User talk:DragonflySixtyseven/Archive12

Negative energy Deletion
Hello, im the drummer in the band "negative energy" and was shocked to see that our page was deleted. Being that i'm young (not twelve, but still saw your comment about them), i don't want to be "That Guy" who sounds like he's attacking you for it, i'm just wondering what we did wrong and how we can fix it so we can revive the article. (p.s take this however you like, compliment or dis, but you have a very long list of deletions :-o) 172.162.51.193 (talk) 01:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * responded. DS (talk) 16:13, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

User Info Question
Hi there. Since you seem to know a lot of the basics of wikipedia, I'm wondering if you can clear something up for me. I know that notability and credibility are huge parts of wikipedia, so to make sure I am a completely transparent user, I disclosed that I am an employee of the Cancer Research Institute and gave my contact information there. Have I done this correctly? Is there any information or statements that I should add or remove? I want to make sure that I can make factual changes to pages in the realm of cancer immunology without seeming like I have personal interests involved and staying neutral. Thanks for the advice. --CancerResearchInstitute (talk) 14:43, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I was actually thinking the same thing about the possibility of a future job change. I think I may go for a personal change rather than add Employee to my current user name.--CancerResearchInstitute (talk) 22:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Restored Agropedia
Hi Dragonfly, I've restored the article Agropedia that you deleted, because I can't find any evidence that it's a copyright violation. Feel free to nominate it for deletion if you want to. Dcoetzee 21:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Restored US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
I've now also restored the article US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) that you deleted, also because I couldn't find any evidence that it was a copyright violation. Some parts like the faculty list appear to be copied from elsewhere but I'm not convinced the entire article was, even if it's not formatted like a standard entry. Feel free to nominate it for deletion or point me to any sources you might have access to that I don't. Dcoetzee 22:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I've restored the article US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) that you deleted, again, because, despite problems with tone and syntax, it clearly is written in the form of an article, contrary to your deletion summary. If you really don't want it around, I suggest you nominate it for articles for deletion. Dcoetzee 02:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the info on the negative energy deletion thing. Unless one of the other guys tries remaking it, im not sure you'll be seeing it up again. With luck it'll be up in a few years when we top the charts! it could happen. But until then, thanks for the info and I'll be sure to use DragonFlySixtySeven for all my future Admin. needs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.163.155.207 (talk) 22:45, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

commons encouraged on PD-self
Why did you take it off? Railwayfan2005 (talk) 21:54, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * There are some licensing concerns. It can go back on when they're all sorted out. DS (talk) 01:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Where is this discussion taking place? Railwayfan2005 (talk) 20:01, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Isconova
Hi, I wonder why "Isconova" was deleted ? What can I change before I Add the article again without risking a deletion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Isconova (talk • contribs) 13:14, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It was deleted because it had been (or very very much looked like it had been) copied from a pre-existing corporate website. It felt promotional. If you can write an article about the company from scratch, using neutral language, and complying with the style recommendations in WP:LEAD, that will probably be good. DS (talk) 14:44, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Dragonfly: I find the claim of "apparent copyvio" highly questionable, considering that you have not provided a source material and the very first edit included a variety of wiki syntax. I'm going to restore this article unless you provide a different reason that it should have been deleted - and "it felt promotional" isn't a good enough reason. Dcoetzee 21:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's g11 and was deleted as g12. If it were undeleted, it would likely be re-deleted as g11. DRV is thatta way if you believe that df67 was in error. -- slakr  \ talk / 22:14, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * (e/c)Most of it seems to be copied from here (one click away from the only link in the article) and the links in the sidebar of that page. It took me about 10 seconds to find that. In any case, the article is pretty blatantly advertising copy and short of a bunch of buzzwords like "Differentiated by its outstanding innovative technology" makes almost no assertion of notability. It was also created by a user with the same username as the company. None of this raises any red flags for you? This deletion was absolutely correct IMO. Mr.Z-man 22:18, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd add criterion A7 to the mix - an article about an organisation that "does not indicate why its subject is important or significant." Despite this, the article cited no references to assert notability or verifiability. Without these, it will likely be deleted via the Articles for Deletion process even if it does not fall under speedy deletion. Hope this helps,  Gazi moff  22:53, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, you're right, Z-Man, I didn't spot that page (and it isn't indexed on Google). As for being advertisement, the forthright name of the user was in compliance of WP:COI - the tone of the article may have been a problem, but I don't think it's a valid G11 (it could have been edited into shape without being "fundamentally rewritten"). It was also not a valid A7 because it made clear claims of importance, such as "[b]road endorsement of ISCOM technology by well-reputed vaccine manufacturers; 8 license deals and 4 veterinary products marketed." But unless Isconova explicitly licenses the material from their webpage, it can't be used as the basis for an article, and I will accept the deletion on that basis. Dcoetzee 02:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If the tone of the entire article is promotional, it would need an entire rewrite to be salvageable. Once you remove the meaningless buzzwords and marketing-speak, you're left with a list of board members and some random facts. The article in its last form was not remotely close to an encyclopedia article. Mr.Z-man 07:29, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Gazimoff, and other experienced Wikipedia users. Please let me know what I need to do with this article before I upload it again. Gazimoff stated: "Unless Isconova explicitly licenses the material from their webpage, it can't be used as the basis for an article," How do I proove that I explictly licence the material from the company webpage ? The material in the written Isconova article was written by me, and yes, I used the presentation here as a base for the Article, but i did not "copy-paste" it and if you read the material once more, you´ll understand that its very diffrent from the original text. I have permission from the Company (Isconova) so please let me know jpw I can proove this. I did not have any marketing intentions when writing this article. The intentions is to have fundamental information about Isconova available on Wikipedia.I would appritiate some detailed assistance in this matter since I´m very new and unexperienced when it comes to editing/publishing material on Wikipedia. Please let me know what to do. Isconova 09:30, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * See Donating_copyrighted_materials. In short, you have to contact your company's legal department, who will then either have to place a suitable GFDL license statement on the webpages you use as source material, or send a GFDL permission letter to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Once you've done this you can use as much of this material as you like in the article. If this were done I would restore and help clean up the original article. Dcoetzee 09:43, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, all set now. I´m awaiting your reply/assistance. Many thanks. Isconova 14:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If you mailed permissions-en@wikimedia.org, you will receive an e-mail response from them. Let me know when you do. Dcoetzee 22:31, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I have received an email response now. Thank you very much for your help. What is the next step? Isconova 10:16, 28 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Isconova (talk • contribs)
 * I will continue this on your talk page, Isconova. Dcoetzee 22:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Notability of Baby Fae
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Baby Fae, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Baby Fae seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Baby Fae, please affix the template to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that '''this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here''' CSDWarnBot (talk) 14:50, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of The 2904
Was wondering why the page The 2904 was deleted, and how it is not notable. It has the same history and content as similar events such as The 24 Hours of Lemons, and it just had a 7 page article in Top Gear magazine with a subscription base of over 1.8 million in the UK and 22 editions worldwide. CreativeFilmCars (talk) 20:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Alpha Phi Gamma
I'd like to know why this page was deleted? There are over 50 other Greek organizations with pages on wikipedia. The page followed the same patterns as the other greek organizations (alpha kappa kappa, alpha phi alpha, alpha kappa delta phi, etc) describing the history of the organization, their locations and the types of community service they participate in. Alpha Phi Gamma is the same type of organization as any other Greek organization that currently exists. The links from these organizations all lead to external links related to their organization's websites. It seems out of pattern that the page for Alpha Phi Gamma cannot exist when there are others already posted. Aphigarchives (talk)
 * just passing by, but the usual practice is that if they are at only one or a few colleges--as is the case here-- they get deleted. Only the actually national ones are kept; this is exactly the same os for other types of organizations, per WP:ORG. DGG (talk) 05:30, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Gamma is located at 9 different universities at present and growing. Each of the Universities Alpha Phi Gamma is a part of has it listed as a Greek organization. You can refer to University of Missouri's greek page listed on Wikipedia for confirmation of theirs ("MU Greek Life"). By greek standards, an organization is considered national when there are a minimum of 7 locations. There are quite a few greek organizations that are smaller than Alpha Phi Gamma that have their own pages. All are listed as Greek organizations on at least two or three other pages within wikipedia itself ("List of social fraternities and sororities"). Alpha Phi Gamma is also part of the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association(NAPA). Aphigarchives (talk)

AfD nomination of Themis Music
An article that you have been involved in editing, Themis Music, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Themis Music. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 22:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Electromagnetic Fields Recorded in Mesocyclones
I loaded Electromagnetic Fields Recorded in Mesocyclones which has plenty of references and the copy is transferable as per The National Weather Digest policy. It has been inserted in many other online encyclopedias as well. It was accepted into the National Weather Digest upon a two year peer review. I was editing it in my spare time to fit Wikipedia's criteria online and was hoping others would come online to help contribute. If you wanted a perfect copy up in the first place, then why do you allow any just Tom, Dick, and Harry to edit all existing articles and to place any random text up? Electromagnetic Fields Recorded in Mesocyclones has merit. Instead of simply "Deleting", could you not find it within your "Expert" writing field to help fine tune or even help to make recommendations to get this fixed as per Wikipedias criteria? Your profile seems to be extensive in helping others get their papers accepted. User talk:Richard Heene Richard Heene (talk) 15:34, 29 January 2009 (UTC) January 28, 2009

Lake at Kensico Cemetery
It's OK for you to delete the photo of the lake at Kensico Cemetery (file name too generic), because I already uploaded this photo at Kensico Cemetery under a different filename.

Anthony22 (talk) 00:23, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

ub
thanks for vandalizing the userbox  PRODUCER ( TALK ) 19:12, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for destroying a thoughtprovoking piece of art, dragonfly. Way to go. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.65.116 (talk) 23:44, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Philippe Dubois
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Philippe Dubois, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process
 * Not notable.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Bladeofgrass (talk) 22:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

User:Goatleg
You indef blocked him as a grawp sock. However, his talk page is unprotected - and thus is a very likely target. I would recommend that either you protect it, or delete it entirely. (No goatse pl0x.) Inferno,   Lord of   Penguins  03:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I just mentioned that because in the past grawp sock pages have been targets for other grawp socks. Inferno,   Lord of   Penguins  03:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Marsden Collage
Have read your comment and fully understand it.

{Weglinde (talk) 08:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)}

ماهستیم
You have deleted this article with the rationale "wrong language." Actually, it was listed at WP:PNT and not slated for prod before next Tuesday. (It will probably end up being prodded by then, so I'm not sure it's worth the trouble of restoring.) Just a reminder that CSD A2 only applies if the article is a copy of an article that already exists in a foreign-language Wikipedia, which doesn't seem to be the case here. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 00:28, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have restored it. Dcoetzee 03:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Restored articles
I have restored the following articles that you deleted.


 * Inclusive Wicca Tradition
 * The Muslims I Know
 * Anthony D. McMillan
 * User talk:Glory holes
 * University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim
 * Oriya Children's Literature
 * Sent Martine - the author had in mind here St. Martin's Island, but I redirected to Saint Martin instead
 * User talk:BigBobStevens
 * Armando Oréfiche
 * Sindhi journalists
 * Benassi sound
 * Sphincter paralysis
 * FK Behar
 * Non-synaptic plasticity
 * Somali passport

My reasons are described in the restore summaries, and I invite you to nominate any of them for AfD if you like. I caution you against deleting user talk pages containing recent warnings, as well as to refrain from making decisions of notability unilaterally. Remember that categories can also provide context, even in articles with no introduction. I also remind you to use the speedy deletion dropdown more often; most of your deletion summaries are too brief and may confuse or mislead new contributors. The reasons in the speedy deletion dropdown include helpful explanatory links. Dcoetzee 05:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I apologize for restoring those two user talk pages - I checked the block log incorrectly and didn't see that they were blocked. Those were correct deletions. I want to emphasize that I have nothing against you and I would have consulted you prior to making any of these restorations if I thought you would answer. I don't know why you ignore me but I really just want to help avoid getting good articles like US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation deleted. Please let me know how you would like me to treat these cases. Dcoetzee 21:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

St Nicholas Suns Basketball Club
You deleted this article because of 'notability not asserted'. I know wikipedia is seen by alot of young students and since our aim is to promote sports and not drugs we decided to begin this article. We are trying to build this article and refering to same sport clubs as on Wikipedia.Hope you understand. unsigned comment added by Rlr0304 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Kazuba User: Page
Well, whatever. I would like to get a copy of my user page which you deleted. Is that possible? I have no printer at the present time. It may be a week or two till I get one. Please reply. That page was a lot of work. I hate to lose it all. I am totally lost on computer stuff. I could use a little help a six year old would understand Charlie Turek charlesturek@comcast.net Kazuba (talk) 03:15, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Norman Birkett`
Heya, thanks for the work. One thing; judgement is judgement, not judgment; see this for example. Ironholds (talk) 09:13, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * from the very source you quote, Ironholds: "in Great Britain and many of its former colonies, “judgement” is still the correct spelling" Wikipedia is international -- but Birkett is British, so articles about him should be written in British English, not American English .(International topics are written in whatever version they're started in.) See MOS DGG (talk) 04:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC) DGG (talk) 04:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ...yeah, that was my point. See the edits made by Dragonfly67 in which otherwise excellent (thanks, btw) copyediting was marred by a respelling of "judgement" as "judgment". Ironholds (talk) 04:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Marysville
I did look carefully at what you changed and I rather resent your claim that I did not. Your edit still remains inappropriate with claims like this "Marysville depended heavily on tourism" (my bolding) and removal of "During the snow season, the population of the town may double or even triple, due to the influx of other hospitality and tourism caterers, such as ski hire, toboggan hire, chain hire, and many other profitable ventures associated with snowplay and skiing." Tourism will take a hit but will continue; the town is still at the foot of the Lake Mountain ski resort and when the eucalypts regenerate (which they do remarkably quicky, being well adapted to a fire prone area) the area will regain its natural beauty.

This desire to write off the town and its industry less than a week after the fire is unseemly and quite frankly original research. Where is your evidence that Marysville will no longer rely on tourism? Do you even know which resorts and caravan parks have been destroyed? If you do you know more than most of the media in Aust. who have had limited access to the site. I am reverting again and suggest that everyone takes a break before deciding that whole industries are in the past. -- Mattinbgn\talk 01:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

CintaNotes
Hello! You have recently deleted the page about CintaNotes, a personal notes manager with the comment: "Freeware + Beta release in January 2009 + no reviews = not yet notable. Try again once people have noticed." Could you please elaborate what exactly do you mean with "people have noticed". Googling for "CintaNotes" produces currently 1,490,000 results. There are also many independent reviews, for example:

http://lifehacker.com/5136054/cintanotes-is-a-web+clip+friendly-notes-manager

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/03/portable-cintanotes-saves-text-clippings-from-any-app/

http://cintanotes.en.softonic.com

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/cintanotes-com-a-free-personal-notes-manager

http://www.barrysbestblog.com/2009/02/cintanotes-easiest-way-to-store-text.html

There are also many reviews in languages other than English.

CintaNotes is in public beta, like Google Mail.

I'd be grateful if you could tell me what exactly is lacking in order to qualify. Thanks beforehand!

Regards, Alexjenter (talk) 17:27, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

- Thanks for restoring the article! Alexjenter (talk) 04:58, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

IP 212.183.134.209 blocked
Hello DragonflySixtyseven, I am an admin from Thai Wikipedia. Do you mind to review this IP blocked ? It seems that a non-techie Thai Wikipedia (who makes a great contribution 10,000+) using that IP as well. She has a problem when browsing English Wikipedia. Now she tried to usurp the account, but the IP was blocked to do that.

Some info can be found here th:user_talk:Mattis; but it's in Thai.

Thank you. --Manop - TH (talk) 18:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Yazketbal
Hello, As scribe and historian of the YAA I would like to know why our page was deleated. It is a growing sport and while it does seem unconventional, is a great form of entertainment.

Happy 's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk  • 01:56, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Sam (koala)
--Dravecky (talk) 11:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

daily patroller stats
This is a start on monitoring who is doing the patrolling. It reports the stats of the last completed day according to GMT. The link to the log will not always be accurate because the stats exclude automatic patrolled pages, however they always appear in the log. To limit the impact of that design limitation of this hack, the log link takes the reader to "number of manually approved pages + 1" so the reader should expect an additional log entry from a prior day. John Vandenberg (chat) 11:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Papayana
Hi, I found this page in a google search. Regarding the term 'papayana', as a Sri Lankan Buddhist I've heard monks use it when describing history - where Mahayana was stamped out of Sri Lanka. I'm not sure if there are any written records, but if you ask some Sri Lankans you might find some info.

Blacking out
I think that the term 'blacking out' refers to completely extinguishing any remaining embers from a bushfire, in order to prevent, or reduce the risk of, the fire flaring up again. Figaro (talk) 09:46, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Chess set articles
If you want to have the articles deleted then use AFD don't just delete them. These chess sets are very notable and were used for hundreds of years. Now put them back! Green Squares (talk) 01:10, 26 February 2009 (UTC) Don't be a dick put the articles back and use the AFD, and build a concensus, the admin powers you have are not to be abused. Green Squares (talk) 01:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Like I said, don't be a dick and put the articles back, they will expand over time. All that is required for an article at wiki is that is has the ability to expand and these do.  They are the same as Staunton chess set. Green Squares (talk) 01:26, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

The Comanche
I do not understand why The Comanche shouldn't be a disamb page. It isn't certain that someone typing The Comanche definitely wants Comanche. Kingturtle (talk) 20:24, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

i don't mean to be rude but why did you get involved and yes im willing to apologize i just wanted him to leave me alone sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bushey001 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * er...I am involved because I made the edit. Kingturtle (talk) 20:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Automatic patrolling of tagged pages at New Page patrol
Hi there. There is a suggestion to get a bot to patrol any New Page that an editor has tagged for CSD, AfD, etc. As someone who patrols a lot, your opinion is particularly welcomed. -- Ged UK  10:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

User:Wrist Instability
It would seem that User:Wrist Instability has betrayed your good-faith assessment of sincerity. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 09:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Compsci, DWITE - Not notable?
Hi I'm not sure why you removed the DWITE page especially because that contact has been going on well before the owners at compsci.ca took over - it was and still is recognized among many high schools, how is it that once the owners of compsci.ca took over, it became "not notable"?

As well, if you search the web for help on Turing, you mind find your self constantly being referred to compsci.ca - why? Because its probably the largest (only?) site that provides support for Turing (programming language), that its self should make it notable.

Under what basis do you deem these pages "not notable" ?

Amailer (talk)
 * Well, firstly, I'm going to say that I have no idea which article this was. I'd need the exact name to be able to answer. Secondly, I don't delete things as "not notable", I delete them as "notability not asserted". The problem is not with the topic, but with the article. DS (talk) 21:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Samuel Jeake
Sorry I missed the message on IRC;

The article is fine, for a stub. I fixed up some links and made the refs better. I'm not sure if 'addend' should wikilink to addition, or would a wiktionary be more appropriate?

Personal preference, I don't like "" too much, so I wouldn't bother putting "addend" and the other one in quotes. I think wikilink highlight is sufficient; I only use quotes for quoting. But I know others do.

I found 2 pages that mentioned him, so put links into them; Zenzizenzizenzic and Exponentiation. edit - they already were links --  Chzz  ►  06:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Cheers, --  Chzz  ►  06:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Franek Kluski
I think I've tamed this one. Remove the dispute tag if you agree. Cheers. - LuckyLouie (talk) 18:52, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Charlie Cairoli
Just thought I should explain that I reverted your edit on the article as I am in the middle of working on it, hence the "In Use" tag requesting other users not to edit while it is on there. Also your edit created an edit conflict as I was slap bang in the middle of an edit. I have though put most of your edit back in, however, I have also restored the Irish Sea wikilink which you removed and replaced with the generic "ocean" as Irish Sea is correct. Thank you and have fun.-- ♦Tangerines♦ · Talk 20:35, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Ha ha, no worries! I've been meaning to expand the article for a while! Nothing to do with anything, but I hope he gets a statue in Blackpool as he deserves it for all he did! Have fun,-- ♦Tangerines♦ · Talk 18:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Benadillo
Can I ask why you deleted my BHR Comics page? Do you have any idea how long it took me to make that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benadillo (talk • contribs) 20:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of Apollo 20 hoax
The least you could have done is warn me before deleting this article. I put a lot of time into it. Moby-Dick3000 (talk) 12:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Please Email Apollo 20 hoax to me
Would you please email a copy of the Apollo 20 hoax article to me? I never got a chance to copy it before you deleted it. Moby-Dick3000 (talk) 00:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I just got the email. Thanks. Moby-Dick3000 (talk) 01:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Asbestosis Image
Per our discussion on the talk page, I was wrong, I now saw that Encyclopedia Britannica used the same CC image on their article as did Wikipedia's article on Asbestosis.

Assume good faith
Re:.

Indeed, it seems I left some garbage behind one of my edits. Sorry about that. It somehow accidentally got copied from a web page of a (mainstream) journal when I made a reference to their paper. I unfortunately overlooked it, but your eagle eye caught it and cleaned it up--thanks! Also, excellent you keep assuming good faith. Stan J. Klimas (talk) 16:08, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

NPP
Hi Dragonfly, there's a thread at WT:RFA that you should be aware of.  Were Spiel Chequers  17:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for doing this. I think it was Grawp. Versus22 talk 23:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Skyline Turbine advertisement
Most Honourable Dragonfly-san: Isn't the "Skyline Turbine" "article" simply free advertising in disguise (and not so effectively disguised)? I thought that that was against Wikipedia policy (oh: there's a link to the company's official website. How convenient!). Writtenright (talk) 15:37, 17 March 2009 (UTC)Writtenright

GAH!
Amalthea said in WT:RFA: "Twinkle and Friendly only (mark pages as patrolled) if you access the page from the new page log [now that] bugzilla:15936 was backed out again in rev:46542" Death to devs. I really hope they get this fixed. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 16:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Sure
Yesterday, I noticed the very long list of old comments attached to my user name. Mostly, things to people who don't seem to be on Wikipedia anymore or on comment pages that are no longer relevent to the articles. With no forethought of malice I started removing some of these old comments. I didn't know this is not allowed, why should I not be able to remove a comment from 2004 concerning a photograph on a page that doesn't even have a photograph anymore? Another thing that I removed was an outrageous accusation that I knew nothing about until yesterday which accused me of switching a picture of Cardinal Law with another photo. Most likely what happened is that I loaded a picture of Law and someone else loaded a picture using the same jpg name that I did so the photo changed. Anyway, Spock's father puts all those edits back claiming I couldn't do that. Then he starts following my other edits and reverting some of them. He changed the references on a page that had exactly four references. He changed with the 1. abc and 2 ab, which I find confusing and I did not find necessary on a page with four ref. When I changed it he started an edit war. He added back two labels for orphaned articles that I had removed because there were links to the pages. He then voted on another page that I voted to keep so he voted to delete, on things I never had seen him interested in before. I know that he is deliberately doing this to get me into an edit war and such because I have had experience with him and Blueboar before over some articles and my userpage. I'm tired of this type of behavior. Anyway, I don't plan on biting, but I don't plan on letting him push me around either, trying to speak reason to him and let him know that his behavior is that of a troll, he can feign ignorance if he likes, but he knows exectly what he's been doing. Anyway, take it easy. Dwain (talk) 21:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Apologies
This is to inform you that I've read your message regarding the photo which I'd uploaded sometime back last year for use in the article page of SNEB. Due to the rush I was in to get the page up to speed and the relevant photo(s) to present the article, I had not obtained the author's permission for use in wikipedia, so that was my big mistake... please convey this to him, thank you. -- Dave1185 (talk) 05:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Skyline
Thank you! Writtenright (talk) 20:27, 20 March 2009 (UTC)Writtenright

New WikiProject
Hi, I've seen you around on the Wiki as someone who seems interested in the statistical trends. I've started a WikiProject at WikiProject Editing trends to help catalog the various types of user research that have been created. If you would like to sign up and help fill in our files, it would be most appreciated.  MBisanz  talk 05:20, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: Mordor
All articles deleted via PROD are entitled to be restored if somebody requests it. Perhaps you should change the policy, but that needs doing at WT:PROD. :P - Rjd0060 (talk) 14:58, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Welcome
Thanks for the kind welcome. Father.rassbach (talk) 20:20, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Sisterlocks
Greetings, Wikipedia holds that in April of 2008, you erased the whole Sisterlocks page. What was your justification for this? Thanks, Afiya27 (talk) 06:56, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I deleted the page because it was much too promotional in tone - in other words, it felt like spam. I'm not saying that it's impossible to have a valid article on that subject; only that what we had was not a valid article. DS (talk) 14:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Hop Cast
In January you deleted the page for the video beer podcast "Hop Cast". Since the deletion of the that page the Hop Cast has gotten free beer from a few breweries to review on the show; "Bridges Brewery" and "Buck Bean Beer." Local breweries are see that an outlet like the Hop Cast is a place for them to springboard into the public. In episode 30 we showed how to brew your own home brew, the Hop Cast is no longer just two guys who drink been and talk about it. Please let me know if this would allow us to get our wiki page back. Thanks! beerad ([[User talk:beerad|talk) 12:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Naked Taoiseach edit
(Context: )

I thought of making it read "Following months of economic uncertainty, Ireland's Taoiseach, Brian Cowen is pictured in a compromising position", but you went way bolder than my imagination. Thank you.

P.S. I have a hunch that some newspaper or website is going to take our ITN hook as a suggestion of how the Taoiseach ought to be treated - in real life - for handling the crisis. &lt;grin&gt; Kimchi.sg (talk) 05:23, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

You deleted the page Jethro Shasha. The page now says that the deletion log is provided below but the deleteion log DOES NOT APPEAR BELOW!!! If you are going to delete my entry you should ENSURE that the deletion log appears where I can see it without having to write to you like this. Go back to the page Jethro Shasha and INSERT the deletion log so I can see it and so I can restore the page with necessary alterations. 22:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC) ocean335 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ocean335 (talk • contribs)

Jethro Shasha
Deletion of Page "Jethro Shasha"

You deleted the page Jethro Shasha. The page now says that the deletion log is provided below but the deleteion log DOES NOT appear below!!! If you are going to delete my entry you should ENSURE that the deletion log appears where I can see it without having to write to you like this. Go back to the page Jethro Shasha and INSERT the deletion log so I can see it and so I can restore the page with necessary alterations. 22:52, 3 April 2009 (UTC) ocean335 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ocean335 (talk • contribs)

Old Croatian Sighthound
Could you please explain why this entry was deleted (without prior warning) and why there is apparently no deletion log available. It simply disappeared off my 'watch list'! I would like to see some remnant of this page recorded, edited or not. It is seldom that we get confirmation, of a presumed lost rare-breed, from a scientific and published source. Record and reasons please, thank you--Richard Hawkins (talk) 01:31, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

What do you mean, no deletion log available? How do you think you found out who deleted the article?

You found out by looking at the deletion log. The deletion log does not provide access to the deleted content (unless you are an admin); it only tells you what was deleted, who deleted it, when it was deleted, and why -- in your case, it was because you copied (most of) the article out of Revue de Médecine Véterinaire. "Copyvio" means "violation of copyright".

You are welcome to write a fresh article about the Croatian Sighthound, and you can use RdMV as a source of information... but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. DS (talk) 02:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

That was a direct "quote" from a scientific journal, gained by personal correspondence with one of the the authors. No copyright violation whatsoever! It would show some discretion, and courtesy, on your side if you would signal a proposal to delete, with reasons why, which could be discussed or remedied without all the material now being lost to me. I would prefer a direct quote with attribution, instead of a form of plagiarism. Please retrieve and supply the original page text, if only to me personally. Thank you--Richard Hawkins (talk) 12:39, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay, go here, and rewrite it so that less of the article consists of direct quotes. Let me know when you think it's ready, and I'll move it back into mainspace. Sorry for the inconvenience — some users just don't understand why they can't copy-and-paste content verbatim from commercial sources, so we-the-admins tend to use a "delete first, ask questions later" policy with copyvio. DS (talk) 14:10, 6 April 2009 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Richard_Hawkins"

I have re-written that. I trust it meets wth your approval.--Richard Hawkins (talk) 17:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, that is good editing, I'm also pleased it has not been lost.--Richard Hawkins (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Whew!
That was close! Wwheaton (talk) 03:57, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Dehawks
Hi. This article has been deleted from Polish wikipedia - no one gave any evidence for keeping it. Thanks for doing the same here. Lukasz Lukomski (talk) 13:52, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Trentonian article...again.
Since I'm not an advanced editor, am I able to "warn" Matty Duh Renzo about his continual vandalism to this article? I'm sure this guy was always the "non-user" making these same edits. If you look at the history of Matty Duh Renzo, pretty much the only edits he makes are vandalism on the Trentonian article. If I'm allowed to warn him, just tell me how, and I'll do it. But I know you're a lot more senior than me, and I'm sure you can definitely do it, if I can't do it. Asc85 (talk) 02:45, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

User page edit
I was looking through my user page history and saw you removed something, see here, can you explain why? 00:35, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you explain what you mean by "fundamental philosophical misconception", and I don't see how this has to do with anything, and thanks, I really needed to get on that list. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 12:00, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I see what you eman, every object is under the force of gravity, but you lost me at " We make a tidy little living in the backwaters of universal-scale entropic decay, but Keynes is still right: in the long run, we're all dead", can you explain that. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean now, but I found that and put it there, I don't remembrer where I got it from though. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 15:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * And I also welcome you to help me out on improving a very important article to the arthropod project, Insects, as you can see I did a lot a work, but it still needs help; the suggestions were made, stated here:


 * The lead currently isn't a summary of the article... see Lead_section; make sure everything in the lead is discussed in the article itself: i.e., the etymology of entomology should also be in the article text; all of the specific stats about size and extremes need to be in the main text as well.


 * There are several 1- or 2-sentence "paragraphs" that should either be expanded or combined in some way.


 * The external links section could use a trim and copyedit


 * The references should be reorganized into Footnotes" and "references", and often-used sources listed in the Reference section (thinking specifically of the Gullan, P.J.; P.S. Cranston (2005) reference); see the MOS for more details; would also suggest trimming down the "Further reading" section, and instead incorporating some of those as cited sources.

And when it is done, I am hoping that I can get my first promoted article to GA status. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 15:17, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Replay? Bugboy52.4 (talk) 22:02, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I was wandering if you wanted to help improve Insects or review it for GAN, it is of top importance to the Arthropods project. Bugboy52.4 (talk) 22:39, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * So? Bugboy52.4 (talk) 23:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi
I just left a comment on someones talkpage and noticed that you welcomed them so I thought I'd pop by and say hi. I hope everything is going well in your life. All the best King of the  North East  22:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Who can help with inserting images into an article?
I have just about used up an entire tree (!) printing out how-to's about images, but I'm clearly overlooking a crucial step in the process. I have uploaded a picture from my computer ---entitled "Small_sonometer_colored.jgp. And I have done (I think) the requisite things to show that it's a 17th-century engraving in the public domain, touched up with a few colors by me. I saw the image, etc, and all the information... But on the page I am working on --- entitled: "Sonomètre of Loulié" --- I clearly am not inserting the right information. I have put " in the page where I want to place the image. I also put PD-old. BUt all I get is the "Public Domain" message and, at the right, the name of the image file, in small letters. If I click it, I get the image, of course, which I presume is at Wiki Commons? BUT: what on earth do I do to import that image into the page? Do I do it in the edit window of the page I'm creating? Or do I do it by going into Wiki Commons? And what HELP page can I print out with the requisite information, for future reference??? I've rarely been so confused! Thanks in advance, Patricia M. Ranum (talk) 17:54, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

HEAVENS! There are my items on your discussion page! so I did something right, but WHAT?? And obviously I did it in the wrong place! Patricia M. Ranum (talk) 18:01, 28 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for replying so quickly. I know the tag should be "PD-old" but I'm not sure where to insert it. After the File....?? Somewhere on the page where you can see the photo in Wiki Commons... but if so, where on that page?? Nothing that I can figure out permits me to insert PD-old somewhere. Patricia M. Ranum (talk) 18:41, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * And do those big "Public Domain" signs remain??? THere must be some clearer way to do things? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranumspa (talk • contribs) 18:43, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Bernard Goldberg
Pray explain your reversal, and what you mean by "OTRS." Thanks! Mark Shaw (talk) 04:16, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi Mark, please see WP:OTRS for an explanation.
 * DragonflySixtyseven, can you email me the summary of this ticket, as this page has been requested for page protection for the unsourced addition of the 10th Emmy issue. You cited in the edit summary OTRS, but I don't have access to that, so I can't judge it properly. Thanks. -- Ged  UK  07:01, 30 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I've got this sorted. Could you please provide the OTRS ticket number in edits like this in future, so that other OTRS volunteers can reply to queries if you are not available? Stifle (talk) 15:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * (And I'm not doing the WP:TPS; I just happened across a request on WP:RFPP.) Stifle (talk) 15:14, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Bah, I've screwed this up a bit. Failed to see the second reply on the ticket. Sorry. I don't think it's a serious problem but I won't do anything else for now. Stifle (talk) 15:24, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

May 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to my userpage, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please stop scaring me for any test edits you would like to make, and read nothing to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --  SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]] call me Keith 02:42, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You just warned an established editor for vandalism? – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 02:47, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes o.O. To DS: Should have told me about why you removed it, but thanks for freaking me out! --  SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]] call me Keith 02:54, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedy (!) Deletion of article about Classical Pianist Orion Weiss
Dear DragonflySixtySeven,

Yes, you are right that the article (which took me many many hours to write) is about someone near and dear to me.

However it is completely documented and verifiable, if you check the links and references. Orion Weiss has achieved everything indicated in the primary references to newspaper articles. He has two CD's for sale on Amazon.com.

His accomplishments are every bit as interesting and important as many other pianists with Wiki pages that have not been deleted--Jonathan Biss, or David Fong for example.

This is my first attempt to write something in Wikipedia. After I created the page on my registered page I could not figure out how to separate the page from the place I created it when I redirected it.

I think the Orion Weiss entry can stand alone. If necessary, perhaps someone else can post it so it is no longer connected to my wikipedia page.

Please advise how to proceed. This article DOES belong in wikipedia.

Thanks for your attention and thoughts.

Miriam Weiss —Preceding unsigned comment added by MiriamWeiss (talk • contribs) 12:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to sign previous message
Hi DragonflySixtyseven, I apologize for not signing the previous message about the recently deleted wiki entry on pianist Orion Weiss Hope this is the right way to do it. Miriam F Weiss (talk) 12:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)MiriamWeiss

Dragonfly, please answer? Miriam F Weiss (talk) 19:25, 5 May 2009 (UTC)MiriamWeiss

User talk:Biggjake
DS, this user was blocked indef by you back in September '08 for violating WP:OR on Duke of Albany. I'd like to unblock; he has started trying to justify his edits via sources. This user was never given the chance to discuss his edits; he was given a warning and then indef blocked, which seems pretty severe to me. Any comments? Mango juice talk 13:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Misunderstanding continues on my part
Thanks for your answer dragonfly. Sorry about your electricity. I am pleased that the entry was not deleted, which was my original misunderstanding. The problem I continue to see is as follows: When I search Google, for "Orion Weiss Wikipedia", I come up with "User-MiriamWeiss - Wikipedia" That page of course has been deleted. At present there seems to be no way to find the "Orion Weiss Wikipedia" entry using a google search. I CAN find it by searching within Wikipedia. Also the "Orion Weiss" Wikipedia article can only be opened through a link, such as the "List of classical pianists".

I would like to know how to erase "User-MiriamWeiss - Wikipedia" from Wikipedia or Google, and have a search for "Orion Weiss" list the wiki article directly. Is that possible? What must I do? Miriam F Weiss (talk) 76.241.103.144 (talk) 21:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)MiriamWeiss

followup
I understand about Google. But is there any way to delete User:MiriamWeiss from Wikipedia all together? 76.241.103.144 (talk) 13:21, 7 May 2009 (UTC)MiriamWeiss

Thanks for the crib talk edit
Much appreciated. I am dyslexic and just blind to the smove flow of words. It is always a pleasure to read my jumbled words expressed with grace and clarity.--LittleHow (talk) 16:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Field Marketing Organization (FMO)
Why did you delete this page? Copyright infringement? Can you suggest other resources on this topic?

Thanks for any help.

Bshushan (talk) 13:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)bshushan


 * I deleted it because it was random information with no context. DS (talk) 15:49, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

New user for the autopatrol list
I checked ZZ86 ; he seems fine. He has created over 100 articles so far and seem pretty good. NW ( Talk ) (How am I doing?) 02:14, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

FYI
I mentioned one of your admin actions here. — Jake <font color="#21421E" face="Harrington">Wartenberg  20:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Glide language
Hello! May I enquire why you deleted the article in question? As far as I can tell, it was neither AFD-ed nor PROD-ded. Greetings, &mdash;IJzeren Jan Uszkiełtu?  09:16, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

ITN
I see you added a new entry. Can you reset the timer and notify nominator/updaters with the credit templates, as instructed here? Thanks. --BorgQueen (talk) 23:40, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, nevermind; I had to revert your addition because people over there obviously want to wait until Tuesday. --BorgQueen (talk) 00:17, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Just had a query of Heritage School (you removed this page) ... was wondering how i can get this page back up on wikipedia--Dhananjaykhare (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC) Heritage School, Pune Thanks dragonfly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhananjaykhare (talk • contribs) 16:32, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Commons
Dear Sfan and DS- Thanks for the responses. I understand Commons full well, and the reasons people give for transferring files to it. What I object to is the different ways commons files are treated; especially the deletion without notification. In WP it is pro-forma that if a file is proposed for deletion the original contributor is informed and can at least have a chance at salvaging it. This has happened a few times, mostly to images of no consequence, but the one incident that pushed me over the edge was the deletion of Giant_ground_sloth_Iowa.JPG This image was used on about 10 Wikipedia pages, including Mammals, sloth, Geology of Iowa,  Iowa Museum of Natural History, and several Pleistocene pages. Wikimedia User:FunkMonk deleted it because he felt it did not have adequate copyright release. If he had bothered to inform me of this decision, it would have been a very easy thing for me to fix- I work closely with the museum that owns the model in question, and their directors were happy to see the image on line. However, I did not hear about this until after it had been deleted from every Wikipedia page. Compounding my frustration was a number of spurious copyright challenges on Wikipedia, the most annoying of which was Robert Longo Sleep 84.jpg (you can read that debate for yourself). In looking at similar images that were not so tagged, it has become clear to me that there is no consistent application of copyright. Another big problem is that any editor can nominate any image for deletion for any reason, and the burden is placed on the contributor to defend the image, and if no defense is given, the image is deleted. While most claims of copyright problems are in good faith, I began to feel that for some claiming a copyright violation is a very effective form of vandalism. Defending an image from a copyright claim takes a lot of work, more work than it took to create and upload the image. With my frustrations mounting, I decided to get out of the game. There a several articles that I still keep tabs on and want to improve, but my days of uploading images are over. Thank you, Bill Whittaker (talk) 18:23, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks, I've calmed down. Bill Whittaker (talk) 19:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Hate the Jews??????
Unbelievable....Pelegon (talk)Pelegon (talk) 06:19, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: changing username
(See my talk page for your message). I admit careless choice of my username (didn't think I'll become a dedicated wikipedian then). I do stand by my word in general, and in particular, declare than noone else used my account; but I definitely need a long-term solution for my naming. Not that I like my current name, but thought keeping contiguity is a factor (some editors know the name, and several review processes are going on right now - FA, GAs, sockpuppet). Would nimsoffice do ? If not, how about notanoffice or nicksoffice ? I know its personal, but still would really appreciate your advice. Best regards. NIMSoffice (talk) 02:13, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have requested change NIMSoffice → Materialscientist at WP:CHU. NIMSoffice (talk) 05:39, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Anthony Tavera page.
why did you delete the page "Anthony Tavera"? I took a week to make sure that page was correct and am always updating it to keep it right. Please undo!--Ken Durham (talk) 12:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * IF it would be helpful, I can also edit the page further to make it better if it is undeleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ken Durham (talk • contribs) 12:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This is now at DRV. Stifle (talk) 14:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * DRV? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ken Durham (talk • contribs) 14:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok then, if you will undelete the page, I can fix those problems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ken Durham (talk • contribs) 15:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean, "put it on my userspace"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ken Durham (talk • contribs) 15:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, but it could take awile for me to finish, I am a tad bit swamped at the moment. I will let you know when I finish it though.--Ken Durham (talk) 15:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the hold up. My home computer has died. This could slow me down quite a bit. --Ken Durham (talk) 17:56, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Category talk:Hat companies
You deleted this page because "un-necessary", but I don't think unnecessary. This was stub. Please revive this page. --Cmaric (talk) 00:26, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

undelete or suggest alternatives for Books test pages
Hi. Please could you undelete the pages User:84user/Books/Test2 and User:84user/Books/Test3? Or else suggest where they should go instead? Maybe a Wikipedia namespace? I may have forgotten to put them in the Category:Wikipedia:Books for Testing Purposes where they belong. They are both cited indirectly in a bug report I made at http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/505#comment:1, and directly linked from Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2009/March and Help:Books/Feedback/Archives/2009/March. As far as I am aware they reproduce a bug that has not yet been fixed. 84user (talk) 04:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for bringing them back. 84user (talk) 21:55, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Goat Star
Due to your early edit, you are the 3rd ever recipient of this award. This is documented in User:Chzz/Recipients of the Goat Star.

I am working to progress William Windsor to Good Article status, so please look in some time. Cheers!  Chzz  ►  22:00, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Stansfield
I noticed that you deleted the talk page of Stansfield as "unnecessary". The article is correct to WP:England and I was going to tag it with that Wikiproject until I saw that it had been deleted. Obviously I don't know what the previous content was, but wondered if you'd add the template to the page. Mjroots (talk) 07:41, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, tagged with the WikiProject. Mjroots (talk) 11:51, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Searchme
Since you are one of the active admins at Special:Log/delete, I've come here to ask you userfy the contents of Searchme to User:Cunard/Article/SearchMe. I'm certain that I can source and expand the article with the large number of sources found in Google News Archive. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 16:43, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Landers reply
Hi there, Just posting to let you know I've replied to your comment on my talk page. Thanks for your interest. :) --Tyranny Sue (talk) 06:03, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Leslie B. Vosshall article you deleted
Can you please bring it back?

Dr. Vosshall is a renowned scientist in the field of neurobiology & olfaction. She is an HHMI investigator and here is her profile.

http://www.hhmi.org/news/vosshall_bio.html

These are her other career accomplishments: In 2005, Dr. Vosshall received the New York City Mayor’s Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Science and Technology and the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award. She was named a John Merck Fund Fellow and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2002. In 2001, Dr. Vosshall was named a Beckman Foundation Young Investigator and received a McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

If you still do not think she does not deserve her own page, I can probably find many other scientists within my own field who don't deserve their own pages either so you can delete them (and I don't neceessarily disagree with increasing the baseline anonymity required for a scientist to get his own page). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seunghwane (talk • contribs) 15:19, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I hate to ask, but...
Is this block rationale really helpful? Whether or not he did do it (and apparently did) commitment of a crime I don't think is against policy... I just mean that, even a convicted criminal would be allowed to edit. Wouldn't they? <span style="color:#0D670D; font-family:Georgia, Helvetica;">rootology ( C )( T ) 13:27, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppressed the reason for the block. Thatcher 18:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Leslie B. Vosshall article
Hello. Thanks for the apology. I also apologize for the stuff above. I posted the early draft on Leslie B. Vosshall. Please add the old stuff again. Thanks.

Why did you you delete the page on electropositive metals ? Whitewhale (talk) 21:51, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Because it didn't actually have anything to do with electropositive metals. DS (talk) 22:16, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Thomas and Wife v. Winchester
Sure, please userfy and I'll try to improve it. I haven't edited it in a long time so I don't even remember what it looks like. JD Caselaw (talk) 22:27, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

RE:Notability
Ah, sorry about that, I just saw the lack of sources and tagged it, won't make that mistake again in future, thank you for catching it, all the best SpitfireTally-ho! 06:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Missed note
Sorry I missed your note, was there something you needed, or was it wrt William Russell (merchant)? — Huntster (t • @ • c) 07:47, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

ODAT
Hi DS, been a while. My friend works for www.backcountry.com and asked me for advise about what to do with a page they created for ODAT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODAT. I had advised my friends "subordinate" to work from an existing page and to move slowly asking for permission to expand. They had asked me to post it outright and I suggested that they have an intern do it first following Wikipedia guidelines. As a consultant I will not take money for editing Wikipedia; however, as my close friend has asked a personal favor to devote my time and energy I am willing to assist them without compensation if they donate to Wikipedia.

Is this acceptable? I wouldn't expect you or anyone to bend rules or make exceptions, my friend has only asked me to help keep backcountry.com from being blacklisted.

If I am out of bounds, would you help the person who put up the ODAT page to do the right thing?

Thanks, Pete --Petebertine (talk) 23:00, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Author
What you said is right. The only problem is I'm the actual author. I just want to make it able for the readers of this article to communicate with me. There may be some problems or some questions about the article. So, they can talk to me thorough my page. So, how is that possible? --Pourya93 (talk) 01:56, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Consistency in nomenclature?
The Air Force don't like the suffix ... i.e. "354 FW"... and occasionally I don't catch it... Bwmoll3 (talk) 18:01, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: Copyright
No, I am not Newt. <font color="#FF8C00">Arjun G. <font color="#008000">Menon  (<font color="#654321">talk  · mail) 15:06, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Blood of Angels infobox for Michelle Belanger article
It seems there is a dispute over if this should should be included in the main article. Ebonyskye started a discussion on the talk page (Talk:Michelle_Belanger) including that editors reasoning for including it, which you might not has seen prior your recent edit. Might I suggest the inclusion or removal of the infobox be discussed? I've requested SilkTork, the admin Ebonyskye references, to participate in the discussion as well.

While I appreciate the boldness actions, I feel that further discussion might be in order before the issue becomes heated or potentially a matter of editor ego. Thank you.--SiIIyLiIIyPiIIy (talk) 20:26, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Admin Silktork gave me the ultimatum to merge the album page or have it removed see last couple paragraphs on talk. As such the album template must remain. Please, before you remove it again, enter into the current discussion. Ebonyskye (talk) 05:10, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Michelle Belanger
I am curious as to a couple of your edits on the Michelle Belanger article. You have protected it against anons, yet I have checked, and there was no vandalism. I have requested an unprotect. I would do it myself, but I thought it appropriate to get a second opinion. Also, there was no statement that the album infobox should not be included in the article when I closed the AfD. Indeed, these album templates are frequently used in sections of articles, such as Repo_Man_(film). Regards  SilkTork  *YES! 07:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The article is not being vandalized. However, it is getting a lot of spam inserted in it by anons who are, one suspects, closely affiliated with the subject of the article.

Lots of self-promotional stuff. Lots of stuff about the article subject's self-published/vanity-press material. Stuff that has to be repeatedly excised from the article.

Thus it's semi-protected. DS (talk) 21:22, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Two IP accounts have edited the article. 173.88.195.71 made this edit, which remains in the article. The other IP is 208.125.152.228, who appears to have been making good faith edits. If there is an issue with the sourcing that should be taken up directly with that IP account. If that IP account is found to be violating policy and won't respond to discussion, then warnings should be issued, and if those are ignored, then the IP account should be blocked. There is no general vandalism taking place, and IP edits like this appear to be in good faith, and are not potentially contentious or defamatory. Concerns about spam are addressed with warnings first - see Spam - though I'm not convinced that there is a spamming issue here. I agree that some of the sources are questionable, though that's a matter for discussion, not blocking the editor, nor preventing all other IP accounts editing the article for the rest of the year.
 * You made one edit to undo the work of 208.125.152.228, and you undid the work of two registered accounts at the same time, restoring poor quality material. I don't see you or anyone else "repeatedly" removing the work of IP accounts, and I don't see the sense in removing page references from cites, nor in replacing Winter's Knight with Winter's_Knight, which had been corrected by User:BD2412, another admin - hardly a vandal. That edit of yours is of questionable quality. I would ask you to re-examine your recent actions in this article.  SilkTork  *YES! 23:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

The vanity press items that were included were included in the bibliography of Belanger’s works. Since the author wrote those items, and the references are not being used to support claims about the author or another topic, it is possible that IP 208.125.152.228 did not see why there is so much concern about including all published items in a section listing an author's works. Particularly since there is no policy on what can and cannot be included a bibliography section for authors.

As for the suspicion of IP 208.125.152.228 being affiliated with the author, I believe this is the first mention of such a concern. If there is some other undocumented discussions over concerns about that IP occurring, than that has the potential of that bringing up greater concerns over the transparency of admin actions. If specific edits by IP 208.125.152.228 have been promotional, than they are best discussed on the talk page. Otherwise, other editors don't know what concerns there are, why they are concerns and might start doubting the neutrality of the process and the administration.--SiIIyLiIIyPiIIy (talk) 16:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Deletion concern (Darien Daniel)
you deleted my page "darien daniel" and called it a hoax. I am real upset and demand you restore it to avoid further international legal action. your dead wrong all the credits and accounts are real as I am a real person. [email removed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddanielx (talk • contribs)
 * Deleted per Articles for deletion/Darien Daniel. Ddanielx is presently blocked for this legal threat, but if and when he digs out of that hole, he is welcome to follow standard deletion review process. DMacks (talk) 17:30, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for relaying the message
Thank you for relaying the message posted in the talk page of article "Taşcă family". It is a comfort to find out that somebody finds any interest in this article. Maybe this is the beauty of Wikipedia, enabling contacts between people who have common spheres of interest and who would have never been able to know about each other.Afil (talk) 20:28, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Ki Chung Kim
Why did you delete Ki Chung Kim? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdblachford (talk • contribs) 00:09, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The article is a non-notable individual, the article did not have an encyclopedic tone, was not sufficiently referenced and suffered serious formatting issues. The last could have been fixed fairly easily if not for the former. لenna  vecia  02:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Question About Lists
I've been cleaning up music lists. Specifically removing red-linked entries that went to deleted band articles. (Otherwise I just leave the red links lie. However every so often I find a link that links straight to a website like in the As of List of shoegazing musicians. Might be a dumb question but should I remove those? As I think that'd be spam, but I'm not sure. - Warthog Demon  01:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Butting in, I'd say if a band does not have a WP article, it should go. If someone ends up writing about the band, then someone will add the band to the list. J.delanoy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds  01:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * In that case I have quite a bit of cleanup to do on some lists. Alrighty then. (And note that I did not say that like Jim Carrey does that. I still hate him for destroying one of my favorite numbers...) - Warthog Demon  01:17, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Morbid
Yes, when you see I have died, add a death year. I can't wait, oh ... well, I guess I have to. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 18:18, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

User:Fg2
Did you mean to give this user autoreviewer rather than accountcreator? He/she has not created any accounts. Stifle (talk) 15:10, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...
... for nominating me as an Autoreviewer. (I had to look it up to find out what an Autoreviewer is!). I don't contribute a vast number of new articles - spending most of my time these days on stub-sorting and various other tidying up jobs, but it's nice to think that someone appreciates the articles I've created. PamD (talk) 23:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Possible move of Nazi plunder
I have started a discussion on possibly moving Nazi plunder. As you are currently a reasonably active editor, as well as a past contributor to the article, I hope you can find some time to make comments at renaming Nazi plunder. <font color="52A249">Un <font color="23CE40">sch <font color="7ED324">ool 17:46, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

primordial nuclid
Hi Nice to see your deletion of the corresponding talk-page. Would you please also delete the main page Primordial nuclid? I created it mistakenly misspelled! (missing e) and there should be no pointers to this page. Regards, Achim1999 (talk) 11:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Daniel Christensen
Hi, DS. I'm not certain you gave sufficient warning of an impending block, nor did you notify him of said block on his talk page. Would you consider changing the block to a proper warning for the time being? Powers T 12:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Just dropped by to say thanks for making me an autoreviewer. It's great to get some positive feedback on articles I've created. TheRetroGuy (talk) 18:55, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Question about Reinvent Your Enterprise
I see you deleted Reinvent your enterprise page on June 6, 2009. We were trying to add more references to the page including a number of new third-party book reviews (Training Magazine, BetterManagment.com, BloggerNewsNetwork). Would this not help to support the page? I am trying to do the right thing here so please offer me guidance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mneumeier (talk • contribs) 14:56, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the autoreview status. I appreciate it! Wizard191 (talk) 14:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Deletions of Chicago Aldermen "Toni Foulkes", "Willie Cochran", "Lona Lane"
Hello, I am a Chicago Wikipedian and a member of WikiProject Chicago. I've been plugging away for a few years, primarily on Chicago aldermen, mainly updating articles as news breaks, indictments, sentencings, subpeonas, arrests, etc.

I agree the articles on the three aldermen you deleted do not at this time demonstrate notability. More generally, the notability of Chicago aldermen is inherently controversial. The 3 articles were fairly recent additions and I considered them bare starts. I would ask for your patience with them WP:DEMOLISH. I intend to put some more time in on them as time permits. I offer my contribution record as evidence.

Did you propose these articles for deletion? Were they flagged as stubs?

Can you please help me restore them?

Thanks, Hugh (talk) 18:25, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply.

I believe these articles were flagged as stubs prior to deletion, also flagged as asking the community for help with the article content and with references, although that is difficult to confirm right now. Can you please confirm my belief?

Also, how old were these 3 articles? It seems all footprint of their histories were deleted with the articles.

May I ask, did you propose these articles for deletion? Was the "speedy deletion' process used? If not, what process did you follow?

My understanding is that article deletion should not be used to comment on article content or on the suitability of sources. Can you please confirm this understanding?

Can you please help me restore these three articles, with the additional flags of "under construction" while we discuss further how they may be improved, perhaps on their talk pages?

Thanks again,Hugh (talk) 17:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you again for your reply. Thank you for your contributions to WP. Thank you for your interest in the Chicago City Council.

I am offended and disappointed at your language. May I ask, how long have you been an administrator? May I ask, is there a WP policy with regard to how we treat each other? Are you trying to drive me away, would that be easier for you?

Thank you for confirming that no process was followed in these deletions, and that the 3 articles you deleted were less than a month old. May I ask, for the third time, can you please confirm that all 3 were flagged as stubs and also as ref:improve? Thank you in advance.

Thanks again. Hugh (talk) 19:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you going to 1.) restore the articles to mainspace, 2.)userfy the articles, 3.) ask him to recreate encyclopedic articles?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 20:04, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) No. 2) No. 3) I'm going to ask him to create encyclopedic articles, which he did not do the first time. These articles were so awful, they were in violation of WP:BLP. DS 20:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Your entries in the deletion log made no reference to BLP. Has your understanding of the problems with these articles evolved somewhat since you deleted them without process? I would welcome an opportunity to learn more from you about WP:BLP issues with these articles on their talk pages. Am I being punished for something? Thank you. Hugh (talk) 22:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I was not more prompt with expanding these articles beyond the initial state WP:DEADLINE. I was distracted. Things have been popping here in Chicago. May I point out my many other contributions to other Chicago alderman articles with full references as indictments and other skulduggery unfolded during that month as evidence for my sincere commitment to improving WP. Hugh (talk) 22:13, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. Thank you for the apology.

May I ask again, how long have you been an admin? Is it your understanding of the WP code of conduct that profanity on a talk page directed at the work of a fellow Wikipedian is appropriate as long as it is immediately followed by an in-text apology?

May I ask, for the fourth time, as I do not currently have access to the deleted text can you please confirm that all 3 of the articles cited above were flagged as stubs and also as ref:improve when you deleted them? I am considering (but would much prefer to avoid) a formal appeal and I would like to know this.

I am anxious to begin work on improved versions of the 3 articles you recently deleted without process. I would like to begin from the deleted versions, restored under the "under construction" and "speedy deletion" badges. Would it help if I stipulate that restoring the articles does not imply any reflection on you or your actions or your service to our community?

Thank you in advance for all your help. Hugh (talk) 21:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

"Do you understand, now, why I deleted them?" Thanks for the text. I understand the articles do not meet WP standards, and my standards, either. I am not now nor have I ever defended the article content. I do not understand why you deleted them without extending the simply courtesy of even a brief badge, and I do not understand why, even after my pledge to improve them, you will not extend a fellow Wikipedian the simple courtesy of restoration. If you are trying to punish me or teach me some kind of lesson please be assured I am a quick study and responded well to talk or badges. Hugh (talk) 23:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Civil law and Scandinavian Civil law article deletion
Hum, just out of couriosity.. Do you remember why? It's been a while ago now but you deleted Scandinavian law in 07 and although I'm not a law student or in any way knowlagable in the area of law I still find it strange that I couldn't find any article for it when it's even linked to in the civil law article and the Legal systems of the world article. As a citizen of one of the scandinavian countries I am aware that there is a difference but du to my lack of legal education I am at lost as to put my finger on any details. At any rate I can understand that a article that's not of an high enough standard should not be included in the wikipedia but I was kind of wondering if you moved the article you deleted to the private page of a user or something like that where it can still be viewed as I realy would like to read it and perhaps have a look at it's sources. At this moment the best information I've been able to find though a fast google was [this] article. At any rate if you don't care to answare but rather would just delete this message directly I fully understand but I'll ask anyway just in case. So the bottom line is brifly why deleted and is there any salvagable parts out there? Luredreier 17:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luredreier (talk • contribs)
 * Responded on his talk page. DS (talk) 17:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Good grief, that wasn't exactly much of an article, still, thanks for responding, and for deleting that article that where clearly just rubbish >< Luredreier 18:35, 23 July 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luredreier (talk • contribs)

Zubis deletion
The issue of arab genies is hot in the publishing world; Zubis is notable (or perhaps becoming notable). Can you restore?Critic11 (talk) 14:47, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

DEK International deletion
This article page was put together over a couple of weeks. I had thought the article was forming up well and i had full intention of digging out some good references regarding the innovations that brought screen printing technology where we are today. This is an important subject that not a lot of people understand. I have been away on vacation for 3 weeks, to come back and find that the article was deleted. I had put comments on the discussion and my talk page to not delete the article without mentioning to me first, as i have spent a lot of time on this piece. Although not a wiki expert, i thought it was up to anyone to add content to wikipedia, and being an expert was not pre-required. Can you restore, so that i can continue work on this. If there was something i did wrong, let me know and i will try to fix it. Jnailer (talk) 9:00, 27th July 2009 (GMT)

Talk Pages (DAFMM)
DragonflySixtyseven,

I did not say I would stop doing it.

With compliments.

DAFMM (talk), 2 August 2009.

Ensemble_A.M.I.
Hello. This article you have deleted was recreated by another user. Just a heads-up.--TParis00ap (talk) 20:25, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

EXCUSE ME????
I am off to bed again in a minute. I haven't edited much at all today. Whoever creates the 3 millionth article certianly won't be me. Do you have to be so damn rude? Dr. Blofeld       White cat 21:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

No, I said I am almost done... It shouldn't be a problem for new page patrollers fs tubs are referenced and are auto patrolled. These articles can be expanded later, it is far better wikipedia has articles on major rivers in countries like Bolivia than not. There just need to be filled out! Any article can be expanded  Dr. Blofeld       White cat 12:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Native Speaking
If you had enough sense to realise that I put that to get you back not as a true statement. I placed it there because you didn't use correct grammar (not capitals etc.).

DAFMM (talk), 17th August 2009.

Damn you
DragonflySixtyseven (talk | contribs) changed rights for User:Sherurcij from (none) to Autoreviewers (user has created lots and lots of valid articles)

I am going to go create Ass Pus now! Bwhahaha! Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 01:34, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Acharius Medal
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

Feed Jake
Source 2 pretty much says that the gay community believed so. "…and those who watch it in heavy rotation on cable's Country Music Videos [sic] channel may see it differently than do some folks at bars and clubs frequented mostly by gay men and lesbians." Should I change it to "Believed by the gay community to contain…"? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 12:08, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Talk:The Carpettes
I noticed you deleted Talk:The Carpettes with a summary of 'test', which doesn't give much of a clue why - is this a test on your part or are you deleting someone else's test edits? Did this have any content? It should have contained a project tag. Thanks. --Michig (talk) 16:38, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok. Thanks for the clarification. --Michig (talk) 17:31, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Pradigy GT [Page Deletion]
Hi, This article was deleted by you with the reason being "not yet notable". The band mentioned in this article is very well know in the region for what they do. Credits include Television, interviews, radio & etc. Could you please reactive this page and return the contents? Thanks.--SkazaRemi (talk) 09:59, 25 August 2009 (EST)

Hi DS, I have updated the proof for this article as you requested. Thanks for the speedy response! 10:11 pm (EST)

Pradigy [Page Deletion]
Hi, This article was deleted by you with the reason being "notability not asserted". The artist this article is about is very well know in the region for what they do as well as having major distribution across the nation. Credits include Television, interviews, & radio. Could you please reactive this page and return the contents? Thanks.--SkazaRemi (talk) 10:03, 25 August 2009 (EST)

Hi DS, I have updated the proof for this article as you requested. Thanks for the speedy response! 10:11 pm (EST) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SkazaRemi (talk • contribs)

Thanks
Regarding changed rights for User:Gordalmighty from (none) to Confirmed users. I'm not completely aware of the implications, but thanks nonetheless! Gordalmighty (talk) 16:56, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Appreciate the explaination, and thanks again for the vote of confidence! Gordalmighty (talk) 17:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Archie Templar
Hi

You deleted the Archie Templar article because the content was copyright at ComicBookDB.com.

I'm just writing to say that I wrote the article from scratch and that someone else used the Wikipedia article to create entries in the Comic Book Database.

Could you consider re-instating it?

Magurraa2 (talk) 11.27, 27 August 2009 (GMT)

Vincenzo Pastore
This article, that you have deleted yesterday night for lack of notability, has been recreated again by its only contributor: Capitanonemo78. Please could you provide again ? I'm not registered and so i can do anything else to notify it. The same user, named Capitanonemo on itwiki, has been blocked 3 weeks for an edit war reguarding the same page, still deleted few days ago. --95.234.191.101 (talk) 12:13, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 07:09, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Profile-guided optimization
Hi. I'm a bit confused why this page has been deleted, and I didn't understand the deletion comment. regards Widefox (talk) 11:55, 31 August 2009 (UTC)