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User:Mclay1

Hello. Thank you for protecting my user page. I didn't get chance to see what hilarious comments those IPs had left me for my enjoyment. Most likely informing me that I am of a different sexuality to what I realised, I would assume. So once again thank you. I don't understand why all user pages aren't automatically semi-protected anyway. McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:35, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Your guess is... remarkably accurate. If you'd like the protection raised to indefinite, just ask. Courcelles 13:26, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, thank you, that would be handy. I can't see any situation where an IP would need to edit my user page. McLerristarr | Mclay1 18:28, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles 19:17, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you McLerristarr | Mclay1 05:05, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much...

for deleting the High School Musical: East Meets West article. That was pure fan fiction that no one would let me delete. The original poster and some other fans kept changing it. I swear, some of these ppl and their imaginations lol. Thanks again! :-D--The Wing Dude, Musical Extraordinaire (talk) 05:02, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I don't think anyone that hasn't had the "fun" of cleaning out CAT:SD would ever guess how much pure trash gets created around here. Blatant hoaxes are, well, fairly common. Courcelles 00:13, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

José Artur de Melo Júnior

He played once according to [1]. Please restore it and i will start over the article. Matthew_hk tc 10:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

There's no way on Earth you can write a legitimate BLP off that source, if it is even reliable. That's not how we should be building a biography. Courcelles 00:12, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Reds

No problem. I was just about to undo the move myself when I noticed the names on B-R weren't lining up and I saw Tyler Colvin on the list. I'll pick a different one to work on on my own since my schedule looks to be very patchy at best for the upcoming month. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 18:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Tourism in Åland DYK nom

Hello - I know this probably could be considered meatpuppetry (sorry for the link - I know you're familiar with meatpuppetry, but it's a habit!!), but are you able to give me an opinion on the Tourism in Åland DYK nom at all? The reviewer has thrown out all four sources for this article (sources that have been published by the Government of the Åland Islands and published on government web sites...!!!!) as 'unreliable'. As we here would say, cool story bro - I nearly threw up when I read that Statistics and Research Åland, a government department, does not publish 'reliable sources'. Arctic Night 02:21, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Looks reasonably alright to me, no real difference between citing Aland's government and citing the US government, and we do the latter to an unbelievable degree. Looks like reviewer over-caution to me, though some true third-party sources would, of course, not go remiss here. Courcelles 02:52, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Crow T. Robot.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Crow T. Robot.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 03:37, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Tyrantulas was kind enough to contribute a free-licensed image to replace this fair-use one for Crow T. Robot, so it's no longer needed. Please feel free to delete it at any time. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:58, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

G7'ed, thanks for letting me know. Courcelles 07:02, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Andy Murray

The page has a padlock but it is not semiprotected.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 09:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

The padlock is green, which means it is move-protected. I move protected both finalists last night for a spell due to their being very high visibility over that period. Dabomb87 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) later added semi-protection due to an increasing level of vandalism after the final was played. Courcelles 18:51, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

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80.121.39.249 (talk) 01:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Fair use notice

I think you jumped the gun, the image was in use before you placed that notice on my page: [2]. Please revert yourself, I am keeping to a non-revert policy on my own page, because that is my stated practice. Thanks – Sswonk (talk) 03:27, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Yep, you're right. The image came into use between the time I opened all the images on Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files for tonight, and the time I got to that particular image. Courcelles 03:31, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

All set, thanks again. Sswonk (talk) 03:32, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Margene Heffman

Hi - I see that you recently prodded and removed a page for this Big Love main character. Just about all of the other major characters on the series have separate articles, and I'm wondering why this one doesn't. Do you have a copy of the page as it was that I might have a look at? Doesn't make sense to me in the context of the series, that this character not have a descriptive page. At the very least there should be a redirect to the main page, but I think the character merits a separate article as the others have. Would appreciate any insight the original page could provide. (I also don't see an AfD, so I'm wondering what happened.) Thanks. Tvoz/talk 08:57, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

There was no AFD- there never is in the PROD process, read WP:PROD. The prod was actually added by User:Gnowor. All articles are required to have some form of real-world context, whereas this one was a pure plot description without even the barest attempt of real-world notability or sourcing. A redirect is a sensible option, or given it is a fictional character, I can userify it for you to see if you can find sources. (Though speaking purely as an editor here, starting from scratch might be an easier option, though as a PROD I would actually restore it directly to mainspace and forward it to AFD for discussion.) Your call which route you'd like to take. Courcelles 11:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I found this

I found this article Frank Condo, then found the same article under a different name Frank "Frankie California" Condo its not a redirect. I dont known what to do? Should they be Merged? Or delete one? --Vic49 (talk) 18:28, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I tagged the articles for speedy deletion as they were clear copyright violations. Arctic Night 19:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, G12 was the right call here, though in more normal situations, simply redirecting one to the other is often the simplest solution. If one is not a plausible redirect, WP:A10 would apply.) Courcelles 23:17, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

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Move requests

Unfortunately, I've got quite a few moves needed, so I'll be asking quite a bit of you. For starters, could you please move File:Big12-Uniform-MIZ-Pro_Combat-2009.PNG to File:Big12-Uniform-Mizzou-Pro_Combat-2009.png, File:Big10-Uniform-UMINN.PNG to File:BigTen-Uniform-Minnesota.png, File:Big10-Uniform-UL.PNG to File:BigTen-Uniform-Illinois.png and File:Big10-Uniform-UI.PNG to File:BigTen-Uniform-Indiana.png? Thanks. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 22:54, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

All done. If you move the file links over, I'll delete the redirects. Courcelles 23:40, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Done. I'll have more later, but that's it for now. I need to take care of updating the images first. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 02:48, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

One more for the night: File:WAC-Uniform-FSU.PNG to File:WAC-Uniform-FSU.png, please. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 03:49, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles 03:51, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Next up: File:SEC-Uniform-ARK.PNG to File:SEC-Uniform-Arkansas.png, File:SEC-Uniform-GA.PNG to File:SEC-Uniform-UGA.png, File:SEC-Uniform-KEN.PNG to File:SEC-Uniform-UK.png, File:SEC-Uniform-MSU.PNG to File:SEC-Uniform-MSU.png and File:SEC-Uniform-VADY.PNG to File:SEC-Uniform-Vanderbilt.png. Thanks once again. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 19:10, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

All taken care of. Courcelles 23:21, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 16:52, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Greg Lindquist wikipedia page deletion

• Greg Lindquist · ( talk | logs | history | links | watch | afd ) · [revisions]

Hi, I'd like to know why you deleted the Greg Lindquist wikipedia page-- he is a real, legitimate emerging artist (www.greglindquist.com). As his gallery representative who spent hours on the page, I find the deletion frustrating. Can you please reinstate it? Thank you. Blueprintmemory1 (talk) 01:45, 1 February 2011 (UTC)Blueprintmemory1

Courcelles, I have responded to a similar post here. Johnbod (talk) 02:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I just looked at this editor's contribs and it seems that this was very unfortunate timing. He's been working on this article off and on since last June, stops editing on the 23 of Dec and the article gets nominated for deletion on the 24th. He comes back today and finds the article gone. As you mentioned on your talk page, userfication or incubation might be a good idea. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I found this this and this but all are from the arts section of the same paper and only the first seems extensive. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:33, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

One vote delete... meh, doesn't have much of a chance but it might have one, so no harm in reopening the discussion. You've got a week to convince folks this should stick around at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Lindquist, if it gets deleted again, there are some admins who will userify biographies of living people (though I'm not one of them) for further work. Courcelles 03:22, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Courcelles. So, does the page still exist or is it deleted for good? Blueprintmemory1 (talk) 04:33, 1 February 2011 (UTC)Blueprintmemory1

Greg Lindquist. Click on it. Short of old-style oversight, nothing around here is truly deleted in the sense most folks think of- admins can restore things, and I did here, as I can't expect folks to comment on an article that only the 1,700 admins can see. Courcelles 04:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

your deletion

Hi, I noticed that you deleted my article Digital transformation, which was "proposed for deletion" with the sole argument "Very similar to page that was just deleted at AfD". I find this kind of argument highly dubious. In fact, my article was very different from the one which was deleted (and I voted for deletion myself). The problem of the originally deleted page was that it was an arbitrary essay, while I started writing a fully-referenced text. Unfortunately I became busy in real life, so I didn't notice the threatening tag. Please restore the page and look into its essence from the point of view of wikipedia policies on citing, verifiability, etc., rather than arbitrary baseless opinion kinda "very similar". Lorem Ip (talk) 01:21, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Restored as a contested PROD. Courcelles 03:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. The sole reason I created this page is to prevent reemergence of a shapeless speculative text similar to the deleted one. This is a marketroid-style term which has both deep meaning and none of it. I simply laid out a tight pattern of referenced text, which style will be much easier to enforce by the way of example, rather than to struggle with some other well-meaning, but too excited prolific writers. Lorem Ip (talk) 16:47, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Fernando Torres

Hey there! Was wondering if you might consider lifting the full protection on Fernando Torres. Now that the transfer is done and official, and plastered over every British media outlet, there should be far less edit warring. Any reversions by bitter Liverpool fans could be addressed individually. Seems a shame to have such a high profile article protected now (though perfectly reasonable overnight). GedUK  07:45, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Back to semi. (I think letting every bitter IP onto it would be.. unwise.) Courcelles 14:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Oh god, yes, semi! Thanks for that. I've already blocked one vandal off it. GedUK  15:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

deletion of Catherine Mayer

I noticed that you deleted this page but this is an author of our whose book is of note and we would like to restore it. The book is available on Amazon and was referenced by William Gibson, David Baddiel and Phil Jupitus on Twitter. Many thanks Randomwiki

Reliable sources? I'm not inclined to restore an unsourced BLP unless some sources are clearly forthcoming. Courcelles 14:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Oops!

Protection conflict on Greek mythology. I went for 6 months given the log, but I'll defer to three days if you want. You got there 41 second faster than I did! ;) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Really don't care- it had been 14 months since the last semi was imposed there, but it's just not a big deal either way. Courcelles 19:27, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Pavao Skalic

Hi dear friend Courcelles... I've noticed what you did at PS article, which I do not approve since it's pure censorship and authoritarian behaviour...

All of this is futile... there's no cooperation exactly, only the autocratic rule of wiki admins and distinguished users! This rules are made to create deception of rule of fair editing, opened to anyone... I will not comply! There's no use of any discussion, wiki dictators have already made their minds... there's no sincere will to discuss changes in order to improve the article!

And to be sure, you can block me, but there's thousands of others that will change articles Pavao Skalic, Serbo-croatian language, grammer... and all articles as long as they are presenting inaccurate informations, offensive points of view etc... while presenting authoritarian kind of behaviour regarding others edits! You can not do a thing to me! There are thousands more to come, I can assure you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.164.7.154 (talk) 22:45, 1 February 2011 (UTC)