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You notified me that you were wikifying my article, but it is not visible in the search yet. How can I get that to happen? Will it happen automatically?

I had placed a {{wikify}} tag on the page to indicate to others that wikifying was needed. The process does not happen automatically. Actual humans need to do this. Alan Liefting 00:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Article Not showing in the search bar

You told me yesterday that you would be indexing my page and I do see the updates. However, my page is not showing in the search bar when searching for Stitch and Bitch

Sewfastseweasy 19:02, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I have moved the previous text to Sewfastseweasy's talk page. Hoof Hearted 19:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

My first post

Dear Alan, Thank you so much for your advice. Best, Khai Minh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nguyenkhaiminh (talk • contribs) 06:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

Thanks for sorting out the Destiny page, much appreciated... I'm starting to wonder if it shouln't be semi protected. The Angel of Islington 23:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

My bad man, my anti-semite friend nicked my computer while I was out of the room. I usually try to do good update. Sorry.

Trolldor 00:33, 14 May 2007 (UTC);

Old Adam

Excuse me, are you calling the bible nonsense? This article was requested, and I wrote it. Please do not tread on my religious beliefs. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Acorn98 (talk • contribs) 01:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC).

I was not calling the Bible itself nonsense in this instance - I was calling the article which was created a candidate for deletion since it contained nonsense. I have opinions on the Bible but this is not the place for it. Alan Liefting 01:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection notice question

Hi there, Alan.

You added a protection template to 69 (sex position of it being semi-protected. An IP vandalized it, so I was curious and found no protection in the log. I don't see that you're a sysop[1][2], so...what's up? Teke 04:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Since your account is so old, I thought I might have missed something. To request a page protection, head on over to requests for page protection. If it is urgent, to prevent vandalism and not edit wars, the easiest way is to take a gander at the protection log or really any other admin log to see who's around. Drop them a note and explain why it might be immediate if the process wonking will be too slow. We're always around to help. Well, I keep odd hours...but anyway, happy editing to you! Teke 05:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

THANKS MATE!

S1a2m3 08:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)Thanks for that note on Griffith, n.s.w.Sorry.S1a2m3ŞΆΜΒЮ

My userpage

Thanks for reverting it! :-) Evilclown93 23:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

You bring the vandalism back

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. At least one of your recent edits, the one you made to List of environmental issues, was neither helpful nor constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Jer10 95 Talk 05:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC) PS: you reverted a vandal fix made by an ip user.

Oh dear. It seem that I was a little too quick off the mark with that edit. and did indeed revert the reverted vandalism. It is a little harsh to call it vandalism however. Alan Liefting 05:45, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

My userpage

Thanks for reverting mine too! :-) Ian Spackman 08:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Yantai Raffles

Yantair 09:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)I want to delete this Yantai Raffles page.But i do not know how to. Can you please kindly deleted it?

Thanks!

See your talk page. Alan Liefting 09:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

How do i wikify the article? I have no idea at all. Pls view Yantai Raffles Shipyard article(top) and HELP!!!

Hi Alan,

How do i link my contribution to google so that when i type yantai raffles shipyard in google, i will be able to get to wikipedia yantai raffles shipyard.

Thanks so much!~

See Wikipedia:Wikify to find out about wikifying. How Wikipedia articles come up on a Google search depends on the article content and the Google search algorithm. Wikipedia pages often get a high ranking on Google search results anyway. Please make sure you do not remove any templates from articles unless appropriate. Deletion templates can only be removed by admins or the editor who added them. Alan Liefting 10:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Stalking

Mate are you stalking me??A.J.Chesswas 11:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean? Is editing a few of your recent edits considered to be stalking? Alan Liefting 23:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Harassment: "The term "wiki-stalking" has been coined to describe following a contributor around the wiki... This does not include checking up on an editor to fix errors or violations of Wikipedia policy..." Alan Liefting 08:16, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Herro

Twas not nonsense my good sir. twas me. i am weeze and would like to be recognized. thank ye kindly. put my text back, i worked hard on it —Preceding unsigned comment added by User:WeeZeDawG (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia is not a place where one becomes recognised. Articles on Wikipedia are about people who have become recognised elsewhere and they require some level of notability in order to have an article created. Alan Liefting 05:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

NICE!!!!.....I a BORAT? Who are you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevenogden (talk • contribs)

New task force

Hi Alan! A few editors are getting together to create a task force with the goal of making sure environmental records of corporations and politicians are accurately and efficiently represented in relevant entries. Given your environmental edits, I thought I'd bring your attention to this project. If you think it's a good idea, please consider chiming in on the discussion page. We hope to have a task force page up soon and of course you would be a VERY welcome addition to the effort!Benzocane 20:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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List of environment-theme lists of topics: S -- not yet deleted

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Philosophy portal

I replied at the village pump. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 13:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Comment

thank u tellme about this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ailishmacnamara (talk • contribs)

Comment

What did you do to the Myk Gammone page? everything is used under permission.Sixstring1965

I tagged it for deletion since it is not a notable subject. Alan Liefting 03:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Everything is done under permission. Please leave it alone. Sixstring1965

Permission to use material is but only one requirement for material on Wikipedia. Anyone is able freely edit articles and if another editor sees a problem they can make changes. Alan Liefting 03:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Hakob the Armenian

Hey. I'd have appreciated you asking me to expand it first rather than going down the afd route -I'd have been glad to expand it and reference it accordingly to stress some kind of notability. Notability is not an issue here -he is the chairman of the Green Union of Armenia -an active campaign group - it was just a poor stub thats all. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 09:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

My AfD nomination is no longer valid now that you have moved it to its correct name and updated the article. I have asked for it to be withdrawn. Alan Liefting 10:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

OK thanks. You were right it that Akop didn;t receive many hits but his correct name is Hakob which kind of brought it to light. As you can see it has now been developed -but I'd always appreciate you just asking me personally to try to expand it first- and if not then place it at AFD afterwards. Thanks for identifying it anyway -no longer a stub. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 10:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't check the article history before placing an AfD to see if there is someone who is a major contributor. Comes from patrolling the new pages I guess - new editors make numerous edits to articles that end up being speedily deleted. In this case there was no one editor that seemed to be a major contributor. Alan Liefting 10:21, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey no probs - I see you are part of the environmental work on wikipedia -something I am also very interested in - keep up the good work. All the best in NZ ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 10:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Biodiesel

Your new modifications to the Category:Biodiesel categories is useful. Thank you for reorganizing with the addition. E8 14:00, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Cool Globes

The focus of the project absolutely does not solely belong to "Category:Environment of the United States." Each work of art is a GLOBE, not a map of the US, and its focus is how to reduce GLOBAL WARMING . The guidebook for the exhibit says " "Cool Globes:Hot ideas for a Cooler Planet was created to inspire and empower the public to take action against global warming." (page 5) This makes it clear that it belongs in category Envonmentalism. This project includes 122 globes, most of which include ideas for saving energy, to reduce global warming, and seems to fit the category "Energy conservation" as well as the other 70 articles linked to that category. Artists of the globes have explicitly said the focus is energy conservation, as in [3]. Edison 16:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

You have not shown that "Cool Globes" with its stated focus on "Global warming" is appropriately categorized only as "Category:Environment of the United States." You have not argued convincingly that it is inappropriate to categorize it as "Environmentalism" and as "Energy conservation." Wikipedia does not have limited server space for linking a major public art display to those categories it is related to. It is IN the US but its focus is clearly the world, and every country is included in each exhibit. It is not done exclusively by people from Chicago or even the US, per their website [4] Edison 22:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

rebuttal to speedy deletion

Anti-procreation movement is about a movement that is widely seen and discussed in philosophy web communities, including discussion boards. It is relavent for people who are up-to-date on contemporary philosophy movements. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crate321 (talk • contribs).

Portal:Environment

So what do you think the portal needs to be improved on before it can become featured portal? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 09:40, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

I created a list of environmental disciplines. they could be merged. Environmental studies is to broad. We need more granular discussions on each discipline as taught in our top research universities.

tendentious definition

Mr.Alan; You tagged my article about "tendentious definition" to be deleted. It could help other students like me who wanted to read more about tendentious definition. whats the reason?

It was a poorly written article with no notability. The speedy deletion has been over ruled. I have now redirected it to Persuasive definition since they have the same meaning. -- Alan Liefting talk 11:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Press Coverage

Hi Alan. Your posting re Air New Zealand manipulating the Erebus crash article is appreciated, because when they were pushing their barrow it seemed I was the only wikian fighting them. One point tho, you say the "article also lists three cases where computers used by New Zealand organisations have altered entries on Wikipedia that relate to those organisations". I couldn't find that info in the Press report. Was it in an earlier/later edition? Moriori 00:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

The Chch print edition has an info box with the other cases. -- Alan Liefting talk 00:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I have now updated my edit explaining that. -- Alan Liefting talk 00:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I hate it when that happens. Cheers. Moriori 01:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

List

List of Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses should be deleted because it contains priests that are innocent or currently under investigation - it is a notable topic. It is also an unimportant topic to make a list out of when considering there is no List of rabbis accused of sex offenses or any other occupation. I advise you put the page up for deletion. Crashloans 02:20, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

The list is appropriate considering the level of media coverage on the issue. I had simply removed the list from the article Roman Catholic sex abuse cases. If you read my comment at Talk:List of Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses you would see my stance on the article name. A List of rabbis accused of sex offenses is a possible article if it was notable. -- Alan Liefting talk 02:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

You are most welcome to put the page up for deletion yourself. Getting a wider discussion will help with finding out whether the article deserves to exists or not. -- Alan Liefting talk 03:00, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Note that the article is about those accused of sex offences so it can cover those who claim innocence or judged as not guilty by the courts and it is irrelevant whether those on the list are under investigation. WP has got nothing to do with current court cases. Your reasons for deletions will not pass muster in the WP:AFD process. -- Alan Liefting talk 20:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, the problem with your stance is that you want it be those who were convicted, yet the list includes people who were falsely accused and never brought to trial. The list makes no distinction of this. Crashloans 17:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

The list is currently about those accused of sex offences so even if they were falsely accused it is still an accurate list with respect to its name. As I outlined on the talk page I would like to see the list to be notable cases of those who are convicted of the sex offences. This would be a shorter list and of more use to WP. As an editor you are most welcome to make the name change and check to make sure all the entries reflect the name change. It would certainly be a better list if each entry had annotations. I will put it on my to do list if it is not done. -- Alan Liefting talk 20:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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Hello

Why did you give me a link to WP:TALK? Removing comments from own user talk pages is explicitly allowed. Reinis^talk 21:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

My reading of WP:TALK is that removing comments is allowed but is poor form. WP:USER#Removal of warnings is with respect to warning templates (vandalism etc) and not comments that you do not like. In the case of the edits that I pointed out it is of little consequence since they are personal issues. Some of your recent edits goes against the spirit if not the letter of WP guidelines and policy. -- Alan Liefting talk 21:46, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Both WP:TALK and WP:USER are very clear that you can remove comments, and I don't think you have any business going around policing others about what you think is good form or not. G'day! Reinis^talk 21:58, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I am not saying the you cannot remove comments - I aid it was poor form. Let me tack a different tack - how about you make the comments on talk pages about procedure and article contents. This is my business because there has been an edit war on the Creationism article because of a clash of personalities between at least three editors.

I am not policing anything. I am not an admin so I cannot enforce any policy. -- Alan Liefting talk 04:45, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, thanks a bunch for your advice! Reinis^talk 10:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Accused

It is very false POV to create a page to have a list of people who were accused of sex offenses and make no distinction between those that are guilty, falsely accused, or pending investigation. Whoever created the list did so in an attempt to confuse people into believing innocent victims of false accusation are guilty of the crime. The list should be deleted, there is no other list like it on wikipedia. Crashloans 14:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:List of Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses for a reply. -- Alan Liefting talk 19:40, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

My Apoligies

Please accept my sincere apologies for mistaking your edit to Chernobyl as an act of vandalism. A mere act of misunderstanding. Sorry. Ryan(^talk/_contribs) 23:59, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

No sweat. I understand. Easy to make that mistake during the heat of editing but I did make the fault of reverting to the wrong version in an attempt to rid the article of vandalism. There was some older vandalism that I did not see. -- Alan Liefting talk 01:58, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I can see what you did now. Credit must go to user:Moriori for alerting me of my blunder. Sorry again :) Ryan(^talk/_contribs) 10:04, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Maxim

Alan, we're not saying Maxim aren't social conservative in outlook, but the fact is the NZ Votes campaign was run as non-partisan as possible - at the New Plymouth one even Harry uynhoven commended Maxim on this. That particular paragraph pertained to this support and initiative which Maxim provided for democratic participation in general. A.J.Chesswas 20:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

portal:atheism

Hey thanks, replied on my talk. You seem to be much more experienced with this whole portal malarchy than I, so if you've got any suggestions or idea, I'm all ears if you have time, either on my talk to the portal talk. cheers. ornis (t) 08:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Bob Brockie

Hi there. Is there any way you can add information to show this person is notable, with more sources, and improve the article so that it is not a linkless article? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bearian (talk • contribs) 00:10, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I am keeping an eye out for suitable refs and links. I will at least add a bibliography of some of his more notable works. -- Alan Liefting talk 00:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: bar chart needed

Hi Alan,

If you can find me a similar bar chart that has already been created using EasyTimeline, I'll be happy to adapt it to match Image:Regionalconsents-2002-2006.png. But it is too painful for me to create them from scratch. so if you find a similar one drop me a link. cheers --pfctdayelise (talk) 10:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Hm, yeah, it might do...

I will try to have a look at it over the weekend. pfctdayelise (talk) 11:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Renewables etc.

I noticed you removed the categories of 'Sustainability' and 'Climate change' from Renewable energy in Scotland - I imagine you are tidying up these rather cluttered categories. I have created 'Climate change in Scotland' as a new category within the underpopulated 'Category:Climate change by country', and a new 'Category:Sustainable practices by country'. The latter is only populated by 'Scotland' at present , although clearly there are lots of other candidates for both if further re-organisations are taking place. Ben MacDui (Talk) 09:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. We are at a middle stage between not having enough articles for a new category and and having a smattering of articles that do not belong in a high level category. Yep, its good that you have created a new category that can now be populated. -- Alan Liefting talk 07:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Marine Reserve

Hi there -- I can't remember any more who requested the change :-( Themillofkeytone 19:14, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Conservation disambiguation page

I noticed you removed some of the links in the Conservation page. I am putting them back. There are over 200 articles linked to that page - quite a few of the links need to be directed to wildlife conservation, so there is a common understanding that it is included in this selection of topics. Limiting the selection in the disambiguation page is not very useful. I would be happy to discuss this with you. Stellar 01:31, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Conservation for a reply. -- Alan Liefting talk 04:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Footnote questions

Hi, Alan

I've seen some of your contributions in the past and appreciate them. One today - re Richard St. Barbe Baker - may be an improvement on my reference/footnote addition. But it leaves me with a question, and perhaps you can help me.

With biographies (and perhaps with other kinds of articles), blocks of information may be drawn from a single source (as with the Richard S.B.B. bio) or may be an interweaving of information from two, three, or more sources. Footnoting in either case can present a challenge.

With patchworked material, footnotes (properly speaking) may apply to two or three portions of a single sentence - but putting them in the sentence may be a little distracting to the reader.

With multiple paragraphs coming from a single source, I see a problem and its this: it may be hard for a reader to understand or believe that the previous, say, six or ten paragraphs do in fact come from a single source unless we tell them so (as I tried to do).

I'm not upset by the alteration you made; it may be the proper and best thing. But I'd appreciate your knowledge and thoughts on this.

Sincerely (from Canada),

User:Joel Russ —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 21:58, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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Association of Belarusian Guides

I removed the environment link from the Association of Belarusian Guides because it goes to a disamig page and there is no suitable WP page for it. Why did you revert it? -- Alan Liefting talk 18:24, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I reverted it because you delinked it, rather than the correct (and polite) redirect to where it does belong. I see you've done that now, thanks for that. Chris 20:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

WP does not have a suitable article for every noun in the English language and this is the case with "environment". I felt that no link is better than a link to a disambig page. -- Alan Liefting talk 22:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses

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Request for Additions and/or Information

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Namespace vio

I have moved Alan Liefting/List of Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses to User:Alan Liefting/List of Roman Catholic priests accused of sex offenses. -- RHaworth 16:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops. Thanks for that. -- Alan Liefting talk 19:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

ferns

That seems to be a fern. Please revert your revert. Thanks --Emesee 08:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Alan, I just wanted to say that I think you were correct to remove the fern cat, but it probably would have best to include a reason why in the edit summary. It helps prevent this sort of confusion. Best, --Bfigura ^(talk) 16:03, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Bivouac sack‎

Thanks for tidying up Bivouac sack‎. You removed mountaineering usage, and commented that they aren't only used for that. Maybe you could add what else they are used for? The only usage I know of is for mountaineering. Thanks, —EncMstr 20:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Also used for camping and tramping (hiking). -- Alan Liefting-talk- 21:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Green IT vs. Green computing

Hi there, my name is Kim. You categorized the Green IT article - thanks for that, by the way. I would like to ask you to please join in the discussion on the Green IT talk page. As a fellow Wikipedia contributor and a fellow Green IT contributor, I'd like to ask if you'd lend us your opinion: another editor wants to merge the entire Green IT article into Green computing. However, I believe them to be two separate topics. Would you like to give your opinion on the topic? Thanks, Alan, much appreciated. Kimberlylaura 21:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey Alan

Sorry for deleteing that speedy deletion tag. I was using the sandbox editor and got alot of it finished and then accidently copied over the tag you left at the top. I'll try not to let this happen again. Good day and take care. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin Belmont (talk • contribs) 02:41, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Australian Green Wikis

As the founder of this WikiProject I thought you might like to know about 2 Australian Green Wikis. They are

• Greenlivingpedia, where I am an editor Greenlivingpedia
• Envirowiki Envirowiki - Kathleen.wright5 05:32, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

ecolabel

Hi Alan, thanks for your comment and introduction. If we consider the example of organic food, The open directory project has an external link on that page. We follow a similar approach tied to a specific focus: labels. Our section on organic where we have suggested a link lists independent information on 61 organic labels. Although it is a section of our site, it is in itself still the largest global source of information on organic labels. That is the reason we think it merits a link. Jacobmalthouse (talk) 23:41, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

WP policy is to try and restrict external links on articles to the most relevant otherwise too many get added. The ecolabelling site links should be restricted to labelling and certification articles rather than other environmental articles. -- Alan Liefting-talk- 00:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

List of songs about the environment

Consensus in the AFD was to delete outright without userfying. However, I will userfy it anyway, but if it's not fixed up it could be redeleted. --Coredesat 21:35, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

New Zealand portal

Nice to see someone finally showing an interest in this again. I had been wondering what to do with it.-gadfium 18:46, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

accusation?

my "vandalism" was deletion of previous, genuine, vandalism. please check your facts before you bandy about accusations like this. --Miagw 21:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

New Zealand's nuclear-free zone

Hi Alan, I've been doing some work on this article and would like to take it up to GA status. But the prose is not so good and there may be other improvements which someone like you could make. Would be grateful if you could look it over please... Johnfos 01:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Alan Liefting

Wikipedia editors have been subject to severe harassment inside and outside of Wikipedia. This is a valid reason not to use your real name —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.46.140 (talk) 06:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't expect any harassment. -- Alan Liefting-talk- 06:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Maryland's School

A tag has been placed on Maryland's School requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. —Jonathan 02:12, 14 December 2007 (UTC)