User talk:Singularity/Archive 8

Image:Nshs take21.jpg
With regards to your comment. No, the author has allowed use of this image in other ways, including a range of website, such as MySpace, aswell as Wikipedia. The author has only specified that I may only use this image of Wikipedia. Hpfan9374 08:18, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The author has stated that I may only use this image on Wikipedia. However the author has used it elsewhere. Hpfan9374 08:26, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


 * [[Image:WikiThanks.png]] Thank you for all your help in copyright issues with the image. Hpfan9374 09:32, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Metaweb
Thanks for your very speedy history merge on Metaweb :-) Bungopolis 22:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Hawaii Nation, Hawaii nation, Nation of Hawaii, Nation of hawaii
You're up for a deletion review. Mandsford 01:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Features and admins
Hello there :)

If possible, could you please fill in *again* for the features and admins as I have just been called out to a job and cannot attend to it. I will *definately* do next weeks issue before I head out the door for my 4 week wikibreak.

Thanks for your help, &mdash; E  talkbots 23:15, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. Thanks again, &mdash; E  talkbots 20:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Notification of discussion: Guideline/policy governing lists
Given your extensive Wikipedia experience, I'd appreciate your input on the following:

User:Sidatio/Conversations/On list guidelines

Thank you in advance for any thoughts you may have on the topic. Sidatio 01:41, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll look it over.  Singu larity  02:47, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

What counts as advertising?
Hi Singularity. I noticed that you removed a whole chunk of facts from the Shadow Hand page. The removed facts do not seem to follow a pattern consistent with the removal of advertising material. For example, you removed the statement "The hand contains 234 sensors in total." but did not remove the statement "The movements of the hand are powered by a set of 40 Air Muscles in the forearm." What is the logic of this?

Furthermore, these facts are no more advertising than the facts and figures listed on the ASIMO page for example, or the Segway. Do you think someone should remove this information too? In fact, I made sure that the page contained no nonsense like "this is the best hand" etc. unlike the Foster-Miller_TALON page, which really does read like a gushing advertisement. The page contained only referenced facts.

I certainly agree that the source of the data was 100% from my company, but if other robot systems have a Wikipedia page, then this highly notable hand should also. Rocketmagnet 20:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

sorry
i was trying to write an article about a mexican band. you know how usually wikipedia says "we dont have an article with this exact name"? well, it didnt even have that. but don't worry. it turns out i have to go to 'Help:starting a new page' sorry for bothering ya --Zuki2love 04:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Hawaii
Hi,

I was looking over that DRV. I think the right result is being reached, as there is no point in relisting this material as it stands, but I've got to concur with the trout-slapping. In particular, the closing -- "I, for one, am very familiar with this subject" -- carries a bad implication. Without elaboration, I take that to mean, that you -- as an expert on Hawaii -- are imposing your judgment on the topic. This would be a contentious claim to make even if you are an academically-credentialed expert on Hawaiian history (as Wikipedia doesn't give experts "veto power"), and a dubious claim otherwise. In general, its bad form to inject one's off-wiki expertise into one's closure, especially as a blanket assertion without any supporting logic. It can sound a little arrogant, even more so in the context of a speedy closure.

Mind you, the only reason I bother you with this advice is because I know you are a wonderful Wikipedian, and that you would never intentionally convey such an impression. Anyone who quotes Sagan on their userpage obviously has great taste. :) Enjoy your vacation!  Best wishes, Xoloz 15:34, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Artemis Fowl needs your help!
WP:FOWL has only four users who contribute regularly! It would be fantastic if you started editing within the WikiProject again, as we need all the help we can get. Reply here if you would rather not, or on the WikiProject's talk page under the section "Returning Editors" if you would like to rejoin! Laptopdude 16:17, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

RE:Username
W00T for renames! –Animum  22:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC) 


 * I'd be willing to bet that it's that darn database lag. What are you gonna do!? [[Image:Face-smile.svg|25px]] –Animum  22:24, 16 August 2007 (UTC) 

Knowledge services
Bold text The log says that the article was deleted and nothing else. Not much help there. Was there any particular reason, or was it just because? It's kind of irksome to put effort into producing a Wikipedia article only to have it trashed and not even know why. Frankly, the chances of my writing anything else are now slim to none. Albert Simard 21:04, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for sending me the discussion summary which I was unable to find. Well, at least I stired up a discussion. That's something in itself. And I admit that the key underlying published research (which many commenters clearly didn't read) is leading-edge stuff that addresed the problem identified in the one part that the reviewers seemed to relate to. Oh well, perhaps in 3-5 years, enough work will have been done in this area to justify it's inclusion in Wikipedia (by someone else). Meanwhile, life goes on.Albert Simard 17:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Professional Championship Wrestling
I reviewed the deletion log and understand the reasoning. With so many links not related to other pages it would appear to be a walledgarden as mentioned, however, the promotion known as Professional Championship Wrestling is a legitimate and active promotion functioning in Arlington, TX. The lack of outside links is likely due to a lack of updates from other fans and the owners of the company. I would be happy to provide citation and verification if the page is restored as Professional Championship Wrestling (Texas)

200lbpixie 23:01, 19 August 2007 (UTC)200lbpixie

Christianity Explored
Hi,

I noticed that Christianity Explored has been created and deleted twice - I think with two entirely separate articles - and I gather that the last to be deleted was a no-contest deletion as a spammy article with no assertion of notability. I haven't seen it of course, since it was deleted.

IMO Christianity Explored is notable and Wiki should have a good article about it ... but rather than leap in where Angels fear to tread (or fly?) I have created a personal sandbox page to draft something.

I would be grateful for your views - I am contacting all those who commented in the last deletion debate, as you will have seen the previous article.

The article is at []

Regards

Simon Springnuts 21:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC) ---

Deletion reversed
I am sorry to advise you that one of your XfD deletion closings has been overturned. The matter has been re-listed, and you may wish to comment on the new nomination here. Regards, Newyorkbrad 11:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Mediation Cabal
Hello, I noticed that you are helping me mediate the White people case. If you want to discuss anything about the case, please email me. I will usually respond quickly. Thanks so much, Ne ra n e i   (talk) 23:42, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That would be fine. Should I transclude the conversation thus far? Ne ra n e i   (talk) 15:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I like your name.
Do you have anything to do with the Technological singularity? It's an event I'd like to embrace with open arms. How about yourself? --70.179.175.240 01:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * People have different interpretations on what my name means, but I thought of gravitational singularity (the black hole picture should hint you) when I changed my name (my former username was Sr13).  Singu larity  01:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

You made an oops
You closed Articles for deletion/Jack Mantos as delete, but failed to delete it. ;) The Evil Spartan 00:11, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Wow
Nice name. And didn't you say User:Singularity was taken last time?

First time on for weeks...

- =Elfin= - 341 01:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Child actor birth date
Hi. You closed Templates for deletion/Log/2007 August 14 as "delete" but forgot to delete Template:Child actor birth date. I like your choice of username, by the way. :) Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 14:52, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Deleted.  Singu larity  02:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Tristan Tondino
Do not understand why you deleted this articleJoseane 04:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, I saw the Non Notable painter discusion. What are the criteria that make a painter notable? By the way the word "notable" really needs to be replaced by something else. I consider this artist highly notable - he ties to the discussion I was having with others on Irrealism. For more info read the discussion in the irrealism discussion history - before and after disambiguation- obviously there are others that think there's something of interest there.Joseane 13:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Confused
Just wondering why you deleted Talk:Dirty Den and Angie. &mdash; AnemoneProjectors (会話) 11:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops, my mind must have gone bonkers when I deleted it. Thanks for restoring.  Singu larity  02:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That's ok, I guessed it was an error but just wanted to make sure :) &mdash; AnemoneProjectors (会話) 11:18, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Christianity Explored
The article Christianity Explored was supposed to be deleted but it is still there. I wonder if there is something I do not understand since on the articles talk page there is no box that says 'this article was nominated for deletion; the decision was to keep...' Thanks for clearing this up for me (I am trying to learn!) Brusegadi 16:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, it now makes sense that previous AfDs did not show up. Thanks and bye, Brusegadi 19:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

BJAODN MfD closure
Hi, you recently closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:BJAODN:The Next Page Title as "delete". Do you think that closure would extend to the subpages of the deleted page (see here)? Thanks, Black Falcon (Talk) 16:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * All of the subpages have been deleted by others already (I was a bit confused when there were no subpages remaining at first).  Singu larity  02:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh ... you're right. I suppose there was a lag in implementing the closure of the 6th BJAODN nomination. Never mind, then. :) Black Falcon (Talk) 18:43, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Check the edit histories before deleting
Hello. I noticed that you deleted Wikipedia talk:Contents/CategorySchemesTalk a few weeks ago due to CSD R1. This page was redirected to a deleted page due to a page move vandal. Please make sure you check edit histories prior to deletion. Thanks. --- RockMFR 21:56, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Duly noted.  Singu larity  02:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Your LoPbN subpages
Under the heading "Your LoPbN subpages" you wrote on my talk
 * In May, there was a MfD on the List of people by name article (and its subpages). The consensus was to delete. Since anything related to LoPbN now would be rendered pretty useless, could we delete your subpages as housekeeping (there's no reason to take them to MfD also)?  Singu larity  17:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

_ _ There are at most a handful of subpages associated with LoPbN and its tree. The subsidiary pages that were deleted along with the page LoPbN can much more clearly be evoked by saying "LoPbN exists primarily to serve as the root of the LoPbN tree" and specifying "the pages that are descendants of LoPbN in the LoPbN tree". The other pages you are referring to are presumably Template pages providing infrastructure for the tree ; see below. _ _ I am not the person most interested in this matter, since others are involved in attempts to recover from the ill-conceived May deletion, which even if LoPbN were shown to be a bad idea, should have been delayed until the proposed alternatives could be demonstrated and evaluated. Several editors have contacted me on my talk page since the deletion, indicating that the content of the list is of value to those efforts. _ _ It now appears that at least some of the deletions you had in mind have already been carried out, to wit Template:Lopbn-scp and Template:List of people by name exhaustive page-index (sectioned). The absence of even these two pages will greatly impede the access of editors drawing on that old work, by complicating identification of and access to the content of the deleted main-namespace pages, increasing effort by perhaps an order of magnitude. In a line, the deletions you proposed to me are a pretty bad idea. _ _ But clarifying why is a big task, and problematic unless one of those who have contacted me about the replacement, or are otherwise working on the matter, can undertake to do so. As for me, it's six and a fraction weeks until election day; at any point when i have time to work toward this matter (as i have and am doing in writing this), i must weigh whether to start in light of knowing that at any point i may have to drop the effort without notice, perhaps returning to it only in November. But there's no harm in your asking me, much less asking simple questions, within that understanding, if you care to. --Jerzy•t 03:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Aircraft of Ace Combat
A few days ago it seems you have deleted this page, i would like to know if there was any way i could find the information, if it could be restored temporarily, or viewed and then sent to me for my own personal interests, i do undestand why it was deleted, so since you deleted it I would assume you were some how capable of finding it because i am no fan great enough to have the entire Ace Combat Series there by finding it out on my own, then could possibly merge with Ace Combat article as done with the table in History of Microsoft Flight Simulator but insted of versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator to have versions of Ace Combat 1 through 6 and so on as the series grows if not, only for my peronal use and others interested, thank you, please consider, and others interested please comment here or on my page Bikii 10:00, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Mediation problem
Hello Singularity, I do believe we've got a problem on our hands with the mediation. Phral has been blocked indefinitely for being a sockpuppet of Hayden, so he (obviously) can't participate in the mediation. What is one supposed to do in this situation, especially since there are two other editors who agree with him? Thanks, Ne ra n e i   (talk) 13:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Deletiondebatesfake
Template:Deletiondebatesfake has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. –Animum  01:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)  01:21, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Features and Admins
Are you doing F&A for E while he's gone? The Placebo Effect 05:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

viewing deleted data
OK... long story short, can it (^) be done, and can you do it, as a bove Article: Aircraft of Ace Combat, please and thank you --&#91;&#91;user:Bikii&#124;&#39;&#39;&#39;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial Black&quot;&gt;B&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#808080&quot; face=&quot;Arial Black&quot;&gt;I&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#C0C0C0&quot; face=&quot;Arial Black&quot;&gt;K&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00FF00&quot; face=&quot;Mistral&quot; size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;ii&lt;/font&gt;&#39;&#39;&#39;]] 19:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Mediation
It's alright, the participants are just getting started on a compromise version. You should probably read the talk page, it's got some useful stuff. Also, Kevin Murray left the mediation (his reasons are on the case talk page) and Phral got blocked for being a sockpuppet, and has created several puppets since the discussion on AN/I. Hope school's alright! Regards, Ne ra n e i   (talk) 20:45, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD closures
Wow...being an admin just became a whole less appealing. I went threw and closed a few of the ready to close AfDs, and MAN YOU'VE CLOSED STACKS! was my only comment. Nice work :) Giggy  Talk 07:17, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Singularity closes more AfD's every week than I have in six months. Some he even closes correctly. :) Regards, Newyorkbrad 11:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh well...school starts tomorrow and I probably won't be as active.  Singu larity  04:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Gah, since when do you reply on your talk page...anyways, nice work :D G iggy\Talk 07:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Concerning the Sonny Gambino article
Hello! In patrolling for vandalism I came across the Sonny Gambino article. A quick glance at the article will reveal a short but troubling history. A few users have taken things beyond simple vandalism and into outright hostility. Given the nature of the subject matter and the actions of the involved editors, I'd be appreciative if you could take a look at the situation. I bring this to your attention because you are listed on WP:AMDB. If you need anything let me know. Thanks. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 17:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Reminder
Hola Mentors!

Im sending you this reminder because you volunteered to mentor my students in English Advanced B as they become contributing members of the Wikipedia community. We start working with Wikipedia in earnest next week. I ask you to take a look at your entry in the Mentor Table at School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors

Please update the information, esp. with what your technical and informational expertise is or, if you have decided that you no longer want to participate, please remove your information from the table. Please watch the pages associated with the project. Students will contact you via your user page and as soon as my students have user pages, I will put them on the navigation bar associated with the project.

I don’t need to remind you that your job is NOT to write their assignments for them, of course. I certainly will tell my students that… and the fact that you are volunteers that don’t have to help them… so be nice. If any students misbehave (tho I don’t expect it) don’t hesistate to contact me and I will take care of it. The goal of this project is to integrate successfully into the Wikipedia community. Anyway… what I really need your help with is helping students get oriented to Wikipedia, make appropriate changes and write about appropriate topics (see School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Syllabus for assignments). I also need your technical expertise… I am only an English teacher after all! I appreciate what technology does for us but I am no technical expert!

Again, thank you for volunteering and you will hear from us again soon! Thelmadatter 19:05, 28 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

Again: List of notable people who have taken psychedelic drugs
Can you help me understand why this article was deleted? The deletion log says "CSD: R1" which means "candidate for speedy deletion, redirect to a non-existent page".

This is incorrect, or the redirect was added as vandalism, because this was a real page with useful information.

If you examine the history, you will find that the page was vandalized on 25 July 2007 by User:Madsci, who left a comment saying "began list", when in fact a useful and somewhat sourced page was replaced with an unsourced list of internal links.

When the Afd debate occurred, this vandalized version of the page (obviously) got no support. Is there a debate or review procedure for a CSD deletion? I would like to bring this page back.

Thanks, Bill Huston (talk)  23:22, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Echo boom generation
Consultation: Do you think that article can stand? Are there any other references that you know of? DGG (talk) 22:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Whitefire
The article at Whitefire which was subject to an AfD (Articles for deletion/Whitefire) that you closed as a "delete and redirect" has had an article build on top of it again. I reverted it back to the redirect, but in looking into the matter, I did find some more noteworthy sources (at least, more noteworthy than what was in the recreated article), basically 2 brief articles in the NYT and 4 paragraphs in USA Today, which I linked to on Talk:Whitefire.

As the closing admin, I wanted to get your opinion on whether you feel this would be enough to warrant re-examination/DRV. While the coverage isn't great, there are multiple sources, and ones generally considered reliable... - Fordan (talk) 13:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority muni
Hello,

I just noticed that this infobox template was deleted at this TfD, however despite concerns raised by myself and others with the nominator (1, 2, 3, extensive opposition), he did not inform either of the relevant wikiprojects or deletion lists about this discussion, and thus the wide opposition was ignored. I respectfully request that the template either be undeleted or the discussion relisted so that more than one other editor can express their view. Cheers,  Tewfik Talk 10:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:Hyundai Group
Not wishing to sound too nit-picky or delete happy, but I was wondering why this TfD was closed as "redirect" when the only comments were to "delete"? Given that the merge had already been carried out and all transclusions removed or replaced, I don't really see the point in keeping these templates as redirects. PC78 07:04, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, well, I wouldn't know too much about that. To be honest though there wasn't a lot to merge, just a bunch of red links as I recall, and it's debatable whether they should be in there at all. No worries. PC78 06:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Question
I've seen some people mention something from time to time called a "monobook." What's that? Cheers!! Ninety wazup? Review meMy ToDosign here! 02:02, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks!!  Ninety  wazup? Review meMy ToDosign here! 15:54, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

What the heck!
Hey Sr13, yes, it is me again. What is up with this "singularity" name thing? PS: how do you get onto wikipedia at school? What was the URL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by And bingo was his name oh (talk • contribs) 03:05, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

University of Melbourne Scavenger Hunt
The article has been created again -- after an AfD review resulted in its deletion. Despite the good faith of its author and some verifiable sources, the article is schoolcruft, unencyclopedic and not notable. I proposed its deletion, but the author removed the template. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of an AfD review, but saw that you were involved in the previous review on the article. Thanks Australian Matt 05:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Jessica Smith (poet)
This article had a deletion discussion about two months ago, which ended up with no concensus. What should be done to get concensus? (I'm asking you since you closed the discussion) -- Slarti ( 19  92 ) 23:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

How could I do that? Do I just relist it? (and what would be weird is relisting since it was two months ago, while most other relists are done at most a couple of days after the first discussion is closed). -- Slarti ( 19  92 ) 15:54, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of VX(band) article
The reasons for the deletion of this page are unjustified. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/VX_%28band%29) "New England" submitted this for deletion with this text "Non notable band that simply covers songs written by others. Currently signed to a non-notable (no wiki article) label. New England Review Me!/Go Red Sox! 00:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)" - this band has never recorded cover songs and is signed to Invisible Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Records) - a label that has been in existence for 20+ years. iTunes currently has seven albums by VX on Invisible Records. Tom vx 01:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Re:Hawaiian Wikipedia
It's great to have another admin like you on Hawaiian Wikipedia once again. Native speakers such as User:Hardwire and User:Tauleonui have not edited there for months. --Jose77 21:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome
The WikiProject welcomes two new members in the past three months:
 * Java7837
 * Nearly Human

Progress
The WikiProject is now halfway done, numerically, with the 1000 articles identified in December 2006. The first (oldest) 500 articles have been claimed, reviewed, and (when needed, which was almost all cases) improved. Moreover, given the passage of time, many of articles 501 through 1000 have been worked on by other editors (it's ten months since that list was generated). So reviewing the second half of the 1000 articles should be easier.

A slightly different approach
Section 6 (articles 501 through 600 on the list) has been organized differently than the previous five sections. First, blocks are (roughly) five articles each, rather than 10, making it easier for you to claim and finish a block. Second, perhaps more importantly, each block consists of similar pages; if you're interested in fixing disambiguation pages, there are blocks of those; if you're interested in articles (which is what the project originally started out being), there are blocks of those; and there is one block of lists and one of redirects (mostly redirects to articles). So, fewer surprises this time when you claim a block.

In addition, since the project now has 25 active members (though some are likely inactive), having more blocks will make it easier to spread the editing around.

Inactivating your membership
If you received this newsletter on your user talk page and don't want to receive such postings in the future, please move your name, in the participants section of the WikiProject, to the "Inactive" subsection.

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DRV Notice
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Chet Jablonski. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Jreferee    t / c  20:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Undelete
Hello, I don't know if you recall, but a while back you undeleted a template after relisting the discussion. I would appreciate it if you could also undelete the talk, as I think I had left some documentation there. Cheers,  Tewfik Talk 00:14, 25 October 2007 (UTC)