User talk:JohnCD/Archive 24

Larrywyse

Thank you for your comments at User talk:Larrywyse. I understand everything you have said. I've no wish to see the user getting a block and can only hope he discovers his talk page before that happens. SonofSetanta (talk) 15:14, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

This sort of thing is an unfortunate but well-foreseen consequence of the WMF "Editor engagement" team making it hard to engage with new editors by removing the bright orange new-message bar when introducing the new "Notification" system (which is excellent in itself), and refusing to restore it despite a 153-to-37 RFC asking them to. JohnCD (talk) 15:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes I can see that. Such a facility would certainly be of benefit in assisting this user on how to get more out of the wiki and to tailor his input to suit guidelines. It would be a shame to lose someone who has the enthusiasm to edit and who could turn out to be useful. SonofSetanta (talk) 15:51, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

All may not be lost, sometimes people whose attention has been gained by a short block come back and engage on the talk page and make a new start; but it's not an ideal way to go. JohnCD (talk) 17:31, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Please block User:Daredevil7

Hi, please block User:Daredevil7, because the user may contributing without common sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.176.231 (talk) 11:46, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

That user has certainly had a lot of warnings, but has not edited (except to their user page) since the last warning on 28 May. If there is more trouble, WP:AIV is the place to report - many admins watch that page. JohnCD (talk) 18:52, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Regarding a long ago RFD...

As you're the closing admin on Ghyslain Raza (see [1]), I would like to approach you about restoring the redirect. I know that up to recently, the person has tried to avoid connecting himself with the Star Wars Kid meme and removing the redirect of course was the right step. Two recent RS articles [2] and [3] have had him himself connect himself, using that connectivity to speak out against bullying. As such the original BLP concerns on the redirect no longer apply since we have the person himself doing that outing and we have added his name back to the Star Wars Kid article. As such, I'm asking if you would consider reverting that RFD. --MASEM (t) 19:57, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Seems reasonable, but I think I'd like to watch the article talk page for a day or two to be sure the reinstatement of the name "sticks". JohnCD (talk) 20:15, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I'll drop a comment at BLP/N just to make sure as well. --MASEM (t) 20:30, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done - redirect restored. JohnCD (talk) 09:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Request

Hello! Can you please full protect Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș? Rob.HUN continues edit warring and refuses to answer my message on the talk page. The article was semi-protected after several IPs of him were blocked, but he re-apperead with an autoconfirmed account (see SPI here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rob.HUN). Thanks in advance Raysdiet (talk) 10:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot and sorry for disturbing you instead of using WP:RFPP. There was no admin activity there in the last hours and I thought that by directly contacting an admin the problem will be solved faster Raysdiet (talk) 10:38, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

OK. If this cannot be sorted out on the talk page in a day or two, please invoke WP:Dispute resolution - we cannot leave articles full-protected for long. JohnCD (talk) 10:40, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Mate

From OneMadScientist--122.109.115.41 (talk) 18:07, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of New Earth Coffeehouse

Hello,

On the page Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#New_Earth_Coffeehouse, I saw your notes about the request to undelete the page New Earth Coffeehouse.

I agree with your decision. I was also under the impression that the page may not have had reliable sources. However, I am interested in researching the topic, and making the article conform to the guidelines for inclusion of articles about companies or organizations.

Would you be willing to send me the contents of the deleted page? Thank you! JonathanDavidArndt (talk) 12:56, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

I have userfied the page for you - moved it into your userspace at User:JonathanDavidArndt /New Earth Coffeehouse where you can work on it. Best of luck with it - as you can see, there is very little there. What will be looked for is evidence of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. JohnCD (talk) 15:06, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to make this available. (I had not seen this article before, and there is much less than I had imagined.) Nevertheless, this will be enough to start on. Thank you! JonathanDavidArndt (talk) 01:01, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Cmattison387 by another name

You blocked Cmattison387 on 3rd June for persistent link spamming. An apparently new user ClemsonCE has arrived posting the same links to the same articles - although thankfully just a few at present - perhaps testing the water. I could conceivably report this as a potential sock but that seems heavy handed at this stage. However, if this is block evasion it might paint a different picture. I will leave to your discretion any action you think appropriate. Thanks  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   19:35, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm... The new one seems to have stopped. I'll think about it overnight; my first instinct is to treat this one as a block-evading DUCK, but maybe a patient explanation of WP:EL#ADV and a request to pass the message round the department would be better. Thanks for the notification! JohnCD (talk) 21:57, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

I decided to AGF and wrote an explanation which you can see at User talk:ClemsonCE; I now regret it because I have found two more spamlinkers: Hunterjumper1800 (talk · contribs) and Tbrandt20 (talk · contribs). This is evidently an organized campaign, and I shall block the lot. JohnCD (talk) 11:39, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. She must be one hell of a Professor to instil such loyalty/ obedience in her students - she was only awarded her PhD in 2009 - or is there perhaps another more ego-centric explanation ? Regards  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   17:09, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Only an Assistant Prof. In the US system I think that's the first-level teaching post, equivalent to Lecturer in the UK. I guess her students were just keen to help, or maybe she gave them a project. I wish, at sign-up time, people were told in letters of fire: "Wikipedia is not for promoting anything, least of all yourself, and if that's what you are here for you will be wasting your time!" JohnCD (talk) 22:09, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Rowan A. Salter

Im real I'm on Amazon. Why the delete? All info is correct and my Dad (posthumous) is Struther Arnott. What is the permissible way to mentioned. Why didn't you verify me? rowansalter@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rowanasalter (talk • contribs) 21:48, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Being real, on Amazon, and somebody's son are not enough reasons to have a Wikipedia article - see WP:Notability (people), especially WP:AUTHOR. This is not a site like LinkedIn or Facebook for people to write about themselves; that is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at WP:Autobiography, already linked from your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:04, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Nationalism vs. facts on WP?

Hello! Since you are an administrator, and the one who blocked the Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș I would like to ask you a general question in connection whit this particular case: How can you fight denial of evident facts to which there are no references or sources? E. g. the fact that a city is a center of a region. Székely Land is a historical, currently unrecognized administrative region in Romania with an ethinc Hungarian majority and Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely) has been a major population center of the region throughout its history. These facts are not the kind you can reference or "reach a consensus" about on the Talk page, especially if there are no arguments against it, only simple denial and demanding references. (You can demand references for anything, like the sky being blue. It's certainly not a sign of trying to reach a consensus.) Sorry for you being caught in this, but I think we can all agree on one thing. That WP (especially English WP) should provide the whole truth for its readers and not only selected parts of it. Thanks for your reply. Rob.HUN —Preceding undated comment added 11:07, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! In case you are interested and have a little time for it, I hope this case makes you (and other people) aware of the situation of the autochton Hungarian minority in Romania and on WP. Unfortunately this is not a single case of bias, it's a general tendency since at least WWI. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rob.HUN (talk • contribs) 11:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

If something is generally known and undisputed, there may be no need to ask for sources, but where there is dispute we have to rely on the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy rather than people's opinions, to avoid endless edit-wars. Edit-warring is not allowed, and results in automatic blocks no matter who is "right", because if allowed articles end up in the form preferred by the most obstinate edit-warrior, and people who do not like conflict are driven away from the project. I have protected the article for a week: please try to come to a WP:Consensus on the talk page, invoking the WP:Dispute resolution process if you need to. We do not like to block for edit-warring, but it is preferable to keeping articles protected for longer than necessary. JohnCD (talk) 11:57, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply! However I have to revoke my previous thank you, because actually I don't really understand what happened: My edits that User:Raysdiet repeatedly deleted in an edit-warring were restored by User:Raysdiet (him?)self before you blocked the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rob.HUN (talk • contribs) 12:11, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

It was a mistake of mine, but if there will be no consensus to keep your additions, they will be removed Raysdiet (talk) 12:14, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

:) Consensus can only be reached if there are arguments. There are facts that can't be argued only denied because there are no arguments to it. Denial (delet) is not an argument. You are motivated by simple nationalism and hatered of the autochton Hungarian minority.--Rob.HUN (talk) 12:43, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

On wikipedia the only arguments are the reliable sources. You made a personal attack and I could report you for that, but you will probably be blocked anyway soon for sockpuppetry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rob.HUN Raysdiet (talk) 12:46, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

You can demand sources for anything even for the sky being blue. There is an article about Székely Land on WP itself. I see the oppression of the autochton Hungarian minority of Transylvania is very much active on WP. It's ugly reminiscent of the Securitate. --Rob.HUN (talk) 13:07, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Whenever an article is protected to stop edit warring, it is always protected on The Wrong Version, at least somebody always thinks so. I have not protected it in order to decide in favour of any version. Please stop arguing on my talk page and go away and make an effort to achieve consensus on the article talk page. Remember that Wikipedia is not a place to WP:Right great wrongs. JohnCD (talk) 13:14, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately Rob.HUN makes again changes in lack of consensus, on another article [4] Raysdiet (talk) 10:16, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Same answer: don't edit-war, discuss on talk page, don't shout past each other but make a real effort to reach consensus, if you can't reach consensus start WP:Dispute resolution. JohnCD (talk) 10:35, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Hermann Fechenbach

Hi, I'm trying to set up the page for Hermann Fechenbach and as the copyright holder and also the same person, Patrick Mooney, as that of www.hermannfechenbach.com I have to full rights to use Hermann's work. So any image or text are all part of our work and thus have all the full rights on images and text. You can email me back through www.hermannfechenbach.com on the contact page or to pat2bornot2b@yahoo.com

I would like to put more images on Wikipedia.

Regards Pat Mooney — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pat2bornot2b (talk • contribs) 13:56, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:27, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi I've read your reply and the simple thing is just to remove the image even though I am the copyright holder as I would like the information on the Wikipedia page. I'll just add more information as it comes available, but it's a bit of a task writing it for our Hermann Fechenbach site and re-writing it for Wikipedia. Is there anyway round this as it's twice the work.

Regards Pat — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pat2bornot2b (talk • contribs) 22:52, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Richard Divall - Entry query

Hello,

Thank you for undeleting the Richard Divall entry. I do appreciate your help.

Londonopera (talk) 09:32, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Longer block requested

Hi John if you would be so kind as to review this [[5]] is also [[6]] and also possibly this Ip [[7]]. This has been a long term vandal located in Wisconsin. You will see they all generally originate from Appleton Wisconsin or nearby areas and this edit [[8]] confirms it. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 02:33, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

The first two certainly seem the same. 99.129.112.89 is blocked until 23 Jun, and so is 99.169.181.209 who Drmies reckons is the same. I don't really like to block the WISCnet account for longer, though only our vandal seems to be using it. I'll watch what happens when they all come off block about the same time, and give longer blocks if it all starts up again. Let me know if you see any more. 98.100.238.218 seems different and more constructive. JohnCD (talk) 10:03, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Meiklejohn

Thank you. Will do!WQUlrich (talk) 19:57, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Actually, the tag is good (If anyone ever stumbles across that article again!)WQUlrich (talk) 22:02, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

University of Houston Creative Writing Program

JohnCD,

Thank you so much for your response on the UHCWP undeletion request! I notice that I have chosen the incorrect process and I apologize in advance. I'm writing to ask if you could guide me on how would be best to restore that page and if you know and would be willing to convince Bushranger to reconsider the deletion.

The reason I ask is because independent sources are available that attest to the high national rank of that program. Unfortunately, it seems no one was looking for them. Rankings have been done by Poets & Writers, the source for rankings on Creative Writing Programs. In 2012, its MFA program is ranked in the top 20, and its PhD program is ranked no. 4. See links below!

http://www.pw.org/files/topfifty_secured.pdf http://www.pw.org/files/doctoral_secured_0.pdf

The program has also received coverage in the Houston Chronicle, Hufffington Post, Houston Press, Associated Press, etc.

Also, the program is home to a number of notable writers (both students and faculty members), whose pages would link to it if the page existed. Many of the faculty members have won national awards such as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pushcart Prize, etc. and are published by reputable publishing houses. This isn't just a program, but an integral part of what makes the University of Houston notable and that's why I think it should have its own page.

Thanks in advance! Angelica Guevara Onthedeck (talk) 10:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 20:02, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Revdel

Hi. Please can you remove the copyvio revision here. Many thanks . Nikthestunned 15:29, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

(Talk page stalker)I don't see the copyvio in what you removed, nor do I see any BLP issues. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 15:40, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

I don't see BLP violations, but the entire addition was a straight up copy paste of the first 2 paragraphs from the source provided..? Nikthestunned 15:47, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It is a copyvio, but I don't see why revdel would be necessary. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:50, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I see it now. I was looking for the "On June 13..." part. I agree with not seeing a need for revdel, however. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 16:00, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, stalkers. I agree revdel is not necessary, unless either the copyright owner complains or it is repeatedly restored. JohnCD (talk) 16:48, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks guys, my mistake! Nikthestunned 08:45, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Lasere cuantice în cascadă

Thank you so much, kind sir! Have a pleasant evening! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rădulescu Flavius (talk • contribs) 20:20, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

User:Captain Assassin! and his future film redirects.

It seems our friend is at it again, despite him agreeing to both my and your requests... --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:02, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Well I'm just redirecting to the directors now, so it is bothering you again.-- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ^{( T - C - G )} 09:09, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

The opinion of the discussion at WT:WikiProject Film#Creating redirects FOR future films was that these redirects are OK if there is sourced information about the film at the target, and in the case of Silence (2015 film) there is. I haven't checked any others yet. JohnCD (talk) 09:11, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

If you give me the time, I'll put the sources there. The man here is in very rush for CSD always.-- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ^{( T - C - G )} 09:15, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Make sure that there is sourced information at the target first. And make sure that it is good sourced information, not rumours. --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:17, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

I missed the sourced information at Martin Scorsese among all the unsuitable redirects. --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:17, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

That's not true. Look at Stereotypically You (and this is just one of many examples). You've redirected that to Beth Behrs, an actress, and there is NO information at the target. You've agreed to stop a couple of times, and yet still you persist. --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:17, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict)@Captain Assassin! - yes, there needs to be reliably sourced information at the target before you make a redirect, otherwise it is just confusing for the reader. Wikipedia does not do rumours, and there is no hurry to make redirects for future films. JohnCD (talk) 09:21, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Got it, give me sometime now, undo all the CSDs please.-- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ^{( T - C - G )} 09:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

No, the CSDs should stay unless there is already reliable sourced information at the target. I'm not sure why you're in such a hurry to create all these redirects - they don't serving any useful purpose yet, especially the ones with additional pre-emptive disambiguation. --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:26, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, I'll put some sources there, others should be deleted, agreed.-- Assassin! No, Captain Assassin! ^{( T - C - G )} 09:29, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

And this doesn't count as adding reliable sourced information. --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:31, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

I have given Captain A a warning. This correspondence is now closed (Ed.) JohnCD (talk) 09:45, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry

Im ridzuan shah sorry for that article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ridzuanshah99 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

No worries, but Myspace or Facebook are better places to write about yourself, that's not what an encyclopedia is for. JohnCD (talk) 10:53, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

deleted item

hi, nice to meet you, i want to now why you deleted my article?? of the puertorican musician Rodyniel Gonzalez, please helpme, thanks for you time, att boricuawood — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boricuawood (talk • contribs) 16:46, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Page protection of Spanish Civil War

Hello. A bit over a month ago you protected Spanish Civil War because of repeated vandalism. Well, the protection has expired and the vandal is back, having so-far added the frivolous systemic bias tag (which is against consensus) three times within the past 18 hours or so. I have reverted him/her twice, but don't want to risk a 3RR-warning by doing it again. I have issued a 3RR-warning to the vandal (who is now once again operating from his/her main IP, IP 84.52.101.196, geolocating to St Petersburg, Russia, after having IP-hopped for a while) and early yesterday evening also requested page protection at the Rfpp-board, but Rfpp is backlogged so nothing has happened to my request there. So maybe you could take a look at it? Cheers, Thomas.W (talk) 10:37, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

I've given it another month. JohnCD (talk) 11:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Thomas.W (talk) 11:32, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

User talk:99.195.90.145

Hi JohnCD,

I noticed that the IP User 99.195.90.145 continued to make inappropriate comments even after it was blocked. Should the IP be banned from editing the IP talk page as well?

—Σosthenes12 ^Talk 21:32, 21 June 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

 Done. Good idea. JohnCD (talk) 21:37, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

TinEye

Not sure if you got my reply on my talk page, but TinEye is great for finding where images appearing on Wikipedia are elsewhere on the internet. Actually it's a great toy in general; I have it as an extension on Chrome but I think there are plugins for most browsers which give a one-click lookup for images. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 23:31, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

That's useful to know. I have only once done a successful image search, and I forget what I used but it was not easy. I'll remember Tineye. Thanks. JohnCD (talk) 09:52, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

RFPP for User talk:12.71.77.121

Hi, you semi protected the page and the IP, for some reason, is still editing User talk:12.71.77.121. Dusti^*poke* 00:17, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

That is one seriously obstinate dude. I didn't semi-protect the IP talk page, I just blocked that IP from editing it, and he has found another IP to edit-war from. Materialscientist has blocked the new IP. Thanks. JohnCD (talk) 09:49, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

GeoInfosys

Hello John Thank you for the comments, If I edit those observations made by you and resubmit it. I would like to know whether this is acceptable, remove all promotional materials.

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by GiGbGd (talk • contribs) 10:10, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Rock n Roll cobbler Terry de Havilland

Hi John, I have read your reasons for deleting the page I am trying to post on the amazing and talented Terry de Havilland. Terry has been creating fantasy footwear for 50 years for everyone from Bowie to Zed Zep to Kate Moss and has been prominent in the press for all that time. He has designs in museums world wide and is a character of great note. I really want to create a wikipedia for him.... maybe my writing is not good enough and I should pay someone to do it... not sure the best method but I could really use your advice. People have tried to create a page for him in the past but for some reason or othere it has always been unsuccessful, your Jess Morris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terrydehavilland (talk • contribs) 12:53, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

I will reply on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 15:17, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Quick request

Hey John. I forgot to look over what I did last night, and a few mistakes got placed into the new template, so would you be able to correct it? Thanks! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 16:29, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done. JohnCD (talk) 16:57, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Deleted page

Hi, I'm new to this, but wanted to know why the page "Cary LaScala" was deleted and how to bring it back? Can it be brought back and how? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pastelcolored (talk • contribs) 00:10, 26 June 2013 (UTC) I made some changes. Does that work?

I deleted the page Cary lascala because its author, user Melanieeusebio (talk · contribs), blanked it after creating Cary LaScala with correct capitalization. That new page has not been deleted, but deletion is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cary LaScala. The discussion will run for a week, and then an uninvolved administrator will decide what to do. The question is whether LaScala meets Wikipedia's WP:Notability requirement, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." For musical performers, the standard is explained at WP:MUSICBIO. JohnCD (talk) 13:39, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Kelloe

Hi. I'm not disputing your actions in reverting my edits to Kelloe, you are way more experienced that I! I wonder though if you could let me know why? The text added by the IP user seemed to me to be vandalism, Fraggle81 appeared to agree. I note that Materialscientist has imposed a block on the user and yet you seem to approve of suggestions of incest, "selective neutering" with invasions of "smack heads" being monitored by the local pigeon fanciers and enforced by explosives strapped to dogs! I can only assume this is a mistake, perhaps you would care to reasses. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 13:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

I am horrified: that was an accidental rollback, which I have undone. I had no intention of reverting you. I really think I shall have to disable rollback, it is useful but too dangerous, especially on a rather trigger-happy touchpad. Thank you for pointing it out! If that IP returns, you could ask me or ask at WP:RFPP for the page to be semi-protected for a time. JohnCD (talk) 14:00, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I _loathe_ tap sensitive touch pads. Far better (IMHO) to disable the tap function and use the click switches below. Bring back the VT220 ! Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:19, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

OCBA-Alex Cheytanov

Thank you for your advice regarding the OCBA article I am editing. Thank you for moving it to the correct place so I can contine to edit it . With respect to introducing new concepts to Wikipedia. This methodology and concept has been published in textbooks and multiple published system engineering conferences in IEEE. I have not added my sources yet. Is this ok ? My email is acheytan@masonlive.gmu.edu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acheytan (talk • contribs) 23:20, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

That's fine, carry on adding references. See WP:CITE for advice. I only pointed you to WP:No original research to save you wasting time if this was in fact something new. JohnCD (talk) 08:18, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Could you please reinstate my Userpage?

Hey, I asked you to remove my userpage a few months ago after I felt harassed but am ready to rejoin Wikipedia. Could you please reinstate my page? Thanks. Stidmatt (talk) 03:01, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done. Welcome back! JohnCD (talk) 05:53, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

...and restored again after I forgot to remove the db tag, so that it got re-deleted. JohnCD (talk) 08:15, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Pawo_Tsuglag_Threngwa

Just wanted to offer you my thanks for so speedily un-deleting this article. Tibetologist (talk) 22:52, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Kondeshwar.jpg

{{Talkback}} Thanks for the clarification [9] Ganesh J. Acharya (talk) 13:16, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Microsoft

Please see my comments at User talk:Mark Arsten DGG ( talk ) 03:52, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. I will watch the article. I am surprised the Microsoft man has not yet come back with his suggestions. JohnCD (talk) 22:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Comments from Da Desirer 2

It is the name that was wrong, the correct name is "Limonium jovibarba", thanks.

One part that includes the proposal of 12 communities planned on a planet on the other side of the Milky Way is not a joke edit, it is planned. I had no room to put it somewhere but I temporary put it in that section. I have never ever done a university lecture including on that. One of the communities I favorably planned because of minor deforestation on Earth, no land for new farms and I guess parts of the world had food riots. There are an abundant of number of farms to be made and created in that part of the Milky Way, that area around the 12 communities will also create farms there without logging a couple of trees or forests. On some of the unhabited planets I have no clue which, a couple of huge towers can be built there. Some of the people can move to other worlds that have never been inhabited. There could be a new observatory and a telescope to be built on the moon, a signal and satellite reception station may be built on the portion (halfway from the meridian) of the moon. On another planet, two or three probes for that uninhabited planet, the only access reaching there is through wormholes or a space highway. Da Desirer 2 (talk) 13:38, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Limonium: good, I have added a link to its entry in The Plant List. Did you know that there is a WP:WikiProject Botany who may be able to give advice on botanical articles?

Communities on other planets: that is interesting, but it is not material for an encyclopedia. For reasons, see Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. JohnCD (talk) 14:27, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Deletion Request

Hi John. Before I add a speedy deletion tag to this article, perhaps you could confirm that it falls under the criteria for deletion under A1 and A3. If it does maybe you could delete it while you're there. Thanks. Jodon | Talk 22:06, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Actually, no, I don't think it comes under either of those. WP:CSD#A1: the subject is clear - it's a particular type of legal post. WP:CSD#A3: it's certainly very brief, but it contains more than just a rephrasing of the title, it does actually say what the O.A. does for a living. As it stands, I think it's a useful stub. You could tag it {{unreferenced}}, or you could check out Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL and see whether you could find some references to add. JohnCD (talk) 22:21, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks John. If I could intrude upon your expertise further, I've added multiple issues tags to this article, as it doesn't seem to be monitored by any senior editors. While I do have a little knowledge on the subject, it seems to me to be unencyclopedic, and my concerns are highlighted in the tags and the edit summary. I was wondering if there were senior editors with some knowledge on the subject willing to have a look at it. Should it require revision, I have no problem tackling it, but given its unwieldy-ness I don't think I have enough seniority. Thanks again. -- Jodon | Talk 22:34, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

I'll reply tomorrow, it's 23:35 where I am and I have to go to bed! JohnCD (talk) 22:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

What? I thought Wikipedians didn't require sleep!!! Ha ha. Thanks for your help, there's no rush, and pleasant dreams. -- Jodon | Talk 22:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Ha ha. "Tag bombing", hadn't heard that before. Should've known every action on WP has a name. Actually I had planned on using a lot more "bombs" but tried to condense it as much as I could. All I'd be doing is repeating the same thing on the talk page, but it would consist of a significant amount of walls of text. This was more efficient and attention-grabbing. But if its offensive or against policy I'll remove them and try and present my arguments on the talk page. But I would rather a senior editor took control of this, as the voices of junior editors are often inaudible, at least in my experience. I'll abide by your decision. Thanks for looking into this. -- Jodon | Talk 23:00, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. A discussion has been started HERE. Perhaps you could keep an eye on it and please feel free to chime in at any time. The more help I can get on this the better. -- Jodon | Talk 06:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Please do take a look, this appears to me to be getting somwehat personal. Thanks. FrankFlanagan (talk) 21:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

I will look tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for your assistance. FrankFlanagan (talk) 18:41, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks John for all your help and advice on this. Frank has rejected your (and my) suggestion of a third opinion, and as you know a third opinion needs both parties to agree to having a third opinion. So I can't take this any further by myself alone, and the mountain I would have to climb to get even small results just wouldn't be worth it, especially as there is too much room here for disputes to develop. I have no wish to get into a dispute, and my limited experience of disputes here on WP is that they take up too much wasted time and energy which could be better spent on improving articles. Its just unfortunate that the ultimate casualties of disputes are the articles themselves (never mind the editors!). So I'm not taking this any further. Feel free to remove the tags if you wish, I'm done with the article. Thanks again and sorry to have been a nuisance. -- Jodon | Talk 20:37, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

User:Robert_B_Colton

Hi there, I was going to register with the account in order to create an article on Rob B. Colton the musician 72.72.252.156 (talk) 10:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rob%20b%20colton&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1311&bih=678&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&ei=-oLeUaenGLTi4APG94HQBg

That's a bad idea (picking that username, not writing the article), because (a) your username shouldn't be the name of another real person, and (b) if you did that, people would suppose you were Colton writing about himself, and WP:Autobiography is strongly discouraged. Pick another name: it can be absed on your real one or not, as you choose (see WP:REALNAME for some considerations), but it shouldn't be the name of a group or organization, or of another living person. Welcome to Wikipedia! JohnCD (talk) 10:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you John for deleting those three user sub-pages of mine for me. Much appreciated. One question though if I may, I've forgotten how to find all the sub-pages that are connected to my own user name. Is there a way to find that out, so that I can check all of them and see which ones are no longer needed? Thank you, again in advance. Wesley ☮ Mouse 06:57, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Two ways: if you type your username "User:Wesley Mouse" in the search box followed by a forward-slash, the drop-down list will show you the first ten sub-pages. For a full list, from your user page click on "Page information" under "Toolbox" in the left-hand margin, and under "Basic information" there is a link "Subpages of this page." JohnCD (talk) 08:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Userfications

Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Candleabracadabra (talk) 14:47, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Would you mind doing me one more solid and restoring Willie Black and redirecting it to Rogers Park, Tampa. The subject is covered in that article and I might like to access the deleted hisotry to merge some of the deleted information. Thanks again. Candleabracadabra (talk) 15:18, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done. I'm not sure I would have A7-ed that; would think sources could probably be found to restore it to an article. JohnCD (talk) 15:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw Ebyabe added the park article (hidden) to a list of NRHP listed places in Hillsborough County, Florida. So I think that means it's about to be listed? I don't know if that individual merits an article (he was a redlink in the park article), but I never like to see content like that get speedied because at the very least there's usually a way to at least redirect or possibly merge. Once something is deleted, as an editor I can't do anything with it and it is pretty much lost unless someone digs it up. Also, I don't really like asking others to do work for me :) but I don't have the power to do much with what gets deleted and can't even view it. We'll see what comes of the subject. What I've seen suggests he wasn't hugely notable but he was a significant part of some interesting history that's left a legacy in the community that seems worth making accesible to people who want to know about the past and how things have changed and come to be the way they are now. :) Take care. Thanks again for your help. Candleabracadabra (talk) 16:03, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

User:76.189.109.155 and WP:AN

John, thank you for closing the discussion at AN. I took the liberty of adding the topic ban to WP:EDR (see here). I hope you don't mind. I'll try to catch when the AN discussion archives so I can update the link.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:21, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks - I didn't get round to that, it was past my bed-time by the time I had finished considering that TL;DR saga. JohnCD (talk) 21:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

James R. Chelikowsky

Hello,

I work as a Web Designer for UT Austin. One of our faculty members (James R. Chelikowsky) requested that I create a wiki page for him using content that he sent me. I did this but it was rejected for "Unambiguous copyright infringement:http://www.ph.utexas.edu/person/chelikowsky_james" (see below message). However, James R. Chelikowsky is the creator of this content, so both Dr. Chelikowsky and I are puzzled about this "copyright infringement." Could you elaborate on this issue? It also appears that all of the source code that I created for this page was deleted. Is there any way for me to recover this so that I can make whatever changes are necessary to get this published for Dr. Chelikowsky?

Thank you, Atlas Cook (web designer for the Institute of Computational and Engineering Sciences at UT Austin)

(talk) 14:06, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

0:34, 3 July 2013 JohnCD (talk | contribs) deleted page Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/James R. Chelikowsky (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/person/chelikowsky_james) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.83.69.13 (talk)

Short answer: it was deleted because it appears on this page, which is marked "Copyright © 2000–2013 by The University of Texas at Austin. All Rights Reserved." Longer answer and advice on your talk page later today. JohnCD (talk) 15:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Would you please email me the text we had submitted? (acook@ices.utexas.edu). We plan to edit the text to make it unique for Wikipedia. I have not received the source as of Thu July 18, 2013 8:46AM. Thank you, Atlascook (talk) 13:47, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done. JohnCD (talk) 13:54, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks and heads up

Thank you, JohnCD, for helping out with TracyLocke. If you wouldn't mind, could you watchlist Ravens Wood School as well? I just ran across it; seems a non-notable faculty member was arrested for pedophelia, and someone wants to work that into the article, with some outrage for good measure. Don't know whether this will settle down or accelerate. Cheers, 76.248.144.216 (talk) 19:48, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

I see another admin has protected it. JohnCD (talk) 22:21, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Michael C. Donaldson

Hi John,

Looks like you did an edit on something I was working on ("Recognition" section on Michael C. Donaldson's page). I was mid fixing it when I hit "save page." It said there was a conflict. I then saw that you had fixed the refs, which was great! But then I must have done something wrong -- unintentionally -- to mess it up. Do you know how to easily put back your changes? I would very much appreciate it. And it was very nice of you to help me out. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Wikimwpr (talk) 21:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Best, Rick

I think it's all straight - the history doesn't show any edit since mine, so if you edit-conflicted with me, your edit wasn't saved. The problem I sorted out was that the new Visual Editor (which, frankly, has been released before it was ready) gets confused with some kinds of mark-up and wraps them in <nowiki> ... </nowiki> tags. An edit filter has been organised to flag occurrences of this (which are happening about every two or three minutes), and I found your edit in that list. You can read about the Visual Editor here and there is a WP:VisualEditor/User guide, but the old Wiki-markup editor is still available through "Edit source" tabs, and if you are doing anything complicated, or are puzzled by what VE is doing, it is best to fall back on that.

If you see any problem still there, let me know, though I won't be looking at it till tomorrow. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:18, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, John. Yeah, I noticed that it wasn't saved too, but it looks like the nice work you did was still lost. There are just URLs now -- no titles, etc. If you have an easy fix, it would be great! But I don't expect you to do the work. I'm a novice; the way I do it take a lot of time. And I don't want to mess things up again. But am happy to do what I know if needed.

Wikimwpr (talk) 23:12, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

No, you give me too much credit, all I did was take out the spurious "nowiki" tags. I have fixed a couple of the references for you, and leave the others as an exercise for the student. Referencing is one of the things the new VisualEditor doesn't do well yet, but in the old editor (available from the "Edit source" tab), there is an "Insert citation" button that looks like {{ }} on the bar above the edit box. With the cursor in the place where you want to insert the ref, click that, and then click "Cite web" on the row just beneath. That will open up a form where you fill in the url and as much of the rest as you can - just "Title" and "Publisher" is usually enough. "First name" and "Last name" are for the author of the piece, if relevant. Then click "Add citation" and it should be OK. I'll have a look later to see if you have managed OK. JohnCD (talk) 14:58, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the help!!

Neha Patel (talk) 10:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hi JohnCD, I saw your name on the list of admins who will perform revision deletes - could you please revdel this blatant BLP violation/attack: [10]. Thanks! --bonadea contributions talk 14:09, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done. JohnCD (talk) 14:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

TracyLocke Deletion Page

Hi I was creating the TracyLocke page and you deleted it. The content was not promoting the organization and if you feel there was a certain section that was please let me know. I spent over 12 hours coming up with that information and researching the company. I need the content back at least. ThanksInternproject13 (talk) 14:28, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Text emailed. It was full of stuff like "trusting, dedicated relationships... their timeless mission for the last 100 years... their unique approach to creativity... a user experience that delivers the maximum value... memorable consumer images... strategic thinking, passion and the desire to work smarter... " That is the sort of PR-speak puffery they write for clients, but it is not an encyclopedia article, it is an advertisement, and anything like that is deleted from Wikipedia at sight. If you work for the company, read Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. JohnCD (talk) 14:45, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Am I allowed to recreate it without the "PR speak"Internproject13 (talk) 15:21, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, but only as a "userspace draft" for others to approve. Advice on your talk page, probably not until tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 21:44, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Davina Leone

Hey John!!!

I'm a huge fan of Davina Leone. Her new album just came out and it's amazing. She is the top cover on Youtube for a bunch of songs and is one of my favorite Youtube stars. Did you vote her off Wikipedia? You should check out her Facebook. She has like 60,000 fans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.156.60 (talk) 16:22, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

The article was deleted after WP:Articles for deletion/Davina Leone. When she becomes notable to the standard of WP:MUSICBIO you, or someone, can write an article. JohnCD (talk) 21:47, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for the move, check my talkpage. ---$oHƎM ❊  আড্ডা  09:48, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of page "Jai Prakash Patel"

Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaips4u (talk • contribs) 17:57, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 21:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Christi O'Connor/American Television Journalist Deletion comments injuring my employment opportunities

My name is Christi O'Connor. In April, I was informed the Wiki page on me was removed. I was told by Fairy, only after it was deleted. Right away, I emailed her my feelings of concern about the deletion thread comments your folks have publicized. I'd much rather those didn't exist than have a Wiki page. I expressed to Fairy that I'd appreciate them being removed until I could come back and address the misinformation by your commenters and some of the outdated information I should have taken care of.

I didn't create the page. Nor did I pay anyone to. An associate working with our national youth broadcast network did. I remember reading it once and being impressed that she'd cited many sources. Just those citations I remember off the top of my head contradict the claim that my work is "local" and not national. (ie: I remember she noted I'd had the national and international exclusive television interview with Timothy McVeigh's family and had broken many national exclusives on the story. She cited the book written by McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones. In it, he notes my investigative work. I'm in the book. And there are other national stories I broke that turned into book inclusions. Let alone the fact that I've been at the network level of television for six years. Go to network exclusives: christioconnoronairwork.co I appreciate how difficult your job must be. And, that Wiki tries to keep pages ligit. I do. But, please contact me as I'd like to add any clarifications, additional network level work, updated links that DO work, etc. I want to get the profile up asap in its appropriate form.

This remains a timely matter for me. I am being considered for a position that is very important to me. I do NOT want my prospective employers to read your undermining comments. Especially since they are inaccurate.

Please contact me at my email or call me at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely, Christi O'Connor Television Journalist/Author <email and phone redacted>

Christisleuth (talk) 22:56, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

I will reply on your user talk page at User talk:Christisleuth. JohnCD (talk) 11:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Undo Deletion of Sandeep_Maheshwari

can the deletion of page of Sandeep Maheshwari be undone. I added new and valid content with references.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saurabhtiwaririshi (talk • contribs) 06:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

I have "userfied" the page for you to work on. Advice on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 11:55, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Just one question

Thanks for helping me about new page patrolling. I want to ask you a question. If I see a new user writes an article which is useful, but has very bad style, is there some template message I can post on his talk page to help him understand how to write a good article? Thanks! Vanjagenije (talk) 11:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:Your first article and WP:Writing better articles are probably the most useful starters. JohnCD (talk) 14:08, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Piped links

Thanks for thinking about improving the VE User guide. However, I do wonder if the paragraph you added is necessary. In VE, the procedure to wikilink text, as described in the user guide (select some text, the label; then select the target) is exactly the same, whether for a piped or a non-piped link. The only difference is whether the label and target are the same or different, and in VE, the user doesn't have to worry about that difference in terms of formatting/process. So it's not clear that the additional paragraph adds value. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 15:44, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

@John Broughton:. I have no objection if my extra words are taken out if you or others think best - I added them hesitantly, not being sure whether the guide is considered user-editable. Looking at the guide again, I see that it can be read as you say, but I can only say that when I turned to it specifically to find out about piped links, I did not think I had found an answer. I then went to the talk page, to find that you had been the same route a couple of weeks ago (when the words were admittedly less clear) and found my answer there. JohnCD (talk) 21:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Thinking about this, I realize that the user guide is written for someone unfamiliar with Wikipedia editing. But that leaves out an entire other group - experienced (or somewhat experienced) editors, like you and me, who want to try VE. I'm thinking at this point that I'll add some peripheral notes to the existing paragraphs, to address the second of these audiences, and I'll think about other places in the user guide where some (more-or-less) asides would be helpful (newer users can ignore these). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:32, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter

Hey JohnCD. The newest updates:

• Links now don't extend over space/punctuation/workbreaks when you type (bugzilla:51463)
• Users with the "minoredit" preference set get working functionality (bugzilla:51515)
• You can tab to buttons in dialogs, including the save dialog (bugzilla:50047)
• We now show the <newarticletext> (or <newarticletextanon>) message as an edit notice (bugzilla:51459)
• You can scroll dialog panels like in transclusions' templates' parameter listings (bugzilla:51739)
• Templates that only create meta-data and no display content at all (like Template:Use dmy dates) now can't be deleted accidentally or deliberately, but still don't show up (bugzilla:51322)
• FlaggedRevisions integration (bugzilla:49699)
• Edit summary will get the section title pre-added if you launched from a section edit link (bugzilla:50872)

Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:11, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

systemic problems evident

I used the wrong template, I'm sorry. Please forget about that and please understand my question. Please look at (11452) 1980 KE, for example. Do you see the problem? There are thousands of these. I'm sorry I used the wrong template. Please forget about what template I used and see the problem exemplified by articles such as (237357) 2059 T-3, and countless others. Chrisrus (talk) 17:43, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

@Chrisrus:OK, understood.Your point is that there are a lot of very un-notable minor asteroid articles. With some classes of articles, e.g. inhabited places, a consensus has grown up that if it verifiably exists, that is enough, and I wondered if that was the case for astronomical objects; but WP:NASTRO seems perfectly clear. I see you have taken (5796) 1978 VK5 to AfD, and that is a good approach to the problem - bulk AfD nominations are usually objected to on the grounds that one of them might be notable. If the AfD decides delete on that test case, then the next step would be to start a discussion about whether there should be a bulk deletion of these articles (or whether WP:NASTRO should be amended). I'm not sure where would be the best place to start that, either WP:WikiProject Astronomical objects (you should certainly get them involved, anyway) or WP:Village pump (policy). JohnCD (talk) 20:16, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Archive_21#Notability_.28astronomical_objects.29_promoted_to_guideline which began with some progress which was blocked by the straw poll closing at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Astronomical_objects/Archive_22#Straw_poll:_Automated_stub_redirection blocked by that anti-Nastro elements of that community. They decided not to help but that I could go on without them. I went on without them, dealing directly with the good folks at WP:BOTREQ who showed that it can be done by bot. All that progress ended when the Rich Farmborough was blocked from using bots right in the middle of the last round of progress fulfilling the "good faith effort" to establish notablity for articles that don't establish it themselves. Which as I read GNG is not supposed to be the way it works, but whatever, we followed it. But when Rich went down, I couldn't pick up the pieces and all progress ended. I should walk away from it if I had any confidence that someone was on the case. Chrisrus (talk) 21:00, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Deletion

A page was created for professional football player roderick owusu-andrews, why was it deleted please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xion901 (talk • contribs) 12:45, 29 July 2013

The reason was explained on your user talk page at User talk:Xion901. The Wikipedia:Notability standard for footballers to have Wikipedia articles is explained at WP:NFOOTY: they need to have played in one of the leagues on this list. JohnCD (talk) 12:59, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Morning277-related G5 deletions

Thank you for deleting the articles I tagged, and some others. However, would you please hold off on further speedy deletion for now? I realized belatedly that I hadn't checked thoroughly enough for evidence of other possible sock accounts. Also, would you mind undeleting SJ (musician)? I didn't tag it because it made a credible claim of notability (supposedly a song in the U.S. top 10 charts) and, if I recall, was changed substantially by editors besides its "creator". —rybec 18:44, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

OK - I hadn't read Dennis' note on his talk page. I have emailed him the details of the few I zapped on my own initiative. I did sniff about them for other socks, and made a list of my suspicions, but when I checked I found they were all already in the SPI.

The only significant addition to SJ was by an IP with no other edits. I don't want to undelete it, because we have to take a hard line with large-scale socker-spammers like this. If we let their "good" articles stay, a ban becomes meaningless, because they can happily carry on making new socks. The only way to put them out of business is to ensure that all their clients find their paid-for articles deleted. That's why the policy is WP:BAN#Bans apply to all editing, good or bad. JohnCD (talk) 21:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for checking into this. If the first octet of that IP address was 54, it was likely a sock-puppet. As I noted here, [11] the G5 policy says good edits by banned users may be kept. —rybec 00:33, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

May be kept, not should. That discussion is a regular at WT:CSD. I have commented there. See also see User talk:DGG#deletion of Gordon Kahn (architect) - in this Morning277 case even DGG (who in the last WT:CSD discussion two months ago argued that "good" articles should be kept regardless of who wrote them) agrees that we need a strict application of G5. JohnCD (talk) 09:07, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

I wrote "may" because that was my intended meaning—not "should". Cheers! —rybec 20:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Multiple user accounts and some TV show

John, the following user accounts have been created related to a TV show: User:Renan Óg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), User:Taylor Nichole Orleans (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), and User:Pink Győrsövényház (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Each of their talk pages have a hoax cast list of some sort. I don't know if it would be better to SPI or to group-list them at MFD. Or ask you to zap them. I'm assuming more user accounts would be forthcoming for the other cast members listed in the talk pages. From what I can tell the cast names on the list are not in any way related to the actual TV show. User:Renan Óg seems to be behind most of it. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 19:49, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

I'll look in an hour or so... JohnCD (talk) 20:05, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, it's part of a bigger SPI case that is being handled: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Renan Hernandez --| Uncle Milty | talk | 20:43, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

OK, good, thanks for letting me know. JohnCD (talk) 20:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

I accidentally tagged one of my user pages for deletion...

Hi JohnCD,
Yesterday I was cleaning out my userspace and tagging a lot of pages as {{db-u1}}. I accidently tagged User:Jackc143/note-afd-user for deletion when I was trying to delete a redirect, and by the time I had realised what I had done, you'd deleted it! Well done for being so fast!
However, I need that page, so I've come to ask you really nicely if you can undelete it. Please Sorry, Jackc143 (talk) 15:55, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

@Jackc143:  Done, no worries! JohnCD (talk) 20:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll be more careful next time. Jackc143 (talk) 20:47, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hi JohnCD, Well done for deleting the pages I CSD-ed literally within seconds, and thanks for restoring the one I accidently deleted! Jackc143 (talk) 17:28, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you JohnCD for your response.Joancdocyogen 12:21, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Flores Knistoff

OK, I'll leave it with you Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:05, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Actiza pharmaceutical

Dear Sir,

My content that was not violates any copyrights and also not advertising.so why you deleting the article. Actiza Pharmaceutical is new growing company now so please dont delete the page and help us.

Regards, Nilesh Mendpara — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nilesh mendpara (talk • contribs) 12:26, 3 August 2013‎

I have replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 13:29, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

IP impersonating users

Hello, John. I've replied to your message on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:10, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

User_talk:Mia_Ziritt

Hello there, I wrote some words for you on User talk:Mia Ziritt. Cheers, Kebabipita (talk) 20:19, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Replied on my user talk page. Kebabipita (talk) 08:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of Fundacion Avina page

Hi John, I hope you are fine. I'm contacting you because of the deletion of some pages I have created about Fundación Avina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundaci%C3%B3n_Avina

I have not receive any notification about the possibility of deletion of this page, and today I realised that the pages were deleted.

Fundación Avina is a non profit organization, with a valuable work in the last 20 years all around Latin America.

All the information available about Fundación Avina is usable, have not rights, and I think is usefull for people working in sustainable developpment.

So, the contents you have delete don't violate any copyrights, and the information was important for a lot of people.

I'd like to know if it is possible to recover the deleted pages, even with changes, if necesary. Thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pablobanos (talk • contribs) 19:25, 6 August 2013

Wikipedia is not a platform for organizations to tell the world about themselves, even if they are good causes. If you are connected with the Foundation, read the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. I will reply with advice on your talk page tomorrow, or maybe the next day. JohnCD (talk) 22:12, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer John. I know the work of Fundación Avina, and I think it is worth to have information about this organization in Wikipedia, the same way Wikipedia shows information about similar organizations, like Fundación Bill y Melinda Gates, Skoll Foundation, and others. I can't see the reasons why those are presents and I can't create the article for Fundación Avina. I'm available to talk about this. Regards

nice fix on dixie Evans

It was on my list to improve, but you got there before I did. DGG ( talk ) 19:42, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

It could do with more. de:Dixie Evans is considerably fuller. JohnCD (talk) 20:25, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for 06 August 2013

It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages (T54012), scrolling (T54014) and deleting (T54013) on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are <ref>s defined inside a <references> block (T53741). Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer (T38000). Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.

Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:

• Re-ordering links to the editors to put "Edit source" first and VisualEditor second
• Renaming the link for VisualEditor to "Edit^beta"
• Disabling the animation for section editing.
• Changing all labels for the classic wikitext editor to say "Edit source", regardless of namespace.

There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:

• Horizontal alignment of images working correctly on more pages (T53995)
• Categories with ':'s in their names (like Category:Wikipedia:Privacy) now work correctly (T53902)
• Magic JavaScript gadgets and tools like sortable tables will now work once the page is saved (T53565)
• Keyboard shortcut for "clear annotations" - now Control+\ or ⌘ Command+\ (T53507)
• Fixed corruption bugs that led to duplicate categories (T54238) and improper collapsing when multiple new references were added in a row (T54228).
• Improvements to display elements: The save dialog in Monobook is restored to normal size (T52058), pop-up notices on save now look the same in VisualEditor as in wikitext editor (T41632), and the popup about using wikitext has a link to the definition of wikitext that now opens in a new window (T54093)

Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.

As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:27, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thank you for sorting out my user draft deletion so promptly for David Gregory - you seem to be having to 'mop up' after me a lot lately, so have these strawberries as a small token of appreciation! SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:01, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you! JohnCD (talk) 16:18, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Adam Davies (footballer) (born 1992), English footballer

Hi mate,

I recently created a new page for Adam Davies (footballer) which you deleted.

It was the first time I had created a new article and I therefore probably made quite a few mistakes. There is another footballer (goalkeeper) (born 1992) of the same name who plays for Sheffield Wednesday, who does not have his own page. The article I created was for this player not the player who already has his own page. Hope this is making sense.

Is there any chance you could bring back this page.

Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crofty 11 (talk • contribs) 11:12, 7 August 2013‎

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 16:17, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Undeletion of KISA (NGO)

Thank you! Vizjim (talk) 12:34, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Tintin characters

Hi JohnCD – In regard to your decision, just FYI, I'm not sure what the other editor meant by "mentioned in the target", because there is no mention that I can find of a Ranko the Ape in that list anywhere. As for the Sani-Cola, it is only mentioned one time, and it's not a character, it's only a drink. So if you want to go ahead and delete those two, as well, nobody will miss them. Joys! – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 01:00, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

I did do a text search of the target for each character to be sure of which were mentioned (the things I do for Wikipedia!) and Ranko is there at List of The Adventures of Tintin characters#Puschov. Generally, redirects are cheap and, while I wouldn't myself have added these two, as long as there is a mention at the target I don't think we gain by deleting them. JohnCD (talk) 10:35, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Good catch! I had copied and pasted "Ranko the Ape" into the search field, so the single "Ranko" didn't show. Okay, no problemo, lesson learned. Best to you and yours! – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 13:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

User:Admirenepal

Please see WP:AN3#User:Blackhu20 reported by User:Vejvančický (Result: Indef). Blackhu20 has been indef blocked as a sock of Admirenepal (talk · contribs). You had previously blocked Liznamraduop (talk · contribs) on 29 July. If he keeps this up we'll need to file an SPI. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 23:23, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

I think it's time already, so I have filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Admirenepal as a base for further reports if he returns. JohnCD (talk) 12:41, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

A beer a day goes a really long way... I think... I dunno, I don't touch the stuff, however I suspect you do. Anyway it's one of my newer standard procedures to thank who gets my helpme request and since you did the user page deletion this is doubly deserved. MM (Report findings) (Past espionage) 18:04, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you! I do, indeed, and your message spurred me to open a bottle of Hobgoblin, so I will now raise a glass to your health! JohnCD (talk) 18:10, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Page Request MrCrazyJake451 (talk) 08:10, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Greetings JohnCD,

I hate to pester you about this, but I was wondering if I can request a copy of a certain deleted article. I found this article of great use and do not believe it contained copyrighted material. It was titled <List of people who have been called "polymaths"> . I am not concerned with the restoration of the article. I just want to know if it is possible for you to send me a copy of the text within it.

Sincerely,

Jake E. Stief

MrCrazyJake451 (talk) 08:10, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done - I have emailed you a copy of the text. JohnCD (talk) 09:03, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

RAM RUDRA PRASAD DEO

RAM RUDRA PRASAD DEO Is A Former Principal District Judge (Jharkhand). Judge Deo was born in Jasidih , Deoghar (Jharkhand). Date of Joining In Judicial Service 18.10.1982. He did L.L.B from T.N.B Law College, Bhagalpur (BIHAR). Judge Deo Has Been Acknowledged For His Simplicity. He Is Considered One Of The Known Personalities of Deoghar (Jharkhand), India. Judge Deo Remembered For His Judicial Accountability, Probity In Public Life And Social Justice.He Was Retired From The Post Of Principal Judge , Family Court , Hazaribag (Jharkhand) ,After Retirement Of Deo He Was Involved In Many Social Work And Upliftment Of Poor People . During His Tenure In The District Court Judge, He Delivered several Landmark Judgments. He Also Play Important Role In Society to Generating Awareness And Protection Of Human Rights.When He Was Principal District Judge Of Chatra (Jharkhand) , Chatra is one of the Backward Districts Of India, Chatra Is Very Affected By Naxalism , He Organized Several Legal Awareness Camp In Villages , Colleges , School To Educate Poor Peoples , Villagers , To Stop Naxal Activity. And Be A Good Man.Advocates Of District Court are Very Satisfied of his Judgements. All Advocates very Respect Him.When He Was Posted in Rajmahal (Sahibganj) , He Was Very Famous Of His Judgments . He Personally Care in all the matters of Villagers, Tribal People for their basic need & Justice. Local People Very Respect Him. Now a Days Also Rajmahal People Never forget his Tenure .

links 1.http://www.veethi.com/places/jharkhand-deoghar-district-367.htm 2.http://digideoghar.webs.com/ 3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoghar_district 4.jajharkhand.in/about/pdf/list_dist_judg.pdf? 5.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasidih‎ 6.nalsa.gov.in/dlsa/jharkhand.doc‎ 7.www.docstoc.com/.../Bokaro-Name-of-the-Chairman-Sri-BBM-angalmu — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harshdeo4 (talk • contribs) 08:47, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

There is no point writing about him here, you should work on the userfied draft article at User:Harshdeo4/Ram Rudra Prasad Deo. Advice on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 09:21, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

deleted draft article with doc page?

Hi, I apparently made a mistake when I tagged a page for deletion.

I had created a doc page I did not use and wanted deleted. I tagged User:Economic_Refugee/draft_article_on_Weatherby_Vanguard/doc and expected just that page to go away.

I had expected that User:Economic_Refugee/draft_article_on_Weatherby_Vanguard would stay.

I am sorry for any trouble. Is there any way I can get my draft article back? Thank You Economic Refugee (talk) 00:29, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done @Economic Refugee: my mistake, I have restored it, sorry about that! JohnCD (talk) 08:54, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, No permanent harm done, Thank You again, What a relief.Economic Refugee (talk) 18:16, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Susheel Cleatus MD Inc

Hello

Thank you for pointing out the shortcomings. Subject does have enough notability. I was only starting with a stub to be worked on. I am really short on experience & method and could do with some help. Kindly help to get the issues corrected. Thank you.

(Mimiscule (talk) 12:48, 13 August 2013 (UTC))

I have "userfied" the article for you - moved into a "userspace draft" at User:Mimiscule/Susheel Cleatus MD Inc where you can work on it. Advice on your talk page soon. JohnCD (talk) 17:58, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear John,

Thanks for having removed three paragraphs of the text. I understand your concern. Please let me know how I could further improve the text and make it acceptable for the encyclopedia. Thanks a lot. User: Claire Dubois/Partnership for European Research in Occupational Health and Safety — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claire Dubois (talk • contribs) 09:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 21:35, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of Fundacion Avina page - reliable sources

Hi Jonh, thank you very much for your help and advice. I've add some reliable sources to the article, and I'm working on the texts to. I'll try to add other information asap. Please let me know if this kind of sources works. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pablobanos (talk • contribs) 16:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for delay - I'll try to reply tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Possible sockpuppet query

Hi JohnCD,

The user you recently blocked as a spammer, User:45ivenews, I suspect might be a sockpuppet of user Xanchia. Their activity is very mild, but did involve a tiny bit of petty vandalism to my user page after I took their pet article (Corlia Roberts) for deletion discussion. Is it too early to request a sockpuppet investigation in this case (I've never done so before) as even though it's pretty mild stuff, I can see it potentially escalating...? Mabalu (talk) 10:30, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

@Mabalu: might be the same, but I don't think there's enough there for an SPI unless it does escalate. The possible sock is username-blocked anyway, and the IP is no doubt the other editor logged-out. Wait and see... Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:06, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll keep an eye on goings-on. Mabalu (talk) 23:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

VersionOne - deleted page

Hi John,

I'm trying to get the VersionOne page back up, and I was hoping to get your help. It appears the page was deleted in 2011, and I'm a little confused as to why. The article did not contain advertisements or spam. The idea was to simply inform readers what kind of company VersionOne was and what kind of software development we specialize in.

I noticed one of our main competitors has a page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_Software

If that page can exist without deletion, then the VersionOne page can.

Please get back to me at your earliest convenience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agilista (talk • contribs) 13:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

The page was at Version One Ltd and was redirected to V1 Ltd when the company changed its name. JohnCD (talk) 15:15, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your help once again! Moshekaye (talk) 17:35, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

A question for you

RHaworth and JohnCD: I posed a question to you at Hasteur's talk page--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:24, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for 21 August 2013

Both VisualEditor and MediaWiki were upgraded recently. For VisualEditor, this is the long-awaited post-Wikimania update with many bug fixes and enhancements. Work also continues on speed at opening and during use, as well as on the bugs reported here and at other Wikipedias. The full report is at Mediawiki.

References are displaying properly, even when nested (T52749) or in image captions (T2000. Reference lists are now always fully populated with references (bug 50094). Firefox users can insert an existing reference in the first paragraph (T54159). Opera users no longer see corruption of categories when a reference was added (bug 50385).

Stray spaces are being stripped from the start of paragraphs to end one of the common <nowiki> problems (T53462). We also fixed a round-tripping bug that caused desirable whitespace in templates (used to make templates more legible, e.g., by putting each parameter in an infobox on a separate line) to get corrupted (bug 51150).

Wikilink handling was improved. Users are not allowed to create internal links to invalid titles (titles that are actually impossible due to limits on acceptable character combinations in titles, not redlinks) (T35094). You can extend wikilinks, but it won't do so over a wordbreak (like a space) (bugs 49931 and 51463).

A handful of fixes to the user interface were made. The toolbar doesn't float over personal tools after opening a dialog or the inspector (T54441). Toolbars were also re-written to be collapsible/expandable, with room for more icons. Buttons in dialogs can now be activated using the Tab ↹ and ⇧ Shift+Tab ↹ key commands (bug 50047). This saves time for editors, because you don't need to take your hands off the keyboard to click a button. We fixed a handful of bugs that affected only certain articles or certain browsers, including toolbar buttons in Firefox (bug 51986) and dialog panels that didn't always scroll correctly (bug 51739). Bugs with undo/redo getting confused have been fixed (T54113).

Images, in addition to getting references displaying correctly, also saw improvements with a set-empty |link= parameter no longer corrupted (51963). We corrected thumbnail images' display so that they look don't wrong in some contexts (bug 51995). Inserted images no longer explicitly set their alignment, but instead inherit the default position in compliance with the Manual of Style (bug 51851).

More edit notices, warnings, and metadata like information about Pending Changes on an article now appear as appropriate (bug 49699). When new articles are created, users are now shown the <newarticletext> message (bug 51459). VisualEditor now handles templates that set "meta" items (like a category) and nothing else better (bug 51322). If the database is locked when a user tries to save with VisualEditor, they now get a message telling them as such and an opportunity to try again, rather than a silent failure (bug 51636).

When you save the page, having the default preference set to "mark all my edits as minor by default" no longer overrides the setting in the save dialog (bug 51515). If you open VisualEditor from a section edit link, the section's title will be pre-filled in in the edit summary box when you go to save it (bug 50872). The size of the save dialog box in the Monobook skin has been fixed (bug 50058). Also, wikipage content handlers like sortable tables are re-run automatically after saving (T53565).

A very early version of the mathematics equation editor is now available for testing on mw:Mediawiki. If you would like to help improve the user interface for math editor, please test out the extension at mw:Mediawiki:Sandbox and leave your comments directly at the discussion page for the Math Node User Interface at Mediawiki. You should be able to use your regular username and password should to login to Mediawiki.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:30, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Advise please on page deletion

The following article appears to be written either by the subject himself or a close relative and appears to be written as an advertisement: Leonid Afremov. What is the process to request it's review and possible removal? Thank you. Feel free to reply here or on my talk page. Thank you! ~Moshe Moshekaye (talk) 00:13, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Update. I found the WP:Proposed deletion template and used that on the page as well as posted on the talk page of the creator. If the creator objects then i may want to look at other deletion options as the way it is currently written without any relevant citations displays a non-neutral promotional style. Thank you. Moshekaye (talk) 04:21, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

@Moshekaye: absolutely right, in fact I would have considered a WP:CSD#G11 speedy deletion as a blatant advertisement; but there is no need because, as is often the case with long promotional screeds, feeding a few sentences into Google shows that it is a copy of http://afremov.com/content_pages.php?page=about_us, so it is speedy-deletable as a copyright violation. If they come back and offer to make a copyright release, they can be referred to WP:COI and WP:SPAM. Deletion policy generally is explained at WP:Deletion policy, and the next step after a PROD is removed at WP:Articles for deletion, though sometimes the subject of a promotional article is actually notable so that it is possible to make a neutral article. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:02, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you again! Moshekaye (talk) 12:32, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

PROD for Nowhere Man (Green novel)

Hey, just letting you know that I removed the PROD at Nowhere Man (Green novel) because it was already PRODed back in 2011 and removed from the article. I'll do a search for sources since the talk page asserts that there are some, but I'll probably end up AfDing it. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 06:41, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

@Tokyogirl79: thanks - I should have spotted that. Self-published novels are always suspect, though this author's Pantera Press does publish other authors. In fact I was led to this because this SPA was spamming a string of articles about Pantera's NN authors, and looking at the history it seems they have been treating WP as a free advertising notice-board for some time. The author's article John M. Green was deleted G11 back in 2011. Some time back they actually made an OTRS release so that copies of their blurbs were not treated as copyvio, but unfortunately nobody told them the facts of life then. I am thinking of AfD-ing the company article, but I haven't done the necessary checks to see whether they might scrape past notability. JohnCD (talk) 09:14, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

• I'm piecing things together in an article in my userspace. The problem I've run into is that a lot of the sources have been misrepresented as a whole. After trying to slog through the claims on the talk page I discovered that Green wrote for The Age, which means that anything from them (and probably the media company that owns the paper as a whole) would be seen as a primary source. He also wrote for The Australian, which kills off a decent review I found as well. It's pretty frustrating and I think the only way for me to really discern what's usable is to make that userspace copy. I'm leaning towards deleting the lot so far. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:19, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

• So am I, but I'm aware that my dislike of spammers may be prejudicing me (all yesterday's articles started with "X is an Australian author published by Pantera Press"). JohnCD (talk) 09:24, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

• I totally understand. It's why I'm trying to write the article about Green in my userspace. I want to have a "clean" thing to go against, as the stuff they're adding is a pretty obvious spam attempt. I've got it so far at User:Tokyogirl79/John M. Green and there's just enough to where it could muster a weak keep overall. I've still got other sources to look through, but since he's written for so many papers it's a little convoluted to search through. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:35, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

• I've found just enough to where he'd squeak by, so I'm going to move my article to the mainspace at John M. Green. It's sparse, but it does have *just* enough when you count in the Australian Jewish News source. I'm not sure if I should count the SMH source since it's run through the same company that also owns The Age, though. In any case, while the coverage has been mostly from two sources (ABC and AJN), it's been over a broad enough span of time to where I think it'd pass. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:52, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

• Urgh... this just gets murkier. I tried cleaning up the article for Sulari Gentill, only to find that one of the ABC sources mentions that she is one of their correspondents. I'm not sure what this will do for any ABC sources as a whole. I'm going to bring this whole thing up on the RS noticeboard and get some other eyes looking at this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:08, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
• Brought it up here, so we'll see what they say. I'm beginning to wish I'd just nuked everything. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:19, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of Tehn Diamond Page

Mr John, I hope you are enjoying your day. Thank you so much for your information and advice but I still beg the the page for Tehn Diamond be restored, Tehn Diamond meets more than one Criteria for musicians and ensembles WP:MUSICBIO and I can quickly jot down a few pointers.

1) Tehn diamond Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable in Zimbabwe. With articles in Zimbabwe's largest daily news, Herald, http://www.herald.co.zw/tehn-diamond-sparkles-on-big-brother/

He also made appearances and was interviewed on BBC Radio in the UK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037xpbh

His music is on heavy radio rotation in Zimbabwe with some singles peaking at number 1 http://visionsradio.com/news/2013/02/tehn-brown-the-next-big-thing/

He won a National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) accolade for Best Video.http://www.sundaymail.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37275:tehn-diamond-junior-brown-to-perform-at-bba&catid=43:entertainment&Itemid=135#.UhIMJdIybfI

I admit, it was a sefish thing referencing my blog and artist website only and I m willing to revise and adjust accordingly as soon as the page is restored.

For the record, I m not affiliated to the artist in anyway. I m just a blogger and narrator who wants to contribute to the Literature of urban music in Zimbabwe. Its clear that I didnt not read the rules required to contribute on wikipedia of which I regret and appologize. Greedysouthzw (talk) 12:52, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Page "userfied" for you to work on - see your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hi, I just created User:Launchballer/Db-r4 and User:Launchballer/CSD R4-warn. There's no point creating User:Launchballer/R4, so I'll just put it here:

Redirects needing to be deleted to make room for a draft article.

• {{db-r4}}

I'd like your opinion on them before I move them to mainspace.--Launchballer 10:15, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

@Launchballer: you shouldn't create a new speedy without first getting consensus at WT:CSD; but I don't think there is any need for this, because {{db-move}}, a variant of G6, does this job. Parameter 1 "PAGE TO BE MOVED HERE" could be a draft page, there are instructions for how to place the template on a redirect page (above the redirect, or it doesn't display), and db-move is convenient for the admin because it provides a handy link to actually make the move. JohnCD (talk) 10:45, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

I thought they were the same template! Okay, you can delete the two userspace drafts. For the record, I was working on the WP:BRD principle because a couple of them were bold, unopposed additions.--Launchballer 11:07, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

BRD is okay, but with something which is the subject of strong views, and the product of long discussion, like speedy deletion criteria, it is prudent to start at the D stage of the cycle. JohnCD (talk) 22:02, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Please see the following user talk page re editing of Marcus Lemonis

Hi JohnCD, the following user User_talk:66.172.3.62 is making non-neutral and non-cited changes to the Marcus Lemonis page. When you have a moment please review the warnings i have posted. 1) are they appropriate? 2) what is the next step if s/he continues? Feedback is welcome. Thank you! ~Moshe Moshekaye (talk) 16:45, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Parkland

JohnCD,

I really appreciate you reaching out to me. I was having some weird issues with the new image not showing up after I tried updating it, but something you said made me play around with it a little more and I got it to work! Thank you for your help.

Best,Jporter1138 (talk) 18:48, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Accu-Tek

Hi John! Thank you for getting back to me. So if I'm understanding the situation, if a topic has a red name (no article) and there's just not enough to write about it (much like Accu-Tek)...it may forever be just that way because of its not well known existence? I hate red names. :\ I just can't find a whole heckuva lot of information on these guys, I most definitely know Wiki isn't a business listing, but if that's all there is, a generic "this is what they are," that's not enough to warrant getting rid of the non-article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharkyzero (talk • contribs) 14:35, 28 August 2013

Yes, the fact that there is a "red-link" does not mean that there should be an article, if there is not the significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources necessary to show notability. In the very early days, it was thought that Wikipedia might be a "list of everything", with articles on every company, band, person, building, lamp-post... that anyone cared to write about; but it was soon realised that, even without the restrictions of paper, a useful encyclopedia needs to be a bit selective, and WP:Notability and its sub-articles are the result of long (and continuing) argument about how selective. JohnCD (talk) 22:32, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Just a quick note to say thanks for helping me clear out my userspace pages so quickly, much appreciated. Mabalu (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Olympiacos BC Template

Thank you for your help JohnCD, I am still surprised that you fixed it in such short notice. Thanks again man, take care. Gtrbolivar (talk) 18:30, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Recent activity of User:Shadak

This user has spent some time recently systematically vandalising a whole rack of articles (all on the Baha'i Faith - with which he apparently has some issue or other.

see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Shadak

The ploy seems to be to delete a large block of text and call it a "typo". Since he is apparently active on the German Wiki as well, Lord only knows what else he has been up to.

Could you either fix this yourself, or pass it on to another administrator with a few minutes to spare?

By the way, thanks very much for helping me out of the hole I dug for myself in trying to get an article that had lived in my sandbox out into the wide world. I will NEVER use cut 'n' paste for that exercise ever again, honest!!

--Soundofmusicals (talk) 22:18, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

@Soundofmusicals: sorry, but I am absolutely out of time tonight (23:30 where I am). At a quick look (a) he seems to have stopped, (b) the edits I have looked at did not actually damage the articles. What he is doing is fiddling with the layout of references to get them in a form which is more compact, but less easily readable for editing purposes; but (the ones I tried) still work. It's arguable whether that's helpful, and "typo" isn't a good edit summary, but it isn't vandalism. I'll look again tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:39, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

At a very quick look of my own I think you could be right. Not that I like that form of referencing - but it is at least a relief to know that it's (most probably) not malicious. The appearance of an attack on a particular subject may very well be due to alphabetical order rather than anything else. Still appreciate your having a look when you've got the time, just in case. Thanks again. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 00:07, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Undeletion

The guidelines for Deletion Review state that a review may be justified if significant new material develops. I believe that is the case here. I have added a number of current-events references to the userpage article, please review and reconsider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ThurnerRupert/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database#Politics Highlandsun (talk) 16:48, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

@Highlandsun: sorry for delay replying, will answer on your talk page tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 22:13, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, wasn't sure if you would get notified of my followup so mentioning it here. Highlandsun (talk) 00:01, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Question about the status of my article

Hi John I received this email from you about the article User:Acheytan/Optimal Computing Budget Allocation

Your user page is not an appropriate place for this draft article, so I have "userfied" it for you - moved it into a sub-page in your user space at User:Acheytan/Optimal Computing Budget Allocation where you can work on it.

Read the links in the Welcome message above for advice, particularly WP:Your first article. A particular point I would like to make is that Wikipedia is not a place to introduce any new ideas or concepts. As an encyclopedia, its business is only to summarise what has already been published in reliable sources. The fundamental policy WP:No original research (which is worth reading in full) includes:

• "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to announce such a discovery."
• "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."

So whether an article on OCBA will be acceptable depends on whether it has been discussed by others, apart from its originator's paper.

Your user page at User:Acheytan is a place to say something about yourself and your Wikipedia work, if you like, in order to improve communication within the project; but see WP:NOTWEBHOST. Again, Welcome to Wikipedia! JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

After this I also received this

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Acheytan/Optimal Computing Budget Allocation has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Optimal Computing Budget Allocation, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article. Your draft is waiting for a review by an experienced editor, if you have any questions please ask on our Help Desk! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 20:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I have completed the article- it is no longer a draft, but in order to add final images for the article- it needs to be published first. It is what Wikipedia told me when I try to upload a file to use in an article. What can I do? Also this is not new or original research. It is something that has been published and mentioned in multiple books, conferences. What can I do so I can add the images and submit it to be published? - Should I wait for to be reviewed? Do I need to move it somewhere else because it is complete ( besides the images)

Thanks you very much for the help so far. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acheytan (talk • contribs) 02:49, 28 August 2013‎

This is the right place - the section below was added without a header, which confused things. Your article is in the right place, in a queue to be reviewed by an experienced user, who will accept it or give you feedback. If I get time tomorrow, I will look at it and see whether I can short-circuit that process by accepting it myself. If the image files you want to use are not "free" (i.e. either public domain or released under a license compatible with Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA), then they have to comply with all ten of the conditions at WP:NFCC, one of which is that they must be in use in an article - that's why you can't add them yet. JohnCD (talk) 22:20, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

The image file I am using is a equation and a graph from a published book. To which I have permission from the author to use it in a wikiarticle. What could I do. I would forward you a letter with the permission or have him add the image when the article is published.19:12, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Acheytan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acheytan (talk • contribs)

deletion of Confio Software page

I found that the entry for 'Confio Software' has been deleted as of July 2013, reason G5. We paid a contractor, apparently banned, to create the page. If there was nothing wrong with the page other than the status of its creator, can it be reinstated? Were there other violations found on that page that caused a problem? And if not, it seems it should be valid.

Thanks for helping me understand this process.

Donbergal@confio.com

50.202.183.238 (talk) 23:30, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I am sorry to have been slow to respond, and I am afraid the explanation will be a long one. The background is that, although we do not do a good job of making it clear, Wikipedia is not a place for people or organizations to "tell the world" about themselves. It is preferred that articles are written by people with no connection with the subject, and editing with a WP:Conflict of interest is discouraged, but it is possible to guide a COI editor to produce an acceptable result, if the subject is suitable - for instance, if it meets the notability threshold explained in WP:Notability (summary), which many perfectly worth companies do not. The principles are explained at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.

Paid editing is very strongly discouraged, and is tolerated only if done with full disclosure and in accordance with the principles of that guide.

It was recently discovered that an organization, probably involving several people, has been adding numerous paid-for articles in a clandestine way, creating a new account for every "client" to cover their tracks. This is the "contractor" you paid. Over 300 accounts from this group have been detected so far, and it is likely that there many undiscovered.

To tolerate this sort of thing would be a quick way to kill Wikipedia. Once readers realised that articles were generally written by their subjects' PR departments, all credibility would be lost, and WP would become a sort of up-market Myspace, with a decaying encyclopedia tacked on the side - decaying, because the volunteers who build and maintain the real encyclopedia would lose interest, and the vandals and spammers would take over. Therefore the people behind the group of accounts associated with the account User:Morning277 (one of the earliest identified) have been formally banned, which entails automatic deletion of anything they have contributed.

At this point your question arises: if the article is OK, isn't it better to keep it? Unfortunately, no, because then the ban becomes completely ineffective: the master spammer can continue setting up a new account for every client, and throwing his paid-for articles in to see which will stick. The only way to put him out of business is to ensure that all his paying clients find their articles deleted. For this reason, the policy is WP:BAN#Bans apply to all editing, good or bad.

Another question you may ask is, couldn't experienced volunteer editors clean up the articles to make sure they were up to standard? No, because (a) the flood is too great, and (b) the volunteers are just that, and work on what interests them: they will not be enthusiastic about spending their freely-given time cleaning up work for which someone else has been paid.

For these reasons, your article will not be undeleted. What should you do? Do not go back to your contractor. See WP:BFAQ#I think my organization deserves an article on Wikipedia but none exists. What can I do?. Read WP:Notability (summary) again, and think hard about it, because if your company cannot meet that standard you will be wasting your time. Read WP:PSCOI. If you want to try making a draft article for consideration, create an account, send me a message from it, and I will give you more advice. You must expect to be met with suspicion, because you will seem like yet another Morning277 sockpuppet.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:57, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Freddie Combs

I am looking create an article on Freddie Combs from the X-Factor, I saw that you have Deleted one before? ACase0000 (talk) 05:51, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

@ACase0000: that was a PROD deletion, so I have restored it on your request. You will need to add more references to significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources to show WP:Notability - just appearing on the X Factor is not enough. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:45, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Ok Thanks !!!! ACase0000 (talk) 01:29, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Can i use http://www.greenevillesun.com Greeneville, Tennessee's newspaper for a reference? ACase0000 (talk) 02:12, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on John Rester Zodrow, article

Thank you for your guidance and help on my article, John Rester Zodrow. I have referenced all my works, written everything in correct encyclopedic format and categorized the article itself. In addition, I feel the article now describes sufficient import to join Wikipedia. Before, the article was placed there by someone adding an article I had not approved. I hope this new contribution will change the proposed deletion of article from 2009. (Johnzodrow (talk) 20:36, 31 August 2013 (UTC))

request for page restoration

Dear JohnCD,

I'm writing to request you restore my wikipedia page. It got deleted somehow 6 weeks ago, with the code G5. I'm not sure what that means, or why it was deleted, but I guess it could have something to do with notability?

Anyway, I thought I put a couple of good references in. I'm also referenced in the page for Steven Bo Keeley.

I can dig up more if it'd help. Please let me know.

Drthere (talk) 16:05, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

What page are you referring to? I need to know either its title, or failing that the username of the account that created it. JohnCD (talk) 21:44, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Project

Hey there not sure of the process after articles are deleted... I saw your name as the deleting user on an article I re-wrote in my "sandbox". I can't make sense of the two deletes (I'm new) so I tried to make it clear how we at Oracle SD use this software in my writing/sources. Any insight will be appreciated. Colossus235 (talk) 21:38, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Hey JohnCD, not sure if you saw my last message... Could you take a quick look at my "sandbox" so far? Your suggestions will be appreciated. Colossus235 (talk) 19:59, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

See my reply to Confio above at User talk:JohnCD#deletion of Confio Software page. JohnCD (talk) 22:16, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Crabtree's bludgeon

Apparently you deleted this page because it is a hoax. According to the following link, Crabtree's bludgeon was a hoax, but an historical one, connected to a famous physicist, and commemorated by an annual lecture. I suggest that for these reasons it either deserves a page of its own, or at least a link to a page about R V Jones.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-professor-r-v-jones-1290472.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tenscraze (talk • contribs) 22:33, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

It was a very thin and vague article: "Its origin is obscure, but appears to be associated with R. V. Jones and may appear in the Crabtree Orations... " and did not make clear that Crabtree was fictional. The only reference was the book of the Orations. Your source is better, but I doubt if the Bludgeon is notable enough for a stand-alone article. It could make a redirect, if you could work a mention of it into Jones' article or, perhaps better, into an expanded version of the existing (but also also thin) article Joseph Crabtree (fictional polymath). JohnCD (talk) 16:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For speedy admin action on Camay Fan's advertising activity. Allenjambalaya (talk) 10:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you! He seems to have got the message, but I have watchlisted the page, just in case. JohnCD (talk) 21:51, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for September 5

This Thursday's VisualEditor update was mostly about stability and performance improvements, and some preparatory work for major planned improvements, along with bug fixes for non-English language support and right-to-left text. Everything that the English Wikipedia received today has been running on Mediawiki for a week already.

Officially, the problem with the link inspector not linking to a specific section on a page (bug 53219) was fixed in this release, although that critical patch actually appeared here earlier.

A number of bugs related to copy-and-paste functionality were fixed (48604, bug 50043, bug 53362, bug 51538, among others). Full rich copy-and-paste from external sources into VisualEditor is expected "soon".

In other fixes, you can no longer add empty ref tags (<ref/>) (bug 53345). Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text. This was fixed in bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (bug 53507).

Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

getting my page back up

Hi JohnCD,

Thanks for the reply...

The page's title was "Tom Dyson".

This is what it says in the deletion log, but I'm not sure what this stuff means or who these people are....

16:58, 15 July 2013 JohnCD (talk | contribs) deleted page Tom Dyson (G5: Creation by a banned or blocked user ([[User:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MooshiePorkFace and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morning277|[[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MooshiePorkFace]...)

Drthere (talk) 01:19, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

For a first, but long, reply see User talk:JohnCD#deletion of Confio Software page higher up this page, to another user in the same situation as you. More specific advice tomorrow. JohnCD (talk) 21:19, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Daily Flag for DailyBread undeletion request

Hi John,

I am extremely new to this process so please bear with me; any and all advice is extremely welcome.

Two things: first I'd like to ensure that we are in good shape to undelete/restore the Daily Flag for Daily Bread page, as we are entering our third year. If you see issues, please let us know and if I can help to resolve them I will.

Secondly, I am involved in a project entitled The Kennedy Suite which will be an evolving cultural project debuting on the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination but touring on the art festival circuit with musicians all over the world interpreting a 14-song cycle about different narrative perspectives of the events of November 22, 1963. Is there an appropriate way to give this a wikipedia page?

Many thanks, Nancarrowiki

Nancarrowiki (talk) 15:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of article 'John Rester Zodrow'

Dear John,

in regards to the deletion of my article, the several delete votes against my page did not address or identify the changes that were made to bring the article up to the standards of Wikipedia. I know you helped me with several of them. I don't think it is fair that the article was mostly judged on the 2009 contents and not the newly added references and encyclopedic writing that we contributed. If you look at my published novels, television and motion picture movies, and Broadway contributions, along with the fine philosophical write up about my works in the Biographical of Contemporary Catholic Writing, I think my article has sufficient import to be admitted. In addition, those few who signed in, basing their votes mostly on the old 2009 article (which I did not submit), sounded flippant and superficial in their quick condemnations. They judged such things wrongly as my books were self-published (they were not), and not returning or checking to the site to see the changes that we made. These sorts of biased, quick judgments should not be used to harm a reputation.

I request to have this article 'John Rester Zodrow' restored. It is a good example of an ongoing Living Person's growing accomplishments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnzodrow (talk • contribs) 16:40, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:32, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Entry for Lois Walden

Dear John,

I have been trying to make an entry for Lois Walden, American singer, songwriter and novelist. It was rejected twice because the references were not accepted, even ones that were links to existing Wikepedia entries. I have deleted that entry and would like to start again with a very short entry but apparently I need your permission. Would be grateful a) for the permission and any guidance you can offer. Here are three obvious links for Lois Walden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_Glory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_in_Hard_Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd_Lambda_Literary_Awards

Many thanks,

Clintoncorners (Phillippa Weiland) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clintoncorners (talk • contribs) 19:33, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. JohnCD (talk) 22:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Undeletion request

I did something wrong and it deleted my post you falsely accused can you please do me a favor and edit it so the names i post are in blue like this is not how i planned on spending my day after adding a bio to my own name. Listen nobody is gonna post anything on my name they haven't since I took counsil in June and finally I decided to post something about myself and it was deleted then I rewrote one with more care and concern then the first one and had you try deleting it saying im not really who i am. thats kool to be protective of my name but seriously like fuck man any more accusing me of things you have no auth to judge im not me like fuck man theres nothing about me anywhere classified stuff so thats why I clearly explained it was me writing my own one because im the only one allowed to do it trust me. so ya hopefully I copied it im reposting it if your gonna talk shit about my post make it about something I wrote if its out of line so i know but please dont start going there and while your at it please make my post authentic and if you really think im not me and just wasting my time for no reason wanna see pieces of my birth certificate so ya thanks Ive had a rough 24 hours (— Preceding unsigned comment added by AuthVeriSignG5 (talk • contribs) 18:33, 8 September 2013‎

No, sorry, I have explained on your talk page that Wikipedia is not the place for what you want to do. You have decided to tell the world about yourself, and share knowledge that only you have got; but that is not what an encyclopedia does. For detailed reasons, see WP:Verifiability, WP:No original research and WP:Autobiography. Try Facebook or Myspace, where they have different rules. JohnCD (talk) 19:19, 8 September 2013 (UTC).

Choqok

Hi,

There are some resources to prove the notability of the Choqok article such as this, this, this one and this. Now that software is ported to many platforms and most modern operating systems supports that. I think it is not against the notability guidelines anymore. If those resources proves the notability of that article, please let me to recreate that article. (I didn't create that article at the first time)

Regards, Bkouhi (talk) 07:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

I have "userfied" the article for you - undeleted it and moved it into a sub-page in your user space at User:Bkouhi/Choqok where you can work on it. JohnCD (talk) 21:49, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added those references to the article and now I think it's ready. If it still has problems, please let me know. Thanks for your help. Bkouhi (talk) 09:35, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello John,

I'm still waiting. Please review that article if you have time for. I'll be thankful. Bkouhi (talk) 04:07, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I'd say at most one of your sources, the H-open article, is the kind of reliable third-party source we're looking for, and you don't really make use of what that source says - for example, that Choqok currently does not support Twitter. Most other sources are directly associated with Choqok itself. Huon (talk) 04:32, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

@Talk page stalkers: thanks for your help. @Bkouhi: I do apologise - somehow this one slipped off my to-do list. If it should happen again, feel free to poke me sooner. I'm sorry, but I agree with Huon - I still don't see the significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources necessary to show notability. See whether you can find anything more; if not, I have no objection if you apply at WP:Deletion review to get other opinions. Apologies again for delay. JohnCD (talk) 22:05, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Unfortunately, I can't find any other reliable source. There is Lifehacker and h-online and also heise.de. Aren't they reliable? I've just thought that those are reliable. If those are not, feel free to delete the article from my user page. Regards -- Bkouhi (talk) 14:29, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Gratitude for restoring J Rice

I noticed you have now restored the page for J Rice that I had established and developed, but had been deleted. I really appreciate that you have done so for this very talented artist and I dedicate to you his single "Thank You for a Broken Heart" as a word of thanks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPjnEXjgas in addition to a brilliant cover of his of a Michael Jackson song called "Hold My Hand" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia-CrnPXq8k . Again my deepest gratitude. werldwayd (talk) 21:02, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, but see WP:Requests for undeletion#J Rice. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Undeleting article about Plotagon

Hi John,

please undelete the page about Plotagon.

Plotagon, founded in December 2010 by myself, Christopher Kingdon has, in co-operation with KTH ("The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) have created the most user friendly direct text-to-movie translation tool there is. Wikipedia rightly lists Plotagon as an alternative to now disfunct Xtranormal (see below):

"Similar companies: Plotagon (www.plotagon.com) GoAnimate Muvizu Moviestorm iClone animoto PowToon SlideRocket Prezi"

If you have any questions please contact me or check out our free trial at www.plotagon.com. I think you will find that this truly revolutionary tool is worth being covered in Wikipedia. Especially since you list most of our "competitors".

Brgs, @@@@Chris@plotagon.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.66.153.111 (talk • contribs) 19:58, 1 September 2013‎

Wikipedia is not a business listing directory, or a place for companies to tell the world abut themselves. The inclusion criterion is called WP:Notability and requires references showing significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. If you think you can do that, I will "userfy" the article - undelete it into your user space where you can work on it; but read WP:PSCOI and WP:BFAQ. JohnCD (talk) 21:43, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Kim Cesarion made available for editing

Kim Cesarion is a talented and successful Swedish artist who has charted in four countries Denmark (peaking at #6), Sweden (#7), Finland (#11) and Norway (#13). But I noticed that after some earlier contributors established the page for a number of times despite deletion probably for very inadequate editing, it prompted some editor colleagues to render the page inaccessible for re-establishment. Since I noticed you have reinstated the J Rice page, is it possible to check the new Kim Cesarion page I am suggesting on one of my User pages to be basis for a new article on him? Kim Cesarion article I am suggesting is as follows: User:Werldwayd/Articles-New. Note that we already have pages for the artist in 11 languages: ar, da, de, es, fi, hy, is, no, ro, tr, sv In case you can't do it, can you refer me to the appropriate department where I could present the request? Many regards werldwayd (talk) 05:44, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

You should ask the administrator who "salted" the title, Amatulic (talk). If s/he does not agree, you can apply at WP:Deletion review. JohnCD (talk) 09:18, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for the suggestion. I will contact the colleague editor. werldwayd (talk) 09:27, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Mohammed Fahad Al Harthi Deletion

Hi John, I am not sure if it was created and I do not have the username and password either.

Maisa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maisa Khudair (talk • contribs) 09:22, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

In that case I cannot find anything to undelete - I have tried every variation on his name that I can think of. I can find no evidence that there has ever been an article about him. There are references to him in the articles Arab News and Sayidaty, which would probably have been "wikilinked" if there had been an article.

You are very welcome to write one: it seems from Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL that there are sources available. Read WP:Your first article for advice, and consider using the Wikipedia:Article Wizard to help you. JohnCD (talk) 09:47, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! . I will start creating one for sure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maisa Khudair (talk • contribs) 09:56, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Username Change

Hello, I welcome New Wikipedian's Daily and some of Wikipedia users have concerns with term "Virgin" in my username. I use "Virgin" word in my username because of a locality i visit sometime virgin islands, i am also a Virign user and a big fan of virgin gigantic. Some of wikipedia users think this "Virgin" Word falls under Wikipedia:Username_policy#Disruptive_or_offensive_usernames and would be a violation of our Wikipedia:Username_policy. I have submitted a username request today Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#virgininfatuation_.E2.86.92_Vii007. Can you please suggest me something in this matter and help me change username if you think it may be offensive? Thanks. --VI-007 (talk) 13:47, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't myself see any problem with your username, but if you find some people do it makes sense to change it. Your application at WP:CHU/Simple looks fine, but I can't do the change for you, that takes a bureaucrat and I am not one (I only commented on the application below yours because I had blocked it as a company account, and the new name was as bad as the old one). The bureaucrats watch that page and it usually gets a fairly fast turnround. JohnCD (talk) 14:24, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

thanks for your help

Barry rimmer (talk) 16:10, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

G13 restore

I'm not sure I would have restored Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Passion for Skiing in it's current form, for it's promotional enough to be G11, as well as hopelessly non-notable -- only 5 copies in libraries. I'll give the ed. a week or so, and then i'm listing it. DGG ( talk ) 22:12, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

No worries. I agree it's not likely to go anywhere for notability reasons, but I didn't think it was quite bad enough for G11, and the author seemed to be trying to learn. It is curious how people who have let their submission lie for six months (or in some cases up to four years), still rush to ask for them back when notified of deletion. JohnCD (talk) 09:12, 13 September 2013 (UTC)