User talk:JBW/Archive 5

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Hi! Thanks a lot!

Oh hey, I really didn't expect someone to edit my page so quickly! But thanks for helping out. I'm brand new to this so I'm sorry for sill mistakes and what not. If there's anything else, please help my page out. Thank you again.

~Hey again. You're really helping me out, thank you so much. I'm trying to keep an unbiased view for Wikipedia, I understand that this is an encyclopedia and cannot be based off of opinion. Thanks you again for you help, and adding the resource.

Threecheerslife (talk) 01:57, 25 November 2009 (UTC)Threecheerslife

Hey again, I just had a few quick questions:

Regarding my article on Tommy "Wind" Riccardo, I just recently spoke to him and he says that he won the award for Best Teen Magician of the Year from the World Magic Awards on October 10, but there isn't any reference on Wikipedia that I can link that to. Is there anything I can do?

Oh, and there are a few pictures I want to post on the article. I know I'm new, but I looked up how to post the pictures and am still confused.

Also, the name needs to be changed from Tommy "Wind" Riccardo to Tommy Wind. Do you know how I can change that? Or do I have to recreate the entire article under a different name?

Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Threecheerslife (talk • contribs) 17:44, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunate timing: I have seen your query just as I need to leave, and don't have time to answer. I will try to post an answer tomorrow. If I haven't responded within 24 hours, please remind me again. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:50, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Ok, concerning the "Best Teen Magician of the Year", a reference on Wikipedia that you can link that to is exactly what you don't want. You need a reference to a reliable source, and Wikipedia is not a reliable source, since anyone can write anything here. It often seems odd to newcomers to Wikipedia that we don't regard ourselves as a reliable source, but it makes sense if you think about it. I have done a Google search for "Best Teen Magician of the Year", and I got 6 hits. Five of these are either MySpace or FaceBook pages, and again these are not reliable, as anyone can write there. The other one was www.tommywindmagic.com/bio.html, and this is a little more complicated. This may be a reliable source, but it is certainly not an independent source, as it may well be written by him, and is certainly promoting him. Sources which are not reliable can be acceptable for establishing details of people's lives, but they are no use for establishing notability, and if information is not notable it is not acceptable in a Wikipedia article. I see that you have given links to www.silive.com, which also mentions the award. However, www.silive.com consists, as far as I can see, of advertising, blogs, and forums. Generally speaking most blogs and forums are not reliable sources, for the same reason as above, and paid advertising is certainly not an independent source. Unfortunately, an award which is mentioned only on the subject's own web site, a few pages on two social networking sites, and a self-promotion site does not qualify as notable, and so I'm afraid that information will have to be left out, and really the links to www.silive.com should go too, as not satisfying the criteria for inclusion of external links. On the other hand I see no reason why www.tommywindmagic.com/bio.html should not be given as an external link. I suggest putting that in place of the two links that are there now.

Next, uploading images. I agree that the process is somewhat confusing. The first thing is to be clear about copyright. By far the best thing is to use only images which are public domain, or have been released by the copyright owner under a free license. If you own the copyright then you can release it for use, if someone else owns the copyright then you should have evidence that it has been released. Once you have determined copyright status you should be able to upload the images at Special:Upload. If you find using that page confusing you could ask for help at Wikipedia:Helpdesk. Alternatively if you make the images available to me I could do it for you, but you would have to post them somewhere where I can access them, so you may prefer not to use that option.

Next, renaming Tommy "Wind" Riccardo to Tommy Wind. I am glad to say that this should be much easier. Assuming you are using the normal default Wikipedia interface, load up the article, and you should see that one of the tags at the top of the page is labelled "Move". Click on that link. In the page that comes up edit the title in the box labelled "To new title" to say just "Tommy Wind", click on "Move page", and the job should be done. It is normally a good idea when moving a page to then click on "What links here" (normally at the left hand side) so that you can update links if need be to point directly at the new page (otherwise they will point to a redirect at a page with the old name). For the Tommy Wind article this is not very important, as at the moment the only pages that link there are this page and two of your user-space pages. Please don't edit the link on this page; whether you edit the links on your pages is up to you.

I hope this has been of some use to you. Sorry Wikipedia-editing is so full of complexities, which can seem really confusing when you are new (I remember how confusing I found it). It does get easier with a little practice. I was tempted to make life a bit easier by just going ahead and making the changes myself (apart from uploading the images, of course) instead of telling you how to do it, but I decided in the long run it would be more helpful to you to point you in the right direction so you can learn how to do it yourself. Let me know if there are still problems or if I can help you again. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:35, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh wow I didn't expect such complications at all...but thank you so much for the help. The whole thing about notable sources is understandable and I'm trying to find as many reliable sources as I can, however being that he is not a known figure yet, there isn't much. I tried to credit everything accurately, but most likely I'm not doing the right thing there either. Concerning the images- the two that I want to use are up on his website, so if I want to upload them I need the copyright license, right? Or I can give you the links for them. I hate to be such a burden about all of this, so thank you for all the help you've given me so far. The link for one of the pictures is http://www.tommywindmagic.com/photo.html, the second one. I'm going to try to upload it so we'll see what happens. Thanks again for the amazing help, I couldn't have done it without you! Threecheerslife (talk) 22:19, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Hey again. I just have a few questions:

1 - You know the box on the side of some of the Wikipedia articles where is shows a picture, occupation, and different information? I want to create that for my article but I'm not totally sure how to.

2 - Also, concerning the picture, how can I get a licensed copyright or verification for it when I put it up on Wikipedia? I'm not sure how to give the right information so that Wikipedia won't delete it.

Thanks again! Threecheerslife (talk) 23:12, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

What you want is an "infobox" template. There is an amazing range of different infoboxes for different types of people, but as far as I can see there isn't one for magicians, so you should use Template:Infobox person. Click on that link and find the section headed Blank template with basic parameters. Copy and paste the text from the box below that heading, and write in the relevant details. You don't have to fill in every detail: for example, I think you will want to leave "death_date" out! If you scroll further down you will find a blank template with a much fuller list of parameters, and you can include any that are relevant, but the basic list is usually perfectly good enough.
Is this a picture you have taken yourself, or one you have got from somewhere else (such as a publicity photograph)? If it is your own picture then there should be no problem, as you will own the copyright (assuming you haven't transferred the copyright to someone else). On the file upload page at Special:Upload you will find a box labelled "Licensing" at the left hand end. At the right hand end of this box click on the downward pointer, and you will see a list of copyright options. Choose one of the options that starts with "Own work". The simplest is to choose "Own work, release into public domain", provided you are happy to allow anyone to use the picture however they like; otherwise choose one of the others, but don't ask me to explain the technical legal differences! Frankly whatever licensing permission you give probably won't make a lot of difference to what happens to your image, once it is released on Wikipedia. I would go for "Own work, release into public domain" because it is completely straightforward and complcation-free, with "Own work, multi-license with CC_BYSA_3.0 and GFDL" as a second choice. If you do not own the copyright it is a bit more complicated. There is a lot of information available about this in very places, but Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission probably covers all you need (and more).

I hope this answer has been helpful to you. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:56, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much! I got the infobox up, still working on the pictures. Because I did not physically take the pictures that I want to upload, I need the copyright owner's permission, right? Is Wikipedia's declaration of consent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries) the way that I can get the proper copyright? If so, should I get the owner to send a copy of this via their personal e-mail? I'm not sure how to go about giving them the information to give me the rights so I can upload the pictures. Very confusing. Anyway, thanks for the help! As stated before, I couldn't have done this without you! Threecheerslife (talk) 00:47, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I too find the whole issue of copyright in Wikipedia very confusing, and I am not an expert in the subject. Somewhere there is a list of Wikipedia editors who deal with copyright issues, and if I searched for a couple of minutes I could no doubt find it, but quicker is just to give you a link to the user talk page of one of them that I happen to remember. Here is the link: User talk:Moonriddengirl. You may like to try asking her: she knows far more than I do about copyright issues. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:20, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I recommend commons:Commons:Otrs as a how-to-guide for uploading an image, how to compose a proper permission e-mail, and making sure the image is not tagged for deletion in the process. This guide is specific to the Wikimedia Commons, which is where I would recommend uploading the image, so that other projects (such as Wikipedias in other languages) may benefit from it. The page also contains a link to several e-mail templates you can use to make sure the permission is legally sound. The one at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries would also work. Regards, decltype (talk) 11:40, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes. Thanks Decltype for that advice. I hope Threecheerslife will find it helpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:59, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you both for the help! I'm going to send a letter to the owner of the pictures. All he has to go is send in the Declaration of Consent to the Wikipedia website and include the file name that I should already have up on the site. So when he sends the e-mail, OTRS volunteers will attach the consent to the image so that the copyright is correct? If I'm completely wrong, then I think I'm more than a bit confused...anyway, we'll see how this goes. Thank you again!! Threecheerslife (talk) 04:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Nemu64

Did you even check the log before creating that MfD? --Tothwolf (talk) 11:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure what you mean by "even". I spent a long time searching through the deletion review logs and elsewhere to find the history of what had been done. I also read the template on the page, which specifically stated that the page was temporarily kept during the deletion review discussion. Checking the page log to which you refer was not one of the many things I did. I could have done so, just as I could have omitted some of the other time-consuming checks that I did perform. Thank you for drawing my attention to that log: I now see that the template at the top of the page may be misleading; I had no reason before to doubt it, and if it could be relied on then what I did seems reasonable to me. I shall try to remember if similar cases arise again to give greater priority to looking at page logs. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:48, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

The {{tempundelete}} template was just a leftover from when the article was userfied. A lot of the time such templates are not removed immediately when the article is userfied. --Tothwolf (talk) 11:51, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Robert Williams (geometer)

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Robert Williams (geometer). 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 Wikipedia:Notability and "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(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Williams (geometer). 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.

Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:05, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Good news

Hello JBW,

Instead of being deleted, the article Robert Williams (geometer) has been moved into the article incubator. The incubator is a collaborative environment aimed at helping new articles be brought up to Wikipedia's standards in an environment that is free from the pressures of impending deletion. To continue working on your article, please visit Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Robert Williams (geometer).

If you have any questions or need help, feel free to ask and I will be glad to help. — Sebastian 07:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Custom Line

Hi JamesBWatson,

I saw that you merged the Custom Line 97', Custom Line 112' Next, Custom Line Navetta 26 and Custom Line Navetta 33 pages into Custom Line. I was trying to create a boat template like the one used on the Italian version (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Imbarcazione), but I'm not sure it will work correctly. How can I do to make it? Do you think that I can make different pages for each model using that template, or the article is better now that is merged?

Thanks in advance! --Ddquadrante (talk) 13:50, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

I have no experience of creating templates, so I'm afraid i can't help you. However, my feeling is that the individual models do not require individual articles anyway, as the degree of notability they have is adequately covered by mentions of them in a single article. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Škocjan caves

Hello

let me introduce ourselves... Škocjan Caves Park are Regional park in smal country Slovenia managed by the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning - Government of Slovenia.

So...Yesterday we accomplished our page on Wikipedia (Škocjan caves)...BUT...after 10 hours of work you change back old version of the article. Can I ask what we did wrong? We logged in as Škocjanske jame (in english - Škocjan caves) and I think that we know the best about our information and we want people to know the right information.
I think it is in everyone's interest that there are as many of the right information on the page, and believe me that when complemented with this article we did not do anything wrong.

My name is Sidonija Mozetič and I am a representative of the press (PR) in that park. So I ask you to response me what we have to do, that you will not change our articles back in the old version.

thank you for your response...and if you do not belive me you can se our main page (all the informations we wrote are from it) www.park-skocjanske-jame.si
or you can write me to my official e-mail: sidonija.mozetic@psj.gov.si —Preceding unsigned comment added by Škocjanske jame (talk • contribs) 09:07, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I shall try to explain my reasons, and indicate what you can do to make your contributions to the article more acceptable. Firstly, much of the material you added was phrased in rather promotional language (e.g. "Ranking among the most important caves in the world"). Secondly, for the majority of the material there were no sources given (e.g. who ranks them as among the most important caves in the world?). I suggest that you carefully rephrase your contributions to make sure that they appear as objective presentation of facts, rather than as an attempt to promote the caves, and also that you provide references to reliable published sources to support your statements. You may like to carefully consider Wikipedia's guideline on reliable sources: "I know better than you" is not acceptable justification for edits. I have had a quick look at the web site which you link to above, and it looks good: I suggest that you give references to its various pages in the relevant sections of the article. I see that you, or someone else, has undone my edit, and for the moment I shall leave the article for you to work on. You may also like to read Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline. There is no reason why you should not edit the article, but it is worth bearing in mind that, since you are involved with what you are writing about, you will see it from a particular point of view, and you may have to think carefully about how to write in a way which can be seen as objective by an outsider, and not appear promotional in tone. I hope these comments are of some help to you, and please feel welcome to contact me again. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:31, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Škocjan caves

Dear JamesBWatson All things which are summarized in an article, are from the scientific literature Škocjan Caves Park (Monograph), we refer to the contributions of authors: dr. Andrej Mihevc: Climate, Geology and Geomorphology (pages 58-65), dr. Andrej Kranjc: Historical overviue and description of the Caves (pages 42-57), dr. Rajko Slapnik: Flora and Fauna (pages 66-79), dr. Peter Turk: Archeology (pages: 86-97). Contributions of these authors refer to the specialized articles that you can be also send. In this contribution we do not want to do any advertising because our task is primarily complementary and up to date information on Škocjan Caves. Through exposure to the caves as a World Heritage Site - UNESCO area it is something special from a scientific point of view. I think this is NOT cheap advertising of the caves. As managers of this area, we have a moral right to make certain information about the area on Wikipedia, but certainly we'll consider your comments and try to edit the article in as much objective as we can. Sidonija Mozetič Škocjan Caves Park Samo Šturm, biologist Škocjan Caves Park —Preceding unsigned comment added by Škocjanske jame (talk • contribs) 10:39, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback: Nbarth, J-invariant

{{Talkback}} (I see that you are watching, but include TB for ease.)

Stephen North

Hi there. I've outlined my objections to the prodding of the article on the talk page. SteveO (talk) 15:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I have replied on that page too. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

How to add external links?

Thanks for letting us know that there's a problem. We are adding links to online resources that we have (in this case, interviews with authors) about existing Wikipedia entries on those authors.

We are new to Wikipedia, so maybe we are not going about it the right way. How else are we supposed to do this? Our interviews are vetted, credible, and informative and would add to the Wikipedia resource.

Keverding (talk) 19:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)keverding

Unfortunately I have received your question just as I have run out of time and have to go. I will try to look at your edits later and let you know what I think. It is likely to be quite a few hours: I am really sorry not to be able to respond more fully sooner. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. We've reinstated our Chip Kidd interview, this time under "interviews." We look forward to hearing from you about adding these interview resources to other author pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keverding (talk • contribs) 20:34, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I have now posted a response to this at User_talk:Keverding#Links, since another editor had posted a warning on that page, and I thought it more helpful to have my response visible with that warning. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Mary Bond Davis

Dear Mr. Watson,

I read your comments regarding mediocrity and I do agree. We are living in a day and age in which mediocrity is rewarded.

With that said, I am unaware if you have read my most recent post regarding my Wiki entry.

My entry will be Wikified once I have closed the show I am now working on in January 2010. I do agree that my bio should be left to others to compose.

What prompted my entry was mistaken identity. No one should deliberately or mistakenly take credit for my hard work under any circumstance.

A friend who works for Wikipedia suggested that I include my bio back in 2006.

Sincerely,

Mary Bond Davis —Preceding unsigned comment added by This1ismbd (talk • contribs) 22:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately I am not sure what this refers to. Where did I comment on mediocrity? I tend to make about 100-200 edits in a day, and don't remember them all, but the only posts of mine that I can find that have any relevance to you are this one, where I warned about removing material without explaining why, and this one, where I tagged an article for Wikifying and for references to establish notability. Was that second one the one you mean? As for your "most recent post regarding [your] Wiki entry", I assume you mean this one, in which case yes, I have read it. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:01, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Dear Mr. Watson,

If you follow this link you might understand why I made the edits to the S.O.S. Band. I am not Mary Davis, I am Mary Bond Davis:

http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/The_SOS_Band?src=mtoc&fwd=1&q=mary+bond+davis&qpvt=mary+bond+davis

If I go to Bing.com and click on reference, this is where the link will take you. This erroneous information is frustrating to me and if there is some way I can be assisted, please make a suggestion.

Sincerely,

Mary Bond DavisThis1ismbd (talk) 20:55, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I am totally puzzled by this. Before your edit the article The SOS Band said "The band, fronted by Mary Davis (R&B singer),", and after your edit it still said the same. You did not make any change to or from anything to do with Mary Bond Davis. The only change you made was to remove a link to Mary Davis's Wikipedia article, and I cannot understand what the purpose of that was, nor how this is connected to the fact that you say you are Mary Bond Davis. Perhaps you can clarify that. I have searched and found a web page which says "The band, fronted by Mary Davis (not Mary Bond Davis)", which seems to confirm what the Wikipedia article on the SOS Band says. However, that does not seem to be in dispute, as you did not change that. Are you now saying that the information is wrong, and the band is fronted by Mary Bond Davis? If not then I really don't know what you are saying. JamesBWatson (talk) 22:08, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Watson,

There are many edits you have reverted that I want to address with you and things I need to clarify. All will have to wait until the new year.

Just know that when I type Mary Bond Davis into the search field of Wikipedia, I DO NOT want to be redirected to The S.O.S. Band or any other person. Then maybe Bing.com and other sites will stop redirecting, as well.

Happy Holidays

This1ismbd (talk) 17:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah! At last I begin to see what you mean, Mary. At least I think so: tell me if I've got it wrong. The Wikipedia page Mary Bond Davis used to be a redirect to The SOS Band, which was wrong , as that band involved Mary Davis, not Mary Bond Davis. You blanked the Mary Bond Davis page to stop this wrong redirect from happening, but you found your attempts to do this kept getting reverted. Eventually out of desperation, because it seemed the only way forward, you tried writing a true article about yourself in the hope that this would stop people reverting to the redirect. However, you found that people still kept making unhelpful changes, because they didn't understand what you were trying to do. Is that about right? If so I think I can help you. Please let me know. Hope you have happy holidays too.

Now this is completely irrelevant, but I want to say it. I had never heard of you before all this came up on Wikipedia, but I searched around about you, and found a YouTube of you singing "Pour Me A Man", and I quite enjoyed listening to you, so some good has come out of all this trouble. Thanks! JamesBWatson (talk) 19:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

By the way, it helps to make things easier to follow if you post new messages about this here, rather than at the bottom of the page. If you look at the top of this section, on the left it says "Mary Bond Davis" in bold letters, and at the right it says "[edit]". If you click on that "[edit]" it will open a window for just editing this section concerning you, rather than the whole page, so you can easily add more comments at the bottom of this section. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:30, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:LINK

James, I asked on the talk page about your addition. Wikipedia_talk:Linking#Recent_addition Tony (talk) 13:38, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

International Center for Autism Research & Education

Sorry for the hassle on International Center for Autism Research & Education. I guess you know the scoop from the discussion page. I should have checked it out first. --Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:28, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Haji Muhammad Salah Mugheri

An editor has nominated Haji Muhammad Salah Mugheri, an article which you have created or worked on, 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/Haji Muhammad Salah Mugheri and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns 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. -- Eastmain (talk) 19:06, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

About the user page policy

Re [1], I don't think I understand the way it is said. Are you trying to say that the user talk page shouldn't be redirected unless the user is indefed, or that that it can only be redirected to another talk page unless the user is indefed? — Coren ^(talk) 14:02, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

The latter. However, on reflection I have decided to revert to the previous version anyway, as the exception seems to be unnecessary. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at User talk:JamesBWatson. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. (Diff, the attack is in the edit summary) Sandstein 14:31, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

I confess that the edit summary was more uncivil than it needed to be, and after making the edit I regretted the words I had used. Nevertheless, I think to call it a "personal attack" is an exaggeration. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:51, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Servo Robot Group modifications

Good morning,

I "undo" your actions on Servo Robot Group's article on Wikipedia. It is very important to show this information to focus on the technology use in robotic laser welding. If you remove this information, we only have information about the company, which is not allowed in Wikipedia. I have something else to add to this article but I am waiting to have the credits from some robot companies and link this article to their articles on Wikipedia.

Thanks Judlef —Preceding undated comment added 15:34, 23 December 2009 (UTC).

Unfortunately I don't understand that at all. Why is it "very important" to have a complete list of patent details for this company? Why is this information encyclopedic? What do you mean by "we only have information about the company"? Isn't the list of patent information information about the company? And why is this "not allowed in Wikipedia"? I am not aware of any policy which says that an article about a company cannot have "only ... information about the company", and indeed it would seem very odd if there were such a policy: I would expect that an article about a particular subject should have only information on that subject. In short, as I said , I don't understand it at all: perhaps you can clarify your meaning. One thing I do understand, however, is that you want all this detail about the company's patents to be included. On this I disagree entirely: it is the kind of detail about a company that might be included in a company prospectus, but not in an encyclopedia article. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:40, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Samba school

Sorry, I misunderstood the situation here; thanks for the clarification. Nyttend (talk) 19:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Languages

Hi there JAMES, VASCO from Portugal here,

Thanks for your tip, will try to "humour" you in that direction. The only occasion i have done this is when i am sure that the editor speaks very little English. From now on, i will add the pertinent translation.

Have a jolly 2010,

VASCO - --Vasco Amaral (talk) 16:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Language

Hi James! Thanks for note, i actually translate my talk pages via Google, but now i really forgot! You know, new year and so! :) Thank anyway! Be good, Happy New Year! --Tadija (talk) 17:24, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I simply would like to let you know User:Paulozin can't speak English. He never leaves edit summaries and when he does so, it's in Portuguese (or Spanish). 189.24.160.136 (talk) 18:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

English Wikipedia

Hello, JBW. You have new messages at Carioca's talk page.
Message added 20:41, 4 January 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Thank you. It thought that it was are private conversations, but after i have read Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines.--Mladifilozof (talk) 14:21, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Speedy deletion nomination of User:EZW/Joel W. Gonzales

Please note that CSD criteria rarely applies to userspace, and your tag did not apply to EZW's draft. Thanks, IShadowed ✰ 20:26, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

The heading for the "General" section of CSD at WP:CSD#General says "These apply to all namespaces (and so apply to articles, redirects, user pages, talk pages, files, etc)". In fact that is exactly the point of the "G" prefix, distinguishing these criteria from "A" criteria (which apply only to articles), "R" criteria (only redirects) etc. The statement that "CSD criteria rarely applies to userspace" therefore seems to me irrelevant, unless I have missed something. On the other hand the description of G4 does go on to say that it excludes "content moved to user space for explicit improvement (but not simply to circumvent Wikipedia's deletion policy)". I do not doubt your sincerity in userfying the article "for explicit improvement", but, considering the history of the editor on whose behalf you userfied it, I certainly do doubt his sincerity, and it seems to me to be done for the purpose of "circumvent[ing] Wikipedia's deletion policy". I therefore think that the criterion does apply here. I shall make further efforts to have it deleted, either by an MfD or by restoring the speedy tag. However, I shall not do so for now, to give you a chance to respond to the above comments if you wish to. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:42, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Kind request to solve dispute

Hello. Would you be able to help solve this dispute? Few other users have viewed it, but has not yet come to a conclusion. Thank you. Regards. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 02:40, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

I have read Talk:List_of_onshore_wind_farms#Restructuring and posted a response there. You will see when you read my comment that I have agreed with some of your opinions, but disagreed with others. I have tried to be a helpful as I can: I hope I have succeeded in being helpful. Let me know if you have anything else to ask me, or any comments about what I have written. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:41, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. It is in fact, one way or the other, very helful. I have responded there. Kind regards. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 02:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I am glad you found my efforts helpful. Thanks for letting me know. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:20, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

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