User talk:JohnCD

Welcome to my talk page. Click here to leave me a message. If you have come here about a page I deleted, you will probably find the explanation here; if that does not answer your question, click the link just above to leave me a message. Please mention the name of the page, and sign your post with four "tilde" characters ~~~~ so that I know who you are. If I have left a message on your talk page, please reply there; I am watching it. If you leave a message here I will usually reply here, but if my reply contains advice I hope you will find useful, I may place it on your talk page. (Talk page stalkers: you are welcome; if you see no reply here, there is probably one on the other talk page; I have decided to stop making a note here when I reply there). You may E-mail me via the "E-mail this user" link under "Toolbox" in the left-hand sidebar, but you will get a faster response here; I suggest you do not use e-mail unless you need privacy. I will normally reply on your talk page, not by e-mail.

David Abel Ray Phiri

Thanks for the reassurance...now I need some help with pictures and how I demonstrate that I actually own them eg 1979_DARP_and_Queen_.jpg

any help would be appreciated

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Simcity (PC game)

Thanks for your help with all those redirects and figuring out where to put sim city! I knew those were double redirects!!
Love, {{{1}}}

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Deleted Old Black Bear Brewing Company

Wanted to get some clarification on why we couldn't start a wiki page about our brewing company. Something was said about not having substantial material in the article...Got to give us time to fill it out. Also was said that it was promotional...we actually started our article by copying Sweetwater Brewing Company's wiki page and changing the content to us. Doesn't seem consistent. — Preceding jtseaton comment added by 199.209.144.224 (talk) 16:49, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

I will reply in more detail on your talk page tomorrow; for now, read User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard, Wikipedia is not about YOU and WP:Other stuff exists. JohnCD (talk) 20:34, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gerry Gogna

Hi John--Salvio pulled the trigger on that article. For more context, see User_talk:Drmies#Question_on_a_user_page. In there is a link to an SPI as well. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 23:19, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't know what it is with Indian self-published authors. At least this one's books had ISBN numbers. There was Avinash Patra (27 socks and counting) whose works are only on-line, and any passage you check turns out to have been copied from somewhere. His book about Lord Curzon, "One of the most widely read Historical Literature of all time in the Present World", says it is published by "Oxford University Press An imprint of British Board cast service UK" and at the end says "This book has been written as a guide for those who are compelled to purchase a horse in the absence of skilled assistance..." and is datelined "EDINBURGH, OXFORDSHIRE.. UK." JohnCD (talk) 09:10, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For helping me with User:Fernanf‎ and the Southville Foreign University‎ article. David1217 (talk) 15:38, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

• Thank you! I fear we have not heard the last of him. I am being to doubt whether he actually understands English - he does not seem to have read any of our advice, and is still saying he "really needs to update" the page. JohnCD (talk) 09:11, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Regarding Audionic

Dear Sir,

I totally understand what i did was wrong .. and i just wanted to know what my wordings were which initiates it as spam. i will remake the article and name it as audionic and will try to confirm and let u know first before submitting it. thanks a lot for your concern and help.

Regards Zain Ahmed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zainahmed123 (talk • contribs) 07:34, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

What made it spam was puffery, promotional words like "eminent company... premium brand products... Audionic products are the best... different, innovative, creative... " That's not an encyclopedia article, that's an advertisement. I will give more advice on your talk page later today - don't do anything till you read it. JohnCD (talk) 09:17, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Heuwelsig (disambiguation)

Hi John,

In retrospect, I am happy u deleted this page; I could not find enough substance for the other "Heuwelsigs". Seems like they are sub-suburbs in Centurion, R.S.A.

Aliwal2012 (talk) 08:37, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Good, thanks for letting me know. JohnCD (talk) 09:17, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

why did you delete that?

the flying killer robot monkey squirrel is real and now you have removed it from the face of the earth. i hope you're happy that children wont learn about it and it's all your fault — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jojomaster (talk • contribs) 19:58, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. JohnCD (talk) 20:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Lies Agreed Upon

One Major Single Source & POV

Reference to the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 120(Defence.lk), I have added the Tags "Single Source" and "POV" on Lies Agreed Upon.

Since you are involved on the above discussion, please discuss further on regarding the Tags added and the reliability of the content on Wikipedia based on the single major source.Sudar123 (talk) 20:43, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I will look at this, but it will be a day or two before I have time. JohnCD (talk) 20:50, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Toothpaste game

Hey, the editor who was repeatedly creating the toothpaste game article also included copyvio stolen from Yahoo answers. He attempted to modify the article Cresting. Can you delete the revision due to the copyvio that is included within it or does it not matter? Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

No, it's buried in the history, it doesn't need rev-deleting. I dont think this was actually a hoax in the sense of completely made-up, though it was exaggerated - see what I have said on his talk page. It's just possible that there might be an article here, though probably not soon if this is a new craze this month. JohnCD (talk) 21:53, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update

Hey JohnCD :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Perry Street Football Club

Can you please reinstate the page you deleted (perry street football club) I feel it has been unfairly deleted and will demonstrate the importance of the subject (football club with over 100 years of history) as the article develops. Ta Supermanscape (talk) 19:26, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

I have "userfied" the page for you - moved it into a user sub-page at User:Supermanscape/Perry Street Football Club where you can workj on it. If it is to be kept, you need to establish WP:Notability by giving references that show "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." JohnCD (talk) 22:09, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

mistaken delete of page

While deleting a valid set of delete requests you have accidentally deleted a valid in-use page. Could you please reinstate Template:Image requested/doc. --Traveler100 (talk) 20:12, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Sorry about that - I meant to delete one that redirected to that, and didn't notice that I had been redirected. Careless. Thanks for pointing it out! JohnCD (talk) 20:36, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

complaint of vandalism at Azolla

Saw your message when I looked up Ken Burns' "The War" today. Took me by surprise. Be advised that since at least December 2011, edits from this IP address have been "indefinitely blocked" (last time I saw the block notice was near the end of March this year). I have been the only user of this IP address since December, and since I have been unable to do any editing such as grammar and syntax and spelling, or any minor additions to any articles, because of the block, and because of it gave up any thought of contributing anything, I did nothing at Azolla. (I haven't even looked at the article, not even out of curiosity, since the word/topic means nothing to me, and I have no idea what it means). I'm sorry about your problem, but it didn't come from here. 75.162.9.140 (talk) 21:02, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

My message was dated October 2008, and this IP's contribution list shows that a vandal entry on Azolla did come from there, but that was no doubt before your time. Also, this IP is not blocked now (it it was, you would not have been able to edit my talk page), and the block log shows it has never been blocked. You must have been using a different IP when you found yourself unable to edit. In fact, if you have only just seen my 2008 message, you must have been using a different IP until very recently. JohnCD (talk) 21:30, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

We need to change our page

Hi John, I work for OSISA (Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa) and the current page is outdated and simple has no facts, I have been trying to updated and you have been deleting them straight away, please advice — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luke-OSISA (talk • contribs) 10:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

To start with, please read all the advice on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 11:09, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE Hall of Fame

Hi, you just deleted that redirect. Did you check the talk page, where the speedy was challenged? The tagger did not inform me (the creator). GOCE is a widely used abbreviation of Guild of Copy Editors. Please would you revert your deletion. Regards, --Stfg (talk) 13:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I checked the talk page, and sent you a message that crossed this. JohnCD (talk) 13:45, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for it. But the tag was R3, not applicable here. R2 might have been, but R2 excludes CNRs from main to Wikipedia (and other) namespaces. Moreover, the deletion is controversial in any case: see the first bullet of WP:CNR#Arguments for keeping CNRs. Surely not an uncontentious speedy, and what actual harm was it doing? It fits that first bullet perfectly, since nobody is going to search for an article of that title. (No need to reply on my talk page: I watch those I post to). --Stfg (talk) 14:02, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

No, it's not an R2; I reckoned R3 fitted, because it was (in its present form) recently created, and I think it fits WP:CNR#Arguments for deleting CNRs #1: we don't want visitors getting mixed up with the pipework. (WP:CNR admits that its arguments contradict each other.) However, you could argue that yesterday was only a change, so it wasn't recent, so R3 didn't apply; and if you like I will disinter it and send it to RfD. JohnCD (talk) 14:19, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I'd appreciate if you'd do that. I understand (already did) the principle you mentioned about CNRs, but it's controversial and was never a proper R3, and I'd like the chance to defend it to the community. Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 14:34, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 May 7#GOCE Hall of Fame. JohnCD (talk) 15:24, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

(←) Thank you. And please forgive me. I created it to avoid redlinks, and now that it's back and I can do a "What links here" on it, I see that those redlinks have been dealt with already. I have removed one last one that existed on my own talk page from two weeks ago. Please accept that I haven't done any of this to waste your time or to be pointy. The tagger didn't inform me, I didn't have time to look at "What links here" before it had gone, and I thought that deleting it would create redlinks. I don't think it should have been speedied, really, but that's another story. I won't contest the deletion now, and if you want me to do anything like blanking it or putting a "no contest" reply on the RfD to facilitate closure, I gladly will. What's the protocol now? Regards, --Stfg (talk) 16:16, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

No worries! The simplest way would be for you to put {{db-author}} at the top of the redirect, then someone will delete it and close the RfD. One learns something every day - I had forgotten, till I checked for this one, that mainspace-to-Wikipedia-space was an exception to R2. JohnCD (talk) 17:07, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I've done that. --Stfg (talk) 17:12, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Pricing Partners

Hi, the page Pricing Partners has been deleted but I was contesting this and I adapted the text to the recommandation with no links to press release but only to general information magazine. The reviewer told me this was fine but this has been deleted. Can you let me know why and if I want to recreate this page what should I do? Thanks --Eric.benhamou.pricingpartners (talk) 17:23, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, JohnCD. You have new messages at Neutralhomer's talk page.
Message added 20:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Neutralhomer • Talk • 20:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC) 20:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

To begin with Lady Michelle Obama

I agree with you that this "article" doesn't meet G1, but I wanted to point you to this brief user talk page discussion about it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:15, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks - I have commented there. JohnCD (talk) 09:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

umm my page

ehh Hi you deleted my page Mobile Forces Source without any notification or something no warning

the reasons why the page has been marked for deletion are solved and i was not sure to keep the tag or delete it

p.s im quite sure tha page has a bad history but i think its fine now so i hope that you can undelete my page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Filippro (talk • contribs) 13:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

You had plenty of warning - don't you read messages on your talk page? In particular, you were notified here on 28 April that there would be a deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mobile Forces Source, and invited to contribute. That discussion ran for a week and decided to delete. Subjects for Wikipedia articles need references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" to establish notability and as your game is still in development there will not yet be any independent comment like reviews. You may appeal to WP:Deletion review if you like, but you would do best to wait until after your game is released and gathers independent comment, and preferably wait until someone with no conflict of interest is interested enough to write about it. JohnCD (talk) 20:39, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

The Franklin Girls

Hi JohnCD, As no doubt it must be obvious to you by now. My daughters and I are new to the Wiki community. They are sisters and their name is The Franklin Girls. I read your reasons for blocking the girls' wikipedia page. Could you help me understand the distinction between their username and page and a page like (Camryn) Magness or (Lennon ) Murphy? There are thousands of performers with wiki pages so could you please guide us on how to get the girls their own page without stepping on the rules? Please? Thanks 173.86.148.21 (talk) 19:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC) My email is jonframk@netscape.net

I'm sorry that we do not do a good job of explaining what Wikipedia is not for, but it is absolutely not for what you want to do. Your girls want to tell the world that they have a "patented combination of comedic chemistry and candy colored sibling harmony" and are "a uniquely charming and talented musical duo... currently seeking agency representation", but Wikipedia is not for advertisement or promotion of any kind, and anything like that is deleted at sight - fine in Myspace or Facebook, but not in the pages of an encyclopedia. That is why group accounts are not allowed and why people are strongly discouraged from writing about themselves - see Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography.

You mentioned other articles - we have 3,900,000 and we know that many are substandard, so What about that other article? is not an argument that is accepted, but they are (a) not written by their subjects (b) not promotional in tone (c) backed up by references to independent sources to confirm what they say and establish notability to the standard of WP:MUSICBIO. JohnCD (talk) 22:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Old Black Bear Brewing Company

John,

I understand your comments for removal of my Entry, I did copy text from their website, as I am just now learning about the company, I was hoping that more people would refine the article and add more information.

Is there a way to do that (have a non-live article)? Then possibly release it when it is ready? I know there is a big local group of people here locally that fought to get Craft Breweries in Alabama by way of the "Free the Hops" campaign that would have more insight than me on the topic. Yunus Hasan 20:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yunushasan (talk • contribs)

Read the section headed "Advice as promised" on User talk:Jtseaton which will tell you how to start a userspace draft; but read carefully the section about notability. JohnCD (talk) 21:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

My Editor Review

I have been here for a while and want to improve myself. Though I try my best to do the right thing, I may do something wrong. As you have seen me work, can you please leave me a review as I want to know where I stand so far and what should I improve to be a good editor. Your opinion has always been valuable and your review can help. Thanks :) Yasht101 08:23, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

lol

no I wasn't notified of nothing ans what's ironic enough is that I was about to edit the page to say that it now gas a active community about it (it reached not ability) I think that's fair enough to keep the page can I have it undeleted sjo I can prove that it has been noticed ... on the page itself :D (talk) 08:54, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

You had several notifications. At the top of your screen, click on "My talk". That shows you your talk page, where you can read them all. When you see a yellow bar across the top of your screen saying "You have new messages", you should click "My talk" to see what the new messages are.

Read WP:42 to see what we mean by notability. If you believe you can really show notability to that standard, reply below here and I will move the page into your user space where you can work on it; but don't ask for that unless it's really notable, because otherwise you will be wasting your time. JohnCD (talk) 14:24, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

sorry for my slow reply i been bussy http://www.facebook.com/groups/mobileforcesandmfs/ its the official group lots of talking and discussion about Mobile Forces Source has been happening there lately :D (talk) 17:28, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For deleting the Tahkyia (R.E.D.) Brady page (finally) under G12. Thanks! Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 17:14, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

• Thank you! It didn't wait that long, only about an hour. CAT:CSD is quite well-patrolled now - there used to be times when the backlog was 150 - 200 and things lingered for days. Have a look at the note I left at the bottom of the author's talk page - it's useful to add something like that (with details tweaked as necessary) to a copyvio notice, otherwise they go to all the trouble of making a copyright release and then we say "sorry, puffery, not notable" and delete it again, which is not very friendly. JohnCD (talk) 20:33, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

FURA

There is an article Fura-2, which has a redirect Fura. That redirect is where the reverted article is hiding. I've tried explaining this at User talk:Aharon Mathews but I don't think he really gets the whole thing. Peridon (talk) 18:24, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I will encourage him to start a userspace draft, though it seems to me a case of WP:UPANDCOMING. That previous stuff is no good to him - the coherent part is copyvio, and the rest is puffery. (Where do they learn that Capital Letters For Every Single Word style?). JohnCD (talk) 20:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Harry Devon Johnson

Edited My Blank Out error and that's also for my apology to you John Cd - of the use of my language on your talk page. I should have played the game smarter - like I already new. Sorry CommunityFlaawless (talk) 22:22, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem, don't worry about it. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 16:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Too fast!

I went to find the real article that Daniel Simmister was ripping off, and by the time I got back, you'd beaten me to the deletion. :p LadyofShalott 16:32, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

It was blatant enough that I decided to shoot first and ask questions afterwards - no doubt you found that the answer was Efraín Ríos Montt. JohnCD (talk) 16:36, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Yep. I can't blame you for your chosen route either. It was pretty dang obvious. LadyofShalott 16:38, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Jeremiah McHoes

I do not understand why you deleted my page. No one knows more about Jeremiah McHoes than I do, because I am Jeremiah McHoes... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsmchoes (talk • contribs) 19:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

It is explained on your talk page: Wikipedia is not a site like Myspace for people to write about themselves. It's an encyclopedia, so article subjects have to be notable, and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. JohnCD (talk) 20:09, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

So the only way I will be able to have a page about me is if I became famous? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsmchoes (talk • contribs) 21:09, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that's right; and even then you should not write it yourself. JohnCD (talk) 21:12, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Put Your Hearts Up

User:Rlg000raz wishes to start this article again with the content from his sandbox. Apparently the song has charted 61 for US iTunes. You were one of the contributors moving the page to Ariana Grande. I would like to know if you think the content is enough. I believe a large amount of the content is the same and would perhaps need additional third-party sources. SwisterTwister talk 03:25, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

That was redirected after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Put Your Hearts Up - all I did was restore the redirect after an IP reverted it. I have told Rlg000raz that he needs to convince Armbrust (talk) who closed the AfD, or failing that go to WP:DRV. JohnCD (talk) 09:09, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey JohnCD! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:47, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

deborah hertz

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deborah_Hertz&action=history - you said that it passes the low bar of a7 (for keep, not to delete). i am skeptical. so...can i bring it to the afd section for discussion? my main issue is that there are zero RS for anything she has done, and two references added a few days ago are very weak. the jewish women's archive lists any jewish woman - notable or not by any standards (see: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/about ). and the other reference is simply a review of a book she wrote. 99% of all academic publications get reviewed by their peers. having a book reviewed certainly doesn't make someone notable, right? (wrong?) i am sure that prof hertz is a very nice person, etc. but i am having trouble seeing her article (or any search for her in googleland) meet even the lowest bar of anything notable. help... Soosim (talk) 10:06, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, certainly you can take it to AfD - there are many articles that pass the low bar of A7 but not the higher one of notability. A7 is there to weed out the ones where there is no need for discussion. Read WP:DEL and WP:AFD, unless you are familiar with them, and WP:PROF, the notability standard for academics. JohnCD (talk) 16:18, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

thank you! Soosim (talk) 16:44, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Declined speedy

Hi JohnCD. I tagged the article User/Gunkarta/Userboxes/Pluralism as a test page as it is in article space, rather than at User:Gunkarta/Userboxes/Pluralism. The latter page already exists, so I could not move and then tag the redirect page under G2. Regards GILO   A&E⇑ 17:07, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah, OK, I understand - I didn't spot the vital / instead of : - sorry about that! JohnCD (talk) 17:11, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

French people

Hi, the picture is representing the French Marie Sklodowska Curie (she is from Poland!!), who lives in France. Is not this a bug? What do you think? Top811 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC).

Well, she was born in Poland, but she moved to France aged 24, married a Frenchman, studied and worked and won two Nobel prizes there, lived there for the rest of her life, and is buried in the Panthéon which is "a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens." I think it's reasonable to show her as representing France. If you disagree, the article talk page is the place to take it up. JohnCD (talk) 20:17, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

WHY!

Why would you delete my page?! It was completely real about my friend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MilkMunched (talk • contribs) 18:08, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

We do not allow attack pages, and anyway Wikipedia is not a place to write about your friends. JohnCD (talk) 20:25, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: attack pages

Heh, I certainly wasn't going to bother with any "welcome to editing" messages. Quite the opposite; I already tagged the account as a vandalism only account on the notice board. Human.v2.0 (talk) 09:56, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

A new user won't normally be blocked for a first offence, only if he persists after warning; that's why a warning is necessary. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:08, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

User:Daria Adamantina

You might like this one - I've just looked at your userpage. I've deleted the article version A7, but that doesn't work in userspace, does it? The article was 'authored' by a different name. This user is blocked at pt-wiki for userpage abuse, and at es-wiki the userpage has been deleted. The 'films' link to Film, and I can find nothing outside blogspot for the first of them. Would this go as a hoax, perhaps? BTW the AfD on the (so far...) longest running hoax on WP is near its end - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tillery (about six and a half years in existence, but doubts were cast on its second day). The long running hoaxes page will need changing - TPH (or an otter) has added this already, but got the maths wrong. Peridon (talk) 17:41, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, the complete absence of any confirmation in places like IMDb makes this a G3 hoax. I would normally like two pairs of eyes, but I'll count you as the first. It's also personal details of a minor. If this goes on we may need an SPI on these accounts, but let's hope they give up. JohnCD (talk) 18:19, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

User Ashashyou

I noticed that you replaced the speedy delete notice at Flint stone bracelets and armlets of Egypt with a copyvio investigation notice. Looking at Ashashyou (talk · contribs)'s recent edits, I notice some massive copyvio at Nawamis and more copyvio in other articles recently, mainly reverted. I've warned the editor. Dougweller (talk) 18:37, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I saw your warning. Maybe, added to my explanation, he will get the idea. I thought there was the possibility of an article there, if he can rewrite the text; if not, having been listed at Copyright problems, it'll be zapped or stubbed in a week. JohnCD (talk) 20:36, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Advice please!

Hey John!

I need your advice on this please. This editor turned off ClueBot, I know that CBNG is only meant to be turned off by admins so when I saw a non-admin do it I assumed CBNG had done something wrong and I asked the question because I was going to report any issues to User:Cobi. However, the user has actually admitted to intentionally vandalising CBNG's run page and admitted to vandalising CBNG's talk page albeit over a year ago. I'm inclined to let it go however because turning off the anti-vandal bot is quite serious, that's why I'm asking for a second opinion from you. What do you reckon?--5 albert square (talk) 20:35, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I think it was silly rather than malevolent, so I agree a block is not necessary. In order to bring another voice in, I have given him a final warning of a long block if he does anything like that again. I wonder, should Cluebot be full-protected again? I see it was before, and I don't know what were the reasons for downgrading the protection to semi. JohnCD (talk) 21:00, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

From what I remember it was downgraded before because not all ClueBot's admins are Wikipedia sysops, only Cobi from what I know. So it would have meant that if changes needed to be made to that page from ClueBot's admins unless Cobi was active, they wouldn't be able to do anything without asking for the page to be unlocked first. I have actually just posted though on User talk:DamianZaremba as he seems to be the only one of ClueBot's admins that's active at the moment (Cobi's not made any edits since 4 May) and asked if they would like it fully protected even just for a short while, I've pointed out that doing that might be better than the bot being turned off. I'm reluctant to do it without at least getting his opinion because, like I say, it would then mean that he can't edit the page. I'm thinking it's strange though that the majority of this is redlinked users and it's only started to really happen over the last few days. I did wonder if sockpuppetry was involved.--5 albert square (talk) 21:08, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm surprised there isn't more trouble there - it's an obvious target for vandals, either in revenge for being reverted, or to help sneak in their next vandalism. I guess it helps that the user page says "administrators may turn off this bot". JohnCD (talk) 21:17, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I suppose, but even if you put "administrators may turn off this bot" if a vandal is really determined, that will not deter them. With it being set indefinitely to autoconfirmed users I think there's the assumption that they will not vandalise. Sadly, that's not always the case. I'm inclined to leave ClueBot's run page just now, it's on my watchlist anyway, if the vandalism should get really bad whilst I'm online tonight then I'll just upgrade it's protection for a few days and if ClueBot's admins object they can always message me. When I come on tomorrow, if I've no response from Damien and the vandalism has continued I'll lock it then too. I'd just rather give Damien the chance to respond first :)--5 albert square (talk) 21:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. They have generally been reverted quickly - a good many people must have it on their watchlists. I'll add it to mine. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 21:41, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Another one for you

I'm boggled. So is the nominator, I think. It's at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zebediah Dingle and either an encyclopaedic knowledge of Emmerdale or a joy in digging would be an advantage. I like digging, but haven't seen Emmerdale since Amos was at t'Woolpack and had acquired a microwave... Peridon (talk) 22:11, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm not into Emmerdale either, but I will read the soap section of the TV magazine in the bath I am about to have and see if I achieve enlighten ment. JohnCD (talk) 22:19, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Scouty2 Edits for Smith County, Texas

ScountY2 (talk) 20:56, 15 May 2012 (UTC)Sir:

I was attempting to add to the Smith County article under "See Also" the names of several local attractions and link to their websites, several of which have different named links within Wikipedia or are only external links. I ought I was doing it correctly but obviously I have not. I think I understand now that I can add the names of the attractions but need to add the character that indicates an external link or website. Is that correct?

Thank you!

What you were doing was creating "articles" consisting only of an external link. You can see at the existing Smith County article how to do it: if there is already an article for the subject you want to link to, put the name of the article as an entry under "See also" as a wikilink between double square brackets. "See also" is only for references within Wikipedia: if there is no article, put the entry under "External links" in the same format as existing ones - within single square brackets, first the full URL starting with "http", then a space, then the text that you want to appear. Don't overdo it, though - read WP:NOTGUIDE #2 "Travel guides" and the guideline WP:External links. JohnCD (talk) 21:53, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for ur valuable suggestions and noteworthy linksMaharathi (talk) 10:18, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

The Deletion of Bradford Catholics page

I believe my page to have been unfairly deleted and i believe it should be un-blocked this religion was not just made up one day with my mates this religion was created because we strongly believe this is how life should be lived and think that many others may feel the same way we already have 30 followers and as it was only properly formed 6 days ago that obviously proves we are serious about this and we are just trying to spread are views on religion or at least make people aware of are religion.We hope you will take this message seriously and will grant us are request.

                                with thanks --Pricey987 (talk) 17:14, 16 May 2012 (UTC) (Jack Price)

Revision deletion

Hi John, since I know you do a bit of work in WP:REVDEL, could you please redact the most recent vandalism on the October 27 article as per WP:CRD#2. Thanks in advance. Jared Preston (talk) 17:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done. JohnCD (talk) 17:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Racism

Is it wrong to talk about racism in wikipedia?

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