User talk:Mikeblas/Archives/2007/July

Previously Deleted Articles
I noticed you re-tagged Alanna Shelast after I had removed a tag for speedy deletion. I'll stand corrected here. My question is: is there a way to check the deletion logs on an existing article to see if it had been previously deleted? Currently I can only keep track of deleted pages I was aware prior to their current re-creation. -- 健次 (derumi)talk 22:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Derumi! Administrators can see deleted page history; that's how I look. If you're not an administrator, I think you have to "manually" try to hunt down the AfD page. One trick for doing that easily would be to go to the page in question. You'll get the "no such article exists" message, but you can still click "What links here". That should include the previous AfD discussion among the links. I hope that helps!
 * Meanwhile, I'm not sure you should stand corrected. The article as previously tagged db-bio, and that's for biographical notability. I tagged it for recreated content, since it was previously AfD'ed. I'm actually not sure about using db-repost myself; sometimes, when I read it, I think it's actually referring to completely reposting an exact copy of the previous content. I'm not sure if taking another run at the deleted article is allowed -- it seems not, because the AfD discussed the topic, not the way the article for the topic was written. But the notes for db-repost don't really read that way... -- Mikeblas 16:21, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the info. I've been here since 2004, but have only recently taken a serious interest in WP outside of mere casual reading and a few nervous edits. So anything I can learn to help make this project better is a plus. :) -- 健次 (derumi)talk 05:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Happy to help! Don't hesitate to let me know if you have other questions. -- Mikeblas 06:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones in popular culture deletion debate
Greetings! An article which you have edited, Tropical cyclones in popular culture, has been nominated for deletion. You may wish to voice your opinion in the deletion debate. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Your article
Just read the article on your user page and I think your views are exactly right. Wiki is full of doubtful and unreferenced views about different subjects. The most scary thing is that other supposedly expert sites just copy text off this site and use it as their own without checking anything. So if you try to Google to check a 'fact' you just get the same mistake back (with identical wording) from a number of sources. Given that people use Wiki for school and college projects and so on we are in danger of creating a sea of self-perpetuating disinformation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Apepch7 (talk • contribs)


 * What can we do about it? I'm placing fact and unreferenced tags at an alarming rate. But it doesn't improve anything. Even when people cite references, they're almost always only on the web. Checking references not on the web is something that not many of the few fact checkers here have the inclination to do. What will make Wikipedia focus on quality instead of quantity? -- Mikeblas 14:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)