User talk:RasputinAXP/Archive03

LongIsland.com
Hi RasputinAXP, not sure what I was doing wrong? Was my detail, too detailed? I was also try to classify my page by selecting the correct category for it. Not sure how to do that. - LongIsland.com
 * Linking out to your site more than once was a little much. It had all the hallmarks of spam, especially being written by someone with the same username as the article. You might want to check out WP:VAIN for why you shouldn't be the one writing the article. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 04:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, got it. Sorry for the overuse of links.  I am the only one that knows the exact history of the site as I run it.  I had submitted the information a while ago, hoping someone on your side would write, the page but I never received a response.  I would like to add more detail to the page, understanding not to overuse the links.
 * Am I able to make edits to the page, or was my privilege blocked. I also wanted to create a page for Mr. Long Island (kind of like an Ask Jeeves character) detailing the resource and also listing it under famous Long Islanders, on the main Long Island, NY page. Our Annual Pizza contest & festival is pretty important too, as it is an unique charity event that has been featured nationally.  Is it ok to add these pages and then link them to LongIsland.com info page? One last question -- to set the category for the page... Do I just need to cut and paste the code to set the category, or does one of the editors have to review the page first and then categorize it? unsigned comment by User:LongIsland.com (talk • contribs)
 * You can do anything you want; categories are added by putting at the bottom.  RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 04:41, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok thank you for your help! :) unsigned comment by User:LongIsland.com (talk • contribs)

Why
You deleted my FIDO(film)page for no reason well its back so i don't care and it wasn't nonsense it was a regular movie. unsigned comment by
 * I didn't delete it; I'm not an admin. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 23:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks
Here's a userbox for you. -- Cyde   Weys  04:17, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * hahahaha! That's great ;) Congrats!! RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 12:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

long live the knife link deletion
may i ask why it was judged to be "spam"? because it led to a personal website? because it was written quasi colloquially & with tongue somewhat in cheek? because it was inaccurate or incorrect? because it was promoting/selling something?

i wrote it. over 2 years ago. [about the time i joined wikipedia, by the way.] a personal journal post. to the 10-20 people who read my journal, at that time. it may have ended up, prettified to standards, of course, as part of a full article on the castrati. [i don't think there was one @ that time.] i was working on such a piece when my husband was killed in a car crash in may of 2004. that was about the last time i was here.

i'm proud of the piece because i am not a writer. nor do i have musical training/education. i have no education at all, in fact. i had just gotten my "Good Enough Diploma" preparatory to going to school when my husband was killed. i am just a ol hillbilly, in fact. :)

and because the piece still gets, with no "promotion" on my part, 5-15 hits a day. EVERY day. many from google searches, which returns 71 pages of links when the word castrati is entered. when the phrase "long live the knife" is entered, that post is ranked number one on google. some folks come from music schools & music related websites; where the piece has been linked, by the webmasters, i presume, for 1-2 years. this latter has made me very proud AND led me to believe the piece had some sort of continuing merit in adding to the body of knowledge about the castrati. or was just a good, entertaining read. or both. :)

i am just a widow, trying to come back to life. i do not "promote" my journal, nor the site that hosts it. i do not promote anything in my journal. i certainly have no desire to "drive" people to the place where i puke up all my pain & grief. "spam"? not on your life, pal. that's for people who care about trivia.

if i have a "personal" problem with the deletion, & i do, it is the "spam" comment. that's my only real interest in this issue. it is not trivial to me to have my character personally & inaccurately called into question by a stranger. all part of the ol hillbilly thing, don'tcha know. :)

i do not know the link submission guidelines. maybe by those guidelines it IS spam. perhaps i should have read them. but, i was not looking to "come back" to wikipedia, per se. i just noticed yesterday, the piece had gotten about 20 hits & decided to pop over here & add it, because i felt it was worthwhile. by the judgment of the folks who continue to link to it; continue to find & read it & tell others about it.

if it ain't up to standards, or doesn't follow guidelines, fine. i know wikipedia has grown & become a force on the net in the 2 years i have been gone. i understand the importance of the accuracy & the integrity of the entries. also that of "trimming the fat", so to speak. but, i would appreciate an explanation as to what caused ME to be labeled a spammer. and, if i may ask, why did it take 16 reads to reach that decision? &, IF the guidelines are not clear on what is a spam link, i'd like that comment changed. i don't care if it's changed to "too stupid for wikipedia." THAT may be true.

please excuse the capitalization/grammar errors; as well as my verbosity. hillbillies are lazy & wordy. [smart asses too] :)

thanks for your time, sir. i appreciate it. unsigned comment by
 * Because 20 hits isn't worthwhile. You can't go back and change an edit comment, either. I'm sorry you take offense at describing the posting of your personal webpage to Wikipedia "spam." With the number of articles I go through daily, it seemed like spam to me. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 01:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * that's that, then. thanks again for your time. unsigned comment by

Rowan University
Nothing big, just wanted to say good work on the Rowan University article. The only thing that really needs changing on statistics since most of them are outdated. You don't happen to know if Rowan actually updated their fact sheet do you? unsigned comment by
 * The most recent fact sheet is at http://www.rowan.edu/pdf/ but I don't know when it went up; it's probably August's numbers. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 20:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
I noticed that you tagged the page Ma 'n' Des for speedy deletion with the reason "hoax". However, "hoax" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use one of our other deletion processes, proposed deletion or articles for deletion if you still want the article to be deleted. Thanks! Stifle 16:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

HTML
One: Your redirect was nonsense, not my page. Two: You work on HOCKEY ARTICLES, and you delete my perfectly good article (or start of one)? Anyone who actually programs/web designs would understand. Three: Consider before you do something stupid. Oh, and you can go ahead and respond on My Talk. Huo Ma Ke
 * WP:NPA, I'm a web designer myself, and your article was nonsense as it was. It's perfectly valid to redirect your article. If you want to do what you're attempting to do, it'd be better to move it to List of HTML tags, not HTML syntax. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 03:58, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
for reverting the vandalims on my user page. Just zis Guy you know? 21:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No prob, anytime. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 17:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

User signature
How do you format the font of the text in your user signature and add icons? Flibirigit 15:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * See Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages for info. As an example, my raw signature looks like this:  RasputinAXP  c  [[Image:Gadsden flag large.png|25px]] . I know i'm not supposed to use an image...but it says a lot about me.  RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 17:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism revert
No problem :)--Shanel 17:28, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

more AFD
Hi! If you want, please check out Articles for deletion/Alfred Moussambani and Articles for deletion/Anton Lui. Thanks, Punkmorten 08:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

High-C
Why are you trying to delete the High-C entry? Did you even examine the issue beforehand? High-C appeared on two indy releases, which is the critera for musicians, is it not? What's going on? Jason Gortician 22:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * People who refer to themselves in the third person annoy me. Aside from the vanity problem (which is to say it's very difficult to be subjective about one's own work), your "two indy releases" were on your own now-defunct label that produced...well, two albums, which were yours. To make it simple: yes, I examined the issue. Sorry, you're not notable enough. I'm an opera singer. I'm not notable either. But I contribute to Wikipedia, so I feel better. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 02:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Archiving Wayne Gretzky article
Oy I loved how you archived the Wayne Gretzky article. I just caught my first glimpse of it today, and I say well done. I especially like how you classified "Greatest or one of?" with Round 1, Round 2... etc... It seems, at least to me anyways, to put a lighter spin on a issue that got way too serious. Croat Canuck   Go Leafs Go   15:36, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I thought it needed it. It was getting far too silly for its own good. I figure it'll crop up again eventually. I dislike how the intro paragraphs now have footnotes in them, though. Que sera sera, at least it's featured, right? RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 19:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well yeah, that's the important part. Hey I saw on the WikiProject Talk page in your discussion with RGTraynor mentioning perhaps a future RfA for you. There are a number of experienced editors in the Project, except the problem is finding people who are willing to take on such a role. The importance of it is that I'm currently the only admin with an active role, and I almost left Wikipedia altogether over a month ago because I tired of having to revert vandalism constantly. Unfortunately RGTraynor's bid failed, but he suggested that you'd be a good choice for RfA (unless you have a legion of users who hate you). Is that something you'd be into? [[Image:Flag of Croatia.svg|20px]] Croat Canuck [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]]  Go Leafs Go   02:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd consider it; I've thought about it a few times, for sure. I'm reasonably sure I don't have a legion of people who hate me, either, except for whoever thinks I'm a spelling nazi and I gave up on the diacritic arguement after the last time we got into it over on the Village Pump. There may be one or two people who run into me on AfD and think I'm a hard core deletionist, but I haven't had that arguement in a few months, either. If you want to wait a little while and let RG's nom die down, I wouldn't turn it down. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 03:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Will do. The thing I found out with the RfA is that if you have no real bad history or qualms with anybody, and your up to their standards (which I'm pretty sure you are), then you should get in pretty easily. I'll give you a nomination sometime in the not-to-distant future. [[Image:Flag of Croatia.svg|20px]] Croat Canuck [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]]  Go Leafs Go   03:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Thanks again! RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 18:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Vanity
If The Long Island Project is a vanity article based on the fact that it's not as well known as say... Titanic, Goodfellas, The Gangs of New York (or whatever,), then wouldn't WIkipedia be a bit bias in their decision to ban the article? Notability is in the mind. EZZIE 08:31, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No. Subjects for a Wikipedia article are subject to verifiability, which your article has not established. RasputinAXP   c  [[Image:Gadsden_flag.svg|25px]] 14:32, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It most certainly has. It's run in festivals, it's got a listing on IMDB (which to my knowledge isn't an easy feat to accomplish)- - but you are right, it is independent, but it certainly is not "unknown."  Maybe to MOST I'll give you that, but it does exist among a small group of followers and to deny it a listing because the mass majority of people in this world don't know about its existence--that's just flat out wrong.

Sorry but this is getting absurd. EZZIE 18:15, 15 April 2006 (UTC)