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hello i see one of my friends has put up a wikipedia article about scrottball
i also see that you deleted the page for certain reasons. I know his story was vulgar and that lots of stuff was fabricated but scrottball is a real sport that we invented a while ago and now we have a large community of people that know of/play scrottball. I am asking that if we put up a legitimate scrottball page with rules styles etc that you do not take it down because it would be really cool if the world can learn about and perhaps play our sport —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.153.10.133 ( talk) 06:09, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello! You deleted the entry I created - "11:12, 12 May 2009 SoWhy (talk | contribs) deleted "Youth and environment europe" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)" and I wanted ask why? There are many similar entries on Wikipedia about similar organisations or federations, like "European Environmental Bureau" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Environmental_Bureau, European youth forum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Youth_Forum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_Rescue_Network and more and they aren't considered as promotion or advertising, so why was my entry considered one? Thank you,
Venusnoire ( talk) 12:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC) venusnoire
Could you please explain why you deleted the article about Paul Holden? Yes, I know you listed WP:A7. But Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Politicians lists professions which should be considered notable, and should be exempted from discussions over whether they are notable. It explicitly exempts:
"People who have held international, national or first-level sub-national political office, including members of a legislature and judges."
Holden is one of the judges on the United States Court of Military Commission Review.
Note, the article on one of his colleagues, Amy Bechtold, was nominated for deletion.
Could you please direct my attention to the place where the deletion of the Holden article was discussed? Geo Swan ( talk) 02:41, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
{{Infobox Person | name=Paul Holden | age=16 | birth_place=Chelmsford | education= [http://www.moulshamhigh.essex.sch.uk/ Moulsham Humanities College] 2003 - 2010 | work=[http://www.farmfoods.co.uk/ Farm Foods] | a levels= Religous Studies, Information Technology, Biology, Geography }}
An editor has asked for a deletion review of TV Tropes. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. I initially posted on the admin who closed the deletion discussion, but since you show up in the deletion log I thought I should inform you as well. Thank you. Sgore ( talk) 11:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I decided to keep improving the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides after getting a block over how I wanted it. Keeping it there unfinished I thought was taking unnecessary space up as well, hence wanting it deleted. Anyway, is it possible you or someone else can move the edit history from the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicide totals to the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides?
Concerning the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicide totals, the reason I wanted it deleted is I merged it with the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides so there was no point in keeping. I didn't know how to redirect but my understanding was there's little point in the article as it's merged (and been enhanced) since. I just want the edit history put in with the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides if it's not too much hassle.
Thanks. Power Society ( talk) 10:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Odie5533 ( talk) 04:50, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
FlyingToaster Barnstar
Hello SoWhy! Thank you so much for your nomination in my
recent RfA, which passed with a tally of 126/32/5. I am truly humbled by the trust you placed in me, and will endeavor to live up to that trust.
Flying
Toaster
As SoWhy's inofficial holiday replacement, I accept this barnstar and will place it on my (non-existent) awards page. ;)
Good luck with the new buttons, Toaster!
Amalthea 10:41, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 13:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Please consider contributing to the discussion at Talk:Darwinius_masillae#Semi-protected after nine anon edits in two hours?. Thanks. 67.100.125.164 ( talk) 12:51, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. Pardon me for coming to you with this, but I don't believe that I have the tenure to be posting to 'crat boards outside any items which would directly involve me. I noticed that you have similar views regarding the "Wheel War", and I wondered if you might offer my thoughts to fellow admins and crats.
The entire Giano incident (the current one), seems to me to stem from the interactions of Xeno and Giano. As I understand it, and I've done some extensive reading over the last couple days, their communication revolved around edits to the article: Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer. I looked through the article history, and have not found any edits by User:FlyingToaster in that article. I also reviewed the thread on Xeno's talk page #Madame_la_Comtesse! here, once again I see no comments by or about FT, and in fact, no mention of FT up to and including the discussion of the block in any manner. My point is: The fact that someone may, or may not, have been upset due to some recent (and unrelated) event, doesn't seem to me to be a reason to pull an editor into an RFAR case of wheel wars. If I were to be having a disagreement with User:ABC on article 123. And at a later time violated a policy such as NPA or CIV while talking to User:XYZ about article 789 - then the item which should be evaluated would be my interactions with XYZ. If I wished to open a separate thread or discussion about ABC, fine, but it is a separate matter.
That's not an opinion on whether or not there should, or should not, be a RFAR on the FT RfA. That is not my place to opine one way or the other. That's also not any reflection on any editor here, I have the utmost respect for all the people involved, and truly believe that everyone is only attempting to make Wikipedia a better website. Again, I apologize for coming to you with this, and dumping it in your lap, but you were the closest thing I could find to an established editor who was relatively uninvolved. (at least from my understanding at this point in time). Feel free to correct me, or admonish me, if I am out of line, or outright wrong in either my actions or my views. Best. — Ched : ? 18:18, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if you noticed, so I figured I'd comment, but this guy has been spamming his bio in multiple places with facebook/personal/business contacts. Asside from wondering if any of it is even true, there's more than significant wp:coi issues. Just thought I'd make a note of that. -- Human.v2.0 ( talk) 19:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
If you think the person concerned is not significant enough, I may add that the Gallery des Beaux Art is well known in Cologne, that her works reached as far as Egypt, that she has fans from all nations, that at least four thousands of people, and probably far more, are continually keeping up with her works, and that Vleugels has been widely acclaimed for originality and photorealistic detail.
If people need to have "significant hits at news.google.com/archivesearch," then I challenge you to explain why many people mentioned in other biographical articles return no significant search results on Google News. Two examples I picked at random from the list of Belgian painters, also contemporary:
Philip Henderickx — no references except concerning the "mixing of exotic drinks"
The " De Vriendt Brothers" — no references except in an anniversary list.
You will find many more examples of these. Wikipedia is full of people and things that no one has ever heard about. If the article is not allowed to be created, it cannot grow, and one can only tell how well the people are really known from whether or not the article grows.
You must admit, the similarities are very close, as these also concern stub articles about little known contemporary painters which return no significant search results on Google News — yet, these were not deleted, in contrast to my own article about Vleugels. This is unreasonable and unjust, and I protest.
Please discuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypernovic ( talk • contribs) 21:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Apologies for forgetting to follow the standard AIV format earlier, [2] I think my brain must have (hopefully) temporarily gone AWOL. I even posted the report on ANI initially! -- Malleus Fatuorum 23:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Simplify_policy_RfC#Concerning_the_opinion_of_the_Arbitration_Committee - I think that the wording there is yours, with modification from an older ArbCom. Could you comment there on why the changes were made, and whether it was just a 'make it sound better' edit, or some issue that came about through ArbCom? 03:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
You declined a speedy deletion tag on Paul Berry (musician). This article was re-tagged for speedy deletion, and I have removed the tag. So far, the consensus at the AfD is to A7 the article. What do you think? Cunard ( talk) 08:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Ok, First of all, how was your vacation? I hope it was good.Now, I have a question. How many edits is a good amount to go up for adminship?i have 1.5k (not that anyone is counting :P) and I first planned to go at 2k edits but now I am having my thoughts about that. I think I could make an Admin because of my involvement iwth several wikiprojects, and two articles nearly GA, One of which I have done 90% of,
Lifeline ( The sound section needs to be bettered or taken out completely , and a reception section would either way, make it a GA). While my other one is in my sandbox, and is about to be created, which has mainly edited by Me and
User:MelicansMatkin,
Bulbasaur evolutionary lineAnd some other mid level stubs, listed on my Userpage. I am hoping you don't take this as I am taking you for a training ground (which I am DEFINITLY not), You are just my most respected Admin, and I like to hear your opinion above everyone else, Cheers!--
Þέŗṃέłḥìμŝ
Life
Death 16:54, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S. Coudl you delete
User:Permethius/Sandbox4, as It is my subpage and I ahve no use for it anymore. Thanks--
Þέŗṃέłḥìμŝ
Life
Death 18:03, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Given your comment here, are you aware of WP:CPUSH? It seems a similar concept but I haven't been tracking it's adoption. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/ complex 14:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I have started discussion suggesting an article which you moved be moved back. See Talk:Diego de Landa Calderón and please make any comments there. Thank you. -- Infrogmation ( talk) 17:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
You deleted a valid folk band from Townsville Australia - Why? they have been written about: http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/FeaturedArtist.aspx?artistid=12670
http://oceansneverlisten.blogspot.com/2009/05/blood-middle-east.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.197.175 ( talk) 08:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Can I afd this?-- Jamie Shaw ( talk) 01:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:12, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
No. I requested for deletion. This template is not suitable. Raymond Giggs 07:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, back in my great-great grandfather's day ... the family split in regards to the last name. While my side took the Davis name, other ancestors continued with the Davies name. I'm not sure how you were aware of this. Was that a common thing to happen as my ancestors came from the UK to the US? I'd love to learn more about my past. Do you have any ideas for me that I could learn from? — Ched : ? 19:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I feel your decline was misunderstood. Your reason for the decline was that Solis is on a network. WABC is owned by ABC, but they are the local station, reporting local news like any other local affiliate. He's not a network correspondant. Surely you aren't saying that everyone who is simply a reporter for a local station is automatically notable do you? Niteshift36 ( talk) 13:37, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy! I'd like your opinion on whether or not I should request semi-protection for Golden Retriever. The page gets IP vandalism several times per week, plus many people attempting to fix it don't use undo, so lots of text gets lost or errors creep in unnoticed. I think semi-protection would be a great help, but I wonder if I ought to first try putting something on the talk page about using the undo function for vandalism correction. I'm not very good at being bold, so I wanted an admin's opinion first. Thanks very much! - Sketchmoose ( talk) 13:53, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
First of all, I hope you don't mind me asking you questions, because currently I'm unsure whether I am irritating you or not. Now I will ask you a question. I was going for admin coaching with the only person who was noted available, but then he said he would not be able to at the time, so I was wondering if you knew anyone that wasnt on the list that could help me. Also , since it's Administrator Review, can I still write a review? Cheers!--
Þέŗṃέłḥìμŝ
Life
Death 15:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Feel free to join the nom party if you wish. I think you'd be a good addition. You are certainly one of a handful of editors/admins whose opinions I look for... Hobit ( talk) 22:53, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I believe two users, Ryulong and Daedalus969, have followed me from the David Boothroyd MfD incident and are opposing me in an unrelated AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Marcelo_Lucero without actually looking into the article's context or sourcing; that is to say, I believe their actions at this unrelated AfD to be thoughtless wiki-stalking/harassment. The best example of this is that Daedalus969 claimed the murder was too recent for an article despite it having taken place in November of 2008. Could you please investigate this and advise me on how to proceed? TAway ( talk) 21:31, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I think that you abused your admin powers when you chose the point to revert to when intervening, since you reverted to a previous point before when you judged an edit war began. An impartial application of a protected page would have simply preserved the current version. Archaic d00d ( talk) 11:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.
I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.
The goals of the WikiProject are:
I'm very interested in your comments on how to achieve these goals.
Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. But how do I do it?
Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your advice.
I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).
Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.
And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 03:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Please be advised the per WP:PROD, articles that have previously been proposed for deletion using the prod process are not candidates for prod. Accordingly, I have removed the prod tag from The D'ark Night Film Festival, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the prod template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Varbas ( talk) 15:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 23:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that tag that my bot re added, I'll probably put something in so it doesn't edit user pages unles it's a general tag or user space.... Anyway, thanks again - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 06:33, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
How did you make that alert box show up at the top of the page when editing this page??
-
Garrett W. (
Talk /
Contribs /
Email) 06:57, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted User:Ikip/amib, but it was linked as evidence in an ongoing RFAr case. I was curious as to the reason it was deleted. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire - past ops) 07:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be any remaining disagreement at Talk:Bernoulli number, and the story has left the front pages of all the news aggregators, so I think the article can be unprotected now. Cheers, Melchoir ( talk) 08:29, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam mugliston ( talk • contribs) 10:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm a bit surprised that you declined a speedy deletion on above article. being a small group part of a large event does not constitute notability. The article makes not assertion of notability, and after a lengthy discussion I had with the page creator discussion it because rather clear that while thee author feels that his group is important (they always do), there is no substance to that assertion at all. Passportguy ( talk) 12:37, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
“ | An article [...] that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is [...] a lower standard than notability. | ” |
On 24 May, you tagged Template:Infobox biografía with {{ rfd}}, but you did not complete the nomination by listing it at WP:RFD. Can you please complete the second step of the nomination? If you do not list it within a reasonable amount of time, I'll assume you no longer wish to see it deleted and will remove the template. Thanks. -- JLaTondre ( talk) 15:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Sir - I submitted a page on Canadian filmmaker Larry Kent which was deleted. I pasted a bio I found online to bookmark the page before I went back into it and drafted an original page. I am working with the legendary Mr. Kent to create this page and I would really appreciate the page to be restored...Larry is very old and needs his work represented on Wiki.
Thank you in advance Chris Alexander —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexanderEternal ( talk • contribs) 01:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello SoWhy, could you restore this to my userspace? It wasn't my intention to tag for speedy. In fact, I thought I had substed out everything that would make it appear in cat:csd.. decltype ( talk) 10:10, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy! Would I add {{db-vandalism}} to a case of vandalism like this? Would I create the page by adding the template to the non-existent article, or would I add the template to the talk page? Or, would it be more appropriate to just rollback the edit and move on? I have been to New York City, it is great! I'm glad you got to go, too, :-) Maedin\ talk 19:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! I'm having a discussion with Tanthalas39 on their talk page about the above. I'd value your opinion. Thanks. Ged UK 14:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Undelete the Crom (Band) page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.154.41 ( talk) 23:19, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
You are a bit of a homo though, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.154.41 ( talk) 23:23, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi - you declined protection because the user was blocked. They're back on a new IP. Could you consider semi-protecting the page, please? Thanks. ╟─ Treasury Tag► sundries─╢ 16:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
How, when AfDs aren't allowed to last more than an hour and deletion reviews wherein several administrators support undeletion are closed as " keep deleted per status quo" regardless, am I supposed to develop an article? Especially when new reliable sources in the British media keep popping up and Jehochman bans me for developing them in my userspace? TAway ( talk) 05:06, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi
You might want to give
User:Ale jrb/Scripts/csdhelper.js a try since I'm slow, and it looks as if I'm going to have even less time for Wikipedia in the next couple of months.
Amalthea 15:46, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. I've been doing a lot of the BLP unCat lately, and run across a bunch of junk. While I'll likely never be a big CSD tagger, after reading through your tutorials, and the CSD stuff - I thought I'd try one on an article that just didn't have much work put into it. Would you look at Lucette Finas and see if I got it right. I didn't use the A7, but rather the db-person. Let me know right or wrong, even if I'm not doing much of it, I'd rather understand the proper way of it. Thanks — Ched : ? 19:55, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Dear Sir
I posted my first Wikipedia article and it has been deleted.
I did notice afterwards that it may be deleted due to it being a Club.
However if you read the article it is not just about a Club, it is about the political aspirations of the Labour Political Party, and how in general such labour clubs have risen and fell over since the second world war.
The article also provides the reader with important legal information about the status of a private members club as this differs from a sole trader and limited company.
I am a solicitor which is why I have written this article. If you would like me to expand a bit more then I would be happy to do so.
Regards ( Ronnie061 ( talk) 20:37, 10 June 2009 (UTC))
Ronnie —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronnie061 ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Seems to me that it should be deleted, but I suppose now it would have to go through AfD. Enigma msg 03:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there SoWhy. How are you? I hope you are doing well :)
With all these threads going on about Paid Editing and such, I figured I might as well put in a request for someone to review my article. The article, which I am drafting at User:NuclearWarfare/DemiDec (and intend to make into the article ' DemiDec'), is about a company that I have a conflict of interest to. While I decided to create this article on my own volition, I do have a financial conflict of interest with the article; I am being paid by this company for some work unrelated to Wikipedia and have talked to Daniel Berdichevsky, my employer, about the fact that I am creating this article. While he seemed enthused about the prospect of the article and agreed that it looked good in its current form, I figured I should double check to make sure that the article fulfills WP:NPOV, as perhaps any residual conflict of interest prevents me from seeing it. Do you think you could check out the article draft and give me some feedback?
Thanks, NW ( Talk) 03:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
This sounded really cool, so I added it to my monobook.js. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to get it to work. Is there any chance you could give me a tutorial? It would help in those few cases where I have to decline a speedy deletion request. NW ( Talk) 03:59, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
if ((waUser.isSysop == false) || (wgNamespaceNumber == 10)) { return false; // do nothing!
(waUser.isSysop == false) ||
and it should work for you.
Amalthea 07:49, 13 June 2009 (UTC)<-- Yes, thus my link to overengineering. I too would think that it would be easy to make a separate script, but I won't be in high demand, I think. I could be wrong, though. Still, it's a nice piece of work. decltype ( talk) 13:17, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey SoWhy. I was wondering, would it be possible for you to give me some feedback on my efforts with WP:RFPP. I feel like it's an area I have improved on in recent months, reports are generally successful, but since your there all the time, I was wondering if you could give me further feedback. Cheers. — R 2 23:09, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
I removed your {{ prod}} from Unus Framework, please see Talk:Unus Framework. Rules rule! Contributions/62.78.198.48 ( talk) 18:04, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be the most recently active admin... Please take a look at Dj 801 - it is a child (or someone pretending) constantly posting pictures of themselves. I've reported to AIV but there's no backlog there so it's not getting noticed. 7 talk | Δ | 09:22, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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hello i see one of my friends has put up a wikipedia article about scrottball
i also see that you deleted the page for certain reasons. I know his story was vulgar and that lots of stuff was fabricated but scrottball is a real sport that we invented a while ago and now we have a large community of people that know of/play scrottball. I am asking that if we put up a legitimate scrottball page with rules styles etc that you do not take it down because it would be really cool if the world can learn about and perhaps play our sport —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.153.10.133 ( talk) 06:09, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello! You deleted the entry I created - "11:12, 12 May 2009 SoWhy (talk | contribs) deleted "Youth and environment europe" (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)" and I wanted ask why? There are many similar entries on Wikipedia about similar organisations or federations, like "European Environmental Bureau" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Environmental_Bureau, European youth forum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Youth_Forum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_Rescue_Network and more and they aren't considered as promotion or advertising, so why was my entry considered one? Thank you,
Venusnoire ( talk) 12:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC) venusnoire
Could you please explain why you deleted the article about Paul Holden? Yes, I know you listed WP:A7. But Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Politicians lists professions which should be considered notable, and should be exempted from discussions over whether they are notable. It explicitly exempts:
"People who have held international, national or first-level sub-national political office, including members of a legislature and judges."
Holden is one of the judges on the United States Court of Military Commission Review.
Note, the article on one of his colleagues, Amy Bechtold, was nominated for deletion.
Could you please direct my attention to the place where the deletion of the Holden article was discussed? Geo Swan ( talk) 02:41, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
{{Infobox Person | name=Paul Holden | age=16 | birth_place=Chelmsford | education= [http://www.moulshamhigh.essex.sch.uk/ Moulsham Humanities College] 2003 - 2010 | work=[http://www.farmfoods.co.uk/ Farm Foods] | a levels= Religous Studies, Information Technology, Biology, Geography }}
An editor has asked for a deletion review of TV Tropes. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. I initially posted on the admin who closed the deletion discussion, but since you show up in the deletion log I thought I should inform you as well. Thank you. Sgore ( talk) 11:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I decided to keep improving the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides after getting a block over how I wanted it. Keeping it there unfinished I thought was taking unnecessary space up as well, hence wanting it deleted. Anyway, is it possible you or someone else can move the edit history from the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicide totals to the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides?
Concerning the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicide totals, the reason I wanted it deleted is I merged it with the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides so there was no point in keeping. I didn't know how to redirect but my understanding was there's little point in the article as it's merged (and been enhanced) since. I just want the edit history put in with the List of metropolitan regions by intentional homicides if it's not too much hassle.
Thanks. Power Society ( talk) 10:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Odie5533 ( talk) 04:50, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
FlyingToaster Barnstar
Hello SoWhy! Thank you so much for your nomination in my
recent RfA, which passed with a tally of 126/32/5. I am truly humbled by the trust you placed in me, and will endeavor to live up to that trust.
Flying
Toaster
As SoWhy's inofficial holiday replacement, I accept this barnstar and will place it on my (non-existent) awards page. ;)
Good luck with the new buttons, Toaster!
Amalthea 10:41, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 13:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Please consider contributing to the discussion at Talk:Darwinius_masillae#Semi-protected after nine anon edits in two hours?. Thanks. 67.100.125.164 ( talk) 12:51, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. Pardon me for coming to you with this, but I don't believe that I have the tenure to be posting to 'crat boards outside any items which would directly involve me. I noticed that you have similar views regarding the "Wheel War", and I wondered if you might offer my thoughts to fellow admins and crats.
The entire Giano incident (the current one), seems to me to stem from the interactions of Xeno and Giano. As I understand it, and I've done some extensive reading over the last couple days, their communication revolved around edits to the article: Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer. I looked through the article history, and have not found any edits by User:FlyingToaster in that article. I also reviewed the thread on Xeno's talk page #Madame_la_Comtesse! here, once again I see no comments by or about FT, and in fact, no mention of FT up to and including the discussion of the block in any manner. My point is: The fact that someone may, or may not, have been upset due to some recent (and unrelated) event, doesn't seem to me to be a reason to pull an editor into an RFAR case of wheel wars. If I were to be having a disagreement with User:ABC on article 123. And at a later time violated a policy such as NPA or CIV while talking to User:XYZ about article 789 - then the item which should be evaluated would be my interactions with XYZ. If I wished to open a separate thread or discussion about ABC, fine, but it is a separate matter.
That's not an opinion on whether or not there should, or should not, be a RFAR on the FT RfA. That is not my place to opine one way or the other. That's also not any reflection on any editor here, I have the utmost respect for all the people involved, and truly believe that everyone is only attempting to make Wikipedia a better website. Again, I apologize for coming to you with this, and dumping it in your lap, but you were the closest thing I could find to an established editor who was relatively uninvolved. (at least from my understanding at this point in time). Feel free to correct me, or admonish me, if I am out of line, or outright wrong in either my actions or my views. Best. — Ched : ? 18:18, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if you noticed, so I figured I'd comment, but this guy has been spamming his bio in multiple places with facebook/personal/business contacts. Asside from wondering if any of it is even true, there's more than significant wp:coi issues. Just thought I'd make a note of that. -- Human.v2.0 ( talk) 19:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
If you think the person concerned is not significant enough, I may add that the Gallery des Beaux Art is well known in Cologne, that her works reached as far as Egypt, that she has fans from all nations, that at least four thousands of people, and probably far more, are continually keeping up with her works, and that Vleugels has been widely acclaimed for originality and photorealistic detail.
If people need to have "significant hits at news.google.com/archivesearch," then I challenge you to explain why many people mentioned in other biographical articles return no significant search results on Google News. Two examples I picked at random from the list of Belgian painters, also contemporary:
Philip Henderickx — no references except concerning the "mixing of exotic drinks"
The " De Vriendt Brothers" — no references except in an anniversary list.
You will find many more examples of these. Wikipedia is full of people and things that no one has ever heard about. If the article is not allowed to be created, it cannot grow, and one can only tell how well the people are really known from whether or not the article grows.
You must admit, the similarities are very close, as these also concern stub articles about little known contemporary painters which return no significant search results on Google News — yet, these were not deleted, in contrast to my own article about Vleugels. This is unreasonable and unjust, and I protest.
Please discuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hypernovic ( talk • contribs) 21:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Apologies for forgetting to follow the standard AIV format earlier, [2] I think my brain must have (hopefully) temporarily gone AWOL. I even posted the report on ANI initially! -- Malleus Fatuorum 23:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Simplify_policy_RfC#Concerning_the_opinion_of_the_Arbitration_Committee - I think that the wording there is yours, with modification from an older ArbCom. Could you comment there on why the changes were made, and whether it was just a 'make it sound better' edit, or some issue that came about through ArbCom? 03:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
You declined a speedy deletion tag on Paul Berry (musician). This article was re-tagged for speedy deletion, and I have removed the tag. So far, the consensus at the AfD is to A7 the article. What do you think? Cunard ( talk) 08:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Ok, First of all, how was your vacation? I hope it was good.Now, I have a question. How many edits is a good amount to go up for adminship?i have 1.5k (not that anyone is counting :P) and I first planned to go at 2k edits but now I am having my thoughts about that. I think I could make an Admin because of my involvement iwth several wikiprojects, and two articles nearly GA, One of which I have done 90% of,
Lifeline ( The sound section needs to be bettered or taken out completely , and a reception section would either way, make it a GA). While my other one is in my sandbox, and is about to be created, which has mainly edited by Me and
User:MelicansMatkin,
Bulbasaur evolutionary lineAnd some other mid level stubs, listed on my Userpage. I am hoping you don't take this as I am taking you for a training ground (which I am DEFINITLY not), You are just my most respected Admin, and I like to hear your opinion above everyone else, Cheers!--
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Life
Death 16:54, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S. Coudl you delete
User:Permethius/Sandbox4, as It is my subpage and I ahve no use for it anymore. Thanks--
Þέŗṃέłḥìμŝ
Life
Death 18:03, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Given your comment here, are you aware of WP:CPUSH? It seems a similar concept but I haven't been tracking it's adoption. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/ complex 14:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I have started discussion suggesting an article which you moved be moved back. See Talk:Diego de Landa Calderón and please make any comments there. Thank you. -- Infrogmation ( talk) 17:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
You deleted a valid folk band from Townsville Australia - Why? they have been written about: http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/FeaturedArtist.aspx?artistid=12670
http://oceansneverlisten.blogspot.com/2009/05/blood-middle-east.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.197.175 ( talk) 08:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Can I afd this?-- Jamie Shaw ( talk) 01:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:12, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
No. I requested for deletion. This template is not suitable. Raymond Giggs 07:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, back in my great-great grandfather's day ... the family split in regards to the last name. While my side took the Davis name, other ancestors continued with the Davies name. I'm not sure how you were aware of this. Was that a common thing to happen as my ancestors came from the UK to the US? I'd love to learn more about my past. Do you have any ideas for me that I could learn from? — Ched : ? 19:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
I feel your decline was misunderstood. Your reason for the decline was that Solis is on a network. WABC is owned by ABC, but they are the local station, reporting local news like any other local affiliate. He's not a network correspondant. Surely you aren't saying that everyone who is simply a reporter for a local station is automatically notable do you? Niteshift36 ( talk) 13:37, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy! I'd like your opinion on whether or not I should request semi-protection for Golden Retriever. The page gets IP vandalism several times per week, plus many people attempting to fix it don't use undo, so lots of text gets lost or errors creep in unnoticed. I think semi-protection would be a great help, but I wonder if I ought to first try putting something on the talk page about using the undo function for vandalism correction. I'm not very good at being bold, so I wanted an admin's opinion first. Thanks very much! - Sketchmoose ( talk) 13:53, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
First of all, I hope you don't mind me asking you questions, because currently I'm unsure whether I am irritating you or not. Now I will ask you a question. I was going for admin coaching with the only person who was noted available, but then he said he would not be able to at the time, so I was wondering if you knew anyone that wasnt on the list that could help me. Also , since it's Administrator Review, can I still write a review? Cheers!--
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Life
Death 15:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Feel free to join the nom party if you wish. I think you'd be a good addition. You are certainly one of a handful of editors/admins whose opinions I look for... Hobit ( talk) 22:53, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
I believe two users, Ryulong and Daedalus969, have followed me from the David Boothroyd MfD incident and are opposing me in an unrelated AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Marcelo_Lucero without actually looking into the article's context or sourcing; that is to say, I believe their actions at this unrelated AfD to be thoughtless wiki-stalking/harassment. The best example of this is that Daedalus969 claimed the murder was too recent for an article despite it having taken place in November of 2008. Could you please investigate this and advise me on how to proceed? TAway ( talk) 21:31, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
I think that you abused your admin powers when you chose the point to revert to when intervening, since you reverted to a previous point before when you judged an edit war began. An impartial application of a protected page would have simply preserved the current version. Archaic d00d ( talk) 11:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.
I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.
The goals of the WikiProject are:
I'm very interested in your comments on how to achieve these goals.
Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. But how do I do it?
Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your advice.
I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).
Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.
And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 03:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Please be advised the per WP:PROD, articles that have previously been proposed for deletion using the prod process are not candidates for prod. Accordingly, I have removed the prod tag from The D'ark Night Film Festival, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the prod template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Varbas ( talk) 15:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 23:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that tag that my bot re added, I'll probably put something in so it doesn't edit user pages unles it's a general tag or user space.... Anyway, thanks again - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 06:33, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
How did you make that alert box show up at the top of the page when editing this page??
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Garrett W. (
Talk /
Contribs /
Email) 06:57, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you deleted User:Ikip/amib, but it was linked as evidence in an ongoing RFAr case. I was curious as to the reason it was deleted. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire - past ops) 07:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
There doesn't seem to be any remaining disagreement at Talk:Bernoulli number, and the story has left the front pages of all the news aggregators, so I think the article can be unprotected now. Cheers, Melchoir ( talk) 08:29, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam mugliston ( talk • contribs) 10:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm a bit surprised that you declined a speedy deletion on above article. being a small group part of a large event does not constitute notability. The article makes not assertion of notability, and after a lengthy discussion I had with the page creator discussion it because rather clear that while thee author feels that his group is important (they always do), there is no substance to that assertion at all. Passportguy ( talk) 12:37, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
“ | An article [...] that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is [...] a lower standard than notability. | ” |
On 24 May, you tagged Template:Infobox biografía with {{ rfd}}, but you did not complete the nomination by listing it at WP:RFD. Can you please complete the second step of the nomination? If you do not list it within a reasonable amount of time, I'll assume you no longer wish to see it deleted and will remove the template. Thanks. -- JLaTondre ( talk) 15:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello Sir - I submitted a page on Canadian filmmaker Larry Kent which was deleted. I pasted a bio I found online to bookmark the page before I went back into it and drafted an original page. I am working with the legendary Mr. Kent to create this page and I would really appreciate the page to be restored...Larry is very old and needs his work represented on Wiki.
Thank you in advance Chris Alexander —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexanderEternal ( talk • contribs) 01:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello SoWhy, could you restore this to my userspace? It wasn't my intention to tag for speedy. In fact, I thought I had substed out everything that would make it appear in cat:csd.. decltype ( talk) 10:10, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy! Would I add {{db-vandalism}} to a case of vandalism like this? Would I create the page by adding the template to the non-existent article, or would I add the template to the talk page? Or, would it be more appropriate to just rollback the edit and move on? I have been to New York City, it is great! I'm glad you got to go, too, :-) Maedin\ talk 19:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there! I'm having a discussion with Tanthalas39 on their talk page about the above. I'd value your opinion. Thanks. Ged UK 14:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Undelete the Crom (Band) page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.154.41 ( talk) 23:19, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
You are a bit of a homo though, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.154.41 ( talk) 23:23, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi - you declined protection because the user was blocked. They're back on a new IP. Could you consider semi-protecting the page, please? Thanks. ╟─ Treasury Tag► sundries─╢ 16:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
How, when AfDs aren't allowed to last more than an hour and deletion reviews wherein several administrators support undeletion are closed as " keep deleted per status quo" regardless, am I supposed to develop an article? Especially when new reliable sources in the British media keep popping up and Jehochman bans me for developing them in my userspace? TAway ( talk) 05:06, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi
You might want to give
User:Ale jrb/Scripts/csdhelper.js a try since I'm slow, and it looks as if I'm going to have even less time for Wikipedia in the next couple of months.
Amalthea 15:46, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. I've been doing a lot of the BLP unCat lately, and run across a bunch of junk. While I'll likely never be a big CSD tagger, after reading through your tutorials, and the CSD stuff - I thought I'd try one on an article that just didn't have much work put into it. Would you look at Lucette Finas and see if I got it right. I didn't use the A7, but rather the db-person. Let me know right or wrong, even if I'm not doing much of it, I'd rather understand the proper way of it. Thanks — Ched : ? 19:55, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Dear Sir
I posted my first Wikipedia article and it has been deleted.
I did notice afterwards that it may be deleted due to it being a Club.
However if you read the article it is not just about a Club, it is about the political aspirations of the Labour Political Party, and how in general such labour clubs have risen and fell over since the second world war.
The article also provides the reader with important legal information about the status of a private members club as this differs from a sole trader and limited company.
I am a solicitor which is why I have written this article. If you would like me to expand a bit more then I would be happy to do so.
Regards ( Ronnie061 ( talk) 20:37, 10 June 2009 (UTC))
Ronnie —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronnie061 ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Seems to me that it should be deleted, but I suppose now it would have to go through AfD. Enigma msg 03:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there SoWhy. How are you? I hope you are doing well :)
With all these threads going on about Paid Editing and such, I figured I might as well put in a request for someone to review my article. The article, which I am drafting at User:NuclearWarfare/DemiDec (and intend to make into the article ' DemiDec'), is about a company that I have a conflict of interest to. While I decided to create this article on my own volition, I do have a financial conflict of interest with the article; I am being paid by this company for some work unrelated to Wikipedia and have talked to Daniel Berdichevsky, my employer, about the fact that I am creating this article. While he seemed enthused about the prospect of the article and agreed that it looked good in its current form, I figured I should double check to make sure that the article fulfills WP:NPOV, as perhaps any residual conflict of interest prevents me from seeing it. Do you think you could check out the article draft and give me some feedback?
Thanks, NW ( Talk) 03:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
This sounded really cool, so I added it to my monobook.js. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to get it to work. Is there any chance you could give me a tutorial? It would help in those few cases where I have to decline a speedy deletion request. NW ( Talk) 03:59, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
if ((waUser.isSysop == false) || (wgNamespaceNumber == 10)) { return false; // do nothing!
(waUser.isSysop == false) ||
and it should work for you.
Amalthea 07:49, 13 June 2009 (UTC)<-- Yes, thus my link to overengineering. I too would think that it would be easy to make a separate script, but I won't be in high demand, I think. I could be wrong, though. Still, it's a nice piece of work. decltype ( talk) 13:17, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey SoWhy. I was wondering, would it be possible for you to give me some feedback on my efforts with WP:RFPP. I feel like it's an area I have improved on in recent months, reports are generally successful, but since your there all the time, I was wondering if you could give me further feedback. Cheers. — R 2 23:09, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
I removed your {{ prod}} from Unus Framework, please see Talk:Unus Framework. Rules rule! Contributions/62.78.198.48 ( talk) 18:04, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
You seem to be the most recently active admin... Please take a look at Dj 801 - it is a child (or someone pretending) constantly posting pictures of themselves. I've reported to AIV but there's no backlog there so it's not getting noticed. 7 talk | Δ | 09:22, 16 June 2009 (UTC)