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Fair use rationale for Image:Ameche TD Colts.jpg

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Peace Oil

I put an article about my company, Olive Branch Enterprises, on Wikipedia back in November. It was deleted under the notability criteria. If I put an article about Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives that emphasize joint economic activities would that be more likely to meet notability criteria? I know you cannot answer definitively without seeing the content, but in general, would such a topic be more likely to achieve the required level of "notability" than one about a small, unknown startup? Thanks for you input! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jcwoodward (talk • contribs) 02:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC).

• You may want to check Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before undertaking such an article. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 17:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Buddy Rich

Regarding your removing of links from the BR page. The links you have removed have been on the page for about 1 year. Who are you to come along and remove them? The Unofficial BR site was around years before the official site and it contains a lot more info. But this is typical of Wikipedia. It claims to be a encyclopedia that anyone can edit but there's always people like you who think they know better than everyone else. I would understand if it was blatent spam but the links you removed were totally relevent to BR. Anyway, you've deleted the Official site link too.

Yes I've read WP:EL and it says Wikipedia articles can often be improved by providing links to web pages outside Wikipedia. Such pages could contain further research which is accurate and on-topic

• The link to the official site has not been deleted. And what extra information does the unofficial site contain that the regular article does not? --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 15:21, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

• What does it contain that the original article does not?

Pictures, BR's drum setup, Stories from people who knew Buddy and watched him play, Quotes from famous musicians who new Buddy, An interview from Modern Drummer magazine with BR and Gene krupa, It's mainly pictures people want to see and the site has loads of them.

The Unofficial site was made nearly 10 years ago so it might look a bit out of date but Cathy Rich must have liked it because she ripped off most of the layout and ideas. Yes I built the Unofficial site and I know quite a lot about BR. I would add things to Wikipedia but I know there are always people like you waiting to delete peoples additions. It seems like every page has someone who thinks they own it and will change everything someone adds, even if it's relevent.

My mistake about the official link, I see you've moved it. Well done, it shouldn't have been under the external link section even though that's what it is.

Anyway, do what you want. I just wanted to express my feelings and I can't be bothered to argue about it.

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Helen Steiner Rice

Hi, I was surprised to find that there was no page in Wikipedia for Helen Steiner Rice, and was thinking of creating one. I checked the deletion log and found that you had deleted one last November, with the note csd a7. I think that means that either the person or the content were considered unremarkable. Was it just the content, in which case I will aim to create a page with worthwhile content? Alternatively, was the person (Helen Steiner Rice) judged unremarkable, and if so has that been conclusively settled? Her poems have been read by very many people in the Western world who have ever been in hospital or bereaved, and I believe many of the card-buying public know her name. Fayenatic london 13:56, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

• A7 means that notability was not asserted. If you wish to create a new article, you must assert notability through the use of verifiable, independent sources. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 16:30, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Second Time to enable Alpha Five listing

Dear Cholmes75,

Please find that we tried to upload a post on December 21, 2006, in compliance with your request for solid figures and proof for Alpha Five software:

Link with Sources for Awards and Recognition for Alpha Five

Dear Cholmes75, Thank you for your post. As per your request, a link has been provided to me which backs up all claims of awards and market recognition, at http://alphasoftware.com/about/releases.asp I trust that to the left, a menu titled "Quick Links" will direct you to case studies, a press room, featured clients, testimonials, etc. I look forward to your response, DonMoKhan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.211.99.100 (talk) 00:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC).

• You don't need my permission, so go ahead and add your article. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 14:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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But we do need your permission to re-enable the Alpha Five listing do we not?

Dear Cholmes75,

Thanks for your response dated January 9, 2007:

You don't need my permission, so go ahead and add your article. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 14:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Cholmes75, essentially we had posted an Alpha Five listing a couple of months ago which was removed.

You then requested I set up a subpage and mention all of the details we utilized for Alpha. You requested a link proving our claims, and you are now saying we do "not need your permission".

Can you please kindly confirm that we may proceed with our Alpha Five wiki entry as per our agreed upon content?

I greatly appreciate your diligent and prompt responses and for re-newing my faith in the greatest information portal on the Internet, Wikipedia.

Best Regards, Donmokhan

• You do not need my permission to re-add the article, and I never stated you did. I asked for proof of notability because without them someone else may delete the article again in the future. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 19:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank You Cholmes75!

Thanks Cholmes75 for clearing that up. So now we have acquired notability and will post our Alpha Five entry with proof of notability.

We thank you again, Donmokhan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.2.220.102 (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Barnstar

Hey Cholmes75, I bet you wanna know why I'm giving you this BarnStar. Well, Because YOUR AN OAKLAND RAIDERS FAN!!!!!!!!! Do I need say more? ;^)

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		To a fellow Oakland Raiders Fan! BarnStar Boy 22:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Redundant kissonline.com link

Hi, I know it is redundant to have that link both in the infobox and in the External links section, but this sort of redundancy is pretty common practice in musician/band related articles and after all, we do use redundant wiki links when it comes to infobox and article body as well. Regards - Cyrus XIII 22:55, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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Ahem!

Please explain. Any person with rudimentary knowledge of the Romanian Orthodox Church knows that family names form part of the bishop's names - see Valerian Trifa, whom virtually nobody refers to as "Valerian (Trifa)". See also Teoctist Arăpaşu for the current Patriarch. If you feel like adding parantheses to the article for the sake of it, do go and them for every single Romanian Orthodox cleric, because what you are doing is otherwise utterly absurd. And I cannot for the love of me understand why you reverted the other stuff I added there! Dahn 16:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. I was typing as the same time as you. My invitation to go and do it in every article where this arises still stands (I also want to see you telling other Romanians that this is the proper fashion). Dahn 16:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Archbishop Nathaniel (Popp) is not in the Romanian Church, he is in the Orthodox Church in America. The standard practice in the OCA is to put the surname in parentheses. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 16:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Cholmes, did you even read what I posted? How do you explain it for Trifa, then? And, again: you have ERASED changes in format that I had made in the article for clarity. This is really frustrating, because you assume you are right. Dahn 16:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• I put back the other changes you made to the article, but the surname absolutely belongs in parentheses. If you doubt me, take it up with http://www.roea.org/bio-nathaniel.htm. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 16:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Cholmes, I'm not an idiot. I understood that you got this from a source, but I'm telling you that you have read it backwards. One could refer to Teoctist Arăpaşu as Teoctist (and they do), one could refer to Valerian Trifa as Valerian, but their full names are generally accepted as the norm. But one point to consider, Cholmes, and I would really like you to look into it this time, is that this is not the case for the OCA's Valerian Trifa, and that, in case you feel like adding paranthses, you should at least go and add them there as well! If not, remove them from both. This is the third time I am suggesting this. Dahn 16:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• I will definitely take that into consideration. Thanks. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 17:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't you think it is absurd to separate them just because you didn't originally know an article on Trifa existed? It certainly decreases the quality of wikipedia to have no clear take on matters such as this, IMO. Dahn 17:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Yes, it is unfortunate that there is no clear consensus on the matter. But moving a page without even bringing the matter up first on the article's talk page does not improve the situation. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 17:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

KISS platinum tickets

Hi my friend -i can cite from many sources. kissonline or classic rock magazine. the platinum package is very well known. havent you heard of it? In the meantime i will find a decent articleUkbn2 18:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah no probs i will provide info for you in the next 24 hours. Platinum was outrageous by the way $1000 ha ha ha ha!!!! Very Gene! If you are looking at getting this article featured i will help as much as possible. Thanks!Ukbn2 18:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Platinum

Hi - i have added varifiable info about platinum ticket prices from kissonline.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ukbn2 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC).

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