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dear Philosopher,
i am new to wikipedia. i am trying to create a page on Raghavendra Gadagkar.
i received your message in my talk page - user:wachak, talk page.
how do i further confirm Prof. Gadagkar's notability for wiki users? he is well known scientist from India and is on par with EO Wilson.
i appreciate your further links, guidelines.
thanking you.
Wachak ( talk) 21:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Respected Philosopher,
thank you very much for helping with wiki page on Raghavendra Gadagkar.
i am further reading the notablity help page, esp. note 11. will adding reference to his on-line articles help? he has published in Science. he is 'Foreign Associate' of 'National Academy of Sciences, USA'. i hope linking / referencing those pages will help.
i greatly appreciate your kind help.
with best regards, -wachak
Wachak ( talk) 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)wachak Wachak ( talk) 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
please consider this to be informative, many internet memes are an article on wikipedia, why can't youtube poop be an article?? i could help make it, just please consider doing this. Estemshorn ( talk) 02:50, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
I saw in the history that you approved me for using AutoWikiBrowser. Thank you :-) ~Beano~ (talk) (contribs) 02:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Shall we work together updating the house and senate info with race results? I was originally only going to do my local ones, but I figure someone needs to do it all. CTJF83 Talk 20:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
(outdent)On a slightly different issue - do you know if there is anywhere to find the results of the constitutional amendment? I know it passed but can't find the vote count. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Template deletion discussion closed as delete. Shall we go ahead with the rest of them? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
But would it really make sense to say someone's religion is: Muslim, because it is not a religion, but refers to a follower of the religion of Islam, and Protestant, a follower of the religion of Protestant Christianity. If you add Religious beliefs, it would work for both Christianity or Christian, or Islam or Muslim. (please reply on template talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.182.29 ( talk • contribs)
FYI - I reestablished the SD tag for Nishit Gupta. There is not indication of the firm listed in article in Google. In addition, the Carrier website does not list an authorized dealer for the Jammu state.
ttonyb1 ( talk) 21:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for handling that. I stumbled upon it via a link from the users requesting help category. My first thought was to blank and protect, unfortunately it brought my browser to a screeching halt (and crashed several of my programs) before I could get past protecting it... Anyway, thanks for dealing with it. l'aquatique || talk 13:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I will give rollback to any editor in good standing having ~ 500 edits. I think it is reasonable as AWB requires 500 edits too. However I usually do not demand heavy participation in vandalism fighting (see WP:AN#Review). Ruslik ( talk) 04:41, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I didn't know some of the user's were real(I checked in the history to see, and thats why I didnt think so) Thanks for the links though —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurasko ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Philosopher, thank you for your message regarding the deletion of wikipedia page for Ross Newell, the UK musician. I think this page has been unfairly deleted because Newell is fairly credited in the sleeve for music CD Read My Lips by Sophie Ellis Bextor and is therefore worthy and notable enough to have a wikipedia entry. But I am getting increasingly concerned that the user Ty (Tyrenius) is trying to block his page by suggesting Newell was not in fact a genuine musician. This is just not fair. Thank you for your help and I look forward to speaking to you more. Madeofstars, 12 December 2008 (GMT)
I suggested to the initial deleting admin Secret that relevant material should be put into Read My Lips (album), which Newell had contributed to, and Ross Newell redirected there. He was agreeable to this. [1] He also noted that it had been recreated, but was not suitable for G4, as it was not just a recreation - it had additional verified material which contributed to notability. (This material, however, had been raised in the AfD.) However, it's still not sufficient to pass WP:N. Would you be agreeable to using it as a redirect?
Madeofstars seems to have got confused, as I've not suggested deleting or blocking the article - quite the opposite, as in the preceding paragraph. In fact, I found the references that showed he had contributed to Ellis-Bextor's work. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ross Newell.
Ty 04:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments Ty which have correctly highlighted that I had completely misunderstood your part in the closure of Ross Newell's wikipedia entry. I now understand that Newell will not be allowed a page here until he has proven himself to be of more notability in his career choices. I am very sorry for any upset this has caused you, and hope you can accept my apology. Best wishes. Madeofstars 13:04, 13 December 2008 (GMT)
Thank you Philosopher for your kind help in this matter, and for doing so with such speed, this is great news. Madeofstars 13:04, 13 December 2008 (GMT)
I'm slightly surprised by your oppose vote. If I can take a little of your time, I'll explain why:
I'm sorry if this is a bit hurried or a bit unclear. Feel free to probe :)))) -- ROGER DAVIES talk 17:57, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
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No, I didn't realize that I had notified a bot, but I hadn't realized that I was notifying myself either until after the messages appeared on my talk page. DuncanHill ( talk) 05:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Philosopher, you speedily deleted my page i was working on
Heimishe Kretchme.
I clearly noted on
my talk to another user that I am in the middle of gathering resources and will be citing references soon, only to come back to learn that you deleted the page I worked on. Please restore it so I can revise it. I would love to contribute to WP, please help me enacting. (
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Hi Philosopher. I was away a few days. I think its much better now, let me know if it can be moved. User:Kretchmer/Heimishe_Kretchme Thanks Kretchmer ( talk) 06:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for involving User:Random832 in trying to solve this problem. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your edits to that article, as it was the same material as on Stella Vine and it's not in a satisfactory state as yet. It needs more work and there's no point doing two articles at the same time. Also it may need to be adapted to fit the different subject. Let's get one right first. Ty 18:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Philosopher, I need your help and advice please. I believe that user Ty is stopping me from adding relevant, referenced from valid sources, information to the pages on Stuckism and Charles Thomson (artist). Please assist me. I moved the above conversation thread for you info, to allow other editors to be aware of this, which shows I have been stopped from making edits to those page. I am still awaiting a response from Ty regarding why this is, and whether he claims ownership to this page. Madeofstars 18:56, 18 December 2008 (GMT)
This is the fourth talk page I've found Madeofstar's post on. Just for completeness I'll post what I have already on the other three:
My edit summary when I removed the text from the articles was "Let's get it right on Stella Vine first." I hope this clears things up. Ty 19:50, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
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dear Philosopher,
i am new to wikipedia. i am trying to create a page on Raghavendra Gadagkar.
i received your message in my talk page - user:wachak, talk page.
how do i further confirm Prof. Gadagkar's notability for wiki users? he is well known scientist from India and is on par with EO Wilson.
i appreciate your further links, guidelines.
thanking you.
Wachak ( talk) 21:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Respected Philosopher,
thank you very much for helping with wiki page on Raghavendra Gadagkar.
i am further reading the notablity help page, esp. note 11. will adding reference to his on-line articles help? he has published in Science. he is 'Foreign Associate' of 'National Academy of Sciences, USA'. i hope linking / referencing those pages will help.
i greatly appreciate your kind help.
with best regards, -wachak
Wachak ( talk) 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)wachak Wachak ( talk) 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
please consider this to be informative, many internet memes are an article on wikipedia, why can't youtube poop be an article?? i could help make it, just please consider doing this. Estemshorn ( talk) 02:50, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
I saw in the history that you approved me for using AutoWikiBrowser. Thank you :-) ~Beano~ (talk) (contribs) 02:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Shall we work together updating the house and senate info with race results? I was originally only going to do my local ones, but I figure someone needs to do it all. CTJF83 Talk 20:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
(outdent)On a slightly different issue - do you know if there is anywhere to find the results of the constitutional amendment? I know it passed but can't find the vote count. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Template deletion discussion closed as delete. Shall we go ahead with the rest of them? — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
But would it really make sense to say someone's religion is: Muslim, because it is not a religion, but refers to a follower of the religion of Islam, and Protestant, a follower of the religion of Protestant Christianity. If you add Religious beliefs, it would work for both Christianity or Christian, or Islam or Muslim. (please reply on template talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.182.29 ( talk • contribs)
FYI - I reestablished the SD tag for Nishit Gupta. There is not indication of the firm listed in article in Google. In addition, the Carrier website does not list an authorized dealer for the Jammu state.
ttonyb1 ( talk) 21:47, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for handling that. I stumbled upon it via a link from the users requesting help category. My first thought was to blank and protect, unfortunately it brought my browser to a screeching halt (and crashed several of my programs) before I could get past protecting it... Anyway, thanks for dealing with it. l'aquatique || talk 13:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I will give rollback to any editor in good standing having ~ 500 edits. I think it is reasonable as AWB requires 500 edits too. However I usually do not demand heavy participation in vandalism fighting (see WP:AN#Review). Ruslik ( talk) 04:41, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I didn't know some of the user's were real(I checked in the history to see, and thats why I didnt think so) Thanks for the links though —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurasko ( talk • contribs) 22:18, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Philosopher, thank you for your message regarding the deletion of wikipedia page for Ross Newell, the UK musician. I think this page has been unfairly deleted because Newell is fairly credited in the sleeve for music CD Read My Lips by Sophie Ellis Bextor and is therefore worthy and notable enough to have a wikipedia entry. But I am getting increasingly concerned that the user Ty (Tyrenius) is trying to block his page by suggesting Newell was not in fact a genuine musician. This is just not fair. Thank you for your help and I look forward to speaking to you more. Madeofstars, 12 December 2008 (GMT)
I suggested to the initial deleting admin Secret that relevant material should be put into Read My Lips (album), which Newell had contributed to, and Ross Newell redirected there. He was agreeable to this. [1] He also noted that it had been recreated, but was not suitable for G4, as it was not just a recreation - it had additional verified material which contributed to notability. (This material, however, had been raised in the AfD.) However, it's still not sufficient to pass WP:N. Would you be agreeable to using it as a redirect?
Madeofstars seems to have got confused, as I've not suggested deleting or blocking the article - quite the opposite, as in the preceding paragraph. In fact, I found the references that showed he had contributed to Ellis-Bextor's work. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ross Newell.
Ty 04:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments Ty which have correctly highlighted that I had completely misunderstood your part in the closure of Ross Newell's wikipedia entry. I now understand that Newell will not be allowed a page here until he has proven himself to be of more notability in his career choices. I am very sorry for any upset this has caused you, and hope you can accept my apology. Best wishes. Madeofstars 13:04, 13 December 2008 (GMT)
Thank you Philosopher for your kind help in this matter, and for doing so with such speed, this is great news. Madeofstars 13:04, 13 December 2008 (GMT)
I'm slightly surprised by your oppose vote. If I can take a little of your time, I'll explain why:
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Hi; I'm just been perusing recent CfD closes at WP:CFD/W, and there's a small problem with the implementation of the Category:Football logos to Category:Football (soccer) logos rename that you closed at CfD. (Nothing that is your fault, however.) Although many of the included files were moved by the bot, the bot cannot move hundreds more of these because the category is assigned to those files via a template. The only way I know of changing those is to manually change {{Non-free logo|football logos}} to {{Non-free logo|football (soccer) logos}} one each page. As I said, there are hundreds of them left, so this is looking a bit dodgy as far as being something that a closing admin should have to do. Any suggestions? Do you know of an easier way to make the changes that I'm totally oblivious to? If not, we may have to place this in the CFD manual work queue and try to solicit help with it. Thanks! Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
No, I didn't realize that I had notified a bot, but I hadn't realized that I was notifying myself either until after the messages appeared on my talk page. DuncanHill ( talk) 05:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Philosopher, you speedily deleted my page i was working on
Heimishe Kretchme.
I clearly noted on
my talk to another user that I am in the middle of gathering resources and will be citing references soon, only to come back to learn that you deleted the page I worked on. Please restore it so I can revise it. I would love to contribute to WP, please help me enacting. (
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Hi Philosopher. I was away a few days. I think its much better now, let me know if it can be moved. User:Kretchmer/Heimishe_Kretchme Thanks Kretchmer ( talk) 06:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for involving User:Random832 in trying to solve this problem. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your edits to that article, as it was the same material as on Stella Vine and it's not in a satisfactory state as yet. It needs more work and there's no point doing two articles at the same time. Also it may need to be adapted to fit the different subject. Let's get one right first. Ty 18:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi Philosopher, I need your help and advice please. I believe that user Ty is stopping me from adding relevant, referenced from valid sources, information to the pages on Stuckism and Charles Thomson (artist). Please assist me. I moved the above conversation thread for you info, to allow other editors to be aware of this, which shows I have been stopped from making edits to those page. I am still awaiting a response from Ty regarding why this is, and whether he claims ownership to this page. Madeofstars 18:56, 18 December 2008 (GMT)
This is the fourth talk page I've found Madeofstar's post on. Just for completeness I'll post what I have already on the other three:
My edit summary when I removed the text from the articles was "Let's get it right on Stella Vine first." I hope this clears things up. Ty 19:50, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hello! My name is Christian and I am a student at Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA. For one of my classes, I have been tasked with creating a Wikipedia article. One of the first pieces of advice I received was to ensure my formatting matched with the standard formats of the various WikiProjects, or else it would be quickly pulled down. For your WikiProject, what formatting requirements must be met? My subject is a living person, but someone who has been moved into Witness Protection. I'm not sure to what extent to follow the guidelines of the regular Biography section, versus the Biography of a Living Person guidelines, and I would appreciate your help. Thank you!
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"subject is a living person, but someone who has been moved into Witness Protection"I'm sorry but that makes no sense. Upon which source material will you be basing this biography? Don't you think there's an ethical question here? If the subject is living, WP:BLP applies. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) Chris Troutman ( talk) 13:32, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
@ Chris troutman: I argue this page is important for a number of reasons, but I am eager to hear counterarguments. My subject is Jorge Salcedo. Salcedo was a massively influential figure in the dismantling of the Cali Drug Cartel. There have been books written about him, and he has been portrayed on multiple television shows and documentaries, including perhaps most famously on Netflix's "Narcos". I understand why a lesser figure might not be a good subject, but one as influential in such a noteworthy historical saga as he is, especially when his importance has been emphasized by other public works previously, makes a great subject for such a site as this. There are second hand sources, such as At the Devil's Table which cover his life and his contributions. Again, this is my current perspective on this issue, and I am willing to hear others.
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