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Wizard101

Why do you keep getting rid of the class section I made Mscoopo Mscoopo (talk) 22:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

@User:Mscoopo, because Wikipedia is not a game guide. We do not list every bit of trivial, unimportant information about video games, or any other subject for that matter. Please remove it--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:37, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry but I don't see it that way so don't remove it please. I will remove it if you can persuade me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mscoopo (talk • contribs) 22:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Actually I don't need to argue that the content is of zero value. You have copy and pasted the content from the copyright protected page at [1], therefore making the content a copyright violation. I have removed it, if you restore it again you may be blocked for a serious breach of Wikipedia rules--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:50, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

i'll make a deal. Let it stay until the 20th but I won't argue either way you choose. I promise I won't restore it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mscoopo (talk • contribs) 22:58, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Please actually read what I wrote above. The content is a copyright violation. I.e. it is breaking the law. There is no deal to be made, the content is gone and it stays gone--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Ok — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mscoopo (talk • contribs) 23:06, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't want to have my conversations forever on here can I delete it nowMscoopo (talk) 03:16, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

No you can't, do not remove it again--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:39, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

why not— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mscoopo (talk • contribs) 17:56, 18 December 2014‎

Because I don't just remove content from my talk page. When the time comes it will be archived, until then it stays here--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:04, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Why did you say something on my talk

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Pigeon

I need to retrieve the articale from the deleted page " Baghdadi pigeons" please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmedms19 (talk • contribs) 23:09, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

I have restored the article to your userspace, User:Ahmedms19/Baghdadi pigeon, however please do not restore it to article space until it meets our criteria for referencing and notability--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

okay , thank you , I'm just a starter to Wikipedia , I'll get better next time , the article still needs a lot of attention, eventually it will meet your criteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmedms19 (talk • contribs) 23:32, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

NadjibbooooMeknaciiiiiii

why you have delete my article ?? i realy need it — Preceding unsigned comment added by NadjibbooooMeknaciiiiiii (talk • contribs) 18:13, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTABILITY and WP:REFERENCES. Please also note that this is the English Wikipedia, i.e. English language content--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:21, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

ok now iwant to writa a arabic article and i want to back my pass article to coppy and then i will delete , please i f you can — Preceding unsigned comment added by NadjibbooooMeknaciiiiiii (talk • contribs) 18:40, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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You removed a credit under TV Appearances for On Stage with Mantis. The credit is on YouTube, a full hour episode of a long standing regularly scheduled TV series. The date was Sept 8th, 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MantisKhiralla (talk • contribs) 01:38, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

CZEA

Hi! why are you delete CZEA page today? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pynkstyle (talk • contribs) 12:09, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Because it did not demonstrate the Notability of the subject--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:37, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

deletion of Andreas Papleondiou

Hi, why did you delete Andreas Papaleondiou article? I'm surprised there was not one created already — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjoneill01 (talk • contribs) 12:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Please read these two pages about notability and references--Jac16888 ^Talk 12:57, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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Indian Standard for Tapioca Sago (Sabudana) Set by The Bureau of India Standards (BIS) Comment

I have created a subpage under Sabudana for information about standards set by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). I came to know that you have deleted the subpage on the basis that it is short. But it was informative and relative to one of the many standards of Sabudana in India. I undestand that you are more expert in writing, but did you know about the subject? Please guide me, how can i complete the article. Regards..--gSabu 05:34, 4 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gopalsabu (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia is not a directory, we do not list all possible information about all possible subjects, the official list of standards for a type of food is not encyclopedic content--Jac16888 ^Talk 12:43, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Article on V.R. Prabodhachandran Nayar- Deletion Regarding

I worked near about more than a month and finally succeeded in completing it. But I am very much surprised and worried over its deletion. Your reason for deletion, I am not clear. So please guide me how to improve it so that it become neutral. Where I went wrong, I am not able to make it out from your very general message. Please help me in making it acceptable to Wikipedia. Rpnpbr (talk) 15:35, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Your article has not been deleted, I have just moved it back to the draft space, Draft:V.R. Prabodhachandran Nayar. The reason that I did so was that it displayed an incredible amount of bias and promotion. Please read WP:NEUTRAL and attempt to rewrite your article, then submit it to WP:AFC for approval before restoring it to the articlespace--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:20, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

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I don't understand why you cancelled my page Franco Cherchi. Please, let me know. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarinaPizzorni (talk • contribs) 08:44, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Because it was in Italian, this is the English language Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:29, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Clermont Gaels Deletion Feb 7

Hey, you just deleted my page Clermont Gaels. I'm aware it was in French but I am actually translating the French page into English and I just copied the source code from the French page so that I would have the exact same layout. I was in the process of translating all of the French when you deleted it. I'm new to this and I received a message saying that the article was listed at "Articles needing translation" but I am unable to find my article anywhere? I'm not sure what to do?AJ6000 (talk) 23:34, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

It was deleted because an article being in a foreign language and existing on another language Wikipedia is reason for speedy deletion. Rather than pasting the french article into the article-space I suggest you create it in your "userspace (e.g at User:AJ6000/Clermont Gaels, work on translating it and then move it to the article space when it is ready--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Ancient history of nashik (mauryan to yadavas and muslim and moghuls deletion related)

hi recently ancient history of nashik page has been edited where some information I uploaded has been deleted and i don't know the reason for deletion or where i went wrong . Can you please help and guide me to improve the article so that it becomes acceptable to wikipedia .

thank you Neha Palekar (talk) 06:18, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

The problem with the content you added is that it was entirely unsourced, which made it original research--Jac16888 ^Talk 11:29, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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Your User Page

Hey Jac16888, I have been watching your page, and I have been seeing all the vandalism that has been happening. But luckily, you always hide the edit summary before I get a chance to read it! :P However, I think you should protect your user page either for vandalism, or user protect within own user space. Just a suggestion. Thanks! Yoshi24517^Chat _Online 16:49, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

If it's my userpage I can revert and delete it right away, if I protect it he will just go attack someone else--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:50, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Wasn't it multiple IPs? But it looks like the same person based off of evidence that I saw. Yoshi24517^Chat _Online 16:55, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

All the same person yes--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:57, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Oversighting edit summaries

I really don't see the point of oversighting the usernames of recent vandals to your userpage and not your edit summaries, which all contain "Reverted edits by...".--Launchballer 22:43, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah I didn't really think of that until after I'd done the last one, I was just focused on very quickly getting rid of any trace, I was in full blown "deny" mode--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:31, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

User Page

Were you not happy with my edit on your user page? I thought it looked better, but I guess with it being your userpage you decide what's on it and not other users, sorry if I have upset you because of this, cheers -- TeaLover1996 Lets talk about it 18:14, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

You shouldn't just edit other peoples user pages for your own reasons--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Okay TeaLover1996 Lets talk about it 18:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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Please don't redirect "Foreign Language School Attached to Guangxi Normal University" to"Guangxi Normal University". "Foreign Language School Attached to Guangxi Normal University" is a high school while "Guangxi Normal University is an university, they are two different educate org. "Foreign Language School Attached to Guangxi Normal University" doesn't mean "Foreign Language College of Guangxi Normal University". We will finish the work of translate the English version of the Wiki page of "Foreign Language School Attached to Guangxi Normal University". Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.1.79.37 (talk) 03:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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Deletion of Open_Broadcasting_Software

Hi. I wanted to link the Open Broadcasting Software item on OBS to an article on that application, but you've deleted it on account of notability criteria (or rather, moved it to the author's userpage, which I presumably shouldn't link to). Would you consider restoring this article? I know nothing about streaming software, but even I've heard of OBS - I would describe it as "well-known software" and was actually quite surprised it didn't have a page. Note that its website is the top hit on Google for the acronym "OBS", but is now absent from the OBS disambiguation page for lack of an article to link to. Meanwhile, many other items on that page (including another, more obscure, application) have their own articles. This is likely to confuse users searching for "OBS" after encountering the term online. Here is a Google search on "Open Broadcaster Software" for reference. As a final observation, while searching Wikipedia, I found an article for an application called "OpenBroadcaster". If you attempt to search the web for this program, all you'll find is page after page of results for OBS! You actually need to filter out "Open Broadcaster Software" to even find results for that application. Troyp (talk) 11:59, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

User:Voxletum/Open Broadcaster Software was userfied as a result of an AFD, and has not been changed/improved since then so I don't see any reason to move it back, as there are no reliable sources or references to demonstrate notability at this time. I would advise you to work on it in it's current location, or move it to your own userspace, and then submit it to the WP:AFC system--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand: was it removed due to notability as stated, or due to the article quality? If the former, why would the article need to be improved to be restored?

Unless Wikipedia's notability criteria are completely broken, it should be easy to verify the notability of something like OBS. For instance:

• Google gives 1,770,000 hits for the name in quotes

• The OBS forum has 30,626 registered members, with 252 users currently online when I just checked (I think I saw the maximum was close to a thousand).

• I can't get download numbers from either github or the official OBS download from AWS, but the Sourceforge repo (a secondary mirror at the bottom of the first page of search results) shows 2,583 downloads per week. I'm guessing the total weekly downloads are in the five figures.

I don't think there can any doubt about notability. The article quality is another matter: it didn't look the best (although not the worst either), but that doesn't seem to be the reason it was removed.

I wouldn't be the best person to create a new OBS article. I don't know anything about video capture and streaming software (or particularly care, for that matter). Anyway, it probably doesn't matter. People can find information on it elsewhere. The main problem was that a disambiguation page for OBS existed, but didn't include the most common meaning, which could actively confuse users - and the item I added was removed for lacking a link. However, it now looks like I'll be able to restore the item by linking to another article, so I guess it doesn't matter. In the event that you don't restore it, I'll leave it to OBS users to create/rehabilitate an article for it if they want to. Troyp (talk) 08:38, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

It was removed due to notability, it is both the notability and the quality that are why I won't restore it. Notability is more than googlehits and forum members, these are irrelevant. Notability needs to be demonstrated through the presence of multiple reliable 3rd party references--Jac16888 ^Talk 12:01, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Was gonna wait until the TV and movies I created pages for has began filming until I removed the draft box. isn't that the policy? MB1972 (talk) 21:33, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The draft tag is for pages in the draft or userspace, not for pages in the articlespace--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:40, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Thanks for undoing my {{notenglish}} tag to that draft, the second I submitted it I realized it was a draft and not an article I started cleaning up my mess at articles needing translation and the user's page as you did it. Regardless, thanks! Kharkiv07^Talk 22:54, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Reference desks edit protected

Over at AN/I, I have been led to believe that the current state of reference desks being edit protected is due to you. If that is the indeed the case, whazzup with all that, yo? 88.112.50.121 (talk) 02:36, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Most of the reference desks have seen obsessive vandalism and blanking by a variety of socks over the past week, as would be obvious by an inspection of the relevant logs. Several admins, including myself, have taken action. They're protected until it stops. Acroterion (talk) 02:58, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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2015 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship

please mr jac16888, im a newcomer at wikipedia and i am having lots of troubles with this article, i really want that in wikipedia, it was my first article, i did plenty of articles on the same subject (brazilian Handball) after this one and all of them went just fine, just this one gives me trouble. Can you help me to do this article the right way? Argemiro1975

Rebecca Brown's deletation

What's the reason that you are flagging Rebecca Brown (missionary) for deletation? One of the most famous and important book writer in Spiritual Warfare field? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Czarverve (talk • contribs) 21:31, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Please read WP:NOTABILITY and WP:REFERENCES--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:34, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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Bataille de Rhénanie

I was about to tag it and you beat me to it. Interesting fictional premise for sure, I'll give them that. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 20:03, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

I just skimmed it first and was about to delete it as an A10 of Battle of the Rhineland, til I looked closer and spotted the bit about it preventing World War 2--Jac16888 ^Talk 20:15, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

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Deletion of John Vergara page

Dear Jac16888,

I hope you're doing well. Yesterday I created a page for a leading young luthier under the name "John Vergara" that you deleted today. There was a note that the content was copied from his official website so today he sent an email for Permissions that allow using the content in his bio. This is the Ticket#2015051510021082. Usually when I create pages I receive a note on how to enhance my article before being deleted. Kindly, instruct me on how to avoid deletion and what the issue with the page was. I created several pages for prominent people before and this luthier I am trying to create a page for is taking luthiery to a whole new level in making guitars and Ouds. How can I bring his page to birth without risking its deletion? Thank you for your cooperation — Preceding unsigned comment added by NisreenNasser (talk • contribs) 18:40, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I didn't delete it because of the copyright issue, I deleted it because it was blatant advertising, not surprising if the content came from their own website. Please see WP:PROMO, and also WP:REF since the article had little in the way of references. Can I also ask what your connection to the subject is?--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

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You were mentioned

You were mentioned on the AN board . I hate to do this, but this should be straight-up common sense. I did copy the article to draft space, that will be the last thing I do on this page for the night as I'm right at 3rr. By the way, it 's not a question of who knows what, (this is in reply to your comment on Mr.X 's page, it's just common sense, that's all. KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 22:43, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Hopefully when multiple other people explain to you exactly why you are wrong in this situation you will actually pay attention--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:56, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Also since you're so set on dragging this out rather than listening to what you're being told, WP:ANI would have been the correct place to do this--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm not, else why would | this exist at all. :) KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 23:00, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't know how more simply I can put this but here goes. Read Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Want to create a page for The Internet's Feel Good album...

...but you already deleted a page similar to it. I think the album is notable enough to warrant a page of its own. What do you think?Tony414 (talk) 21:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

It was years ago, don't really have any opinion on it to be honest. Create one if you want to, just make sure it has plenty of reliable references--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

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Re: Your post on Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#English_policy:_So_blindly_obvious.2C_but...

Jac16888,

I saw your post, and didn't want to respond on the village pump, so I'll respond to you here. As far as blanking a page, it depends, in fact, policy permits pages to be blanked under certain conditions (attack pages, BLP, courtesy blanking ). As far as copy and paste, I've been told it breaks attribution, my understand of what that means is that it doesn't identify the author that wrote the copy and pasted item. However, I don't see copy-and-paste as a bad thing, for example, I have four articles on Wikipedia, I worked on them in sandboxes set up on my own page. Once they were ready, I simply copy-and-pasted them into main space, the article was preserved exactly as I'd written it, no changes, nothing like that, so not only do I not see copy-and-paste as bad thing, I've actually done this on my own articles. I see it as a minor issue. I'm not trying to be difficult, dickish or pointy, I literally don't see it as a big issue. However, because you've mentioned it, I will refrain from copying-and-pasting anything, even if I wrote it myself . KoshVorlon Rassekali ternii i mlechnye puti 15:18, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

The fact is that just blanking a page doesn't achieve anything, even with attack pages and copyvios you leave a tag, and in both of those cases the blanking is largely a legal and protection thing. As for copy and pasting, same thing: attribution is also legal issue, it wouldn't matter if there was only one editor (such as with your sandbox pages) and that editor was doing the copying, but anymore and it becomes a problem, which is why we have the move function, to maintain a page history--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:13, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Page Zuzana Trepková Paternostro

Just added reliable references to the article that was proposed for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patriciamatos85 (talk • contribs) 23:36, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

HCL Avitas Page

Hi,

You have deleted a page I had created by the title "HCL Avitas".

I had given verifiable links and — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anandsuvid (talk • contribs) 05:48, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of HCL Avitas Page

Hi,

You have deleted a page I had created by the title "HCL Avitas".

I had given verifiable external links and even linked it with two wiki pages "Shiv Nadar" and "HCL Technologies"

The content was definitely non-promotional. Can you please restore the page or let me know what the reason for deletion ? Thanks.

Regards, Suvid Anand

PS : For full disclosure purpose, I am an employee of the organization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anandsuvid (talk • contribs) 05:51, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

It did not demonstrate notability and it was promotional. As an employee of the organisation you should not be writing about it, due to your conflict of interest--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Article "Ciencias Forenses de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Costa Rica"

Hello! I just saw you deleted the article I published some weeks ago, I just want to know why, and perhaps, what can I do to improve it and publish it again. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ana blancovillalobos (talk • contribs) 16:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

I deleted it because it was blatantly promotional. In addition this is the English Wikipedia, i.e. articles need to be in English--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:36, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Deleted page

Nu inteleg pe ce baze mi s-a ster pagina descpre Gheorghe Barabancea. Este o figura importanta in istoria comunei Susani, Valcea, care va aparea in monografia istorica a comunei. Referintele, urmeaza. Multumesc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Computing2school (talk • contribs) 16:42, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

There was nothing in the article to credibly demonstrate any notability, nor were there any references. Also, this is the English Wikipedia, articles (and conversations) need to be in English--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:48, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

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Please comeback my article,its about a local media,is not a bad thing Gojart734 (talk) 15:17, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Please read WP:NOTABILITY--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:14, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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Ben Crowe

Hello Mr Editor, my name is Ben Crowe and I am an actor most known for appearing in over 400 radio plays for the BBC and also Narrating "Eddie Stobart-Trucks & Trailers on Channel 5. I have never had a page on wickepedia and when I just looked it says you have deleted one. Is that right? Any information would be greatly appreciated Thanks Ben

bencrowe@hotmail.co.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.188.170 (talk) 20:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Apparently I did back in 2010 (don't remember--Jac16888 ^Talk 20:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)), and it looks like it was about you, however it had no real content or indication of notability or any references, just "Ben Crowe is a British actor." and a list of 5 radio shows

Hello Mr Editor, my name is Ben Crowe and I am an actor most known for appearing in over 400 radio plays for the BBC and also Narrating "Eddie Stobart-Trucks & Trailers on Channel 5. I have never had a page on wickepedia and when I just looked it says you have deleted one. Is that right? Any information would be greatly appreciated

---

Thanks Ben

bencrowe@hotmail.co.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.188.170 (talk) 20:52, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

.... look right above where you just wrote--Jac16888 ^Talk 20:59, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

How do I get on Wikipedia? It's possible I have appeared in more BBC radio plays than any other actor. Would that warrant a page? How do I verify who I am and what I've done?

---

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.188.170 (talk) 21:26, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Possibly, provided there are reliable 3rd party references to support that fact. Have a read of WP:AUTOBIO. You could try creating a WP:DRAFT page about yourself and submitting it to WP:AFC, however I would advise against creating an article directly--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:57, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE)

Why was the ISMTE page deleted? This is a society in existence for about 8 years with 500 members serving the STM publishing community. It has successful meetings, publishes a strong newsletter and receives considerable sponsorship. 24.152.169.72 (talk) 23:21, 30 June 2015 (UTC)Glenn Collins

Why was the ISMTE page I created deleted? I had emailed in that I had the right to copy the page from the ISMTE website. The group is meaningful with 500 members serving the STM publishing community, robust annual meetings, strong sponsor support, great newsletter. It has existed for 8 plus years now. I am no expert on making a page, this was my first. Perhaps I missed something? Glenncollins13 (talk) 23:48, 30 June 2015 (UTC)Glenn

It was deleted because regardless of the copyright status, there was still nothing in the article to demonstrate notability and there were no reliable 3rd party references. Good meetings and a great newsletter do not make something notable--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:21, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Confusion about the removal of the Sean William McLoughlin page.

I was attempting to look into Sean (better known as Jacksepticeye) and saw that you had remove the page. Reason being, there was no evidence of that being a person of importance. Yet when it listed examples of things, it mentioned web as a thing for them to be important on. Sean, known as Jacksepticeye is a major youtuber. Of which Wikipedia has several pages for, examples being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smosh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markiplier and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie . He is certainly one of importance, being one of the fastest growing channels. He currently has 5,290,000 + subscribers And as of now 1,961,443,013 video views, and 1,726 videos posted. As for "proof" here is his channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/jacksepticeye/about it states all the stats I mentioned under the about section. I'd say he qualifies as a person of importance, and if possible the page on him should really be re-added. 50.147.32.39 (talk) 02:42, 1 July 2015 (UTC)Husky

Please read notability, and understand that having lots of followers does not make a person notable. Multiple reliable 3rd party references are required--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:27, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Eh doesn't matter anyway, I discovered that he has a page. It's called "Jacksepticeye" instead of using his birth name. So in the end no big deal. And they are notable~ Not fitting wiki rules doesn't equal not being a person of note. Just not capable of making a page on them. ~Husky — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.147.32.39 (talk) 03:26, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that was my point--Jac16888 ^Talk 00:01, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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Adriano Guerra Strack Comment

I noticed you creation protected the above mentioned page, Adriano Guerra Strack. Now the article exists at Adriano Strack, with no noticeable problems other than being a stub. An editor was requesting that I recreate Adriano Guerra Strack as redirect from a full name. Since you protected it, I was wondering if you could unprotect it so I could do that. Thanks! Compassionate727 (talk) 12:31, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:32, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Compassionate727 (talk) 20:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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The deleted Christian Bratt wasn't the CB with an article in the Swedish Wikipedia (Christian Bratt), was it? --Hegvald (talk) 19:45, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

No it was a different one, this guy was born 1940 and is still alive--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:04, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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the "Strulovitz" entry that you deleted

Dear Sir / Madam,

I would like to explain with a few examples please, why I think the "Strulovitz" entry is worthy of mentioning in Wikipedia:

(1) It's 100% FREE and open and volunteer based.

(2) It tackles IMPORTANT issues:

• the most important questions in math (project Ramanujan 2) here is a video explanation (2 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46H42DhKGY
• all the man-made human extinction risks (project Neo Luddism) as mentioned in Wikipedia's Global Catastrophic Risk! video explanation (2 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfBJ5pmJ1Y

(3) It's treating the subject in a UNIQUE way:

• the closest thing to Ramanujan 2 is either Chegg (which is closed and commercial) or Khan's Academy (which does not treat advanced subjects, and certainly not this thorough). We solve EVERY exercise in the book! Example:

http://www.ramanujan2.org/course/view.php?id=2

• there are no websites that I were able to find. This is not "let's all live in the forest" website. examples:

http://www.neoluddism.org/?page_id=165 http://www.neoluddism.org/?p=1

it's an organization with the same sole purpose as your organization - contributing to and expanding humanity's knowledge.

Please please re-consider your decision to delete...

Thank you so so much,

Nir Strulovitz. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Strulo (talk • contribs) 07:37, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Please read WP:COI and WP:NOTE which will explain it--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:35, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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My page

Hi, I wrote a page of Miguel de Lara Ojeda for a project and he, in Mexico, is really known. I didn't like the fact that you deleted he's biography and for a fact I am not him. I wrote all references but the major reference was him in person. SARAGA134C (talk) 15:30, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Well for starters it might help if you wrote it in English, this being the English Wikipedia and all that. Second there were no actual references to demonstrate any notability--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:25, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

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why you took the article Exaltasamba 25 Years Live of Wikipedia? It was why was translated automatically? the article quotes reliable sources, that is, consistent with [WP:FF] (Wikipedia: Reliable sources), Fox de Quintal (talk) 04:23, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

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Loccioni group

Hello! I would like to ask your opinion about an article I'm working on that you deleted in November per A7. I added several new references and I would like to understand if the article is notable enough, and in case if you can give me some suggestions. You can check the new version on my sandbox. Thank you very much! --Ita140188 (talk) 03:27, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

It's better, I would suggest submitting it to WP:AFC for approval--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:35, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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A2 deletion: a technicality?

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Xia Tun

Why did you delete my description? I have given the reference? I don't understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dabingar (talk • contribs) 13:51, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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Creation of deleted page: Vimla Batham

• Hello Jac16888, you had deleted page Vimla Batham (here). I just wanted to let you know that I have recreated the page as per the guidelines (please note that I was previously not involved with this page). I hope this meets the requirements and you will be fine with it. Please let me know if you have any issues. Thanks, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 08:21, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Looks ok to me--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:31, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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Deletion of Survey Quality Predictor page

Dear Jac16888,

I would like to know why you considered that the article I created about SQP is for promotion or advertisement. I think it is a relevant entry for the field of survey methodologist who seek information about the quantification of survey questions.

Thank you.

Kind regards, Anna

Because it was very promotional, not to mention it had no references that were actually about the product, and therefore nothing to demonstrate notability--Jac16888 ^Talk 13:40, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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Hi there! I just started recently as a new page patroller, and when I came across 야성의_동맹, I originally proposed it for speedy deletion. I then re-read the CSD guidelines, and didn't think to check if it was on the Korean wikipedia. I changed the tag to {{Not English}}. I see that you ended up deleting it under A2. In the future, how can I easily check if an article exists on another language wikipedia (especially if I don't read that language)? Is it as simple as copying and pasting the title into that wikipedia's search bar? What if I don't recognize the language? Thanks! Air ♠ Combat _What's^{up, dog?} 22:57, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello. There are a few ways, just pasting the title into another Wikipedia's search bar is one way, you could also try a web search on the article title. If you're not sure on the language again google often helps (look at the language prefix of the results e.g. co.uk), alternatively you could try [2], or another thing I do is look at the editors sul page (see mine for example, [3]), it can be found at the bottom of an editors contribution page and it shows the language Wikipedias they've got an account on--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:51, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

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Redirecting Page for User talk:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Movers C810

Hello, can you help me to redirect User talk:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Movers C810 to Draft:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Movers C810 please since you redirect C810A page to Draft:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Movers C810A. By the end of the year should be changed to normal page for C810 and C810A.

Preceeding unsigned comment by 119.74.47.12 on 20 November 2015 at 11:43. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.74.47.12 (talk) 03:42, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

 Done--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Dan Jones & Associates page

Hey friend. I'm interested in restarting the Dan Jones & Associates page. It shows that you deleted it years ago, and I wanted to check in with you about getting it up and running again. Ampersandian (talk) 17:19, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

That page was just a redirect to the also deleted The Cicero Group, and a draft of that can be found User:Bakhoward/ Cicero draft. As long as you have references and notability and whatnot then go for it--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:44, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks. I meant to move the tag to talk, but apparently I only put it on talk without removing it… yeah. Bishonen | talk 17:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC).

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Why you deleted page

	Why you deleted page
	Hey Y u deleted the page of Rudralife buddy Sudarshanthatypally (talk) 11:22, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Because it was blatant promotion, and had no indication of notability--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:04, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Reblock maybe?

Hi, you seem to have blocked Timabral12 twice already, but he/she just continues his/her Spanish edits. Timabral12 does not seem to WP:LISTEN. - HyperGaruda (talk) 08:16, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Actually, nevermind anymore. The evidence is gone and Timabral12 seems to be editing in English now. - HyperGaruda (talk) 23:13, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

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Europa Donna Austria

Jou Deletes Europa Donna Austria.

This is not advertising. Es are Part of Europa Donna - and its ok to be seen by people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toseco (talk • contribs) 10:16, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

It was blatantly promotional and does not belong here--Jac16888 ^Talk 13:16, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year Jac16888!

Happy New Year!

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Deleted page

Hello,

What is problem with my page? I saw that you delete my page. Why? Matija Mondi Matovic

Please see WP:NOTABILITY--Jac16888 ^Talk 11:35, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Please withdraw or remove the article from deletion!

Again raised to remove the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramil_Garifullin. Earlier in 2014, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ramil_Garifullin thanks to Your help, the article was taken out of removal. And here it is again. Please pay attention to the discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ramil_Garifullin What, in my opinion, involves removal? Here is the arguments :

1. The initiator of removal Fedor Babkin is the assistant Akim Dubrov. That is, there is a tandem Fedor Babkin-Akim Dubrov. Akim Dubrov and Ramil Garifullin is a long – standing opponents and have antagonism. A significant portion of the papers and books of Professor, candidate of psychological Sciences of Ramil Garifullin dedicated to drug prevention. Moreover, Ramil Garifullin in the media acutely raised the issue about the dangers of certain articles in Wikipedia dedicated to drugs and psihodelii. On the other hand, Akim Dubrov is the author and translator of books in Russia dedicated to drug substances and an author of articles on psihodelii in Wikipedia. It is likely that the main antagonism between Akim Dubrov and Ramil Garifullin is now in the risk of publications on drugs and psihodelii in Wikipedia. 2. Earlier this conflict Akim Dubrov - Ramil Garifullin has been associated with the publication of an article about Garifullina negative article about Snowden. Article about Garifullin on Wikipedia was removed in 2013 on the day of publication in the Russian newspaper article about Snowden. 3. Ramil Garifullina good level of scientific citation http://elibrary.ru/author_refs.asp?authorid=295329&SesCookieID=372174247&UserID=175914337. Ramil Garifullin told me that if would be continued against him as slander in the discussion of Wikipedia, he is libel to sue. 4. Moreover, this identity in the English Wikipedia is seen as a well-known Russian journalist and writer, not as a scientist. Although the number of scientific articles and monographs enough (watch out links http://elibrary.ru/author_refs.asp?authorid=295329&SesCookieID=372174247&UserID=175914337. Therefore it is incorrect to use the same discussion for deletion on the Russian Wikipedia. 5. The Internet is the namesake and namesake, Ramil Garifullina, who is really engaged in pseudoscience and is in jail. It's a different person. Not to be confused! So it looks like slander. 6. Based on this English article was formed a modified Russian text to Russian Wikipedia, which upheld the administrator --be-nt-all Here is his assessment: the Draft looked, the chances of successful recovery are good, although above the neutral still need to be work --the be-nt-all 07:40, November 25, 2015 (UTC). This text was revised and edited based discussions-2013. Here is the translation: 7. But Akim Dubrow was removed for some reason https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Irek_Minnullin Irek Minnullin 22:27, 24 November 2015 (UTC) . 8. be-nt-all gave me an assignment to work on the draft is not directly on RS, but on the appropriate subpage: User:Irek Minnullin/Garifullin Ramil, Rosiewicz --be-nt-all16:43, 26 December 2015 (UTC) 9. Ask the participants to carefully examine all links and articles Garifullina and not to succumb to provocations tandem Fedor Babkin-Akim Dubrov. Article revised in the light of ancient comments-2013. The article is about a famous essayist and writer. The merit of Ramil Garifullina as a scientist is sufficient. 10. Please withdraw or remove the article from deletion! 11. And think, what are the motives of the authors of the Russian Wikipedia to put the question of removal of articles from the English Wikipedia. 87.117.189.39 (talk) 02:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)87.117.189.39 (talk) 02:21, 2 January 2016 (UTC)Irek Minnullin (talk) 02:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Article Bony Bullrich

Hi! I´m from Argentina, my name is Ramiro. I created the article Bony Bullrich in spanish and make the translation. Why the english version will be deleted and not the spanish? It´s exactly the same text. How can I edit the article to prevent deletion?? Thanks. (Irvicelli (talk) 15:26, 5 January 2016 (UTC))

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La Alarma De La Mañana

Good afternoon! First allow me to wish you a joyful, blessed and successful 2016.

I've recently joined WIKIPEDIA with the intentions of publishing information about a radio show, hosted in my country (Dominican Republic), and was very excited with the idea of being able to stamp the story of that show in this site, just so anyone interested could find at the first source people go to get reliable information, which is this site.

Of course I, myself, am one of the many millions of Internet users that rely on this site to gather facts and notes, so being able to post here was a very exciting experience of which I was looking forward to go through.

Saturday my post for "Alarma De La Mañana" was published so the first thing I did was to share the link to the producers and hosts of the said show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Alarma_De_La_Ma%C3%B1ana They did, as well, shared that information on their personal social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) as on the show's official account too. Instantly the regular audience of the show started clicking the link, sharing it and replying to it.

Not only that but, being today the first day of the show [after the publication] the announcement was also made during the show. Again, people started searching for the link and some also made phone calls to the radio station, stating -with joy- that they were proud that "our show was on WIKIPEDIA"...

Until one of the fans, via Twitter, shared the notice posted on the page saying that "No credible indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events)" were the reason why the post was taken down. As soon as that information was noticed by the hosts of the show they did the announcement that "we're so insignificant to WIKIPEDIA that they do not believe we're worth being portrayed in their website".

Given the fact that they're far more useless information (not only on WIKIPEDIA, but in the whole Internet) I can't help but to come and, humbly ask you what was the criteria in which you've sustained the reason to take down the post.

I don't mean to disrespect nor to tell you how to do your job, but given the fact that the information was valid, was true, was properly redacted, all facts were real, there were no imaging infringement and the show has being on the air for nearly four years now I find it hard to understand your reasons.

Also, if there's any way that the audience (that now are very displeased with this whole issue) can make a request to have a "Alarma De La Mañana" page posted in WIKIPEDIA, we would appreciate it if you let us know.

Please, do not hesitate to give me any inputs you might think would be helpful for us to bring back the page. I hope you find it in yourself to reconsider putting it back in this site.

Should you request any further information regarding this matter feel free to contact me as often as you consider possible. Yours truly, Karina Navarro-Baez/ Tirana69 KNB T/69— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tirana69 (talk • contribs) 23:49, 11 January 2016

There were multiple issues with the article as it was created. The first and key to it's deletion was it's notability, this was not a judgement of the subject but rather the determining factor for all articles on Wikipedia, they must demonstrate WP:NOTABILITY as the linked page describes, and they must do so through the use of reliable 3rd party references, of which there were none. Secondly the article as clearly written from the point of view of a fan, it was overly promotional and not neutral. Finally, it was not written in English, which is a problem since this is the English language Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 00:07, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Nice comment

very nice comment for Alfa Romeo Avio, your answer doesnt help anybody, so pls avoid ansvering if you dont have anything to say. The page is tagged because its ongoing project, and added for Pages_needing_translation_into_English for reason the template asked for it, and that template is for rough translations, so please dont add any "clever" asnwers in future, thanks. I can ask help if I want, Wikipedia is still "group work" if you know. Your comment makes that rough translation template useless, so pls avoid commenting those in the future, or if you want ask they remove that template. -->Typ932 ^T·C 12:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

The rough translation template is intended to point out that somebody has created a bad article that needs dealing with, its not for somebody to intentionally create a bad article and then leave it for somebody else to fix, PNT is not your personal clean-up crew. Like I said, if you can't do it yourself, WP:TRANSLATION is the proper policy--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

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a teenage Hungarian serial killer word article writing help

. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barlangász 92 (talk • contribs) 07:48, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Getting Jibanananda Das translated

I agree with your edit summary for this edit to Jibanananda Das, but am troubled by the edit itself. The {{Not English-inline}} template that you removed was being used as directed in its documentation and per WP:NONENG.

Do you agree that it is undesirable to have a hunk of un-translated Bengali in the middle of the article? I can't recall ever seeing such a thing in a featured article about a non-English-writing poet. A translation is always given, and the original language is included only if the translation was by a Wikipedian. A published translation, for example by Joe Winter, would be preferable to one by a Wikipedian. But the text has been sitting untranslated for three years. The purpose of the tag is to galvanize improvement by alerting editors that a change is needed. If not with this tag, how do you propose to accelerate that improvement? --Worldbruce (talk) 01:51, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

The purpose of the tag is to say to WP:PNT, "translate this", this doesn't want to happen in this case, as for us to do that would be WP:OR, since it would be an interpretation and it would be easy to give multiple different ones, that aren't the original intention. If a sourced translation can't be found, then just remove the poem--Jac16888 ^Talk 13:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

pleaes restore that page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haqiqat_Bahawalpur — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muhammad Ehtasham Chughtai (talk • contribs) 08:32, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTABILITY, and also this is the English Wikipedia, which means articles need to be in English--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:57, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Alraid

Please, remove the proposition for deletion of this article Vitalii Overko (talk) 07:11, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

上海市世界外国语中学

I want to translate the english version to the chinese version for my library school project. Why did you delete that — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukiaikea (talk • contribs) 23:02, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Because it was blatant promotion, and also this is the English language Wikipedia, if you want to edit in Chinese you need to go the Chinese language Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:37, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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My friend , the page has been improved.189.5.144.212 (talk) 14:55, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Jendiroba

Deletion proposal

Hello, Coming up with your proposal for deletion about UAV systems hardware chart. What about some immediatism down there? BR Maxorazon (talk) 22:26, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

? It has existed for nearly a fortnight, has no sources or real context, and even if it did I still fail to see how a chart of such information is encyclopedic, rather it is something that should belong in a reference book or manual--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:33, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, why you get delted Paper soccer from page about translation to English? In this page are the same concepts... Pages where text isn't full rigth translated. Dawid2009 (talk) 06:22, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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Gilbert Kieffer

Hi Jac16888 I have added external sources to the article about Gilbert Kieffer. Please do tell me if they are clear enough... I have issues adding the dates of the source, how should I put them month/day/year or written in full? also in adding external internet links Gilbert Kieffer is an active member of www.onphi.net he has also webpages: www.gilbertkieffer.com www.gilbertkiefferbooks.com

and appears in a lot of TV reportages too, should I add them? if yes how!!! thanks for your help... it is my first article, but not my last one....

13:41, 24 February 2016 (UTC)vivikieffVivikieff (talk) 13:41, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Ignoring the reference issue for the moment, this is the English Wikipedia, i.e. English articles, even if you have sources it would be deleted in a few weeks for being in French--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:30, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you placed the prod template on the above article, which is fair enough since it has been sitting there for two weeks now. I'd like to draw your attention to the conversation on the author's talk page though. Unfortuantely they haven't been back for about two weeks now either. Is it possible to move the article to the French Wikipedia? I tried looking into the process but it seemed somewhat complicated. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 04:34, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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Please come to wp:aiv for a minute because it is filling up. 2602:306:3357:BA0:B1F0:2749:589C:B231 (talk) 18:56, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Looks like I'd bored him into leaving.

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Jankovský of Vlašim

Why was Jankovsky z Vlasimi deleted ?

please contact me .. thanks ! ... tj e-mail tj@jankovsky.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlasime (talk • contribs) 18:10, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Because it was badly written, badly translated, badly sourced, and of zero value as an article in it's current state. Unless you're willing and able to create a decent article there, it can't stay--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:19, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

There are many documents that confirm the history. If you want me to update the document I will but could use your help. Below are two links to history: My e-mail is tj@jankovsky.net

http://patricus.info/Rodokmeny/Jankovsky.txt http://knihy.abz.cz/prodej/tajemstvi-jankovskych-z-vlasimi-a-na-bitove-z-vlasimi-a-na-bitove — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlasime (talk • contribs) 18:49, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Vlasime (talk) 03:44, 10 March 2016 (UTC)--Vlasime (talk) 03:44, 10 March 2016 (UTC)== Jankovsky z Vlasimi ==

Hello ! Could you please restore Jankovsky z Vlasimi. I will try to improve it. The history is true.

http://knihy.abz.cz/prodej/tajemstvi-jankovskych-z-vlasimi-a-na-bitove-z-vlasimi-a-na-bitove

Please contact me for more documents

tj@jankovsky.net  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlasime (talk • contribs) 19:20, 7 March 2016 (UTC) 

Hello again !

Jankovský z Vlašimi is the history of old Czech family. The history is true see below. Could you please republish Jankovský of Vlašim. I think I could improve. I am not a writer but I will do my best but need access to Jankovský of Vlašim .. tj@jankovsky.net

Mirror of a Famous Moravian Margraviate - family history from 1300 to 1593 "Zrcadlo slavného Markrabí moravského" - by Bartosz Paprocki - 1593.

Tajemství Jankovských z Vlašimi a na Bítově - family history from 1300 to 2008, 240 pageshttp://portaro.eu/huav/documents/131805

Z hradu Bítova až do Ameriky rodu Jankovských z Vlašimi http://dejinyasoucasnost.cz/archiv/2007/8/z-hradu-bitova-az-do-ameriky-/

Genealogie české šlechty Panstvo, Genealogie české šlechty, 2007-03-01, retrieved 2008-06-02 (Czech)

GeneaNet.org http://gw.geneanet.org/jksir?lang=en&pz=vlasta+helene&nz=ksir&ocz=0&m=N&v=jankovsky+z+vlasimi&t=N

GENI.com http://www.geni.com/list?focus_id=6000000024465552217&group=descendants

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thank you for your deletion of Feimoyuran

according to Chinese Wikipedia, the creator of this article, User:3222deds is a sock puppet of a cross wiki abuser User:Dsfsswec (list of his sock puppets), and was global blocked. He only interested in zh:飞莫鱼然, and his sock puppets seems to active here.--122.90.102.75 (talk) 11:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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new wikipedia page idea: dino chagers

Hey do you think this is a good idea i even have aa case IN THE SHOW POWER RANGERS DINO CHARGE THEY USE ITEMS CALLED DINO CHARGERS BUT THEY ARE NOT MENTION BY NAME AND NUMBER SO I PROPOSE THAT TO FULLY INCLUSE THE ASPECT OF HOW THEY MORPH THAT I MAKE A PAGE ON IT. so let me know what you think and IF you say yes i cna do it please expain to me how to do it thnx minidragon 16:59, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

I meant to say new wikipesia page idea : dino chaRgers i forgot the R so i capatalized it minidragon 17:01, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

I think that would be overly excessive trivia, unless these things are discussed in detail in 3rd party reliable references--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:03, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

And in my first reply i said cna instead of can by accident and said incluse instead of incluDe and i forgot the L in expLain i am using a Kindle minidragon 17:03, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

What does that mean

minidragon 17:04, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Try saying that again like if i was a fresman in high school which im not minidragon 17:05, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Wait do you mean if i were explain them with very detailed details minidragon 17:07, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

And thnx for your input minidragon 17:10, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

No, they need to be talked about, in detail, in things like news articles and such. I'm fairly confident they won't be--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:27, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

HEY I HAVE SOURCES I EVEN HAVE SOME OF THEM CAUSE THEY ALSO ARE COLECTIBLE TOYS minidragon 18:35, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

LIKE DINO CHARGER 11 THE DINO CYCLE CHARGER IT SUMMON THE DINO CYCLE. AND DINO CHARGER #15 DINO BLAZE CHARGER IT CAUSES A HUGE BLAST OF FIRE IT WAS MADE BY KENDELL (THE PURPLE RANGER) TO FREE KODA ( A CAVEMAN/BLUE RANGER) OUT OF THE ICE ON THE FIRST EPISODE OF DINO SUPER CHARGE minidragon 18:38, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

They were made by the company BANDAI minidragon 18:41, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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i think i found a vandal

On list of magical weapons comic minidragon 18:29, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

He deleted a lot of work minidragon 18:31, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

WP:PNT

You're too fast today! I can't even comment on all the pages you're zapping. De728631 (talk) 21:09, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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	Thanks for fixing up the translation on the Finez article Endo999 (talk) 20:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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Is it wrong to copy and paste something from an article to a home page. Because my friend wanted to know before joing wikipedia minidragon 23:12, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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School

I'm wondering why you removed content from the page I created. Many many schools include philosophies, mottos, and missions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.205.68.146 (talk) 14:49, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Don't know what article you are referring to, but that sort of content is promotional guff that belongs in a prospectus not an encyclopedia, if you find other articles with it I'll remove it from them too--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:28, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Digital Atlas of Costa Rica - Please Restore

The project to create the Digital Atlas of Costa Rica, whose last version was coordinated by Dr. Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, is a project that has been developed at TEC (Costa Rica Institute of Technology). There are 4 versions, 2000, 20040, 2008 and finally 2014.

The 2014 version has 120 layers, in .shp format and the coordinate system used is CRTM05. Some of the layers include "geo-spatial elevation, geology, life zones, rivers, vegetation coverage of diferente years, biotic zones, earthquakes, temperature, precipitation, soil type, as well as political and administrative divisions of provinces, cantons, as well as districts with its perspective census data, human development index, health, presidential election results for diferente years and rounds, etc"

You can buy this atlas at the TEC bookstore.

You indicated the following: No credible indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events))

Individuals: Dr. Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi Organization: Costa Rica Institute of Technology Importance: This is a database of Geographic Information Systems that can be used as a base for map making, this is mentioned when i speak of the 120 layers, the coordinate system used so the database can be used correctly and the available layers. I want to add this for educational use. Web Content: I link the article to the press conference so that people can see where i found my information. Litlplastkastl (talk) 14:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

None of this gives any indication of importance, which must be shown through the use of reliable 3rd party references--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I will add the following to indicate importance:

The importance of this information in a country like Costa Rica are the following: - It unifies databases allowing analysis of not only geographic characteristics but also information on the population. - It is the only source of information that can be used as a base of a map by opening a layer on a geographic information system (GIS). - It is the only database of information based on the Institute of National Geography (IGN) maps. - It serves as a base showing how the new coordinate system should be used (CRTM05).

These layers can serve as the basis for creating new updated geographic information. Many of the maps created by the IGN are from the seventies, the use of this type of information can lead to improved land management, facilitate decision making when it comes to development and it can also improve decision making if there were ever an emergency.

Litlplastkastl (talk) 00:39, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm not disputing the importance of this, I'm sure it is to your field, however without the references I asked for it can't have an article--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:28, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hey, I had just finished translating the article from Norwegian to English, but I saw that you had deleted it; I removed all of the content I recognized as biased, and I'd like to ask you if it's worth recreating with the new English (I don't see that it suits notability). Zia224 (talk) 21:44, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Not really, it was biased and didn't really show notability--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:56, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Maurilio Ochoa

Looks like we had the same idea. Funnily, this did not trigger an edit conflict. De728631 (talk) 19:11, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Saw that too, thought it was quite strange--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:34, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

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Hi there, I have started editing a page on Olivier GILLET, historian. This page is a newbie (test) page and I requested a deletion. Can this page be deleted and the entry removed and invisible on the net?

Thanks a lot in advance, Eli — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eli Gillet (talk • contribs) 10:52, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

It has been, please work on a draft page if you intend to try again--Jac16888 ^Talk 20:58, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

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A posting mistake.

I've translated an article and by my mistake I've published in the english wiki, it should be in the portuguese one, so it got deleted.

the topic was "catalaxia", there is a way to recover what i have written so I can proprelly post in the right wiki? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fhoer (talk • contribs) 23:10, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

I have restored the page and moved it to User:Fhoer/Catalaxia, please let me know when you're done with it--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:15, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

I got it :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fhoer (talk • contribs) 23:20, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Uma cerveja para si!

Thanks for your help :D Fhoer (talk) 23:18, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Ushinosuke Mori

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I have dePRODed this article and left the reason on the talk page. Please take it to AfD, if you believe this article is not worthy of inclusion to an encyclopedia. Regards. Hitro talk 21:18, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

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Cadejoblanco is at it again

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Hi, why did you erase my article about Giselle Orjeda? What did i do wrong? --Clarissa Rios (talk) 12:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

The tone of the article was highly promotional, it was not acceptable for a Wikipedia article--Jac16888 ^Talk 12:43, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

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Isabel Londoño López Hello my name is Isabel Londoño i work for a cervantes institute in Manila philippines and im trying to organice the article about the Pélicula international film festival, wich happens since 15 years ago and is a big cultural referent in the history of Manila and hispanic countries. I have been trying during the complete week to make the article better, but wikipedia editor always erase my job. I am not promoting a new event, im just adding the past awar films and making better the grammar. Always adding the link to each movie that has a wikipedia page also.

The same problem with the pictures. I really dont know what to do, my boss who is the director of the festival is counting with me to have the wikipedia page ready and with the correct and new information on it. SO, please can do you help me about it? what im doing wrong and how can i do in order to fix the information and make my job?. Im very grateful about your help.

As i told you, Película film festival happend for 15 years and is part of the culture in manila, many people research for it.

The page that i was trying to do were 2: Película film festival in english and Festival de cine Película en español.

Thank you so much for your help. Isabel Londoño — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isabellondoo200 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

@Isabellondoo200:, please read WP:COI and WP:PROMO. It is me who keeps removing the content, because what you are adding you are doing in a highly promotional. If you are not able to add, neutral and very importantly sourced content, then you can't at all. In addition using misleading edit summaries such as "gramar correction" when you are actually adding a significant amount of new content is likely to lead to you being blocked from editing altogether--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:51, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello llJac16888 ok, thank you so much for the informati. i apologizase if i keep writing to you but i really want to do the article with the correct way for wikipedia and adding the right information about the Pelìcula Film Festival . I just want to contribute to the text because the festival is very important for many people and the information there inside the Wikipedia article goes until 2011 so there is information about the last years version of the festival that still need to add in the Wikipedia web. I mean is not about promoting the festival, is making it more complete about wich movies won the awars during this years and wich one were present to the public, organcing the description also. The article doesnt have any picture yet about what happened there and i have jorunalist pictures that shows the festival, so i want to ask you i fis posible to add it. In the other hand the title of the article needs to be complete because is called just Película and is “Película: spanish film festival”. I read the articles that you told me and i did some of your advice, for example i look for similar examples as the sitgest festival and cannes festival in order to have a good referent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_de_Cine_de_Sitges

i keep question myself about wich is the diferent betwen those and Película festival, because the article that im trying to purpose is full on information as a history of the festival, films and winners. I will aprecciate a lot if you give an advice about it and thank you again for your help. I wont move the articles untill you know that my intención are just to complete the information tha is not there and dont want to promote or make look better someone, is just to make it actual acoording with the last years festival.

If is ok with you i can just make small changes every day and making sure you are agrre with each one.  :) Hope you can understand my text and my solicitud. Have a good day

Because of your conflict of interest, you're better off not editing the article directly, instead I suggest you suggest edits on the talk page and use the WP:EDITREQ template to request other editors review and implement your changes --Jac16888 ^Talk 17:10, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

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Dear sir/ma, I tried creating a Wikipedia page for Albert Fattal

Whom I consider as being noteworthy of being on the on Wikipedia considering the issues associated with him.

I have been objective in my writing as guided by the Wikipedia regulations. I will want you to review the content here and create the page since the only person who can do that is you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oautemitayo (talk • contribs) 13:11, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

The content is blatantly promotional and does not belong on Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:32, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

deletion of Muhammad Ibn Masoud Ayyashi

Hi.this page is not translated by tools.but I created it.besides the main article in persian language also created by me and I know that the content of it.I demand of you to revert page.Thanksm,sharaf (talk) 04:00, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Tools or not it was still a terrible translation and of no value to this project, and demanding gets you exactly nothing--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:49, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

I told that there is no translation.I think that it needs copy editing and need to time to promote.If you revert that page i can copy edit it.Thanks.m,sharaf (talk) 07:05, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

I have put it at Mehdi ghaed/Muhammad Ibn Masoud Ayyashi. Please do not move it back to the article space until it has been completely re-written--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:59, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hi.I want to recreate the page but i have not anything about deleted pages.is it possible for you to give me the deleted page and its contents? I really need them.Thanks.m,sharaf (talk) 07:09, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

You would be better to work at expanding Illuminationism--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:00, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Jac16888. Just for my own edification, where/ what in Wikipedia:Translation is the rationale on which you based this deletion? These guideline pages can often be vague or unclear or contain a number of elements all of which are applicable, without it being clear which one is being referred to, unless there is a direct reference to a specific section. I and four other editors received direct requests from this user (from a different IP address) on our talk pages asking to translate said article. Personally I would not (will not) translate anything for anyone who feels so strongly about something, but (not strong enough to create an account) prefers to hide behind an IP address. I know that IP addresses are prefectly legitimate, but I treat such editors with circumspection when they demonstrate a strong interest in a topic that does not present a direct threat to themselves. I do know of IP editors who edit so little — and uncontentious material — that they do not see the need to register, and I don't have a problem helping those. Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 11:36, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Because WP:PNT is not a translation project it is an article crisis centre. It it not a place for people to request translations from other language Wikipedia, it is a place for handling already created articles that are in another language. Wikipedia:Translation details the procedure for requesting another editor translate a page from another Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:09, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Reg: Deletion of my article

Hi Jac16888, I am very new to Wikipedia, I Just came to know that my Wikipedia article for title "வளரும் அறிவியல்" has been deleted by you. i would like to inform you that this genuine and the content is obviously same as "http://www.valarumariviyal.com/about.php" because they both belongs to same person. please let me know how to fix this and get the article back.

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ifelsetech (talk • contribs) 04:49, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

You cannot copy and paste content from another website. You also need to write articles in English, as this is the English language Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:38, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

František Pošepný

While creating a new topic (still in Draft form) I discovered that Posepny's profile was included in the Czech page but amazingly, given his impact on American economic geology, not in English. I couldn't figure out how to "link" his name to the Czech page, so I did a quick translate-copy-paste. Sorry, I am new to this! If you can tell me how to link to the Czech page, we can delete the English version. Or I can clean up the English translation, but I don't want to spend too much time on it. Txs — Preceding unsigned comment added by BurrME64 (talk • contribs) 17:52, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

I can move the page to your user space or I can delete it if you're not willing to work on this yourself--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:09, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

OverZealous Deletion

Your efforts in the main are great and to be commended however, there do seem to be a lot of overzealous deletions. Wouldn't it be better for all if when you see something that you think should be deleted that you first try to improve it rather than delete. There isn't even time to research and further improve when you delete so zealously. [4] 109.202.157.159 (talk) 15:55, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be better if you actually read about how things work before editing. If you read WP:LISTPEOPLE to understand the type of page, you will find that in order for something to be listed it must either a) have an article or b) have a reliable 3rd party reference. So for example, the bus company you have added (albeit incorrectly by not giving the actual name) does not belong. A random non notable person (would I be wrong in guessing that either the person or the company are connected to you? seems likely) with a link to userpage does not, nor does a company with only a link to their own website. Please revert your additions, or I will do so--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:24, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Actually I've just removed it, you're obviously trying to use the page to promote yourself and your company. Restore it again and you will be reported--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:35, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

There seem to be some crossed wires here and I am confused ? I added lots of stuff to the page and I think that the items that you refer to were done by other users such as Magioladitis which I attempted to improve as didn't think they where correctly listed albeit relevant. I was asking you to help rather than just remove.

I only knew about the name and was interested in clans so was attempting to improve. My intent was also to update those pages too but to be honest can't be bothered now given this experience. If you know about the rules which it sounds like you do then I would ask you to assist by for example creating missing pages such as for Patrick which I think merits and others; editing the list items to make them correct rather than removing. Its better that someone like you does these things as I don't understand the issues as I was going by this [Notability] . Regarding the bus company it was made without the link to site to avoid promotion as doesn't have an article page but could cite. If you think its better to link to their site or to a page which doesn't exist I have no issue with that but I don't think they meet requirements for page creation - you know better than me. 109.202.157.153 (talk) 14:54, 13 October 2016 (UTC) I just realised you deleted all the name info and clan info too ! what do you mean policy violation of original research - It was absolutely not and data was contained on the links to the WP clan pages. If you wanted more citations why didn't you ask? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.202.157.153 (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Several times you have restored links (to a person and to their company) which were not appropriate. The issue is that a list article is not meant to list every single instance of a thing - could you imagine what that could end up like? Imagine a page about Smith? Things are only included on lists if they are notable, either they have an article or there are reliable 3rd party references that could suggest they warrant one. As for the clan info, because you didn't reference any of the info, there is no way to WP:VERIFY it, making it unsuitable--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:29, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

No I keep trying to revert your changes because they have errors. You seem to be focused on a specific person and company which I only edited as part of my other edits to make the info more correct (And by the way are appropriate although do require more info).

The page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anthroponymy and I do not agree with your explanation of List article or notability; Notability_guidelines_do_not_apply_to_content_within_an_article.

You are hindering incremental improvement by removing everything and actually putting in more errors instead of editing and improving ! In your most recent edits you removed dates and changed the text however by removing the dates and only using present tense you made it so it was impossible to tell if the person was alive or dead. There are other errors such as consistency in that some now have prepositions whilst some don't, you left behind a bracket ), A verus an...

Regarding the name box, name origin and clan info etc there was no need to remove. If you thought a citation was required you should have requested rather than delete everything. And in my understanding there was no requirement to verify as in this case the links to the WP clan pages were provided where data can be confirmed. 109.202.157.153 (talk) 17:40, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

You are ignoring everything I say. First of all, listing the person and the company are not appropriate, and I have no further way of trying to make you understand that since you just don't get it. Likewise, the dates do not belong either. The entire purpose of this article is to refer you to somewhere else. So that if somebody searches for McKendry they will find links to the various people with that name. That is it, it not the purpose of this page to give any other information. Those links will have the information, in their own individual pages. If you want to turn this into an article about the name itself (which currently it is not) then yes you absolutely need references and another Wikipedia page does not constitute one.--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:25, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

I am not ignoring what you say however I am requesting you not to delete all but rather fix errors / improve. I noticed that whilst not mentioned above that you did remove the errors that you created so thanks. 109.202.157.146 (talk) 15:38, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Jac16888, I would like a copy of eliminated page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teorema_de_Mantel to copy it to the Portuguese wikipedia. It was created here by mistake by a student of mine. Could you please send me a copy? Thank you Esequia (talk) 13:04, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

@Esequia:, I have restored it to User:Esequia/Teorema de Mantel--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:28, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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Downregulation and upregulation

Hi! I have noticed your message on my revision history Downregulation_and_upregulation. Could you please specify what you meant by "you can't link to them if they're not in the mainspace, rm sandbox links"? Thank you ! ErinYL (talk) 20:19, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello. [Downregulation and upregulation The change] I made was remove links you had to User:ErinYL/sandbox that were being used as citations. This is inappropriate as your sandbox is not subject to any kind of review (although using any Wikipedia page or article as a citation is not allowed)--Jac16888 ^Talk 20:24, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

thank you for your note! i noticed that my signature was being appended to the main page of the last page i edited, but i find the whole editing process too confusing to even attempt to fix it. thanks! Shrinkydink07 (talk) 06:52, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

A proposed bio page on Burt Prelutsky.

Apologies if I am getting your moniker wrong, Jac [?], but I want to work with Burt Prelutsky (television and film writer, producer, director, reviewer, blogger of some note) on posting a page for him. This is being done with his knowledge and he is completely supportive of my intention to do this as a friend. I don't want to do anything that might test Wikipedia rules so could you let me know the best way to proceed in light of the fact that you seem to have rejected a Prelutsky posting in 2010 because the poster was apparently hostile. Thanks for any help or advice you might provide me in this. There's really no rush on the posting but I'd like to begin the work sometime soon; thanks again.

Yours truly, Herb Slojewski email me at h.slojewski@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slogewski (talk • contribs) 10:43, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

The page created back then was basically just a line of offensive insults about that name, so it wouldn't stop you creating a new article. However I do need to point out WP:COI, as you have said you are writing this for and with your friend, you have a clear conflict of interest. I would suggest creaing your page in WP:DRAFTS first, and allowing other editors to review it prior to it going "live" using WP:AFC--Jac16888 ^Talk 11:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

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Milivoje Jelic

Hello. Im new to wikipedia, and i created page Milivoje Jelic. I saw it was deleted, reason advertising. Page that i wrote was about life of a man, who was writer, teacher etc. It was request from his granddaughter. If i made a mistake, im really sorry, it was not my intention, if so can you guide me to do it properly. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ErolK (talk • contribs) 09:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello Erol. The problem is that the page was written like a memorial, it was very biased and promotional (and also not in English)--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:09, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Tagging non-English sources

How do you tag a source in a citation as non-English? I came to you because I saw that you were an active administrator at NOTENGLISH.----Mr. Guye (talk) 21:52, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello Mr Guye. There is nothing wrong with having a source not in english (see WP:NOENG), however as that page suggests you can put part of the reference text in the reference and request translation with {{Not English-inline}} --Jac16888 ^Talk 22:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

A suggestion for the related link

I represent an artist or an artist. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Damla_4)

I wrote a short article to provide the necessary information about the artist's song on digital platforms such as "vevo" & "iTunes" & "spotify".

But I do not understand why it was erased, the person I represent is a rap artist who is rising fast and open to the front.

There are a lot of results in google search about him and google is in the knowledge map. I thought that you need to support it with wikipedia, because "who is it?" This is the only large and reliable platform that can answer your question. BerkURAL95 (talk) 13:48, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

As you have a clear conflict of interest you should not be writing about this person full stop, however if you didn't, we would need an article about the artist before their song, and it would need to be more noteable than "rising fast", and with more reliable references than a google search. It would also help if you wrote the article in English, this being the English Wikipedia--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:22, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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Play of Daniel

Yersteday I made the Hungarian page for Play of Daniel, but I didn't recognize, that it's not in the right place. Could you help me with placing my article to the Hungarian version of Wikipedia (or just explain me how can I do that)? I'm new here, and I don't really understand the whole English or Hungarian version thing. Or in case you can't help me, would you send me the whole article, just for not having to write it again? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by UBBFTTSzK (talk • contribs) 13:28, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello UBBFTTSzK, I'm De728631. To create an article at the Hungarian Wikipedia you need to go to https://hu.wikipedia.org. Your username and password should be the same as here at the English Wikipedia, and you can then create a new page just as you did here. Generally, the different language versions of Wikipedia can be distinguished by the server part of the web address. E.g. the English Wikipedia has en.wikipedia.org, Hungarian would be hu.wikipedia.org, German is de.wikipedia.org and so on.

I have moved the content of your Hungarian article to a subpage at User:UBBFTTSzK/Dániel-játék (note: this is only at your English Wikipedia account). You can click here and copy the source code to a new page at the Hungarian Wikipedia. De728631 (talk) 14:11, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Yaay! Thank you, hero of the day :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by UBBFTTSzK (talk • contribs) 18:58, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protect request

Can you semi-protect pages Selfie (song) and Rock Star (R. Kelly song) to persistent genre warring. 123.136.107.44 (talk) 13:57, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Question regarding new page patrol and non-english articles

Hi Jac16888,

I saw you deleted a Chinese article that I had tagged as notenglish while patrolling new pages. Out of curiousity, how did you reach the conclusion that this was appropriate for A7? Do you just use google translate and make a decision based off of that? If this is the case, I could use the same tool to just tag it for CSD instead, but I thought the standard policy was to tag the language first, wait to see if anyone gives a translation and then either make a decision regarding notability after it has been translated, or delete/move to native Wikipedia if not translated after X amount of time. Advice, recommendations, clarification?

Thanks

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Hello. It was google translate/bit of knowledge. While not being in English is not a reason by itself to delete a page (unless it remains untranslated for a set period of time) it doesn't excuse an article from other criterion for deletion, all of the CSD criteria apply, and similarly a page can be prodded or afd'd, provided the reason is something other than "not in English". If you list them at WP:PNT we will handle them in the most appropriate method--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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Resolved

Never mind - I found it at WP:MOVE - "The old title will become a redirect page". I really need to learn to read the instructions more carefully! --Gronk Oz (talk) 18:52, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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Translate of Summary or Hashtag of List of Encantadia (2016 TV series) episodes

Do not attemp to translate of Summary or Hashtag of List of Encantadia (2016 TV series) episodes. Please retain the words in Filipino Language except #EncantadiaILoveYou. If you attempt to translate. The original editor or author of this page will undo the translation. Paalala ni User: Leo kingston. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spidermanmaiden (talk • contribs) 07:15, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

This is the English Wikipedia, i.e. English summaries, and you do not WP:OWN this article. However since it's pretty clear the article is a vast copyright violation anyway, the point is moot--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Rewrite of List of Encantadia (2016 TV series) episodes

@User:Jac16888, I wrote a translated version of the article, List of Encantadia (2016 TV series) episodes (history · last edit · rewrite). Tagalog words are translated into English using my own words. Am I allowed to translate the Tagalog or Filipino recap to English into this article? The words came from my own words already. So I hope the article came back to its original form. Thanks Leo kingston (talk) 04:40, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Is it actually your words? As in, not a direct translation but a completely fresh interpretation of the summary? If so, and it not a violation of WP:COPYVIO there is nothing to stop you over-writing the existing article with your versionJac16888 ^Talk 18:44, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

MY REPLY: Okay, so I will not include the summary anymore. Can you now approve it? The episode hashtag and chapters are in Tagalog but there is a translation beside it. I will no longer put the summary. Only the episode title, chapter, hashtag, date, and tv ratings. Look at my recent revision. Is it okay now? Will it be transferred to the original link? Leo kingston (talk) 03:28, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Please approve it. I will let you delete List of Family Feud (2016 Philippine game show) episodes and List of Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7 episodes but please let List of Encantadia (2016 TV series) episodes be saved... Leo kingston (talk) 03:53, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

The issue is not the summaries, if you write them yourself completely it's ok, the issue is that you copy and pasted them from somewhere else which is a legal issue, you are violating copyright law. Wikipedian is not a game, you cannot trade one article for another, each must stand on its ownJac16888 ^Talk 21:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

I have moved your new version over the old one and combined the histories to make it legitimate--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:03, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Resolved, reveal the english interpreted summary in January 2018, Thanks by --User:Spidermanmaiden —Preceding undated comment added 13:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

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I'm new here , so i made a mistake and my Hungarian article from our GAMF Hungary (World Solar Challenge comepetitor made by students at our University). But now the whole article is deleted. Please help to get think in the right place and recover my article transported to the hungarian Wiki. We are working on the english and geman version of the GAMF Hungary article. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eilingerrichard (talk • contribs) 19:45, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Supporters of RC Strasbourg's deletion

Hello, I was wondering why you attempted of delete Supporters of RC Strasbourg page, before trying to edit it, to find sources or to help us? Instead of deleting it, you should have read it entirely and corrects parts that you find not good enough. This is hours or work, hours of translation and hours of source searching (and articles about supporters are hard to find, especially in France where relations between medias and supporters aren't good). This is just a beginning of the translation, and, as all wikipedia's articles, it needs time. If an article is deleted without letting time to users to correct it and without considering time that users give for making Wikipedia better and useful, I do not understand why we should call it "encyclopedia" I hope you will reconsider your demand of deletion, because it is totally unfair and a lack of respect for other's work. The purpose of a community is helping and sharing knowledge in order to get the encyclopedia better and give reader an entire and true informarion.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xaviyeah (talk • contribs) 22:02, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

If you want to translate this article, do it in your own workspace and do it properly. Dumping an absolutely massive amount of terribly translated content is helping nobody whatsoever, cleaning up a bad translation is harder than translating in the first place. I suggest you read WP:TRANSLATION, and consider the procedures for the introduction of content from other languages, or take a look at WP:PNT for hundreds of other examples of users being "helpful" by dropping vast amounts of barely intelligible content--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:09, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Actually, this page has been cleaned and corrected by other WP users. Why can't we let a banner to warn readers that this page has been translated from French. Furthermore, the debates on the deletion page are not about the translation, but the topic itself and the sources.

The article has been added to the PNT page, so it should be soon cleaned again. Thanks for reconsider your position. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xaviyeah (talk • contribs) 16:46, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

It has not been cleaned at all it is still of no value as an article, and I am from the PNT page, the purpose of which is not to clean up after you because you're not going to bother doing it yourself. And you're right, there are other issues which make it valid for deletion than just the terrible translation.--Jac16888 ^{Talk :::"no value as an article" / "terrible translation" / "not going to bother doing it yourself"...the only thing I can read there is a total lack of respect from you. If I didn't want to "bother doing it myself" I wouldn't have created the article in English. Furthermore, you should have a look of the French article, to see how notable it is. Then, Wikipedia is there to help to each other instead of destroying other's work. Watch the article, watch all sources, and then, if you are still not convinced, then let people who wants to work in order to improve the translation doing it. If you knew something about French football, you would know that such an article is notable, and as an encyclopedia, WP needs to have such articles. Thanks for reading.} 22:28, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

It is not a lack or respect, it is fact. Wikipedia is not here to do your work for you--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:04, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Who talks about working for me? Wikipedia is there to inform people and they may learn things by reading that. That is why this article need to be. Some work is needed, by people who can translate it better, but I took time to do it, so please do not talk as if I haven't done anything. Sources? All true, clear, and independant. Notable? RC Strasbourg supporters are known in all France and even in England Germany or Spain. Translation? No doubt it needs a little work. But I'm still working on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xaviyeah (talk • contribs) 17:10, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

You did the moment you dumped that bad content into an article. You're wasting your time talking to me, I can't stop the AFD and have no desire to, you're be better served trying to actually edit the article you're working on, since you haven't actually touched it in days, and I haven't seen any improvement at all--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Bilal Sina

I created the page Bilal Sina which is a real person and is not violating the copy-rights. You protected it from creation and delete the page. I have to create that wikipedia page.

Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bilal Sina (talk • contribs) 10:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

The issue is not a copyright one, but WP:NOTABILITY, of which none was demonstrated--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:28, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Sept haï-kaïs

You'll have to explain. We can't have people assuming the translation was included from somewhere unattributed. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 00:20, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Then get a real reference. The article history is for attribution of content, under no circumstances is this allowed on an article--Jac16888 ^Talk 00:27, 25 February 2017 (UTC)--Jac16888 ^Talk 00:27, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

"Then get a real reference."—what kind of bullshit response is this?

"under no circumstances is this allowed on an article"—link to guideline or policy, please. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 01:21, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Many of the other translations are sourced to proper references such as books, they are not the original work of editors, that would be the ideal. WP:SIGNHERE? Or the fact that no other article contains a link to the editor who did a piece of content?--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:33, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

You've been here long enough to know better than to toss out WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. As you can see from the note you removed, the translation is a translation of a translation (and needs to be in the context). Such does not exist in English sources, and likely never will. As it is the only translation that does not have a source, it stands out—it needs an explanation for not having a source. I provided a solution, which you've removed. It still requires a solution, which I assume you'll take responsibility for. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:27, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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Beg to differ

re: your deletion summary...

Beg to differ, the Secretary of State of a state as 'large and historied' as the commonwealth is a damn good reference. I'll admit to OR on the matter, but that was unintentional since my contact actually started as a comment and complaint email after accessing digitized records trying to untangle the old company references from the new. Hence in this matter, I think I might be forgiven for the OR, and the point is still valid. Here we need some rationale for separating the old historic and influential from the modern, opportunistic and greedy. That cite sets the reason where any editor can understand the caution on the page. (So I'll probably put it back eventually.) Meantime, be well! // FrankB 23:41, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Yes, it would be a great reference, if it wasn't "some email that this one editor has in their inbox"--Jac16888 ^Talk 23:56, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

A reference is a reference, one may always ask for it. I suspect you should have just commented around it so there was supporting information for others. See, I'm not hung up on academic nonsense like someone at the beginning of a career. With five degrees and a lifes work, I've little time for nonsense. I've just retired nad have little use for professors and their guild system who lie and promise hundreds of thousands of applicants a four year degree is the best path, that one will be able to get a job with one. HA! Worse in my book than marketing people, media, and politicians. The whole lot say nothing but what will help their own causes and line their pockets. Best regards! FrankB 23:48, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry but it's not, a reference on Wikipedia is only of use if it is verifiable and from a reliable source, "they emailed me, honest guv" is not one. What happens a year from now if you're no longer editing and somebody comes across that article and wants to check that reference? They can't, simple as that. Alternatively what's to stop me putting the exact opposite to your statement with the reference "they sent me a letter"? By your logic that would be ok.--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:25, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Alejandro Tullio

Hello! Why did you delete Alejandro Tullio page? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ariguetti (talk • contribs) 19:09, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

I believe because it was copied from another language Wikipedia without being translated--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:04, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Catagory:Jason Zhang

i would like to know why you change the passage to the old one,the content is old-dated and i try my best to add some new information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twinklestellar (talk • contribs) 11:40, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Because the content you are adding is badly written, unsourced and excessive, it is making the article worse not better--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:52, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Old Parliament House, Canberra

I believe the email an acceptable source of the building's height as per WP:SELFSOURCE. It is not a self-serving or exceptional claim. There was no objection on the article Talk page where I quoted the text of the email. It only makes a claim about the building in which the museum operates and indicates how they obtained the information. If it is desired, I can forward the email correspondence to anyone in a position to do a verification. I had searched unsuccessfully for the information prior to emailing. I'm OK to see tagged as , I am happy to see it replaced with a better source if one can be found, but I don't see any point in removing the only source for the current information. Kerry (talk) 11:44, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I disagree, as a reference it is not verifiable, it is no better than trying to reference a conversation. Yes people can ask you for to see the email, but a) forwarding an email and altering the source is incredibly easy (I'm not saying you would do this, just that someone could), and b) what happens are year or ten from now when you are no longer editing? --Jac16888 ^Talk 19:39, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

What's the difference if I reference an obscure book in my local library that you can't access, it's less verifiable by you. Mine is verifiable in that anyone can contact the museum and ask them to confirm it whether the information is true, regardless of whether you or I are still contributing. The academic principle of "cite it where you saw it" always applies, that is where the information came from so that is what I cited. You can it tag as but you cannot deny it is my source. Verification is impossible if you take away the source; verification remains possible with a source. And I think this is a storm in a teacup over the height of a building, which isn't making any claim about being tallest/shortest. And I think WP:RSCONTEXT applies too. Kerry (talk) 01:09, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

It is very different to a book and you know that, no matter how obscure a book it can always be verified by someone. Your reference is no different than to trying to reference a conversation, it is simply not verifiable, and essentially original research--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:14, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Please consider warning User:Huz2004

Please consider warning Huz2004 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) not to add any more garbage. Siuenti (talk) 23:46, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Chkites Honqerd? Thank you - good outcome

Hi Jac16888,

April 8, 2017 Jac16888 (talk | contribs | block) moved page Chkites Honqerd to User:Lyovson/sandbox without leaving a redirect (move back to sandbox, not in english and not ready to be an article)

Thank you for that move. I wasn't sure what to do with it: not a WP:A9 candidate as Lilit Hovhannisyan appears to be a notable artist, but the entire article was written in Armenian. I did check the YouTube link to see if it was a WP:COPYVIOEL, but it appears to be from Hovhannisyan's own YT channel. I wouldn't have a clue what the song is about, but it does appear that they are both having a lot of fun.

Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 13:52, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Self promotion

I think self promotion is a good thing for the development of Wikibooks. But I won't start a conflict about this. You may read the discussion with jmcgnh, Wikibooks links and COI rule, on the same subject, and take a look at my user page at Wikibooks. Thierry Dugnolle (talk) 12:08, 6 May 2017 (UTC)