User talk:Shell Kinney

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Welcome to my Talk Page I am retired, so if you're looking to contact me, please use the box over there --->  Contact info Send me an email through Wikipedia or shell.kinneygmail.com ICQ: 12502641 Gtalk: shell.kinney Skype: shell.kinney  So long and thanks for all the fish Thank you for all of the warm wishes and generally nice thoughts sent in my direction. I have retired from all Wikimedia projects and turned in all my extra tools as a security measure (we all appreciate those now, don't we?). For those few of you who were disappointed at not getting a whole ton of gossip out of my explanation for leaving (and didn't think to ask me privately, duh) I can only offer this cartoon as penance. Best of luck to all of you and feel free to keep in touch (see above). Shell babelfish 11:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC) Your review of the biography of the musician Ilaiyaraaja Dear Shell: Late last year, you provided useful comments for the FA candidate Ilaiyaraaja (see here). The article has been brushed up considerably since, and I was wondering if you could give it a once-over sometime (if it isn't too much trouble) and perhaps comment in its talk page about your perception of its condition and its potential for an FA re-nomination. Cheers, AppleJuggler 01:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Concerning your Admin Coaching assignments Your name is still listed at Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Volunteers. The department is heavily backlogged with student's requests for coaches, and we need your help! Note that the instructions may have changed since the last time you checked, and the department now follows a self-help process... If you don't currently have a student, or if you believe you can handle another one, please select a student from the request list at Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Requests and contact them. See the instructions on Wikipedia:Admin coaching. Good luck. If you are no longer available to coach, , please remove yourself from the volunteers list. Thank you. The Transhumanist    03:27, 13 March 2007 (UTC) Gospel News Hi Shell, I have been in contact as well with the editors of the magazine Gospel News and my fear is that with the article remaining in its current form that it will just be added to again in the negative way that it has been in the past, hence my adding the deletion proposal. Any views? --Samtheboy (t/c) 06:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC) Assuming the article is sufficiently notable and doesn't meet one of our other criteria for deletion, I've found the best way to handle these types of problems is to insist (like we should for all articles) on high quality sources being provided for any added material. It can be a rather thankless job to police the article for a bit and it make take quite some time to explain Wikipedia policies to the majority of interested editors - it often helps to engage other more seasoned editors to assist. However, if you feel that the article meets one of the deletion criteria, you might want to nominate it for deletion. Shell babelfish 07:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC) I had already nominated for deletion (check the history) but a user removed the notice... I also got an email from one of the magazine editors requesting that the article was removed (hence the AfD notice and beginnings of deletion discussion in the talk page) --Samtheboy (t/c) 07:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC) The deletion process is actually very specific - please take a look at WP:AFD for information on how to start the discussion in a place the community can review it. If you have any questions about how to get that started or need assistance with it, please let me know. After placing the notice on the article that it is being considered for deletion, you are free to revert anyone who tries to remove the tag before the seven day period is up. Shell babelfish 07:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC) Brian Lynch Good catch on that vandalsim. That article is on my watch list and the vandalism was there for several days. Don't know how I missed it. --Oakshade 08:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC) Talk:MetaQuotes - permission for text I noticed your addition of a permission of use on this article. It has twice been deleted for spam and not copyvio. The remaining talk page seems fairly unnecessary in this case. Let me know what you think. RichMac (Talk) 16:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC) I understand why the article was deleted and have advised the company representative of the reasons why the article is being deleted. I've asked them not to repost the material again in its current form, pointed them at WP:CORP and the guidelines on conflicts of interest. However, they still wish to release the material from their website under the GFDL on the off chance that someone will write an article about them in the future. I don't think the notice causes much harm and it certainly doesn't allow anyone to bypass the criteria for deleting advertising. Shell babelfish 02:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Images on Bruce Hornsby I noticed that you added image tags w/ ticket numbers from OTRS to 3 of the 4 images on the Bruce Hornsby article. Since I uploaded the images, I know that permission was granted for all four. I'm sure it was just an accident, but could you add the image tag w/ ticket to [Image:BruceCentralPark.jpg] too...you could just cut and paste it off of one of the other images ([Image:BruuuceHead.jpg] for instance). I know that the permissions confirmation sent to OTRS was for all four images at once, so the tag and ticket number should be the same for all. (I'd add it myself, but I wasn't sure if that was permitted). Many thanks!!! Snidleysnide 17:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC) Thanks for catching that! I could have sworn I added that to all four images. Great photos by the way :) Shell babelfish 03:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Signpost updated for March 20th, 2007. 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