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As you have suggested a merge, perhaps you would like to start the discussion on the talk page to suggest why it should be merged—adding WP:INUNIVERSE trivia to a GA-rated article? You must have a rationale for this step, as opposed to the deletion which you removed? - SchroCat ( ^ • @) 06:11, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, DGG.
You told me to contact you after July passed regarding rollback, so here I am, contacting you. =) - Zhou Yu ( talk) 18:17, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi-there. Recently, I've been working to improve the Bloomberg Law article which currently lacks any citation or substantial information. I do some work for Bloomberg and don't want my conflict of interest to interfere with Wiki guidelines, so I have been in talks with Bearian about a draft of the article I proposed. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the bandwidth at this time to help implement that changes and recommended I talk with you. Would you mind taking a look and if seen as appropriate, implement the changes into the current article? My draft can be found here. I truly appreciate your help! -- RivBitz ( talk) 18:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
I was informed by RHawsworth who grew up here that it wasn't notable...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Its an area of Kendal. But I believe it used to be a separate small village before the city limits expanded.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:22, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi David. before I realised who CSD'd this, I removed the spam, declined the CSD, and tagged for notability instead. As I trust your judgement, feel free to revert my actions, and PROD, or CSD again, as you see fit. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:14, 2 August 2012 (UTC).
I did read the policies after you mentioned them to me last time and I was aware that US Government works are in Public domain. I was too fast while seeing the website that I didn't realize that it is a US Governmental website. I apologize for my blunder and I will be extremely careful in the future. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 06:02, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't understand why you reverted to a bare URL on the Grizzly Bear article after I took the time to cover it. -- :- ) Don 18:03, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
:- ) Don 18:38, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
– Arms & Hearts ( talk) 19:06, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Gold Standard 20:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Input is needed about Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Pantheism_discussion regarding suitability of sources for the pantheism article. Your name was selected at random from WP:FRS. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 01:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Gold Standard 05:02, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I started writing a page that was speedy deleted and you were the admin who deleted it, although I had left some information in the Talk section stating why I thought it was a valid article. Can I find out what constituted "promotion" in the article as I didn't think I'd put anything in that was advocating or promoting the use of the products. I thought I'd done pretty well at keeping it to neutral facts. I see that there are a number of companies who have wiki articles about them, and I followed the style of these closely, so as not to violate WP rules. Appreciate your response Halojones88 ( talk) 08:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. Long time no chat and I hope all is well. Calling on your library expertise here rather than necessarily your on-wiki expertise. I recreated The Rembrandt Affair (Daniel Silva novel) & gave a courtesy heads up to the deleting admin. He was fine with the recreation as it stated notability but suggested I add sales figures. How do you find those for fiction titles? Is there any publicly accessible resource? Thanks! StarM 01:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I was just curious why Toysrus would still be considered useful? The proper CamelCase title for this article has now been created, and there are no longer any links that lead to this redirect (with the exception of a few redirects on some users' talkpages.) Steel1943 ( talk) 04:21, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, DGG. I found reliable sources and improved the article to meet Wiki standards. The police officer was written about heavily, was on Fox's "Cops" series, eventually sued the police department for discrimination, and ran for sheriff. The book is about those events and issues. I copyedited and added sourced info, and, afterward, removed the proposed delete tag prior to the seven days expiration. But I just saw in the article's history that the tag was added to with a notation is red saying the article could be deleted at any moment. I removed the tag before that red note was added, so I'm confused about the process. Thank you. AuthorAuthor ( talk) 08:27, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I've lost track. Where did we end up with the imported dispute between these two (amongst others)? Because, four years one month later, they're still at it — this time with an article that neither of them actually want us to push our delete buttons on. And in the meantime attraction to transgender people, only just renamed from transfan, is still little more than a dictionary of slang names. Uncle G ( talk) 17:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. Long time no chat and I hope all is well. Calling on your library expertise here rather than necessarily your on-wiki expertise. I recreated The Rembrandt Affair (Daniel Silva novel) & gave a courtesy heads up to the deleting admin. He was fine with the recreation as it stated notability but suggested I add sales figures. How do you find those for fiction titles? Is there any publicly accessible resource? Thanks! StarM 01:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I was just curious why Toysrus would still be considered useful? The proper CamelCase title for this article has now been created, and there are no longer any links that lead to this redirect (with the exception of a few redirects on some users' talkpages.) Steel1943 ( talk) 04:21, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I've lost track. Where did we end up with the imported dispute between these two (amongst others)? Because, four years one month later, they're still at it — this time with an article that neither of them actually want us to push our delete buttons on. And in the meantime attraction to transgender people, only just renamed from transfan, is still little more than a dictionary of slang names. Uncle G ( talk) 17:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Any input you could provide at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2012_August_8#Dualist_pantheism would be appreciated. Cheers. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:53, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
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Up for deletion..♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
but the circumstances are not routine,.
I see they did check the corresponding article in the zhWP, which has the coordinates. And then they saw the zhWP discussion, which as best as I can make out from google translate considers the article insufficiently sourced. Which it was, considering the copied it from the enWP at a time when the enWP was unsourced. I'm reluctant to write in English on their AfD page to tell them otherwise. They also seem to have a policy against sub-stubs in general, & do not have the policy we do to include them for geographic places. they seem to consider the present version not a sub-stub).
The reason the enWP The reason it is unsourced is the original source you placed, http://fallingrain.com/ , was removed by a bot, saying it was on the blacklist. (It is not on the blacklist now; whether it is a good source is another matter, for it does not show where it gets its data--it certainly seems useful, though) In any case, the link originally there no longer works--the site name is now http:www.fallingrain.com . It may be necessary to look for other places the bot removed it.
I'm trying to track down what happened with respect to the blacklist. I cannot find the discussion in the logs. But then, I've never fully figured out how they do things. DGG ( talk ) 18:46, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DGG, sorry for disturbing You. I made some editions in article Don Cossacks, section History with a new references. Some of them are in Russain, so I do an English translation of their title. Can I ask You for checking if it okey for English WP? Sincerely Kravtz ( talk) 21:49, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DGG:
I would like to why my article on Maria Freudenstein was altered and deleted. I provided all the necessary sourcing with the appropiate footnotes. No sourced contradictory information was ever provided. In fact, I provided more than enough documentation. I have made a request that this page be restored. Perdogg ( talk ) —Preceding undated comment added 19:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
You tagged Alpha Card Services for speedy deletion. It seems to me that the presence in the "top lists" of Inc Magazine and Philadelphia Business Journal are enough to avoid an A7, particularly as they are already Sourced. Other content in the "Awards, honors and publications" section might also be enough. I know you are an experienced editor and careful about speedy deletion -- Did you see something that I missed? DES (talk) 06:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Any comments on this [1] AfD would be appreciated. Yfever ( talk) 19:42, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
( Aknordstrom ( talk) 22:08, 13 August 2012 (UTC)) Hello DGG, in writing this article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Intelligent Energy Storage, I tried to be as neutral as possible. This is a type of technology, not a company. Can you expand on how this looks like an advertisement? I am aware of two other applications that would fit this news article. If I included those and they are not part of the company discussed, would that be more acceptable? Any suggestions and advice would be much appreciated! Thank you for your time.
Hello there,
I was wondering how i could improve my article. I'm struggling to get it fit and relevant for Wikipedia, I don't know what else i can do. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what i could do to make it wikipedia worthy.
Regards,
RT — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buzzlin35 ( talk • contribs) 08:32, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
First of all , here is not even a real indication that the firm might be important. A Wikipedia article needs to show notability with references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. You do not have any. Until you have them, there is no reason to continue to try to write the article, for it will not be accepted here, no matter how well you write it.
As for promotionalism, include only material that would be of interest to a general reader coming across the mention of the subject and wanting the sort of information that would be found in an encyclopedia. Do not include material that would be of interest only to prospective clients --that sort of content is considered promotional. Among this is a detailed description of the interior of your coaches, selling points about how convenient you are to particular tourist destinations, Do not stress routine trivia, such as that you have been government certified as meeting the minimum requirements, and are a member of the usual industry associations. You are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. I am not really sure whether there will be enough suitable content for an article. DGG ( talk ) 23:03, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I was wondering why you considered the "Currently in Development" section of the page I created to be "promotionalism for film still in pre-production?" Was there any specific part of it that you felt gave it an air of promotionalism?
The reason I ask is simply because I would like to be able to add the section back in, and at the same time I of course need to make sure that the section is fit for Wikipedia. The information is undeniably relevant to the company, and it is no violation to Wikipedia to write about films still in development, provided that there are relevant and reliable references (for example, Pitch Perfect). In addition to that, I think that the way the article began with the "History" section and ended with the "Currently in Development" section gave the page a nice progressive, chronological movement and added to the article from a readability standpoint.
Here is what I had in there originally, minus the citations so that I don't clog your page (though I can add them in if you're curious to see what they were and where they went):
Thank you for your input! This is definitely a learning process for me, and I appreciate your help in making this article the best it can be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.b.bellingham ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG, Be most grateful if you could clarify what is supposed to happen through deletion review. Noticed both yourself & S Marshall both suggested either putting it back to AfD or reinstating. How long does this normally take? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amanda Paul ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I am the one who created the website for InnoTech Manufacturing, so those are MY words to begin with. How do I go about either restoring this and getting it approved or getting the old article information and re wording it (as it took me a very long time to create). Please advise. Eabrookman ( talk) 14:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
You were the one who helped to teach me that ANY information included in a BLP had to be sourcable... even if it is a minor fact about being a former college footall player. That the Billboard articles are not loading today does not mean they do not exist. Maybe their servers are having a problem, but at the time I offered them as sources I was reading them. When a nominator claims someone has received no notice, it is importnat to show the error of that nomination statement. As notability, you taught me that such is is not determined by what a source writes, but through the fact that they do write something. We may disagree, but the GNG and WP:MUSBIO #1 are met. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 01:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there!
Regarding the message you left on my talk page, I just wanted to say thanks for helping out there. As a relatively new editor, I'm still trying to figure things out; even though I've learned pretty quickly, I still make a lot of mistakes (see my talk page if you don't believe me....), and just wanted to say thank you for catching something that could have been bad.
How would I go about making such a list article, and then redirects, without destroying the ability to make the pages or cause loss of references? I'll be honest, part of the reason I suggested it in the manner I did was because I didn't know how to do it myself, and so couldn't be BOLD.
Thanks again for your help! (And for not biting...seriously, there's a lot of that on my talk page. :/ ) Cheers, Zaldax ( talk) 13:31, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
David. See User:Shirt58/Crest Secondary School. I don't think it would pass muster as an article. I was (very briefly) a secondary school teacher, but shh, that's just between the two of us, ok? Pete, aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 16:03, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your thorough critique. I appreciate it. I have posted a quick rewrite, and will incorporate your suggestions tomorrow, including using Parney's official parent-given name, although no one knows him by Penrose. Please give me a day or two to fix the stuff you've mentioned. I'll also pass it along to the NIF folks. Lseaveratnif ( talk) 00:44, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello DGG. I just wanted to take some time to say ... thanks. I can tell that you are a very reasonable editor (and administrator, in fact) and I can tell that you take time to educate others in how to improve their work. Definitely serves a greater purpose than a quick speedy deletion. Just wanted to acknowledge that ... I could definitely learn from your methods. Anyways, take care, and thanks. Steel1943 ( talk) 03:25, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Since you recently participated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DVBViewer, I'm notifying you that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DVBViewer (2nd nomination) has been opened. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:22, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DGG - thank you very much for accepting and editing the article on Patrick Gardiner. I was impressed by the speed and efficiency of the process! One question - do you think it would be worthwhile for me to put a note in the 'talk' bit of the page, encouraging people with relevant knowledge and expertise to expand it a bit? I did not attempt to write anything about the content of his books myself because I don't have the background. Many thanks again, User:TuttiFruttiCherryPie TuttiFruttiCherryPie ( talk) 10:13, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Why did you remove the article "Parney Albright"? There were tons of references, and he is definitely someone who deserves to be in Wikipedia. Lseaveratnif ( talk) 23:29, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Electric Catfish 01:23, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DDG, I have made quite a number of deletions and changes to try to address the advice you gave me on the page Independent Contractors of Australia. Does it now meet the requirements? should I submit it again? Henry Austen Henry Austen ( talk) 08:54, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Last month, you gave Kliang0725 a final warning about soap boxing, advising them if they did it again they could be blocked. As you can see at the bottom of their talk page, they appear to have done it again. Automatic Strikeout 17:28, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
You tagged this article last month for copy/paste concerns but didn't indicate a source. Can you say which source you think it is copy/pasted from and whether you are concerned with copyright issues or simply duplicated wording and/or plagiarism from some public domain resource? Anything you know would be much appreciated. VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
SwisterTwister talk 18:58, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently posted an article about Burch Creative Capital LLC. Can you please shed some more light as to why it was deleted? I work for a family office/venture fund and we recently changed our company name so we wanted to launch our wiki page in conjuction with out new website - burchcreativecapital.com. I added some more references/external links to the new Burch Creative Capital wiki, but it still seems to be pending. Can you please explain to as to why it was deleted. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Best, Jonathan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbalanevsky ( talk • contribs) 19:06, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Such phrases as "As a Creative Capital firm, the company has a decidedly different approach to creating value" is pure advertising. It belongs in your advertisements, not an encyclopedia. The list of prior investments belongs on your web page, not an encyclopedia. Do not include material that would be of interest only or primarily to prospective clients --that sort of content is considered promotional.
And you will also need references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. If you have such references, it might be possible to write aa proper article. DGG ( talk ) 19:26, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
As an administrator, would you move User:Dockkcod/sandbox to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/My Man Is A Loser? I would move the page myself but MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist prevented me, administrators can override the list however. Thanks, SwisterTwister talk 20:10, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
SwisterTwister talk 02:22, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Regardless of its outcome, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to participate in the DRV on Margo Rey. I appreciate it. Best regards... Vertium When all is said and done 16:41, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
As an editor with much experience in locating and reviewing sources, would you take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Francis Anhalt? Do the sources seem valid, and is the subject notable? You've commented about the topic before at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dreduardoa/sandbox. Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 17:57, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
I refused CSD#A7 on this one, but it is a mess. I figured you might actually know something about the subject matter, enough to clean it up just a bit, so wanted to bring it to your attention. If you have time. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 12:23, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Dainomite's talk page. dain talk 23:25, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG: Thanks for your feedback on The Berkeley Historical Plaque Project entry. I'm new to Wiki creation so I value your input and suggestions. I wrote the article in an objective manor with references that I have available--no attempts were made to promote or raise money. I also tried to be detail oriented and informative as opposed to some related Berkeley historical organizations. Would Wikipedia prefer if I were less detailed? (ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Architectural_Heritage_Association & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Historical_Society). It was my intention to be more informative but perhaps that is putting the post into an area which becomes difficult to substantiate. Furthermore local press has referenced the project in a limited way at this point so web references are difficult for now. I do have this one new article which I'm going to add to the entry now ( http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/08/13/berkeley-historical-plaque-project-crowd-sourcing-history/).
Thanks in advance for your help with this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkehlmann ( talk • contribs) 18:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your assistance, it is very much appreciated. ( Tarpoon88 ( talk) 04:22, 20 August 2012 (UTC))
You summarily rejected an article written about the above-named Swiss-Canadian entrepreneur. This was only a draft awaiting references and not suggesting immediate publication. However, your background and discipline would tend to make you a prejudicial critic of the subject not worthy of arms length assessment and editorial comment. There is far too little commentary in Wikipedia on prominent businessmen and their contribution to society. These people are decidedly not academics mired in the typical "publish or perish" tradition of academia. They would rather work hard in their deeds rather than their printed words to improve the human condition (sometimes for millions of people) rather than selfishly project their own narrow academic focus on life in writings. Prior to engaging in what could possibly be a protracted and difficult relationship with an editor over a subject that is obviously far off his normal base, I would ask that a more relevant and closer associated editor be appointed to review the article which falls under the category of international trade and commerce rather than academia. Is that possible, or is this forum decidedly inflexible in how it approaches how it controls and polices its public contents? What all the contributors to its content are seeking here is advice on how to improve the article as it does not fall under the normal category of academic or encyclopedic content but like many people in the world, there is a message worth telling to others. Dawlat Baba. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawlatbaba ( talk • contribs) 08:46, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. As there were no comments previously, this is the sort of advice I was expecting rather than the summary execution previously of the proposed article. Could you please provide the references (as you generally request are needed) for five (of the hundreds you have completed) prominent international business people for whom you have drafted or edited their biographical insertions on Wikipedia. I will use these as the benchmarks for adding the appropriate references to Mr. Stewart's interesting and instructional career. Dawlat Baba. 11:17 21 August 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawlatbaba ( talk • contribs) 09:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Sir:
Could you please just give me one businessman's biography that you have written so that I can try to copy the style and intent of references. If you have done hundreds as you say, you will know that it is extremely difficult to reference the accomplishments of most businessmen. They tend to publish only the balance sheets of their companies which are used as a general guide to some of their personal success. Private company results are never published. These people shun publicity, because most are shy and work alone. They refuse most interviews, academic hallmarks, publications and the like. They see their contributions in life as actions, not words.
With an article that displays your talents for referencing people like Mr. Stewart, I will perhaps know where to look for specific references on him. Some genuine Heads of State, Cabinet Ministers, other CEO's rarely leave themselves open to press interviews fearing unwarranted criticism or wrongful interpretations. Millions of people who benefitted from the early unearthing of the disease HIV-AIDS would not even know he exists. His actions were done in secret as were many dealing with corruption and other unacceptable business practises against which he has fought all his life. Perhaps you do not appreciate that some people's lives are gravely at risk by exposing them unnecessarily in public.
As a biographer, I am sure you can sympathize with those of us struggling to fit someone larger than life into your rigid format which of course is required to bring objectivity. But not being an academic who works in words, Mr. Stewart is an "action man" who circumnavigates the world constantly, leaving multitudes of change for the better in his wake. But I cannot afford to follow him wherever he goes taking photos and getting journalists or editors to write down everything in third party definitions that confirm all of what he accomplishes. It would slow him down mercilessly, and I am sure he would outright reject the need to do it until he dies.
I apologoize for my persistence, but I am sure you have had to deal with someone who has worked in the shadows all his life and despises publicity. He does not see himself as a public figure, only someone who makes a valid and appreciable contribution to mankind every day by thought, deed and action, leaving out the printed word as his method of influencing anyone. If he saves a life, improves someone's wealth who would otherwise be impoverished, or creates an opportunity to introduce world-beating technology that transforms millons of lives in a positive way, he would rather do it that talk or write about it, or have someone else eulogize him for the effort. He just wants to do it, and leave it at that.
Mr. Stewart falls into all three categories used in Wikipedia to define the "Law of the Few". He is one of those rare one in a million who is connector, a mavern and a salesman. He brings people and ideas together that change the course of history through actions he undertakes himself and incites in others. He is always the last one to benefit from his deeds, but he enjoys connecting hundreds of people to make substantial improvements to the human condition. Try to document that! He knows hundreds of heads of state, miniters, CEO's, and leaders in many fields of endeavor. They will all tell you he is a rare and exceptional human being who has dramatically changed the world. But he doesn't write about it. He is too busy doing it quietly on his own!
He has done it for the sufferers of AIDS, the invention and public dissemination of VoIP (lowering dramatically all long distance communications costs worldwide) and he is about to do it twice more. One is with the implementation of a new method of payments around the world that does away with credit cards, and eventually banks altogether. His other passion is a Hybrid Air Vehicle that is about to change the meaning of flight. This will introduce an air vehicle that combines a regular aircraft, helicopter, hovercraft and dirigible. It will open up 90% of the untouched, remote corners of the world. I guarantee that you will never hear his name associated with it, but without him, it will never happen. How do you document that?
Regards, Dawlat Baba 16:49 CET 21 August 2012
P.S. As an expression of his dislike for publicity, he has donated every penny he or his companies ever earned to charity and lives very modestly in Northern Italy. But he deserves not to be forgotten. Several biographers are trying to bottle his energy and initiative before he quits. Others would truly benefit from understanding how he succeeds without publicity on himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawlatbaba ( talk • contribs) 14:56, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
I am a little puzzled at your having declined the AfC with the reason " The content of this submission includes material that meets Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you." with the contradictory and incompatible edit summary "Declining submission: submission lacks inline citations " I can think of several reasons for declining this article, including the unlikelihood of encyclopedic notability , but I do not see how citation format is a reason for declining this or any other article, considering that except for special cases such as potentially negative BLP, there is no requirement for ay specific citation format. I agree the way the references are presented in this article is confusing and ought to be fixed--the references at the bottom are most of them not at all to the point in any case--but I dod not see this as a reason for declining the article.
I am concerned not about hte article per se, but in our giving correct advice to beginners. DGG ( talk ) 08:11, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The undeletion requester has had time to improve it, but in my view it is no better, and I plan to nominate it at AfD. My first thought was to explain the tangled history and link to your reasons for undeleting; but I do not think all that is really relevant, and I am anyway struggling to make my nomination not TL;DR, so (unless you disagree) I propose simply to say that the article has a complicated history including previous deletions, but it is not a G4 speedy candidate and the present version should be considered on its merits.
I find that, ironically, the first use of the word genocide in this context was about the other side, by Lt-Col. Bastien-Thiry at his trial for attempted assassination of de Gaulle, referring to the abandonment to FLN vengeance of the harkis, Algerians who had supported France.
Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 16:06, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
As per our conversation, I am not experienced enough for this one. Is this original research? the author states it is his thesis. What are the guidelines for this? I don't want to mark it ORIGINAL RESEARCH or WP:NOT until I am clear on how to handle. Please advise. Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 02:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking at this old diff of No (word), and wondering if its worth trying to rescue (particularly sections 2/3/4), and how to best do so. (It was turned into a redirect to Yes and no in 2011). Thoughts? -- Quiddity ( talk) 08:57, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, the page title Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! is under some sort of protection which I cannot include the work I have done to it. I was wondering If you could help me in removing the protection so I can add my sandbox work to the article? Thank you in advance. Jonjonjohny ( talk) 22:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
You rock, period.... Long story short, I forgot my glasses at home today and read some things on my talk page wrong. I am embarrassed, but luckily, you hadn't read my heartless, disturbing comment yet. I appreciate you and I will not forget my glasses again. Besides mis-reading, I have an awful headache. Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 20:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
What's good, Papa Dave!
In reviewing articles today, I declined Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Brandon Welch based on lack of references. I added help to the page, etc. Please see his comment on my talk page and my response. Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 21:04, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, given your previous input in a dispute resolution about pantheism, I'd like your input in my nominating Naturalistic pantheism for deletion if you have time for it. Thanks ( Allisgod ( talk) 07:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)) ary. If he continues along this line, it will be, so let me know. DGG ( talk ) 01:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG: Thanks very much for your feedback and encouraging comments on my AfC. Based on your suggestions, I have extensively edited the article. The main things I kept in mind while editing were to maintain a neutral tone and provide information for the general reader, and not press release type information. I did leave the main interview with the company founder because it is the only source I could find for the cited paragraph, and the interview was conducted with a highly respected business journalist (George Chamberlain). I am looking forward to any further suggestions you might have, and I hope for your approval of my article. Cheers! MO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Oberlin ( talk • contribs) 09:55, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG, Somehow the AfC version of my article was rearranged and semi-duplicated, i.e., messed up! I think that's why you thought the product section was lacking. I have now fixed the article to how it was when I last submitted it on 20 August 2012. There is substantial information about the products, what they are used for, that they are liquid or dry polymers. The specific type of chemicals is not released by the company - I assume it is proprietary information.
Regarding Jjjjjjjjjj's comments; I know the company's website organizes their product line by target market, i.e., pre-analytical, research, forensics, biobanks, and by general product category, i.e., DNA products, RNA products, bacterial products, assay products, etc. However, I think that this is just SEO marketing to capture customers searching by the two different types of categorization. I do not think it is essential to present the company's products both ways in the article.
Please let me know if there are any additional changes necessary to move this article towards acceptance.
Kind regards,
Mark Oberlin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Oberlin ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG,
Following up on my last message of 8/22/2012, I was wondering if you’ve had a chance to look at my article on Biomatrica again after I cleaned it up ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Biomatrica)? As I noted, the article had somehow gotten rearranged, and I had to rewrite it back to how it was when I last submitted it on 20 August 2012. I believe that the article is now properly formatted and that it addresses your most recent suggestion to include more information about the company’s products.
Having familiarized myself with many Wikipedia articles on companies, I really think that the article is ready. Not to be presumptuous; I respect that you are the editor. I just want to do my best to get the article correct so that it can be approved as soon as possible.
Thank you very much,
Mark Oberlin Mark Oberlin ( talk) 22:14, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I have a question for you. I've been working on the article for Victoria Foyt after having seen the whole "Save the Pearls" debacle. I figured that if anyone was going to add this stuff, I probably should. I've been debating for a while about spinning the criticism section into a separate article, as there are a lot of sources out there about it. I'm just not entirely sure if I should or not. I could keep the article as it is on the author's page, but I think there's enough to justify a separate article. The controversy is a little 50/50, some complaining about the author but really only in relation to the book. I know that if I do create the article, it will be a magnet for people looking to score a few hits against the author via an article about her book as they did with the Foyt article. After the news got out about the book there were a few PRODs for Foyt's article that had no merit. So I'm a bit torn. I've made a quick and dirty version of the article, so if you want to look at it and see if there's enough there to justify an article, let me know. There's still a few reviews and stuff I have to put on here that I couldn't put onto the other article for reasons due to room. ( User:Tokyogirl79/Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden) If not, I won't be terribly upset. I just think that it might be getting to the point where there's enough to spin off onto another article and make the section about the controversy in the author's article smaller since we'd have a separate article for the book. Tokyogirl 10:57, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Would you have a look at this autobiography? At first look it reads like another self-promoting "I've outdone Einstein" nutcase with a new book to plug, and the "Fame and Personal relationships" section reads very oddly, with his colleagues signing statements that he has made "no single point of misconduct" and should have a Nobel prize. He seems to have his own Institute rather than a University position. On the other hand, he has a real publication record. (I am not sure I understand h-index - I am I right to make this one 11?) JohnCD ( talk) 14:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
In regards to the David R. Hawkins article, one editor, (who originally requested deletion) has taken it upon himself to remove the published works from the author based on what appears to be an misinterpretation of policy regarding authors who are both independently published and who also publish works through their own publishing company. Is there some way to get a consensus and clarification on this policy or someone who might have a third-party input on the policy as it is being used to delete the author's works? Discussion is also on the article talk as to why he claims to be doing so. -- Iconoclast.Horizon ( talk) 11:01, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Backtable Speak to me concerning my deeds. 07:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Dave... I reside in the projected path of Isaac so I evacuated Monday afternoon... if you don't mind, please check my page for new messages every few days or so until you see the UPDATE removed from the top of my page. It would be greatly appreciated. Obviously I won't see your response or be able to respond, but hopefully you or someone else in AFC will see this message and help me out.Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 07:45, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Submission declined on 19 August 2012 by DGG (talk). This remains an advertisement, even if the product being advertised is disguised until the end of the article. Declined by DGG 9 days ago. Last edited by DGG 9 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.
Dear sir,
how should i change this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wunden de ( talk • contribs) 17:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi David - I'm helping clean up the online presence of Shades of Hope Treatment Center and see that there was once a page for them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_Hope_Treatment_Center. You deleted the page in August 2011 because it was too commercial. I'd like to reactivate their presence here, in a non-advertising manner of course. (I don't know what their previous page looked like or who created it.)
Shades of Hope has a legitimate reason to be on Wikipedia. They've been the setting for numerous TV shows, including "Addicted to Food" on the Oprah Winfrey Network and "Ruby" on the Style Network. It's also linked to on Ashley Judd's wiki page under Personal as the location where she sought treatment, as well as the Oprah Winfrey Network's. Here's a link to a search for "Shades of Hope": http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=%22shades+of+hope%22&fulltext=Search
Please let me know what I need to do to convince you to allow the page to exist and to allow me to edit it to meet Wikipedia standards.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cooperkoch ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
It's not me you have to convince. but the community. Anyone can list an article for deletion; if it obviously meets the criteria for speedy deletion at WP:CSD, the first admin who sees it will delete it; if it's less obvious, it goes for a community decision. From what you say, you are working for the Center, and if by "trying to clean up its online presence" you mean "increase its on-line presence," you are a purely promotional editor, and can be blocked as such, for Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and cannot be used for promotion. Please see WP:COI: our basic advice is that if the center is important, someone unconnected with it will write the article.
But nobody can write an article that will remain in Wikipedia if there are no references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. Looking at Google News I see none; looking at Google I see nothing useful--the best is a CNN interview not primarily about the center. Consensus here at many previous discussions is that being a guest on even a famous talk show is not itself intrinsically notable, nor is having a famous client. It is only notable if multiple other sources cover it. The Oprah Show was over a year ago, and nobody seems to have done so. Similarly for Judd's stay there. My advice on the basis of long experience here is that without much better references, the most objective and best-written article possible on the Center is still not be likely to be accepted by the community. Not everything worth mentioning in a WP article about something notable is itself notable--the criterion for content is merely being relevant and sourced.
If you do have references, please tell me--the best way is to list them on your talk p. and ask me here to have a look.
I see you have also started an article at Articles for Creation on its founder, Tennie McCarty; it is not likely that she is notable for the center if the center is not notable; nor will be notable as an author under WP:CREATIVE for the book she wrote about the center. The article's only purpose can have been promotion, so I have accordingly deleted it as well. I need to warn you that entirely promotional editors will be blocked if they continue, but you are very welcome here to write about anything else you may be interested in. DGG ( talk ) 22:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
In the Deletion Review of David R. Hawkins There seems to be some contention over which arguments you felt were prejudiced. -- Iconoclast.Horizon ( talk) 16:57, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I've been away a while. Is being a published author no longer an assertion of significance? Please see This conversation where I'm making an idiot of myself. Has the divide between significance and notability closed so much? Is there some discussions I need to read? Thanks Dloh cierekim 01:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Heya. Saw this when doing some research, seems that this article was speedied yesterday in light of G11. I'm doing some research, however, and wanted to see what that article had to say. Could we pull a userfy out of the hat for this one?
-- Dennis The Tiger ( Rawr and stuff) 01:38, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Check out my new template and Alcatraz building articles in Template:Alcatraz Island. This is the sort of coverage in my opinion which makes wikipedia that bit more special and illustrates just how much we could potentially cover. I wish I'd been able to access info and know what the buildings were when I visited it 10-15 years ago and viewed it by boat. If I was there today I could check it out on my mobile. I think people will find the information I've put out today really useful. What do you think of the idea? The Prison life on Alcatraz one I think I'll enjoy the most, an elaboration on the paragraph I added to the Alcatraz Island article. Its quite interesting to me to get an insight into life on the island.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:15, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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As you have suggested a merge, perhaps you would like to start the discussion on the talk page to suggest why it should be merged—adding WP:INUNIVERSE trivia to a GA-rated article? You must have a rationale for this step, as opposed to the deletion which you removed? - SchroCat ( ^ • @) 06:11, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, DGG.
You told me to contact you after July passed regarding rollback, so here I am, contacting you. =) - Zhou Yu ( talk) 18:17, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi-there. Recently, I've been working to improve the Bloomberg Law article which currently lacks any citation or substantial information. I do some work for Bloomberg and don't want my conflict of interest to interfere with Wiki guidelines, so I have been in talks with Bearian about a draft of the article I proposed. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the bandwidth at this time to help implement that changes and recommended I talk with you. Would you mind taking a look and if seen as appropriate, implement the changes into the current article? My draft can be found here. I truly appreciate your help! -- RivBitz ( talk) 18:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
I was informed by RHawsworth who grew up here that it wasn't notable...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Its an area of Kendal. But I believe it used to be a separate small village before the city limits expanded.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:22, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi David. before I realised who CSD'd this, I removed the spam, declined the CSD, and tagged for notability instead. As I trust your judgement, feel free to revert my actions, and PROD, or CSD again, as you see fit. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:14, 2 August 2012 (UTC).
I did read the policies after you mentioned them to me last time and I was aware that US Government works are in Public domain. I was too fast while seeing the website that I didn't realize that it is a US Governmental website. I apologize for my blunder and I will be extremely careful in the future. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 06:02, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't understand why you reverted to a bare URL on the Grizzly Bear article after I took the time to cover it. -- :- ) Don 18:03, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
:- ) Don 18:38, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
– Arms & Hearts ( talk) 19:06, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Gold Standard 20:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Input is needed about Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Pantheism_discussion regarding suitability of sources for the pantheism article. Your name was selected at random from WP:FRS. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 01:38, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Gold Standard 05:02, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I started writing a page that was speedy deleted and you were the admin who deleted it, although I had left some information in the Talk section stating why I thought it was a valid article. Can I find out what constituted "promotion" in the article as I didn't think I'd put anything in that was advocating or promoting the use of the products. I thought I'd done pretty well at keeping it to neutral facts. I see that there are a number of companies who have wiki articles about them, and I followed the style of these closely, so as not to violate WP rules. Appreciate your response Halojones88 ( talk) 08:07, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. Long time no chat and I hope all is well. Calling on your library expertise here rather than necessarily your on-wiki expertise. I recreated The Rembrandt Affair (Daniel Silva novel) & gave a courtesy heads up to the deleting admin. He was fine with the recreation as it stated notability but suggested I add sales figures. How do you find those for fiction titles? Is there any publicly accessible resource? Thanks! StarM 01:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I was just curious why Toysrus would still be considered useful? The proper CamelCase title for this article has now been created, and there are no longer any links that lead to this redirect (with the exception of a few redirects on some users' talkpages.) Steel1943 ( talk) 04:21, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, DGG. I found reliable sources and improved the article to meet Wiki standards. The police officer was written about heavily, was on Fox's "Cops" series, eventually sued the police department for discrimination, and ran for sheriff. The book is about those events and issues. I copyedited and added sourced info, and, afterward, removed the proposed delete tag prior to the seven days expiration. But I just saw in the article's history that the tag was added to with a notation is red saying the article could be deleted at any moment. I removed the tag before that red note was added, so I'm confused about the process. Thank you. AuthorAuthor ( talk) 08:27, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I've lost track. Where did we end up with the imported dispute between these two (amongst others)? Because, four years one month later, they're still at it — this time with an article that neither of them actually want us to push our delete buttons on. And in the meantime attraction to transgender people, only just renamed from transfan, is still little more than a dictionary of slang names. Uncle G ( talk) 17:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG. Long time no chat and I hope all is well. Calling on your library expertise here rather than necessarily your on-wiki expertise. I recreated The Rembrandt Affair (Daniel Silva novel) & gave a courtesy heads up to the deleting admin. He was fine with the recreation as it stated notability but suggested I add sales figures. How do you find those for fiction titles? Is there any publicly accessible resource? Thanks! StarM 01:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I was just curious why Toysrus would still be considered useful? The proper CamelCase title for this article has now been created, and there are no longer any links that lead to this redirect (with the exception of a few redirects on some users' talkpages.) Steel1943 ( talk) 04:21, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I've lost track. Where did we end up with the imported dispute between these two (amongst others)? Because, four years one month later, they're still at it — this time with an article that neither of them actually want us to push our delete buttons on. And in the meantime attraction to transgender people, only just renamed from transfan, is still little more than a dictionary of slang names. Uncle G ( talk) 17:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Any input you could provide at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2012_August_8#Dualist_pantheism would be appreciated. Cheers. -- Noleander ( talk) 19:53, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
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Up for deletion..♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
but the circumstances are not routine,.
I see they did check the corresponding article in the zhWP, which has the coordinates. And then they saw the zhWP discussion, which as best as I can make out from google translate considers the article insufficiently sourced. Which it was, considering the copied it from the enWP at a time when the enWP was unsourced. I'm reluctant to write in English on their AfD page to tell them otherwise. They also seem to have a policy against sub-stubs in general, & do not have the policy we do to include them for geographic places. they seem to consider the present version not a sub-stub).
The reason the enWP The reason it is unsourced is the original source you placed, http://fallingrain.com/ , was removed by a bot, saying it was on the blacklist. (It is not on the blacklist now; whether it is a good source is another matter, for it does not show where it gets its data--it certainly seems useful, though) In any case, the link originally there no longer works--the site name is now http:www.fallingrain.com . It may be necessary to look for other places the bot removed it.
I'm trying to track down what happened with respect to the blacklist. I cannot find the discussion in the logs. But then, I've never fully figured out how they do things. DGG ( talk ) 18:46, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DGG, sorry for disturbing You. I made some editions in article Don Cossacks, section History with a new references. Some of them are in Russain, so I do an English translation of their title. Can I ask You for checking if it okey for English WP? Sincerely Kravtz ( talk) 21:49, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DGG:
I would like to why my article on Maria Freudenstein was altered and deleted. I provided all the necessary sourcing with the appropiate footnotes. No sourced contradictory information was ever provided. In fact, I provided more than enough documentation. I have made a request that this page be restored. Perdogg ( talk ) —Preceding undated comment added 19:57, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
You tagged Alpha Card Services for speedy deletion. It seems to me that the presence in the "top lists" of Inc Magazine and Philadelphia Business Journal are enough to avoid an A7, particularly as they are already Sourced. Other content in the "Awards, honors and publications" section might also be enough. I know you are an experienced editor and careful about speedy deletion -- Did you see something that I missed? DES (talk) 06:02, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Any comments on this [1] AfD would be appreciated. Yfever ( talk) 19:42, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
( Aknordstrom ( talk) 22:08, 13 August 2012 (UTC)) Hello DGG, in writing this article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Intelligent Energy Storage, I tried to be as neutral as possible. This is a type of technology, not a company. Can you expand on how this looks like an advertisement? I am aware of two other applications that would fit this news article. If I included those and they are not part of the company discussed, would that be more acceptable? Any suggestions and advice would be much appreciated! Thank you for your time.
Hello there,
I was wondering how i could improve my article. I'm struggling to get it fit and relevant for Wikipedia, I don't know what else i can do. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what i could do to make it wikipedia worthy.
Regards,
RT — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buzzlin35 ( talk • contribs) 08:32, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
First of all , here is not even a real indication that the firm might be important. A Wikipedia article needs to show notability with references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. You do not have any. Until you have them, there is no reason to continue to try to write the article, for it will not be accepted here, no matter how well you write it.
As for promotionalism, include only material that would be of interest to a general reader coming across the mention of the subject and wanting the sort of information that would be found in an encyclopedia. Do not include material that would be of interest only to prospective clients --that sort of content is considered promotional. Among this is a detailed description of the interior of your coaches, selling points about how convenient you are to particular tourist destinations, Do not stress routine trivia, such as that you have been government certified as meeting the minimum requirements, and are a member of the usual industry associations. You are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. I am not really sure whether there will be enough suitable content for an article. DGG ( talk ) 23:03, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I was wondering why you considered the "Currently in Development" section of the page I created to be "promotionalism for film still in pre-production?" Was there any specific part of it that you felt gave it an air of promotionalism?
The reason I ask is simply because I would like to be able to add the section back in, and at the same time I of course need to make sure that the section is fit for Wikipedia. The information is undeniably relevant to the company, and it is no violation to Wikipedia to write about films still in development, provided that there are relevant and reliable references (for example, Pitch Perfect). In addition to that, I think that the way the article began with the "History" section and ended with the "Currently in Development" section gave the page a nice progressive, chronological movement and added to the article from a readability standpoint.
Here is what I had in there originally, minus the citations so that I don't clog your page (though I can add them in if you're curious to see what they were and where they went):
Thank you for your input! This is definitely a learning process for me, and I appreciate your help in making this article the best it can be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.b.bellingham ( talk • contribs) 04:59, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG, Be most grateful if you could clarify what is supposed to happen through deletion review. Noticed both yourself & S Marshall both suggested either putting it back to AfD or reinstating. How long does this normally take? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amanda Paul ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I am the one who created the website for InnoTech Manufacturing, so those are MY words to begin with. How do I go about either restoring this and getting it approved or getting the old article information and re wording it (as it took me a very long time to create). Please advise. Eabrookman ( talk) 14:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
You were the one who helped to teach me that ANY information included in a BLP had to be sourcable... even if it is a minor fact about being a former college footall player. That the Billboard articles are not loading today does not mean they do not exist. Maybe their servers are having a problem, but at the time I offered them as sources I was reading them. When a nominator claims someone has received no notice, it is importnat to show the error of that nomination statement. As notability, you taught me that such is is not determined by what a source writes, but through the fact that they do write something. We may disagree, but the GNG and WP:MUSBIO #1 are met. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 01:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi there!
Regarding the message you left on my talk page, I just wanted to say thanks for helping out there. As a relatively new editor, I'm still trying to figure things out; even though I've learned pretty quickly, I still make a lot of mistakes (see my talk page if you don't believe me....), and just wanted to say thank you for catching something that could have been bad.
How would I go about making such a list article, and then redirects, without destroying the ability to make the pages or cause loss of references? I'll be honest, part of the reason I suggested it in the manner I did was because I didn't know how to do it myself, and so couldn't be BOLD.
Thanks again for your help! (And for not biting...seriously, there's a lot of that on my talk page. :/ ) Cheers, Zaldax ( talk) 13:31, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
David. See User:Shirt58/Crest Secondary School. I don't think it would pass muster as an article. I was (very briefly) a secondary school teacher, but shh, that's just between the two of us, ok? Pete, aka -- Shirt58 ( talk) 16:03, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your thorough critique. I appreciate it. I have posted a quick rewrite, and will incorporate your suggestions tomorrow, including using Parney's official parent-given name, although no one knows him by Penrose. Please give me a day or two to fix the stuff you've mentioned. I'll also pass it along to the NIF folks. Lseaveratnif ( talk) 00:44, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello DGG. I just wanted to take some time to say ... thanks. I can tell that you are a very reasonable editor (and administrator, in fact) and I can tell that you take time to educate others in how to improve their work. Definitely serves a greater purpose than a quick speedy deletion. Just wanted to acknowledge that ... I could definitely learn from your methods. Anyways, take care, and thanks. Steel1943 ( talk) 03:25, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Since you recently participated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DVBViewer, I'm notifying you that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DVBViewer (2nd nomination) has been opened. -- Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:22, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Dear DGG - thank you very much for accepting and editing the article on Patrick Gardiner. I was impressed by the speed and efficiency of the process! One question - do you think it would be worthwhile for me to put a note in the 'talk' bit of the page, encouraging people with relevant knowledge and expertise to expand it a bit? I did not attempt to write anything about the content of his books myself because I don't have the background. Many thanks again, User:TuttiFruttiCherryPie TuttiFruttiCherryPie ( talk) 10:13, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Why did you remove the article "Parney Albright"? There were tons of references, and he is definitely someone who deserves to be in Wikipedia. Lseaveratnif ( talk) 23:29, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Electric Catfish 01:23, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DDG, I have made quite a number of deletions and changes to try to address the advice you gave me on the page Independent Contractors of Australia. Does it now meet the requirements? should I submit it again? Henry Austen Henry Austen ( talk) 08:54, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Last month, you gave Kliang0725 a final warning about soap boxing, advising them if they did it again they could be blocked. As you can see at the bottom of their talk page, they appear to have done it again. Automatic Strikeout 17:28, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
You tagged this article last month for copy/paste concerns but didn't indicate a source. Can you say which source you think it is copy/pasted from and whether you are concerned with copyright issues or simply duplicated wording and/or plagiarism from some public domain resource? Anything you know would be much appreciated. VernoWhitney ( talk) 18:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
SwisterTwister talk 18:58, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I recently posted an article about Burch Creative Capital LLC. Can you please shed some more light as to why it was deleted? I work for a family office/venture fund and we recently changed our company name so we wanted to launch our wiki page in conjuction with out new website - burchcreativecapital.com. I added some more references/external links to the new Burch Creative Capital wiki, but it still seems to be pending. Can you please explain to as to why it was deleted. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Best, Jonathan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbalanevsky ( talk • contribs) 19:06, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Such phrases as "As a Creative Capital firm, the company has a decidedly different approach to creating value" is pure advertising. It belongs in your advertisements, not an encyclopedia. The list of prior investments belongs on your web page, not an encyclopedia. Do not include material that would be of interest only or primarily to prospective clients --that sort of content is considered promotional.
And you will also need references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. If you have such references, it might be possible to write aa proper article. DGG ( talk ) 19:26, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
As an administrator, would you move User:Dockkcod/sandbox to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/My Man Is A Loser? I would move the page myself but MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist prevented me, administrators can override the list however. Thanks, SwisterTwister talk 20:10, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
SwisterTwister talk 02:22, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Regardless of its outcome, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to participate in the DRV on Margo Rey. I appreciate it. Best regards... Vertium When all is said and done 16:41, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
As an editor with much experience in locating and reviewing sources, would you take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward Francis Anhalt? Do the sources seem valid, and is the subject notable? You've commented about the topic before at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Dreduardoa/sandbox. Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 17:57, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
I refused CSD#A7 on this one, but it is a mess. I figured you might actually know something about the subject matter, enough to clean it up just a bit, so wanted to bring it to your attention. If you have time. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 12:23, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Dainomite's talk page. dain talk 23:25, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG: Thanks for your feedback on The Berkeley Historical Plaque Project entry. I'm new to Wiki creation so I value your input and suggestions. I wrote the article in an objective manor with references that I have available--no attempts were made to promote or raise money. I also tried to be detail oriented and informative as opposed to some related Berkeley historical organizations. Would Wikipedia prefer if I were less detailed? (ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Architectural_Heritage_Association & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Historical_Society). It was my intention to be more informative but perhaps that is putting the post into an area which becomes difficult to substantiate. Furthermore local press has referenced the project in a limited way at this point so web references are difficult for now. I do have this one new article which I'm going to add to the entry now ( http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/08/13/berkeley-historical-plaque-project-crowd-sourcing-history/).
Thanks in advance for your help with this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rkehlmann ( talk • contribs) 18:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your assistance, it is very much appreciated. ( Tarpoon88 ( talk) 04:22, 20 August 2012 (UTC))
You summarily rejected an article written about the above-named Swiss-Canadian entrepreneur. This was only a draft awaiting references and not suggesting immediate publication. However, your background and discipline would tend to make you a prejudicial critic of the subject not worthy of arms length assessment and editorial comment. There is far too little commentary in Wikipedia on prominent businessmen and their contribution to society. These people are decidedly not academics mired in the typical "publish or perish" tradition of academia. They would rather work hard in their deeds rather than their printed words to improve the human condition (sometimes for millions of people) rather than selfishly project their own narrow academic focus on life in writings. Prior to engaging in what could possibly be a protracted and difficult relationship with an editor over a subject that is obviously far off his normal base, I would ask that a more relevant and closer associated editor be appointed to review the article which falls under the category of international trade and commerce rather than academia. Is that possible, or is this forum decidedly inflexible in how it approaches how it controls and polices its public contents? What all the contributors to its content are seeking here is advice on how to improve the article as it does not fall under the normal category of academic or encyclopedic content but like many people in the world, there is a message worth telling to others. Dawlat Baba. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawlatbaba ( talk • contribs) 08:46, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments. As there were no comments previously, this is the sort of advice I was expecting rather than the summary execution previously of the proposed article. Could you please provide the references (as you generally request are needed) for five (of the hundreds you have completed) prominent international business people for whom you have drafted or edited their biographical insertions on Wikipedia. I will use these as the benchmarks for adding the appropriate references to Mr. Stewart's interesting and instructional career. Dawlat Baba. 11:17 21 August 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawlatbaba ( talk • contribs) 09:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Sir:
Could you please just give me one businessman's biography that you have written so that I can try to copy the style and intent of references. If you have done hundreds as you say, you will know that it is extremely difficult to reference the accomplishments of most businessmen. They tend to publish only the balance sheets of their companies which are used as a general guide to some of their personal success. Private company results are never published. These people shun publicity, because most are shy and work alone. They refuse most interviews, academic hallmarks, publications and the like. They see their contributions in life as actions, not words.
With an article that displays your talents for referencing people like Mr. Stewart, I will perhaps know where to look for specific references on him. Some genuine Heads of State, Cabinet Ministers, other CEO's rarely leave themselves open to press interviews fearing unwarranted criticism or wrongful interpretations. Millions of people who benefitted from the early unearthing of the disease HIV-AIDS would not even know he exists. His actions were done in secret as were many dealing with corruption and other unacceptable business practises against which he has fought all his life. Perhaps you do not appreciate that some people's lives are gravely at risk by exposing them unnecessarily in public.
As a biographer, I am sure you can sympathize with those of us struggling to fit someone larger than life into your rigid format which of course is required to bring objectivity. But not being an academic who works in words, Mr. Stewart is an "action man" who circumnavigates the world constantly, leaving multitudes of change for the better in his wake. But I cannot afford to follow him wherever he goes taking photos and getting journalists or editors to write down everything in third party definitions that confirm all of what he accomplishes. It would slow him down mercilessly, and I am sure he would outright reject the need to do it until he dies.
I apologoize for my persistence, but I am sure you have had to deal with someone who has worked in the shadows all his life and despises publicity. He does not see himself as a public figure, only someone who makes a valid and appreciable contribution to mankind every day by thought, deed and action, leaving out the printed word as his method of influencing anyone. If he saves a life, improves someone's wealth who would otherwise be impoverished, or creates an opportunity to introduce world-beating technology that transforms millons of lives in a positive way, he would rather do it that talk or write about it, or have someone else eulogize him for the effort. He just wants to do it, and leave it at that.
Mr. Stewart falls into all three categories used in Wikipedia to define the "Law of the Few". He is one of those rare one in a million who is connector, a mavern and a salesman. He brings people and ideas together that change the course of history through actions he undertakes himself and incites in others. He is always the last one to benefit from his deeds, but he enjoys connecting hundreds of people to make substantial improvements to the human condition. Try to document that! He knows hundreds of heads of state, miniters, CEO's, and leaders in many fields of endeavor. They will all tell you he is a rare and exceptional human being who has dramatically changed the world. But he doesn't write about it. He is too busy doing it quietly on his own!
He has done it for the sufferers of AIDS, the invention and public dissemination of VoIP (lowering dramatically all long distance communications costs worldwide) and he is about to do it twice more. One is with the implementation of a new method of payments around the world that does away with credit cards, and eventually banks altogether. His other passion is a Hybrid Air Vehicle that is about to change the meaning of flight. This will introduce an air vehicle that combines a regular aircraft, helicopter, hovercraft and dirigible. It will open up 90% of the untouched, remote corners of the world. I guarantee that you will never hear his name associated with it, but without him, it will never happen. How do you document that?
Regards, Dawlat Baba 16:49 CET 21 August 2012
P.S. As an expression of his dislike for publicity, he has donated every penny he or his companies ever earned to charity and lives very modestly in Northern Italy. But he deserves not to be forgotten. Several biographers are trying to bottle his energy and initiative before he quits. Others would truly benefit from understanding how he succeeds without publicity on himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dawlatbaba ( talk • contribs) 14:56, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
I am a little puzzled at your having declined the AfC with the reason " The content of this submission includes material that meets Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you." with the contradictory and incompatible edit summary "Declining submission: submission lacks inline citations " I can think of several reasons for declining this article, including the unlikelihood of encyclopedic notability , but I do not see how citation format is a reason for declining this or any other article, considering that except for special cases such as potentially negative BLP, there is no requirement for ay specific citation format. I agree the way the references are presented in this article is confusing and ought to be fixed--the references at the bottom are most of them not at all to the point in any case--but I dod not see this as a reason for declining the article.
I am concerned not about hte article per se, but in our giving correct advice to beginners. DGG ( talk ) 08:11, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The undeletion requester has had time to improve it, but in my view it is no better, and I plan to nominate it at AfD. My first thought was to explain the tangled history and link to your reasons for undeleting; but I do not think all that is really relevant, and I am anyway struggling to make my nomination not TL;DR, so (unless you disagree) I propose simply to say that the article has a complicated history including previous deletions, but it is not a G4 speedy candidate and the present version should be considered on its merits.
I find that, ironically, the first use of the word genocide in this context was about the other side, by Lt-Col. Bastien-Thiry at his trial for attempted assassination of de Gaulle, referring to the abandonment to FLN vengeance of the harkis, Algerians who had supported France.
Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 16:06, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
As per our conversation, I am not experienced enough for this one. Is this original research? the author states it is his thesis. What are the guidelines for this? I don't want to mark it ORIGINAL RESEARCH or WP:NOT until I am clear on how to handle. Please advise. Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 02:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm looking at this old diff of No (word), and wondering if its worth trying to rescue (particularly sections 2/3/4), and how to best do so. (It was turned into a redirect to Yes and no in 2011). Thoughts? -- Quiddity ( talk) 08:57, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello, the page title Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! is under some sort of protection which I cannot include the work I have done to it. I was wondering If you could help me in removing the protection so I can add my sandbox work to the article? Thank you in advance. Jonjonjohny ( talk) 22:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
You rock, period.... Long story short, I forgot my glasses at home today and read some things on my talk page wrong. I am embarrassed, but luckily, you hadn't read my heartless, disturbing comment yet. I appreciate you and I will not forget my glasses again. Besides mis-reading, I have an awful headache. Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 20:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
What's good, Papa Dave!
In reviewing articles today, I declined Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Brandon Welch based on lack of references. I added help to the page, etc. Please see his comment on my talk page and my response. Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 21:04, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, given your previous input in a dispute resolution about pantheism, I'd like your input in my nominating Naturalistic pantheism for deletion if you have time for it. Thanks ( Allisgod ( talk) 07:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)) ary. If he continues along this line, it will be, so let me know. DGG ( talk ) 01:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG: Thanks very much for your feedback and encouraging comments on my AfC. Based on your suggestions, I have extensively edited the article. The main things I kept in mind while editing were to maintain a neutral tone and provide information for the general reader, and not press release type information. I did leave the main interview with the company founder because it is the only source I could find for the cited paragraph, and the interview was conducted with a highly respected business journalist (George Chamberlain). I am looking forward to any further suggestions you might have, and I hope for your approval of my article. Cheers! MO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Oberlin ( talk • contribs) 09:55, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG, Somehow the AfC version of my article was rearranged and semi-duplicated, i.e., messed up! I think that's why you thought the product section was lacking. I have now fixed the article to how it was when I last submitted it on 20 August 2012. There is substantial information about the products, what they are used for, that they are liquid or dry polymers. The specific type of chemicals is not released by the company - I assume it is proprietary information.
Regarding Jjjjjjjjjj's comments; I know the company's website organizes their product line by target market, i.e., pre-analytical, research, forensics, biobanks, and by general product category, i.e., DNA products, RNA products, bacterial products, assay products, etc. However, I think that this is just SEO marketing to capture customers searching by the two different types of categorization. I do not think it is essential to present the company's products both ways in the article.
Please let me know if there are any additional changes necessary to move this article towards acceptance.
Kind regards,
Mark Oberlin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Oberlin ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi DGG,
Following up on my last message of 8/22/2012, I was wondering if you’ve had a chance to look at my article on Biomatrica again after I cleaned it up ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Biomatrica)? As I noted, the article had somehow gotten rearranged, and I had to rewrite it back to how it was when I last submitted it on 20 August 2012. I believe that the article is now properly formatted and that it addresses your most recent suggestion to include more information about the company’s products.
Having familiarized myself with many Wikipedia articles on companies, I really think that the article is ready. Not to be presumptuous; I respect that you are the editor. I just want to do my best to get the article correct so that it can be approved as soon as possible.
Thank you very much,
Mark Oberlin Mark Oberlin ( talk) 22:14, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I have a question for you. I've been working on the article for Victoria Foyt after having seen the whole "Save the Pearls" debacle. I figured that if anyone was going to add this stuff, I probably should. I've been debating for a while about spinning the criticism section into a separate article, as there are a lot of sources out there about it. I'm just not entirely sure if I should or not. I could keep the article as it is on the author's page, but I think there's enough to justify a separate article. The controversy is a little 50/50, some complaining about the author but really only in relation to the book. I know that if I do create the article, it will be a magnet for people looking to score a few hits against the author via an article about her book as they did with the Foyt article. After the news got out about the book there were a few PRODs for Foyt's article that had no merit. So I'm a bit torn. I've made a quick and dirty version of the article, so if you want to look at it and see if there's enough there to justify an article, let me know. There's still a few reviews and stuff I have to put on here that I couldn't put onto the other article for reasons due to room. ( User:Tokyogirl79/Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden) If not, I won't be terribly upset. I just think that it might be getting to the point where there's enough to spin off onto another article and make the section about the controversy in the author's article smaller since we'd have a separate article for the book. Tokyogirl 10:57, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Would you have a look at this autobiography? At first look it reads like another self-promoting "I've outdone Einstein" nutcase with a new book to plug, and the "Fame and Personal relationships" section reads very oddly, with his colleagues signing statements that he has made "no single point of misconduct" and should have a Nobel prize. He seems to have his own Institute rather than a University position. On the other hand, he has a real publication record. (I am not sure I understand h-index - I am I right to make this one 11?) JohnCD ( talk) 14:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
In regards to the David R. Hawkins article, one editor, (who originally requested deletion) has taken it upon himself to remove the published works from the author based on what appears to be an misinterpretation of policy regarding authors who are both independently published and who also publish works through their own publishing company. Is there some way to get a consensus and clarification on this policy or someone who might have a third-party input on the policy as it is being used to delete the author's works? Discussion is also on the article talk as to why he claims to be doing so. -- Iconoclast.Horizon ( talk) 11:01, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Backtable Speak to me concerning my deeds. 07:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Dave... I reside in the projected path of Isaac so I evacuated Monday afternoon... if you don't mind, please check my page for new messages every few days or so until you see the UPDATE removed from the top of my page. It would be greatly appreciated. Obviously I won't see your response or be able to respond, but hopefully you or someone else in AFC will see this message and help me out.Cheers! Stella BATPHONE GROOVES 07:45, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Submission declined on 19 August 2012 by DGG (talk). This remains an advertisement, even if the product being advertised is disguised until the end of the article. Declined by DGG 9 days ago. Last edited by DGG 9 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.
Dear sir,
how should i change this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wunden de ( talk • contribs) 17:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi David - I'm helping clean up the online presence of Shades of Hope Treatment Center and see that there was once a page for them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_Hope_Treatment_Center. You deleted the page in August 2011 because it was too commercial. I'd like to reactivate their presence here, in a non-advertising manner of course. (I don't know what their previous page looked like or who created it.)
Shades of Hope has a legitimate reason to be on Wikipedia. They've been the setting for numerous TV shows, including "Addicted to Food" on the Oprah Winfrey Network and "Ruby" on the Style Network. It's also linked to on Ashley Judd's wiki page under Personal as the location where she sought treatment, as well as the Oprah Winfrey Network's. Here's a link to a search for "Shades of Hope": http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=%22shades+of+hope%22&fulltext=Search
Please let me know what I need to do to convince you to allow the page to exist and to allow me to edit it to meet Wikipedia standards.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cooperkoch ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
It's not me you have to convince. but the community. Anyone can list an article for deletion; if it obviously meets the criteria for speedy deletion at WP:CSD, the first admin who sees it will delete it; if it's less obvious, it goes for a community decision. From what you say, you are working for the Center, and if by "trying to clean up its online presence" you mean "increase its on-line presence," you are a purely promotional editor, and can be blocked as such, for Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and cannot be used for promotion. Please see WP:COI: our basic advice is that if the center is important, someone unconnected with it will write the article.
But nobody can write an article that will remain in Wikipedia if there are no references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. Looking at Google News I see none; looking at Google I see nothing useful--the best is a CNN interview not primarily about the center. Consensus here at many previous discussions is that being a guest on even a famous talk show is not itself intrinsically notable, nor is having a famous client. It is only notable if multiple other sources cover it. The Oprah Show was over a year ago, and nobody seems to have done so. Similarly for Judd's stay there. My advice on the basis of long experience here is that without much better references, the most objective and best-written article possible on the Center is still not be likely to be accepted by the community. Not everything worth mentioning in a WP article about something notable is itself notable--the criterion for content is merely being relevant and sourced.
If you do have references, please tell me--the best way is to list them on your talk p. and ask me here to have a look.
I see you have also started an article at Articles for Creation on its founder, Tennie McCarty; it is not likely that she is notable for the center if the center is not notable; nor will be notable as an author under WP:CREATIVE for the book she wrote about the center. The article's only purpose can have been promotion, so I have accordingly deleted it as well. I need to warn you that entirely promotional editors will be blocked if they continue, but you are very welcome here to write about anything else you may be interested in. DGG ( talk ) 22:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
In the Deletion Review of David R. Hawkins There seems to be some contention over which arguments you felt were prejudiced. -- Iconoclast.Horizon ( talk) 16:57, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
DGG, I've been away a while. Is being a published author no longer an assertion of significance? Please see This conversation where I'm making an idiot of myself. Has the divide between significance and notability closed so much? Is there some discussions I need to read? Thanks Dloh cierekim 01:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Heya. Saw this when doing some research, seems that this article was speedied yesterday in light of G11. I'm doing some research, however, and wanted to see what that article had to say. Could we pull a userfy out of the hat for this one?
-- Dennis The Tiger ( Rawr and stuff) 01:38, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Check out my new template and Alcatraz building articles in Template:Alcatraz Island. This is the sort of coverage in my opinion which makes wikipedia that bit more special and illustrates just how much we could potentially cover. I wish I'd been able to access info and know what the buildings were when I visited it 10-15 years ago and viewed it by boat. If I was there today I could check it out on my mobile. I think people will find the information I've put out today really useful. What do you think of the idea? The Prison life on Alcatraz one I think I'll enjoy the most, an elaboration on the paragraph I added to the Alcatraz Island article. Its quite interesting to me to get an insight into life on the island.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:15, 31 August 2012 (UTC)