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JLa: Sorry, I didn't know that about "moving" but read it yesterday. The problem was that both titles were identical, both were same form (comic strip) and both were in book collections. I felt the label (syndicated strip) would clarify, since Wood's strip was not syndicated. I did make sure to put a link to Howard's strip in the first Wood paragraph, so people could easily find. I also checked "what links here" and reworked every link to go to the Howard strip. The problem with the "history" was just something that unfortunately never occurred to me. Pepso 14:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
JLa: Your solution works nicely and looks cool. Thanks! Pepso 07:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your intervention at STOL. Paul Beardsell 00:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Gaius Cornelius 20:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
There is a dispute over whether Noahide Laws should be included in this category, anyone with an opinion is asked to express it here: Talk:Noahide_Laws#Jewish_Christian_topics
If you had looked at the discussion page you would have seen that Chesnutt is a quadriplegic, not paraplegic. Thanks, Christianjb 00:43, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. There are still some areas on WP that I'm unsure how to utlize. Can you do the redirect for me? It's still kinda all Greek to me. Thanks again. Nightscream 04:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
... sorry! I did this accidently :( hope I did not cause you any offense... Ta bu shi da yu 12:26, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the vandalism to my user page. It feels great to have it vandalized. I must be doing something right. Peyna 14:04, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
You have received this message because you have edited a Salt Lake City media article in the past. We have recently had an edit war regarding the wording and inclusion of a paragraph on the KTVX article. In hopes of resolving this I have put together an informal survey. If you are interested, please stop by Talk:KTVX and add a vote. Thanks, A 09:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank your for reverting the vandalism to my user page on Dec.10 just discovered it today after continued vandalism to it. I must be doing something right. Thank you again.-- Dakota t e 20:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
good job, and thank you. will you be finishing the page? Infinare 00:44, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching and reverting the vandalism to my user page. -- JLaTondre 03:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I just rvv an edit by 81.153.149.255 and when I checked history to make sure I saw that is was reverted by you. What vandal fighting tool are you using because your are good!-- Dakota ? e 02:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Why did you mark Pete Gross as a copyvio? I discussed the issue with the writer and he assured me that he would rewrite the article from scratch, and although there are some similarities with the content originally copyvioed, it seems to have been largely rewritten. It also now links to the source that it originally copyvioed. I don't think there's a problem here and I've re-added the content with a bit of rewriting to eliminate some similarities. Deco 01:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
For revrting vandalism to my user page. :)-- Shanel 12:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Except when the discussion might be critical of Wikipedia.
The QUOTE that President Nixon made was, "I'm not a crook" with the contraction.....and NOT "I am not...." as stated in the aticle. This can be heard at: http://www.earthstation1.com/pgs/history/dos-I'm_not_a_crook_speech.wav.html Please explain why my minor correction was reverted to an version that is NOT accurate!? I thought that accuracy was important? Perhaps you assumed that I must be wrong?? The quote can be CLEARLY heard on the sound bite....and yet you revert to an incorrent version?? Braaad 15:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining it to me.....I'm new to Wikipedia. Braaad 20:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Re this edit - you don't seem to be an admin so I assume you're using some add-on interface that gives you a "rollback" sort of function. Please don't use this to revert anything other than blatant vandalism. In particular, this edit doesn't look like vandalism to me. Sources for the deleted statements are not provided, so in some ways this seems to be a perfectly valid edit. With a manual revert, you could explain in your edit summary why you're adding the statements back (or, even better, include a source in the change itself). In any event, thanks for watching out for bad edits - it's definitely a good thing to do. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:13, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. So you quoted "Only those articles where there is no remotely plausible assertion of notability should be considered for Wikipedia:Speedy deletion." So to put Chris Davison on AFD, it's not enough that the article should just assert notability, e.g. he is important, but it should at least be remotely plausible. For the not remotely plausible stuff, you can speedy it. Which is what I said in my response. If you think the article gave at least a plausible reason for notability, we'll have to disagree on that. But the point of my comments was to explain it's not just an assertion of notability, as your quote and the rest of Wikipedia:Deletion of vanity articles makes clear. -- C S (Talk) 02:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You wrote: I randomly picked your name from editors on a chemistry article. I was going through the 0 length pages at Special:Shortpages and correcting the blanking I found. However, on the article Gas phase ion chemistry, I'm not sure what to do. An anom user blanked the article, but what was there solely consisted of "Gas phase ion chemistry is the study of gaseous ion particles". I could mark it was a dictdef, but was wondering if this should be redirected instead. Are should it be made a stub? I would appreciate your opinion or a suggestion of who else to ask. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 00:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the redirect re: Empirical Process. I just did not know what to do. What did you do? It was elegant. Thanks again. MathStatWoman 10:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I removed your {{unreferenced}} tag from this article. The contributor does have a reference for this material in his References section. He provided it in response to what appeared to be a copyright issue (see talk page). The reference section simply needs to be formatted correctly (along with the whole article). -- JLaTondre 12:14, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Was wondering why you nominated the new pages redirest page for deletion. I use it all the time and the nomination has become a major annoyance in trying to reach where I believe the page was very effective in directing me. I don't believe the nomination served Wikipedia for the better at all, as the pages served a VERY useful function and purpose - and was a logical path towards the pages on which new articles appear. Westendorf 21:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for letting me know. I'm still not au fait with all aspects of Wikipedia... Lincolnite 15:11, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for your correction and your kind advice. I will certainly consider your advice in future. 21 January 2006 Nima.nezafati
Thanks for letting me know. I wanted the pages to be deleted so that they could be initiated as new articles, but i understand the procedures. Gareth E Kegg 11:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what I was thinking when I did that. Thanks for letting me know that I did it. I must have been tired or frustrated. Lady Aleena 07:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
PS. I am a big proponent of eliminating links to redirect pages, and those include links on user pages and in user talk pages. I try to get as many as I can when I do a move or just get int he mood to check a page's redirects. If you find any more idiocies of mine regarding redirect pages, could you please not link to it in my talk page. Thanks! LA
Sorry the blanking but i will soon adding a article to HMS York in the next week. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MiniEntente ( talk • contribs)
Sorry about blanking the page, man. I meant to replace it but was in a hurry. User:Blue80
Hi JLaTondre! Yes, I've been going through the SRG SSR idée suisse redirects because some of them are totally unnecessary now, as Wikipedia searches aren't case sensitive anymore, and I seem to remember that one of them existed in duplicates as well. So I started to check which links went to which redirect and changed them to point to the article directly. The reason I I left the comments was that I planned to revisit them when the redirects were finished and then ask for deletion. Best regards. Thomas Blomberg 23:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Whew, that was quick... I hope I have not been in too much violation of Wikirules by admitting up-front the article was pilfered. I apologize for any trouble in advance. Dietwald 00:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
On 24-Jan, you blanked Sogndalen. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. In cases of creating an article under a misspelling, it's better to redirect the misspelling to the correct article. You are probably not the only one who will make that spelling mistake. I've redirected this article to Songdalen. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 01:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
I was trying to get the same result, but couldn't figure it out properly. Thanks for the helping hand. Progman3K 08:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments re Mary Davies. It appeared an obvious candidate for correction as clicking on Mary Davies took you straight to an article on the Duke of Westminster. However, I'll now go through the deletion procedures as you suggest. Cheers Nigel45 16:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to disturb you with this, but I'm a bit curious how you view this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wild levitation.
I'm still a bit new here, and I'm not quite sure I've understood the purpose of the Wikipedia yet -- TStone 21:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for giving me the information about deleting pages instead of leaving them empty! It helped me a lot. -- Berchemboy 22:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
If you went to the Extreme Makeover page and clicked on Tanya McQueen's page, it would go back to the Extreme Makeover page. It just didn't make sense. I had no idea that blanking was a bad idea. I'm sorry. va_girl2468 14:48, 5 February 2006
Greetings. I notice you edited Richard Dewdney and thought you might have a view on the AfD vote currently in progress. Best wishes Flapdragon 12:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
On 10-Feb, you blanked Pedro Joaquín Chamoro. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I've reverted it to the previous version. Redirects for spelling mistakes should usually be left in place, but if you believe this one should be deleted, please follow redirects portion of the deletion procedures. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 14:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I was responsible for putting a bunch of tags on this article in an attempt to get it cleaned up. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought the article might just be better served by being deleted.
So I AfD'd it.
Then someone came along and put a boilerplate that said 'This article has too many boilerplate tags on it'. Which I agreed with. But I didn't want to AfD an article and then blank something that'd been there before I AfD'd it. That appears improper. So I moved those tags to the talk page instead. Letting you know, just so you don't think I'm a total nitwit. - ikkyu2 ( talk) 05:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
You deleted the living people category, [3] so I rollbacked then restored the useful edits you had made. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:58, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
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Having read through your user:discussion page, i am struck by how friendly you are, relative to many editors on this website with little patience, little tolerance, and little gratitude for a) correction of their mistakes and b) new editors to the fold who could plausibly add a whole lot in the future but make mistakes at first. Thank you for being a great wikipedian! Jdcooper 16:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC) |
Thanks for the tip about redirecting! Will make "Hard" redirect in future, appreciate the assistance!
I attempted to implement a hard redirect for Gallena (should be Galena) but I don't seem to be successful at accomplishing my goal. Can you tell me what I did wrong? Thanks! (Nevermind, I think it is working great now!)
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Thanks for catching my mistake. I'd blanked it thinking that I coudl move the page, but forgot to reset it once I realized the correct move procedure.-- Zyryab 02:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Why exactly is the page on sportscaster Gayle Gardner (of ESPN and NBC fame) directing to the article on Fox Sports anyway? User:TMC1982
"On 21-Feb, you blanked Japanese Touring Car Championship. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I have redirected this article to All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. If you believe the page should be deleted, please follow the deletion procedures."
The reason I ended up blanking it was because I made a mistake of directing it in the wrong place and I do not know how to delete pages. The reason why it should be deleted if not have a new page written to it is, JTCC is different from JGTC. JTCC began in 1985 as a race for Group A for Touring cars until 1993, wheras JGTC began as a replacement for the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship at the same year for GT cars, which means JTCC only allow cars with a minimum of four seats, JTCC moved on to being a supertouring category, wheras JGTC stayed the same. So I would say it would be best to delete, as I will be writing a new article for it, when I have the time. Willirennen 11:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I am now currently writing a new article for the abovementiond page. Willirennen 13:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice on speedy tagging redirects to non-existent pages. I'll keep that in mind.-- Drat ( Talk) 05:17, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
I see completely what you mean-- jackbergin 14:30, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! You reverted my deletion - I accept that just deleting the page Derivation of the partition function was the wrong way to go.
However I still feel/know that the page has problems - I have added my concerns on the talk page after your message - Is there a way to bring an article to the attention of users? - If you know the wiki procedure for doing this please let me know. Thank you. HappyVR 17:16, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thanks, sorry about that. Crumbsucker 01:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Signing is not a requirement. It is considered "proper etiquette" and is requested, but it is NOT a requirement. Learn the difference. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marcyu ( talk • contribs) .
There was nothing on his page. I thought I'd spice it up a bit. That Crumbsucker guy is a piece of work - he's been undoing almost every single edit I've done on this site, no matter the subject. And you're defending him? And if someone were to correct my grammar, I'd actually be thankful. Policeman of the Control Freak Wikipedia Editors 20:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
My bad. I had looked at the Mar 3 log, and I didn't see the entry. I'll take a look at the link you posted. Thanks. Nobunaga24 01:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on the article
MechZ, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why MechZ is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on
Talk:MechZ. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read
our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under
Articles. You might also want to read
our general biography criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that admins should wait a while for you to assert his/her/their notability, please affix the template {{
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Since you prodded it, I thought I'd let you know that Daystar (hacker culture) is at AfD. NickelShoe 22:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you changed Mass Transit to a disambiguation page. Is that really necessary? I could be wrong, but it seems to me that 99% of people who type in "mass transit" as a search will be looking for "public transport" as opposed to a fairly obscure pro wrestling incident. I thought it was fine having it as a redirect with the "if you were looking for the wrestling incident, click here" type of thing at the top. Foxmulder 01:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Kingdom Hearts III is listed on AfD. However, this article was previously listed and you closed it as a deletion ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingdom Hearts III). The user who listed it this time linked to the old nomination so it is shown as closed on the AfD summary ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 March 25). I was wondering if you would care to look at it and see if it's speedable as reposted material? That would save having to fix the nomination... Thanks! -- JLaTondre 14:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
You might want to think about archiving this Talk page, as it is 49kb long. Regards, (aeropagitica) 18:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
re: If you knew it was misspelled, why for Pete's Sake! did you delete it instead of fixing it? This thing will never get finished if people spend all their time tearing it apart. Fra nkB
OK: Will get back to you later here. Rushed! Fra nkB 14:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Ah, yes, I told why at the talk page of fuel rod. Don't know anything about those rods, so couldn't say something about it, not even a stub. Sijo Ripa 10:22, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
The problem with Minis is that it's a plural of Mini - and Wiki doesn't usually have redirects from plurals - so that was (and is once more) inappropriate. However, the word 'minis' is also some kind of Jewish term - and is linked to from several places. I don't know how to delete articles - but I wanted to remove confusing linkages from pages referring to the Jewish word (eg Pedigree (Jewish Encyclopedia)) that now point to the article on tiny little British cars. IMHO, the redirect should be deleted - or at least turned into a disambiguation page - but I don't know how to do that - and I suspect I'd need admin privilages anyway. The page was blanked because at the time I was using a different kind of Wiki software for our corporate Wiki where I work - and not 'MediaWiki' - on that other system, deleting all of the content of a page completely deletes it...evidently that doesn't work with this Wiki because the page is still here! I didn't realise that at the time (although I learned it since). Sorry if I made a mess - it was definitely done with good intentions and was certainly not vandalism or anything! SteveBaker 17:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello JLaTondre/Archive 1, welcome to Wikipedia!
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JLa: Sorry, I didn't know that about "moving" but read it yesterday. The problem was that both titles were identical, both were same form (comic strip) and both were in book collections. I felt the label (syndicated strip) would clarify, since Wood's strip was not syndicated. I did make sure to put a link to Howard's strip in the first Wood paragraph, so people could easily find. I also checked "what links here" and reworked every link to go to the Howard strip. The problem with the "history" was just something that unfortunately never occurred to me. Pepso 14:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
JLa: Your solution works nicely and looks cool. Thanks! Pepso 07:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your intervention at STOL. Paul Beardsell 00:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Gaius Cornelius 20:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
There is a dispute over whether Noahide Laws should be included in this category, anyone with an opinion is asked to express it here: Talk:Noahide_Laws#Jewish_Christian_topics
If you had looked at the discussion page you would have seen that Chesnutt is a quadriplegic, not paraplegic. Thanks, Christianjb 00:43, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. There are still some areas on WP that I'm unsure how to utlize. Can you do the redirect for me? It's still kinda all Greek to me. Thanks again. Nightscream 04:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
... sorry! I did this accidently :( hope I did not cause you any offense... Ta bu shi da yu 12:26, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the vandalism to my user page. It feels great to have it vandalized. I must be doing something right. Peyna 14:04, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
You have received this message because you have edited a Salt Lake City media article in the past. We have recently had an edit war regarding the wording and inclusion of a paragraph on the KTVX article. In hopes of resolving this I have put together an informal survey. If you are interested, please stop by Talk:KTVX and add a vote. Thanks, A 09:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank your for reverting the vandalism to my user page on Dec.10 just discovered it today after continued vandalism to it. I must be doing something right. Thank you again.-- Dakota t e 20:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
good job, and thank you. will you be finishing the page? Infinare 00:44, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for catching and reverting the vandalism to my user page. -- JLaTondre 03:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I just rvv an edit by 81.153.149.255 and when I checked history to make sure I saw that is was reverted by you. What vandal fighting tool are you using because your are good!-- Dakota ? e 02:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Why did you mark Pete Gross as a copyvio? I discussed the issue with the writer and he assured me that he would rewrite the article from scratch, and although there are some similarities with the content originally copyvioed, it seems to have been largely rewritten. It also now links to the source that it originally copyvioed. I don't think there's a problem here and I've re-added the content with a bit of rewriting to eliminate some similarities. Deco 01:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
For revrting vandalism to my user page. :)-- Shanel 12:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Except when the discussion might be critical of Wikipedia.
The QUOTE that President Nixon made was, "I'm not a crook" with the contraction.....and NOT "I am not...." as stated in the aticle. This can be heard at: http://www.earthstation1.com/pgs/history/dos-I'm_not_a_crook_speech.wav.html Please explain why my minor correction was reverted to an version that is NOT accurate!? I thought that accuracy was important? Perhaps you assumed that I must be wrong?? The quote can be CLEARLY heard on the sound bite....and yet you revert to an incorrent version?? Braaad 15:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for explaining it to me.....I'm new to Wikipedia. Braaad 20:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Re this edit - you don't seem to be an admin so I assume you're using some add-on interface that gives you a "rollback" sort of function. Please don't use this to revert anything other than blatant vandalism. In particular, this edit doesn't look like vandalism to me. Sources for the deleted statements are not provided, so in some ways this seems to be a perfectly valid edit. With a manual revert, you could explain in your edit summary why you're adding the statements back (or, even better, include a source in the change itself). In any event, thanks for watching out for bad edits - it's definitely a good thing to do. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:13, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. So you quoted "Only those articles where there is no remotely plausible assertion of notability should be considered for Wikipedia:Speedy deletion." So to put Chris Davison on AFD, it's not enough that the article should just assert notability, e.g. he is important, but it should at least be remotely plausible. For the not remotely plausible stuff, you can speedy it. Which is what I said in my response. If you think the article gave at least a plausible reason for notability, we'll have to disagree on that. But the point of my comments was to explain it's not just an assertion of notability, as your quote and the rest of Wikipedia:Deletion of vanity articles makes clear. -- C S (Talk) 02:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You wrote: I randomly picked your name from editors on a chemistry article. I was going through the 0 length pages at Special:Shortpages and correcting the blanking I found. However, on the article Gas phase ion chemistry, I'm not sure what to do. An anom user blanked the article, but what was there solely consisted of "Gas phase ion chemistry is the study of gaseous ion particles". I could mark it was a dictdef, but was wondering if this should be redirected instead. Are should it be made a stub? I would appreciate your opinion or a suggestion of who else to ask. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 00:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the redirect re: Empirical Process. I just did not know what to do. What did you do? It was elegant. Thanks again. MathStatWoman 10:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I removed your {{unreferenced}} tag from this article. The contributor does have a reference for this material in his References section. He provided it in response to what appeared to be a copyright issue (see talk page). The reference section simply needs to be formatted correctly (along with the whole article). -- JLaTondre 12:14, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Was wondering why you nominated the new pages redirest page for deletion. I use it all the time and the nomination has become a major annoyance in trying to reach where I believe the page was very effective in directing me. I don't believe the nomination served Wikipedia for the better at all, as the pages served a VERY useful function and purpose - and was a logical path towards the pages on which new articles appear. Westendorf 21:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for letting me know. I'm still not au fait with all aspects of Wikipedia... Lincolnite 15:11, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for your correction and your kind advice. I will certainly consider your advice in future. 21 January 2006 Nima.nezafati
Thanks for letting me know. I wanted the pages to be deleted so that they could be initiated as new articles, but i understand the procedures. Gareth E Kegg 11:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what I was thinking when I did that. Thanks for letting me know that I did it. I must have been tired or frustrated. Lady Aleena 07:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
PS. I am a big proponent of eliminating links to redirect pages, and those include links on user pages and in user talk pages. I try to get as many as I can when I do a move or just get int he mood to check a page's redirects. If you find any more idiocies of mine regarding redirect pages, could you please not link to it in my talk page. Thanks! LA
Sorry the blanking but i will soon adding a article to HMS York in the next week. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MiniEntente ( talk • contribs)
Sorry about blanking the page, man. I meant to replace it but was in a hurry. User:Blue80
Hi JLaTondre! Yes, I've been going through the SRG SSR idée suisse redirects because some of them are totally unnecessary now, as Wikipedia searches aren't case sensitive anymore, and I seem to remember that one of them existed in duplicates as well. So I started to check which links went to which redirect and changed them to point to the article directly. The reason I I left the comments was that I planned to revisit them when the redirects were finished and then ask for deletion. Best regards. Thomas Blomberg 23:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Whew, that was quick... I hope I have not been in too much violation of Wikirules by admitting up-front the article was pilfered. I apologize for any trouble in advance. Dietwald 00:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
On 24-Jan, you blanked Sogndalen. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. In cases of creating an article under a misspelling, it's better to redirect the misspelling to the correct article. You are probably not the only one who will make that spelling mistake. I've redirected this article to Songdalen. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 01:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
I was trying to get the same result, but couldn't figure it out properly. Thanks for the helping hand. Progman3K 08:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments re Mary Davies. It appeared an obvious candidate for correction as clicking on Mary Davies took you straight to an article on the Duke of Westminster. However, I'll now go through the deletion procedures as you suggest. Cheers Nigel45 16:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to disturb you with this, but I'm a bit curious how you view this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wild levitation.
I'm still a bit new here, and I'm not quite sure I've understood the purpose of the Wikipedia yet -- TStone 21:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for giving me the information about deleting pages instead of leaving them empty! It helped me a lot. -- Berchemboy 22:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
If you went to the Extreme Makeover page and clicked on Tanya McQueen's page, it would go back to the Extreme Makeover page. It just didn't make sense. I had no idea that blanking was a bad idea. I'm sorry. va_girl2468 14:48, 5 February 2006
Greetings. I notice you edited Richard Dewdney and thought you might have a view on the AfD vote currently in progress. Best wishes Flapdragon 12:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
On 10-Feb, you blanked Pedro Joaquín Chamoro. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I've reverted it to the previous version. Redirects for spelling mistakes should usually be left in place, but if you believe this one should be deleted, please follow redirects portion of the deletion procedures. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 14:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I was responsible for putting a bunch of tags on this article in an attempt to get it cleaned up. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought the article might just be better served by being deleted.
So I AfD'd it.
Then someone came along and put a boilerplate that said 'This article has too many boilerplate tags on it'. Which I agreed with. But I didn't want to AfD an article and then blank something that'd been there before I AfD'd it. That appears improper. So I moved those tags to the talk page instead. Letting you know, just so you don't think I'm a total nitwit. - ikkyu2 ( talk) 05:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
You deleted the living people category, [3] so I rollbacked then restored the useful edits you had made. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:58, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor | ||
Having read through your user:discussion page, i am struck by how friendly you are, relative to many editors on this website with little patience, little tolerance, and little gratitude for a) correction of their mistakes and b) new editors to the fold who could plausibly add a whole lot in the future but make mistakes at first. Thank you for being a great wikipedian! Jdcooper 16:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC) |
Thanks for the tip about redirecting! Will make "Hard" redirect in future, appreciate the assistance!
I attempted to implement a hard redirect for Gallena (should be Galena) but I don't seem to be successful at accomplishing my goal. Can you tell me what I did wrong? Thanks! (Nevermind, I think it is working great now!)
ebacherdom
Thanks for catching my mistake. I'd blanked it thinking that I coudl move the page, but forgot to reset it once I realized the correct move procedure.-- Zyryab 02:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Why exactly is the page on sportscaster Gayle Gardner (of ESPN and NBC fame) directing to the article on Fox Sports anyway? User:TMC1982
"On 21-Feb, you blanked Japanese Touring Car Championship. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I have redirected this article to All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. If you believe the page should be deleted, please follow the deletion procedures."
The reason I ended up blanking it was because I made a mistake of directing it in the wrong place and I do not know how to delete pages. The reason why it should be deleted if not have a new page written to it is, JTCC is different from JGTC. JTCC began in 1985 as a race for Group A for Touring cars until 1993, wheras JGTC began as a replacement for the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship at the same year for GT cars, which means JTCC only allow cars with a minimum of four seats, JTCC moved on to being a supertouring category, wheras JGTC stayed the same. So I would say it would be best to delete, as I will be writing a new article for it, when I have the time. Willirennen 11:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I am now currently writing a new article for the abovementiond page. Willirennen 13:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice on speedy tagging redirects to non-existent pages. I'll keep that in mind.-- Drat ( Talk) 05:17, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
I see completely what you mean-- jackbergin 14:30, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello! You reverted my deletion - I accept that just deleting the page Derivation of the partition function was the wrong way to go.
However I still feel/know that the page has problems - I have added my concerns on the talk page after your message - Is there a way to bring an article to the attention of users? - If you know the wiki procedure for doing this please let me know. Thank you. HappyVR 17:16, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thanks, sorry about that. Crumbsucker 01:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Signing is not a requirement. It is considered "proper etiquette" and is requested, but it is NOT a requirement. Learn the difference. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marcyu ( talk • contribs) .
There was nothing on his page. I thought I'd spice it up a bit. That Crumbsucker guy is a piece of work - he's been undoing almost every single edit I've done on this site, no matter the subject. And you're defending him? And if someone were to correct my grammar, I'd actually be thankful. Policeman of the Control Freak Wikipedia Editors 20:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
My bad. I had looked at the Mar 3 log, and I didn't see the entry. I'll take a look at the link you posted. Thanks. Nobunaga24 01:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on the article
MechZ, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why MechZ is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on
Talk:MechZ. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read
our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under
Articles. You might also want to read
our general biography criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that admins should wait a while for you to assert his/her/their notability, please affix the template {{
hangon}}
to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion. It is also a very good idea to add
citations from
reliable sources in order that your article will be
verifiable.
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Since you prodded it, I thought I'd let you know that Daystar (hacker culture) is at AfD. NickelShoe 22:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you changed Mass Transit to a disambiguation page. Is that really necessary? I could be wrong, but it seems to me that 99% of people who type in "mass transit" as a search will be looking for "public transport" as opposed to a fairly obscure pro wrestling incident. I thought it was fine having it as a redirect with the "if you were looking for the wrestling incident, click here" type of thing at the top. Foxmulder 01:41, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Kingdom Hearts III is listed on AfD. However, this article was previously listed and you closed it as a deletion ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingdom Hearts III). The user who listed it this time linked to the old nomination so it is shown as closed on the AfD summary ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 March 25). I was wondering if you would care to look at it and see if it's speedable as reposted material? That would save having to fix the nomination... Thanks! -- JLaTondre 14:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
You might want to think about archiving this Talk page, as it is 49kb long. Regards, (aeropagitica) 18:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
re: If you knew it was misspelled, why for Pete's Sake! did you delete it instead of fixing it? This thing will never get finished if people spend all their time tearing it apart. Fra nkB
OK: Will get back to you later here. Rushed! Fra nkB 14:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Ah, yes, I told why at the talk page of fuel rod. Don't know anything about those rods, so couldn't say something about it, not even a stub. Sijo Ripa 10:22, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
The problem with Minis is that it's a plural of Mini - and Wiki doesn't usually have redirects from plurals - so that was (and is once more) inappropriate. However, the word 'minis' is also some kind of Jewish term - and is linked to from several places. I don't know how to delete articles - but I wanted to remove confusing linkages from pages referring to the Jewish word (eg Pedigree (Jewish Encyclopedia)) that now point to the article on tiny little British cars. IMHO, the redirect should be deleted - or at least turned into a disambiguation page - but I don't know how to do that - and I suspect I'd need admin privilages anyway. The page was blanked because at the time I was using a different kind of Wiki software for our corporate Wiki where I work - and not 'MediaWiki' - on that other system, deleting all of the content of a page completely deletes it...evidently that doesn't work with this Wiki because the page is still here! I didn't realise that at the time (although I learned it since). Sorry if I made a mess - it was definitely done with good intentions and was certainly not vandalism or anything! SteveBaker 17:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)