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my "act"

Can I list Atlantic Sun for deletion? I can't find any proof of its existence, a google search found me nothing. I added unreferenced. Do you have any sources or objections?NewAtThis (talk) 12:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sinuplasty (procedure)

seems to me like it needs a lot of help too.NewAtThis (talk) 12:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Happened to notice this comment, and yes, the article very much needs work. Its probably real, and the older versions have informal references--I dont have time to follow it up myself at the moment. DGG (talk) 18:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Deaths in 2008

An editor has nominated Deaths in 2008, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deaths in 2008 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 18:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Maribor centre

Hi. If you are interested in creating a DYK there should be enough info at here for a developed article on the main square or the Plague Memorial -this has an article on the SLovenian wiki ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:35, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 4 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mary Meader, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cheers, Daniel (talk) 06:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Recreation of article by a banned user

Thanks for your note with respect to Casey Owens (marine), which I have reproduced immediately below for your convenience.

Please undelete Casey Owens (marine), which, while a contribution by a blocked user, was a alid article. Please relpy at my talk page. Editorofthewiki 19:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm in rather a Catch-22 about this. I agree with you that it seems to be a valid article (I haven't traced down the references, but on its face it looks legitimate). At the same time, I believe that recreating the article would be contrary to the policy on banned users and could, in a sense, be viewed as my trying to circumvent this ban (which I assume was imposed for a good reason). What I would like to do, if you agree, is to recreate the content of the article for you on a sandbox page at User:Editorofthewiki/Sandbox. Then, if you still think it is worthwhile, you can recreate the article yourself and take responsibility for the contents -- thus, the contents will not be ascribed to the banned user, and Wikipedia will have the benefit of an article (if, of course, it passes muster in other respects). Please let me know on my talk page what your wishes are in this respect. Accounting4Taste:talk 21:31, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I should also mention that I shall be away from my desk over the weekend and thus, if I don't hear from you within an hour or so, the situation may have to wait until Monday. However, if another administrator reads this, I expect I would have no problem with any solution that meets with your mutual approval. Accounting4Taste:talk 21:52, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It's been placed at the end of your sandbox as per your request. If you have any further questions or problems, please feel free to leave me a note at your convenience. Accounting4Taste:talk 23:00, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

(exdent) I tend to agree in this specific instance with your comments about the policy, but in fact this is the first time I recall ever seeing anything worthwhile -- or apparently worthwhile -- coming from a banned user. I was sufficiently interested to go and re-read the policy on contributions by banned users and why they are required to be speedily deleted. It seemed to me that the policy was saying that, regardless of the merits of their contribution, the deletion was necessary -- and this is interpretation on my part -- because the deletion is part of the punishment associated with banning. That's how I read it, at any rate. I have certainly deleted a number of useless pages created by banned users in the past, and what crossed my mind in this instance was that the page could be some sort of elaborate hoax; I trust you have guarded against that possibility. However, I will defer to your judgment in this matter, since it seems likely that Wikipedia will get a useful article out of it. I believe this is the one-in-a-thousand incidence of useful content coming from a banned user, so I'm grateful that you brought this to my attention. If anything further comes up in relation to this, just let me know. Accounting4Taste:talk 23:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

You have certainly refuted my contention with your quotation ("Blocks are used to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, not to punish users.") and I'm grateful to know the correct policy. Since I have seen a number of useless pages created by banned users (more than this single instance of a useful page) I can't say I necessarily agree with the possible change in policy -- what I will say, though, is that if I see a page tagged for deletion because it was created by a banned user, I will examine the content carefully and, if it seems useful, non-hoaxing and non-policy-infringing, I will adopt it myself by cutting it, deleting the page, then restoring the page's content with myself as the creator (with appropriate notification on the relevant talk page). I suppose what I'm suggesting is that every instance should be considered individually, and I intend to do that from now on. Thanks again for your valuable contribution in this matter -- it's always great to rescue material and give Wikipedia a new page, and congratulations for your perseverance in doing that -- I'm now off for the weekend!! Accounting4Taste:talk 23:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Rollback request

Hi Editofthewiki, I've granted your rollback request. Just remember that rollback is for reverting vandalism, and not to revert good-faith edits or for use in revert wars. For more information, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. Good luck. Acalamari 23:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:IvanKorade.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:IvanKorade.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 01:43, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Canton

I'm sorry, but I can't seem to get the template to work properly. I don't know that much about templates. Basketball110  Talk  14:33, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, thanks for the effort. I have already posted a request at the Village pump. Editorofthewiki 14:35, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject French Communes Newsletter

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The French Communes WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 2 • April 5, 2008 • About the Project • Written by: Basketball110 and Editorofthewiki
News Project and team news: After an effort by several users including AlbertHerring, Basketball110, Blofeld of SPECTRE, Jj137, and Editorofthewiki, the project is out of inactivity (the removal of the template here). We have also completed creating the articles on towns. Now we are working on adding infoboxes and demographics to them.	Features Featured French commune articles of the week: Arbellara, an example of what a village with 152 inhabitants is supposed to look like. French communes	Collaboration of the Month The push for cantons has begun! See Canton of Champagne-en-Valromey for an example of what the canton articles are to look like. We want to get articles on all of them by the end of the month.
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Verifiability.

I see you're creating a lot of articles about villages in Hungary without any sources - please read Wikipedia's verifiability policy. -- Jeandré, 2008-04-07t12:16z

They are all from their Hungarian equivalent, I thought that was a given. Editorofthewiki 19:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hungarian towns

Who do you think the guy was who created all the articles like Mezőkovácsháza and all of the provincial templates like that one??? I added all the villages in at least 5 provinces over a year and a half ago -I took for granted by now somebody had completed them but obviously not. You'll need to created some more provincial templates then ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Editor review/Editorofthewiki

I have reviewed you. I noticed that you asked User:Basketball110, a friend of mine. So I decided to review you. Any comments?--RyRy5 ^{Got something to say?} 14:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing me. As you know, the Editor review process is fatally backlogged. I generally do participate in XFDs when I come across one as is the same for vandalism. Right now I've been working on French canton articles but when I'm done the ~4,000 of these that need creatng I'll be working on DYKS. Editorofthewiki 14:23, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Mark Speight

Hey, I reverted your addition of a fair use image to Mark Speight's page. As he is still alive a free-use image is still possible to obtain, therefore it does not satisfy fair use laws to include one. In fact, I have just messaged a Flickr user, asking if they will change the license of an image of Speight so it can be freely used here. Gran² 16:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Certainly, and now that's done. This infobox needed the full [[Image:blah.jpg|200px]] works. It would be a lot less confusing if all of the infobox image fields were the same. Gran² 16:59, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:AWB

Hi. What exactly are you having problems with? If I know exactly where you are (i.e. problems downloading it, installing it, opening it, etc.) I'm sure I can help.   jj137 (talk) 17:10, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Try this link.   jj137 (talk) 02:03, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I guess I'm not really sure what you mean. Like this?   jj137 (talk) 23:09, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support in my RFA, that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. Lawrence § t/e 18:07, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

adminship

Hi, I'm honored that you want to nominate me for admin, but I have to say no thanks. I already spend way too much time on wikipedia ;-) Markussep ^Talk 16:36, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Mark Speight + RFPP

Regarding this request: take a proper look at your link, the death is not confirmed. "Mr Speight's relatives have been informed of the discovery, police said, but a formal identification has yet to take place." Just so you realise why protection is still in place. _TalkIslander 20:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Snow King

Please explain why you removed, without explanation, the speedy deletion tag that I placed on this article. Thank you. – ukexpat (talk) 00:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)