User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2012/April

Aria2 page deletion.
I was looking into the article on metalink file format which brought me to the Aria2 page which you had deleted. I can not see the deleted article as expected.

The Aria2 project exists on sourceforge.net. I would like, I believe, to create a simple page describing the most basic features of Aria2 and then provide an external link to the SourceForge project. I am not a frequent contributor to wikipedia so I would like to avoid violating their guidelines.

Could you point me to the deleted page so I can see what I need to avoid when creating the Aria2 page?

Thank you for your attention, Robinmholt (talk) 11:04, 30 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi there. I deleted it because it was a copyright violation of http://aria2.sourceforge.net


 * If you want to recreate the page, please make sure that you read WP:FIRST before you start, which will give you some useful tips on what to do and what not to do. The critical thing to realise is just because it's on Sourceforge, doesn't make it notable by Wikipedia's standards. That's achieves by third party-independent sources talking about the product. That could be articles, reviews etc. Not forum posts though. Please read reliable sources guidelines for more on this.
 * If you've any questions, let me know. Regards Ged  UK  07:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Columbo
Am very glad you're posting and contributing your help there. I assume you made this edit. However it was stricken because it was totally unsigned. It was just a floating comment. Please remember to sign everything. Unsigned anonymous stuff like that is usually stricken.— Djathink imacowboy  16:43, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh dear, how embarassing! I've readded it and signed it! Thanks for letting me know! Ged  UK  12:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Dja and Ged, still having this talk page on my watchlist from last year or so, I noticed this. Dja, I think that unsigned comments are not usually stricken, but rather signed with an unsigned template. You can just add the string  Ged UK  or, with a date parameter,  Ged UK  to the message. Usually a bot takes care of this, but it's easy to do it if the bot overlooked it. Nice to know. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 13:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Deletion of Hugues De La Plaza
Hi, I have searched and searched and eventually found the log files of December 2009 when the page for Hugues De La Plaza was deleted but I still cannot find the discussion about it or any evidence for when it was moved. Was there no discussion for it? I am not the writer of the page, in fact I just now created an account to ask about this page. It is a case I heard of and was AMAZED when I looked him up to find that there was no wiki page and that it was deleted because it was not noteworthy. If I am in Ireland and I hear about it in the media, then perhaps it is in fact noteworthy as it is such a controversial case. Especially since it is a few years old and I only just saw a programme about it so it is obviously an active story even now. Is there any way this page might be undeleted? Perhaps its too late for that... but even his name googled brings up plenty of sites and news info about him. Surely a wiki page is justified?

Anyway as I said I am very new to wikipedia so I hope you are the right person to email about. I got to here from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugues_de_la_Plaza I was pretty careful to not just spew anywhere. Hope you can help or at least show me why it was deleted and if there is a reason it remains so. Thanks TJ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terrificjoy (talk • contribs) 00:39, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protection of a user's talk page
I've removed the semi-protection you placed on User talk:EEMIV per invalid protection reasoning. User talk page are not considered part of the userspace and are subject to different rules. Semi-protecting a user talk page would leave IPs contributors and newly registered users with no immediate mean of contacting the user, and is generally only applied for brief periods of times when absolutely necessary, not indefinitively.  Snowolf How can I help? 02:22, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

The Bill being re-assessed for GA
Hey Ged!

I'm wondering if you can look at Talk:The Bill and see if there's anything you can do to help The Bill retain it's GA status? I must admit once citation issues are sorted out I don't see why the article can't retain the status. Any help would be appreciated!--5 albert square (talk) 00:11, 30 April 2012 (UTC)