User talk:JLaTondre/Archive 5

CHICOTW - AT&T Corporate Center past editor

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
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TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 15:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Blanking Redirect

Sorry about blanking the Pokeyman page. I've never requested a delete before, so i wasn't sure on how to do it. Thanks for your help. Danlock2 20:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

A bit premature

The Cruzados redirect was listed so that Los Cruzados could be moved. At this point the move is agreed upon, but since the redirect has been edited an admin is needed to delete it. I commented about this here. --evrik ^(talk) 21:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

I didn't understand that, thank you for correcting the problem. I suggested a move of Chabad-Lubavitch to Chabad based on a rationale on the talk page (at the bottom of the former) that shows that Chabad is by far the most common name, and making Chabad-Lubavitch a redirect. Nobody has raised any objections to this suggestion in over a week - but I can't move it because I am not an administrator.

Would you be willing to do it - if you tell me when, I would happily tidy up all the (12 i think) redirects. David Spart (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) 20:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Help with Unholy Alliance

I'm having some trouble from a guy who opposed the original article and keeps deleting links on this dab page. Also, please check the latest link to Callahan for correctness. It goes out to 2 external links that refer back to at least 7 internal ones. (I'm happy with it.) MBHiii 20:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

There's an ADMIN User:Ezeu doing something I don't understand. Can you check Talk:Unholy_Alliance? Thanks, MBHiii 00:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Please review seemingly concerted, determined effort to prevent display of information on Unholy and Unholy Alliance. 68.221.0.14 11:36, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

A block user stating his forgiveness.

uh hi, I'm User:67.164.35.55 (sorry if my grammer is terrible, I'm am not good at Language Arts). I'm sorry about the vandalism, I thought that by delecting content on Template:Final Fantasy [1]series (which I accidently delectly Others on template and since the rest of the text I delected didn't need to be included (they are minor links) ) and Boktai[2] (which I the Django section was already in the article Characters in the Boktai series) would be ok and I didn't want that to in my talk page (I never read about Wikipedia's rule on Vandalism or the rest of their rules). and I guess my temper got a hold of me, please forgive me. so I hope you'll read this so you will understand my forgiveness. Uuruuseiyo 03:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Deletion Review

An editor has asked for a deletion review of requested articles. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 69.140.164.142 05:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for fixing that - I'd been trying, but hitting edit conflicts while simultaneously talking on the phone! A Musing 14:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

"incorrect link to fruit"

This is one of my favorite edit summaries ever. :) A Train^talk 18:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I second that! Diff Link @kshay 21:19, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Red Sox roster page

I had planned to write this as soon as I could but you had already made your edit, so here goes. Per WP:WPBB, we are currently standardizing all of the roster pages and moving them to templates. The Red Sox already had both a roster page and a template: roster page. After reading the edit history of the Boston Red Sox roster page I noticed that you had made a change from a redirect from the template page to the current roster on the team page. It seems like the right thing to do, but here is my dilema.

The histories of the roster page and the template: roster page really need to be merged and, as far as I can tell, I have to make the roster page a redirect to get that done. I fully planned on redirecting to the Red Sox main page after that. If you know an easier way to get this done I'm all ears. ThanksRobDe68 22:24, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I should just search my memory banks before typing. I dealt with this very same thing before but forgot how I did it. It all came back to me and histories are being merged as we speak. Thanks RobDe68 01:49, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah

I'm a slow typer. They're up there now --Closedmouth 13:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) --Closedmouth 13:34, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

I want to thank you for alerting me of "my edits". I was phished on Wikipedia and my MySpace. It wasn't me. I have since changed my password, so it won't happen again. I have not been on the computer since 6:30 EDT this morning. I am very mad that this happened because I was hoping to achieve admin status by '08, now, with that on my record, it is not going to happen. Thanks again. Gdk 411 18:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

MTorrent/UTorrent move

Please help move MTorrent to UTorrent cleanly and completely. The product is named uTorrent (see documentation), its article should be named that. Okay, so copy/paste moves are prohibited (I didn't know that either). By undoing this move(albeit performed incorrectly), and just leaving it as before, you're once again obstructing common sense, and consensus. I as a non-admin cannot perform the series of deletes/moves to accomplish what's needed. Please do so. --Lexein 19:40, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

• Okay, stricken, and WP:RM it is. However, I have indeed lost patience, as noted here. Rhetoric? Just words, which can be stricken. Rhetoric is not destructive. Policy-gaming and sycophantic admins, and the founder of WP -they're destructive. I'll tone down the rhetoric. Just make sure those other guys tone down the raping and pillaging. Oh, and feel free to delete this. I don't rv other's user pages. In fact, my record speaks for itself. --Lexein 20:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't aware that copy paste moves weren't allowed per WP policy. However your claim that it violates the GFDL is false. Please point out the relevant portion of the license that you think it violates. --Dr. WTF 00:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

There is nothing in the GFDL that restricts copy-paste moves. Please cite the appropriate part of the actual license, not WP policy pages. --Dr. WTF 00:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

• I think the intent is to maintain a clear document trail, in a way that copy/paste cannot. --Lexein

Re: RfD

You're right, the '''keep''' was a last minute thought so people could browse through the log. I'll change it. John Reaves (talk) 21:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

RFD

It was? I'll double-check the stuff I removed as duplicate then. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:00, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• You're right. I must've been sleeping. Sorry. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk archive

Thanks its a relief to find those who help. May you and what ever you have to do today have a damned good time - so to speak! Cheers! SatuSuro 23:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

white ninja disambig

Thanks for your input on this article. -Rebent 01:33, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

The event in which Bob Sheldon was shot *is* notable.

In 2006, February 21 was officially declared Bob Sheldon Day by the town of Chapel Hill with a large memorial service to commemorate his contributions, not just to this community, but to the world at large: Bob founded Internationalist Books and was extremely active in political circles. His murder is yet unsolved and curious.

Among other things, Bob was well-known to direct action to help further peace and justice in our world. Now that more than a decade has passed, it is finally acknowledged that his dedication to these principles may be related to his death. There is reason to believe that paranoid members of the U.S. federal government in 1991 may have been involved in the shooting. Bob's death occurred within 48 hours of Bush's orders to begin the ground war. Those of us who were grieving Bob's death at the time could not help but notice.

Until Bob Sheldon's death is solved, people can only conjecture, although Bob had no enemies in his personal life. He operated on true communist and socialist ideology which made him a friend to anyone who may ever have engaged him in-person, for any reason. The process by which authorities attempted to stage a robbery to explain it failed within a couple of weeks, when his cash box was found more or less untouched with all the store's meager earnings in it. The initial claim of robbery was a farce, anyway. The store was neither large nor lucrative. Those of us who knew Bob know that if someone had entered his store to rob it, Bob would have offered more money than he had available on-site. Bob may even have offered to let them live and work with him. Any potential robber would have fared much better with Bob alive; the community at large knew this, including those who may have been driven to desperate measures. Bob had enough political clout, however, to worry right-wing conservatives in power. Bob definitely had ideological enemies of the state.

There are links to real newspaper articles about the significance of Bob's fatal assault on February 21, 1991 in Wikipedia's own listing for Internationalist Books. Perhaps review this.

It is offensive and disturbing to see the explanation of removing the event as having been due to Bob Sheldon being "unnotable." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Richard rocking (talk • contribs) 12:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

matt mccoy

I cited secondary sources for Matt McCoy. I don't understand why you removed it. He is an artist with Vineyard Music Record Label.

Jamaicamesick 16:39, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Railfan Window deletion proposal

Thank you for your editing help with my nomination. It will help me in future. For the record, the page's creator is very much aware of requests to delete his pages. This isn't the first time. He ignores whatever other people offer him in the way of advice. I'm not trying to discourage him from participating -far from it. But creating pages for its own sake - there is a sandbox here for that.

I stand by my nomination. I don't know if you know the creator of the page "error 46146" personally, but I'm not sure I'd characterize him as you did. At any rate, I think you'll see the debate page has some pretty good reasons for deletion. 23:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Raryel

%s redirect

I saw that you closed the RfD for %s → Main Page here. After discussion on the %s talk page, there was nearly unanimous support for switching back to a plain redirect. I just wanted to let you know so that you didn't think I was just reverting your actions or doing something else that was stupid. Cheers. --MZMcBride 20:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Edit Count

Hi,

It's been a while, I hope you've been well. My question is: Is there an accurate link or something in Wikipedia where I can find out my current edit count?

Thanks -- Michael David 23:39, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I'll try them. Thanks, as always, for your help.

Be healthy. -- Michael David 00:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Sydney Cohen

Thanks. I have left the notice below on User talk:^demon, but would welcome your assistance if it does not work. "Can you please undelete Sydney Cohen. He clearly passes WP:PROF, being a Fellow of the Royal Society as is noted in the article."- Newport 21:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Sydney Cohen Restoration

Y Done ^demon^{[omg plz]} 00:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Everything can be sourced from Who's Who.--Newport 11:11, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

User:Jdh30

You just deleted my user page and its history. Could you also delete my talk page and its history, please? Jon Harrop 23:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

In reply: Yes, could you please delete everything that you can of mine including my talk page. Many thank, Jon. Jon Harrop 22:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. -- JLaTondre 22:33, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Wimzie House

I am questioning why you said it shouldn't be speedily deleted as it was speedily deleted in the past and author was warned not to put it back on. I suggest you read the history and the author's talk page. 172.130.82.201 14:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

The previous versions were deleted as {{db-nonsense}} and were not created by User:Nate Speed. The {{db-repost}} only applies to identical content. Nate Speed's version was neither nonsense nor a repost. The only warnings Nate Speed received regarding this page were incorrect warnings. -- JLaTondre 14:54, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Changing my talk archives

Hi, I'm just wondering why you changed my user talk archives? They worked, they weren't bothering anyone, in fact I doubt they were of any interest to anyone, so why fiddle? If there was a naming policy I hadn't absolutely and completely adhered to then perhaps it would have been nicer to have pointed it out and allowed me to make the change whilst offering to do it for me. Miamomimi 21:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Duplicate RfDs

Thank you for closing the duplicate RfDs I accidentally created on Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 May 27. Digwuren 17:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Video blog article

Hi JLaTondre,

I'm looking to get the video blog article expanded and I noticed you've contributed to the article in the past. It would be great if you could check it out again. It could use some help. Thanks! Pdelongchamp 22:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

GFDL

Your comment on my talk page about listing the contributors *only* applies to Modified versions of the article. Not to Verbatim versions. Wjhonson 02:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Whether it's *easy* is not the issue. The issue is whether it's *required*. The requirement is a matter of opinion and interpretation. The WikiMedia Foundation has not stated one way or the other what it's own views are. So any Wikipedian trying to compel other's to believe one way or the other, isn't going to fly. Wjhonson 17:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

And there is no "Title Page", there is a Title, it doesn't have a page. It appears on the same page as the Article. The license was meant for material which would have a seperate title page. To assume that for Wikiuse the Title page is the history is not a supported view. Wjhonson 18:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

AFD

When I was posting my reply, AFD debate was going on. I didn't know it was closed, I merely posted my reply. And I am still at a lost why this was closed,considering few more days still left till the actual closing date.And what amazes me even further is the decision to keep(or non consensus)when there is a clear vote-rigging by the side which voted to keep it. If you carefully look at keep votes, there were 4 IP votes, and 3 clear sock-puppets votes among them. And further 2 other keep votes were belong to new users with no proper contributions in Wikipedia.Iwazaki ^{会話。討論} 12:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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Christiansen

Thanks for doing the work to set up the basic disambig. Eluchil404 05:35, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

KJACK

Hi there,

You helped to erroneously delete an article that I authored. KJACK. The user who began the deletion process is not a regular user of wikipedia and apparently suggested the article for deletion for personal reasons. That article was created as a historical account of an ACTUAL and functioning radio station that I helped to start. I have been doing MASSIVE amounts of work on the article and it is now all gone. Please help me to get the article back on or at least get the content back so that I may do what I need to get it back up in the future.

Joshuah Hounshell 21:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Pen names redirecting

Hi: Thanks for cleaning up and redirecting Alice Tilton to Phoebe Atwood Taylor -- I hadn't realized that it was Wikipedia policy that pen names get redirected to the author page. Could I trouble you to point me to that specific policy? I'm working a lot in the area of mystery writers who frequently have pen names, and I want to make sure I follow Wikipedia style. (And I can't seem to find this with searching, just articles ABOUT pen names). Thanks in advance for any direction you can offer. Accounting4Taste 23:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I'm aware of a couple of mystery writers with pages for their pen names and, based on your input, I'll now go ahead and follow your lead on re-directing them; you're right, it makes perfect sense. I've just fixed Ellery Queen aka Barnaby Ross and will continue to add redirects as necessary. Accounting4Taste 00:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Andretti curse

• I have added new sources directly covering this topic at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andretti Curse. I invite you to review them and consider whether they might change your opinion on deleting the article. Barno 00:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Happiness

Gdk411 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.

Wikipedia needs more people like you. Gdk411 01:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Whadda ya think

on this and 1 (BMT) (edit talk links history)-- should that redirect be nominated at WP:RFD? (Giving it a few days, but I be leaning that way--may help the RRR war too!) I'll see if I can calm this down a mite. Perhaps that 'notion' will help--God knows the article(s) needs help. Cheers // FrankB 19:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC

re: I have no opinions on the content dispute. That is up to those of you involved in editing the applicable articles to decide. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 19:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not in that either... I just followed you over from this and the "unhelpfulness" implicit in the name "1 (BTC)" struck me. I tried to tidy up THAT article some, but it needs more TLC than I have time for... besides I'm outside O'Boston and NYC is 'de Verbotten Evil Empire' as a sports fan! (I was speaking on the other as an AMA member--I try to head this stuff off in that "dubious office"--sorry to confuse you with that). Cheers! // FrankB 20:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

re: ::Perhaps, I was misunderstood. I was not trying to tie you to the edit dispute. I was simply saying that I haven't looked into the subject at all and so I don't have an opinion. I also am not that interested in NY subways so I doubt I will look into it. It is obvious from the talk page & elswehere that there are other editors (including yourself) that have opinions in addition to those two that were edit waring and I will leave it up to you all to work it out. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 21:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Works for me. I'm a Bostonian and loath NYC, so perhaps I can help them talk it out. I've got the guy complaining talking with me now, so cross de fingers. At least I've got him thinking of better less cryptic names than '1 (BMT)' (e.g. "BMT Corp. 1 route") for the moment... such may settle the edit war down. You know how these can inflate when someone goes all lawyerish and starts citing this or that guideline. This looks like a spate of that sort of thing. (We also serve, who stand around and baby-sit! <g>) Cheers! // FrankB 22:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your efficient answer to Exploding Boy. Since my mother language is not English, I have many difficulties to write efficient answers and summaries, and it need lot of time to other users to overview all the opposition.

Since my current bad English and inability to answer efficiently may allow other to misunderstand me, and to block me... The help you provided by your summary in good English is really appreciate ! --Yug (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Um?

What did you mean in saying that I haven't edited in some while? The rest of your statements aside, that one in particular mystifies me, since it seems objectively wrong. "Some while" = a few hours? DS 15:59, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah, ambiguously-defined terms like "some while". Okay. I interpreted your statement to mean that you thought I hadn't edited in several days, or even weeks - that I was on a Wikibreak or some such. Since that is objectively wrong (I was asleep!), that's what was puzzling me. The rest of the boyd/Boyd issue - meh, I'm not getting involved any more than I already have. I read a thread on Usenet which decried (among other things) how foolish/stupid/bureaucratically hidebound/etc etc etc we were for "telling danah boyd she doesn't know how to spell her own name", and figured that I could surely resolve the mess quickly. Apparently not. DS 16:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Untitled

Why did you cancel - Lauren Fix?

She is a female automotive expert that is helping people. She's not like Courtney Hansen who has turned wikipedia into her own personal website. If you allow this type of listing then Lauren Fix, The Car Coach who has been educating consumers on pure charity for over 20 years should be listed. PLease respond and re-instate the site!

Thank you for understanding! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.50.55.231 (talk • contribs).

The Car Coach was deleted as blatant advertising. If you believe an encyclopedic article can be written on this subject, you are welcome to create one. However, please become familiar with our content guidelines first. If the recreated page is once more an ad and not an article, it will be deleted again. Also, please ensure it cites sources that are verifiable and reliable or it will also risk deletion. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 00:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You).

I have already listed this article under the requests for a move (WP:RM) to These Foolish Things, but I would additionally like to have the original article deleted. As I've explained in the discussion section for These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You), there is only one song with name "These Foolish Things". Preserving it as a redirect should be unnecessary. The page should be moved first, then the original link should be deleted.

Winston Ho 何嶸 (2007 Apr. 19, Friday).

user:winstonho0805

Legacy Corporation

Thank You for your information. But, I cannot see why it is being deleted. It is a ligit company but for some reason you keep deleting it. Can you give me an exact reason why you feel that it should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattgrowler (talk • contribs)

Legacy Corporation

Visit www.legacyyouthcorp.org/corporate.htm there you will notice that they are no longer a drum corps organization, and they provide other programs. In addition it is not a non profit organization. all the information in the wiki articles for deletion is incorect and since you rushed to delete it you should review what information you have other than what other volunteers put on there. Looking for information other than the sorce of the company actual website is just plain retarted. Why look for a drum corps in the drum corps section of wiki if the company actually stated that they no longer are focused on that. Please review. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mattgrowler (talk • contribs).

Steffen Haraldsen

Just wondering why you deleted the article about the former S.K. Brann and current Fyllingen Fotball-player Steffen Haraldsen. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brandenburg (talk • contribs).

DeadBot Improper Tagging

I have answered your comments at User talk:TheFearow#DeadBot Improper Tagging. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheFearow (talk • contribs).

Global Industrial

I am very sorry to see the Wikipedia page about Global Industrial removed. All the information stated in that article is fact and can be found in our annual report. As we are a publicly traded company and have been in business for over 50 years it can be argued that this company is worthy of notation. Because I am new at this my original page was removed, and since I have done a lot of homework in order to make this fit within the guidelines provided. As a comparison, I have tested and researched many other companies such as ours and have conformed as they have to certain formats. What can I do differently, I am now at a loss.

Thanks, Gec.gsmith 17:09, 2 July 2007 (UTC) gec.gsmith

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. --ST47Talk 13:36, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Per ST47's final approval [3], I've granted JL-Bot a bot flag [4]. Cheers, Redux 13:33, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Redirect under CSD G7

With your permission, I would like to recreate Ōda-juku as a redirect to Ōta-juku, and tag it with {{R from misspelling}}. You deleted this redirect as CSD G7 per User:Douggers' nomination at the 10 July 2007 RfD. I believe that if a knowledgeable editor who performed the translation can make the typo, it is very likely another would make the same mistake. Thus, I feel the redirect would assist with accidental linking and prevent duplicate article creation if another well-meaning editor translates the title wrong and doesn't know to check for an article at the correct spelling. I'll be letting Douggers know about this as well, pointing him to this comment. BigNate37_(T) 19:06, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I deleted it simply as a db-author request. I don't have an opinion on its applicability as {{R from misspelling}} and will leave that to you and Douggers. Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate not needing to wonder what happened if I see it go blue. -- JLaTondre 19:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I just made a stupid mistake when creating the original and I don't think it's necessary to keep Ōda-juku. If the redirect is recreated, I'm not going to complain, but I don't think it's necessary. Douggers 00:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Movie trailer date redirects

Regarding your RfD comment on 1/18/08, Should I un-merge the two? BigNate37_(T) 19:56, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't bother. The closing admin can read my comment and decide how to proceed. It's clear there are two redirects with differing opinions. Breaking them apart would probably confuse the issue. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 20:02, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I wasn't sure how to split them again elegantly after yours and my edits. Sorry for the presumption. BigNate37_(T) 20:08, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: RfD

Okay, sorry :-( ~ Wikihermit 03:35, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I forget to close it, then saw it was the only RfD and thought it would make no difference. Thanks! ~ Wikihermit 03:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

A mutual mate has been messing with "my" stuff

Hi, a mate of yours called SomethingorOtherBot has been pointing out that I could make better links to wikidictionary than I have done on dozens of occasions. Well I'm told he got the idea from you. Being as he doesn't seem to want to talk much I thought you might thank him/her for his/her work. I now know how to do a link to wiktionary and anyone editting "my" pages will know know how to too. So wikilove to him (or her?). You might tell him and any of his descendants that because I had done a few dozen I got a "pretty pattern" caused by the varying lengths of the titles of "my" articles in my watchlist. If (s)he has any artistic pretentions then (s)he could arrange on a similar occasion to sort them in length order and that would create art?work in other peoples watchlists ..... this crazy notion comes free to you from Victuallers

Re: Reference Locations

Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)#Standard appendices or take a look at any of our featured articles. If you wish to see a change in the Wikipedia conventions, then you should seek to get community agreement on that (the talk page for above MoS page would be a good place). Changing an individual article is confusing to our readers as it doesn't match what they have come to expect from the standard. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 11:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I guess you have a point. Why all the cheekiness? -- Craigtalbert 14:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Pardon, none of my business as it may be, but in checking JLaTondre's talk page for further discussion on my topics led me to see this and I believe I have a relevant quote. From Producing Open Source Software (ISBN 0-596-00759-0, text available under CC-by-sa-2.5) p.128 paragraph two, Karl Fogel says:

Technical criticism, even when direct and unpadded, is not rude. Indeed, it can be a form of flattery: the critic is saying, by implication, that the target is worth taking seriously, and is worth spending some time on. That is, the more viable it would have been to simply ignore someone's post, the more of a compliment it becomes to take the time to criticize it (unless the critique descends into an ad hominem attack or some other form of obvious rudeness, of course).

To compliment and contrast that quote which is intended for the audience of terse potentially offensive messages, here's another quote from Fogel on p.126-127 aimed at the author of such messages:

Will all readers react positively to this style? Not necessarily; it depends on the person and the context. ...while you may still write a compact response, you should make sure to leaven it with some sort of acknowledgment for [his] feelings. The bulk of your response might be a brief, engineer's-eye analysis of the situation, as terse as you want. But at the end, sign off with something indicating that your terseness is not to be taken as coldness...

Hope I've helped, and if not I hope I've at least not added to any misunderstanding there may be. BigNate37_(T) 15:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the attempt. I'll try to keep your second quote in mind. -- JLaTondre 19:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

My comment was meant matter-of-factly. I was providing my opinion and the rationale for it. The suggestion regarding seeking a change in convention was also meant seriously. You have a different opinion then the convention. Wikipedia conventions have been known to change when people can provide a decent reason and are willing to seek consensus for a change. It was my intent to point out that option if you felt serious enough about it. Sorry for the confusion. -- JLaTondre 19:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Then I guess we have two differences of opinion. Anyway, thank you for pointing out the guidelines, I think you could have done it with less of a "customer support" tone. But, again, that's just me talking. I didn't mean to turn this in to a battle of getting quotes to support each others point. Anyway, can both of you please leave me alone now? If not, can you tell me where I can get a wikipedia restraining order? -- Craigtalbert 19:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Notability of ME?

I added my information on "Nichole Parker", verifiable resources, links to art and photography. I am a writer. I added myself to the Wiki page and expounded on my information quite speedily! I was still in the works of making the article larger and adding myself to the Paris, AR directory.

I shouldn't have to fight to make my own article on wikipedia when I'm writing the article as fast as I can.

It should not have been deleted.

Kendra 12:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Note

Please keep an eye out at User_talk:Cool_Cat/Archive_2005/08 and User_talk:Cool_Cat/Archive_2005/09 as well. Note that there has been a series of overly dramatic threads on the subject on WP:ANI, the latest one being here, so WC's suggestion of deleting these pages is controversial at best. >Radiant< 13:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Why Did you delete the PunkRadioCast Wiki?????????????

I think the title says it all. You can email me with your answer

Jenna@punkradiocast.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.53.50.252 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 20 July 2007 (UTC).

As far as I can tell, I didn't. PunkRadioCast was deleted on 7 August 2006 by AmiDaniel. It was a WP:PROD deletion with the nominator's rationale being "Vanity article about non notable company". -- JLaTondre 22:31, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks....

...for this. I'm new to closing RfDs :-) Happy editing! --Boricuaeddie ^hábleme 15:45, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Idontcarewhatyouthink

I personally doubt that User:Idontcarewhatyouthink is a username block, so I unblocked. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:44, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

It's better to ask him for a username change if you think it's inappropate instead of blocking him. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 00:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Blanking makes sense

Regarding the User:Karin Spaink → Karin Spaink RfD, your explanation of why the redirect is harmful is enough that I would change my vote, had you not already closed that RfD. Just thought I would let you know. BigNate37_(T) 06:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

gas detectors

i saw that u deleted the reference link below... I just wanted to let u know that it’s a copyright infringement not to leave that link there. please let me know why u deleted it and please put it back or i will... thanks Jeff dantonio 17:29, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

thanks for u assistance.. Jeff dantonio 18:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

#### Oscars

No problem, message received, will create pages at #### Academy Awards from now on. Jw6aa 02:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Gas detector

Did I screw up the move? My intent was to move the content of "Gas Detectors" to "Gas detector," but I couldn't do a straight move because it would have created a circular redirect (I think), so I did an old-fashioned cut-and-paste. Realkyhick 18:36, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's certainly not the preferred method. :-) Having said all that, this article needs a major rewrite. It loks like the original author did little more than a document dump, even though he gave GFDL permission to do so. It is way to technical, and doesn't cover the simple basics of what a gas detector does and how it works. Any suggestions? Realkyhick 18:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I put a cleanup tag and an actual lead paragraph just after my attempted cut-and-paste move. But the more I look at it, the more I think it needs a totally fresh start. I don't have much knowledge on the subject, though. It also seems that the guy who posted all of this has a website where I assume he sells this sort of stuff. Would that qualify as spam? Realkyhick 18:54, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I think your last edit is a good starting point. I'll work on it as best as I can, though it won't be a high priority for me. I'll keep it on my watchlist. Realkyhick 19:31, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hi JLaTondre,

Could you please delete this image and this image because they were both copied from other websites without permission. --George Thompson 23:03, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello!

Thank you for your comment to my talk page. I replied. I also see on your user page the edit check tool does not work. You may like that one. NoGringo 13:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Not sure whether you saw my second reply some days ago. best regards NoGringo 16:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Robert Greene

We talked about the Robert Greene page a few days ago. I really feel that his should be the go to article. People searching for a 16th century author are used to digging. People searching for a contemporary author should be taken directly to the source. I know you're a bit iffy, but how about this, you should me how to do it and we'll do a small trial. If it gets any negative response, it should be reverted, if not it stays. Robert Greene has 3-4 other significant entires on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_33_Strategies_of_War ) which shows that he has an active base. Thoughts? Phillipsmcgee 18:59, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You are totally wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phillipsmcgee (talk • contribs) 20:01, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Lexie Kaye vandals

Just a heads up, I am pretty sure that User:Industry101 is registered account for those IPs. They continued the messaging on my talk and make the same reverts. Thanks. --Chuck Sirloin 22:34, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Read This!

Hi this is Angel David just stopping by to ask why did you delete the "Angel David" thing that redirects to my user page? You said because of Name spaces? If that is a policy, please show me. And don't worry I didn't re-create it, this is just th tildes you know this-(~~~~)

--Angel David (talk•contribs) 14:54, 25 August 2007 (User Talker Contributor)

Chris Randall (musician)

Chris Randall is notable in that he toured Japan with KMFDM <references/http://www.chaoscontrol.com/content_article.php?article=sistermachinegun>and his music as Sister Machine Gun was released under Wax Trax/TVT records <references/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Machine_Gun>.

Wax Trax was one of the largest underground labels in the US for dance and industrial music in the 80s and 90s (surviving 14 years before being bought by TVT Records) <references/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_Trax%21><references/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVT_Records>

thank you for you time.

Haikudeathmatch 02:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

RE: RFD Closures

I forgot about that! Usually, I pay attention to removing tags for closed discussions; I even apply {{oldafdfull}} and {{oldifdfull}} to relevant AFD and IFD targets. In any event, will be sure to watch for that in the future. Cheers, --Aarktica 19:14, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Please stop vandalizing

You vandalized the fxguide page by deleting it. This is in violation of the Wikipedia guidelines. According to your profile description you do not have proper insight of the visual effects industry to make judgment if an educational institution is notable or not.

Being the only visual effects institution with worldwide accreditation's and having a round of academy award winning professors fxguide / fxphd have the notability to stay in wikipedia permanently.

xfrank 16:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Please see: Wikipedia:Vandalism, Wikipedia:Notability (web), CSD Articles #7, & Wikipedia:WikiLawyering.

The article made no claim of notability as as such was deleted. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources. False claim of vandalism, however, will get you nowhere. -- JLaTondre 16:52, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Insiders' Guides

Can I ask why this page was deleted please? I did not see the content but we are trying to set up our wiki page ready for an Awards Ceremony we are sponsoring an award at. Ifibabe 08:21, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Request for closure.

When you get a chance, could you please close the outstanding discussion for Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 August 21? It has been lying around for well over a week now. Cheers, --Aarktica 18:56, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Dynamic IP

Cheers John,

I politely ask why you are deleteing my protests on the incident page. I would like to here what the community says regarding the issues I presented.

Thank you in advance for your help68.244.109.30 00:33, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Bot removal of templates

Hey, your bot removed the underconstruction template from the Anarchism in Greece article because it hasn't been edited in 9 days. I do know that User:Kanibalos is currently working on more sections of the article, and I will be helping with the copyeditting as soon as the new sections are done. I don't know whether or not this warrants reinserting the template or not though. Thoughts? Murderbike 22:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Def makes sense. Thanks! Murderbike 23:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: diff

Wow. I totally didn't notice the {{bioguide}}. Thanks for the correction. — madman bum and angel 23:13, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I've asked Coren to update his bot to stop tagging bioguide articles as this happens quite a bit. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 23:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I've responded on my talk page, but I see now the proper tag to use is {{bioguide}}. Will add it. — Coren ^(talk) 04:07, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Colin Holmes (British author)

Holdon. All I'm doing is changing the article from author to historian.

But you're too fast for me, "speedy Gonzalez."

Yours truly, --Ludvikus 00:56, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks! I know how to do "Copy & Paste." But I thinki I do not know how to do a "Move."

Would you be so kind as to teach me the grammar of 'Moving" an article?

I think I knew it once but I've forgotten it.

Much appreciated, I am --Ludvikus 01:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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Yes! Thanks alot. I forgot that the "Move" button was at the top of the page!

Best regards, --Ludvikus 01:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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Again, thanks for pointing out to me the difference between Copy/Paste and Move - especially for reminding me that the Move function is a Tab at the top of Wiki pages. Best regards, --Ludvikus 13:19, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Admin?

I've looked on your user page and did a word search on it for "admin". Your post on my talk page implies you are an admin, without stating it. Are you, or is there a list of admins available? --Tenebrae 19:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The Protocols and World Revolution X

Can you help with Moving the above article in order to get rid of that "X"? Ludvikus 20:36, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Good work!!! Much appreciate!!! Ludvikus 04:07, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Please inform yourself before shooting off your mouth

JLaTondre, you did not take the trouble to inform yourself of the situation. You suggest I tag pattern-avoiding permutation with the {{R with possibilities}} template. I already did. BEFORE this bot's behavior that caused me to block it. At least one other bot does the same thing except that it does not touch pages that have that template. This bot ignores the template and "fixes" the pages anyway. Michael Hardy 20:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Editing People's Comments

Hi, thanks for your advice on editing people's comments. As you can see I'm quite the grammar whore when it comes to my edits! I have just one question though. I forgot to read your message prior to editing another set of comments. Is there any way to undo these edits? MasterEditorDXK 18:03, 23 September 2007

Oh, my bad, I think I the protection policy was what I was thinking of. MasterEditorDXK 18:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

PanoTools

Thanks for your help with the PanoTools deletion process ! John Spikowski 01:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Institute for Higher Education Policy

Hi! Article was recently deleted for copyright infringement. Would you please provide detail/specific reason deleted? I am interested in reloading page and want to avoid reviolation. Thanks!

16:22, 28 September 2007 (UTC)~ Institute for Higher Education Policy Admin

copy-n-paste

Ah ok, sorry, thanks for fixing it.

michfan2123 15:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Last FM & GFDL

From the page I linked to (http://www.last.fm/music/T+Power/+wiki)

Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed content on this page is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

It's pretty clearly displayed. Darksun 16:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

thank you for unblocking me i think that special i.p address person has a problem goes around messing with every other person thank you see you around Lil'Khan 18:26, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

2008 Temple Festival

You deleted this new page which I started on 29th Sept because of suspected copyright infringements. The opening text which I was working on, was taken verbatim from the 2008 Temple Festival Website - copy I myself had written, therefore my copyright. I could not immediately see how to deal with this but was treating it as a work in progress. Being a newbie, it is possible I should have approached this differently. Perhaps it is still possible to undelete my work so I can refine it. I'd be most grateful.

Regards kennyrich Kennyrich 17:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Copy-n-Paste Moves

Hello, JLaTondre. Kaka12o (talk · contribs) has done it again. Club de Fútbol Pachuca (history) is now Pachuca Club de Fútbol, with some older edit histories still in CF Pachuca. I can try to fix it myself, but I know no Spanish and have no clue which name is the proper team name. You're an expert in handling these Copy-n-Paste problems, so I hope you don't mind fixing one more. Many thanks. --PFHLai 04:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Updated the Pikus-Pace article

FYI. I updated the Noelle Pikus-Pace article if you wish to look. Chris 13:24, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Institute for Higher Education Policy

Hi JLaTondre,

I have emailed permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org telling them that we do own the copyrights to our materials and have noted this on our talk page.

Thanks! (Institute for Higher Education Policy 20:08, 5 October 2007 (UTC))

ERAWATCH Network - Article deletes

Hello there,

I've created this article on the non-profit research organisations' consortium which has a major contribution in the emergence of an European Research Area.

I think I made a mistake by inserting the URL of the dedicated website (which I created myself). I don't clearly understand why the article is not on wikipedia anymore and what could be done to have it back.

Thank you very much for your help.

--ERAWATCH Network asbl 09:30, 10 October 2007 (UTC)Helen

CSI: Miami

They were just a short synopsis. I thought only the recap of the show is not allowed to be copied?? Sorry, I won't made to same mistake anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JiaAn94 (talk • contribs) 23:36, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Copyvio

Did you even bother to look at the alleged copyvio before advising me not to think that just putting a reference makes copyvio o.k.?[5] This was the article tagged about 25 seconds after I created it. The site I was accused of copyvio was a student site in the UK. --Mattisse 18:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

the article was 25 seconds old

However, I have reported it as copyvio. I will delete it as db-author. I also reported the last article the bot tagged as copyvio. In fact, I am going to report all my articles as copyvio. --Mattisse 18:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I want the article to be deleted.

--Mattisse 18:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I am the only editor of most of these articles

Maybe someone adjusted the spelling or something but that is all, as they were DYK's others got involved but that is the only involvement. --Mattisse 18:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

DR - Talk:Langmaker

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Talk:Langmaker. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 02:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

User_talk:JiaAn94

Nuts, didn't notice that on his first block. Now we have the old chicken/egg problem. <sigh> -- But|seriously|folks  09:24, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

That bot request

Did anything ever come from Wikipedia:Bot requests#Automatic name disambiguation pages using DEFAULTSORT on biographical pages? Carcharoth 18:18, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

About the user Mattisse

I originally tried to reply to your comments on Mattisse's talk page, but he/she has since banned me from commenting there. I've notified several established users privately about this user and some of the issues that have arisen because of them. This is what I posted on user w.marsh's talk page: "I do consider Mattisse's conduct and threats to be disruptive and this is hardly the first incident that has occurred with him/her. As for my take on this current copyvio incident: Mattisse was notified by a bot twice of potential copyright violations. Mattisse gets angry and threatens to quit Wikipedia (he/she has done this several times). Then Mattisse nominates his/her own articles for deletion per copyvio in order to gain sympathy from other users and in an attempt to have the bot criticized and possibly disabled. This is similar to how he/she nominated the drapetomania article, admitting that it did not qualify for deletion and they just wanted it edited. Many users have tried to reach a consensus with Mattisse on various issues, but unfortunately, their attempts are ignored. I'd appreciate to know what your view on this is. By the way, please view Mattisse's contribution page for more history." I'd appreciate it if you also looked into Mattisse's history more and tell me what you think about all of this. Thank you. - Cyborg Ninja 03:24, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Warhawk

Then maybe me and him should both be blocked, or at least the page protected. He was actually the first to break the 3RR anyway. Reginmund 23:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

User:Wikio475

Hello, Wikio475 has been vandalizing PlayStation 2 I have warned him once and reverted the article 4 times, just to be sure if I revert vandalism after 1 other revert then it wouldn't breach the 3RR, right? Because I looked at the rules and it said reverting vandalism wouldn't break the rule. Thanks -- Vdub49 00:30, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank You for both the clarification and the warhawk redirect thing. -- Vdub49 02:30, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Lignux rfd

Hi,

Why did you close this with a response which hadn't actually been suggested by any of the participating editors? I brought it to RfD specifically to have a discussion about what to do with it, not to have that discussion made for me. Chris Cunningham 08:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

External links in infoboxes and in External links sections

JLaTondre, thank you for this edit[6] to Mercy Corps. Somewhere I got the impression that if an organization's website is in the infobox, it doesn't need to be listed again in the External links section. I've left a question about this on the talk page for external links[7]. I wish I could remember where I got the impression that infobox links don't need repeated in the External links, but I can't! Thanks for letting me know it's not in the guidelines :) ---- Busy Stubber (talk) 19:07, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

vandalism

Dear friend,

Someone keeps vandalizing a friend on wikipedia. Is this a federal crime? How can he protect himself? I hope you can help

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trueart (talk • contribs) 22:43, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

User Page Redirect

Hey, just wondering if I can have the dingyv03 page to redirect to my user page. I think this is agaist wiki guidleines but i dont think there is a need to create a page about "Dingyv03". Thanks, Dingyv03 (talk) 02:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Rfd

Ok, I have done what you asked me to , thank you for telling me, ( the rfd on cartoon network magazine ) ^_^ Yinyanglightningthrash (talk) 12:32, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Thats what I put, I dont understand, where is the link page you told me to put it inYinyanglightningthrash (talk) 10:33, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok thanks , you have made it clear, and I did what you wantedYinyanglightningthrash (talk) 10:07, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Focus: HOPE

Please explain in more detail why the page "Focus: HOPE" was deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayswizzy (talk • contribs) 14:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Focus: HOPE

what else besides copyright violations will lead to a speedy deletion? I would like to get the Focus: HOPE page back into good standing. One of the articles that was deleted was copied from the Wayne State Walter P. Reuther Library. Focus Hope records was submitted to them in year 2000. I did not know that this was a copyright violation. I will rewrite these records in my own words to avoid copyright violation. Can you give a few guidelines to prevent another deletion. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayswizzy (talk • contribs) 20:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

JLaTondre, I want to recreate the "Focus: HOPE" page by adding the following: "Focus: HOPE was founded in early 1968, prior to the Detroit riots. Focus: HOPE is a civil and human rights organization that has made it it’s mission to fight poverty, racism, and injustice."

My source is the Wayne State Walter P. Reuther Library's Labor and Urban Affairs collection.

Is there any thing wrong with what I want post? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayswizzy (talk • contribs) 15:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Pages Moves

You did a very wrong thing that helping User:Kaka12o moved pages. THE NAMES WERE ALL WRONG. I'm using requested move to fix. Matthew_hk tc 11:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Why did you vandalize my about page?

Mc hamster (talk) 00:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

MascotGuy

Hello, I noticed you left a message on User talk:Shockman concerning indefblock templates. I'm convinced he's MascotGuy; he obviously created all of those accounts and he likes to do that. The answer to your question is on his long term abuse page; I'm going to take the liberty of labelling them all with {{sockpuppet}} (without the blocked param since they're unblocked) if you don't mind. Regards, Tuxide (talk) 06:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Robert E. Pearons

I've made some additions to Robert E. Pearson for notability, as well as on the talk page. Please review.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

re: rfd

Thanks for the heads up! Guroadrunner (talk) 09:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

####

What the hell did I ever do to you huh? Why the hell would you block me just because I'm having a little fun with my userpage. There no need for you to be a bloody nazi about it. Who the hell would want to contact me anyways? I only ever edit the same damn pages, so get the hell off my back and go bug someone who deserves it. I beleive that it is my user page, and I can do what I please with it. I'll stop redirecting the talk page, because I can understand that, but you dont need the actual user page to contact me when I have a perfectly good talk page sitting there. I mean, ####. What's wrong with you? Steg Blob (talk) 19:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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"As for it being "your" user page, you do not own your user page".

That is a stupid rule, to be honest. If it has my username on it, then it's my userpage. That's like saying I dont own my house because I'm not the only person with my name in the world. But, no use fighting over a lost cause. I just dont find it very fair that I'm not allowed to do what I want with something that has my username on it. I'll stop now anyway.

Also, have I been blocked from editing my own userpage, or is that just a bug? I'd like to just remove the soft-direct completely. Steg Blob (talk) 20:59, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. Glad we managed to resolve this. Steg Blob (talk) 21:06, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

business improvisation

Hello, not sure how this works, but it seems my description of Business Improvisation was deleted. I did take it from my web site (www.biz-improv.com). I guess I could take the time to re-word it but its a good description. Randy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsabourin (talk • contribs) 00:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of George Burton Hunter

You deleted the article George Burton Hunter. User:CorenSearchBot had warned User talk:Bandalore that it was copied from http://www.seaham.i12.com/myers/hunter.htm. If you read the rest of Bandalore's talk page, you'll see that he is a published scholar who has collected some of his articles in his website and subsequently uses them as basis for Wikipedia articles. I don't know if he has answered the deletion or if he has published the Hunter entry on paper, but it would not be a copyright violation if Bandalore/Myers is the author. Maybe the tone is not appropiated for Wikipedia, but you should re-evaluate your deletion. I am not related to Myers, Hunter or whatever, just wanted to help. --84.20.17.84 (talk) 13:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Bandalore is Alan Myers (translator), and http://www.seaham.i12.com/myers/ is his web site (There is also a redirect from http://www.myersnorth.co.uk/). I have pinged him on his talk page. --Jtir (talk) 20:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Bandalore replied here. --Jtir (talk) 21:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

It's been restored. -- JLaTondre 21:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --Jtir (talk) 22:35, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Christian Filippella

I was wondering if you would be interested to comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christian Filippella, since it appears that you've had some prior experience with the editor(s). Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 02:12, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Aloharick3

I happen to log on to my page aloharick3 and see that the article I wrote was deleted after about 6 hours of work on it. This is what was posted (22:05, 13 January 2008 JLaTondre (Talk | contribs) deleted "User:Aloharick3" ‎ (CSD G11: Blatant advertising) I looked at your reason and it stated "Blatant Advertising". I took a look at the Sears article and followed their lead. What must I modify on my article for this to pass your inspection? Please review.Aloharick3 (talk) 00:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

business improvisation

I left a discussion note on Dec 31st regarding you deleting my Business Improvisation description. Can you respond? Biz Improv (me) gave permission to use the content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsabourin (talk • contribs) 05:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of External Links on Vacation_Rentals section

Hi there,

I noticed that you deleted my recent addition of Vacation Rental aggregators to the Vacation_Rental page. I can see how this could be construed as spam, but the article specifically mentions vacation rental aggregators, and that's why I wanted to cite some examples, which is what I think External Links is for? If the article didn't devote a section to aggregators I would agree with you that it's spam - just posting semi-related websites is not reasonable. But posting External Links to aggregators is related to the article content. If the community thinks aggregators are spam, then we shouldn't mention them in the article - maybe there should be a separate article on vacation rental aggregators? What do you think?

Best,

Steve (1/16/08) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.132.40.129 (talk) 06:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Please see WP:EL for more details. External links are designed to provide more information on a topic. None of those links provide additional information. An appropriate external link related to vacation rental aggregators would be one that discussed vacation rental aggregators. Links to vacation rental aggregators themselves are commercial links that provide no encyclopedic content. -- JLaTondre 14:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments and clarification. You can close out this discussion. Sincerely, Steve —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.200.142.89 (talk) 06:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Sexual Repression

I was a little bit appalled to find that wikipedia does not have an article on sexual repression. In my opinion, this is a central topic in the area of human sexuality, and it has been extensively discussed and studied in the social science literature in a broad variety of fields. I will assume that you deleted the original page in good faith because it was a poor article (such as being devoid of content, POV, unsourced, etc.), but I also must object to the idea of deleting the page in general--if the article was bad, it ought to have been cleared of information and made into a stub, rather than deleted. Do you have any insight or comments into why the article was deleted and how we can make it into a good article this time around? Thanks, Cazort (talk) 13:29, 18 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks for your quick reply! I completely agree that sexual repression and sexual morality are not synonymous. Cazort (talk) 17:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Your deletion of Texas Citizens for Science

TCS gave Wikipedia the right to copy text from its website. Therefore, there is no copyright infringement. TCS explicitly told Wikipedia that any text from its website could be used under fair use standards.

If this appeal isn't granted, I will just write some text that is completely different from the TCS website and create the article on TCS. Perhaps this is what I should have done in the first place. Please advise. The TCS talk page has been deleted since the article was deleted.

Steven (talk) 20:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. I will send a GFDL or specific permission to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" as you suggest. In the mean time, I wrote a simple description of TCS that is not copied from anywhere, including the TCS website.

Steven (talk) 04:33, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Iakovos Nafpliotis

Thank you for looking into my problem concerning "copyright". It's unfortunate, but I think the only solution to all this problem will be that I'll have to rewrite my articles. I say it's ufnortunate, because I like to write LONG sentences, and, most of the time, they include a lot of information. Even more unfortunately, I was planning on making many other wikipedia pages (on Gregorian chant and its rhythm according to Patriarchal traditon [I participate in this group as well:(http://www.myspace.com/dicocanto)] and since I have writtten so much on some websites, of which my own (http://graeca.canto.ru/upload/MontrealPsaltiki/Psaltopedia/Psaltopedia.htm) but in not so much a "neutral way", I guess I'll have to rewirte everything for wikipedia ! Here what it's all about in terms of muscial recordings (free of use for EVERYTONE): (http://graeca.canto.ru/upload/MontrealPsaltiki/GKM_CD/GKM_tribute_Nov_2006.htm)

May I suggest another possibility, namely that someone from wikipedia request that the author of this article and many others in "analogion" be allowed to re-use his article?

Finally, here is an ultimate attempt ot clarify the "copyright issue".

The Greek version of the copyright is much pmore explicit: Οι συγγραφείς του Αναλογίου κατέχουν τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα όλων των περιεχομένων που προέρχονται από αυτούς τους ίδιους.

Αρκετά από τα περιεχόμενα του Αναλογίου διέπονται από πνευματικά δικαιώματα που ανήκουν σε τρίτους. Γενικά, οι συγγραφείς του Αναλογίου επιζητούμε την άδεια των κατόχων των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων για τη δημοσίευση τέτοιων περιεχομένων. Στις περιπτώσεις που τα περιεχόμενα τα προσέφεραν οι ίδιοι οι δικαιούχοι, τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα τέτοιων περιεχομένων του Αναλογίου παραμένουν σε αυτούς που αρχικά ανήκαν. Για την αναδημοσίευση τέτοιων περιεχομένων απαιτείται η σχετική άδεια από τους δικαιούχους. Σε άλλες περιπτώσεις που περιεχόμενα δημοσιεύονται χωρίς σχετική άδεια, λαμβάνεται φροντίδα ούτως ώστε:

Here is my translation: The authors of Analogionhold the intellectual rights of all content that emanates from themselves (GKM: anything they might have authored themselves).

Much of the content of Analogion is "conditioned" by intellectual rights that belong to third parties. Generally, the authors of Analogion seek the authorisation of beholders of such intellectual rights before publication of such content. In the cases where the content is offered by the beholders of the copyright themselves (I guess this is my case), , the intellectual rights of such content on Analogion remain proper to those who beheld them initially. For the republication of such content, relative authorisation from the copyright beholder is necessary (That is, they "asked for my permission"). In other cases where content is published without relative authorisation, care is taken to do as follow (and they list the number precautions they take so as no to infringe copyright laws = partial and low quality sound reproduction, etc...)

Anyhow, thank you for your time and help. I really appreciate it.

Georgios K. MICHALAKIS

(info and e-mail here: http://ieropsaltis.com/psalt_Michalakis.htm (e-mail at middle of page: _____@yahoo.fr [ you can write me and verify !])

more info http://graeca.canto.ru/upload/MontrealPsaltiki/GKM.htm http://analogion.com/GKM

I appear in the acknowledgments page: http://www.analogion.com/acknowledgments.html

And copyright issues are mentionned here: http://www.analogion.com/Copyright.html (without any GFDL" logo, and therefore a a bit "ambiguous") —Preceding unsigned comment added by G michalakis (talk • contribs) 16:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

29 JAN 2008 : NEW: I've rewritten the entire article. Can someone please check if it's all right in terms of copyright? I'll try to learn how links work so as to re-edit the page conveniently. Thanks for being patient with me! Georgios

Jack Shaver

I noticed you deleted the 'Jack Shaver' page I created - for copyright issues. The sections I used on the Wiki page are taken from a bio I wrote myself (on another page). When I noticed the concern was flagged, I edited the page to add in a footnote to that effect (and added a comment in the discussion page as advised by the Wiki help pages). All of the materials referenced are either written by me or are public files on the web. Rev. Shaver's materials have been in the public domain with the permission of his family for some time now. Is there something else I should do in order to get the page re-established?

Hi again. I just sent you a comment re. the 'Jac Shaver' site, but forgot to add my signature. Sorry - --BReimer (talk) 01:05, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Freddie Scott

Hi. I came across the Freddie Scott article in going through articles tagged for wikification. In looking through the history, it appears the current version is a copyvio of an obituary. It looks like it's been reverted back to a stub a few times by you. The original article you referenced is no longer available on the net. Could I ask you to have a quick look at the article and confirm that it needs to be reverted (yet again). Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 20:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

The Distorted Poet

Why was the Distorted Poet Wiki page deleted? He is a real person and a credited Author. Everything on the page was correct and valid. Why was it deleted?

Here are some links: http://thedistortedpoet.20m.com http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Forest%20of%20Caves%3A%20Seasons%20of%20Heaven%20and%20Hell:3004583422;_ylc=X3oDMTB1c21tcDhkBF9TAzk2NjMyOTA3BHNlYwNmZWVkBHNsawNib29rcw-- www.myspace.com/thedistortedpoet www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20050710133233698 www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20050709105218936 http://www.amazon.com/Forest-Caves-Michael-G-Stone/dp/1413737773/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201043735&sr=8-1

Every link above is related to The Distorted Poet, Michael G. Stone. If you do a Yahoo search, you can view pages about him. Zero1CooL (talk) 23:21, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I contacted Michael G. Stone today and he stated that it was fine that I posted the deleted Distorted Poet page. I contacted him through his website: http://thedistortedpoet.20m.com He only asked that I did not post any poetry, unless quoted and credited on the page. When will the page I posted yesterday be put back up? Thank you. Zero1CooL (talk) 17:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

My account seems to have been deleted. Was there a reason why this happened? I am sure this was a simple mistake. I was Zero1CooL. 71.204.131.129 (talk) 21:35, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Your account does not seem to be deleted or blocked. Please provide the specific error message or block notice you are seeing. You may simply just need to log in again. -- JLaTondre 12:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Permission to use bio info from Dave Getz website

Hi, I was searching on Wikipedia about a band called 'Big Brother and the Holding Company' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_and_the_Holding_Company There was a link for the drummer Dave Getz but when clicked on there was no page. I contacted Dave through his website: http://www.davegetz.com and asked if I might update the info here on Wikipedia? He said that would be great and I am also going to send one of the sample letters to make it official. Do I need to send the sample letter or is what I already received from him sufficient?

I also posted this on CorenSearchBot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Coren#Permission_to_use_bio_info_from_Dave_Getz_website

Thanks, Rondroid (talk) 02:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Restoring page for possible re-creation

I'm not entirely sure how to go about this, but I'd like to try and re-create a page that you deleted, FL:CE - but with proper third-party citation, an encyclopaedic tone and generally a better format of article. If it's possible, could you undelete either the history of the page or put a copy on my userpage? I'd like to check what the article was like when it was deleted, and try to fix the problems. Is there anything else bureaucratic I need to do in order to try for a re-creation? Thanks. Bronzey (talk) 05:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Ugh - of course, I don't know what I was thinking :) Freelancer: Combat Evolved is the correct page, but there's only one problem - the deleting admin has resigned from Wikipedia (User:Philwelch). Is there no way you could copy the page's last edition or at least unblock its history, so I could grab a copy? Thanks for your help. Bronzey (talk) 04:56, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Scream School

Hello, you recently made a change to Scream School. That change (and related revisions) are being discussed on the talk page here: Talk:Scream School. Let us know what you think. Thanks. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 18:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Oie Masafusa → Ōe no Masafusa

Hello JLaTondre, I noticed that you just closed the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 February 2#Oie Masafusa → Ōe no Masafusa. Thank you very much for tidying the ends off. I notice that the result was marked as Keep. Was this accidental?—the balance of the comments (three-to-one) appears to be a resounding Delete. —Sladen (talk) 03:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

When leaving messages for a user, please make sure that you place them on the User talk: page and not the User: page. I have moved the post you left me from my user page to my user talk page.

The closure was not a mistake. Deletion debates are not votes. The closing is based on the strength of the arguments given and not on a count of the deletes vs. keeps. The only arguments given for deletion (no incoming links, no google hits, and a misspelling) are not valid reasons for deleting a redirect. Redirects typically don't have incoming links. Google hits are not a determining factor in whether we keep something. Misspellings are one of the primary reasons we have redirects. We have a whole category for them. If you have more questions, please let me know. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 03:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for moving the comment across to your talk page. I think the main reason that the comment ended up in the wrong place is that there appears to have been a non-standard (an overwritten) signature involved. This signature did not link to the relevant User_talk page. Whilst I certainly was on auto-pilot, I suspect this may have been the contributing factor. It may well be useful to reset, or update your signature for the convenience of other Wikipedia editors. —Sladen (talk) 04:43, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

My signature actually matched the old standard that was used for years of just linking to the user page. You will find millions of those scattered across Wikipedia talk pages. Thanks for pointing out it changed and I've updated mine also. -- JLaTondre (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I have originally been swayed that this particular spelling for the a redirect did seem "a bit far off"; however, that may not be the case for somebody with a better understanding of Japanese names. It's perhaps hard to answer the question of much deviation misspellings are allowed to have (though possibly WP:GHITS can be a guiding contributor regarding the likely scale of any particular combination of spelling). —Sladen (talk) 19:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Semiotic Triangle

Hi

There was a "discussion" here: [8]

. . . which you "seem" to somehow be "in charge of":

"The result of the debate was Kept. This isn't really a case for RFD. As the term is used in the target article, it makes sense to redirect to there lacking a specific article. If there is a desire to have an article instead of a redirect, that can be done without deleting the redirect. If the concern is the original deletion of the article prior to the redirect's creation, that is outside the scope of RFD and should be addressed with the deleting admin or deletion review. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)"

I started this ball rolling but cannot understand what "you folk" are talking about :S Doug, another cognocenti here, asked me on my Talk Page, if I wanted help. I replied to him but he didn't answer. I probably posted my reply in the wrong place! Your directions for using your Talk page and his seem very distict but are equally unintelligable for me :( so apologies if I am again posting incorrectly.

Anyway, apparently, whatever the technical term for what I was asking for was, it was denied. The situation remains as I found it, with no discernable (other than the arcane ones provided) explanation. They seem to be more a quasi-legal judgement on the process rather than on the substance of the issue to my untrained eye.

I just wondered if, as you seem prominent, you could/would help? I would like to be allowed to see the original page entitled Semiotic Triangle (which now redirects to Triangle of Reference). Has the orignal page been "deleted"? I understand that all deleted pages can be reinstated so is it technically possible to get a "deleted" reference so I can find the diagram originally published there?

Thanks, and apologies, again, if this note is in the "wrong" place. I find it hard to find the "right" places or even to understand the directions to or the function of the places themselves :S

LookingGlass (talk) 22:04, 11 February 2008 (UTC)  :)

Sorry, John. First thankls, the image page and the reference were primarily what I was after. Re your implicit criticism: I've re-read the above and can't really see what's wrong with it. Proof of the pudding: you addressed all three primary issues. The rest of it was me trying to be polite (when I speak my mind and say what I mean people get offended and call me a dickhead!). Overarching all of this was an inherent commentary on the problems I have found with the process. Only of interest if non-IT types are to be encouraged to contribute effectively here. LookingGlass (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Incomplete closing of RFD for "Mild as May"

You closed this discussion from 21 January 2008 as "Keep", but the RFD template was never removed from the page. JERRY ^talk _contribs 01:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Lou Carcasole deletion

Hello,

Concerning the Feb 13th deletion of 'Lou Carcasole,' I indeed have permission to use the information from the Green Party website, straight from the horse's mouth (ie manager of IT). How can I prove it to you? You can email him at webadmin@greenparty.ca or I could get him to send you a little note. Can my page please be re-posted after this? Thank you!

Moeberrigan (talk) 17:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC) Moe Berrigan

Margarita Zorbala

I saw that you deleted Margarita Zorbala. In the summary, it states the address for the biography. The site uses flash, so how did you get the exact address. I would like to know so i can source articles, as of now its sort of inconvienient that they only link to the main page because of the flash. Thanks. Grk1011 (talk) 04:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Grk1011 (talk) 16:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Focus: HOPE Deletion

I am writing in regards to the deletion of the Focus: HOPE page that took place on 2/16/2008. There was still work being done to the page and no copyrighted information was put on the page. Please explain why the page was deleted for G12: Blatant copyright infringement: http://www.focushope.edu/about.htm) --Rayswizzy (talk) 13:55, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[dweeb]

How do I start a page entitled [dweeb] ? It is a christian rock band. Tractakid (talk) 12:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Is this ok? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dweeb_%28band%29 Tractakid (talk) 14:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

David Partlett

Being dean of a law school does not merit a whole article. The president of a state university with over 25,000 students gets a bit on the article for people at the uni. List_of_Iowa_State_University_people#Gregory_L._Geoffroy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bassgoonist (talk • contribs) 23:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Please take a look at WP:BLP1E discussion

Hi JLaTondre,

I see you do a lot of work on the Redirects for Discussion page, so you might have some insights about shortcuts that would be useful for this discussion: Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Shortcut WP:BLP1E should not link here. I suppose I should have listed it at the RfD page, but I didn't know RfD existed until after I got started. Please take a look. Thanks! Noroton (talk) 01:04, 9 March 2008 (UTC)