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Speedy Deletion

For the page Weston crawford, it should be speedy delete. See page for details. •Malinaccier• ^T/C 21:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Gracias. Couldn't find the reason to do it...completely missed that one. - Smashville 21:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

BunBun

This is not a test not everything in an encyclopedia should have a history for example if you create and use a new toy, its a new toy there is no history but it is for real and you are using it therefore you can add some information about it to an encyclopedia. one week ago there were no earthquake in Peru but now there is one and we can talk and write about it in wikipidia. I was not joking or making up a story about what I said. I created and used the word BunBun and now 3 other people who liked the idea are using that. Maybe in the future it will become as popular as Honey or baby. I am the inventor and I want to talk about that. If someone ells has a different idea can add it or edit it but please don't delete it. BunBun is for real. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahyad (talk • contribs)

The page has been deleted by admins 3 times. You've received warnings for it twice. This discussion is over. You've been warned by the admins about posting it. Smashville 22:35, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

David Weber redirect

Sorry, I just flubbed the redirect syntax. Fixed, and I removed the CSD nom. — Saxifrage ✎ 03:40, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

It's all good. I realized that and did a strikethrough on the notice. - Smashville 03:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem! The speed of that cleanup was impressive enough that I can hardly object. — Saxifrage ✎ 08:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Corpse roads

Thanks for the +ve feedback. I came across one whilst on holiday in the English 'lake district' and it brought back memories of Dartmoor legends (Devon)and 'voila.' Rosser 11:18, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Todd J. Henry

Toddhenry 04:09, 19 August 2007 (UTC)Hmmmmm, several members of the science press (Atlanta Journal Consitution, LA Times, Science magazine, National Public Radio) as well as students have asked for background info on yours truly (Todd Henry), so I figured I'd make their lives easier by putting something on Wikipedia.

I suggest you take a look at Wikipedia:Autobiography, Wikipedia:Spam and Wikipedia:Notability. If you are notable, someone else will create a page for you. Smashville 04:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, in my opinion COI and AUTPO are reasons for extreme caution, but not reasons to delete, let alone speedy delete. I don't think the guy is all that likely to be notable, but an assertion of notability is enough to avoid db-nn, and I interpret db11 narrowly to mean articles that cant be improved. I improved it a little. What I did that was wrong was not tagging it for "notability", or looking for references further But I remind you that according to WP:CSD anyone except the author can remove speedy templates, admin or not, and so you should not use do not remove speedy templates in the edit summary unless it actually is the author. The correct course after i had removed it was not for you to put it back, but to take it to afd if you were sure it wasnt notable. according to WP:Deletion policy that's the way to go, not replacing it in the hope you will find another admin who agrees with you, though it seems you did--and it is certainly not an article i am going to fight for.DGG (talk) 05:43, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

So the fact that he flatly admitted his lack of notability (no one is able to find any info on him) on my user talk page means nothing? Smashville 05:49, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

CSD G1 is not applicable to content not in english.

Hello. You recently placed a speedy tag on 小武. I'd just like to notify you that CSD G1 doesn't apply to content not written in English. Instead it should be tagged with {{notenglish}}. henrik•talk 07:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I was unaware that question marks were not considered English. Smashville 07:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see. That is most likely a problem with your web browser not being able to display unicode properly. The text seems to be written in Chinese. henrik•talk 07:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay...yeah, pure question marks on my end...good ol' Firefox Smashville 07:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Issuing of warnings

Hi, Just a pointer whilst on vandal patrol, it is customary when issuing a warning on a new page to not start with a lvl4 warning, which you did here. Once a good faith level warning (lvl 1)has been issued we can go up through the warning, with the realisation that they fully understand the rules on wikipedia. Using a level 4 warning might be unecessary and inflame a situation where they may have stopped after one warning. Also just if you can remember to sign your warnings ~~~~ (though I think you just forgot this once). Any further questions please don't hesitate to get in touch. Regards ^Khukri 09:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I think I know which page you are talking about. I did it in the first day when I started doing this...before I really understood what constituted "obvious" vandalism. Smashville 16:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

It was a report that you filed to AIV this morning, but no harm done. regards ^Khukri 21:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh...yeah. I think I'm a little overly-defensive of my hometown's page. Smashville 01:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Garrod Farms

Thx for your help. I think asking the place is better, I don't know much about it. You might want to email rides@garrodfarms.com and ask them to improve the page. I can't use my email at the moment, thx! Victoria uni 02:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Prosite Business Solutions

I fixed the text you labeled as blatant advertising on the Prosite Business Solutions page. I will readjust the text again if you see fit. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pbspbt (talk • contribs) 17:08, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

The existence of the article itself and the gigantic company logo are both pretty unacceptable. Smashville 17:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you think the new text is blatant advertising. It's completely different and its a history of the company, not advertising. I didn't even put up the logo. Please explain yourself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pbspbt (talk • contribs) 18:57, August 23, 2007 (UTC).

I have no need to explain myself over an article for your company that was speedy deleted by admins 3 days ago. Smashville 21:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Adding a Bio

I am adding a bio... I copied a template and making revisions to it... perhaps you might be willing to help me.

Thanks

Dale Fletcher 20:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I suggest writing everything to Word or something similar first - or even your user page. Virtually anytime you put up a blank page, it's going to get a speedy delete. Smashville 20:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Check the Wikicodia talk page

Please check the wikicodia talk page. I've sources for notability.

Muhammad Abou-Basha 20:48, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Submit it to Deletion Review if you believe that the AFD process was flawed. However, being ranked 1 millionth in something is hardly notable. Smashville 20:53, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Tristan Tondino

This article was not spam. I was working on Irrealism with other authors last summer - Deleting Tondino from that web of ideas is unfortunate. Joseane 03:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I didn't claim it was spam. I put an SD template on the page because there was absolutely nothing on it. I requested a speedy deletion because it was an empty page. Smashville 03:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Finally, someone to talk to. I want to put something back.Joseane 03:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, but until you actually post an article with content in it, it will be repeatedly deleted as a blank page Smashville 03:27, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

But I did post an article with content in it. I was in the process of adding citations and it was deleted. I don't understand why.Joseane 03:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

All the article you posted had in it was your user name. Smashville 03:41, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, something went wrong and then it all just vanished. Joseane 03:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting "Latawnya"

I really appreciate it....it is an....interesting book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rex1932 (talk • contribs)

That's putting it...lightly...ha! Smashville 21:40, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Prairie Bayou

Thanks, I added a bit more today on his dam and did a brief article on his sire, Little Missouri. Handicapper 16:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Sports injuries copyvio

As I said on my talk page: thanks for pointing this out - I should have gone through the revision history. Instead, I just assumed that, since the topic itself seemed vaguely redundant, it was the work of a single user who copy-pasted the copyvio material and wrote a brief leader. Thanks for your diligence. --Action Jackson IV 06:06, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Looks like it was just one user who also created a few related spam pages. Smashville 06:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for tagging that article with a better speedy deletion tag. I was unaware the article was a copyright violation. Now we just have to wait for it to be deleted. Xtreme racer 06:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Quite welcome! Smashville 06:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

My mistake

Sorry about adding a CSD tag to Craig David's Fourth Studio Album. The way the article was titled and first created it looked like it could be just a general "oh, this artist has had rumors of a new album" type of thing. But now the editor has added more info about it and it is clearly not a CSD. Thanks for resolving situation though. Have a good one! --Pilotboi / talk / contribs 04:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

It's all good...it could still potentially be an AfD nom...but there was enough info for it to at least not be a speedy. Smashville 04:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Kensington Court Gardens - Google'able

The sources that I used for this article are documents available at the local Library in Kensington. This includes the census documents, scans of old newspapers and an article by a historian that was published on behalf of an estate agent. Any guidance you can provide would be much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.192.0.10 (talk) 07:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 07:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sara Jay (2nd nomination)

Comment left. I trust you will now change your vote to delete? Epbr123 00:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Point taken, vote changed. Smashville 00:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

AFD TDVision

I'm workin hard on making sure this article shows no COI issues and is not advertising. Can you help me out a little bit here? I would be ok if it was tagged similar to headplay but this article definitely deserves to be kept. Can you give me some advice? 3dtech 16:04, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Divizia A 1990-91 and others like it

Yes, it seems like it's a series of something. I have not the slightest clue what it's a series of, though. If you know and would like to add that information, I'd certainly find it helpful. Otherwise, I hope you won't object to the use of the context template. It bugs me when I can't figure out what I'm looking at. That's not always a1, I suppose, but it's never a particularly good thing. Erechtheus 04:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

It's either German or some kind of European soccer...I recognize "UEFA" as a notable league...but all I know about soccer is you can't use your hands... Smashville 04:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

In that case, I'll go ahead and throw the context template up there and see where that takes us. Erechtheus 04:34, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Habit (psychology)

Thanks for removing the speedy delete. That means I can go to bed. I've been working hard to check on uses of the word "habit" in 700 WP articles to confirm my intuition that "habituation" is not what people are looking for. I found VERY few cases where habituation was clearly what was sought. I even added an internal link or two to habituation for 1 or 2 articles. There were some cases that were arguable, so I left it the way it was if there was a link to habituation, added no link in some cases, and added a habit (psychology) link where I thought it worked. of course I ignored all the uses that were about individual cases of drug, gambling, or smoking habits or where the word was used in a botanical or crystallograohic sense. I also skipped all animal habits, because of the difficulty of figuring out in what sense, say, a horse was conscious. I did learn a bit about the older uses of the term habit over 2000 years or so. Stay tuned. DCDuring 07:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: User:Zekka and legal threats

Thanks for throwing that warning on there, I hadn't really intended on saying anything, but you expressed my opinion well. It was certainly an interesting experience. I just wish you could have seen some of the stuff that they were writing in the articles they created. I'll never really understand why Wikipedia seems to be the playground for the bottom scrapings of the gene pool. Ah well. Happy editing! GlassCobra (talk • contribs) 05:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mark Warner (Canadian politician)

An article that you have been involved in commenting on in a speedy deletion process, Mark Warner (Canadian politician), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Warner (Canadian politician). Thank you. --Canam1 11:08, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

A category you might want to add yourself to

Category:Wikipedians in Nashville, Tennessee. Saw your comment on m:Wikimania 2008/Bids/Atlanta/Southeast team and thought you might want to add yourself.

Maybe if Atlanta gets the bid all the Nashville Wikipedians can carpool. ;) EVula // talk // ☯ // 15:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll do just that! Smashville 16:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

List of Sporting Venues by Attendance

I see you wanted to start a list of sporting venues by attendance. Let me know if you need any help because I am interested in this sort of thing. Are you also going to add closed/demolished stadiums or venues that have since reduced capacity to your list (for example, Hampden Park in Scotland)? I think there is some value in those venues as well. Also, would you want to add venues that were never built, such as Circus Maximus or even the proposed Deutsches Stadion? Thanks! Patken4 22:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm gonna try and use current numbers to start with...perhaps eventually hit a second page with "List of Sporting Venues by Maximum Capacity" or something like that. Smashville 03:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Lizzie Grubman

Thank you for refreshingly logical comments regarding the deletion of the Lizzie Grubman article at cntent review. I saw the comment on your user page that you were "spending most of my editing time on the AfD page, learning the ins and outs of Wikipedia policy." What I've learned is that AfD policy is whatever the whims are of the closing admin. I think it's clear that there are many administrators whose sense of what they think Wikipedia policy means trumps any logic or common sense, let alone any meaningful effort to build a useful encyclopedia. All that had to be done, at worst, with the Lizzie Grubman article was to delete one phrase and request a source. Deleting an article because of a single unsourced statement (and never specifying in the AfD what the "violation" was) is just throwing out the baby with the bathwater. It doesn't solve a problem, it justs serves to intefere with those who are making a good faith effort to build Wikipedia. Alansohn 15:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikimaina Atlanta

Hello, Thank you for volunteering to be a part of the Atlanta Wikimaina bid southeast team. We are holding meetings weekdays at 7:30pm EDT in #wikimania-atlanta on irc.freenode.org. For more information about IRC see m:Wikimania_2008/Bids/Atlanta/IRC. If you are able to make it, that would be great.

We now also have Google group for coordinating this bid. To get updates on the bid and our progress, please join the Google Groups mailing list at Google Groups wikimania-atlanta.

There is also a group on the social networking site Facebook in which interested parties can express their support for the bid.

If you do not wish to continue to receive these notifications about the bid or would rather they go to a talk page on a different project please change m: Wikimania_2008/Bids/Atlanta/Notify_list --Cspurrier 22:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Need Help

Hello Smashville, what's up! I need your help. I read that you have listed me under the sock puppet. I don't know who the other users are? But I edited those pages because I was just surfing wikipedia and added more information. If I would have known that those articles are being disputed, I wouldn't have done that. Well, I expect as a friend that you remove my name. I have contributed a lot and would love to do more for wikipedia in the future. Hopefully, you understand!!!! Thax Deep Jatt September 12, 2007 11:38 (UTC)

Message about mass deletion nominations posted at AN/I

Hi,

I see you've commented on top of the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ukrainian Americans deletion discussion about the overall issue of these mass deletion nominations. Obviously that isn't a great place for us to discuss this. Having all of these come up at once is problematic, I think, so I left a message at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents see "Mass deletion nominations for List of [Ethnic Group X] Americans". You may want to follow that or comment there. Noroton 00:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Shadow Tower

"how is a playstaton game a db-bio?" Well when it was nominated it was only 2 lines long and did not mention playstations! As now written I agree it asserts notability. Springnuts 11:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Cool...Smashville 20:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikimaina Atlanta meeting

We will be holding a meeting tonight at 9:30pm EDT in #wikimania-atlanta on irc.freenode.org. For more information about IRC see m:Wikimania_2008/Bids/Atlanta/IRC. Please try to be at this meeting as it is one of the last ones before bidding ends and we still have lots that need to be discussed. --Cspurrier 19:37, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Charles Pierce

Hi there. I noticed you removed the speedy that had been added here, stating that because of the sockpuppeteer tag it shouldn't be speedied. I think the point trying to be made was that the sockpuppet tag was added by a user with very few edits, pretty much every one of which seems to come under the vandalism heading, so even if G1 didn't apply then G3 should. Still, I'll be letting the admins sort this one out. Confusing Manifestation 16:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha...go ahead and put it back up then. Smashville 16:26, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

A P Valentine

I have to say, you did some superb work on that article! I guess it was notable. Thanks for the hard work there :-) Saved from the jaws of deletion! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

SparkPeople

Thanks for removing the "marked for speedy deletion" tag from SparkPeople. It appears it's been re-added. Any ides for next steps? I'm absolutely not trying to stir up trouble. The company is a legitimate player in online health, and I'm trying to provide a useful entry.Jknepfle 16:41, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Gina Montana

Actually, in this case it would be better to just create the redirect from the empty page. That way, there's not attack page in the history. But I'll make the redirect - I didn't realize this was actually a notable person. Natalie 00:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Right, I just realized that. It's been quite a few years since I saw the movie, and I probably wasn't sober at the time. Redirect created. Natalie 00:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The News Leader

Hi there. When you removed the speedy delete tag from this article, your WP:ES said that all dailies are notable. I must have missed that. Could you please direct me to the policy or guideline that makes that conclusion? Thanks — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!)} 18:32, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Per the proposed guideline at WP:NART. Smashville 18:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

So it's not yet a guideline. Thanks. — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!)} 18:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Not yet...I actually thought it was an established one and couldn't find it when you asked...but...it's still not speedy eligible. Smashville 19:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I disagree because it's not even asserting notability, per CSD-A7. However, because it's contentious, I'll AfD it. Thanks for your help. — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!)} 19:03, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

good argument at AfD. Will be useful elsewhere--I'll keep it in mind, & may add it as a counterexample to othercrapexists to show the proper use of arguments like this. DGG (talk) 23:47, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Simpsonville, Texas

Will do. I guess I was moving through them too fast and didn't realize that one had been fixed. I won't restore the very first version, though - no reason to keep the copyvio in the history. Natalie 22:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter

WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter Dear Smashville/Archive 1! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk) This just in: Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC) And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC) New recognized content By Maxim Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter. Hart Memorial Trophy James Norris Memorial Trophy Vezina Trophy Conn Smythe Trophy Frank J. Selke Trophy Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Lester B. Pearson Award Calder Memorial Trophy Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy King Clancy Memorial Trophy Jack Adams Award Presidents' Trophy List of Calgary Flames players There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC. Did You Know? By Maxim There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August. Wally Tatomir - August 4, 2007, authored by User:Maxim. ...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment? Mark Major - August 12, 2007, authored by User:Schmackity ...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record? Garth Butcher - September 15, 2007, authored by User:Canuckle. ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League? AMP NHL Winter Classic - September 22, 2007, authored by User:Skudrafan1 ..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States? Featured Topic Drive By Maxim Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles: Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) Vezina Trophy (Scorpion) Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte) Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov) Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion) Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck) Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim) King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim) Jack Adams Award (Maxim) Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion) Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved) Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim) Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.

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Park_railway_station

See, now if you have done that in the first place, I wouldn't have wasted my time. - CobaltBlueTony 21:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I was actually in the process of doing it, but didn't notice the edit conflict window and had walked away from the computer. Smashville 21:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

No biggie. Might also consider placing the name Manchester in parentheses behind it so as to disambiguate it from any other Park railway stations that may exist or yet come into existence. Good evening. - CobaltBlueTony 21:32, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

William Forward: notability asserted?

How do you feel notability is asserted? --Orange Mike 00:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

There are credits on major shows listed for him. That is an assertion of notability. Smashville 18:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

My recent prods

Hi,

I see you're reverting the prod I put on List of ski areas and resorts in Canada‎. I already prod-ed the other lists, too. In the meantime I caught on to what you meant to say. I'll set up an AfD. If you want to revert the orhter prod-s go ahead. Sorry for the inconvenience ʍαμ$ʏ5043 17:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

English Channel

Nice job on the English Channel article. It was one of the important ones that has been missing. Handicapper 17:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks...after I rewrote A P Valentine to save it from deletion, I thought maybe I had it in me to write one on him...I started last week and took a break...but figured after he won yesterday, I should probably go ahead and finish it when all of the sources were on the front page of Bloodhorse. Smashville 18:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Supreme crime

I posted this article as db-copyvio, but you reverted saying the article was posted on Wikipedia first. I had seen http://www.visualstatistics.net/East-West/ , but the dates on these types of lists are of the most recent change, not the first uploading. If you go to archive.org [1] as I did, you will see that it was written at least before Apr 20, 2006. This case is complicated by the fact that the author on Wikipedia claims to be the owner of the website visualstatistics.net, according to the history of his user page. I find that some of his other contributions, such as War cycles, are also on this website. The safe thing to do would be to assume that the real Krus intended them to be copyrighted, as stated on his company's webpage. –Sarregouset (Talk) 22:09, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I removed the speedy again, see Talk:Supreme_crime#Copyvio. --TeaDrinker 23:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Lundby Dollhouses

Before you go off on it again, I took a look over your talk page and find thise that are applicable to this discussion, "The existence of the article itself and the gigantic company logo are both pretty unacceptable. Smashville 17:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)"

"I suggest you take a look at Wikipedia:Spam and Wikipedia:Notability. If you are notable, someone else will create a page for you. Smashville 04:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)"

"However, being ranked 1 millionth in something is hardly notable. Smashville 20:53, 20 August 2007 (UTC)"

I truly do not wish to have any dispute or sire any ill feelings, I simply passed by this page, read it, asked the opinion of two admin's who also fel it was advertising. So if you feel that it is note worthy, then please make your case, as is protocol, rather than simply take it upon yourself to deleate. I have discussed it with a couple of administrators who also felt it was blatant advertising, as per Wiki policy and not even close to asserting any form of notability. Clearly we see "Original research", POV, Blatant website advertising, linking the page to their own website ready to take your orders! Simply because a manufacture has been around and has been selling this or that, does not make it "note worthy". SO to that end I've requested an AFD. Mystar 01:27, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

As I was not the original author, have no interest in the subject, have no knowledge of the dollhouse industry and merely removed an inappropriate CSD template twice...I find it highly inappropriate to place this warning on my page. I was within every right as a WP editor to remove thse templates. Also, the above comments are about separate articles and completely irrelevant to this discussion. A) There is no gigantic company logo on the page. B) This is not a case of WP:BIO and C) No one is ranked 1 millionth in anything in this discussion. Smashville 04:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

{{unreferenced}}

{{Unreferenced}} should be used only on articles that have no sources (references or external links). The {{Refimprove}} template is appropriate for articles with some sources but not enough. {{Unreferencedsect}} , {{Primarysources}}, or {{Citations}} may also work well for your purposes. Thanks--BirgitteSB 18:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

If you are referring to Etak, the page did not and still does not cite any sources. Smashville 18:42, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

No it doesn't have any citations. But it does list a source for it's acquisition by TeleAtlas and that it worked on digital road maps in 1993. That it least places at the level of something that exists in the general industry claimed by the article and is not a complete hoax. Above articles that have no sources whatsoever. But I guess it just a matter of perspective. I am used to dealing those worse articles that have not a single source at all. Keep in mind those other templates though. The category associated with {{unsourced}} has 83,256 articles so any use of the more specific tags helps to root out the hoaxes.--BirgitteSB 19:03, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha. I actually just tagged it that way since I was removing the CSD template. I figured the tag would trigger to future editors that the lack of references had already been addressed. If you feel that there's a better one, tag it with that one. Smashville 19:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I had used {{Refimprove}} instead. I am generally referencing stuff tagged in June of 2006. But since is only 2 days into October I thought I would do a little education campaign while the category is small. People have been working on June 2006 articles for over three months so I think it becoming necessary to try leaving some messages about on the recent articles.--BirgitteSB 19:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD for F major (chord)

You listed all the other articles that should be included in the AFD but didn't tag them, so I went ahead and tagged them all. If you want to reply, please do on my talk page. -Rjd0060 20:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

Hi,

A few days ago I put up an article on a company I like at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www.ultimate-anonymity.com

I admit I did not read the page creation guidelines and the page was deleted accordingly.

Today, after reading the page creation guidelines, I recreated the article within the guidelines providing proper cites and links and have noticed it has been flagged already for speedy deletion as being a "duplicate" when in fact is is not a duplicate at all of the original article.

Additionally, I note that a similar service is allowed to have an article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymizer_%28company%29 ). I basically used the same template as this service yet my article is scheduled to be deleted. Why? Why is one allowed to remain and the other not?

Thank you

• It was a blatant advertisement for the website. Nothing in the article even asserted notability, much less established it. The fact that other articles exist is irrelevant. Smashville 15:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Video - Precisionist

I just found this Video at YouTube. If you haven't seen it, take a look. It is the funniest finishing line incident I have ever seen. Handicapper 16:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania 2008/Conference of the Americas

Hello, As you may or may not know, Alexandria, Egypt was selected to host Wikimania 2008 [2]. So as to prevent the hard work of the many Wikimedians involved in the Atlanta bid from going to waste, we have decided to host a conference for the Americas. This is in no way an attempt to compete with Wikimania or make a statement against Wikimania.

As one of the people signed up to help with the Wikimania Atlanta bid, we hope you will join us at the Wikimedia Conference of the Americas. We will be having a meeting tonight in IRC tonight (Oct 15) at 9:30PM in #cota-atlanta on irc.freenode.org to discuss the conference. For more information about IRC see [3].

For more information about the Wikimedia Conference of the Americas see http://www.cota-atlanta.org and our wiki http://www.cota-atlanta.org/wiki.

If you do not wish to receive further notices about the COTA please remove your name from our notify list. --Cspurrier 20:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Joey Shabadoo

This article has been relisted; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joey Shabadoo (2nd nomination). I am notifying all participants in the first AfD. Chick Bowen 20:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of marine parks with Orcas

Will you please take a look at my comment on this AfD and consider striking your !vote (and then perhaps adding your comment to the proper AfD)? Thanks, Pablo Talk | Contributions 01:53, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

76.167.94.241

Malibu Film Festival is in name only, as none of the actual film festival takes place in Malibu. It's like devoting a section to the Chevrolet Malibu or Malibu Barbie or anything with the moniker Malibu, with its name the only connection to Malibu. In fact, when I initially added a newprint link showing the fact that the festival has no connection with Malibu since 2004, the User:Malibu Film Festival or cohort deleted it. Sonial1t6 18:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

• I understand...but, per below...it's apparently not spam. Smashville 21:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Not quite, per below is the reason they were not blocked. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
  • In that case, I will keep adding the newsprint link about the MFF not held in Malibu.Sonial1t6 23:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello. I removed your report of this IP address from AIV because the user of the IP is probably wondering the same thing as me - why are their edits inappropriate? It's no use issuing a final warning without some explanation of what they are doing wrong. Mentioning the Malibu film festival seems an appropriate thing to do in an article about Malibu. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• The Malibu Film Festival article was already speedy deleted as spam. Smashville 23:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I believe it was speedy deleted as a copyvio (hence the perception of advertising), and the fact it was written by User:Malibu Film Festival probably didn't help. This still does not explain why the edits to the Malibu article are inappropriate, and still doesn't help this user. The place does have a film festival, no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zzuuzz (talk • contribs) 23:14, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

All of this user's edits have been in relation to placing external links to the film festivals run by this company. That, to me, is spam. Smashville 23:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, I see a probably notable film festival being mentioned (it's more like content with a reference than a single link), but you are welcome to explain this to the user, and perhaps suggest that the link stays out while the content is referenced elsewhere. As it stands this user has no idea what they are doing wrong, which is why they weren't blocked. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:36, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair to me. Smashville 02:18, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Emma Tatham AFD

Hi. Just a heads-up on the Emma Tatham AFD. We both accidentally replied to a vandalized comment on the AFD, so if you want to take a look at the history of the AFD, you'll see what happened. Honest mistake of course, but you might want to take a look. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 04:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment redacted. --Smashville^BONK! 19:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

FYI

You are mentioned in relation to recent edits by T3Smile (talk · contribs) at WP:AN/I#User:T3Smile. Gnangarra 07:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

they havent been nominated yet T3Smile has only just recieved instruction on how to do it diff Gnangarra 15:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For risking all the articles you created just because you commented at WP:DRV. Gnangarra 15:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

well WP:BEANS, but what the hay you need a smile as well. Gnangarra 15:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Gnangarra has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Philip Deaver AfD

Hi Smashville - I don't want to get into the deletion discussion regarding Phil Deaver, but I just thought you should know that his article pre-dated anything to do with my ill-fated Wikipedia (Gary Forrester) article, and I had nothing to do with starting it, although I did add some stuff to his article when I was having a rush of blood to the head about my own (pre-deletion). He is the real thing. The O. Henry Award and the Flannery O'Connor aren't minor awards. He has a long and distinguished track record of publishing short stories and poems with very reputable publishers. I just wanted to set the record straight - nothing more. Best regards, --203.97.219.2 19:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

• Noted. I changed my vote from a delete to a mere comment and struck out the part about you potentially writing it. --Smashville^BONK! 19:32, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
• Thank you Smashville - this is much appreciated, and more importantly, it is accurate. Cheers,--Forrestergaz 20:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Question from Shahara

Your help regarding IP address: 74.128.216.122 who called 'Sweet dude' to Jimbo wales on his talk page on 01.20 (UTC) 12 Nov 2007.

Because I see lot of ville associated with this IP. Calling 'dude' to respectable personality like Jimbo Wales is gross insult to his dignity.

IP address:74.128.216.122. Region Code- USKY. Region - Kentucky. Citycode - USKYLATO. City - Latonia. 0 0 Latonia, KY, US 8 5 Independence, KY, US 9 5 Newport, KY, US 9 5 Ft Mitchell, KY, US 11 6 Erlanger, KY, US 11 6 Covington, KY, US 11 6 Silver Grove, KY, US 12 7 Alexandria, KY, US 12 7 Fort Thomas, KY, US 13 8 Melbourne, KY, US 14 8 Kenton, KY, US 14 8 Florence, KY, US 14 8 Bellevue, KY, US 15 9 Dayton, KY, US 16 10 Walton, KY, US 17 10 Cincinnati, OH, US 17 10 Morning View, KY, US 19 11 Mount Saint Joseph, OH, US 20 12 California, KY, US 21 13 De Mossville, KY, US 23 14 Union, KY, US 23 14 Hebron, KY, US 23 14 New Richmond, OH, US 25 15 Terrace Park, OH, US 25 15 Verona, KY, US 25 15 Crittenden, KY, US 25 15 Burlington, KY, US 25 15 Amelia, OH, US 26 16 Butler, KY, US 26 16 Addyston, OH, US 30 18 Camp Dennison, OH, US 30 18 North Bend, OH, US 30 18 Moscow, OH, US 31 19 Neville, OH, US 31 19 Milford, OH, US 31 19 Miamiville, OH, US 31 19 Petersburg, KY, US 32 20 Miamitown, OH, US 32 20 Hooven, OH, US 34 21 Cleves, OH, US 34 21 Dry Ridge, KY, US 34 21 Warsaw, KY, US 35 21 Batavia, OH, US 35 21 Loveland, OH, US 35 21 Owensville, OH, US 36 22 Patriot, IN, US 37 23 Rising Sun, IN, US 38 23 Chilo, OH, US 38 23 Bethel, OH, US 39 24 Felicity, OH, US 39 24 Falmouth, KY, US 39 24 Lawrenceburg, IN, US 40 25 Harrison, OH, US 40 25 West Chester, OH, US 40 25 Foster, KY, US 40 25 Glencoe, KY, US 40 25 Ross, OH, US 42 26 Newtonsville, OH, US 42 26 Williamsburg, OH, US 42 26 Goshen, OH, US 43 26 Florence, IN, US 43 26 Fairfield, OH, US 43 26 Williamstown, KY, US 43 26 Shandon, OH, US 44 27 Maineville, OH, US 44 27 Feesburg, OH, US 44 27 Hamersville, OH, US 45 28 Aurora, IN, US 45 28 Mason, OH, US 46 28 Sparta, KY, US 46 28 Marathon, OH, US 46 28 Jonesville, KY, US 46 28 East Enterprise, IN, US 47 29 Hamilton, OH, US 47 29 Mason, KY, US 47 29 Kings Mills, OH, US 48 30 Pleasant Plain, OH, US 48 30 Okeana, OH, US 48 30 Guilford, IN, US 50 31 Dillsboro, IN, US 50 31 South Lebanon, OH, US 50 31 Mount Orab, OH, US 51 31 West Harrison, IN, US 51 31 Moores Hill, IN, US 51 31 Brooksville, KY, US 51 31 Higginsport, OH, US 51 31 Corinth, KY, US 52 32 Georgetown, OH, US 52 32 New Trenton, IN, US 53 33 Overpeck, OH, US 53 33 Morrow, OH, US 53 33 Monroe, OH, US 53 33 Augusta, KY, US 53 33 Bennington, IN, US 53 33 Fayetteville, OH, US 54 33 Berry, KY, US 54 33 New Liberty, KY, US 54 33 Milford, KY, US 55 34 Cedar Grove, IN, US 56 35 Seven Mile, OH, US 56 35 Trenton, OH, US 57 35 Sanders, KY, US 57 35 Blanchester, OH, US 57 35 Buford, OH, US 57 35 Lebanon, OH, US 58 36 Middletown, OH, US 58 36 Vevay, IN, US 58 36 Ghent, KY, US 59 36 Germantown, KY, US 59 36 Minerva, KY, US 60 37 Milan, IN, US.

Is proxy? - false

Thanks. Sharara 22:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

• I'm gonna have to say...I have no idea what you're asking. But calling someone dude isn't an insult. Especially not to a guy who calls himself Jimbo. --Smashville^BONK! 22:33, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Noah Raby

Hey, thanks for seeing that this was a fairly notable article. I was only aware of it because it was linked from the only tangentially related Mary Ramsey Wood article. (I've since removed the tenuous connection from both articles.) I've certainly lost patience with the article's author and am quite relieved we can now all edit in peace, but believe or not, when all the sturm and drang is taken away, I think we will find there may be some wheat among the chaff. Thanks again, and happy editing! Katr67 20:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Nashville Predators

Assuming you're a Preds fan, who's wearing the A in Sullivan's absence? If you know, please add a 'un-wiki linked' A next to that player's name (at current roster). GoodDay (talk) 17:20, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

• Sullivan is the official alternate captain...the A has been alternating between other players...Gelinas had it last night, but I don't believe it was in any official capacity. --Smashville^BONK! 21:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Curlin Editing

You obviously didn't check the facts - try reading the following article. http://www.bloodhorse.com/articleindex/article.asp?id=41857

You also obviously haven’t checked the facts regarding the Breeders Cup race. Curlin passed Street Sense at, or about, the 1/4 pole not the far turn as you state. I have watched the race more than a dozen times - many of which in slow motion, what I have written regarding where the pass takes place is a historical fact - not opinion.

As to stating the race he ran was a "stylish performance" and "in the race of the year, for horse of the year" these statements were direct quotes from the announcer of the race, which make them very relevant to the story - and by the way make him, (an expert in horse racing) not me, the one stating "Horse of the Year".

• One of your edits referred to Street Sense as a "dog" (based on the fact that the same language is being used, the IP is obviously you). Trevor Denman's race call is not a reliable source, as it is still opinion. And - again - Horse of the Year is not determined until the end of January. --Smashville^BONK! 17:25, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Then you obviously did not read the judges order —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill yates27 (talk • contribs) 20:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
    • I read the judge's order. I also read "Judge Rules Interest In Curlin Turned Over To Plaintiffs" which is the reference in the article. The problem is that you are violating Wikipedia's no original research policy and trying to make the article reflect your legal interpretation of a court order instead of what has been publicly reported and referenced. A lawyer arguing over a judge's decision doesn't trump a judge's decision. --Smashville^BONK! 20:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it worth putting the Curlin page under partial protection? Would that keep anonymous IPs from editing and trying to clean the page of the judge's order? (Keycap (talk) 17:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC))

• I requested it if you want to add something to it: WP:RPP --Smashville^BONK! 17:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

By the time I got around to it, it was already done. Hopefully this will help, but I'm worried that once the protect expires, we'll be back to the same old games.(Keycap (talk) 03:44, 8 December 2007 (UTC))

• The admin said to contact him if it did. --Smashville^BONK! 05:18, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Nashville photog needed for Wikinews

Any photographers (and by that, I mean anyone with a digital camera) that can make it to Nashville this Sunday at 6 pm, to photograph the final show of Jump5?

Details here: http://nashville.craigslist.org/crg/505941578.html

Let me know! -- Zanimum (talk) 18:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Spelling of Frank Drowota

Hi. I corrected the spelling of this former judge's name in the Montgomery Bell Academy article. But the Frank Drowota article from which you picked up the incorrect spelling is going to keep causing trouble until its title can be changed to spell the name "Drowota" rather than "Drawota." I can't figure out how to do that. If you know how, would you mind making the change?

Thanks

--Tom Wood (talk) 17:52, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

No problemo. I moved it to the right spelling. --Smashville^BONK! 19:29, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thankye kindly.

--Tom Wood (talk) 20:41, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Removal of speedy notice

I don't see how that article is notable enough to be separate from the main; I don't see why it can't be merged with Indian cricket team, at least. Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 05:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

There's another almost exactly like it at AfD for South Africa...it doesn't meet any speedy guidelines...I'm working on putting an AfD template on it right now. --Smashville^BONK! 05:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

If you want me to, I can. I've got the automated whizbang AFD-er. Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 05:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Works for me. I don't think it should be kept...but...it didn't meet the criteria...and another one just like it had been sent to AfD. --Smashville^BONK! 05:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Put up the AFD. I thought it met the criteria, as it doesn't really provide any context, but I didn't want to put the speedy back in because that could start an edit war and since we disagreed I figured some consensus would be better.

Also, on an unrelated note, feel like considering Twinkle? It really is quite handy with XfD cases. Cheers, Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 05:45, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

How have I not found this before? Awesome! Thanks! --Smashville^BONK! 14:25, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Twinkle

Hello Smashville. What is Twinkle? Can you please explain me about it? How can I use it? Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 08:07, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

See Twinkle and be amazed. No more clicking through 5 pages to complete an AfD...or continuously going back to make sure you have the right template... --Smashville^BONK! 08:10, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

About this. I didn't mean to hit the rollback button. My mouse was hovering over it, and when I went to move it I accidentally clicked it. Cheers. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 09:30, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

It's all good! --Smashville^BONK! 09:31, 22 December 2007 (UTC)