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PakPassion

deletion of user Ansakhad..I think there has been a misunderstanding. I didn't plan advertisement. I was told to write an article up for amendment to my username, which I did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#.7B.7Bla.7CPakpassion.7D.7D

Perhaps I did it wrong, I'm unaware. I didn't know where else on my userspace I can put it.

Thank you. (ansakhad (talk) 17:24, 4 October 2008 (UTC))

replied Nancy talk 17:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Please note that I did restore the revisions to User:Ansakhad's edit history, to enable Ansakhad to fix the article, but I forgot to include an explanation in the restore log. I have also advised Ansakhad to create a subpage in user space in which to work on the article there. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:11, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Rocker85

Hi, I couldn't help but notice that you have deleted several of my contributions that I worked very hard to create, including several brand new pages that I had just made. Yes, I know these pages were short and lacked content, but you must know it takes time to write a long and informative page on wikipedia. I'm just trying to contribute and I don't know why I'm having such a hard time doing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocker85 (talk • contribs) 17:28, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure that edits such as this back up your claim of "just trying to contribute" and neither do the three 'articles' which you created this afternoon which were, as you know were just made up nonsense - example "If Plato was a Christian this is what his philosophy would be called". QED. Nancy talk 17:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

飞天号航天服 & 飞天 deletion

Hi, you deleted 飞天号航天服 & 飞天

I think these qualify under {{R from another language}} since they are the original language names for the article in question (Feitian space suit), so are indeed likely search terms. If someone read an article and copypasted or typed in the original name, shouldn't they be able to reach the correct article? 70.51.8.75 (talk) 09:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

You used CSD reason R3

"Recently created redirects from implausible typos or misnomers. However, redirects from common misspellings or misnomers are generally useful, as are redirects in other languages."

This says "redirects in other languages are generally useful" 70.51.8.75 (talk) 09:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, this is a difficult one & I can see both sides of the coin. I've tried to see if there is a consensus by looking through Category:Redirects from alternative languages but I'm still not sure. I have always read the "redirect from another language as being more related to things such as Kyiv (topical one that one - read the talk page! - but I digress), or Das Wohltemperirte Clavier rather than a literal transalation of every article's name in to other languages, particulary those with non-Latin character sets. This is why I feel that the two (Mandarin?) words/phrases you have mentioned equally fall in to the territory of unlikely/implausible phrases for a person to type on the English language Wikipedia. But the bottom line is that I am one admin & one opinion (which is a valid opinion but equally is far from unchallengable). The redirects were speedily deleted so as there was no deletion discussion there is no community consensus for their deletion which means that you are free to recreate. If they are renominated for deletion I will recuse myself from the process and we'll see what others think. Sound OK to you? Kind regards, Nancy talk 17:52, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Well, there's the essay Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Redirects from foreign languages . The article's name is a phonetic and literal translation of the actual name. (ie. It's a chinese spacesuit, the actual name is in chinese, not English). From the bit about non-Latin characters, doesn't that indicate bias, since English is used in Hong Kong as an official language, where Chinese characters are prevalent, or India, where non-Latin script is common and English is widely used. But we already use a lot of implausible names that people would type for actual article names (all the non-ASCII ones, and particularly, the widespread use of eszett, a non-English, non-Roman character, that is very likely to be interpretted as a "B" or beta). 70.51.8.75 (talk) 06:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Page Deletion

Nancy,

It appears you have deleted this page back in August, due to it being a Non-Noteable Student Club?

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Loughborough_Students_Union_Gliding_Club_%28deleted_17_Aug_2008_at_18:07%29

I set up this page some years back to acurately reflect the history of this club, and after 2007 it was left to the Club to continue to update it. The Club is still a prominent club within the Loughborough Athletic Union. Can you please reverse the deletion?

ELTEP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eltep (talk • contribs) 13:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there Eltep. Yes, the article was deleted in August as it had been proposed for deletion due to lack of notability. I have just reviewed the text again and I have to say that I think that the original tagging and subsequent deletion were absolutely correct. Our notability guidelines say that if the club has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, then it can be presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article and I see no assertion of notability in the article and have been unable to find anything in the news archives either. You mention above that the club is "prominent within the Loughborough Athletic Union" which I have no doubt is true however for inclusion in Wikipedia it needs to be notable in a wider context and for this reason I am unwilling to restore the page. I would normally offer to copy the content to your userspace but I guess you don't need it as you have full access to it as deletionpedia already. Kind regards, Nancy talk 18:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Ahoy there

Should pirates be ruthless? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Always:
My name is Nancy Blackett.
I'm the terror of the seas
When traders see my topsails
They go trembly at the knees.
If they behave politely,
I politely take their ship.
Make them wish they hadn't
If they give me any lip.
I draw no unfair distinction
Rich or poor, short or lank,
But perfectly impartial
As I make them walk the plank.
I've a bo'sun plays the fiddle
As they walk it one by one.
And my brave boys line the bulwarks
To enjoy the harmless fun.
Arthur Ransome
Nancy talk 15:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

History merge

You recently performed a history merge on Matt Hazard and Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. These were separate articles on separate subjects with parallel editing histories and should have been handled with a regular merge and redirect. Merging the histories has resulted in versions of the two articles being interleaved, muddling the edit history. Pagrashtak 13:46, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, if you have the time. Not difficult, just tedious. Pagrashtak 15:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I'll take a look. Pagrashtak 15:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I see an edit history on both articles—exactly what is the problem? Pagrashtak 15:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
It wasn't me. During these history merge operations, you often have to purge to pick up the change—it was probably a server cache issue. Pagrashtak 15:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Nancy,

I got your name on the Administrators list - we have not met yet.

I tried to post a biographical article about a business executive named Norris Lozano this morning and it was speedily deleted.

The reason given was "advertising" - which gives me some guidance about how to fix it. I'd like the opportunity to edit the piece down and take out the editorializing and just stick with the facts. I think the subject of the bio is valid.

I don't know what happens here, what if I were to edit the piece down and re-submit it? I've searched the site, but it seems like there is no "second chance"(?) in cases like this.


Could you please give me some guidance about what I can do next?

Many thanks, Cesmith111urban (talk) 22:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, sorry I wasn't around when you posted this message but I see from your talk page that the deleting admin has responded and is helping you out with a copy of the deleted article etc. Looks like they have given you pretty sound advice so good luck with the revised article and of course, don;t hesitate to drop by again if you need help with this or anything else. Kind regards, Nancy talk 15:15, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

University of Limerick Computer Society

What was the contents of the talk page for the University of Limerick Computer Society at the time of your deletion? I hadn't had a chance to add/check it between the time I placed the {{hangon}} tag and your deletion of the page.

The contents of the page was not a recreate of prior content as you had given for your reason for deletion. The content had been modified to remove/modify and parts that weren't necessary and to add new content.

Also, I believe the reason the page was tagged for deletion was that the page wasn't notable. I believe that a quick Google search for the University of Limerick Computer Society will return ~438,000 results[1], and SkyCon, an event run within the last 18 months, which as I noted on the talk page at the time of deletion even gets ~12,800 results[2] (on top of receiving national media coverage at the time.) PolarIce (talk) 18:32, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

  1. ^ http://www.google.ie/search?q=University+of+Limerick+Computer+Society
  2. ^ http://www.google.ie/search?q=SkyCon
Hi there PolarIce. To address your points in order -
  1. The {{hangon}} tag had been on the article for a few minutes shy of 16 hours before it was deleted (hangon added by you at 01:32 UTC, page deleted by me at 17:27 UTC)
  2. The talk page had not been edited for over 15 hours when it was deleted and the content was as follows - As one of the central Computer Societies/Netsocs in Ireland it's kinda hard to say that it isn't notable. When companies like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Ericsson have all sent representatives to give talks within the past 18 months and some of these talks have received national media coverage and online streaming coverage too from LugRadio The event SkyCon should probably have it's own page based on the content of the talks and the people/groups/companies that gave talks during the course of the event. [[User:Polar ice|PolarIce]] ([[User talk:Polar ice|talk]]) 01:56, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
  3. The page was deleted because it was a recreation of deleted material being substantially identical to the article which was deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Limerick Computer Society. This information can be found in the deletion log.
  4. With regard to the wider question of notability I have performed the google test as you suggest but get slightly different results and as far as I can see the Society's notability has not changed at all since the original deletion discussion so I think it highly probable that even if it were re-written to avoid a further G4 speedy deletion it would be sent straight back for another AFD which I am sure would result in a consensus for deletion on the basis of lack of notability.
  • For a general google on "University of Limerick Computer Society" I get only 70 ghits in which I can't see anything other than primary sources, blogs and listings. (note that for the true number of hits you need to go to the last page of results rather than relying on the estimate on the first page)
  • A google news search (all dates) on "University of Limerick Computer Society" produces a single ghit which is an ad type listing from December 2007.
  • Similar tests on "University of Limerick Computer Society" + "SkyCon" produce 28 general ghits - again primary sources, blogs and listings - and the same solitary listing when searching google news (all dates).
Hope this helps to explain what happened and why. Kind regards, Nancy talk 05:01, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback - some of the time it's hard to get feedback on wikipedia these days. I was originally hoping that since the page had been off wikipedia for a period of about a year that by reinstating it with updated content and cleaning up what the old page had been like would have been enough to suffice especially since SkyCon hadn't been run yet when the old article had been in place.
I guess we'll see if it's suitable again in another year PolarIce (talk) 15:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Need help

Dear Nancy, Hope u r fine enough. Nancy i m editing and creating articles on wiki for a long time but i dont have any right till now. Please tell me if this is automatic process for becoming an administrator or i need to fill any application.

Regards

Sameer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameergoswami (talk • contribs) 07:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Sameer. Sorry to step in, and I'm sure Nancy will have a reply as well, but the page page you are looking for is WP:RFA. I would advise that most administrators are not granted the tools with much less than 3,500 edits across various parts of the encyclopedia. If you read the current requests on that page (and the various links from it) you can find out more. Pedro :  Chat  07:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there Sameer. As Pedro has mentioned there is a formal process for becoming an administrator which can be found at WP:RFA. I have done a quick check on your contributions so far (summary can be found here) and whilst RFA has no specific minimum requirements I would make the following observations:
  1. Your total edit count in all areas is 380. You would probably need to add a 0 on to the end of that to stand much of a chance at RFA - whilst edit count is not the be all and end all, it is a reasonable indicator of general experience and most editors look for a minimum of 3000-4000 edits in a potential administrator.
  2. Most of your edits lack an edit summary - edit summaries are considered an important communication tool and you should always try to leave one even for the most minor of edits. If you look in your preferences you will find an option to force the use of edit summaries and I stringly recommend you switch it on - you'll soon find that it becomes a habit to leave one and you won't need reminding!
  3. The vast majority of your contributions so far have been in article space and there is nothing wrong with that - it's what we're here for, however.... at RFA people will want to see evidence of participation in "admin related areas" as they will use this as a gauge of your understanding of things like blocking policy and deletion policy. I would suggest starting off by lurking at places like articles for deletion and administrators intervention against vandalism leading to participation if and when you feel confident. You might also watchlist the administrators noticeboard to get a feel for what sort of things admins are needed to do.
That'll probably do to be going on with! Hope it helps and the very best of luck, kind regards, Nancy talk 08:15, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Just a little something

The Excellent Userpage Award
Your userpage is neat, well organised and attractive to the eye. Well, it is to me at least, keep it up! Blooded Edge ☆ 13:19, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Why thank you, what an unexpected and lovely gesture. Much appreciated, yours, Nancy talk 19:40, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irish E-Sports SPAs

First off, thanks for the SPA tagging. Second, when you tag users as SPAs, make sure you subst the templates next time; for example, {{subst:spa|SPAstic user}}. Thanks, MuZemike (talk) 19:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

You were right the first time (most) templates should be substituted so that they are not affected by later (year later) changes in the wording etc. Also better for the servers I believe. Even after all this time I still forget more often than not! Kind regards, Nancy talk 19:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Irish E-Sports

Have you seen the afd of that article?. They are so many new users that is voting for keep. Is that even possible?. I think they should be some sort of guidelines that IP and new users should not be voted. --SkyWalker (talk) 07:47, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know there is no policy which says that new accounts and IPs can't participate in AFD discussions - and often those that do bring valid and interesting points of view to the table - but what we do need to do is make sure that we identify where the process is being abused as looks to be the case in this particular discussion. I don't think we need to worry too much about this one - all the contributions by single-purpose accounts have been tagged as such, plus none of their keep rationales are based in any kind of policy so I can't see any closing admin giving much (if any) weight to those !votes and to be honest if the final outcome is anything other than Delete then I would expect to see the case at deletion review! Kind regards, Nancy talk 11:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Interim HC is notable as per WP:CFB

Just a quick FYI: an interim HC (like Dabo Swinney) is notable as per plenty of WP:CFB precedent, since they (1) come from key coordinators who often warrant articles on their own, (2) often become the permanent HC, and (3) D-IA college football is larger than many international sports leagues in terms of money, viewership and media coverage. --Bobak (talk) 18:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Stereo Mike

Stereo Mike is a greek musician, and is noteworthy. The proof can be foundon the fact that he is a nominee for "Europe's Favourite Act" at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zisimos (talk • contribs)

Well that certainly sounds like an assertion of notability and if it had been mentioned in the article it would definitely have escaped speedy at least. Kind regards, Nancy talk 05:50, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Rfa Spam

Thank you so much for your support on my RFA, which today passed unanimously. I will do my best to make sure that I don't let any of you down. If you ever need any help with anything, feel free to ask me, i'll be happy to. Thanks again. And by the way, unfortunately, due to the nagging of my housemates, i am now entirely clean-shaven again. I can resign if you want--Jac16888 (talk) 17:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)--Jac16888 (talk) 17:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Swimsuittrends

Just did it as you pinged me! Just after I looked at the bleedin link names & put 2 & 2 together... D'oh! SkierRMH (talk) 07:21, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of article "Kent St. John"

Hi Nancy,

My article about artist Kent St. John was recently deleted by you. I've reviewed the reason why this was done and completely understand you were following simple deletion procedure based on ‎A7 (bio): Doesn't indicate importance or significance of a real person. Below is my initial argument as to why this person should be considered important and significant enough to have a Wikipedia page. After reading this, if you still find the article (and argument to keep the article live) too weak, I would value your advice on what should be added to the article in order to make it notable enough. Please review the following regarding the deletion of Kent St. John

This page was specifically created to mainly highlight artist Kent St. John's involvement with The Dear Hunter art book project. He is referred to in three separate Wikipedia articles that discuss this particular project. You can view them here:

The Dear Hunter
Casey Crescenzo
Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

All other information is purely biographical based off of personal and public works by St. John. This information only delivers additional, factual insight into what St. John has worked on and he is working on currently, for an audience that may be interested in further exploring his career.

In addition, St. John's works are public and are becoming more and more notable among growing web communities (such as forums pertaining to The Dear Hunter, as well as newsletters involving St. John's work with The Unlimited Freedom Castle). Thus the chance of individuals from these communities researching St. John on google.com or wikipedia.org to learn more about his career, is becoming more likely.

In conclusion I would ask for this page to not be deleted. If there are concerns expressed regarding extraneous information about St. John's career that is deemed not notable, then I'd like to open a discussion about that information, and why it should or should not be deleted.

--Kentstjohn (talk) 19:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Good Morning Kent.
As you say, the article was deleted because it did not indicate the importance and significance of the subject; this is the very first step in demonstrating notability and is necessary to prevent an article being "speedy deleted" as happened with this one. Once over that hurdle, the article has to meet Wikipedia's clearly defined definition of notability and in this case the specific criteria for the notability of "creative professionals" which can be found at WP:CREATIVE. What you need to do is first check that Kent meets the notability requirement but then, and most importantly, you must prove it by showing that he has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent and independent of the subject. This is explained in more detail at the top of the notability for biographies guideline.
Also I must mention the issue of your potential conflict of interest. I am assuming from your username that you either are Kent himself or editing on behalf of him? Whilst it is not specifically disallowed, people editing articles about themselves is strongly discouraged as we recognise that closeness to a subject may make it very difficult to be neutral - a good rule of thumb is that if a subject is notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia then likely an uninvolved editor will be along soon enough to create a page. Wikipedia can be a bit daunting at first as it takes a while to get your head round all the policies and guidelines - indeed most people don't even realise there are any - but I hope this helps to explain a little & I will leave you a welcome message with some other handy links on your talk page. Kind regards and good luck, Nancy talk 07:53, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Nancy! That answers everything. --Kentstjohn (talk) 16:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Glad to be of service! If you need any more help please don't hesitate to ask. Nancy talk 18:13, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Sylva Foundation

Hi

I noticed that the Sylva Foundation page was deleted but this seems to have taken place despite the fact that I arranged for an email to be sent to you authorising the text from the organisation.

Can it be reinstated please? If so, there is more work that could be done to improve the content and originality.

Thanks

earthtree (talk) 15:55, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi here Earthtree,
I would imagine that the page got deleted becuase the email has not yet been recieved and/or processed and all the time that a copyright violation remains on Wikipedia we are legally liable for the consequences. I am usually happy to supply copies of deleted articles but I'm afraid that in the case of a copyright violation I am unable to. I've looked again at the deleted text and to be honest, my advice to you would be that it is probably not worth the hassle of jumping through all the copyright release hoops as it would take no more than 10 minutes to just write the article again in your own words. A word of caution though, please do make sure that Sylva Foundation meets Wikipedia's notability requirement for organisations, otherwise a revised article may meet the same fate as the original one, albeit for different reasons! The very best of luck with which ever course you decide to take and please do drop by again if you need any further help. Kind regards, Nancy talk 18:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

SVG version?

u liek?

miranda 06:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

One more supporter weighing in.

Hi, Nancy. I'm the guy on the admin noticeboard the other day who expressed concern about the insane attacks on your pages. I've reactivated my account and I still have rollback privileges. Your pages are going on my watch list and anyone who tries to mess with a page while I'm logged in will deal with me. I may not have the mop and bucket anymore by my own choosing, but I'll be damned if I'm going to watch a hard-working contributor get slammed by a faceless coward. Take care. Regards, --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the support - much appreciated, especially as most of it happens whilst I am sound asleep so I am pretty reliant on other people's vigilance. I didn't know that it had been raised on the noticeboard but that does explain the number of people who now seem to be there to revert within seconds. As you can probably see from my talkpage history it has been going on for about a month now (I think over 50 socks now) and it's all getting slightly tedious especially as a) I have no idea what prompted it, and b) it is not even vaguely witty - well really, what is the point of vandalism if it doesn't even raise a smile?? Thanks once again, kindest regards, Nancy talk 07:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
I'd also like to offer my support. The amount of shit you've had to put up with is simply unbelievable, and I will use every tool at my disposal to help you out whenever I can. I'd like to think that I may have sapped off some of his/her/its wrath, but he/she/it is probably reading this page, so my nefarious plot will likely fail. Oh, well. I did what little I could... J.delanoygabsadds 07:52, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks J, as I said to PMDrive, it's very much appreciated. FWIW I've got your user page watchlisted too although your other talk page stalkers are a bit quicker on the keyboard than I am! Nancy talk 08:00, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

You sure got mine. I'd gotten a half-assed "death threat" from one of the "Grawp" idiots. Said idiot failed to realize his entry was dated, time-stamped and had his IP identified. One call to Comcast and they took it seriously. Lots of good folks have your back. Please count me in. This "Hans697" is making a jackass of himself in front of a worldwide audience. The world knows who's right and who's wrong and you are right. Take care. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:55, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm guessing that s/he'll soon realise that I don't actually give a toss what he thinks of me and that this is just a website - believe me, the words of a craven, unimaginative vandal are not something I'm going to lose even a seconds sleep over, I don't know him, and I certainly don't respect him so how can it possibly hurt me?. The bit of this which is truely distressing is the amount of time which is being used mopping up his mess rather than building an encyclopaedia. What a waste! Nancy talk 08:57, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

And here we go again. Same message, only it's from Road Runner via 98.100.166.58. Could you please semi-protect my pages? I just e-mailed Virgin with a complaint about the first one and I'm e-mailing Road Runner with this one. Goddamned Grawp idiots at it again. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks much. I've e-mailed the abuse department at Road Runner and if necessary, I have some direct connections with my local Time Warner office who might be able to help. It's nothing more than a bunch of stupid kids, but I'd love to be a fly on the wall when their parents ream them out for the loss of their internet service! A cookie be thine, m'dear. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:46, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Endorsement for Rollback

 Done

Hey Nancy! I was wondering if you would endorse me the privilege of rollback by granting me the honor. If you were to check my contributions, you'll see I've been trying very hard to make an impact against vandalism. I've read the policies involved and will definitely follow them to my fullest. Would you care to help me make a faster and harder punch? Thank you in advanced for your consideration. Knippschild (talk) 08:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll review your contributions and let you know. Nancy talk 08:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for everything - you're handling of my speedy move requests, your support at my RfA, etc. :) JPG-GR (talk) 15:55, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Please Stop

The Problem with Commonwealth Realms is that except for some of them, they all function exactly the same way. That is the principle of a shared Monarchy. So to recreate articles with my own word would be a bit difficult considering except the name of the country, they all used to function the same way. But on the other hand, not to create pages for theses specific Monarchies would be quite strange considering the fact that these countries were all Monarchies in their own rights (such as was for example the Kingdom of France or the Empire of Germany). And in all theses countries you still have people that are in favour of the Monarchy and of the Queen. so how could we arrange theses new pages because even in some kingdoms The Queen was their Queen only for a weeks, she was still Their Queen. And it would seem kind of unfair to me to create a whole page for the Kingdom of France and nothing for them. Matmonaco (talk) 16:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC) Matmonaco

Hi there, I guess I would say that if they are all likely to be identical then it is a bit of a waste of time creating separate articles for them at all - better perhaps to have a single article covering off the whole lot, a bit like say Commonwealth realm, in fact I think that may be that would be a good place for you to go for advice as it appears to have a lively talk page and I'm sure they are much more expert on monarchies past and present than I am (I can help you all day long on Wikipedia policy but monarchy is really not my bag!) and they would would be more than happy to give you advice if you raised the issue on the talk page also, the article you were copying is one of their "children". But please, in the meantime hold off with the copy/paste creations as they will only be deleted. Good luck and kind regards, Nancy talk 17:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi thank you for your answer, it was very useful. In the mean time would it be easiest to create like one common page with all the former Commonwealth Realms and to create separate boxes for each of them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matmonaco (talk • contribs) 17:28, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think a single article called something like Former Commonwealth realms would be the best way to proceed, that way you can mention all the common information once (in your own words of course!) and then list the countries involved with perhaps a sentence or two to cover off the information unique to each one, e.g. dates. Nancy talk 17:33, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Mojo Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants

Hi, this band has recently become very popular in parts of california, and I would love it if you could re up their page, as I personally would love to learn more about the band —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.127.112 (talk) 22:16, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I need a bit of help here - there doesn't seem to be an deleted article called Mojo Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants and I have searched back through the last 1000 articles that I have deleted and can't find anything with the word Mojo in the title? I have also looked at your own deleted contributions but can't find anything. Can you let me know either what the original article was called or the name of the user who created it and then I can consider whether to supply you with the deleted text. Kind regards, Nancy talk 08:12, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Pleasure to be of service.

Between a three-month block on MascotGuy's IP addresses, the fact that the Grawp kiddies seem to be getting tired of the "HAGGER" idiocy and now this bit of cautiously good news, Wikipedia is almost becoming a pleasant place to be once more. It is my pleasure to cover your back. Lots of good users covered mine when I was an admin and it's a privilege to return the favor. Any idiot can stroll onto this site and do malice. Takes some real intelligence to improve it and earn the mop and bucket. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

RE: IP edit warrior at 'Republic of China passport'

Hello. This IP continues to edit war regarding the lead for 'Republic of China passport', removing references to support usage of 'Taiwanese passport', insinuating unclear grammar, and apparently bringing up a nonsensical point (about inclusion of 'only'). This editor reverted last time without comment, and seems intent on continuing to do so despite my provision of links supporting the current lead. I see that you previously blocked this IP editor; additional measures may be needed. Can you look into it and act as needed? Thanks! Bosonic dressing (talk) 08:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Blocked one week for edit warring, removal of cited content and ignoring consensus. Nancy talk 08:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for dealing with this so promptly. Bosonic dressing (talk) 09:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Real master

M.D Lawes (talk · contribs) is the real master. I've updated the case. All those obnoxious usernames can have their tags updated. You can ask the RFCU clerks is you need help with that. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

see the RFCU page for more. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Final results in. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Again, profuse thanks for the work you have put in to this. Kind regards, Nancy talk 07:12, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

216.104.33.94

Delete/history wipe, please? HalfShadow 06:55, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

removed the old stuff but whilst it was unprotected (about 20 seconds) a load more appeared - as you know - I'll leave it a little and clean out the rest when they've got bored! Cheers, Nancy talk 07:00, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

216.104.33.94

Theres no need to block because that range is under an indef hard block anyway as an open proxy. Protecting the talk page is all thats needed, i think. Thanks, best Monster Under Your Bed (talk) 07:02, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Cheers for that. Was so busy looking at the detail I missed the bigger picture! Nancy talk 07:08, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Regarding R. Sathishkumar Associate Director notes

10:06, 24 February 2008 Nancy (Talk | contribs) deleted "R. Sathishkumar" ‎ (A7 (bio): Real person; doesn't indicate importance/significance)


Hi Nancy,

May i know the reason why the notes about my brother is delted from the respective pages. he really worked in that films. if you want to confirm check with director saran and the producer kavithalaya.

you can see his name in the title card also.


Thanks, Karthikeyan G —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuttikarthi.007 (talk • contribs) 15:05, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Gosh - that was a long time ago! I see it has been deleted by someone else since too. I guess the best advice I can give you is to pop over to our notability requirements for biographies with particular regard to the section on creative professionals. If you check out those guidelines you will see what your brother needs to have achieved and also the things you have to do to verify his notability. I should also mention that writing biographies about someone who you are very close to (and what can be closer than a brother?) is generally frowned upon as we recognise that it is very difficult to be neutral. As a rule of thumb, if a subject is notable then likely someone unconnected will be along soon enough to create an article about them. Hope this helps, kind regards, Nancy talk 15:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of 'Save Main Street'

Hi Nancy,

Frankly, I'm a little clueless why 'Save Main Street' is being deleted. Here, we've built a web 2.0 portal that aims to fight the economic crisis by providing job opportunities from top employers around the world to those unemployed from the current economic crisis. Even companies like Google, LucasFilm, Ubisoft, and even Wikia have participated in this initiative, I'm not sure why Wikipedia is not providing support to this initiative.

I'd appreciate if you can reconsider. We sincerely wish for your support.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Alex —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jobstaxi (talk • contribs) 16:31, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

hi there Alex & welcome. I guess the bottom line is that Wikipedia is an encylopaedia. It contains articles about notable subjects, it is not a vehicle for promotion however worthy the cause may be. I shoudl also mentions that writing articles about subjects you are closely associated with is strongly discouraged, as I said to my last corerspondent above, the rule of thumb is that if a subject is notable enough for inclusion then someone unconnected will be along soon enough to write an article about it. Best of luck with your project though & hope you find more appropriate places to promote it. Kind regards, Nancy talk 16:36, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh, and also, the very idea that Wikia would extert editorial influence over content ..... what a suggestion!! ;) --Nancy talk 16:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Please explain your deletion

Honestly speaking, it's hard to comprehend why 'JobsTAXI' is being deleted when there are other wikipedia pages such as

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

that is created to promote these companies. If companies such as Twitter, and even Wikipedia itself, are able to bring awareness to itself via Wikipedia, why the bias towards others?

'JobsTAXI' is an unique project name that is created to provide job opportunities towards the community which is unemployed due to the economic situation that is affecting everyone worldwide. We did not plagiarize this term nor use it unlawfully.

I genuinely question your criteria in reviewing. Please let me know what you think soonest.

Thanks. Alex — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jobstaxi (talk • contribs)

I refer the honorable gentleman to the answer I gave earlier and would aslo suggest a perusal of the notability requirements for websites. I would also mention that his username violates the username policy being the name of a real-world organisation and respectfully request that he changes it ASAP (I'll leave you instructions on your user talk) . Nancy talk 16:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


R Nabil History of Iran

Hello I don't know at you are taking about the artical being bland advertisment it is a upcoming book please reply about this in my talk page thanks,

Secthayrabe Ø

As it was about a book which has yet to be published, has no notabilty yet (I might be missing something but I could find not one mention of it anywhere on the www) it could not really be anything other than an ad for its "upcomingness". Nancy talk 18:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


Hello agian Nancy I am happy to say that R Nabil History of Iran is nearly complet thanks to extra hard work on the sources including the histories it should be out by around 2010-2016 please relpy on my talk Secthayrabe Ø

jewviators

i created the page jewviators it was realy just a joke making fun of everyone i mentioned but they r good sports and i wasnt harsh anyways if i could get back want i said cause it took me a bit and i dont wanna rewrite it :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by Team-lorax-4-life (talk • contribs) 18:43, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

The page that Nancy deleted (and another admin deleted previously) was pure nonesense. Please be aware that repeated creation of nonsense pages on Wikipedia is considered a form of vandalism.  Frank  |  talk  18:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Yes, what Frank said. (Thanks Frank) Nancy talk 09:20, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Richard Adams (inventor)

Hi Nancy, I have completely re-written the page and would appreciate it if you would look at it and its discussion page. Thanks, Eggzactly (talk) 22:45, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Will do, but may not be until tomorrow. Kind regards, Nancy talk 18:34, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Canals and Henley etc

Hi Nancy I see we are in France now! I have internationalised the lock infobox.

In deference to your expertise in these situations, can I point you in the direction of Henley on Thames and Henley Standard, before things get out of hand. Regards Motmit (talk) 16:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes. I am feeling terribly disloyal to dear Old Father Thames. I'll make it up to him presently! Thanks for the lock infobox, I'll check it out this evening. Nancy talk 16:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
p.s. are you any good with tables? - I have an extra column I can't dispose of on Locks on the Canal du Midi ..... Nancy talk 16:59, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Sorry - I can't see any explanation for the table problem. Also the lock box came up OK on preview but seems to get hidden on the save, and I can't explain that either. Regards Motmit (talk) 20:25, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Infobox problem is only apparent in Internet Explorer - I use Firefox for preference and it looks super to me, in fact I didn't know what you were on about until I thought of testing in IE, now I see! Thanks for looking at the table too - I've been scratching my head over it for days now & have tried every combination of code but either it looks as it does now, or worse, the first lock is mashed up into the final column. Arrrghhhhhhh. Wikimarkup, don't you just love it. Nancy talk 20:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

for this. Can you remove the unblock request? I don't think it would be appropriate for me to do so, as the blocking admin. J.delanoygabsadds 20:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Already done. And I have semi-protected the talk page for 48 hours for abuse of the unblock process. What an idiot! Nancy talk 20:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Voies navigables de France

I verified the DYK fact in your new article, and suggested a shorter hook at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on October 29 (the original hook was a bit over 200 characters, at least the way I counted). When you have a chance, could you take a look and say whether you think the alternate hook is ok? Thanks! —Politizer talk/contribs 22:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Gosh that was quick! Thanks. As you may have already seen it was the convert template that caused the problem as it used the characterful kilometre instead of the succinct km! Cheers, Nancy talk 22:36, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
No problem! I'm not normally that fast; you just happened to list your DYK only a couple seconds after I listed mine. Vive la France! —Politizer talk/contribs 22:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of RAND Report

Sorry new to this. You were right, learning curve. As you will see I tried to tone it down and add just the content in subsequent entry. GT —Preceding unsigned comment added by GrandTorino (talk • contribs)

No problem. Do give me a shout if you need a hand. Kind regards, Nancy talk 16:44, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Dynamic Alert deletion

Hi, I noticed the page I wrote on Dynamic Alert was deleted. Can you help me understand how I can post an article on this tool? There seem to be lots of companies listed in Wikipedia (WebTrends for my specific example), and they talk about there products. Having an article on Dynamic Alert would be a huge help to the web analytics industry. Can I get the article back and work on making it less salesy and more infoy? Thanks Nancy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Binduni (talk • contribs)

Hi there Binduni. I am afraid I can't supply you with a copy for the deleted article as I think it was a copyright violation being a copy of Dynamic Alert promotional material. Before you start recreating the article you might spend a moment to read our notability guidelines as I would hate for you to put a lot of work in only to have it deleted, also of course remember that what ever you write must be in your own words & not a cut and paste like the last one. Hope this helps, kind regards, Nancy talk 17:53, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. I wrote the copy, so how can I claim authorship?Binduni (talk) 18:33, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
There are mechanisms but to be honest it really is not worth it as the copy is too promotional and biased to be acceptable for an article. Nancy talk 19:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
I would also recommend you read WP:CORP for specific guidelines for companies. In particular, just because a company exists does not mean it is notable enough to have an article. User:Frank | Frank 17:56, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Feisty Gas

What I submitted to you was actually a true account of the naming of this tanker. Admittedly the last line was frivelous.

Could you pls put it back up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wydnej (talk • contribs)

Just the last line? are you sure??? LOL. I'm not prepared to restore it but there is nothing to stop you recreating a proper, factual article at Feisty Gas if you so desire - if it will only get deleted if it deserves to be. Kind regards, Nancy talk 18:11, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Sara Chamberlain

It seems that you deleted a page that I created about Wynn Chamberlain. You described it as "blatant advertising".

But it is in fact acurate information about an historically important individual (Wynn Chamberlain) who is already referenced on several wikipedia pages - but - all these references to Wynn Chamberlain lead to a blank page, because no one has created a page for Wynn Chamberlain yet.

For example, Wynn Chamberlain and/or his film Brand X is referenced on these pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barenholtz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Collin_Dufresne

Wikipedia also links Wynn Chamberlain's film, Brand X, to the wrong page - the link leads to a page about a band called Brand X, rather than to the film, which was released in 1970 at the Elgin Theatre in New York.

Please can you advise why the page about Wynn Chamberlain was deleted, and how information about Wynn Chamberlain can be published in a form that satisfies Wikipedia.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wynn_Chamberlain"

The content that was published about Wynn Chamberlain on this page has been deleted because it was described as "blatant advertising".

It is not blatant advertising - it is acurate information about an historically important individual (Wynn Chamberlain) who is already referenced on several wikipedia pages - but - all these references to Wynn Chamberlain lead to a blank page, because no one has created a page for Wynn Chamberlain yet.

For example, Wynn Chamberlain and/or his film Brand X is referenced on these pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barenholtz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Collin_Dufresne

Wikipedia also links Wynn Chamberlain's film, Brand X, to the wrong page - the link leads to a page about a band called Brand X, rather than to the film, which was released in 1970 at the Elgin Theatre in New York.

Please can you advise why the page about Wynn Chamberlain was deleted, and how information about Wynn Chamberlain can be published in a form that satisfies Wikipedia.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wynn_Chamberlain" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sara Chamberlain (talk • contribs) 13:13, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

I think you may be better asking this of the person who deleted the substantive article. The version I deleted had a single edit and contained only a {{hangon}} tag - hence my pretty self-explanatory deletion reason of "No meaningful, substantive content". Kind regards, Nancy talk 13:22, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

i will

Thank you Nancy --CuteHappyBrute (talk) 17:06, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


Deletion.

Nancy, you deleted my page for celebrity Joe DeMarzio, it had links, references, and everything else that was needed. Why was my hard work deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joed1118 (talk • contribs) 17:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC) 

(Joed1118 (talk) 17:47, 1 November 2008 (UTC)).
Good afternoon Joe. The article was deleted because there was no assertion of notability - walk-on in a nn-film does not cut it I'm afraid. And as for references, IMDB is not reliable. Suggest you read up on the notability requirements for biographies and then check out the page on reliable sources & then perhaps consider making yourself a myspace page instead. Kind regards, Nancy talk 17:51, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Locks on the Canal du Midi

Updated DYK query On 3 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Locks on the Canal du Midi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

request for unprotection

Hello, I would like to make a request to un-protect the article called 'Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association'. There is a new and enhanced article about 'Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association' which I believe will follow the wikipedia guidlines. The new article will help composers and musicologist to have a valid reference point on their research about Electroacoustic Music in Greece. Thank you, --Panayiotiskokoras (talk) 11:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi there Panayiotiskokoras. The reason that the article has been protected from creation is that everytime it was created in the past it had been a cut and paste copyright violation. I am happy to unprotect it but only if I can be 100% confident that a replacement article will not be a copyvio. I therefore propose that you put the proposed text somewhere in your userspace (e.g at User:Panayiotiskokoras/Sandbox) so that I can check it before it gets posted in to mainspace - let me know when you have the text written and I will take a look. Also remember that no only does the new article need to be free from copyright violations but it also will need to meet Wikipedia's other inclusion criteria, especially the notability guidelines for organisations. Kind regards, Nancy talk 12:05, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I uploaded the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Panayiotiskokoras/Sandbox --Panayiotiskokoras (talk) 12:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

It's still a copyvio - for example in the lead section there are whole paragraphs either with a few words changed or in the case of the second paragraph a straight cut and paste, from http://www.essim.gr/en/about.htm. You need to rewrite it in your own words. Nancy talk 12:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Voies navigables de France

Updated DYK query On 6 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Voies navigables de France, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—Politizer talk/contribs 03:24, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Raidió na Life

is not known as "Liffey Radio" (or "Radio of the Liffey") in English, these are merely translations. There is no official English name for this radio station! There are countless examples of entities in Ireland that do not have any official English-language name, eg: An Bord Pleanála, Garda Síochána, and -- more pertinently -- RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (another radio station).

Therefore "Liffey Radio" should redirect to "Raidió na Life" and not vice versa! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.198.223 (talk) 21:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)


User templates

What name should they to changed to if i move it ?. Without it being on mainspace —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elite Rhodes (talk • contribs) 12:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Replied Nancy talk 13:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the help User:Nancy--Elite Rhodes (talk) 13:11, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Just another Quick Question how do you change you signature on my My preferences Tab to change my signature to be something like your's (If im making sence)Elite Rhodes (talk) 13:11, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Sorry there is another Template that needs to be deleted in that list that you made --Elite Rhodes  (talk) 14:19, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Question about article

Hi Nancy. I was wondering if an article I'm thinking of writing fits Wikipedia's criteria. I want to write one about an Australian army major general named Ken Taylor. He died about 5 months ago and he rose to the rank of Major General in the Australian army. He was also one of the founders of the Pilbara Regiment in Western Australia, and was their Honorary Colonel when he died. You can find more here: http://www.defence.gov.au/army/pilbara/Unit_History.asp I have more information on him then is on that website as I am related to him. I won't say anymore, but please get back to be as soon as possible. Thanks. :) Gorillazx1 (talk) 09:34, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi there Gorillaszx1. I read the web page and on the face of it I think Ken Taylor passes the basic notability requirement for his role in the creation of the 5th Rifles however you will need to find additional reliable sources to back this up - I had a quick google and didn't find very much at all. You will also need to be exceedingly careful about using your own family information - conflict of interest aside you must make sure that you are not engaging in original research based on primary sources. Otherwise good luck! Kind regards, Nancy talk 07:01, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Vincenzo Manno

Hi. This page, created by an user, who you have corrected this morning, is a complete copyviol. I've signed it with the tag. Could you delete it ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.17.27.236 (talk) 16:06, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Cancellation Vincenzo Manno

Hi! text of the blog is of my property!! Please put the text back. Thanks.--Arancam (talk) 18:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi there, the reason the articles were deleted is because they were copyright violations. I note that you say you own the copyright and that is a good start as you can then release it to GFDL. GDFL is the "copyleft" licence that Wikipedia uses and which basically means that it is available for anyone to use anywhere they like either as posted or changed as they wish. There are two ways to confirm to us that the text has been released:
If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on your website a statement which releases all its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later.
or
Send written confirmation that the text has been released to GFDL which should be forwarded to the email address "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org"
You should not post any material until one or other of these processes has been done, and you should indicate on the talk page of any article which uses the "copyright" text how it has been released.
Also I must mention the issue of your potential conflict of interest. I am assuming from your claimed ownership of the copyright that you either are Vincenzo himself or editing on behalf of him? Whilst it is not specifically disallowed, people editing articles about themselves is strongly discouraged as we recognise that closeness to a subject may make it very difficult to be neutral - a good rule of thumb is that if a subject is notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia then likely an uninvolved editor will be along soon enough to create a page. Kind regards, Nancy talk 13:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi!! Thanks. I'm not Vincenzo Manno. I'm Arancam, but I'm publishing material on his musical carreer, which I think is something people must be able to know. I've already sent the permission e-mail, and I received the confirmation back.--Arancam (talk) 15:53, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Requesting undeletion & userfication of page

Dear Nancy:

I am one of the people working for WP:LAW and WP:SCOTUS. I was hoping you could help me out by undeleting a page you deleted a few months back, Trusler v. Crooks, and moving it into my user space so that I could work on it. I have rescued pages from deletion before in a similar fashion.

I thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter. --Eastlaw (talk) 04:20, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

 Done. I have moved it to User:Eastlaw/Trusler v. Crooks although there is not much to work on consisting as it does of a single external link.... good luck with it! Kind regards, Nancy talk 08:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Alright, thanks. I will spend a few days or weeks on it, as necessary, before moving it back to mainspace. --Eastlaw (talk) 21:15, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the chigiriki move

User5802 (talk) 19:09, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Nancy talk 16:56, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Troll you blocked last week

Here you blocked a troll who was making deliberately non-PC edits. Now ParaGreen13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) appears to be making the same sort of edits [1] [2]. I wonder if a checkuser wouldn't be appropriate at this point. Thanks, Chris (complaints)•(contribs) 22:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, looks very much like a sock of indef blocked Firemanpb (talk · contribs), in fact I'd guess that ParaGreen3 may be the sockmaster. I'd hesitate to block just on the available circumstantial evidence but I'd say that you have plenty enough evidence there to make a case for a checkuser. Kind regards, Nancy talk 06:41, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Sean Chiao

Dear Nancy, I have tried to upload Sean Chiao's profile as my corporate assignment, however, kindly enlighten me how can i tune down at the same time remain his credibility. Thanks! or any partcular words that you definitely detest, kindly let me know. Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.56.12.152 (talk) 01:57, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Nancy, I try to edit a corporate profile for Asia Regional Director of EDAW, it's an assignment, wonder which point which line is not comfortable by wiki system, kindly enlighten for me to further fine tuned. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwong4 (talk • contribs) 02:24, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I think that there are multiple issues which you need to address, first and foremost being whether Sean meets the notability requirements, also you must make sure that any text you post is in your own words - previous versions of the article have been deleted because they were copyright violations. Finally I have a concern about your mention of a "corporate assignment" which raises three possible problems - firstly I wonder if you may have a conflict of interest with the subject, secondly there is a question as to whether the purpose of the article may be promotional and lastly you must also avoid original research. There is a lot to take in here and I suggest that the best thing you can do is to follow the links in this message and gen up on Wikipedia's inclusion guidelines and policies - if there is then anything futher that needs clarifying please do drop back here and I'd be happy to help with specifics. kind regards, Nancy talk 10:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

please unprotected the "sean chiao" page, thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ver01 (talk • contribs) 10:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I am not inclined to unprotect the page at this juncture for two reasons. Firstly I cannot see any evidence that a new article would meet our inclusion policies and guidelines as outlined above and secondly it would be bad form of me to immediately reverse another admin's actions without very good reason and without discussing it with him first. Suggest you write a qualifying article in your userspace and then approach the admin who protected the page. Cheers, Nancy talk 10:42, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

question

Just another Quick Question would it also be possible for you to flag me with the Account Creator right. I have ran into the limit and wanted to be within the account creator right because i am very active on the ACC tool and i will probabilly create more than 6 a day Please get back to me on my Talk Page Thanks --[ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 13:27, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

 Done Nancy talk 14:23, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok thanks very much for the Help [ Elite Rhodes ] [Talk] 14:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

HELMCA

Dear Nancy, the updated article about the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association is in the sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Panayiotiskokoras/Sandbox Please, have a look.--Panayiotiskokoras (talk) 23:37, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

replied Nancy talk 10:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for La Nouvelle branch

Updated DYK query On 15 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article La Nouvelle branch, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thank you for your contributions! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 02:49, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

HELMCA

Dear Nancy, This is the last effort to upload the article at the sandbox and I am not going to repeat this again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Panayiotiskokoras/Sandbox

I am an active researcher in the field of electroacoustic composition and I know very well what means ‘copy violation’. Personally, I cannot find any copy violation in the test I posted on Sandbox previously.

Please allow me to make a comment about the start of the article: The Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) is a non-profit organization... As a reviewer to international journals and conferences, I would never consider this as plagiarism or so. Because what matters is the meaning and the meaning matters when its origin is unique. The fact that Helmca is a nonprofit organization is not the result of a long research but simply a fact. Scrambling the order of the words will not change anything. As far as concern the ‘conflict of interest’. I would like to make clear that Helmca is not mine. I have been elected for a year by its members and probably I will not be part of it next year.

Thanks, Panayiotis KOKORAS (Dip, MA, PhD) --Panayiotiskokoras (talk) 09:49, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

It may not be word for word copyvio now but it is still pretty obvious plagarism (i.e. the spirit and the phrasing are the same but a few different words have been substituted). Examples:
  • Website: The foundation of HELMCA in 2002 coincides with a new phase in the development of electronic music in Greece.
  • Your text: The date of foundation of HELMCA is the year of 2002 and comes as a result of a new period for the development of electroacoustic music in Greece
  • Website: This phase marks the appearance of several notable young composers – some of them already having important international distinctions - and the development of educational institutions in the fields of music technology and electroacoustic music.
  • Your text: This new period is characterized by a number of emerging and emerged composers with national and international activity in major festivals and distinctions in composition competitions.
When we say you must write it in your own words we don't mean that you can take someone elses sentence and change it a bit, we mean that you must take the essential facts from your sources and then write your own sentences to convey them.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make re. conflict of interest, I commented that you were the VP of the organisation and therefore may be too close to it to be objective about its notability. I didn't say that you owned it.
Kind regards, Nancy talk 10:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Trying again to establish a Lisa Haley page

Dear Nancy:

We just finished touring for the summer. I'd like to try again setting up Lisa Haley's Wikipedia page.

The problem we ran into last time was that our source, AllMusic.com has a great article about Lisa. However, the band members' names are 10 years outdated. As I tried to update the band names, I added some current promo info from our presskit. I didn't realize that combining a published article with our own updated info was unacceptable, and for that I apologize.

There is a new excellent article in the Professional Musicians Local #47 "Overture" Magazine for Nov 2008. The article, titled "Lisa Haley: 'King Cake' is written by Overture managing editor Linda Rapka, 323-993-3162, overture@promusic47.org . The article is on page 33. The link to the whole magazine is:

http://promusic47.org/pdir/overture/archive/2008/Nov08.pdf

The article reads in its entirety as follows:

Member Services CD Spotlight Lisa Haley: 'King Cake'

A fourth-generation fiddler and descendant of immigrants who arrived in Roddy Bayou, Louisiana in 1718, Lisa Haley was born to par- ents originally from Louisiana, Arkansas, Geor - gia and Virginia. A descendant of Francis Scott Key and F. Scott Fitzgerald, kin to the LeBoeuf, Broussard, Lambert and Thibodaux families, young Lisa grew up in California under mentor- ship of several Louisiana-born icons including Queen Ida, Danny Poulard and protégé of Cajun accordion legend Joe Simien.

Lisa's distinctive sound embraces the multi-faceted genres of Louisiana music, including its French, Irish Celtic, blues and jazz genres, in which she is well- versed. Her music celebrates the power of family songs and stories to convey our shared human emotion, and her perspective over time of the cultural journey transforming Cajun/Zydeco into its modern forms.

Bringing progressive Louisiana music to a worldwide audience reaches far beyond a career playing solely traditional genre. Lisa has worked with Beatles producer Sir George Martin, multi-Grammy winner/producer Keb' Mo', Grammy- winning artists Queen Ida, Al Rapone, Rockin' Sydney ("Don't Mess with My Toot- toot",) Randy Newman, Lyle Lovett, Taj Mahal, John Hiatt, Brian Setzer, and a host of others.

Her sixth album, "King Cake," released in 2007, was nominated for a Grammy and debuted on Billboard's World Chart at position #15. It received 90-to-100 percent ratings on U.S. and International European dates according to Pollstar Box Office summaries. Lisa's new live album, "Absolutely Live!", has been sub- mitted for Grammy 2009.

"King Cake" is now available for purchase in Local 47’s Member Services Department. Lisa Haley: 'King Cake'

I've studied as many of the 'rules' as I could about what is acceptable to submit. One guideline states "say it in your own words" but others say "must be from a published source." Questions:

- Does that mean we have to ask the original writer to submit the article themselves? Or can I just submit it and give you the link?

- Once our "Lisa Haley" page is established, can I add the links to 'Cajun', 'Zydeco', etc, or do you do that?

- Is it unacceptable to include the info at the end of the article that "King Cake" is available for purchase? If so, I'm sure Linda will allow that info to be deleted.

I look forward to making Lisa's info available to Wikipedia users, and again I'm sorry that we got off on the wrong foot.

Sincerely, Andy Anders info@bluefiddle.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by AndyAnders (talk • contribs) 08:27, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

replied Nancy talk 08:24, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Deleted article - Ryan corrall

Hi Nancy, you deleted this article that I speedy-tagged, and its author (User:Beuford74) has asked me to email them a copy. I suggested you might be able to userfy the page for them? I can provide you with his/her email address if you'd prefer that option, but I don't like the idea of posting it in a public forum and he/she doesn't appear to have email enabled. Thanks! Somno (talk) 07:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I'll copy it to their sandbox. Thanks for letting me know. Cheers, Nancy talk 07:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help (especially so quickly!). Somno (talk) 07:51, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

BLP and CSD

Yo Nancy, I see you speedied this. I was the PROD nominator, and could not see a speedy deletion category that applied. Would you have any advice on how a non-admin should handle such articles in future, or was your decision an WP:IAR/administrator judgement call? Thanks, the skomorokh 18:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:IAR (or as I like to think of it common sense) is pretty much what went on here - the article made all sorts of claims about thirteen year old children and had to go. You are right that there is not a speedy category that covers this so the best way to approach it is to use a custom speedy request: the one left in this case was {{db|As a [[WP:BLP]] making unsourced privacy-invading claims about two children this should be deleted immediately without waiting for a prod to expire}}. Cheers, Nancy talk 19:09, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Ah I see. I will have to weigh my concern with BLP against my laziness in having to stray from WP:TWINKLE defaults in future. Thanks for the swift and helpful response. Regards, the skomorokh 19:19, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:AN#Indefinitely semi-protected user talk pages

Hi
Just FYI, I mentioned a user talk page you protected at WP:AN#Indefinitely semi-protected user talk pages since it's one of a great number of indef semi protected user talk pages. I'm explicitly not complaining or reporting, it just happened to be one that I used as an example, since it's in principle against WP:SEMI.
Cheers, AmaltheaTalk 22:51, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect Deletion

Hello! I made a page called GayFail... I don't see whats so wrong about it... i even re wrote it, where it only had my and my friends name, Who both agree to it, and it still was deleted as a personal attack... It was not intended as a Attack, Its a Joke word we came up with Gay Fail. Ran together looks GayFail... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattballew (talk • contribs) 07:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Attack, joke, whatever - that "article" was not suitable for an encyclopaedia. How about hopping over to somewhere like Bebo or MySpace where you can make this sort of page to your heart's content? Nancy talk

Thanks

Thanks for the Resent blocks of IP Addressess that have been vandalising my page

I think it might be someone in my college but not sure [ Rhodes416 ] [Talk] 16:57, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

James Marston Fitch

You seem to have deleted in as a copyvio as i was beginning t o rewrite it. i am assuming it was an edit conflict, and have restored it. In general, if the person is notable enough, I always rewrite it if I have the time & its something I can handle. 20:18, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes, looks like I deleted it as you saved it (well, a split second afterwards). Absolutely no problem with your restoring - he's definitely notable and would not have deleted were it not for the copyvio. Good luck with the rewrite, kind regards, Nancy talk 21:33, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Valmagne Abbey

Updated DYK query On 19 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Valmagne Abbey, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

DYKBot (talk) 17:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Well...

...now we know which of us has less patience ;-)  Frank  |  talk  12:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. It is not often I get to the end of my (reasonably long) tether but that one did it in spades. Nancy talk 13:01, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Burhan Ahmed

Hi. You've previously tried to nicely tell User:Burhan Ahmed to be careful with this speedy tagging. It doesn't appear to have sunk in as he has been on a recent tear again with quite a few that aren't right. I've left a not so nice him to stop unless he understands the criteria but I doubt it will sink in. He's a had a long series of copyright violations which aren't apparent as he has blanked his talk page. This includes trying to make a claim that he took the pictures himself [3] which as it turns out he didn't when I eventually tracked down the source on the web. I've tried to direct him towards the adoptioonj program as he could use guidance but he hasn't at at all followed up on that, and continues to generally edit in a rather sloppy manner. Could you try stepping in? Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 18:23, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up - I have left a sterner message - no more Mrs Nice-Guy! Nancy talk 18:38, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
It would appear that you are a lot nicer than I am. After deleting his first dozen copyvio images, I told Burhan Ahmed (talk · contribs) [4] that he only had one opportunity to come clean (and he did not say a thing about the rest of the photos). Hopefully he learn from this experience and start following copyright laws. --Kralizec! (talk) 15:49, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
May be not that nice. I just ran out of goodwill and indef blocked him. Nancy talk 12:54, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Could you please comment on his unblock request? The block was certainly justified if he resumed violating copyright after his last block, but I'm unable to ascertain whether this is the case.  Sandstein  08:51, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification. Yes, the copyvios pre-dated the first block but the problem at the moment is that he did not disclose them previously and is still refusing to acknowledge/understand that they are a problem. I've left a much fuller explanation & my views on the conditions for unblock on Burhan's talk page. As I said over there I am out for the rest of the day so if he starts to cooperate then please you, or another admin do shorten/lift the block. Nancy talk 09:30, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi.. I commented on Burhan's unblock request. I'm not an admin of course, and if you feel I'm sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong, please feel free to delete my comment. //roux   06:31, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for pitching in with this one, he is going to be tough nut to crack and I think that unfortunately a war of attrition is the only way we are going to do it. Admin or no every last one of us is entitled to have an opinion and express it - I happen to agree with every last word that you wrote but even if I didn't I would not dream of removing it. Thanks again, Nancy talk 07:52, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Well thanks :) Honestly... AGF notwithstanding, I don't think getting through is really going to happen. I do hope I'm wrong. As for the offer of deletion, I just wanted it to be clear that if my commentary interfered with your nefarious plan it could be removed. //roux   08:05, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Oh no, I am exposed! (but seriously, you are right again about the probably outcome - my trouble is that I am often way too optimistic about the chances of recovering a lost cause ) Nancy talk 08:27, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I see that problem a lot. My prescription is 12 hours of Huggle. Your AGF capacity will be permanently reduced by at least 90% ;) (This would be the reason I stopped Huggling. It's too damn depressing.) //roux   08:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Huggle just far too depressing (and everyone else is faster than me). I decided to ban myself from my watchlist, CAT:CSD and WP:AIV and instead to spend the afternoon expanding a stub - not dented the optimism but at least I have remembered why I came here in the first place :) Nancy talk 18:27, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

(out)I got to a point where Huggling was just way too much like standing on the walls of Rome while the original Vandals were getting their groove on. I do more NPP now--at least I'm looking at stuff done by people who are generally trying to improve WP, if sometimes misguidedly, rather than just smear poo on the walls. //roux   20:45, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Uh oh. Someone is clueless; he's been editing from an IP. I'll go through the edits, make sure there's nothing untoward. //roux   12:18, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Burhan simply does not read and comprehend. Aside from the participation in the AFD that he noted. It apppear he also made an article space edit. I've reverted him as a blocked user. The other issue with the dit is that there aren't any references. -- Whpq (talk) 13:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Good grief - one would expect slightly more cognitive ability from someone who is apparently a medical student wouldn't you think? With regard to that WHO cat he's been adding it had already been removed by another editor a few days ago as inappropriate so regardless of his block status the edit should not stand. I've blocked the IP for 48 hours as it is being used for block evasion - the only person who has edited from it is Burhan so little risk of collateral damage. Nancy talk 13:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
This is what terrifies me about kids today... people like that are the ones who will be looking after me in my dotage. This doesn't bode well... //roux   22:03, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
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