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Hey, thanks for the quick response to that deletion. I figured it would work, but for some reason I still cannot move Fenix*TX over to Fenix TX. Do you think you could take care of that for me? Cheers Nouse4aname ( talk) 15:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you lend your input to my thread here? Your knowledge of the theatrical poster copyright, or lack thereof, may have use in other regards. –– Lid( Talk) 02:34, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thanks for your support for my RfA, which closed (74/2/0) this morning. Your comment and support was very much appreciated. I'm sure I'll run into you at TfD or elsewhere. Happy‑ melon 15:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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Welcome!
Welcome to the WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter! January has seen a number of milestones being passed in the WikiProject. We've achieved our first good article, brought a portal up to featured portal status and successfully collaborated together on the first Article Improvement Drive, amongst other achievements. Let's carry on with the good work and continue bringing up the standard of all articles covered by the WikiProject! |
Articles and Assessment
We hit a milestone in January with our first GA-class article, Speed Monster! This shows just how easy it is improve articles by including references and increasing readability. Collaboration has got off to a good start, with the first chosen article, Arrow Dynamics, improving enough to reach B-class. The following articles reached GA-class or B-class quality during January: |
Amusement Parks Portal
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Membership News
During January the WikiProject was joined by 6 new members, bringing the total number up to 55. A very warm welcome to
Etf,
CPGACoast,
RickMarkestein,
Emackert,
Onewayroad2home and
Suttna08. The
to do list continues to serve as a place for flagging up articles in need of attention, review or comments.
A discussion is taking place regarding the best way to organise information about roller coaster records and the history of roller coasters. All members' opinions are welcomed; the discussion can be found
here.
|
Article Improvement Drive
This month's Article Improvement Drive:
Roller coaster
Why not start at the top?! The main article is already at B class and, with a little help, isn't too far away from GA class. Please see the collaboration page for further information. Any suggestions for March's Article Improvement Drive can be brought up on the talk page, so if there's a particular article you feel could benefit from more input then feel free to suggest it. |
...and finally... Once again, thanks for reading! As always suggestions and offers of help are much appreciated. |
Seaserpent85 20:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Because I have tauro fæco phobia and long history of dealing with -phob- issues, which gives me a certain amount of boldness. Please read -phob-#Phobia lists, before any further questions. YOu may also have some fun reading Talk:-phob-, at least a couple of the topmost sections. `' Míkka >t 00:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi
As a regular user who eits rather infrequently,I shoudl very much like your guidance.I am not sure what the policy for living notables is-I thought inclusion in International Who's Who which is present in my Univeristy(JNU,Delhi) library and according to the Times is the most authoratative indicator of living notables was suffiecient but appparently not.
Regards
( Delhite ( talk) 06:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC))
Thanks for your guidance.But are sure
International Who's Who does fall into that category?Swift googling lead to over 150,000 hits and this is in its 71st edition.In fact I was identfying the entrants from India there who do not have article to create over 100 stubs.Regards(
Delhite (
talk)
05:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC))
I feel the deletion nominations should be suspended, and automatically restored/re-added if the arbcom eventually does not decide otherwise. Closing doesn't seem right. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:34, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
You removed the speedy deletion tag from this page for copyright violations. The page is an uncited, almost word-for-word, cut-&-paste job from this copyrighted page. What's the basis for your disagreement? Cloonmore ( talk) 20:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
-- BorgQueen ( talk) 16:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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I'm guessing that the mass troll warning removals reflect a recent policy change? If so, is there a substitute for them that would serve the same purpose (some sort of template that would give editors pause before making antagonistic remarks)? -- Pgagnon999 ( talk) 01:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
There are two Anon. IP users whom keep removing the external link to Pointbuzz.com from the Cedar Point article. I'm not sure where to report the issue as it seems to fall into the gray area between 3RR and vandalism. I almost posted a report to 3RR yesterday but then decided against it. I know you are an admin so I am asking for your help. Thank you! -- Coaster1983 ( talk) 22:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of the injunction regarding the arbcom case about fictional characters until now.
I had some character articles that I wanted to have created (originally they were redirects to List of Death Note characters) - I am an administrator, but do I need to get permission from the Arbcom to create the new articles? The article names had been redirected before but I found a new source documenting character creation. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:41, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I found out about the injunction after User:TTN reverted the new articles I created and told me that, as per the injunction, I should not create the articles. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
As it's being discussed at WT:RFA, just thought I'd ask... Interested? - jc37 04:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Nicely done. You may have managed to steer a course between the two opposing viewpoints. Could I ask you whether that closure covered Wikipedia talk:Bots/BetaCommandBot and NFCC 10 c? That was the talk page of the page you courtesy blanked, and it is currently a redirect to the WP:AN/B talk page ( Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand). Carcharoth ( talk) 03:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that at the start of the year you edited my page and changed something about being friends with Graham87, nothing seems to have changed but i just want to ask why did you pick my page in particular? I know you have made a ton of edits and unless your friends with Graham i dont see why you would come to my page. Its not as if i have done anything special, not as if i have vandalised, why my page in particular, i am interested how it came about that you looked at my page. Its not as if im angry, i appreciate it but im sort of just 'another' normal user on wikipedia. Nothing special about me. I do what i can and thats about it. Roadrunnerz45 ( talk) 12:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to mention that that was an excellent closure. I had considered closing that one myself, but changed my mind as I was writing the rationale. (And ended up closing a different DRV discussion.) I'm glad I changed my mind. You covered everything I was going to, and then some.
Anyway, I just thought with all the negativity that I'm sure you (as an XfD discussion closer) receive, you could do with some positivity : ) - jc37 02:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
its ok, I have captured the censorship on a new page that you cannot control. http://www.songwave.com/articles/abongo-obama.htm and since wikipedia doesn't have an article on him, looks like that #1 spot in Google for the search term "Abongo Obama" is just waiting to be mine. Give it a few weeks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.108.5 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for suggesting that I apply for adminship. I really appreciate it. I would like to help out at CAT:CSD and AfD, and maybe AIV as well. However, I have only been doing recent changes and new articles patrol for about a month, so I do not think that I have enough experience with regards to speedy deletion and vandalism at the moment. I also have a long to-do list of articles I have wanted to work on for quite some time. If I became an admin I would probably delay working on those articles again, and if my RfA failed I would probably sulk, throw my laptop out the window and not work on the articles anyway :-) I think I might be ready to apply sometime in May, if that would be OK? Thanks again! Bláthnaid 13:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I've added several references and statements that are supported by the newspaper articles. I think it's a fairly decent stub at least. Feedback welcome! Renee ( talk) 03:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I asked about your justification that the {{ afd}} was a "procedural nomination from DRV". Geo Swan ( talk) 06:26, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that, you pretty much nailed down the issue. Not easy to wade into such a mess, but your close was very well-explained, and, in my view, entirely correct. < eleland/ talk edits> 14:32, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
My guess is that it was added to our in house report because articles within our scope use it, therefore if it gets deleted we would have to come up with a solution to the problem of what to do. As I said, thats a guess, but it seems logical. TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
You commented in your closure of the DRV that for 10a, the copyright holder and the source must be known. Not bringing the source of the image into it, wouldn't 4chan's anonymous nature make it impossible to identify the copyright holder? Will ( talk) 15:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I apologize for not having notified you of the case at WP:ANI#Image:AnonymousDemotivator.jpg. I have left a comment to that effect at the said thread. Ayla ( talk) 11:05, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on The Truth (Cherish album), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
hangon}}
to the top of
the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on
the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
Kesh (
talk)
21:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Another nice close! I was wondering, since there was little response at the DRV (I arrived too late) what the verdict is on material about Encyclopedia Dramatica being placed inside other articles (obviously only where relevant and sourced). There is a grey area where topics not notable enough for their own articles do still get mentioned in other articles. How best to proceed here? I'm thinking in particular if it ever rises to the level of a complete section in another article, then the possibility arises of a redirect being recreated to point to that section. What then? Carcharoth ( talk) 12:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
IronG, in closing Image:AnonymousDemotivator.jpg's DRV as "no consensus to overturn" is this no consensus to overturn the speedy deletion, thus this needs to be deleted, or no consensus to overturn the reversal of the speedy deletion? FWIW, as the speedy deleter I do not contest the speedy deletion reversal. — xaosflux Talk 22:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Perhaps I missed something. What does removal of section headings in this edit have to do with "archiving"? Thanks! — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 08:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi IronGargoyle! Thank-you for your
support in my RfA (91/1/1).
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As per your request I've made a new draft of this article on my user page. Can you take a look at it and let me know what I need to do to have it undeleted? Sayitaintjoe ( talk) 21:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Can you give me your opinion on the following templates and let me know if I'm correct in thinking they don't belong in the template namespace?
Thanks, xenocidic ( talk) 20:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
He doesn't seem to understand the proper use of the Template namespace. Perhaps you could explain it better?
Cheers, xenocidic ( talk) 21:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I recently came in contact with a newcomer who asked me a question about images on her talk page. Evidently she held the copyright to an origonal work of art that was deleted, while a photograph of herself has remained. she is wondering why, and honastly I have no experience with images. I am hoping you will be willing to work with her, she seems interested in woking on wikipedia images (she joined one group that does that). her user page is the Hitochi Princess ( talk). I hope you can help her, she has already had a major crash cource in wiki policy and polotics (she wrote an autobiographical page...which had the expected results, but during the review she did everything she could to bring the page up to par...I like perseverance). You are the second person who I brought it to (namely because we have never actually made contact) and Will wasn't able to help. Coffeepusher ( talk) 19:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Fair close. I think you could tell that it was merely a procedural nom on my part. I'm also impressed that you saw through the confusing miasm that these things can be sometimes : ) - jc37 20:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am a pretty new Wiki user and I am editing the page Leigh Delamere services and I wondered if you knew how to make images smaller. Please help, I would really appreciate it as my adopter has ignored me when I ask him for help. Thanks a lot. Please reply on MY talk page. Georgereev118118 ( talk) 15:18, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thank you SO much Mr. Gargoyle. Great person. Wiki admins should be more like you. Georgereev118118 ( talk) 15:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
I accept you are very busy so I won't worry if you say no, but would you be able to adopt me. You are quick and solved the problem without moaning like my current adopter would. Get back to me. Georgereev118118 ( talk) 15:26, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Your bot has just switched " Image:From the Front Row ... Live! (April Wine album cover).png" from {{Non-free DVD cover}} to {{Non-free video cover}} in error. This particular image depicts an " Audio-DVD product", which contains absolutely no motion-picture video whatsoever. WikHead ( talk) 16:31, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Just wondering if you could elaborate on your close of this discussion? I was hoping we'd get a thorough decision here, regardless of what the decision was. -- Kesh ( talk) 20:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Looks like this guy wont stop. Dont give up trying to get rid of this fool. Roadrunnerz45 ( talk) 14:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Georgereev118118 (
talk) has given you a WikiCake! WikiCakes promote
WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!
Spread the tastiness of cakes by adding {{ subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
The picture of Wildfire you have set displays none of the famous track lay-out. We need a picture of the train circling a loop or somthing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnywalterboy ( talk • contribs) 02:22, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello IronGargoyle. I have a task for GargoyleBot: the template linked in the header is widely used, but has been discussed on templates for deletion, and consensus has been reached to have it deleted. Due to the wide usage of the template, manual orphaning in preparation for deletion is not an option at the moment; I suspect we'll be here for some weeks before the template is completely orphaned, if bot assistance is not sought.
The relevant discussion which resulted in the delete consensus is at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 April 10 (see: this section). The template is, per procedure, listed at the tfd holding cell. Will it be possible to have gBot set on this? Anthøny 13:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I cannot begin to express how unfortunate I find this conclusion to be. The definition of what is "free content" is shrinking daily, and I am beginning to wonder how Wikipedia will be able to offer a free encyclopedia if it continually brands "non free" on such an incomprehensible amount of media.
I do not possess the original image, nor do I know its source information, so I cannot in good faith re-upload it as a fair-use image. That said, I do not intend to, as I believe in the mission of the project in providing free content. I am simply beginning to fear that, with the current copyright hysteria gripping the project, there will eventually be no free content to offer. MalikCarr ( talk) 22:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
You recently closed the TfDs for these templates with a "no consensus" conclusion. However, the only dissenting opinions raised were for the templates to be completely rewritten for another purpose, which isn't really a practical reason to keep the things around. As there are no articles using either template and in their current form they're strictly subsets of {{ wikia}} (and thus could technically be speedied under CSD#3 for templates), could this decision be changed? If not, do you mind me tagging them for speedy deletion per the above criterion? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Could you please restore Template talk:Temporary userpage, as it had some discussion on it that I'd like to keep. -- Ned Scott 20:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
-- Olaf Davis | Talk 09:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello! You closed the Time and Fate Deities one as endorsing the deletion; however, after looking again at the accounts who participated in the discussion, omething I just noticed is that two IPs who argued to delete in the AfD have now been blocked as socks (see their user pages [1] and [2] and you can also check their block logs to see the blocks). Could perhaps the discussion be relisted with the IPs' comments struck or something? Sincerely, -- Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles Tally-ho! 16:04, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
What was in this template before you deleted it? What was it's successor? Simply south ( talk) 22:57, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
-- Bedford Pray 23:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
That I am the current supervisor of the Flying Super Saturator? RyanGerbil10 (Kick 'em in the Dishpan!) 23:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to say I appreciated your support to restore my article. I'm glad some took up for the article even if it has to be merged —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nightstanger ( talk • contribs)
Thank you, IronGargoyle, for your support !vote at my RFA. I will be doing my best to make sure that your confidence has not been misplaced. -- lifebaka ( Talk - Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
In your closure of the DRV for Jason Naidovski at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 June 26, you didn't comment on the only two remaining issues. One that the AFD had been inappropriately bulked with 3 other AFDs violating the guidelines for bundling in WP:AFD and secondly that the closing Admin didn't provide any explanation to how the decision was reached as recommended in WP:GD#Closure. Can you please do so? Thanks Nfitz ( talk) 04:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for restoring the Bearforce 1 page... I don't actually understand why people insist that just because the person who creates a band site doesn't have a million sources, it should be deleted, rather than wait for someone else who's already disenchanted with wikipedia somewhat because of speedy deletion to edit the article... This process really IS painful :( That being said (and I ask only because you seem like a nice person on here who knows what's going on - and you have a lot of thank yous here :), do you know what was different about another band site I created recently, Swivel, kept speedy-deleted under Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 June 24? Though if it's too much trouble, that's fine, was just hoping you could help me get more familiar with what's actually going on here - it's not clear from all the reading I've found how people make their decisions.... Luminifer ( talk) 14:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello IronGargoyle. I see that you are the closing administrator for 2 of the 3 deletion review discussions that were opened on June 28. There is one more discussion on an article "Gabriel Murphy" which has now been opened for discussion for 6 days now. A concensus has been reached to move to mainspace the userfied article "Gabriel Murphy" located currently at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LakeBoater/Gabriel_Murphy.
You can read the deletion review discussion for this article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_June_28
If you do not mind, when time allows, could you please implement the concensus to mainspace this article and close the discussion? Thanks much! LakeBoater ( talk) 17:01, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks for the quick response to that deletion. I figured it would work, but for some reason I still cannot move Fenix*TX over to Fenix TX. Do you think you could take care of that for me? Cheers Nouse4aname ( talk) 15:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you lend your input to my thread here? Your knowledge of the theatrical poster copyright, or lack thereof, may have use in other regards. –– Lid( Talk) 02:34, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thanks for your support for my RfA, which closed (74/2/0) this morning. Your comment and support was very much appreciated. I'm sure I'll run into you at TfD or elsewhere. Happy‑ melon 15:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
The Roller Coaster WikiProject Newsletter |
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WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter
Issue III - February 2008 Got any suggestions? - Add them here |
Welcome!
Welcome to the WikiProject Roller Coasters Newsletter! January has seen a number of milestones being passed in the WikiProject. We've achieved our first good article, brought a portal up to featured portal status and successfully collaborated together on the first Article Improvement Drive, amongst other achievements. Let's carry on with the good work and continue bringing up the standard of all articles covered by the WikiProject! |
Articles and Assessment
We hit a milestone in January with our first GA-class article, Speed Monster! This shows just how easy it is improve articles by including references and increasing readability. Collaboration has got off to a good start, with the first chosen article, Arrow Dynamics, improving enough to reach B-class. The following articles reached GA-class or B-class quality during January: |
Amusement Parks Portal
|
Membership News
During January the WikiProject was joined by 6 new members, bringing the total number up to 55. A very warm welcome to
Etf,
CPGACoast,
RickMarkestein,
Emackert,
Onewayroad2home and
Suttna08. The
to do list continues to serve as a place for flagging up articles in need of attention, review or comments.
A discussion is taking place regarding the best way to organise information about roller coaster records and the history of roller coasters. All members' opinions are welcomed; the discussion can be found
here.
|
Article Improvement Drive
This month's Article Improvement Drive:
Roller coaster
Why not start at the top?! The main article is already at B class and, with a little help, isn't too far away from GA class. Please see the collaboration page for further information. Any suggestions for March's Article Improvement Drive can be brought up on the talk page, so if there's a particular article you feel could benefit from more input then feel free to suggest it. |
...and finally... Once again, thanks for reading! As always suggestions and offers of help are much appreciated. |
Seaserpent85 20:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Because I have tauro fæco phobia and long history of dealing with -phob- issues, which gives me a certain amount of boldness. Please read -phob-#Phobia lists, before any further questions. YOu may also have some fun reading Talk:-phob-, at least a couple of the topmost sections. `' Míkka >t 00:07, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi
As a regular user who eits rather infrequently,I shoudl very much like your guidance.I am not sure what the policy for living notables is-I thought inclusion in International Who's Who which is present in my Univeristy(JNU,Delhi) library and according to the Times is the most authoratative indicator of living notables was suffiecient but appparently not.
Regards
( Delhite ( talk) 06:29, 2 February 2008 (UTC))
Thanks for your guidance.But are sure
International Who's Who does fall into that category?Swift googling lead to over 150,000 hits and this is in its 71st edition.In fact I was identfying the entrants from India there who do not have article to create over 100 stubs.Regards(
Delhite (
talk)
05:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC))
I feel the deletion nominations should be suspended, and automatically restored/re-added if the arbcom eventually does not decide otherwise. Closing doesn't seem right. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:34, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
You removed the speedy deletion tag from this page for copyright violations. The page is an uncited, almost word-for-word, cut-&-paste job from this copyrighted page. What's the basis for your disagreement? Cloonmore ( talk) 20:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
-- BorgQueen ( talk) 16:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:FunSpotPark.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. BetacommandBot ( talk) 21:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
Image:OldManWillow1.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, it is currently
orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed.
You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot ( talk) 19:45, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
Image:Db tom b-garland-hb1.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, it is currently
orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed.
You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see
our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot ( talk) 03:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm guessing that the mass troll warning removals reflect a recent policy change? If so, is there a substitute for them that would serve the same purpose (some sort of template that would give editors pause before making antagonistic remarks)? -- Pgagnon999 ( talk) 01:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
There are two Anon. IP users whom keep removing the external link to Pointbuzz.com from the Cedar Point article. I'm not sure where to report the issue as it seems to fall into the gray area between 3RR and vandalism. I almost posted a report to 3RR yesterday but then decided against it. I know you are an admin so I am asking for your help. Thank you! -- Coaster1983 ( talk) 22:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of the injunction regarding the arbcom case about fictional characters until now.
I had some character articles that I wanted to have created (originally they were redirects to List of Death Note characters) - I am an administrator, but do I need to get permission from the Arbcom to create the new articles? The article names had been redirected before but I found a new source documenting character creation. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:41, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I found out about the injunction after User:TTN reverted the new articles I created and told me that, as per the injunction, I should not create the articles. WhisperToMe ( talk) 21:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
As it's being discussed at WT:RFA, just thought I'd ask... Interested? - jc37 04:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Nicely done. You may have managed to steer a course between the two opposing viewpoints. Could I ask you whether that closure covered Wikipedia talk:Bots/BetaCommandBot and NFCC 10 c? That was the talk page of the page you courtesy blanked, and it is currently a redirect to the WP:AN/B talk page ( Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Betacommand). Carcharoth ( talk) 03:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that at the start of the year you edited my page and changed something about being friends with Graham87, nothing seems to have changed but i just want to ask why did you pick my page in particular? I know you have made a ton of edits and unless your friends with Graham i dont see why you would come to my page. Its not as if i have done anything special, not as if i have vandalised, why my page in particular, i am interested how it came about that you looked at my page. Its not as if im angry, i appreciate it but im sort of just 'another' normal user on wikipedia. Nothing special about me. I do what i can and thats about it. Roadrunnerz45 ( talk) 12:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to mention that that was an excellent closure. I had considered closing that one myself, but changed my mind as I was writing the rationale. (And ended up closing a different DRV discussion.) I'm glad I changed my mind. You covered everything I was going to, and then some.
Anyway, I just thought with all the negativity that I'm sure you (as an XfD discussion closer) receive, you could do with some positivity : ) - jc37 02:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
its ok, I have captured the censorship on a new page that you cannot control. http://www.songwave.com/articles/abongo-obama.htm and since wikipedia doesn't have an article on him, looks like that #1 spot in Google for the search term "Abongo Obama" is just waiting to be mine. Give it a few weeks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.108.5 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks for suggesting that I apply for adminship. I really appreciate it. I would like to help out at CAT:CSD and AfD, and maybe AIV as well. However, I have only been doing recent changes and new articles patrol for about a month, so I do not think that I have enough experience with regards to speedy deletion and vandalism at the moment. I also have a long to-do list of articles I have wanted to work on for quite some time. If I became an admin I would probably delay working on those articles again, and if my RfA failed I would probably sulk, throw my laptop out the window and not work on the articles anyway :-) I think I might be ready to apply sometime in May, if that would be OK? Thanks again! Bláthnaid 13:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I've added several references and statements that are supported by the newspaper articles. I think it's a fairly decent stub at least. Feedback welcome! Renee ( talk) 03:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
I asked about your justification that the {{ afd}} was a "procedural nomination from DRV". Geo Swan ( talk) 06:26, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that, you pretty much nailed down the issue. Not easy to wade into such a mess, but your close was very well-explained, and, in my view, entirely correct. < eleland/ talk edits> 14:32, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
My guess is that it was added to our in house report because articles within our scope use it, therefore if it gets deleted we would have to come up with a solution to the problem of what to do. As I said, thats a guess, but it seems logical. TomStar81 ( Talk) 04:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
You commented in your closure of the DRV that for 10a, the copyright holder and the source must be known. Not bringing the source of the image into it, wouldn't 4chan's anonymous nature make it impossible to identify the copyright holder? Will ( talk) 15:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I apologize for not having notified you of the case at WP:ANI#Image:AnonymousDemotivator.jpg. I have left a comment to that effect at the said thread. Ayla ( talk) 11:05, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on The Truth (Cherish album), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{
hangon}}
to the top of
the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on
the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
Kesh (
talk)
21:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Another nice close! I was wondering, since there was little response at the DRV (I arrived too late) what the verdict is on material about Encyclopedia Dramatica being placed inside other articles (obviously only where relevant and sourced). There is a grey area where topics not notable enough for their own articles do still get mentioned in other articles. How best to proceed here? I'm thinking in particular if it ever rises to the level of a complete section in another article, then the possibility arises of a redirect being recreated to point to that section. What then? Carcharoth ( talk) 12:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
IronG, in closing Image:AnonymousDemotivator.jpg's DRV as "no consensus to overturn" is this no consensus to overturn the speedy deletion, thus this needs to be deleted, or no consensus to overturn the reversal of the speedy deletion? FWIW, as the speedy deleter I do not contest the speedy deletion reversal. — xaosflux Talk 22:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Perhaps I missed something. What does removal of section headings in this edit have to do with "archiving"? Thanks! — Jeff G. ( talk| contribs) 08:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi IronGargoyle! Thank-you for your
support in my RfA (91/1/1).
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As per your request I've made a new draft of this article on my user page. Can you take a look at it and let me know what I need to do to have it undeleted? Sayitaintjoe ( talk) 21:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Can you give me your opinion on the following templates and let me know if I'm correct in thinking they don't belong in the template namespace?
Thanks, xenocidic ( talk) 20:52, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
He doesn't seem to understand the proper use of the Template namespace. Perhaps you could explain it better?
Cheers, xenocidic ( talk) 21:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I recently came in contact with a newcomer who asked me a question about images on her talk page. Evidently she held the copyright to an origonal work of art that was deleted, while a photograph of herself has remained. she is wondering why, and honastly I have no experience with images. I am hoping you will be willing to work with her, she seems interested in woking on wikipedia images (she joined one group that does that). her user page is the Hitochi Princess ( talk). I hope you can help her, she has already had a major crash cource in wiki policy and polotics (she wrote an autobiographical page...which had the expected results, but during the review she did everything she could to bring the page up to par...I like perseverance). You are the second person who I brought it to (namely because we have never actually made contact) and Will wasn't able to help. Coffeepusher ( talk) 19:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Fair close. I think you could tell that it was merely a procedural nom on my part. I'm also impressed that you saw through the confusing miasm that these things can be sometimes : ) - jc37 20:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am a pretty new Wiki user and I am editing the page Leigh Delamere services and I wondered if you knew how to make images smaller. Please help, I would really appreciate it as my adopter has ignored me when I ask him for help. Thanks a lot. Please reply on MY talk page. Georgereev118118 ( talk) 15:18, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thank you SO much Mr. Gargoyle. Great person. Wiki admins should be more like you. Georgereev118118 ( talk) 15:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
I accept you are very busy so I won't worry if you say no, but would you be able to adopt me. You are quick and solved the problem without moaning like my current adopter would. Get back to me. Georgereev118118 ( talk) 15:26, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Your bot has just switched " Image:From the Front Row ... Live! (April Wine album cover).png" from {{Non-free DVD cover}} to {{Non-free video cover}} in error. This particular image depicts an " Audio-DVD product", which contains absolutely no motion-picture video whatsoever. WikHead ( talk) 16:31, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Just wondering if you could elaborate on your close of this discussion? I was hoping we'd get a thorough decision here, regardless of what the decision was. -- Kesh ( talk) 20:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Looks like this guy wont stop. Dont give up trying to get rid of this fool. Roadrunnerz45 ( talk) 14:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Georgereev118118 (
talk) has given you a WikiCake! WikiCakes promote
WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!
Spread the tastiness of cakes by adding {{ subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
The picture of Wildfire you have set displays none of the famous track lay-out. We need a picture of the train circling a loop or somthing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnywalterboy ( talk • contribs) 02:22, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello IronGargoyle. I have a task for GargoyleBot: the template linked in the header is widely used, but has been discussed on templates for deletion, and consensus has been reached to have it deleted. Due to the wide usage of the template, manual orphaning in preparation for deletion is not an option at the moment; I suspect we'll be here for some weeks before the template is completely orphaned, if bot assistance is not sought.
The relevant discussion which resulted in the delete consensus is at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 April 10 (see: this section). The template is, per procedure, listed at the tfd holding cell. Will it be possible to have gBot set on this? Anthøny 13:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I cannot begin to express how unfortunate I find this conclusion to be. The definition of what is "free content" is shrinking daily, and I am beginning to wonder how Wikipedia will be able to offer a free encyclopedia if it continually brands "non free" on such an incomprehensible amount of media.
I do not possess the original image, nor do I know its source information, so I cannot in good faith re-upload it as a fair-use image. That said, I do not intend to, as I believe in the mission of the project in providing free content. I am simply beginning to fear that, with the current copyright hysteria gripping the project, there will eventually be no free content to offer. MalikCarr ( talk) 22:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
You recently closed the TfDs for these templates with a "no consensus" conclusion. However, the only dissenting opinions raised were for the templates to be completely rewritten for another purpose, which isn't really a practical reason to keep the things around. As there are no articles using either template and in their current form they're strictly subsets of {{ wikia}} (and thus could technically be speedied under CSD#3 for templates), could this decision be changed? If not, do you mind me tagging them for speedy deletion per the above criterion? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Could you please restore Template talk:Temporary userpage, as it had some discussion on it that I'd like to keep. -- Ned Scott 20:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
-- Olaf Davis | Talk 09:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello! You closed the Time and Fate Deities one as endorsing the deletion; however, after looking again at the accounts who participated in the discussion, omething I just noticed is that two IPs who argued to delete in the AfD have now been blocked as socks (see their user pages [1] and [2] and you can also check their block logs to see the blocks). Could perhaps the discussion be relisted with the IPs' comments struck or something? Sincerely, -- Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles Tally-ho! 16:04, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
What was in this template before you deleted it? What was it's successor? Simply south ( talk) 22:57, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
-- Bedford Pray 23:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
That I am the current supervisor of the Flying Super Saturator? RyanGerbil10 (Kick 'em in the Dishpan!) 23:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to say I appreciated your support to restore my article. I'm glad some took up for the article even if it has to be merged —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nightstanger ( talk • contribs)
Thank you, IronGargoyle, for your support !vote at my RFA. I will be doing my best to make sure that your confidence has not been misplaced. -- lifebaka ( Talk - Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
In your closure of the DRV for Jason Naidovski at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 June 26, you didn't comment on the only two remaining issues. One that the AFD had been inappropriately bulked with 3 other AFDs violating the guidelines for bundling in WP:AFD and secondly that the closing Admin didn't provide any explanation to how the decision was reached as recommended in WP:GD#Closure. Can you please do so? Thanks Nfitz ( talk) 04:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for restoring the Bearforce 1 page... I don't actually understand why people insist that just because the person who creates a band site doesn't have a million sources, it should be deleted, rather than wait for someone else who's already disenchanted with wikipedia somewhat because of speedy deletion to edit the article... This process really IS painful :( That being said (and I ask only because you seem like a nice person on here who knows what's going on - and you have a lot of thank yous here :), do you know what was different about another band site I created recently, Swivel, kept speedy-deleted under Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 June 24? Though if it's too much trouble, that's fine, was just hoping you could help me get more familiar with what's actually going on here - it's not clear from all the reading I've found how people make their decisions.... Luminifer ( talk) 14:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello IronGargoyle. I see that you are the closing administrator for 2 of the 3 deletion review discussions that were opened on June 28. There is one more discussion on an article "Gabriel Murphy" which has now been opened for discussion for 6 days now. A concensus has been reached to move to mainspace the userfied article "Gabriel Murphy" located currently at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LakeBoater/Gabriel_Murphy.
You can read the deletion review discussion for this article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_June_28
If you do not mind, when time allows, could you please implement the concensus to mainspace this article and close the discussion? Thanks much! LakeBoater ( talk) 17:01, 4 July 2008 (UTC)