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Notability of Close of Business
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. --Android Mouse Bot 2 14:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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arbour group category
I noticed that you categorized Arbour Group under the category "firms". That category page no longer seems to exist. What happened? TMLutas 18:43, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * There probably weren't enough articles in that category to justify its existence. --Gary King 19:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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Re:Gary, from mesh conference
Hello Gary, good to hear from you again. I don't understand precisely what you want me to do with the cleanup template? Could you elaborate? - SimonP 14:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

combining Notes and Citations sections in IPA
Hi, from your contribs I see that you do a lot of work on notes and refs. IPA has sections called Notes and Citations. The Notes section uses the hard-to-maintain ref label tags. Could you look at it? I have started a section at Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet. --Jtir 16:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure I'll take a look.--Gary King 18:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Merge tags
Do not remove merge tags from articles, especially when you do not provide a reason and simply revert without providing an edit summary. - A Link to the Past (talk) 13:31, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Adding categories
Thank you for your efforts in adding categories to articles that were without. Your good intentions are appreciated.

However...

I wish you had taken more care over the work; in some cases your efforts have actually left articles worse off than when they had no category at all. Many of the categories you have added are only approximately correct, but this is not too bad. Some of the categories you have added, however, are just plain wrong; did you even read Basic Food Group before tagging it?

What's more, many of the tags you added were for categories that don't actually exist, namely:
 * Category:Accounting
 * Category:Authors
 * Category:Bands
 * Category:Colleges
 * Category:Computer games
 * Category:Computer software
 * Category:Computers
 * Category:Food
 * Category:Media
 * Category:Theater
 * Category:Theaters

I am not saying you should give up on tagging uncategorized articles, but in future please do it right. --Paul A 10:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Just to echo what was said earlier, please do not add very broad parent categories to articles. Under no circumstances should an individual company be in Category:Companies for example. Its better to just leave the uncat tag on them if you can't find a more specific, correct category. &mdash;Xezbeth 12:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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While categorising, please keep an eye out for nonsense/advertising and don't be afraid to put a CSD or prod tag on them. For example, Chadject is a clear speedy candidate, yet you categorised it without seeming to check. &mdash;Xezbeth 07:53, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll keep an eye out. I was planning on completing one task at a time. Right now, I'm focused on categorization. --Gary King 07:55, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

When categorising people, please put just above the categories. They're supposed to be sorted by surname. Same goes for titles that start with "A" or "The". &mdash;Xezbeth 06:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh and one more thing, if an article looks pretty well formatted but is only missing external links/references/categories, chances are it has recently been vandalised so look at past versions to see if thats the case. &mdash;Xezbeth 06:34, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

You seem to have reverted to adding useless, overly broad categories. Please slow down and actually add useful ones. Category:Soccer and similar are useless and the uncat tag is a better option. &mdash;Xezbeth 07:05, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll check up on those. --Gary King 07:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you read what I posted about surnames? You still aren't doing it. &mdash;Xezbeth 07:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll be doing it from now on. --Gary King 07:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

You don't seem to have absorbed my message about non-existent categories, either: you're still adding categories to Category:Computer software (and possibly others, but that's the one I noticed just now). --Paul A 02:00, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


 * [reiteration of previous comment] --Paul A 08:43, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on Netmedia, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears 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.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 24.4.253.249 18:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

LaunchBar
A template has been added to the article LaunchBar, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest 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. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. 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. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author.  Whispe ring  18:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

The wonderfulness of your edit at the Occam's Razor article cannot be overstated
Just a few days ago I rather loudly complained about the obtrusiveness of too many article templates, a general issue which your introducing of that new template to this particular article all but solved. Whether this was because you happened upon my complaint or by sheer coincidence, the article's header looks much more tolerable now and I'll be doing the same to all multi-templated articles I encounter from now on. Thanks again. --AceMyth 06:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Of course I was sarcastic! After all, sarcasm is really helpful! :-P No, I really do think it's an improvement. --AceMyth 06:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

ProLine Message Center Editor
I deleted the added category "Software". That's the top of the software tree categories, not appropriate for this low detail item. I know, no one used to notice dumping articles there, but I just cleaned it out and will try to keep it that way. And I'd rather original posters spent the time to find appropriate categories than my doing it, sorry. btw "Application software" isn't appropriate either, I'm cleaning that out as well. Thanks, tooold 08:59, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Martin Demaine
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