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The page was an informational background on my work with and contributions to the computer and video game industry....why was it deleted? No notice? Seems a little harsh to me. If my entry did not meet your standards, it would have been nice if I would have had the opportunity to bring in into compliance...only one of the posts in the delete debate get it right...everyone else just seemed to be focused on the fact that I am a lawyer.
Is there any way that I can resubmit...I read through the deletion log and they were looking at my entry as an attorney self promotion instead of fairly considering my contributions and role in the Video game industry. It seems to me that being a published author, speaking at all main industry conferences for the past 5 years, doing cross over presentations and simulation and training conference for military simulation community, being an elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Game Developers Association and heading both their Foundation and their Quality of Life taskforces as well as having a monthly series of articles on Game Law on the Gamasutra.com web site, the premier game development on-line resource, ought to be enough. My entry was way more than an ad for a lawyer looking for business...what can I do about this?
hi mailer diablo - you recently deleted the lonelygirl15 article, because the overwhelming concensus was delete in the vote, a position you probably noticed I think is wrong! There are now several articles on Wiki about undeniably less well known YouTube users (some of which have survived deletion votes, I guess because a different crowd was interested at the time) - this would seem to me to expose a bit of a contradiction / double standard in the wiki which can't be good. What could we do about that? Delete the others, and merge some of the info? - If i did that - and put back the lonelygirl15 stuff into a merged article, does that violate guidelines for recreating deleted content? - you thoughts would be appreciated.... cheerio! Petesmiles 01:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Recent Delete: The result of delete was presumably due to non-verifiability.
The original AfD was initiated by an administrator (Brian/btball) - based the AfD on an erroneous premise on the number of hits that was got through a Google search. However the dispute remained on the verifiability. I am enclosing a scan of a press/news item that was featured in a leading newspaper in India that does acknowledge the notability and verifiability of the individual. This was featured in the 2nd Aug 2005 and the news paper can be contacted for its verifiability.
(Verifyability for Jayram Menon].
Its upto the administrators to review the deletion and be fair.
AshleyMiller 07:28, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Jayram Menon. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. - AshleyMiller 15:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Please tell me how to back up the phpmyvisites page, as before, and why such a bizarre decision has been taken.
Thank you
Matthieu A
There was no discussion about deleting. In fact, there were no copyright issues with that page whatsoever. Wikipedia does not work that way, this page needs to be restored. DLX 07:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for restoring it. DLX 11:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm wondering if you can help me get Toyota Tercel to featured status. Where you live, it's probably the Toyota Vios! Help is appreciated. --TheM62Manchester 11:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
That AfD was a multiple-article Afd, also covering Devon Dawson, the related non-notable musician. So the Dawson article should be deleted, too. Thanks. --John Nagle 20:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Sure thing, I'll leave the comments here on your talk page. By the way, the tool is in javascript, so adding {{subst:js|User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js}} to your monobook.js will allow you to do the same.
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Per WP:CONTEXT and WP:BTW, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006, but do not link January 2006.[3]
As per WP:MOSDATE, dates shouldn't use th; for example, instead of using January 30th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day.
There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view. For example,
it has been
might be weasel words, and should be provided with proper citations (if they already do, or are not weasel terms, please strike this comment).[5]
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Hey MD, just a quick note to let you know I withdrew my RfA at 13/11/10. Thanks for your neutral (and accept my extremely belated welcome back) :) --james(talk) 11:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Rod Allen Drinking Game. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review.
I submitted your deletion for review as I don't feel that a consensus was fully reached and the decision was premature as the discusssion was still ongoing.134.215.210.125 16:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
You supported me twice. I don't really have much of a problem with that, but I figured I'd tell you. Regards, alphaChimplaudare 00:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you decided to delete this article. I just wondered if you could share the reasons behind that decision. I note that you say it wasn't correctly sourced but I wonder why that merits a delete without having a source tag added for any period of time. Thanks Mallanox 00:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
OK, I accept that it was unverified but not that it was unverifiable. However, I don't know enough about the subject to push the point. Mallanox 00:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
That only raises more questions for me. Searching using Google gives 1740 results. How do you know which of these are verification of what you want to know. And how many hits are enough? Mallanox 00:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help though I'm disappointed that the article is now completly unverifiable because even if I find evidence, there is nowhere for it to go. Mallanox 01:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Why the removal of the link on the pharmacoviglance article?
Sorry - a bit new here. The link was under the external links page and was to a tool that does pharmacovigilance. I am not sure why it was removed?
Thomrossi 02:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC) (Was removed)
I noticed that you've twice relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virtual Digital Cable. I don't know if you had a chance to investigate when you reviewed the discussion, but if you check contribs for all of the "keep" comments, they have all originated from users with few or zero edits outside of that AFD. The multiple "delete" comments have originated from regular contributors. Thank you! — NMChico24 03:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Ok. I get the impression you feel I was insulting your intelligence or questioning your decision. I just didn't understand the rationale is all, so I thought I'd bring that info to your attention. Anyway, thanks for responding. — NMChico24 03:58, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your support vote on my request for adminship! With a final vote count of (82/5/0), it succeeded, and I'm now an administrator! I am thrilled with the overwhelming positive support from the community, and sincerely thank you once again for taking your time to voice your opinion. Feel free to contact me with any comments/suggestions in the future! —Mets501 (talk) 03:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (53/2/1). I've spent the day trying out the new tools, and trying not to mess things up too badly :). I was quite thrilled with all the support, both from the people I see around every day, as well as many users who I didn't know from before, yet wrote such wonderful things about me. I look forward to helping to serve all of you, and the project. Let me know if there's anything I can help you with. -Goldom‽‽‽⁂ 04:34, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm running a new WikiProject on closed AfD's and I noticed that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insite was said to be deleted. Yet it remains. I checked the log and it wasnt undeleted. I'm not sure whether to slap the template on the talk page or not here... SynergeticMaggot 06:43, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Nevermind. :) It was recreated. I should have checked the history first. Sorry. SynergeticMaggot 06:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I see you often deleting the articles I put up in WP:Copyright problems therefore I hope you can help me. User:Yukonjack copied & pasted a lot of material from, he claims, his website to wikipedia. See Talk:The Cascades and Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2006 August 8. He says he has, and I have no reason to doubt that, send an e-mail to permissions and they responsed to him. See here. Long story short, do you know how long it takes for permissons to get back to wikipedia and give the go ahead? He seems like a nice user and he is waiting patiently so far, and I would hate for him that the articles will be deleted. But of course, I also don't want unfree copyrighted material on wikipedia. Cheers, Garion96(talk) 14:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. That's partly what I thought. When he has recieved the confirmation I will ask him to send it to me (to be sure) and will remove the tags. Garion96(talk) 14:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
hello. i wish to re-nominate a page for deletion - Meredith Jung-En Woo. it was nominated once before and i have read the debate on keep or delete. i found the reasons for keeping it to be weak. thus, i submit it be deleted. specifically, she is not, by the academic standards of her field, a prolific or central writer. as an example, the koreanist bruce cumings (to whom she is married) has over 20 books. THAT is noteworthy among academics. next, her accomplishments such as appearing in the new york times are neither exceptionally noteworthy or overly numerous. in brief, she is a very good scholar and has authored some very good works, but nothing about her record makes her exceptional in the field of korean studies. i know of a many other scholars in the field whose records would warrent a page before her.
in short, it seems more of a "vanity" page than a page dedicated to an exceptional scholar whose ideas have reworked or reshaped scholarship in their field. as such, i ask that you reopen the debate to delete the page.
finally, i did not know exactly how to reopen this discussion, so i clicked on the link given on the discussion page, which led me here. thank you. Hongkyongnae 22:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
GoKrida AfD relist; browser-based games policy/guidelines
Have you read my comment on this article's AfD discussion? It's almost torture that there appears to be no consensus! :) Perhaps you'd like to add a comment or vote there yourself; or are you a disinterested party? I could try to encourage the GoKrida participants to add something to the discussion, except this might be seen as meatpuppetry; most of them haven't been logged in anyway when they've contributed in the past to the article or AfD discussions.
Do you have any thoughts on the idea that should be special/different guidelines or policy regarding browser-based games? (Read my comment above the new relist notice, and the pages I linked there, which also have comments from myself on this issue.) B7T 12:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
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You deleted article Open Europe under the AFD procedure (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Open Europe), but I see that someone has recreated it. It is still a political manifesto and still is unreferenced. Does it qualify for fast track deletion? --Red King 20:36, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for that - Deleteagain is a new one on me. --Red King 19:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
How do you feel about contributing featured pictures? Does this carry as much weight with you as a featured article? HighInBC 21:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there an archive somewhere of the deleted article Consumer energy conservation strategies other than Google's archive? I'd like to merge a lot of that content into the Wikibooks article, and I don't know how to get to it now that it's been deleted. Thanks — Jonathan Kovaciny (talk|contribs) 02:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of page Stephen Goodfellow. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. ==
Hi,
Lovely day here in Detroit. Hope it's nice where you are. I'm not sure I've got this right, so I've included the post:
16 August 2006
Stephen Goodfellow
The posting of this individual ought to be reinstated.
A simple search of the web demonstrates the individual has presence and impact on society. (Try searching "Stephen Goodfellow" and "science") or ("Stephen Goodfellow" and "art") or ("Stephen Goodfellow" and "music") or ("Stephen Goodfellow" and "historian"). As to the removal of my article, I strongly object to the cavalier manner in which my research was dismissedby the initial critic.
Language use such as 'bollocks' does not set the stage for a reasonable thought process and is an overpowering word that easily sways. It may well be that Mr. Goodfellow is vain, but it does not in any way alter his contributions to society.
Please consider reinstating, or if the article deleted, allow reposting.
Esteban 14:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hi. Would you mind taking a look at Talk:V for Vendetta (film)? I'm concerned that it is no longer of WP:FA status and there is active resistance to removing a "trivia" section that is neither referenced nor "brilliant prose". Thanks. Jkelly 22:28, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
I disagree. I think that when an article is no longer properly referenced and no longer meets the brilliant prose criteria, that's the right time for a review. Remember that reviews don't automatically lead to removal, they just get input from outside editors who are interested in maintaining high standards for featured articles. There's not much point in going through the featured article process if we don't then maintain that quality. Jkelly 16:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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Just a note to let you know that someone created another stub on this article, which you closed the AfD on back in May. That stub has now been tagged G4, but the new user claims the new article is substantially different. Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2006_August_18#LogMeIn. -- nae'blis 15:32, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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In return for your kind Chinese wisdom, I pulled back into my brain for the most fitting thing to say from my 7 months of Chinese tutelage back in Keene, New Hampshire without sounding sappy.
"I like to eat at the Chinese Restaurant" was the best I could do, and I assume I spelled it wrong, but it's the thought that counts, right?
Good to be back, always know that i'll do what I can in your support. Karmafist 00:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
And here's to many more years of editing to come.
I gotta figure out a better system than Pinyin, it makes no sense to most westerners I know. Anyway, you'd say the sentence you put on my page as....
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Thanks for the link to WP:GDS. I see that much discussion about related proposals has gone on during my Wikibreak, so off I go to read it :). NoSeptember 04:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Im requesting a DELETION REVIEW.. and yeah Im pissed off... sorry but this article should be there... (when i first wrote it in May '06 it was one of my first articles, so i didnt know what I was doing but still it should be there) .. some one just started it up again (another user not me) and then it was deleted as I was writing on the article's talk page. Considering the number of articles I've seen which barely assert any claim of notability, it really makes me wonder why this article gets shot down twice. Also I didnt have any knowledge about the debate and WAS NOT INCLUDED in the process... nice going. I mean who are you guys anyway? Why do you even care about an article about a punk house in Iowa. What could possibly be so important that it even warranted a debate/vote? I've seen articles on here that have one line like Honky punk.... I mean if that article can basically go untouched for over a year, than what's the big deal about a NOTABLE DIY VENUE that hosted hundreds of bands, including some that assert huge NOTABILITY???? HUH??? DOes that make any sense??? Xsxex 05:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
I have just re-written the page and also can you un-delete the images that were associated with the article, specifically: File:Tbphouse.jpg and File:Tbpmwi.jpg which were both deleted by you on 23:58, 22 May 2006. Thanks. write me please. Discuss. Communicate. whats wikipedia if we are not communicating?? huh? Xsxex 06:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
But I am losing faith that the vocal crowd will ever let any kind of "reversal" of their authority fly. Sorry if I came off as stressed, I have a lot of that recently from certain things on here. :( rootology (T) 15:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
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rcog@Insert something here 07:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my RfA. Give me shout if I can be of help. Thanks/wangi 00:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
