User talk:Stuartyeates/Archive 7

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anand Krishnamoorthi
I'm actually writing on child actors in Tamil Cinema as my doctoral thesis. Thanks for reviewing my article and for your comments. I was actually a little confused because there isn't an IMDB equivalent to Indian cinema, though this person does have an IMDB record. I was looking for options for the Child Actor bit, another actor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle who seems to have been awarded one has similarly not put in a source. While I understand that two wrongs don't make a right, I was hoping I could get a few pointers on how to clean this article up. Would removing all information based on the articles help?

Guspooidli (talk) 12:10, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter
Hey. I'm dropping you a note because you used to (or still do!) patrol new pages. This is just to let you know that we've deployed and developed Page Curation, which augments and supersedes Special:NewPages - there are a lot of interesting new features :). There's some help documentation here if you want to familiarise yourself with the system and start using it. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:55, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

My article, deleted
Using the subject as a self-published source Further information: WP:SELFPUB

Living persons may publish material about themselves, such as through press releases or personal websites. Such material may be used as a source only if:

it is not unduly self-serving; it does not involve claims about third parties; it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the subject; there is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity; the article is not based primarily on such sources.

The above is copied from the guidance page, so from this I do not see why I cannot use some of the articles I've written as references. They are from reliable sources, and they are not about myself. The ones I used that were written by me all had a short biography of me at the end, which is why I used those articles I've written in particular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acmote1 (talk • contribs) 11:48, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Only Connect Series 6
How do you feel the page can be saved, what could I do? Corabal (talk) 15:10, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It could be saved with independent sources giving in-depth coverage. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Claude Bernard (watch manufacturer)
Back in July you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL I have restored it, and now notify you in case you want to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:58, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

AfD comments
Hi Stuart, and thanks for all your hard work on the wiki. I'm messaging you as I've noticed that you've been adding the same comment, or the same comment with minor variations, in many different AfDs. (A few recent examples: .) Based on the speed at which you are judging the AfDs, and that you are !voting "delete" in debates like this one (which seemed a clear enough keep to me that I was moved to comment), I worry that you are not making a thorough search of possible sources online before !voting. I think it would be a shame if admins at AfD started giving less weight to your comments because they thought that you might not be searching for sources thoroughly; would you consider slowing down and tailoring your comments more towards the individual discussions? And please let me know if you have any questions about this at all. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 15:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll happily admit that I was pretty much a lone voice on Articles_for_deletion/Mobage. Sometimes I get it wrong, I'll be the first to admit that. I'll also admit to being a deletionist. However my voting stats show that I'm hardly a rabid on either count. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:11, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Education Working Group
Thanks. I've now moved my discussion to Education Working Group/RfC.--Pharos (talk) 16:13, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for dropping by Parable of the sunfish and adding a wikiproject. As this is my first article it never crossed my mind to do so until the suggestion was made at the teahouse, and by the time I got around to thinking how to do it I found you had already dropped by and solved the problem. I appreciate the help! Garamond Lethe 21:51, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Fresh eyes give a new perspective on the articles of even the most experienced editors. 22:18, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Stop deleting my Zappa articles
You obviously know nothing about Frank Zappa if you think "I'm the Slime" isn't notable so maybe stop deleting Zappa related articles. It was well covered and quite popular. Maybe instead of proposing it be deleted expand on it. If you honestly think charting and awards are necessary to be an article you should focus on the countless amount of Led Zeppelin and Beatles songs that have 0 notability instead of proposing the deletion of a popular single of Zappa's. Don't even ask which Beatles songs aren't notable but instead check that every rarity they ever had has an article. I mean I even understood Advance Romance (though I got a barn star for it being so well written) but you also need to take into account that you've proven to me that you shouldn't be nominating Zappa related articles for deletion. --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 10:29, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I know nothing about Frank Zappa, but I know what is needed to show WP:GNG and I tag articles I see on New Page Patrol when they don't meet it. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:46, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Gary Harris PROD
Hi - As a courtesy I wanted to let you know I de- PRODed Gary Harris. He may or may not be pass GNG, but I think it is close enough that an AfD discussion is needed vs. PROD. I get a lot of GHits on Google News and there are many HS recruits of similar stature and coverage who have passed AfD review. If you want to delete it, please run it through the AfD process. Rikster2 (talk) 03:16, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Kiwi Commons Photographers?
Do you know any reliable Kiwi Commons photographers? --LauraHale (talk) 00:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Reliable for what purpose? Stuartyeates (talk) 00:20, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to find a second photographer for a trip to Colorado to cover skiing. The Kiwis and Aussies will both be there.  I'm trying to develop a photographer who I can get to the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.  I basically need 1) some one who can take pictures and actually upload them, and 2) a photographer who can take 10 days off in December.  The first is just as important as the second. --LauraHale (talk) 00:25, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No one is springing to mind. You may consider contacting http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/contact/ Stuartyeates (talk) 00:29, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Not a big deal either way. Was just curious if you knew of a Commons photographer from your country who might be interested. :) --LauraHale (talk) 02:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Tarantool
Hi, I added a few source links in English. There're few verifiable sources in English since the software is mostly used in Eastern Europe. -- Kostja
 * Links don't need to be in English, I'd encourage you to add Russian language sources and/or create a page on the Russuain language wikipedia (or any other appropriate languages). Stuartyeates (talk) 07:32, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #27
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:31, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Wikidata branch was merged \o/ (about 10.000 lines of code) This also means that MediaWiki now has shiny new ContentHandler features to enable storing data and other content types
 * Updated demo system
 * Fixed MediaWiki core bugs and responded to feedback about the ContentHandler
 * Looked into Solr
 * Added statement interface for items
 * Added claim interface for entities
 * Added IRIValue and GeoCoordinateValue
 * Added GeoCoordinate parser
 * Added base for the ValueFormatters extension
 * Initial work on create claim API module
 * Initial work on better API transformation handling of the data model components
 * Made the API aware that entities, not items are the thingies we really want to get
 * Finished implementation of non-JavaScript edit buttons
 * Switched local integration server to use core master branch
 * Improved how recent changes from the repository are displayed in the client
 * Worked on tests for recent changes on the client
 * Added Wikipedia-compatible URL rewrites for subdomains en, de, hu and he (en.wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Helium leads to the item)
 * Discussions/Press
 * Discussion on Hebrew Wikipedia about being deployment target number 2
 * Written a blog post looking back at August and September
 * Events
 * KESW
 * upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’ve started a page to design the Main Page of Wikidata
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Design the Main Page of Wikidata

Institute of Rural Management Anand
You seem to have shown a lot of interest in editing Institute of Rural Management. I am an alumnus, from the second batch of the postgraduate program. I have salvaged a part from the history section you have edited; on the evolution of the two year post graduate program. I do kindly hope that you would find no cause to edit this contribution. And if you kindly feel the need, would it not be more useful to first discuss, either here in your talk page, or in the IRMA talk page?Anant (talk) 07:17, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #28
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 22:01, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work
 * Updated the demo system
 * Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML
 * Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
 * Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
 * Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
 * Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
 * Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements
 * Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
 * Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
 * Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
 * Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
 * Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
 * There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for entities to identifiers that also carry type
 * Made site links table sortable
 * Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both not finished yet)
 * Latest review status update here
 * Discussions/Press
 * Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print)
 * en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-15/Technology report
 * Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia
 * Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?
 * Events
 * Wikimedia CEE meeting
 * upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome
 * upcoming: SMWCon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help design the Main Page of Wikidata
 * Hack on one of these

UK channel line up Afd
Just to let you know, I've created Articles for deletion/List of digital terrestrial television channels (UK) as a further extension of the current debate on channel listings on Wikipedia. Your input would be appreciated doktorb wordsdeeds 17:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #29
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:52, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
 * Prefix term search for entities
 * Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
 * API function wbsearchentities
 * Discussed JavaScript refactoring
 * Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
 * Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
 * Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
 * Continued deployment work with WMF
 * Poked at Vagrant
 * Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
 * New release of Pywikidata
 * Discussions/Press
 * Discussions around bots on the mailing list
 * Events
 * Bootstrapping Awesome
 * SMWCon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Jenkins test results are now online (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm)
 * Nice video about the why and how of Open Data
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft
 * Hack on one of these

Mashaka Dialect
"Possible hoax or mis-naming" arguement is speculation without convincing references. The http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mck has its own challenges on unresearched ethnic groups in southeast Angola, as seen in coding separation of Mbunda of Kwilu/Kasai Congo DRC (Bandundu) and the rest of Angola, Namibia and Zambia, compare with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunda_people. These are research challenges that should be positively followed than speculate. "Suggestion", why not establish contacts with southeast Angola authorities for confirmation of the dialect. http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/introduction.asp#alt_names check paragraph two under dialects. Libingi (talk) 18:55, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Big Finish stuff
Hello. As you note, a lot of these articles are in a poor state. We should probably make an effort to actually draw User:Cumbersnatch into discussion, rather than just leaving templates for him. He's basically never edited on a talk page, and I can see that if we just delete stuff he's been doing without him being part of the discussion, then he might become antagonistic.

Specifically with respect to The Prisoner's Dilemma, I can find an independent review here, which seems to be a credible site. It was almost certainly reviewed in Doctor Who Magazine, although I don't have the particular back issue in question. Would those, in your view, count as sufficient reliable sources for establishment of notability? Morwen - Talk 08:48, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * To be honest, I think these should all be merged into Seventh Doctor audio dramas, I've never heard of the Doctor Who Magazine, but it sounds pretty niche to me. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:56, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a bit of a non-answer there. Niche is of course a matter of perspective, but it is a serious, well-respected publication that's been continuously published for over 30 years.  If it's not a WP:RS, then we have a problem.  Just FYI, there are at least two other professional magazines that publish reviews of Big Finish stuff in the UK, being SFX (magazine) and Starburst (magazine), although I'm not sure they do every single one and I don't take them myself.  The sources are out there.   Morwen - Talk 09:11, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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Teahouse notifications
Hey Stuart-- just wanted to remind you to leave a talkback template or a note on a user's page when you leave a response to their question. I noticed you responded to this question for, but there wasn't a notification on his page. You can find these templates here or you can use a script like me to notify editors here. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 20:44, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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Deletion of Tanya T6 and Devyn Rose Page
Hello

I am not sure why you guys are deleting the page of artist Tanya T6 or Devyn Rose. she has been covered in press, has charted radio spins with mediabase and BDS, and is listed with artist direct, which is credited by the industry. Everything was written to standards, what is the issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theassociates (talk • contribs) 20:50, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #30
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 12:27, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Launched wikidata.org \o/
 * Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
 * Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
 * Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
 * Added QUnit tests for DataValues
 * Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
 * Fix content handler and other related core bugs
 * Generalized Autocomment
 * Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
 * First implementation of wbsearchentities
 * More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
 * All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
 * Implemented templating system
 * Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
 * Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
 * Discussions/Press
 * “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
 * Events
 * SMWCon
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * upcoming: office hours on IRC
 * upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
 * upcoming: ISWC
 * upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
 * upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
 * We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
 * Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
 * Open Tasks for You
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Kitaro albums
Hi, I removed the prods from all the zillions of Kitaro albums that user:Oasis08 added because it seems to me that it would be better to simply improve the existing Kitarō discography instead by adding any pieces of information about the albums there and redirecting the album-article titles. I'm happy to work on this though it may take me through the weekend. I'll leave Oasis08 a note as well; it seems like they have the potential to be a good contributor, but need to be channeled a bit into making more appropriate articles. The cycle of prods & deletion messages clearly isn't working though. Thanks for all your work. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 19:08, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Stuartyeates, I don't understand why you(or somebody) deleted "An Ancient Journey" page. The album was nominated to Grammy Awards in 2003, and it is very difficult to be "actually nominated" to the award. I believe this album should be notable and shouldn't be redirecting the album-article title. If people would love to have more information about this album, I will add them. Please let me re-create this page again. Thank you very much.Oasis08 (talk) 22:39, 2 November 2012 (UTC) Oasis08
 * They were deleted because there was no evidence on the page that they had received "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject," as required by the WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 23:00, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Deep Dark Canyon
Issues are being addressed and doing so is not proving difficult at all. Currently we're up to an 8x expansion, and at 2150 characters, the current version bears little resemblance to the unsourced 247 character stub you first nominated. Might you consider a withdrawal? You could even help me come up with a suitable DYK. :)  Best,  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 07:50, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:06, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

List of Net channels AFD
Hi, Stuart. I am contacting you because you recently left a comment at Articles for deletion/3rd bundle of channel lineups. I have just created another AfD, nominating List of Net channels for deletion. If you are interested, you can leave a comment at Articles for deletion/List of Net channels. Thanks. -- Wikipedical (talk) 03:14, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. If interested, see also a new AfD, Articles for deletion/List of StarHub TV and mio TV channels.  Thanks.  --  Wikipedical (talk) 18:46, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Same person or amazing coincidence?
The articles (one of which created by you) Henry Gilbert Scott Bennett and Harry Scott Bennett are of people both born on the same day in Victoria, died one day apart, but one is Australian the other a New Zealander. --Traveler100 (talk) 07:45, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * merged. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:34, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

re: Talk:Autopsy_images_of_Ngatikaura_Ngati
Done. Sorry it took so long, I couldn't figure out how to embed a pre-formatted talkquote inside of numbered bullets.... Groll &tau;ech ( talk ) 03:43, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

The Latitude
Hi, you tagged an article last year - were you planning to follow up on that, nominating for Afd as nn, as the tag suggests? Thanks in advance for your response - KillerChihuahua ?!? 14:26, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Body by VI CHallenge
Hi Stuart, Thanks for your contribution towards the above listed page. I recognize the concerns raised and I agree that a merge and redirect to the company page may be a logical solution given the similarity in theme. However, it appears like you've accidentally redirected the page of the company's founder and CEO Blake Mallen and NOT the disputed Body by Challenge. I've reverted the edit. I hope this was okay.

Regarding the suggested merge, how do I go about merging the key content in the current Body By Vi challenge with the Visalus page? I respect Wikipedia and the last thing I would want is to add anything considered promotional. It is why I submitted the article through the AFC screen process. Kind Regards Carlang (talk) 09:49, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. I've AfD'd Blake Mallen. Stuartyeates (talk) 18:45, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Blake Mallen
Hi Stuart, I got notice of the AFd but I'm honestly not sure why the page is being considered for deletion since Blake Mallen is the CEO and coFOUNDER of Visalus. I apologize if my earlier redirect edit rubbed you the wrong way. You've got a lot more experience than I am in the rules of Wikipedia so could you please offer some advice on how I can correct the perceived problem. I submitted the article through the AFC process and it was reviewed and accepted barely three weeks ago. It was ranked as a stub because there wasn't enough information on the page and I've been working towards building on that. Calls for deletion seem rather quick. Again, I accept that you're a lot more experienced that I am and versed in Wikipedia's rules so any advice or suggestions that you might have towards improving the page will be really appreciated.

Kind Regards Carl — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlang (talk • contribs) 09:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I AfD'd Blake Mallen because we have an article on ViSalus and the Blake Mallen article doesn't demonstrate any notabilty seperate from   ViSalus. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Agnes Addison


The article Agnes Addison has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No indication of notability

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 * I have deprodded the article.  Schwede 66  10:31, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/A Great Big Pile of Leaves
Hi Stuart-- I found some possible sources for the AfD above. Could you comment on whether you think they would sufficiently support the notability of the band? I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 07:27, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

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Warnings for NIMBUS Page
Thanks for your edits. Noted your notability and primary sources tags. Could you please share your thoughts on specific improvements regarding these issues? Thanks. Bill G. Evans (talk) 21:30, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * There are two main problems. (a) A complete lack of in depth coverage in independent sources, as required by the WP:GNG (more sources like this are needed) and (b) the fact that the programs section appears to be referenced to the organisations own website. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:04, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #31
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
 * Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
 * Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Updated demo system
 * Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
 * Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
 * Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
 * Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
 * Helped with testing of deployment branch
 * Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
 * Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
 * Worked on Api.js refactoring
 * Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
 * Couple of minor fixes in the front end
 * Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface


 * Discussions/Press
 * Flow of data between Wikidata repo and Wikipedias
 * Nice front page article in the latest edition of Linux User and Developer


 * Events
 * office hours (logs here and here)
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * right now: Wikimedia Conferentie + hackathon
 * upcoming: ISWC
 * upcoming: talk at Berkman Center
 * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Vienna


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
 * wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write Q2 and link to item Q2 for example
 * Database dumps are available
 * New tools were added
 * Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
 * Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
 * Great Wikidata artwork!

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S.J. Ramprashan
Dear Stuartyeates,

Recently I had erroneously deleted one of the articles I had created by the title "S.J. Ramprashan" in September 2012. This article was an approved wikipedia article up until November 6th 2012 when the article was deleted by myself (the creator of the article), entirely by accident. When I realized this mistake on November 8th, I copied and pasted the initial article not knowing how to recall the accidently deleted article. This is why there is another article by the same subject in your records. S.J. Ramprashan is a notable Sri Lankan radio broadcaster and is well known amongst the Tamil community and has made significant contributions in radio and mainstream broadcasting. I would really appreciate it if you would please reactivate this article which was deleted entirely by accident and then upon not knowing how to reverse what I had done I recreated the article again which is why you see 2 copies of the same article.

Thank you very much.

Sharan.satku (talk) 03:34, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm intrigued by this 'approved wikipedia article' status. Tell me more, since I've never heard of it. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Winifred Kathleen Joan Davin


A tag has been placed on Winifred Kathleen Joan Davin requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. &#39;&#39;&#39;RH&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 13:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #32
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 15:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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rspas
if you would like id be prepared to talk about rspas by emnail but not on wiki - for various reasons SatuSuro 05:30, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * This is about Articles for deletion/ANU Research School of Asia & the Pacific? I've changed my email settings. I suggest you read WP:GNG and base your arguments on that. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * ok forget it SatuSuro 08:29, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

L.A. Percussion Rentals should not be merged
A merger is not the correct decision for this. Both Emil Richards has his own 50+ year career (much before selling some of his instruments to LA Percussion Rentals), and LA Percussion Rentals functioned industriously for the majority of time before acquiring some of Emil Richards' instruments (company began in 2005, Emil Richards instruments acquired in 2012).

Straight from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging: Merging should be avoided if: 1. The resulting article is too long or "clunky" 2. The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross-linked) articles 3. The topics are discrete subjects warranting their own articles, even though they might be short Alas, #2 and #3 apply to this issue. Take heed that this is not the correct way to go about these articles.

In addition, the notability of this company is not simply because "notable people have worked/performed or simply been there". And here's the part that's going to sound like an advertisement but it has to be said to convey the notability part: it's because L.A. Percussion Rentals is a major provider of percussion and backline for a plethora of well-known players, ensembles, bands, TV shows, and movies, b) arguably has one of the largest and most diverse percussion instrument collections in the United States. To lay people, that may not be that big of a deal. But to many musicians and those musically-inclined, it certainly is notable. Xylosmygame (talk) 20:04, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The consensus to emerge after more than a week of discussion was to merge. If you believe that there has been a procedural error, there is a review process at Deletion review, but I advise you not to use it if you merely disagree with the outcome of the AfD. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:11, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

BTW, I just added another reference to the L.A. Percussion Rentals page for notability: http://www.pearldrum.com/news/concert-news-article.aspx?id=524 Xylosmygame (talk) 19:28, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

MADNESS
I'm sorry that you are ignorant of MADNESS awards and baselessly proposed its deletion. See for details.Jeff.science (talk) 02:04, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

New Zealand civil/public servants
Please see my proposal to merge or rename Category:New Zealand civil servants, Category:New Zealand public servants & Category:New Zealand Māori civil servants. Hugo999 (talk) 04:49, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #33
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 09:02, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
 * Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
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 * We are still looking for partners for ourevent at 29C3. Any pointers?
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 * wikidata:Wikidata:Task forces and Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
 * Hack on one of these

WP:PROF
Are you aware of this guideline? In particular, are you aware of provision 5, "The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research"? I ask in connection with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas E. Kauper and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward H. Cooper and some others. The guideline is quite clear that this is an alternative to the GNG adopted specifically because the GNG doesn't work well for academics--if the GNG were followed literally, all we'd need to do is show that any   papers of someone had received substantial discussion in two of the citing papers, and most of the assistant professors would be notable. And I have suggested a few times that we could reasonably regard all assistant professors at research universities as notable. Most people disagree, so I don't press that interpretation.  DGG ( talk ) 05:21, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I am aware of WP:PROF. These claims of holding chairs have to be supported by independent reliable sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:26, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

NIMBUS School
Hi, can you please provide some more information about your tags on the NIMBUS school page? Bill G. Evans (talk) 22:10, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
 * What is needed is in depth coverage in independent reliable sources, as per WP:GNG, which seem to be lacking right now. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Understood. Thanks. Could you please work with me on that? Bill G. Evans (talk) 18:49, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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