User talk:MarkBul

TDVision AfD
I invite you to revisit your comment. The article is not spam and it is informative. I worked pretty hard on it and calling it spam after it was flagged for rescue by the rescue crew and totally re-written with citations isn't fair. 3dtech 00:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Top Financial Economics Honors
Even though you describe yourself as a computer science person, you talk as if you understand financial economics publications very well. I would like to produce pages like Smith Breeden Prize and Brattle Prize for most major journal prizes without opening the door wide for the Southwestern Missouri Journal of Financial Intermediation Management Best paper. Basically, what I think would be consistent with rules on WP:N would be to include only lists for journals that count towards tenure at most top research institutions (Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, American Economic Review, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis). Once such lists are created, then a template could be created with major Financial Economics awards Starting with Nobel Prize in Economics, including Fischer Black Prize and the Morgan Stanley American Finance Association Award as career awards and including the research paper awards. Such a template could be placed at the bottom of all winners articles to give the winners some heft. Then we could also produce lists for annual conference Presidents such as the AFA, WFA, EFA Presidents and add these honors to the template. However, the problem is that we need a reliable source distinguishing major journals and associations from minor ones. I.e., we need to quickly be able to draw a line as a tertiary source based on a reliable secondary source. Do you have any ideas where I can find a source of which financial economics journals and associations are important to top tier research institutions.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 04:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Note
Hi there! You recently said on AFD that "There are no exceptions to the requirement that articles be based on reliable sources - including "it predates the internet"" - this is of course correct, but reliable sources don't have to be websites. They can also be books, newspapers, and so forth. For items that predate the internet, it is quite possible that sources can only be found offline; and hence, the "Google test" may be an unreliable benchmark for these items (as well as for items relating to countries that lack a solid presence on the web). HTH!  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  07:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Mass deletion nominations for ethnic group lists
Hi,

I see you've commented on top of the List of Ukrainian Americans deletion discussion about the overall issue of these mass deletion nominations. Obviously that isn't a great place for us to discuss this. Having all of these come up at once is problematic, I think, so I left a message at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents see "Mass deletion nominations for List of [Ethnic Group X] Americans". You may want to follow that or comment there. Noroton 00:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Offer
Hey, I noticed you participate in a lot of AFDs for subjects that I too am interested in. Would you like to work together on any rewrites of articles? Best, -- Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles  Tally-ho! 16:01, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I am currently working on a web page that discusses the history of my home town, so I have little time for other writing right now. Thanks for the offer. MarkBul 21:55, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply. Anyway, just as a quick suggestion with AfDs, you'll find a number of editors may criticize other editors, rather than their argument.  One that I've seen is from individuals who believe that editors who do not make significant contributions to articles as well as discussions therefore do not know enough about article content for their arguments to be taken as seriously.  So, a good way to avoid such criticism is to work to improve some articles or to create some in addition to participating in the AfDs.  That way you'll show any potential critics that you know how to put good articles together as well.  Just a suggestion so that you don't run into some of the same unpleasantries that I have.  All the best!  Sincerely, --  Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles  Tally-ho! 17:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

All White Jury
Hi there. Just to let you know, the AfD was closed already, as I withdrew the nom and there were only keep votes. (Although I'm not sure how to treat comments that are posted into a closed AfD, so I'll leave it there for now.) -- B figura (talk) 05:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I moved your comment to the talk page of the article in question (since I think people are more likely to see it there, so hopefully it can help stimulate a better article). Hopefully that's ok. Best, -- B figura (talk) 05:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Ghosttown, Oakland, California
Thanks for your interest in this article. Following your suggestion I have added a number of references including your idea of a citation to show the neighborhood is officially recognized in name and in funding by the city of Oakland. You might want to visit this article again. When you commented, you may have been misled by the nominator, who deleted the article's source before nominating it for deletion. The article now has six sources. You may recall it was nominated on the grounds of being unreferenced. Best Regards. Anlace 03:47, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles revisited
Hello, since you commented in Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles, I thought you might like to know that it is again up for discussion at Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles (2nd nomination). Regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

RD Reynolds AfD(I think)
Hello, I think you may be interested in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/R._D._Reynolds Spoke shook (talk) 11:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)