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Hi there. I think you made a mistake deleting Allan Pease. If you check the history for that article, there was a previous non-G12/non-G11 version to revert to instead of speedy deleting it. The copyvio was only added today and it seems like both you and Σ fell for it. I think restoring the old version is the best way to go forward, so please do so. Regards So Why 10:43, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello: I've performed some research regading the Montreal Forest Development article, and since you have contributed to the AfD discussion, I am requesting that you revisit the discussion to read my comments. Only people that have contributed to the AfD discussion for the article are receiving this notice (no canvassing). Thank you for your consideration. Northamerica1000 (talk) 02:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I had been writing the page entitled 'UCL Energy Institute' and had a message soon after creation that it had been flagged up as potential advertising. This had absolutely not been my intention but more perhaps my style of writing so I had been working really hard on changing the text and adding more references. I had spent hours on this and would really have appreciated the chance to improve the page as I had been directed. Please can I have it returned so I can continue to improve it, and any advice on how it could be improved would be much appreciated. Thank you Jones5153 ( talk) 16:49, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am new and have only a few edits under my belt. The PHI Inc. Article that I created was deleted by you after you stated that I copied the PHI facebook page. However, the article I created had very little in common with the PHI facebook page. The article I created was created using verifiable sources. Thompson Reuters, Google Stocks, Business Index Website, which in it self has multiple Print and Text references. The specifics financials, numbers, executives, inventory (fleet), etc was sourced directly from SEC filings as recent as Dec 2011. The data on the aircraft was properly linked to articles within wikipedia. The format was similar to other Aviation companies, specifically other helicopter transport services. The data was presented as unbiased, factual claims that verifiable by several sources. It is true and would follow that a company that produces a facebook page would use similar data from similar sources to describe it's own company. However the article I posted was no where near identical in any way to the facebook page. I have cited an example from below. You can read in full text on facebook and User:Firemedicmonkey/sandbox
My article text:
"PHI Inc. (NASDAQ: PHII, NASDAQ: PHIIK) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana United States that is one of the world’s largest helicopter services companies, specializing in the following services:
Transportation to and from offshore oil and gas platforms
Air medical evacuation and civilian search and rescue services
Helicopter maintenance repair and overhaul
Helicopter Pilot and Crew Training
PHI Inc. is one of several global providers of helicopter transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry, principally in the Gulf of Mexico (the others including Bristow Group, Inc. (Air Logistics) and SEACOR Holdings Inc. (Era Helicopters LLC) The Company also provides helicopter services to the oil and gas industry internationally, and to non-oil and gas customers and United States governmental agencies, such as the National Science Foundation. PHI claims to provide it's customers with the safest, most reliable helicopter transportation in the world.[2]
The Company operates in three segments: Oil and Gas, Air Medical, and Technical Services. The Company also provides air medical transportation for hospitals and emergency service agencies where it operates as an independent provider of medical services. PHI Inc. Owns or operates more than 256 aircraft domestically and internationally. 162 aircraft are dedicated to its Oil and Gas segment. 89 aircraft are dedicated to its Air Medical segment. They also operate five aircraft for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica."
PHI Inc Facebook Page Text:
"About
Our Mission is to provide worldwide helicopter services that are unsurpassed in safety and customer satisfaction.
Mission
Our Mission is to provide worldwide helicopter services that are unsurpassed in safety and customer satisfaction. We are a team dedicated to continuous improvement in an environment that promotes trust, personal growth, and mutual respect.
Description
To trace the progress of PHI over the past 62 years is to chart the development and growth of the helicopter’s increasing value to the offshore oil & gas industry and the Air Medical industry. The company’s technological and procedural innovations have contributed to the progress of every segment of the industries we service. Helicopter manufacturers, other commercial helicopter operators, and everyone involved in the offshore rotary-wing flight, have benefited from the storehouse of knowledge accumulated and shared by PHI."
So I submit to you did you actually ready my article and follow my references to verifiable sources? Or did you just look at the fact that I used an outside link to the companies facebook page and assumed that I copied it? There is no similarities in style or wording between the two... While the data present is the same as would be expected since the goal of each is the same to present information about this company a world leader in their field...
Finally I present to you the text of an article that is published here from CHC Helicopters... "CHC Helicopter is one of the world’s largest helicopter services companies, specializing in the following services: Transportation to offshore oil and gas platforms Civilian search and rescue and air medical evacuation services Helicopter maintenance repair and overhaul CHC Helicopter is headquartered in Richmond, BC and operates more than 250 aircraft in 30 countries around the world. CHC's major international operating units are based in the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Australia. CHC Helicopter is one of several global providers of helicopter transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry (the others including Bristow Helicopters) and claims to be the most experienced helicopter operator in the world.[citation needed] CHC has capabilities in precision flying techniques and technical support. CHC has long-term working relationships with most of the major oil and gas companies. CHC operates the marine search and rescue service for the Irish Coast Guard at Shannon, Waterford, Sligo and Dublin airports and provides commercial Search and Rescue helicopter services for the United Kingdom Maritime and Coastguard Agency. CHC provides helicopter services in Australia for the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia, the Victoria Police Force and Ambulance Service of New South Wales."
This is the actual style and format that I based my article on... In an attempt to provide uniformity amongst articles of the similar topic (Helicopter Service Companies) This article here has neither been flagged for deletion or deleted... It does require more unbiased and third party sources, however it remains... Finally did I not provide third party resources i.e. Thompson Reuters, Industry Profile. What other source could I site for information such as inventory, bases, financials, than company data submitted to the SEC. Data that was retrieved via Thompson Reuters, as well as from the actual filings. While dated and still in the process of review these sources for the complete history of the company here they are... Antosh, Nelson, "Petroleum Helicopters Flies Into Local Hands," Houston Chronicle, September 7, 2001, p. 2. Barrett, William P., "Do I Look like a Haggard Cat?," Forbes, October 29, 1990, p. 44. Biers, John M., "Chairman of Gulf's Largest Copter Firm to Step Down; Carroll Suggs Sells Majority Stake in Firm After Losing Union Battle," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), September 8, 2001, Money Sec., p. 1.
, "Copter Strike Averted; PHI, Pilots Union Get Over Hump," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), April 28, 2001, Money Sec., p. 1.
, "Helicopter Firm to Get New Home," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), January 5, 1999, p. C1.
Gonzales, Angela, "Air Evac Parent Lays Off 70 Workers, Unloads Assets," Business Journal of Phoenix, November 19, 1999. Griggs, Ted, "Exec Tells Challenges of Business," Advocate (Baton Rouge), November 6, 1999, p. 1C. Guardiano, John, "PHI Appoints New President," Helicopter News, October 6, 2000.
, "PHI President Promoted to CEO," Helicopter News, September 6, 2001.
"Helicopter Firm Cuts 220 Jobs; Lafayette Company Tries to Boost Stock After 2-Year Profit Spiral," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Money Sec., February 8, 2001, p. 1. Lear, Calvin, "Larger Facility Planned to Keep PHI in Lafayette," Advocate (Baton Rouge), October 23, 1996, p. 3B. "Maurice M. Bayon, 92, Founder of PHI," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), March 29, 2001, Metro Sec., p. 3. "PHI 50th Anniversary," special issue of Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La.), February 19, 1999, pp. 1-56.
So please tell me exactly how am I supposed to cite information so it is acceptable to you... Do you need a citation for every sentence since the facebook page uses the same words in different sentences while talking about the same subject...
Firemedicmonkey ( talk) 07:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
You had mentioned "I think the usual standard is that they must either show the notability by having an article about them in Wikipedia, or be obviously qualified to have one. In case there is doubt whether someone would be qualified, the best way of testing it is to try to write an article about them. DGG ( talk ) 23:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)"
Thankyou for the much appreciated guidance on setting out an article. I am an experienced writer and researcher, but not an experienced wiki-editor. That was my first attempt at setting out an article from (almost) the beginning. Your edits have made all the difference. -- LutherBlissetts ( talk) 20:30, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
GouramiWatcher (Gulp) 00:55, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I am new and would like to submit an edit for a specific article. Is it possible for you to review it prior to submission? I want to make sure I stay a good standing member of Wikipedia and follow the right community rules. Your expert insight would be great, thank you. Arjunarocks ( talk) 22:16, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Left you a reply there; the situation is a bit more complex. See also my other comments on his talkpage and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vicente Locaso. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 00:46, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I answered your message on my own talk page.-- Ragheb.araby ( talk) 00:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC
Left you a reply there; the situation is a bit more complex. See also my other comments on his talkpage and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vicente Locaso. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 00:46, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I don't understand why you deleted my article about Harvey Shapiro MD. It took a lot of work to research the information about this man who wrote a book that I enjoyed and who created a lifesaving procedure to induce coma for brain injury that nearly saved my friend's kid's life! I wrote it in the style presented for many other authors that are listed on Wikipedia. I am thoroughly confused. Your response would be greatly appreciated. -- wolfeys Wolfeys ( talk) 00:50, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey DGG/Archive 64 May 2012 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.
On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).
On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Bongo matic 03:35, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
its one thing for everyone to turn up to afd's and 'scrub' prods and so on and say oh if it has a name - it must have an entry - (tongallan) but no one ever is around in years (at the Indonesian project) to provide a ref - sad - but true Satu Suro 13:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
It's not a parody site. They really believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and that Jesus rode dinosaurs. Their constituency is also close to winning the U.S. election in November. Margaret Atwood already predicted this in The Handmaid's Tale. Ignorance is now a virtue. I hope the Second Foundation is setup and ready to go. We'll need it. Viriditas ( talk) 10:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
What do you think of this? Not sure if the awards are enough to establish the notability here, but wanted your opinion. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 12:51, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks like the salon may be notable:
Dear Administrator DGG, hello! Thank you for reviewing the situation at ANI and commenting there. I have made my closing remark and response to you here. Thanks for taking the time to read and review my comment. I hope you have a pleasant evening and look forward to you closing the discussion. With regards, Anupam Talk 02:28, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
See here. My main reason for responding to your post was to point out that we should not attack other editors for their opinions and their approach to editing when it is done in good faith with a view to improving WP, even when it conflicts with what you would view to be an ideal or preferred editing approach. I think that is inappropriate and I would hope you would reconsider your statements re: others being a "baleful influence", and so forth. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Administrator User:DGG, this notice was added underneath every comment by User:Cody7777777. Is this appropriate? I have reverted the addition of this notice and requested that it be added as one comment. If I was incorrect, I apologize for my revert. However, in my opinion, the addition was inappropriate and seemed like a bad faith attempt to undermine the comments of a veteran editor. I hope you have a nice evening. With regards, Anupam Talk 03:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey DGG, you mentioned something about a "Arb Com psudoscience case" on the Admin board. Can you tell me a bit more about that? I tend to work on a number of pages that attract editors who try to add pseudoscientific claims, so I'm wondering if whatever this Arb Com thing is might help for my future editing efforts. Thanks! JoelWhy ( talk) 12:49, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Please, I urge you to reconsider your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Erives. This guy is not worthy of a Wikipedia article, and he (or someone closely connected with him) is stinking up many articles with this fringe " Proto-anticodon RNA" which really has only one citation. Look at how User:HPBiochemie introduced only this material to Wikipedia. Speciate ( talk) 04:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I am seriously concerned that you are ignoring very important evidence from Anupam. In this edit, Anupam states that "Bobrayner has been using an offsite email list in order to coordinate individuals at this report." If any such evidence of off-wiki coordination exists, per WP:EEML, Anupam should be forwarding it to Arbcom, not using it on ANI.
Please instruct Anupam to forward his evidence to Arbcom via email immediately, and inform Arbcom that they will be receiving said evidence. Obviously, to focus Anupam on forwarding his evidence to Arbcom, you should probably prevent him from getting distracted by other tasks on Wikipedia by indef blocking him. Thank you.
Please note that I intend to open an Arbcom case on this mailing list issue posthaste. Hipocrite ( talk) 17:37, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, I posted a question to you on User_talk:bobrayner. Thanks. — Jess· Δ ♥ 20:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I disagree pretty strongly with your warning to Bobrayner and your subsequent block of his account. When you are feeling calm, please post here and we can discuss. Thanks. Pine (talk) 06:58, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
DGG, can you take a look at this guy and his edits? He's requested G11 on a page that doesn't warrant it (see talk page for The Non-GMO Project for his explanation of G11), placed a {{ notability}} tag on Kashi (which I've stricken), and done some other stuff. I hate to say this, but I'm having a hard time [[WP:AGF|assuming good faith with this guy - and with having created recently and done these edits yesterday, I'm wondering if I'm smelling socks. Granted I could be wrong, but something doesn't seem right about this. -- Dennis The Tiger ( Rawr and stuff) 07:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Esteemed DGG, you were mentioned at ANI. Just wanted to be able to say I got the jump on the esteemed User:Uncle G. JJB 05:03, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 May 4#Category:Books about Christianity. Please comment on a revised proposal there. – Fayenatic London (talk) 12:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm not convinced why you have decided to keep that article. While I admit that it was wrong on my part to nominate it on the grounds of discontinuity, I have subsequently raised the notability concerns. A google search shows up nothing verifiable on the existence of such a newspaper. The thecolombopost.com domain hosts what seems to be a mirror of the website of Derana TV, a local TV channel. Therefore, I don't think the subject is in any way notable. Thanks! ASTRONOMYINERTIA ( TALK) 16:33, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the apology. I accept it. SL93 ( talk) 13:34, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey DGG! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 03:29, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG,
Can I ask as to why the Mitchell_Wolfson,_Jr. page has been deleted due to (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.wolfsonian.org/about/founder)?
What text or material was exactly infringing copyright? And which material/text was Unambiguous advertising or promotion?
I am only asking as the last time I read the article I sincerely didn't notice any infringing material but I have to admit I am still a bit new to this. Many thanks.
Maximo98 ( talk) 09:20, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring it. Maximo98 ( talk) 16:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC) ""I am now editing it as i thing necessary . DGG ( talk ) 06:31, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've got a question about the level-of-detail in a law-related article. You are in the list of volunteers for the WP:FRS under "law/politics", so I hope you don't mind helping out. Can you look at Wikipedia:Peer review/Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders/archive3 and provide some input about the question posed there at the bottom? I've pinged the peer reviewer, but I think they have no legal/political expertise, so they don't have a response. Any help would be appreciated! I'm going to be submitting this for Featured Article status soon, and this is the final remaining issue. Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. I was checking International Jewish Correspondence while working at Copyright problems. As you had originally tagged this with {{ Copypaste}}, I wonder if you could have a quick look at my comments on Talk:International Jewish Correspondence re this issue and the issue of the subject's notability. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 05:22, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Redtigerxyz Talk 17:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I left you another message at this page.-- Ragheb.araby ( talk) 18:23, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi DGG. Could you please help to move Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico TO History of the Jews in Puerto Rico, since all such articles are titled e.g. History of the Jews in Canada, History of the Jews in New York, History of the Jews in Ohio etc etc etc. Thanks for your efforts as I work to tidy up the loose ends. Best wishes, IZAK ( talk) 07:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
As you oppose deletion of the Alexander Anderson (Hellsing) article in favor of merging, would you care to comment on the matter? Some guy ( talk) 00:03, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Heya. I know you patrol expired PRODs and expired BLPPRODs, and as a result you might have an opinion on this -- largely, I'd like to "fix" the problem that the BLPPROD "days left" and "expired" categories don't work properly, one way or another. I've suggested a relatively simple bot-based solution, another editor has suggested moving to a categories based on placement date, much like traditional PRODs. Since you actually *use* these categories, your input would be valued. Thanks! -- joe decker talk to me 21:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I've been commenting over at the user RfC regarding Agent00f. Dennis Brown has indicated that you have mentored him or been close to him over a long period of time.
At the end of UFC "inherently notable" discussion, you indicated both some interest and familiarity with long standing wiki policy on notability. I replied and linked to some guidance by another editor (JBB) in similar shoes you might be interested in discussing this matter with. His most recent comments at the end. Thanks. Agent00f ( talk) 10:30, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The IP essentially reverted all of your edits. CrazyAces489 ( talk) 05:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you perhaps have a look at this article? Some editors are trying to insert what I think is unsourced and unwarranted assertions, but perhaps I'm wrong. The journal is also included in many databases that, I think, would not include it if it weren't peer-reviewed, although I admit that the journal website doesn't say so explicitly. Your opinion would be welcome. Thanks! -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 13:33, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. I'm going to try to make it to your session at Wikimania. If Jimmy sticks around after the plenary session and isn't barraged I might see if I can get his feedback on what a paid editor would need to do to not just be tolerated, but seen as an asset to Wikipedia. The unconference would be a good time to meet up. At some point much further down the line I would like to get some form of independent review/assessment on our McKinsey efforts from an uninvolved editor, just to make sure we've all done a great job serving the reader. User:King4057 (COI Disclosure on User Page) 17:49, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm not saying that you meant what you said, but there appears to be a trend. Northamerica basically said the same thing as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gabriel Pizza which I didn't even nominate for deletion. Uncle G acted like I didn't follow WP:BEFORE at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neurathian bootstrap just because I didn't know that it had other names. Kvng said at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Compojure that I didn't consider merging the non-notable article even though I did. Haus said at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E&BV Subdivision that he found sources in the same amount of time that it took me to nominate the article for deletion. I said that I don't think those sources show notability and another editor agreed with me. So annoying. SL93 ( talk) 14:59, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Please comment.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:33, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Dear user, I found your name here WikiProject_Paid_Advocacy_Watch and was wondering whether you could take a look at at [ talk page on Kosovo], specifically the bit about the proposed merger to determine whether these very (overly) active users are suspicious. It boggles my mind how a group of editors can be so united and zealous in promoting a particular case without receiving some sort of reward (?) Ottomanist ( talk) 11:49, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
David, I should perhaps have noted this on the talk page, but there is something weird with the review in the Deutsches Ärtzeblatt: it is written by the person who set up this "metatextbook" (see bottom of the huge linked page). So I don't think that it is really a review and certainly not independent. Perhaps too complicated for CSD... Should I take it to AfD? -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 16:29, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Resource-based economic model -- any chance you'll reconsider your !vote after the additional discussion? You mentioned "zealots" in your comment a lot. The !voters Zach, Ijon and Biophilly are all on Wikipedia for the primary purpose of editing the TZM/TVP related articles, and besides them there are several more. They're *already* difficult to handle (see the current !vote balance on the AfD and the edit history of TZM), it'd be better for everyone if we had one less article to fight over. You say that it should be rewritten but who's gonna do that? You made an attempt but it was entirely reverted by the 'owner' of the article. None of us will have the patience or interest to rewrite it into a suitable form (if one such exists), and none of them are likely to be capable of writing a neutral article. This coupled with the concerns already listed in the AfD, I really think the article should go. Please reconsider. Any well-sourced material is suitable to be merged into the TVP article. — Jeraphine Gryphon ( talk) 23:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Please, I urge you to reconsider your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Erives. This guy is not worthy of a Wikipedia article, and he (or someone closely connected with him) is stinking up many articles with this fringe " Proto-anticodon RNA" which really has only one citation. Look at how User:HPBiochemie introduced only this material to Wikipedia. Speciate ( talk) 04:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG,
At the beginning of this year you were kind enough to leave me a message trying to cheer me up after I tried to save business related content on Wikipedia from deletion. I am having a similar problem now, trying to save business related categories that I believe are important.
If you have the time (but I will understand if you don't), I would greatly appreciate you having a look at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_May_23#Category:Major_shareholders_of_Yahoo.21 and helping me decide if there is any point in trying to oppose this deletion. Ottawahitech ( talk) 02:01, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking forward to seeing you at Wikimania Takes Manhattan - I will also be in DC. --David Shankbone 03:57, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
The point is that this article is a textbook BLP1E, and Geo Swan has gotten flak specifically for having this type of article in userspace and in mainspace; regardless of whether it belongs in userspace or not, I'm not going to enable someone to restore an article when I would immediately send it to AFD. "If I did that, and the article stays in the same form, it will be very rapidly deleted, which is not what you desire" — and this article cannot help being in the form of a BLP1E unless Geo Swan find persistent coverage, of which I've heard nothing from him/her. Nyttend ( talk) 12:11, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
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Could you undo the deletion? I have included a link to nytimes article. That seems good enough. You may not agree, but any case it's not up for you to decide. Take it to an afd, if needed. -- Taku ( talk) 04:37, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
User talk:Lifespan9 new today and needs help--do you mind? Thanks, We hope ( talk) 18:55, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
A fellow editor that I am mentoring brought up this article. There are some legitimate concerns, on many levels. It is short and I'm sure you will see the concerns. BLPs are not my forte, so if you have the time and can briefly review and offer a little guidance on, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks as always. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 23:30, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
DGG,
Re Japanese naval armaments supplement programmes, a drive-by tagging does not qualify as content. Maintenance tags are not content, merge tags included. When I guy throws on a couple of tags and puts in zero effort (I mean that, none of the source pages were tagged for merge), we shouldn't encourage that. And let's not forget, these tags were placed THREE YEARS AGO. This is the kind of junk merge proposal that makes dealing with the merge backlog so damn difficult, and your action just made it harder for no benefit. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:42, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of the article, you found a better solution than what I suggested.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 17:42, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey! Can you please take a look at Charles Duncan (artist). It is nominated on AfD as a hoax. I'd really appreciate the help. -- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 15:46, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi DGG, because you declined the speedy deletion for William Eivind Hall I've nominated the article for AfD. Personally I'm not sure how being on the executive board of a notable company confers notability on an individual, but we'll see what the great and good of Wikipedia think. All the best. Sionk ( talk) 19:26, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I noticed that System of Systems Integration ( talk · contribs) (the article creator) removed the prods you put on System of Systems Integration and Network Integration Evaluation, and thought you might like to know that I bundled them together and sent them over to AFD. Dori ☾ Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 04:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
To clarify, it was said by implication that this book [1] is a reliable source that mentions The Body Electric. I think this book is clearly not reliable and thus has no bearing. My comment is not about The Body Electric itself. IRWolfie- ( talk) 10:02, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
-- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 10:26, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I agree that 8000-10,000 articles would demand years of hard work to get them all up to a reasonable status but the average township article could look like Anxiang Township. If they are all deleted, chances are in might not be for years until anybody covers much of them. And the thing is, all the stubs link to the website which just needs the exact township linked and a bit of data extracted. I think it would be far more productive in the long term to organize something to add the Chinese and exact links and try to use something to extract raw data.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Yeah 8000 articles is too much for anybody to have to deal with, but creating that many decent articles it might be ten years before that is accomplished. Priority really though should be expanding the Chinese county articles.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:48, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Thought you might want to expand Taxatio Ecclesiastica.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there. I think you made a mistake deleting Allan Pease. If you check the history for that article, there was a previous non-G12/non-G11 version to revert to instead of speedy deleting it. The copyvio was only added today and it seems like both you and Σ fell for it. I think restoring the old version is the best way to go forward, so please do so. Regards So Why 10:43, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello: I've performed some research regading the Montreal Forest Development article, and since you have contributed to the AfD discussion, I am requesting that you revisit the discussion to read my comments. Only people that have contributed to the AfD discussion for the article are receiving this notice (no canvassing). Thank you for your consideration. Northamerica1000 (talk) 02:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I had been writing the page entitled 'UCL Energy Institute' and had a message soon after creation that it had been flagged up as potential advertising. This had absolutely not been my intention but more perhaps my style of writing so I had been working really hard on changing the text and adding more references. I had spent hours on this and would really have appreciated the chance to improve the page as I had been directed. Please can I have it returned so I can continue to improve it, and any advice on how it could be improved would be much appreciated. Thank you Jones5153 ( talk) 16:49, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am new and have only a few edits under my belt. The PHI Inc. Article that I created was deleted by you after you stated that I copied the PHI facebook page. However, the article I created had very little in common with the PHI facebook page. The article I created was created using verifiable sources. Thompson Reuters, Google Stocks, Business Index Website, which in it self has multiple Print and Text references. The specifics financials, numbers, executives, inventory (fleet), etc was sourced directly from SEC filings as recent as Dec 2011. The data on the aircraft was properly linked to articles within wikipedia. The format was similar to other Aviation companies, specifically other helicopter transport services. The data was presented as unbiased, factual claims that verifiable by several sources. It is true and would follow that a company that produces a facebook page would use similar data from similar sources to describe it's own company. However the article I posted was no where near identical in any way to the facebook page. I have cited an example from below. You can read in full text on facebook and User:Firemedicmonkey/sandbox
My article text:
"PHI Inc. (NASDAQ: PHII, NASDAQ: PHIIK) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana United States that is one of the world’s largest helicopter services companies, specializing in the following services:
Transportation to and from offshore oil and gas platforms
Air medical evacuation and civilian search and rescue services
Helicopter maintenance repair and overhaul
Helicopter Pilot and Crew Training
PHI Inc. is one of several global providers of helicopter transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry, principally in the Gulf of Mexico (the others including Bristow Group, Inc. (Air Logistics) and SEACOR Holdings Inc. (Era Helicopters LLC) The Company also provides helicopter services to the oil and gas industry internationally, and to non-oil and gas customers and United States governmental agencies, such as the National Science Foundation. PHI claims to provide it's customers with the safest, most reliable helicopter transportation in the world.[2]
The Company operates in three segments: Oil and Gas, Air Medical, and Technical Services. The Company also provides air medical transportation for hospitals and emergency service agencies where it operates as an independent provider of medical services. PHI Inc. Owns or operates more than 256 aircraft domestically and internationally. 162 aircraft are dedicated to its Oil and Gas segment. 89 aircraft are dedicated to its Air Medical segment. They also operate five aircraft for the National Science Foundation in Antarctica."
PHI Inc Facebook Page Text:
"About
Our Mission is to provide worldwide helicopter services that are unsurpassed in safety and customer satisfaction.
Mission
Our Mission is to provide worldwide helicopter services that are unsurpassed in safety and customer satisfaction. We are a team dedicated to continuous improvement in an environment that promotes trust, personal growth, and mutual respect.
Description
To trace the progress of PHI over the past 62 years is to chart the development and growth of the helicopter’s increasing value to the offshore oil & gas industry and the Air Medical industry. The company’s technological and procedural innovations have contributed to the progress of every segment of the industries we service. Helicopter manufacturers, other commercial helicopter operators, and everyone involved in the offshore rotary-wing flight, have benefited from the storehouse of knowledge accumulated and shared by PHI."
So I submit to you did you actually ready my article and follow my references to verifiable sources? Or did you just look at the fact that I used an outside link to the companies facebook page and assumed that I copied it? There is no similarities in style or wording between the two... While the data present is the same as would be expected since the goal of each is the same to present information about this company a world leader in their field...
Finally I present to you the text of an article that is published here from CHC Helicopters... "CHC Helicopter is one of the world’s largest helicopter services companies, specializing in the following services: Transportation to offshore oil and gas platforms Civilian search and rescue and air medical evacuation services Helicopter maintenance repair and overhaul CHC Helicopter is headquartered in Richmond, BC and operates more than 250 aircraft in 30 countries around the world. CHC's major international operating units are based in the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Australia. CHC Helicopter is one of several global providers of helicopter transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry (the others including Bristow Helicopters) and claims to be the most experienced helicopter operator in the world.[citation needed] CHC has capabilities in precision flying techniques and technical support. CHC has long-term working relationships with most of the major oil and gas companies. CHC operates the marine search and rescue service for the Irish Coast Guard at Shannon, Waterford, Sligo and Dublin airports and provides commercial Search and Rescue helicopter services for the United Kingdom Maritime and Coastguard Agency. CHC provides helicopter services in Australia for the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia, the Victoria Police Force and Ambulance Service of New South Wales."
This is the actual style and format that I based my article on... In an attempt to provide uniformity amongst articles of the similar topic (Helicopter Service Companies) This article here has neither been flagged for deletion or deleted... It does require more unbiased and third party sources, however it remains... Finally did I not provide third party resources i.e. Thompson Reuters, Industry Profile. What other source could I site for information such as inventory, bases, financials, than company data submitted to the SEC. Data that was retrieved via Thompson Reuters, as well as from the actual filings. While dated and still in the process of review these sources for the complete history of the company here they are... Antosh, Nelson, "Petroleum Helicopters Flies Into Local Hands," Houston Chronicle, September 7, 2001, p. 2. Barrett, William P., "Do I Look like a Haggard Cat?," Forbes, October 29, 1990, p. 44. Biers, John M., "Chairman of Gulf's Largest Copter Firm to Step Down; Carroll Suggs Sells Majority Stake in Firm After Losing Union Battle," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), September 8, 2001, Money Sec., p. 1.
, "Copter Strike Averted; PHI, Pilots Union Get Over Hump," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), April 28, 2001, Money Sec., p. 1.
, "Helicopter Firm to Get New Home," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), January 5, 1999, p. C1.
Gonzales, Angela, "Air Evac Parent Lays Off 70 Workers, Unloads Assets," Business Journal of Phoenix, November 19, 1999. Griggs, Ted, "Exec Tells Challenges of Business," Advocate (Baton Rouge), November 6, 1999, p. 1C. Guardiano, John, "PHI Appoints New President," Helicopter News, October 6, 2000.
, "PHI President Promoted to CEO," Helicopter News, September 6, 2001.
"Helicopter Firm Cuts 220 Jobs; Lafayette Company Tries to Boost Stock After 2-Year Profit Spiral," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Money Sec., February 8, 2001, p. 1. Lear, Calvin, "Larger Facility Planned to Keep PHI in Lafayette," Advocate (Baton Rouge), October 23, 1996, p. 3B. "Maurice M. Bayon, 92, Founder of PHI," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), March 29, 2001, Metro Sec., p. 3. "PHI 50th Anniversary," special issue of Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La.), February 19, 1999, pp. 1-56.
So please tell me exactly how am I supposed to cite information so it is acceptable to you... Do you need a citation for every sentence since the facebook page uses the same words in different sentences while talking about the same subject...
Firemedicmonkey ( talk) 07:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
You had mentioned "I think the usual standard is that they must either show the notability by having an article about them in Wikipedia, or be obviously qualified to have one. In case there is doubt whether someone would be qualified, the best way of testing it is to try to write an article about them. DGG ( talk ) 23:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)"
Thankyou for the much appreciated guidance on setting out an article. I am an experienced writer and researcher, but not an experienced wiki-editor. That was my first attempt at setting out an article from (almost) the beginning. Your edits have made all the difference. -- LutherBlissetts ( talk) 20:30, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
GouramiWatcher (Gulp) 00:55, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I am new and would like to submit an edit for a specific article. Is it possible for you to review it prior to submission? I want to make sure I stay a good standing member of Wikipedia and follow the right community rules. Your expert insight would be great, thank you. Arjunarocks ( talk) 22:16, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Left you a reply there; the situation is a bit more complex. See also my other comments on his talkpage and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vicente Locaso. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 00:46, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I answered your message on my own talk page.-- Ragheb.araby ( talk) 00:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC
Left you a reply there; the situation is a bit more complex. See also my other comments on his talkpage and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vicente Locaso. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 00:46, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I don't understand why you deleted my article about Harvey Shapiro MD. It took a lot of work to research the information about this man who wrote a book that I enjoyed and who created a lifesaving procedure to induce coma for brain injury that nearly saved my friend's kid's life! I wrote it in the style presented for many other authors that are listed on Wikipedia. I am thoroughly confused. Your response would be greatly appreciated. -- wolfeys Wolfeys ( talk) 00:50, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey DGG/Archive 64 May 2012 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.
On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).
On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Bongo matic 03:35, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
its one thing for everyone to turn up to afd's and 'scrub' prods and so on and say oh if it has a name - it must have an entry - (tongallan) but no one ever is around in years (at the Indonesian project) to provide a ref - sad - but true Satu Suro 13:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
It's not a parody site. They really believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and that Jesus rode dinosaurs. Their constituency is also close to winning the U.S. election in November. Margaret Atwood already predicted this in The Handmaid's Tale. Ignorance is now a virtue. I hope the Second Foundation is setup and ready to go. We'll need it. Viriditas ( talk) 10:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
What do you think of this? Not sure if the awards are enough to establish the notability here, but wanted your opinion. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 12:51, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Looks like the salon may be notable:
Dear Administrator DGG, hello! Thank you for reviewing the situation at ANI and commenting there. I have made my closing remark and response to you here. Thanks for taking the time to read and review my comment. I hope you have a pleasant evening and look forward to you closing the discussion. With regards, Anupam Talk 02:28, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
See here. My main reason for responding to your post was to point out that we should not attack other editors for their opinions and their approach to editing when it is done in good faith with a view to improving WP, even when it conflicts with what you would view to be an ideal or preferred editing approach. I think that is inappropriate and I would hope you would reconsider your statements re: others being a "baleful influence", and so forth. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Dear Administrator User:DGG, this notice was added underneath every comment by User:Cody7777777. Is this appropriate? I have reverted the addition of this notice and requested that it be added as one comment. If I was incorrect, I apologize for my revert. However, in my opinion, the addition was inappropriate and seemed like a bad faith attempt to undermine the comments of a veteran editor. I hope you have a nice evening. With regards, Anupam Talk 03:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey DGG, you mentioned something about a "Arb Com psudoscience case" on the Admin board. Can you tell me a bit more about that? I tend to work on a number of pages that attract editors who try to add pseudoscientific claims, so I'm wondering if whatever this Arb Com thing is might help for my future editing efforts. Thanks! JoelWhy ( talk) 12:49, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Please, I urge you to reconsider your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Erives. This guy is not worthy of a Wikipedia article, and he (or someone closely connected with him) is stinking up many articles with this fringe " Proto-anticodon RNA" which really has only one citation. Look at how User:HPBiochemie introduced only this material to Wikipedia. Speciate ( talk) 04:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I am seriously concerned that you are ignoring very important evidence from Anupam. In this edit, Anupam states that "Bobrayner has been using an offsite email list in order to coordinate individuals at this report." If any such evidence of off-wiki coordination exists, per WP:EEML, Anupam should be forwarding it to Arbcom, not using it on ANI.
Please instruct Anupam to forward his evidence to Arbcom via email immediately, and inform Arbcom that they will be receiving said evidence. Obviously, to focus Anupam on forwarding his evidence to Arbcom, you should probably prevent him from getting distracted by other tasks on Wikipedia by indef blocking him. Thank you.
Please note that I intend to open an Arbcom case on this mailing list issue posthaste. Hipocrite ( talk) 17:37, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI, I posted a question to you on User_talk:bobrayner. Thanks. — Jess· Δ ♥ 20:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I disagree pretty strongly with your warning to Bobrayner and your subsequent block of his account. When you are feeling calm, please post here and we can discuss. Thanks. Pine (talk) 06:58, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
DGG, can you take a look at this guy and his edits? He's requested G11 on a page that doesn't warrant it (see talk page for The Non-GMO Project for his explanation of G11), placed a {{ notability}} tag on Kashi (which I've stricken), and done some other stuff. I hate to say this, but I'm having a hard time [[WP:AGF|assuming good faith with this guy - and with having created recently and done these edits yesterday, I'm wondering if I'm smelling socks. Granted I could be wrong, but something doesn't seem right about this. -- Dennis The Tiger ( Rawr and stuff) 07:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Esteemed DGG, you were mentioned at ANI. Just wanted to be able to say I got the jump on the esteemed User:Uncle G. JJB 05:03, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your comment at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 May 4#Category:Books about Christianity. Please comment on a revised proposal there. – Fayenatic London (talk) 12:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm not convinced why you have decided to keep that article. While I admit that it was wrong on my part to nominate it on the grounds of discontinuity, I have subsequently raised the notability concerns. A google search shows up nothing verifiable on the existence of such a newspaper. The thecolombopost.com domain hosts what seems to be a mirror of the website of Derana TV, a local TV channel. Therefore, I don't think the subject is in any way notable. Thanks! ASTRONOMYINERTIA ( TALK) 16:33, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the apology. I accept it. SL93 ( talk) 13:34, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey DGG! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 03:29, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG,
Can I ask as to why the Mitchell_Wolfson,_Jr. page has been deleted due to (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.wolfsonian.org/about/founder)?
What text or material was exactly infringing copyright? And which material/text was Unambiguous advertising or promotion?
I am only asking as the last time I read the article I sincerely didn't notice any infringing material but I have to admit I am still a bit new to this. Many thanks.
Maximo98 ( talk) 09:20, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring it. Maximo98 ( talk) 16:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC) ""I am now editing it as i thing necessary . DGG ( talk ) 06:31, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've got a question about the level-of-detail in a law-related article. You are in the list of volunteers for the WP:FRS under "law/politics", so I hope you don't mind helping out. Can you look at Wikipedia:Peer review/Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders/archive3 and provide some input about the question posed there at the bottom? I've pinged the peer reviewer, but I think they have no legal/political expertise, so they don't have a response. Any help would be appreciated! I'm going to be submitting this for Featured Article status soon, and this is the final remaining issue. Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. I was checking International Jewish Correspondence while working at Copyright problems. As you had originally tagged this with {{ Copypaste}}, I wonder if you could have a quick look at my comments on Talk:International Jewish Correspondence re this issue and the issue of the subject's notability. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 05:22, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Redtigerxyz Talk 17:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi DGG. Could you please help to move Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico TO History of the Jews in Puerto Rico, since all such articles are titled e.g. History of the Jews in Canada, History of the Jews in New York, History of the Jews in Ohio etc etc etc. Thanks for your efforts as I work to tidy up the loose ends. Best wishes, IZAK ( talk) 07:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
As you oppose deletion of the Alexander Anderson (Hellsing) article in favor of merging, would you care to comment on the matter? Some guy ( talk) 00:03, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Heya. I know you patrol expired PRODs and expired BLPPRODs, and as a result you might have an opinion on this -- largely, I'd like to "fix" the problem that the BLPPROD "days left" and "expired" categories don't work properly, one way or another. I've suggested a relatively simple bot-based solution, another editor has suggested moving to a categories based on placement date, much like traditional PRODs. Since you actually *use* these categories, your input would be valued. Thanks! -- joe decker talk to me 21:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I've been commenting over at the user RfC regarding Agent00f. Dennis Brown has indicated that you have mentored him or been close to him over a long period of time.
At the end of UFC "inherently notable" discussion, you indicated both some interest and familiarity with long standing wiki policy on notability. I replied and linked to some guidance by another editor (JBB) in similar shoes you might be interested in discussing this matter with. His most recent comments at the end. Thanks. Agent00f ( talk) 10:30, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
The IP essentially reverted all of your edits. CrazyAces489 ( talk) 05:59, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you perhaps have a look at this article? Some editors are trying to insert what I think is unsourced and unwarranted assertions, but perhaps I'm wrong. The journal is also included in many databases that, I think, would not include it if it weren't peer-reviewed, although I admit that the journal website doesn't say so explicitly. Your opinion would be welcome. Thanks! -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 13:33, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. I'm going to try to make it to your session at Wikimania. If Jimmy sticks around after the plenary session and isn't barraged I might see if I can get his feedback on what a paid editor would need to do to not just be tolerated, but seen as an asset to Wikipedia. The unconference would be a good time to meet up. At some point much further down the line I would like to get some form of independent review/assessment on our McKinsey efforts from an uninvolved editor, just to make sure we've all done a great job serving the reader. User:King4057 (COI Disclosure on User Page) 17:49, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm not saying that you meant what you said, but there appears to be a trend. Northamerica basically said the same thing as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gabriel Pizza which I didn't even nominate for deletion. Uncle G acted like I didn't follow WP:BEFORE at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neurathian bootstrap just because I didn't know that it had other names. Kvng said at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Compojure that I didn't consider merging the non-notable article even though I did. Haus said at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E&BV Subdivision that he found sources in the same amount of time that it took me to nominate the article for deletion. I said that I don't think those sources show notability and another editor agreed with me. So annoying. SL93 ( talk) 14:59, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Please comment.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:33, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Dear user, I found your name here WikiProject_Paid_Advocacy_Watch and was wondering whether you could take a look at at [ talk page on Kosovo], specifically the bit about the proposed merger to determine whether these very (overly) active users are suspicious. It boggles my mind how a group of editors can be so united and zealous in promoting a particular case without receiving some sort of reward (?) Ottomanist ( talk) 11:49, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
David, I should perhaps have noted this on the talk page, but there is something weird with the review in the Deutsches Ärtzeblatt: it is written by the person who set up this "metatextbook" (see bottom of the huge linked page). So I don't think that it is really a review and certainly not independent. Perhaps too complicated for CSD... Should I take it to AfD? -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 16:29, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Resource-based economic model -- any chance you'll reconsider your !vote after the additional discussion? You mentioned "zealots" in your comment a lot. The !voters Zach, Ijon and Biophilly are all on Wikipedia for the primary purpose of editing the TZM/TVP related articles, and besides them there are several more. They're *already* difficult to handle (see the current !vote balance on the AfD and the edit history of TZM), it'd be better for everyone if we had one less article to fight over. You say that it should be rewritten but who's gonna do that? You made an attempt but it was entirely reverted by the 'owner' of the article. None of us will have the patience or interest to rewrite it into a suitable form (if one such exists), and none of them are likely to be capable of writing a neutral article. This coupled with the concerns already listed in the AfD, I really think the article should go. Please reconsider. Any well-sourced material is suitable to be merged into the TVP article. — Jeraphine Gryphon ( talk) 23:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Please, I urge you to reconsider your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Erives. This guy is not worthy of a Wikipedia article, and he (or someone closely connected with him) is stinking up many articles with this fringe " Proto-anticodon RNA" which really has only one citation. Look at how User:HPBiochemie introduced only this material to Wikipedia. Speciate ( talk) 04:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG,
At the beginning of this year you were kind enough to leave me a message trying to cheer me up after I tried to save business related content on Wikipedia from deletion. I am having a similar problem now, trying to save business related categories that I believe are important.
If you have the time (but I will understand if you don't), I would greatly appreciate you having a look at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_May_23#Category:Major_shareholders_of_Yahoo.21 and helping me decide if there is any point in trying to oppose this deletion. Ottawahitech ( talk) 02:01, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking forward to seeing you at Wikimania Takes Manhattan - I will also be in DC. --David Shankbone 03:57, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
The point is that this article is a textbook BLP1E, and Geo Swan has gotten flak specifically for having this type of article in userspace and in mainspace; regardless of whether it belongs in userspace or not, I'm not going to enable someone to restore an article when I would immediately send it to AFD. "If I did that, and the article stays in the same form, it will be very rapidly deleted, which is not what you desire" — and this article cannot help being in the form of a BLP1E unless Geo Swan find persistent coverage, of which I've heard nothing from him/her. Nyttend ( talk) 12:11, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
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Could you undo the deletion? I have included a link to nytimes article. That seems good enough. You may not agree, but any case it's not up for you to decide. Take it to an afd, if needed. -- Taku ( talk) 04:37, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
User talk:Lifespan9 new today and needs help--do you mind? Thanks, We hope ( talk) 18:55, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
A fellow editor that I am mentoring brought up this article. There are some legitimate concerns, on many levels. It is short and I'm sure you will see the concerns. BLPs are not my forte, so if you have the time and can briefly review and offer a little guidance on, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks as always. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 23:30, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
DGG,
Re Japanese naval armaments supplement programmes, a drive-by tagging does not qualify as content. Maintenance tags are not content, merge tags included. When I guy throws on a couple of tags and puts in zero effort (I mean that, none of the source pages were tagged for merge), we shouldn't encourage that. And let's not forget, these tags were placed THREE YEARS AGO. This is the kind of junk merge proposal that makes dealing with the merge backlog so damn difficult, and your action just made it harder for no benefit. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:42, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of the article, you found a better solution than what I suggested.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 17:42, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey! Can you please take a look at Charles Duncan (artist). It is nominated on AfD as a hoax. I'd really appreciate the help. -- Hahc21 [ TALK][ CONTRIBS 15:46, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi DGG, because you declined the speedy deletion for William Eivind Hall I've nominated the article for AfD. Personally I'm not sure how being on the executive board of a notable company confers notability on an individual, but we'll see what the great and good of Wikipedia think. All the best. Sionk ( talk) 19:26, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I noticed that System of Systems Integration ( talk · contribs) (the article creator) removed the prods you put on System of Systems Integration and Network Integration Evaluation, and thought you might like to know that I bundled them together and sent them over to AFD. Dori ☾ Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 04:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
To clarify, it was said by implication that this book [1] is a reliable source that mentions The Body Electric. I think this book is clearly not reliable and thus has no bearing. My comment is not about The Body Electric itself. IRWolfie- ( talk) 10:02, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
-- Jagadhatri( ২০১২) 10:26, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I agree that 8000-10,000 articles would demand years of hard work to get them all up to a reasonable status but the average township article could look like Anxiang Township. If they are all deleted, chances are in might not be for years until anybody covers much of them. And the thing is, all the stubs link to the website which just needs the exact township linked and a bit of data extracted. I think it would be far more productive in the long term to organize something to add the Chinese and exact links and try to use something to extract raw data.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Yeah 8000 articles is too much for anybody to have to deal with, but creating that many decent articles it might be ten years before that is accomplished. Priority really though should be expanding the Chinese county articles.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:48, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Thought you might want to expand Taxatio Ecclesiastica.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:55, 30 May 2012 (UTC)