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Delete Awarded only since 2008, no evidence of award notability, already fully covered in Jackson's article. That it was awarded at a conference doesn't mean much, most awards with proper award shows have no categories because of
WP:OC#Award recipientsHekerui (
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21:44, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep Google news search shows it mentioned as a notable award, as well as listing it as a notable award certain people have won. Going to go make an article for it now with these sources added.
Shirley Jackson AwardDreamFocus06:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I was commenting on the previous post, someone claiming the award wasn't notable. I was thinking that a category allows people to see it at the bottom of the page for the people or media that won it. People can then easily click there to see who else won it. But there will most certainly be an award section in the articles of those that won the award, listing all the notable awards they have one, and people can just click on those links to read about the award and find a list of other winners. So I agree a category probably isn't necessary, but its not harming anything either, and some might still prefer to have it.
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. At best this is categorization by name. I believe that most of these are actually for articles that can be included in the parent article or one of the subcategories there.
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20:29, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete - I think few of these articles are truly related to the Great Basin by more than name. Those that are, recat accordingly, but I think the presumption should be against. --
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Strong Keep: number of points to pick up here, and readers should note that I was the original creator of this category. Firstly, the rational of the deletion is based on
WP:OC#VENUES, which states "There is no encyclopedic value in categorizing locations by the events or event types that have been held there, such as arenas that have hosted specific sports events or concerts;" and then gives in example WrestleMania venues, Republican National Convention venues, Democratic National Convention venues: all such events which generally go to one location per annum in rotation, and then almost never return. The
West Country Carnival is an annual celebration which has a 400 year history across many of the venues in the category. Secondly,
WP:OC#VENUES further states: "However, categories that indicate how a specific facility is regularly used in a specific and notable way for some or all of the year (such as Category:National Basketball Association venues) may sometimes be appropriate." The NBA across a number of fixed-point venues has only been going for around 100 years, so something going around the same venues for 400years is well within the terms of "specific and notable." Thirdly, inclusion in this category of a town means that we don't get 30+ versions of the article "the XYZ carnival." Fourthly, this editor seems from their recent edit record to be on some form of Fairs category clean-up, and after creation of numerous new categories, has further then miss-categorized many carnivals to add to the new fairs categories to fill them up. I conclude therefore in part that this deletion is prompted in at least part as a result of their own poor focus - had they not seen the existing category
Category:Carnivals? In summary the WCC is notable, been running for 400+ years, and a specific category makes both navigation easier and keeps down excess text and entries; the category itself does not fall under the deletion criteria specified by
WP:OC#VENUES on two counts, making the nomination invalid. Rgds, --
Trident13 (
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00:32, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Wow, you took it rather personally didn't you? As to my alleged mis-categorisation, I'd love to know which articles you are referring to as everything I applied a new category to was already in
Category:Fairs or
Category:Annual fairs, apart from a couple I found by searching. In passing I note that you have not removed any from the new categories. The fact that something is notable and been running for 400 years is quite irrelevant to making a useful category, these towns should instead be listed in the
West Country Carnival article.
Far more seriously how notable is this? The Carnival is not mentioned at all in the majority of the town articles, and the few that actually mention the carnival the body of the article only extend to one sentence about it.
Tim! (
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08:49, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
No, but you took my case for retention personally, taking two bites at a retort! If you look at each of the towns own websites then you will see that each notes its carnival there - wikipedia doesn't include everything, as you seem to assume/an experienced editor should already know. Your edit record on the creation of the Fairs category speaks for itself - the main WCC article was not in Fairs per your category creation. My main point still stands - the category itself does not fall under the deletion criteria specified by
WP:OC#VENUES on two counts, making the nomination invalid. Rgds, --
Trident13 (
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13:59, 17 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Listify. For the towns, this is not defining. So a list in the main article about the towns involved, when and what is happening would be clearly more informative then an entry in a category when most of them could be deleted since their inclusion in the category is not supported by the article text (i.e. a significant impact vs. a mere mention).
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Delete, conceivably listifying first, but I dount we need it at all. This is a performance by performer category. And how does this differ from the item above?
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Listify if necessary then Delete -- we do not like award categories. Lists do the job much better sicne they can show the date, reason for the award, etc.
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Listify if necessary then Delete -- we do not like award categories. Lists do the job much better sicne they can show the date, reason for the award, etc.
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Comment. I still think it's ungrammatical, but it may be best to have consistent ungrammatical names than inconsistent grammatical names. I'm not sure the category is appropriate, however. (Individual items) mostly seem to be closer to Redirect from URL than Redirect from domain name. —
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Nominator's rationale: Per main article and other such subcats. of
Category:Abjad writing systems. Personally, I am opposed to these being named "X alphabet" when they are
abjads rather than true
alphabets (if they were all "X script" that would just avoid the problem of categorization), but as long as most of them are named "X alphabet" and the main article is named "Arabic alphabet", there is no reason for this to be different. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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Oppose "Script" is more appropriate to the pages and sub-categories in the category. I would also rename the main article
Arabic script - the content is broader than the alphabet.--
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Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Darin Fidika
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Very Strong Keep. Changing my stance here based on the OTRS ticket mentioned below. As I can read that ticket, the content of that message shows that Fidika has not changed and is presenting himself very differently in that OTRS message compared to here. Therefore, I adamantly oppose renaming this category. I can't give my full reasons for doing so without breaking the confidentiality of OTRS, however. For anyone who can read it, I've made a note there (on OTRS). ···
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Delete Rename category. Rename user. Reasonable request. Sockpuppetry was five years ago. We can let it go now, and not punish someone for registering under their real name. --
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11:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Just a comment: the sock puppetry wasn't just five years ago; it's been spread across several years (December 2006 (2), January 2007, April 2007, July 2008 (2), March 2009, November 2009). It only began five years ago. ···
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I misunderstood. This is a properly blocked person and a sockpuppeteer. However, the wish to remove his real name from the project is reasonable, and it does the project no credit to refuse such a request, no matter who from. Renaming the category should satisfy his wish without reducing our surveillance. --
SmokeyJoe (
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05:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment. Fidika seems to want to vanish; see
this at Wikibooks. Normally I wouldn't want to hinder this. But he has wasted a great amount of people's time here (notably Nihonjoe's time), and I'd want to be fairly certain that he wouldn't waste any more before doing anything that would make it harder for people to see all the "sockpuppetry" and identify and label any more outbreaks. Is Fidika serious in saying that he wants nothing to do with WP? This is what he
said (as "Exiled ambition") on 21 July 2008: ¶ There is indeed no place for me in a society defined by peasantry, and that is why I am taking my leave for matters that will rightfully bare [sic] me benefit in showing the talent, perseverance, and ambition which I have fully iterated [sic]. Goodbye. ¶ So far as it is comprehensible, that sounds final. However, it's not final for Fidika, it's instead (more or less) final for "Exiled ambition". Over a year later, Fidika was merrily editing as "IMMORTAL SAMURAI". The latest word (I think) from the already blocked all-caps "samurai" was this: ¶ I'm enjoying my latest account(s) by the way if you really want to know, so enjoy the clownshow you've made up in your heads about how I'm powerless while I continue to edit. ¶ Yes, as recently as 23 January of this year, Fidika
was boasting about editing under one or more other account(s). --
Hoary (
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23:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment. Haha, I guess I did make those two statements. Wow, sorry, I'm embarassed how pretentious and insolent I was just a year or so ago. Not to try swaying this debate in any certain direction, but I'm not that person anymore and respect each of you for the good that you're bringing to Wikipedia, especially since you're doing all of it free of charge. I know you could easily dismiss my request, and then I wouldn't be able to do a thing, as this is the internet, so I'm very appreciative for this debate. I'm against Wikipedia, but that's not because I'm the egotistic, insolent, kid I was as Exiled Ambition; I just can't respect how it's anti-capitalistic just like the rest of the internet. Each of you should be paid for what you've done to Wikipedia. —Preceding
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24.208.41.91 (
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01:12, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment Strong Keep.As a former user myself now having left Wikipedia for years and given the fact the user has used multiple socks for over 5 years and last act of socking is less than a year old in Nov 2009.Hence the user name and category should be retained for now .
74.220.215.237 (
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10:58, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep -- A request by the subject is likely to be followed by his reappearance with another ID. Sockpuppets are usually vandals who cause the rest of us no end of work in removing their ill-thought out (if not destructive) contributions. If the vandal is truly repentant and is willing to work constructively, it might be different.
Peterkingiron (
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17:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment (to last three users). You're not understanding the request. I'm no longer asking if the category and the usernames could be deleted; I'm asking if my real name could be removed from the users in that category, including the category title, and be replaced by a random pseudonym. Naturally, since the category and usernames will still be there, surveillance of me won't be any more of a problem than if I never had a name change. This is all that I'm asking, and I'm honored to have Mr. SmokeyJoe's consent on this, who suggested it. Whether you can trust me or not matters very little, as this is the internet, and appearing here as an IP address rather than as a user is the best gesture of honesty that I can give without helping Wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't deserve my help, and neither should it from any of you unless communism is what you favor. It's nice to help people, to inform them, but Wikipedia is destroying industries and mocking professional life and capitalism by simply still being alive. Remember, I could simply not edit any samurai articles and attack something else and it would be absolutely impossible for any of you to identify me, but I'm above that, as it wouldn't make the internet any better of a place or Wikipedia any less influential. Thanks for your time. —Preceding
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24.208.41.91 (
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Rename category: Given the facts above, I see no problem with some sort of right to vanish here. NB: This is related to OTRS ticket 2010101210010857, which is from the subject - it's being dealt with here however, not OTRS.
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Delete Awarded only since 2008, no evidence of award notability, already fully covered in Jackson's article. That it was awarded at a conference doesn't mean much, most awards with proper award shows have no categories because of
WP:OC#Award recipientsHekerui (
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21:44, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep Google news search shows it mentioned as a notable award, as well as listing it as a notable award certain people have won. Going to go make an article for it now with these sources added.
Shirley Jackson AwardDreamFocus06:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I was commenting on the previous post, someone claiming the award wasn't notable. I was thinking that a category allows people to see it at the bottom of the page for the people or media that won it. People can then easily click there to see who else won it. But there will most certainly be an award section in the articles of those that won the award, listing all the notable awards they have one, and people can just click on those links to read about the award and find a list of other winners. So I agree a category probably isn't necessary, but its not harming anything either, and some might still prefer to have it.
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Nominator's rationale:Merge. At best this is categorization by name. I believe that most of these are actually for articles that can be included in the parent article or one of the subcategories there.
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20:29, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete - I think few of these articles are truly related to the Great Basin by more than name. Those that are, recat accordingly, but I think the presumption should be against. --
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Category:West Country Carnival
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Strong Keep: number of points to pick up here, and readers should note that I was the original creator of this category. Firstly, the rational of the deletion is based on
WP:OC#VENUES, which states "There is no encyclopedic value in categorizing locations by the events or event types that have been held there, such as arenas that have hosted specific sports events or concerts;" and then gives in example WrestleMania venues, Republican National Convention venues, Democratic National Convention venues: all such events which generally go to one location per annum in rotation, and then almost never return. The
West Country Carnival is an annual celebration which has a 400 year history across many of the venues in the category. Secondly,
WP:OC#VENUES further states: "However, categories that indicate how a specific facility is regularly used in a specific and notable way for some or all of the year (such as Category:National Basketball Association venues) may sometimes be appropriate." The NBA across a number of fixed-point venues has only been going for around 100 years, so something going around the same venues for 400years is well within the terms of "specific and notable." Thirdly, inclusion in this category of a town means that we don't get 30+ versions of the article "the XYZ carnival." Fourthly, this editor seems from their recent edit record to be on some form of Fairs category clean-up, and after creation of numerous new categories, has further then miss-categorized many carnivals to add to the new fairs categories to fill them up. I conclude therefore in part that this deletion is prompted in at least part as a result of their own poor focus - had they not seen the existing category
Category:Carnivals? In summary the WCC is notable, been running for 400+ years, and a specific category makes both navigation easier and keeps down excess text and entries; the category itself does not fall under the deletion criteria specified by
WP:OC#VENUES on two counts, making the nomination invalid. Rgds, --
Trident13 (
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00:32, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Wow, you took it rather personally didn't you? As to my alleged mis-categorisation, I'd love to know which articles you are referring to as everything I applied a new category to was already in
Category:Fairs or
Category:Annual fairs, apart from a couple I found by searching. In passing I note that you have not removed any from the new categories. The fact that something is notable and been running for 400 years is quite irrelevant to making a useful category, these towns should instead be listed in the
West Country Carnival article.
Far more seriously how notable is this? The Carnival is not mentioned at all in the majority of the town articles, and the few that actually mention the carnival the body of the article only extend to one sentence about it.
Tim! (
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08:49, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
No, but you took my case for retention personally, taking two bites at a retort! If you look at each of the towns own websites then you will see that each notes its carnival there - wikipedia doesn't include everything, as you seem to assume/an experienced editor should already know. Your edit record on the creation of the Fairs category speaks for itself - the main WCC article was not in Fairs per your category creation. My main point still stands - the category itself does not fall under the deletion criteria specified by
WP:OC#VENUES on two counts, making the nomination invalid. Rgds, --
Trident13 (
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13:59, 17 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Listify. For the towns, this is not defining. So a list in the main article about the towns involved, when and what is happening would be clearly more informative then an entry in a category when most of them could be deleted since their inclusion in the category is not supported by the article text (i.e. a significant impact vs. a mere mention).
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Delete, conceivably listifying first, but I dount we need it at all. This is a performance by performer category. And how does this differ from the item above?
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Listify if necessary then Delete -- we do not like award categories. Lists do the job much better sicne they can show the date, reason for the award, etc.
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Listify if necessary then Delete -- we do not like award categories. Lists do the job much better sicne they can show the date, reason for the award, etc.
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Comment. I still think it's ungrammatical, but it may be best to have consistent ungrammatical names than inconsistent grammatical names. I'm not sure the category is appropriate, however. (Individual items) mostly seem to be closer to Redirect from URL than Redirect from domain name. —
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Nominator's rationale: Per main article and other such subcats. of
Category:Abjad writing systems. Personally, I am opposed to these being named "X alphabet" when they are
abjads rather than true
alphabets (if they were all "X script" that would just avoid the problem of categorization), but as long as most of them are named "X alphabet" and the main article is named "Arabic alphabet", there is no reason for this to be different. —
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Oppose "Script" is more appropriate to the pages and sub-categories in the category. I would also rename the main article
Arabic script - the content is broader than the alphabet.--
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Very Strong Keep. Changing my stance here based on the OTRS ticket mentioned below. As I can read that ticket, the content of that message shows that Fidika has not changed and is presenting himself very differently in that OTRS message compared to here. Therefore, I adamantly oppose renaming this category. I can't give my full reasons for doing so without breaking the confidentiality of OTRS, however. For anyone who can read it, I've made a note there (on OTRS). ···
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06:34, 24 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Delete Rename category. Rename user. Reasonable request. Sockpuppetry was five years ago. We can let it go now, and not punish someone for registering under their real name. --
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11:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Just a comment: the sock puppetry wasn't just five years ago; it's been spread across several years (December 2006 (2), January 2007, April 2007, July 2008 (2), March 2009, November 2009). It only began five years ago. ···
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15:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
I misunderstood. This is a properly blocked person and a sockpuppeteer. However, the wish to remove his real name from the project is reasonable, and it does the project no credit to refuse such a request, no matter who from. Renaming the category should satisfy his wish without reducing our surveillance. --
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05:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment. Fidika seems to want to vanish; see
this at Wikibooks. Normally I wouldn't want to hinder this. But he has wasted a great amount of people's time here (notably Nihonjoe's time), and I'd want to be fairly certain that he wouldn't waste any more before doing anything that would make it harder for people to see all the "sockpuppetry" and identify and label any more outbreaks. Is Fidika serious in saying that he wants nothing to do with WP? This is what he
said (as "Exiled ambition") on 21 July 2008: ¶ There is indeed no place for me in a society defined by peasantry, and that is why I am taking my leave for matters that will rightfully bare [sic] me benefit in showing the talent, perseverance, and ambition which I have fully iterated [sic]. Goodbye. ¶ So far as it is comprehensible, that sounds final. However, it's not final for Fidika, it's instead (more or less) final for "Exiled ambition". Over a year later, Fidika was merrily editing as "IMMORTAL SAMURAI". The latest word (I think) from the already blocked all-caps "samurai" was this: ¶ I'm enjoying my latest account(s) by the way if you really want to know, so enjoy the clownshow you've made up in your heads about how I'm powerless while I continue to edit. ¶ Yes, as recently as 23 January of this year, Fidika
was boasting about editing under one or more other account(s). --
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23:25, 15 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment. Haha, I guess I did make those two statements. Wow, sorry, I'm embarassed how pretentious and insolent I was just a year or so ago. Not to try swaying this debate in any certain direction, but I'm not that person anymore and respect each of you for the good that you're bringing to Wikipedia, especially since you're doing all of it free of charge. I know you could easily dismiss my request, and then I wouldn't be able to do a thing, as this is the internet, so I'm very appreciative for this debate. I'm against Wikipedia, but that's not because I'm the egotistic, insolent, kid I was as Exiled Ambition; I just can't respect how it's anti-capitalistic just like the rest of the internet. Each of you should be paid for what you've done to Wikipedia. —Preceding
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01:12, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment Strong Keep.As a former user myself now having left Wikipedia for years and given the fact the user has used multiple socks for over 5 years and last act of socking is less than a year old in Nov 2009.Hence the user name and category should be retained for now .
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10:58, 16 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep -- A request by the subject is likely to be followed by his reappearance with another ID. Sockpuppets are usually vandals who cause the rest of us no end of work in removing their ill-thought out (if not destructive) contributions. If the vandal is truly repentant and is willing to work constructively, it might be different.
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17:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment (to last three users). You're not understanding the request. I'm no longer asking if the category and the usernames could be deleted; I'm asking if my real name could be removed from the users in that category, including the category title, and be replaced by a random pseudonym. Naturally, since the category and usernames will still be there, surveillance of me won't be any more of a problem than if I never had a name change. This is all that I'm asking, and I'm honored to have Mr. SmokeyJoe's consent on this, who suggested it. Whether you can trust me or not matters very little, as this is the internet, and appearing here as an IP address rather than as a user is the best gesture of honesty that I can give without helping Wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't deserve my help, and neither should it from any of you unless communism is what you favor. It's nice to help people, to inform them, but Wikipedia is destroying industries and mocking professional life and capitalism by simply still being alive. Remember, I could simply not edit any samurai articles and attack something else and it would be absolutely impossible for any of you to identify me, but I'm above that, as it wouldn't make the internet any better of a place or Wikipedia any less influential. Thanks for your time. —Preceding
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02:43, 20 October 2010 (UTC)reply
Rename category: Given the facts above, I see no problem with some sort of right to vanish here. NB: This is related to OTRS ticket 2010101210010857, which is from the subject - it's being dealt with here however, not OTRS.
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00:28, 24 October 2010 (UTC)reply
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