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Guess Chat

I have to ask and answer many things. This is Neru. I have simply made a page to my self and I have done nothing wrong but you state my page will be deleted? Why is this? 19:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A Message To the Mack

Dear Mr. Mack, I admit to nothing. The statement about Belleville is true. Have you been there? I visited it for art on the square. My first impression, and last, was that belleville is an artless void. The only people there were old rich people, the young crowd doesn't care, THEIR CULTURELESS! The square is a circle by the way, and it should be titled "art on the circle". I have no comments about the page on the middle school, however I would like to comment on your remark about experimenting in the sandbox. I will experiment with yer mom later tonight....oh yeah! She's gonna holler like a holler monkey, 'cause she likes it that way. Oh yeah, you wanna hang out some time? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dr dell (talk • contribs). 20:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me

the Nick helping wikipedia be protected does show a purpose and I am shocked that you would put that for deltion look at my articles I have sir and why don't you e-mail me. Thank you user:Nick37 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.171.41.22 (talk) 05:43, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HEY JERK

Hey buddy i dont appreciate you going around vandalising peoples user pages i dont why do you?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leo III (talk • contribs) 23:07, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hemmes

My crew have been trying to get an entry placed on Wikipedia about me. It was speedy deleted. I'm not sure how to avoid that. They wanted to do this because of the political and social discussion in my films which have led to my appointment as the Vice President of the Peoria AZ film festival. We had a six hundred word essay on us (My film The Domain) in the AZ republic yet that wasn't enough to avoid speedy deletion. What are we missing?

Paul Hemmes 23:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Critical Review

moved to Talk:Critical Review (Brown University) DMacks (talk) 18:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Festivus!

I plant a stick into the earth
For Christians' celebration of their savior's birth.

DMacks (talk) 17:05, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Advanced Packaging Tool

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Advanced Packaging Tool, without explaining the reason for the removal in the edit summary. Unexplained removal of content does not appear constructive, and your edit has been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. In addition, the information that was deleted was notable enough for inclusion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.138.31.76 (talk)

I direct your attention to where I wrote "again remove non-notable trivia" in the edit summary for my edit. By all means continue the discussion about this very piece of content started long ago on the article Talk page. ~~

Edit Protect Tag Missing

Dear Administrators, Kindly put a clear tag on top of the IIPM page that mentions that this page is edit protected. Warm regards, Mrinal Pandey (talk) 07:59, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) Regards, Mrinal Pandey (talk) 07:58, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your clean up on sittles

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your work fighting vandalism on the skittles page thanks!Ottawa4ever (talk) 01:01, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for admin review

When you have a moment, can you take a look at the history of biodegradable plastic? There is an editor who has been disruptive - repeatedly adding the same poorly written paragraph despite being reverted by several editors. I'd either block the IP or protect the article myself, but since I've been reverting it's probably best handled by an uninvolved administrator. Can you look and see what you think is the best course of action? Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 22:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I counter-signed your level4 warning. DMacks (talk) 00:56, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 11:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of universities in Ontario

The image stacking problem only happens if you use a screen smaller than 800x600. Most screens are 1024x768 or more, and featured lists are built to accommodate screens of at least that size, which makes sense. Gary King (talk) 17:50, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why intentionally make it hard for users to read a page, when there are alternatives that work for everyone? See MOS:IMAGES, which explicitly advises against stacking and editing for accessibility rather than perfect layout for "some standard type of display". DMacks (talk) 18:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would probably be more constructive if this discussion was taken to WT:FLC instead of only one FLC as images on the side of FLCs are pretty common over there. Out of the ten most recently promoted FLCs at WP:FL2008, these have images next to a table: List of Wranglers of the University of Cambridge, List of Calgary Flames head coaches, List of Florida Marlins Opening Day starting pitchers, List of The Open Championship champions, and List of Boston Red Sox Opening Day starting pitchers. And I'd say in most cases there is no specific reason for choosing an image in the lead; however, in the case of List of universities in Ontario, I chose that image since it's arguably the most well-known school in the province; it also has the largest enrollment, and is the oldest. Gary King (talk) 03:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janice Brabaw

Thanks for your comment. Any way you could check for suspected sockpuppetry without me having to submit a formal request? - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 06:00, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a checkuser, and I don't think it's needed yet...tag with {{spa}} and have some faith in the closing admin to see the same shenanigans you see:) There's no serious policy issue (unless you suspect the sock-puppetting is being done to evade a ban) and they haven't yet proven to have an effect on the outcome of the AfD (they may yet find WP:RS support, so all's well by the end). However, if AfD closes "keep" and you think there are socks that inappropriately swayed the outcome, then it's a perfect time for WP:RFCU. DMacks (talk) 06:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Erin Callan

68.222.28.120 (talk) 20:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC) I think you made a mistake by deleting the Erin Callan artcle with Lehman Brothers. She is responsible for much of the turmoil we are now seeing in the capital and credit markets. You should reseach her and David Einhorn. I think you will see that they will be written about for years to come when the books are written about the proposed $700 BILLION DOLLAr bailout. 68.222.28.120 (talk) 20:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When there are specific claims of notability that are supported by reliable citations, feel free to create a viable page that does not run afoul of the speedy-deletion criteria. It's not up to me to do your research and my crystal ball is broken. DMacks (talk) 21:03, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Brotherhood of Battle

Well, I created a reasonable article. I made improvements per the request of others. I created a talk page and made a reasonable argument to contest speedy deletion. Instead, the article was deleted nearly three times in less than five minutes, as well as the talk page, without any reference to the argument made. I also made reference to other existing articles which--over the course of their existence--have grown into solid articles. The deletion is contrary to the spirit of the wiki community and I'm frustrated with the haste of the action as it makes it difficult to improve/create organically. Thanks for listening. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cancerstick (talk • contribs) 02:27, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article in the form I deleted was well outside anything acceptible per speedy-deletion standards for websites. It failed to assert notability, it was written somewhat like an advertisement, and it was claimed to be a copyright violation from some other website. That's three speedy-deletion triggers all at once. I have no objection to the article, but you need to write a viable article. I saw nothing on the talk-page that would resolve these concerns. Given the ad-tone and especially the copyright problem, really the only way the page could be salvaged would be to restart completely from scratch. You are (still) welcome to write a viable article, but it has to start out being viable...Wikipedia's main article space isn't a sandbox for "what hopefully will eventually become a viable article". Use a userspace sandbox or something, then commit the article when it's actually viable. DMacks (talk) 04:04, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

So if we reference our own article I just put that statement at the bottom of the article I referenced? I riposted the way you recommended, let me know if I need to change something. Thanks... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobwh (talk • contribs) 20:30, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Somehow you have to prove that the material is available under the GFDL content license. An excellent way would certainly be a note stating that on the original webpages, yes. DMacks (talk) 20:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deletion of "zikney Tzfat"

Hi There, sorry i'm not so experianced with Wiki so i am probably doing something wrong but.... as stated in my article "Zikney Tzfat" was an incredibly important and influential rock band in Israel, they sold a gold album (!), relesed 4 albums with the majour brand in Israel (NMC), had thousands of fans and were regularly written about and in all the majour TV stations in Israel (and even the Europien MTV channel as well with their song Riki) I have put links connecting to a site that sales their album, another majour link about the most important bands in Israel with a special page about "Zikney Tzfat" and 3 other links of live concerts aired on the majour TV channel in Israel. so how come the editor said:

02:16, 7 October 2008 DMacks (Talk | contribs) deleted "Zikney tzfat" ‎ (A7 (group): Doesn't indicate importance or significance of a group/company/etc.)

I simply dont understand

please cancel your deletion. Many Thanks Roy

Here is the article again if you need it:

Zikney Tzfat (or “Old Men Of Zefat” in Hebrew) were a grunge / punk group formed in Tel Aviv Israel around 1990 by Maor Cohen, Yoni Bentovim, Oren Lutenberg, and later joined by Rea Mochiach. They were known for their wild and chaotic concerts and their extreme lyrics which were full with absurdist humour. In the period of their first album (simply titled “Zikney Tzfat” ) their music was very noisy and influenced by American grunge bands like Killdozer and Butthole Surfers. Around 1994 the band members changed and the band released another album (Zikney Tzfat 2 ) which was more soft and melodic and was more successful commercially (but musically was less appreciated). In 1995 they released two more albums (“Ten Li Shlager” and “Ten Li Shlager 2” which were more “Low Fi” in their nature and were musically more reminiscent of the first album. The band split in 1996. Cohen continues to make music as a solo artist, Lutenberg is playing guitar with some of the best musicians in Israel ( Bari Sacharof amongst them), Mochiach was playing with Gogol Bordello and David Byrne amongst others and continues to make music and Bentovim is a film maker. Other musicians who played in the band in various periods are: Tom Mochiach and Yuval Kiner and aviv papo. Zikney Tzfat were a very influential band, especially at the beginning of the nineties mainly because in their extremity they sounded like nothing else (not before or since…) in the Israeli music scene, they brought an attitude of freedom and sloppiness of sound and performance to a music scene that is mostly very measured and controlled.

Discography: Zikney Tzfat -1992 Zikney Tzfat 2- 1994 Ten Li Shlager- 1995 Ten Li Shlager2-1996

Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12gOY5XDxr0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6sbCAQ7ps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztUwPC7vBMc&feature=related http://mooma.keshet-tv.com/artist.asp?ArtistID=1553 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roy75 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done--sorry about that! That statement about gold was pretty buried in the article. Might want to make "what makes this band important?" more prominent, or at least list chart-positions or awards for each album in the discography list. I've placed some "cite-needed" tags on the claims of notability because (unfortunately) we do have bands make all sorts of false claims to try to boost themselves--specific cites to some mainstream press coverage would be helpful. Note that Youtube is not a valid source...need "real" publications (ok if in Hebrew, but if so might be nice to add a translation of a key sentence or two). See WP:BAND and WP:RS for more information. DMacks (talk) 14:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]