User talk:Icmtk

question...
I weighed in on the DRV for "crossing the Rubicon". I am leaning towards restoration.

Do you mind me asking you a couple of questions?

First, how do you determine a book's google rank?

Second, I noticed that you have just four edits under your belt, under this wiki-id. When brand new contributors challenge me, I tell them I realize wikipedia contributors have a "right to disappear", and create new wiki-ids, so long as they stop using their old one. I have told them that I understand that there are valid reasons to abandon a wiki-id, like harrassment, or privacy concerns. What I have suggested to my challengers is that they put a simple acknowledgement on their User page, that they were not a brand new contributor, but they had stopped using their previous wiki-id for a valid reason, and that an administrator they trusted to preserve their secret would confirm they had abandoned the old wiki-id.

Although I am probably going to end up on your side in the discussion over "crossing the Rubicon", I think I should offer you the same advice. So, that is my second question -- is there someone trustworthy who can confirm you abandoned the old wiki-id?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 00:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think looking at google rank is a good way to judge. Notability is the (given) reason that the article and I figure citations from other reputable sources are a good way to judge this. Having said that Google doesn't have a very large number of hits.
 * I haven't even got 4 edits! I have one proper edit, which was to create Michael C. Ruppert, who I was trying to research at the time. When I went to link it to the book I ran into this deletion issue.
 * I don't have an old wiki-id. Or at least, if I do and forgot about it it wouldn't have more than a couple of trivial edits. My edits to Wikipedia are confined to minor typo/link corrections and additions.
 * As an aside, thanks for requesting that the article history be made viewable, I wasn't aware that was a possibility. The article, as it turns out, is not wonderful. Still, since I'm irked by the fact that I consider it deleted for the wrong reasons I think I will persist and see if I can improve it (hopefully tonight). Icmtk (talk)


 * I had been using the wikipedia for almost a year, and had several thousand edits under my belt, before I ever encountered any of the deletion procedures. Geo Swan (talk) 01:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I looked at the DRV. I meant to put "amazon rank", but I wrote "google rank".  You wrote: "Amazon (states book has rank of 15,185)".  What I meant was how do you determine a book's amazon rank.?


 * Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 01:14, 20 March 2009 (UTC)