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That should do it. Currently it creates an extra tab. That could pretty easily be switched to a toolbox link, if you desire. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:58, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
What is wrong and appears advertising to you in the following few sentences about the Genova and Dimitrov piano duo, that made you to delete the article and block my user account, which has nothing in common with Liuben:
Genova & Dimitrov is a German piano duo.
The duo consists of Aglika Genova (born June 29, 1971) and Liuben Dimitrov (born October 12, 1969) and appears worldwide both at two pianos and at one piano four-handed with recital programmes, as well as with orchestra. Aglika and Liuben released CD recodings on cpo Classics.
Since the fall of 2008, Genova and Dimitrov became Associate Professors of the Hannover State Academy of Music and Theatre and lead the special class for piano duo performance.
Piano4ever —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.131.92.116 (talk) 23:57, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for voting in my recent successfully closed RfA! --Kanonkas : Talk 18:12, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology (C)(T) 08:04, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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My edit, as always, was in good faith. Please do not assume vandalism and read the edit history where you will see I have raised the issue on the article's Talk Page leaky_caldron (talk) 18:09, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks mate for that. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 23:36, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
This was a very well-presented message. It gets the point across without being bitey, patronizing, or disrespectful. I'm glad there are administrators like you that take the time to follow the spirit of WP:CIVIL, not just the letter! -kotra (talk) 21:17, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
I've just replied to your message on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#.22Blame__LOLiver.22, the hacker has just come back. See here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Removed_the_resolved_tag. Thought you might want to be informed. Control-alt-delete ★ user◾talk◾favs 22:45, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
My RFA passed today at 61/5/4. Thanks for participating in my RFA. I appreciate all the comments I received and will endeavor to justify the trust the WP community has placed in me. Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 21:10, 11 April 2009 (UTC) |
All done! --Mixwell!Talk.css)) 18:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Sir, why is this article not eligible for speedy deletion? I agree the subject itself is notable, but the page as it stands does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, as per CSD:A7, so would appear to me to be qualified. ShakingSpirittalk 20:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, if this category was deleted, shouldn't it be empty? Folk 55 (talk) 03:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
A decisive and brave closure, well done. -- PBS (talk) 13:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Before going to DRV, I figured I would discuss this with you here. First of all, at the most basic level I count 11 keeps and 8 deletes. Of course, CfD is not a vote, so I won't dwell on that. In essence, all of the delete rationales (and your own closure) boil down to delete the category because it can be misused. Many categories have the potential to be misused, this does not mean we should delete them. Similarly, we do not delete articles on controversial people or topics simply because they are likely to attract NPOV problems and edit wars.
The claim was repeatedly made by those !voting delete that there is no "watertight" definition of terrorist. This is true, but there is also no "watertight" definition of athlete (what about someone who plays tennis on the weekends with his wife?) The fact of the matter is that, in many cases, there is consensus among reliable published sources about whether or not someone is a terrorist. Political science journal, newspapers worldwide (including in the Islamic world), and governments have all labeled people like Bin Laden terrorists. There is absolutely no debate among respectable scholars about this characterization (whatever the case may be on the "arab street"). Yes, there are borderline cases, but that doesn't mean there is a lack of clear cases.
In short, scholars worldwide devote considerable attention to the study of terrorism and terrorists. There is a broad consensus among these scholars in many cases. As I said in the discussion, I am not aware of a single reliable source that says bin Laden is not a terrorist. Deleting the category is fundamentally unhelpful and unnecessary, and I hope you will reconsider your decision. If not, I'm sorry to have to challenge you at DRV, but I feel that it would be appropriate to take the matter there. Cool3 (talk) 03:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
A few more... thanks. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 19:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the note. I like to do my best, so constructive criticism is always welcome :). Could you please link me to the article(s) though. Cheers - Kingpin13 (talk) 15:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Thought I'd bring it to your attention that 71.145.166.33 is blanking people's user pages, talk pages, and is persistently vandalizing articles. Every time someone warns him, he blanks his own talkpage. Please block this user. Δnnuit Cœptis 19:24, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Does this merit a block extension? --Rrburke(talk) 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up, I deleted Category:Chechen terrorists, presuming you forgot to zap it along with the other terrorist categories you got (presumably from Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_April_27#Category:Terrorists). Anyway, if this was a mistake on my part, feel free to undo it. Cheers, =) --slakr\ talk / 23:10, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Two years ago you blocked Zebruh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for "POV and legal problems".[1] FYI, I just blocked Mikutyan (talk · contribs) as a block evading account of the same user. He has been recreating LS Studio (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), an article originally created by Zebruh. Will Beback talk 05:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
For participating in my RFA. Even though it was a compelte and utter failure, I would like to thank you for the advice. I hope that I will be better for my next RFA. Thanks, Abce2|AccessDenied 22:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Nuvola. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
"it's one of those things that's common knowledge and doesn't require a citation, just like water is wet and so on" Jan. 24
Have you been having a lot of success with "water is wet"-type facts? There is a page in Wikipedia where I added a fact like that, several times, and it would be deleted within 5 - 10 minutes. Finally I added it again, with a citation. It still got deleted because the "guardians" of that page happen not to like that particular fact. So, citation or no, out it goes.
The heck with it.
Varlaam (talk) 15:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Would you please consider commenting at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Grue/ethics. The page contains content related to yourself. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
This doesn't get much vandalism. Please undo your lock at least reduce it to established editors can edit it. Nobody has been able to add a higher quality svg map because you locked it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:39, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Jeez, give me a bit of time to complete the article. You deleted it about 20 seconds after it's creation!! At least give a warning that you're going to delete it unless I provide a good reason not too! I'm going to restart it and please give me more than 20 seconds to complete it!! Fletch 2002 (talk) 16:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
I realised that the creator had re-created this deleted article after I had modified it slightly - only after that did I see that you had deleted it!
However, the information came from kurrein The Jewish Encyclopedia, which is where the www.kurrein.com website got their information from.
The Jewish Encyclopedia is in the Public Domain (it was printed 1901-1906), and so usign text from it is acceptable - and in fact their is a notice at the bottom of the article acknowledging this as a source of information.
My understanding is that if it is PD, then it can be copied as-is, especially as the source is being openly acknowledge on the article. Am I correct in this thinking? As far as I am aware, there is nowhere in the world where this publication (which is now 103 years old!) is not in PD.
I look forward to hearing from you to clarify this misunderstanding! I should point out that I knew nothing about Herr Kurrein before I came across this article by chance, and personally I don't care if it's in Wikipedia or not (it's in the German wikipedia, as is also ackowledged on the article page) - but I do want to get to know the legalities better! This is a learning opportunity for me.
They say that you learn a new thing every day - I must be doing a hell of a lot of catching up on all the days when I learnt nothing, as I learn lots every day - not just from the articles on Wikipedia, but from other editors helping me to understand how to be a better editor - I hope you can help me with this too!
Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 17:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe there was a consensus that was backed up with more than votes and opinions. There is no presented evidence these pages meet wp:notability requirements for individual pages. Just because a handful of very vocal editors FEEL they do, doesn't make a consensus for Keep on an AfD when there is ZERO evidence for individual notability of the MAJORITY of these service center pages. Your closure of this hours after it has been opened I believe to be in error. The majority of these pages can't stand up to an AfD on them individually, and that was the rationale for the bulk AfD to save time. Please explain where you see consensus that is more than just opinion? AfD's need to look at WP policy for inclusion not just look at the opinion of some vocal editors. — raeky (talk | edits) 21:43, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
I was happy to see the AfD closed as it was becoming disruptive. I came here out of curiosity to see if anyone requested clarification on the closure. I am disgusted to see that Raeky characterises Kudpung's edits as trolling and it shows a clear lack of understanding of the term. Kudpung notified Jeni who has edited articles about motorway service stations before, so it was logical to let her know. As for the note left on my talk page, Kudpung could have had no idea what my stance would be on the matter. Kudpung made a grand total of two edits to the AfD. And yet the editor is characterised as vocal (which is used as a dirty word by Raeky)? Kudpung was a peripheral participant in the discussion and most of his edits were to post neutral messages on the talk pages of the affected articles in an attempt make interested parties aware of the AfD. To characterise such actions as trolling is an assumption of bad faith, pure and simple.
As for the section on my user talk page, if comments such as "I have been working on and off to improve these articles" (by Jeni), "The AfD has certainly motivated me to see what I can do with Knutsford services" (by Malleus Fatuorum), "I'd actually like to see the article for those services on the M61 improved, as they are without doubt the biggest toilet on the planet" (by Parrot of Doom) and "I can understand Raeky's arguments though I may disagree with them" (myself) are attempts to de-rail the discussion then I'm a can of tomato soup. Nev1 (talk) 23:02, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
The current AfD is part of a suggestion to have 50+ Motorway Service Station articles removed from the Wkipedia although many were kept by consensus on earlier AfD debates. See:
- User_talk:Raeky#AfD_Motorway__service_stations
- Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Norton_Canes_services_(2nd_nomination)
To quote Raeky, "In addition not only did a few vocal editors like Kudpung troll (and here and here) for additional vocal editors to quickly flood the page". I strongly suggest you retract the word troll, as I'm sure you didn't mean it that way. If you are going to accuse someone have being a troll, you need serious evidence to back you up. Upon first reading that I was extremely tempted to take it to WQA, but that wouldn't achieve anything. For what its worth, any editor worth their salt who remotely contributes to MSA articles will know that I am heavily involved in them, and I'd generally be one of the first users they notify about in such a debate. That isn't trolling, that is using common sense! Putting comments on article talk pages also isn't trolling, and Nev is also an obvious person to inform regarding a debate on a UK place, as he is involved in that area in general. Looking through the contributions of all those involved in the debate, I see no obvious trolling or (the bad form of) canvassing, all seems all above board. Surely if you'd have looked at the previous AfD debates (there are more than one), you'd see there is already a strong consensus to keep these articles, you could have saved all this agro without tarnishing your good name. Apart from todays incident, you look like a good editor with a lot of common sense, but I suspect the opinion of you by many users has now changed.
Thank you Nick for making the common sense call, for which you deserve a medal!Jeni (talk) 00:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
I replied to your post on the "Edit war/COI on WDTW-FM" thread on ANI. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 03:13, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for welcoming me back to Wikipedia.--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 00:20, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Seriously though, see WP:ENVIRONMENT_LAUGH--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 10:46, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi there, someone on Wikipedia seems to think that it is the right thing to enter the wrong build dates for the British Rail Class 321 Electric Multiple Unit trains. They state incorrectly that these trains were built during the period of 1986-89. This cannot be possible, as during this time, British Rail were building the Class 317/2 Electric Multiple Units (1985-87) and Class 319/0 Electric Multiple Units (1987-88).
The correct build dates for the Class 321 are as follows:
I also include a reference, it is The Railway Centre 'Technical Data' <http://www.therailwaycentre.com/New%20EMU%20Tech%20Data/EMU_321.html>
Please can you ensure that no-one inputs the incorrect date?
Thanking you in advance.
--Peter Skuce (talk) 09:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for supplying further ciatations/reference.
From
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I just reverted vandalism on AN/TPS-43 and on talk:AN/TPS-43 both from User:190.147.13.211. This is not within the IP range you specified on the talk page, but I thought I'd let you know anyway. DES (talk) 17:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello Nick. Jano rajmond (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), whom you have blocked, is requesting to be unblocked. The request for unblock is on hold while waiting for a comment from you. Regards, Sandstein 11:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 13 and Talk:British Rail Class 58 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mddkpp (talk • contribs) 02:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Nick,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.206.39 (talk) 03:35, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nick, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:US$#Protection.3F when you are able to. Thanks!
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Hi, I'm just looking at Arbroath smokies and notice your rewrite of 2006 added the "local legend" of their origin. It's unsourced — could you shed any light on the origin of the legend? I've added a query to the Talk page there. Alexbrn (talk) 13:30, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Nick, Apparently Takeaway was displeased with some of my edits several years ago. He took revenge by auditing my edits, and reversing many of them. It would take hours to research them all, but it has discouraged me from any further contributions. On some pages about religious leaders, I would add a name, and he would delete it as non-notable, while leaving many other non-notable names on the same page. This is one example of his vindictive selective editing. There are areas in which I have expertise from my doctoral studies in which I made contributions, only to have this person revise them or start an afd. You can see from his page that he was reprimanded in the past. I stated my reason for leaving WP. I have much better use of my free time which I was happy to contribute to WP. I thought those who requested or followed my edits should have a reason for my inactivity. If you could get Takeaway to pledge to stop editing my edits, regardless if he thinks them incorrect (other editors also watch pages), then I would agree to take down my reference to him. รัก-ไทย (talk) 14:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Finally! - Takeaway (talk) 10:11, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello Nick, thanks for talking to CACook7 regarding the John Call Cook issue. You said at his talk page that you needed to understand the redirect issue. In order not to antagonize CACook7 any further I'll write here instead of at his talk page; if you feel he should be informed of this comment, please either do so yourself or tell me and I'll drop him a line.
From what I understand, CACook7 feels the article on John Call Cook should ideally be at John C. Cook; that place is currently occupied by unreladed John Calhoun Cook. CACook then deemed it fair that neither article should have pride of place, and he performed a cut and paste move of Calhoun to John Calhoun Cook while turning John C. Cook into a disambiguation page. I reverted that to maintain the integrity of the page histories and because I wasn't (and by now am even less) convinced that Calhoun shouldn't be considered the primary topic for John C. Cook: [2], [3]. CACook also created a duplicate disambiguation page at John C Cook and redirects from J. C. Cook and J C Cook to John Call Cook. I redirected John C Cook to John C. Cook and tagged the other two redirects for deletion because I felt that they might be more misleading than helpful; in fact J. C. Cook has incoming links that are meant for a football coach with the same initials. On advice of Thryduulf at the deletion discussion they'll probably be retargeted to Cook (surname)#J.
To make matters worse, CACook and I had interacted at the IRC help channel #wikipedia-en-help connect where he apparently felt antagonized by me, strongly objected to me copyediting his article (not because of what I changed but because by editing the article I "wasn't giving him a chance" to make it the best possible article himself), and ultimately accused me of lying because at that time I didn't have much of an opinion on whether Calhoun should be the primary topic for John C. Cook. I still don't quite understand why CACook7 felt my stance was aggressive, but by now I accept I should give him a wide berth to prevent further drama. Even those of my edits I considered the most obviously innocent are seen as either stupidly misguided or actively malicious.
I'd be grateful for some advice. Should I simply remove those articles and redirects from my watchlist and disengage entirely, or is it appropriate for me to continue to edit them, calmly explaining my edits in hopes of reaching some kind of common ground? I don't doubt what CACook7 whould prefer, but with the exception of the initial copyediting, all my edits to date addressed issues where I felt that CACook7's edits were harmful - not deliberately so, but through inexperience. Again, thank you for taking the time to look at this mess. Huon (talk) 03:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
:One other point I wanted to mention is that I have asked at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Physics for comments from uninvolved editors, experienced in this field regarding whether this bio meets WP:PROF or GNG. --nonsense ferret 12:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi
You have deleted an article I am working on on grounds that it is copied from here: http://www.nairobicity.com/entries/multimedia-university-college-kenya
Please note that they have copied the content from here:http://www.mmu.ac.ke which is the Universities main page.
I was laying it out first then re-writing it. Please restore it so that I finish it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sosha (talk • contribs) 11:57, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
How long is Keifer supposed to be blocked? It reads indefinite, but I am assuming it will be reverted by you after some time, right?
Thanks, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 00:25, 19 April 2013 (UTC) [Talkback please!]
Are you planning on offering an explanation? Most administrators who aren't abusing their tools don't clear a talk page and place an unexplained indef block notice. Ryan Vesey 00:25, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Did the user contact you and ask you to delete the page? Given that the user has been highly active for a while and has a pretty good discussion going on about RFB's I don't think its appropriate to delete the userpage. Protecting it would be better but even that isn't really necessary. Kumioko (talk) 01:37, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Nick, what were you trying to remove in your revision deletions of Kiefer's talk page, and why did you remove the user name and edit summary? In this diff in particular I can't see anything wrong, and I don't think it's a good idea to have revisions of an indefblocked user deleted without reason. What's going on? Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 02:28, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Well, I've re-revdeled a batch of edits, which should hopefully bring it in line with what Nick intended. This is not any particular sing of approval from me about the propriety of the revdel itself; I don't think it's right, but it's whatever. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 04:21, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Bizarre. I had stopped editing Automatic Strikeout's talk page before I was blocked. I had thought of filing a edit-warring complaint before I realized that it was a waste of my time.
At the 3RRNB, you stated you were indefinite blocking me because of my history of disruptive editing. When you returned to [whatever you do here], you changed your story.
The kid with the stupid user name should quit using that account. The kid who complained about renegades running good editors off the site should man-up and name names. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 10:36, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
I don't necessarily want to say too much, as there are still allegations of a possible outing swirling around, but I volunteered to help an editor who was having trouble, initially, with a talk page being edited against the user's wishes. I would have locked the talk page and perhaps issues a 24 hour block to Kiefer to persisting in editing it against the wishes of the user in question, and there's an issue with a couple of editors effectively tag teaming which would have been dealt with too, but then things got a bit more complicated. When I looked into it and asked Kiefer to stop editing the talk page, I was then informed that a person's initials were being used, ostensibly in contravention of the outing policy, I know it's pretty borderline but I believe it's wise to take a precautionary view and given there was already a request from the editor to Kiefer asking not to be referred to in such a manner, it did seem like a deliberate behaviour rather than an accidental incident, which effectively forced my hand into an indefinite block until something could be done. I rev-deleted edits by Kiefer and the editor in question confirmed that the necessary personal information had been removed, I apologise to Write Keeper, Kevin and particularly the editor who felt they were being outed if the personal information remained after I had tried to delete it. I've since been informed that there's a history surrounding the editor in question, potential outings and there are claims the Arbitration Committee are involved, I had no idea I had stumbled across anything more complex than an editor initially involved in a frankly silly edit war on the talk page of a retired user and later, a rather pointy if not entirely conventional attempt to out, or at least irritate and intimidate another editor. I'm glad that the block has been rescinded, I would hope that the editor who feels they were outed might consider doing something about their identity to make it both more difficult to out them in future and to make it clearer if there is an outing issue, and I would again hope that Kiefer, when asked not to refer to someone by a different name or set of initials, heeds that request. Anyway, thanks to all who have sorted everything out, it wasn't my intention for this to end as messily as it did. Nick (talk) 09:50, 19 April 2013 (UTC)