Mike Blackney

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Please sign all comments, and be courteous. I'll try to respond here or on your own talk page if you specify it. -- Mike Blackney

Three recent Speedy tags removed.

Hi Harry, yesterday I added three speedy deletion tags to articles Inheritance semantics, Implementation inheritance and Functional normalization. On the talk pages for each of these articles, the original author User:Shawn_wiki requested that these pages be deleted. I was under the impression from WP:CSD#General_criteria that the request for deletion was enough, not that the author needed to specify speedy deletion. Am I missing something? --Mike Blackney 03:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Generally when I go through the Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user, I look at the history of the page to confirm whether the author nominated it, or blanked the page. If not, I remove the tag and move on. If the nominating user has a similar username to the author, I might investigate to see whether it is a sockpuppet or a bot account. I don't usually check the talk page because I don't expect anything to be there. Because you didn't use an edit summary to indicate otherwise, I assumed it was a malplaced tag and removed it. If you had used an edit summary such as Nominate for speedy deletion: author requested deletion on talk page, I would have been alerted to this fact. I'll delete them now that I know more details, but for all your edits, use edit summaries so that other users can more easily assess the edit and/or get more information that would not be there otherwise. Harryboyles 05:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification - you're a canny fellow :) That's completely clear, now. I'll use summaries more effectively in the future. -- Mike Blackney 05:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Belated welcome

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Heading levels

Hi,

You may want to adjust the heading levels of your talk page - for one thing the size is similar to that of the page title (more of an issue in mainspace pages) but also it tends to give the impression to readers that the comments below the =Single equal headings= are all continuations or sub-conversations related to the heading at the highest level. O'course it's your talk page and the guidelines are pretty lax. WLU 23:03, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Changed. I hope that clears up your confusion :) -- Mike Blackney 01:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I was totally fine, I understood. I just worry about the poor, helpless noobs randomly reading talk pages :) WLU