User talk:Selket/Archive/6

Max Meggs

Good morning Selket, do you mind helping me? I'm an intern at the Los Angeles talent agency that handles many big time actors. I've been asked to add a few actors to wikipedia but you deleted my last entry? How was it not "relevant" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by VanguardMGMT (talk • contribs) 04:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Pomaikai

Hi Selket, after blocking and deleting my contribution I clarified by understanding towards wikipedia and committed myself to the guidelines. After doing so, I would appreciate if you could get back to me now. Thanks for your help, Noerrmarketing (talk) 07:00, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

ANI Appeal

Please review the two sources I have added to my statement which cite WMC's article in exactly the same manner that I did, as an example of alarmism from global cooling. One is peer reviewed, one is a book. Thanks, GregJackP Boomer! 12:43, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

I think you are going about this wrong. You were article banned for edit waring. In an edit war it does not matter who is "right". If I take a position on whether your version or the other is better, then I would no longer be uninvolved. -Selket ^Talk 14:29, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Selket: If this is simply a question of edit-warring, why has WMC not received the same sanction? A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 14:44, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

User:Vrghs jacob

Can you take a look again please? You issued a final warning during the last ANI discussion, but he's back at it again (along with his IP 141.xx). It's getting to be very troublesome maintaining articles. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 19:37, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

BennyTV

His response: "So the reader looses out, because peoples ears aren't good enough. Doubt you've even heard the album! " Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 21:40, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Robot wars

Already commented, and left a note for Dispenser. Thanks, Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC).

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:48, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

TRIZ - IP still reverting

Hi - thanks for your comments on ANI/3RR. I'll take care in future to specifically warn mentioning the 3RR rule in such cases. Anyway, as per your request for updates, the IP is still at it [1]. Its the sixth revert with no sign of understanding the processes. VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 16:51, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Exactly, the sixth revert was definitely after the 3RR warning and also after the warning about WP:CONSENSUS; the edit summary in the last revert indicates that the IP does not intend to pay attention to WP:CONSENSUS. Nsk92 (talk) 16:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

He's blocked now. -Selket ^Talk 19:02, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Move

I can't say you got the move at Black people and crime in the United Kingdom correct. Yes, there was a majority in favour of the move but none of them put forward compelling arguments and most of them were, in my opinion, refuted. None of them addressed the substantial number of sources which looks at this exact issue. Claims that the article title was non-neutral were unsubstantiated. Christopher Connor (talk) 00:23, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Despite your reply to virtually every post supporting the merge, teh consensus was quite clear. It did not appear to me that any of the support rationale proposed were against policy. I've had my position not end up carrying the day plenty of times, and I know it can be frustrating, but you need to move on. -Selket ^Talk 00:36, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Depends what you mean by consensus. If you mean by number of votes, the move was appropriate. If it's about arguments grounded in policy and guidelines, things are not so clear. The support votes weren't "against policy" as such, just weak, and did not address the existence of this topic in reliable sources. Since no result will be had of this conversation, do you recommend I hold an RfC into this? Christopher Connor (talk) 00:48, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, it is not simply number of votes, although that is one consideration. When the votes are overwhelmingly in one direction (as with this case) and are not flawed for some reason then the majority wins. This is less true with article content than with moves and deletions since there cannot be a compromise on whether an article is moved. You are welcome to open up an RFC, although it starts to look like forum shopping and eventually WP:STICK. -Selket ^Talk 00:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

There were three strong oppose votes, and the support votes were most definitely flawed; no need for me to dissect them here since I did that at the article. Can you, for example, highlight an argument from the support votes that explained why a topic that exists outside Wiki shouldn't exist here i.e. one that addressed the extensive body of literature on the subject and explained why it shouldn't exist here? Without such an argument, no move can possibly take place. I'm not sure what the appropriateness is of highlighting the two shortcuts when an RfC is different from a req move and will draw a wider range of editors and will an actually be a discussion as opposed to a vote. Also the HORSE page says "Simply saying that a horse has five legs doesn't make it true – you must prove it"—that I have demonstrated firmly. Christopher Connor (talk) 01:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

EUROAVIA

Dear Selket,

You were recently listed in the deletion log to have deleted the English page of 'EUROAVIA-The European Association of Aerospace Students', on October 6th. Although the deletion log has changed over the last two days, the aforementioned deletion took place on AfD reasons, listing you as the modifier. We would like to ask you what the main reasons were for this deletion as well as whether you have the original text of this article. Several active members have spend precious time creating this article, and although there might have been a lack of citation (as noted in the log), we would like to reinstate the page with the possible improvements you would suggest.

I'm looking forward to your answer.

Best regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by EUROAVIA10 (talk • contribs) 16:53, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Can you provide a link to the AfD you speak of please? I can't find it. -Selket ^Talk 18:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Don Smith (songwriter)

Please restore the article Don Smith (songwriter) which was deleted against the consensus of this discussion. By deleting the article, you have also deleted the article's editing history, and the consensus did not support deletion. Once the article has been restored, then you might redirect the article according to the consensus, but with the article's editing history still intact. Rednevog (talk) 21:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

With only six edits, most of which were purely administrative, there was no meaningful history to preserve. For reference I will paste the final version of the page below, in case you want to reference it. -Selket ^Talk 22:23, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

'''Don Smith''' is a songwriter who is best known for the popular song ''[[Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)]]'' co-written with [[Cyril Vetter]]
<ref>http://www.billboard.com/#/song/bayou-boys/double-shot-of-my-baby-s-love/14461314</ref>. ''Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)'' was originally
recorded by [[Dick Holler|Dick Holler & the Holidays]], and later recorded by [[The Swingin' Medallions]] who released it as their second single
in 1966. The song became a Top 20 hit for the group, peaking at #17 on the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Billboard Hot 100]].<ref name=amg1>
[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gpfuxqe5ldfe~T51 Billboard Singles], Allmusic.com</ref>. 
 
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) has since been recorded by numerous artists including [[Joe Stampley]].
<ref>http://www.billboard.com/#/search/?Nty=1&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&Ntk=Keyword&Ns=FULL_DATE|1&Ne=125&N=129&Ntt=Double+Shot+Of+My+Baby%27s+Love</ref>
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:w9fuxzt0ldte Allmusic.com: Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)]
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Don}}
[[Category:American songwriters]]
[[Category:Living people]]
 
{{songwriter-stub}}

Vancouver, Washington

DMS coordinates are not like significant figures. You can't just chop the seconds off as being "too precise", because then that's a different coordinate, D M' 0". In this case, the coordinate you changed it to was utterly wrong: [2] vs [3]

Like, in another city and state wrong ;). Cities don't generally have an established centroid or anything that can accurately be pointed to with a single coordinate that says "this is the city!", but that's a different discussion entirely. Vertigo Acid (talk) 05:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm moving this conversation to the talk page for the article. --Selket ^Talk 16:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Teglement

Regarding the deletion of the With a Voice article, I AM a notable source. No, there are no printed works regarding With a Voice to cite, but I am a very valid source. If a person can cite a random article written by a nobody, why can a person not cite themselves? I admit, I practically AM a nobody, but I am also as valid a source as anything else you'll find. I feel absolutely insulted that you would tear something down due to it not being "relevant". Guess what? The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg is not at all relevant, and yet that article has been here forever for some unknown reason. You are deleting an article on a band who are active, and people want to know about them, and I -thought- that Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia which can be edited by anybody, would be a very reasonable place to document a bands history. Other unknown artists such as Slow Club, Guapo, and Ninth Moon Black have Wikipedia entries that the vast majority of people more than likely will never see. Why on Earth would you delete an article with relevant information about an active artist? I admit, I'm extremely infuriated. Can I at least be graced with a copy of the article? It's not like Wikipedia can't handle one more article on a band.

Teglement (talk) 03:34, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Teglement

I am sorry you feel infuriated. Unfortunately it is wikipedia's definition of reliable source that matters, not your definition. Also, "notable" is not the same as "relevant". If you are aware of other articles about bands that you don't feel meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria, then feel free to bring that to administrator attention by placing {{db-band}} at the top. As for your request to a copy of the article, I will copy the last pre-deletion version below. --Selket ^Talk 04:58, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I do apologize for my previous rants. However, this still does not fix any problems. You're essentially telling me to let out my aggressions by marking pointless articles so they can be deleted, too. If at all possible, I would -prefer- to speak to somebody of higher hierarchy regarding this. There is still no solution to what I see as a problem, and you have done nothing to aid me in finding one. You're simply sending me to other pages that have not answered any of my questions even remotely, and I am finding myself extremely dissatisfied. Again, I apologize for sounding unprofessional and generally being a pain, but this is important to me. Thank you for the copy. Teglement (talk) 05:25, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Teglement

No worries, I allow myself to get heated at times too. I fully understand that having an article you worked on be deleted can be frustrating. I'm sorry you didn't find the policy pages I linked helpful. If you have any specific questions I will do my best to answer them. I did not mean that you should let out your aggression by asking to have other pages deleted. Rather, I simply meant that those pages should be deleted if they do not comply with Wikipedia policy, and you would be helping the encyclopedia to tag them for deletion. There is not really someone "higher" than me since this is supposed to be a community effort. It's not like regular editors report to admins who report to someone else. Rather, we try to run things by consensus. Admins are just trusted users who are given a few extra tools (like page deletion or blocking) that are considered dangerous to give to everyone. We are supposed to use them to implement community decided policies. However, if you disagree with an administrative action that does not mean you have no recourse.

There are two principle options open if you would like to appeal. If you disagree with the policy (in this case WP:CSD#A7 and WP:BAND), then you should ask for it to be changed. To do so, make a post on the talk page of one of those policy pages explaining why and how you think the policy should be changed. Other editors will comment on your proposal and once (and if) you feel a consensus has developed for your change you can edit the policy page itself (or ask an admin to if it's protected). On the other hand, if you think an administrator has not interpreted a policy correctly (in this case if you're fine with WP:BAND but think I still shouldn't have deleted your article) there are a number of ways you can ask the community to reconsider the action. In this case you would want to make a request for deletion review. I'm sorry to send you to yet another project page, but the instructions on how to appeal the deletion are right there. Again, if you have any questions, or would like help in submitting the deletion review I will help as best I can. --Selket ^Talk 05:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

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{{hang on}} {{db-band}} {{Infobox musical artist | Name = With a Voice | Img = | Img_capt = | Img = | Img_capt = | Background = group_or_band | Origin = [[Thief River Falls]], [[Minnesota]], [[United States]] | Genre = [[Hardcore Metal]]<br />[[Christian Metal]]<br />[[Progressive Metal]] | Years_active = 2010-Present | Label = [[Independent]] | Current_members = [[Dylan Raftevold]]<br />[[Josiah Taves]]<br />[[Michael Gilbert (guitarist)|Michael Gilbert]]<br />[[Paul Olson (bassist)|Paul Olson]]<br />[[Kord Maurer]] }} '''With a Voice''' is a [[hardcore metal]] band from [[Thief River Falls]], [[Minnesota]]. With a Voice was founded in [[2010]] after the disbanding of Raftevold's original band, [[Visions Foreshadow]] and Gilbert's pop punk band [[Novice Nation]]. Although not yet signed, With a Voice has played shows with artists such as [[These Hearts]], [[Alistair Hennessey (band)|Alistair Hennessey]], and [[Your Memorial]]. They released a demo in 2010 under the name Our Escape, and are currently in the writing process for a new EP slated for Q3-Q4 [[2011]]. ==History== ===Early History (2010-2011)=== With a Voice is the product of Maurer, Gilbert, Taves, and Raftevold. In the rising of a noteworthy hardcore scene in Minnesota, the four original members decided to start writing and create a new musical project named Lexington. The first known songs known to be written by the band were Consider This a Blessing, Hiding From Your Hands, and Joshua. Eventually, they hired their first bassist, Chris Compeau. Compeau eventually left to join [[Bemidji]] [[deathcore]] band [[A Day of Plague]]. Compeau was replaced by Youssef Chamma until his made his return a few months later. After recording the Our Escape demo, Compeau left after the first show under the name With a Voice. Chamma returned briefly for one show before being replaced by Paul Olson. ==Members== ;Current members *[[Dylan Raftevold]] - [[lead vocalist|lead vocals]] (founding member) *[[Josiah Taves]] - [[lead guitar]] (founding member) *[[Michael Gilbert (guitarist)|Michael Gilbert]] - [[rhythm guitar]], vocals (founding member) *[[Paul Olson]] - [[bass guitar]] (2011-present) *[[Kord Maurer]] - [[drums]] (founding member) ;Former members *Chris Compeau - bass guitar (2010, 2011) *Youssef Chamma - bass guitar (2010, 2011) ==Discography== ;Albums *Our Escape Demo (2010) ==External links== [http://wwww.purevolume.com/withavoice PureVolume page]

Jimit Sanghvi

Could you please explain why this page was deleted? As provided by you :-

1.] (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person) : The significance is self evident in the page itself and a detailed explanation of significance was provided in "Talk:Jimit Sanghvi" page which also got deleted.

2.] WP:SPAM : This page does not, in any ways, promote or advertise Jimit Sanghvi.

Where did my page not meet the criteria for Wikipedia? please help me how I could make the page better. Because, I want to create the page with similar contents again.

I hereby produce you the last edited version of this page:

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'''Jimit.R.Sanghvi''' is an [[Indian]] scientist and a Student pursuing [[Master of Science]] in [[Physics]] , [[Astronomy]] at the [[University of Turku]] , [[Finland]]. In 2008, Sanghvi led a research which stated the primary theoretical analysis of [[Ozone Layer Formation]] in Ozone depleted regions which received scientific acceptance at the International Journal of Energy and Environment <ref>Jimit.R.Sanghvi(2008), [http://www.naun.org/journals/energyenvironment/ee-43.pdf Ozone layer formation through Corona Discharge utilizing natural phenomena]. ''International Journal of Energy and Environment, NAUN'', 16-24</ref> .This analysis is the first of its kind in the field of Atmospheric and Environmental Science. The research was conducted during Sanghvi's Final year of [[Bachelor of Engineering]] in Electronics and Telecommunication at [[K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering]] from [[University of Mumbai]] in 2008. His fields of scientific interests includes : Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, [[Black Holes]], [[Cosmology]], and [[Quantum Gravity]]. ==Publications== *{{cite journal | last1 =Sanghvi | first1 =Jimit | month=November | year =2008 | title =Ozone Layer Formation through Corona Discharge utilizing Natural Phenomena | journal =INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT | volume =2 | issue =1 | pages =16–24 | publisher =NAUN (NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION) | location=USA | issn=1109-9577 | url = http://www.naun.org/journals/energyenvironment/ee-43.pdf | format=pdf }} *{{citation | url = http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2008/bucharest2/ncu/ncu03.pdf | publisher = World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) | place = Bucharest, Romania | year = 2008 | ISBN = 978-960-474-023-9 | contribution = Ozone layer formation through Corona Discharge utilizing natural phenomena | first1 = Jimit | last1 = Sanghvi | title = Proceedings of the 1st WSEAS International Conference on CLIMATE CHANGES, GLOBAL WARMING, BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS (CGB '08) }}. ==See also== *[[Ozone Layer Formation]] *[[Corona discharge]] ==References== {{reflist}}

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I would be delighted when the page comes back to existence. Thank you.

The criteria for the inclusion of a biographical article are at WP:BIO. Generally speaking: A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of multiple published secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. Please also see Wikipedia:Notability (academics). There are millions of masters students in the world, and not all of them are notable. If there are multiple reliable sources that discuss Jimit Sanghvi and are independent of hi== Uppermost ==

I would like to discuss the Uppermost page I recently created and which you subsequently deleted. You claim the artist is not notable. I respectfully disagree. He has released over 90 songs, has reached the top of the electro house charts on Beatport and Junodownload, and has been playlisted by Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren and Steve Angello. LessThan3 calls him an EDM prodigy.m (that is, not written by him) feel free to recreate the article with appropriate references. --Selket ^Talk 07:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Selket, Thank for your reply. WP:BIO defines Notable as : {The topic of an article "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded."[1] Notable in the sense of being "famous", or "popular"—although not irrelevant—is secondary.}. I think, the point your are recommending is secondary according to WP:BIO definition. I may be wrong in representing the Article, but the article does not mean to concentrate on his Academic Qualifications, rather, on the scientific significance of his research. The research is not an ordinary one, but, the only article till date, to have been published and thereby received scientific acceptance, which states how "Ozone layer can be rehabilitated at the Ozone holes" and that too by an undergraduate student making him a young scientist. I think, this makes it, according to Wikipedia, "interesting and unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded". Also, we can delete the Academic Qualifications if that possesses a barrier to the Article's Notability. Academic Qualifications were included to make this article more notable as the proof of a "youngness" of scientist. I think the way, this page was presented was incorrect, but, I am sure we could keep it back again, after making minor changes to it. Please provide your views to it. Jimcham17^Talk

The easiest way to establish notability is to include references to reliable sources in the article establishing notability. Are there any newspaper articles about how young he is? Are there any review articles in the scientific literature discussing his theories? There was no problem with the academic qualifications section, or any section for that matter. It's that you don't say in the article what makes Jimit Sanghvi special. If he's special because of his scientific acomplishments, then Wikipedia:Notability (academics) is the guideline to follow. For example, has Jimit Sanghvi's research "made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources"? Has Jimit Sangvi "received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level"? etc. -Selket ^Talk 07:55, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Selket, I believed that these information(his newspaper article, best paper award and other achievements) might be unwantedly boosting. But if Wikipedia:Notability requires those information, I shall create his page and add them too. Thank you for you response.

- Jimcham17^Talk —Preceding undated comment added 08:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC).

Hi Selket, this is the revised version of the page Jimit Sanghvi including all the details you prescribed me to add in it. I wish to know your opinion and acceptance for this page : Jimit Sanghvi.

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'''Jimit.R.Sanghvi''' is a young Indian scientist and a Student currently pursuing [[Master of Science]] in [[Physics]] , [[Astronomy]] at the [[University of Turku]] , [[Finland]]. In 2008, Sanghvi led a research which stated the first, and yet the only, primary theoretical analysis of [[Ozone Layer Formation]] in Ozone depleted regions which received scientific acceptance at the International Journal of Energy and Environment,NAUN Press <ref>Jimit.R.Sanghvi(2008), [http://www.naun.org/journals/energyenvironment/ee-43.pdf Ozone layer formation through Corona Discharge utilizing natural phenomena(Revised and Extended Version]. ''International Journal of Energy and Environment, NAUN'', 16-24</ref> . The research was sucessfully conducted during Sanghvi's Final year of [[Bachelor of Engineering]] in Electronics and Telecommunication at [[K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering]] from [[University of Mumbai]] in 2008. His fields of scientific interests includes : Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, [[Black Holes]], [[Cosmology]], and [[Quantum Gravity]]. ==Notables of this research== * International Award : {{citation | url = http://www.wseas.us/reports/2008/best2008.htm | publisher = World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) | place = Bucharest, Romania | year = 2008 | contribution = Best paper award (Evaluated by committees of 6 international experts, different for each discipline) | first1 = Jimit | last1 = Sanghvi | title = Ozone Layer Formation through Corona Discharge utilizing Natural Phenomena }}. * Honorary Appreciation : the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering, University of Mumbai. ==Publications== *{{cite journal | last1 =Sanghvi | first1 =Jimit | month=November | year =2008 | title =Ozone Layer Formation through Corona Discharge utilizing Natural Phenomena(Revised and Extended version) | journal =INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT | volume =2 | issue =1 | pages =16–24 | publisher =NAUN (NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION) | location=USA | issn=1109-9577 | url = http://www.naun.org/journals/energyenvironment/ee-43.pdf | format=pdf }} *{{citation | url = http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2008/bucharest2/ncu/ncu03.pdf | publisher = World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) | place = Bucharest, Romania | year = 2008 | ISBN = 978-960-474-023-9 | contribution = Ozone layer formation through Corona Discharge utilizing natural phenomena | first1 = Jimit | last1 = Sanghvi | title = Proceedings of the 1st WSEAS International Conference on CLIMATE CHANGES, GLOBAL WARMING, BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS (CGB '08) }}<ref>Jimit.R.Sanghvi(2008), [http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2008/bucharest2/ncu/ncu03.pdf Ozone layer formation through Corona Discharge utilizing natural phenomena]. ''World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)''</ref> ==See also== *[[Ozone Layer Formation]] *[[Corona discharge]] *[[K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering]] *[[University of Mumbai]] ==References== {{reflist}}

- Jimcham17^Talk

Wardwiki

Would you be happy me headlining a Wardwiki article that redirect to the online medical encyclopaedia? What was deficienct in the original wardwiki article compared, lets say, to Radiopedia? A little more than 12 hours notice is helpful before removing articles so we can reedit them!! I'll not rewrite until I have a response. I think it's important to have a basic wiki on wikipedia for the wardwiki website — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonmarcstanley (talk • contribs) 07:59, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Please read the Wikipedia guideline on Conflicts of interest and then recreate the article if you feel you can without violating that guideline. Please remember to explain why the subject of your article is noteworthy. In particular WP:WEB explains what websites are considered notable. --Selket ^Talk 08:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Pope Joan (band)

Hi,
concerning Pope Joan (band), the article read "The release achieved critical acclaim from the British music press gaining good reviews from national publications such as NME, Artrocker, Rock Sound and The Fly, alongside positive support from many prominent music blogs and fanzines." That is, in my eyes, an indication of importance and should at least earn it an AfD. Could you reconsider the deletion?
Thank you, Amalthea 09:29, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

done --Selket ^Talk 09:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll comment there. FWIW, I have no idea whether that band is notable. Cheers, Amalthea 09:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Christian School of Kingwood

Hello, I am the administrator for the website www.cskw.org. I am also on the Board of Trustees. I am not sure why the Christian School of Kingwood page was deleted from Wikipedia as I had simply included the same descriptions of the school, student body, activities, etc as we post on our school's website. There is no copyright issue as the school - through me as a Board member - authorized the use of information I posted for the wikipedia entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cskjason (talk • contribs) 19:25, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We take copyright issues very seriously. If you would like to create an article for the school, you can do so with original content with no worries. If you would like to use the text from the web site, then we are going to need to make sure that the school has released the text under a license that is compatible with Wikipedia's policy. One way is for the school's website to indicate that it is releasing the content of the site under an appropriate license. Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike and Creative Commons Attribution licenses are probably best. If you have access to the school's web site, simply place a note at the bottom of the page with the copyright info stating that the content of the site is available under CC-BY-3.0 or whatever. If you can't do that then you will need to communicate your desire to release the content to OTRS. This can be a little complicated, but the instructions are at Wikipedia:Permissions. I hope this helps. If not, let me know and I'll help you as best I can. --Selket ^Talk 19:34, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I have added the appropriate release to the school's website at: http://www.cskw.org/about_us.htm --cskjason

That's terrific. Feel free to recreate the article. --Selket ^Talk 21:17, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Fail Editor

He removed V.G. Varun because it did not indicate the significance of him. Well, it did. He sold millions of albums. Why did you delete it?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.177.17.53 (talk) 03:05, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi, sorry I'm not sure what you are talking about though. Can you please say what editor, or which page you feel shouldn't have been deleted? -Selket ^Talk 05:11, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

File:Upstart-header.png

The file above does not meet the threshold of originality so as to be copyrighted or eligible for fair use, as I had stated so on the Commons counterpart file page description when I first moved it there. What issues should be resolved? :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 07:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Commons is going to delete it eventually, so we should keep the local copy. It almost certainly is subject to copyright protection and Commons will err on the safe side. --Selket ^Talk 17:19, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I think it's too simple to entail any copyright to it, like File:ARD_logo.svg or File:The Microsoft logo & slogan.png. I've talked with a Commons administrator, and he seems to think it's okay too. I've checked and there does not seem to be any other problems with the local copy, so the move to Commons should remain uncontroversial. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 07:14, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

KeepLocal

If people have to replace the template with more words anyway if the image is uploaded to Commons, [4] it defeats the purpose of having just one template. Can't we keep this as simple as possible? SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS} 21:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Are you worried about the number of words in the rendered template or what has to be typed in the edit box? I did it the way I did because most people using the template will presumably be uploading the image only to en and thus they should just put {{KeepLocal}} with no arguments. Also, the NoCommons template often linked to a file that didn't actually exist on commons. If you've got a suggestion on how to do it better, I'd love to hear it though. I don't pretend to think my way is necessarily the best. --Selket ^Talk 21:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I was hoping you could just add the functionality of NoCommons to KeepLocal, and leave it at that, so that people only had to add "KeepLocal" and if the image existed on Commons, that link would show up (this image may exist on the Commons as ...). The more people have to type (write this if X, write that if Y), the less user-friendly it is. But maybe that's easier said than done, I don't know. SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS} 21:47, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I toyed with the idea. The problem is it creates the dead link if the file isn't on commons. I think you're right though, and I'll change it shortly. --Selket ^Talk 22:52, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Better? --Selket ^Talk 23:25, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that's much better. Thank you! SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS} 01:38, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Harrassment from an editor

Hello Selket, I only want you to be notified that I'm being harrassed by user Yworo. I'm fed up with all this, I just want him to leave me alone, without him writing lies and accusations on my back on a regular matter. I think I made myself clear enough to him and any other contributor about my actions and motives when I got involved in an edit war with him, and tried to be as honest as possible about it.

I replied to his latest insinuation here, where I deleted everything by mistake and then added it back, but he then flooded me of notices and threats 30 minutes ago on my discussion page, while it was obvious it was an accident. He also opened a report against me here.

I don't want to deal anymore with this, it's a waste of time, I just don't want any more contact or harassment from that person, I may not be perfect in the way I'm writing my opinion, but I tried my best to keep being civil and of good faith all along. 93.19.187.248 (talk) 23:26, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I saw your note. I'm looking through his edit history deciding what to do. Profanity will not help your cause. --Selket ^Talk 23:51, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry but that's just creepy. The guy had been looking for my IP and DNS and adding it on links to his report. 93.19.187.248 (talk) 23:53, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

When you edit without logging in, your IP address is visible. There is a big warning on the edit page saying as much. {{IPvandal}} displays a whois link. --Selket ^Talk 23:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Didn't know about this, I often find myself lost in the maze of WP official pages when trying to get an info. Thanks. It looks like he's running a personal crusade on me anyway... I'm probably better off for the night. Thank you for reading my note and sorry for the inconvenience. 93.19.187.248 (talk) 00:03, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Agnes Milowka

No, it wasn't an unsourced BLP - the first sentence gives the clue "... was ... who died....". Please take more care. PamD (talk) 23:58, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, it's got a ref now, so it's that much the better. --Selket ^Talk 23:59, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Advice

User:Aleenf1 keeps reporting me to the boards (almost five times 4 times) and nothing has happened, what should I do to stop this nonsense? Intoronto1125 (talk) 22:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Can you provide me links to the diffs of his reports please? Thanks. --Selket ^Talk 22:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

[5], [6], [7], [8]

Also filed a false sock puppet case against me with no evidence (although 1 account is mine, it was already known). [9]. that is all I could find, but it feels like he files a report every week! please get him off my case. Intoronto1125 (talk) 01:38, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Uppermost

I would like to discuss the Uppermost page I recently created and which you subsequently deleted. You claim the artist is not notable. I respectfully disagree. He has released over 90 songs, has reached the top of the electro house charts on Beatport and Junodownload, and has been playlisted by Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren and Steve Angello. LessThan3 calls him an EDM prodigy. --Rc232 (talk) 21:30, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

If you read the deletion log carefully, you'll notice that I did not "claim the artist is not notable." Rather I claimed that the article, "does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject." Please go read the notability guidelines for musicians and if you still think this artist is notable (under that definition) feel free to recreate the article with references to reliable sources backing up the claims of notability. Generally speaking though, articles that say "occupation: college student" are going to get deleted. --Selket ^Talk 21:44, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

deletion of article p j Thomas(cvc)

Thanks for deleting article p j thomas(cvc) . It was I who put the speedy deletion notice. Suri 100 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Suri 100 (talk • contribs) 06:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

No problem. --Selket ^Talk 15:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

AHaynes1

Good Morning Selket. This is my second attempt to contact you for help.

I tried to create a page called "Victory Education Partners". The content was limited to basic details (mission, history). It was also referenced in another page and has the same layout as other school such as "Uncommon Schools". Why was it deleted? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.Ahaynes1 (talk) Ahaynes1 (talk) 16:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

It was deleted under criterion for speedy deletion G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion. The article did not say why Victory Education Partners is notable per Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and was written like an advertisement. Many companies try to create articles about themselves on Wikipedia in order to increase their web traffic. Wikipedia considers this spam and deletes the article. I would encourage you to familiarize yourself with our policies and, perhaps, edit a few articles before creating a new one. If you do recreate the Victory Education Partners article, please remember to say why it is notable. --Selket ^Talk 18:51, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

/* Willow Palin */

Hi, there is a discussion as regards this un-protection and recreation at the BLP noticeboard here, regards. Off2riorob (talk) 01:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Regarding Briery Creek Press

I understand the necessary information for the article, but do you mind taking it easy on the rapidity of deletion? I started the page today, and it was deleted in 5 or so hours. I'm a graduate student man, I'm doing fifteen things, I just need the deletion to be a little slower. As far as establishing importance goes, you deleted my page the same day, but this Adam Sanat still exists? If it still sucks after I finish, delete it, but please wait until I finish?--Xoutkastx3 (talk) 00:59, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Something that perhaps should have been deleted wasn't. This does not mean that nothing else can be deleted. The article was deleted because it did not give any reasons why this particular company is notable. Also, you stated that you worked for the company. This makes your contributions to the article a violation of WP:SPAM and WP:COI. -Selket ^Talk 01:32, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

[10]

I don't understand ? It was previously deleted - IFun4all. Citing reason: "Article about a company, corporation, organization, or group, which does not indicate the importance or significance of the subject (CSD A7))", Sir Lothar (talk) 07:15, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

I think you wanted to deleted it under criteria for speedy deletion G4: G4. Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion. Two things about that. First, it was a different title, unless you link to the previous article, it's going to be very hard for an admin to find it. Second, G4 applies to recreated articles that were deleted pursuant to a discussion. If an article that was speedied was recreated, it can't be speedied again unless, e.g., it still falls under A10. This article makes claims of notability, so you'll need to submit it to AfD. --Selket ^Talk 13:50, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, I've provided links to the previous article - IFun4all and Ifun4all are about the same topic - game producing company. As far the second part of your response, the only option is to put it on AfD, right ? OK, I see the point, thanks for answer. Sir Lothar (talk) 11:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

constructionworks

I listed constructionworks because it a small company in a small upstate town.there is no chance of advertising as there are no points of contact. I think small company,s should have the right to be archive as well as the large well known company's. Wikipedia is supposed to be the wealth of human information, why take away any information that adds to the grand picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shanerking (talk • contribs) 23:07, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

CopyVio

As a matter of interest, re Louis Landon, is copyright violation no longer a criterion for speedy deletion? Isn't this reasonably convincing? - David Biddulph (talk) 19:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

You are absolutely right. I was looking at the previous version that was flagged for A7. I'm not sure why I didn't get an edit conflict warning. Oh well, it's gone now. --Selket ^Talk 00:14, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Hill jumping

Okay, I have to say it. When I saw your AFD for Hill jumping my mind somehow flipped the H and the J. :D Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 19:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

What? I don't get... Oh wait! I see what you did there. --Selket ^Talk

RCAF Detachment Alliston

I restored the article because it contains a version from here which is licensed as CC BY-SA 2.5 but I didn't get time to revert back. I'm going to restore it again, so the history is preserved, give me a few minutes to revert back and add the necessary credits. By the way didn't you wonder why I had restored the article? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 23:41, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

You want the copyright violation text out of the edit history. It should be revdel'ed or delete the page and restore only the new version. --Selket ^Talk 23:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

It would seem there may be a larger problem. CFB Wainright and CFB Wainwright also RCAF Station De Winton and RCAF Station De Winton plus I don't know how many others. I've emailed the site to ask about who is copying who. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 00:28, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

By the way as per Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins#Handling copyright violations (the last section) says that you can revert to the last good copy but that "It may be a good idea to use Wikipedia:Revision deletion on the versions that contain the copyright infringement". CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 00:37, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

National History Bowl Page

Just wondering why the National History Bowl page was deleted. It says it duplicates information, which may have been confused with the National History Bee, its partner event. The other tag you had was that it was vandalism; maybe the former article was derogatory in some fashion, but I have not seen it. As the person who deleted the page, would you be okay with me restarting it anew or explaining to me why it was deleted?

Javasquadron (talk) 21:43, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi, please be aware that there are a lot of hoaxes here, the similarity to the National History Bee page made this seem like either a hoax or a duplication (the two reasons I marked for the deletion). Consider the following two sections with differences highlighted:

The National History Bowl is a nationwide history quiz competition for teams of high school and middle school students in the United States. For its inaugural academic year of 2010-2011, the National History Bowl consists of a series of approximately 30 state-level qualifying competitions from which the top teams advance to the National Championships in Washington, DC. In 2011, the National Championships will be held on April 16 in and around Washington, DC, with portions of the competition occurring at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Mount Vernon

The National History Bee is a nationwide history quiz competition for individual high school and middle school students in the United States. For its inaugural academic year of 2010-2011, the National History Bee consists of a series of approximately 30 state-level qualifying competitions from which the top students advance to the National Championships in and near Washington, DC. In 2011, the National Championships is scheduled to be held on April 17 with the preliminary rounds taking place at a Washington, DC high school and the final rounds taking place at Mount Vernon

Feel free to recreate the article, but please include at least one reference to a reliable source so that it doesn't get deleted again. -- Selket ^Talk 22:26, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Anglo Pyramidologist

Hi. Protecting User talk:Anglo Pyramidologist is not really the appropriate way to stop the user misusing the page, I don't think, because we don't want to stop other people commenting there (we shouldn't prevent other warnings, notifications, etc). I'd suggest modifying the user's block and disabling their Talk page access - if you're OK for me to change it that way, I'm happy to go ahead and do that instead. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:42, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

I felt it wasn't just him. There were other editors trolling the talk page as well. I was just trying to shut the page down before it got out of hand and I thought that people leaving comments AP couldn't respond to would have just made the situation worse rather than better. -- Selket ^Talk 17:29, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

OK, fair enough - I didn't see anything else that looked like trolling to me, but I guess it might indeed be fairer to deny access to everyone in order to prevent any escalation. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:43, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Phone tables

Per this edit summary: the subpage in my userspace is something I developed as a central location to clearly indicate what consensus is on the format of the tables at pages like voiced velar fricative. If you take a close look at the introductory paragraph of this subpage, you'll find that there is a link to the archived original discussion about the formatting; there are also links at the bottom that link to discussions that amend the prescribed format. Since you've asked where the consensus is, I'm assuming that you missed this.

As I said in a previous edit summary, anyone is welcome to go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Phonetics and discuss the issue again, bringing up the merits of a change in this policy/MOS. Since I'm not interested in engaging in an edit war, I'd like to leave it to either you or User:Wareh to remove Old English yourselves. You should at least understand that the "modern spoken languages" stipulation is agreed upon by the community and going against that is going against what others have agreed to. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi]} 22:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

What I saw in the linked discussion was you proposing your template (a tiny part of which was the modern spoken languages only rule) and a couple other people not objecting. If there were a MOS page or policy page saying no dead languages, I would certainly bring it up there, but there is not. This conversation should really be happening on the talk page of the article in question so I hope you don't mind me moving it there. -- Selket ^Talk 23:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Image Deletion

A deletion discussion has just been created at Category talk:Unclassified Chemical Structures, which may involve one or more orphaned chemical structures, that has you user name in the upload history. Please feel free to add your comments.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:05, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks -- Selket ^Talk 16:03, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Don't I know you from somewhere?

Hi, this will seem a little odd, but your name seems very familiar. Did you ever play an online game named Nile Online by chance? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 06:54, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Nope, sorry. Selket is the name of an Egyptian deity, so it doesn't surprise me that someone use that name in Nile Online. -- Selket ^Talk 15:21, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah alrighty. Yeah, I thought you might be this very nice British ex-pat living in Egypt who I knew from there. Apologies. =p Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 16:16, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Greenbrier Academy

Hello, I am concerned about the speedy deletion of Greenbrier Academy. I understand why, but I am concerned about WP:BITE in this instance. The user was someone who was new. Outside of today, they only had one previous edit on Wikipedia from last year. I see that you left a nice note on their page, but I think the nominator may have addressed the issue with a little more tact. I was prepared to help the user make it better, fwiw. I did leave a note on the nominator's page, expressing my concern as well.

I hope you have a nice day!

Roodog2k (talk) 19:49, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I also was worried about WP:BITE, which is why I left the note. Copyright violations, however, put the entire project at risk even if the editor had the best of intentions. -- Selket ^Talk 21:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

PAG infobox

I had to revert your edits, because the template had errors on it. For example, the years that the countries competed in never showed up. Intoronto1125TalkContributions 16:24, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FK Jadar

Hi there; you shouldn't really bundle articles into an AfD after a discussion has already begun (as you have done with this one); I would advise you open a second AfD for the new articles. Regards, GiantSnowman 22:07, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

I know, and typically I would agree. However, it's only been a few hours, there's only one comment there, and a bunch more showed up on CSD, where I didn't want them to get deleted. I weighed splitting the discussion and thought this would be better. I did everything I could to be transparent as well. If you really want me to withdraw the nom and re-list them all together, I will. -- Selket ^Talk 22:10, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

No, no, it's fine - I suppose I'm the only one to have commented, and my view of the new articles is the same as my view of the old. GiantSnowman 22:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

rfc deleted

Can you please undelete Category talk:16th-century Palestinian rabbis. There is a discussion taking place there. Thanks. Chesdovi (talk) 22:25, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Talk pages of deleted pages are deleted per CSD: G8. You should probably talk to whoever deleted the category. Once the cat is gone, the talk page has to go too. If you need a revision for something I can probably get it for you. -- Selket ^Talk 22:35, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

How long are deleted pages stored for? Chesdovi (talk) 22:44, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Unless they are deleted by Oversight or office action, they stay forever. -- Selket ^Talk 22:45, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Chesdovi (talk) 22:55, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Monarchs; Deletions of blue-linked names from lists of people

I've no problem if you delete them. Otherwise, the risk exists that "Selket the Magnificent" will be listed, and we won't know enough to delete him.--Epeefleche (talk) 02:22, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Selket, could you explain the justification for what looks like a one-editor campaign against lists of people by nationality? I'm aware of no consensus against such lists, no discussion about them as a whole, and to blank or delete articles for reasons that are fixable is contrary to editing and deletion policy. So I'm confused by all of this. I think it needs to stop for a centralized discussion if there are genuine issues; your deletion and blanking rationales are the same in every instance. postdlf (talk) 14:26, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I have only nominated a few. I was going to see where the AfD discussions go before proceeding to something more drastic, such as nominating the entire lists by nationality group. I have replied to your questions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Andorrans. -- Selket ^Talk 14:33, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

The first article you removed in this edit, Iliya Pavlov, cites to a BBC story that clearly and repeatedly identifies him as Bulgarian; it even has the headline "Bulgarian tycoon gunned down." postdlf (talk) 19:57, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I didn't see it. If you have a reference, put it back in and link it. -- Selket ^Talk 19:59, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

It was in the article. It still is. Did you not look at the article and check its sources before removing it from the list? postdlf (talk) 20:04, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm not going to check every source in every article to see if maybe it also happens to mention that the person is Bulgarian. If there is a footnote on something that claims the person is Bulgarian, I follow it. The note you mentioned was on the sentence "He was the leader and founder of the Multigroup organization, as well as of G-13." There's nothing wrong with you adding someone you find a source for though. I do want sourced entries. I don't claim to be perfect. Just fix it rather than complaining to me. -- Selket ^Talk 20:09, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I will add it back in, but I checked your work and found a very clear error that was extremely easy to identify. If you're not even checking a source in a linked article that has "Bulgarian" in its title, it's hard for me to see what verification you are doing, if any. You're editing carelessly and it needs to stop. If you can't take the time to do it right, then you shouldn't be doing it at all. If you disagree, I will be happy to start an ANI discussion. postdlf (talk) 20:13, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't have any obligation to prove a negative. Now, I would like to assume good faith, but it really looks like you're trying to find a reason to get mad at me. I've added 47 references so far to an article that had zero. I think it's kind of hard for you to argue that I haven't added enough. -- Selket ^Talk 20:17, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Good for you for adding 47 references. Bad for you for removing many entries that can be easily verified. Not only was the BBC story in Pavlov's article, it also shows up in the first page of Google hits for his name. Also in the first page of Google hits for Kroum Pindoff is a story that identifies him as born in Bulgaria.[11] And as well, a story about Emil Kyulev that identified him as "Bulgaria's second richest man."[12] Georgi Naydenov is a bit more difficult; I had to look to Google News Archives, and I'm not 100% sure that it's the same man. But that still means a failure of 3/4 on that edit alone.

So can you explain how you have been looking for references prior to removing names, so we can identify why you missed those? And I don't understand what you mean in this context by no "obligation to prove a negative." postdlf (talk) 20:35, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I click the link, look at the wikipedia article, if there is a citation on a statement in the article that appears to indicate the person is Bulgarian, I click the reference and see if it does. Sometimes, I have been trusting other editors that it is actually contained in the reference if it's a book or something. Many of the articles have even been of people who are clearly claimed to be something other than Bulgarian. Many more are clearly the wrong person (like a football player in the musicians section). I'm trying to find all the references I can, but I cannot possibly be completely exhaustive. You seem now to be suggesting that I should google each person in the list to see if there are any references there. My point is, whatever I do to find sources, you will always be able to come up with something else I could have done. If you find references that I missed that's great. Please add them in. But the rule is references are needed for inclusion. Definitive proof of there not being any references anywhere is not needed for exclusion. -- Selket ^Talk 20:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Honestly, googling is considered a pretty minimal effort at trying to find sources; I can't count the number of times I've seen criticism leveled in an AFD for a claim based on "only did a google search". Don't remove anything if you're not even going to put out that modicum of effort to verify it. The rest of your comment goes back to your selective reading of WP:BURDEN (and ignoring of WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM), which I have already commented on here. postdlf (talk) 21:09, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

• I'm going to repeat here what I said elsewhere, just to be clear, and to be clear that it applies to all wp people lists. I fully support the deletion of all names (including monarchs) that have neither a wp article, nor a ref. If the name has either a wp article or an appropriate (third party) ref, it is fine to leave it in as-is. WP:LISTPEOPLE states that "If a person in a list does not have an article in Wikipedia about them, a citation (or link to another article) must be provided to establish their membership in the list's group and to establish their notability." To me, that supports the either/or construct. It is also in keeping with the state of play on wp (I can say this, having edited a substantial percentage of such lists on wp). Deleting blue-linked names because they do not have citations is not in keeping with how the vast majority of people lists on wp are maintained, and I would not support that approach. I saying this, having probably deleted more names from lists than anyone in this discussion, if not on wp.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:02, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

But, for anyone who wants to sink their teeth into the (IMHO) real problem, here is a list of red-linked, non-ref'd names that they can sink their teeth into: List of Estonian actors.--Epeefleche (talk) 20:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Are you checking first whether they have an article on et:wiki? postdlf (talk) 20:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Nope. Not required, best as I can tell. And different wikis have different criteria, in any event. If there is sufficient material to support an article on en wiki, people are free to create them. There are many articles that are AFD'd on en wiki, however, despite containing articles on other wikis -- I just !voted on one that is on French and German wikis (sans refs), a few minutes ago here ... simple existence of an article on another wiki is not a reflection of notability for these purposes.--Epeefleche (talk) 20:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Bot

Your bot has a problem, see here, here, here, here, ... and so on and so on and so on. I estimate around 50 pages with very bad failures, and more with simple failures due to adding '''' when the italicised name is blank. By the way, shouldn't we be using the {{lang}} template for that case? Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 00:18, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

It's worse than I thought. All the ones that you converted with missing coordinates are screwed up, see the pushpin map in here for example. Ugghhh. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 00:36, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

And, we have a template for the Irish Grid Reference, which makes it easier to maintain if the URL is changed. See for example, this fix. Thanks. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 00:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

And this is not good. Although, it does show exactly how you were performing the changes, since your edits inside the "pre" tags didn't expand. Thanks. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:02, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Just woke up. The map issue is a bug in {{Infobox settlement}} I've put a note out about it, but haven't gotten any response yet. I may try to track it down if I can find it today. I think it's actually in {{location map~}}. I'm not sure why it migrated the template on the doc template. It shouldn't have. At any rate, {{Infobox place Ireland}} is scheduled for deletion, so I'm not too worried about that. As for the Irish Grid template, was not in the sample migration placed in the TFD. I would have used it if I had known about it. It's easy to migrate them all back if need be. I see you did a cleanup run. What's the status of this? -- Selket ^Talk 15:41, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Take a closer look at what you added [here in the |latd= and |longd= fields. This is not a bug in infobox settlement, but a problem with what you are passing to the template. You forgot the pipes in your conversion template. For the other ones with missing coordinates, the "location map" doesn't know what to do if you don't give it any coordinates for the pin, it could display a different error, but it should still display an error. Adding four apostrophes when the "other_name" is blank was also a bug in your conversion. There was another editor cleaning up all of these by hand, and I have given him the list of the ones that you converted so he can check each one. My bot finished checking all of your edits for the obvious malformed conversions, so I don't think there is anything for you to do here. For the ones that were missing coordinates, but had coordinates in the article, my bot moved the coordinates to the infobox. For the ones with no coordinates at all, my bot flagged them, and I added the coordinates by hand. I think the take away message here is to try to run these conversions in a more supervised manner. There is an even worse one that I am cleaning up right now where a bot mangled about 10,000 football biography articles, with no obvious method for detecting the errors, and months of edits after the initial bad bot run. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:59, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Can you programme your bot to re-visit Irish settlement infoboxes to create links that are missing following the recent automated work performed by the bot?

The data label Dáil Éireann, where present, should be wikilinked so it appears as [[Dáil Éireann]] and the label Irish Grid Reference, where present, should change to [[Irish grid reference system|Irish Grid Reference]].

In short, the two data labels, Dáil Éireann and Irish Grid Reference need to become Wikilinks, the latter one piped, just as other labels in the infobox (e.g. Province, County) already are. Thank you. — O'Dea (talk) 21:36, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Shouldn't Dáil Éireann be in the government section, rather than in the subdivisions section? The linking part isn't a problem. I have had my bot help in cleaning these up after the initial translation to the new infobox. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 22:09, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Both of those can be done, but I need to run it on my work computer so it will be at least 24 hours. Like I said previously, I used the proposed mapping at User:Dr. Blofeld/Ireland, which didn't link either for some reason. Not sure why TBH. -- Selket ^Talk 14:16, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

This should now be done, so nothing more to do. I also did a run through to look for "Northern Ireland" places, since these would then have the wrong country. I believe I got them all. There are still many which were "places" that aren't settlements, like Scotia's Grave. I don't know how easy it would be to change the "settlement_type" for parishes and townlands to something other than "town", and to check for places that aren't settlements. I already changed at least one (e.g., a school). Unfortunately, this will probably require checking by human. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:12, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of 'Choice not Chance'

Hi Selket, We'd like repost 'Choice not Chance' with our newly amended version which contains the significance of the campaign. Here it is: (please let us know if this reads ok)

Choice not Chance is a brand developed by the Health Sponsorship Council <http://www.hsc.org.nz/> ’s problem gambling programme to address gambling harm among at risk audiences and communities in New Zealand. The Health Sponsorship Council is a New Zealand government agency that uses health promotion to promote health and encourage healthy lifestyles.

Gambling-related harm is a continuing health issue in New Zealand, with significant health, social and economic implications. While gambling is a popular recreational activity and some communities benefit from funds raised from gambling, for many people and their families gambling has harmful consequences and the effects on the community are far reaching.

Through the use of social marketing campaigns, Choice not Chance aims to raise awareness and reduce the impact of gambling related harm in New Zealand. It is targeted at enabling people who are at higher risk of developing gambling problems and those affected to intervene before gambling becomes harmful.

Choice not Chance was launched on 22 June 2011 and replaced the Kiwi Lives campaign that began in 2007 and profiled real life stories of people affected by problem gambling.

Research HSC undertakes and commissions research to both inform and evaluate its problem gambling health promotion activities and campaigns. Findings based on consumer insight research and surveys are published on the HSC website <http://www.hsc.org.nz/researchpublications.html> .

External links • choicenotchance.org.nz • Health Sponsorship Council website <http://www.hsc.org.nz/> Thanks, The Choice not Chance Team — Preceding unsigned comment added by PSteam (talk • contribs) 20:30, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Hello, you deleted this article under section A7 of the speedy deletion criteria, could you please either restore the article which I was working on when I was blocked as a suspected sockpuppet or create a sub page so I may expand upon it, thank you. The Last Angry Man (talk) 22:32, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Settlements missing geocoding

Category:Settlements missing geocoding, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Pichpich (talk) 22:29, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

New page patrol – Survey Invitation Hello Selket! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you  have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to  know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you. If this invitation  also appears on other accounts you  may  have, please complete the  survey  once only.  If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it. Please click HERE to take part. Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback. You are receiving this invitation because you  have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey. Global message delivery 13:12, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Dead languages in tables

Since you participated in the discussion at Talk:Voiceless velar fricative regarding the inclusion of dead languages in occurrence tables in articles on speech sounds last April, I think you'll be interested in the discussion I started at WikiProject Linguistics. Regards. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]} 20:22, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Selket.png

A tag has been placed on File:Selket.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Cloudbound (talk) 21:07, 12 April 2012 (UTC)