggressive response given the ongoing long-term abuse and the apparent hopelessness of reform. 66.127.55.192 ( talk) 22:01, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I didn't replace a reference with a citation needed, I removed a reference (that I originally put there) for a statement that was supported by the ref after the statement was removed by JoyDiamond. If the statement was no longer there, why leave the ref in? It just becomes a hanging ref with no home. The statement previously read, "struggling stand-up comic", she insists on edit-warring about "struggling", and has removed "struggling" several times. This last time, she claimed that there were refs that support he wasn't "struggling", so I took out the ref, replaced it with the citation needed as a notice that if he wasn't "struggling" and she believes there are refs out there that support he wasn't, then she now has an opportunity to provide those refs. I was trying to be helpful and cooperative in building up the article - nothing else. Next time, could you please ask me why I did what I did instead of accusing me of something I didn't do before you have all the facts? -- SkagitRiverQueen ( talk) 15:15, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi SoV!
Quick question... on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Honestly_it_is_his_unwanted_nickname I identified the user by IP, which now I am at kind of a quandary about. The related vandalized page (history link) is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Vic_Mignogna&curid=2263347&action=history
To me, it's a very easy thing to have guessed with a 95%+ shurety from having seen the edits on the referenced page take place... but the quandary comes in here:
1) The user through their actions made the identification both possible AND public for anyone looking at the Vic Mignogna page's edit history
2) I figure it will assist any other editor or admin who gets involved in monitoring other disruptive edits by the person
3) I am not sure how the identification by IP is covered by the Wikipedia rules since (a) the user's actions created the public identification BUT (b) it would take someone viewing the edit history of the vandalized page to figure it out (as opposed to anyone who stops by his/her talk page).
Your guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.
Best, Robert
RobertMfromLI | User Talk STP2: Producer/Gaffer/Webmaster 20:50, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind me stepping on your toes there. Their have been quite a few of these pages over the last year or so, and it's the same thing every time, they persist in updating the page, never make any constructive edits to Wikipedia itself, and refuse to discuss the problem when asked. Beeblebrox ( talk) 22:48, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I have to say for the record that I feel it was kind of a low blow to nominate that article while SRQ is blocked. I'm not saying it was your intention, but still, you could've waited. She clearly cares about that article. If an admin blocked me and then nominated an article I worked on heavily and long-term during the block, I can't adequately described how inflamed I'd feel. I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about this now since the AfD has already garnered at least one comment, or if you're willing, but if you can hold it off or something I think you should. Equazcion (talk) 01:31, 17 Feb 2010 (UTC)
Are a turd of an editor.-- Otterathome ( talk) 18:31, 17 February 2010 (UTC)