User talk:Dhartung/Archive 7

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Americanitis
I did realize that the Americanitus/neurasthenia merge didn't require AfD. However, I'd had a disagreement with the Americanitus article's creator and felt that it would look simply vindictive if I redirected without getting an outside opinion. Doczilla 19:01, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Illinois 2007 Census
IvoShandor 11:01, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Eggcorn
Nope; not an eggcorn. That would require the misreading to make more apparent sense than the original; it's a semantic rereading. :-) I read Language Log too, you know!  &mdash; Coren (talk) 01:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Darn, maybe we just go with malapropism and call it a day. --Dhartung | Talk 01:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't know if the effect was humorous... but I'm all out of similar concepts to throw around off the top of my head, so we'll go with malapropism.  :-)  &mdash; Coren (talk) 01:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD on Human chemistry
Hi there, the article has been changed substantially since your vote so you might want to have another look at the new version. All the best Tim Vickers 16:03, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning
Thanks for cleaning up my page plis tell me more things to make it better and than k you a lot. FranK 18:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Illinois Post Census Report
IvoShandor 06:05, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Warren Harding (climber)
Your summary at seems to me to apply equally whether your Rdr stays Rdr or becomes the article. I said i would make the change w/o discussion, but your attention to the names was a pleasant surprise, and i'll feel better if you fail to object to the move. --Jerzy•t 21:52, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Done. --Jerzy•t 08:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Ricardo
Thanks for fixing the Ricardo Sanchez infoboxPustelnik 22:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Dennis Wayne Hall
In regards to Dennis Wayne Hall, he is a working and a inspiring actor that has played numerous roles. Please see his IMDB Profile http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1667150/

I will add his charcter to Characters of Carnivale once I receive his character picture and character bio. As you know Wiki is always updating articles adding and deleting characters, etc.

Please inform me on how I can make this article better.

Thank you

Minor actor with a number of small roles. I can't see notability here with only 10 small parts to his career. "Tree in neck" character is nice though. Almost did a speedy on him but I decided to get more opinions. Pigman 00:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

* This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

* Delete, notability to come. The two appearances on Carnivale were enticing, but our Characters of Carnivàle article doesn't list him at all, by which I infer it was not an important role. --Dhartung | Talk 14:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help
Thanks for your help on saving the Thomas M. Jacobs article from deletion. I really appreciate it. Chris 12:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. Olympians are considered notable per WP:BIO so it should not even have been nominated. --Dhartung | Talk 15:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

FYI
Since you were concerned about the Dummies list being deleted.

Talk:...for_Dummies Travb (talk) 03:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Sterling David Allan
I see you were one who voted for deletion of the page here at PESWiki about myself, saying that I am non-notable. The reason I am not noted in mainstream media is due to the maxim: "He who is one step ahead is a genius. He who is two steps ahead is a crackpot." Retrospective history will paint me favorably, though contemporaries often spurn.

Consider the following sampling:
 * I launched and headed the effort to draft Ron Paul for President in 2004. Now, this time around, he is the most popular candidate on the web.
 * My family of energy websites are considered as the best, most up-to-date collection worldwide of cutting-edge, outside-the-box energy technologies -- many of which hold promise to lead the world out of fossil-fuel-dependence in the coming years.
 * Our coverage routinely shows up in the top three in Google searches, often even ahead of Wikipedia.
 * The traffic that the sites receive (35,000 page views/day) is adequate to bring in sufficient revenue for the project to be self-sustaining.
 * I founded the New Energy Congress, whose Top 100 Energy Technologies listing is reviewed seriously (non-publicly) by academicians, VCs, researchers, governments, and industry experts per the phone calls I get regarding it.
 * The American Study Group that I founded fresh out of the University grew to around 4,000 members in the Rocky Mountain West, several hundred participants of which were excommunicated from the Mormon church for "apostasy" due to extreme beliefs in around 1992-1995.
 * I founded Remnant Saints Inter-Continental Congress whose purpose is to establish a world governance document based on the principles of freedom as enshrined in the Constitution of the United States -- a conservative answer to the liberal / socialist-leaning U.N. Though on hold due to lack of funding, the project is very forward-looking and continues to stir productive thought.
 * My dad is an atomic clock physicist formerly with NIST in Boulder, whose "Allan Variance" to this day is at the heart of international timekeeping, which is one of the underpinnings of modern civilization.  He built a solar home that integrates 7 different major principles.  My mother is a gifted herbal and natural healing practitioner.  That is the immediate heritage upon which I have built.

I realize that Wikipedia does not typically highlight envelope-pushing, but waits for things to become well-accepted before giving them coverage. Hence the nemesis relationship between myself and Wikipedia, due to the axiom: "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident." Wikipedia typically only covers things when they fall into the third classification; while I focus on things while they are yet in the first stage. That is my specialty, and when those things that are now ridiculed matured to where they are accepted as self-evident, my role in history will be appreciated, and not spurned.

Meanwhile, I can understand why Wikipedia and the Media in general keep their distance. And you can see why there is an antagonistic relationship between myself and the groupies at Wikipedia. They have no guts, no spirit of adventure, but prefer to go with the mainstream flow. I find that shallow and unfulfilling. That is why I founded PESWiki, to give leading edge energy technologies a place to be featured, without narrow-minded Wikipedia hacks mercilessly deleting them as soon as they poke up their heads. PESWiki is now approaching 20 million page views. We long ago surpassed Wikipedia in vision in the area of emerging energy technologies.

Non-notable? No.

Bleeding edge? Yes.

That is why you routinely delete my stuff when I venture to post it here.

No need to respond. -- Sterlingda 00:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD - Anthony Chidiac
Hi Dhartung, I noted your thoughts to 'delete article on Anthony Chidiac. Since I read that you are by nature an inclusionist, I beg to differ on your philosophy on deletion of such article. I stubbed it, put notable references to it, and at times took word for word out of articles in cited references to make up the two paragraphs. The problem was that when another contributor added "Early Life" to the article, and it was completely unsourced (well it was sourced, but no notes were made in the Resources section), it lead to an overzealous admin marking it AfD. I was just wondering if you could maybe reconsider your decision to retain this article as it is too early in the process to delete this Stub. I'll try to keep it from the train wreck it became last time. The symbolism for me is that it is my first attempt at an article, and I have a lot more to contribute to wikipedia in lots of other areas. Thanks in advance for your reconsideration. -T--T3Smile 01:22, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

MoJo
Excellent find in the MoJO article. I moved it to the new name. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 22:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:Jul7Bom/Temp
Hi, I just noticed that a template you created, Template:Jul7Bom/Temp, is unused and appears to be abandoned. I've marked it as deprecated, meaning it'll be deleted in two weeks' time if nobody objects. If there's a reason to keep it please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Deprecated and orphaned templates and feel free to remove the deprecated tag from the template. Thanks. Bryan Derksen 05:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't even remember it. Probably some sort of interim version while people argued about how many articles to have on it. --Dhartung | Talk 08:08, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Billy Hathorn
Ah, a pertinent point well put. Perhaps you would be so good as to help me document the "his own research" bit, since I think we can probably do without that kind of thing on a more permanent basis, if you get my drift. Guy (Help!) 19:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, definitely, since he uses it even in the articles that are automatic keeps, it's quite troubling. COI, self-promotion, unverifiability ... I believe he argued strenuously about this on ANI, I'll try to find it. --Dhartung | Talk 19:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Lynching in the United States
I'm taking a turn at trying to get the article to an overview of the social phenomenon known as lynching, with context and social, economic and other contributing factors. I rewrote the first few paragraphs and am working on editing the sections. Have references to add, including American and English historians Bertram Wyatt-Brown and E. P. Thompson, among others. Just thought I'd let you know if you're still interested, as your comments on the Talk page were on target.--Parkwells 17:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Polyglot (webzine)
It is interesting that you allege the article's lack of notability and at the same time you removed a complete section of it which most forcefully attests to the article's notability, that being the list of contributors. That the largest companies in the game hobby, computer, and console game industries regularly use Polyglot as a marketing outlet (and these companies have millions of dollars in assets, whole Wikipedia portals about them, and many of them are publicly traded) use Polyglot for marketing their products means, at the very least, that they think the webzine is notable. It is almost as if you are deliberately removing notability from the article so that you can suggest that it is not notable. — A lizard 18:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but notability is not transferable. There's no evidence that these companies did anything but send out press releases. The problem of notability has nothing to do with who contributed, it's how many secondary sources have written substantially about the topic. If they want to tout their contributors (or whatever you want to call them, because industry press releases are not normally characterized that way), they can do it on their website. Here, it's an indiscriminate list and essentially spam because half of them are redlinks or have no links at all. --Dhartung | Talk 20:21, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg
I invite you to reconsider your Afd vote in light of the further information I have supplied and the changes I have made to the article. Noel S McFerran 00:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Billy Hathorn
Hi. I understand you've tried in the past to help Billy Hathorn avoid the endless stream of deletions of his articles. I'm doing the same; see Requests for comment/Billy Hathorn, and your input would be welcome. Guy (Help!) 17:28, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hyphy refimprove
Hi, I've taken a shot at citing more of the Hyphy article... please take a look and let me know if you feel other pieces of the article aren't well-cites (you can just use cite tags in the places you think need attention). best, Joebeone (Talk) 01:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

AFD
Thanks for the correction. Rudget . talk 19:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Recent AFD and policy familiarity
Dear Dhartung, I've read and understood all the policies related to AFD, and do apply them when they fit. But the policies are static, and human thought, action and presentation are dynamic. So it is almost impossible to apply policy in a consistent and fair manner. scope_creep (talk) 20:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Prema Sai Baba (2nd Nomination)
Well, I guess, I didn't get the procedure right for second nomintation and someone keeps deleting the AfD tag. I am definetly not trying to be a vandal or an abuser, I simply feel this article is not noteworthy and it looks like it is not the first time someone has brought this up.--Iconoclast Horizon 20:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Jeb Bush, Jr. -- I quoted your previous AfD comment
The article on Jeb Bush, Jr. is up for deletion yet again (the third time in less than a year). In the first AfD, you posted a comment with several links that showed notability. The Daily News link is now dead, and in a quick search I couldn't find the article online, but the other links do show the subject's notability. Therefore, in my comment on Articles for deletion/Jeb Bush, Jr. (third nomination), I quoted your previous comment in its entirety. Thanks for doing this helpful research! JamesMLane t c 10:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

The state of wikipedia...
Hi Dhartung. I'm not sure you remember me, you talked to me a couple of months back, about an article I had written, Yuniti.

In any case, I'm not trying to start some crazy wikipedia fight or anything of the sort. I simply hope to get some sense and logic out of some of the wikipedia administrators, and I believe I may get this from you.

A couple of weeks ago I started up an AfD review, as per your suggestion that with a couple more news clippings, my wikipedia article may be relevant, the draft of which can be found here, and the review here:

Deletion_review/Log/2007_October_31

User:Starblind quickly endorsed the deletion, and that was that (and I let it go, I saw no point in pursuing something I could not win).

Today, I had a friend show me this article:

Katherine_Lester

And I must say, I was a bit saddened by the state of Wikipedia. Is an encyclopedia not supposed to be a source of information, where useful statistics, data, and lists can be found?

How is it that I can read about Katherine Lester, yet for users wanting a list of all notable social networking sites out there, big or small, that they're limited to this incomplete list:

List_of_social_networking_websites

When yuniti is, if nothing else, professionally written to sound and look like an encyclopedic record, and the site is different enough to be gaining an underground following and to have had various articles.

Just shocked, appalled, and ashamed and what's considered "encyclopedic". I am most of all sad, that Wikipedia has become a popularity contest where anything (no matter how useless and pointless) can be found as long as it has a few popular newsclippings.

I hope I'm not insane, and that someone else can see that this is, if nothing else, preposterous.

-Marquinho (talk) 03:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Rude false remark
I wrote an article about Margareta Svensson. It upsets me that it is deleted, but even more so that there are harassments from so called administers that apparently can say whatever they like, with no knowledge at all and no interest in finding out either. THOSE FALSE ALLEGATIONS will be what people will read about Margareta Svensson, not her extraordinary international career as a singer-pianist. There was NOTHING in that article that wasn't true, and if you administers were half-way professional you would find that out.

I had written I think three sentences when I had a message that she was not notable. And yes I did delete that message, and I only deleted that ONE, because it was not relevant. The article was not up. I couldn't imagine that someone who could write such a rude false remark after me having written almost nothing at all, could be favored. Is Wikipedia a game to see who can stand unfair beatings and just turn the other cheek?

I may have made the mistakes of creating an account with the name Margareta Svensson, because I thought that was how it was supposed to be done. And I also uploaded much before it was the final article, because I wanted to see that it worked. I didn't think anyone was that interested in my work that I got a comment long before I was done. Another lengthy rude comment, complained how I had worded a sentence, and I made changes to accommodate. One comment that it couldn't be valid because references were in Swedish - I must say that arrogance does not even begin to describe such a comment. English is the language that is used by the world, but most people in the world does NOT have English as their first language.

It seems that administers are people with too much time on their hands who have nothing better to do than to quickly, within minutes of first activity, beat a new person down with rude, false remarks. Shouldn't you be interested instead? But being mean may be how you get your satisfaction? You are no better than bullying kids on the playground.

Ludwig Kaspersen —Preceding unsigned comment added by Margareta Svensson (talk • contribs) 18:49, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Margareta Svensson
FYI- I got the same message as you about this and I've replied to the user (see here). Obviously feel free to leave your comments, but I thought I'd let you know. - Rjd0060 (talk) 20:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Li Na (daughter of Mao Zedong)
I noticed you made a comment at the above AFD. I was wondering if you wanted to qualify your "keep" with regards to individual articles. Are all 5 individually notable or do some of them not qualify? I noticed you said some of the brothers may possibly be deleted. Thanks, Axem Titanium (talk) 22:27, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Axem Titanium (talk) 23:01, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

RFA?
You do good work around here, and I remembered that you declined several RFAs in the past I believe. Do you think you are ready for adminship now. Thanks This is a Secret account 23:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

MSC Armonia
Thank you for expanding the article MSC Armonia with information that I wasn't able to find. As the accomodation for the G8 summit, the ship is indeed notable enough for Wikipedia. A ecis Brievenbus 13:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

On introductions
Thanks for pointing this out to me. I had no idea there was a precedence for these kinds of articles, which was my main reason for the AfD. Let me just pull my foot out of my mouth, here... Tijuana Brass (talk) 04:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

James Byrd, Jr.
I see where you have edited this page inn the past, but I'm finding some of the content troubling. I usually don't start whacking on articles with out getting some feed back first. Could you come to that talk page or at least read the article? Thanks. Die4Dixie 00:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Tag, you're it (please)
You voted to keep this puppy; won't you come play? Flowanda | Talk 07:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Janesville Mall
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 * As you may have noted, TenPoundHammer is trying to delete the Janesville Mall article. Unfortunately, I don't have a list of all the back issues of the Janesville Gazette I used for the original article, and I'm hundreds of miles from Janesville now.  Have you any articles I could use to mollify this fellow? DiogenesNY (talk) 06:23, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD on Elisa Bernerström
Just a heads-up that since your !vote, notability has been asserted: I've added a note on the AfD that:
 * Someone has just added a line to the article asserting notability in that "She is one of two confirmed women to have been decorated for bravery in battle in Sweden before the 1900s." I don't know the source of the "two confirmed women" part, but even if this phrasing were deleted, the original source does say she was decorated for bravery in battle ("Med anledning av detta tilldelades hon medaljen för tapperhet i fält.") Certainly many women have fought in wartime but few indeed, particularly in such an era, have been decorated for it, and this seems a reasonable fact on which to base notability: see WP:BIO "The person has received significant recognized awards or honors." --Zeborah (talk) 23:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Article AFDs
No problem. I am fine with the Lumber Cartel article as long as it meets Wikipedia sourcing policy, which it now does thanks to your additions. You mentioned the existence of other sources for MeatballWiki; perhaps you could add them to that article. As it stands now, it fails WP:WEB, which is why I nominated it. I am open to the possibility that there are other valid sources that I am currently unaware of. *** Crotalus *** 02:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)