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Why is it that "it might be notable" is enough, for you, to decline a CSD, with a request for readers to "check google news" and the rest? Why not assume that the person has checked google news, and if you're not willing to assume that, why not do it yourself? If you had you'd fine no news articles for an article that now has to sit around for a week, since you declining the speedy means that I have to go through prod or AfD. Ironholds ( talk) 18:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 20:15, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 05:40, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello SoWhy! I hope your exam preparations are proceeding according to plan. I just came to think of something you said quite a while ago, about pre-filled deletion reasons: [1]. I have now performed quite a few deletions myself, but have yet to see any deletion reasons being pre-filled for the different A7's, so I am curious to what you were referring to. Regards, decltype ( talk) 07:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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tab, does it choose the reason, prefill the reason or do nothing? Regards
So
Why
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<---- Yes, as it turns out User:Haza-w/Drop-down menus were causing it. They are part of the UI gadgets in preferences, so I didn't expect them to cause any trouble. decltype ( talk) 08:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
The Guns (Album) ... A9? — Ched : ? 07:36, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
<--- Well, you can be even more proud than usual this time, considering who the recipient is, and the events that led up to his successful RfA. Thanks again Ched! decltype ( talk) 08:57, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
The IP's latest offering here the page has been vandalised 3 times since you turned down the PP. IP is now blocked but will return when block is up or sooner with a new IP. BigDunc 13:52, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Just to let you know, Stahlkocher responded to your question at his talk page. My German is fairly limited. :) Thanks, Aptery gial 23:42, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I can't check, but I suspect User:Dnoorden and User:Dp enthusiast are the same person. They're both the sole contributors to Death Pineapple and the only users disputing its speedy deletion nomination. XXX antiuser 08:06, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
You recently declined the speedy deletion of Gurkirpal Surapuri saying "Subject might be important/significant (check Google News) / use WP:PROD or WP:AFD (CSDH)". I'm sure you know that the criteria for speedy deletion under A7 states:
That means that articles that might be important or significant but do not assert their significance are properly deleted under these criteria. If you think the subject of a speedy deletion nomination under A7 is notable, please edit the article asserting notability. If you disagree with the policy, please work to change it. Otherwise, please work within the policy except in exceptional circumstances. Best regards, Toddst1 ( talk) 15:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
“ | The criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus support to, at their discretion, bypass deletion discussion and immediately delete Wikipedia pages or media. (Emphasis added) | ” |
I have no objection to a restoration of Skatt Brothers if you update the article to so that it indicates why it is notable. Vegaswikian ( talk) 17:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I want to ask you something about my talk. Supposing it to be MY talk, I can edit information on it, no? What happened on spanish wikipedia is that someone BLOCKED me because of a blank page too. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Veranodelamor ( talk • contribs)
There's a new AfD nomination for an article you've previously discussed. Please stop by to voice your opinions again. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 11:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Was it your intention to actually block User:George Pappas? You left a block note on his talk page, but he is not blocked. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 11:56, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
At this diff, you said "his point of view regarding copyright issues which is quite different from current consensus". Would you please explain what copyright issue(s) I am apparently holding a view that is not in consensus? I am not trying to stir up trouble here. I'm asking honestly. I have and always will act within policy. If you think I am not, please show me. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 22:01, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you declined the speedy A7 with the comment "might be important/significant (check google scholar)". Could you elaborate on the latter part of your comment, the google scholar suggestion, particularly how citation and publication results from google scholar can be used as a reliable source for the importance of a scholar (without, i.e., meandering into the original research area). Thanks. RegentsPark ( sticks and stones) 14:25, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
I checked both the article and talk page of "Rudolf Caracciola", but didn't notice any errors or reports of them. Check again and make sure the error is gone. — Huntster ( t • @ • c) 14:33, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Why was this article deleted? I fixed it so it was no disparaging and not an attack page. Can you please re-create it as it existed when I fixed it? Thanks! 207.15.63.4 ( talk) 16:55, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if you, or one of your TPS, could have a look at User talk:Anthonydelgado1. It seems to me to be an improper use of a talk page, and the user's contributions over the past year aren't to anything but that page. Thanks in advance. Plastikspork ( talk) 22:53, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey man, sorry you didn't get appointed. I honestly think you'd have been great with the buttons. Cheers, Dylan 620 ( contribs, logs) help us! 12:02, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I gave Scheibenwischer some polish to make it sound more English before it goes to DYK. Though I left the country a long time ago, I remember the show, so thanks for adding it here. Seb az86556 ( talk) 11:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Hiya, I reviewed the Scheibenwischer DYK hook and it's fine; however, as it happens, there is another DYK article pointing to another instance of BR censorship on the DYK nominations page, and it's been suggested that the two hooks could be combined. Please have a look; could you liaise with the author of Die Konsequenz, user:Meco, on the DYK nominations page? Cheers, JN 466 23:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice improvement. Did you happen to come across that or go looking for one of him? Makes me wonder if there is a lot of this that could be done. Un sch ool 00:13, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:16, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I nominated Xaviera for speedy deletion as a copyvio of http://editthis.info/wiki/Xaviera_Tytler but a moment later I reversed myself after realizing the other site was a wiki. A couple of hours later, I was still kind of wondering about the license for that wiki, and I couldn't find any answers there. I happened to check the WP logs, and discovered that you had deleted the page last week as a copyvio of the same site. If it's not too much trouble, would you have another look and see if it's appropriate to delete it again? Thanks, MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 07:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. Sorry about that! May I ask what criteria I placed that article under? I would have remembered but as you might imagine I have tagged well over a dozen pages for CSD today. :p But yeah, I admit sometimes I feel a bit of a difficulty in putting in the correct classification for CSD. E.g. I tag the page as CSD - Advertisment when there might have been a person there and his website (while it might have been better under A7 I felt that the person was more advertising the website than putting in his page on Wikipedia). But yeah, a review of the CSD page is in order hehe. Cheers! Calaka ( talk) 12:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your participation in my recent RfA. I will do my very best not to betray the confidence you have shown me. If you ever have any questions or suggestions about my conduct as an administrator or as an editor please don't hesitate to contact me. Once again, thanks. ·Maunus·ƛ· 04:43, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I should and could have just done that myself. Sorry to waste your time. Regards, ascidian | talk-to-me 14:44, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for stalking me! :P I appreciate all the help I can get. Cunard ( talk) 08:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Ball's in your court, my friend. wadester 16 16:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:01, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the detailed and helpful response, with all the additional places I could look, re criterion A7 on speedy deletion. Very helpful! -- Ishel99 ( talk) 06:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
SoWhy, I offer you my best wishes whilst you are studying for your Staatsexamen. In my view this is a very well-thought out approach by the German education/career system and I have met many Germans who have studied and passed. I will be watching to hear of your success also.-- VirtualSteve need admin support? 11:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello and good morning. I saw you declined the speedy of this article and several others by the same creator. Before I go for AfD, could you explain your reasoning so I can get a better understanding? I don't see any claim of notability. I saw in the history you also declined the speedy from User:Wuzwazdat who is a very successful speedy nominator. I understand the reasons to decline his speedy, though, it wasn't advertising. Would you support an AfD for not meeting WP:BIO and declined on principal or do you think the article should stay? Thanks, v/r-- TParis00ap ( talk) 12:19, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. I noticed that the talk page there was a redlink. Didn't know if you wanted to copy her contrib stats there or not. Doesn't matter to me, I just looked through them manually, but a lot of noms seem to do that copypasta thing for the talk page. Cheers. — Ched : ? 13:47, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
This is to let you know that I removed your PROD on this article in order to include it in this AfD with two other related articles. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 17:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey there SoWhy. I was wondering if you might take a look at this RfA. At RfA 1, the candidate had a bit of a problem with speedy deletions; I wondered if you might take a look at his more recent deleted taggings to see if he has improved. Thanks, NW ( Talk) 12:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I think the Taymaishu RfA was still live when I clicked the edit button, but I didn't see an ec when I saved, so I could be wrong. I know it was live when I was reading it. -- SPhilbrick T 11:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated WikiBlame ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Killiondude ( talk) 23:50, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your advice, I will keep it in mind. I didn't mean to be belligerent but sometimes I percieve that kind of comment as disrespect. Anyways, Thanks Again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaelen S. ( talk • contribs) 10:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello SoWhy
I am very new to wikipedia and thanks for declining a deletion on my page on Naval Aviation Museum. It was just that I made an information box and then needed more time to think about my article about the museum thoroughly. so thanks for that.
I also had another question.
I have some great phots of India, Canada and Netherlands, that I wanted to give to wiki commons. However, when I upload file in wiki commons; in the information box; under author, I can only write my name. I want to write my name but also when they click on my name it goes to my Flickr page, like how some people have it.
Can you please tell me how to do this and also how to go back and do it for the one's I already uploaded.
Thanks
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For regularly declining speedy deletion on poorly written but notable subjects, procedurally converting speedy templates to PRODs, and otherwise tirelessly working to properly enforce our speedy deletion criteria, I hereby award you this barnstar. Thank you for doing what is best (evaluating each case carefully) rather than just doing what is easiest (looks non-notable => delete). -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 20:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC) |
Hi, I noticed that you'd renamed this article. Could you comment on the discussion at the article's talk page? Thanks Hertzsprung ( talk) 22:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Happy editing!
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For the best nomination statement that I've ever read, though I could, perhaps, be just a wee bit biased,
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Hello SoWhy, thank you for your message. My apologies are in order if I've used a template incorrectly. To my knowledge, I have only ever used a "speedy delete" template once before, and tried to provide a rationale at that time, but it did not appear to affix itself to the banner, so I simply assumed it wasn't absolutely necessary. I will make certain to read the documentation you've provided. Thanks again, and have yourself a pleasant day :) WikHead ( talk) 18:59, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
I was surprised by the heading of the message above on your talk page, but I see it was a test! Actually, it is the subject I came to discuss: some time ago, you declined two db-band speedies of mine. That worried me, because I like to get these things right, and it sent me back to re-read your WP:10CSD and WP:A7M, and there are two points I would like to discuss:
Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 18:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I was going to AfD this, but then I thought I would check with you first. The taxidermy article mentions "digital taxidermy" but it calls it "reproduction taxidermy". Do you think this "technique" warrants its own article? Maedin\ talk 19:51, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I really hate to keep bringing this up, but could you please ask Stahlkocher for some more info on the above image? It doesn't look like the vague info we have now will cut it, and despite quite a bit of searching I've been unable to find the original file at any "DB-Archiv". Could you please ask him for clarification? Cheers, Aptery gial 13:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 06:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I turned on Twinkle in my monobook.js and it worked ok, but there is a thing or two I don't like about it. I decided to tweak the settings, so I loaded the full configuration and deleted (or left blank) the parts I didn't want. Now it isn't working at all. Do you have any idea what I need to do to fix it? Thanks! Maedin\ talk 08:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I closed this here. Since you are more active in the CSDs, could you do the move/redirect per your suggested solution? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 06:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
This is a clear and blatant case of self promotion. Jeff Mowatt and his associate Terry Hall;man are using Wikipedia to self promote their "company" which goes by the same name. All references on the page created by Jeff Mowatt link back to self initiated and published articles. People Centered Economic Development (Ukraine) has no assets, not offices and no investments in Ukraine. It has no proved successes or direct involvement in any Economic development project in Ukraine. It exist in a virtual word of the internet. No independent verification or referees could be provided. Independent reviews have all come to the same conclusion. Terry Hallman the "director" of the company claims that he has c`lose associations with US president Bill Clinton and US Aid. US Aid deny any association with Mr Hallman Jeff Mowatt or their company. Mr Hallman was expelled from the UK as being an Economic migrant and has been living in Ukraine pretending he is a successful director of an international economic development company, using Wikipedia and other publications as a defacto authoristaion/verification of what is otherwise unverifable. I suggest you think again before you bring Wikiedia into disrepute.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.190.40.8 ( talk) 06:08, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 17:15, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 11:22, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Dear colleague, I just want to wish you a happy, hopefully, extended holiday weekend and nice end to summer! Your friend, -- A Nobody My talk 04:38, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 23:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
...for Ryan McKee. You said "Playing for a notable team indicates importance/significance"--but the guy doesn't play for the team, he plays on the practice squad. Drmies ( talk) 21:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, SoWhy. I responded to your note about Love Hunter at the DYK page. If my answer is insufficient, please let me know. Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 22:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Freundlichen Grüßen SoWhy. There's been some concern at the low level of RfAs recently, and one of the outcomes has been the establishment of WP:VETTING. The idea is that experienced editors with knowledge of RfA give realistic feedback to would-be candidates, so that those who would have a rough time at RfA are spared the trauma, and those who would be good candidates but aren't confident that they'd have a chance are encouraged to run. The process needs experienced RfA observers to work, and since you often give good reviews to candidates and have influential !votes, I wonder if you would consider watchlisting the page and contributing feedback from time to time? Mahalo, Skomorokh 22:06, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
There's a request for unprotection on a page you indef full-protected. Do you mind handling it? I assume it's okay to move to semi-protection, but I'd rather leave it to you. tedder ( talk) 06:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Indeed, it does makes a useful redirect, but we should move its history to Metaxourgeio. This involves deleting (and restoring later). My choice to ask for deletion was as you pointed out, wrong.-- FocalPoint ( talk) 17:31, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
OK, this also, is correct. -- FocalPoint ( talk) 18:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
This word does not appear in the target. That should be a valid reason to delete this. -- Eingangskontrolle ( talk) 08:36, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, thanks for the undeleted articles. Now they are proper stubs I think (the German articles are much longer, but mostly unsourced, so I don't translate them). If I have more time I want to stub some more politicians from Hamburg. So I will definitely ask you. Cheers. Sebastian scha. ( talk) 12:33, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that we are coming up to a point where we will need a new service award so I though up a design and created a template which you can see below. Give me an idea of what you think.
Regards, Gaelen S. Talk • Contribs 06:14, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your suggestions. I will go ahead and look into creating a extra book of knowledge and possibly a ribbon equivalent as well.
Regards, Gaelen S. Talk • Contribs 14:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
List of Possible Service Awards
I have followed your advice and created a Book of Knowledge with a secret appendix, a new template for the default service award and a ribbon equivalent, all of which you can see if you follow the link above. Let me know what you think. By the way, if I do end up adding it to the list of service awards I might need some simple assistance in order to figure out how to add it to the table.
Regards, Gaelen S. Talk • Contribs 05:52, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for removing some rather less polite German from my talk page. Favonian ( talk) 16:47, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
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Why is it that "it might be notable" is enough, for you, to decline a CSD, with a request for readers to "check google news" and the rest? Why not assume that the person has checked google news, and if you're not willing to assume that, why not do it yourself? If you had you'd fine no news articles for an article that now has to sit around for a week, since you declining the speedy means that I have to go through prod or AfD. Ironholds ( talk) 18:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 20:15, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 05:40, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello SoWhy! I hope your exam preparations are proceeding according to plan. I just came to think of something you said quite a while ago, about pre-filled deletion reasons: [1]. I have now performed quite a few deletions myself, but have yet to see any deletion reasons being pre-filled for the different A7's, so I am curious to what you were referring to. Regards, decltype ( talk) 07:09, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
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tab, does it choose the reason, prefill the reason or do nothing? Regards
So
Why
07:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
<---- Yes, as it turns out User:Haza-w/Drop-down menus were causing it. They are part of the UI gadgets in preferences, so I didn't expect them to cause any trouble. decltype ( talk) 08:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
The Guns (Album) ... A9? — Ched : ? 07:36, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
<--- Well, you can be even more proud than usual this time, considering who the recipient is, and the events that led up to his successful RfA. Thanks again Ched! decltype ( talk) 08:57, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
The IP's latest offering here the page has been vandalised 3 times since you turned down the PP. IP is now blocked but will return when block is up or sooner with a new IP. BigDunc 13:52, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Just to let you know, Stahlkocher responded to your question at his talk page. My German is fairly limited. :) Thanks, Aptery gial 23:42, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I can't check, but I suspect User:Dnoorden and User:Dp enthusiast are the same person. They're both the sole contributors to Death Pineapple and the only users disputing its speedy deletion nomination. XXX antiuser 08:06, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
You recently declined the speedy deletion of Gurkirpal Surapuri saying "Subject might be important/significant (check Google News) / use WP:PROD or WP:AFD (CSDH)". I'm sure you know that the criteria for speedy deletion under A7 states:
That means that articles that might be important or significant but do not assert their significance are properly deleted under these criteria. If you think the subject of a speedy deletion nomination under A7 is notable, please edit the article asserting notability. If you disagree with the policy, please work to change it. Otherwise, please work within the policy except in exceptional circumstances. Best regards, Toddst1 ( talk) 15:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
“ | The criteria for speedy deletion specify the only cases in which administrators have broad consensus support to, at their discretion, bypass deletion discussion and immediately delete Wikipedia pages or media. (Emphasis added) | ” |
I have no objection to a restoration of Skatt Brothers if you update the article to so that it indicates why it is notable. Vegaswikian ( talk) 17:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I want to ask you something about my talk. Supposing it to be MY talk, I can edit information on it, no? What happened on spanish wikipedia is that someone BLOCKED me because of a blank page too. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Veranodelamor ( talk • contribs)
There's a new AfD nomination for an article you've previously discussed. Please stop by to voice your opinions again. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 11:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Was it your intention to actually block User:George Pappas? You left a block note on his talk page, but he is not blocked. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 11:56, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
At this diff, you said "his point of view regarding copyright issues which is quite different from current consensus". Would you please explain what copyright issue(s) I am apparently holding a view that is not in consensus? I am not trying to stir up trouble here. I'm asking honestly. I have and always will act within policy. If you think I am not, please show me. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 22:01, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you declined the speedy A7 with the comment "might be important/significant (check google scholar)". Could you elaborate on the latter part of your comment, the google scholar suggestion, particularly how citation and publication results from google scholar can be used as a reliable source for the importance of a scholar (without, i.e., meandering into the original research area). Thanks. RegentsPark ( sticks and stones) 14:25, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
I checked both the article and talk page of "Rudolf Caracciola", but didn't notice any errors or reports of them. Check again and make sure the error is gone. — Huntster ( t • @ • c) 14:33, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Why was this article deleted? I fixed it so it was no disparaging and not an attack page. Can you please re-create it as it existed when I fixed it? Thanks! 207.15.63.4 ( talk) 16:55, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if you, or one of your TPS, could have a look at User talk:Anthonydelgado1. It seems to me to be an improper use of a talk page, and the user's contributions over the past year aren't to anything but that page. Thanks in advance. Plastikspork ( talk) 22:53, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey man, sorry you didn't get appointed. I honestly think you'd have been great with the buttons. Cheers, Dylan 620 ( contribs, logs) help us! 12:02, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I gave Scheibenwischer some polish to make it sound more English before it goes to DYK. Though I left the country a long time ago, I remember the show, so thanks for adding it here. Seb az86556 ( talk) 11:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Hiya, I reviewed the Scheibenwischer DYK hook and it's fine; however, as it happens, there is another DYK article pointing to another instance of BR censorship on the DYK nominations page, and it's been suggested that the two hooks could be combined. Please have a look; could you liaise with the author of Die Konsequenz, user:Meco, on the DYK nominations page? Cheers, JN 466 23:32, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice improvement. Did you happen to come across that or go looking for one of him? Makes me wonder if there is a lot of this that could be done. Un sch ool 00:13, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot ( talk) at 04:16, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I nominated Xaviera for speedy deletion as a copyvio of http://editthis.info/wiki/Xaviera_Tytler but a moment later I reversed myself after realizing the other site was a wiki. A couple of hours later, I was still kind of wondering about the license for that wiki, and I couldn't find any answers there. I happened to check the WP logs, and discovered that you had deleted the page last week as a copyvio of the same site. If it's not too much trouble, would you have another look and see if it's appropriate to delete it again? Thanks, MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 07:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey there. Sorry about that! May I ask what criteria I placed that article under? I would have remembered but as you might imagine I have tagged well over a dozen pages for CSD today. :p But yeah, I admit sometimes I feel a bit of a difficulty in putting in the correct classification for CSD. E.g. I tag the page as CSD - Advertisment when there might have been a person there and his website (while it might have been better under A7 I felt that the person was more advertising the website than putting in his page on Wikipedia). But yeah, a review of the CSD page is in order hehe. Cheers! Calaka ( talk) 12:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your participation in my recent RfA. I will do my very best not to betray the confidence you have shown me. If you ever have any questions or suggestions about my conduct as an administrator or as an editor please don't hesitate to contact me. Once again, thanks. ·Maunus·ƛ· 04:43, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I should and could have just done that myself. Sorry to waste your time. Regards, ascidian | talk-to-me 14:44, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for stalking me! :P I appreciate all the help I can get. Cunard ( talk) 08:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Ball's in your court, my friend. wadester 16 16:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:01, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the detailed and helpful response, with all the additional places I could look, re criterion A7 on speedy deletion. Very helpful! -- Ishel99 ( talk) 06:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
SoWhy, I offer you my best wishes whilst you are studying for your Staatsexamen. In my view this is a very well-thought out approach by the German education/career system and I have met many Germans who have studied and passed. I will be watching to hear of your success also.-- VirtualSteve need admin support? 11:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello and good morning. I saw you declined the speedy of this article and several others by the same creator. Before I go for AfD, could you explain your reasoning so I can get a better understanding? I don't see any claim of notability. I saw in the history you also declined the speedy from User:Wuzwazdat who is a very successful speedy nominator. I understand the reasons to decline his speedy, though, it wasn't advertising. Would you support an AfD for not meeting WP:BIO and declined on principal or do you think the article should stay? Thanks, v/r-- TParis00ap ( talk) 12:19, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi SoWhy. I noticed that the talk page there was a redlink. Didn't know if you wanted to copy her contrib stats there or not. Doesn't matter to me, I just looked through them manually, but a lot of noms seem to do that copypasta thing for the talk page. Cheers. — Ched : ? 13:47, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
This is to let you know that I removed your PROD on this article in order to include it in this AfD with two other related articles. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 17:00, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Hey there SoWhy. I was wondering if you might take a look at this RfA. At RfA 1, the candidate had a bit of a problem with speedy deletions; I wondered if you might take a look at his more recent deleted taggings to see if he has improved. Thanks, NW ( Talk) 12:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
I think the Taymaishu RfA was still live when I clicked the edit button, but I didn't see an ec when I saved, so I could be wrong. I know it was live when I was reading it. -- SPhilbrick T 11:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated WikiBlame ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Killiondude ( talk) 23:50, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your advice, I will keep it in mind. I didn't mean to be belligerent but sometimes I percieve that kind of comment as disrespect. Anyways, Thanks Again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaelen S. ( talk • contribs) 10:21, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello SoWhy
I am very new to wikipedia and thanks for declining a deletion on my page on Naval Aviation Museum. It was just that I made an information box and then needed more time to think about my article about the museum thoroughly. so thanks for that.
I also had another question.
I have some great phots of India, Canada and Netherlands, that I wanted to give to wiki commons. However, when I upload file in wiki commons; in the information box; under author, I can only write my name. I want to write my name but also when they click on my name it goes to my Flickr page, like how some people have it.
Can you please tell me how to do this and also how to go back and do it for the one's I already uploaded.
Thanks
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For regularly declining speedy deletion on poorly written but notable subjects, procedurally converting speedy templates to PRODs, and otherwise tirelessly working to properly enforce our speedy deletion criteria, I hereby award you this barnstar. Thank you for doing what is best (evaluating each case carefully) rather than just doing what is easiest (looks non-notable => delete). -- ThaddeusB ( talk) 20:14, 26 August 2009 (UTC) |
Hi, I noticed that you'd renamed this article. Could you comment on the discussion at the article's talk page? Thanks Hertzsprung ( talk) 22:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Happy editing!
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For the best nomination statement that I've ever read, though I could, perhaps, be just a wee bit biased,
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Hello SoWhy, thank you for your message. My apologies are in order if I've used a template incorrectly. To my knowledge, I have only ever used a "speedy delete" template once before, and tried to provide a rationale at that time, but it did not appear to affix itself to the banner, so I simply assumed it wasn't absolutely necessary. I will make certain to read the documentation you've provided. Thanks again, and have yourself a pleasant day :) WikHead ( talk) 18:59, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
I was surprised by the heading of the message above on your talk page, but I see it was a test! Actually, it is the subject I came to discuss: some time ago, you declined two db-band speedies of mine. That worried me, because I like to get these things right, and it sent me back to re-read your WP:10CSD and WP:A7M, and there are two points I would like to discuss:
Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 18:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I was going to AfD this, but then I thought I would check with you first. The taxidermy article mentions "digital taxidermy" but it calls it "reproduction taxidermy". Do you think this "technique" warrants its own article? Maedin\ talk 19:51, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
I really hate to keep bringing this up, but could you please ask Stahlkocher for some more info on the above image? It doesn't look like the vague info we have now will cut it, and despite quite a bit of searching I've been unable to find the original file at any "DB-Archiv". Could you please ask him for clarification? Cheers, Aptery gial 13:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
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I turned on Twinkle in my monobook.js and it worked ok, but there is a thing or two I don't like about it. I decided to tweak the settings, so I loaded the full configuration and deleted (or left blank) the parts I didn't want. Now it isn't working at all. Do you have any idea what I need to do to fix it? Thanks! Maedin\ talk 08:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I closed this here. Since you are more active in the CSDs, could you do the move/redirect per your suggested solution? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 06:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
This is a clear and blatant case of self promotion. Jeff Mowatt and his associate Terry Hall;man are using Wikipedia to self promote their "company" which goes by the same name. All references on the page created by Jeff Mowatt link back to self initiated and published articles. People Centered Economic Development (Ukraine) has no assets, not offices and no investments in Ukraine. It has no proved successes or direct involvement in any Economic development project in Ukraine. It exist in a virtual word of the internet. No independent verification or referees could be provided. Independent reviews have all come to the same conclusion. Terry Hallman the "director" of the company claims that he has c`lose associations with US president Bill Clinton and US Aid. US Aid deny any association with Mr Hallman Jeff Mowatt or their company. Mr Hallman was expelled from the UK as being an Economic migrant and has been living in Ukraine pretending he is a successful director of an international economic development company, using Wikipedia and other publications as a defacto authoristaion/verification of what is otherwise unverifable. I suggest you think again before you bring Wikiedia into disrepute.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.190.40.8 ( talk) 06:08, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 17:15, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 11:22, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Dear colleague, I just want to wish you a happy, hopefully, extended holiday weekend and nice end to summer! Your friend, -- A Nobody My talk 04:38, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 23:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
...for Ryan McKee. You said "Playing for a notable team indicates importance/significance"--but the guy doesn't play for the team, he plays on the practice squad. Drmies ( talk) 21:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, SoWhy. I responded to your note about Love Hunter at the DYK page. If my answer is insufficient, please let me know. Thanks! Dekkappai ( talk) 22:10, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Freundlichen Grüßen SoWhy. There's been some concern at the low level of RfAs recently, and one of the outcomes has been the establishment of WP:VETTING. The idea is that experienced editors with knowledge of RfA give realistic feedback to would-be candidates, so that those who would have a rough time at RfA are spared the trauma, and those who would be good candidates but aren't confident that they'd have a chance are encouraged to run. The process needs experienced RfA observers to work, and since you often give good reviews to candidates and have influential !votes, I wonder if you would consider watchlisting the page and contributing feedback from time to time? Mahalo, Skomorokh 22:06, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
There's a request for unprotection on a page you indef full-protected. Do you mind handling it? I assume it's okay to move to semi-protection, but I'd rather leave it to you. tedder ( talk) 06:41, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Indeed, it does makes a useful redirect, but we should move its history to Metaxourgeio. This involves deleting (and restoring later). My choice to ask for deletion was as you pointed out, wrong.-- FocalPoint ( talk) 17:31, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
OK, this also, is correct. -- FocalPoint ( talk) 18:02, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
This word does not appear in the target. That should be a valid reason to delete this. -- Eingangskontrolle ( talk) 08:36, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, thanks for the undeleted articles. Now they are proper stubs I think (the German articles are much longer, but mostly unsourced, so I don't translate them). If I have more time I want to stub some more politicians from Hamburg. So I will definitely ask you. Cheers. Sebastian scha. ( talk) 12:33, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that we are coming up to a point where we will need a new service award so I though up a design and created a template which you can see below. Give me an idea of what you think.
Regards, Gaelen S. Talk • Contribs 06:14, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your suggestions. I will go ahead and look into creating a extra book of knowledge and possibly a ribbon equivalent as well.
Regards, Gaelen S. Talk • Contribs 14:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
List of Possible Service Awards
I have followed your advice and created a Book of Knowledge with a secret appendix, a new template for the default service award and a ribbon equivalent, all of which you can see if you follow the link above. Let me know what you think. By the way, if I do end up adding it to the list of service awards I might need some simple assistance in order to figure out how to add it to the table.
Regards, Gaelen S. Talk • Contribs 05:52, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for removing some rather less polite German from my talk page. Favonian ( talk) 16:47, 24 September 2009 (UTC)