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IRC invitation

Because I have noticed you commenting at the current RfC regarding Pending Changes, I wanted to invite you to the IRC channel for pending changes. If you are not customarily logged into the IRC, use this link. This under used resource can allow real time discussion at this particularly timely venture of the trial known as Pending Changes. Even if nothing can come from debating points there, at least this invitation is delivered with the best of intentions and good faith expectations. Kind regards. My76 Strat 09:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ECCA AfD, and accusations of socking/canvasing

The discussions linked to here in no way support a conclusion of sockpuppetry or canvasing, and I'm not sure why you thought that would be a possibility. The post I made on Wehwalt's talkpage was in relation to a prior incident that involved both of us and the identity of ECCA's author. The post I made on the author's talk page was self-evidently kosher, as I was merely informing her of the AfD. I'm not sure why you suggested merging or relisting due to socking, as neither action was appropriate given the facts of the case. Throwaway85 (talk) 03:50, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I should have written "canvassing" rather than "socking". Requesting users to come to a vote/discussion with the expectation they will vote your way isn't appropriate; see the "audience" criterion of WP:CANVAS. Stifle (talk) 08:54, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just to be clear, I'll make the same point here that I did on my talk page: I never requested any user come to the AfD. I informed the author of the article that the AfD was taking place, after confirming her identity with an editor we've both worked with. That is all. Perhaps you'd like to read the provided links more closely before making such allegations. Throwaway85 (talk) 20:18, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Should this now be taken to a DRV or is it too late for that or what?--Yaksar (let's chat) 20:15, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - The usual process is to renominate after a month or two. Stifle (talk) 11:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil

Stifle, you left unanswered replies in Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil's FAC nomination. The image you complained that lacked sources is not being used in the article, but another version of it which has source. Please respond there. --Lecen (talk) 15:15, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Malati_Dasi_with_Bhaktivedanta_Swami_in_Vrindavan_1975.jpg needing permission

Hi Stifle. May I ask you to please confirm the image's OTRS permission on Commons? An email containing the owner's permission was forwarded on March 1. I apologize for this queue jumping request, which I wouldn't have made if it were not for the image being used to illustrate a DYK nomination poised for its Main Page chance. Many thanks. Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 16:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll need either a ticket number, some part of the email address it was sent from, or the email subject to have any chance of finding the ticket. Stifle (talk) 16:07, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your answer.

subject: Fwd: Permission to use your pic on Wikipedia
sent on: March 1, 2011 5:52:23 PM GMT+05:30

I hope this helps. Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 16:28, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your ticket number is 2011030110008973; I cannot currently process the ticket because I am at work and Commons is blocked there for some reason. If you post that ticket number at Commons:COM:ON someone will probably clear it for you. Stifle (talk) 08:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, Stifle. Much obliged. Cinosaur (talk) 09:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Left a clearance request hoping it will get processed faster than such requests there usually do. :) Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 11:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just got it cleared. Wow. That was fast! Thank you very much again. Cinosaur (talk) 11:37, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Request for undeletion

how do i take the stuff from the page college girls (are easy) out so i can add it to jesse itzlers page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nophonenophone (talk • contribs) 02:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've transferred it to User:Nophonenophone/College Girls (Are Easy); please tag it with {{db-userreq}} when you are done. Stifle (talk) 08:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for the tip about ~ singing, i actually did not know about that and find it quite helpful. Nophonenophone (talk) 16:27, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Metal Temple

Stifle, I am the webmaster and editor of Metal Temple magazine. It's an online magazine that's been around for more than 10 years and I just want to add a wikipedia entry but the previous one was deleted even though I tried to make it as neutral and informational as possible. I want to recreate it so I just wanted to know if that's ok.

--Palanthas (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You should not be creating an article about your own website. See WP:COI. Stifle (talk) 17:05, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Request for a redirection link for 2011 Chinese protests

Dear Stifle, thank you for deciding on the deletion request on 2011 Chinese protests. On the AfD page there, I have suggested that one could create a redirection link 2011 protests in China to this article in case it will be kept. There are already the redirections 2011 protests in Bahrain, 2011 protests in Egypt, 2011 protests in Tunisia not unrelated to the article in question. A user looking for the Chinese protests might start typing "2011 protests" and then see the autofill options "Bahrain, China, Egypt, Tunisia" if there will be a redirection. Thank you very much for consideration, Best Zhangjiandong (talk) 04:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you're asking me to do, but there is no reason not to create such redirects, and you do not need permission to create them. Stifle (talk) 13:24, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Xp mode.JPG

This Commons file seems a copyvio to me. However, somehow, I am unable to connect to Wikimedia Commons domain. Whatever the problem, I can't go to Commons, let alone nominate it for speedy-deletion. Will you please nominate it? Thanks in advance. Fleet Command (talk) 07:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go one better and delete it. I'm a Commons sysop :) Stifle (talk) 17:35, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. :) Fleet Command (talk) 17:44, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A penny for your thought...

Hello again, Stifle. Sorry to bother you again. Just wanted to know whether you can make anything out of this. I send User:Jasper Deng a message and he sends back this message to me. Before I do anything short of assuming good faith, what do you think of this reply? Am I missing something? Fleet Command (talk) 17:49, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's perhaps not friendly, but I don't think anything useful will come of arguing further with him. Stifle (talk) 17:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My message is not friendly? How? Fleet Command (talk) 18:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

His isn't. If you are going to take it further then you need to think about what you want to accomplish. Stifle (talk) 18:03, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Aha! His message! No, I just disregard him. I don't want to pick a fight. I was just worrying that I did something wrong, which you say I didn't. Thanks and cheers. Fleet Command (talk) 18:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Juliet The Huntress

You tagged Juliet The Huntress as a hoax. However, when I look at http://www.pwpix.net/superstars/i/ivelissevelez/, it isn't obvious that it is a hoax. To be sure, the article has many problems, but I'm uncomfortable deleting it as G3.--SPhilbrick T 19:57, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If it's not a hoax, it's probably an nn-bio. RHaworth was happy to delete it; I have no objection if you and he want to agree to undelete it. Stifle (talk) 09:23, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not a big deal, I will drop Rhaworth a note.--SPhilbrick T 13:58, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Just an FYI, last !vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bajalta California was a sock. -- DQ (t) (e) 20:22, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bug report

Dear Stifle, I do realise that this is not the place to report a bug, but the requirement of creating a separate account with Bugzilla, just to report a Wikipedia bug, seems to me very unattractive (I am already in the danger of getting totally confused with my almost countless separate account names and passwords).

The bug at issue concerns the search box; since a number of days, or perhaps a couple of weeks, typing into the search box does no automatically remove the dimly-printed word "Search", whereby the word to be searched gets attached to the word "Search". My experience is that removing the word "Search" by hand and subsequently typing the word to be searched, often gets one to an empty page; one needs here to type the word to be searched once more, and the search engine proceeds as it is supposed to proceed (and as it used to proceed until recently). It seems therefore that recently they have introduced some bug, or bugs, into the software of the search engine.

I take this opportunity and make mention of another shortcoming that one might consider a bug; I have reported this bug more than a year ago, to no avail. The problem is that one no longer can check the URLs in one's texts during the preview stage; to check these URLs, one needs first to save the file one is editing (on clicking on a link during the preview stage, one is presented with a pop-up warning message, stating things that I have never had the patience to read in full --- warning messages must be concise and not comprising verbiage). In practice, this shortcoming, which I am inclined to call a bug, leads to unnecessarily lengthy "history" of Wikipedia entries; this is because one often finds faults with the links that one has used after having saved one's text. This shortcoming was introduced into Wiki editing software after some upgrading of it over a year ago; prior to this, one could check the URLs at the preview stage.

I should be most grateful if you would kindly bring the above problems to the attention of the people concerned. With kind regards, --BF 14:37, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't been able to recreate the bug, but I'll post on WP:VPT and hopefully someone there will be. Stifle (talk) 09:14, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- They seem to have corrected it, not long after writing the above message! Could it be that some of the people checking the pages (for irregularities, violation of Wikipedia principles, etc.) may have taken the initiative and reported the problem, before you having seen my message? But any way, many thanks for the trouble. --BF 14:13, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - That is likely. I am aware that the technical people are trying to deploy some new software to the site, and from time to time it makes a bit of a mess of what's already there. Stifle (talk) 14:38, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thank you Stifle! At least I can now dimly hope that I have not needlessly wasted your time, nor mine, by reporting a non-existent problem. Kind regards, --BF 20:33, 11 March 2011 (UTC).[reply]
      - Dear Stifle, I again encountered the same problem -- it disappeared however on logging into Wikipedia and then using the search engine. -BF 14:22, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        The technical people are aware of it. It is difficult to recreate the error though. Stifle (talk) 21:54, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Thank you Stifle. It is good that they are aware of the problem -- at times it can be really frustrating. Kind regards, -BF 22:37, 12 March 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Tia Keyes

Dear Mr Stifle,

I have read your FAQs and it still seemed appropriate to ask directly here. Would it be possible for me to do (redo) an article on Tia Keyes article and have it put in the mainspace? I am recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page and it suggested I first contact the deleting administrator.

The article is now here:

User:Msrasnw/Tia Keyes.

I feel it now more adequatley meets our criteria than when it was deleted. The previous discussions are here

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tia_Keyes The result was No Consensus defaulting to Keep, DGG's research has persuaded some that he meets the relevant guideline but others remain unconvinced that he does. Davewild (talk) 19:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

and

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tia_Keyes_(2nd_nomination) The result was delete. Stifle (talk) 08:13, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

In the debate that led to your deletion it was inidcated by some that the article was too early "heading for notability but is not quite there yet". Prof Keyes has since published many more articles and has now been cited 1000 times.

The criteria for inclusion I have in mind is Wp:prof and quote Web of science stats in support of notability.

98 peer-reviewed scientific papers including in the leading journals in her area - journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry
works have been cited around 1040 times
h-index of 17.

As additional evidence of notability

Her and her team's work has also been highlighted in the RSCs' Highlights of Chemical Biology, in ChemNet and by the publication of her work in their journal Chemical Communications: a journal published by the RSC which includes descriptions of new work deemed to require "rapid publication" of "significant work".
She has also jointly authored a book (with tow of her colleagues from DCU: Johannes G. Vos, Robert J. Forster) Interfacial Supramolecular Assemblies : Electrochemical and Photophysical Properties, Wiley, 2003. which has been subject to a book review in the J. Am. Chem. Soc.

If you are still unhappy with this article could we have it in the mainspace and then another Afd or would you have any other suggestions. (Should I just make a new page?) Thanks in advance and best wishes, (Msrasnw (talk) 13:44, 21 October 2010 (UTC))[reply]

The page has not been locked so you are welcome to move it to mainspace. If another editor thinks it should be redeleted, then you will receive a notification and be able to make your case. Stifle (talk) 13:32, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks (Msrasnw (talk) 14:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC))[reply]

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 ***** Dear Stifle, I again encountered the same problem -- it disappeared however on logging into Wikipedia and then using the search engine. [[User:BehnamFarid|-BF 14:22, 12 March 2011 (UTC)]]
 ******The technical people are aware of it. It is difficult to recreate the error though. [[User:Stifle|Stifle]] ([[User talk:Stifle|talk]]) 21:54, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
+******* Thank you Stifle. It is good that they are aware of the problem -- at times it can be really frustrating. Kind regards, [[User:BehnamFarid|-BF 22:37, 12 March 2011 (UTC)]].
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