User talk:Akhilleus/Archive 9

Steve Stavro

THIS SOURCE SAYS HE IS AN ETHNIC MACEDONIAN (GLOBE AND MAIL NEWSPAPER)[1] Uuttyyrreess 03:44, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

It says: It's worth noting that Steve Stavro, majority owner of the Gardens, and John Bitove Jr., who is running the tourney, are ethnic Macedonians

List of LGBT composers

Hi! I'm curious about how you reached a "consensus" of delete for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LGBT composers? I know it's not a "vote", but the responses seemed fairly evenly split. And would it be possible to get a copy in my userspace? Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 06:20, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I am new to the ways of Wikipedia. I am curious about why this important list has been deleted. I was using it to assist me in preparing a recital of songs by LGBT composers. Lists such as this are of practical interest for projects such as mine, as well as being entertaining, and providing a sense of belonging to others just addressing their LGBT issues. I would argue that it is not sufficient to include these names in a list of LGBT musicians. This is a list of creators rather than performers, and the list provides a starting point in locating original creative work that addresses GLBT experience. If the deletion of this important article is inevitable, I would like to know how I can receive a copy of it.Thanks for any insight you can offer. TheOperaGuy 04:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help and for indulging a newbie. The LGBT composer category does indeed do the job, and more rigorously than the original page.I saved the link, so I will be able to find it again, but I note that the average Jane or Joe looking for a page on LGBT composers will not know that a category has been created, or how to find it. Category pages inexplicably are apparently not brought up in searches nor is there any link from the original deleted page.

Thanks for asking, I am a baritone so my recital will be homoerotic and gay-themed vocal music. Let me know if you want any more info about this. Maybe when I grow up I will also learn how to indent a thread properly. Thanks again for your much-appreciated help.TheOperaGuy 05:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry etc

Thank you for your involvement. I have filed a report [2] Mr. Neutron 21:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Williamsburg oil spill

Please let me know why this article which had been rewritten to avoid copyright infringment was deleted and how deletion can be avoided. Wburged 01:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

re Six Ages of the World

No problem; I'll revisit the article tonight and see how it can be improved. For one thing, it seems to have accumulated some material and "See also" links that are irrelevant to this specific historical schema. Deor 19:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Give me a little more time on this. Figuring out how to improve and reference this article, and to relate it to the concepts (explicitly paralleled in medieval sources) of the days of creation and the ages of man, has proved rather more involved than I thought it would be. I'll deal with it over the Fourth, when I have a holiday. I also think that I should give a heads-up to User:Stbalbach, who created the article, although he doesn't seem to have been active on WP lately. (By the way, I think that the article should be moved to "Six ages of the world," since no modern scholars seem to treat this as a proper noun.) Deor 01:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. There really should be a WP article on the ages of man (known to most folks from Jaques's speech in As You Like It) as well. There's been an entire Oxford UP book on the subject, by J. A. Burrow. Perhaps I'll get around to writing it someday. Deor 01:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Literary filiation and bathroom fitments

LOL, thanks. "Literary filiation and the subtitle, or Virtue Rewarded" is a great idea, academic publishing needs more nihilartikels. It reminded me of the quite acrimonious old 1 April 2005 quarrel, I don't think you were around for it. All ancient history. Please feel free to edit and improve here ! If you're able to improve the inline citing, that would be great. It's sure looking under-referenced by modern FA standards. Bishonen | talk 08:59, 3 July 2007 (UTC).

Goa Inquisition

After you pointed out the discussion on the talk page I didnt remove the tag see this revert and the other revert.Bakaman 17:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

There are two reviews of Priolkar, and both are positive.

• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 27, No. 1. (1964), pp. 233-234

and

• Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 84, No. 4. (Oct. - Dec., 1964), pp. 483-484

Bakaman 17:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Apollo semi-protection

This article has been semi-protected for almost two months, can you re-evaluate and consider unprotecting? 64.126.24.12 17:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure. Although you could edit it in four days if you registered an account... --Akhilleus (talk) 17:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

See my talk page; I have an account (sysop even), but I don't log in from work. 64.126.24.12 20:09, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Got it. --Akhilleus (talk) 20:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Unsolved problems in Egyptology

I noticed that you closed the AfD as "delete" when there were seven for deletion and five for keeping. Since it had already survived a previous AfD, I would think that that would argue even further for a response of "no consensus". Mdotley 21:34, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Coldmachine

I unblocked Coldmachine because he was able to persuade me that he is not a sockpuppet of Emnx. The checkuser came back "probable" but the rest of the evidence seemed circumstantial. In any event, hopefully all will be well.--Jimbo Wales 19:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Dionigi

This is a poor article & motivated for all the wrong reasons we know too well. I appreciate your vigilance in staying on top of the ever-spreading Petrarch Code tentacles. I have to admit, if there were a well-read, NPOV Wikipedia editor going around creating articles on these circles, I'd welcome them. "Sigh" certainly summarizes my feelings, since looking at Doug's work makes me feel tired and impotent. In this case, the person has been the subject of a scholarly conference. What should happen is that the article be reduced to a stub and carry a notice, "waiting for an article not by Doug." But that would require a community consensus that articles by Doug are hurting the encyclopedia, which isn't there, yet. Meanwhile, I can certainly support any level of aggressive pruning back of dubious material, and even of potentially valid material that is improperly cited and/or mixed in with dubious material. Wareh 20:33, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I came here instead to apologize for supporting this article and for opposing your proposal at Ownership forking--apologize because i in generally strongly support your work. But I also support Doug's--though I wish it were based on wider reading. I think we are better trying to delete the articles that really need it--for example, the ones that use a biography of a semi notable figure as scaffolding for a large dissertation of the overall subject. But I see I have no real need to apologize, for I've commented on the article about the conference, and that should be a sufficient apology.

Frankly, I see it as a wildly excessive reaction to what is really somewhat excessive attempts to delete, and I think the net effect of it is unfortunate. Again frankly to an experienced editor, may I suggest compromise? I've suggested to LoveMonkey that he should userify his article, and i suggest that you withdraw the AfD nomination.

As for the policy proposal, I'll comment there. I'm not sure you see the harm it could do. DGG (talk) 16:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I think at this point you're trying to support something you no longer believe, simply because of your opinion of another editor's doings on Wikipedia. You apparently knew there was an academic conference about Diogini, yet persist in saying he's not notable. I also suggest you simply withdraw this nomination, pause and reconsider what you're doing, then move on from there. KP Botany 22:24, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

PS Good editing, and thanks for the copyedit. KP Botany 22:26, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I will side with the opinions of a group of Italian scholars as better judges of notability than I am. KP Botany 22:30, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's too close, as was the early Genealogia version to EB, even from the freebie peep. That has been largely rewritten, which I think can be done with this, or the bits cut. But soomeone needs to have a word with Doug, who I don't know. Johnbod 21:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Library

That would be useful.[3] You can obviously read well which will make the various articles better, and I know you'll have fun--what an incredibly interesting age in the Western World. KP Botany 00:18, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Ron liebman

I've posted a thread at the admin noticeboard regarding his currently outstanding unblock request, since it seems discussion may have stalled. Looks like you've had some involvement in this, so I thought I should let you know. Feel free to comment. – Luna Santin (talk) 07:40, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Impossible is Nothing (meme)

I noticed your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aleksey Vayner. Would you look at the above article to see if it's basically a recreation? --Tony Sidaway 12:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

"Neutral"

In light of your recent actions I refuse to accept you as mediator on the Goa Inquisition article. When anwar and other users on on your side of the arbcom were stalking me there was no censure. It seems you are on a witch-hunt to demonize and attack me, isnpired by Rama's Arrow and Dbachmann.Bakaman 19:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of Kirk Fraser

Im sending you a request. I've look over the deletion of Kirk Fraser, The original article had the incorrect spelling of his last name. Check out the (http://www.answers.com/topic/kirk-frasier) the article is still wrong. We originally created a new page on Wikipedia with the correct spelling and paste the content from Wikipedia with the incorrect spelling of Frasier. It was shortly deleted, we once again created it again, and it was also deleted. We don't know what to do. It seems like once it's up it taken down again, when it was originally put up by some one else. We just wanted to change the spelling of the Last name and fix the content that was wrong. Can you please help me in guiding me to correct this issue.

Thanks.

Deletiom of fluid entropy

I don`t hide myself behind a nickname or IP number! Your reaction is hurting me a lot!!!!! It is also posted a long time after the deletion, after closing the whole issue. Can you explain that to me, please? I feel being attacked on EN-Wikipedia. --LidiaFourdraine 10:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

• Deletion of "fluid entropy" = the way in the barbarous ages!!! --83.5.154.101 09:37, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Belated thanks

WikiThanks

Hi, Akhilleus. Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage last month. As you can see, I haven't been as active on Wikipedia lately as I once was, and I only just noticed that the page had been vandalized. It's nice to know that even when I'm not around, people are looking after my userpage. Thanks! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

VK35

Hello Akhilleus. Because you have previously reviewed the evidence of puppetry in this case but are otherwise uninvolved in any dispute, I invited you to review the information presented here: User talk:VK35#Unblock -- intention. · jersyko talk 03:01, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Stephen Tweedie

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Stephen Tweedie, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. mms 16:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

HarveyCarter - and his sockpuppet drawer

Ive been off for a while coming back slowly having more time at work. Not up to my few thousand edits RC patrol like I was but I am looking around alot more. Anyway to the point. A while back you helped me with 3 sockpuppet reports on HarveyCarter. [[4]] [[5]] [[6]] Well while I was away he used multiple alias including [[7]] and others. I don't have the time all at once to type up the report and look it all up copy paste etc etc. But is there a way to keep all these alias together? automatically? Also I suspect the new user BillRodgers [[8]] his contributions are again virtually identical in wording and subject matter. On the Jimmy Stewart Talk page [[9]] he even picks up the arguments of his former accounts. (doing the same on the Elvis page) If you don't have the time can you fwd this or point me out whom to ask these questions. I bring this to you due to my off and on time on here. I am only at my desk in spurts latley and can't dig and compose a big ol report (took over 1/2 hour last time). Thanks again. --Xiahou 22:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and took the time to make a report added one that I missed reporting with the last bunch to. [[10]]