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Euroseas

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Notability of DryShips, Inc.

A tag has been placed on DryShips, Inc., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, 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.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -- lucasbfr ^talk 09:19, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Spam in Onassis Foods

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Onassis Foods, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Onassis Foods is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.

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Spam in Kyknos (tomato sauce)

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Your edit to DryShips

Message posted on Sunday, May 20, 2007

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to DryShips. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=DRYS and http://www.dryships.com/index.cfm?get=overview in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Butseriouslyfolks 21:21, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Reposting of copyrighted material

This is your last warning. The next time you create an inappropriate page, such as Onassis Foods, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Purgatory Fubar ^Converse or Snafu 22:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Onassis S.A.

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Notability of Korres Natural Products

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Notability of Korres Natural Products

A tag has been placed on Korres Natural Products, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, 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.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Calton | Talk 13:15, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Onassis Foods, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, 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.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Calton | Talk 13:15, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Categories, categories...

Hey Freecyprus - I've noticed the work you have been doing creating all these articles on Greek companies - great job. I just have a small suggestion for categorising them. When you add these two tags [[Category:Lists of companies by country|Greece]] [[Category:Companies of Greece| ]] it adds the article to this page [1] and this page [2]respectively. The first page is only supposed to produce a list of lists (wierd concept) while the second page is supposed to produce a list of Greek companies. You really only need to use the second tag above to add the article to the correct category. Otherwise, the country lists end up covered in Greek companies! Happy editing! Paxse 13:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Addition/removals from list of companies

Hi, i think that you have to accept that avra mineral water or other water products from various parts of Greece and Cyprus do not constitute a company; they are just products and they do not belong to the list. If you kindly have a look to similar lists of companies from other countries you will be suprised to find out that most companies have their own wiki page not just an internet site. There are more than 60,000 companies currently in Greece. Where do we draw a line? All the Greeks work equally hard and they have the right to be represented. But we have to be realistic. If we continue to just add companies without any limitation very soon the list will be truncated or worse the page will be inactivated. I appreciate your interest in greek companies but let me tell you that i am equally sympathetic to the hard work of all Greeks being Greek myself thank you Ipodamos

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Avra mineral water

Please, do not add Avra mineral water or similar water products in the list of Greek companies. Avra is produced and distributed by the Coca cola 3E company that is already included in the list. I can see you keep adding avra even that i hve this info in history. Did your continuous addition of avra, meant that you disagree? Ipodamos

Avra water part 2

Freecyprus: this is the 10th time i am deleting the avra mineral water and other water products. You have been adding them repeatedly without discussing it even that you know that there are people that disagree. You have failed yet to make your point on why you re still including products in a list of companies Ipodamos

Please stop

Please stop adding and readding the external links to the page, wikipedia is not a directory or the yellow pages. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:29, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

This is your only warning.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to List of Greek companies, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia and other sites that use the MediaWiki spam blacklist. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:32, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our policies concerning neutral point of view and biographies of living persons will not be tolerated.

I strongly suggest, seen these edits, where you ignore WP:NOT#DIRECTORY, and other discussions above, that you sit back, read our Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, and then reconsider your edits. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:38, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Freecyprus (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I don't understand what is wrong with including a company's web site on the Greek Companies List. Wiki is full of articles with links to companies, why is this list being targeted?

Decline reason:

Lists are supposed to be lists, not a directory, or a list of items that is advertising in nature. There are indeed other lists, and I have also cleaned other lists of external links, per WP:NOT#DIRECTORY (also see this). I am declining the unblock on this request, I strongly suggest you read some policies and guidelines first. Also because there are items above of similar nature. Please start discussing. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:47, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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I don't mean to "advertise" as I don't work for a Greek company at all. I just love my homeland of Greece and I saw that there is a list of Greek companies here on Wiki and I wanted to contribute to it. I will continue to contribute to it if that's ok but I won't add the website of the companies that I add.

It is not that you are advertising, but the list does not comply with WP:NOT#DIRECTORY, and is as such advertising. Most of those links are perfectly OK on the wikipage about the seperate companies (and there is where they are supposed to be). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 12:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I have lifted your block, assuming that when other editors have concerns with certain pages or edits, that you will first engage in a discussion with them, in stead of pushing or re-adding the info without discussion. Happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 13:02, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Dirk Beetstra, thanks for your constructive criticisms about my wiki editing. Cheers, FC Freecyprus

Reality check

Since you seemed to have missed this:

Reality check here:

Wikipedia is neither a mirror nor a repository of links, images, or media files. Wikipedia articles are not:

1) Mere collections of external links or Internet directories. There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:External links for some guidelines.

2) Mere collections of internal links, except for disambiguation pages when an article title is ambiguous, and for lists to assist with the organisation of articles. Please follow the guidelines outlined at Wikipedia:Lists#List naming and list contents.

What you've done is create a link farm of companies which do not show the slightest sign of being eligible for articles. In fact, I recognized one as one which has been speedily deleted multiple times after being created by yourself, and my guess is that if I start clicking around the few blue links I'll find even more speedy-deletion candidates. And I suspect that the new ones you gin up will have exactly the same problems.

And yes, I HAVE discussed this and cited the actual rules; you, on the other hand, have waved your hands frantically as a substitute for actual arguments and in your zeal to convert a navigation aid into a nationalist's cheap substitute for the Yellow Pages. And I'm supposed to take you seriously WHY, exactly? --Calton | Talk 01:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey take it easy. Have a beer and relax. There are more important things in life to worry about. Cheers, FC. Freecyprus 01:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Uh huh. You first, Mr. Edit-Warrior. Whether I happen to choose this bit of spam-fighting isn't of your concern. Oh wait, it is -- which is why your faux-concern will receive the attention it is due.

I've already filed a report at WP:AN/3RR, so you might have some time to relax yourself. --Calton | Talk 01:55, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh dear, did I touch a nerve? It didn't take long for that veneer of faux-concern to fall away, did it? A read of this and this might prove informative. --Calton | Talk 02:09, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Nope, it's not really easy to "touch" any of my nerves. Name calling and bullying never seemed to work with Greeks all these 8,000+ years and probably won't work with me.  :-) I have my opinions and my responses to your comments and I expressed them. It's obvious to all you would like to frighten folks into not saying anything but that usually doesn't work in the free world. Freecyprus

Name calling and bullying never seemed to work with Greeks all these 8,000+ years and probably won't work with me - And yet you feel free to indulge in it yourself: is this a form of Greek exceptionalism, or simply universal jerkitude on your part? --Calton | Talk 11:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a short time in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for violating the three-revert rule . Please be more careful to discuss controversial changes or seek dispute resolution rather than engaging in an edit war. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. ugen64 04:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

ugen64 04:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Nope, wrong again (you keep striking out). Based on the comments on your own user page, YOU are the one who resorts to name-calling and bullying. I think what bothers you the most about me is that my comments are calm, mature and civil. What also bothers you about me is the fact that I'm not frightened by a bully who hides behind his computer. As to your comment about "Greek exceptionalism"...in addition to name-calling and bullying, we could probably add racism to your long list of character flaws. Cheers, FC.

I see you come from the "I'm rubber, you're glue" school of rhetoric.

YOU are the one who resorts to name-calling and bullying Oh really?:

Also seems to me that you use Wikipedia to over-compensate for some personal inadequecies you might have (like some men overcompensate by yelling at their wives or buying large SUVs)

The problem with telling obvious falsehoods on Wikipedia is how easily they're discovered. Again, a read of this and this -- and this, too -- might prove informative.

Oh, and your attempt to play the racism card is pretty much beneath contempt. --Calton | Talk 21:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Ouch, REALLY touched a nerve there. The problem is that you yourself haven't read Wikipedia's rules about personal attacks (or you have and don't feel these rules apply to you, only to others) We are all trying to make Wiki a friendly and welcoming place. You are not. Anyone can read the comments on your user page. I repeat: countless users have complained about your rudeness and lack of civility. All of your comments are there for all to read, now and forever. You are a bully, pure and simple. We will all continue to make Wikipedia a welcoming place, whether you like it or not. Freecyprus 21:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Again, more from the "I'm rubber , you're glue" school of rhetoric: the term for that is psychological projection. Have a read, you may learn something about yourself.

As for touching a nerve; yes, when a dishonest fanatic calls me a racist, you, I tend to be annoyed. And given your outbursts and edit-warring, you're not exactly in a position to be giving out advice about civility or bullying.

We will all continue to make Wikipedia a welcoming place... We? Is there a vast community of provincialist edit-warriors who've confused Wikipedia with the Yellow Pages that I've somehow missed?

The problem is that you yourself haven't read Wikipedia's rules about personal attacks (or you have and don't feel these rules apply to you, only to others) - Speaking of projection, again. You've been pointed to the rules, you've been blocked -- twice in two days -- for violating the rules, and you have the chutzpah to gas on about how I haven't read the rules? Or is it that you have and don't feel these rules apply to you, only to others? --Calton | Talk 10:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

We can only repeat what we've all been telling you: relax, take it easy, don't be so rude, try to be civil, learn to not belittle people, try to learn how to make Wikipedia a kind and welcoming place. Cheers, FC. Freecyprus 10:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to ignore our policies by introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, you will be blocked. IrishGuy ^talk 10:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Grammar

At SQL_Server_Integration_Services you replaced a list "...x or y or z" with "either x or y or z"; I replaced that, in turn, with "x, y, or z". We use "either" when there are only two cases. If you need to be explicit you can use "any of x, y, or z". (This was in regards to use of variables.) Pete St.John 19:50, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Coca-Cola HBC

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Proposed deletion of Delta Projects

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