User talk:Victor falk/archive2

Re: AfD of Soldier (Party)

Copied from my talk page:

Is it possible to have a look at the AfD log of the Joseph McNamara article, or even better, to see an archived version of it before its deletion? Thank you.--Victor falk 17:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi :-) I'm not sure exactly what you want to know...But since Soldier (Party) was a keep and it is not being deleted, I think you are asking about the Joseph McNamra article I deleted. It was a speedy delete (so there is no Afd log) about a living person...a different McNamara from the one mentioned in the Soldier (Party) article. Hope this answers your question. FloNight 18:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes it does. I wanted more information on McNamara, but since its another individual now I know there wasn't any in this article. Thx again.--Victor falk 18:51, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Good, glad to help. :-) FloNight 23:01, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Merci !

De tes conseils. J'avoue avoir un peu l'impression d'être coincé avec notre huluberlu qui reverte un peu tout sans (peut-être) vraiment savoir. J'apprécie tes liens, et ton éventuelle aide ; plus on est, mieux ça avance !!

PS: Petite remarque technique, plutot que d'écrire [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89meutes_de_2005_dans_les_banlieues_fran%C3%A7aises Émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises], tu peux écrire [[:fr:Émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises|]]. Comparaison : Émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises, contre Émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises. C'est plus rapide à écrire, et 'pi ça passe en lien interwiki et non en externe. Voilou ! :p

NicDumZ ~ 20:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

merci, je le connaissais pas ce truc (:--Victor falk 20:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Afghan Civil War Campaign Box

Thank you for your welcome.

Don't you think that since the current US-led war in Afghanistan is part of the Afghan Civil War then it would be kind of redundant to mention that in EVERY article about battles and operations in this phase of the Afghan Civil War? Casavette 05:00, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

In most of them references to the Afghan civil war is superficial or inexistent, a reader of one or the other of those articles might easily believe that Afghanistan was at peace before 2001. To work this into the text would be cumbersome and off-topic; a campaign box provides this information in a unobtrusive way, for the interested reader. After all, that's their purpose.--Victor falk 05:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Uploading images

I notice a lot of your images are public domain or otherwise free. Would it be possible for you to upload to Commons instead? Richard001 03:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm lazy bastard, you know... Seriously, I did that systematically from the beginning, but it feels that it doubles the chances of them being deleted and of technical pblms (I haven't really fathomed the tools but that's my bad). I admit, sometimes my summaries are a trifle vague and really summary, but I mean how difficult is it too see that the artist has been dead for 300 years [1]? I think people that can't make that kind of call of judgement should refrain from nominating pictures for deletion. Sorry for ranting..... --Victor falk 04:19, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Deletion gestapo

Hi - I thought your "send to extermination camp" comment (Deletion gestapo deletion page) was kind of clever. Somebody else was offended, though. Thanks for your input. --Ge?r?tz?._..•°^° —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gekritzl (talk • contribs) 23:24, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Thx for noticing me. I have now responded [2] --Victor falk 03:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Dunin AfD

Hi there, the lead of this article has been re-written, so it doesn't contradict the sources we have available. However, we still don't really have any reliable sources that discuss this person, or establish their notability. Have you been able to find any? Google is a bit of a dry hole here, with the only sources on this guy being mirrors of the Wiki article. If you have time could you have a look through the new version of the article and see what you think? All the best Tim Vickers 20:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Article Resque Squadron Move Request

Greetings, I'm tring to get the current move request sorted so we can move on to other ones if we need to. Would you mind stating your position in: Article Rescue Squadron Talk #Requested_move, Thanks Fosnez 11:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

DRV you might be interested in

Hi Victor, you might be interested in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Kurdish-Israeli relations. I'm sending a short note to people who were involved in this debate and a related debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurdish-Chinese relations, to allow for maximum consensus. It would be great if you could review my deletion decision and make comments accordingly. Thanks! - Ta bu shi da yu 23:39, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Nobel Prize

Just wanted to let you know that the economics prize is listed as a Nobel Prize in the Nobel Prize article. I'm not editing that page right now to avoid an edit war with another editor (see talk:Nobel Prize#Economics). –panda 00:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox pages

Hi there Victor. You appear to have a couple of sandbox pages called something like "Segregation in the Occupied Territories". Unfortunately you haven't removed the categories from these pages so that they are being listed in the mainspace under all the categories named. Could you please delete the categories from your sandbox pages? Thanks. Gatoclass 11:37, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I want to delete it, but I don't know where you nominate them for deletion?--Victor falk 11:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

If you want to delete them altogether, you might try using the Template:Db-author template. Just put funky brackets around the words Template:Db-author (ie {{ }} and list it at the top of the page you want deleted, and an admin should get rid of it for you in a day or two. Gatoclass 12:10, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Thx, I'll do that; btw, is there a way to see all of one's subpages one has?--Victor falk 12:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, you seem to have rather a lot of them.

I don't know the best way to see all of them but one way is to look at your user contributions using the "User" filter, like this. Regards, Gatoclass 12:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

D'oh... should have thought of that before, stupid me. Well now I know where there are, including some I had forgotten about. Thanks again for the help. --Victor falk 12:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) Gatoclass 12:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Dalmatian Italians

You have placed Bartolli's evaluation of Italian population of Dalmatia - 33% of overall population. This evaluation is not concerned as serious one, it's not based on censi or some relevant scientific research, it was not seriously accepted neither by Italians in Dalmatia in that moment, also it's the most extreme number found among Italian sources, usually used by Italian extremists and irredentists. Bartolli counted that all Italian speakers in Dalmatia were Italians, although the most of them were bilinguals, since official language in Dalmatia was Italian, many Dalmatians were forced to use it in the public life or better to say in administration. The real number in the beggining of 19th century was 15.000 - 20.000 -> 3-5% of Dalmatian population! BTW See Talk:Zadar.
This topic is already controversial, your edits will not help. Zenanarh 13:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

ok, i removed that, don't want to be involved in that controversy--Victor falk 14:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

ExtraDry

Two interesting diffs - [3] [4] - interesting comments to make to a person with whom he was in an active dispute (checking contribs around that time will demonstrate this). As it turned out, neither showed up (I was there, and we were prepared). On a now-deleted talk page for a banned troll, he put in an offer to help fight the same person from above only two days earlier. He also has a tendency to make bad-faith AfD nominations - that was how I first came across him. The capper is accusing others of sockpuppetry when it has emerged he is a sockpuppet himself. Note that AGF "does not require that editors continue to assume good faith in the presence of evidence to the contrary". Orderinchaos 11:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Do you have a couple of examples of bad faith AfD? And what were the subjects of dispute you mention above?--Victor falk 12:02, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Not honestly sure re that dispute (I asked the user and they said "continued CSDs on Newington-related articles, 3RR, etc."), but most of his disputes centre around either articles or users related to Newington College. See these for starters. All of these were keep, strong keep or speedy close.

• 4 October - William Henry Williams (who at one point was a Newington headmaster) Extreme incivility just 3 days ago on this one.
• 3 October - John Waterhouse (also a Newington headmaster)
• 5 August - Douglas Trathen (also a Newington headmaster)
• 31 July - John Wear Burton (who was educated at Newington but this is not central to his work as an author)
• 14 June - Glyn Davis (the only one of the six with nothing to do with Newington)
• 13 June - Nicholas Saunders (happened to have attended Newington, not central to work as educator)

This person is in my view obsessed with Newington College, possibly in a negative way. He persistently pursues or alleges (but has failed to prove) sockpuppetry on the Newington article and those related, starting from just 2 weeks into his time on the present username. Furthermore, 430 of his 842-edit edit history is devoted to either harassing these people, editing related articles or trying to get Newington stuff deleted. The pattern is a continuation of same on his previous username, on which he appears to be evading a block history. He reverts consistently (even others' contributions on their own talk pages!), and has demonstrated gross incivility and trolling behaviours in various debates. If it were on less obscure areas of the encyclopaedia I'm fairly sure he would have been indef-blocked months ago. Orderinchaos 15:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

This looks bad... Only on the [Henry Williams], I see the following: deleting his own sig of accusing other people being a sockpupet [5], [6], [7], insult and personal attack [8] (reply to a sarcatic comment to be sure, but there's a difference between a sarcasm and an insult)...

I'm sure there is more if it's not an exception, and it does look like it, judging by the number of people that he's involved in disputes with. I find deleting comments on his user's talk pages [9] [10], well, not showing a good spirit.

I think something should be done, like a (temporary) block from editing Newington-related article--Victor falk 17:13, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Action maiwand 1892.jpg

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The Perry-Castañeda Map Collection, University of Texas are in the public domain, you moronic robot. Don't you have, like, a database that says "Stuff in the gutemberg project and a lot of sites stuff like, for instnace, as a totally arbitrary and random example, the Perry-Castañeda Map Collection of the University of Texas are in the public domain, so I shouldn't harass editors about such stuff"? OK, maybe I'm harsh on you, it's not your fault you're an Unterrobot. Still, regardless of that, it's a map from 1892, fer chrissakes. That means it's automatically in the public domain. Mayhaps, if I may be so bold, you should consider taking a course in basic copyright legislation?--Victor falk 12:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

You're talking to a bot operated by a deletionist. It doesn't understand "free", it only understands "exterminate". :) Orderinchaos 15:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Reconsider Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panocracy (2nd nomination)

Hey boss, I posted an opinion on merging panocracy with panarchy and would like to know what you think about it. Thanks. Jwiley80 16:53, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

You have succeeded in making me doublethink (:... A merger is a good idea, and I have notified user:Carolmooredc?, user:Wanda5088?, user:Cuomo111, and user:66.93.3.205? about it, since they seem to have made imporatant edits. Congratulations again, comrade! --Victor falk 18:11, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

So I changed it.. but I won't do it again. Please have a look at the new panocracy and panarchy pages. I think the best route is for panocracy to change names to pantocracy because I think that one guy is the only one using the term, and because pantocracy is listed in Google Scholar... which is why someone wanted to have it deleted. I changed the related reference on the panarchy page.. please let me know what you think! Jwiley80 21:48, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

You're good at unspeak, I had a bit of trouble in adapting to the new party line... Maybe you should include your searches link in the afd and the talk pages?--Victor falk 22:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Unspeak? Like saying a lot without actually saying anything, or not telling where I get my data fm? Jwiley80 01:30, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

No, that's a compliment in doublespeak, when a blackwhite is challenging(; and yes, I think you should put whatever you've found on teh googlez (esp. the searches themselves) in the Afd.--Victor falk 01:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2007_October_10#Lone_Star_Fraternity

Um, I don't know what A7 or COI mean. I agree with deleting, but I am trying to understand the process a little more. Could you please explain or point a link out to me? —ScouterSig 18:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Of course. "COI" is the conflict of interest policy. "A7" is the ugly bureaucratese jargon for "Criteria for speedy deletion A7: No indication of importance/significance. An article about a real person, group of people, band, club, company, organisation, or web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is distinct from questions of notability, verifiability and reliability of sources. If controversial, list the article at Articles for deletion instead." . You can find it and the others at "Wee Pee Colon Cee Ess Dee Hash A Seven". --Victor falk 18:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Deleting Salian Frankish Mythology

Viktor, you don't have to say you are sorry. Everyone has the right on his own opinion and I'm sure you did not try to offend me, or someone else. But since you have taken away the delete tag on the article I hope you also take full responsabillity for the quality of the article. I have put enough energy in it, and I am not a masochist that loves to be told to keep his "senseless waffle" (words of the original author) johanthon 20:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

What's that about taking down the Afd tag? I have done no such thing... Why should I take full responsability of the article simply for voting "merge"? But, most of all, I have never been engaged in a discussion about masochistic senseless waffles with you or anybody else, ever. I suspect you have confused my talk page with someone else's--Victor falk 20:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

OOOOPS! you are right! johanthon 20:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem... errare humanum est and stuff :)--Victor falk 20:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Oppinion

Hey Victor, may I have your oppinion on this [11]? DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 00:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Transylvania

While I did tag this {{inactive}} and commented on it in the MFD, it was not a MFD result. I don't think that {{historical}} is appropriate though, but don't mind it being untagged (I'll leave that up to the Portal_talk: page). Thanks for the note though, — xaosflux ^Talk 02:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

• Hi, really nice work. Myself, I tried to add the "selected picture" [12], but though it looks all right in the preview it doesn't show on the portal... Never edited a portal before, one thinks it wouldn't make a difference.--Victor falk 06:35, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The pic shows in the Portal, a little off center, but no harm. Thanks for adding it. You have clear your cache or something like that I think. I had a lot of trouble with that when I first started editing this portal. I couldn't see my edits and when I tried to edit I would edit over existing stuff I'd put there without knowing it. I kind of threw it together in the attempt to save it, so it needs some work, particularly more appropriate Bio's, and gotta keep the news up to date, well as much as possible. I really know nothing of the topic, just didn't want to see it go down the tubes. If you have anything to add, maybe some military history stuff, that would be awesome. (Hope you don't mind the leaping discussions, keeps things together) --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Removing AFD !votes

Please be super careful not to remove others' AFD discussion points (especially !votes), as you did here. I'm sure it was just an accident. Cheers! /Blaxthos 15:40, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops. Good you noticed that.--victor falk 15:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Michael Nobel Energy Award

FYI, there's a comment for you in Talk:Nobel Prize in Economics#Michael Nobel Energy Award. –panda 21:01, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

{{afd}}

I don't think we have interacted before. Hello.

About your suggestion that several other articles should be combined in an existing {{afd}}.

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No-hearing hearings already underwent an {{afd}}. Do you think you have a new reason for nominating it for deletion.
• Mark Denbeaux was invited to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Allow me to suggest that this alone is sufficient reason he should merit coverage on the wikipedia.
  • "The 14 Myths of Guantanamo: Senate Armed Services Committee Statement of Mark P. Denbeaux" (PDF). Senate Armed Services Committee.
• You didn't add an {{afd}} notice to any of the other article. Is this because you were only running the idea up the flagpole?

Please allow me to get philosophical, for a minute.

The way I see it there are some deep philoosophical question that should be discussed -- but really never are discussed -- around the future shape of the wikipedia.

The way I see it one set of questions concerns what people call "mergism", "deletionism", "inclusionism", etc. The wikipedia lacks any fora where proponents of these various future visions of the wikipedia discuss the pros and cons of these visions. I think this is a serious weakness, and it will bite the wikipedia in the bum.

The way I se it the closest we have to a fora for disucssing these visions is the deletion fora. But those fora can be unpleasant places. Violations of WP:CIV, WP:AGF and WP:BITE are routine. Violations of WP:NPA are pretty common too. Participants who are actually willing to give fair consideration of the other guys point of view are depressingly uncommon. Participants who acknowledge changing their mind, or acknowledge when the other guy made a good point, are even less common -- in my experience.

Now, maybe I am missing something, but I don't see where you offered a reason why these articles should be deleted. And, if you really meant to suggest the articles should be merged, I missed where you gave a reason for that.

Some people think that one big article that covers a range of related topics is obviously better than a constellation of small related articles that each only address one topic.

I have tried to engage other people who advocate merging in a discussion of the pros and cons of mergism and the alternate visions, with very little success. I didn't name-drop before. But I am going to do so now.

I know Ted Nelson, one of the two guys credited with the idea of a hypertext. When I was in University I worked for him, as an intern. He is a really brilliant guy. And I reamain highly influenced by his ideas.

I'd really appreciate it if you were willing to engage in a dialogue about the pros and cons merging.

Yours for a civil wikipedia Geo Swan 16:53, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

• What I am afraid of is that if these articles get deleted then there will be nothing to merge. It can be argued that each of these studies is not notable of its own (though in my opinion it is not)

, but Denbeaux' work as a whole is not.I want to assume good faith, and the reports have not had the same wide coverage as say the Taguba report, but I can't help that some just don't want to acknowledge their existence at all, and are using policies to get rid of inconvenient reminders of reality (an article on wikipedia harmful to your reputation? when you're in gitmo?) As you say, Afd should not be the forum for a merger, but those two nominations have started the ball rolling. On a side note, I found the following sources that might be included in one or all of the articles: [13] [14] [15] [16]--victor falk 20:16, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Nobel Prize in Economics

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. SvNH 21:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, come on! Don't be in such a bad mood. See Talk:Nobel Prize in Economics#About the name--victor falk 22:05, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

SvNH: Did you even read the text? It's hilarious! –panda 22:11, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

SfD

I thought you might want to see what I found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warner Robins Middle School: the Georgia Schools of Excellence awards are actually rather commonplace, even moreso than I had thought.

CRGreathouse (t | c) 13:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Chelmer Valley High School

Hi, I wonder if you would revisist Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chelmer Valley High School, please? The article has been rewritten showing the school has been independently judged to be Outstanding with a world record breaking gymnastics team. TerriersFan 17:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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Screenshot of the Masque of the Red Death

The image requires a proper fair use rationale if it is to avoid deletion - since it didn't have one and wasn't being used according to our non-free content policies I deleted it. Specifically it needs to be used to illustrate the subject - which will be the film rather than a list of fictional illnesses or one of your user subpages. I'll happily restore the image - as long as you write the rationale and it goes where it belongs. If you need further information about our admittedly confusing non-free content policies please see WP:NFCC. Thanks Spartaz ^Humbug! 16:48, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I removed the image from your user page as it is not permitted to host non free images outside main space. Thanks Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Category:Controversial flags

Category:Controversial flags has been nominated for deletion; you are invited to participate in the discussion located here. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 00:31, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Sterling David Allan

I see you were one who voted for deletion of the page here at PESWiki about myself, saying that I am non-notable. The reason I am not noted in mainstream media is due to the maxim: "He who is one step ahead is a genius. He who is two steps ahead is a crackpot." Retrospective history will paint me favorably, though contemporaries often spurn.

Consider the following sampling:

• I launched and headed the effort to draft Ron Paul for President in 2004. Now, this time around, he is the most popular candidate on the web.
• My family of energy websites are considered as the best, most up-to-date collection worldwide of cutting-edge, outside-the-box energy technologies -- many of which hold promise to lead the world out of fossil-fuel-dependence in the coming years.
  • Our coverage routinely shows up in the top three in Google searches, often even ahead of Wikipedia. [17]
  • The traffic that the sites receive (35,000 page views/day) is adequate to bring in sufficient revenue for the project to be self-sustaining.
• I founded the New Energy Congress, whose Top 100 Energy Technologies listing is reviewed seriously (non-publicly) by academicians, VCs, researchers, governments, and industry experts per the phone calls I get regarding it.
• The American Study Group that I founded fresh out of the University grew to around 4,000 members in the Rocky Mountain West, several hundred participants of which were excommunicated from the Mormon church for "apostasy" due to extreme beliefs in around 1992-1995.
• I founded Remnant Saints Inter-Continental Congress whose purpose is to establish a world governance document based on the principles of freedom as enshrined in the Constitution of the United States -- a conservative answer to the liberal / socialist-leaning U.N. Though on hold due to lack of funding, the project is very forward-looking and continues to stir productive thought.
• My dad is an atomic clock physicist formerly with NIST in Boulder, whose "Allan Variance" to this day is at the heart of international timekeeping, which is one of the underpinnings of modern civilization. [18] He built a solar home that integrates 7 different major principles. My mother is a gifted herbal and natural healing practitioner. That is the immediate heritage upon which I have built.

I realize that Wikipedia does not typically highlight envelope-pushing, but waits for things to become well-accepted before giving them coverage. Hence the nemesis relationship between myself and Wikipedia, due to the axiom: "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident." Wikipedia typically only covers things when they fall into the third classification; while I focus on things while they are yet in the first stage. That is my specialty, and when those things that are now ridiculed matured to where they are accepted as self-evident, my role in history will be appreciated, and not spurned.

Meanwhile, I can understand why Wikipedia and the Media in general keep their distance. And you can see why there is an antagonistic relationship between myself and the groupies at Wikipedia. They have no guts, no spirit of adventure, but prefer to go with the mainstream flow. I find that shallow and unfulfilling. That is why I founded PESWiki, to give leading edge energy technologies a place to be featured, without narrow-minded Wikipedia hacks mercilessly deleting them as soon as they poke up their heads. PESWiki is now approaching 20 million page views. [19] We long ago surpassed Wikipedia in vision in the area of emerging energy technologies.

Non-notable? No.

Bleeding edge? Yes.

That is why you routinely delete my stuff when I venture to post it here.

No need to respond. -- Sterlingda 00:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I think you are mistaking me for another editor, AfD's about US politics are among the ones I avoid like a plague.victor falk 16:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

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Your comments were removed

See Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Operation Wilno.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  15:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Dalmatian Italians

Concerning my last edit on the article, please do not judge my editing style according to it, I admit I simply lost it for a couple of minutes when I wrote that peace, upon seeing the amount of POV liberally added by the supposedly restricted Giovanni. DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 17:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I understand you, and I agree he's not a paragon of neutrality. What's that about restricted? I haven't heard of it.--victor falk 17:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Read this:

"Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Dalmatia

This arbitration case has closed and the final decision is available at the link above. Giovanni Giove and DIREKTOR are each subject to an editing restriction for one year. Each is limited to one revert per page per week (excepting obvious vandalism), and is required to discuss any content reversions on the page's talk page. Please note that you may be blocked by an administrator if you fail to follow these requirements. This notice is given by a Clerk on behalf of the Arbitration Committee. Newyorkbrad 01:12, 19 October 2007 (UTC)"

I'm not gonna whine about how the ARBCOM oversimplified things and equated my contribs with his, but can it really be said old Giovanni followed these restrictions? I mean he just reverted your edit... DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 17:29, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

College and University projects

Thanks for the note, and as a result I've looked in on the discussion. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:11, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Perimeter Mall

Hi, Victor.

While it's true , as I said, that "many" of the 4000+ news media references Google found for this mall only gave it passing mention, I went on to write "but there's still plenty of meat" and listed a "small" sample of the more substantive articles. These articles (except the last one) make more than passing mention of this mall and I encourage you to take a look at the abstracts I linked to.--A. B. ^(talk) 20:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

N987SA

Several months ago (I don't recall exactly when - I'll try to search tomorrow if needed), several N-number articles on aircraft used for rendition were created. They were all AFDed, and the result was to merge these articles into a new one, Rendition aircraft. This article would probably be the best location for the N987SA. It is no more notable than the other aircraft covered, and perhaps even less so. It's late where I'm at, so I am headed to bed, meaning I won't be responding back quickly. Tomorrow, I'll be consulting with a few admins and other editors on the best appraoch to take with the article, either going to Deletion review, or proposing a merge to Rendition aircraft. Just wanted to let you know what was up. - BillCJ 08:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

That's the right place to have it, I suspected there might be such a page. Let's merge it. What is your time zone? Mine is CET. --victor falk 09:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, will add the merge proposal. I'm on US EDT (Daylight/Summer time, though we go to back standard on SUnday). I'll also add some links to Rendition aircraft on the N987SA page if I can find an appropriate place. - BillCJ 16:21, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

RFC: Talk:Tourism in Cuba

{{ExampleRFCxxx|Talk:Tourism in Cuba}} DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 09:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Merger Notification

You participated in this AfD on Como West Public School. It has since been proposed that the article be merged into its suburb article per WP:LOCAL and I was wondering if you would be willing to voice your opinion on the merger here. Thanks. Twenty Years 03:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Asian capitals controversial changes and subsequent revert war

FYI, per recommendation by the Admin that granted protection, I've taken up the issue on this article to WP:AN. Newtman (talk) 00:17, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Victor. As you suggested, I looked at the dispute and raised some questions. Also floated an idea. Let me know if you think I may be helpful or would rather I return to my cubicle. Ciao, HG | Talk 04:59, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

By the way, if you're going to reorganize comments on the talk page of this template, make sure you keep the line of thought intact, don't edit other people's statements, and don't delete the statements of others. You have violated all three of those principles and so I have reverted your edit. (I meant to explain this in the edit summary, but pressed the wrong button.) -- tariqabjotu 07:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm trying to, but I keep having edit conflicts): anyway, I think I've done enough for this page for today--victor falk 07:04, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Question

"Jau sean strachnye opiwum :)"

What's that? --TheFEARgod (?) 14:08, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

"I am strongly 'beered'" in Polish. The only whole sentence I know and can pronouce correctly. But not spell. Well, and some insults. I have a couple of Polish friends... Funnily enough, I'm listening to ladytron right at the moment.--victor falk 14:20, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

• That article doesn't mention that Mira Aroyo is bulgarian--victor falk 14:26, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

what has this to do with me? Well, Croatian has a similar phrase: "Ja sam strašno opijen". --TheFEARgod (?) 16:22, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Nothing. Thanks, now I know that in Croatian too. It was just an impulse when I saw the comment in croatian, without the diacritics it triggered a cognitive module in me I suppose, since it's an internal standing joke among us, and I couldn't help but write it... Maybe inappropriate, but then it was too late. --victor falk 16:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

category

Hello, you might want to remove the category from the page User:Victor falk/A bad case of inlitis so that it does not appear in Category: Capitals in Asia. Arthena^(talk) 17:28, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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Help on Template:Countries_of_the_Indosphere

There is a dispute as for whether Afghanistan and Balochistan are fair game to be considered part of the Indosphere. A user:Atari400 insists that it is not, making the absurd claim that it has not been, or only minorly been, influenced by (the rest of) South Asia. Considering that you RfC'd Template:Asian capitals I am requesting that that you put in your input on the matter. Thank you, Thegreyanomaly (talk) 03:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop!!!

you are at this moment going through every single one of my uploaded pictures and tagging for deletion everyone that conceivably could be. first, I'd like to urge you to use common sense and not tag things like 17th century maps, 19th century paintings, etc for deletion that are obviously not copyrighted. If there are others that you feel are dudious, please take it up on my talk page instead of tagging them en masse.--victor falk 17:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I am finished.

Per the image use policy, the source of all images must be provided. I have therefore tagged some images you uploaded as lacking a source. To fix this, just provide the source, i.e. where did you get the image from, on the image page and remove the no source tag.

Some images you uploaded are tagged as public domain due to author dying more than 100 years ago when this appears not to be the case. For these, you should comment on the relevant section of WP:PUI.

Copyright violations, when they occur, are an extreme legal danger to the project so we need to be quite careful. I am sure you will understand. Stifle (talk) 17:12, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I applaud your zeal in wishing to preserve wikipedia from "extreme legal dangers", but I hope you'll understand if I find your ways a bit, let's say, trigger-happy. For instance, if you read the discussion page of "WWI alliance" discussion page, the fact that it appears in a Imperial War Museum monography should be a strong hint that it is, shall we say, a historical picture. I'm rather sorry to see I was mistaken in how long Edvard Munch has been dead; I hope this will not be burdened upon me in the future as a proof or recentist tendencies (dead long ago = dead >100yrs), which as a member of a history project I'd find rather shameful. However long or short poor Edvard's time as trespassed, the fact the picture is used in an article about that painting makes this irrelevant and at most inappropriately tagged. I'd like to point out that the effort involved in {{sofixit}} is considerably less than starting an obviously erroneous deletion process. So on with the rest of the pictures you've tagged. Regards, --victor falk 17:44, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

The main issue with Edvard Munch having died in the 1940s is that it means works he created are not necessarily in the public domain in the USA (due to the Copyright Term Extension Act) and because Wikipedia is hosted in the USA, we must ensure we abide by US copyright law. It is possible that you can make a case for fair use of these images (in which case the requirements at WP:NFCC must be fulfilled) but removing {{no source}} tags without adding a source is not correct activity. I have restored the tags and you should not remove them without putting details of the source (i.e. where you found the image, be it an internet URL, a photograph you took in an art gallery, you own it and scanned it, etc.) on the image page.

As for your {{sofixit}} suggestion, I fail to see how I can suddenly sense where some unsourced images came from or make free an image which is not already in the public domain. Stifle (talk) 10:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

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