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I really cannot understand the reason why you want to delete the external links to the last two articles. Could you please specify the reasons. Hallenrm 17:21, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Your recent deletion of the reference link in Ayesha Takia may be a bit off base. Used as a reference, She signed a contract for Socha Na Tha, then for Taarzan: The Wonder Car. However, delays in making Socha Na Tha meant that Taarzan released first and was therefore her "debut" film. is a direct quote from the referenced article which in that sense may be a copywrite violation instead. The reference link was http: //www.chakpak.com/celebrity/ayesha-takia/biography/29638 Dbiel ( Talk) 06:16, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't think the page really fits the spirit of WP:CSD#G11 so I've removed the tag. I think AfD would be a more proper way of action. Pascal.Tesson 22:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I know you have no choice, but I was just curious if, when you were busy blacklisting the bircy.com website, and you got to the Margonin article, if you happened to view the birchy.com article on Margonin and noticed how much material you cut off from wikiPedia users. I know all the arguements, and all the justifications, etc. but was just curious if *you* paid any attention to what exactly you did. Or are you just an automaton? There *is* and *never will be* a more complete article on this topic. (and yes, I know wikiPedia doesn't care whether articles contain links to important external sources. Btw, blacklisting all external links to birchy.com, as punishment, isn't really very fair. Now, if after being called on the carpet, I had continued to add great quanities of external links, then perhaps a blacklisting would be in order. But I haven't. It was a difference of opinion about how to present material, not intentional spamming. Since then, I have not added one link to birchy.com nor any other site. If I hadn't linked to the thousands of highly detailed articles in the Kreis articles, articles that I expanded from material already published on birchy.com, then I doubt anyone would consider the individual "See Also" links as spam, which they certainly aren't. Bwood 05:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm sending you a message because of your involvement with the Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_18#Template:COI_and_Template:COI2 discussion. The result of the TfD was no-consensus, but there was a significant expressed consensus for editing the templates to bring them into line with good practice. Unfortunately this has not happened, and the templates have been left pretty much in the state they were before the TfD. Would you like to assist in bringing these templates in line with good practice? -- Barberio 16:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
You removed an external link ( Bristol Dyno - What is a dynamometer?) from Dynamometer and Horsepower, why? It has a very good explanation of how an inertia type dyno works. IJB TA 05:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I have removed the {{ prod}} tag from Corporate Thugz Entertainment, which you proposed for deletion, because its deletion has previously been contested or viewed as controversial. Proposed deletion is not for controversial deletions. For this reason, it is best not to propose deletion of articles that have previously been de-{{ prod}}ed, even by the article creator, or which have previously been listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article, but feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Od Mishehu 07:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I note you have reinstated the COI2 template on the Legal Week page. Can you please advise as to how I/we should go forward from here - as far I can see, the page contains nothing but statements of fact. If there are particular aspects of the page that you believe to be problematic, then please identify them. I hope that in the collaborative spirit of Wikipedia, we can sort the issues out and move forward. Thanks. -- Legalweek 17:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but can you explain how the link you removed was multi-link spam? I just looked over Sexperts other edits, and I see other links to a different articles at the same site; considering that the articles are all different, it's not WP:SPAM. Do you know, by way of an IP address revealing the person to be at the magazine that they are in conflict of interest? Or did they just find a site that had a lot if information on stuff they were interested in, and add it? Their links have been there for several months, and every one seems to be a good reference, despite the clump being added all at once.
Either way, I would like to revert the Queer Eye link. 'Spam' or not, it was a decent link on a page that doesn't have enough linkage to be taking things away. However, since you removed it, I wanted to give you the chance to revert it before I do (unless your pref is that a regular editor of the page do so).-- Thespian 03:56, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Hu12. I wanted to let you know that I'm reverting your deletion of a citation of nsrc.sfsu.edu in the San Francisco Pride article. Although User:Sexperts added that citation in March 2007, I reviewed it at the time, and I think it's a valid citation that's relevant to the article content. It is not in the External Links section, it's an in-line citation. In general I see your point about Sexperts' contributions seeming like WP:SPAM. I also think that in many cases they look relevant to the articles involved, and if structured as proper citations of facts in the article might be useful additions to Wikipedia. However, I respect your view that collectively they constitute a spam campaign. I'm making a similar comment at User talk:Sexperts. Thanks for your hard work stamping out spam on Wikipedia. -- Jdlh | Talk 18:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
The article you were looking for is Alecto: Songbook. (It was moved when the page on the mythological figure was created). I also see a removed afd in its page history. Rigadoun (talk) 15:15, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
I reverted you recent edit. I feel that inclusion of the statement about the album being well-received by critics is necessary in the article since the band was having a slight slump prior to the release of the album. If you feel that my revert was in error, you may leave a message on my talk page or the discussion page for the article. If I have come across as angry/cross, please forgive me - that was never my intention. Cheerio! aJCfreak yAk 12:11, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
A discussion concerning your is occurring at Talk:Zi wei dou shu#The recent external links removal discussion. -- Satori Son 21:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Please stop mass removal of Iranica from the pages it is a good reference Alex Bakharev 02:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from reinserting known spammed links. Links being removed are specifically multi article linkspam for iranica.com by 160.39.32.132, see WP:SPAM, WP:EL and WP:COI.
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OK I have unblocked you. Please discuss Iranica links with the Iranian users. Sorry for being rude, but my Email box was bustling from messages to stop "misbehaving bot" Alex Bakharev 03:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
You never got back to me on the discussion page so... I want to know what your problem is with a video search engine going under the freaking video search engine categorie! You claim that this is spam, I claim that that is bull shit! It is a very useful website and who gives a rats ass if it has an out going link. You are not doing anyone here on wikipedia by taking that off, if anything you are pissing off people and depriving them of finding what they are looking for! Wikipedia is suposed to be a free encyclopedia editable by all if they are adding relveant true information. I have done that and to ban me for it is mentally retarted.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nickboyett ( talk • contribs) 04:37, 2 July 2007.
External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, and in this case, you are the founder of Vdoogle. Unfortunately your conflict of interest editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote Vdoogle. Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under Nickboyett and IP's 67.182.4.58 67.182.36.71 67.182.36.111 12.44.170.10 67.181.201.132 67.182.36.151, consist entirely of adding external links to Vdoogle and is considered WP:Spam. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the all seem to be Vdoogle related only. Please do not create articles or continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your account and IP's are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links and for self-promotion. Wikipedia is NOT a " repository of links" or a " vehicle for advertising" and persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please see the welcome page and Wikipedia:Civility. Avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to promote Vdoogle right? -- Hu12 06:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Yes I am here to help improve wikipedia and not to just promote vdoogle.com, I only added vdoogle and nothing else cause thats all i know about. I could go around adding other stuff but im not an expert on anything else, but I am an expert on Vdoogle. I use alot of different computers, so im bound to have several IP adresses, I dont always take the time to log into my account. Wikipedia might not be a directory of links, but i do believe that it is appropriate to have one if it is indeed relevant— Nickboyett ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 19:14, 2 July 2007 (UTC).
I understand what your saying, However WP:EL#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest states clearly Due to the rising profile of Wikipedia and the amount of extra traffic it can bring a site, there is a great temptation to use Wikipedia to advertise or promote sites. This includes both commercial and non-commercial sites. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. furthermore and Specificaly, Due to issues of maintaining neutrality and avoiding promotional editing, Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines strongly advise that editors do not directly edit articles on topics where they have a close personal or business connection. Hope that helps clears up the policy issues. Any further discussion should be directed to the WikiProject Spam Case.-- Hu12 20:02, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
So if someone else had posted it there then it would be fine? It still isnt clear to me, because its not a promotional thing, im just listing it there, and if they want to go there then they can indeed click it. That is their choice and i dont believe that you or any one should prevent them from having that choice. It should be made avaible to them. Maybe if we add a links section to that page? and say something like, Links to video search engines— Nickboyett ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 22:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC).
Thank you for participating in my RfA. It was successful, and I am now, may God have mercy on us all, an administrator. Look at all the new buttons! I had heard about 'protect,' 'block user,' and 'delete,' but no one told me about 'kill,' 'eject,' and 'purée.' I appreciate the trust the community has in me, and I'll try hard not to delete the main page or block Jimbo. - FisherQueen ( Talk) 18:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
See this topic I started on Annymous Dissident's Talk Page, and thanks for your support. Cheers, The Raven's Apprentice ( PokéNav| Trainer Card) 12:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi - back on 4 November 2006 I researched and rewrote the oft-stomped-on-by-Panda 'Criticism' section of Panda Software to make it stand up properly, including providing four references for its single sentence. Since then I have had to restore the section once or twice after it was removed without comment by IP users in the geographical area of Panda's headquarters. You recently deleted the two citations for the second half of the sentence, one with edit summary "rm blog that blocks referals from Wikipedia per WP:RS". That site, zolibog.com, did in fact block referrals from Wikipedia at some point in the past, but a few months ago stopped doing so; the link works fine. Zoliblog.com seems well-respected and has thousand of favorable hits on Google. I see that you warned User:Zoliblog today for some spamming going back to July of last year, but I really don't want to lose the one good link supporting a very valid and still current criticism of Panda. If you have no objection, I'll restore it. Thanks for considering this issue. -- CliffC 18:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry if I cluelessly stepped in on Nsusa's behalf by unblocking him; I trust you know what you're doing and hope I haven't created too much of a hassle. I let myself be social-engineered for a bit there. -- The Cunctator 14:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
(unindent) Reblocked accordingly-- Hu12 18:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
What's with this edit to User talk:Irstu, adding a link to a non-existant domain to the spam warning I added? It seems to make no sense at all... Wibbble 21:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I understand that this IP added links to a website that was in their "domain" of sorts, but even though it might be a conflict of interest, it was completely relevent to the articles and a good source. If I added that link then I don't think you would have deleted it (unless there's something I don't understand about this matter). Might we replace the links? SeanMD80 talk | contribs 23:56, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Why did you delete the reference on Evgenia Eremina? The reference works. There seems no reason to delete it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Toddy1 ( talk • contribs) 04:25, 17 July 2007.
Please refrain from removing readding
prod tags, like you did to
stock.xchng. I recommend that you read up on the prod policy.
Sala
Skan 11:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, wanted to just give you thanks for following up with the whole speedy deletion / spam stuff the user Paulgossen was doing. I'm not the most "advanced" Wiki user but I know spam when I see it... and while editing out spammy external links is what I do best, I wanted to take it a step further. So I did what I could - put up his entry for Speedy deletion.
Thanks!-- Christian B 20:56, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I recently added the entry for Stillwater Mining Company. I tried to make it neutral, objective, with verifiable information. Why is it flagged for removal. I see plenty of other company entries on wikipedia. Why all of those existing entries are not commercial advertisement but mine is. Please explain. Must I make the entry completely dry of content to be fit to wikipedia policy? I am not trying to spam. I am not trying to advertise. I just want to contribute something useful but everything I did gets flagged or removed. I am not trying to sabotage. But the policy is so hard to follow! Silverbach 00:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, is there a double standard? I think wikipedia should not advertise for individual person. Look at this page Lubos Motl. Tons of personal ads and tons of clearly opinion biased external links. But no one touches it. And any page I added a relevant external link, you flag it as a spam. I really can not understand the double standard. Please explain. Silverbach 00:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
You said You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent. But the external links I provide, www.stillwaterpalladium.com, www.palladiumcoins.com, etc. Those web site I do NOT OWN, I do NOT maintain, and I do NOT represent, and I do NOT have control off. It does not fit your description.
I understand the conflict of interest prohibit promoting commercial interest. But it seems you have broaden the concept of COI too wide and too generic. I am a human being so I necessarily have a conflict of interest editing a clause related to human being versus other animals. So should a clause about human being be edited by a monkey instead of by a human being due to COI? If there is a clause about woman does it mean only man can touch it because any woman editor will have conflict of interest? If it is an entry about gay and lesbian does that mean only straight people can touch it? If this is an entry about global warming, a some what controvesial topic, does that mean NONE of the environmental scientists can edit the entry, because all of them will have vested interests in promoting their favorite theory?
The idea of COI is good but I am afraid you pushed it too far! Any one that is knowledgeable about any topic must necessarily have more or less some interest in the topic and hence conflict of interest. Some one totally ignorant about a certain topic might be the best candidate to edit that topic, because such person is guaranteed voided of COI. If so there will not be any valuable information exist in wikipedia.
Since I am Peak Oil aware, I guess I am now in COI and can not touch any topic related to peak oil, or North America Natural Gas Crisis, or anything related to energy. Is that right? Since I am knowledgeable in physics and math I can not touch anything related to physics and math either due to COI. Where does COI policy end?
I am trying to be neutral. And I think I did. But you do not allow me as much as simply name something by name, or state a fact as a fact. Stillwater Mining does have the world's highest grade ore and that is FACT so how come making that statement is a conflict of interest? That's way too much. If wikipedia is not about documenting knowledge of known facts then what it is?
I am a new user. My recent experience dimishes my initial enthusiasm in volunteerly contributing to Wikipedia. Go spend your time and clean up the mess since obviously you do not think it is even appropriate for me to make improvements of those entries that I touched. I will always have conflict of interest no matter what.
Silverbach 03:35, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Can I get a hand from you re: User:Cybermonsters. I wont be able to follow him much longer. Montco 05:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12,
Please note that the user DBose2 is vandalising Wikipedia articles. He has also started attacking me personally by changing my user page intentionally, saying I am a plagiariser. Please do something about it. The following link might be of help for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DBose2
Thanks! Sreejith Kumar 08:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. On 17 July 2007 you deleted a template but the deletion notice pointed to different template with a similar name. The discussion was relating to this other template, and although the consensus was to delete this other template, there was no discussion on deleting the template you removed on 17 July. I believe you have deleted the template in error. Could you let me know more about the circumstances please? For reference, the discussion related to the {{ Forgotten-Realms-Wikia}} template and you deleted the {{ Forgottenrealmswiki}} template. Please feel free to reply directly on this page or on my talk page according to your preference. Thanks. Fw190a8 20:13, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
→ See also: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_9#Template:Forgotten-Realms-Wikia
→ See also: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_July_16#Wikia_besed_and_other_template
-- Hu12 08:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
In view of this, what, in your opinion, is the best way of providing a link to the extra information available at this site? Should this be included in the "External links" section? Fw190a8 10:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I was unable to save to the Wikiproject Spam page. Unfortunately I have run out of warnings.
Spammer
Hi, whilst vigilance against spam is very much appreciated, I would appreciate it if you can confer with someone within the wikiproject (jewelry) before removing sources. Ganoksin is the largest community of handmade jewelry and have galleries of many designers (for free). It's simply a huge portal. Whilst advertisements in itself could be a reason to consider a source too commercial, I can point out many sources, including those placed by longtime editors and admins (such as in geology mindat.org and webmineral.com). If you have a serious objection to the link then we can discuss it on the discussion page of that page. The page is being monitored by several editors as well as admins already. Gem-fanat 14:11, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing though as I mentioned on the talk page, one more thing . . . I think you may have whitelisted User:Warthogdemon, instead of me. But I'm not sure. - WarthogDemon 17:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
You blocked BService for adding the On-line Merck links to wikipages, but I'd just finished praising him for adding it to the page. The Merck manual is the standard medical textbook from what I understand, virtually handed out at med school. I thought they were good additions to the page! Poor boy may be confused. Anyway, I'm not going to try to re-insert it, but I do think the manual is actually worth adding to the page. My $0.02. WLU 20:03, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't see it as spamming though, as it is a highly respected document with it's on wikilink-style internal links. Did you ever get a reply from him/her/it/them to your warnings? If nay, that's definitely spamming behaviour, but this could be an arguable case for bad intentions having good results. Anyway, it's still good to know the MM has a webpage as it would be an excellent source for general citations. Thanks, WLU 20:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Something to ponder, thanks. What would you think of other editors judiciously adding the MM to certain pages...
Actually, at this point were I to add it to pages, it would be as a generic reference. WLU 20:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Noted. Also, could you have a quick look at this, specifically this, and does it rate an instaban? All the other edit's I've seen by him are vandalism. WLU 20:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12, I noticed that you removed the "Prius vs. other transportation alternatives" paragraph from the Toyota Prius article. I had also removed it (twice), for similar reasons, earlier today. It was restored (twice) by the original author, so I started a discussion about it on the article's talkpage. Perhaps you would like to add your views there, and your reasons too for removing the paragraph. -- de Facto ( talk). 13:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
You recently removed a link from the Finning Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finning
to a page with additional information on the company:
http://www[DOT]andrewjohns[DOT]ca/EN/main/299/317/866/researchfocus_ftt.html
I would like to make a case that this page has valuable information on the company and also gives wikipedia readers access to industry research reports that they would not otherwise be able to read. We put alot of effort into keeping our company-specific pages updated and I would implore that you allow links to company pages on our site for the benefit of wikipedia users.
I look forward to hearing your response.
Thanks.
The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{ inactive}} and/or {{ historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 15:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12. I just noticed you changing a bunch of headers I've put on spammers talk pages from www.xxxx.xxx to spam.xxxx.xxx Does the blacklist deliberate allow links that start with "spam" ? Thanks -- SiobhanHansa 00:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
If you check the the goarticles.com search, you'll find more Andrew Stone linked articles at the botom.-- Hu12 00:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI, Special:Contributions/172.190.149.110's deletion several hours ago of the wackypages2005.com blacklisting request caught my attention so I checked to see what was going on. I see CollectorGuy ( talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is still spamming. I will document this at WT:WPSPAM if I get time later today.
As always, thanks again for your leadership at WPSPAM -- you are the backbone of our spam defenses! -- A. B. (talk) 13:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I disagree with your assessment of Diggernet's links to ifiction.org being spam. Full comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#User:Diggernet_.2F_http:.2F.2Fspam.ifiction.org — Alan De Smet | Talk 18:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
The above article you nominated for deletion has been speedy deleted and salted by an admin. Since the AFD wasn't closed I have done a "common sense" non-admin close myself. Thanks. Camaron1 | Chris 19:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I am currently working on the ClickTime page and will have it up in a few hours, please don't delete my article. Thanks, let me know if I am doing anything wrong.— Lilellieyo ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 23:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC).
You undid edits I made to my own Talk page with no explanation why. I found this to be intrusive and rude. Since there is a built in archive of data I saw no reason not to be able to tidy up my talk page.
I think you could gain valuable experience from Sunray’s approach to wiki social protocol. Sunray has explained the archive method which I will now investigate. Please don't interfere with my talk page again unless you want to use it to talk to me or make constructive criticism.
I've start a conversation on your talk page, I'm watching it. Please leave responses on your talk page. Thanks. -- naturalhomes 19:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Your assumption is wrong. I have familiarized myself with "Wikipedia protocol" and it is apparent that you do not 'Respect other contributors' as per Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines regarding Sunray's edits in this discussion between you and Sunray, to wit:
Your behaviour, as illustrated above, and your terse attitude towards my edit of my talk page, leads me to conclude that you are more concerned with your own status than the quality of Wiki articles. I accept that I could be wrong in my analysis of the chain of events. I think you could do well to reflect on your actions.
It is my hope that I become a better editor. Naturalhomes 20:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
The addresses public info and are for the mansions of historic individuals who are no longer living. No addresses are listed for current residents. Thomas Paine1776 21:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Please don't put just a vote on Articles for Deletion, give a reason too. AfD is a discussion, not a vote. Ten Pound Hammer • ( Broken clamshells• Otter chirps• Review?) 22:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Could you point me to a list of Wikipedia's blacklisted domains? I'm unaware of it (which isn't surprising -- there are many, many Wikipedia pages I'm still learning about after all this time). Thanks. -- Tenebrae 04:41, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Did a bit of cleanup of the Zoomerang.com article that you had on articles for deletion. Probably still needs some work, but I'm not interested enough to do it. Crypticfirefly 05:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. Just noticed you closed the AFD for this; I identified in the AFD that most of the article (everything after the first line of the second paragraph) is a direct copy-and-paste from an outside site. Would you recommend that I delete all of the copied information and make a note of such on the talk page? (My suggestion in the AFD was to delete it and allow for recreation with something other than a copyvio, for the record.) Tony Fox (arf!) 05:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I know I have asked you before Hu, and I don't mean to bother you but please unprotect your talk page. Should an anon or new user want to contact you, say, asking why their nn-bio was deleted, they will currently find they can't talk to you. So please unprotect your talk page. Thanks, Prodego talk 05:53, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Hu. Understand that as an admin, I don't mean to persist, page protection is no obstacle to me. I care about this issue for all the anon users who might want to contact you. Sorry if I bothered you, and Happy editing! Prodego talk 21:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you had struck out the !votes and all the text of the accompanying comments by editors with zero or few previous edits, in the AFD for this article. I have in the past tagged many such spa !votes in AFDs. Is there anything in the AFD guidelines which allows striking out !votes and the reasons given, or did it just seem like a good idea at the moment? Sometimes new editors join Wikipedia and become productive contributors after they came here due to interest in a particular AFD. Having their vote and reasons struck out seems to be contrary to WP:BITE when adding a spa tag is sufficient to alert the closing admin, so their !vote can be discounted. At the same time, people interested in a particular topic have in fact often brought in facts and sources which inform all participants, and the striking through basically says that nothing they say may be heard or considered. I like the idea of allowing them "voice but not vote" in the AFD process, as long as their contributions are reasoned and not spam off-topic or attacks. Would you please consider undoing the strikeouts, and just leaving spa tags? Thanks. Edison 19:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Re your reversion: [7]. This is getting to be a PITA. AGENT 7 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who created this and various other unreferenced articles about Salamis places and people, got a couple of blocks for removing cleanup and unref tags. Now he appears to be acting through variety of IP sockpuppets and repeatedly doing this on all of the articles he created. I can't do the cleanup and referencing - it needs someone who can read Greek sources - but they need tagging. Can anything be done? I tried asking for semiprotection [8] but they didn't consider it bad enough a problem. Gordonofcartoon 11:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Nice research! That's an amazing bit of scam-artistry! We definitely need to clarify and consolidate the guidelines on this subject, I've seen quite a bit of abuse too. But your example is wild! Dreadstar † 07:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you recently reverted some changes to this article by user Skyscraper Source - see here. I agree that since the user has only edited this one page and included some "ad-speak" in their changes, it looks like a clear case of conflict of interest. However, I happen to think that some of what Skyscraper Source wrote is a valuable addition to the article. If I was to revert some of your change to add what I thought was valuable, would you then accuse me of a conflict of interest, even though I have no connection to the website? Astronaut 13:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for contacting me on my page. JoshuaZ and I were in agreement about the reversion you observed. As JoshuaZ is an administrator and maintains an interest in the case I ask you to contact him with any question you have about it. I do not use my page for such discussion, as the header announces. That is the reason I reply here on your page. Thank you for reading. Cuddlyable3 20:15, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Who do you contend has a conflict of interest? Pat1425's edits have all been reverted. Or is the creator affiliated with Zogby? THF 04:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Look like we both are deleting bollywood gate links :P. Anyways this image :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mainhoon_header_01.jpg is referring to bollywood gate. This license of that image appears to be a fake. Thank you. Hope we can work together. -- SkyWalker 11:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
This removal of My.BarackObama.com from List of social networking websites was uncalled for. The AfD discussion is ongoing with a clear consensus to keep, and de-linking the article elsewhere because you do not support its keeping seems unnecessary. Italia vivi 03:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
“ | Only place entries here that are links to actual Wikipedia articles about notable social networking sites. External links, redlinks, substubs, non-notable sites or sites that are not social networking sites will be removed.. | ” |
I'll just jump in here and say that Italiavivi did not violate 3RR on the AfD (as you suggested on the admin noticeboard). He or she posted it once and reverted 3 times. It's only after three that actions are generally taken. Mahalo. --
Ali'i 21:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching this oversight [9] on my part and fixing it. -- A. B. (talk) 19:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I acknowledge your experience, but i think that when an article asserts national awards, as does Alan Haskvitz that makes it very clearly an assertion of notability. If the awards don't seem adequate for actual notability, wouldnt prod or afd be the better way to go? (I declined the speedy) DGG ( talk) 04:20, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Dave the Slave. I do not think that Dave the Slave fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because asserts notability as his pottery is in the Smithsonian. I request that you consider not re-tagging Dave the Slave for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. You are, of course, free to tag the article with {{ prod}} or nominate it at WP:AFD . Carlossuarez46 17:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I see you're about the only admin who edits the page so I just wanted to say thanks for attending to requests so quickly. -- SiobhanHansa 01:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to respond to this nonsense of being labelled a spammer. How is adding a link to a site that is dedicated to the subject of ooxml to the ooxml wiki-articale spam? For people who are interesting in the criticism of ooxml this is a valuable resource. If you want to discuss NPOV or other objections then fine but to label me a spammer is lazy administration. It seems gone are the days of 'being bold' , my first impression is walk lightly and avoid the egos. Kaern 11:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)— Kaern ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 12:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC).
You had added the pettition 3 times 10:21, 29 August 2007 10:27, 29 August 2007 10:51, 29 August 2007 under the IP 84.64.233.164, prior to creating your current the account Kaern @ 10:54, 29 August 2007, which you added it a fourth time. Unfortunatly the link is not a resource about the subject. I'd suggest discussing it on the articles talkpage. thanks.-- Hu12 12:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Please do not remove redlinks for no reason, as you did on breakcore. -- intgr #%@! 08:23, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm not sure if there's something underhanded going on, but it looks as though there might be, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention. CuddlyAble3, immediately after the expiry of his latest block for disruptive and uncivil behaviour, seems to have deleted his user page while leaving his talk page up (such as it is; he continues to delete warnings and behavioural reminders). Is this kosher? It looks to me as if he's trying to conceal his behavioural problems, and the warnings he's received for them, from those who encounter his name in signed comments, etc. -- Scheinwerfermann 14:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Can you check this user page User:Helenasmith. I have no idea if this should be speedy delete or to leave as is. -- SkyWalker 15:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems like we have two skywalkers here in wikipedia or more. Is there anything admins can do regarding this?. People should not confuse with or vice-versa. This is user i was talking about User:Skywalker. Anyhelp would be appreciated. -- SkyWalker 22:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Why the editing of my user-page? The Rypcord. 16:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rypcord ( talk • contribs)
...or flood editor talk pages with unfounded threats, right? I'm sorry, but I don't know what else to think of it. Looking at your edit history, you have kept removing any references to the NoOOXML campaign during the past few weeks from any articles you come across, calling editors that add them "spammers", and reporting the site on spam notice boards. Which is justified provided the web site does fit that label, although any evidence of that... Quite frankly, I would be grateful to see the evidence, because I haven't seen any as of yet. But, at the same time you happen to overlook a 3RR violation happening just arm's length away. I'm not sure if you're aware of that, but the template you put on my talk page contains a link to the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest article and there's something ironic about that and the observations I made above. 80.233.255.7 16:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Please do not create articles or continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your accounts and IP's are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links and for self-promotion. Wikipedia is NOT a " repository of links" or a " vehicle for advertising" and persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please see the welcome page and Wikipedia:Civility. Avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to promote noooxml.org right? -- Hu12 17:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
These pages are considered Cruft and not notable for Wikipedia? After seeing the history of Star Wars and Wookieepedia articles the deletion doesn't surprise me. The problem is CCP doesn't have an official Wiki for EVE Online and the best wiki I can find Eve-Wiki is being opposed by entrenched interests even though external wiki's of this sort are on 48 of 148 MMORPG articles and many featured gaming articles like Halo 2. Any help in resolving this matter would be appreciated. EVE Online is in the top 10 most popular MMORPG's with typically 25,000 people logged in at most times of the day. Alatari 20:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Why did you delete external links to the Smithsonian Institution archives of Amerian art in the Hans Hofmann and Burgoyne Diller articles? MdArtLover 16:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hiya Hu12, FYI a user who obviously has been following the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#http://www.aaa.si.edu has contacted me claiming that your block of User:Aaa intern has blocked the entire Smithsonian Institution from editing. I think he was trying to garner some sort of sympathy, but for the record, I have no quarrel with you--just passing along the info, in case s/he really is blocked and was simply trying to inform someone. Thanks and keep up the vandal fighting. Katr67 20:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hu12 21:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. For the reasons I gave at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#linkspamming new editor??, I ventured to unblock this user. I've left a message on User talk:Aaa intern requesting that the user voluntarily refrain from adding further links to Smithsonian Institution web sites pending further discussion. I understand you are an experienced spam-fighter; I am a fairly new administrator; this is the first time I have ever unblocked a user, and I hope I have not been too forward. I believe that the user involved, while possibly having an inappropriate username, is not spamming as defined by WP:SPAM because the material added is not promotional in nature. If you elect to re-block this user, I will not interfere further. Best, -- Shirahadasha 03:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Yesterday you classified Overstock.com "spammers" as "naughty" before deleting what appeared to be a total of four instances of the link from what I understand to be Wikipedia's 1.5-million articles.
Of those four:
You're the spam expert here, so I'll defer to your judgement. But I'd love to understand how the above four links qualify as "spam" and exactly where the "naughty" is. -- The So-Called Blogger 14:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Herbythyme is the backbone of meta's spam work these days. He left me a note on my meta talk page asking whether I thought squidoo should be blacklisted on meta. I told him you knew a lot more about this one than I did -- please consider yourself invited to chip in at meta:User talk:A. B.#Squidoo req if you feel so inclined. -- A. B. (talk) 19:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Really Great for all your contributions in controlling spamming. I am here to know the reason for spamming my websites. I feel you have not even opened the website and its contents before even judging whether the website is supposed to be in the spam list or not. For example you have made the website http://www.vlsichipdesign.com as a spam website. I am 10 year experienced chip design Engineer and in the website maintains all the issues/concepts related to ASIC and VLSI and i placed this in the external links column specific to ASIC and VLSI postings only. Please do let me know the reason why did you named this as spam website. Please in future without studying what the website is targetting for please take the supervisory control and use it in a wrong note in naming it as a spam-website. I request you to remove the spam-link from my website . The website is for a good cause. If you know ASIC design/VLSI chip design and if you still feel that the website of mine as a spam please contact me. I request you to remove the spam in corresponding adsense sites. Thanks for the support. In case if this is not a right forum to discuss this please do reply me with the right place topost it(i am an amateur in Wikipedia).Praise the Lord. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.126.245.198 ( talk) 09:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I am (slowly) trying to gather and compile an essay on the single purpose accounts that add external links, which, after removal are overruled as 'they are good and on topic links, I don't understand why this is considered spam'. Apparently these removals (and other accounts overriding the removals) give much aggravation. May I invite you to help me (re)writing the points (both in favour and against), and further compile this document? I have it here for the moment: User:Beetstra/Archivists. Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
please can you delete your comments from my page, thanks.-- Sunderland06 18:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Sorry but can you please delete your comments i will not do it again -- Sunderland06 18:53, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you please delete this page because it is spelt incorrectly, thanks -- Sunderland06 18:52, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Done Author request-- Hu12 18:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you good friend -- Sunderland06 18:56, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
You have deleted the wrong page it was the Easington Community Science Collage can you reinstate the correct one which is EASINGTON COMMUNITY SCIENCE COLLEGE thanks -- Sunderland06 19:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
OK Thanks -- Sunderland06 16:11, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I declined speedy on him; he plays for a English premiership team - meets WP:BIO. Carlossuarez46 20:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
So i can remove the warning on his page, cheaz -- Sunderland06 20:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Users are free to remove warnings or anything else they want to from their talkpage. Forcing them to keep warnings on their talkpage is considered harassment. -- Carnildo 21:58, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
What is an easy way to get an award? I have made a School page updated the kazakhstan national football team and updated alot of sportman pages Can i get an award from them. -- Sunderland06 20:13, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Will editing the kazakhstan national football team help? -- Sunderland06 20:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
-- A. B. (talk) 20:46, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
FYI, Videmus Omnia and I are developing a big list:
Discussion:
I'll let you know when we've got more done. -- A. B. (talk) 20:22, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I See. Let me know...-- Hu12 15:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me if you know how to get that banner that says if youre online. -- Sunderland06 16:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Hu, WP:DTTR. That's just pouring oil on the flame. Italiavivi says those IPs aren't his/hers. If you don't believe him/her, feel free to say so - I'm long past assuming that everything s/he says is true - but using the template seems an unnecessary insult. That's a line I'm trying hard not to cross no matter how annoyed I get with him/her. -- Zsero 07:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Your repeatedly attributing an entire IP range from a large ISP to myself, including years-old IP addresses from random locations and edits which are clearly not mine, is harassment. These IPs are not mine, and I will seek recourse over your insistence of this unsubstantiated attribution. Italia vivi 07:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked from editing for edit warring ( [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]) on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Italiavivi. While removal of content from RFCs is generally frowned upon, there is no exception to edit warring rules to reverse it... and any prohibitions against such removals would apply equally to your own removal of the other party's comments, which initiated the dispute. -- CBD 12:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
The Mega-Spamstar of Glory | ||
Presented to Hu12 for 24X7 work getting spam out of Wikipedia and keeping it out. -- A. B. (talk) 20:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC) |
WOW...that makes my day! thanks A. B.-- Hu12 20:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Check out the Legal OnRamp page. The originator of the page, Paul Lippe, is the chief executive of the company (see here [24]). I believe this is a spammy problem that needs addressing. I also reckon The Lawyer page fails the notability criteria. What do you think? Solicitor1 14:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please take a serious look at the above. Thanks. Smallbones 14:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
How do you source an infobox, thanks. -- Sunderland06 19:24, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12, I had added some links to the Dermatology photo library Dermnet.com and I think they may have been deleted. Here is a brief overview.
Dermnet.com is an open access and free website that contains thousands of high quality images demonstrating skin diseases. It is used by many medical schools to teach students about these skin conditions and it is often used as a picture resource by various medical journals to demonstrate a particular condition. It is also very useful for the general public and readers of Wikipedia to see this information as they learn about a particular disease. I am a board certified dermatologist, an adjunct professor of dermatology at Dartmouth College and I have written many books on the subject of dermatology.
I would like to contribute to Wikipedia. Since I am new at this, I may have made a mistake. Would you please instruct me on how to add these links and other information to Wikipedia so it will not be deleted.
I will also list some citations for your review:
Medical schools and websites: University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/dermnet/index.html
National Library for Health: http://www.library.nhs.uk/skin/ViewResource.aspx?resID=67330
Medical Journals: Journal of the American American Academy of Dermatology: World Wide Web open access, educational dermatology clinical images: Volume 56, Issue 6, Pages e81-e85
Human Papillomaviruses and Genital Disease (published by Elsiver): Dermatologic Clinics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 157-165 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ThomasHabifMD ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
FYI: still spamming:
Blacklist?
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Hi, you've removed the external link to www.complexevents.com which points to the website run by Prof. Emiritus David Luckham who authored the book "The Power of Events" amd is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of this computing paradigm. The website is a non-profit website and acts as the industries unofficial source of articles, use cases, and reference architectures. I believe it is a valid external link. Why has this link been removed? I'll wait for your response before putting it back in. Bardcom 07:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Aggregated results pages also are not allowed under WP:EL, sorry.-- Hu12 16:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps it may be relevant or worthy of mention in an article about Prof Luckham, however outside of that it does not meet the External links policy for inclusion. It has been removed.-- Hu12 13:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Bardcom 15:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. As you seem to be one of the biggest antispam editors around (by the way, thank you for the invitation you left on my talk page, sorry I never officially joined the project, though I try to do my part), I want to know what you think of that article. Seems like one long list of spam to me. The excuse for all those external links on the talk page is that those are reference links which are permitted, but I don't think they qualify, as all those one-click hosters' notability is not established by reliable secondary sources. Should something be done about this?-- Boffob 05:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, i'm Diego Massanti, owner of massanti.com, site that is actually hosting one of the very few versions of the "think different" commercial by apple, in a decent quality. Why you keep removing that link (and others of mine) ?. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diegomass ( talk • contribs) 18:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Can you give your opinion about the subject discussed on my talk page? Thanks! Stefanvaduva 11:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your one of the people that wished there to be a list of Japanese games online for Wikipedia which I tried to make for the Nintendo 64 a few months ago, but just like when they where added to the orginal List of Nintendo 64 games they are trying to delete the new page List of Japanese Nintendo 64 games here's a link Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese Nintendo 64 games to the discussion, how about giving your view. ( Floppydog66 15:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC))
Hello, Could you give your opinion into my talk page 217.222.76.201?. I have a username that is blocked indefinite because containing a company name and is inappropriate. I would like to change it from "Marketing Eurotech" to "Eth mtk" because I would like to create a new article about "Eurotech Group". I don't know if you are successful in view my talk page. If you don't view this, could you warn me into this section? Thank you in advance. Kind Regards, ADF —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.8.67.146 ( talk • contribs) 12:06, 16 October 2007
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I really cannot understand the reason why you want to delete the external links to the last two articles. Could you please specify the reasons. Hallenrm 17:21, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Your recent deletion of the reference link in Ayesha Takia may be a bit off base. Used as a reference, She signed a contract for Socha Na Tha, then for Taarzan: The Wonder Car. However, delays in making Socha Na Tha meant that Taarzan released first and was therefore her "debut" film. is a direct quote from the referenced article which in that sense may be a copywrite violation instead. The reference link was http: //www.chakpak.com/celebrity/ayesha-takia/biography/29638 Dbiel ( Talk) 06:16, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't think the page really fits the spirit of WP:CSD#G11 so I've removed the tag. I think AfD would be a more proper way of action. Pascal.Tesson 22:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I know you have no choice, but I was just curious if, when you were busy blacklisting the bircy.com website, and you got to the Margonin article, if you happened to view the birchy.com article on Margonin and noticed how much material you cut off from wikiPedia users. I know all the arguements, and all the justifications, etc. but was just curious if *you* paid any attention to what exactly you did. Or are you just an automaton? There *is* and *never will be* a more complete article on this topic. (and yes, I know wikiPedia doesn't care whether articles contain links to important external sources. Btw, blacklisting all external links to birchy.com, as punishment, isn't really very fair. Now, if after being called on the carpet, I had continued to add great quanities of external links, then perhaps a blacklisting would be in order. But I haven't. It was a difference of opinion about how to present material, not intentional spamming. Since then, I have not added one link to birchy.com nor any other site. If I hadn't linked to the thousands of highly detailed articles in the Kreis articles, articles that I expanded from material already published on birchy.com, then I doubt anyone would consider the individual "See Also" links as spam, which they certainly aren't. Bwood 05:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm sending you a message because of your involvement with the Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_18#Template:COI_and_Template:COI2 discussion. The result of the TfD was no-consensus, but there was a significant expressed consensus for editing the templates to bring them into line with good practice. Unfortunately this has not happened, and the templates have been left pretty much in the state they were before the TfD. Would you like to assist in bringing these templates in line with good practice? -- Barberio 16:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
You removed an external link ( Bristol Dyno - What is a dynamometer?) from Dynamometer and Horsepower, why? It has a very good explanation of how an inertia type dyno works. IJB TA 05:35, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I have removed the {{ prod}} tag from Corporate Thugz Entertainment, which you proposed for deletion, because its deletion has previously been contested or viewed as controversial. Proposed deletion is not for controversial deletions. For this reason, it is best not to propose deletion of articles that have previously been de-{{ prod}}ed, even by the article creator, or which have previously been listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{ prod}} template back to the article, but feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Od Mishehu 07:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I note you have reinstated the COI2 template on the Legal Week page. Can you please advise as to how I/we should go forward from here - as far I can see, the page contains nothing but statements of fact. If there are particular aspects of the page that you believe to be problematic, then please identify them. I hope that in the collaborative spirit of Wikipedia, we can sort the issues out and move forward. Thanks. -- Legalweek 17:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but can you explain how the link you removed was multi-link spam? I just looked over Sexperts other edits, and I see other links to a different articles at the same site; considering that the articles are all different, it's not WP:SPAM. Do you know, by way of an IP address revealing the person to be at the magazine that they are in conflict of interest? Or did they just find a site that had a lot if information on stuff they were interested in, and add it? Their links have been there for several months, and every one seems to be a good reference, despite the clump being added all at once.
Either way, I would like to revert the Queer Eye link. 'Spam' or not, it was a decent link on a page that doesn't have enough linkage to be taking things away. However, since you removed it, I wanted to give you the chance to revert it before I do (unless your pref is that a regular editor of the page do so).-- Thespian 03:56, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Hu12. I wanted to let you know that I'm reverting your deletion of a citation of nsrc.sfsu.edu in the San Francisco Pride article. Although User:Sexperts added that citation in March 2007, I reviewed it at the time, and I think it's a valid citation that's relevant to the article content. It is not in the External Links section, it's an in-line citation. In general I see your point about Sexperts' contributions seeming like WP:SPAM. I also think that in many cases they look relevant to the articles involved, and if structured as proper citations of facts in the article might be useful additions to Wikipedia. However, I respect your view that collectively they constitute a spam campaign. I'm making a similar comment at User talk:Sexperts. Thanks for your hard work stamping out spam on Wikipedia. -- Jdlh | Talk 18:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
The article you were looking for is Alecto: Songbook. (It was moved when the page on the mythological figure was created). I also see a removed afd in its page history. Rigadoun (talk) 15:15, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
I reverted you recent edit. I feel that inclusion of the statement about the album being well-received by critics is necessary in the article since the band was having a slight slump prior to the release of the album. If you feel that my revert was in error, you may leave a message on my talk page or the discussion page for the article. If I have come across as angry/cross, please forgive me - that was never my intention. Cheerio! aJCfreak yAk 12:11, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
A discussion concerning your is occurring at Talk:Zi wei dou shu#The recent external links removal discussion. -- Satori Son 21:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Please stop mass removal of Iranica from the pages it is a good reference Alex Bakharev 02:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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OK I have unblocked you. Please discuss Iranica links with the Iranian users. Sorry for being rude, but my Email box was bustling from messages to stop "misbehaving bot" Alex Bakharev 03:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
You never got back to me on the discussion page so... I want to know what your problem is with a video search engine going under the freaking video search engine categorie! You claim that this is spam, I claim that that is bull shit! It is a very useful website and who gives a rats ass if it has an out going link. You are not doing anyone here on wikipedia by taking that off, if anything you are pissing off people and depriving them of finding what they are looking for! Wikipedia is suposed to be a free encyclopedia editable by all if they are adding relveant true information. I have done that and to ban me for it is mentally retarted.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nickboyett ( talk • contribs) 04:37, 2 July 2007.
External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, and in this case, you are the founder of Vdoogle. Unfortunately your conflict of interest editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote Vdoogle. Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under Nickboyett and IP's 67.182.4.58 67.182.36.71 67.182.36.111 12.44.170.10 67.181.201.132 67.182.36.151, consist entirely of adding external links to Vdoogle and is considered WP:Spam. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the all seem to be Vdoogle related only. Please do not create articles or continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your account and IP's are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links and for self-promotion. Wikipedia is NOT a " repository of links" or a " vehicle for advertising" and persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please see the welcome page and Wikipedia:Civility. Avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to promote Vdoogle right? -- Hu12 06:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Yes I am here to help improve wikipedia and not to just promote vdoogle.com, I only added vdoogle and nothing else cause thats all i know about. I could go around adding other stuff but im not an expert on anything else, but I am an expert on Vdoogle. I use alot of different computers, so im bound to have several IP adresses, I dont always take the time to log into my account. Wikipedia might not be a directory of links, but i do believe that it is appropriate to have one if it is indeed relevant— Nickboyett ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 19:14, 2 July 2007 (UTC).
I understand what your saying, However WP:EL#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest states clearly Due to the rising profile of Wikipedia and the amount of extra traffic it can bring a site, there is a great temptation to use Wikipedia to advertise or promote sites. This includes both commercial and non-commercial sites. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. furthermore and Specificaly, Due to issues of maintaining neutrality and avoiding promotional editing, Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines strongly advise that editors do not directly edit articles on topics where they have a close personal or business connection. Hope that helps clears up the policy issues. Any further discussion should be directed to the WikiProject Spam Case.-- Hu12 20:02, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
So if someone else had posted it there then it would be fine? It still isnt clear to me, because its not a promotional thing, im just listing it there, and if they want to go there then they can indeed click it. That is their choice and i dont believe that you or any one should prevent them from having that choice. It should be made avaible to them. Maybe if we add a links section to that page? and say something like, Links to video search engines— Nickboyett ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 22:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC).
Thank you for participating in my RfA. It was successful, and I am now, may God have mercy on us all, an administrator. Look at all the new buttons! I had heard about 'protect,' 'block user,' and 'delete,' but no one told me about 'kill,' 'eject,' and 'purée.' I appreciate the trust the community has in me, and I'll try hard not to delete the main page or block Jimbo. - FisherQueen ( Talk) 18:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
See this topic I started on Annymous Dissident's Talk Page, and thanks for your support. Cheers, The Raven's Apprentice ( PokéNav| Trainer Card) 12:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi - back on 4 November 2006 I researched and rewrote the oft-stomped-on-by-Panda 'Criticism' section of Panda Software to make it stand up properly, including providing four references for its single sentence. Since then I have had to restore the section once or twice after it was removed without comment by IP users in the geographical area of Panda's headquarters. You recently deleted the two citations for the second half of the sentence, one with edit summary "rm blog that blocks referals from Wikipedia per WP:RS". That site, zolibog.com, did in fact block referrals from Wikipedia at some point in the past, but a few months ago stopped doing so; the link works fine. Zoliblog.com seems well-respected and has thousand of favorable hits on Google. I see that you warned User:Zoliblog today for some spamming going back to July of last year, but I really don't want to lose the one good link supporting a very valid and still current criticism of Panda. If you have no objection, I'll restore it. Thanks for considering this issue. -- CliffC 18:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry if I cluelessly stepped in on Nsusa's behalf by unblocking him; I trust you know what you're doing and hope I haven't created too much of a hassle. I let myself be social-engineered for a bit there. -- The Cunctator 14:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
(unindent) Reblocked accordingly-- Hu12 18:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
What's with this edit to User talk:Irstu, adding a link to a non-existant domain to the spam warning I added? It seems to make no sense at all... Wibbble 21:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I understand that this IP added links to a website that was in their "domain" of sorts, but even though it might be a conflict of interest, it was completely relevent to the articles and a good source. If I added that link then I don't think you would have deleted it (unless there's something I don't understand about this matter). Might we replace the links? SeanMD80 talk | contribs 23:56, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Why did you delete the reference on Evgenia Eremina? The reference works. There seems no reason to delete it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Toddy1 ( talk • contribs) 04:25, 17 July 2007.
Please refrain from removing readding
prod tags, like you did to
stock.xchng. I recommend that you read up on the prod policy.
Sala
Skan 11:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey, wanted to just give you thanks for following up with the whole speedy deletion / spam stuff the user Paulgossen was doing. I'm not the most "advanced" Wiki user but I know spam when I see it... and while editing out spammy external links is what I do best, I wanted to take it a step further. So I did what I could - put up his entry for Speedy deletion.
Thanks!-- Christian B 20:56, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I recently added the entry for Stillwater Mining Company. I tried to make it neutral, objective, with verifiable information. Why is it flagged for removal. I see plenty of other company entries on wikipedia. Why all of those existing entries are not commercial advertisement but mine is. Please explain. Must I make the entry completely dry of content to be fit to wikipedia policy? I am not trying to spam. I am not trying to advertise. I just want to contribute something useful but everything I did gets flagged or removed. I am not trying to sabotage. But the policy is so hard to follow! Silverbach 00:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, is there a double standard? I think wikipedia should not advertise for individual person. Look at this page Lubos Motl. Tons of personal ads and tons of clearly opinion biased external links. But no one touches it. And any page I added a relevant external link, you flag it as a spam. I really can not understand the double standard. Please explain. Silverbach 00:21, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
You said You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent. But the external links I provide, www.stillwaterpalladium.com, www.palladiumcoins.com, etc. Those web site I do NOT OWN, I do NOT maintain, and I do NOT represent, and I do NOT have control off. It does not fit your description.
I understand the conflict of interest prohibit promoting commercial interest. But it seems you have broaden the concept of COI too wide and too generic. I am a human being so I necessarily have a conflict of interest editing a clause related to human being versus other animals. So should a clause about human being be edited by a monkey instead of by a human being due to COI? If there is a clause about woman does it mean only man can touch it because any woman editor will have conflict of interest? If it is an entry about gay and lesbian does that mean only straight people can touch it? If this is an entry about global warming, a some what controvesial topic, does that mean NONE of the environmental scientists can edit the entry, because all of them will have vested interests in promoting their favorite theory?
The idea of COI is good but I am afraid you pushed it too far! Any one that is knowledgeable about any topic must necessarily have more or less some interest in the topic and hence conflict of interest. Some one totally ignorant about a certain topic might be the best candidate to edit that topic, because such person is guaranteed voided of COI. If so there will not be any valuable information exist in wikipedia.
Since I am Peak Oil aware, I guess I am now in COI and can not touch any topic related to peak oil, or North America Natural Gas Crisis, or anything related to energy. Is that right? Since I am knowledgeable in physics and math I can not touch anything related to physics and math either due to COI. Where does COI policy end?
I am trying to be neutral. And I think I did. But you do not allow me as much as simply name something by name, or state a fact as a fact. Stillwater Mining does have the world's highest grade ore and that is FACT so how come making that statement is a conflict of interest? That's way too much. If wikipedia is not about documenting knowledge of known facts then what it is?
I am a new user. My recent experience dimishes my initial enthusiasm in volunteerly contributing to Wikipedia. Go spend your time and clean up the mess since obviously you do not think it is even appropriate for me to make improvements of those entries that I touched. I will always have conflict of interest no matter what.
Silverbach 03:35, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Can I get a hand from you re: User:Cybermonsters. I wont be able to follow him much longer. Montco 05:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12,
Please note that the user DBose2 is vandalising Wikipedia articles. He has also started attacking me personally by changing my user page intentionally, saying I am a plagiariser. Please do something about it. The following link might be of help for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DBose2
Thanks! Sreejith Kumar 08:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. On 17 July 2007 you deleted a template but the deletion notice pointed to different template with a similar name. The discussion was relating to this other template, and although the consensus was to delete this other template, there was no discussion on deleting the template you removed on 17 July. I believe you have deleted the template in error. Could you let me know more about the circumstances please? For reference, the discussion related to the {{ Forgotten-Realms-Wikia}} template and you deleted the {{ Forgottenrealmswiki}} template. Please feel free to reply directly on this page or on my talk page according to your preference. Thanks. Fw190a8 20:13, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
→ See also: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_9#Template:Forgotten-Realms-Wikia
→ See also: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_July_16#Wikia_besed_and_other_template
-- Hu12 08:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
In view of this, what, in your opinion, is the best way of providing a link to the extra information available at this site? Should this be included in the "External links" section? Fw190a8 10:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I was unable to save to the Wikiproject Spam page. Unfortunately I have run out of warnings.
Spammer
Hi, whilst vigilance against spam is very much appreciated, I would appreciate it if you can confer with someone within the wikiproject (jewelry) before removing sources. Ganoksin is the largest community of handmade jewelry and have galleries of many designers (for free). It's simply a huge portal. Whilst advertisements in itself could be a reason to consider a source too commercial, I can point out many sources, including those placed by longtime editors and admins (such as in geology mindat.org and webmineral.com). If you have a serious objection to the link then we can discuss it on the discussion page of that page. The page is being monitored by several editors as well as admins already. Gem-fanat 14:11, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing though as I mentioned on the talk page, one more thing . . . I think you may have whitelisted User:Warthogdemon, instead of me. But I'm not sure. - WarthogDemon 17:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
You blocked BService for adding the On-line Merck links to wikipages, but I'd just finished praising him for adding it to the page. The Merck manual is the standard medical textbook from what I understand, virtually handed out at med school. I thought they were good additions to the page! Poor boy may be confused. Anyway, I'm not going to try to re-insert it, but I do think the manual is actually worth adding to the page. My $0.02. WLU 20:03, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't see it as spamming though, as it is a highly respected document with it's on wikilink-style internal links. Did you ever get a reply from him/her/it/them to your warnings? If nay, that's definitely spamming behaviour, but this could be an arguable case for bad intentions having good results. Anyway, it's still good to know the MM has a webpage as it would be an excellent source for general citations. Thanks, WLU 20:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Something to ponder, thanks. What would you think of other editors judiciously adding the MM to certain pages...
Actually, at this point were I to add it to pages, it would be as a generic reference. WLU 20:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Noted. Also, could you have a quick look at this, specifically this, and does it rate an instaban? All the other edit's I've seen by him are vandalism. WLU 20:59, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12, I noticed that you removed the "Prius vs. other transportation alternatives" paragraph from the Toyota Prius article. I had also removed it (twice), for similar reasons, earlier today. It was restored (twice) by the original author, so I started a discussion about it on the article's talkpage. Perhaps you would like to add your views there, and your reasons too for removing the paragraph. -- de Facto ( talk). 13:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
You recently removed a link from the Finning Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finning
to a page with additional information on the company:
http://www[DOT]andrewjohns[DOT]ca/EN/main/299/317/866/researchfocus_ftt.html
I would like to make a case that this page has valuable information on the company and also gives wikipedia readers access to industry research reports that they would not otherwise be able to read. We put alot of effort into keeping our company-specific pages updated and I would implore that you allow links to company pages on our site for the benefit of wikipedia users.
I look forward to hearing your response.
Thanks.
The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{ inactive}} and/or {{ historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 15:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12. I just noticed you changing a bunch of headers I've put on spammers talk pages from www.xxxx.xxx to spam.xxxx.xxx Does the blacklist deliberate allow links that start with "spam" ? Thanks -- SiobhanHansa 00:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
If you check the the goarticles.com search, you'll find more Andrew Stone linked articles at the botom.-- Hu12 00:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI, Special:Contributions/172.190.149.110's deletion several hours ago of the wackypages2005.com blacklisting request caught my attention so I checked to see what was going on. I see CollectorGuy ( talk · contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is still spamming. I will document this at WT:WPSPAM if I get time later today.
As always, thanks again for your leadership at WPSPAM -- you are the backbone of our spam defenses! -- A. B. (talk) 13:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I disagree with your assessment of Diggernet's links to ifiction.org being spam. Full comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#User:Diggernet_.2F_http:.2F.2Fspam.ifiction.org — Alan De Smet | Talk 18:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
The above article you nominated for deletion has been speedy deleted and salted by an admin. Since the AFD wasn't closed I have done a "common sense" non-admin close myself. Thanks. Camaron1 | Chris 19:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I am currently working on the ClickTime page and will have it up in a few hours, please don't delete my article. Thanks, let me know if I am doing anything wrong.— Lilellieyo ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 23:20, 14 August 2007 (UTC).
You undid edits I made to my own Talk page with no explanation why. I found this to be intrusive and rude. Since there is a built in archive of data I saw no reason not to be able to tidy up my talk page.
I think you could gain valuable experience from Sunray’s approach to wiki social protocol. Sunray has explained the archive method which I will now investigate. Please don't interfere with my talk page again unless you want to use it to talk to me or make constructive criticism.
I've start a conversation on your talk page, I'm watching it. Please leave responses on your talk page. Thanks. -- naturalhomes 19:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Your assumption is wrong. I have familiarized myself with "Wikipedia protocol" and it is apparent that you do not 'Respect other contributors' as per Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines regarding Sunray's edits in this discussion between you and Sunray, to wit:
Your behaviour, as illustrated above, and your terse attitude towards my edit of my talk page, leads me to conclude that you are more concerned with your own status than the quality of Wiki articles. I accept that I could be wrong in my analysis of the chain of events. I think you could do well to reflect on your actions.
It is my hope that I become a better editor. Naturalhomes 20:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
The addresses public info and are for the mansions of historic individuals who are no longer living. No addresses are listed for current residents. Thomas Paine1776 21:44, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Please don't put just a vote on Articles for Deletion, give a reason too. AfD is a discussion, not a vote. Ten Pound Hammer • ( Broken clamshells• Otter chirps• Review?) 22:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Could you point me to a list of Wikipedia's blacklisted domains? I'm unaware of it (which isn't surprising -- there are many, many Wikipedia pages I'm still learning about after all this time). Thanks. -- Tenebrae 04:41, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Did a bit of cleanup of the Zoomerang.com article that you had on articles for deletion. Probably still needs some work, but I'm not interested enough to do it. Crypticfirefly 05:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey there. Just noticed you closed the AFD for this; I identified in the AFD that most of the article (everything after the first line of the second paragraph) is a direct copy-and-paste from an outside site. Would you recommend that I delete all of the copied information and make a note of such on the talk page? (My suggestion in the AFD was to delete it and allow for recreation with something other than a copyvio, for the record.) Tony Fox (arf!) 05:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I know I have asked you before Hu, and I don't mean to bother you but please unprotect your talk page. Should an anon or new user want to contact you, say, asking why their nn-bio was deleted, they will currently find they can't talk to you. So please unprotect your talk page. Thanks, Prodego talk 05:53, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Hu. Understand that as an admin, I don't mean to persist, page protection is no obstacle to me. I care about this issue for all the anon users who might want to contact you. Sorry if I bothered you, and Happy editing! Prodego talk 21:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you had struck out the !votes and all the text of the accompanying comments by editors with zero or few previous edits, in the AFD for this article. I have in the past tagged many such spa !votes in AFDs. Is there anything in the AFD guidelines which allows striking out !votes and the reasons given, or did it just seem like a good idea at the moment? Sometimes new editors join Wikipedia and become productive contributors after they came here due to interest in a particular AFD. Having their vote and reasons struck out seems to be contrary to WP:BITE when adding a spa tag is sufficient to alert the closing admin, so their !vote can be discounted. At the same time, people interested in a particular topic have in fact often brought in facts and sources which inform all participants, and the striking through basically says that nothing they say may be heard or considered. I like the idea of allowing them "voice but not vote" in the AFD process, as long as their contributions are reasoned and not spam off-topic or attacks. Would you please consider undoing the strikeouts, and just leaving spa tags? Thanks. Edison 19:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Re your reversion: [7]. This is getting to be a PITA. AGENT 7 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who created this and various other unreferenced articles about Salamis places and people, got a couple of blocks for removing cleanup and unref tags. Now he appears to be acting through variety of IP sockpuppets and repeatedly doing this on all of the articles he created. I can't do the cleanup and referencing - it needs someone who can read Greek sources - but they need tagging. Can anything be done? I tried asking for semiprotection [8] but they didn't consider it bad enough a problem. Gordonofcartoon 11:06, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Nice research! That's an amazing bit of scam-artistry! We definitely need to clarify and consolidate the guidelines on this subject, I've seen quite a bit of abuse too. But your example is wild! Dreadstar † 07:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you recently reverted some changes to this article by user Skyscraper Source - see here. I agree that since the user has only edited this one page and included some "ad-speak" in their changes, it looks like a clear case of conflict of interest. However, I happen to think that some of what Skyscraper Source wrote is a valuable addition to the article. If I was to revert some of your change to add what I thought was valuable, would you then accuse me of a conflict of interest, even though I have no connection to the website? Astronaut 13:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for contacting me on my page. JoshuaZ and I were in agreement about the reversion you observed. As JoshuaZ is an administrator and maintains an interest in the case I ask you to contact him with any question you have about it. I do not use my page for such discussion, as the header announces. That is the reason I reply here on your page. Thank you for reading. Cuddlyable3 20:15, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Who do you contend has a conflict of interest? Pat1425's edits have all been reverted. Or is the creator affiliated with Zogby? THF 04:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Look like we both are deleting bollywood gate links :P. Anyways this image :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mainhoon_header_01.jpg is referring to bollywood gate. This license of that image appears to be a fake. Thank you. Hope we can work together. -- SkyWalker 11:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
This removal of My.BarackObama.com from List of social networking websites was uncalled for. The AfD discussion is ongoing with a clear consensus to keep, and de-linking the article elsewhere because you do not support its keeping seems unnecessary. Italia vivi 03:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
“ | Only place entries here that are links to actual Wikipedia articles about notable social networking sites. External links, redlinks, substubs, non-notable sites or sites that are not social networking sites will be removed.. | ” |
I'll just jump in here and say that Italiavivi did not violate 3RR on the AfD (as you suggested on the admin noticeboard). He or she posted it once and reverted 3 times. It's only after three that actions are generally taken. Mahalo. --
Ali'i 21:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching this oversight [9] on my part and fixing it. -- A. B. (talk) 19:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I acknowledge your experience, but i think that when an article asserts national awards, as does Alan Haskvitz that makes it very clearly an assertion of notability. If the awards don't seem adequate for actual notability, wouldnt prod or afd be the better way to go? (I declined the speedy) DGG ( talk) 04:20, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Dave the Slave. I do not think that Dave the Slave fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because asserts notability as his pottery is in the Smithsonian. I request that you consider not re-tagging Dave the Slave for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. You are, of course, free to tag the article with {{ prod}} or nominate it at WP:AFD . Carlossuarez46 17:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I see you're about the only admin who edits the page so I just wanted to say thanks for attending to requests so quickly. -- SiobhanHansa 01:28, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to respond to this nonsense of being labelled a spammer. How is adding a link to a site that is dedicated to the subject of ooxml to the ooxml wiki-articale spam? For people who are interesting in the criticism of ooxml this is a valuable resource. If you want to discuss NPOV or other objections then fine but to label me a spammer is lazy administration. It seems gone are the days of 'being bold' , my first impression is walk lightly and avoid the egos. Kaern 11:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)— Kaern ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 12:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC).
You had added the pettition 3 times 10:21, 29 August 2007 10:27, 29 August 2007 10:51, 29 August 2007 under the IP 84.64.233.164, prior to creating your current the account Kaern @ 10:54, 29 August 2007, which you added it a fourth time. Unfortunatly the link is not a resource about the subject. I'd suggest discussing it on the articles talkpage. thanks.-- Hu12 12:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Please do not remove redlinks for no reason, as you did on breakcore. -- intgr #%@! 08:23, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm not sure if there's something underhanded going on, but it looks as though there might be, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention. CuddlyAble3, immediately after the expiry of his latest block for disruptive and uncivil behaviour, seems to have deleted his user page while leaving his talk page up (such as it is; he continues to delete warnings and behavioural reminders). Is this kosher? It looks to me as if he's trying to conceal his behavioural problems, and the warnings he's received for them, from those who encounter his name in signed comments, etc. -- Scheinwerfermann 14:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Can you check this user page User:Helenasmith. I have no idea if this should be speedy delete or to leave as is. -- SkyWalker 15:44, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems like we have two skywalkers here in wikipedia or more. Is there anything admins can do regarding this?. People should not confuse with or vice-versa. This is user i was talking about User:Skywalker. Anyhelp would be appreciated. -- SkyWalker 22:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Why the editing of my user-page? The Rypcord. 16:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rypcord ( talk • contribs)
...or flood editor talk pages with unfounded threats, right? I'm sorry, but I don't know what else to think of it. Looking at your edit history, you have kept removing any references to the NoOOXML campaign during the past few weeks from any articles you come across, calling editors that add them "spammers", and reporting the site on spam notice boards. Which is justified provided the web site does fit that label, although any evidence of that... Quite frankly, I would be grateful to see the evidence, because I haven't seen any as of yet. But, at the same time you happen to overlook a 3RR violation happening just arm's length away. I'm not sure if you're aware of that, but the template you put on my talk page contains a link to the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest article and there's something ironic about that and the observations I made above. 80.233.255.7 16:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Please do not create articles or continue adding links to your own websites to Wikipedia. It has become apparent that your accounts and IP's are only being used for spamming inappropriate external links and for self-promotion. Wikipedia is NOT a " repository of links" or a " vehicle for advertising" and persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please see the welcome page and Wikipedia:Civility. Avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to promote noooxml.org right? -- Hu12 17:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
These pages are considered Cruft and not notable for Wikipedia? After seeing the history of Star Wars and Wookieepedia articles the deletion doesn't surprise me. The problem is CCP doesn't have an official Wiki for EVE Online and the best wiki I can find Eve-Wiki is being opposed by entrenched interests even though external wiki's of this sort are on 48 of 148 MMORPG articles and many featured gaming articles like Halo 2. Any help in resolving this matter would be appreciated. EVE Online is in the top 10 most popular MMORPG's with typically 25,000 people logged in at most times of the day. Alatari 20:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Why did you delete external links to the Smithsonian Institution archives of Amerian art in the Hans Hofmann and Burgoyne Diller articles? MdArtLover 16:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hiya Hu12, FYI a user who obviously has been following the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#http://www.aaa.si.edu has contacted me claiming that your block of User:Aaa intern has blocked the entire Smithsonian Institution from editing. I think he was trying to garner some sort of sympathy, but for the record, I have no quarrel with you--just passing along the info, in case s/he really is blocked and was simply trying to inform someone. Thanks and keep up the vandal fighting. Katr67 20:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Here is a list of all IP's reg. to Smithsonian that have edited on wikipedia, none are currently blocked.
160.111.254.11 (
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160.111.253.99 (
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Hu12 21:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. For the reasons I gave at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#linkspamming new editor??, I ventured to unblock this user. I've left a message on User talk:Aaa intern requesting that the user voluntarily refrain from adding further links to Smithsonian Institution web sites pending further discussion. I understand you are an experienced spam-fighter; I am a fairly new administrator; this is the first time I have ever unblocked a user, and I hope I have not been too forward. I believe that the user involved, while possibly having an inappropriate username, is not spamming as defined by WP:SPAM because the material added is not promotional in nature. If you elect to re-block this user, I will not interfere further. Best, -- Shirahadasha 03:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Yesterday you classified Overstock.com "spammers" as "naughty" before deleting what appeared to be a total of four instances of the link from what I understand to be Wikipedia's 1.5-million articles.
Of those four:
You're the spam expert here, so I'll defer to your judgement. But I'd love to understand how the above four links qualify as "spam" and exactly where the "naughty" is. -- The So-Called Blogger 14:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Herbythyme is the backbone of meta's spam work these days. He left me a note on my meta talk page asking whether I thought squidoo should be blacklisted on meta. I told him you knew a lot more about this one than I did -- please consider yourself invited to chip in at meta:User talk:A. B.#Squidoo req if you feel so inclined. -- A. B. (talk) 19:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Really Great for all your contributions in controlling spamming. I am here to know the reason for spamming my websites. I feel you have not even opened the website and its contents before even judging whether the website is supposed to be in the spam list or not. For example you have made the website http://www.vlsichipdesign.com as a spam website. I am 10 year experienced chip design Engineer and in the website maintains all the issues/concepts related to ASIC and VLSI and i placed this in the external links column specific to ASIC and VLSI postings only. Please do let me know the reason why did you named this as spam website. Please in future without studying what the website is targetting for please take the supervisory control and use it in a wrong note in naming it as a spam-website. I request you to remove the spam-link from my website . The website is for a good cause. If you know ASIC design/VLSI chip design and if you still feel that the website of mine as a spam please contact me. I request you to remove the spam in corresponding adsense sites. Thanks for the support. In case if this is not a right forum to discuss this please do reply me with the right place topost it(i am an amateur in Wikipedia).Praise the Lord. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.126.245.198 ( talk) 09:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
I am (slowly) trying to gather and compile an essay on the single purpose accounts that add external links, which, after removal are overruled as 'they are good and on topic links, I don't understand why this is considered spam'. Apparently these removals (and other accounts overriding the removals) give much aggravation. May I invite you to help me (re)writing the points (both in favour and against), and further compile this document? I have it here for the moment: User:Beetstra/Archivists. Thanks. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 10:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
please can you delete your comments from my page, thanks.-- Sunderland06 18:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Sorry but can you please delete your comments i will not do it again -- Sunderland06 18:53, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you please delete this page because it is spelt incorrectly, thanks -- Sunderland06 18:52, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Done Author request-- Hu12 18:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Thank you good friend -- Sunderland06 18:56, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
You have deleted the wrong page it was the Easington Community Science Collage can you reinstate the correct one which is EASINGTON COMMUNITY SCIENCE COLLEGE thanks -- Sunderland06 19:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
OK Thanks -- Sunderland06 16:11, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I declined speedy on him; he plays for a English premiership team - meets WP:BIO. Carlossuarez46 20:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
So i can remove the warning on his page, cheaz -- Sunderland06 20:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Users are free to remove warnings or anything else they want to from their talkpage. Forcing them to keep warnings on their talkpage is considered harassment. -- Carnildo 21:58, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
What is an easy way to get an award? I have made a School page updated the kazakhstan national football team and updated alot of sportman pages Can i get an award from them. -- Sunderland06 20:13, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Will editing the kazakhstan national football team help? -- Sunderland06 20:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
-- A. B. (talk) 20:46, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
FYI, Videmus Omnia and I are developing a big list:
Discussion:
I'll let you know when we've got more done. -- A. B. (talk) 20:22, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I See. Let me know...-- Hu12 15:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me if you know how to get that banner that says if youre online. -- Sunderland06 16:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Hu, WP:DTTR. That's just pouring oil on the flame. Italiavivi says those IPs aren't his/hers. If you don't believe him/her, feel free to say so - I'm long past assuming that everything s/he says is true - but using the template seems an unnecessary insult. That's a line I'm trying hard not to cross no matter how annoyed I get with him/her. -- Zsero 07:31, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Your repeatedly attributing an entire IP range from a large ISP to myself, including years-old IP addresses from random locations and edits which are clearly not mine, is harassment. These IPs are not mine, and I will seek recourse over your insistence of this unsubstantiated attribution. Italia vivi 07:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked from editing for edit warring ( [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]) on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Italiavivi. While removal of content from RFCs is generally frowned upon, there is no exception to edit warring rules to reverse it... and any prohibitions against such removals would apply equally to your own removal of the other party's comments, which initiated the dispute. -- CBD 12:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
The Mega-Spamstar of Glory | ||
Presented to Hu12 for 24X7 work getting spam out of Wikipedia and keeping it out. -- A. B. (talk) 20:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC) |
WOW...that makes my day! thanks A. B.-- Hu12 20:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Check out the Legal OnRamp page. The originator of the page, Paul Lippe, is the chief executive of the company (see here [24]). I believe this is a spammy problem that needs addressing. I also reckon The Lawyer page fails the notability criteria. What do you think? Solicitor1 14:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Please take a serious look at the above. Thanks. Smallbones 14:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
How do you source an infobox, thanks. -- Sunderland06 19:24, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Hu12, I had added some links to the Dermatology photo library Dermnet.com and I think they may have been deleted. Here is a brief overview.
Dermnet.com is an open access and free website that contains thousands of high quality images demonstrating skin diseases. It is used by many medical schools to teach students about these skin conditions and it is often used as a picture resource by various medical journals to demonstrate a particular condition. It is also very useful for the general public and readers of Wikipedia to see this information as they learn about a particular disease. I am a board certified dermatologist, an adjunct professor of dermatology at Dartmouth College and I have written many books on the subject of dermatology.
I would like to contribute to Wikipedia. Since I am new at this, I may have made a mistake. Would you please instruct me on how to add these links and other information to Wikipedia so it will not be deleted.
I will also list some citations for your review:
Medical schools and websites: University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/dermnet/index.html
National Library for Health: http://www.library.nhs.uk/skin/ViewResource.aspx?resID=67330
Medical Journals: Journal of the American American Academy of Dermatology: World Wide Web open access, educational dermatology clinical images: Volume 56, Issue 6, Pages e81-e85
Human Papillomaviruses and Genital Disease (published by Elsiver): Dermatologic Clinics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 157-165 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ThomasHabifMD ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
FYI: still spamming:
Blacklist?
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A. B.
(talk) 16:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you've removed the external link to www.complexevents.com which points to the website run by Prof. Emiritus David Luckham who authored the book "The Power of Events" amd is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of this computing paradigm. The website is a non-profit website and acts as the industries unofficial source of articles, use cases, and reference architectures. I believe it is a valid external link. Why has this link been removed? I'll wait for your response before putting it back in. Bardcom 07:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Aggregated results pages also are not allowed under WP:EL, sorry.-- Hu12 16:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps it may be relevant or worthy of mention in an article about Prof Luckham, however outside of that it does not meet the External links policy for inclusion. It has been removed.-- Hu12 13:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Bardcom 15:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. As you seem to be one of the biggest antispam editors around (by the way, thank you for the invitation you left on my talk page, sorry I never officially joined the project, though I try to do my part), I want to know what you think of that article. Seems like one long list of spam to me. The excuse for all those external links on the talk page is that those are reference links which are permitted, but I don't think they qualify, as all those one-click hosters' notability is not established by reliable secondary sources. Should something be done about this?-- Boffob 05:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, i'm Diego Massanti, owner of massanti.com, site that is actually hosting one of the very few versions of the "think different" commercial by apple, in a decent quality. Why you keep removing that link (and others of mine) ?. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diegomass ( talk • contribs) 18:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Can you give your opinion about the subject discussed on my talk page? Thanks! Stefanvaduva 11:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your one of the people that wished there to be a list of Japanese games online for Wikipedia which I tried to make for the Nintendo 64 a few months ago, but just like when they where added to the orginal List of Nintendo 64 games they are trying to delete the new page List of Japanese Nintendo 64 games here's a link Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Japanese Nintendo 64 games to the discussion, how about giving your view. ( Floppydog66 15:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC))
Hello, Could you give your opinion into my talk page 217.222.76.201?. I have a username that is blocked indefinite because containing a company name and is inappropriate. I would like to change it from "Marketing Eurotech" to "Eth mtk" because I would like to create a new article about "Eurotech Group". I don't know if you are successful in view my talk page. If you don't view this, could you warn me into this section? Thank you in advance. Kind Regards, ADF —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.8.67.146 ( talk • contribs) 12:06, 16 October 2007