User talk:Paul Erik/Archive 1

Rename
As requested, I have changed your name. You can now log in using the new username. Warofdreams talk 19:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Letter
Dear Paul Erik.

To clarify things.

I own the copyright for the Matthew Jay biography. I wrote it. Therefore there is no legal necessity for me to 'submit a new version of the article.' The copyright notice was actually put there solely for your benefit, merely to indicate the origin of the piece, in order to attest to the article's authorised source, in the hope that you would respect its legitimacy, and refrain from deleting it repeatedly.

I created the entry for Matthew on 10 September 2006, and it remained there until you deleted it and over-wrote it with your own entry recently, (which incidentally, no offence intended, contains mistakes).

To be very clear: I am the Promotion's Manager for Jay's Music Ltd, Matthew's current record label, and as such I am his officially sanctioned and authorised representative, with specific responsibility for maintaining and monitoring Matthew's public profile. This includes the running of Matthew's OFFICIAL web site www.crookedsmile.com, as well as Matthew's OFFICIAL Myspace profile, which your text erroneously refers to as 'fan tribute' sites. A visit to each URL on your part will verify that these are NOT fan sites.

Much of my work for Matthew's label includes writing customised biographical pieces on Matthew, as well as press releases and promotional literature. As such, the creation of Matthew's Wikipedia entry comes under my professional remit.

I would like to stress that the biography contained in the Wikipedia entry I created for Matthew is completely endorsed and authorised by Matthew's record label and family, and all its content is entirely accurate, up to date, and verifiable by his family, friends, colleagues, current label, and also EMI, with whom Jays Music Ltd retains connections and enjoys consultation privileges (which include advice on artist representation).

When I restored the text last night to its original version, I placed the copyright message there as a friendly hint for you to realise that the biography I have placed there is from an OFFICIAL source. I had hoped therefore that you would respect its authenticity and official status, and consequently leave the text as it stood. As unfortunately this has not been the case, I would now like to politely request that from this point on you cease your editing of this entry and allow it to stand in its original form.

If you feel this request is unfair in any way, and indeed you have a legitimate connection to Matthew, or access to verifiable information beyond the text included in his official biography, please feel free to get in touch with me to discuss the matter further. I will be happy to forward any correspondence to the appropriate personnel at both his previous and present record labels if you wish.

You can get in touch via Matthew's web site. Please make sure that the words 'Matthew Jay' appear in the subject line to avoid delays within our spam filtering software.

In any event, I would like you to contact me so that we may resolve this issue in a friendly informal manner.

I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, R Magowan Promotions Manager, Jays Music Ltd.


 * Paul Erik, after seeing your message on Village Pump, I thought I should chime in and mention that this Ms Magowan really shouldn't be editing such an article in the first place, as that would most likely fall under our Conflict of Interest guideline. That is, if she does legitimately represent the subject in question.  There's also the problem of submitting copyrighted material to the article, as you covered in your message on her talk page; unless, of course, this manager consents to releasing said text to GFDL or other free license.  I'm certainly not an expert here, but I definitely believe you are justified in reverting the article, and also believe that a fairly close watch might be in order for this Ms Magowan's edits of other articles in the future. I also cleaned up the minor mess that was made of your talk page...hope you don't mind! --  Huntster  T • @ • C 23:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Avalon (disambig)
Why do you feel that no descriptions are needed for ONLY the Places category, whereas you left in descriptions for the Books, Cinema, Comics, Games, Graveyards, Music, Organizations, Schools, People, Technology, Television, Theaters, and Vehicles? Alvis 05:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that's a good question. First of all, I think I was too hasty in editing away your description of Avalon, New Jersey. Your description would help people who typed in Avalon and knew they were looking for a seashore resort but did not necessarily know it was in New Jersey. As for the other entries on the page, I think many of those descriptions ought to be shortened, as per the guideline on MoS:DP, which says, "The description associated with a link should be kept to a minimum, just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link." --Paul Erik 13:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Julie (given name)
Hey there PE, since you seemed interested in the general discussion, you may be interested in contributing your opinion to Articles for deletion/Julie (given name). - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 23:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding the ref-list to Julie, I kept wondering why my ref wasn't showing up. That answers a lot of my frustration. Also, the article looks waaay better now. It's going to be much tougher to justify deletion now. - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 02:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * We are a great tag team with the Julie article! --Paul Erik 02:52, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed! - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 03:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The Norway data came directly from the wikipedia page List_of_most_popular_given_names, I can't verify its accuracy because I didn't add the original. Your call if you want to include it, I have no problem either way. - HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 04:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Right, I had looked at the same table, but when I checked the actual website, the ranking was 430th (not really worthy of inclusion in the article in my opinion). I have no idea why List_of_most_popular_given_names ranks it fifth. By the way, when you stated "Retrieved 27 April 2007" you were declaring you had verified the information yourself! --Paul Erik 04:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, guess I got sort of busted for my carelessness. I put the reference (and the date) in before I actually checked the source. I couldn't really understand the data on that page. Originally I sort of assumed that the original fact-fetcher had been right, so I didn't revise the reference. You know what they say about those who assume...- HammerHeadHuman (talk)(work) 05:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Test edit?
Sorry, but this was not a test edit - did you check here? Vandalising a Wikipedia policy page isn't a test either - it's vandalism. I do like to assume good faith whenever I can, but this is not one of them. I've warned the anon IP appropriately. Thanks. Ref (chew) (do) 02:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You are right – I had called it a test-edit because of an assumption of good faith on the anon's part. I had not noted the vandalism on the policy page by the same anon. Thanks for following through with the appropriate warnings. --Paul Erik 02:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No probs. Ref (chew) (do) 02:48, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

minor?
hmm...seemed minor to me. thank you for the illuminiation. --emerson7 | Talk 18:15, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Adding new content to an established Wikipedia guideline page is never considered minor; see Help:Minor_edit for what is. Glad to help out. --Paul Erik 02:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

The Western Investor
A tag has been placed on The Western Investor, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you feel that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add  on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Dynaflow 05:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * No, you understand the criteria and the chart correctly. I've restored the article. Bearcat 07:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Uh, deleting an article with a hangon tag is quite normal, especially if your arguments were insufficient and the subject was not notable... (copied to both talks)  alphachimp  07:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, this became a total clusterfuck much more quickly than I though it would. Come one, come all, and weigh in on The Western Investor's fate: Articles for deletion/The Western Investor   --Dynaflow  08:51, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Emergency
Hi there. I know you have shown an interest in the debate as to whether Emergency should be an article or a dab page. I have now created an article which I believe would be suitable for the 'Emergency' page, with everything else to be moved out to a separate disambiguation page. My suggested article is here (in my name space), and the debate as to whether this will be suitable is on the Talk:emergency page. I would appreciate you input! Owain.davies 07:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * thanks for your comments, Paul. Regards Owain.davies 07:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

R3-30
Yowza. I'm, like, behumbled. Bearcat 04:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Straight Reads the Line
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Regarding The Pettit Project
For the record: 1) I did not post the biography from the website, some other user did 2) I have checked with their site manager and she has agreed to let wikipedia use the biography —Preceding unsigned comment added by Romliker (talk • contribs) 16:19, 9 June 2007

NXNE
Looks like you got some great pics! Bearcat 18:46, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for noticing. Keep watching as I am not yet finished. It would appear that the NXNE festival has inspired me to be Wikipedia's photographer for the Canadian indie music scene—with my pocket digital camera and amateurish photo skills... Well, it's a start. :) --Paul Erik 21:56, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: An award
Thanks! :-) --PEJL 19:45, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:MikaLoveToday.JPG
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My RfA
Thank you for participating in my RfA. It was successful, and I am now, may God have mercy on us all, an administrator. Look at all the new buttons! I had heard about 'protect,' 'block user,' and 'delete,' but no one told me about 'kill,' 'eject,' and 'purée.' I appreciate the trust the community has in me, and I'll try hard not to delete the main page or block Jimbo. -FisherQueen (Talk) 18:20, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

The Academy Is
I've reverted and warned him. I have it watchlisted, so any more and I'll be a little harsher. --Steve (Stephen)talk 04:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I spoke too soon. He's now indef blocked. --Steve (Stephen)talk 04:02, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

burn.
I've speedy-tagged this band as non-notable. Is there anything you can add? -- Finngall  talk  16:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell, the band is non-notable. I extracted the content from Burn (U.S. band), which is about a different band altogether. --Paul Erik 16:49, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I also left a note at User talk:71.105.38.99 since that was the anon IP who had contributed the content. --Paul Erik 17:01, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Lynn Anderson edits
Listen, I'm not trying to make the Lynn Anderson article prettier, I just didn't understand why only the first letter of one word was capitalized and not the rest, it doesn't seem right. She's not really my area of expertise anyway, I just wanted to add some important information to her article, not make it prettier. Dottiewest1fan 20:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Responded at your talk page --Paul Erik 04:04, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It's okay, no worries, really. It was very nice of you to apologize to me, few people do that here. Dottiewest1fan 19:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for being kind to me! 

has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

I'm glad to hear that. Whenever you need any help with anything, just message me at my talk page. Have a great day! Dottiewest1fan 18:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Schlesinger
Please stop reposting that photo. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barrymanitoba (talk • contribs) 21:09, 29 July 2007

see message on my talk page...thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barrymanitoba (talk • contribs) 21:31, 1 August 2007

Thanks
Thanks with the help on Go Further (Film). You totally owned the crap out the page I put up. Thanks again. (Neutronbomb 02:13, 7 August 2007 (UTC))
 * Hey—my pleasure... to own the crap out of a page. :) --Paul Erik 02:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Carolyn Mulroney
Thanks for the generous words. I looked these things up last year as part of the original nomination. As I recall, I checked 2000 in the Index. Victoriagirl 14:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppet
With obvious sockpuppets like this one you can just get the attention of any friendly admin. Even more obvious ones (e.g., if the accounts are named Puppet1, Puppet2, Puppet3, etc.) can be reported at WP:AIV. The Suspected sock puppets page only needs to be used if the sockpuppetry isn't obvious from a casual glance. Anyway, Gamer Eek is now blocked, thanks for spotting him. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:59, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Song titles
Sorry 'bout that - I picked up my mistake and rectified it :) I'll read the wikipedia style manual closer next time ;) Dave420 15:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The Wire page
Paul- In the future it would probably be helpful to read the discussion page of the actual page you are editing. If you had done this, you would have seen that the only comments are in favor of redirecting The Wire to The Wire (tv series). Are you against this decision? From your edit description it seems like you just reverted my edit because you couldn't find any discussion of it on The Wire (tv series) talk page. I don't think it's a good idea to revert something ONLY because it hasn't been discussed (or in this case, had been discussed but you were looking in the wrong place). I'm going to change it back. If you feel this is not the correct move, let's discuss it on The Wire's talk page. Thanks, 68.109.27.125 19:53, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for responding. I have added a comment to Talk:The Wire (TV series). I was following the discussion there. I believe you might be misunderstanding what people are saying when they "oppose" the move—they are saying that The Wire ought to remain as a disambiguation page, and therefore it would not become a redirect to The Wire (TV series). --Paul Erik 20:46, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

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