User talk:Peridon/Archives/2011/March

Articles for deletion/Old Man Murray (2nd nomination)
Thanks for the kind words. And thanks for your patience in trying to offer help and advice to someone who was so clearly unwilling to accept it. --MelanieN (talk) 04:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

I wanted to say thank you, Peridon, for helping to outline what would make the article better. I think you're a credit to the Wikipedia and an excellent ambassador. 67.247.167.15 (talk) 17:05, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Camcontacts
Thanks for the note about the style of the text and that it looks like an advertisement. I'll have a go at a complete re-write over the next week or so when I get a spare moment. Emsharcool (talk) 14:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

RfA nomination
Hi there. You may wish to go to Requests for adminship/Peridon in the near future. you will nned to accept the proposal in the appropriate space. You may also want to enable the edit-counting tools. I shall be off-line for a day or so, so you may wish (and are allowed) to transclude the page yourself when ready.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 13:41, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Article Ronny Velásquez
Hi,

I hope you are not my Nemesis while I'm here establishing some knowlegde on the "Civilizations of the Orinoco-Parima region" (Orinoko-Parima-Kulturen) on this "playground" (excuse my irony).

Support would be nice.

With a constructive salute Oslac (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hm .. read your verbose (sorry) answer ...
 * but that is not a way to anywhere
 * I am out for venezuelan "thomthings" ... so my question .. are you interested in something like this ?


 * A weird asking frouwd
 * Oslac (talk) 22:03, 6 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey, I don't want to be offensive in any way ... but I'm sometimes a little bit violent tempered ...
 * I consider this as an academic discussion ...
 * By the way, I'm not a native English speaker ...


 * Lost in time, lost in space ... and lost in meaning ...
 * YC Oslac (talk) 11:45, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Rollback with summaries
Re. I use rollback sparingly, because I prefer to give at least a brief reason in the edit summary

Just a tip,

If you add the following single line to your javascript page at Special:MyPage/skin.js;

importScript('User:Gracenotes/rollback.js');

...that adds a label saying 'sum' everywhere you see a rollback link - so you see "(rollback | sum | undo)" and clicking "sum" allows you to rollback (instantly) but with a custom edit summary.

It is documented in the comments on the script, so see User:Gracenotes/rollback.js.  Chzz  ► 03:05, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

 Chzz  ► 20:58, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Camcontacts
Hi there. Thanks for your response. I've had a go at re-doing the intro and background behind the site today after reading your advice. I'm not sure if I'm going down the right path, but I hope it's at least better. I'll get on to the rest of the text when I get time next week.Emsharcool (talk) 15:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

You are now an administrator
Congratulations, I have just closed your RfA as successful and made you an administrator. Take a look at the administrators' how-to guide and the administrators' reading list if you haven't read those already. Also, the practice exercises at the new admin school may be useful. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch on my talk page. WJBscribe (talk) 18:42, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Lists of vendors
Hi, I am in a bit of a quandary after seeing the advice you gave here which appears to be the basis of this revert. The guidance of WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:ELNO is quite clear and if this user wants to get a company listed as a vendor of certain services then they would be better advised to use the Open Directory Project rather than Wikipedia to do it. Do you have an alternative interpretation of policy that would support this user adding lists of arbitrary vendor website links to articles? Thanks --Fæ (talk) 15:21, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

CSD tagged articles
There is no hard and fast rule on timing. As you say, blatant hoaxes, attack pages, obscenity and so forth go as soon as we find them. It is friendly to give good faith edits a little lee-way, although they sometimes get tagged with what I feel is almost indecent haste. If you find an article which looks like a serious attempt at a good edit, clearly is not acceptable but could be improved, which has been speedy-tagged unreasonably quickly, then you can add a hasty tag to it and come back a bit later. A good rule of thumb is to give an hour before deleting it, although I will concede that some admins do not allow this length of time. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 17:03, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Yo
Not fond of deleting talk pages? --Closedmouth (talk) 17:43, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Forgot about 'em. I was leaving the user ones, and didn't think about the others... (Fresh out of school.) Peridon (talk) 17:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, just checking. --Closedmouth (talk) 17:55, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Shaykh zain siddiqi
Hi! I just ran across this article which you declined speedy deletion on and thought you should be aware of some things. First, GFDL has not been a compatible license for importing text since 1 November 2008, so in most cases it would've actually been copyvio. You can read Licensing update for all of the gory details. In this case there's a second wrinkle: Wikibin only hosts copies of deleted Wikipedia articles, so using the title at Wikibin you can usually track down the original article and either a) restore the history as required for attribution or b) see that the original was deleted at AfD in which case the whole thing can often just be G4'd unless they've improved it (this is what I did to this article). Cheers! VernoWhitney (talk) 22:30, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Peridon (talk) 18:28, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Mrmossrocker
Well, it was written for about 5 cent, and it's deleted now, so stop talking about it.--The Master of Mayhem 11:36, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Name
I want my name to get a fancy colour. Where do i go for this? PassaMethod (talk) 12:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * There's various colour codings you can put on to your sig when you set one up in Preferences. You can do it as just coding there in the box, or you can set it up as a subpage from your userpage and link it. This is off the top of my head, as I've never bothered to do it myself. You are better to ask someone who has a coloured or otherwise fancy one. Like the poster above this section, for example, or anyone else who has one. Peridon (talk) 13:22, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations on your successful request for adminship! Now that you've passed, it's time for a change of clothing! Don't worry about the shirt size...it fits everyone! Good luck! Acalamari 18:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * That reminds me, I also meant to congratulate you on being nominated by Anthony Bradbury: he was my nominator too, and it's nice to have another admin nominated by him around. :) Best. Acalamari 19:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Congratz on your successful bid for adminship. Gabesta449   edits  ♦  chat  19:35, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Congratulations on your elevation to the worry-sphere! I was very confident in you.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 19:48, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Life is gonna suck. / ƒETCH COMMS  /  21:05, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Yay! Yopienso (talk) 22:07, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, good luck and enjoy the ride! :) Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:23, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Congrats from me too, Peridon. Drmies (talk) 03:49, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * And belatedly from me, even if you don't know me, and even if I didn't even know you were standing, and therefore didn't vote either way. Wikipedia's such a sprawl (a bit like that sentence), and when I saw your remark on Fæ's talk-page: "Gormenghast with consensus" I though it worth stealing, and popped in to thank you for it. Haploidavey (talk) 14:04, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * (I guess this goes here?) Thanks so much for the note. Yes, another "skip to my loo" Brit. I'm glad you enjoyed that extraordinary site; I find the pterosaur curiously fetching but aren't Adam and Eve uncannily laundered and pink? And their barbered and blowdried hairstyles seem somehow very, very interestingly wrong; I mean, look at Eve's midwestern (I presume) mullett and Adam's bouffant. Who's the Barber of Eden? I hope you followed some of the internal links - I spent a very odd insomniac night in various corners of its utter strangeness. Even the crepuscular birdsong (love that Peakey word!) couldn't tear me away. And I learned nothing at all... Haploidavey (talk) 02:00, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Happy First Day of Spring!
Happy First Day of Spring! Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring 2011!

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and are entering the season of Autumn not Spring then I wish you a happy First Day of Autumn 2011! To spread this message to others, add to there talk page with a friendly message.

blurb on you
Hi, could you check it and change if necessary? Thanks. Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-03-21/Features_and_admins Tony   (talk)  06:06, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Ta. Peridon (talk) 11:37, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Gat Ujkold
Hello Peridon. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Gat Ujkold, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: WP:CSD is not for pages in foreign languages . Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 12:55, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry - I did that almost automatically and only then looked at the talk page and PNT to see that almost identical text had failed to find a translator before. Good tag, zapped. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:01, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Fasting and World Hunger
Is there a way to get it moved back to that person's userpage until it is completed?Ryan Vesey (talk) 20:11, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Re: Kane and the big show
Thanks for notifying me about that tag issue. I'm still getting to grips with which ones to use when something needs deleting. I've only done so for a couple of articles recently, and have come to find that it's not exactly a favourite task of mine to perform! I'll remember next time to use the duplication tag for such an occurrence. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 17:15, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Pac is Back
Ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrJoshbumstead (talk • contribs) 19:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

David Petroni
Hi Peridon. ;) I know for sure that the text is copyviol (it appears on the related pubblication), but i have to search some online proof, it's not so easy: I checked the Musem site but if in that site the things come from wiki you are obviously right.. I know english but not in the deep, that's why it's not so easy to me to let me understand. ;) Yes, of course I know that different wikipedias use different criterias: the point is that generally (for eg.) the german comunity should understand better the real level of notability of a german guy and can read and check the correctness of the references. ;) The problem is that the Petroni biogrphy is full of fake and unreferenced news (in the italian wiki, we deeply searched each single thing). If you erase all the fake news, the biography is substantially empty, and it appers as a patent interwiki spam. In the deleting procedure on it.wiki, all the user (until now) agree. ;) --Lucas (talk) 18:28, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * all right, thanks. --Lucas (talk) 18:36, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 March 2011
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Speedy deletion of Kassidy
I think you were a bit quick deleting this article. It was well referenced and I also explained on the talkpage (without any response for an admin) why I believe the article should stay. Perhaps you could explain your reasons. Thanks. Bjmullan (talk) 07:39, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I second this. Although I did not see the original article by Bjmullan, I feel that they are certainly notable, having appeared on a Channel 4 programme, as well on several sources such as the BBC, NME, The Guardian Newspaper, as well as having played at festivals such as T In the Park. Perhaps a little clarification as to why it was removed would be useful. Chris (talk) 14:51, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Please see User talk:Bjmullan Peridon (talk) 20:45, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You can see the initial article here in a sandbox. Feel free to add to it and maybe it will become a real article. Bjmullan (talk) 20:59, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Sean Donnelly (rapper)
Hi - could I have a copy of the page please? Thanks.DanieleProcida (talk) 12:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)