User talk:MuffledThud/Archives/April 2009

Nulkh
I have removed the speedy deletion tag from Nulkh, as it does not fall under "test pages". I would advise you to reread the CSD criteria. Ironholds (talk) 02:30, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Hope I am doing this right
Hi MuffledThud! I fixed the page (The scarlet ending) with some citations that meet the criteria (I believe). When you get time can you check in and let me know if I did enough for it to not be deleted? I plan on updating it more when I can talk to one of the girls and get the specific dates and all that fun stuff.

Thanks again for the welcome :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by AGarritillo (talk • contribs) 20:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Exore Gaming Limited
Hello,

I have tried many times to make this article adding referances and what nots. Now could you please tell me what I did wrong this time :). I thought it is very important since its a company that is affected by the economic meltdown. Could you please put it back up or tell me to make changes( spent good time doing research on the topic). I would really appreciate. Thanks, Winner11 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winner11 (talk • contribs) 20:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, please have a read of WP:Notability (companies) for more info. MuffledThud (talk) 20:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey,

I have read the link, what I am trying to say that the company I wrote has two important factors: Started by a teenager Has some economic problems

Please reconsider, or at least tell me what I have to do.

Thanks much, Winner11 PS: Not trying to advertise if you are thinking, happen to work for the companies distant competitor :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.13.204.22 (talk • contribs)


 * I don't think either one of those things would count for notability according to the guidelines at WP:Notability (companies).  But it's up the Wikipedia administrators to decide, not me. MuffledThud (talk) 21:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of E-Business Architect
An article that you have been involved in editing, E-Business Architect, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/E-Business Architect. Thank you.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:28, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Exore
Thanks, I guess you are right, well pleasure chatting with you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winner11 (talk • contribs) 21:51, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Help on HCCH
Thanks for your help on the HCCH disambiguation page.Raymondwinn (talk) 09:49, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Any time! MuffledThud (talk) 09:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Joanie Bartels
Sorry, I can't find the copyvio, what page is it on? - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 17:59, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * http://www.mp3.com/artist/joanie-bartels/summary/, as per the tag. Just about everything after the first few paragraphs is pasted in from that article. MuffledThud (talk) 18:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm losing the formatting of course, but this is what I see when I pull up the page (free free to delete this mess after you've seen it)
 * - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 18:10, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * (snip part of HTML paste)... Expand the part that starts: "Joanie Bartels, one of the best-selling artists in the children's genre, wasn't even identified on the packaging of her first few children's releases. Yet, on the strength of her charming voice...", then read on. If you think that there's anything worth keeping after you chop out the copyrighted stuff, then feel free to leave the article up. MuffledThud (talk) 18:15, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I chopped out the copyvio and took it to AfD: Articles for deletion/Joanie Bartels. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 22:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * P.S. Ah, I see you voted there. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 22:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Don Biederman
Thanks for cleaning up the Don Bierderman article!--gordonrox24 (talk) 18:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy to help! MuffledThud (talk) 18:02, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

A Journey Through Aesthetic Realms
Can you tell me what else to do to help A Journey Through Aesthetic Realms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kayau (talk • contribs) 08:33, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've just replied at the talk page for that article. MuffledThud (talk) 08:34, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Stanford's World Association of International Studies
Dear MuffledThud, I just created a page on Stanford's WAIS. You have undone. Please let me know how to fix or what the problem is. Thanks much.--Pavasta (talk) 21:45, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Dear MuffledThud, I had permission to use the text. But I did re-wrote the page, as you had asked. Please let me know if that is now acceptable. Thanks much.--Pavasta (talk) 19:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Dear MuffledThud, Sure. No problem. Can you highligh specifically what part, so I can either re-write or ask the right question. Thanks again for your help. --Pavasta (talk) 22:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry - forgot to mention that if you look at WAIS website, there are no copyright notices, due to the nature of contributions. Thanks. --Pavasta (talk) 22:43, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Dear MuffledThud, Thanks for all your help. I will add references.--Pavasta (talk) 16:45, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Hollywood of the east listed at RfD
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hollywood of the east. Since you had some involvement with the Hollywood of the east redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Redtigerxyz Talk 13:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea
Hi. You reverted my creation of this page. This was the outcome of a discussion on Talk:Bobby Shafto. It is not a duplicate, because that article is about Robert Shafto and the one I created is about the song (folk songs are usually listed under their first line), which may or may not be about that historical figure. The plan, as you will see, was to adjust the Bobby Shafto page to reflect the new separate article. However, I wasn't planning to do that, but I was going to leave it to the major editor of that page. I would really appreciate it if you would restore my edits to the various pages, otherwise this situation cannot be satisfactorily resolved. Thanks.--Sabrebd (talk) 10:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Aha, so the intention is not to fork but to split. OK, will revert my redirect. MuffledThud (talk) 13:07, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - it might take a bit of time to sort out as its a matter of co-operation.--Sabrebd (talk) 13:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol
Hi, thanks for your amazing work in patrolling the new articles coming in, I often see you around :). But when tagging an article for speedy deletion, could you please (if possible) mark them as patrolled? Cheers - Kingpin13 (talk) 06:35, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Why thank you. OK, will start marking them patrolled. MuffledThud (talk) 10:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, keep up the good work :). Also good luck with getting NPWatcher (was going to suggest you get it but I see you're alread at WP:RFPERM :) - Kingpin13 (talk) 12:04, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

NPWatcher
Hi,. I have granted you NPWatcher per your request here. After looking over a few of your contributions, your talk page, and your block log, I feel you can be trusted with the tool. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a note on my talk page. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Barry J Farber
Must have been a mistake - why don't you add a category you find appropriate, instead of leaving it blank to leave people who couldn't care less to have to fix it again. Bothpath (talk) 22:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It's better to leave an article with an "uncategorized" tag than to add an incorrect category. Bad info is worse than no info.  MuffledThud (talk) 22:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Steve Reichert
In this article, I removed the long section of copyright violation I found, and declined the speedy. I won't be back til the morning ... if you see this before I get up, could you check the article to see if the rest is also copyvio from somewhere, and re-tag it if so? - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 03:45, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do, thanks. MuffledThud (talk) 03:47, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Sanjeev Naik
Unprotected and moved. I've left the Dr page as a redirect. jimfbleak (talk) 05:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Caveman training
Hi Muffled thud, Hope you don't mind, but I've replaced the speedy on Caveman training with a notability tag as I can work out the context.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  12:56, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Safemedia
Just an FYI, when tagging articles as advertising, you might want to see if they are actually copyvios. I just deleted an article for safemedia, that is a copyvio of this. An easy way to find it is to take a sentence from the wiki article and look for the sentence in Google. You would be surprised at how many "spam"articles are actually copyvios.--- I'm Spartacus!  NO! I'm Spartacus! 22:40, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, yes I do lots of those. Sometimes it's a judgment call on whether to tag spam as db-spam or db-copyvio, since if you only tag spam as copyvio they'll just put some non-copyvio spam up as soon as the copyvio is deleted.  I could tag it as both, but Twinkle doesn't support multiple speedy tags yet.  Maybe I should propose that as a feature... MuffledThud (talk) 10:15, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Personally, I hate db:spam. That is a very (overly) subjective category in many cases.  Plus, one of the key reasons to do it as a copyvio as compared to spam is that a lot of people treat spam (and attack pages) differently.  When I work CSD, I always clear out those two categories first because they are the ones that can do actual damage if a search engine or wikiclone gets ahold of them.--- I'm Spartacus!  NO! I'm Spartacus! 17:05, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It can often be a matter of balancing the minor irritant of potential future repeat spam versus accidental deletion of useful content, so in that respect you're right, the latter is worse than the former. Without hard data on the actual frequency of repeat spam, however, the judgement is based solely on subjective recall of anecdotal data.  I wonder if anyone has done stats analysis on this yet using a reliable large sample.  Worth thinking through further, thanks. MuffledThud (talk) 17:48, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar

 * Thank you! MuffledThud (talk) 20:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh shoot
I'm sorry I didn't realize. Please delete then.Solsticefan (talk) 05:01, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Chris Bradds de-prodded
One of the two (seemingly single-purpose) editors of this article has removed the prod tag... and also most of the unref tags. I'd afd it myself, but I actually used to know the subject of the article. Not exactly a conflict of interest... but it would keep me off a jury! You might also want to check the edits of users Brep00 as well, as both accounts probably *do* have CoI issues with any members of the Bradds family. The Terry Bradds article may be worthy of inclusion, but it's borderline. Majorclanger (talk) 15:49, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Well spotted, thanks Major C. I've just AFd'd it, since the editor(s) don't seem interested in referencing it, and it looks like turning into a pointless edit war over removal and restoration of unref tags and dodgy refs. He sounds like a pretty cool guy and I bet he has some great stories to tell, but the article easily fails WP notability standards and doesn't look fixable. MuffledThud (talk) 15:56, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

delete the articles if you wish. don't have any CoI interest in the bradds family. just interested because they are a higher profile family from where i was from. also, interested in Gary Bradds. he and Terry Bradds were hero's of mine as well as many others. didn't create either article! i'll refrain from any other additions to wikipedia. --Brep00 (talk) 05:11, 29 April 2009 (UTC)